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Joe
One more thing. Well, tomorrow Trump will return to the.
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US and host the annual White House Halloween party.
Joe
Oh, yeah, it's exciting for trick or.
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Treaters because this year everyone gets a.
Joe
Little piece of the east wing. I think that's cool.
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There you go. Actually, somebody, Jonah Goldberg of Dispatch had that idea the other day. Like, he said he didn't really have a strong position on the tearing down the White House thing, but that's, you know, you couldn't, like, take a wall of that and put it in the Trump Presidential library or like, take chunks of it and sell it for charity. Because a lot of people would think it'd be cool to have a chunk of the. The east thing.
Katie
I would. That's a pretty good idea.
Joe
Yeah. As opposed to just knock it down and cart it off to the dump.
Armstrong
They tore the hospital I was born in down and I went up there and took a little piece of it and gave it to my mom.
Joe
Yeah. It's a good story.
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Joe
So I was going to talk Halloween because we don't record a podcast on Friday out of pure laziness and wanting to leave work. So Halloween is tomorrow. As the recording of this podcast occurs, my kids have passed the age of, like, knocking on doors, trick or treating, but as Halloween has evolved over the years and now bigger kids do different things. And then when you get into your 20s and 30s, especially if you're single, it. It's, it's a full on. It's the biggest party night of the year. I actually just read that the other day. It is now officially the biggest party night of the year is Halloween, surpassing.
Katie
New Year's Eve, obviously.
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Katie
The long time champagne.
Joe
Yeah. I just remembered an embarrassing adult costume I wore one time with a girlfriend. Wonder why she signed on to this. But I was going to have everybody, if you can reminisce. Do you remember any of the costumes you wore at any point in your life for Halloween? Wow.
Katie
I was a hobo. Year after year after year. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just. I was never. I was never excited by or stimulated by the idea of coming up with a great Halloween.
Joe
Really? Even when you're a little kid?
Katie
Oh, whoa. Well, I. I'd have. God, when I was a little kid. I don't remember much about that.
Joe
Like you weren't a baseball player or something some year. And you're really excited to go.
Katie
How's that all the time?
Joe
I don't. Honestly. Let me think about it.
Katie
Maybe something will click in my memory.
Joe
Did you not like candy or you?
Katie
Oh, I was pro candy. Staunchly pro candy.
Joe
Yeah.
Katie
I just. I can think of, like my adolescent years in high school years. Part of it was I was too damn busy to spend a lot of time. Like, I had a good friend who snubbed me not too many years ago who spent an enormous amount of time and effort creating one of the creatures from one of the Star wars movies. This was when we were in high school and the Star wars thing was huge in the late 70s, I guess, and. And I admired it and all, but I thought, I'm never gonna spend hour after hour, day after day, crafting that to trot it out and impress people on Halloween. I just.
Joe
You're a curmudgeon.
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Joe
My kids were so into it when they were little. God, they. They really, really got a thrill.
Katie
Oh, yeah. My God, I can picture my little kids. The excitement of being in a Batman costume.
Joe
Yeah.
Katie
Was like an hours long electric charge that ran through my son.
Joe
It's something to watch the. The picking it out, the wearing it for a couple of days ahead of time. And then that night when you go out door to door and they got the costume on, it's just.
Katie
It's showtime.
Joe
Yeah, it's showtime. And they are so thrilled. The only. Well, go ahead, Michael. What do you remember?
Michael
Well, I had an unfortunate incident. This is a true story. As a kid, I wanted to make my own costume. I thought, you know, I'm gonna be cool. I'm gonna make my own costume. I decided I was gonna be a ghost. So I took a white sheet and cut out eyes. And it didn't look like I was a ghost. It looked like I was a clan member.
Katie
Yeah.
Michael
People were taking pictures and my mom was showing pictures of, you know, hey, this was, you know, what the kids did for Halloween. And everybody was horrified thinking that I dressed up like a kkk.
Armstrong
Wow, Michael. True colors, huh?
Joe
That's fantastic.
Michael
No, it's just I wasn't good at crafts, that's all.
Joe
Yeah, not a Racist and poor with crafts, Katie.
Armstrong
Okay, well, the movie Pocahontas, the Disney movie, came out in 1995, and so I was.
Katie
My God, you are not going to admit to cultural appropriation right now.
Armstrong
Oh, no, wait for. Wait for this. My mother is the. Is the punchline to this story.
Joe
You dressed in brown face.
Armstrong
No, no, I white. And my hair was like bleach blonde when I was younger. So I. I dressed up as Pocahontas, and my mom proceeded to tell everyone that year that I was Pocahonty.
Katie
Wow.
Joe
Yeah, I know. My neighbor kids are. Got a classic going. The. The boy, they're like five and seven. The boy is gonna be Darth Vader and the girl is gonna be Snow White. And it's just. Yeah. So awesome. My only kid memory that I like.
Katie
No, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Was she gonna be the old timey sweet Snow White or the snarking Latinx woke Snow White? Of the recent attempt at a movie.
Joe
I would assume this family. It's the Snow White classic. The only one I actually remember from my childhood. Before I get to some of the adult Halloween. The. For some reason, only one memory sticks out, and it's from South Dakota. So I must have been four because we moved then. So I was four years old marching in a parade. It was freezing freaking cold outside as it would be in South Dakota, basically November. But I was dressed as a hobo and. And I marched in this parade that my parents let me march in. And I remember my dad was like walking along on the sidewalk. I was in the parade, and he was like keeping track of me, I guess, because I was three years old in my hobo. And the pitch dark. It's a Midwest, so it's pitch dark outside.
Katie
What bad decisions had you made from birth to age three and a half that then you're becoming a homeless vagabond.
Joe
Made a lot of bad decisions, just endless bad decisions. Got on the meth, got on the pipe, and that's what happens. I remember I had this pillow under my shirt and everything like that. So I was like a fat hobo and I'd stubble.
Katie
Hobos are crazy skinny now. They don't have the belly.
Joe
But the whole back in the day, your kid would dress as a homeless person for Halloween. Yeah, it's kind of hilarious. Then I remember once when I was older, when I was like 13, too old to trick or treat, but I still wanted to participate in Halloween, I tried to dress as an old woman. And then when kids would come to the door. I would try to come to the door as a kind old woman, but then fall and have a major fall. They're supposed to be horrified that an elderly person fell. I guess was my whole routine.
Katie
Great comedy.
Joe
I'm not sure I fooled anybody, but as I got into later, an adult because Joe got married when he was 17. But I was. I was out and single for quite a while and I had a number of girlfriends wear the super hot slutty Halloween costumes, which I was all for. That's fantastic. You know, slutty witch. Slutty. Snow White. Slutty.
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Katie
Bloody nurse.
Joe
Slutty nurse. Right. But one year, for some reason, I don't know how I got convinced in this, because it's not me. I was a French maid. I wore a French maid costume.
Armstrong
What?
Joe
Yeah, I know why I got convinced of that.
Armstrong
Someone convinced you to.
Joe
Well, I find it hard to believe it was my idea. I just remember that I did it.
Katie
Was that the girlfriend who turned out to be a lesbian? No, I don't actually remember because it's taken shape ape here. It's all starting to come. Doing the math.
Joe
It got a lot of laughs because I was not an attractive French maid. And I had the feather duster that I could go around.
Katie
That's funny. Legs and everything.
Joe
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't wear any sort of girlish shoes. I think that was a step too far.
Michael
But.
Armstrong
I was Sandy from Greece one year.
Joe
Oh, that's a good one.
Armstrong
Yeah, but that's. But slutty Sandy, not, you know, Sandy.
Joe
Oh, God.
Armstrong
The one at the end of the movie.
Joe
Because the whole point of that movie is you couldn't get the guy until she be, you know, started smoking cigarettes, wearing heels and leather and became slutty.
Armstrong
That was the one I was.
Katie
Yeah, exactly. When she was her authentic self. Sweet and. And innocent. She was undeserving of the love of a man.
Armstrong
Right, sure.
Joe
Right. I don't know. I don't want my kids eating a bunch of candy at this age. I don't want candy in the house. My son, who. My oldest son has got a. Like a party to go to. High school party. My 13 year old wants to stay home and watch scary movies. I haven't decided what we're gonna watch yet. I'm thinking Poltergeist. He hasn't seen that. That's a pretty scary movie. I love Poltergeist.
Katie
I don't. I don't remember that one at all. I've never been into horror movies, but which one's that. What's the broad outlines of that? Is that the little girl with the TV or.
Joe
They're back. Yeah, the tv. And yeah, it's. It's more paranormal than horror movie. I'm not really a slasher sneaks into your house and kills you in your sleep. I don't really dig that.
Armstrong
Yeah, I know. This is a new, new neighborhood. Do you get well for you, Jack? Do you get trick or treaters, you guys?
Joe
Yeah, I'm on a cul de sac, so I'll get a few.
Armstrong
Okay.
Joe
Not very many though.
Katie
Not for years. Yeah, it's kind of a drag.
Joe
One of my favorite. I lived in a neighborhood for a while where we got lots of trick or treaters and it was great. It was really fun. And that those couple years was great because my neighbor, he had kids, but they would go out with his wife and we would sit on the porch and get hammered. We did that like four years in a row.
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Joe
As when I still drink and I didn't have kids and we would just sit on the porch and drink for hours. Kids come up, ding dong, here's some candy. We're going to have another.
Katie
Evil spirits. Just spirits.
Joe
Regular old. And I'd be seeing scary things by the end of the night.
Katie
We lived in a neighborhood a number of years ago that had a rep for being a great trick or treating neighborhood. And carloads and carloads of kids from like all over the metro area would descend on our neighborhood. And I couldn't decide what I thought of that. I mean you saw a hell of a lot of, you know, cute kids and all, but it was, it was like the adults getting free candy for themselves, putting their kids to work in the candy mines. That's what it felt like. And sometimes you get the parents themselves walk up trick or treat and the kid would be like back on the sidewalk.
Joe
Just a complicated EBT program.
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Armstrong
Yeah.
Katie
Yeah. I can't remember what costumes I wore as a kid, but I can feel like my hot breath condensed on the plastic mask with the tiny little mouth hole. I can't remember what mask it would have been.
Joe
Yeah, back then, this. I don't know, this might be before your times, Katie, but. But like the costumes Joe and I would get going to Sears or whatever. Every costume was exactly the same. Is just a different print on the plastic sheeting you wore that looked like Aquaman or Superman or Count Dracula or whatever you're with your plastic mask that were all the same with the tiny little mouth hole and the tiny Little eye holes to make it easier to get hit by a car.
Katie
Exactly. The plastic masks had no breathing hole and you couldn't see. So you'd get hit by a car. And if God forbid, you got anywhere close to a flame, the plastic that it was made out of would just go kerblooey.
Armstrong
And if none of that happened, you'd suffocate.
Joe
So yes. The painful strap around the mask behind your head, that wasn't good. If you were big headed. Yes, Michael.
Michael
Plus they would smell. I don't. If you remember to have that plasticky smell.
Katie
Really bad one those fumes. You were great for you. Yeah. How you got cancer.
Joe
Probably the reason I got cancer is probably all the plastic masks year after year. I was at the Halloween store the other day. It's interesting, the whole macabre. And I know there's a psychological reason why we we play out these fears to help deal with them or whatever that is, but gosh, all kinds of like, here's a guy who's gonna come up behind you and stab you to death.
Jacob Goldstein
It's just.
Joe
Ah, why is that entertaining?
Katie
A little close to home.
Joe
Yeah, no kidding.
Katie
Modern world with all the crazed junkies running around.
Joe
Mm.
Katie
Okay, is this a Halloween movie or is this a clip from the news this evening?
Joe
Quick thing. Either now or as a kid, if you put out your pumpkin, what candy would you most like them to put in your pumpkin?
Katie
Back in the day, Snickers was a big win. I mean, that's good candy.
Joe
Snickers is pretty good. I like a peanut butter cup.
Armstrong
Okay, see, I was just gonna say mine's tied between a Reese's peanut butter.
Joe
Cup and a Snickers peanut butter cup is damn good. I'm old enough that like grandma's were making popcorn balls or maybe actual caramel apples. Like they'd make homemade treats.
Armstrong
Dude, there was a dentist down the street for me to get out toothbrushes. I hated going to that guy's house.
Joe
Oh, geez.
Armstrong
Screw you, dick.
Katie
Here's a half dozen eggs for your trouble. Bam.
Joe
Bam.
Katie
Bam.
Joe
Bam.
Katie
Bam.
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Michael
Well back in the day I'd eat a whole bag of Kit Kat bars but these days it cost me a toe or two.
Joe
Good diabetes joke there to end with.
Michael
Yeah, well I guess that's it.
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Date: October 31, 2025
Podcast Host: iHeartPodcasts
This Halloween-themed episode finds Armstrong, Getty, and their crew reminiscing about past costumes, discussing the evolution of the holiday, and poking fun at Halloween traditions—both nostalgic and current. The conversation is an informal, comedic stroll through the hosts' childhood memories, adult misadventures, neighborhood trick-or-treat customs, and debates about the best (and worst) Halloween candy. The hosts’ signature banter is on full display, mixing gentle mockery, warm nostalgia, and dry humor.
Halloween Overtakes New Year’s Eve as Top Party Night:
Costume Memories—Childhood and Adult:
The Joy (and Perils) of Costumes:
Homemade Treats and Neighborhood Rituals:
Favorite Candy:
Changing Trick-or-Treat Norms:
Horror vs. Humor in Halloween:
Best Scary Movie for Teens:
Michael’s Costume Disaster:
Armstrong as ‘Pocahonty’:
Joe in a French Maid Costume:
Trick-or-Treating with Booze:
The episode is light-hearted, playful, and filled with personal anecdotes and gentle ribbing among the crew. They frequently dip into self-deprecating humor and observational comedy, drawing on shared generational memories of “dangerous” old costumes and waxing nostalgic about a Halloween that, while changing, still brings joy to adults and kids alike—albeit in different forms.
In sum:
This episode captures the spirit of Halloween as both a celebration of nostalgia and a modern rite-of-passage for adults and kids. Listeners get a taste of each host’s personality, an affectionate look at changing traditions, and plenty of laughs along the way. Perfect for fans who enjoy the hosts' dynamic and want to reminisce about the joys—and oddities—of “the candy mines.”