Speaker 1: Caloroka Shock Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Man with five good
news Halloween stories. This is just fun to do. Mix
it up a little bit. Instact Arts looked at your
shopping data from twenty twenty four and they have determined
the most popular Halloween candy in the United States of America.
Do you have a guest? Do you want me to
tell you whether they or not? Peanut M and M's
that was second, regular, Eminem's finished third. Now I personally
love pean at M and Ms. Every time I walk
through the kitchen, I grab a handful, which is why
I have a giant belly. But I digress. The number
one candy is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and if you
hand me those, they're gone in one second. So I
agree with instacart. Here, a trends analyst at instacart said,
we're seeing households start to shop weeks ahead, not just
to be prepared, but because Halloween has become an experience
people stretch out and savor. I mean some people are
even doing ridiculous podcasts weeks in advance. They tell us
whether it's nostalgia classics like Raeses, or polarizing favorites like
candy corn. These streets are part of the traditions that
make Halloween feel special. Halloween spending is expected to reach
a record thirteen point one billion dollars this year, and
one Vermont library is helping families keep the holiday fun
without breaking the bank. The Richmond Free Library hosted their
second annual costume Swap. Here's what you do. You bring
a costume you're done with and you pick a new
one that's brilliant. Because I hang out at this brewery
and they have a costume contest every year, and I
wind up spending money on this thing I wear for
ninety minutes while drinking two beers. Why do I do it?
I don't know. The library director in Richmond said the
costume swap is a great way to get in the
Halloween spirit, save some money, and make good use of
our resources as a community. Halloween costumes are something you
only wear once and by next year might not even
fit your kid, It might not fit you as an adult. Yes,
they were grabbing a handful of peanut m and ms
every time you walk through the kitchen. I could see
where that would happen. The Naples Zoo at Caribbean Guardians
is bringing back Boo at the Zoo for another year. No,
just the name Boo at the Zoo. I'm in This
sounds amazing. The zoo is magically transformed to a living
movie scene, complete with costume characters and trick or treating
for kids twelve and under. What about people fifty five plus?
Can we do it? No? Oh? Okay, laugh in the
face of dangers. You meet a dinosaur sail away with
pirates on the Pirate Expedition cruise and meet mini unicorns. Hmmm,
I wonder what those look like. That sounds fun. It's
this weekend. You better go October tenth through the twelfth,
then again October seventeenth through the nineteenth, nine am to
one pm. The zoo asks if you come in costume,
make sure your costume is family friendly and definitely not inflatable.
Inflatable ones could scare the animals. I'm assuming that's if
an inflatable one were to pop. We don't want to
startle the gorillas. I don't know if they have gorillas.
Can I interest you in a lego Halloween wreath? It's
only six hundred and seventeen pieces. You'll put it together.
In ten minutes. The Lego box comes with five different
packages of pieces, along with an instruction booklet. Well that's good.
Once it's all built, you insert the string, you hang
wherever you hang your Halloween wreath. Not on a minute
of the story. Is Halloween wreath even a thing? I
guess it is, And it's made out of lego? And
this was so much fun last time I thought a
double dip on the knockoff Halloween costumes. Let's see what
I have for you today. Here's one. Some people might
describe it as a turtle, maybe even a turtle that
has been part of say, radiation, and turned into a
mutant of sorts. Well, this is not that. This is
pubescent frog of Silent War. Yes it's not some sort
of mutant, but could be a teenage This is a
pubescant frog, totally different. Do you like video games? Do
you sometimes play the one with it actually has turtles,
It's got a couple plumbers in it. Two brothers. One's red,
one's kind of green. Well this is not that at all.
This is the green Italian plumber costume. And I'm wondering
if he has a brother with a mustache that's red.
Italian plumber costume. And you remember that famous movie with
Gene he was selling chocolate. There were some people that
worked for Gene Wilder in the movie. They even sang
a song This is not that at all. This is
factory worker girl. You gave yourself some orange skin a
kind of I don't know, is it a shag haircut,
and you sing your song with your fellow factory worker girl.
Why did you start laughing, John? Because I accidentally scrolled
down and I'm not going to get to it today,
but the next one is creepy husband. That's what made
me laugh. Okay, so back to the bit. Okay, So
you're there at a Geen Wilder and there's like a
river made out of chocolate, and there's some people singing
song that this is not that at all. This is
factory worker girl. And those are your five good news
Halloween stories. Don't forget in the normal feed there's five
good news stories, and in its own feed, and in
the normal feed five good news Christmas stories. I've already
started with the Christmas there's a ton of Christmas stories
that's super easy to do. And you have an awesome
day