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us mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome, Matt. Today is Thursday,

November the 6th, right? That you're hearing this. Yeah, it's the 6th. Because yeah, the days of 31st. Sure, makes sense. It's Halloween season. Happy Halloween, bud.

Welcome back to America. Hey, thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. I have a question for you. I took a New York Times quiz. My family took a New York Times quiz yesterday. And it was like one of those like answer 25 questions and we'll tell you

based on your dialect where you most probably live. Oh, interesting. It pinpointed me to Aurora,

Illinois. No shit. For real. It was weirdly accurate for me. Funny enough, it put Haley in Yonkers, New York, which she's never lived in

Yonkers ever, but at least it got her in New York, right? She was from the Poughkeepsie area.

So it was really interesting. And I had like all these questions like, what do you call this thing?

What do you call that? Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's something I wanted to ask you.

Have you ever heard of the day before Halloween being something,

like witch's night or mischief night or the devil's night? It's a prank day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're aware of this. I have heard of it. I've never heard of this tradition. I thought this wasn't,

so I actually like, I got so weird about this because I'm like, wait a minute. There's like a whole day for pranks and I didn't know about this. We missed it already. But yeah, it wasn't a Chicago thing when I was growing up. But it used to be a Chicago thing. It's primarily an East Coast thing. I see. But like I guess I actually looked up this whole thing. I guess in the 70s and 80s, it was a whole Chicago thing. Like, like, in the 70s and 80s, people would be like, hey, got your nose or whatever. It's the 30th, and you'd go like egg people's house and shaving cream shit. All right. It was prank day. So it was the trick. And the next day you get the treats. Yeah. And there's all these different names for it. And then one of the answers is like, yeah, I don't fucking never heard of that.

So I was like, yeah, I don't fucking never heard of that.

So I was like, yeah, I never fucking heard of that. I was just really curious, did you guys do a mischief night or devil's night or day? Although in Chicago, what I wish I would get more often is

like Italian beef with jardineer on it instead of a treat. That's a treat. That is a treat. Let's get that as a treat. What do you hand out for Halloween? We give away, we put out a bucket. Yeah. And then we walk out with the bucket when people show up, but we don't get a lot of people here. They started this tradition a couple years ago, the trunk or treat stuff. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Where people don't show up to your door anymore they just go to like

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