For whom the door bells
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's fake. |
| 0:05.0 | It's fake. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Sean Ramoserim and I love Halloween. |
| 0:08.5 | But I've gone from being a Halloween Revler to more of a Halloween retiree instead of |
| 0:13.4 | hitting Halloween parties or parades. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm happy to just dress up and hand out candy to the kids and compliment their costumes. |
| 0:19.9 | So that's what I was doing last night. |
| 0:21.1 | But a thing I kept noticing is that kids wouldn't say trick or treat. |
| 0:24.4 | They just walk up to me and, you know, hold up their plastic pumpkin or their plastic |
| 0:29.5 | bag or open up their pillowcase and wait for me to hand them candy. |
| 0:33.8 | And eventually I realized that's because I was actually doing it wrong. |
| 0:37.1 | I was standing on my stoop, eagerly awaiting trick or treaters, but where I needed to be |
| 0:41.9 | was behind my door, waiting for them to ring my doorbell doorbell open door, moment |
| 0:48.8 | of suspense. |
| 0:49.8 | They say trick or treat. |
| 0:51.2 | You hand out candy or get egged. |
| 0:53.1 | The problem is, I don't even have a doorbell, which means I'm really doing it wrong. |
| 0:58.2 | At least according to the latest season of Nice Try, Nice Try's first season was all |
| 1:03.1 | about utopias. |
| 1:04.1 | And the new one is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and |
| 1:09.0 | over and the promises of domestic self improvement they've made. |
| 1:13.0 | The first episode of the new season is all about the doorbell, the essential technology |
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