Is Halloween for Kids Anymore? | 34
Call Me Curious
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
So what are you gonna be for Halloween? For adults in the not-too-distant past, the answer was easy: Nothing! But wow have things changed, right? Grade-schoolers trick-or-treating in rubber masks and homemade costumes are being replaced by grown-ups getting their full Halloween on! Well, Nikki and Malone have noticed. So they’re asking sociology professor Linus Owens (who’s currently working on a book on the cultural history of Halloween!) and Goth comedian & Halloween expert Virginia Jones to scare up an answer to the creepy question: Is Halloween for kids anymore?
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have. |
| 0:16.9 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.0 | Because I've got 21 questions. |
| 0:23.6 | I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.3 | Call me curious. |
| 0:32.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:34.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:36.2 | So tell the truth. |
| 0:52.4 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:53.8 | Happy Halloween. Okay, Halloween is almost here. And I just want to thank you for hanging out with us today. So, as you can tell, I kind of love Halloween. It's really the best. And as a kid, it was kind of the highlight of my year, right? So I grew up in the Midwest where we did Halloween right. Every October, my neighborhood in St. Louis was almost like the set of a Hallmark movie about Halloween. All the kids had homemade costumes or like the really cheap ones from, you know, the store down the street. Every house had jack-o lanterns and really spooky decorations, and nobody's candy was spiked |
| 1:28.4 | with razor blades or poison. |
| 1:29.6 | I just want to say that. |
| 1:30.8 | It was kind of a Halloween paradise. |
| 1:33.6 | And as a grown-up, I still really love Halloween, except for maybe the rude older teenagers |
| 1:39.5 | who still go trick-or-treating without even bothering to put on a costume, by the way, or |
| 1:43.9 | saying trick-or-treat, they just kind put on a costume, by the way, or saying trick-or-treat, |
| 1:44.9 | they just kind of like show up and expect candy. So a few October 31sts ago, I had this funny |
| 1:51.9 | exchange with one of those kids that's kind of haunted me ever since. So here's what happened. |
| 1:57.3 | This 15-year-old came with sort of a micro stash, right? |
| 2:05.1 | Bangs on the door, it's probably 10 o'clock at night, right? |
| 2:07.6 | I think my light was even off. |
| 2:10.3 | I don't even know if I was available for trick-or-treaters. |
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