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Keeping up with the Boneses

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The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Maura Judkis explains 2020’s peculiar Halloween phenomenon: the mad dash for Home Depot’s decorative 12-foot-tall plastic skeletons.
 
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0:00.0

I'm Martin Powers.

0:03.2

It's Saturday, October 31st.

0:06.0

Today, we're bringing you a bonus episode of our show.

0:09.0

The first episode of our show.

0:14.3

OK, so let's start by having you say who you are

0:17.8

and what you do.

0:18.8

I'm Laura Judkins, and I'm a reporter for the Style section.

0:22.4

So this thing that you wrote about, what is it?

0:26.9

What does it look like?

0:28.3

Just describe it for me.

0:29.8

It's really ominous looking.

0:32.6

Like it just looks like something out of some post-apocalyptic movie.

0:37.4

Like you look outside and it's just like the worst thing you could possibly see.

0:42.1

If you see him where he was on the side yard, it's almost like he's watching over the property.

0:47.1

He's like a protector almost.

0:49.6

It's very simple and yet very absurd.

0:51.8

It's gigantic.

0:52.9

Like you can use, if you stand underneath of them,

0:55.4

you're like literally under like between our legs, like standing their hip bone

0:59.2

above your head.

1:00.1

When you hear 12 feet, you stink 12 feet.

1:03.1

People know, really, like, and please see, I'm just don't realize how big they are.

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