Well, well, well, welcome to the Purple Stuff podcast, Halloween, Minnesota.

Matt, you would think with a short 74 days until Halloween, that we'd be seeing stores just chock full of Halloween crap, but that's not really the case.

Not the case at all.

Earlier, we went out on another one of our trips to try to get a little bit of a taste of Halloween again.

I don't get it.

It's like we live in a fairly major area in the country.

Like, we're a stone's throw from the Statue of Liberty.

Well, if you want to consider the Statue of Liberty, like the Mecca, then yeah.

Yeah, but I'm just saying we have friends everywhere that are seeing stores completely set up.

And here, it's just, it's hard to even get a nibble.

I get, like, real jealous because everyone on Instagram and Twitter keep showing all these pictures.

It's basically Halloween porn.

Yeah.

Photos from stores and Halloween setups and animatronics.

It's basically like every picture looks like Spirit Halloween vomited all over the phone.

Yes.

You know what?

And I bet I'm not going to name them, but I know which accounts you're referring to because I've seen these accounts and I'm like, this can't be real. These people are just putting pictures that they had on their phone from the last five years.

Yeah. Like how could there be that much Halloween out there in late August?

If they did that, we wouldn't know the difference because we just want it so bad.

Yeah. Oh.

So success wasn't really the name of the game tonight, but I'll tell you, on my own, even on my side trips,

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