Hi, this is Hope. Hi, this is Katie from Washington, DC, and you're listening to me at the radio.

So I think today is November 4th and I think it was last episode we recorded. I was talking that I

said that was staring across the street at like six different tombstones in the yard, the

neighbor's yard. Skeleton sticking up out of the ground, different limbs, and ghost, and things like that.

And I did later confirm that Halloween decorations are much bigger. I saw some sort of stat

that like Home Depot this year had 825 skews instead of 431 or something like that, like pretty

much doubled the number of Halloween decorations. And I wondered if that just meant a bunch of new

cheap stuff had come out and, you know, insignificant difference. But then I realized like this

year I've seen, it's the first year I've ever seen the giant 25 foot skeletons and witches

and all this stuff. So I don't think it's just cheap stuff. I think it is, you know, a lot of it

is probably the big expensive thing. So I think I think Halloween decoration has turned a corner and

has become a thing this year. I think you're right about that. I think I saw it a little bit less

than you did, as far as like the big skeletons and all that kind of thing. But there definitely,

there seems to be this appetite for decorating in general and kind of sprucing up your house.

Yeah. If you want to call it that. And I don't know, is that, is that, is that people just being

festive and fun? Is it people trying to draw attention to themselves? You know what is it? I mean,

they're trying to get like, like, click and slate. I think it's in escape. People are, the world is

taken in term for the worst. And people are going to buy a bunch of junk that's, I think that's how we

do it. Yeah. Okay. All right. That's my hunch. I don't know. It could possibly, which you said,

the clickbait, the attention sort of thing that people want attention. But honestly,

in my neighborhood, everyone does it. The way to get attention would be to not do any decorating

at all. Especially what we did. Because if you put up, you know, a large amount of decorations,

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