Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up.

Standby for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition.

But first.

On this Monday it is Halloween the third most lucrative day in America after Christmas

and Thanksgiving.

Much money is spent on treats, costumes and parties.

This is an excellent tradition, spooky stuff always energizes kids, classic monsters

like Dracula and Frankenstein's monster are excellent.

I'm not a big fan of flesh eating zombies, especially if they run fast.

But I do like the blob, the creature from the black lagoon and the old stand by Godzilla.

I don't like the slasher guys or the sadists with chainsaws, not for me.

When I was a kid I looked forward to Halloween probably more than Thanksgiving.

Christmas topped the list.

But Halloween was really something that everybody in my Leviton New York neighborhood, all

the kids rallied behind.

And the adults in my neighborhood were really nice.

They gave out full candy bars, not a little midget candy bars.

Snickers, three musketeers, on and on.

My parents tolerated Halloween.

I could tell they weren't that thrilled about it.

But the bonus was I was out of the house most of the day.

Happy Halloween.

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