Well, it's Halloween.

If my math is right, that means if we keep doing this podcast for seven years,

one year out of seven, we'll actually be broadcasting on Halloween,

and that is this podcast.

So I guess I should tell my favorite Halloween story from my

youth with my brother Tom Gardner. So Tom and I were in the back of our car

driving to get a costume. Our mom was driving up front. We were going to the

five and dime store. Yep, that's a phrase we used back then the five and dime store.

Think of the big box retailer these days. It was probably like a Woolworth back then and we were just trying

to get our Halloween costumes. And I went and I found one. It was a see-through. I could see a scary mask.

And so I picked that one up and I believe Tom picked up like an

astronaut he had like sort of an astronaut costume so it was one of those where the

costume is folded underneath the mask and it's all in a cell of feign cardboard box and we went

through and we bought those and we got to the backseat of our car again and we

drove home and as we started to drive home I flipped my box over and I saw a horrendous phrase.

It's a girls five to seven.

I was probably about seven years old

and the idea that I picked up a girls costume for a seven year old years old

boy. This was about the biggest mistake I think I could have made.

And so I began to whine. I began to say to my mom up front mom, I didn't mean to get this. I don't want this one.

And as a lot of parents and now a parent myself, I can understand this, my mother was probably

tired and it'd been a long day for her and so once we got home

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