The Hey everyone welcome to this special interview over here at Remap. Anybody that has listened to the

podcast over the years knows that I've had a special friend in front of my house for a

couple of years now. A big, well not tiny, although there is a

tiny one next to him now, but a big old skeleton called Jackson Bones as named by my now

four-year-old daughter. and I tried to line this up last year it didn't work out.

Fortunately this year we got all of our ducks in a row and I'm delighted to welcome

on to the show, Lance Allen,

who is the senior merchant of Decorative Holiday

over at Home Depot.

But for the purposes of this discussion

is, I guess the father of the skeleton in front of my house I don't like I yeah I will claim that

title I mean a lot of people call me Skelly's daddy so whatever you want to call it we will we will run with it be proud of it

I'm sure you have told a version of this origin story before but obviously like you know a home a lot of, you know, these kind of big box retailers often have Halloween decorations, but what has definitely changed in recent years, I think is the availability of like you you normally think of big giant

sort of animatronics or characters being the stuff you go to a a theme park or you go to a

haunted house and I'm sure this stuff maybe existed before on the fringes,

but the skeleton sort of starts this kind of like movement

towards building like really large characters and scenes out in front of people's yards.

It kind of makes it more accessible to people in a way that it wasn't more affordable,

like just easier to access.

So what's the origin story of the skeleton itself? Like where does that journey begin in terms of even just kind of like starting this trend?

Yeah, absolutely. You were spot on kind of with starting this trend. Yeah, absolutely.

You were spot on kind of with your comment,

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