Well, hello there, Brian.

You scared me.

Hi, Max.

Welcome to a very special Halloween week episode of this fine program regarding video games how you doing

i'm doing good i think in honor of it being a Halloween episode about like three minutes in we

should just start putting christmas stuff everywhere because that seems a good call that seems like

what's happening dude okay so october third i'm a huge fan of halloween obviously a huge fan of horror

um october third this year i saw hallow Halloween or Christmas decorations out, and a bunch of them

already discounted before Halloween's even happened, which I get it.

I understand Christmas makes more money, but like I feel like Christmas now has most of

October, all of November, all of December, and then it gets this whole hangover week afterwards where they don't dare put Valentine's Day stuff up until like maybe January 1st or 2nd. Right? So it's got like, and I love Christmas too, but it's getting to be a bit much where it's just like three months straight, untouched, unfettered. It's unfair, frankly. frankly that's why i don't think it's quite as

bad as like when you go you know to the store in the the beginning of summer and you're like i'm

gonna buy some pool floaties and a fun you know pineapple shaped cabana cooler or whatever and then

you just like back to school stuff everywhere dude i hate that i saw back to school stuff before my kid

finished school in in in May and like they

finish early in California and I'm like this this bullshit. It's hogwash. It's horrible.

Speaking of horror, seeing back to school stuff before school has even ended, even we haven't,

you and I haven't been to school in a very long time, but I still get, I still get the jitters

from it.

It's like a jump scare.

No, I always thought a really good hook for a Halloween party is like you do the front of your

house up all spooky and you have the, you know, the, like the lightning crashing and like

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