 This video is brought to you by my super hot patreon supporters I was really into Goosebumps as a kid for my 10th birthday I received a replica of the haunted mask from the book cover. I threw together my entire costume to accommodate it I was going for a suburban Halloween special vibe, you know There was a lot of nuance going into it coming from an 11 year old I took to the streets with my little brother and our parents and I found it that none of the other kids in my Neighborhood knew who I was they didn't read the Goosebumps books like I did It was almost a complete bus until one of the parents answering the door freaked out. They're like, oh my god I used to read those books as a kid and I was like, yes It made the sweaty uncomfortable stinky expensive mask worth it Just one single comment made my entire night another year I went trick-or-treating with a girl I had a crush on and we went to the rich neighborhood one house had the entire front porch tarped off There was a giant crowd of kids huddled around it. This looks interesting I told myself and I went into investigate turns out the homeowners put a strobe light at the back Of the porch and someone was sitting in front of it on a chair We couldn't see their face. Everyone was too scared to approach them and get candy I wanted to impress the girl I was with so I decided to just march right on in kids held my hand as I slipped Deeper into the porch and I reached for the candy bowl then the figure slumped over It was a scarecrow and no one had any real reason to be spooked. Hey guys. Look. It's not real. It's just a doll Every year we'd stop at my uncle's house and give us some weird stuff One year he gave me and my little brother some toilet paper another he gave us an ear of corn One infamous year he handed us skin deer legs from his hunting trip The year that I took that girl out. He gave us waffles. I gave her half of my agos She was having like this contest with their older brother to see who could get better loot The Ago waffles served as a tiebreaker. So she won that year My freshman year of high school was the last year I still felt like a kid And I went trick-or-treating with the girl I had the biggest crush on ever We went through her neighborhood, which was pretty much in the middle of nowhere There weren't a whole lot of houses and many of them just sat alone on weed over properties with the lights out The moon peeked out behind the trees bare branches. There was a lot of walking along dirt roads The streets were mostly empty that year because it was like on a friday And everyone was at some party or something like that orange street lights straight cats Just hanging out and talking and stuff We walked down a super isolated backwards path to get into another neighborhood And we could have sworn that we heard footsteps behind us when we panicked Although to be honest, it was probably nothing, you know Not many houses were open that year actually We just went over to her house and watched the conjuring and I remember thinking it was remarkably Unscary based on what I heard about it all things considered. I think that was probably the best halloween I'd ever had the following year I was just too cool for trick-or-treating. I went to a concert in Boise I saw one ok rock or one oak rock or however you pronounce it. I don't care neck deep We're actually doing a once-in-lifetime performance as their alter ego slip neck sleeping with sirens in all-time low After the concert was over while everybody was leaving they played the Marilyn Manson version of this is halloween over the speakers and the entire crowd Stopped what they were doing and they started singing halloween 2016 I hung around downtown Boise with a new friend of mine at the time who walked through some record stores We made our way through the spooky old neighborhoods in town He had a costume on he was dressed up as 11 from stranger things. I did not have a costume I didn't get the memo. He wanted to go trick-or-treating, but I was like I'm in my street clothes. I can't trick-or-treat I'm 17 like no one likes 17 year olds trick-or-treating. I don't want to add insult to injury by not dressing up So we found a compromise. I just walked around. I played ukulele at people's doorstep and they gave me candy It was actually a lot of fun and an amazing memory I guess this video is a little bit weird because I don't have one great story of trick-or-treating and halloween and stuff For me halloween is just a collection of images Scenes events and people sneaking around the backwoods of small town Idaho in the middle of the night with my Crush under a giant moon thinking that a real-life serial killer is hiding in the bushes besides me That's halloween to me exploring neighborhoods making friends. That's halloween too old family traditions halloween I'm a legal adult now. So I can't go trick-or-treating. I can't sneak around neighborhoods in middle of the night on halloween Because that would kind of worry some parents I can't do a lot of the things I used to do and that kind of sucks I used to be bummed out about it, but now I kind of had a bit of an epiphany You see I'm not on the receiving end of halloween anymore. So that means that it's my responsibility to be on the giving side It's now my job to take everything I loved about my halloween memories And help the next batch of kids create their own experiences too I am free to set up tarps on my front porch in a strobe light and jump out last minute I can give any future nieces or nephews rolls of toilet paper for halloween. The possibilities are endless, you know There's so much to do if you're watching this and you're young enough to participate in halloween and trick-or-treating and stuff Enjoy it spend some time with friends going on adventures Take a dark and spooky path to get home if you're my age and you're too old to finally do that stuff Use your imagination and see what you can do to make every halloween memorable for somebody else Even if you have to scare them have to death and make their parents mad They'll look back on it and smile when they're older. Have a happy halloween. Be safe. Be smart and stay spicy Also, I got some patreon shoutouts to do Otto Zaguala wants to listen to rock with your grandma Harry Phillips who's using their shoutouts for self-promotion wants you to go listen to their awful cover of the middle by jimmy eat world Link in the description by the way. Also special. Thanks to daddy cthulhu ollie a frankie blue good gent frankie Gabby taylor. Hmm and spencer persil these kids are the best and i'm super fortunate to have the good vibes on my patreon You can join too by clicking the link this this one right here. Happy spooky season