This week’s geek:

It is that time of year and we love Halloween. How much more Halloween can you get than to dress up? And if you want to see some great costumes – New Orleans knows how to celebrate Halloween.

We talk about some of our favorite costumes based on puns, which is a skill all its own.

Music Recommendation

Music Recommendation of the week is Kiefer Sutherland’s Something You Love

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Transcript

[00:00:39] Alan: Yeah. How about all that? Okay, here we go. I’m blending into the the leaf scape here was my all shirt. I guess

[00:00:51] Stephen: you should’ve done your face up.

[00:00:52] Alan: At one point, this guy, we were on the way to the men’s annual gathering in Minneapolis, St. Paul. And we stopped by at circus [00:01:00] world in let’s see Delavan, Wisconsin, something like that, near Wisconsin Dells. And I got my face painted as a tiger because why not? And then I didn’t take it off there. I like drove across the face of Wisconsin, Minnesota and showed up at the age. And first people, I don’t know when you’re big and you’re looking and saying they don’t make fun of you. They steer away from you.

So I had to make a point of being extra smiley and so important saying, don’t worry, I’m not going to go on a spree. I’m actually just, I went to circus world anyway. It was I don’t usually get my face painted. And yet that was a good experience. What do you look like? Professional wrestler, what’s this, the Mexican Lucado where they actually have

[00:01:46] Stephen: the whole child.

[00:01:49] Alan: And that’s it. It’s cool to have just a different, that’s what Halloween coming up is all about is assume a different identity. You get a different reaction than your usual. I can’t make myself smaller, but I [00:02:00] can look like an animal. I can look, I can dress up as a woman.

I can dress up as a pirate. It might be, that would be different than my usual demeanor,

[00:02:06] Stephen: yeah. And the two places you can show up like that without getting too weird of looks would be wizard world. Or, if I showed up at my kid’s school like that, they might ask me to leave, yes, sir. Are there

[00:02:18] Alan: troubles at home? Do you want to tell us about why you have

[00:02:20] Stephen: this.

[00:02:20] Alan: As, as usual, just cause we’re running the topic. One of the things I thought that’d be fun to talk about because we’re heading into Halloween is I’ve always loved good costumes. And so when you see a lot of kids come up in a, I’m a pirate cause they have a little scarf on eyepatch, I’m a bomb cause they put some, smeared their face a little bit.

When you see someone that did full robot and they’ve got like a, a Borg level of LEDs running up and down. And they’re all I just love when people put some work, some love into a costume. And as there’s the big Mensa Chicago area, Halloween party of Halloween always has a big costume parade where the customers are often puns and [00:03:00] man I’ve been going there for 30 years and it’s really impressive to see the continual creativity and the love that goes into it.

And just with, so I dunno sometimes. There are certain ones I’ve seen serial killer for instance,