Re:Invigorate With Woof: Halloween Morning Special 🎃👻

Woof opened mid-salvage: X refused to launch the space on his phone, then ended it on the iPad while the music kept playing into the void. Margie B's sympathy lasted about four seconds before she filed it under "do not blame Margie B" — "First and foremost, this space started late" 07:40.

Two AI-made originals: "The Dead Don't Dance Alone" and a Halloween version of the morning-show theme, the latter featuring Michael Myers stealing bacon, a vampire in Crocs, and Margie defending the coffee. Woof said it only took two tries to get it right and was openly delighted with himself 14:14.

Woof's replacement for the news segment: a giant inflatable pumpkin that rolled over an Ohio police officer, thousands of male tarantulas migrating across southeastern Colorado, flesh falling from a clear Kentucky sky in 1876 ("the world's first airborne barbecue and nobody ordered it"), the 1518 Strasbourg dancing plague, the Enfield house, Bella in the Wych Elm, and a California "mystery pooper" who turned out to be a mountain lion. Margie's contribution to the Enfield case: if a ghost is going to move the furniture, it can also run the vacuum 22:05.

Margie B's all-time costume story: age 20, full bodysuit, antennae, boots, on a Manhattan-bound train, where transit police stopped her for ID on suspicion of being a working girl — then took a photo with her. Her verdict, decades later: "thinking back now, I'm like, it was really really a sexy outfit" 28:31. She also shared why her trick-or-treating ended at eight — an apple with a blade in it 26:50.

Lyss walked her costumes through the ages (pumpkin, witch, Juliet, Top Gun) and mourned the lost ritual of the Party City wall-of-numbers, where you found a worker, gave them a number, and waited. Spirit Halloween, she noted, just hands you a bag. Woof admitted he tries to drive past Spirit stores without Meow noticing, with a success rate of zero 33:02.

Woof's mother sewed him a full Dracula setup with a red-silk-lined cape and a standing collar; the Batman that followed was, in his words, tragic enough that he swapped to a sheet with two eyeholes mid-neighborhood. Lyss's take: that Batman outfit still outdid anything store-bought 35:11. Margie B's take: hard to buy thread when you live in Little House on the Prairie 45:16.

Arvy explained Indonesia's most feared ghost: a body buried in white fabric, bound at the head, torso, and legs, whose gravedigger forgot to untie the rope — so it hops back to the homes of family and friends to ask for help getting free. The room went quiet. Lyss summed up the vibe: everyone else brought Chucky and the Twilight Zone, "and he just hit us with some real stuff" 55:51.

Meow revealed she snuck into Poltergeist at nine during her parents' yard sale, got caught partway, and has never recovered — no toes off the bed, no open closet door, and a lasting suspicion of the neighbor's pool. Woof's reaction was the sound of a decades-old mystery being solved 59:02. His own worst childhood fright, for the record, was the original Incredible Hulk TV show 59:45.

Woof declared candy corn "construction material"; Margie B defended it, with the brown section disqualified. Her banned list: peppermints, butterscotch, root beer barrels, black licorice, loose candy in a Ziploc, and anything excavated from grandma's pocketbook with makeup on it. Meow voted Snickers. Andre followed with a sobering footnote from New Zealand, where candy accidentally distributed at a social services office turned out to contain methamphetamine and had to be chased down 1:07:36.

Lyss's favorite memory: her family pre-packing candy bags at the kitchen table — one pile per candy type, dad in charge, bags passed down the line for neighbors and school friends. Woof had forgotten he and his sister did exactly the same thing until she said it 1:18:27.