FLAVA BREAKFAST BEST BITS: Halloween Hotspots

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

The Flava Breakfast Podcast.

Azura (0:03)

Kia ora, kia ora, welcome to the podcast. This is where you can catch up on everything that you missed. And it was quite cool to go, you know, go down memory lane and reminisce on the Halloween hotspots we used to have and like what we used to do for Halloween. Man, I, like my town was pretty...

Charlie (0:20)

Your town was pretty rogue.

Azura (0:21)

Yeah.

Charlie (0:21)

But you gotta love it, you know, because I grew up in Otara and we didn't, Halloween wasn't a thing around our area. And if it did happen, like kids weren't getting lollies, they were getting carrots and apples, you know, and then the parents will be like, you don't need candy, your teeth will go rotten, have a fruit.

Azura (0:39)

Well, from, they may as well have handed out a Cody's.

Charlie (0:45)

That's probably what my mum did.

Azura (0:46)

Probably what my mum did. No, so also we talk about the Gen Z quiz, Charlie. Go on, let them know, because I'm very proud of this.

Charlie (0:57)

I'm not going to lie, bro. We did okay. I reckon out of that test, we killed it.

We got a 98 out of 100, really.

Azura (1:04)

Yeah.

Charlie (1:04)

I mean, that's, no, let's just say 90

Azura (1:06)

Well, brain rot.

Charlie (1:07)

90 out of 100

Azura (1:08)

Brain rot, which is just like a term for just things that kids hear online and then they become popular. It's like, if you notice your kids are speaking, like gibberish, like gibberish, gibberish. It's like they're speaking in memes. They're speaking in things that people are saying online, and it only makes sense to them because they're online.

Charlie (1:26)

You know what's buzzy about this whole thing?

It's quite smart, and it's smart too. Because when you think about brain rotting, it's almost like code talking.

Azura (1:35)

Yeah. A different language. But you have to be chronically online in order to understand it.

Charlie (1:41)

But I'm glad that we across some of it, that we know some of the names, you know, we're out here brain rot maxing.

Azura (1:49)

Look at us, guys. Shout out to Blake's brother for helping us.

Charlie (1:54)

Brain rot king.

Azura (1:56)

We have got to talk about it. Halloween.

Charlie (1:59)

This is Halloween. Man, this is crazy because now Halloween here in Aotearoa, it's getting quite big, right? But back in our days, we were quite late to the party.

Safe to say, when I was a kid, it wasn't even a thing, right, growing up in Otara. But you shared some stories off air. I was like, wait, what? That is crazy, bro. Crazy work.

Azura (2:23)

So I grew up in Tuako. If you've never heard of it, I mean, if you know, you know town.

Charlie (2:32)

You blink, you miss it.

Azura (2:34)

Hey, it's bigger now.

And one thing that we used to do, and like everyone used to do, is forget trick or treating at the houses. Oh. We used to trick or treat at the dairies.

Charlie (2:51)

At the dairies?

Azura (2:52)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For such a small town, there's actually like a ridiculous amount of dairies there. So you would go into the main street, still in your school uniform, with like a mask on.

Charlie (3:02)

Not even make an effort?

Azura (3:04)

I would make an effort, because I quite like to dress like that, but-

Charlie (3:06)

What sort of mask? A COVID mask?

Azura (3:08)

No, like a mask from the one, two, three dollar shop. That was at the top of the street. So you'd pick up a mask on the way home from college or school, and then you would go down the main street and be like, sir, have you got any, sir, miss, have you got any lollies? And they would, they would always come through. They'd always come through. I don't know whether the deris still do that these days, whether they give out lollies.

Charlie (3:30)

So it worked for you, like going to a deri and doing your trick or treat. Were they stingy with the lollies, or were they quite decent?

Azura (3:38)

I honestly cannot remember.

Charlie (3:40)

Really?

Azura (3:41)

I cannot remember.

Charlie (3:43)

Man, I mean, I didn't get the opportunity to trick or treat in Otara, but I've had some people there a lot younger than me go around the neighbourhood, and rather than getting lollies and that, people were getting apples, onions, carrots, because it wasn't a thing.

Like you try explaining to a Tongan what trick or treating is, like, oh, or Halloween. But see now, in this day and age, we do a lot at church. Like, but it's called trunkle treat. So, cars just pull up to the car park of church and just open the boot up, and they just decorate the cars.