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On the November 7, 2023 episode of the "Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers" podcast (Nick Offerman was the guest), the brothers opened the episode talking about how they spent their Halloweens and the trials and tribulations of picking a Halloween costume as an adult.

Seth:  "You and Mackenzie do not dress up as adults, correct?

Josh:  "We don't really. I've decided this year, what I need is I would like one good costume that I will wear every year for the rest of my life. 

Oh, you're going to lock into one.


Yeah, because I don't like thinking about what I'm going to be, and I don't like chasing a costume, and I don't like spending a bunch of money on a thing that's just going to take up room in a closet that I don't have room for. 

Yeah, I'm not anti-Halloween, but I'm just like, I'm not into it enough, and I'm not ever prepared when it arrives, so I'd like to be prepared. So, I can be prepared.  Alexi and I got invited to a Halloween party and realized that costumes were required. Now, if it had been any gray area, I would have gone without a costume. There wasn't, so I had to figure out a costume.  And I wore a, I sort of had one of those lumberjack, all red pajamas. You know what I'm talking about, that one piece?


Yeah, yeah, yeah.


So, I wore that and I had a- 

Does it have a flap? Does it have a little flap pocket?

It doesn't have a flap, but it has sort of a hole that would reveal, you know, I think we can say this on the podcast, you're underpants. 

Sure, yeah. You can say that if they want.


So, I said, but there was a hole, but I solved that problem because I wore one of the kids had a Superman cape. So, I had a Superman cape and a lumberjack.  I thought that was passable.

What were you? 

Superman. 

Oh, that's Superman.

Well, all right, so the way you said that is very in line with what Axel, my five-year-old, said. 

Yeah, I mean, I'm just imagining you're in like, you're in a onesie. Yeah.
And a cape. 

Yeah. Is that the extent of it?
You got it.
Yeah, I mean, what more would you want for Superman? 

Well, was there an S on your chest? 

No, but that's good.  That was a, could have used you, could have used you last weekend. 

Was it, was it indoors? 

So is a half and halfer.  So there were, there were cocktails out on a porch and then we moved indoors.
Were you too cold every time you went outside? 

I was.  Yeah. I was cold right away. 

Uh-huh.

It wasn't even when I went outside. The minute it started, I was too cold. And also, Alexi just wore Ash, the seven-year-old is a Wasp this year.  And sort of his Wasp shirt was big enough that she could fit in that. So she went as a Wasp, and I went as what I'm now realizing based on your reaction was a bad Superman. And Axel was very upset when I went out the door because Axel said, Axel has a lisp.
You know what? I don't need to shame Axel with his lisp. He's the best.


He's the best. 

But you know what his lisp is pretty good. He was like, daddy, that is a bad Superman.  Here's what you need to do. Go get blue pants and a blue shirt and red underpants. And then we will put an eth on your chest.  And he basically explained how to dress up like Superman, which I understood, but the point was we were out of time.

Right. 

But the other thing I was gonna say is, so I was a Superman and she was a wasp.  Maybe only 5% of the people there weren't couple costumes. 

Uh-huh, yeah.

And so we were like, who are you?  And I was like Superman and a wasp.  And they were like, and where, sir, which is that?  

Were you hands down the worst costumes at the party? 

Alexi's was good.  Alexi was a very good wasp. Had I, so in retrospect, here's what I should have done. I'm wearing a red onesie.  We had an extra pair of like antenna and I should have cut out black circles of construction paper and made myself a ladybug. Yeah. But then now there's a problem.  The cape was the only thing covering up my, and again, cover your ears, kids, if you're in the car, my underpants. So I think in the end, I'd rather be a bad Superman, not worrying about my underpants showing than a good ladybug with the whole underpants situation. 

...We've got two dogs, Debbie and Woody.
We had Debbie and Pickles. Pickles sadly passed over a year ago. He was 18 and a half, great run.  But for years, I've had two dog costumes.  And similar to sort of what I want, like they're just the only costumes I feel like we ever need for the dogs. And yeah, so I gotta get those cleaned up, but they're great.
Like the dogs are so adorable when they're in those costumes. There's a jack-o-lantern, and then there's a dinosaur that has a caveman on the back because Pickles and now Woody are creationists and they think that the cavemen and dinosaurs lived at the same time. 

Yes, they've always been hardcore creationists.

Frisbee, we've dressed up a few times.  One year Frisbee was a giraffe that bit me. Another year, she was a pumpkin that bit me."

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