Hello, listeners.
You're listening to the Fluent Mind English Language Learning Podcast.
We are a content-based learning podcast, and I'm here with my co-host, Jack.
Today, we're going to be talking about is Halloween dead?
And my name is social, by the way.
Jack, what do you think?
Is Halloween dead?
That's a really good question.
I think in America, it's very much, it has changed a lot.
Yeah.
And I think there's just a lot of political reasons um cultural reasons economic is like economic but it all is tied together right but yeah it's like a it's a snowball you know everything everything affects everything else you know um
because buying a costume for a kid is you know
if you don't have a lot of extra money at this time when the government is like cutting a lot of benefits for people like snap is a food assistance program that just got um just got canceled,
and Medicare, I'm sorry, Medicaid, which is,
and Medicare as well, sorry, health insurance is getting really much more expensive.
And then we've got inflation in America because of the tariffs.
And you put all those three together.
It's like buying candy, buying costumes, or saving your money to pay for your healthcare,
and just enough food to eat so you're not hungry.
That's that's gonna really I mean where you gonna trim the the fat,