- [Interviewer] Tell me where you want us to go.
- [Rob] Let's go around the corner (mumbles).
- [Interviewer] OK, ready?
- [Rob] Act like (mumbles).
- [Interviewer] OK, yeah, exactly.
- [Rob] Let's go around the corner.
- So we're in New York.
What are we gonna do?
- Well, we're shopping for a Mr. Bill mask.
And we found it, come on over.
Can you see through there?
Think there's a lot of demand for Mr. Bill these days?
I don't know.
- Now why are we shopping for Halloween stuff?
- Because it's Halloween, dammit.
- But in two months, right? - Well, you gotta start early
'cause all the good Mr. Bill masks will be gone.
- OK (laughs).
- You wait 'til the last minute,
that's when you have to go as a pirate.
What else have we got here?
- So--
Can't anyone help us?
(whistles) - Oh look, here's a good mask.
What about this one?
Are you a bat person?
- Yeah, but this is too silly.
See, there's a fine line between
true Halloween items and then just the silly knockoff items.
- Right.
- You gotta know what you're looking for.
- How long have you been into Halloween?
Has this been something that--
- Yeah, I mean, it's always was like the only holiday
I cared about.
Christmas, Christmas was good 'cause you'd got loaded up
with stuff, but it was boring.
Halloween was the, you know, the shit.
- What was - is it a dark side that's been there
all your life?
- I guess, yeah.
I mean, it's just always been a thing.
You know, it was like, we would,
it was - every day was Halloween for us, you know.
Building haunted houses in the basement and like,
we didn't want it to end, you know,
we got excited three months before
and dragged it out three months past.
So it was just like, we wouldn't let go of it.
- Do you make a point of going to Halloween stores
when you visit a new city or anything?
- Oh, yeah.
Well, actually, it's funny, on this tour,
I made them book the tour around Halloween.
They're like, "Oh, well you're gonna be in Kansas."
I'm like, no way.
You know, I had them book all these shows around it.
I have to have my Halloween time.
- Right.
When you were a kid, did you used to go trick-or-treating
and stuff?
- Well, for a brief period, I used to trick-or-treat.
And then everyone got into that thing of putting razor blades
in candy apples and stuff.
So then trick-or-treating just became vandalism night.
We just ran around throwing eggs at people's houses.
And our big thing was to take those big thick crayons
and draw all over people's cars.
Never thinking that, you know, you can't get that off.
You know, we would just go out and ruin stuff.
You know, everyone we hated. It was our night of revenge.
- And what about these?
Is that something you would consider having in your house?
- This is tacky!
I wouldn't put this in my house.
(laughs)
- What do you think? Where do you think I live?
- So we wanna look at masks?
- Yes.
- This one looks good.
- Yeah, this is good.
This is, I don't know.
- We like that one?
- Right, (laughs) this one here.
- Right here.
Yeah, you're on it there, pal.
Thanks.
I think this interview would work much better
if you're wearing this for the rest of it, just a hunch, I--
- OK, let me try it on.
- You might want to go with it.
All right, now we can do business.
- OK. Right, now I'm gonna pick one for you.
- Oh, no way.
(laughs)
- Oh yeah, I think it has a certain something.
- Can we see all these here?
I can't see under the display.
Let me get some of these.
Oh yeah.
I like these ones here.
This creature one,
and yeah,
that's a keeper.
Actually, how much are these things?
- [Clerk] Uh, $2.50.
That's in my price range.
Can I get, like, one of each,
not - one of each thing on the top shelf here?
See, these are the good ones.
They haven't changed this mold since 1950.
Now I'm just doing shopping.
I'm not even working.
Thank you, can I get these ones on the bottom here?
All the way to the second shelf?
Yeah.
- What are you going to do with all these masks, seriously?
- I just hang them on the wall.
I don't know.
You know, it's like the story of my life
is like constantly buying things that have no purpose
and filling my house with them and then going,
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- Right.
- Let's move on.
- OK anything here that takes your fancy?
- This is the- this is the item of the day.
This baby's coming home.
- So why do you like these ones
as opposed to these more expensive,
perhaps more detail-orientated.
- Well, 'cause, I don't know. These are, like, a dying art,
these cheesy little kid ones,
whereas these things are just, you know, I don't know --
any idiot can wear a $75 mask.
Look at this door jammer. This is pretty cool.
Six bucks it's a bargain.
Frankenstein with an Elvis hairdo.
We'll get this too.
- All right then. Ready? - Yup.
- All right.
So should we go to the next place?
- Get the hell outta here. - Okay.