Students discuss their planned Halloween costumes and their favorite costumes from past years.

Transcript:

0:08: Welcome back to Chronicle Chronversations. 

 0:10: I’m your host, Matt Brady. 

 0:13: Halloween is this Friday, so we went around Columbia’s campus to ask students what they plan to dress up as. 

 0:20: Google Trends analyzed data and search interests for Halloween costumes and came up with the top picks. 

 0:26: The 1st 5, all characters from “KPop Demon Hunters,” an animated film featuring members of a fictional K-pop girl group who secretly battle demons between concerts. 

 0:36: Demon Hunter Rumi is number one. 

 0:38: Others on the list include Chicken Jockey from “Minecraft,” Labubu. 

 0:43: Derpy the Tiger, also from “KPop Demon Hunters,” Elfaba from “Wicked,” and “The Lorax.” 

 0:49: This year, I will be going as Mr. 

 0:51: Fox from the Wes Anderson movie “Fantastic Mr. 

 0:54: Fox,” but my favorite costume when I was younger was Woody from “Toy Story.” 

 0:58: I’m going to be Stack from “Sinners.” 

 1:01: I am being a clown. 

 1:02: I will be Ash Ketchum from “Pokémon.” 

 1:05: I do not have a costume for Halloween this year, but if I was prepared, I would probably be Miss Frizzle from the “Magic School Bus.” 

 1:15: My favorite Halloween costumes are usually the ones where people dress up as like items. 

 1:21: I always think it’s hilarious. 

 1:23: My favorite Halloween costume that I had when I dressed up as a kid was I was a gumball. 

 1:27: Machine. 

 1:28: The bee costume, that was something that was super popular in the early 2000s, and me, my mom and my grandma actually all dressed up as bees. 

 1:38: I think that’s why it’s my favorite, because we did it like as a team. 

 1:41: It’s just the three of us, we dressed up as s’mores, so I was the marshmallow, and my parents were the graham cracker and chocolate, so we might do that again, which would be really fun. 

 1:49: I did a like, 

 1:52: White witch from “Narnia,” costume as a young child, and it was very elaborate, and I walked around with Turkish delights as an addition, and everyone really loved that one. 

 2:06: I was. 

 2:07: I think I could like throw something together last minute. 

 2:09: I’ve, I’m like kind of swamped with work, so I haven’t really been focusing on that, but we’ll see. 

 2:13: If I was gonna go, I would definitely, I think it’d be fun to be like Daphne from “Scooby Doo” or some other kind of like, oh, Poison Ivy would be another one. 

 2:25: That’s a good one. 

 2:33: This episode was produced by Zahra Sandhu. 

 2:36: I’m Matt Brady. 

 2:37: Thanks for listening. 

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