You're familiar with any of the numbers, Andrew.

I I would think, because I've been down here when traffic is wall to wall, people are taking their time, they want to see all the decorated homes, and the kids are you know going from home to home and collecting candy.

The only number I can tell you is I heard today the number 20,000.

Now, what I don't know is whether that's over a certain period of time.

I don't know, you know, what period of time that 20,000 is, but somebody we were tossing around 20,000 is a number that I heard today.

Okay, well, Andrew, before I let you go, okay, on a personal note, I have to ask you.

See, I I kind of like the more quote unquote friendly homes that are a little bit less scary, uh more whimsical.

How about you?

What do you prefer?

I like the ones that are a little bit spooky.

Like, you know, I kind of talked about this as being kind of a family friendly version of a nightmare on Elm Street, but I kind of like the ones that lean toward the nightmare rather than friendly.

Each

is own, right?

That's right.

All right.

So once again, we are on Hillcrest, and of course it is that time of year, and I'm telling you, everyone is enjoying it.

An iconic Halloween movie that we're all familiar with is Friday the 13th.

Well, we just happen to be at 113 Hillcrest Avenue, and the owner of this very spooky home is Brian Adams.

Brian, first of all, I guess I should say thank you.

Welcome into your very spooky home.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Welcome.

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, for whatever reason, and you have to explain this.

They told us you're the guy to talk to.

You're the guy.

How did you become the guy?

I have no idea how I became the guy, but could be the uh the giant spider here behind us.

It's it's very sort of photogenic.

He he is photogenic, and you mentioned to me that he's actually been um photographed by the Courier Journal, correct?

Yeah, that's right.

We've been on on uh several of the the news sites, and people like to set up here and take take videos and pictures in front of them.

So yeah, we do interviews pretty often.

So Brian, how long have you lived in this home?

We moved in in 2019.

Who's thought process was involved in creating the spider in the entire scene that you have here?

Yeah, so the scene was both combination, my wife and me.

Uh these I did myself.

So the the little one over there and and this big one I built in my garage.

Everybody always asks, how where do you store it?

And these legs come off and we store it up in the rafters, and we cannot have a bigger one because it's full.

Rafters out in the garage.

Yeah.

So and then last year my wife added fur onto it and eyeballs.

And uh hopefully next year we'll have palps and fangs, and every year we we buy a few more spiders and a couple more hangy things.

So it's you know, it's just a little uh sort of iterative approach.

Every year we add a little bit more.

Hangy things.

Hangy things.

Part of the fun, isn't it?

It's it's like every year improving, getting a little bit more spooky or whatever the case may be, right?

That's right.

Okay, now you were telling me you've mentioned this a couple of times in our brief little conversation before we were rolling the cameras here.

You said it's about the kids.

You talked about the kids and how much kids are tell me about what that means to you and your wife.

Yeah, well, it it's a lot.

I mean, I I I remember walking through neighborhoods when I was little, and it was just a lot of fun.

You could always get to get to know people and you had like close-knit neighbors and stuff.