[applause] john happy halloween. We celebrate halloween because 2000 years ago the celts in northern france the harvest season was wounded people were turned to wreck crops and do other mean things. They believe wearing costumes might scare up the ghost. Im not sure how we got from that to children wearing costumes and wolfing down candy, but thats what we have in america today. We also have some seasonal businesses making millions now off of fear. These people in new york city are waiting in line to pay 30 so they can be scared by actors who jump out of the dark. The owner of the business called what manner says the idea is when customers get so scared they fall down. When you see someone hit the ground and crawl out we have three different chicken doors and normally they pans. John great, they had chicken doors . People paid to be that scared . Why . Margee kerr study sphere. Shes a fierce sociologist at the university of pittsburgh peerage he works in the place in pennsylvania calle
[applause] john happy halloween. We celebrate halloween because 2000 years ago the celts in northern france the harvest season was wounded people were turned to wreck crops and do other mean things. They believe wearing costumes might scare up the ghost. Im not sure how we got from that to children wearing costumes and wolfing down candy, but thats what we have in america today. We also have some seasonal businesses making millions now off of fear. These people in new york city are waiting in line to pay 30 so they can be scared by actors who jump out of the dark. The owner of the business called what manner says the idea is when customers get so scared they fall down. When you see someone hit the ground and crawl out we have three different chicken doors and normally they pans. John great, they had chicken doors . People paid to be that scared . Why . Margee kerr study sphere. Shes a fierce sociologist at the university of pittsburgh peerage he works in the place in pennsylvania calle
[applause] john happy halloween. We celebrate halloween because 2000 years ago the celts in northern france the harvest season was wounded people were turned to wreck crops and do other mean things. They believe wearing costumes might scare up the ghost. Im not sure how we got from that to children wearing costumes and wolfing down candy, but thats what we have in america today. We also have some seasonal businesses making millions now off of fear. These people in new york city are waiting in line to pay 30 so they can be scared by actors who jump out of the dark. The owner of the business called what manner says the idea is when customers get so scared they fall down. When you see someone hit the ground and crawl out we have three different chicken doors and normally they pans. John great, they had chicken doors . People paid to be that scared . Why . Margee kerr study sphere. Shes a fierce sociologist at the university of pittsburgh peerage he works in the place in pennsylvania calle
[applause] john happy halloween. We celebrate halloween because 2000 years ago the celts in northern france the harvest season was wounded people were turned to wreck crops and do other mean things. They believe wearing costumes might scare up the ghost. Im not sure how we got from that to children wearing costumes and wolfing down candy, but thats what we have in america today. We also have some seasonal businesses making millions now off of fear. These people in new york city are waiting in line to pay 30 so they can be scared by actors who jump out of the dark. The owner of the business called what manner says the idea is when customers get so scared they fall down. When you see someone hit the ground and crawl out we have three different chicken doors and normally they pans. John great, they had chicken doors . People paid to be that scared . Why . Margee kerr study sphere. Shes a fierce sociologist at the university of pittsburgh peerage he works in the place in pennsylvania calle
The institute for public knowledge. You are in the kind of annex space that we are hosting at this evenings event and we do a lot like this at the part that tries to take ideas and intellectuals that might otherwise spend too much time inside the ivory tower and project them out into the world, so we aim to generate conversations between Bank University world and have a lot to say to one another and we do many events like this and urge you to get on the mailing list if youre not already a part of the community. So tonight is especially exciting to me for many reasons. One is that our distinguished guest tonight was hugely hopeful to me and my increasingly well known, operator when we were writing the book modern romance over the last couple of years we drew heavily from the foundation of her knowledge and she said so many things that were interesting to us but she told us a whole lot about conversation and technology and things to look out for. I will always remember one of the most am