Icon #16 - The Easter Bunny: Our Forgotten May Queen

In this episode, Jack and Miles are joined by writer/comedian Brandie Posey to talk about no one's favorite mammal with a cloaca:

The Easter Bunny!

They'll explore its Pagan origins and meaning, evolution throughout history and they reveal the Easter Bunny's true gender!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this spinoff episode of dirt.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Aiy Zeitgeist, Yes.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Which we're calling the iconograph. Instead of looking at the
zeikes through the current events on Monday mornings, we're looking
at the zekeist through the powerful pop culture or cruxes.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
That are our icon icons.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
We use these icons to create meaning, to build identity,
to learn that some mammals do have a kloeca and
that's not weird. To learn the damage that can be
done when an icon gets their big shot at a
Hollywood movie and they're played by a fucking Russell Brand.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
And most importantly, we use these icons to learn when
you look back over the easters of your life and
you only see one set of prints in the sand,
that's not because Jesus abandoned you. It's because a giant
egg laying bunny was carrying both you and Jesus on
her back. That's right, we're talking about me, Me, the
strangest holiday mascot, the original eb White, the Easter Bunny.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Sniff sniff sniff, Snichster Bunny.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm to be joined, as always by my co host,
mister Miles Gras.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Keep those Cadbury eggs the fuck away from me.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Not interested because they're too good and addictive.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
They're just dude. I remember the commercials in the eighties.
I was like, what the fuck is this and I
was like chicken bunny thing and it laid that fucking
egg and laid yeah. And I remember eating one for
the first time. I was so underwhelmed. I was like,
this is really Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I love as a sugar freak, like that is the sugariest,
Like the inside of that is it's just molten sugar,
sugar sugar that they like bait. They turned into like
base they come. Yeah, no, there's no preak from it's
all the heavy biscus, heavy ropes of sugar comps.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no disgusting. I'm fine with
the regular hardshell Cadbury eggs. I don't mind those, like
you know what I mean, just the shell egg.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
The shell egg, nothing nothing inside.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
What do you mean? Like yeah, like at eminem like
it's like it's got like a it's like no chocolate,
the candy shell those that ship well, let's see, this
is the duality that we present.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I do just because as a as a sugar freak,
I love the big Cadberry eggs, which do seem to
be getting smaller, and the Receis eggs.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, yeah, those are those are so good?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
What what a what a balance in our third seat,
which were to be joined by one of our favorites.
One of your favorites a comedian, writer, producer, podcaster who
you know from Lady to Lady, wonderful podcast and something
called stand up comedy.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's brandypos Hell. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Been chomping at the bit to jump in on the
Cadbury egg discussion.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
But how do we feel I want to give voice
to the voiceless Catherine in the chat you said, Nope, Miles,
what are we talking about? What was the talking about?

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Nope to the tiny ones that look like Eminem's. Just
eat an emin, m.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Just eat a fucking Eminem bro.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Wow, what do you like better about those than Eminem's.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
This is just like a different balance of the sugar
candy chocolate.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's the Cadbury chocolate itself. Yeah that's okay. I like
it had superior milk chocolate and I had.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Like actual Cadbury, like UK version of because there's the
UK version and then there's version Yeah yeah, yeah, theres
actually go bad because they're not just plastic with goo inside.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right, they have like a born on date where I
still find I have found Easter eggs with candy still
in them and just popped that candy in my mouth.
No like, and it's from like last year, maybe two
years ago, the Easter where I'm like going back to
hide the eggs. Little uh spoiler alert for the kiddos
out there. Yeah, I that we we forgot to crack one.

(04:02):
I will still eat the candy. And I never.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Died where you at, Brandy with the Cadbury's You're you're
not the cream egg you don't eat.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
I'm not anymore. There was a time I think, yeah, yeah,
I am reformed.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
I hit a point where I was like, we can't
be doing this anymore because it was just like sugar
straight to the dome in a way that I was like, oh,
I feel like a beat dropping when I would eat.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
You're like clicking the sludge out, and I was like.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
You can't.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
I think I got to go to a meeting over
these eggs.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
WHOA, what the fuck's in these things? Ship you.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
You black out? Come to twenty minutes later, it's just
ship like foil stuck to your face. Yeah, your shoes
are on the wrong feet. It's like a push zoom
point a minute long push zoom among your face.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
I do all right.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
So a little behind the scenes on how we choose
our icons. We have a list of icons that we
send out, like the icons that we've done. Then we
got we got a list of like you know, potential
icons to do and send them out to our guests
and Brandy, we reached out to you. You snapped out

(05:25):
the Easter Bunny. I did.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
I thought Easter Bunny was gonna sit on the shelf
like an NBA player who shouldn't have come to the
draft and is still there at the second round. Like
I thought the Easter Bunny was just going to be chilling.
I'm so glad you did. I learned a lot in
researching this episode, and shout out to jam McNabb for
helping with the research. But can you explain what what
about the Easter Bunny spoke to you?

Speaker 4 (05:48):
So I felt like, if not me, then who number
one hero?

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Step up?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Exactly?

Speaker 5 (05:58):
It was like somebody has got to do it.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
I actually have experience, unfortunately as a mall.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Easter Bunny and twenty eighteen amazing.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
For two weeks at the Eagle Rock Plaza, I was all, yeah,
so like low tier Easter Buddy too. Yeah yeah, Actually,
here's a photo of me with my dog in the
Easter Bundy costume.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
This is me.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now, you are a very nice looking Easter Bunny.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
See you say that in person.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
The suit is horrifying because I have a joke about
it on my new album where this is actually this
is the album cover. Also like I did this. I
made this the album cover because it's like I have
a whole joke about being the Easter Bunny because I
did it. I played the Kennedy Center with one of
my shows, and I came back. I know this is
pre twenty eighteen Kennedy Center. I'm just going to say

(06:48):
twenty eighteen Kennedy Center. Yeah, I came back. I had
one day and then I started two weeks as of
all Easter Bunny. So it was this real like deep
oh my, and that costume you can only see out
through the mouth and like Jesus and you'd have kids.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Come up and just like it was not a big mouth. No,
it's not not like it doesn't have a gaping smile.
It's kind of a small mouth.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
It's a small mouth.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
And what would happen because here in La March gets hot,
so you would like be in this costume, sweating and silence,
and they would just be like, put put a podcast on,
so you're listening on headphones to whatever the hell you're
listening to. I put on a lot of murder podcasts
because I was like, I feel like, I don't this
is the right energy for the Easter Bunny.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
But then when when a kid wasn't sitting on you, you
would lean over and put your face over a fan
just to try to like get air into your face.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
So this Easter Bunny just constantly looks like he's like
nodding off like.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, a little yeah exactly, a little dope sick.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
And I emailed the company actually this week because my
album just came out, and I emailed the company that
I worked for to be like, is this suit still
in rotation? I'd like to come take a photo of
me with my album cover with the Easter Bunny And
they were like, what I'm looking at the exact wording
that it was a strange email back, so sure the
suit is not currently in circulation, is what they said.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
They went, they went through their legal team on that one.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
Erica got back to me. I'm shocked, she responded to the.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, now you said you played the Kennedy Center. I'm
aware of the Donald J. Trump and the John F.
Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Is that is
that what it used to be called the Kennedy Center? Yes,
that's what it used to be called.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Kennedy's name yea interesting and it used.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
To be his name first? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Isn't that crazy? You're like, fuck, yeah, bro, I just
played the Kennedy Center. Yeah, I'm leaning over a fan
a tiny mouthful, so I don't get like heat this felt.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Cost Why it's really important to support your artists materially
and financially, you guys.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Because mark that as number one on the list of
like things that we need to do to make over
the Easter Bunny is like, we need a suit. This
is spring. This is a spring holiday. This is our
icon of a spring holiday. It's warm most places, most places.
This is going to be a problem. Sure to be

(09:20):
full on like this. This costume is warmer than Santa's suit. Yes,
and you're putting them in a fucking well, And I'll
do this on the fourth of July. Guys, what are
we doing?

Speaker 5 (09:31):
And I'll tell you what you're not getting paid, what
Santa's getting paid.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
I bet people talk a lot about like the you know,
the gender gap, you know the racial gap. No one
is talking about the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus gap.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I want to talk about it. That's what I'm here
to talk about.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Brand. Real Christians should be upset about that. Actually, I
mean this one's actually to do with the fucking say,
the Resurrection.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
That's what I'm.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Saying, is it?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
That's what I want to sell.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Get Let's get it funny.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Was a collision of the pagan with the Christian in
our modern US holidays. I feel like the Easter Bunny
is the fucking crux of this, like the most pagan shit.
Like with Santa, you've got a religious code name. He
goes by Saint Nick. He gives the church like plausible deniability.
The Easter Bunny. Could it be like it's a bunny

(10:22):
that brings and lays candy filled brightly colored eggs, and
the ostensible Christian reason for the season is like the
brutal murder of and then spooky resurrection of.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Jesus Christ Jos.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's I guess they both have to do with like rebirth,
like that's the that's the closest I can get.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I get like, yeah, to your point, and Catherine the
Chat's like, yeah, Christians hate it because it's funny. My
grandmother was a very you know, upstanding Christian woman. She
definitely she kind of had misgivings about the Easter Bunny.
Never like that visible to me, but I remember my
grandpa would be really excited about that in the Easter thing,
and she would kind of always be like less enthusiastic

(11:07):
about it, feeling I was to do because she was like,
we need to remember what Jesus did suffered on the
cross for I'm like, yeah, yeah, more on that later
that later, there's always talking sized bunny, Yeah, laying.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Eggs next to me, please, Grandma.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, we'll get to that. The Christians have been upset
about it. They've also tried to like make some bizarre
attempts to make the Easter Bunny like Jesus's wingman like
like story, where like the Easter Bunny is just like
one of the apostles. One of these Children's.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
I just love going so well the last supper, you
just do a snow pan down the table at the
last supper and then at the end of some fucker
in a rabbit costume.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think another like, in addition to the costume being
horribly designed for the season, I'm going to say I
think another major problem we had is the Easter Bunny
is a she, and they will not let the Easter
Bunny be she lays eggs. She's like historically she's an
example of the divine feminine, and like it's this one place,

(12:15):
this one holiday where we let like the divine feminine
and eggs and like rebirth like sneak into our modern
patriarchal world. And like, yeah, they won't they keep they
make Russell brand be like she she never gets to
be a woman in any of the movies, right, yeah,

(12:36):
and yeah, like I feel like we need to. I
was listening to a podcast where they acknowledged the pagan origins,
but then they were like, and the reason the eggs
are painted this color is because like green represents the
color of the herbs that were like fed to Jesus
on the cross. They're pain the color of flowers for

(13:03):
like a spring festival, like this is our mid Sommar,
Like this is the Easter Bunny should be our may Queen,
Like yes, like this is this is what we need
to do with the Easter Bunny. We need to reclaim
the Easter bunny as our divine feminine and they just
like won't, won't let it happen.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
So what you're saying is that mauls just start having
a man paralyzed in a bear suit. Yes, that that
how we should be taking photos with this time of year.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
And there's a huge opportunity here, as you said, like
the Easter Bunny is not quite Santa Claus, but the
Easter Bunny is the face of a holiday that Americans
spend twenty four billion dollars on a year. That's twice
as much as Halloween somehow. Wait, really, no fucking way,
there's Halloween a far superior holiday.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, it's celebrated by mathematically way more people.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
I know, fucking Easter. But I think it's because people
buy like new, nice outfits on Easter, more expensive than
shitty candy.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh oh right, because all the Easter ship you do
on that's true, Because yeah, I was getting together with
my family we have massive fucking marque like cook out,
all kinds of ship.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
The basket is a whole thing, and that costs more
than the sack I'm getting candy, and for sure that's true.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh yeah, because the Catholic kids I grew up down
the street from, they got so much fucking ship for Easter.
I was like, what the fuck is this ship? Yeah,
this motherfucker got a fucking Nintendo game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember got the Ken griff And there's a Ken
Griffy Junior Super Nintendo game that came out that year.
I still remember this day. He fucking got that ship

(14:43):
for fucking Easter. I went to my grandparent's house. I
had stale ass mar's mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
I got one gift I think in an Easter basket
and it was He's the dj on the Rapper, the
will Smith.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
I still remember that being like, God damn.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Man, we were candy you guys.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah yeah, we were candy only Easter basket household. I think, yeah, yeah,
that's wild. I didn't even think about, like get the
presence of it all.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
So we're gonna start with the origins, which I think
gets into some of this divine, feminine, But any questions
you guys have up top or anything, any other Easter
Bunny thoughts Before we get into the dossier.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Main thought was that it never occurred to me the
gender sex of the Easter Bunny.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
No, me, neither really before we started doing and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, of course, why would this motherfucker be laying eggs? Yeah,
but then also what kind of bunny's laying fucking you
know what I mean? But then you're like, what kind
of bunny lays eggs?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
And then you're like a hat on a hat, Like
the reason it's a bunny is because it's like a
fertility symbol, like a symbol, because they fuck a lot.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
What I'm saying is I'm entering this conversation with my
twelve year old idea what Easter Bundy was, have not
really given it much thought outside of like, yeah, right,
what the fuck does that have to do with anything?
So yeah, I've already been like, oh damn, it's yeah,
it's a female.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Dude, it should be of starting to call the Easter
bunny she like, I will really start blowing people's minds.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I'm looking forward.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
To being insufferable about it. This holiday season.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, well, you never know what he's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
She excuse me.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
She lays eggs, thank you, and you go to the dad.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
You go, I'm sorry, sir, do you lay eggs?

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Do you have?

Speaker 3 (16:26):
And this doesn't get into a sticky domain about gender
or anything like that, but interesting, no, let's see that's
always not come out of your butt.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah, the Easter Bunny does have like a an it's
pat quality about it, though, I feel sure.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
But sometimes you see this saying but sometimes not saying
that like it is canonically female. I'm saying it should
be canonically female, and should haven't you seen.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Where like the motherfucker's dressed up looking like a dapper
dan and ship with like a straw hat and garters
on its arm like it's in a barbershop quartet, And
I'm like, yeah, very.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yes. And like rankin Bass has like tried to do
a bunch of like all all the same tricks that
were used to build Santa and Roodolph were used with
the Easter Bunny. They just haven't worked. My theory is
that it's because they're barking up the wrong tree. They're
making it a boy every single time, and it just like,

(17:22):
that's not that's not what it wants to be. That's
not what the zeitgeist wants the easter bunny. That's not
what our patriarchy demands. Yeah, our patriarchy demands one thing.
I think shared consciousness demands something else like it. Yeah,
So there's a lot of debate about the specifics of
her origin story. We do know that bunnies were important

(17:46):
pagan symbols going back to the Neolithic Age in Europe,
which is ten thousand BC to two thousand BC. During
the Neolithic Age in Europe, hairs were given ritual burials
alongside humans, which was archaeologists believe was a religious ritual
with hairs representing rebirth. So right from the start you

(18:09):
have it the Neolithic, by the way, ten thousand BC,
so it's the last part of the Stone Age goes
stone tools. Yeah, stone tools. It's when they first get
the idea like farming. We've talked about how like all
of a sudden, the same idea will occur in multiple
places around the world, and this is the Neolithic package,

(18:32):
Like these developments that happen in different places all around
the world, introducing a farming domestication of animals changed from
hunter gatherer lifestyle to one of settlement.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
And it happens got our shit together.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's when humanity got their shit together or fell into
a trap that they would never recover from that.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
So some have said, wow, the Easter bunny has seen
it all.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Dan know, the Easter Bunny has been with us for
it all.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Jesus pre Christianity then, yeah, Abraham preached.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's like right around the very first books in the
Old Testament, is like when we know that they were
already burying people with hairs and rabbits.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
So maybe Jesus should be a rabbit.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm just saying, like, Jesus can be, Like, she influenced
me guy.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Way more into Christianity. If if they're like and thank
God for this rabbit, yeah, and on the line for us,
I'm like, shout out to that rabbit. Yeah. Everything.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Well, I have a book for you that we're going
to get to it. During the Iron Age, ritual burials
of hairs were common, and in fifty one BC Julius
Caesar mentions that in Britain, hairs were not eaten due
to their religious significance. So in like Pagan Britain, Britannia

(19:56):
hairs are essentially to them what like cats are to
ancient Egypt. Wow, by the way, this, uh, the Neolithic
age like ends with the age of ancient Egypt, so
it's like the era before that. That's how long ago
we're talking. So pagan pre Christian history of hairs being
treated as special animals linked to rebirth. I guess that

(20:19):
that is the one way, Like, like I said, like
Christian Easter is about Jesus rising from the dead, which
is a sort of rebirth.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
But yeah, originally, what are their rebirths are there? You
can't technically be reborn, am I right? Yeah? Yeah, metaphor.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
I mean, like I guess just birth is a rebirth
of like a species, you know, yeah, self centered, the
spring is.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
A rebirth of their earth comes back to Like it's.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Not tied karmically to like your comeback as like a
different animal or level along the way to it's just
like the act of just being reborn.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Hairs were sacred to Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love,
which is why hairs and rabbits have long been symbols
of sexuality. So we just have like a lot of
examples of rabbits and hairs being linked to the feminine,
being linked to rebirth, reproduction, and the sacred.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Wait a second, Wait a second, I'm just realizing Jessica
Rabbit is like kind she that's actually should be the
mascot of the holiday season.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Should that should be a rabbit?

Speaker 5 (21:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it should be.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, the divine feminine, horny rabbit woman is Yeah, we're
we're doing it all wrong.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Nothing about mister Bunny and Jessica Rabbit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, rabbit,
back at it. The virgin Mary is often shown with
a white hair or rabbit, symbolizing that she overcame sexual temptation.
So they're like getting in on the sort of pagan
I cannot very early on in Christian art. I just
love the horniness that's implied there, Like not only is

(22:06):
she a virgin, but she wanted to like you know, yeah, yeah,
she was like a rabbit, but she like didn't she
didn't do it.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
She could No, No, she had she had God's son.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Like how how often were they you know, like was
it going on between the two of them?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Because maybe that.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, what's God's sperm count? No one talks about this.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
That's right. There's also so Easter is associated with this
goddess Aostre, which like this one comes from a monk
from the six hundreds who then gets quoted by the
Grim brothers, and that like you, your myth is going

(22:52):
to become canon if the Grims put it in their book.
But so this is where people like jump in and
be like, actually, the idea that Ala Stray was a
pagan goddess who is associated with rabbits was first quoted
by this monk in the six hundreds, which is true,

(23:13):
but it's like, I don't know, that's just one part,
one piece of evidence that like there is this divine, pagan,
feminine association with rabbits, so like they're just like cherry
pegging one thing and trying to be like that there
got them. It's not a pagan ritual.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Also, that one monk was weird and nobody liked him.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Right, dude, what are you talking about?

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah, yeah, throw his wine out.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Also, Easter, the word Easter is related to estrus, which
is a recurring period of sexual receptivity and fertility and
female mammals. So it's like everything is like about women's cycles.
It's also a holiday that's not on a set day. Yeah,
it's a holiday that is determined out. It's it's vibed

(24:06):
out based on the lunar cycle. And also like the equinox,
Like it couldn't be more feminine in Pagan, Like everything
about this holiday is so like feminist in Pagan. It's
like we're uh, yeah, they're they're doing combination of lunar
cycles in spring equinox, which I think their explanation is, like, well,

(24:27):
that's how Passover is determined, and Jesus probably died on Passover.
But like, I don't know, that doesn't really make sense
or like that. That doesn't change the fact that you're
like looking at the lunar cycle to determine when your
when your holiday.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Is right right right right?

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, definitely, man. I want to know what the Easter
bunny sign is?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, very hit man.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Hopefully it was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Yeah,
so it just the Chinese zodio yeah yeah, yeah, hopefully
to overlap it's all waste.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Guess technically, Well, I'm in my brain, I just went, well,
the Easter is tends to be an aries, but also
I'm like that now I'm just like Oh that's the
that's the that's how the Easter Buddy's birthday.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
So who knows.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeahah, and I.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Don't know enough about astrology to continue this rift, so.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Let's go deeper. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Basically, my thesis on the whole like controversy around the
origin of the Easter Bunny is like people are like,
they're they're all these different examples of like pagan influence,
where like bunnies are important. One of them seems maybe
like a little bit weak, and that's the one that
most often gets quoted on the internet, and so people

(25:42):
are like, so therefore it's not true. But there's not
like an alternative explanation where they're like, and actually it
came from this thing where like Jesus loved rabbits.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Or you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Like, they don't have an alternate explanation, so it's just
clearly an example of like the divine feminine, like for sure.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
The first mention of bunny that lays eggs was I
think fifteen seventy two the Germans.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Those freaky, those freaky fucks, some classic German show.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Was it some fucking weird fairy tale that's some.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Freaking it was pretty normal. They said, do not worry
if the Easter bunny escapes you should we miss his eggs,
we will cook the nest.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Oh most German center. So this in this version it's
his eggs. Oh yeah, they were already trying to things
going wild. Wow.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
The Easter bunny then spreads to the US and the
seventeen hundreds. I actually have a German friend who I
talked to for this, and he says that, like, Easter
is a huge holiday in Germany. Like it was funny
because he didn't really like know what our traditionally. He's like,
it's crazy, like we die these eggs.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, we do that too, go on what?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
But then they they also do an Easter egg hunt,
but instead of putting the candy in plastic eggs, they
just like put the candy out in the yard. But
they also have a thing that I really like, where
after you die the eggs, you decorate a tree with them,
and it's like not a Christmas tree, but like a
different tree that you bring into your house.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Like a dog wood or something.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, nice little dog wood.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Okay, so there's an Easter tree. Wow, I didn't do it.
I also who just took their Christmas tree down, not
joking yesterday. Yeah, yeah, wow, and that's I love that
was it was just became a daunting thing. And I
think our collective familial add was just.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Like, ah, I feel you. I took my I took
my outside lights down last weekend because I was just like,
I was like, I can't.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
You should have been like, fuck, well it could have
been an easter tree.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Which yeah, especially like you did you know he was
saying that it's not a tree usually that has leaves
on it, So okay, yeah, just a barren tree that
you decorate with beautiful eggs.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
There's also like a lot of like scholarly debate about
like when they first started laying eggs and like why
they lay eggs. I'm just gonna say, like it's a
fertility symbol. Yeah, Like if America was symbolized by like
a fighter jet sized bald eagle that like shit nuclear
weapons and the explosions were like red, white, and blue,

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we wouldn't be like how'd they come up? It'd be like, yeah,
that's we get it. Like the symbolism's a little a
little heavy handed, but we we get it. You know.
I'm sure a bunch of different people got to the
rabbit laying eggs.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
You know, I'm liking the idea of, like in because
Germany has a crompus and I've always thought that every
holiday should have a crompus, like a villain to go
with it. Yeah, and I'm like just thinking of like
an Easter krompas is just a fucked up dude rabbit
burn like bone arat just whipping eggs at people.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
On the street.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yeah, it's egging everybody.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
God, why or steals the eggs? I mean, you gotta
steal kids, right because they fucking kill you man.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
You know. Yeah, we lift that quote Briank. We get
Miles saying you gotta steal kids, You gotta steal kids,
and I go, I'll kill you man. Come on, you know,
like these eggs they're cadgories. We've got Easter bunny alternatives

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in other parts of the world, uh, the Easter Bilby
in Australia, where rabbits are considered pests. I also wonder
this might high into like the whole sacred, feminine and
like fertility thing, because in Australia, Easter is not a
spring festival. You know, they're headed towards winter, and so
it's no longer about fertility, and the bilby is not

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a symbol of fertility. It was like brought in in
the nineties as a symbol of conservation because they're actually
endangered and the Easter like bunnies are the opposite. So
essentially they like they did create a reverse Eastern bunny.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
They did the the Easter bilby. Is that that's the
krompus of Easter.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, they're really cute. I just looked them up and
I was like, yeah, they kind.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Of look bunnyh Yeah, they're endangered longs yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Oh hell yeah, yeah their gift bearing.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Other gift bearing animals include the Easter cuckoo in Switzerland
and in some parts of Germany, the Easter fox in
a Sweden or no in sorry, in some parts of Germany,
the Easter fox sort of the Easter rooster leave eggs.
In Sweden, it's an Easter witch who hails from an
ancient cultural tradition. Uh the sweeten one is associated with

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witches due to the quote old belief that witches would
fly to a German mountain the Thursday before Easter to
cavort with Satan and then they visit you on the
way back.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Uh, just got back from cavorting with Satan.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
Yeah, they just stopped by on their walk of shame.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, Russia, it's dogs who lay the Easter eggs, which
I don't I don't like that at all. That's fucking weird.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Because I mean it's gonna look like they're taking a ship.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, you.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Know, I mean like there's no, there's no I can
already see it arched back. Yeah, all over the ground.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Not good egg and then a beautiful egg, a beautiful flower.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Don't touch that. Don't touch that, don't touch that. You know,
they probably swallowed that thing came out the other end.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
The Easter Bunny became a commercial power house thanks largely
to German American candy maker Robert Strucker, who created a
five foot tall, solid chocolate rabbit in eighteen ninety to
popularize smaller versions of his new Easter sweets born of
the German tradition. It reportedly weighed four hundred to five
hundred pounds and would cost ten thousand dollars today to make.

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And obviously it totally worked. But obviously at a certain
point they started making the bunnies out of hollowed out chocolate.
It almost certainly as a money saving measure. I will say,
there's something about the sensory experience of biting off a
hollow bunny ear. Yes, that is unbeautiful to me. Like
even though that was like probably an attempt to like

(32:44):
save money, I am a fan of the hollow bunnies.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
What about you, guys?

Speaker 4 (32:49):
I love them, and you have to start with the ear, right,
I feel like that was always like.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, you always you trim the ears off your psychopath dude.
My grandfather Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
If somebody just want to ask first.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
You're looking at the ear and they go, no.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
God, damn my grandfather. I remember one year jokingly bit
off the easter bunny ears of me and my brother's
Easter like hollow easter bunnies, and we were inconsolable.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Oh my god, I feel so bad.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
I know.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Look, he had World War two to process, so like
I understand that now it was I think he was PTSD.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
That back then for those that didn't exist for them,
everyone who was in World War two Korea GTS what what?

Speaker 1 (33:40):
No, man, I just I'm just someone who sure likes
to drink. Yeah, I don't want to be me. Yeah,
And I don't want to be home ever. No, no, no, no,
I don't want to be around you guys.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
And I'm gonna keep drinking.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
I'm just gonna drive and sleep in my own bed, yes, absolutely,
and eat the bunny ears off of my all of
my grandkids.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
I think it is. It's just like the I think
it's also because like as a kid, you look at
you do this thing is fucking substantial. Yeah, yeah, and
then it's like, oh, it's like I think it's just
sort of like the juxtaposition of it seeming like it's
wrapped in foil. You carefully take the foil off just
for a nice little yeah, and it comes together.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
It's just like breaks into shards.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
And then melt y you want to tease shardslty shards
anywhere else in my life?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Don't.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
No, Delicious, they could. But other Halloween candy that is classic.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
We We've talked about the cawberry eggs miles out of
bizarre opinion that the candy shells are fine, Uh, as
good as the guy.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
You know what it's you know what it is. It's
sugar crack it's because of the fucking commercial with that freaky.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
Oh that commercial was upsetting.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, and I think that really it was like it
felt like I was watching like David Lynch's like Naked
Lunch for the first time or something.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Which watch by the canonically Miles.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Head was the very first one I saw, and my
Naked Lunch like within the year right after Wow, Like
my dad like was like we saw a razor Head
and Naked Lunch in the same weekend. But I remember
there's like when the Chicken there's like that chicken ship
dancing thing that for whatever reason, I connect the Cadbury
Bunny to that moment. It's like really disorienting for me.

(35:32):
And I think then it was like an egg and
it had the Yoki ship. I'm like, this is all
to Lynching.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yeah, he probably loved that commercial. I wish I could
have seen David Lynch see, like Berry Bunny just phenomenal.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
It lays eggs. Yeah, yeah, exactly beautiful. That is the
most fucking.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
You're looking at a very unusual kind of egg from
Cadberry that's only around till Eastern It shell is pure
Cadberry milk chocolate. I'm getting so horny for that.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Because it has like a yolk too. This is what
fucked me up is the yellow too, and it looks
the the yolk looks like a different consistency.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yes, yeah it is. And then you eat it and
then you're like this and I don't know, and I
guess that's the thing is like I don't know what
the fuck is supposed to taste like it's a fucking
up egg. Yeah, and then it's just like straight nondescript sugar.
It just yeah, sorry, I really like that.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Like that commercial is one of the most iconic Easter
bunnies for me because it's just straight for it. It's
a bunny. It lay eggs and then like that and
it's gone, yeah, like chicken do you do you guys?
Fuck with peeps. I'm not a huge peep fan.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Disgusting.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
I feel like Easter is just kind of sucking it up,
like in turn, like they whoever is It's like it's
like a like sports franchise that is like run by
bad management and you're just like they always make like
bad choices.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Like all in on on peeps.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, Like they did a big Easter bunny movie and
it was they cast Russell brand.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
So it's very La Chargers. You're right, yeah, has realized
what is this? Yeah, yeah, peeps are I remember remember
knowing that if you put one in a microwave they
get real big and yeah yeah that they expand the microwave.

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They look like they're going to explode.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
That's fun.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
But yeah, the candy is not great.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
I think the best Easter candy is the RECs cup
that is egg shaped. It's like, yeah, yeah, because I
think the the ratio of.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Egg Yeah, yeah, I think that's the right the ratio.
That's the best peanut buttered chocolate ratio that Receis has achieved.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
Yes, the a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's my favorite.
M hmm.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Moving on, so they were like, we need to get
our Eastern numbers up. We're gonna get Easter bunnies out
there like mal Santa's in the nineteen forties, in the
nineteen fifties. Some of the appearances, they look like kind
of modern Eastern bunnies, just in black and white, and
some of them look like they got deleted from the
ring video for being too accursive. I'm just gonna put

(38:36):
a couple of these in the chat for you.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
Oh, I'm excited to see these. I love a heart
the one Marble Easter Bunny.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah, the one with just like the like the porcelain mask.
It's like a porcelain mask on top of like ice
one I've seen.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
That's horrifying.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
And then this one is also just oh it looks
like they were like, okay, make the Easter Bunny look
like Vincent Dinafrio's character in uh right before he kills
himself in full metal jacket.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, yeah, like Jack Mason's character in The Shining Yeah,
like it would you.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Like to play a game find my eggs there's a key.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Inside or it's just so sinister. It just feels fucking
like it really is. I shot Sooners film.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Yeah, yeah, that's horrifying. Oh man, Yeah, they are very
They're upsetting often, and honestly, I made a lot of
children cry when I was all Easter Bunny, like do.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
You think yeah, oh, I'm sure right, But that costume
Muran was like fine, it didn't It wasn't like these.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
It just looks like a bit of stuffed bunny.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
Yes, compared to these totally leagues better.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Absolutely, Yeah. It's it's like I wonder if like Disney
changed the game to be like, now you guys are
fucking up of like character costumes. These are all fucking terrifying.
Yeah you know what I mean, because like Disney has
like the one, like those characters, like those big cos.
I wonder if that like subtly changed how people saw like, oh, yeah,
these gotta look real cute, rather than like, I don't know,

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it's fucking bunny, but it looks like it's angry.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
All the soul has been removed through the back of
its head and it's like a serial killer, you know.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
It's like inside of this thing. Also, shout out to
that chair, like that Ritan woven chair that I had.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
A nice one. Shout us a little girl who's just
making the best of it, big smile on her face.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
I mean, yeah, I always think of that pit, that
chair in the context of that Huey Newton portrait. Yeah,
you know, he's got the like, but this is like
the Easter Bunny just like ah yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
There's also really no widely accepted lore behind the Easter Bunny,
like whether like does she keep a naughty list like
Santa who makes all the chocolate. There's this article from
nineteen fifty three, where one of your felt performers, what
are your fellow Easter bunny Thespians recalled like having a

(41:06):
last minute panic when she realized that she had no
fucking clue like what the Easter Bunny was supposed to
say to kids? It was like, I don't know, man, Like,
fuck off, say what gesus?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Like?

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Eventually I just settled on, like what's your favorite egg color?

Speaker 5 (41:23):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
I mean that's like the best she could do. At
our Easter Bunny orientation. They said, you do not speak
to the children. You do not speak.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Yeah, yeah, we were well talk. We do a lot
of like mugging, and then we would like do a
lot of shushing.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
We would shush them is how you put a silent shush.
And then often because I had several kids that would
come up and they'd be like, I can see your
face and you were supposed to cover the mouth of
the costume and.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Go like right, yeah, embarrassed.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Yeah, yeah, which isn't closing yourself into the darkest darkness
that you've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
God make it real for the kids. Kids like, oh
you can see my face, I see I can see
where you sleep.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
At night.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
No, no, yeah, exactly why did they tell you to
shush the kids?

Speaker 5 (42:10):
I think just to stop asking them, to stop asking questions, just.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Like, are you real? Shuck the f up?

Speaker 4 (42:18):
Don't think about it too much, don't.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
I don't do that. I don't. I'm going to get
out of the hospital.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
I have zero power.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
I think.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
I think I just have a kat silence.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, look, k it, I just got a chloaka. That's all.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
I just going to go shout out some colorful eggs.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
That's all I got. But I don't know what you want.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
All these bunnies eyes are on the front of their
face like predators. Yeah, like, whereas real bunnies have them
on the side. They're very you know them terrified.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
So, as mentioned ranking in Bass, the company behind classics
like Rudolph and Frost, tried to work their TV special
magic on the Easter Bunny multiple times, with far less success.
Nineteen seventy one's Here Comes Peter Cottontail, which floated the
theory that there are many Easter Bunnies and one chief

(43:16):
Easter Bunny that nobody remembers that right, Like, you guys know.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
I had no idea was Peter Cottontail always an Easter
rabbit character. I just remember the idea of a rabbit
called Peter Cott.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
I think they were like like holder rapping the Yeah,
they're collapsing all the rabbit bunny universes as long as
they could get away with it while purposes. So that
one also had January q Irontail, a Nazi coated rabbit
who wants to ruin Easter for children as revenge for
a child who roller skated over his tail, forcing him

(43:50):
to wear a prosthetic iron one.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Oh, this motherfucker is hit like with the hair and everything.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, they just made him look like Hitler and the
stop motion like looks good on this, Like I had
no idea this existed. Like I know, I don't remember
ever seeing like the Rudolph or the you know, Frosty Specials.
But when I see a screen cap from them ever
it's still from them, I'm like, oh, yeah, I've seen this.

(44:16):
I know this, like this is yeah, this one is
just completely for.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Yeah, no, this I have zero recollection of it. I'm
fascinated to see this though.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
I know from nineteen seventy one, doesn't that look pretty
good for nineteen seventy one.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
Is it like did they get like canceled or something?
Is it like bad? And like so it just doesn't
like they're like, yeah, we actually don't even show that
shit anymore. No.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
I think just nobody gave a yeah care man, bring
me alone. The First Easter Rabbit in nineteen seventy six
about how the Easter Bunny was once a stuffed toy
who was given to a girl for Christmas. The girl
catches scarlet fever and the mom is instructed to burn
all her things, including her bunny. Uh really like dark

(45:02):
this one. His eyes are touching in the front like
he's that's how sinister he is. Apex Predator then Apex Predator. Wow,
the two front eyes are touching like a cyclops.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
You don't you don't need to give a fuck about
anything except for what's in front of you.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
Okay, Wow, here comes Peter cottontail movie.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
The entire thing is on YouTube available, by the way,
so I know what doing after this?

Speaker 3 (45:25):
I feel like a lot of those like Ross, what's
it called bank? What's what's that company called?

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Again?

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Ran ranking in Bass. There's like a lot of Japanese
people were working on that ship too, Like for character.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Right, like they did get a job.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
That's just no. Ky Kasham was the voicip Peter Kattent
in that one? Was he really he was eating with
bro That motherfucker got all the voice gig like voice
gigs in that era. Probably, yeah, but we do all
of course.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Remember nineteen seventy seven's the Easter Bunny is Coming to Town.
They were like, I don't know, man, can we just
like make a sequel to Santa Claus Is Coming to Town?

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Oh God?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Also hosted by Fred Astaire's male carrier character, all about
the history of the Easter Bunny and his jolly hobo friend.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Oh like that that dude with a hat who was like, hey, kid,
show we did Wow.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I honestly believe, like over and over they're like, we
don't know what's wrong, and they always make it a boy.
He just like will not give the idea that it's
a woman or you know, yeah, a female female female
man where all the females at Easter Bunny is easter.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
That's we gotta do is get the man poison the manisphere.
So people go like, man, this is actually these are
female traits I'm seeing from the buddy y'all keep this
away from your kids. This should be a female.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Twenty eleven's hop is probably the Nadier for the Easter Bunny.
It's a movie in which Russell Brand plays the Easter
Bunny son, who's like about to inherit the throne, but
runs away because he's more interested in drumming than delivering
chocolate to children. A key plot point involves him auditioning

(47:14):
for David Hasselhoff for his band. It's like, it's unclear, Yeah,
I mean he's playing. I think maybe they're They were like,
we get like David Letterman as like you know, he
can audition for like a late night show, and they're
like no, no, fuck, no, weird.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
I know nothing about this movie at all either. Oh,
James Marsden's in it.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
This is one that like was in the rotation of
children's movies when you know my kids, Yeah, when I
when I had kids. So I have seen parts of
this and it's yeah, it's a James Marsden joint. It
was like where James Marsden got his wacky sidekick to
animated character that's not really there, chops that he would

(47:59):
go on display in the Sonic movies.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
Yeah, I was like this bunny hopped so Sonic could
run My got it?

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Okay, cool, But I feel like, in the same way
that they had to make all priests boys to like
overcompensate for the erasure of the divine feminine and the
Catholic Church, they had to create an affront to feminine
divinity by casting Russell fucking brand as the Easter Bunny.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
That's so crazy.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Oh shit. I like that it takes place in the
valley though the bunny runs away to Hollywood, just ends
up in Van.

Speaker 5 (48:33):
Just getting tacos.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
I love that Welcome Man, Welcome Dudel is great, dude, fireworks.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
The Easter Bunny does show up in the Santa Claus too.
It's unclear if he was another regular guy that accidentally
killed the previous Easter Bunny or not.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
But is it a person in a suit? Oh yeah,
terrifying Jesus Christ. It looks like a retired football player.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Yeah, Easter Bunny is like kind of big again, eyes
right at the front of their head, but like tiny
little eyes, you know.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
I like how in the Santa Claus is we go
diverse and it's it's Tracy Morgan. Wow.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
Yeah, little.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
It looks a little offensive. I'm not gonna lie. I
don't know what to feel about this ship.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Yeah, Easter Bunny just makes me feel real weird in
every ineration.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
I'm like, I don't know, there's one I like it.
Maybe just yeah it could because it's all weird freaky
man or like weird masculine, hulking figure bodies.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yea, because that's to be real baby Lola Bunny. You
know what I mean, you're connecting with Lola Bunny. I
think is that you recognize there's something correct there.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Yeah, it's not in the front of Jesus Christ. That's right,
you know what I mean, It's a testament to his perfection.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
I'm going to start.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
I'm going to commission somebody to do Lola Bun the
Easter art of just her and like a virginal Mary out.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yeah, like Lola Bunny.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yeah, and like a Midsummer outfit, just like and that's
what we should actually be.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
Sad, yes, that it exists on d V and art
somewhere right now.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
I guarantee that's a sad thing. People have made Lola
Bunny be and do everything I know, Yeah, I feel
bad for her and do everything. I'm sorry I know
the Internet.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
It's true. I mean, what's what's that movie with the.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
Just Mabon's the Fox and then there's the cop Rabbitto Zootopia.
I remember seeing the first z Utopia and being like,
oh no, this is too horny. The Internet's gonna the
Internet is gonna be real weird about this.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Yeah, sure enough.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
Don't look, yeah, don't look at U. It's it's bad, sad.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Porn. Miles of the company Computer Jack, I can doe.
I weren't.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
So there's a number of Christians that seem to be
pretty pissed.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
Wow, I told you, dude, be careful.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Miles just loosened to his collar and his eyebrows are
waggling up and down.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
It's bad.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
As mentioned, Christians seem to be a little bit pissed
off that the bunny has distracted everyone from Jesus on
his second most special day. Here's some headlines. Easter is
not about the bunny perspective from a children's minister. It's
not about the bunny from family faith builders. Beware of
the bunny. The dark origins of Easter's symbols from life,

(51:50):
hope and truth. So one way they've chosen to try
to battle, that is, with articles like that on the internet.
But they've also a different approach, and there's been a
number of awkward attempts to try to bring more focus
back on Jesus by creating children's books about how Christ
was friends with the Easter Bunny, because that is, honestly, like,

(52:13):
if they're going to argue that the Easter Bunny is
not like pagan in origin, you need to create a
mythology where Jesus is just homies with the Easter Bunny.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
I love how they Christians always have to do this shit,
like because kids ask questions and like, fuck, what am
I supposed to say? They don't exist? Like when they're like, yeah,
Jesus and dinosaurs, Yeah yeah, that was a good thing.
I remember they told me in Lutheran school, and not
that they were saying, but they're like, yeah, of course
Jesus knew about the dinosaurs type shit. I'm like, all right,
wrote around on yeah yeah, and now they're like, oh, yeah,

(52:46):
the Easter Bunny and Christ were fucking m yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Twenty twenty three there was the Easter Bunny meets Jesus.
But twenty twenty four we really start getting places with
the story of the First Easter Bunny. And it begins
with the revelation that the Easter Bunny's mother is dying,
and the Easter Bunny is like in her room with her.
There's like pictures on the wall and like frames there.

(53:10):
He's looking out a like modern window next to like
a modern cup of coffee next to the bed. And
we soon learned that it's supposed to be a D
thirty three. And the Easter Bunny goes in search of
Jesus to heal his mom. He's like calls him up
on his iPhone or whatever. Uh, And the Easter Bunny

(53:31):
is president at the Last Supper and he's crucifixion book.
This is a children's book. We got to get this,
the story of the First Easter Bunny. Oh of the
First Easter Bunny. Ah, okay, okay, thank you God.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
His ass. This is goofy as fuck.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
This is.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
This motherfucker is like hopping around in Jerusalem and shit.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
What he's just there on his knees next to Mary Magdalen.
Is Jesus is being crucified.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
When Jesus rises from his tomb, the Easter Bunny is
right there with Mary, Mother of God, waiting for him
to heal her.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Wow. Holy shit.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
And when Jesus rises from the tomb, the Easter Bunny
is waiting there with his with his sick mom being like,
hey man, where you been?

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (54:35):
So I know you said that you were gonna help
me out, Like doesn't even isn't even like whoa dude?

Speaker 3 (54:44):
I thought you were done?

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Bro?

Speaker 5 (54:46):
Yeah, can you give me a minute?

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Like I said, the first thing that Jesus sees coming
out of the tomb is someone being like, hey, uh,
you actually owe me an email back on this thing.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Exactly, just bumping it, bumping it please.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Just wanted to circle back on the sick mom thing.

Speaker 5 (55:06):
Yeah, these this book is in sh oh my god.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
The author tried to make it sound like he had
written the book as like an act of revenge. He
said he wrote it to quote strike back at the
secular culture which is always trying its best to de
christianize our holidays, always trying to give children worldly messages,
de christianize holidays that have existed since eight thousand years

(55:34):
before ancient Egypt.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Trying just trying to de christianize everything. When you're trying
to do that Honestly, bro, the story is kind of
fucking stupid. And you thought this was going to help out. Yeah, okay, yeah,
showed them, showed them. I wrote a children's book that's
completely made up.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
I'm just I'm just like imagining, within what like ten years,
we're going to have people that like they believe that
this is your origin. They'd be like, yeah, of course, right,
the Easter Bunny was that the Garden of ye.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Apostles?

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Mary still is not part of the Apostles.
She will not be counted, right. It's got a buddy
in there now instead. That's wow, man.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
I'm surprised you don't have like a new shroud of
turin where they're like, this is the one that the
Easter Bunny had on too.

Speaker 5 (56:27):
Yeah, they're multiple shrouds his cotton tail.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
How did the Easter Buddy and Judas get along? I
want to know what their relationship was? Like?

Speaker 1 (56:36):
He has kind of a troubled look at the last Supper,
Like he kind of looks like someone who's watching a
like alcoholic family member, like drink, you know, kind of
his face is like a little bit of gas.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Yeah, because is that Judas at the end of the table,
kind of being like I don't.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
Know, yeah to him, yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Kind of looking off to the side, like.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Hey, where were you on that one, dipshit? Maybe help
me bui Jesus out exactly, fuck rabbit, Yeah, I do.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Like the implication is that all the other apostles are
just kind of like going along with it, and like
only the Easter Bunny kind of sees problem in here.
These fuckers are just sitting there all high and drunk
and happy, oh.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Yeah, getting fucked up off their free wine and bread. Yeah,
unlimited breadsticks of wine at Olive Garden when you go
with Jesus.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Okay, The White House Easter egg roll usually has an
Easter Bunny these days. That started in the nineteen sixty
nine and the Nixon administration thing shut out Pat Nixon.
The only weird interesting detail you may remember, like a
couple of years ago during the Biden administration, it was

(57:56):
the twenty twenty two Easter egg Roll, and like Biden
was answering a foreign policy question in front of the media,
and the Easter Bunny like picked up and like, first
of all, Biden like genuinely looked like he thought he
had been interrupted by like a magical creature.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
He was dead. Yeah, the bomb went off, didn't it.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
But if you look at it from another angle, it's
clear that the Bunny's like, hey, get the fuck out
of here. You're not supposed to be talking to the
press right now. Like it, it literally redirects him away. Yeah, yeah,
it is kind of how so, the role of the
Easter Bunny is traditionally filled by a White House staffer

(58:38):
or insider, And we actually found out about this because
one of the most retroactively famous White House Easter bunnies
is Sean Spicer, who was the Easter Bunny for multiple
years during the George W. Bush administration.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Wow. Wow, Sean Spicer was the Easter Bunny during the
Bush administration.

Speaker 4 (58:59):
Yeah damn, that's a nine to eleven Easter bunny.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
That's how you start, dude, that's how you get your start. Man. Yeah,
so you know you can be one of the first
people to debase themselves for the Trump administration. Yeah, oh great,
But we don't know who is in this one this time.
We don't bite that Biden one.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
But it makes sense that it was somebody who was
like up on the agenda to like keep it away
from the press.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
He's gonna answer anything right now, goes up to the press.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
When the bunny pops in, Biden's going Pakistan should not
and Afghanistan should be one, and he walks.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
Up like, hey, what what whoa whoa? Is there an
audio here?

Speaker 2 (59:39):
What is he? Is he saying something?

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Buddy doesn't talk, Sir, I'm gonna fucking beat the ship
out of you if you answer another question. Okay, let's go,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
I can talk to him like that when I'm dressed
like this. He thinks it's the actual Yeah, he's.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
Got a squirt bottle and he's just like, no, no, no,
getting the president out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
I wanted to make sure I get to eat all
my eggs later. I better listen.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
I love a Cadberry.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
To be Actually credit Spicer is playing the Easter Bunny
and National Treasure Book of Secrets because there is a
scene set at the White House Easter egg roll and
I guess it would have been during that part of
the administration. Could be somebody just submitting his name to
fuck with him, right, He seems.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
Like he would have done it himself.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Honestly, I could see him being like, I'm gonna need
that credit so I can go on the Dancing with
the Stars someday's work turned my sag hours.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Yeah, don't keep getting tap Hartley on these jobs. Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
This is the second week in a row we have
Brandy a thing where we ask if this icon were
alive during like e would this icon be in the
Epstein files? And usually it's been hypothetical.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
We we did think that, you know, outside chance of Einstein,
the way that like some of these academics got swept
up in it. Stephen Hawking is on there. Ercle would
not have been only because he has his own.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Jet pack and he can just he can he can
make whatever he needs to happen happen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Yeah, especially as Stephan or kel Uh. Last week we
did learn that Bart Simpson is in the Epstein files. Wow,
so is the Easter Bun?

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
Was it like some fucked up nickname one of these.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Email where I think Epstein said no bunny? They said, ah, awesome,
I will let Jeffrey know. I will see about redirecting
the Easter Bun to j E's house for you, as
I'm sure that was your concern. Hahaha.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
Good, that's the bunny that we need. To get to talk.
That's when we.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Spicer Yeah probably yea. But I mean, I guess as
an entity, right, if the you know, the Easter Bunny
has agency, it picks it amongst us, has its own
kind of thing going on. I feel like the Easter
Bunny is too fucking square. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you know,
there's I mean I get that it may be a

(01:02:34):
symbol of fertility, but obviously for an icon for a
holiday sort of aimed at kids, it's like like your bunny,
horny ship bright yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So I'm gonna
I feel confident that if the Easter Bunny were a
real person, it would be boring as fuck. I wouldn't
even want to kick it with the fucking Easter money.
Yeah yeah. Talking about Christ's love and ship all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Now, the Easter Bunny would be very like one of those.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
Unless it's Brandy as the Easter Bunny. That's only Easter
Bunny would hang out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
That's what I think we need Brandy as the Easter
Bunny in a major Hollywood motion picture.

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
I was just I'm down for this. I could do this,
like I do.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
I have the experience as I'm all Bunny to bring
to the screen, and.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
I feels like a great com like a a twenty
four comedy about like just the just the disparity amongst
costume performers, but also like the vibe of an easter by.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
Yo, this, this is it, This is it. So you
know how we got bad Santa? Yeah, now we got
that bunny. We got that bunny.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Hey, hey, you're definitely talking through the fucking mouths Oh yeah,
that's the movie we're making it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
Yeah, there's smoke coming out of the rabbit's head. It's
a vapor, you pussy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Get a Bluetooth speaker inside, just blasting.

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
My headphone's at home.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Who cares Reggaeton coming out of it? All the white
parents are like, oh my god, Bunny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Yeah, I don't, I don't know exactly. My only pitch
is we need to make him her again and embrace
the may queen midsommer of it all because we we
just haven't, we haven't done it. It's a colorful, fun
rebirth fertility festival. And then they keep making square guys

(01:04:32):
the like, they keep turning it into just like a
nerdy guy or like fucking Russell Brand.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
It's that because if it were then everyone be like, yo, dude,
let me see that thick gass version of the Easter Bunny.
Let me see that thick guss missus Claus, let me
see that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Make it mistic like, not overtly horny like like just
like that doesn't even get that thick.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
I mean that is something on those power They are powerful. Yeah,
or maybe she'd just be so powerful that you wouldn't
deign to be like I'm going to sexualize this powerful figure.

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
Yeah, like an Amazon kind of yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Yeah yeah, like legs like the fucking Hulk, because she'll
kick the ship at you. You'll die, yeah, yeah, yeah,
getting fucked up.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
Bro. The Easterbody doesn't play like I've always thought it's
kind of underrated. When Superman was first invented, he couldn't fly.
He could just jump really high. We don't have a
character that is that anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
That is like, can jump crazy high.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
That would be a great right right right?

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Power flight? Yeah, near flight, but like it's just jumping.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
How what are we saying?

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
How?

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Like? Are like she could go two miles in a
single bound, fifteen miles per bound.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
I like that, Yeah, yeah, two miles is good because
I don't want to clear a whole city.

Speaker 5 (01:05:58):
But I think that like you get out of traffic,
that's great.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Yeah, and if you got to be like nope, yeah bro,
she's gone.

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
Bro, I volunteer to be that. I would love to
be able to note out of so many conversations.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
And it's clear two miles instantly from something, and then
people when you land on them, like fucking Mario, you know, yeah,
it's like exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Anyways, we're trying to help the Easter Bunny. We're just
trying to help. But the as far as like the
people who are in charge of Easter iconography right now,
we feel like you can do better. I feel like
the candy could be like we need like some concoction
like the that like brings maybe like a peep s'mores

(01:06:45):
or something like that that's like, you know, that's sandwiching
peeps with like a chocolate bunny or a Peep's turduccan
something like that. Like let's have a little fun with
the candy. Let's bring them together, let's bring some ingredients together. Guys.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm into it. I'm I mean, yeah,
I think we I've landed on. Easter Bunny is an
icon despite itself.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Yes, I think that's right. I think despite being mishandled,
the Easter Bunny is iconic. The Easter Bunny is probably
above Leprechaun. Yeah really, but in what so in terms
of iconography, in terms of like, I.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Don't like, people probably have more warm feelings associate or
have more of a probably like just.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
In terms of Q like we talked on the Dolly
Parton episode about how Dolly Parton has like the top
top ten Q rating. You know what, even as I
say it, I think I'm wrong. I think the Easter
Bunny doesn't have a Q rating on par with leprechn does.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Lepercon means something like what is like the because you
know this is real?

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
It stands for luck, Okay, it stands for that's it?
Like drunkenness and magic and which.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
And I think once the wave of Asian immigration happened
in the fifties and sixties, then that moved that the
previous immigrant classes upper round an American society. And now
you get to have a character that we all celebrate. Yeah,
before we were sorry about all the races and when
you guys first came over here in the late next hour,
Bad Are Bad? You guys make great cops. Yeah, some

(01:08:24):
of the best.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Well, Brandy, such a pleasure having you as always on
the podcast. Thank you for lending us your expertise by.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Absolutely excited to come on and talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
Yeah, I'm on Instagram and threads at brand Dazzle. I
have a new album that it just came out. It's
called Milk Job and you can see my picture of
me as the Easter Bunny as the cover and it's
me holding my dog and I have a lot of
tracks about my dog on that album, Too Nice, and
that I put out on my record label, which is
called Burn This Records, and a lot. Can I just

(01:09:01):
say this, zegang, y'all came through so hard. When I
was on like the last episode, I asked you guys
to like subscribe to the burn This Records YouTube page
because I'm dropping the special of this album at the
end of the month, and like.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
Hundreds of you signed up.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
I'm like so close to like actually being able to
like monetize when this comes out, and that like genuinely
means means so much. Like that means so much to me,
So if you haven't done it yet and YouTube dot
com slash the ad simple burn this records. I hate
that you have to have the ad simble in there,
but whatever, but like that, please go follow with that
because like, once I hit one K, then I'm able

(01:09:37):
to actually monetize when I launch it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:39):
And like y'all have come through for me so much already.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
And like genuinely like that, like has been the highlight
of the last several weeks to me.

Speaker 5 (01:09:46):
So like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Right now, let's go, let's go, We're almost there, exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
It melt so much much to see that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
I know so many you listeners on YouTube. Yeah, because
half the time I'm discover we're watching the same shit
on YouTube. This goal hit the subscribe please, that's it.
It's passive and you're helping independent creators. Yeah, fucking do
shit outside of the norm. So yeah, come on now, easy, easy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
Yeah, yeah, I would really, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
You have touched me already doing that, and I'm glad
I can actually come back on this quickly and like
say like thank you, And if more of you want
to thanks extends to YouTube, it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
Generally would mean a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Yeah, amazing, Yeah, Lady Lady too, you know, yeah, Lady
the Lady of course. Yeah, Miles, anything from you, any
anywhere you want them to find.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
Fuck that rabbit, bro making all that sound. I hate
that ship. It's so you know, you know, it's not
supposed to come out of there.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
Sorry. In multiple ways, like most things, this is all
circling back to my dad, and he made life affecting
the show, so uh, thank bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in
many ways this goes back to my dad.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
I'm all right, I'm going to be right back.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
That's why you yelled at the server because there's no
ice in the water. Yes, you know, I'm dealing with
a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
I'm going to be back right after this with my
No No Book dump where I tell you some of
the stuff that I forgot to talk about in this
part of the show. So stick around for that and
I'll talk to you'll then. Thanks Brandy, Thanks Miles, thank you,
Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
That was our Easter Bunny episode thanks to Miles and
Brandy Posey, our first episode where the guest has actually
inhabited the icon.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
What a treat.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
This is the no No, No, No No note book dump.
Let's see, so like we mentioned, doesn't it seemed like
there's quite the same, like people feeling called to dress
up as Santa or Elvis or other icons. There is
one guy who had sort of a super heroic relationship

(01:12:14):
with dressing up as the Easter Bunny. You might have
seen this viral story back in twenty nineteen where a
man and a woman in Orlando got into a fistfight
on Easter Okay, Florida, and suddenly there's just a blur
of white and an Easter Bunny rushes in and starts
beating the shit out of the guy until the police

(01:12:35):
come and break it up. And so that guy who
was in that costume later crashed his motorcycle into a
car port like at a different date, like not later
that day. He then fled the scene, threw on his
bunny costume again, which he apparently kept at the ready
like Spider Man, and then they found him hiding in

(01:12:57):
the back of a car, at which point he told
them I wasn't in any crash. I'm the Orlando Easter Bunny.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Google it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
I don't know what protective powers he thought the Easter
Bunny suit had for him, but shout out to that guy,
let's get more Easter Bunny as a calling dresser uppers
and hopefully doing the first part of that job, not
the motorcycle crash, the stopping people from beating up women.

(01:13:26):
It's the feminist side of the holiday, you know, as
we talked about in the show. As for movies, there
are a couple of other Easter movies besides Hop, so
I don't want to make it seem like it's all
hop Some people say mal Rats is an Easter movie
because they beat the shit out of the Easter Bunny.

(01:13:49):
They pull a reverse Orlando Easter Bunny. There's also a
few Easter Bunny themed horror movies, like The Beaster Bunny, which,
based on the wikipedi summary, it sounds like a Jaws
rip off, but with a killer Easter Bunny instead of
a shark, and they have the most important part of
the movie Jaws, which is the mayor of a small

(01:14:11):
town who refuses to act even as the people are
being eaten alive, obviously by a giant Easter Bunny or
Beaster Bunny. I'd say one downside of The Easter Bunny
is it's maybe too good an advertisement for rabbits, which
leads to people getting them as pets, not realizing how

(01:14:32):
much of a commitment it's going to be. According to
the House Rabbit Society, the largest rabbit rescue organization in
the US, many people think they're short lived, low maintenance,
cage bound animals. Rabbits are seen as starter pets akin
to goldfish, and this is a vast misconception drives a
glut of baby bunny sales ahead of Easter in a

(01:14:54):
subsequent rise in rabbit abandonment. They actually live ten to
twenty years and are a really complicated animals to keep.
But in the six weeks after Easter, the shelter gets
like three to four calls a day, whereas it's usually
like a call every couple of weeks. And then in

(01:15:16):
Idaho and Chicago they report rise in summer as Easter
bunnies as they're called, hit puberty and reality sets in
for their owners, which I mean, as we've talked about,
very sexually active, very sex forward pet, so you know,
probably not that much fun once they hit puberty to
just have hopping around the house. And finally, I wanted

(01:15:39):
to give a shout out to somebody named Donald Weeder.
Both the hinged plastic easter egg and the inflammable version
of that plastic grass bullshit that people fill Easter baskets with.
Both of those inventions patented by the same guy, Donald Weeder.
He holds over fourteen hundred patents, way more than that

(01:16:02):
thieving asshole Thomas Edison. But yeah, before he came along,
Easter eggs were not They would not stay together. You
had to match them up. And he made the Easter
egg hunt clean up process much easier and your children's
Easter baskets did not burst into flame. I guess all right,

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that's that's about it on Easter Bunny. Hope you learned something.
Hope you're on board with my new crusade to put
the feminine, divine back into Easter, make the Easter Bunny
a lady again, make make Easter feel more like the
holiday from Midsommar. We dye eggs colorful flower colors because

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it's a flower festival. Guys, we all go to brunch.
Easter is gay, Easter is feminine. Let's not try to
make it something it's not. And speaking of cool flower colors,
coming next week, we've got the creator of the eighties
and nineties trapper Keeper esthetic. You might not know her name,
but you know her look. And you probably don't know

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about the toxic cocaine fueled atmosphere that drove all those
trapper keepers with dolphins and koala bears and adorable I
don't think there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Are kuala bears kittens. Let's go with the music, notes.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
And gems and gleams and all sorts of beautiful things happening. Yeah,
that was made possible by one of the most toxic
work environments and a whole bunch of cocaine, allegedly. We'll
talk to you next week for Lisa Frank with Chelsea
Dvantes and much more guys in between then and we'll

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talk to you so bye.