Welcome to Halloween

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.000000001Um, and we hope you guys stay tuned in to hear about all these great things. 6 00:00:20,290.000000001 --> 00:00:23,760.001000001 Dude, this is our first, like, late recording episode. 7 00:00:23,820.001000001 --> 00:00:26,350.001000001 Or this is our first, like, late night episode. 8 00:00:26,350.001000001 --> 00:00:28,570.001000001 This is our first delirium episode? Yeah, which I'm kind of excited. 9 00:00:28,570.001000001 --> 00:00:30,160.001000001 I feel like it's, I'm feeling the... 10 00:00:30,560.001000001 --> 00:00:38,270.001000001 The late night vibes? Yeah, the freaks come out at night, you know? Hold up, I'm like, feeling like, really overwhelmed with all that's going on. 11 00:00:43,380.001000001 --> 00:00:46,67.78988889 You look so funny! I'm having a sensory overload. 12 00:00:46,67.78988889 --> 00:00:50,470.000000001 I just can't wait to like see your intro and just cut to this! First of all... 13 00:00:51,770.000000001 --> 00:00:57,350.000000001 Oh my god, I went to Trader Joe's today in a dress, and it put me in the best mood, like, ever. 14 00:00:57,460.000000001 --> 00:01:01,1.0E-9 Was it not freezing? Honestly, I probably felt better after that than like... 15 00:01:01,810.000000001 --> 00:01:02,460.000000001 My whole birthday. 16 00:01:02,830.000000001 --> 00:01:03,170.000000001 Yeah. 17 00:01:03,170.000000001 --> 00:01:04,579.999500001 Also, it's been freezing. 18 00:01:04,629.999500001 --> 00:01:05,419.999500001 Yeah, it's starting to get chilly. 19 00:01:05,859.999500001 --> 00:01:07,469.998500001 And all the leaves are falling officially. 20 00:01:07,469.999500001 --> 00:01:09,689.998500001 It's like no longer colors, it's just piles. 21 00:01:10,829.998500001 --> 00:01:11,269.998500001 Yeah. 22 00:01:11,549.998500001 --> 00:01:12,899.998500001 So, speaking of... 23 00:01:12,899.998500001 --> 00:01:13,799.998500001 I'm gonna go romp in them. 24 00:01:14,529.999500001 --> 00:01:19,139.999500001 Schwalloween, we did some research on the history of certain things, so we're going to touch on that. 25 00:01:19,329.999500001 --> 00:01:26,649.999500001 And we're going to talk about what we do, what we want to do, and kind of like just give you guys some background and some history on some of the spooky, spooky things that go on. 26 00:01:30,399.999500001 --> 00:01:32,741.175375001 Sorry, I was just trying not to burp. 27 00:01:32,741.175375001 --> 00:01:34,249.999500001 But I hope it didn't just catch. 28 00:01:35,199.999500001 --> 00:01:36,329.999500001 At least I can't smell it. 29 00:01:38,329.999500001 --> 00:01:41,349.9995 Oh, I think we didn't address our costumes, like, at all. 30 00:01:41,679.9995 --> 00:01:45,279.999 Oh! So for Halloween this year, we are... 31 00:01:45,279.999 --> 00:01:50,509.8985 Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. 32 00:01:50,529.9985 --> 00:01:55,439.9985 The geese! From Mariskats! Do we look like them? Which, if you haven't seen it... 33 00:01:56,199.9985 --> 00:01:57,479.9985 It's a great Halloween movie. 34 00:01:57,480.0985 --> 00:02:00,49.9985 It's a Disney movie from like the 70s and it's actually great. 35 00:02:00,279.9985 --> 00:02:01,949.9985 And the jazz playlist in there. 36 00:02:02,749.9985 --> 00:02:04,299.9995 We don't have an Uncle Waldo, though. 37 00:02:04,619.9995 --> 00:02:05,899.9985 We should've had Drew come in as a prop. 38 00:02:07,89.9985 --> 00:02:08,539.9985 Um, okay, so. 39 00:02:09,829.9985 --> 00:02:16,749.9995 What are your traditions? Well, there's some, because it's like, bobbing for apples, I did once. 40 00:02:17,404.9995 --> 00:02:20,14.9995 For my birthday once, when I was like, eight. 41 00:02:21,444.9995 --> 00:02:25,934.9995 that wasn't a family tradition we had, you know? I think I only did it once. 42 00:02:25,974.9995 --> 00:02:27,374.9995 I don't know if it needs to be. 43 00:02:27,754.9995 --> 00:02:51,339.9995 I read something about it and it said, in the research, it said, you know, apples are obviously a big part of fall, and then, there was one tradition where they would like, peel an apple, and they keep it into one, like, strand, like the, And then they would spin and like, throw it over their shoulder, and uh, Whatever letter it came out as, that was like their... 44 00:02:51,949.9995 --> 00:02:54,389.9995 future lovers first initial. 45 00:02:55,159.9995 --> 00:02:55,509.9995 Yes. 46 00:02:55,519.9995 --> 00:03:01,629.9995 But then bobbing for apples, it was like the first person to like get an apple with their teeth was like the first to get married in the new year. 47 00:03:02,9.9995 --> 00:03:06,599.9995 Yeah, so I have a thing here saying, by 43 A. 48 00:03:06,599.9995 --> 00:03:06,779.999 D., 49 00:03:06,779.999 --> 00:03:13,441.01990816 the Roman Empire had conquered a majority of Celtic territory in the course of the 400 years that they had ruled the Celtic lands. 50 00:03:13,441.01990816 --> 00:03:22,866.13604084 Two festivals of Roman origin were created with the tradition of Celtic celebration of How do you say it? Samhain? Samhain? I hate the way It's Gaelic. 51 00:03:23,96.13604084 --> 00:03:24,306.13604084 I hate Gaelic spelling. 52 00:03:24,306.13604084 --> 00:03:24,886.13604084 No, it's insane. 53 00:03:24,886.13604084 --> 00:03:25,106.13604084 Cause it's not. 54 00:03:26,166.13604084 --> 00:03:27,186.13554084 Like, that should be illegal. 55 00:03:27,186.13554084 --> 00:03:27,546.13604084 no sense. 56 00:03:27,546.13604084 --> 00:03:30,916.13504084 Samhain is spelled S M H A I N. 57 00:03:33,526.13604084 --> 00:03:40,916.13554084 Anyways, but it's, uh, I'm not gonna talk about the first one, but The second day was to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. 58 00:03:40,916.13554084 --> 00:03:48,286.03454084 The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of the celebration to the Sowan? Sowan. 59 00:03:48,386.13454084 --> 00:03:50,706.13454084 Probably explains the tradition of bobbing for apples. 60 00:03:50,756.13454084 --> 00:03:51,556.13454084 That is practiced today on Halloween. 61 00:03:51,556.13454084 --> 00:03:53,666.13454084 Wait, fruit? Is it just fruit? No. 62 00:03:53,676.13454084 --> 00:03:56,156.13454084 Goddess of fruit and fertility? Fruit and trees. 63 00:03:56,156.13454084 --> 00:03:58,296.08404084 And her symbol was an apple, particularly. 64 00:03:58,296.08404084 --> 00:03:58,646.13454084 Okay, okay. 65 00:03:58,866.13354084 --> 00:04:00,766.13454084 The Roman Empire? Mm hmm. 66 00:04:00,986.13454084 --> 00:04:04,996.13454084 Um, I thought they had more of a thing with pomegranates. 67 00:04:05,481.13454085 --> 00:04:06,411.13454085 They probably have it somewhere in there, too. 68 00:04:06,411.13454085 --> 00:04:06,811.13454085 A Greek. 69 00:04:06,811.13454085 --> 00:04:10,571.13454085 Are Greeks more pomegranate? I don't know. 70 00:04:10,581.13454085 --> 00:04:12,161.13454085 I feel like pomegranates were more... 71 00:04:12,341.13454085 --> 00:04:14,431.13454085 I know, I think it might just be for this specific goddess. 72 00:04:14,431.23454085 --> 00:04:14,831.13354085 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 73 00:04:14,841.13354085 --> 00:04:17,151.13454085 But, um, so that's what I have about apples. 74 00:04:17,151.13454085 --> 00:04:17,531.13354085 Go ahead. 75 00:04:17,661.13454085 --> 00:04:20,261.13354085 Um, Oh, pumpkins. 76 00:04:20,261.13354085 --> 00:04:20,681.13354085 Hold on. 77 00:04:20,681.13354085 --> 00:04:25,541.13354085 I gotta like, I honestly feel like pumpkins were like, a thing. 78 00:04:25,761.13354085 --> 00:04:29,491.13254085 My dad, it's probably one of his favorite things to like, grow. 79 00:04:29,591.13354085 --> 00:04:29,891.13354085 Right. 80 00:04:29,901.13354085 --> 00:04:30,731.13354085 On the farm. 81 00:04:31,31.13254085 --> 00:04:32,621.13354085 Like, he always... 82 00:04:34,481.13354085 --> 00:04:35,281.13354085 Squash, zucchini. 83 00:04:35,341.13354085 --> 00:04:41,251.13354085 there's like multiple seasons where he would have a huge patch of pumpkins. 84 00:04:41,801.13354085 --> 00:04:45,941.13254085 and we would have loads of pumpkins come out of there. 85 00:04:46,171.13254085 --> 00:04:46,811.13254085 Um. 86 00:04:47,296.13354085 --> 00:04:54,16.13354085 Like big pumpkins or like pie pumpkins? Big, little, tiny, Edible? Medium, some. 87 00:04:54,26.13354085 --> 00:04:56,246.13354085 He would plant like, he would just throw nuts. 88 00:04:56,246.13354085 --> 00:04:57,746.13254085 Like you don't even know. 89 00:04:58,26.13354085 --> 00:05:02,26.13304085 Um, I wish he did more like the fairy tale ones though. 90 00:05:02,26.13304085 --> 00:05:02,772.19354085 I don't think he ever did those. 91 00:05:02,772.19354085 --> 00:05:03,76.03354085 Those are really cute. 92 00:05:03,76.13354085 --> 00:05:03,996.13354085 Those are so cute. 93 00:05:04,516.13254085 --> 00:05:06,756.13354085 But, and then he would like put them out on the side of the road. 94 00:05:06,936.13354085 --> 00:05:08,756.13354085 And be like, take home. 95 00:05:09,186.13354085 --> 00:05:13,376.13354085 But then like my first year of college, he had a GIANT pumpkin patch. 96 00:05:13,956.13354085 --> 00:05:14,626.13354085 I remember this. 97 00:05:14,636.13354085 --> 00:05:19,726.13354085 And I brought probably like 30 to 50 pumpkins to Reno. 98 00:05:21,156.13354085 --> 00:05:27,416.13354085 And I literally had like 15 in my apartment and I gave everybody I ran into a pumpkin. 99 00:05:27,426.13354085 --> 00:05:27,866.13354085 Yeah. 100 00:05:28,136.13354085 --> 00:05:29,126.13354085 I, it seemed like. 101 00:05:29,266.13354085 --> 00:05:29,856.13354085 Yes. 102 00:05:30,226.13354085 --> 00:05:32,336.13354085 Yeah, there's pumpkins everywhere and they were there forever. 103 00:05:32,376.13354085 --> 00:05:33,526.13354085 Yeah, like they never died. 104 00:05:34,236.13354085 --> 00:05:38,66.13354085 They were like everlasting pumpkins pumpkins. 105 00:05:38,66.13354085 --> 00:05:49,216.13454085 Yeah up until the summer But yes, my dad's got a real real thing for pumpkins any other major traditions Mmm, not really. 106 00:05:49,266.13454085 --> 00:05:52,836.13454085 Um, for me, Helen's a little bit complicated. 107 00:05:52,856.13454085 --> 00:05:54,456.13454085 I think my parents. 108 00:05:55,66.13454085 --> 00:06:18,316.13354085 My dad in particular cared about Halloween I don't really recall this but there's always a picture of me when my parents were together dressed up as Halloween like my dad has This picture of me as a clown, and I'm like maybe like one or two years old So I'm like if people thought it was like a like a doll That they had that he was standing next to and it was like a picture of me And I think he had that like on his desk for a while And then there's like this one of my sister where she's the rag doll, the red one. 109 00:06:18,676.13454085 --> 00:06:21,456.13454085 Do you know what I'm talking about? With like curly hair and like a bonnet. 110 00:06:21,526.13454085 --> 00:06:22,436.03454085 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 111 00:06:22,436.13454085 --> 00:06:23,86.13454085 I don't know what that's called. 112 00:06:23,356.13454085 --> 00:06:24,6.13354085 Raggedy Ann. 113 00:06:24,6.13354085 --> 00:06:24,466.13404085 Raggedy Ann. 114 00:06:24,466.13404085 --> 00:06:27,86.13454085 Gia has a really cute picture of her dressed up as Raggedy Ann. 115 00:06:27,496.13454085 --> 00:06:29,426.13454085 Um, like adorable. 116 00:06:29,656.13454085 --> 00:06:34,446.13454085 And then, um, after that kind of Halloween, my parents separated and then when we were in L. 117 00:06:34,446.13454085 --> 00:06:34,656.13454085 A. 118 00:06:34,716.13454085 --> 00:06:37,776.13454085 because of the Armenian community, we didn't really do Halloween very well. 119 00:06:38,16.13454085 --> 00:06:44,476.13454085 Um, and it wasn't until I was like a teenager or like a tweenager when we could go like, to the other neighborhoods. 120 00:06:44,881.13454085 --> 00:07:00,761.13304085 But it wasn't really like that big of a thing So I did prefer Vegas for Halloween for sure also the entire Neighborhoods took it seriously So in terms of like traditions, I don't necessarily have any Um, I personally really like Halloween because I feel like it's a low expectation holiday. 121 00:07:00,911.13304085 --> 00:07:03,321.13304085 Like, no one else matters on Halloween. 122 00:07:03,321.13304085 --> 00:07:05,761.13304085 Like, you can do it by yourself, you could do it with others. 123 00:07:06,11.13204085 --> 00:07:08,491.13304085 Um, there's no really gifts involved, so there's no expectation. 124 00:07:08,491.13304085 --> 00:07:10,421.13304085 All it is is just to go out and have fun. 125 00:07:10,681.13204085 --> 00:07:13,851.13304085 Um, so I particularly love the holiday. 126 00:07:15,131.13204085 --> 00:07:15,581.13204085 That's good. 127 00:07:15,741.13304085 --> 00:07:22,641.13304085 I was going to say, also, the infamous elementary school fall festival. 128 00:07:23,461.13304085 --> 00:07:24,371.13304085 With the infamous... 129 00:07:24,761.13304085 --> 00:07:27,541.13304085 Mmm, that part. 130 00:07:28,31.13304085 --> 00:07:36,131.13404085 Um, so I did want to read this, So basically it says here that Halloween origins date back to ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. 131 00:07:37,1.13304085 --> 00:07:45,641.03304085 the Celts who lived, 2, 000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland and the United Kingdom and Northern France, celebrated their own New Year on November 1st. 132 00:07:46,601.03304085 --> 00:07:52,21.03204085 So, this day marked the end of the summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter. 133 00:07:52,251.03404085 --> 00:07:55,535.93304085 Time of the year was often associated with human death. 134 00:07:56,166.03304085 --> 00:08:02,676.03304085 Uh, Celts believed that on the night before New Year's, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. 135 00:08:02,916.03304085 --> 00:08:09,836.03104085 On the night of October 31st, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that ghosts and the dead returned to Earth. 136 00:08:10,116.03104085 --> 00:08:24,689.466915 In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the Otherworldly spirits made it easier for druids or Celtic priests to make predictions about the future for people, entirely dependent on the volatile natural world. 137 00:08:24,689.466915 --> 00:08:34,229.467415 These prophecies were, an important source of comfort during the long, dark winter, I read somewhere that they first started carving turnips. 138 00:08:34,399.467415 --> 00:08:36,849.467415 Yes, I have that noted here. 139 00:08:37,419.467415 --> 00:08:40,229.467415 That was so what I have on that is okay, so there's two things. 140 00:08:40,399.467415 --> 00:08:44,579.367415 One was that they would, initially, they would build a massive fire. 141 00:08:45,569.467415 --> 00:08:46,899.467415 Which I think is brilliant. 142 00:08:46,909.467415 --> 00:08:48,149.467415 We should bring the fire back. 143 00:08:48,589.467415 --> 00:08:52,779.467415 So they would build a massive fire and that kind of ended in the early half of the 20th century. 144 00:08:52,999.467415 --> 00:08:55,669.467415 And it was replaced with two things. 145 00:08:55,909.466415 --> 00:08:59,249.467415 Yes, the turnips, um, but the turnips were also lanterns. 146 00:08:59,459.467415 --> 00:09:00,869.467415 So people could walk at night. 147 00:09:01,199.466415 --> 00:09:04,949.467415 Um, but they would also use, because the fire was I don't think the turnips were lanterns. 148 00:09:05,349.467415 --> 00:09:08,899.467415 I think they had lanterns and they would carve Turnip. 149 00:09:08,919.467415 --> 00:09:16,69.467415 So there's like kind of cross intersects here, it seems like because it says that basically the fire, the point of it was to guide the spirits. 150 00:09:16,69.467415 --> 00:09:16,439.467415 Yeah. 151 00:09:16,489.466415 --> 00:09:21,689.467415 And so they replace that with candles and then lantern like to hold the candle parsnips. 152 00:09:21,689.467415 --> 00:09:22,479.467415 I think we're part of it. 153 00:09:22,479.467415 --> 00:09:24,579.467415 And that's why they're carved to like still have like light. 154 00:09:24,799.467415 --> 00:09:28,639.467415 And then from there, they realized that pumpkins were bigger and made more sense. 155 00:09:28,639.467415 --> 00:10:24,719.467415 I guess I read that they just started carving turnips for Into scary faces to like put in their windows to like ward off the evil spirits, and then I was kind of confused Where they started lighting them because then in another place it explained all about Like jack o lanterns, and like why they're even called jack o lanterns, and just because people at, night, like, watchmen with lanterns and they didn't know what to call them, and like, just a really common name is Jack, so they just call him, like, Jack of the Lantern, and then, yeah, so then there's the carved turnips, and then the, Jack of the Lantern and then at some point, they realized pumpkins are like easier to carve and then if they wanted to put light in them, I'm sure it like just made more sense because I feel like turnips aren't like big enough and like the, I saw a picture of one and it didn't look hollowed out like, oh, just carved. 156 00:10:24,749.467415 --> 00:10:25,499.467415 Yeah. 157 00:10:25,679.467415 --> 00:10:36,609.467415 So I'm a little Confused on that, but at some point, the carved faces to ward off the evil spirits and the lights got incorporated. 158 00:10:36,669.467415 --> 00:10:36,889.466915 Right. 159 00:10:36,889.466915 --> 00:10:45,639.467415 Because I also read that the jack o lantern was to, like, ward off the, the face was to ward off the evil spirits, but also the light was to, like, welcome your deceased ancestors. 160 00:10:46,689.467415 --> 00:10:47,289.467415 So. 161 00:10:47,869.467415 --> 00:10:50,899.467415 Yeah, I mean, I personally do not enjoy carving pumpkins. 162 00:10:50,899.467415 --> 00:10:55,59.467415 I think it's a messy, irritating process. 163 00:10:55,289.467415 --> 00:10:55,966.10074833 And you just cut yourself. 164 00:10:55,966.10074833 --> 00:10:58,449.467415 And yeah, you never have the right tools. 165 00:10:58,449.467415 --> 00:11:00,389.467415 And it's just like, and you just bleh. 166 00:11:00,399.467415 --> 00:11:02,129.466415 Yeah, the tools you buy are always terrible. 167 00:11:02,129.467415 --> 00:11:05,179.466415 Yeah, and it's just like such a, and they get rotten. 168 00:11:06,104.467415 --> 00:11:09,984.467415 So I feel like they're great when you have like a family, otherwise they're a complete waste of time and energy. 169 00:11:09,984.467415 --> 00:11:12,724.467415 Just paint the thing and it makes it so much cleaner and easier. 170 00:11:13,24.467415 --> 00:11:24,784.466415 Um, but turnips, I would love to whittle a little, whittle a little turnip, you know, and then you just like, and goodbye turnip, but you know, no one, you can't even eat the pumpkin either. 171 00:11:24,784.467415 --> 00:11:27,64.467415 So it's like, yeah. 172 00:11:27,199.467415 --> 00:11:30,409.467415 Would you ever roast the seeds? Yeah, I think that's a... 173 00:11:30,489.467415 --> 00:11:31,909.467415 They're never as good as you want them to be though. 174 00:11:32,699.467415 --> 00:11:40,119.467415 They're never like, meh, and they're always like, you can't, they're also compared to sunflower seeds, which we eat, like, more regularly, those are so easy to, like, open. 175 00:11:40,699.467415 --> 00:11:42,959.467415 And pumpkin seeds, I know you can eat the whole thing, but... 176 00:11:43,239.467415 --> 00:11:44,89.467415 Yeah, but then you're just like... 177 00:11:44,399.467415 --> 00:11:45,759.467415 Yeah, you're like chewing on... 178 00:11:46,669.467415 --> 00:11:50,29.467415 Actually, could be some good fiber. 179 00:11:50,529.467415 --> 00:11:51,169.467415 So's corn. 180 00:11:52,599.467415 --> 00:11:57,129.467415 So one of the other things I want to talk about, so we already talked about how, like from the Celtics, it went to the Romans. 181 00:11:57,299.467415 --> 00:11:58,749.467415 So after the Romans, the church. 182 00:12:00,539.467415 --> 00:12:01,459.467415 Catholic Church. 183 00:12:01,469.467415 --> 00:12:01,789.467415 Yeah. 184 00:12:01,789.467415 --> 00:12:07,599.467415 And so the Popes wanted to like, you know, make these holidays more church friendly. 185 00:12:07,819.467415 --> 00:12:15,479.467415 Um, so because people would be more likely to join the church if their favorite festivals remained to some degree. 186 00:12:15,649.468415 --> 00:12:28,239.465415 So basically, on November 1st, they used to think about all the saints as martyrs, like the day was moved from like May to November, and then like sometime after that, they wanted to separate the All Souls Day. 187 00:12:28,694.466415 --> 00:12:33,684.466415 And that was the day to honor the dead, which is also kind of like how we get to like Dia de los Muertos today. 188 00:12:33,884.466415 --> 00:12:40,374.466415 But basically, All Souls Day was similar to Samoay, Wahaavna, whatever it is. 189 00:12:41,154.466415 --> 00:12:42,234.465415 Um, and Samanamna wada wapuda. 190 00:12:43,554.465415 --> 00:12:48,484.466415 And they had big bonfires, parades, and they all dressed in costume as saints, angels, and devils. 191 00:12:48,484.466415 --> 00:12:50,544.466415 Which I think is actually really great. 192 00:12:50,924.466415 --> 00:12:53,654.466415 Does that make you feel better? about dressing as a devil. 193 00:12:53,694.466415 --> 00:12:54,414.466415 Just a little bit. 194 00:12:54,664.466415 --> 00:13:03,634.466415 Um, so all souls day turned to all Hollows to the all hollow mass as like the day before Saints day and so the night before it. 195 00:13:03,644.466415 --> 00:13:06,564.466415 I heard hollows meant like to sanctify. 196 00:13:06,714.466415 --> 00:13:08,504.466415 Quite could have been. 197 00:13:09,139.466415 --> 00:13:16,229.466415 And so basically, All Saints Day slowly turned into Hall All Hallows Eve and then eventually Halloween. 198 00:13:17,169.466415 --> 00:13:23,499.466415 How do we get that ween in there? Where did that forked in the eye come from? Ween. 199 00:13:23,649.466415 --> 00:13:27,629.466415 I feel like All Hallows Eve makes like more sense, but I don't know where the ween Who knows? I don't know. 200 00:13:28,559.466415 --> 00:13:31,609.466415 But, I know like I don't know. 201 00:13:33,109.466415 --> 00:13:39,559.466415 Like, the Celtics already had like, the relationship of the time of year. 202 00:13:40,49.466415 --> 00:13:44,999.466415 Relating to death and then, their own way to, honor the dead. 203 00:13:45,359.466415 --> 00:13:51,739.466415 but I know less about that than, how the Catholics took it and then, um, also made, like, a day of the dead. 204 00:13:52,89.466415 --> 00:13:58,899.467415 well, I guess, because the Celtics believe, right, that, like, the veil was thinned and they could more likely to be able to talk to the dead. 205 00:13:59,79.467415 --> 00:13:59,379.467415 Right. 206 00:14:00,239.467415 --> 00:14:11,894.467415 Um, or, like, do, um, Divination? Div divine nate? Divin divin divin gee? Divination? Divination? I think it might be divi I don't know. 207 00:14:11,904.467415 --> 00:14:14,484.467415 Divi Divination, I know what you're talking about. 208 00:14:14,484.467415 --> 00:14:17,160.89049192 Divination? We probably shouldn't. 209 00:14:17,160.89049192 --> 00:14:25,489.367415 Oh my god! She didn't even tell us the text! And it's gonna be like the most obvious thing ever? I'm just, nevermind. 210 00:14:25,869.467415 --> 00:14:43,239.516415 yeah, are there any other I don't know I mean our traditions are hella basic like, you know They're just the good old American funsies, right so Speaking of the all american. 211 00:14:43,489.516415 --> 00:14:53,74.517415 How did we get where we are from what was going on with the All Saints, right? so basically And this is kind of obvious, I guess, but not really. 212 00:14:53,294.517415 --> 00:14:59,154.518415 So Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid, Protestant beliefs. 213 00:15:01,134.518415 --> 00:15:04,904.518415 Who would have guessed? However, I was just drinking my bonnet. 214 00:15:07,349.518415 --> 00:15:27,649.518415 Um, customs from different European ethnic groups and American Indians meshed and we kind of started seeing this like, emergence of Halloween come along and basically the first celebration included these play parties, which were public events held to celebrate the harvest neighbors would share stories about the dead tell each other fortunes dance and sing. 215 00:15:27,919.518415 --> 00:15:37,469.519415 However, these colonial Halloween festivities kind of became Um, time to, uh, tell ghost stories and become like very mischievous. 216 00:15:37,779.519415 --> 00:15:44,619.519915 And by the 19th century, an annual autumn festivals, were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated. 217 00:15:44,669.519915 --> 00:15:44,879.519915 So. 218 00:15:45,659.519915 --> 00:15:46,359.519915 That's where we were. 219 00:15:46,639.519915 --> 00:16:01,9.519915 However, in the second half of the 19th century, America was flooded with immigrants, and those Irish fleeing from the potato famine helped popularize our current celebration of Halloween. 220 00:16:01,29.519915 --> 00:16:17,14.519915 They brought the turnips! They're like, check this out! You just put this in your window? Pretty cool! Pretty sick! So I honestly think that's kind of interesting in the sense that, like, I love an autumn gathering. 221 00:16:17,784.519915 --> 00:16:20,674.519915 Like, I really enjoy that community sense. 222 00:16:22,334.519915 --> 00:16:25,94.519915 Also like, cause it is like time of big harvest. 223 00:16:25,94.519915 --> 00:16:25,414.519915 Right. 224 00:16:25,684.518915 --> 00:16:26,714.519915 End of harvest. 225 00:16:26,884.519915 --> 00:16:28,244.518915 Get all this while it's good. 226 00:16:28,884.519915 --> 00:16:30,484.519915 Get all fat before the winter. 227 00:16:30,514.518915 --> 00:16:30,954.518915 Yeah. 228 00:16:30,954.519915 --> 00:16:41,534.519915 And I mean, Thanksgiving is similar to that, but having one that has some kind of spiritual spooky background to it makes it like, cause Thanksgiving is all about giving and being grateful. 229 00:16:42,394.519915 --> 00:16:45,604.519915 In American culture, we don't have. 230 00:16:46,239.519915 --> 00:16:49,959.519915 Really a memorial day like we have Memorial Day, but that's mostly for like our fallen soldiers. 231 00:16:49,959.519915 --> 00:17:06,489.519915 Yeah, it's very specific Yeah, and so like like in the Armenian background like there is like a holiday for the dead which I think is dead Yeah, which I think is really important to have so being that the United States doesn't have it at all I think Halloween having this like memorance should be brought back. 232 00:17:06,589.519915 --> 00:17:07,199.519915 Me too. 233 00:17:07,199.519915 --> 00:17:22,799.518915 I was gonna say there's like two things happening It's like celebrating harvest but then, like, having the day to, like, acknowledge whether you think that, you know, the veil between the dead and the living is thinned or not. 234 00:17:24,259.519915 --> 00:17:30,609.519915 Taking a day to remember our ancestors, our loved ones, I think would be pretty meaningful. 235 00:17:30,839.519915 --> 00:17:32,679.519915 Yes, I concur. 236 00:17:32,749.519915 --> 00:17:56,789.520915 And it's just funny because here we are dressed as geese, and it's just a fun holiday, right now, but holidays, you know, even in the name Holy Day, like, they're originally all very, meaningful, and not to say that, What we do now for Halloween isn't meaningful, but it's definitely like it doesn't have a spiritual meaning to it So even like Christmas is really fun. 237 00:17:56,799.520915 --> 00:18:16,709.519915 But like, you know, if you're OG about it, you're still going to you know Go to church or have like some kind of Sabbath with your family of sorts? And like, you know American culture is obviously that kind of removed a lot of that for a bunch of people But Halloween still happens to have the least amount of importance. 238 00:18:16,719.519915 --> 00:18:19,9.519915 Yeah, which is honestly crazy. 239 00:18:19,59.519915 --> 00:18:19,869.519915 Because we're the most celebrated. 240 00:18:20,299.519915 --> 00:18:28,949.518915 Well, but also like, remembering the dead seems like a pretty like, not unimportant thing to do. 241 00:18:28,989.519915 --> 00:18:35,9.519915 Right, and it's very secular, I feel like, because like part of the issue, or it's like very open to all groups. 242 00:18:35,299.519915 --> 00:18:35,379.519915 Right. 243 00:18:35,389.519915 --> 00:18:41,499.518915 Like inherent, like Christmas, okay, kind of exclusive, Easter exclusive, um, you know. 244 00:18:42,459.519915 --> 00:18:44,99.519915 All the other ones have like, whatever. 245 00:18:44,959.519915 --> 00:18:45,989.519915 Ruffling my feathers. 246 00:18:46,309.519915 --> 00:18:54,219.519915 But, um, but Halloween and like the idea of having some kind of remembrance for the dead, whatever you do, I feel like that is like just very human. 247 00:18:54,289.518915 --> 00:18:56,119.519915 And like our country just is like, nah. 248 00:18:56,719.519915 --> 00:19:04,144.519915 It's kinda, it's weird too because, you know, obviously we were a country like, Founded by Christians. 249 00:19:05,234.519915 --> 00:19:12,604.519915 But then like you said, originally it was you know, very uptight Protestants that I don't think liked any holidays. 250 00:19:13,564.519915 --> 00:19:14,944.519915 Sort of? I don't know. 251 00:19:15,84.519915 --> 00:19:26,364.520415 I would just, or I think they were really trying to, because like the Roman Empire, they took the Celtic, traditions and tried to like combine them with their religion. 252 00:19:26,794.520415 --> 00:19:36,14.520415 But I'm guessing the Protestants just, thought that because it was combined with originally, Celtic traditions and, pagan traditions, they were like, gotta cut that out. 253 00:19:36,204.520415 --> 00:19:36,504.520415 Right. 254 00:19:36,554.520415 --> 00:19:39,174.520415 That, I mean, would be my guess. 255 00:19:39,444.520415 --> 00:19:40,604.519415 Yeah, I fully agree. 256 00:19:40,664.519415 --> 00:19:51,684.519415 But I think it's weird because since we still celebrate, Halloween, I would think that they would much rather have it be a day of the dead than what it is now. 257 00:19:51,704.519415 --> 00:20:01,114.519415 feel like to them they would be like This is a day of sin now! Like, just absolute debauchery, and like, oh, Lord. 258 00:20:01,124.519415 --> 00:20:05,814.519415 Halloween expressed by the average person, like, today, especially the average, like, adult. 259 00:20:05,844.518415 --> 00:20:07,334.519415 I think they would die. 260 00:20:07,964.518415 --> 00:20:08,544.518415 Yeah. 261 00:20:08,584.519415 --> 00:20:09,864.518415 So I'm kind of surprised. 262 00:20:09,914.519415 --> 00:20:25,644.518415 I think I don't know, I mean, I'm not very religiously enlightened, but I think there are, specific things where, having any connection to the dead is, negative, like you're not supposed to in some sense as well, like I wouldn't be surprised if the Protestants Wait, in Christianity? Yeah, somewhere in there. 263 00:20:25,844.518415 --> 00:20:29,654.518415 Like, I wouldn't be surprised if the Protestants didn't celebrate it because the Catholics did. 264 00:20:31,634.518415 --> 00:20:32,994.517415 And that was just off of principle. 265 00:20:33,464.517415 --> 00:20:34,354.517415 Yeah, yeah. 266 00:20:34,454.518415 --> 00:20:38,484.518415 You know, and like, you know, just like kind of villainified Oh, totally. 267 00:20:38,604.518415 --> 00:20:39,74.518415 The thing. 268 00:20:39,154.518415 --> 00:20:47,834.518415 But it, but you know what I mean? I think that's kind of ironic that Because that's like, not what, you know, we believe in. 269 00:20:48,154.518415 --> 00:20:53,424.517415 so they, ripped the really meaningful part that like Celtics had for it. 270 00:20:53,574.518415 --> 00:20:53,854.518415 Right. 271 00:20:54,744.518415 --> 00:20:59,434.518415 And because of that, now it's just left as a dress and his geese. 272 00:21:00,284.518415 --> 00:21:03,424.518415 And speaking of like the removal of like certain things. 273 00:21:03,434.518415 --> 00:21:12,584.518415 So, after what I was talking about in terms of like we had Halloween and like finally we have like the Irish come, right? The Irish come, and, um, With their turnips. 274 00:21:12,664.518415 --> 00:21:14,814.518415 And, yeah, this, like, the early, yeah, they come. 275 00:21:14,834.518415 --> 00:21:16,324.518415 I don't know if they came with the turnips, but they came. 276 00:21:16,734.518415 --> 00:21:17,924.518415 Uh, and they conquered, no. 277 00:21:18,454.518415 --> 00:21:38,684.518415 And, um, So, by the 1920s and 30s, Halloween had become a secular community centered holiday with parades and town wide Halloween parties and there'd be entertainment and this would happen with like schools and communities But what happened is at this time Vandalism began to like plague society terribly. 278 00:21:38,894.518415 --> 00:21:41,989.518415 So a lot of communities were like None of this. 279 00:21:41,989.518415 --> 00:21:42,79.518415 Mm-Hmm. 280 00:21:42,319.518415 --> 00:21:51,139.518415 So by the 50 town leaders had successfully, like limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directly maintained by the young. 281 00:21:51,289.518415 --> 00:21:59,654.518415 And due to the number of young children created during the fifties, baby boom, the parties moved from like town centers and classrooms into the home. 282 00:22:02,144.518415 --> 00:22:02,804.518415 Interesting. 283 00:22:02,814.518415 --> 00:22:03,454.518415 Mm hmm. 284 00:22:03,644.518415 --> 00:22:08,434.518415 Where they could be more easily accommodated, I guess, which I think is the downhill of Halloween. 285 00:22:08,824.518415 --> 00:22:13,414.517415 Um, I think it needs to be community based and it does not need to be internally based. 286 00:22:13,414.518415 --> 00:22:19,794.517415 I think we've kind of come back from that, but that was because, and this is crazy, between the 1920s. 287 00:22:20,939.518415 --> 00:22:25,199.518415 In the 1950s, the century old practice of trick or treating was also revived. 288 00:22:25,209.518415 --> 00:22:29,819.518415 Trick or treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration. 289 00:22:29,829.518415 --> 00:22:35,19.518415 In theory, families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighbor's children with small treats. 290 00:22:35,824.518415 --> 00:22:36,834.518415 Cut down the vandalism. 291 00:22:37,224.518415 --> 00:22:46,534.518415 Um, with that being said, there is a new American tradition that is now a six billion dollar holiday called Halloween. 292 00:22:46,774.518415 --> 00:22:50,84.518415 And it is the second largest commercial holiday after Christmas. 293 00:22:50,314.518415 --> 00:22:55,564.517415 With that being said, speaking of shmoney, One quarter of all candies sold annually in the U. 294 00:22:55,564.517415 --> 00:22:55,744.517415 S. 295 00:22:55,744.517415 --> 00:22:56,944.517415 is purchased for Halloween. 296 00:22:58,194.517415 --> 00:23:02,109.517415 That's bonkers! That is bonkers. 297 00:23:02,119.517415 --> 00:23:03,499.517415 That should be illegal. 298 00:23:03,509.517415 --> 00:23:06,589.517415 For some reason, I totally blocked out the candy part. 299 00:23:06,779.517415 --> 00:23:11,949.517415 Of the trick or treating? What do you mean? Like, I just haven't thought about that, like. 300 00:23:13,269.517415 --> 00:23:14,579.516415 At all, as like a tradition. 301 00:23:14,599.517415 --> 00:23:18,79.517415 Did you, can you trick or treat in your neighborhood? It's, they're really long roads. 302 00:23:18,399.517415 --> 00:23:21,209.517415 We would, oh, I totally forgot about this. 303 00:23:21,289.517415 --> 00:23:25,19.517415 Um, this is like in the countryside, so obviously. 304 00:23:25,939.517415 --> 00:23:29,709.517415 We don't have like houses touching houses and the roads don't have sidewalks. 305 00:23:29,759.517415 --> 00:23:32,809.517415 So, so they would have all the kids And drunk driving's allowed, so. 306 00:23:34,299.516415 --> 00:23:37,249.517415 They would have all the kids go to like one house. 307 00:23:38,249.516415 --> 00:23:39,39.516415 Um. 308 00:23:39,624.517415 --> 00:23:49,504.516415 Like this guy, and he had like, a tractor with like hay in the back, and so we would all hop in the, hop in the hay in the tractor, like a hay ride, you know, and then we would go. 309 00:23:50,39.516415 --> 00:23:52,339.516415 On the street to each, to like, houses. 310 00:23:52,829.516415 --> 00:23:53,189.516415 Yeah. 311 00:23:53,209.516415 --> 00:23:53,969.516415 That's kind of adorable. 312 00:23:53,979.516415 --> 00:23:54,529.516415 I know. 313 00:23:54,549.516415 --> 00:23:55,609.516415 I totally forgot about that. 314 00:23:55,609.516415 --> 00:23:58,359.516415 Cause when I got older, I just started trigger treating like in the city. 315 00:23:58,859.516415 --> 00:23:59,339.516415 The city. 316 00:24:00,99.516415 --> 00:24:02,389.516415 Is that what we're calling it out? No, it's a don. 317 00:24:02,599.516415 --> 00:24:04,519.516415 It's a don in the don. 318 00:24:06,19.516415 --> 00:24:07,359.516415 But, you don't get a lot of candy that way. 319 00:24:07,639.516415 --> 00:24:08,79.516415 No. 320 00:24:08,799.516415 --> 00:24:09,469.515415 Cause it's like... 321 00:24:10,414.516415 --> 00:24:12,324.516415 You know, 10 minutes to the next house. 322 00:24:12,734.516415 --> 00:24:14,894.516415 Yeah, sounds kind of depressing. 323 00:24:16,134.516415 --> 00:24:16,994.516415 But it was fun. 324 00:24:17,54.516415 --> 00:24:17,964.516415 I mean, it's cool. 325 00:24:18,4.516415 --> 00:24:19,654.515415 Well, you're mostly hanging out with friends at that point. 326 00:24:19,674.516415 --> 00:24:21,244.516415 And these are pit stops. 327 00:24:22,54.516415 --> 00:24:24,954.516415 Right, and it's kind of adorable when you just imagine it driving down the road. 328 00:24:25,434.516415 --> 00:24:31,984.516415 Um, so borrowing from European traditions, Americans began to dress up in costume and go house to house asking for food or money. 329 00:24:32,284.516415 --> 00:24:35,324.516415 A practice that eventually became today's trick or treating tradition. 330 00:24:35,676.1717438 --> 00:24:44,416.1717438 In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborhood getting togethers than ghosts, pranks, and witchcraft. 331 00:24:44,916.1717438 --> 00:24:51,756.1717438 And parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything frightening and grotesque out of holiday celebrations. 332 00:24:51,956.1717438 --> 00:24:58,196.1707438 Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the 20th century. 333 00:24:59,406.1717438 --> 00:24:59,566.1707438 That's crazy. 334 00:24:59,576.1727438 --> 00:25:14,566.1717438 So, I've never Well, but, but that's what I mean, even those people, it's like, they wanted it to be, which trick or treating, like, I don't know, if you're with parents and kids, it's still somewhat that, That wholesome community event. 335 00:25:14,606.1717438 --> 00:25:14,916.1717438 Right. 336 00:25:15,376.1717438 --> 00:25:18,336.1717438 Cause everyone has to be on, like everyone knows that this is a day. 337 00:25:18,336.1717438 --> 00:25:18,692.8050771 I don't know. 338 00:25:18,692.8050771 --> 00:25:23,286.1707438 I mean, honestly, I don't know, I'm trying to, I can't reason this. 339 00:25:23,506.1717438 --> 00:25:24,586.1707438 Or like, help me out here. 340 00:25:24,596.1717438 --> 00:25:31,496.1717438 Cause it's like, young adults today, like Halloween is just, Debauchery. 341 00:25:31,506.1717438 --> 00:25:32,626.1717438 Debauchery. 342 00:25:33,156.1727438 --> 00:25:47,476.1737438 But it's like, would young adults back then, when it was more religious like care a little bit more Yeah, you know what I mean? Well, it was also like that, like, because young adults had nothing to really do. 343 00:25:47,506.1737438 --> 00:25:53,846.1737438 I'm sure they'd be more likely to, I mean, young adults just do, do debauchery anyways. 344 00:25:54,136.1737438 --> 00:26:03,526.1732438 So I'm sure it was in combination, but if it had a religious aspect today, I'm sure we would still We would care along with the debauchery. 345 00:26:03,596.1732438 --> 00:26:03,926.1732438 Right. 346 00:26:03,936.1732438 --> 00:26:31,121.1732438 You know what I mean? Yeah No 100 percent and I mean like they stated like that was part of why like they became like more of a In the house kind of thing was to get rid of all the like the mischief that like young adults were causing And just vandalizing stuff and just being a ruck So I think part of the downside as an adult the reason why all we do is like debauchery is because there are There is nothing for us to do because like the trick or treating isn't meant for us Yeah, we don't have kids to take trick or treating. 347 00:26:31,141.1732438 --> 00:26:42,411.1712438 And yeah, and like the, and we can't go, and so what all else are we supposed to do except dress up and try to feel again by drinking copious amounts of alcohol and doing dumb things? Yeah. 348 00:26:42,641.1712438 --> 00:26:46,291.1712438 Like what else do you do? Right, how else do you celebrate? Mm hmm. 349 00:26:46,691.1712438 --> 00:26:50,981.1722438 Um, any What if we could all go build a big fire? Right. 350 00:26:51,481.1722438 --> 00:26:52,531.1722438 In the forest. 351 00:26:53,361.1722438 --> 00:26:55,711.1722438 In, in downtown Reno. 352 00:26:55,881.1722438 --> 00:27:00,611.1722438 Well, yeah, there was a part in there that like, probably part of the reason they stopped doing big fires was because it became like a hazard. 353 00:27:01,781.1722438 --> 00:27:01,801.1722438 Yeah. 354 00:27:01,831.1722438 --> 00:27:04,361.1712438 No way! If you have regulated big fires. 355 00:27:04,361.1722438 --> 00:27:10,411.1722438 Bro, you know how much BLM land we got just open? No, but that's what I'm saying, like, if you have regulated fires. 356 00:27:10,661.1722438 --> 00:27:10,961.1722438 Right. 357 00:27:11,431.1722438 --> 00:27:13,51.1712438 City Right, right, right, right. 358 00:27:13,51.1712438 --> 00:27:13,641.1712438 Controlled fires. 359 00:27:13,641.1712438 --> 00:27:16,701.1712438 City sanctioned, giant bonfire? It'd be insane. 360 00:27:16,861.1722438 --> 00:27:17,921.1722438 We could totally do it. 361 00:27:17,991.1722438 --> 00:27:31,66.1722438 It'd like, it'd be like Hot firefighters on standby? Not dressing costume, police officers? Peeling turnips? No, I think that would be a good way to get a lot of vibes out. 362 00:27:31,416.1712438 --> 00:27:48,221.1722438 Um, and just, you could just What would suck though, cause honestly I feel like if that If they actually did do that like nowadays, like You'd probably have to be like, 30 feet back from the fire, and like, la la la. 363 00:27:48,651.1722438 --> 00:27:49,71.1722438 I don't know. 364 00:27:49,401.1722438 --> 00:27:50,381.1717438 I think it'd be a good time. 365 00:27:50,381.1717438 --> 00:27:54,816.1722438 Do you have any like, Halloween movie traditions or anything? Um, no. 366 00:27:55,326.1722438 --> 00:27:56,426.1722438 No? No. 367 00:27:57,86.1722438 --> 00:28:18,826.1722438 Um, do you want to hear about the Halloween backstory? To take a guess, I would imagine that just like before we had movies in general, we had oral tradition and stories and like they told scary stories and then that just like our oral traditions became movies. 368 00:28:19,121.1722438 --> 00:28:20,11.1722438 Those became movies. 369 00:28:20,31.1722438 --> 00:28:23,561.1722438 Yes, so a lot of it was stories and then plays. 370 00:28:24,34.5544041 --> 00:28:25,854.5544041 I never thought about it like that. 371 00:28:25,874.5544041 --> 00:28:33,214.4544041 Cause I like read, I was reading about like the scary stories and I was like, man, I haven't heard a scary story like ever. 372 00:28:33,214.5544041 --> 00:28:34,24.5534041 I wish we did more oral tradition. 373 00:28:34,984.5534041 --> 00:28:38,934.5544041 Me too, but then yeah, I mean I haven't heard any oral tradition ever, so. 374 00:28:39,224.5544041 --> 00:28:46,934.5544041 Right, so, um, but yeah, so they started off as like, But, movies do still serve that purpose. 375 00:28:47,64.5544041 --> 00:28:47,314.5544041 Right. 376 00:28:47,749.5544041 --> 00:28:48,29.5544041 Right. 377 00:28:48,29.5544041 --> 00:28:50,529.5544041 Yeah, because we can talk about it without reiterating the whole thing. 378 00:28:51,169.5544041 --> 00:29:17,317.5458094 anyway, so speaking of movies Yeah in these movies so it started off with verbal and then plays and whatever whatever and then you've got books like Frankenstein and whatever whatever and then There's arguments about like the first movie but in American history the main one seems to have been the German, and there's in 1922, there's like a Dracula knockoff that kind of just came from the book and so on and so forth. 379 00:29:17,317.5458094 --> 00:29:19,517.5458094 So, yeah, these things kind of play off of each other. 380 00:29:19,567.5458094 --> 00:29:24,267.5458094 Nosferatu? I know that movie's hella old. 381 00:29:24,267.5458094 --> 00:29:25,737.5458094 Yeah, I think it might be that one. 382 00:29:26,707.5458094 --> 00:29:30,777.5448094 Um, and then from there we get into like, you know, the classic Halloween franchise. 383 00:29:31,137.5458094 --> 00:29:38,987.5458094 And that's kind of all I have to say, but Halloween movies have now like fallen into two places where it's like the, it's like Halloween and... 384 00:29:39,792.5458094 --> 00:29:47,102.5458094 Like Scream and Slasher and then it goes into like the more like family friendly like Beetlejuice and the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and things like that. 385 00:29:47,462.5458094 --> 00:29:48,852.5458094 So, I... 386 00:29:49,162.5458094 --> 00:29:51,382.5458094 Charlie Brown's old. 387 00:29:51,632.5448094 --> 00:29:53,532.5458094 It is old, but it's great. 388 00:29:53,542.5448094 --> 00:29:54,522.5458094 It's like 60s. 389 00:29:54,562.5458094 --> 00:30:00,932.5458094 But I wonder like before people had like Halloween, I mean before they had Halloween movies to watch they probably just told stories. 390 00:30:00,962.5458094 --> 00:30:01,172.5458094 Yeah. 391 00:30:01,172.5458094 --> 00:30:02,652.5458094 It's just kind of sad that we don't do that anymore. 392 00:30:02,702.5458094 --> 00:30:03,82.5458094 Books. 393 00:30:03,462.5458094 --> 00:30:03,952.5458094 Yeah. 394 00:30:04,797.5458094 --> 00:30:12,307.5458094 I've never read a scary book, have you? Um, I used to read, like, really cheesy murder mysteries, but... 395 00:30:13,237.5448094 --> 00:30:15,367.5458094 Yeah, you think that's really scary? No. 396 00:30:15,677.5458094 --> 00:30:17,217.5458094 No? No, they weren't really scary. 397 00:30:18,127.5458094 --> 00:30:21,887.5458094 Do you like, would you, do you think you could read a scary book? I don't know. 398 00:30:22,137.5448094 --> 00:30:26,937.5458094 Something tells me that would like a psychological thriller, like, just an actual, like, horror... 399 00:30:28,362.5458094 --> 00:30:57,500.6665551 I just can't imagine any He turned to the next page! AHH! And then he jumps out of the closet! I don't know I was gonna say, you know another huge Religious, non religious holiday we have Um, are you talking about Valentine's Day or Arbor Day? Um, think saints. 400 00:30:58,230.6665551 --> 00:30:58,810.6665551 Oh. 401 00:30:58,950.6665551 --> 00:31:03,650.6665551 Oh! Um, Mardi Gras? Yeah! Well, that's not like a... 402 00:31:05,100.6665551 --> 00:31:06,200.6665551 It's 100 percent religious. 403 00:31:06,230.6665551 --> 00:31:09,310.6665551 Well, no, I know, I mean, but Mardi Gras is specific to New Orleans. 404 00:31:09,530.6665551 --> 00:31:10,630.6665551 Yeah, I know. 405 00:31:11,350.6665551 --> 00:31:13,70.6665551 Like, we don't celebrate Mardi Gras. 406 00:31:13,140.6655551 --> 00:31:13,630.6665551 I know. 407 00:31:13,840.6665551 --> 00:31:17,480.6665551 But, like, Fat Tuesday is the holiday, but. 408 00:31:17,880.6665551 --> 00:31:18,270.6665551 Yeah. 409 00:31:18,350.6655551 --> 00:31:18,670.6655551 Yeah. 410 00:31:18,920.6665551 --> 00:31:20,710.6665551 But, we should. 411 00:31:23,410.6655551 --> 00:31:24,80.6655551 Yeah. 412 00:31:24,670.6655551 --> 00:31:24,920.6655551 Yeah. 413 00:31:24,940.6665551 --> 00:31:31,10.6665551 I don't know, I mean, I would love to go to Mardi Gras, I'm just not Christian, so I feel like I can't just hop into Fat Tuesday. 414 00:31:33,495.6665551 --> 00:31:33,505.6665551 Hmm. 415 00:31:33,875.6665551 --> 00:31:36,735.6665551 I mean, cause the whole thing is to like Well, it wouldn't make sense for me. 416 00:31:36,905.6665551 --> 00:31:37,355.6665551 Right. 417 00:31:37,485.6665551 --> 00:31:40,935.6665551 Cause you're not gonna do Ash Wednesday the next day. 418 00:31:40,935.7665551 --> 00:31:44,915.6665551 I would love to participate in the debauchery, but I don't even know if it's the next day. 419 00:31:45,415.6665551 --> 00:31:46,745.6665551 Right, cause that's the day before Lent. 420 00:31:46,915.6665551 --> 00:31:47,215.6655551 Mm hmm. 421 00:31:47,215.6665551 --> 00:31:47,445.6665551 Mm. 422 00:31:48,545.6655551 --> 00:31:49,975.6655551 And you're supposed to just go nuts. 423 00:31:50,265.6665551 --> 00:31:50,605.6665551 Right. 424 00:31:50,925.6665551 --> 00:31:52,535.6655551 Before you gotta Which is so funny. 425 00:31:53,730.6665551 --> 00:31:54,100.6665551 Hey. 426 00:31:54,320.6665551 --> 00:31:58,650.6665551 It's just funny, like, the natural, just like, human responses to things. 427 00:31:58,690.6665551 --> 00:32:12,670.6665551 Cause there's no way that when they were like, alright, so we're gonna have this 40 day period of like, holy fasting and like, repenting, I don't know what they do, what do they, you know, like, it's about giving up something. 428 00:32:12,690.6655551 --> 00:32:12,900.6655551 Right. 429 00:32:13,100.6655551 --> 00:32:14,10.6655551 To be a better person. 430 00:32:14,130.6665551 --> 00:32:15,10.6665551 person. 431 00:32:15,280.6665551 --> 00:32:22,490.6665551 And like, I don't think they ever were like, so the night before, we're going crazy. 432 00:32:22,960.6655551 --> 00:32:24,340.6665551 Banana time. 433 00:32:24,690.6665551 --> 00:32:25,420.6665551 There's no way. 434 00:32:25,670.6655551 --> 00:32:27,950.6655551 No, I think it's like the natural human response. 435 00:32:28,20.6665551 --> 00:32:31,390.6655551 If you're gonna go on a diet the day before, you're like, okay, I need to eat everything. 436 00:32:31,830.6665551 --> 00:32:32,270.6665551 Yeah, right. 437 00:32:32,280.6655551 --> 00:32:35,960.6665551 It probably started out as like, okay, we're gonna do like a fast for 40 days. 438 00:32:35,970.6665551 --> 00:32:41,890.6665551 So then like eat a big meal before, you know? And then like, oh, we're gonna give out, we're gonna give up. 439 00:32:42,435.6665551 --> 00:32:43,575.6665551 Alcohol this time. 440 00:32:43,605.6665551 --> 00:32:51,805.6665551 Okay, so I'm gonna get really drunk before or something and then like it just like spiraled into Fat Tuesday, which is insane. 441 00:32:52,525.6665551 --> 00:33:00,325.6665551 To showing your titties so people throw beads at you? Like, what? Insane. 442 00:33:02,205.6665551 --> 00:33:07,385.6665551 Like, so you literally turned into a prostitute the night before? That's bonkers. 443 00:33:07,760.6665551 --> 00:33:08,10.6665551 Duh. 444 00:33:08,770.6665551 --> 00:33:17,570.6655551 How else am I supposed to go 40 days? I'm showing my titties to tits? Come on, bro. 445 00:33:18,260.6665551 --> 00:33:20,320.6665551 No, it's definitely a man made construct, though. 446 00:33:22,490.6665551 --> 00:33:24,680.6665551 I wonder if that would be interesting. 447 00:33:24,740.6665551 --> 00:33:25,370.6665551 How the Protestants... 448 00:33:27,870.6665551 --> 00:33:28,960.6665551 They'd be so proud. 449 00:33:30,440.6665551 --> 00:33:31,120.6665551 The Protestants. 450 00:33:31,140.6665551 --> 00:33:32,980.6665551 Into the country that we turned into. 451 00:33:34,880.6665551 --> 00:33:37,850.6665551 Our founding fathers would be thrilled. 452 00:33:38,330.6665551 --> 00:33:44,160.6665551 Um, anyways, traditional colors, guess what they were? Of Halloween. 453 00:33:44,430.6665551 --> 00:33:46,440.6665551 Cause now they're like purple and green and black and... 454 00:33:46,530.6665551 --> 00:33:47,480.6665551 Uh... 455 00:33:49,160.6665551 --> 00:33:49,550.6665551 White. 456 00:33:49,830.6665551 --> 00:33:50,600.6665551 Yellow and brown. 457 00:33:51,800.6665551 --> 00:33:51,980.6665551 Aww. 458 00:33:52,110.6665551 --> 00:33:55,500.6665551 Yellow and brown? I think they're like, same like Thanksgiving, like harvest. 459 00:33:55,500.6665551 --> 00:33:56,90.6665551 Yeah. 460 00:33:56,600.6665551 --> 00:33:57,60.6665551 But. 461 00:33:57,190.6665551 --> 00:33:57,620.6665551 Yeah. 462 00:33:58,7.3332218 --> 00:34:05,277.3332218 all right, so I'm gonna tell you the last few things and you can pick what we talk about next So all souls day and soul cakes go together I'm right about the soul cakes. 463 00:34:05,647.3332218 --> 00:34:08,147.3332218 I have a big thing to say about the soul cakes soul cakes. 464 00:34:08,147.3332218 --> 00:34:11,557.3332218 It'd be a good band name Yeah, black cat. 465 00:34:11,887.3332218 --> 00:34:13,27.3332218 I'll call you a soul cake. 466 00:34:14,547.3332218 --> 00:34:18,567.3332218 I Think that's a cute nickname Black cats and ghosts on Halloween. 467 00:34:18,577.3332218 --> 00:34:25,552.3332218 That's the second one and just like other And then, um, the lesser known rituals and Halloween matchmaking. 468 00:34:26,162.3332218 --> 00:34:27,42.3332218 Oh. 469 00:34:28,172.3332218 --> 00:34:34,262.3332218 So where do you want to go? So you celebrate grandpa and get hitched? Something like that. 470 00:34:36,102.3332218 --> 00:34:40,82.3322218 Um, well I'm guessing the black cats and all that. 471 00:34:40,82.4322218 --> 00:34:44,332.3332218 Wombo Gombo is about witches and all that tomfoolery. 472 00:34:44,742.3332218 --> 00:34:45,462.3332218 Um. 473 00:34:45,492.3332218 --> 00:34:46,442.3332218 I didn't actually know that. 474 00:34:46,442.3332218 --> 00:34:49,732.3332218 I mean, I guess it makes complete sense and I like, once I read it I was like, duh. 475 00:34:50,32.3322218 --> 00:34:56,492.3332218 But yeah, in the Middle Ages people believe that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into black cats Which I was like, bro. 476 00:34:56,532.3332218 --> 00:35:04,127.3332218 Have you? Hard, like, I don't know, I've read so much about, like, witches and, like, all their lore and, like, broomsticks. 477 00:35:04,347.3332218 --> 00:35:16,583.9274677 And somewhere, I remember reading about, like, them riding their broomsticks, having some For some reason, the way I'm remembering it, This can't be right. 478 00:35:17,633.9274677 --> 00:35:21,343.9274677 I'm remembering them, like, applying Why ointment? I don't know. 479 00:35:21,343.9274677 --> 00:35:24,523.9274677 I'm thinking of, like, balms being applied to the broomstick. 480 00:35:24,523.9274677 --> 00:35:27,533.9274677 Maybe that's because of lubrication? But then, like, riding them. 481 00:35:27,928.9274677 --> 00:35:38,958.9274677 Like, Tchhhhhhhhhh Ummm What? No, that's like a thing. 482 00:35:38,968.9274677 --> 00:35:39,758.9274677 Look it up. 483 00:35:41,258.9274677 --> 00:35:43,548.9264677 I think you might have mis searched on Pornhub. 484 00:35:43,768.9264677 --> 00:35:52,808.9274677 But I don't know what the ointment had to do with Well, I mean, you have to lubricate But also like the things Right, right. 485 00:35:53,28.9274677 --> 00:36:03,515.8619281 But yeah, that was definitely a thing, of them like writing their broomsticks, and then also like, you know, It said stuff about them either taking, like, psychedelics, and so them, like, you know, flying, is obviously... 486 00:36:05,15.8619281 --> 00:36:06,265.8619281 I like that one better. 487 00:36:08,95.8619281 --> 00:36:10,515.8609281 I like that alternative much more, actually. 488 00:36:10,515.8619281 --> 00:36:14,235.8619281 Especially because the broomsticks back then... 489 00:36:14,485.8619281 --> 00:36:17,915.8619281 Right? Like, when they were just sticks put together? Yeah, no. 490 00:36:17,915.8619281 --> 00:36:19,5.8619281 That can't be right. 491 00:36:19,155.8619281 --> 00:36:19,705.8619281 No. 492 00:36:19,885.8619281 --> 00:36:22,865.8619281 That sounds, like, just terrible. 493 00:36:23,275.8619281 --> 00:36:23,865.8619281 There's no way. 494 00:36:23,955.8619281 --> 00:36:24,535.8619281 Be for real. 495 00:36:25,125.8619281 --> 00:36:25,925.8619281 Um... 496 00:36:27,330.8619281 --> 00:36:38,580.8619281 Anyways, the other thing that superstitions from ancient Egypt, well you know they really care about their triangles and they're really sacred, so like walking underneath a ladder um, was like It's the strongest shape found in nature. 497 00:36:38,670.8619281 --> 00:36:39,570.8619281 Yeah. 498 00:36:41,490.8619281 --> 00:36:53,910.8619281 What about a hexapolioid? Gabbagoo! Because it's you, your partner, and God. 499 00:36:54,685.8619281 --> 00:37:00,715.8619281 Oh, when you get married, that's the strongest relationship found in nature. 500 00:37:00,715.9619281 --> 00:37:03,25.8619281 Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. 501 00:37:03,435.8609281 --> 00:37:08,875.8619281 Um, anyway, so walking over a ladder or whatever, like breaking the triangle is like a huge thing. 502 00:37:09,85.8619281 --> 00:37:11,955.8609281 And then because of this, somehow these superstitions... 503 00:37:12,655.8629281 --> 00:37:35,210.8619281 Oh, because it's a triangle! That came from, all the way from Egypt? I think the idea of just breaking triangles in general and then they said to like, that's how we got like walking under a ladder tends to be fairly uh That's so interesting Yeah, and then it also says that around Halloween we especially try to like avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks, um, and spilling salt. 504 00:37:35,510.8609281 --> 00:37:47,885.8619281 So our superstition comes out but the superstitions do date back to like the Celtic times Step on a crack! Break your mama's back Your kid will be black! I'm sorry. 505 00:37:48,625.8619281 --> 00:37:50,535.8619281 You did grow up in the sticks. 506 00:37:51,305.8619281 --> 00:37:53,85.8619281 Uh, in the broomsticks. 507 00:37:53,135.8609281 --> 00:37:53,745.8619281 In the broom... 508 00:37:53,945.8619281 --> 00:37:54,725.8619281 That we rode. 509 00:37:56,955.8619281 --> 00:37:57,445.8619281 Multipurposed. 510 00:37:57,475.8619281 --> 00:37:58,955.8619281 They don't have dildos in the sticks. 511 00:38:01,385.8619281 --> 00:38:04,125.8609281 Um, alright. 512 00:38:05,825.8619281 --> 00:38:10,725.8619281 So I think the broomsticks lead us right into ritual matchmaking. 513 00:38:12,315.8619281 --> 00:38:17,935.8619281 And so basically, um, Right, you can graduate from your broom to a real person. 514 00:38:20,5.8619281 --> 00:38:21,165.8609281 I'm a real boy now. 515 00:38:23,375.8609281 --> 00:38:29,625.8619281 Um, what? I don't know, it just made me think, what were the guys doing? Over there were the turnips. 516 00:38:30,415.8619281 --> 00:38:31,25.8619281 They're carving. 517 00:38:34,765.8619281 --> 00:38:36,275.8619281 See if they can make it into her face. 518 00:38:36,545.8619281 --> 00:38:37,275.8619281 If you can. 519 00:38:37,705.8619281 --> 00:38:38,835.8619281 That's how you know you'll marry her. 520 00:38:38,885.8619281 --> 00:38:40,895.8619281 Oh no, Isis. 521 00:38:42,365.8619281 --> 00:38:42,925.8619281 Bad taste. 522 00:38:45,625.8619281 --> 00:38:57,760.8619281 So basically, um, there's a bunch of them and the idea in theory was like, either you would, Figure it out, like, from one way, or it would come into fruition the next year. 523 00:38:57,960.8619281 --> 00:39:11,780.8619281 And so, many common ways were, So there's two related to the apple and the bobbler, so, One of them was that you would write the names of your, like, wanted to be, um, suitors. 524 00:39:12,150.8619281 --> 00:39:20,270.8619281 And then whichever one you caught bobbing was the one that would be it, right? The other one relating to apples, that's one of the alternatives. 525 00:39:20,280.8619281 --> 00:39:23,300.8619281 You would write who you wanted, and then On all the apples. 526 00:39:23,625.8619281 --> 00:39:25,355.8619281 Like any possible suitors. 527 00:39:25,855.8619281 --> 00:39:27,725.8619281 Oh, multiple suitors. 528 00:39:27,735.8619281 --> 00:39:27,895.8619281 Yes. 529 00:39:27,895.8619281 --> 00:39:28,705.8619281 That you want. 530 00:39:29,595.8619281 --> 00:39:30,575.8619281 Or our options. 531 00:39:31,515.8619281 --> 00:39:33,705.8619281 You put all your options and then whichever one. 532 00:39:34,205.8619281 --> 00:39:34,505.8619281 Okay. 533 00:39:34,835.8619281 --> 00:39:35,865.8619281 So that was one way. 534 00:39:36,205.8619281 --> 00:39:43,855.8619281 Um, the other one relating to apples was that women tossed apple peels over their shoulders hoping the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husband's initials. 535 00:39:44,235.8619281 --> 00:39:53,726.2474156 Um, this also came with That can't be good if you like A Tom, right? Right. 536 00:39:53,996.2474156 --> 00:39:58,946.2474156 Or like a, or a Quincy or a Zachary maybe. 537 00:39:59,666.2474156 --> 00:40:02,96.2474156 'cause it's like, it's like AW but yeah, Quincy there. 538 00:40:02,96.2474156 --> 00:40:03,806.2474156 There's gotta be some unfortunate names. 539 00:40:05,126.2474156 --> 00:40:10,106.2474156 How do you Yeah, or like Matt Frank can't be good. 540 00:40:10,166.2474156 --> 00:40:14,246.2474156 Frank's probably impossible, but everyone is named John, so that probably worked right. 541 00:40:14,246.2474156 --> 00:40:16,136.2474156 And all Apple, you know, curb so. 542 00:40:16,530.3560268 --> 00:40:18,510.3560268 This one is kind of weird. 543 00:40:18,510.3560268 --> 00:40:33,70.3560268 So basically, they tried to learn about the features by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water and stood in front of a mirror in a darkened room holding candles and looking over their shoulders for their husband's faces. 544 00:40:34,580.3560268 --> 00:40:34,680.3560268 Okay. 545 00:40:34,680.3560268 --> 00:40:36,760.3560268 I don't know the logistics of that one. 546 00:40:37,390.3560268 --> 00:40:37,930.3560268 I think we should try it. 547 00:40:38,820.3560268 --> 00:40:40,80.3560268 I think that we should bring that one back. 548 00:40:40,550.3560268 --> 00:40:42,50.3560268 It looks like... 549 00:40:44,120.3560268 --> 00:40:44,590.3560268 A chicken. 550 00:40:45,130.3560268 --> 00:40:46,590.3560268 Uh, I was gonna say Danny DeVito. 551 00:40:49,100.3560268 --> 00:40:55,70.3560268 Um, Can you think of a guy that looks like an egg yolk? There was also this huge part about, like, chestnuts. 552 00:40:55,80.3560268 --> 00:40:59,20.3560268 So, at some point, I think it was in the 18 or 1900s, nuts were huge. 553 00:40:59,20.3560268 --> 00:41:00,540.3550268 His jawline's pretty rough. 554 00:41:02,540.3560268 --> 00:41:03,400.3560268 He's got a weak jawline. 555 00:41:04,280.3560268 --> 00:41:22,170.3560268 Um, but nuts were like a big part of this and I actually enjoyed that because like I told you about like in our union No, well in like Armenian culture Like there's a whole thing about the fall and nuts and spending a whole period of time busting nuts so for October to be a designated or like the 31st to be a It'd bust a nut. 556 00:41:22,170.3560268 --> 00:41:22,600.3560268 Day. 557 00:41:22,750.3560268 --> 00:41:26,880.3560268 Yeah! You would know exactly when it's happening, which I think is kind of cool. 558 00:41:27,140.3560268 --> 00:41:36,320.3565268 Um, but basically they would like write like initials or something on the nuts and throw them into the fire and if it turned to ash or if it didn't like it had some kind of symbolism. 559 00:41:36,590.3565268 --> 00:41:51,930.3560268 Another one here is, and this is also known as like a charm cake now more so, but there was in the 1800s, a matchmaking cook would bury her ring into a, into mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring love to whoever found it. 560 00:41:53,305.3560268 --> 00:41:55,565.3560268 Wait, what? Cake. 561 00:41:55,705.3560268 --> 00:41:57,775.3560268 She, no, no, mashed potatoes. 562 00:41:57,855.3560268 --> 00:42:00,605.3560268 Take off her ring, plop it in the mashed potatoes. 563 00:42:01,655.3560268 --> 00:42:04,335.3550268 And hope whoever found it would find love. 564 00:42:04,675.3550268 --> 00:42:08,255.3560268 And I think that's kind of a cute way to sacrifice your jewelry. 565 00:42:08,735.3560268 --> 00:42:15,935.3560268 Um, I just, I just like don't chew, so I would've just She'd be like, where's my ring? All the potatoes are gone. 566 00:42:16,475.3560268 --> 00:42:18,275.3560268 And then the last one that I have here. 567 00:42:19,770.3560268 --> 00:42:20,530.3560268 We could. 568 00:42:20,830.3560268 --> 00:42:29,860.3560268 The last one I have is that, um, young woman ate sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts, and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night, and she would dream about her future husband. 569 00:42:30,660.3560268 --> 00:42:34,490.3550268 Which we actually have something like that in Armenian culture. 570 00:42:34,490.3560268 --> 00:42:36,720.3560268 There's um, I forgot what day it lands on. 571 00:42:36,750.3550268 --> 00:42:41,350.3560268 It might be Valentine's Day, but you eat a salty cookie, and you can't drink. 572 00:42:41,810.3560268 --> 00:43:01,730.3550268 Any water you have to eat it before bed, and you can't have any water something like that Armenians out there correct me if I'm wrong and you're supposed to drew in the person in your dreams who brings you a glass of Water is supposed to be your like suitor or like love So everyone is eating a salty cookie before bed, that's so funny. 573 00:43:02,170.3550268 --> 00:43:05,140.3560268 I think it's a really sweet kind of Bananas. 574 00:43:05,230.3560268 --> 00:43:10,720.3560268 Oh, I'm kind of scared To eat a salty cookie before bed and see if anyone shows up. 575 00:43:10,740.3560268 --> 00:43:13,110.3560268 Yeah, imagine if somebody did though. 576 00:43:13,240.3560268 --> 00:43:19,150.3550268 What if it was like, your dad? He'd be a spinster, alone forever. 577 00:43:19,670.3550268 --> 00:43:24,670.3550268 Um, but yeah, I think it's a cute thing. 578 00:43:24,910.3550268 --> 00:43:25,860.3550268 Yeah, no, that's fun. 579 00:43:25,910.3550268 --> 00:43:26,610.3560268 I want to do that. 580 00:43:28,395.3560268 --> 00:43:29,305.3560268 That one we're bringing back. 581 00:43:29,385.3560268 --> 00:43:33,925.3560268 Oh, and that goes back into the charm cakes, what they also do in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. 582 00:43:34,25.3560268 --> 00:43:35,135.3560268 They put the baby Jesus. 583 00:43:35,135.3560268 --> 00:43:35,845.3560268 Yeah, the baby Jesus. 584 00:43:36,125.3550268 --> 00:43:39,215.3550268 Um, charm cakes, usually whoever finds it, they do it on Easter too. 585 00:43:39,385.3560268 --> 00:43:40,435.3560268 It's like a very common. 586 00:43:40,435.3560268 --> 00:43:40,735.3560268 King's cake. 587 00:43:40,765.3560268 --> 00:43:41,475.3560268 King's cake. 588 00:43:41,665.3550268 --> 00:43:44,15.3555268 And it's also done on Easter, and it's done all the time. 589 00:43:44,15.3555268 --> 00:43:45,915.3550268 So the charm and the food is like quite. 590 00:43:45,915.3560268 --> 00:43:46,325.3550268 Big thing. 591 00:43:46,415.3560268 --> 00:43:47,515.3560268 Yeah, and I forget why. 592 00:43:47,525.3560268 --> 00:43:48,305.3560268 I know Armenians do it. 593 00:43:48,305.3560268 --> 00:43:49,795.3560268 Oh, we do it on Easter too, I think. 594 00:43:49,795.3560268 --> 00:43:51,285.3560268 Yeah, it's in the tall cake. 595 00:43:51,285.3560268 --> 00:43:54,265.3560268 So, it's a huge thing to put things and food that you're gonna swallow. 596 00:43:54,755.3560268 --> 00:43:56,305.3560268 But we can't have like Kinder eggs. 597 00:43:57,435.3560268 --> 00:44:04,515.3560268 Cause those are choking hazards, but the religions, the religious people get to just personal belongings. 598 00:44:04,965.3560268 --> 00:44:36,105.3570268 Um, and so the last thing I have is soul cakes and these ones, do you want to talk about what you learned about soul cakes? So I read that, so back to like trick or treating, it was like the poor would go around, um, And the rich people would give them soul cakes, so, in the, like, in exchange for them praying for their deceased loved ones. 599 00:44:36,625.3570268 --> 00:44:38,495.3570268 Yeah, it's really sad. 600 00:44:39,35.3570268 --> 00:44:39,795.3570268 Um. 601 00:44:40,245.3570268 --> 00:44:49,903.800769 Why? Well, because it started with Irish and Scottish immigrants in the US, um, in the 1900s. 602 00:44:50,293.800769 --> 00:44:53,963.800769 And, basically, they're called soulers. 603 00:44:57,183.800769 --> 00:45:07,903.800769 The people that do it? That would like go around and, um, usually children and people without any means when door to door offering songs and prayers in exchange for these small shortbread cakes. 604 00:45:08,443.800769 --> 00:45:11,193.800769 And that just makes me feel sad. 605 00:45:11,223.800769 --> 00:45:11,613.800769 Yeah. 606 00:45:11,623.800769 --> 00:45:17,783.800769 So now what I do think we should do and how we should bring this back is that we should on days like Halloween go give to the public. 607 00:45:17,783.800769 --> 00:45:19,263.800769 We only do it on like Thanksgiving and Christmas. 608 00:45:19,263.800769 --> 00:45:26,438.800769 Like it's kind of ridiculous, but like especially when like, like I just like we just stated like One fourth of all candy is bought this for Halloween. 609 00:45:26,438.800769 --> 00:45:30,638.800769 It's like, like there's obviously the means and it's like when it's getting cold and sad. 610 00:45:30,798.800769 --> 00:45:41,388.799769 So I think like if, you know, society was to adopt something, it should be bringing back thinking of the less fortunate on a day like this because this is such a terrible holiday if you are less fortunate. 611 00:45:41,738.800769 --> 00:45:42,678.799769 Yeah, well exactly. 612 00:45:42,698.799769 --> 00:46:11,878.800269 It literally has just become just gluttonous and debauchery that's, like, meaningless and, like, it's really sad and, obviously people are gonna have their opinions about, what religious meaning it should have, but with more meaningful holidays usually more, like, self reflection happens, you know? And then you think of the less fortunate, and yeah, which, yeah, with this holiday losing all of its meaning also goes, us trying to be better people. 613 00:46:13,428.800269 --> 00:46:18,548.800269 Yeah, and the other thing that kind of brings it states on is like, yeah, one soul can't give in, one soul saved. 614 00:46:18,928.800269 --> 00:46:24,998.799269 Which is like, again, like, that shouldn't, it's just so, because like, back then people really did starve. 615 00:46:24,998.800269 --> 00:46:29,223.700269 Like, in the United States, very, no one really, like, starving is not an actual fear. 616 00:46:29,593.800269 --> 00:46:30,363.800269 That is real. 617 00:46:30,363.800269 --> 00:46:41,33.800269 Now, whether you have what you want to eat or whatever, whatever is a different thing, but like starvation is not like a fear, but like, you know, they're like, there's these immigrants that would come came from starving and are still starving. 618 00:46:41,263.800269 --> 00:46:44,203.800269 And it's like, let's just give them a shortbread cookie. 619 00:46:44,463.800269 --> 00:46:50,813.800269 And I don't know, it just like made me really sad and also made me think because they would go around like praying or singing like songs. 620 00:46:51,13.800269 --> 00:46:55,803.800269 Like, is that what Christmas carolers are too? Is that the same thing? I don't know. 621 00:46:55,813.800269 --> 00:46:57,863.799269 Because if they are, that makes me also depressed. 622 00:46:57,863.799269 --> 00:46:57,923.700269 I don't know. 623 00:46:58,493.800269 --> 00:47:22,778.798769 Yeah, I mean, probably, I feel like now they seem like just, church people, yeah, that are happy and go lucky, but probably, I maybe like for money, like for the church, you know, right, just for like donations, right, which I think is like common, like as what it is now, which are, and also a \lot of churches then would like, feed people, yeah, so, the other thing that I have on here about the soul cakes. 624 00:47:23,138.798769 --> 00:47:41,613.860269 they would there is referred to going soul link and Children like I don't know obviously they would like sing songs and stuff too, but there's something Sweet about the fact that they would just give them something In exchange for them, praying for, a deceased loved one. 625 00:47:41,683.860269 --> 00:47:44,473.860269 Yeah, no, that is very, again, we can bring it back. 626 00:47:45,233.860269 --> 00:47:47,943.860269 Like, that form of currency is kind of swag. 627 00:47:48,353.859269 --> 00:47:50,263.859269 Yeah, no, definitely. 628 00:47:50,593.860269 --> 00:47:56,273.859269 Paying for prayer? Yeah, I mean, I don't know, talking about prayer as a form of currency sounds not good, but. 629 00:47:56,823.859269 --> 00:47:59,163.959269 I mean, I think the sentiment is beautiful. 630 00:47:59,164.059269 --> 00:47:59,193.959269 Yeah, yeah. 631 00:47:59,633.959269 --> 00:48:19,773.959269 And then, um, So, we already talked about how, like, people believe that ghosts came back to the earthly world, so, basically people were scared that if the ghost recognized them, they would like, follow them and stuff, so basically to be, to avoid being recognized by ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so the ghost would mistake them for fellow spirits. 632 00:48:19,973.959269 --> 00:48:22,463.959269 Dude, I've never understood that. 633 00:48:22,803.959269 --> 00:48:24,843.959269 I mean, I like, kinda, but like, who? No. 634 00:48:24,863.959269 --> 00:48:37,748.959269 I don't, what? Cause it doesn't like, then you're like, The spirit? Like, don't you think the spirit knows beyond your fleshly meat sack? And like, but anyways, and then the last thing I really have is vampires. 635 00:48:37,758.959269 --> 00:48:48,508.958269 Cause I also got, kind of got into the, like, where do some of like this, like, why do we, like, what are even vampires? Like, why did we come up with that? And basically it was a really good explanation for how disease spread. 636 00:48:49,818.958269 --> 00:48:51,958.959269 Is what people commonly believed, somehow. 637 00:48:52,558.959269 --> 00:48:56,103.959269 Cause like, Sakuna, what? I don't know. 638 00:48:56,103.959269 --> 00:49:01,793.959269 I mean, it kind of, I believe blood transferred things, so like, maybe vampires spread. 639 00:49:01,794.059269 --> 00:49:05,183.959269 But I don't know how they would think vampires spread, like, and not mice. 640 00:49:05,943.959269 --> 00:49:06,403.959269 And not mice. 641 00:49:07,143.958269 --> 00:49:09,553.959269 They're like, oh, the vampires are spreading the disease. 642 00:49:10,273.959269 --> 00:49:11,423.959269 Not the mice. 643 00:49:11,803.958269 --> 00:49:15,273.959269 So I'm not really sure, but you know, That's fun. 644 00:49:15,613.959269 --> 00:49:21,263.959269 I'm sure in like 200 years they're going to look back at us and be like, I can't believe, I don't know what. 645 00:49:21,403.959269 --> 00:49:21,713.959269 But. 646 00:49:21,913.959269 --> 00:49:22,753.959269 Yeah, definitely. 647 00:49:22,783.959269 --> 00:49:23,253.959269 Yeah. 648 00:49:24,148.959269 --> 00:49:29,608.958269 Alright, What was the most interesting thing you learned? Mmm. 649 00:49:30,268.958269 --> 00:49:40,858.959269 Hmm, hmm, hmm, Well, I've just never really sat down and thought about the complete abstraction. 650 00:49:41,208.959269 --> 00:49:42,338.959269 Of the holiday. 651 00:49:43,238.959269 --> 00:49:46,348.959269 And like how it's just completely meaningless now. 652 00:49:47,408.959269 --> 00:49:49,428.959269 Like, there's still pockets of... 653 00:49:49,928.959269 --> 00:49:53,258.959269 Meaning, but It's not taught to us as something of... 654 00:49:53,988.959269 --> 00:49:54,448.959269 Value. 655 00:49:54,528.958269 --> 00:49:55,368.958269 Yeah. 656 00:49:56,658.959269 --> 00:49:57,438.959269 So... 657 00:49:59,258.959269 --> 00:50:00,558.959269 That's kind of depressing. 658 00:50:01,88.959269 --> 00:50:01,558.959269 I don't know. 659 00:50:02,58.959269 --> 00:50:03,368.959269 I don't know. 660 00:50:03,378.959269 --> 00:50:06,658.959269 But, you know, like most holidays, it's very... 661 00:50:07,753.959269 --> 00:50:08,593.959269 Personal. 662 00:50:09,53.959269 --> 00:50:09,353.959269 Right. 663 00:50:09,353.959269 --> 00:50:10,293.859269 On how you want to. 664 00:50:12,263.959269 --> 00:50:13,483.959269 Celebrate it, so. 665 00:50:13,643.959269 --> 00:50:23,23.958269 Yeah, I was gonna say, for me, I think the most interesting thing is like, I don't know, it's just really interesting to think about like, how drastically things change over like one lifetime. 666 00:50:23,573.958269 --> 00:50:30,623.959269 And how like crazy that is, like, to think like in the 20s, like a hundred years ago, they were like, we can't be. 667 00:50:30,968.959269 --> 00:50:32,828.959269 This is just too much ruckus. 668 00:50:33,78.959269 --> 00:50:42,498.959269 And then, like, also to be thinking about, like, how, like, like, what is it like to be in the Roman times? And, like, you know, like, to really feel the beliefs and feel the thoughts and be like, this is real. 669 00:50:42,698.959269 --> 00:50:47,728.959269 And, like, also, like, to have, like, a pope just wakes up one day and is like, we're changing the date of the holiday. 670 00:50:49,108.958269 --> 00:50:54,203.959269 And people are like, yeah! Could you imagine having Halloween in, like, May? No. 671 00:50:54,983.959269 --> 00:50:55,143.959269 Right. 672 00:50:55,153.959269 --> 00:50:56,523.959269 Well, didn't he? Yeah. 673 00:50:56,573.959269 --> 00:50:58,833.959269 What the? Well, granted, they weren't celebrating, like, harvest. 674 00:50:58,843.959269 --> 00:50:59,413.959269 They were just celebrating saints. 675 00:50:59,413.959269 --> 00:51:01,503.959269 But, like, yeah. 676 00:51:01,673.959269 --> 00:51:03,333.959269 That would be upsetting. 677 00:51:03,443.959269 --> 00:51:03,993.959269 Exactly. 678 00:51:04,53.959269 --> 00:51:04,523.959269 So, I don't know. 679 00:51:04,523.959269 --> 00:51:05,213.958269 That's what I learned. 680 00:51:05,223.959269 --> 00:51:07,413.958269 But, overall, I'm excited for this Halloween. 681 00:51:07,723.959269 --> 00:51:09,473.958269 But anyways, thanks for tuning in. 682 00:51:09,503.960269 --> 00:51:12,523.959269 This has been Crysis with Kira and Isis. 683 00:51:12,523.959269 --> 00:51:13,393.959269 Happy Halloween. 684 00:51:13,393.959269 --> 00:51:13,883.959269 We love you. 685 00:51:13,883.959269 --> 00:51:15,613.959269 Happy Halloween.

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