1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to you. Stuff you should know from how Stuff 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Oh and middle d d welcome to 3 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: the podcast. Wow, I was giving the traditional Easter greeting, 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: I said, it isn't that how Mr Burns answered his phone? Yeah, 5 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: because that was what they did, like, you know when 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: the phone was first admitted, right, that was funny. I 7 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,639 Speaker 1: said that for Actually my first cell phone said oh 8 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: boy on it when it was super advanced and you 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: could like program something on your home screen so that 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: would flash when somebody was calling you. Yeah, that's how 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: I tech. Yeah at the time, a little sprint flobone 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: brick phone. Yeah. Uh well, like I was saying, Happy Easter, Chuck. 13 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: Do you do anything for Easter these days? Not really? Yeah, 14 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: I mean we we got like a bath, get a 15 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: traditional Easter bass. Yeah, yeah, we do that. I mean 16 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: it's not like we just don't observe it at all, 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: Like like me. Have you noticed though, that like a 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: lot more stores close on Easter now than they used to? 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: I have not noticed. That seems to have been a 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: recent occurrence, like the last couple of years. I have noticed. Yeah, 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: it's a it's weird. I think it's not off putting 22 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: unless you're like trying to buy something, but it's more 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: just like, wait, when did this start? That's my whole thing, Right, 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: when did this start? Like you didn't get the memo, 25 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: no one asked, you know, And usually, you know, there's 26 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: a national conversation about whether to close stores or not. 27 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: We'll do an episode on it sometimes, that kind of thing. 28 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: But this one just slipped past me. So Easter has 29 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: caught me by surprise, or at least closing the stores 30 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, I don't do anything I used to, 31 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: you know, do the whole spiel when you're a little kid. Yeah, 32 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: of course, growing up and then the sunrise services. It's 33 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: a young Baptist. We would Climbstone Mountain. It was very pretty. Actually, 34 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: climbing some out in the dark wasn't so much fun. 35 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: I was always like, it's kind of dangerous. Well, there 36 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: were flashlights and plenty of people around. That's a good 37 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: thing about being in the church. They would pick you 38 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: up and carry you if you broke your leg. That's 39 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: why there was only one set of footsteps. That's right. 40 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well, back when I was a kid, we 41 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: get the Easter basket with what one or two maybe 42 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: little presents in there I got the break into Electric 43 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: Boogaloo soundtrack on cassette. Did you really? Easter? Probably my 44 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: best Easter president of all time? Yeah. Yeah. And we 45 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: also observed the tradition of dressing up even more than 46 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: you would normally for Sunday Church, like your special Easter clothes, 47 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: like my pot on a tuxedo and like rub lobster 48 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: on it. No, it would usually be like, you know, 49 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: I got some new pinks of Spenders and well that's 50 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: actually like an old traditions of Spenders. Well no, but 51 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: like a new new Yeah, exactly, that's what I mean. 52 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: Did you realize that you were following like an ancient 53 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: Anglo tradition? Yeah, my mom taught me all about ancient 54 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: Anglow traditions. That was just Easter was just a little 55 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: more specials he would dress up a little more basically. Yeah, 56 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: I got you. You know, I got my new Uh Paisley, 57 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: did I have to bust out for Easter to go 58 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 1: with my mullet? Yeah? I'm not allowed to buy anything new, 59 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: but you makes me comb my hair before I'm allowed 60 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: to search for the Easter basket. Well that's nice. Uh, Well, 61 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: let's talk stuff. Yeah, I mean in researching this came 62 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: down to a couple of conclusions. One is that, like 63 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: everything else that we hold dear, it had its roots 64 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: and pagan rituals. And uh, two is the Easter, so 65 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: like it's all over the map, man, Like we could 66 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: do ten episodes on Easter, let's do it in different traditions, 67 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: and like when it falls a to who you are, 68 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: and it's just crazy in its variety. Agreed. Even like 69 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: when Jerry asked when she were stamish, she just wins Eastern. 70 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: We're like, who knows? Could be in March, could be 71 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: in April. The ecclesiastical Council knows because they're crunching the numbers. 72 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: Go ahead and drop the dope there, Okay, so um, 73 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: the dope is that Easter can conceivably fall any time 74 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: between March one, the the vernal equinox, and April, and 75 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: it follows after the Paschal moon, which is a full moon. 76 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: But if you think you're following along so far, prepared 77 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: to be thrown from the horse, because the Paschal full 78 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: moon isn't necessarily an actual full moon that you can see. Yeah, 79 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the astronomical full moon. No, it was 80 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: at one point in time based on astronomical lunar cycles, 81 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: but they have since been decoupled from what we currently understand, 82 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: and so now Easter supposedly falls on the first Sunday 83 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: after the Paschal moon, which is the first full moon 84 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: after the vernal equinox. That's right, but there may not 85 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: be a full moon anywhere in sight as far as 86 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: you can tell. But if you're a churchy type who's 87 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: in charge of crunching these numbers, you know when the 88 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: Paschal moon comes and goes and that's when MS will be. 89 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: Is that the same as the ecclesiastical moon? Is that 90 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: just another name for it? Yeah, the the Paschal moon 91 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: is a type of ecclesiastical moon, an ecclesiastical moon. Is 92 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: this church titious? Yeah, church based lunar cycle. Um that 93 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: in the Paschal moon in particular is the full moon 94 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: that comes after the vernal equinox. And Pascal comes from 95 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: the Greek for passover, so it's the Passover moon. And 96 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: that makes sense because Easter was originally tied to Passover. 97 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: It was first Sunday after Passover, right, Yeah. And then 98 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: in as part of the Gregorian calendar, Pope Gregory the 99 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: laid down the decree Ah but still it gets more 100 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: confusing because if you are Eastern Orthodox, you might follow 101 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: the Julianne Julianne julian calendar. It's the calendar that's slice 102 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: in a thin little ship's wrong with me calendar, and 103 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: that can be like a month later you'll be celebrating 104 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: Easter if you follow the Julianne calendar that was the 105 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: one that predated the Gregorian calendar. That's right, and there's 106 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: actually some really interesting stuff about those. We should do 107 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: one on calendar sometime. Oh man, it's so vast and weird. Yeah, 108 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: and I like to keep my calendar simple. Well yeah, 109 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: you know who doesn't. I mean, that's the point seven days, month, 110 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: twelve months, what else you need? Boom? You go further 111 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: out than that, it gets murky. Yeah. So again, we 112 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: have no idea when Easter falls this year, but we 113 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: can tell you for certain it will fall between March 114 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: one in April for all the reasons we just said 115 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: March twenty two, twenty first, which is the vernal equinox. 116 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: So there you go. All right, Um, So all of 117 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: this is to say that Easter, if you're not getting 118 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: the idea yet that we're using words like ecclesiastical and 119 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: a word that's derived from the Greek for Passover. Easter 120 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: is a very ancient tradition and custom in Christianity, but 121 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: it's not mentioned in the Bible. Um the whole crucifixion, death, 122 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: and resurrection of Jesus, which is what the Easter cello 123 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: Easter season is meant to commemory. It's all in there, 124 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: but they don't go and then now go forth and 125 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: celebrate this that's not in there, right, And that is 126 00:07:55,440 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: because it was co opted and absorbed by the Christian 127 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: Church from ancient even more ancient um pagan holidays and rituals. Well, 128 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: I think it initially was kind of like like they 129 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: celebrated it right around Passover. I think it was kind 130 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: of one of those things were like, hey, we've got 131 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,559 Speaker 1: this thing, we're commemorating, uh at about the same time 132 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: you're used to commemorating Passover. So I know you're born 133 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: Jewish and your most gonna be disappointed, but come over 134 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: to the Christian side. And then later on when it 135 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: spread out into Europe, it kind of took on all 136 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: of the other stuff as well. Yeah, but you know, 137 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: even biblical scholars and and most historians will agree that 138 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: it was originally a pagan festival. Uh. And the word 139 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: Easter is from Saxon. The Saxon in origin e A 140 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: s t r a Estra the goddess of Spring, and 141 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: sacrifices were made in her honor around the same time 142 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: as Passover, like you were saying, and so by the 143 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: eight tree Anglo Saxon's basically co opted this name to 144 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: uh coincide with the celebration of Christ resurrection. Yeah boom, 145 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: And there's there was this article in The Guardian about 146 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: the pagan roots of Easter um and the author I 147 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: don't remember her name, but she basically says, like, you 148 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: can take it even further back than that, to like 149 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: Egypt and Mesopotamia and the if you've seen um Zeitgeist, 150 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: which I realized is not the most credible movie on 151 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: the planet, but it's interesting and there are some interesting 152 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: conclusions in comparisons drawn between resurrection myths of you know, 153 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: the Egyptians and the Mespotamians and others, and you know, 154 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: the ones that celebrate Easter and the resurrection of Christ. 155 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: And this author makes the case that like you can 156 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: take the origins of Easter that far back even but 157 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: then as it kind of went along and along and 158 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: a long, it just picked up. Local traditions are absorbed 159 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: or folded in local traditions until we have this Easter 160 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: that we understand today, which includes the Easter Bunny. And 161 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: the Easter Bunny apparently is born out of that pagan 162 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: ritual um, the fernal equinox ritual spring ritual for how 163 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: did you pronounce her name? The goddess of fertility and 164 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: and renewal. Oh yeah, est her symbol was the hair, 165 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: which became the rabbit, I guess, which are two different things, 166 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: by the way, Yes they are. And so nowadays we 167 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: have the Easter Bunny, which is a magical bunny that 168 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: can lay eggs. Yeah, and the Germanic of course, the 169 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: Germans always have their finger and everything, you know, like Chris, 170 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: Christmas and all these holidays. Um, they always have their 171 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: finger and everything. What does that even mean? Um? It 172 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found 173 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: in the woods by changing it to a hair, and 174 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: it was still partially bird though, and the hair showed 175 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: its gratitude in return to the goddess by laying eggs 176 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: as gifts. So also, and like we said, there's while 177 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: people agree that it is pagan and origins, there are 178 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: many many stories and no one can settle on the 179 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: one saying no, it was ishtar right, But Star is 180 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: one of them that they think could have been the 181 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: original had had its roots there. Yeah. Now, if you're 182 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: a Christian um and you don't have like your hands 183 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: clamped to your ears and you're stomping your feet and 184 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: like go la la la really loud, right now, you're 185 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: probably saying, hold on, fellas, Yes, the Easter bunny not 186 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: Christian in origin. Um, the the Easter egg not necessarily 187 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: Christian in origin. Yes, there's a lot of pagan um 188 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: land rituals, natural nature rituals that are incorporated in But 189 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: if you take the whole thing back to the original 190 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: as far as Christianity goes, what the whole thing is 191 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: celebrating or observing is the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. 192 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: And so specific days over the Easter holiday have been 193 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: um set aside to commemorate this problem, this process that 194 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: took place about thirty c. Yeah, and even you know 195 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: historians that say now it's you know, pagan in origin 196 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: and it was maybe ishtar Um, they're not saying that 197 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: Christ wasn't a person who was crucified, and uh, they're 198 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: saying that they have. There were so many parallels that 199 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: all these things kind of became crunched together at one 200 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: point it was co opted. I'm trying to be respectful here, 201 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: you know, does that make sense? So like they're not 202 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:50,599 Speaker 1: saying that it doesn't exist, but it was. It was 203 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: a pattern, widespread pattern, and Christians like just kind of 204 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: absorbed it. Well, yeah, it's a celebration part in this 205 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: Guardian article again, and I think it's also in Zeitgeist. 206 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: You can take it back even further before Mesopotamians and 207 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: Egyptians ever existed and say that there's legends of the 208 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: sun so and dying and then being resurrected um, and 209 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: that you could connect those things to the sun as 210 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: u n dying as winner sets in and then being 211 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: resurrected in the spring, and connecting that with being crucified 212 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: on the cross to the Southern Cross constellation. So these 213 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: are possibly very very ancient conceptions. Yeah, and many and 214 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: there were many, many stories of of of important people 215 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: dying and being resurrected and some were born in December. Right, 216 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: So if we have offended you we apologize. We weren't 217 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: trying to. As a matter of fact, we just did 218 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: a lot of tap d answering if you ask me. Yeah, 219 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: I mean, it's history. Sure. So we'll get back to 220 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,599 Speaker 1: Easter in the Christian observance of Easter right after this. 221 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: So chuck where you're back. And like I said a 222 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: little while ago, Um, Easter in the Christian tradition commemorates 223 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: the life, the death, and the resurrection of Christ, right, 224 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: And so days are set aside to commemorate specific dates 225 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: and specific events in Christ's life, and they're actually believed, 226 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: at least by Christians and I think some historians as well, 227 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: to kind of closely resemble the days of the week 228 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: that these things happened. Yeah, I mean there's a whole 229 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: Easter season, you know. Yeah, So the Easter season is 230 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: technically forty six days long. And um, most people think, well, 231 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: Lent is the Easter season and it's forty days long. True, 232 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: But there are six Sundays in the Easter season, Easter 233 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: Sunday being the sixth one, and those are considered special 234 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: days where Lent doesn't apply. They exist outside of Lent 235 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: because they're meant to be celebratory masses. That's right, so 236 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: you technically don't have to observe your Lenten fast these days. Yeah, 237 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: and Lenten was the original Middle English um, which is 238 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: where lent came from. Meats spring. I thought it meant 239 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: I'm not eating chocolate right now, it might for some people. 240 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: Uh So let's talk about the season um Lent we 241 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: mentioned um six weeks. Well, let's back up a little bit. 242 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: Should we talk about Shrove Tuesday first? Yes, okay, you 243 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: might know it is fat Tuesday or Marty Gras, yeah, 244 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: which and I think fat Tuesday came from France when 245 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: they would eat all the fatty foods ahead of uh Lent. Right, 246 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: So basically that you know when you when you go 247 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: through Lent, what you what you're supposed to do is 248 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: sacrifice something or maybe many things, right, because you're commemorating 249 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: Jesus is fast forty days after being baptized and um, 250 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,239 Speaker 1: practically speaking, back in the day, I guess Thomas Aquinas 251 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: and some of his buds decided that when you are 252 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: fasting for Lent, you're you're abstaining from animals that your 253 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: food that is killed, so you're not eating chicken or 254 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: duck or pig, cow, anything that you killed to eat. 255 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: They decide fish too. Don't get me started on fish. Uh, 256 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: And they decided that, Oh after thinking about this and 257 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: talking about and discussing it and having counsels, and finally 258 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: they came to a decree that not only is the 259 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: food that you have to kill forbidden food during Lent, 260 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: the products from those food are as well. So basically 261 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: they're saying, like, if you're a if you're an observant Christian, 262 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: you are you go vegan for the forty six days 263 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: or forty days of Lents. Right. Many people, though, just 264 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: choose embolically too, Like you said, I'm going to give 265 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: up chocolate, just something that they love. I'm gonna make 266 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: a sacrifice. I'm gonna give it up for Lent. Right. 267 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,439 Speaker 1: But the point of Shrove Tuesday is this is the 268 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: last day before Lent. You don't want all this food 269 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: to go to waste, so you make a bunch of 270 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: stuff and you eat all of your supply and you 271 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: get fat, and then you go into the Lent season 272 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: of Lent fast. Right. Yeah, the UK, like, I've never 273 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: heard of Shrove Tuesday, but it's big in the UK 274 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: pancakes or the traditional meal because they contained fatty milk 275 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,239 Speaker 1: and eggs and things like that. Yeah, and eggs are 276 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: forbidden because they're product of those animals you kill well 277 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: and stuff that would go bad over the next forty days. 278 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: So it's also a way to not waste your food. 279 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: And uh, it's the Tuesday before ash Wednesday, um, which 280 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: is next. So ash Wednesday is the first day of 281 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: the Lenten Fast, That's right, and um, basically it it 282 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: You're you're going into this fast and you are, um, 283 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: you're just kind of becoming uber Christian at that moment, 284 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: like you're taking on like just just just super Christian 285 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,719 Speaker 1: persona and you're like it's very solemn. And to commemorate it, 286 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 1: you get a cross of ashes placed on your forehead 287 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: and the cross is made from the palm fronds from 288 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: last year's Palm Sunday service should be, which we'll talk 289 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: about later. But they save them, they burn them, and 290 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: they used the ash of these blessed fronds to put 291 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: crosses on the foreheads of the penitents the next Ash Wednesday. Yeah, 292 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 1: and the palm fronds are significant as the what they 293 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: used to um fan Jesus when he was resurrected. Correct, No, 294 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: when he wrote into Jerusalem on a donkey. And it 295 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: was when he wrote into Jerusalem triumphantly to take his 296 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: title as the King of Kings that they wave palm fronts. Yeah, 297 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: they're like Jesus is here. That's the impression I have 298 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: of the palm fronts. Um Man. I was really paying 299 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: attention in confirmation class. Um, so quickly, if you see someone, 300 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: if you're not very religious, if you see someone with 301 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: the ashes on their head, um, anytime in the spring, 302 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: don't say, hey, you've got something in your head. You 303 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: got a little uh yeah, don't do that. Yeah, because 304 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: it's there for a reason. Um. All right, where are 305 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: we now? We are at Lent. Yeah, so we're in 306 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: the middle of Lent. You're starting to think, wow, some 307 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: eggs would be great. I wish I had some shrove 308 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: cakes or anything made from an animal or animal itself. 309 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: Or you're not saying that. Maybe you're just fine with it. Yeah, 310 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who don't necessarily follow that 311 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: traditional vegan fast. Um, but we'll give up something for lent. 312 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: The chocolate candy. I always tried homework. It never worked. Um, 313 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: did you really. Yeah, Yeah, it's just jokingly, you know, 314 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'm gonna give up homework. Okay, I'm 315 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: never even growing up in the church, I never observed 316 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: Um maybe it was Baptist didn't observe it as much, 317 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: but I never observed Lent. It was big time Catholic, 318 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: especially with my family. It was like you gotta give 319 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: up something. So typically you'll give up chocolate, and you 320 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: give up chocolate and then when Easter Sunday comes along 321 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: and Len is over, yeah, you get chocolate all over 322 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: your face, which is actually following in a pretty old tradition, 323 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: because that's where Easter eggs came from the giving of 324 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: Easter eggs. It was a forbidden food that you couldn't 325 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: have during Lent. So then when Easter Sunday came, people 326 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: would give each other eggs as gifts, like, hey, enjoy 327 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,719 Speaker 1: the heck out of this egg because you have an 328 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: ad one in forty days. Yeah, and the egg obviously 329 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: also being a symbol of um birth, new life, new life, spring, 330 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: pagan vernal rituals. Perhaps um so now we are at 331 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: Palm Sunday, that's right. And then, like we said, this 332 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: commemorates Jesus triumphantly coming into Jerusalem to claim his title, 333 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: and people wave palms to welcome him in. And then 334 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: so people have palm fronds at Palm Sunday services, and 335 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: remember they hang on to those and burn them and 336 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: use them for the next Easter is ash Wednesday. So 337 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: this is the last Sunday before Easter. I have palm 338 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: fronds in my yard. You should sell them to some Christians. Well, 339 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: it's going to give them away. Oh I guess you 340 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: could do that too. But last year's palm fronds are 341 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: now hanging dead on my palm tree. Well it's they 342 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: don't have to be a year old. It's just the 343 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: ones that were used during the Palm Sunday service. And 344 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: we're blessed last year, so they probably wouldn't want my palms. 345 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: I don't want year old palms. You want like fresh 346 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: ones for Palm Sunday. Yeah, but you want them to 347 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: be old for the following Ash Wednesday a year later. 348 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: That's right. And holy water I don't think we mentioned, 349 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: is used, uh with the ashes to put on the forehead. 350 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, makes a little very important mostly like 351 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 1: a paste, charcoali paste. Okay, then we're at mondy Thursday. Yeah, 352 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: the wildly underrated Mandy Thursday. Um, why is it wildly underrated? 353 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: Because you never hear about it? It's true, you know, 354 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about it until we researched this. Yeah, 355 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: Monday spelling uh m a u n d y not 356 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: Monday Thursday, it'd be weird. Um. And a mond or 357 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: manned is a basket and they were used by fishermen 358 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: to put their fish in. So many many years ago 359 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: there was a fair held in Norwich or Norfolk today 360 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: and basically a big just sale where like a flea market, 361 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: and the fisherman would carry their what this flea market 362 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: associated with Easter's hilarious? Yeah it is people would sell 363 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: their wares, you know, or let's call it a not 364 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: a flea market, but what do you call it when 365 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: they have the farmer's market, like a farmer's market or 366 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: like a market. Yeah, but they were selling uff from 367 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: the farm. Yeah, but they also had like clothing and 368 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: stuff too, so it's a good point. Supermarket Okay, it's 369 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: a supermarket. Um. The fisherman obviously would put the fish 370 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: in their mom's and um that's basically where the name 371 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: came from. It's kind of that simple. Yeah, everybody would 372 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: just come together and um buy new clothes. You would 373 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: buy new clothes. And that's where the ancient tradition that 374 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: your mom had you follow with your pink suspenders. Something new. 375 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: The Easter bonnet, they believe, came from that too, new 376 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 1: little Easter dress or Easter shoes or something like that. 377 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: Having something new on Easter. Customarily you will buy that 378 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: on Mandy Thursday, or at the very least it came 379 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: out of the Mandy Thursday market from the old English, 380 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: that's right. And the other tradition we had was to 381 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: sneer at all the people who would show up for church, 382 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: who we never saw the rest of the year. Oh yeah, 383 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: we'd be like, oh, I remember that Eastern Christmas saw 384 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: him last Yeah, I saw him a few months ago. 385 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: There's whole sub soul of the subside of Christians that 386 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,479 Speaker 1: are like Easter Christmas Christians. That's right. They just go 387 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: for the two big ones. I remember them. So you judge, huh, 388 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: I did so wrong? I cast the out. Are we 389 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: a good Friday yet? Fine? Please tell me we're a 390 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: good Friday? Um that day. Back in the ancient times, 391 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: the first two centuries. Good and God we're sort of synonymous. 392 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: And I guess is that where the word good comes from. 393 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: I would guess as a descriptor of God. Yes, they 394 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: couldn't be bothered to keep that second. Oh, en, that's right. 395 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: But Good Friday is the commemoration of the crucifixion on 396 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: the Cross, the actually day of crucifixion, and um, it 397 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: is somber, but they want to observe the peace and 398 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 1: not necessarily the sadness. All right, it's not supposed to 399 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: be a dave morning. No, no, it's but it's still somber. 400 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: I don't know how you put it. I remember Good 401 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: Friday messes. I can't quite describe the tone of them. 402 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's not it's not you're not celebrating, but 403 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: you're also not. Um it's a little more serious though, 404 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: maybe yeah, okay, um. And it's just so interesting these 405 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 1: these days, these holy days during the Eastern season. You 406 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: learned so much because the whole thing is like this 407 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: happened this day, like on a Friday. They're pretty sure 408 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: that Christ was crucified on a Friday, because remember, the 409 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: Romans were in charge of actually executing him, and they 410 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: kept excellent records, so we have a pretty good idea 411 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: of all this stuff. Um. So you you just learned 412 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: so much like the Stations of the Cross, did you 413 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: guys do that? I don't think any Catholic church has 414 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: different places. They can be really elaborate, they can be 415 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: and staying glass, they can be just a little number 416 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: or something like that. It's the station of the Cross, 417 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 1: and it follows Christ's path while he's carrying the crucifix 418 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: and being tortured along the way up to cavalry. And um, 419 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: it's placed on the cross. And as you know, it's 420 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: all just just steeping, uh, this ancient tradition into you, 421 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 1: this young ankle kate, you know. But at the same time, 422 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: you know, if you're just paying attention, it's really interesting 423 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: historically as yeah. Um, and you learned it over and 424 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 1: over and over and over again because you hear the 425 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 1: same thing every Easter. Yeah. I think that's you know, 426 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: it's part of the ideas. You get it ingrained in 427 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: you so deeply. You know. Um, we should have just 428 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: called this former Baptist and former Catholic hang on by 429 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: the skin of their teeth. Well, let's keep everybody else 430 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: hanging and um, let's break before Easter. Huh yeah, alright, Chuck, 431 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: we're back. Let's get to the fun stuff. It's Easter, 432 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: that's right, Easter. So we said good Friday, isn't It's 433 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: not a day of morning, but it's a somber day. 434 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: Easter is the exact opposite of that. First of all, 435 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: we should say, yeah, it's Saturday. Off, Now it's Sunday, 436 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,199 Speaker 1: Easter Sunday, and it's a day of celebration. Yeah, a 437 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: lot of fun. Um. You in your family, you might 438 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,199 Speaker 1: have Easter egg hunts. I looked up the origin of 439 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: the hunt itself, and I couldn't find for sure, because 440 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: I don't think they know for sure. But there are 441 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: some historians who think they can trace it to Martin Luther, 442 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 1: the Protestant Christian reformer. He's supposedly the guy who invented 443 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. To wow, man, look at that got 444 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: a long legacy. Christmas tree and the Easter egg hunt? 445 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: How about that? Um? So East he supposedly definitely had 446 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: Easter egg hunts. Supposedly definitely um where he hid eggs, 447 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: men had eggs, and women and children would look for 448 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: the eggs. And they think it may be tied with 449 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: people looking and hunting for Jesus tomb um. But that 450 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: isn't verified because some you know, some of these traditions, 451 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: no one can trace back the exact origin. You know. Well, yeah, 452 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: but if it was Martin Luther, I mean that wasn't 453 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: too terribly long ago. Now that's a good point. You 454 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: mentioned eggs, uh, And we talked about eggs being a 455 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: symbol of newness and fertility and rebirth, and this goes 456 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 1: back to dyeing eggs. Goes back to ancient Egypt and 457 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: the Persians who would die eggs and exchange them with friends, 458 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: like you said, as a reminder of the resurrection. And 459 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: I guess, just to make a plain white or brown 460 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: egg look a little more fancy, they died him colorful. Yeah. 461 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: And so eggs are also customarily died red to to 462 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: symbolize the blood of Christ. They're also dyed green in 463 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: Germany and Austria. Yeah. I looked all over for this this. 464 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: The only reason I could find is that they're they're 465 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: meant to symbolize the bitter herbs that Christ was forced 466 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: to eat while he was on the cross. Interesting, pretty 467 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: pretty on collie, Huh. Yeah, But they I think in 468 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: Germany they still do that Thursdayday, Green Egg Day. I 469 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: should also give a shout out chuck to our slide 470 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: show on awesome Easter eggs. We'll definitely post that on 471 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: the podcast page. And scary Easter bunnies. Yeah, you had 472 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: a couple, look at easter ones. Will put those both 473 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: the good There are some scary easter bunnies out there. Um, 474 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: hot cross buns again, not a part of my Baptist upbringing. No, 475 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: did you guys have hot cross buns? No, that's pretty British. 476 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: And um, they had them in New Zealand. I've never 477 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: seen a reform in person until New Zealand. Yeah, yeah, 478 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: I haven't either. But yeah, apparently they're sweet buns. Yeah, 479 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: custom merrily baked and eaten and um, it's funny. Is 480 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: apparently is again an ancient pagan Anglo tradition to bake 481 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,239 Speaker 1: sweet buns as an offering to the gods around the 482 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: vernal equinox for this ring festival. And I guess the 483 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: Christian Church said, uh, let's let's stop doing that again 484 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: and again and it didn't take in. Finally, like put 485 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: a cross on there, Okay, we'll kill you. Put a 486 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: cross on, So they put across on and now you 487 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: have hot cross buns. Well, supposedly the cross was there before, 488 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: but it didn't symbolize that because they baked the cake 489 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: in the form of a bowl for Zeus and there 490 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: was a cross to represent the horns. Yeah, but again, 491 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: let's like, let's make some changes to that. And uh 492 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: so hot cross buns are still a thing. I've never 493 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: eaten one though I haven't either, But apparently they're sweet. 494 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: Oh are they? Well? Yeah, like they are they sticky buns? 495 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 1: I don't think, but I think they're sweet. Okay, we'll 496 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: go good, all right. Uh And I think what I 497 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: thought was pretty interesting with some of the weird um 498 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: traditions around the world. They're weird because they're different. Yeah. 499 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: I mean when I say weird, I just mean unusual. 500 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 1: To me. Here's a big dummy peculiar. Yeah, nothing apparently 501 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: is weird about any of this. Uh. In Bulgaria they 502 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: had a little thing called egg tapping, but they still 503 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 1: do um. And it's basically like the old pencil game 504 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: used to play in elementary school, the old stab your 505 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: buddy in the arm with a pencil. Nope, When you 506 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: would play the pencil popper game when you would try 507 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: and break the other guy's pencil and they would try 508 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: to break yours. It's basically what you do with eggs. 509 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: You take hardboiled eggs and you tap the other person's egg, 510 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: hoping to crack their egg but not your own. And 511 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: you keep doing this until you get your egg cracked, 512 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,719 Speaker 1: and then you're out. And the last person in Bulgaria 513 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: who has an uncracked egg is said to have, you know, 514 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: good good luck throughout the year prosperity. They get a 515 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: fifty gift card to long Horn Steaks. That's right. Um. 516 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: There's another cute Bulgarian tradition to chuck that where the grandmother, 517 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: while she's coloring eggs with the kids, will color one 518 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: red and have the kids come over and she rubs 519 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,479 Speaker 1: it on their cheeks in order to bestow you know, 520 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: health and robustness to them, like rosy cheeks. Yeah, and 521 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: like the cutest thing you've ever heard. It's adorable, especially 522 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: if they're wearing pink suspenders at the time. That's right, 523 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: And especially if the dye is made from a non 524 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: toxic let them work their teeth is immediately fall out. 525 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: That would be no good, uh. In Mexico they have 526 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: another egg game. And uh, the way I see it 527 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: is they empty the egg of the yolk and the 528 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: and the white. You know how you can poke the 529 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: little holes and either end of an egg and blow 530 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: it out. And then they put um, I guess confetti 531 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: in there and then they smash them on each other's heads. 532 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,239 Speaker 1: They blow the egg out and blow the confettian. Uh. 533 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: And I got one liner for everything you do. All right? 534 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: How about how about the US where we just have parades? Uh? Yeah, 535 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: I got nothing. You put me on the spot. Yeah, 536 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: parades here in the US and Atlantic City they've had 537 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: one for about a close to a hundred and fifty years. Now, 538 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: did you know that? No, I had no idea there's 539 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: an Easter parade. I'd want to see that. I know 540 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: that when I think about the New York one. There's 541 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: a New York Easter parade. Yeah. Um, I think Fifth 542 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: Avenue has an Easter parade. Oh yeah, yeah, I see that. 543 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: And Irving Berlin has a song called Easter Parade, and 544 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: of course the Big White House Easter roll. I knew 545 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: about this. I always thought it was just the Easter 546 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: egg hunt, though I didn't know about the Easter egg roll. 547 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: I think it's part of it where you rolling Easter 548 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: egg across the south flant of the White House. It's 549 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 1: kind of like track and field Day. No, that's the 550 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: egg toss. Well, the whole thing altogether. It's like a hunt. 551 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: There's like an egg roll, there's an egg toss. There's 552 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: celebrities around the USO tour that stopped by. It's like 553 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: field Day. George Clooney is there all right, given out 554 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: eggs and you get your commemorative egg do yeah. And 555 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: apparently it started out Congress had it um on the 556 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 1: Capitol and the President, well a specific President Rotherford B. 557 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: Hayes said no, this is the president's thing. Now we're 558 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: moving this to the White House, and then did yeah. 559 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: Announced just one of those things, sort of like the 560 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: sparing the turkey on Thanksgiving. This big press op is 561 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: what it is. Well, it's funny that you mentioned sparing 562 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: the turkey on Thanksgiving because there's this other tradition in 563 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 1: um in where is it, Haltan, Leicestershire, right in England, 564 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: and it's the opposite of sparing the turkey. So there's 565 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 1: a tradition in this little town that a wealthy woman 566 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,280 Speaker 1: was spared from being gored to death by a bull 567 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: when a hair ran across its path and I guess 568 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: distracted the bowl or something. So for some reason, to 569 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,799 Speaker 1: thank the hair, she deeded some of her land to 570 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: the local church and said, you can have this land, 571 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: but you have to make sure that all of the 572 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 1: parishioners and everyone in the town gets some hair pie 573 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 1: like pie made from one of these rabbit type things 574 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: that saved her life. That's the way to thank something 575 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: for saving your life. You and you're ancestors are gonna 576 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,839 Speaker 1: end up in a meat pie that we're gonna make 577 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: every year for everybody. Yeah. Four pounds of flour, two 578 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,799 Speaker 1: pounds of large two hairs, three pounds of onions, seven 579 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: pounds of potatoes and seasoning, and you have yourself a 580 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: deliciously disgusting hair pie. I think it sounds good. Yeah, 581 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 1: well I don't eat rabbit and stuff, so there or 582 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: meat pies. Really really, this takes a lot of boxes 583 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,800 Speaker 1: for me. You mean I tried um. I can't remember 584 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,399 Speaker 1: what it's called them. It was a type of meat 585 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 1: pie again in New Zealand, UM at McDonald's, and it 586 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: was like this, like cut up meat and gravy and 587 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: cheese like pop pie. Basically, it's what you call it. 588 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 1: It was so disgustingly good. Yeah, it tastes good though, Yeah, 589 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: but I felt in that McDonald's really bad about myself 590 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 1: with everybody. But it still tasted good. Do you know 591 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 1: what meat it was? Uh? They claimed beef. So it's 592 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: a beefy gravy, yes, with cheese in it. Yeah, so 593 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: it's delicious actually. Um. But then here's where it gets 594 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: really a little odd to me. To go along with 595 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: the hair pie, they have um, uh, something called the 596 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: bottle kicking, which is basically rugby with a beer kick. Yeah. 597 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 1: Three beer kigs, two of them are full of a 598 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,320 Speaker 1: gallon of beer each. This is part of that wealthy 599 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: lady who deeded the land's request that not only did 600 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: you have to serve a meat pie to everybody, you 601 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: also had to give them as much ale as they wanted. 602 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 1: So all this is commemorated in a the making of 603 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: a hair pie by the people of this little town. 604 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,320 Speaker 1: They carry it through the town up to St. Mark's 605 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,160 Speaker 1: I believe it's St. Mark St Michael's Church, and um, 606 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 1: the I guess the priest, the local priest cuts the 607 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 1: pie up, hands it out to the crowd that takes 608 00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,320 Speaker 1: some of that pie over to another place that's called 609 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,279 Speaker 1: hair Pie Bank, which is a not a bank, but 610 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: an embankment. It's like a procession. The ends there, and 611 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 1: that's where this bottle kicking match starts. Yeah, and it's 612 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: it's it's a couple of neighboring villages that basically battle 613 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 1: it out. And like we said, they're basically barrels of ale. 614 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,239 Speaker 1: Like I think you said to have ale, one does not. 615 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: And you know, there's all the ceremony that goes into 616 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 1: the actual starting of the match, and then when the 617 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: match starts, it's a game of sort of rugby your 618 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,839 Speaker 1: football if you're American, where you're trying, you know, you're 619 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: carrying this thing around, running with it, trying to get it, 620 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: kicking it, yeah, kicking it, running with it, doing whatever 621 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,759 Speaker 1: you can to get it, handing it off to your 622 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,800 Speaker 1: friends to uh to advance it forward with obstacles along 623 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 1: the way like fists. And this is another clear example 624 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 1: of Christianity co opting a pagan ritual because hair Pie 625 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:02,160 Speaker 1: Bank is an old pagan place of worse. And if 626 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: this whole thing doesn't smack of pagan tradition, like pagan 627 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: festival games. I don't know what does. Plus the chairman, 628 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: the guy who's running the bottle kicking competition, is called 629 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,319 Speaker 1: the Master of the Stow as t O w e oh. 630 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: I thought he was called the wicker man pretty much. Yeah, 631 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 1: all the started it's Stonehenge basically, but now it's an 632 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 1: inter tradition and the Master of the stow. Stow means 633 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:31,239 Speaker 1: a place of worship among Anglo pagan's, so they still 634 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,239 Speaker 1: even call him the Master of the Stow. It's been 635 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: dressed up that little, yeah, But they have a good 636 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: time and it's bizarre, and they they advanced the barrel 637 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: over to their the way the best I can see 638 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,280 Speaker 1: is that to their to like the line of their village. 639 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: The property line of their village is like the end zone, 640 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: I guess. Then they drink it right, well, the winners 641 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: drink it in front of the losers, but just to 642 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: kind of make them sore and rub it. If I 643 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: know my friends over there, there's plenty of beer aside 644 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,879 Speaker 1: from those two barrels right to go around. And then 645 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: the one sober person is in charge of collecting all 646 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,359 Speaker 1: of the palm fronds from palm Sunday and storing them 647 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:15,439 Speaker 1: until next year in that giant wicker man in my backyard. Well, 648 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 1: that's Easter, Chuck, that's Easter. If you want to know 649 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,320 Speaker 1: more about Easter, you can type in those that word 650 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: in the search part of how Stuff Works dot com. 651 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: And since I said that, it's time for a listener, ma'am, 652 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:32,840 Speaker 1: thank you Easter bunny. Boch boch. Remember that I'm gonna 653 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,799 Speaker 1: call this um a little more on tea. I got 654 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,720 Speaker 1: a couple of these actually in the coming weeks, because boy, 655 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 1: we've got some good feedback. People love their tea. Uh. 656 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,719 Speaker 1: Greetings from Kyoto fellows. I'm a longtime listener. Um. I 657 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,279 Speaker 1: actually started listening when I just moved to Japan and 658 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: didn't know anyone yet, so you guys kept me company. 659 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 1: It was really great to hear you talking about Macha 660 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,320 Speaker 1: on your latest podcast about tea, because I had no 661 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,800 Speaker 1: idea it was catching on state side here in Kyoto. 662 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,920 Speaker 1: Macha flavored. Every ng is given. There's even a drink 663 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:07,279 Speaker 1: made of Woolong tea and Macha liqueur um. Apparently, I 664 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 1: don't think she likes the look, war though she says 665 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,400 Speaker 1: I live down the street from where one of the 666 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,399 Speaker 1: three main schools of t CEREMONI used to be. Uh. 667 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:15,839 Speaker 1: And while I'm here, I thought i'd add my two 668 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 1: cents about pronouncing Japanese words. Um, they're basically just five 669 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,520 Speaker 1: foul sounds in Japanese. A is a long a like 670 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 1: ball rather than apple. I sounds like e. E sounds 671 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,920 Speaker 1: like oh, sounds like oh as in rainbow. You sounds 672 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,120 Speaker 1: like oh is in goo. And why is an a vowel? 673 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,360 Speaker 1: It will always be connected to another vowel. Ah for 674 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,440 Speaker 1: you to how about that? Okay? Uh? And she this 675 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 1: is Nikki. She's getting up for cherry blossom festival in Kyoto, 676 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 1: which I bet is gorgeous. And um she said, Josh 677 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: that if you ever venture out to Kyoto again, that 678 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,160 Speaker 1: she would love to let you know some things that 679 00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: you can do. And um, she says, I love the podcast. 680 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,120 Speaker 1: You can't wait to the next one, And that is 681 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:09,399 Speaker 1: Nicky Maller. Thanks a lot. Yeah, um, yeah, I can't 682 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,040 Speaker 1: wait to see the cherry blossoms there. Deec has got 683 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:16,120 Speaker 1: an amazing one too. Um. Yeah, it's beautiful, it's lovely trees. 684 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,919 Speaker 1: Uh if and Chuck, I gotta tell you it makes 685 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:24,759 Speaker 1: a lovely coffee. To Starbucks over in Okinawa had a 686 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 1: cherry blossom flavored coffee, which is this It's kind of 687 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,319 Speaker 1: a made up sweet flavor, but it is so it's 688 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,640 Speaker 1: not derived from the tree. I don't see how it 689 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,840 Speaker 1: could be interesting, but it has like it fits perfectly. 690 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,600 Speaker 1: You're like, yes, this is what an ideal cartoonist Japanese 691 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,120 Speaker 1: version of the taste of cherry bossom would be. It's 692 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 1: perfect um. 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