WEBVTT - Thanks, Easter Bunny! Bock Bock! 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to you. Stuff you should know from how Stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:14.920 Works dot com. Oh and middle d d welcome to 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.200 the podcast. Wow, I was giving the traditional Easter greeting, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:25.680 I said, it isn't that how Mr Burns answered his phone? Yeah, 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:27.760 because that was what they did, like, you know when 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.320 the phone was first admitted, right, that was funny. I 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.639 said that for Actually my first cell phone said oh 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.280 boy on it when it was super advanced and you 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.080 could like program something on your home screen so that 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.879 would flash when somebody was calling you. Yeah, that's how 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.320 I tech. Yeah at the time, a little sprint flobone 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:51.280 brick phone. Yeah. Uh well, like I was saying, Happy Easter, Chuck. 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.240 Do you do anything for Easter these days? Not really? Yeah, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.640 I mean we we got like a bath, get a 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.240 traditional Easter bass. Yeah, yeah, we do that. I mean 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.360 it's not like we just don't observe it at all, 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.800 Like like me. Have you noticed though, that like a 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.520 lot more stores close on Easter now than they used to? 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.640 I have not noticed. That seems to have been a 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:22.880 recent occurrence, like the last couple of years. I have noticed. Yeah, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:29.320 it's a it's weird. I think it's not off putting 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.640 unless you're like trying to buy something, but it's more 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.560 just like, wait, when did this start? That's my whole thing, Right, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.640 when did this start? Like you didn't get the memo, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.600 no one asked, you know, And usually, you know, there's 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.920 a national conversation about whether to close stores or not. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.440 We'll do an episode on it sometimes, that kind of thing. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.720 But this one just slipped past me. So Easter has 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.960 caught me by surprise, or at least closing the stores 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.120 on it. Yeah, I don't do anything I used to, 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.320 you know, do the whole spiel when you're a little kid. Yeah, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.880 of course, growing up and then the sunrise services. It's 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:06.560 a young Baptist. We would Climbstone Mountain. It was very pretty. Actually, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.000 climbing some out in the dark wasn't so much fun. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.320 I was always like, it's kind of dangerous. Well, there 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.079 were flashlights and plenty of people around. That's a good 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.799 thing about being in the church. They would pick you 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.560 up and carry you if you broke your leg. That's 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.680 why there was only one set of footsteps. That's right. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.320 Oh yeah, Well, back when I was a kid, we 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.920 get the Easter basket with what one or two maybe 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.720 little presents in there I got the break into Electric 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.040 Boogaloo soundtrack on cassette. Did you really? Easter? Probably my 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.520 best Easter president of all time? Yeah. Yeah. And we 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:45.080 also observed the tradition of dressing up even more than 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.240 you would normally for Sunday Church, like your special Easter clothes, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.480 like my pot on a tuxedo and like rub lobster 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.600 on it. No, it would usually be like, you know, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.680 I got some new pinks of Spenders and well that's 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.000 actually like an old traditions of Spenders. Well no, but 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.520 like a new new Yeah, exactly, that's what I mean. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.160 Did you realize that you were following like an ancient 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.560 Anglo tradition? Yeah, my mom taught me all about ancient 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.160 Anglow traditions. That was just Easter was just a little 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.680 more specials he would dress up a little more basically. Yeah, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.200 I got you. You know, I got my new Uh Paisley, 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.520 did I have to bust out for Easter to go 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.679 with my mullet? Yeah? I'm not allowed to buy anything new, 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.200 but you makes me comb my hair before I'm allowed 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.640 to search for the Easter basket. Well that's nice. Uh, Well, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.560 let's talk stuff. Yeah, I mean in researching this came 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.040 down to a couple of conclusions. One is that, like 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.760 everything else that we hold dear, it had its roots 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:50.480 and pagan rituals. And uh, two is the Easter, so 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.160 like it's all over the map, man, Like we could 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.360 do ten episodes on Easter, let's do it in different traditions, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.800 and like when it falls a to who you are, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.120 and it's just crazy in its variety. Agreed. Even like 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.000 when Jerry asked when she were stamish, she just wins Eastern. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.440 We're like, who knows? Could be in March, could be 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.680 in April. The ecclesiastical Council knows because they're crunching the numbers. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.800 Go ahead and drop the dope there, Okay, so um, 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:24.400 the dope is that Easter can conceivably fall any time 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:32.600 between March one, the the vernal equinox, and April, and 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.240 it follows after the Paschal moon, which is a full moon. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.960 But if you think you're following along so far, prepared 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.640 to be thrown from the horse, because the Paschal full 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:48.240 moon isn't necessarily an actual full moon that you can see. Yeah, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.520 it's not necessarily the astronomical full moon. No, it was 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.400 at one point in time based on astronomical lunar cycles, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.839 but they have since been decoupled from what we currently understand, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.840 and so now Easter supposedly falls on the first Sunday 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.160 after the Paschal moon, which is the first full moon 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.960 after the vernal equinox. That's right, but there may not 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.280 be a full moon anywhere in sight as far as 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.520 you can tell. But if you're a churchy type who's 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.480 in charge of crunching these numbers, you know when the 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.160 Paschal moon comes and goes and that's when MS will be. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.680 Is that the same as the ecclesiastical moon? Is that 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.560 just another name for it? Yeah, the the Paschal moon 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.080 is a type of ecclesiastical moon, an ecclesiastical moon. Is 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.880 this church titious? Yeah, church based lunar cycle. Um that 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.880 in the Paschal moon in particular is the full moon 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:45.560 that comes after the vernal equinox. And Pascal comes from 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.760 the Greek for passover, so it's the Passover moon. And 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.840 that makes sense because Easter was originally tied to Passover. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.200 It was first Sunday after Passover, right, Yeah. And then 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:01.359 in as part of the Gregorian calendar, Pope Gregory the 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.720 laid down the decree Ah but still it gets more 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.880 confusing because if you are Eastern Orthodox, you might follow 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:17.880 the Julianne Julianne julian calendar. It's the calendar that's slice 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.120 in a thin little ship's wrong with me calendar, and 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.440 that can be like a month later you'll be celebrating 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.599 Easter if you follow the Julianne calendar that was the 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.080 one that predated the Gregorian calendar. That's right, and there's 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.800 actually some really interesting stuff about those. We should do 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:40.720 one on calendar sometime. Oh man, it's so vast and weird. Yeah, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.240 and I like to keep my calendar simple. Well yeah, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.440 you know who doesn't. I mean, that's the point seven days, month, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.479 twelve months, what else you need? Boom? You go further 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:57.279 out than that, it gets murky. Yeah. So again, we 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.560 have no idea when Easter falls this year, but we 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.400 can tell you for certain it will fall between March 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.279 one in April for all the reasons we just said 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:12.120 March twenty two, twenty first, which is the vernal equinox. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.320 So there you go. All right, Um, So all of 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.720 this is to say that Easter, if you're not getting 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.920 the idea yet that we're using words like ecclesiastical and 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.000 a word that's derived from the Greek for Passover. Easter 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:34.320 is a very ancient tradition and custom in Christianity, but 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:40.880 it's not mentioned in the Bible. Um the whole crucifixion, death, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.400 and resurrection of Jesus, which is what the Easter cello 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.640 Easter season is meant to commemory. It's all in there, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.720 but they don't go and then now go forth and 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.400 celebrate this that's not in there, right, And that is 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:01.480 because it was co opted and absorbed by the Christian 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:08.440 Church from ancient even more ancient um pagan holidays and rituals. Well, 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.520 I think it initially was kind of like like they 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.680 celebrated it right around Passover. I think it was kind 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.320 of one of those things were like, hey, we've got 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.559 this thing, we're commemorating, uh at about the same time 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.640 you're used to commemorating Passover. So I know you're born 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.080 Jewish and your most gonna be disappointed, but come over 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.280 to the Christian side. And then later on when it 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.120 spread out into Europe, it kind of took on all 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.640 of the other stuff as well. Yeah, but you know, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.520 even biblical scholars and and most historians will agree that 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.480 it was originally a pagan festival. Uh. And the word 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:49.520 Easter is from Saxon. The Saxon in origin e A 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:54.160 s t r a Estra the goddess of Spring, and 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.240 sacrifices were made in her honor around the same time 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.600 as Passover, like you were saying, and so by the 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.800 eight tree Anglo Saxon's basically co opted this name to 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.679 uh coincide with the celebration of Christ resurrection. Yeah boom, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.600 And there's there was this article in The Guardian about 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.320 the pagan roots of Easter um and the author I 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.079 don't remember her name, but she basically says, like, you 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.000 can take it even further back than that, to like 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:27.120 Egypt and Mesopotamia and the if you've seen um Zeitgeist, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.400 which I realized is not the most credible movie on 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.000 the planet, but it's interesting and there are some interesting 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.679 conclusions in comparisons drawn between resurrection myths of you know, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.040 the Egyptians and the Mespotamians and others, and you know, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.920 the ones that celebrate Easter and the resurrection of Christ. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.640 And this author makes the case that like you can 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.520 take the origins of Easter that far back even but 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.800 then as it kind of went along and along and 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.160 a long, it just picked up. Local traditions are absorbed 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.480 or folded in local traditions until we have this Easter 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.320 that we understand today, which includes the Easter Bunny. And 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.319 the Easter Bunny apparently is born out of that pagan 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:15.679 ritual um, the fernal equinox ritual spring ritual for how 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.040 did you pronounce her name? The goddess of fertility and 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:28.600 and renewal. Oh yeah, est her symbol was the hair, 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.600 which became the rabbit, I guess, which are two different things, 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.560 by the way, Yes they are. And so nowadays we 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.720 have the Easter Bunny, which is a magical bunny that 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.000 can lay eggs. Yeah, and the Germanic of course, the 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.800 Germans always have their finger and everything, you know, like Chris, 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.320 Christmas and all these holidays. Um, they always have their 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.240 finger and everything. What does that even mean? Um? It 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.720 is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.480 in the woods by changing it to a hair, and 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.640 it was still partially bird though, and the hair showed 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.480 its gratitude in return to the goddess by laying eggs 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:09.200 as gifts. So also, and like we said, there's while 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.760 people agree that it is pagan and origins, there are 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.440 many many stories and no one can settle on the 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:21.200 one saying no, it was ishtar right, But Star is 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.120 one of them that they think could have been the 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.000 original had had its roots there. Yeah. Now, if you're 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.200 a Christian um and you don't have like your hands 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.600 clamped to your ears and you're stomping your feet and 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.840 like go la la la really loud, right now, you're 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.400 probably saying, hold on, fellas, Yes, the Easter bunny not 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.920 Christian in origin. Um, the the Easter egg not necessarily 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:48.160 Christian in origin. Yes, there's a lot of pagan um 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.680 land rituals, natural nature rituals that are incorporated in But 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.120 if you take the whole thing back to the original 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.559 as far as Christianity goes, what the whole thing is 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:06.000 celebrating or observing is the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.240 And so specific days over the Easter holiday have been 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:15.520 um set aside to commemorate this problem, this process that 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.320 took place about thirty c. Yeah, and even you know 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.880 historians that say now it's you know, pagan in origin 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.600 and it was maybe ishtar Um, they're not saying that 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:33.080 Christ wasn't a person who was crucified, and uh, they're 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.400 saying that they have. There were so many parallels that 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.720 all these things kind of became crunched together at one 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.679 point it was co opted. I'm trying to be respectful here, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.040 you know, does that make sense? So like they're not 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.599 saying that it doesn't exist, but it was. It was 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.520 a pattern, widespread pattern, and Christians like just kind of 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.480 absorbed it. Well, yeah, it's a celebration part in this 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.320 Guardian article again, and I think it's also in Zeitgeist. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.160 You can take it back even further before Mesopotamians and 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.800 Egyptians ever existed and say that there's legends of the 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:15.800 sun so and dying and then being resurrected um, and 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.200 that you could connect those things to the sun as 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.880 u n dying as winner sets in and then being 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.880 resurrected in the spring, and connecting that with being crucified 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.160 on the cross to the Southern Cross constellation. So these 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.400 are possibly very very ancient conceptions. Yeah, and many and 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.439 there were many, many stories of of of important people 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.880 dying and being resurrected and some were born in December. Right, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.400 So if we have offended you we apologize. We weren't 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.000 trying to. As a matter of fact, we just did 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.840 a lot of tap d answering if you ask me. Yeah, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.560 I mean, it's history. Sure. So we'll get back to 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.599 Easter in the Christian observance of Easter right after this. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.280 So chuck where you're back. And like I said a 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:20.400 little while ago, Um, Easter in the Christian tradition commemorates 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.200 the life, the death, and the resurrection of Christ, right, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.640 And so days are set aside to commemorate specific dates 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.240 and specific events in Christ's life, and they're actually believed, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.960 at least by Christians and I think some historians as well, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.240 to kind of closely resemble the days of the week 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.920 that these things happened. Yeah, I mean there's a whole 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.520 Easter season, you know. Yeah, So the Easter season is 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:50.560 technically forty six days long. And um, most people think, well, 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.800 Lent is the Easter season and it's forty days long. True, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.120 But there are six Sundays in the Easter season, Easter 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.400 Sunday being the sixth one, and those are considered special 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.720 days where Lent doesn't apply. They exist outside of Lent 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.200 because they're meant to be celebratory masses. That's right, so 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:12.960 you technically don't have to observe your Lenten fast these days. Yeah, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.640 and Lenten was the original Middle English um, which is 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.880 where lent came from. Meats spring. I thought it meant 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.880 I'm not eating chocolate right now, it might for some people. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.720 Uh So let's talk about the season um Lent we 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:31.680 mentioned um six weeks. Well, let's back up a little bit. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.560 Should we talk about Shrove Tuesday first? Yes, okay, you 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.600 might know it is fat Tuesday or Marty Gras, yeah, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.640 which and I think fat Tuesday came from France when 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:48.280 they would eat all the fatty foods ahead of uh Lent. Right, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.360 So basically that you know when you when you go 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.160 through Lent, what you what you're supposed to do is 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:58.160 sacrifice something or maybe many things, right, because you're commemorating 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:04.280 Jesus is fast forty days after being baptized and um, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.239 practically speaking, back in the day, I guess Thomas Aquinas 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.880 and some of his buds decided that when you are 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:16.280 fasting for Lent, you're you're abstaining from animals that your 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:22.120 food that is killed, so you're not eating chicken or 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:27.640 duck or pig, cow, anything that you killed to eat. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.800 They decide fish too. Don't get me started on fish. Uh, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.680 And they decided that, Oh after thinking about this and 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.760 talking about and discussing it and having counsels, and finally 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.680 they came to a decree that not only is the 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.600 food that you have to kill forbidden food during Lent, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.040 the products from those food are as well. So basically 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.440 they're saying, like, if you're a if you're an observant Christian, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.040 you are you go vegan for the forty six days 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.400 or forty days of Lents. Right. Many people, though, just 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.480 choose embolically too, Like you said, I'm going to give 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.560 up chocolate, just something that they love. I'm gonna make 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.919 a sacrifice. I'm gonna give it up for Lent. Right. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.439 But the point of Shrove Tuesday is this is the 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.040 last day before Lent. You don't want all this food 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.800 to go to waste, so you make a bunch of 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.639 stuff and you eat all of your supply and you 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.119 get fat, and then you go into the Lent season 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.920 of Lent fast. Right. Yeah, the UK, like, I've never 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.000 heard of Shrove Tuesday, but it's big in the UK 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:33.440 pancakes or the traditional meal because they contained fatty milk 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.239 and eggs and things like that. Yeah, and eggs are 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.080 forbidden because they're product of those animals you kill well 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.359 and stuff that would go bad over the next forty days. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.879 So it's also a way to not waste your food. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.680 And uh, it's the Tuesday before ash Wednesday, um, which 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:53.480 is next. So ash Wednesday is the first day of 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.359 the Lenten Fast, That's right, and um, basically it it 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.800 You're you're going into this fast and you are, um, 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.560 you're just kind of becoming uber Christian at that moment, 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.440 like you're taking on like just just just super Christian 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.719 persona and you're like it's very solemn. And to commemorate it, 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.880 you get a cross of ashes placed on your forehead 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.440 and the cross is made from the palm fronds from 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.000 last year's Palm Sunday service should be, which we'll talk 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.600 about later. But they save them, they burn them, and 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.560 they used the ash of these blessed fronds to put 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.360 crosses on the foreheads of the penitents the next Ash Wednesday. Yeah, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.880 and the palm fronds are significant as the what they 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:48.320 used to um fan Jesus when he was resurrected. Correct, No, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:54.280 when he wrote into Jerusalem on a donkey. And it 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.280 was when he wrote into Jerusalem triumphantly to take his 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.560 title as the King of Kings that they wave palm fronts. Yeah, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.679 they're like Jesus is here. That's the impression I have 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.320 of the palm fronts. Um Man. I was really paying 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:15.720 attention in confirmation class. Um, so quickly, if you see someone, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.600 if you're not very religious, if you see someone with 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.000 the ashes on their head, um, anytime in the spring, 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:23.679 don't say, hey, you've got something in your head. You 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.359 got a little uh yeah, don't do that. Yeah, because 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.359 it's there for a reason. Um. All right, where are 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.960 we now? We are at Lent. Yeah, so we're in 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.040 the middle of Lent. You're starting to think, wow, some 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.320 eggs would be great. I wish I had some shrove 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:43.399 cakes or anything made from an animal or animal itself. 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.720 Or you're not saying that. Maybe you're just fine with it. Yeah, 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.600 there's a lot of people who don't necessarily follow that 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:54.240 traditional vegan fast. Um, but we'll give up something for lent. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.960 The chocolate candy. I always tried homework. It never worked. Um, 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.520 did you really. Yeah, Yeah, it's just jokingly, you know, 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.680 I'd be like, I'm gonna give up homework. Okay, I'm 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.920 never even growing up in the church, I never observed 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.040 Um maybe it was Baptist didn't observe it as much, 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.440 but I never observed Lent. It was big time Catholic, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.000 especially with my family. It was like you gotta give 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.879 up something. So typically you'll give up chocolate, and you 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.600 give up chocolate and then when Easter Sunday comes along 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.200 and Len is over, yeah, you get chocolate all over 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:30.000 your face, which is actually following in a pretty old tradition, 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.679 because that's where Easter eggs came from the giving of 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.159 Easter eggs. It was a forbidden food that you couldn't 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.359 have during Lent. So then when Easter Sunday came, people 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.560 would give each other eggs as gifts, like, hey, enjoy 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.719 the heck out of this egg because you have an 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.120 ad one in forty days. Yeah, and the egg obviously 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:52.159 also being a symbol of um birth, new life, new life, spring, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:57.600 pagan vernal rituals. Perhaps um so now we are at 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.639 Palm Sunday, that's right. And then, like we said, this 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:05.439 commemorates Jesus triumphantly coming into Jerusalem to claim his title, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.920 and people wave palms to welcome him in. And then 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:13.200 so people have palm fronds at Palm Sunday services, and 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.879 remember they hang on to those and burn them and 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.840 use them for the next Easter is ash Wednesday. So 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.640 this is the last Sunday before Easter. I have palm 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:25.320 fronds in my yard. You should sell them to some Christians. Well, 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.359 it's going to give them away. Oh I guess you 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.960 could do that too. But last year's palm fronds are 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:35.480 now hanging dead on my palm tree. Well it's they 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.199 don't have to be a year old. It's just the 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.199 ones that were used during the Palm Sunday service. And 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.000 we're blessed last year, so they probably wouldn't want my palms. 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.680 I don't want year old palms. You want like fresh 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.560 ones for Palm Sunday. Yeah, but you want them to 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.359 be old for the following Ash Wednesday a year later. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.480 That's right. And holy water I don't think we mentioned, 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:59.320 is used, uh with the ashes to put on the forehead. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:02.960 Oh yeah, yeah, makes a little very important mostly like 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:07.640 a paste, charcoali paste. Okay, then we're at mondy Thursday. Yeah, 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:12.800 the wildly underrated Mandy Thursday. Um, why is it wildly underrated? 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:14.919 Because you never hear about it? It's true, you know, 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:18.400 I didn't know anything about it until we researched this. Yeah, 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.600 Monday spelling uh m a u n d y not 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:25.320 Monday Thursday, it'd be weird. Um. And a mond or 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.600 manned is a basket and they were used by fishermen 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:31.680 to put their fish in. So many many years ago 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:36.640 there was a fair held in Norwich or Norfolk today 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:40.280 and basically a big just sale where like a flea market, 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:44.119 and the fisherman would carry their what this flea market 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.480 associated with Easter's hilarious? Yeah it is people would sell 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.159 their wares, you know, or let's call it a not 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:53.000 a flea market, but what do you call it when 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:56.399 they have the farmer's market, like a farmer's market or 0:22:56.480 --> 0:23:00.359 like a market. Yeah, but they were selling uff from 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.639 the farm. Yeah, but they also had like clothing and 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:07.760 stuff too, so it's a good point. Supermarket Okay, it's 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:12.480 a supermarket. Um. The fisherman obviously would put the fish 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:17.440 in their mom's and um that's basically where the name 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.760 came from. It's kind of that simple. Yeah, everybody would 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:23.560 just come together and um buy new clothes. You would 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.359 buy new clothes. And that's where the ancient tradition that 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:30.240 your mom had you follow with your pink suspenders. Something new. 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.680 The Easter bonnet, they believe, came from that too, new 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:36.640 little Easter dress or Easter shoes or something like that. 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:40.879 Having something new on Easter. Customarily you will buy that 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:43.280 on Mandy Thursday, or at the very least it came 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.440 out of the Mandy Thursday market from the old English, 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:49.560 that's right. And the other tradition we had was to 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:51.680 sneer at all the people who would show up for church, 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.320 who we never saw the rest of the year. Oh yeah, 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:57.680 we'd be like, oh, I remember that Eastern Christmas saw 0:23:57.760 --> 0:23:59.640 him last Yeah, I saw him a few months ago. 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:02.520 There's whole sub soul of the subside of Christians that 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.479 are like Easter Christmas Christians. That's right. They just go 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:10.840 for the two big ones. I remember them. So you judge, huh, 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:16.760 I did so wrong? I cast the out. Are we 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:18.920 a good Friday yet? Fine? Please tell me we're a 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:23.760 good Friday? Um that day. Back in the ancient times, 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:27.080 the first two centuries. Good and God we're sort of synonymous. 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:29.800 And I guess is that where the word good comes from. 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:32.600 I would guess as a descriptor of God. Yes, they 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:36.200 couldn't be bothered to keep that second. Oh, en, that's right. 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:40.760 But Good Friday is the commemoration of the crucifixion on 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:45.359 the Cross, the actually day of crucifixion, and um, it 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.560 is somber, but they want to observe the peace and 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:51.920 not necessarily the sadness. All right, it's not supposed to 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:55.240 be a dave morning. No, no, it's but it's still somber. 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:57.120 I don't know how you put it. I remember Good 0:24:57.119 --> 0:24:59.840