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Do we make too much of Halloween? Jay Kirshner, Do we go
overboard? The candles, the candy anxiety? No? No, the decorations.
I feel like this year people went harder than they've that I've ever noticed
with all of the decorations, the yard decorations, the big giant skeletons and
the big it's fantastic. It's so cool. And especially love the lights.
They're like Christmas lights but orange or purple and green, and it's just everything's
so decorated. Some of like the really scary spooky stuff. There's one house
that it's super like zombie babies on a see saw that moves and it's kind
of just a little too creepy. But like the fun, the fun Halloween
stuff, like the little witches and the what's it called the Oogie Boogie.
It's like a big green blow up monster, but he seems like a friendly
monster. Yeah, the friendly monsters. Let's hear it for them, like
Casper shout out to friendly ghost. Yes, the magic of what's going on
today, there are a lot of creative folks, a lot of possibilities for
decorating pumpkins and that sort of stuff. I go back to the beginnings of
Halloween as a pagan tradition for sure, the precursor to what we have today.
When you talk about scary or what really happens in terms of rumor or
what has been passed down through the year through the centuries. The precursor to
Halloween kind of fascinating actually, when you dig into the history of what goes
on, what the tradition is today, and how different that is from what
the real Halloween All Hallows Eve was all about. But like a lot of
other things, where it started and where it ends up are two different things,
really two different things. So I'm looking around at some of the towns
around here and what they're doing, maybe what you're experiencing there in Ohio.
You are jay some cities and some towns, not only here in my neck
of the woods, but around the country, they have banned trick or treating,
especially if you are over the age of thirteen. Remember yesterday we were
asking how old was too old for children to go out and trick or treat?
And so, sure these towns are like, yep, definitely, But
what if what if there is a grown adult who has the mental capacity of
a five year old who wants to trick or treat because of a developmental situation,
then what are they still not a lot trick or treat even though they're
essentially a five year old. That's splitting years. But I suppose it's a
question, and I think it's hard to draw a line in the sand.
Okay, Yeah, everybody's different, they would size wise and maturity wise.
I'm looking at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jacksonville, Florida, some places in
Louisiana. There were places all over that have a ban or at least some
places they just don't allow it at all because of things that have happened.
I don't even want to talk about some of the horrible things over the past
fifteen or twenty years that have happened to candy. People that are so sick
they do just really sick stuff and spoil it for everybody else who wants to
have some fun. So I was talking about Halloween and how it all began
goes back to the sixteenth century. It has to do with Christianity, it
has to do with the Catholic Church more specifically, and it has to do
with the practices, if you will, of the Pagans. Whether you know
it or not, if you're a Christian or a Catholic, most of the
holidays that you celebrate were pagan holidays that the Church just came in and grabbed
and took over, if you will. As part of Roman paganism, they
would bring they bring in an apple tree and they'd have a festival. Sometimes.
This is where apple you know, when you bob for apples? Did
you ever do that? That's where this came from back in the Roman area.
Really, yeah, right, that's one of those things. Yes,
Yeah. When I was younger, I was at a friend's birthday slash Halloween
party and we were bobbing for apples, and it was one of those things
of like, as I was doing it, I just I didn't understand,
not that it's and understand the concept. I didn't understand the fun of it.
But maybe that's because I don't like to put my face in water and
I don't like the water. Those up my nose, but it just yeah,
it was not my cup of tea, but it was funny watching other
people do it. It's kind of like waterboarding in a manner. Yes,
that's a really great way to go there, like voluntarily doing it to yourself.
Voluntary waterboarding, that's what that's all about. The Celts are the ones
that really kind of they had a festival called I believe it's pronounced sam Hain
s a m h ai n recognizing the end of the harvest season. That's
really kind of what we started at that time back then. This is really
back early and before there were a lot of religious holidays, or at least
they're kind of religious holidays that we have today. The year ended, remember,
for only ten months in the year before the time of Julius Caesar and
Augustus Caesar, and so that's this goes back that far and it was all
it was just I look at how it became popular here in America back in
the nineteenth century, after the Salem witch trials and that sort of thing.
There were parades and parties. After World War One, there were the people
practiced what they call souling. That's I wish we had Mary O'Meley with us
today because she could get into the nitty gritty of the so called references to
the so called dead and what they brought to this. The all souls originally
wasn't scary. It was just, you know, okay, we're paying attention
to those people who have gone before us, and their spirits really around us.
Do you believe in spare? I have been to many spiritualist churches.
You ever been to a spiritualist church. I've not been to a spiritualist church,
but I do believe, strongly believe, yeah, that there are spirits
around us, that the people who are not whose bodies are no longer alive,
have not disappeared. The well, they choose whether they want to stick
around or they want to stick around. Some people are. That's the concept
of limbo that the Catholic Church. If you're in limbo, you haven't gone,
you haven't gone from this life to the next life. You're stuck in
the transition. And that was one of the early pagan mysteries of Halloween,
wondering, you know. And then they have these movies. Oh God,
some of this stuff is horrible. I think it is. Anyway, I
can't get my wrap myself around what there is about that that people enjoy.
But I know you like to go to this stuff, how about yeah?
I mean I have at an extent, though some of them just get a
little bit too much. Dracula's fangs. How about them? The zombies?
So Chucker loves those damn zombies and where they all came from. That was
part of sam Hayne, and that was all Hallow's Eve. All souls night
was last night, I think, and all souls day and night. That
goes back to the eighteen hundreds. I just I'm looking at some of the
traditions here. It used to be that people in Scotland would spend the day
reading poetry, telling jokes and singing. There was a lot of food to
honor the dead. That was in the fifteen hundreds, early sixteen hundreds.
And then bring us around to May of sixteen ninety three when the first witch
was burned in Salem. The Salem Witch Trials q torturing, killing those nineteen
women they were accused of and they burned them all on the same day.
So should we de emphasize the goblins and ghosts? Should we have? Are
a lot of things that now because of the pumpkins and eating pumpkin pie and
having all that candy. That sort of thing. Trick or treating started in
the nineteen twenties in our country and people going to door in the neighborhood,
door to door, and the trick or treat thing was kind of an American
tradition. And again I don't know how it actually relates to the early Christian
influence here, but there is a lot of it. Mirrors, mirror,
mirror on the wall. Who's the ugliest of the scariest of them all?
The wondering when the illumination of pumpkins started, you know, putting a candle
or something, the idea bringing light to the dark, mm hmm, and
all the different things it was that one to ward off the evil spirits,
the light in the dark. Yeah, yeah, so uh. And then
the psychics that that prevail on Hallowell. There are a lot of good psychics
around. People say, my friend are together is a psychic? I don't
know about that. Here's the list of the most popular Halloween costumes. You're
ready that awful television show Chucky. No, but it's a TV show now,
Oh, there's a TV show on USA. Yeah, it's awful.
Oh okay, so that's number ten. Clowns are number nine, Cowboys are
number eight. Let's see here, Fairies are number seven. Croella for whatever
the reason is number six. Spider Man and movie characters like Captain America.
You know, all those various characters. Those are kind of super heroes together,
right exactly. The top costume in Nashville is a rabbit. That's funny.
I like envisioning the Christmas story pink rabbit costume. Yeah, one of
the kids when I was at the carving, the pumpkin carving this weekend,
wore that smart that face from that horrible creature, the black face with the
white lips and stuff. All Right, I guess I've done. Let's turn
this out for a while in this portion of every hour. And I'm always
happy to talk about Adele. I just kind of like her energy, like
her music, kind of like the way she looks at life, or how
she's learned from her experiences in life. We can all get a lesson from
that, because we're all learning through our experience as much as anything else.
At her performance in one of her concerts, felt like she just had to
say hello to somebody who was very special in her life. And this is
the coolest thing. Actually, the coliseum in Caesar's Palace is where she has
stopped to spend her weekends singing to folks. And she looked down in the
audience and she saw the doctor who delivered her son, and she said to
him, I'm desperate for another. She stopped the middle of a song to
look back at this doctor who delivered her son back in twenty twelve. And
I can imagine what the doctor thought. And it was not clear to me
whether she knew he was there before she did it. She did it.
She had no idea he was there, because she's there for her residencies,
and she looks out into the crowd. She engages with the audience all over
the time, and she happened to see him and it just totally had taken
her aback that she stopped the song. And then she also got very emotional
because he delivered her baby and who is definitely now. He was born in
like twenty twelve, so he's a little bit older, but still young.
And she just got emotional to the point where she tried to start singing again
and she couldn't. She was like, okay, you guys all need to
sing for me, and she encouraged like this massive sing along with her audience.
Yeah, I'm actually a little emotional and by her myself thinking about the
birth of my children and who delivered my son and my daughter. How about
you when you you have the doctor that gave you mac in a sense gave
birth. Oh yeah's word her. She was fantastic. Yeah. Have you
seen her since you delivered your baby? No, she's in Nashville. I
moved away from Nashville. Yeah yeah, yeah. Anyway, so Adele talking
to this doctor has said, I'm desperate for another baby. Ye. Bonnie
Hell, she's always very basic. That's one of the things I like about
her. She's very so funny. Yeah, she's got it. Yeah she
does. She has it. She told the crowd. They somebody in the
crowd was looking for help choosing a baby name. And that went on too
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treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The question of the moment
has to do with superstitions. Are you superstitious, Jay? Yes? How
much? I will not walk under a ladder? Yeah, I will not
open an umbrella inside of the house. If I spill salts, I will
be throwing it over my shoulder. Yeah. If I break a mirror,
I will be burying it. Really, what about you, Doug. I
have had my moments when I didn't want to walk under a ladder or do
other things. They're silly superstitions, serious superstitions. Sometimes, people who are
really superstitious, the way they think affects their decisions on how they behave in
life. The people who you know, gamble and they blow into the dice,
right, stuff like that. There are a lot of different superstitions.
Some people believe that witches can fly. There are some people who put their
clothing on today inside out because they think and they walk backward instead of forward.
Listen, that's kind of all right. James Collins is in the main
studio now, our new studio in Dallas. What superstitions do you have?
I can't believe, you know, I have some, even little superstitions.
You know. So my girlfriend's a little like she practices witchcraft and all that
stuff. So I have a yeah, a little bit. Yeah. So
we kind of go through life thinking about all the stuff. Don't walk under
the ladders, throw the salt over the shoulder. Of gosh, there's one
that we had the other day. Oh gosh, I can't remember a lot
of what Jay said honestly, Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, spilling,
spilling salts. If you spilt salt, like when you're cooking something,
then you have to counteract it by like sweeping all the salt into a broom
and then like dumpingg in the trash. Make sure that you That just sounds
like cleaning actually, and I'm thinking about it, I said it out loud.
Yeah. The first commercial Halloween card was made in nineteen twenty. It
was I think that was when Hallmark began, wasn't it right after World War
One of them not mistaken well? And who is soulmarked to miss out on
any holidays? I know right now exactly. Yeah. Up in Vermont they
celebrate Cabbage Night, the night before Halloween. The tradition is all souls Night,
but Cabbage Night is something up there. And then I was, yeah,
cabbage can be wonderful to fix it the right way, the tradition or
whatever there is. In terms of believing in vampires, because there are according
to some real life vampires, there are some people who say witches exist,
warlocks exist, that sort of thing, And so I wonder whether you're just
putting on a dracula suit for it tonight or is there really some there is
a one of the religious tradition, not religions. Well, Paganism believed in
vampire ism, and the vampire supposedly, according to tradition, have some kind
of chemical attached to their teeth. This is this is kind of like who
wrote there was a was a bram Stoker? Yeah, wasn't it that did
the Dracula thing? And so that's what popularized drinking blood and so the blood
all over the there's a there's a I remember one friend that I had who
was of the female persuasion thought that the vampire was a sexy Some people do.
I mean Twilight series, a lot of about that Twilight. Yeah,
you don't think Edward from Twilight is a little hot? No? Who to
me? Are you trying to jay? I don't know. I didn't see
any of that stuff, but I know that there are people who believe metaphorically
and it's it's exciting to people. Some people get turned on by that stuff.
Others are scared. I would probably be I would not be happy.
There are some people that do drink, but we've all heard of image of
vampires. Those exist, Oh yeah, absolutely. And then there's the tradition
that started a long time ago of being of having somebody. This actually happens
in some places. They'll hire out a funeral home and they'll put a bunch
of people into a coffin, and you have to go around the funeral home
and decide who's dead and who's alive. How about that. That's coming serious.
That's a thing. That's a thing. Oh my god, people are
crazy, right, all right? Candy corn. We got candy corn,
if that seems to still be the favorite. Candy corn was first made in
nineteen hundred. We were talking about this yesterday in the Food, Farm and
Family department. Corn syrup, sugar, and there are a lot of other
little things like marshmallows that some people put into them and they come through a
tube in order to make that there's a mold that they put them in and
so now, but candy corn has been around for a long time. One
serving of candy corn contains one hundred and forty calories. Not to turn anybody
off to that stuff, right, So, if I were to pass along,
maybe this is the practical side. We've been talking about, the silly
side, because I think Halloween we ought to spend time on this instead of
going to the Middle East, and instead of talking about Trump and Biden and
stuff and poor Matthew Perry. This is probably as relevant as I can get
and feel good about this as the day progresses. So if you're going out
tonight, please dress your children in bright clothing, all right, and make
sure if the child has a mask, the mask should not block the vision
of the youngsters. It's better if you go out early and you stay in
groups. Certainly there should be adults with all, especially the younger children.
And for heaven's sakes, don't let your children run in and out of the
cars that are parked along the street. It's dangerous, as is exemplified by
this fourteen year old girl who is critically injured after being hit by a haunted
hay ride. The tractor pulling the girl hit this girl. This is down
to Rhode Island. It happened in Smithfield. She was working as an actor
at the farm. She got to run over by the tractor that had the
Hey wagon. Just I do the sun my farm. I used to do
it all the time. I don't do it anymore. I don't do Halloween.
I didn't do Halloween particularly, I don't like people on farm. Sometimes
the farms that do aggritourism, they go they Saturday and Sunday night or Friday
Saturday Sunday night. They have people out with shotguns shooting trying to scare people.
And that was kind of what was going on at this is a farm.
So fortunate he operated the tractor. When he realized there was a problem
going on behind him, he stopped. And so apparently this girl all Ash's
critical injured, is going to be okay. But this is part of it,
right, This is part of kids get so excited and they really do
just start across the street and a lot of drivers it's one of those things
that don't even go to sweel them and be fully aware that there are a
lot of people out that may not be thinking have flashlights. Everybody should have
a flashlight with them. Yeah, well, I think that the idea here
to have a flashlight's probably pretty practical. It used to be that we had
daylight savings time that started by this time, and so it was dark at
four thirty. That's not necessarily the case, but next week it will be,
but not this week. And unfortunately, the idea of eating stuff while
you're out and about, probably not a good idea and need to inspect it
unless it's something that's wrapped, and then you know, then you don't have
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com. All right, so this is not spooky, but it's kind of
interesting because there's so many fans of the boy bands that's still around. Jennifer
would be jumping for joy And how about you, Jay, I did enjoin
you because on the Block. Don't get me wrong. It was just slightly
before my time, or was it? So was Jennifer's few years. I
was. I was a little too young for it, even though I still
like some of the songs, and I mean, you still hear them and
you it's just classic. And I have a daughter sister, so yeah,
I'm a fan of Donnie Wahlberg and I like Blue Bloods. So the fact
that he's putting the band back together, I'm not sure they ever were apart.
They just do specific dates. Donny and Joey McIntyre and Danny Wood,
Jonathan and Jordan Knight New Kids on the Block are going to kick off a
summer tour at the Blossom Music Center in Kyahoga Falls, just on up the
street from where you are. Jay on the fourteenth of June, and then
they're going to do forty dates around the country, Phoenix, Dallas, Philly.
They're going to the same place where Farm Aid took place this year in
Noblesville, Indiana as well. So what they're doing is the I'm sure the
nineties music, right, that's what they're Oh, they're going to do Who's
stuff? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure they have some new
things. But DJ Jazzy Jeff Paula Abdul joining, it's going to be a
lot of fun. Who's DJ Jazzy Jeff? Do I stick my foot in
my mouth with that question? He was big with Will Smith back in the
early nineties. It was also on The Freshman Rhythm. Yeah, so he
was. He was in that movie, in that TV show. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, he was Will's friend Jazz. Oh, okay, that's
DJ Jazzy Jeff. Which came first the name or his name associated was he
Jazzy on TV? Then he became Jazzy Jeff or is he Jazz Jeff?
It was Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff first when they got the Freshmans of
bel Air. Okay, got it all right. Meanwhile, back to New
Kids, on the Block very nostalgic. The It's interesting to see the sorts
of things they have. Do they ever sing songs that aren't theirs? Are
they? They kind of group that pulls from other stuff as well, that
people like that they know on these reunion tours. I would think so,
because I've never been personally, I've never been to a concert where somebody didn't
cover at least one song for somebody else. Yeah, all right, tickets
for the Magic Summer Tour of New Kids on the Block with a fan club
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