Speaker 1: Hey guys, Hey guys, welcome to episode number forty eight
of A Strange Thing podcast. I'm Mike and I'm Houstin
and we're coming to you live from the Strangers. So
that was beautiful. That was good. Kind of Greggorian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know if we need to record anything. Now,
let's just keep that.
Speaker 1: Just cut it, put it out there, and that's a wrap.
Speaker 2: I think of all the people we'd get to listen
to us if we did that every time we recorded
a podcast Strangers Old, which would only be once every
what three weeks? Yeah, right, Yeah, we're kind of hit
or miss, but that's okay. We're hacks. That's what hacks do.
Speaker 1: Hackers.
Speaker 2: We hack it when we can.
Speaker 1: Mack it. I don't know that means sounds weird though.
Speaker 2: Make it, but make doesn't rume with hacks. So I said,
mack it. Don't think too hard. I won't do It's
a sophisticated type of humor.
Speaker 1: Well, what are we talking about?
Speaker 2: So we are going to talk about because it is
that time of year. It is past the viral equinox,
it is the time of the full moon, which equals.
Speaker 1: How crazy is it that pollen starts flying every year
around this time and plants start growing. But that's what
we're going to talk about. Biology and and plants.
Speaker 2: I see fertility and spring.
Speaker 1: Is gardening basics.
Speaker 2: I thought we were going to talk about, you know,
Easter traditions and strange things around Easter.
Speaker 1: I could do that too.
Speaker 2: I guess pollen is a strange thing around Easter. But
actually we're talking everything is going to be themed around.
Speaker 1: Easter and some of the crazy traditions. Yeah, different cultures
and families have around this.
Speaker 2: We're not going to go too crazy because we're hacks hackers,
you know, and we'll do what we can do with
our limited knowledge that we have.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, so how.
Speaker 2: Do we want to kick this off? Well, let's do
first let's talk about traditional Easter. What is it?
Speaker 1: Pagan all of it? No, the traditional one, like the
not the historical one and people, Oh yeah right, us.
Speaker 2: Here now in this room. What is Easter for us?
Speaker 1: Easter celebrates the day that our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ has risen again from the dead.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, okay, that is the Christian view, especially in
the Americas. Yes, yes, Easter has a long history that
is a little broader than that. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you did.
Speaker 2: I figured did you know before we decided that we
were going to talk about this on this particular podcast?
What did you figure that out? After we said, hey,
let's talk about strange things you do in Eastern.
Speaker 1: Well, we already talked about Christmas being pagan, yeah, and Halloween.
Speaker 2: So I just figured, well, okay, let's be fair, they're
not necessarily pagan, but there are pagan origins that were
included into the more modern Christian party with Pagans. I
think it's yeah, kind of you boil it down. I
guess it's kind of like truly what it is, or
maybe not party with them, but they want to whip
with sticks. They want to bond with them. Yea, what
is it with whipping? Well we'll get to that. Yeah, okay, okay,
traditional Easter in Christian traditions equals what what are some
of the basic kind of traditions that you and probably
I were raised with?
Speaker 1: So tomorrow, as of when we're recording this is Good Friday. Yes,
and that is kind of the way that Christians remember
Jesus dying on the cross, which I.
Speaker 2: You know, if you take a look at because you
know what's gonna happen. You can call it good Friday,
but I've always been confused by that word. It should
be horrible murder Friday.
Speaker 1: We could sign like a petition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which turns out later to be good because it
says that God can use all things for good. But
you don't know that at the beginning of the story
unless you've already somebody's already given you the spoiler.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got today, so we can call it good.
Speaker 1: Okay, tomorrow's a day that we call it good Friday. Yes,
And that's just so remembering the day that Jesus died
on the Cross. Yeah, he was killed and put into
a tomb. Yeah, three days go by to Sunday morning,
and there's a bunny that's snuck into your house in
the middle of the night and pooped out eggs into
a magical basket full of cheap plastic fluff.
Speaker 2: You're so new age man, Yeah, kind of. You're one
of those new age Christians, aren't you.
Speaker 1: Some people call it zombie Jesus Day Jesus Day, but
the main things that we celebrate, you know, Jesus coming
back from the grave, traditions that most people have are
hiding Easter eggs, coloring Easter eggs, a basket from a
hollow giant chocolate bunnies, Yeah, hollow giant chocolate bunnies. Peeps, peeps, ye,
jelly beans, Easter egg hunts, little maltballs that looked like
robin eggs. Yeah, those were good. And then maybe like
some knick knacks, like a flashlight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, might a little goody goody thing. It's a little
more practical.
Speaker 1: I got my kids baseball like spring stuff because now
we're celebrating spring is I think, really what it comes
down to. But we got like baseball bat and mits
and balls and swimsuits and stuff to start our summer,
our fun, warm season. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't know about you, but when I was little,
the particular Christian denomination that I was raised in, which
they said was non denominational, but anyway, they were a
non denominational denomination. The way they celebrated Easter was to
not officially recognize Easter because they would say that, no,
you can't celebrate Easter because it has pagan origins. Okay,
we would celebrate Easter without Jesus by doing pagan rituals.
We would make it legit we would make Easter egg
and we would go out and have Easter egg hunts,
and we would don't do all that kind of stuff,
get the baskets full of chocolates. But Jesus wasn't a
part of it because you couldn't do that because that
was pagan. So you just had to separate pagan from
any kind of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Just go full pagan for a day. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, I remember going to church and
you never had a sermon about Jesus dying on the
cross on Easter and raising from the dead, because that
would be like celebrating Easter.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: I know there's upside.
Speaker 1: There's another ritual people fall into for Easter. What so
one day a year they go to Mass or church.
Speaker 2: Well that is yeah, Well it's.
Speaker 1: Like you gotta make it. I'm a proud you got to.
Speaker 2: Do that one thing. If I do that one thing,
that I'm good. I get it in there. I get
to go to heaven.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like two times a year. I got to
go to church Christmas and Easter and the funerals and
that I'm in. Man, you got the magic ticket.
Speaker 1: I think it's not even that they're trying to get
into heaven or something. They're just trying to make their
mom happy. That could be because Mom's like.
Speaker 3: I just would be it would just be so sweet
to see all my little ghettos in the pew weekend
and really been thinking all my friends will think, boy,
I must have a good family because we're all in
church together and like those losers.
Speaker 1: And they're all wearing like like a light blue and
white like plaid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, white blue, like checkered,
maybe some yellow and little and there pastel is pastel colors, Yes,
get to wear that. Easter is definitely a time of
the year to celebrate your pastels.
Speaker 2: Definitely. You know your mom and I when we got married,
our wedding had pastel colors.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Well anyway, okay, back back, come back up. Okay, we're
on a bunny trail.
Speaker 1: On a bunny trip.
Speaker 2: We went to the rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: It comes pet tail.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, isn't it weird that the things that
we do for Easter and the things we do in church,
possibly if you're a church person, is more about the
presentation of yourself looking like you're a good religious or
Christian person on Easter than actually what you're actually trying
to remember about what Easter really is.
Speaker 1: It is family pictures and they're all suited up.
Speaker 2: I mean, because I think about Easter's pass. You know,
it's kind of like Christmas past. You know, if you
had the ghosts that would come and take you back
to Easter's pass, I don't know if I really would
have much Jesus in my easters.
Speaker 1: The ghost of Easter's past is the bunny from Donnie
Darker O that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a scary bunny.
Speaker 1: Why that's stupid bunnies. He's one scary mother fluff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not a very funny bunny. Oh no, unlike
a playboy buddy. I guess they're not funny. They're a
honey buddy.
Speaker 1: Honey going boing. Okay, yeah, goop pop them on the head.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, that was almost too much. That was
just a hair too much. Nice.
Speaker 1: Oh got me, got you there.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's get back to what we're going to
talk about, which is strange Easter traditions. There are strange
things about Easter, and you know, we can just go
wherever we want with this because it's kind of a
fun topic. It is now I want to I want
to say it front. I like the idea of what
Jesus did and raising from the dead and what that
means for me. So I'm not trying to demean that
in any way because I think that's very important. But
I think there's a lot of crap we put on
the idea of Easter that should be made fun of.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, like you know, little fluffy mammals that
lay eggs.
Speaker 2: You know where that comes from. Okay, maybe not the
original Easter bunny idea, because there's always been fertility cut
type of stuff around hares and rabbits, right, but did
you know that the Germans had a tradition called.
Speaker 1: The ostar housa, So, yeah, you need that one because
I googled.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I knew that because of German ost house.
But anyway, they brought that tradition with them to America.
And it's funny because it's about this little rabbit that
ran around and laid eggs in.
Speaker 1: Like his own little nest.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and people would make a nest outside their
house so that they could tempt the rabbit to come
and leave them. These old eggs.
Speaker 1: Would leave me a little crackery, a little egg in
my nest.
Speaker 2: I want the colorful, little poopy egg.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's an interesting thing, and that's a strange deal. Yeah,
that's really strange.
Speaker 1: I think we should change the easter bunny to a
mammal that actually does eggs. Do you know any mammals
that lay eggs?
Speaker 2: A platypuss?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: Huh the easter platypus wouldn't be so much cooler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just like squeak, squawking around.
Speaker 2: Mister plus.
Speaker 1: Can too do the song.
Speaker 2: I think that he is such a woose.
Speaker 1: All right, did you know there's other mammals that legs?
It's not a dog.
Speaker 2: No, dogs on't leggs.
Speaker 1: What if you ask my wife, she would tell you chickens.
Speaker 2: Chickens aren't man.
Speaker 1: And then her next guest would be a snake. She
did that today.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: If I asked her this question, she wasn't thinking. She
was just not paying attention with those same But they're
called a kidness.
Speaker 2: The kidness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like little kidd in me. I'm not a kid,
are you just a kidnas? But they're a little tiny
like I don't know what little tiny but they're little
like anteaters mixed with like a hedgehog or like a porcupine.
Speaker 2: Kind of like a ramadillo.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, like a hedgehog or a
porky pine okay, mixed with an ant eater. Okay, so
they got like a weird little beaky nose spikys everywhere.
Speaker 2: That's kind of cute.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't much rather see it. There's a platypus, a
pie plust of pussies. Did you know that they are
venomous or they have like a gland that's venomous.
Speaker 2: On their venomous gland Where's it located.
Speaker 1: On their leg? Kind of where like a douke claw
would be on a dog.
Speaker 2: Interesting in so they can like poke you with their
duke claw venomous.
Speaker 1: They're kind of just like superhero animals if you think
about it. They are weird. They're kind of like a
duck and a beaver muskrat and as some kind of weird,
venom venomous duke law creature. Yeah, yeah, I like them.
I don't know why don't. There's not like myths about
It's like it's like.
Speaker 2: Everything went wrong with this. If you believed in evolution,
then this evolutionary creature was like the product of way
too many reproductive meals. I mean, I don't know what
the mother was, but she had a lot of input input.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so now we know daily fact about mammals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So back to Easter. Okay. Easter has been
celebrated for a long time. Yes, right, so let's talk
a little bit about Easter and its older cousin, which
is Passover. Okay, because Passover is kind of the predecessor
to Easter. Yeah, I think it could go further back
than that, though, well could, but I mean, Passover goes
back pretty far. It's it's the story of the Exodus
right from Egypt, when the Israelites were in captivity and
Egypt and then they were saved by something terrible that
happened to the Egyptians, which is the Death Angel came
over and killed all the firstborn children unless they had
blood on their mantle over their doors. Yeah, and so
the next day, when all the firstborn males were discovered dead,
then that's when the Pharaoh let the Israelites leave Egypt.
Speaker 1: In the Exodus, when Cameron was in Egypt. Let my
Cameron go, go, yes, that.
Speaker 2: We're being what does parrots say, turkey quirky? Yeah, that
was pretty quirky. But anyway, okay, back to you our
non quirk that's not quirk here, No quirking off, no
quirking around here. So they come out and then Israel
has celebrated that miraculous exodus in what they call the
Passover because if they put the blood of the lamb
over their door post, then the death angel would pass
over them. That's the name passover, right. Passover traditionally was
always celebrated on the first full moon after the vernal equinox,
which is the spring equinox.
Speaker 1: Which is kind of well to me, it's the opposite
of Halloween or the winter solstice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a different time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: At that same time, all over the world, there were
all kinds of pagan traditions about fertility and spring. There
were goddesses and all kinds of stuff that had you know,
fertility rights.
Speaker 1: Yeah, intimate moments and.
Speaker 2: You know, naturally so because it was all about after death,
after winter, then new life would spring.
Speaker 1: Fourth people are starting to get that vitamin D.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so you would have things would start turning green,
and you would have babies, you know, baby chickens and
baby squirrels of honey rabbits. Plants would start to get
you know, shoots going up and flowers would fall and
all that kind of stuff. Paul and allergies would take off,
and cats and dogs living together. That's so it makes
sense that at that same time a year where you
have those natural kinds of things, that you would celebrate
that when you were saved from slavery from Egypt in
that same kind of time frame, and you have this
new life coming out of bondage, that that makes sense.
And so the Passover was like something that's been celebrated
for thousands of years. And that is the scene that
you read about in the biblical narrative about Jesus coming
to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover because he was a Jew. Yes, yeah,
and then he in Christian tradition, becomes the sacrificial lamb
whose blood saves you and allows God's wrath to pass
over you. Yeah. So I mean, we're connecting these dots here.
So that's why he passover as the older cousin. Because
they follow they connect and at least in the Christian mindset, right.
Christians celebrate Jesus raising from the dead. Jews celebrate the
freedom from Egypt, and they have, you know, particular things
that they do. They have a sadar dinner and there
are different spots on the plate of the satar that
have different meanings for each thing. And it's really cool
if you get into it. I mean, I'd encourage anybody
to get in there, and even if you don't have
to believe any of it, but the symbolism is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, symbolism.
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for a good metaphor symbolism. Yeah, I
love that. Then at the same time, you have all
these pagan traditions and rituals going on which are about
sex usually yeah, and fertility and procreation.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna lie. I got a coworker. He's Hungarian. Yep,
his name is Attila the Hungarian.
Speaker 2: Attila Hungarian.
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned him probably.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a cool guy, sounds like a nice guy.
Speaker 1: But he told me today because we're talking about this,
so I asked him, you know, what are some weird
Hungarian traditions? And I had googled a little easter. Yeah,
Hungarian Eastern traditions, and their Easter sounds so much more
fun than ours because of it's like spring break. Man,
there's wet t shirt contests. Yeah, in Hungry Hungry it's
make me hungry. Yeah, I don't know if we want
to go into this stuff right now, but no, we
can do whatever we want to me. It sounds it's
you know, I asked him. So it sounds like basically
they celebrate Easter kind of on Sunday and then on
that Monday. And it's probably different, you know in little
areas or whatever, but they kind of wake up and
just do like an all day thing where for some
reason the boys are supposed to dump buckets of water
on the girls.
Speaker 2: And that's in Hungry because I know they do that
in other places, like in Poland. They call this this
practice snigs dingus. No, it's more like sniegels dingles, small
gus process, small girls pros dingles. Yeah, and it's it
means wet Monday, Wow, wet Monday, Okay cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's very similar things sounding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they go around and they show water on people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is basically as far as my coworker
and I were talking in Hungary it's like kind of
a way to like mingle, you know, like girl and
talk to each other. And you know, guy just picturing
all those sexy college age Hungarian women getting buckets of
water on their spring break shirts.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I don't know if that's what it is,
because I actually watched videos of this of this practice.
Well no, some of them, you know, they're walking down
the street and they get a spucking full of water
dump on them or squirt guns or whatever. But kids
are running around squirting each other with squirt guns and
guys are like hooking up hoses and they're having like
squirting content. See who has the biggest hose and they're
shooting each other with it.
Speaker 1: Yep, exactly. So yeah, and I was being kind of facetious.
In Hungary, apparently it's called.
Speaker 4: Lutches luck lash, look a little looks slash, look slash,
look locos, local.
Speaker 1: Lash, local lash, look alash, local lash.
Speaker 2: I don't know, local lash.
Speaker 1: And it basically like that means like get like wet,
he said. It would basically be the same thing as
like sprinkling your like water in your yard. Yeah, it's
like the same translation, I guess. But anyway, they do
this whole day thing.
Speaker 2: So why why, I don't know why, Okay.
Speaker 1: But they do this whole day thing where they they're
splashing water on everybody, and like the older people kind
of like sit on their porch and watch the kids. Yeah,
and then it kind.
Speaker 2: Of it could be Okay, I just had the thought.
You know, they say April showers bring mayflowers, so it
could be the water has come. I mean that's going
to replenish and make fertile things grow. Okay, sorry, okay,
old people are sitting on their porch watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of people will like substitute the
water for like perfume, So you go spray the girl
with perfume or maybe like you spray it like an
old lady with perfume, and she'll give you fifty cents
or fifty hungry dollars. And it's kind of like a
it's kind of like it's kind of like a weird
little like all day event, it seems like. And they
got pot lucks and all these foods and some traditional foods.
I don't know what they are, but yeah, and then
he said they also do a thing where they get
like it there's some plant that sprouts in like buds
around this time of year, and they pick it and
kind of like whip the girls with it a little bit,
and it just is it sounds like so much more
fun than waking up to an Easter egg and then
going to church with your grandma.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, well, you know it's really weird.
So here's a thought. Okay, you're talking about the frivolity
of youth and the pursuit of fertility, and there's like
this weird kind of sexual overtone to a lot of this.
Speaker 1: I got some I got some good content to back
you up on.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'll let you there. Let me let me
say this part first. You know, they've got strange things
where people are running around and shooting water on other
people and getting them wet, right, And there's like this
weird kind of feeling with that in my mind because
I'm an American and there's all kinds of weird perversion
in America that we're exposed to doing.
Speaker 1: It's everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not America, but anyway, so you know, this
whole idea of fertility and stuff. So in our traditions,
what do we do We have Easter egg hunts. Okay,
Now the Easter egg. The egg is a symbol of fertility, right,
because it's like new chicks, new birth, you know, and
that kind of stuff. And so there's this like weird
kind of metaphor there. But then what do we do
we hide eggs? We hide fertility tokens.
Speaker 1: Under a hood.
Speaker 2: What you do is you hide fertility symbols eggs in
your yard, underneath things, in things around things, and you
get little children, impressionable little children, to run around the
yard and then they are supposed to find the fertility symbols. Yeah,
and then what do they do with them? They stick
them in their basket.
Speaker 1: So there's this following yours is getting weird.
Speaker 2: I kind of wonder are we like annoyingly training our
children for when they get older, to run out and
to chase their fertility. And they're looking in and they're
looking in different kinds of baskets.
Speaker 1: Though, checking out other people's baskets.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I'm just saying, I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1: Nobody's surprised by this. No hungarian stuff.
Speaker 2: It's a dirty little secret hidden in our Easter celebrations.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's hidden. I think it's very obvious.
Speaker 2: Well for some people, if they have dirty mind.
Speaker 1: And hungry, we're taking young boys telling them to fill
buckets up with water and splash girls and whip them
with sticks. So they're basically shamelessly telling these boys to
go flirt with girls in this time of fertility in
either and everything's fun and lie in the poems. Okay,
so a lot of the the a lot of this
stuff is they're supposed to or not. A lot of
this stuff. Another part of this tradition is telling poems.
And they've got these sayings and stuff like that. And
I had my Hungarian coworkers send me some of them poems. Yes, poems,
he said, he wrote me, some poems.
Speaker 2: Are these traditional Hungarian as?
Speaker 1: I know? Yeah, I mean he could. He said, what
if I'm just telling you random anti Ukrainian stuff? And
I was like, then I wouldn't know and I would
feel really dumb. Yeah, but yeah, so here's one of them.
I'll play it for you. And then the honey. So
he sent me that with like a little preface that says,
this one's about a watering hose in your pants and
a language joke that really doesn't make much sense. Without
an explanation. So I pried on him, asked him to
send me like a really rough translation. Just it doesn't
have to rhyme, it doesn't have to make any sense.
Just tell me, like word for word, what's a literal
translation of what it says. I am standing here in
my underpants. There is a sprinkler in it. If if
if I took it out here there would be a
big laughter. I won't do it now. I have clone
and perfume in my hand. I came to water, not
to mess around.
Speaker 2: That's really what That's an Eastern pom. Yeah, that's a
Hungarian Easter poe.
Speaker 1: I got another one for you, and this one I
think comes from a little bit more of a Souliet
style of in a like older Hungarian more style.
Speaker 2: Yes you get, yes, you get to play.
Speaker 3: Santo.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He said, this one's a social socialist communist some with
a tractor uh plowing in a comrade lady. And then
his translation is the tractor is buzzing, the plow is plowing,
comrade woman, Can I water you? And that's an Easter
part I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, those Eastern Bloc countries. They know how to
do the Eastern thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're Eastern and Eastern Eastern.
Speaker 2: There are all kinds of weird traditions around Easter all
over the world, of course, I mean that's what we're
talking about, but like, okay, just to for instance, so
look at Greece. So Greece likes a lot of really
red Easter eggs. Yeah. Red is the same color as
the blood of Christ. The blood sorry, yeah, you know
that was poured out for the sins of people, right,
So that's how they remember it. And most of the
eggs that you find in Greece are red. I find
that interesting or okay. So another weird one is in Finland. Finland, Finland. Yeah,
so Finland is kind of like Halloween on Good Friday
because they basically dress their kids up like little witches
and send them around not trick or treating, but begging
for treats from people on Good Friday.
Speaker 1: Different.
Speaker 2: It is weird. You know, these little kids they get
their brooms and their pointy hats and they go around
and they collect goodies. And it comes from a tradition
where they believed that all the witches from Finland decided
they were going to fly over to Germany and meet
with the devil for a big dinner.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So so they did and while they were gone,
the Finnish people they built a big bonfire. And so
when the witches came back they Sunday, No, they came
back on Easter Sunday. They saw the bonfires and then
the witches they were afraid and they couldn't go back
to Finland a right, So they still have a big
bonfire on Sundays after they dress up like witches on Fridays.
Speaker 1: It sounds like some anti Germany propaganda scheme from like
the Middle I don't.
Speaker 2: Know where it came from.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, because because the Germans hate Jesus so much,
they have a party with the devil.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean it's that kind of stuff, but
it's weird. There are so many strange things that they do,
I mean all over the place. Like you go to
the Philippines, right, and they actually do human crucifixions. People
volunteer to be and flogged and then they actually sometimes
even nail them to a wooden cross to reenact. Yeah, yeah,
it happens. And other areas where they do the passion
plays and stuff. They get very physical and sometimes they
actually nail people to cross it, I know, messed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then other places, there's a bunch of stuff online.
If you google strange Easter traditions, you're gonna get all
kinds of weird stuff, and you're gonna learn a lot
of things about money, rabbits, and about the origin possibly
of Yoster as the you know, the goddess of fertility
that maybe was the inspiration behind the name of Easter.
And you know, on and on it will go. But
let's just suffice it to say, as we boil this down,
there is a lot of weird stuff associated with Easter
that has nothing to do with the Christian background of Easter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily have to. Like even the name lends
itself to not being necessarily a Judeo Christian right exactly.
Speaker 2: But you know, for you and I and most people
in the United States or in Western countries, I mean,
we naturally think, oh, yeah, it's a religious holiday about
Jesus to go to church, yeah, one or of two,
one of two.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I myself, I'm a recovering Easter naysayer. I like the
idea of my understanding now of what Easter means. But
I never was a fan of what it was because
it didn't make sense to me. Right, it is weird, yeah,
like like bunny rabbits and chocolate eggs, and I didn't
get it. And then you know, it kind of played
into the words and the verbiage that you know, people
I was growing up with said about how it's egg
and holiday and all this stuff, and so I kind
of like, oh, this is evil, this is wrong, this
is bad stuff. But I never got to look at
the actual meaning that some Christians put onto the tradition,
which now I find very appealing. It's very personal to me,
even though it's not necessarily the traditions that are around
Eastern right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Growing up, I always viewed Easter as like the great
Value or the Walmart version of Christmas, like the off
brand Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like get you halfway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and likeang has some presents and candy, but they, uh,
they're not as good. They're not as good.
Speaker 2: One thing I always liked about Easter, though, I love
hard boiled eggs.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I eat hardboiled eggs too. It's like with that
Johnny seasoning, Oh God, or tabasco, Johnny seasoning and tamask
oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Or black pepper, just black pepper salt in tabasco. You're
so that's good. And the feasting around Easter, I mean.
Speaker 1: Like Easter ham.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like in two days, we're gonna have a
motherload dinner. We're gonna have ham, We're gonna have brisket,
We're gonna have cheesy potatoes. We're gonna have bean cast role,
We're gonna have Man, it's gonna be so good.
Speaker 1: I'm just I you know what I really want Christmas morning,
but I want to get a.
Speaker 2: We're talking about Easter.
Speaker 1: What I say? You said Christmas chrisp off Brand, Christmas
the other Christmas True Value got Christmas Morning. I want
corn beef. So I'm gonna make it corn beef and
I'm gonna cut it out. You make cabbage with you? No, no,
no cabbage. This is for morning. We can't start.
Speaker 2: Oh, corn beef is great in.
Speaker 1: The corn beef hash. You gonna make some scrambled eggs,
whip it up with some ash browns and.
Speaker 2: Hash browns, potatoes, tubers, they're bad for blecher just saying
you can have it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm gonna do corn beef with a bunch of
really crispy pash bounds handsome and an egg and I'm like.
Speaker 2: We're gonna chop up some moneys in it, you know, so, well.
Speaker 1: That would be really good. I don't eat plants. Plant. No,
they're a tuber.
Speaker 2: It's a plant. What do you think it is? Mineral? Weirdo. Well,
this has been fun. I've enjoyed this episode. It's it's
kind of we're getting back in the saddle here a
little bit. I'm getting on the Easter saddle.
Speaker 1: Easter saddle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Easter for your keyster, Easter for your keyster.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, I don't know how much more we need
to do. I mean, I just enjoyed kind of sitting
down it's been a while and being able to just
wrap and talk a little bit about this strange holiday.
And I'm looking forward to it this year. I'm looking
forward to it not in the context of bunny rabbits
and eggs. I'm looking forward to it for new birth
and new life in my own life because the last
couple of years have been hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had a heck of a time.
Speaker 2: And we say that, like, I know, we whine about it,
but it's true.
Speaker 1: It's weird how like you're like, oh, man, things are
really rock bottom right now, and then next time we
do something, it's like, man, things got worse. Yeah, But
I feel like we're on the we're starting the bell curving. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And that's why Easter is such a nice time. When
you talk about you life, new life and new hope
and new possibility and rebirth and forgiveness and and inspiration
for the future. I kind of feel like that, and
I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3: Help me Easter, bunny Kenobi, You're my only hope.
Speaker 1: Boing boing boing, Okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just like saying boying boing boing boying my
two year old. You know another thing they do this
is in England. No, this isn't Australia.
Speaker 1: Australia, they have awful.
Speaker 2: Basically a hair hunt or a rabbit hunt. They go
out and they kill nice thousands of bunnies. It's kind
of like the Easter version of the bunny bash that
we did here in Idaho for a while, you know,
where you scare all the bunnies and they hurt them
into a big old enclosure and they give everybody billy
clubs and they just go in there swinging.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: They go carnival. It's a real thing.
Speaker 1: You can look it up.
Speaker 2: Bunny Bash, Idaho, bunny Bash. Yep, it's scary.
Speaker 1: Do they still do that. I don't think so many volunteer.
Speaker 2: I think somebody got involved and said this isn't he made,
which it's pretty gross. But I don't know about you
know where you're at in the country or in the world,
But in Idaho they do have seasons where bunnies, because
they're so fertile, they can just destroy the environment because
they're just too many, kind of like having too many
locusts or too many rats or any mice.
Speaker 1: It's too many.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so they kill him and that's what you
gotta do. And it's it's not a pretty thing.
Speaker 1: No, there's near mind. I don't need to go on
to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could go south here, we could get all quirky.
Oh stew Parrot sixty.
Speaker 1: Nine Polly Polly wanted nagging you on yaks. I still
don't get it. I don't know what how yuk is.
I googled it several times. Sometimes it comes up as
like a Eastern European oddly enough, Hungarian immigrant. Sometimes it's
just a goober.
Speaker 2: You know what you were doing about five minutes ago,
you were a PM. I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's okay, okay, it's low hanging for Is.
Speaker 2: There any yeah, yeah, yeah, really low in my case?
But is there any anything else we need to say
about Easter traditions? Okay, let's just do this. My Easter traditions.
Easter egg hunt. They had a big one in the
city park when I was a kid. They would put
one golden egg and the person that found the golden
egg would get one hundred dollars. Damn yep. So one
year I went to the city park and I could
swear I could see the golden egg laying out in
the grass. There was like a shotgun start, and then
everybody would run out and start grabbing the eggs that
were distributed all over the city park.
Speaker 1: I can picture it.
Speaker 2: So the gun went off and I went off running
as fast as I could towards the golden egg that
I thought was the golden egg. And as I got close,
some big like sixteen year old kid I was like
five or six comes swooping in and takes the egg.
Speaker 1: Aw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was a bad, bad, bad Easters, but that's.
Speaker 1: An Easter thing.
Speaker 2: We did do the Easter hunts in the backyard where
parents would hide the eggs, and of course when you
kids were young, we would hide eggs for you guys.
Speaker 1: We do that with our kids. But we don't use
like hard boiled eggs now. We use like the last
plastic ones.
Speaker 2: With the little candies in them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or like a quarter or something. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Some we did that, but and we would go to church.
But we would always go to church, so it didn't matter.
It wasn't like any special day.
Speaker 1: It's normal.
Speaker 2: Although on Sundays, like where we go now to church,
they always do an extra service because a lot of people,
like you said, do come on Eastern Sunday to church,
And hey, I think, yeah, go, I mean, why not
check it out if you want to go it. Don't
feel bad that you only go once a year. Better
once a year than never.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: What you're I guess it depends what your you're going to. Yeah,
let's not go down that road.
Speaker 1: I don't really have any I mean, like I just
have the boring Eastern traditions. Although I kind of want
to start dumbing buckets of water and my wife, oh
every Easter.
Speaker 2: Because you start your own. Yes, I'm gonna mine with
a willow branch.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did that. You said that was in Hungary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it was a willow. He
said it was some kind of budding plant at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they like in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. I
guess that's a thing where they would not hard, they
don't gotten like, you know, cause well whip, but they
would like whip them lightly and that would be like
a sign that, hey, you're gonna have a good health
and beauty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why. Yeah, hot and get laid. Jeez.
Speaker 2: It seems like everything in this world's about that, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Pretty much?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean everything. It seems like everything we talked
about kind of comes back to that. It's kind the
driving force of the universe is procreation pretty much and religion.
Speaker 1: Religion, Yeah, very much.
Speaker 2: So, well, there's a lot of procreation and religion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we just said. What else can we say.
Speaker 2: We talked about bunny, we talked about eggs, We talked
about water, We talked about whippings.
Speaker 1: Talked about playing mammals.
Speaker 2: We talked about self flatulation and hanging on a cross
in remembrance. I don't know. We talked about the better things,
which is using this time as a as a way,
especially if you're having a rough time in your life
right now, to use this time as like a time
for hope that better things are coming or it could
be coming.
Speaker 1: I think, no matter if it's religious or yeah, whatever,
it's this time of year as a whole is a
sign of hope.
Speaker 2: And like renewal and yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're having an issue, it's a
good time of year to start taking care of those issues.
Everybody talks about their spring cleaning.
Speaker 2: Y spring cleaning.
Speaker 1: They do their whole house. They dust the curtains because
the winter sucks it like it's hard on your floors,
hard track it. It's hard on your body. You're not
getting any vitamin D, you're not outside getting fresh air.
Thing's cooped up and dirty and gross, and people get depressed.
And then look back, we got Easter, the spring spring dinger.
You just go do your thing. Take Easter as a
sign of hope. You know, one thing I like about spring.
I work with a lady who raises goats, and they
always have, you know, new goats, baby goats that are born,
and goats.
Speaker 2: Are cute when they're little. Yeah, they're so fun to watch.
And and so we're having at work. We're having a
goat naming contest. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: A little goat here like nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, I think you know, this was a good time.
I had a fun. I think we should probably get
out of here and go home and sleep so that
tomorrow we can wake up refreshed and fertile.
Speaker 1: My gosh, yeah sounds great, I think so. I can't
stop thinking about names for goats. Are they pygmy goats?
Speaker 2: No, they're just regular goats.
Speaker 1: Full sized goats. Does she need a goat stanchion?
Speaker 2: I bet you she would love a goat stanchion.
Speaker 1: I'll sell her when I made them myself.
Speaker 2: She isn't gonna buy a goat stanch Give her a
goat stanch Maybe she'll trade you a goat stanchion for
a goat.
Speaker 1: Then I wouldn't need a goat stanch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it'd just be a kid too much.
Speaker 1: Yea long hanging for it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the first one was funny, made you laugh.
Speaker 1: What no, does a goat make?
Speaker 2: Isn't it a lamb meets their boats.
Speaker 1: Balt that's the other Eastern sheep.
Speaker 2: Lambs make bad. Goat make mah man and bad.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think I thought goats I kind of just
like I kind of scream they can they can scream
or sheep lamb bleat.
Speaker 2: They Yeah, the goats are liked that kind of the
day or more sure, Yeah, that's what they do.
Speaker 1: Do you like Easter? Yes, I do like Easter. I do.
I don't like Easter as much well for religious reasons.
I do like Eastern more. But I think my favorite
like spring holiday is Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just kicks off that spring feeling. You eat
the corn beef and the cabbage, and you get some
beers and you just you know, we think we went
out and played cornhole. Yeah, and it's just like finally spring,
you know.
Speaker 2: I do. I like Saint Patrick's Day for that reason too,
But I think I like Easter a little more, and
it's mainly because the religious part of it is.
Speaker 1: Good for me. I like that.
Speaker 2: I like the metaphor there, but I like being with
my family and for whatever reason, around Easter you get
more family. Like this year, we're gonna have what twenty
some people here own?
Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, it's gonna be fun with wounsers. Hello, I
think I might have to make more green bean cassel. Okay, guys,
during this next time for some cool drinks.
Speaker 2: And some strange conversations
Speaker 1: Dats