Easter Memories and Modern Dilemmas

Easter traditions create a stark contrast between childhood memories and adult responsibilities, highlighting the evolution of holiday celebrations within Baptist church communities.

• Childhood Easter fashion included pageant-like dresses, frilly socks, patent leather shoes, and hair styled with beads and Blue Magic grease
• Easter speeches required weeks of preparation and practice for children to perform in front of the congregation
• Community Easter egg hunts featured age-specific areas and special prizes for finding golden eggs
• Adult Easter brings uncertainty about cooking plans and holiday responsibilities without the structured church activities
• Modern Easter baskets have evolved from simple candy containers to elaborate gift packages rivaling Christmas presents
• Churches experience dramatic attendance increases on Easter Sunday compared to regular services
• This year's Easter coincidentally falls on April 20th (4/20), creating an interesting cultural juxtaposition

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Chapters

• 1:09 Welcome and Easter Intro
• 2:37 Childhood Easter Fashion Memories
• 4:39 Easter Speeches and Church Traditions
• 8:16 Adult Easter Cooking Dilemmas
• 12:58 Modern Easter Baskets Evolution
• 17:11 Easter Sunday Church Attendance Phenomenon
• 19:41 Closing Thoughts and Gospel Selections

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:35

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Gag is Pod. I am your girl, charlie Shante. Thank you for joining me on another episode and happy Friday to you. Happy Friday before Easter, okay, happy Friday to you. A lot of you probably have the day off today in observance of Easter coming up, so if you do, I hope that you are enjoying your day and hopefully you're listening to this while you're doing something fun, or what have you? If not, if you, at work, you listen to this, cool, so, whatever, I appreciate that too. So make sure you go ahead and grab your drink, grab whatever snack you finna have, and while you're doing that, if you have not already, please make sure that you are subscribed, make sure you leave a reviews, follow us on YouTube at the gag is pod, and make sure you're following us on Instagram at the gag is pod as well.

Speaker 1: 1:39

So, like I said, easter is coming up on Sunday, and so I thought that it would be semi-cutesy to do an episode about Easter from when I was a child, because many, many of you can relate Now, if you grew up in a Baptist church, everything that I'm finna say to you you, you go know what, what it is I'm talking about. Okay, cause, like I, kind of like, you know, I got my hair. I got beads in my hair. So you know, when I was a child, this would be considered Easter style. You know what I'm saying. Or, um, like tomorrow you would be going to the beauty shop and you getting your little hair done, your little curls, you getting your little perm, whatever, and letting whoever the little beautician is do your hair, you know your grandma getting her curls and your mama getting her wig split too. You know it's just all finna be a festivity.

Speaker 1: 2:33

And then you know, we got to get these dresses. As a little girl, you know we get these dresses that got the frills and the fluff, and you know the socks with the frills and the stuff around it. You know, and now that I think about it, it was like these dresses that we were getting were similar to like pageant dresses, because they were big, they were foofy, and it was just like, oh OK, like am I going to a pageant or am I going to church? You know, like what? What am I doing here? You know, I got all these bows and all these barrettes in my hair, like I thought I was just going to church.

Speaker 1: 3:11

I feel like I'm going to go across the stage and win an award, you know, because, like, why is the dress so foofy? Like why I can't put my hands down to my side? You know, I'm saying, like, why is my forehead so shiny with blue magic? Like, why is it slicked down like that? Why is my face greasy? I don't understand that, but you know it, it is what it is and you know, let's not forget, I feel like I just jumped right in, like just no precursor or nothing, um, no structure, like no paying attention to the format or nothing. I just jumped on in here. But anyway, um, something I want to talk about because it's, it's laughable now and I'm gonna have to ask somebody because I don't really know the answer to this Do kids do Easter speeches anymore?

Speaker 1: 4:05

Because I remember about a month prior to Easter coming up, when I was a kid, we used to get Easter speeches and we had Easter speech practice once, once, maybe twice a week to go over our Easter speech and you know to do the program and if we had a little intermission or a little mind praise, dancing, you know to do all of that, you know walk in and stuff like that. So I want to know, can somebody tell me, do they still do Easter speeches for kids or is it like this is is bad to say, but I haven't been to church in easton so long. Um, it's crazy. I probably probably gonna watch it on tv on sunday, you know, just you know, because I ain't been inside a church house since covid hit um. So, like, do they just do plays now, or is it just like a easter speech kind of a deal, or is it just a sermon? Like, what are they doing now? Like, do the kids? Because I know many churches have like main church and then they have children's church. So, you know, are they still separate? Are they still doing things alike? Like tell me how. Like tell me how it goes. Like I'm really curious to know um, how it goes.

Speaker 1: 5:26

I do know the Saturday before there's always a Easter egg hunt, and I haven't even you know now that I think about it, normally like on the corners, like I see, oh, million egg drop, um million easter egg drop, um, on whatever day, whatever. I haven't even been seeing those. Hmm, I wonder if they're having the egg drop, the it's like helicopter egg drop or whatever. I haven't even seen any of those signs, hmm. Or you know, because they're just plastic eggs. You know plastic eggs ain't being affected. I haven't even seen any of those signs, hmm. Or you know, because they're just plastic eggs. You know plastic eggs ain't being affected. Now these real eggs are Like, I want to know, like, tell me, like, are y'all dying eggs this year? I ain't died eggs in.

Speaker 1: 6:18

Hmm, it's been a minute, but you know Easter eggs, you know, go to the, to the store, and get the little plastic eggs and fill them with stuff. Um, I, here it is, I a couple of days for Easter and I I ain't got nothing planned. I might make a little Easter egg hunt or something around here for the kids, I don't know. But yeah, I haven't seen any Easter egg hunts advertised. Hmm, that's interesting. That's still interesting because I know we used to wake up early on a Saturday morning before the day before Easter and we used to go to the church and they used to let us do an Easter egg hunt and they'd be like this age group, go to front, this age group, go in the back, this age group, you on the side, and like there was different.

Speaker 1: 7:05

Um, there was just like different stuff. And then like, if you got, like, a golden egg, you would get a prize, or you know, or, or something like that. So, like, you know you get a special egg and you know you, you win a special prize, and stuff like that. So I want to know, like, do they still do that? Are they using real eggs or have they just 100% went to just like the, um, the, the little plastic egg? I know you get the plastic eggs. They could be small, they can be medium, they can be the jumbos. You know, I, I feel like I'm super out of touch. Or do we just not even do this at all? Like I'm super, super curious to know. You know, are they still doing that? And I'm very, I'm still very curious about the Easter speeches. And then, you know, on Sunday we would go to church and you know we'd be at church for a long time and then we'd come home and then we would eat.

Speaker 1: 8:12

And, rolling into my next subject, I haven't even gone to the store to get anything to cook for Easter. I'm like, do I cook big, do I cook little? You know, like, do I want to get in the kitchen and slave and make sweet potatoes? And do I want to get in the kitchen and slave and make banana pudding. You know, like, what do I want to do? Like, do I want to get in the kitchen and bust down? Or do I just want to cook some food? You know, because I can just cook some food, now we can do that. Or do I just want to cook some food, you know, because I can just cook some food, now we can do that. Or do I literally want to get in the kitchen and, like, bust down on some food? Or like, do I want to? If y'all keep seeing me pulling my lip, it's like a hair on my lip, like and it's bothering me. Um, or it's like, do I want to get out there on the grill and bust down on the grill? Like I really, I really don't know.

Speaker 1: 9:06

Like I need to make a decision like today, because I, of course, I need to go to the store. You know. It's like, like, what am I gonna make? Like am I gonna make these? Am I gonna make these mashed potatoes? Like what I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't know what I'm finna make. Like we don't eat, don't get me wrong. But like, what am I going to make? Like, am I gonna get rolls. Like am I gonna make cornbread? Like I'm gonna fry some fish? Like what am I gonna do? I don't know what I'm gonna cook, whatever it is, I need to figure it out because I know the stores is closed on Easter. So I need to go ahead and figure that out like sooner, sooner than later, later, because you know we gonna eat. And then you know, ain't no sports home, okay, ain't no football. Um, yeah, y'all know I do football.

Speaker 1: 10:08

Like easter as an adult is very different. Is easter as a child? You know? I'm saying like because as a child you know it's already set out for you. You know you have the pomp and circumstance of how, each day gonna go and stuff like that. But when you get an adult, it's kind of like what am I supposed to be doing? Like I really just have no clue. Like you know you observe the day, you do whatever. It is Kind of like you go on about your day. There you go y'all, y'all's, uh, y'all's episode y'all. Um, like I don't, I just like we the new adults now, and I don't have, I don't know what to do. Like is this how our parents felt? Like, because I don't know what to do.

Speaker 1: 11:04

Like I didn't make no Easter baskets or nothing Like I think I still have time to go to the store, but I don't know Cause.

Speaker 1: 11:12

Like you know, we wake up in the morning.

Speaker 1: 11:14

We had these Easter baskets and stuff in it, some of the Easter. I was in Stowe the other day, some of these Easter baskets and got a stream like you get a whole basketball in there and I feel like easter baskets are a soft lunch to christmas. Um, because it's kind of like you can make an easter basket with different stuff in there. Like I seen one that had a basketball in it. It had a frisbee, a jump rope, it was like a sports easter basket and I was like, oh, I like with like a little bit of candy and literally, literally the only thing it was missing was a water bottle and the way that these easter baskets is made. Now it should have wholeheartedly had a stanley in it, like not even gonna hold you, it should have had a stanley in it. But I was like wow. And then I seen when they had like baby dolls in it and when they had like racetracks and race cars in it and I was like these easter baskets is real sophisticated, like what happened to like a little basket and then you set the little stuff. These easter baskets are like real deal holy field. So in my eyes these easter baskets is like a soft launch to christmas or or or whatever.

Speaker 1: 12:35

You didn't get your child for christmas. Now that them taxes done, yet you can make an easter basket now with all the little stuff Juju ain't here for Christmas. You can put video games in there and different stuff like that. Like, for instance, if I was to make New Face an Easter basket, the things that I would put in there Goggles, an inhaler, swim cap you know just to name a few cap. You know just to name a few things. You know nothing major. You know maybe some Gatorade pods or something like that. You know just keep it real simple, like and and that right there. That probably $56 worth of stuff right there.

Speaker 1: 13:17

Cause if I go and say oh, I'll get him a new pair of uh swim trunks, say oh, I'll get him a new pair of uh swim trunks, that's 50 dollars. Those were swim trunks. Them swim trunks is high, we ain't finna do all that. We ain't finna do all that. So he might get a little stuff. Then again my boy might just get some money, because I don't really got that kind of time. I don't have that kind of time to be building no Easter basket. I got other stuff, I got other stuff. That's really kind of going on. I'm out the loop. I really don't. I don't know y'all, I don't have time for that. It's the weekend so I got to do my household duties. But, yeah, I can't believe it is. Oh, yeah, I can't believe.

Speaker 1: 14:21

It is like the middle toward the end of the month and it's Easter and, coincidentally, this year Easter falls on 420. And we're not going to act like we don't know what that means. Um, I, I have already seen the memes that say like, uh, it's 420, you know? Or, um, you know who? Who going to be high, me or the Holy spirit? And I'm just like wow, wow, wow, wow. And it's kind of like, are people going to go to church high or are people going to have the decency to wait until after church to do their 420 activity? Because you got to get a little bit of time? You know, going to church high sounds crazy, crazy, but for some reason I know people finna do it and that is crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy.

Speaker 1: 15:43

And last but not least, let's talk about how it don't be nobody at church. Um, all the other sundays from january up until that is sunday baby, we putting chairs out in the aisle because everybody got to come see their mom and them they in town, and stuff like that for Easter. So we used to have to put chairs in the aisle and stuff like that and churches to be full, like before Easter. You could do cartwheels in the pews because wasn't nobody there. But when Easter roll around, you know you got babies sitting on laps. Now you got chairs in the aisle and it's just a lot going on. It's just a lot going on. And I'll be like, oh my God. And then the next Sunday, guess what? Back to doing cartwheels in the pews because ain't nobody there, ain't nobody there, all right y'all. So that is all I have for y'all today, keeping it a little short, keeping it a little simple or whatever, for you Ain't going to take too much of your time on this good Easter weekend.

Speaker 1: 17:01

So my song lyric for the week, since it's Easter, you know I gotta you know I gotta dig into my gospel bag. You know, dig into my gospel bag, or whatever. So one of my favorite, most favoritest gospel songs is. I Won't Complain, like I love, love, love, love this song because, no matter what is going on, it may be tough, it may be a trial, but I won't complain. You know, I. And then my other one is melodies from heaven. I think those go perfect with the theme of this weekend.

Speaker 1: 17:40

Um, I'm very interested to hear you know, like I said before, do kids still do Easter speeches? Do they still have an Easter production on Easter Sunday? Are we still doing Easter egg hunts? Because, like I'm curious, like I genuinely want to know, and then I'm gonna have to next week, I'm gonna have to let y'all know. If you know, I'm gonna to let you know if I did anything for the kids and what, what I ended up cooking, because I really, I really really don't know. Like I said, I ain't got that much time, so I need to be figuring this out sooner than later. So that is your two songs of the week.

Speaker 1: 18:22

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