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The Transformations of Halloween: Unveiling Its Past and Present Celebrations
Have you ever wondered what the connection is between pumpkin carving and age-old Celtic traditions? Or how trick-or-treating looks in different corners of the globe? We're pulling back the curtain on common and lesser-known Halloween customs, from pillowcase trick-or-treating to navigating cardboard box mazes. We'll also be getting personal, sharing how our family traditions, like mom's birthday bash, add a unique spin to this spooky holiday.
Journey with us as we trace the roots of Halloween back to its Celtic origins and examine how the Catholic Church shaped it into the celebration we know today. Along the way, we'll delve into the story behind Jack O'Lanterns, the traditional use of turnips in Ireland, and how Mexico's Day of the Dead differs from Halloween. And we won't shy away from the modern influences either - exploring how Halloween has morphed into a time of community activities, costume parties, and of course, candy exchanges, with a nod to the strong influence of corporate America. Prepare for a spooktacular ride brimming with history, culture, and personal reflections!
All right, welcome back everyone. Welcome back to the voice chat. You got center clothing Darren here with you today. If you're not subscribed, please subscribe and let's get right into it. Today's topic is Halloween, and when this Episode is released, halloween is the following day, so it's kind of fitting that we do it. Anyways, let's get right into it. First off, do you guys I've got a list of Traditions from around the world, kind of the most popular ones, and then the history and origin of Halloween. But do you guys have any like Family favorite traditions that are a little bit less common? Or do you guys kind of just do like the? I got more typical winners or something like kind of Out there that you guys Would think is not that common, that you're like your family does?
Speaker 2:I Don't do anything really crazy. I mean, probably the biggest thing that's all different for my family, it's my mom's birthday. She's born on Halloween, so we're always Celebrating her birthday. She doesn't really care that much Most days, so it's usually like oh, we'll go out to dinner, dinner for her or whatever kind of hang out with her a little bit and then Go out and do whatever we're gonna do, like there's not really a set thing of what we do.
Speaker 3:but yeah, my family that's not super wild. We uh started doing scones so like my dad would get like the camp stove out and just be like deep-ran scones on the driveway. So people come up like you eat a scone and then like we still have a bucket of candy for the kids, like being in a cul-de-sac, like the parents can just chill on our driveway. Well, I care, the kids make their way around the cul-de-sac and then when they're loaded up on candy and the parents dip out, so Kind of where it's out.
Speaker 1:Nice. Yeah, we don't we don't do yeah, we don't do nothing special.
Speaker 2:I feel like Halloween sorry no go go go for it. I feel like Halloween is one of those holidays that it's like yeah, it's a major holiday, but it's it's not like Thanksgiving, where there's a tradition around it, or I mean not that there's not a tradition around Halloween or anything, but it's. It's more of a fun holiday and not a A very deep meaning behind it. At least I feel like not, but maybe other people feel otherwise.
Speaker 3:But yeah, incorporate, america.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's cuz. It's not an American holiday traditionally.
Speaker 3:Either get a lot of Halloween, or like you're like yeah, let's go, yeah, or you hate it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there's three, there's three people. But you know, I don't think my family don't really do anything crazy. When we were kids, like, instead of like a Jack-o-lantern bucket thing, we just use our pillowcases to go trick-or-treating and yeah, that's not crazy uncommon. But then, like we'd trade candy again not super uncommon, but yeah, we'd go over to. We'd always make sure we'd stop at a family France house and they did scones and homemade root beer, so we'd always go over and snag something and so but yeah, all right, let's dive into some other ones that are kind of more common, more popular traditions, but I'm sure at least the American style ones that I'm sure most of us have done. So some popular traditions are trick-or-treating, which that's probably that's the first thing I really think about, that in like costumes, which is another big one around the world. That's like the first thing I think of when I think of Halloween is Candy, trick-or-treating, costumes, right, so, and then, going with trick-or-treating, a lot of places will do a trunk or treat, which is like more of like a community-based thing.
Speaker 1:I think it's. They're fairly popular, at least here. Like my neighborhood, my parents neighborhood had always done one. They've ranged in how good they were. But I don't know, you guys have trunk or treats. Were you guys Like? Growing up? Did you guys participate in trunk or treats?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean, I feel like that was like on a separate night to then Halloween. Most, most years it usually wasn't on the same night, just to kind of get more people to be involved with it. I feel like. But I Mean we we do a lot of like there'd be like potluck dinner or something with it too, like there'd be more than just like everybody getting gathered and just kind of handing out candy together too. It was we got together, brought some food and just kind of hung around.
Speaker 3:So yeah, we do it like once in a while and like the church parking lot, I guess a church activity, but other than that not really done. Truck or treats.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, yeah, my, my parents neighborhood. They just do it around that park Because it's one big circle and so everyone just parks their car on the side and you kind of walk around. I remember there's always A random stretch of like no cars on one side and then it was boom, boom, boom, just car after car and then maybe after that, car after car and then maybe a space here there, but it was just like car after car, car after crime, and then like a random massive gap and then you keep going.
Speaker 3:Okay so.
Speaker 1:And they used to. They used to have like activities going on in the park as well, like different thing for the kids, different Ways, like the whole. You throw like the fishing pole over like a sheet and you get candy. That way that was there one time. There was like a cardboard box maze thing and bunch of the things in the park that were going on. But as like I got older, my siblings got older, those became less and less common and then now it's there's Not usually something in there. They'll have treats every now and then, like Popsicles or something big, but nothing more than that. So yeah, costume parties, um, do you guys, how, like on a scale of one to ten, how hard do you go? Unlike your costume, on average, would you say one, maybe less Figured that.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't do the dressing up thing I never have.
Speaker 2:I mean, it was maybe like when I was younger, like, okay, I would have like a Superman costume or something, like I go to the store and just go buy it. I wouldn't make my own costume, like Probably the last time I dressed up I was maybe 10, if that I. It's been a long time since I've dressed up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do the dress up, I Don't know I it's like if I have a group of people that are like bought in and like gonna go hard with it, I'm down, but I'm also not like Trying to make it happen. You know, like we're about to do the Halloween game and so we're all dressed up like the minions, so it's like you can't not when, like the whole squad's doing it. You know, unless, oh, we, yeah, but yeah, how about you?
Speaker 1:Um, it's range from year to year. I'll like put in just enough effort to where it's like, oh, you're kind of, you can kind of tell what it is, but not enough to where I'm like going hard. Uh-huh, like one year I borrowed a gorilla mask and gloves for my neighbor and then just put on my some lacrosse gear Like a shirt and shorts, and I was a gorilla lacrosse player and I walked around with like a fiddle stick. I made a kid cry too doing that. We went a trick or treating in the St James neighborhood because that's like where all the rich people were so you get nicer candy bars, yeah.
Speaker 1:And there was this little kid in like a vampire costume and we're just like walking down the street and this kid sees me and starts crying. I was like crap. So I ripped the mask off and I hide it behind my back. I'm like, hey, buddy, I think that like the gloves off. I'm like, hey, we're totally fine, we get further down. I put it back on and then we like circle back around. I see the kid across the street. We're about to like cross me and I ripped it off and I hide it again.
Speaker 2:Real fast I'm like, hey, buddy, you sure he wasn't crying after you took on the mask? You sure it was before. I'm sure it was before. Probably All right, I just had to double check on that one. If it were me, it was probably the after I took off the mask.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I double check, I know All right. What about haunted houses? How do you guys feel about haunted houses?
Speaker 2:I mean they're all right, they're not. I don't know Depends on the level that they are Like. If you, what comes to my mind is like Staley Farms with what they do or what they used to do. I don't know if they're doing it anymore or whatever, but like, yeah, that was a decent one when you were like younger I felt like, but like the older I got, the less I wanted to go. But I mean, I'm trying to think of any other haunted house I've done besides that one in the last few years, and there's maybe I guess lagoon was the other one that I did. That one was all right, but I don't know. They're just some of them are overrated and others are. If they're done well and like, the right amount is scary, but the right amount of, oh, just kind of walking around, I think they're good, but that's kind of my deal with them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know. Just like scary aspect of Halloween. I don't mind going to haunted houses and whatever else, but like watching like a horror movie never enjoyed it. Just because I'm like I would so much rather watch a comedy and laugh than watch a scary movie, I'm with you.
Speaker 1:It's like I feel bad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like I remember in high school we'd like talk about these girls were dating and they're like, yeah, let's watch a scary movie. And I'm like just want a girl to force me to watch a chick flick. Like, come on.
Speaker 2:You want to watch a romcom?
Speaker 3:They're like oh, let's watch a scary movie. No, I agree, I agree with you, kobe.
Speaker 1:The only ones that I've done are like the Staley Farm ones and it was like right before COVID was, when it was like pretty decent, and then like COVID hit and they had a kind of pivot and ever since then it's kind of this gone downhill. It's not like a corn maze, I guess it was more of a haunted corn maze, yeah, but like COVID shut that down and then they're trying to sell that side of the land or something like that and they still do something. And I'd say it's more of like a haunted maze house thing. I said, wait, because it's not in the corn, it's off to their side and they've got like a big tent set up Right and they do something over there. I haven't been to it, but there's that. But I mean I've heard of some pretty scary haunted houses. There's one that's Salt Lake. I can't remember what it's called, but I heard it's something like that.
Speaker 1:There's one in San Diego it's either San Diego or somewhere else in Southern California where you actually have to sign a waiver to go in, and there's a few around wherever that you have to sign a waiver to go in. But there's one where it's like you sign the waiver to go in. It's like you sign the waiver and if you can make it all the way through without giving up, you get like a ton of money. I want to say it's a million or something like that. It's a ton, a ton, a ton of money if you can make it all the way through. But these people are like actually allowed to touch you. They're allowed to chase you, they're allowed to like throw stuff on you and like actually have torture you, almost Like they're not going to like fall on, try and kill you. They're pretty close.
Speaker 3:No one's made it through.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess everyone gives up. So now you've got to be a pretty twisted person to want to do that. But you're going to be a more twisted person to want to be the person that is doing it, working there, yeah, like, how messed up do you have to be to be like, hmm, what do I want to do for my job? I want to work in this haunted house and throw pig intestine on people as they want to hide, like what, that's a little much for me. Probably get paid well, maybe All right. And then another common one in America, in the United States, is jack-o-lanterns. You know, carving pumpkins and stuff. Do you guys do that? I haven't done it for a couple of years. It's been a while since I've carved a pumpkin. I know, like painting pumpkins became pretty popular a few years ago, but do you guys have plans to do that? This?
Speaker 2:year. Yes, yeah, ellie always loves to do it. I'm sure she hasn't bugged me to do it in the last little bit, but she always wants to do it. I'm trying to remember, like the backstory with Jack O'Henner's like I Heard it a while ago but I can't remember the full story to even tell it. But there's a backstory of why people do it like a genuine, like Same reason that people how trick-or-treating turned into trick-or-treating like one of those deals, but mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Hey, man, don't spoil it, man, I'll get to it later, oh. I didn't know you had, I will get to it later. Bro, I'm trying to jump ahead and spoil my episode.
Speaker 2:I got to add to it dude, he's trying to help out.
Speaker 1:What about you, darren? You guys doing it this year.
Speaker 3:This year was a little bit different. I've done it most years. This year, my the females had a girl's night and they made like, oh boy, it's just like a styrofoam pumpkin. Oh okay, we like fake flowers. So they just like I need a Halloween like or fall decoration. I guess I Was just chilling on the table behind me conveniently, but so, yeah, they did that on Sunday and I was like, okay, cool, I'll be on the couch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cam is wanting to do them. But where we are, like outside of our front door, is Like a hallway and our landlord doesn't want us to put pumpkins out there. So when we live downstairs and outside was just concrete, we were allowed to, so we had pumpkins out there, but upstairs when I allowed to, because it'll potentially ruin the carpet Check my oh darn Oops.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we used to do it growing up all the time, yeah, but a little backs were into Jack Whanon's before you know. I'll dive further into the the story, but it's an Irish tradition. That's where kind of Halloween originated. Is Ireland's got like it's a Celtic thing, and In America we use pumpkins, but traditionally you're supposed to use Like turnips or squash or something like that. Yeah, I had it somewhere. Turnips and beats is what was like traditionally used in Ireland. So Interesting, slightly of a different shape. Yeah, let's go ahead.
Speaker 1:A couple more of these traditions. A big one is I'm gonna butcher the crap out of this, so, darren, you might have to save me on this a Dia de los Muertos or good, yeah, so that's day to dead. There's some similarities between that and Halloween. One of the big ones is just time of year Halloween is the 31st of October and the first of November and then Day of the dead is the 31st of October to the second of November. I believe is the research and let's dive into that.
Speaker 1:Actually, I found that's kind of the last of the traditions. There's not really anything else. That's kind of Crazy around the world. I believe Chile, chile has their version of day of the dead as well. I'm not gonna try and pronounce that one, but A lot of it's just like handing out candy, exchanging Gifts or and whatnot, dressing up as costumes. The more traditional reason for like costumes is to ward off evil spirits and hide amongst the dead. We'll get into that in a few minutes, but other than that, there's nothing really. You like outlandish crazy traditions that I found around the world for Halloween. But anyway, darren, I know you spent some time in Mexico. You were there when they celebrated it correct.
Speaker 3:I was in the MTC, so, oh, okay, not really, I didn't get like Did you learn anything about it being there, or yeah, so actually there's a handful of missions in Mexico where they were allowed to watch Coco because of how well it like represented the culture and like you watch it in Spanish and it works as like a language study, you know. So like that was actually pretty solid just with how like you can Like how it's all about honoring the dead and like you're leaving things on like the gravestones and whatever else for them. Like that was pretty accurate. I've heard stories there's like this, this, like grandma, and every Halloween she'd go and put like a nice bottle of bourbon on the tombstone and then she'd go back like a couple of days later, like the next day, and it would be like empty the day after. And she's like it's my husband, it's because it was his favorite drink, and everyone was like nah, Too many people know you're leaving that bottle out. That's awesome. Yeah, honestly, Coco is a pretty solid representation of what's going on.
Speaker 1:Cool, yeah. So I'll just briefly kind of give some similarities and differences. So, like I said, the timing, you know, right around the end of October, beginning of November, the focus on the deceased now it varies in why they're focusing on and Halloween's more. What is my note Say, what am I not saying? The acknowledging of the existence of spirits and the supernatural entities. So it's kind of like focus on the dead. I think of like, maybe like zombies and different monsters you dress up, as that one's a little bit of a stretch on connecting them.
Speaker 1:Decoration symbols both holidays incorporate decorative elements. Halloween is Jack-o-lanterns, witches, monsters. Day-to-day is iconic for sugar skulls and merry gold flowers. So I mean these similarities are kind of a stretch. It's more of just like oh yeah, you decorate, we decorate, so we're the same.
Speaker 1:But where they differ is cultural origins. So Halloween has Celtic and Christian origins. It's primarily celebrated in the US, canada and some Western countries and some European countries as well, whereas Dia de los Muertos is an indigenous in Mexican roots, so I'm not sure how common it is throughout Latin America and South America. I'm sure they have their own version. Maybe it's not exactly called the same, it's not going to be called the same thing, but I'm sure they have similar ideas.
Speaker 1:Where it's just honoring the dead, the tone and purpose is different. Halloween is more of a spooky, playful idea where you dress up and have fun, whereas Dia de los Muertos is more of a celebration of families coming together and whatnot. So it's probably still fun, but not as spooky and stuff. I saw that costumes are kind of a difference, a big difference. Whereas in Halloween you can dress up as whatever you want and oh, I'm dressed up as X, y and Z Whereas in Day of the Dead there's traditional attire and it's often includes dressing as a skeleton or face paint to resemble a sugar skull and it's more traditional and there's more of a set thing rather than a wide variety.
Speaker 2:So Just dressing up as a playboy bunny is what you're saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, is it mean girls? There's a quote where it's like there's two types of girls on Halloween those that dress up, like something, that the ones that dress up like the other ones that just wear lingerie and yeah. Wow, colby, you know mean girls, huh.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do. I have two older sisters. Dude, why would I not know mean girls?
Speaker 3:Yo, I saw mean girls for the first time like two months ago, holy, when she got hit by the boss no-transcript.
Speaker 2:I was trying to say that wasn't real.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness, oh my goodness, oh Good to see you guys.
Speaker 1:We should have like a reaction, we should post like a reaction video of like Darren watching Maybe Star Wars. Have you watched all of them yet?
Speaker 3:No, we can still get like the three through nine.
Speaker 1:Maybe we'll do that. We'll have them watch Star Wars and we'll film them reacting to it or something. Anyways, let's hop into the origin and history of Halloween. Do you guys know I think we're off the top of your head when it started, that kind of? I already said it? Were you guys listening?
Speaker 3:Celtic origin, which I didn't even know was a thing. But Ireland's going.
Speaker 2:Yep, I thought the term that everybody used was pagan holiday, but I don't. I don't even know what any of those words mean, so I'm not. I'm not even going to try and guess on that at all.
Speaker 1:Close. So Halloween has its roots in ancient Celtic festival of oh, I don't know how to say this word, it's the sound, so it's not spelled how it sound, but I had a look it up and I believe that's how it's Pronounced, which is celebrated in areas that are now Ireland, united Kingdom and parts of France. So this time of year I'm not going to try and pronounce it, but it marked the end of the harvest season in the beginning of winter and it fell on or around the 31st of October, and the Celts believe that on that night the boundary between the living and the dead was blurred, allowing spirits and fairies to return to the earthly realm, and that kind of sounds like they, the dead, at least how they portray in cocoa, where there's like the bridge and they've got to lay down the flowers so that way the dead can make their way across onto Into the graveyard and into the homes and stuff. And so some of the Celtic customs that they would do is bonfires to ward off evil spirits and protect and offer protection during the dark winter months that were coming, people would dress up in costumes. That's kind of where the whole dressing up in costumes thing came from, but they would dress up in costumes from animal heads and skins, believing that it would help them blend in with wandering spirits and kind of scare off evil ones. And then divination, which I think is just a bunch of hooky pooky, but it's, you know it was during this time it was easier to predict the future and various divination rituals were practiced, so that maybe that's where the whole pagan thing comes from, like you were saying, probably like a demonic thing if they're doing rituals about looking into the future. Probably so that was.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure how far back that went I couldn't really find an exact time but into the seventh century. That's when the Catholic Church kind of stepped in and made the holiday about them and they established all Saints Day, also known as all Hallows, on the first of November to honor saints and martyrs. The night before all Saints Day became known as all Hallows Eve and then later Halloween to kind of shorten it, and the church aimed to replace the pagan festival with Christian observance. But many of the old customs persisted, so the dressing up and stuff like that kind of became more apparent. I believe that's what the Catholic Church did, this with Christmas as well, right, so there's some pagan holiday in December and a bunch of other religions have holidays at the end of the year, and so the Catholic Church was like hey, christmas.
Speaker 3:So I know that's kind of where they came from too. There was a Saint Valentine and then it started more religious and then turned into a romantic holiday. But yeah, on a similar route.
Speaker 1:I saw that Friday the 13th, the only reason that we associate it with like demonic, demon, satanic things is because of the Catholic Church, because it was a pagan holiday that celebrated like fertility and fornication, I guess, and love. And so the Catholic church was like nope, that's bad, demon Satan, come in. And so now we associate it with that. You just, but, yeah, all right. So then the migration to North America for Halloween traditions. They were brought over by Irish and Scottish immigrants in the 19th century and these immigrants introduced their elements, including costumes, bonfires and the practice of going house to house for food or money, which is modern-day trick-or-treating. And then by the late 19th and early 20th centuries, halloween had become a secular, community-centered holiday.
Speaker 1:In the United States, trick-or-treating gained a lot of popularity as a way to involve children into the celebration, because from what it sounds like beforehand it seemed to be more of like an adult, like oh, protect us, type of deal. So like, protect your kids. But then, to make it more family-friendly and more widely accepted, here comes trick-or-treating and bring on the kids, and trick-or-treating has now really become a kid-centered thing. I don't know, do you guys find it weird if three twenty-something year old men go out trick-or-treating?
Speaker 2:I mean, we could test it out.
Speaker 1:Let's see what would we dress as to make it really weird the teletubbies or something? The teletubbies.
Speaker 2:Feel free. Three stooges, nice, yeah, three musketeers. It'd probably be a little weird, but depending on if I knew them or not, yeah, I think.
Speaker 3:You can embrace the awkward if you're going to do it, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I think you would get one of two reactions from, like parents or older people that are handing out the candy and it's oh, that's awesome guys, or what are you guys doing? Grow up, yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 3:You get one of those. All right, there were these people. They like carried a door door to door, so they knock on the door and then they hide behind the door and they go and they knock their door and they open it up and they've like got their basket of candy to hand out to the parents that are on the other side of the door door that's good, but instead of candy it's tequila shots, exactly.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see. Also, by the time Halloween became popular in modern time in North America, the focus shifted from superstition and divination to community activities, parties and the exchange of candy and treats. And then corporate America coming in strong capitalism is really popping off, you know, and the commercialization of Halloween has over the years. It's just gone up and up and up, with the sale of costumes, decorations and candy becoming a pretty significant industry. And you look at spirit Halloween, you know you got the Grim Reaper on the front coming in and taking the soul of a store to start selling their stuff. So and I mean spirit Halloween is only around during this time and then, like November 1st.
Speaker 2:So I'm surprised they don't do something like the Christmas version of that store doing like the same thing for like cheap gifts and stuff like. I'm no marketing genius or product manager by any means, but I feel like that's a good idea. But that's just me, Just have a pop-up store for Christmas.
Speaker 3:Keep the space rented out. Can't run it over through.
Speaker 2:November. Yeah, just do November, December and then December 24th to shut down, or whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you had like decorations, cheap gifts and then like a wrapping station or like people would drop off gifts to get wrapped.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You could even leave it open a week or two after, depending on not even like a set time. You could just leave it open and it's like any extra decorations or any extra supplies, like if you had wrapping paper, you could sell it at like a weight discounted price, kind of like Halloween candy the day after goes 50% off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anything they have left because they got to get that branding out so they can get the Christmas stuff in, or you can leave it open until the new year, or even do something like they do, like a buyback like of old decorations that they can build up their inventory and resell next year or something too. Yeah, do that even more of a discount like a. I'm no genius, but I feel like that's a pretty good pot of gold.
Speaker 1:The only thing I can think of that's like a pop up Christmas store would be like selling live Christmas trees, right, because those I mean, we don't really have something like that here, at least I'm not aware of something like that here, but you see it in the movies, you see it in the shows. During Christmas time, we go out our tree and they go down to some parking lot and there's, you know, the same guy that's been selling Christmas trees for 30 years is selling Christmas trees, right, and they sell you there and getting the Douglas fir or the juniper or something you know as far where it stands, honestly true, true, that too, but yeah, so kind of just the commercialization that has really bumped up the holiday and it's also been influenced by pop culture, with kind of just mainly the costumes are becoming more pop culture and it's like you don't see as many zombies or vampires as you would like.
Speaker 1:Superheroes, like Marvel superheroes. You don't see super like Superman's, batman's, iron Man's, all that stuff. You see those a little bit more often than you would like a zombie or something. In the kids, though, I feel like you get more into like the teenage, young adult, adult, christmas style or not, christmas Halloween parties, like costume parties, and that's where you see the zombies, the vampires, the more traditional route. Then it's like, oh, you're just Iron man or something. That's more like a feel like that's kind of the kid area and then, like you get more into like the Original ideas.
Speaker 3:There we go kind of. I guess kind of a generational thing, because I feel like zombies and vampires were a big thing when we were younger. You think we just aged with that, probably this new set.
Speaker 2:It's probably like a cultural thing, like with how big marbles really gotten, especially the last couple years, previous years and stuff. We're like Trying to think of what else. I've seen a lot of that like are, I think?
Speaker 1:it's also the end, just like the people that are selling the costumes. It's like oh, what are the kids into these days? You know, when we were kids it was, there wasn't as many of these Pop culture icons, I guess, that were commonly known. I mean, you get maybe like Star Wars, everyone else, oh you're a Jedi. You've got a brown cloak and you know, a blue stick. Oh, you're a Jedi. That's pretty easy, but now it's a I.
Speaker 3:I think it's just easier to make Mass costumes of these pop culture ideas, I guess yeah, also pop culture was like Zombies and vampires and stuff there's like vampire diaries. There was the, the walking dead and everything like all these huge television series when we are younger.
Speaker 1:Right, true, did you watch vampire diaries there?
Speaker 2:Did not how we got the chicks.
Speaker 3:No, why light? Oh, I know you've seen Twilight how many times.
Speaker 1:I was. When I was 15. We went on a big road trip as a family over the summer and In our van we had a TV and my sisters were like we're gonna make you guys watch Twilight because we are going to like the Forks Washington, which is like where the books in the movies are based.
Speaker 1:And so they're gonna watch Twilight, because you guys need to know and I didn't have anything else to entertain myself, and so, rather than sitting there looking out the window and listening to it, I was like, okay, I guess I'll just watch it, because there was nothing else to do. So. But yeah, other than that you, can you guys think of anything else? Any other Traditions or fun things you do during Halloween Bobbing for apples, that was a common thing or like the donut on a string.
Speaker 2:He's ever do that. Yeah, the door on the string. I did. Yeah so, but other than that, that's all we got for you guys today.
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