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There is another how Mr Burns answered his phone. Oh, he got oil, because that was what I d like to know when the farmers were submitted when you said that were actually my. Cell phone said avoid on it when it was super advance and you could like programme something on your home screen, so that would flash when somebody was calling you yet who typing and the guy I little spread whereby brick phone well like I was saying, happy Easter, Chuck. They didn t do anything for Easter. This is really a married. We got like a basket it traditional Easter, Beth. I really here we do that. It means that the greatest don't observe it at all.

Like like me, have you noticed, though, that, like a lot more stores clothes on Easter now than they used to have not noticed? It seems too like been a recent occurrence like the last couple year, how you haven't noticed it sir? It's weird, I think, they are putting off putting unless you like, trying to buy something by lawyers like way when they start. Let my whole think right when they start here, but you didn't get the memory, As you can usually you know, there's a national conversation about whether the clothes stores or not. What do you never sold on it? Sometimes that kind of thing, but this one to slip pass me so yeah Easter, is caught me by surprise early closing the door. Then yeah, I don't do anything I use. Do you now do the whole bill when you re welcome, of course growing up and in the sunlight

services. As a young Baptist, we climbed on mountain open there already it was very pretty actually climbing surmounting the dark, wasn't so much fun. I was always like any danger, while their flashlights and plenty of people are a good thing being in the church. They would pick you up and carry you. You broke your leg, that's why there is only one side of its. That's that's right back when I was a kid we get the Easter basket with like one or two, maybe low presents an azure. I'm I get the break in two electric bootblue. I can't say, did you really for a so called reminded us like the present high yeah yeah yeah? We also observe the tradition of dressing up. Even more than you would normally for Sunday Church like your special Easter clothes. Like my put an intact veto headlines, rob labs around it. Doesnt know it would usually be like you know. I got a new pink suspenders in.

Well, that's actually an old tradition, pink suspenders, although by a new new out exactly what I mean I did you realize you're following likening tender, anglo tradition yeah, my mom thought me out h, necklace religions, that was just Easter, was just a little more specials. You dress up a little more. Basically here I got to get my new. Are paisley tie that at the bust out for Easter there, with my mullet yeah, I'm now I'd buy anything new, but you may make me come my hair before I'm allowed to search for the east ask your advice: let's talk stuff yeah, I mean in researching this. It came down to a couple conclusions. One is that, like everything else that we hold dear the has its roots in pagan rituals right two is the Easter so like it's all over the map, man like we could did ten episodes on Easter. Let's do it in different traditions.

Like when it falls according to who you are, and it's just crazy in its variety agreed, even like when Jerry Ass. When she first came issues the winds eastern, we're like who knows could be in March, could be in April. The ecclesiastical council knows because their crunching, the number he s going to drop the the dope there. Ok, so the dope is that Easter, King conceivably fall any time between March twenty. First, the the Vernal Equinox and April twenty fifth the trick, and it follows after the Pascoe Moon, which is a full moon, but if you think you're following along so far prepared be thrown from the horse, because the Pascal full moon, isn't necessarily an actual full moon that you can see yet not necessarily the astronomic

For me, I know it was a one point time based on astronomical lunar cycle yet, but they have since been decoupled from what we currently understand, and so now Easter supposedly falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal Moon, which is the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox right, but there may not be a full moon anywhere, incite as far as you can tell right, but if you're a church type who's in charge of crunching these numbers, you know when the Pascal Moon comes and goes, and that's where he had her will be. Is that the same as the ecclesiastical Moon is edged another name for yet the the Pascoe Moon is a type of ecclesiastical now get out ecclesiastical moon? Is this church of efficiency at church based lunar cycle, yet that in the past, comin in particular, is the full moon that comes after

we cannot impassable comes from the Greek for pass over. So it's the pass over moon and that makes sense because Easter was originally tied to pass over. It was right for Sunday after passive yeah and then in fifteen. Eighty two as part of the growing counterpart Gregory thee did you do thirteenth lay down the decree, but still it gets more confusing, because if you are eastern Orthodox, you might follow. The Julianne Juliet Juliet calendar, it's the calendar that is set at a level. That is wrong with me. Do you that can be like a month later, you'll be celebrating Easter, befall the Juliet calendar right there is the one that predated the gregorian calendar, the trap and those actually some really interesting stuff about those. We should do one on calendar, some time, a man so fast yeah and weird yeah. I like to keep my calendar, so

Well yeah. Who doesn't I mean? That's the point, seven days month, twelve months, what I've seen them you go further than that its murky, Again, we have no idea where Easter falls this year, but we can tell you for certain: it will fall between March twenty first in April, twenty four. For all the reasons we just said March from the second more sleepers March, twenty first, which is the Vernal Equinox city I'm. So all of this is to say they ve, sir, if you like in the idea. Yet there were using words like ecclesiastical in a word that derive from the Greek for pass over issues are very ancient tradition and custom in Christianity sure, but it's not mention in the Bible the whole

crucifixion death, the resurrection of Jesus, which is why the Easter seller, Easter season is meant to commemorate it's all in there, but they don't go and then no go forth and celebrate this. That's not right, and that is because it was a co, opted earn absorbed by the christian church from ancient even more ancient. Pagan, holidays and rituals. Why figure initially was kind of like, like they celebrate right around pass over. Yet I think it was kind of other things were like hey. We This thing we're commemorating at about the same time, you're used to commemorating pass over right. So I know your board you Your most gonna be disappointed, but come over their Chris inside and then later on the wine and spread out into Europe, it kind of took on all of the other stuff is well yeah, but

in difficult scholars and in most historians, will agree that it was originally a pagan festival? the word Easter is from Saxon the Saxon of in origin. I e a sd are a east through the goddess of spring, and sacrifices were made in her honor around in time as pets over like your saying yeah. So by the eighth century, Anglo Saxons basically collected this name. To coincide with the celebration of quite resurrection boom and there's there is article in the guardian about the pagan routes of ISA and the the there. I don't remember her name, but she basically says like you, can take it even further back than that, like Egypt, Mesopotamia and then, if you see none Zeit, gazed with

realized is not the most credible movie on the planet by it's interesting and there are some interesting conclusions and comparisons drawn between resurrection myths. Yet of you know the Egyptians Mesopotamians and other yeah and you know the ones that celebrate Easter and the resurrection of Christ, and this author makes the case that, like you, can take the origins of Easter that far back even bread, but then, as a kind of went on along in along along is picked up, local traditions are absorbed or folded in local traditions. Until we had this Easter that we understand today, which includes the Easter Bunny

and the Easter Bunny, apparently is born out of that pagan ritual the the Vernal Equinox Ritual Spring ritual for who had you pronounce your name, the goddess of fertility in and Renewal Astaire, yet stare extra Esther hurry struck, her symbol was the hare yet, which became The rabbit, I guess, which are two different things by the way: yes there, and so nowadays we have the Easter Bunny, which is a magical body that can lay eggs. Yeah and dramatic. Of course the Germans always have their finger and everything you know like Chris Christmas anomalies, holidays and everything. What is that, even in it is said that a star he'll, they wounded

She found in the woods by changing into a hair, and it was still partially bird though, and the hare showed its gratitude and return to the goddess piling eggs. Is gifts? Sell us, I also unlikely said: While people agree that it is pagan and origins, there are many many stories and no one can settle on the one saying now. It was Ishtar right, but Ishtar is one of them that they think could have been the original had it had its roots there. Now, if you're, a Christian and you know, have like her hands, clasped his your ears and stopping you feed

my God love, love, really loud right now, you're probably say all those fellows. Yes, the Easter body, not christian in origin, the Easter egg, not necessarily christian and origin. Yes, there is a lot of pig in land rituals, natural nature rituals were incorporated in, but if you take the whole thing back to the original as far as Christianity goes, what the whole thing is celebrating or observing Is the wife's death in resurrection of Christ? That's right: it's a specific days over the Easter holidays have been set aside to commemorate this prize. This process that took place about

they see yet, and even you know, historians that say now: it's you know pagan in origin and it was maybe Ishtar they're not saying that Christ was in a person who is crucified and they're, saying that, they have that there were so many parallels that all these things Canna became crunch together. At one point it was co opted I'm trying to be respectful here. You know that makes sense. Like their announcing that didn't exist, but it was. It was a pattern, widespread pattern and Christians, like just kind of absorbed, it well the celebration part in this guardian article again, and I think it's also means like ice. You can take it back even further, before mesopotamians in Egyptians ever existed and say that there is Genes of the sun- yes, oh n dying in

resurrected and that you can connect those things to the sun. As you in here dying as winner sets in being resurrected in the spring and connecting now with being crucified on the cross to the southern cross constellation. So these are possibly very ancient. Exceptions, Yemen, and there are many many stories of of of important people dying in being resurrected, and some were born in December twenty fifth to write. So if we have offended you, we apologise. We weren't trying to his mare fight, which is still a lot of tat. Anything if you ask me I'm in its history shirt, so I will get back to Easter No christian observance of ISA right after

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I said a little while ago, Easter, in a christian tradition, commemorates the life, the death in the resurrection of Christ. It right there and so days or set aside to commemorate specific dates and specific events in Christ like in there actually believed at least by christians- and- I am, I think, some historians, as well- to kind of closely resemble the days of the week that these things happened yet mean as a whole season right, yeah, yeah, so the Easter seasons, technically forty six days long and it most people think well Lead- is the Easter season as forty days long true. But there are six sundays in the Easter season Easter. Being the six one yet another considered special days where late doesn't apply, they exist outside of life because are meant to be celebrated masses. That's right, so you technically dont have to observe your lent in fast

these days yet and Lynton was the original Middle English, which is where lent came from spring. I thought it meant nodding in chocolate right now. For some people. So let's talk about the season meant we mentioned six weeks. Well, was back a little bit to talk about Shrove, Tuesday. First, yes, you might know it is fat, Tuesday or Marty guy yeah, which in nothing factors they came from France when they would eat all the fatty foods ahead of, went right to basically the dinner when you, when you go through land

what you're supposed to do a sacrifice, something or maybe many things right, because you're commemorating Jesus fast, a forty days after being baptized that right and it practically speaking back in the day. I guess Thomas Aquinas and some of his buds decided that when you are fasting for late you're, you're abstaining from animals, your food that is killed right, so you're not eating chicken right, we're Jack, a pig, radio cow anything there. You killed the Aea, they decide fish to. Forgive me don't this late, they decided there, oh after thinking about this and talking about in discussing it in having councils. And finally, they came to a decree

That not only is the food that you have to kill forbidden food during lantern. The products from those food are as well. So basically there saying like, if you re a fury, observant Christian, you aren't you go vision for the forty six days or forty days of white. That's right! Many people, thou gestures symbolically too, like he said, I'm gonna give up chocolate to something that they love to make a sacrifice. But from it right. But the point of Shrove Tuesday is this is the last day before, let you know one of this food to go to waste? Yes, oh you make a bunch of stuff and you eat all your supply and you get fat Then you go into the let seasonal white facts straight. Yes, you can.

Like I had never heard of Shrove Tuesday, but it's big in the UK on pancakes or the traditional meal, because it contained fatty, milk and eggs and things like that. Yeah, an exit forbidden Benazir product of those animals. You kill war, answer that with your bad right over the next forty days. So it's also waited not waster fit exactly and it's the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which is next so Ashley,

stay is the first day of the lantern fast, that's right and I'm basically it you're you're going into this fast in you. Are you just kind of becoming Goober Christian at that moment, like you're, taking on like this is just super christian persona you like is very solemn and commemorate it. You get a cross of ashes place on your forehead and the cross is made from the palm France from last year's Palm Sunday Service yet should be, which will talk about later, but they save him. They Burnham and they use the ashes these blessed France to put across his on the forehead, the penitent, the next ash Wednesday

yeah, the palm France or should never get as the what they used to Fan Jesus when he was resurrected correct now, when he rode into Julie Jerusalem on a donkey hollows after the resurrection. Now now, ok, it was when he he rode into Jerusalem triumphantly to take his title is the king of King Scatcherd, so they weigh Palmprint gather like it is. It is here that the impression I have the palm France may not really paying attention and confirmation class. You sure So quickly. If you see someone if you're, not very religious, if you see someone ashes on their head any time in the spring, dont say: hey you, ve got some money. Have you gather Lilla yet thought it? Yeah This is therefore reason you are aware we now we are at lint

so we're in the middle of went you're starting to think, while some eggs will be great. I wish I had some throve cake, Sir anything made from an animal or animal itself or you're, not saying that maybe you're defined yeah there's a lot of people who don't necessarily follow that traditional begin fast sure, but we'll give up something for lent a chocolate candy. I was tried homework What did you really yeah yeah? I regret this jokingly. You now be like I'm gonna go up homework. Ok, I never even growing up in a church. I never observed ideals. Baptist didn't observe it is much, but I never observed lent. It was big time care, OSHA, especially with my family. It was like you gotta, give up something so to typically you'll give up chocolate. And you give a chocolate and then, when the Easter Sunday comes along and learn, is over it yourself that you yeah, you tackled all every faith with delight,

following in a pretty old tradition, because that's where Easter eggs came from the giving of Easter eggs, it was a forbidden food that you couldn't have during length. So then, when Easter Sunday came, people give each other eggs. Is gifts like a enjoy the heck out of this Egg right, because you have an airline and forty days in the egg, obviously also being a symbol of birth, new life, new life spring Pagan, vernal rituals, perhaps so now we are at Palm Sunday, that's right and then, like we said this commemorates Jesus triumphantly coming into Jerusalem day. That's your claim is title and people wave palms to welcome a man and then so people have Palm France,

Palm Sunday services and remember the hang onto those in Burma menus and further next eastern Ash Wednesday. So this is the last Sunday before Easter. I have palmprints in my art, you should cylinder some Chris shells get worse getting give em away. I guess you could do the team that last year's palm France are now hanging dead on my palm tree. Well is it they don't have to be a year old, it's just the ones they were used

the palm Sunday servicing were blessed last year, so they private my palms one year old palms. You want I fresh ones federal on Sunday, but you want them to be all for the following ash Wednesday. Gotcha, a year later, the trade in holy water, we mention, is used with the ashes to put on the forehead. Oh yeah mix a little very much you like a pace charcoal he paced. Ok them right minded Thursday. Here the while the underrated Monday Thursday while they raise, because you never hear about it. It's true, you know I didn't know anything about it until we research this Monday spelling it. May you Andy? Why not Monday Thursday may be weird right and a mind or man is a basket and their use by fishermen, but their fish in so many many years ago there was,

fair held in Norwich Norfolk today and the basically big just sail were like a flea market and the fishermen will carry their? What flea market associate with eastern aware? Yes, it is people sell their wares. You know, or let's call it a flea market butter. Would you call it when they have the farmers market? The african farmers mark a sure thing or like a market, give it they are selling stuff from the farm yeah, but they also, like clothing and stuff, to Seoul Egg Point Supermarket occasion supermarket the fishermen, obviously would put the fish in their minds. And that's basically where the name came from me. I'm gonna that simple yeah everybody with this come together and by new clothes. You abide.

Close nets where their ancient tradition that your mom had you follow with your think, suspenders. Something new they use your bonnet, they believe came from that two new low Easter, dresser, Easter shoes or something like that. Having something new on Easter, customarily your by that on Monday, Thursday, or at the very least they came out of the Monti, Thursday market from the old English that right and the other tradition we had was too sneer at all the people who would show up for church who we never saw the rest of the year. Oh yeah. Maybe I can remember that Eastern Christmas saw him last year, saw him a few months ago, there's a whole sub solar side of Christians that are like Easter Christmas Christians. They just go for the two big ones armament, and so you

Georgia. I did so wrong. I cast the are good Friday. It fine! Please tell me you're a good Friday that day back in the ancient times, the first two centuries good and God, where sort of synonymous- and I guess is that, where the word good comes from, I would get as a description of God. Yes, they can't be bothered to keep that. Second Owen, that's right, but good Friday is the commemoration of the crews.

Fiction on the cross actually day of crucifixion and it is somber, but they they want to observe the peace and not necessarily the sadness sunspots VD morning now, but it still somber. I know how you put it. I remember get funny masses. I came quite described the tone of em but yeah. It's not it's not you're, not celebrating right, but you are also not crying into a little more serious. So maybe you and it's so interesting these these days, these holy days during the Easter season. You learn so much near a because the whole thing is like this happened. This day, yeah like on a Friday, they're pretty sure

Christ was crucified on a Friday because remember the Romans were in charge of actually executing him and they kept excellent records. Naturally have a pretty good idea of all this stuff. So you you just learned so much like the stations of the cross. Did you guys do that now things are any catholic church has different places. They can be really elaborate, they can mean stained glass. They can be just a little numbers and things like that. It's a station of the crossing it follows Christ path, while he's carrying the crucifix in being tortured along the way right up to cavalry and is placed on the cross and, as you know, it's all just to stir steeping

ancient tradition in the EU, this young inculcate, you know here, but at the same time you know if you're, just paying attention it really interesting, historically show any learn it over and over and over and over again, because you hear the same thing: every Easter yeah, I think that's you now support the ideas you get it ingrained in you so deeply here. Yes, we should have just called this former baptistin former carefully, hang on by the skin authority. Well, let's keep it, Helen and dumb, let's break before Easter. Yes, we are living in complicated times, I'm seventy rule, MSNBC Anchor and NBC News Course and in my new podcast modern rules, I'm gonna be set time unpacking some of the Harry's of today's top.

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ideas and it's not a day of mourning, but it's a somber day, Eastern, the exact opposite of that. First of all, we can say yes, Saturday off now, it's Sunday Easter Sunday and it's a day of celebration, yeah lot of fun if you and your family might have Easter egg hunts. I looked up the origin of the hunt itself and I couldn't find for sure, because I don't think they know for sure, but there are some historians who think they can trace it to Martin Luther the Protestant Chris reformer. He supposedly the guy who invented the Christmas tree to man. Look at that got along legacy Christmas tree in the Easter Egg Hunt about that so extract. He supposedly definitely had Easter egg. With this, supposedly that only where the

he had eggs, men had eggs and women and children would look for the eggs and they think it may be tied with people looking and hunting for Jesus Tomb. But that is a verified, because there are some, you know so means traditions. Knowing can trace back the exact origin. You know well yeah, but if it was Martin Luther there wasn t terribly long ago now, Musket point you mentioned eggs. We talked about exports, symbol of new ness and fertility in rebirth and This goes back to dying. Eggs goes back to ancient Egypt in the Persians who would die eggs and exchanges with friends. I, like you, said as a reminder of the resurrection, and I guess this to make it plain: white or brown egg look a little more fancy, they died, M Colorful yet and so eggs are also customarily died. Read too

to symbolise the blood of Christ. There also died green in Germany and Austria have looked all over, for this is the only reason I could find is that their there met to symbolise the bitter herbs they Christ was forced to eat. While he was on the cross interesting, pretty pretty melancholia ever this, I think in Germany. They still do that. Yes, on Wednesday, Monday Thursday monitors than yet green a day. Why should also give a shudder? Chuck tour slide, show on awesome, Easter eggs. Yeah will definitely posted on the podcast page and scary store

yeah. He had a couple. A good instruments will put those both I and Africa. There are some scary, Easter, burning, hot cross bonds. Again, not a part of my baptist upbringing. Did you guys have hot response? No, that's pretty british and the atom in New Zealand. I'd never see a reform person until New Zealand, yeah yeah have either, but yet apparently their sweet bonds. The accustom merrily baked and eaten- and our minister oh it's funny- is apparently is it again

ancient pagan, anglo tradition to beg sweet bonds as an offering to the gods around the Vernal Equinox it for the spring festival? And I guess the christian church said: let's stop doing that again and again and it didn't taken fire like put across on their ok. Ok, you put across answer they put across here and I have hot corresponds while supposedly the crosses there before, but it didn't symbolise that because they make the kick in the form of a bull, reduce and those across to represent the horns. Yeah, but again was like this make some changes to that new and ass. A high crossbones were still a thing. Never he eaten one that I have any, but apparently their sweet.

Are they were like steer this document? I dont mind bones, but I think this sweet look I'll get anything. What I thought was pretty interesting with some of the weird since around the world. Then we accuse the different. Yet When I say weird, I just Mina unusual to me a big dummy Soulier. Yet nothing inherently is weird about any of this. In Bulgaria they had a little thing called egg tapping, but they still do here and it's basically like the old pencil game. You, when an elementary school, the odes dab your buddy, the arm with a pencil nope. When you would play the pencil Papa, You drive break the other guys pencil and they

Oh yeah, right yours, space, which you do it eggs. You take hard boiled eggs knew tat the other person's egg, hoping to crack their egg, but not your own. You got any keep doing this until you get your a cracked and in your out and the last person in Bulgaria who has an incorrect egg is said to have good good luck throughout the year prosperity they get it. Fifty dollar gift card along, aren't stakes. That's right! There's an old bulgarian tradition, to check that, where the grandmother, while she's colouring eggs with the kids will color one read and have the kids come over and she rubs it on their cheeks. In order to bestow you know health and robustness to them like rosy cheeks. Here, like a curious thing, I've ever heard its adorable, especially if there were in pink suspenders at the time. That's right, and especially at the dies made from a non toxic

Let us move their teeth is immediately fall out. We know good Mexico that they have another a game and I the way ass. They empty the egg of the yoke and the young and the white. You know how he can put the little holes and other end of an egg and blow it out, and then they put, I guess, confetti in there and then they smashing on each other's heads. I got a blow the confetti and I got one line for everything you do I about about the: U S where we decide parades yeah. I got nothing, but he put me on the spot, yeah operates here in the: U S in Atlantic City, they had one for about a close two hundred fifty years now. Did you know that now I had no idea there's an Easter parade. I'd want to see their another anyone to think about New York when there's a New York is to pray yeah. I think Fifth Avenue

needs to parade? Oh yeah yeah. I see that in Irving, Berlin has a song called Easter Parade and, of course, the big White House, Easter role I knew about this- I was sort of system is strike hut. Now I did know about the Easter Egg role now think as part of its role in eastern across the self one of the wine it's kind of like track and field they now that's the egg toss feel there while the whole thing altogether. I think I have theirs. They can a raw there's, a task. This celebrities journalists and the? U S, o tour, that stop by its like feel that George Quiney there, given our eggs me get your commemorative egg, do an apparently it started out Congress had it on the capital and the president. Well, a specific president rather for be hey, said now. This is the president's thing now we're moving this to the White House did announce, is one of the things were like the sparing the Turkey on Thanksgiving Press up is what it is worth. It

It's funny that you mentioned sparing the Turkey on Thanksgiving because there's other tradition in in, whereas it how Leicestershire right in England, but it's crazy and it's the opposite of sparing the turkey. So there's a tradition in this. Town that a wealthy woman was spared from being gourd to death by a boy, when a hare ran across its path, and I guess distracted the bowler something yet to swear ticket. So for some reason to thank the hair We did some of our land to the local church and said you can have this land, but you have to make sure that all the parishioners in every one in the town get some hair pie like pie made from one of these rabbit type things that saved your life. That's no way to thank something for saving your life.

What cooking Edith yeah you Rayner ancestors are going to end up in a meat pilot. We're gonna make every year for everybody, yeah four pounds: a flower two pounds a large two pairs. Three pounds of onions, seven pounds of potatoes and seasoning, and you have yourself a delicious Lee disgusting. Hereby I think it's a good yeah. I want any rabbits after their or meat pies, really real. This takes a lot of boxes. For me, you mean I tried. I am I care mermaids call him. It was a type of meat pie again uneasy at Mcdonald's endeavours like this. Like cut up me and gravy and she's like pop highways,

You got it was so disgustingly good, really where they take together yeah, but I thought it met Mcdonald's. He really bad about myself with every passing year, but it still has to get to know what made it was. They claim beef, ok, so the BT gravy pie. Yes, with cheese and Delicious actually, but then here's where it gets really A little odd to me to go along with the hair pie, they have something called the bottle kicking, which is basically rugby with a beer cake. Three beer kegs too of a model of a gallon of bury. This is part of the Wealthy Lady, who did the lands request. They're not. Did you have to serve a meat pied everybody you also to give them as much as they wanted.

All this is commemorated in a way the making of a hare pie by the people of this little town. They carry it through the town at Saint Marks. I believe it marks the Michael's, Chert Jesse Michael's and the the I guess, the priest, the local press, cuts the pie up handed out to the crowd they take. Some of that pie over to another place. That's called Hereby Bank, which is a not a bank, but in embankment. Yes, like a procession, the ins there and that's where this bottle Matt starts yeah, it's it's it's a couple of neighbouring villages. It basically battle it out, like we said their basically barrels of ale, like I think he said to avail. One does not and in others all the ceremony that goes into the actual starting at the match them when the match starts. It's a game of soda rugby or football. If your American, where you're tryin, you know you're carrying a thing

around running with it trying to get it kicking it yet kicking it rang with doing whatever you can t get it heading it off to your friends Few to advance it forward without obstacles along the way. My fist- and this is another clear example of christianity- cooperating a pagan ritual near because Hereby Bank is an old pagan place of worship here and if this whole thing doesn't smack of pagan, addition like Pagan Festival games. I dont know what does plus the chairman, the guy who's running the bottle. Kicking competition is called the master of the stone to your w e out. That he's got the wicker man, pretty my yellow started. It Stonehenge, basically a thousand MR tradition and the master

stow still means a place of worship among anglo pagans. Yet so they still even call on the master of the stone. It's been dressed up that little yeah, but they have a good time and it's bizarre, and they they advanced the barrel over to their the, when the best I can see is it to their. I should like that line of their village the property line of their villages like the ins zone. I guess, then they drink it through, while the winners drink in front of the law there's, but just a kind of make em sore and rub it. If I know my friends over there there's plenty of beer aside from those two barrels right to go around and then the one sober person is in charge of collecting all the palm France from Palm Sunday and storing them until next year. In that giant, wicker man in my back yard,

Well, it's Easter! Chuck! That's Easter! If you want to know more about Easter, you can type in those that word in the search bar has the horse that common sense has prevailed cycle. Thank you, Easter, Bunny bought, but remember that I'm gonna call this a little more on tee. I got a couple of these actually in the coming weeks. This boy, we get some good feedback, people love their tea greetings from Kyoto. Fellows momentum was her. I'm actually started listening when I just moved to Japan and twenty ten didn't tell anyone gets you guys. Get me company is really great, hear you talking about matter on your latest part cast about t because their ideals catching on state side. Hearing Kyoto. Much if I were to everything is given. There is even a drink made of long tee and much of the core. Apparently I think she likes to look for them. She says I look down the street from where one of the three main schools

He ceremonies to be, and while I'm here thought it add my two since about pronouncing japanese words, they are basically just five vowel sounds and japanese a is along a like ball rather than apple. I sounds like e g sounds like air o sounds like, oh as in rainbow, you sounds like and do and why isn't avow it will always be connected to another vow. Oh for you about that, and she this is Nikki she's, gearing up her cherry Blossom festival in Kyoto.

I bet is gorgeous oh yeah and I'm she said Josh that if you ever venture out the Kyoto again that she would love to, let you know some things that you can do. Thank my over there s, nothing and dumb. She says about the podcast, can't wait to the next one and that is Nikki Mahler thanks a lot magneto yeah yeah. I can't wait to see the cherry blossoms there. This he's got an amazing onto their lovely trees. Ah, if an chuck, I gotta tell you, it makes a lovely coffee to Starbucks over in Okinawa. Had a cherry blossom, flavoured coffee really, which is this gets, come a made up sweet flavour, but it is still not derived from the tree, see how it could be interested, but it has like if it's perfectly like yes, this is what are you all right? Cartoonish, japanese version of the taste of cherry bottom would be perfect lights.

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