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Unmasking Halloween Around the World
Ever wondered how Halloween transformed from ancient rituals to a modern spectacle of costumes and candy? Join I'm Not Dumb But as they humorously unravel the spooktacular history of this beloved holiday, beginning with the Celtic Festival of Samhain. Listen in as we navigate through the eerie traditions of lighting bonfires and donning animal skin costumes to keep wandering spirits at bay, and share our own tales of trick-or-treating escapades. From the joys of pumpkin spice lattes to the unexpected twists of Halloween in suburban neighborhoods, we're serving up a cauldron of spooky stories and laughs that’ll have you howling with delight.
But Halloween isn't the only time people connect with the spirit world. Together, let's journey through global traditions that honor ancestors, from Japan’s Obon festival with its lantern-lit dances to Italy’s All Saints Day feasts. We'll reveal fascinating cultural differences, such as South Korea’s Chuseok, akin to a harvest Thanksgiving, brimming with family gatherings and ancestral rituals. Whether you're a fan of Dia de los Muertos in Mexico or looking to recapture the magic of childhood Halloween nights, this episode promises a blend of fun and reflection, reminding us that, above all, this season is about family, remembrance, and a whole lot of spooky fun.
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Chris, what are we talking about? Halloween, it's spooky season, everyone it's spooky season.
Chris:Today we're exploring one of the most spooktacular time of the year Tax season. We'll take a closer look at how this holiday is celebrated around different cultures. I'm not dumb, but what are the different ways Halloween is celebrated around the world?
Cesar:Welcome to the. I'm not dumb, but where we won't claim to have the answers to life's deepest questions but we'll give you an exciting journey into the realms of knowledge you never knew you needed Might be mainstream, but not common knowledge. From artificial intelligence to conspiracy theories, no topic is too taboo for us to explore. Let's get curious together.
Chris:I'm your host, chris, and I'm joined by my fantastic co-host, rob, of course.
Cesar:Hello Wow, someone's sucking someone's dick, Am I also fantastic yeah you're a piece of shit.
Chris:Caesar.
Victor:What's up? And Victor, how y'all doing, how you guys doing, I'm feeling spooktacular. How y'all doing how you guys doing.
Rob:I'm feeling spooktacular. I'm good man, let's get spooktacular.
Cesar:Should I go get a pumpkin spice latte for this, or is that optional?
Victor:A headless pumpkin spice latte.
Cesar:Ah, yes, you like that.
Chris:You like that I heard that they contain like ammonia or something.
Victor:Oh good. So I did hear something on TikTok and a woman was like describing how pumpkin spice lattes in the US have like 3000 fucking ingredients, yet the ones in the UK don't. Of course, because apparently, to dye the yeah, the color, to get the color, to get the color, yeah, they use like carrots and we use like 3000 chemicals.
Chris:And then one of them is ammonia or something like that.
Rob:But which?
Victor:one tastes better, probably the carrot one, but I don't know.
Rob:Have you ever had ammonia? Shit tastes great.
Victor:I put ammonia in everything. Now it's poison.
Cesar:What do?
Chris:you guys think about Halloween Like is that one of your favorite holidays, or is it?
Rob:As a recent homeowner, I'm looking forward to the trick-or-treating until one of these kids fucking eggs my house.
Cesar:Start egging your house. I'm going to egg your house, yeah, with my son.
Victor:By some of these kids. It's going to be us. Yeah Caesar, hey Rob. It's going to be four middle-aged men destroying your house and then driving away.
Cesar:Don't be stingy on the candy. I don't want the little mini ones, I want the full-size candy bar.
Victor:Are you a full-size candy house? Have you decided what kind of house you're going to be?
Rob:No, we are fun-sized because we're on a budget, but I did think about just getting pizza and putting it outside. I don't know if I can do that. We were trick-or-treaters and the building would give you like a pumpkin to put on your door and that meant like, yeah, you're, you have candy for the kids and these fucking new york city kids.
Rob:They come in, they got the fucking circles under their eyes. They look completely malnourished and I bought all these candies that I liked and this little girl goes I'm allergic to peanuts, do you have anything else? And all I had was like reese's peanut butter cups and the fucking m&ms with the peanuts and I was like no, and she's like you should really look into, like getting more stuff like get the fuck out of here.
Victor:I I immediately was just come and her poor girl just has an allergy.
Rob:I don't know why you're so aggressive towards her well, it's the one I like, so go to another house. I don't know what to tell you. Did you look at that stuff, were you like? Oh, this one has fucking.
Victor:I can't eat skittles you should give them vegan options.
Rob:Grab it keep it moving. Okay, let your parents eat it her dad's on the on his fucking cell phone. His guts out to here. I'm like he could eat these Reese's peanut butter cups. So yeah, I can't wait.
Chris:It's fucking great. So before I start talking about the different types or different ways cultures are celebrating Halloween, do you guys know how Halloween started?
Victor:Doesn't it have to do with the nightmare before Christmas? Isn't that the origin story?
Rob:for Halloween. What's this? What's this so?
Cesar:Halloween originated about 2000 years ago. What Isn't that? The?
Chris:origin story for Halloween. What's this? What's this? Wake up, jack. This isn't fair. So Halloween originated about 2,000 years ago what, yeah, 2,000 years ago From the Celtic Festival of Samhain, celebrated from October 31st to November 1st, making the end of the harvest and beginning of winter.
Rob:Oh Okay, here we go. Let me snap to the calendar winter.
Chris:The Celtics believed this was a time when the veil between the living and dead was thinnest, allowing spirits to roam the earth freely. That sounds like a nightmare scenario, yeah so, during this time, the disease could return to visit their families and the rituals, including lighting large bonfire, which provided warmth and protection, and wearing costumes made from animal skins to disguise themselves from wandering spirits that might cause harm so the costume was to hide from, from the spirit so I think they're welcoming them to come, but they don't want to get hurt by them, so they have to wear a costume so like the spirit shows up and is like, hey, I'm looking for my great-grandson, but all I have is this wolf and this goat next to me.
Rob:This is kind of weird.
Victor:Have you seen my grandson?
Cesar:Puts on glasses and is like oh, you look familiar. Oh there you are. Yeah.
Chris:I don Add another guy.
Cesar:Is this some kind of joke?
Chris:And then families would leave food and drinks like Coca-Cola outside to keep kids happy and help ensure a good harvest for the following year.
Victor:Was that product placement you just did there, man? When I'm thirsty when I want to welcome spirits of my dead ancestors, nothing welcomes them more than a nice cold Coca-Cola.
Chris:About 2,000 years ago, the Christians established a holiday called All Saints Day on November 1st. It was to honor the saints and victims, and this led to evening before being called All Hallows Eve, which later on shortened to Halloween.
Rob:Oh wow. So hollow is honor, as holy A quick.
Victor:Google search says origin was All Hollow, even I think even is for evening.
Chris:Yes, that's how they got the name Halloween. It's really a holy day, holy day, yes. Yes, that's how they got the name Halloween. It's really a holy day, holy day, yes, but now in America, halloween's traditions have evolved following the arrival of Irish and Scottish immigrants in the 19th century, so they brought the same traditions festival of Samhain to America, but throughout the years they've been evolved to what we have now, such as like trick-or-treating, pumpkin carving, custom parties and haunted houses.
Rob:So what happened was, I guess Samhain is the pagan religion for the end of the harvest. Then, when the Christians came over All Saints Day, which is around the same time of the year, and then Samhain, so then they just kind of merged together and became Halloween, Kind of like Christmas Is it.
Victor:That's where all the trees and shit came from. Yeah, oh, we have a tree as Christianity spread. For them to appeal Christianity to the local populations, they would just take traditions that were in their thing and they would just add it to Christianity.
Rob:It helped the pagans assimilate to Christianity.
Victor:Yeah, you want to decorate a tree. Fucking great Jesus loved trees.
Rob:Jesus loved trees.
Cesar:Jesus loved you just put a cross on the top of the tree. Jesus loved coquito, coquito.
Victor:Jesus loved that he created a bacardi christ, what get the escalade we're out of here?
Chris:as we explore how halloween evolved in america, it's fascinating to see how these customs have similarities but different in different cultures around the world. While trick-or-treating and wearing a custom have become staple in the US, the other countries celebrate this time of the year in unique ways, blending ancient traditions with modern influences. First country is Mexico.
Victor:Grab your fucking sombreros bitches. We're going to Mexico. Dia de los muertos, I just take a shot of tequila.
Chris:Where one of the most vibrant and meaningful celebration occurs is Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of Dead. Unlike Halloween, which often emphasizes fright and spooky, dia de los Muertos is a beautiful and heartfelt tribute to deceased loved ones, honoring their lives, and is celebrated from October 31st to November 2nd. We do everything big.
Victor:You're not Mexican. What are you talking about?
Cesar:No, I'm Spanish, I'll take it. You guys celebrate it too. In DR we celebrate Black Friday and Thanksgiving.
Victor:Wait, they celebrate Thanksgiving in DR.
Rob:Yeah, for what? For bringing over the corn? For no reason, we just celebrate.
Cesar:whatever everyone's celebrating, who's the worst?
Rob:deal ever.
Cesar:We literally just everybody buys turkey. We don't really need a lot for a party, bro.
Victor:They're like they celebrate President's Day too.
Cesar:If a holiday lands on a tuesday, everybody's like nah, we rotate it to the monday, so we have a three-day weekend.
Chris:That's smart, that's how we, that's how we roll, because I like to party so families believe that during this time, the spirit of the departed returns to earth to reunite with their families and celebrate now?
Victor:can someone go to the land of the dead to reunite with their?
Chris:family member? Don't you need a guitar and start singing?
Victor:Yeah, isn't that the whole point of Coco?
Cesar:I haven't seen that one. I gotta see that. I gotta see that. I heard it's cute Tio Oscar, tio Felipe, oh, hey, miguel.
Chris:The central to the celebrations are colorful altars or ofrendes. What are they? They're altars.
Victor:Ofrenda.
Chris:So that families create their homes and cemeteries. These altars are decorated with photographs of deceased and, along with their favorite food, drinks, personal items, ensuring their spirit feels welcome. The one iconic symbol of this holiday is yeah, the skull. Clasp right. Yes, the sugar skull. It represents the departed souls in the circle of life, and also in Spanish, they call it calavera. The skull is decorated with vibrant colors and designs, and in towns and cities across Mexico, the vibrant parades and festivals are bringing communities together, with people dressing as traditional clothes, painting their face with a resemble of skulls and participating in lively celebration filled with music, dance and storytelling, transforming grief into celebration of life. Have you guys been or seen anyone?
Victor:No hablo, no hablo Mexicano over here.
Cesar:Did you work?
Victor:at a restaurant. There was no Mexicans in that restaurant. Were they Ecuadorian? They were Salvadorian. There was an Argentinian and I think there was a Guatemalan.
Cesar:Yeah, they know how to cook and it was an Italian restaurant.
Chris:It was an Italian restaurant. They're also in a Korean restaurant too. They speak Korean too. It's pretty funny Like fluent Korean yeah.
Rob:Hello, mr George, have korean.
Chris:Yeah, hello, mr george have you guys been part of this celebration, or with friends, co-workers or anybody that you know? I've never been part of this.
Rob:No, you know, what I really like, though, about it is that they all go to the cemetery and they just like chill there. I think that's pretty fucking cool. What?
Victor:do you mean?
Rob:they like go to the cemetery and they set up the altars and then they like party in the cemetery oh, I didn't know that, yeah, yeah. And then like all, everything's all like lit up with candles and everything's decorated like for halloween, we need to hang out in a cemetery no thanks, yeah, I'm a pat I'll pass too.
Chris:Yeah, I want to make movies.
Victor:I'll stick to the uh mexican tradition of cinco de mayo at a chili's southwest angles.
Rob:Oh, they're the best this chili's three for me is the best 10.99 you can eat all right. Next country japan they celebrate something they're like they're like very straight-edge people.
Victor:No, they celebrate a lot yo, they have crazy parades crazy fucking parades. Yeah, they're super fun. They have mad festivals. They love their festivals.
Chris:In Japan, the festival is called Obon, obon, the celebration that honors ancestors, that has some fascinating similarities to Halloween. Although Obon is celebrated in mid-August, its theme of remembrance and connection to the spirit world resonates strongly with the essence of Halloween. This festival has roots in Buddhist traditions, so it is time for families to pay their respects to those who have passed and welcoming their spirit back home for brief reunion. During this festival, the must-do activity is lighting of lanterns, which guides the spirits of ancestors back to their resting places, so family often place these lanterns at entrance and gravesite, illuminate the way. They also features traditional dance rituals, known as Bon Odori, where communities gather to dance in celebration and remembrance. So this joyful expression honors the spirits, celebrating their lives and ensuring they feel welcome and cherished. And through these activities, the oven emphasizes the importance of familial bond and the ongoing connection between the living and the deceased.
Victor:So there's a theme here. Yes, Two of the countries we've covered so far. It's a very ancestry, family-oriented celebration. Ah, okay. And then let's go to the West.
Chris:Next country is Italy.
Victor:Ah, italia, mamma mia, bippity, booppity, miscusi.
Chris:Anyways, they have a holiday called Agni Santi, Agni Santi, agni Santi. Yes, bippity, boppity, mi scusi, anyways they have a holiday called Agni Santi.
Rob:Agni Santi, agni Santi. Yes, thank you Arrivederci Bravo, bravo.
Victor:I speak the most Italian too.
Chris:So pretty much. Agni Santi is All Saints Day. It's celebrated on November 1st and this day is dedicated to honoring all saints and significantly remembering deceased loved ones.
Rob:Do they do anything special for that? Any lights? Pizza.
Chris:Yes, the biggest part of this thing is food.
Victor:They eat fish for like two days. They love fish.
Chris:The food plays a central role in these holidays, with many families preparing special meals to celebrate the occasion, and traditional dishes may include sweet bread like pandimotti and various seasonal treats.
Victor:So cutlets.
Chris:Cutlets.
Victor:Pasta Antifast. Yo, I could eat cutlets all day. Yo, where's the cutlet?
Rob:holiday, that's on November 2nd. Don't eat that, that's for.
Cesar:Thursday.
Chris:And the influence of Halloween is becoming more popular among the younger generations. So many young Italians are incorporating Halloween costumes, like wearing costumes and trick-or-treating, into their celebration.
Victor:Oh, so they're stealing from us.
Chris:Yes, they're becoming more West. Yeah, so this blend of tradition highlights the evolving nature of cultural practice, creating a unique fusion that respects the past while embracing new influences. Again, it's pretty much the same idea as the Mexico and Japan.
Victor:Are they big on the pumpkins. I don't know if pumpkins grow outside of the US, oh really.
Rob:United States, china, ukraine and Russia. Russia. China produces over 9 million tons of pumpkins a year.
Cesar:Wow.
Rob:And India comes in second place with 5 million tons.
Victor:I can't picture India with pumpkins Me either. The earliest domesticated species are native to North America, wow so lastly, we're going to Korea North or South.
Cesar:I heard the North party like crazy.
Rob:No party like a North Korea party.
Chris:So in South Korea they call it Chuseok. It's a major harvest festival celebrated in the fall. Chuseok isn't directly related to Halloween, but it shares similar theme of honoring ancestors and connecting with family.
Rob:Does it vary on the day, or is it just in the vicinity of the Halloween-ish time?
Chris:No, it changes.
Victor:It's the same kind of like customs as like Mexico and Japan.
Chris:Right, yes, this three-day celebration, often referred to as Korean Thanksgiving, it is time for families to come together and pay respects to their ancestors and celebrate a bounty of the harvest.
Rob:Is it a big holiday Like everyone's off for those three days?
Chris:It's a big holiday for yeah, oh, really yeah.
Victor:Three days Is there like a festival, like a parade?
Chris:They do festivals they do a lot of stuff. Are there pumpkins? No pumpkins, I don't think Huh. But during Chuseok, families conduct ritual known as Chare, where they prepare food offerings and set tables for their ancestors. So traditional dishes such as rice cake and fresh harvest fruits are laid out. To show gratitude for blessing of the year. They put like a photo of your, let's say, grandpa or something, and that's the center of the table. They put everything, like his favorite food or expensive fruits, pretty much anything you want, and then you just lay out, you just put it there on a table and then you pray whatever you got to do, and then when you do that, you have to leave your front door open so the spirit can come through and then eat the food and chill, hang out.
Rob:What if you live in a in like a high rise? Do you have to like tell the doorman?
Victor:I'm sure they just leave the door open.
Cesar:Yeah.
Victor:And they're just like hey, this is this time of year where you're leaving the door open.
Cesar:Or the penthouse door open. So they just land Act elevator. Probably faster that way.
Victor:It sounds like they just make this killer charcuterie board. Add a photo in the video and be like yo grandpa, look at that rose I made with cold cuts. You like that? It's art.
Chris:So this focus on family and connection, combined with act of giving thanks, it makes Chuseok a meaningful celebration that embodies the spirit of togetherness and respect for those who came before us. That's how Korean people celebrate.
Rob:Yeah, I think we've gotten really far away from all that.
Victor:Yeah, do we know the origins of how? How it came to be like this, commercialized by a bunch of candy wearing these like ridiculous costumes? Because I think at first it probably started with like easy costumes, like ghost costumes right, just cut holes in your, like your bed sheet and then run around like a ghost and then at some point it turned into here comes slutty nurse I'm mother teresa.
Cesar:Are you kidding me what?
Rob:I'm her back when she was hot so the the trick-or-treating came from the saw when that chris was talking about. They call it guising, where you put dress up as a costume and you go door to door and you put on like a small performance and then receive food or treats for the performance, and then we just kind of took out the performance, put on the costume, show up. Give me candy.
Victor:We should bring back the performance. No kids getting candy without a fucking show. Do you have?
Cesar:to perform like 200 times, then you're going to be a grown man watching little kids dance for candy.
Chris:Yeah, that's not. I don't think you can do that.
Rob:It's like those holiday carolers that would go in front of your house. Have you ever had that happen to you? No, it's fucking annoying.
Chris:When they come to your house.
Rob:Yeah, you ever had someone sing in front of your house.
Cesar:No, I don't answer the door. I've never had that.
Rob:Oh my, I'm going to start asking a bunch of questions.
Cesar:I'm not interested in any of this. You guys meet Thursdays.
Victor:I would do it like America's Got Talent. There's three X's above my door. If you get all three X's, you're not getting shit. You better show up with magic tricks, singing comedy sketches, whatever you got, I want to see it.
Chris:You get an X, you get the fun size and you get the pass, and you got I want to see it. You get the fun size and you get the pass, and you get the party size.
Victor:Yeah, you get the full size.
Cesar:If you suck, look at those pennies, adam Wow that's just cruel, that's just cruel.
Victor:I unleash dogs on them. Get off my property. You're done. It's definitely enough for me dog.
Chris:Do you guys have any traditions? We're a diverse group here, so what?
Victor:does that mean we're all from the same area? Yeah, you're the only one that's actually not from this area. Yeah, in the east coast, because it's fall time. Uh, you just do trick-or-treating like you'll run around. It's usually wet, there's leaves everywhere, um, you go door to door and then you start trick-or-treating. I don't think actually I don't even think kids do that anymore, to be honest, trick-or-treating and they'll do something called trunk-or-treat, where all the kids go to the school, the parents basically open up their trunks and it has candy in all their trunks in the parking lot and so they go around.
Victor:That sounds more dangerous no, it's parents of the school. It's not like strangers just show up and open their trunks. Yeah, come on, kid, get in. That's why they stopped you from going there.
Rob:No, I don't like this. Kids need to start trick-or-treating. Our parents used to just let us out and they're like here you go. Take a pillowcase and go out there.
Chris:We left at like 4 or 5 o'clock and came home at like midnight.
Cesar:My family was funny. As kids we would all go out get candy right and they would be like you know what, let's put all our candies together and let's give half of it to the less fortunate. What we realized later was they took that half and threw it out. They didn't want to say like candy Whoa.
Cesar:They were like we're going to send some of these to the kids in DR. Oh my God, wow, they just threw it in the trash. Yeah, they just threw out half the candy. Oh, it's five kids hot on candy, come on.
Victor:Yeah, that's supposed to last you into December. You don't eat it all in one week. Yeah, you eat your favorite and, as the time goes on, you're eating your less favorites.
Rob:You know what they should have done Actually, given the candy to the less fortunate.
Chris:Like seriously the kid out there with no candy. So you get nothing.
Victor:December would come along, and that's when I'm eating three musketeers, because they're fucking gross.
Rob:Yes, you're right. Usually the last no three musketeers was dope. What? Yeah three musketeers, get the fuck out of here.
Victor:No, three Musketeers was dope. What, yeah, three Musketeers, that was my game, that was my go-to Snickers 100 grand, three Musketeers.
Chris:That was my favorite. Almond Joy, that was a good one. Baby Ruth, that was my favorite. Baby Ruth, baby, yeah that was fire.
Rob:Yeah, airheads, I never got into the Airheads. I never got into them, got it.
Victor:I don't know smarties you were never a smartest person. No, took those like fucking vitamins. I was like time for my pack of smarties a day uh, they used to have like the uh pixie sticks.
Cesar:Those are crazy.
Chris:Oh, those are yeah, I remember those too. I was just straight sugar those little boxes of nerds yeah yeah, nerds are fire, so yeah.
Victor:So, chris, how do they do it on the west coast?
Chris:you grew up in oregon like I said, we usually start start as soon as it gets dark and then we just run around, hit as many houses as we can with a pillowcase.
Victor:Aren't you afraid, though, of vampires and werewolves breaking out into fights?
Cesar:Yeah, which team?
Chris:were you on. I was, what was it?
Victor:We were trying to make a Twilight reference. Apparently too close to home. Where?
Cesar:the hell have you been Loco.
Chris:But what about nowadays, as you get older? Do you guys prepare for it, for kids to come to your house?
Rob:Nope, the house is decorated with pumpkins and lights. The thing is, you only go to the houses with the lights on.
Cesar:If the light was off, you stay away from them right, Because they're usually Jehovah's Witness.
Rob:And then you go no, it's true, they don't believe in that or whatever you know, so you stay away from the Jehovah's. And then we have like the big tray with the pumpkin on it and you just I just went to Costco and just loaded up up on candy. I have no idea what these kids are gonna eat. Um, could be interesting. Do you guys decorate your houses, though?
Cesar:no, like for like, yeah, I can't yeah you don't decorate the inside.
Rob:No, not with halloween stuff.
Cesar:We're like uh, fall stuff. Yeah, you have a fall theme going yeah, but nothing do you have an autumn reef?
Victor:do you have a cornucopia?
Chris:ah, bro, I don't need that but I I usually eat dinner as soon as possible as soon as I come home from work. Right as soon as the sun goes down, my light goes off, the curtain goes on, I go straight into my bedroom and Act like there's no one in the house.
Victor:You're like afraid of people on Halloween. Oh my God, chris, I want to make sure.
Chris:And then I make sure no one knocks on my door.
Cesar:That sounded for a second there. That sounded like a regular Tuesday night man. How is?
Rob:that different from every other day.
Cesar:Get under the covers and no one can find me.
Rob:Don't answer, don't even go in the kitchen. You don't watch like scary movies or anything.
Chris:On Halloween? No, man, but I usually hide so that they don't bother.
Rob:What are you hiding for From the kids? What are you hiding? Oh my God, You're like the worst house to go to.
Chris:I live in the first floor and then so it was like free for all. I don't know. We were in New York City, I don't know. Okay, it's not safe outside.
Cesar:With kids is cool, because now you're like you get to look at costumes for them and then, like, go to these Halloween parades that they have all over the place, get some candy and stuff. So there was a couple of years where I was like Halloween, this fucking thing, sucks.
Victor:Now that I have kids and stuff, it's uh, I'm excited. I'm excited for the holiday. There's some people that I know that still get invited to like costume parties and halloween parties. Is that still a popular thing? Or do you, as my friends are just shitty and just don't do?
Rob:your friends are shitty. Yeah, I was never that cool to get invited to your shitty friends you know,
Victor:dude At this point in my life I refused to wear anything.
Chris:It was like so much work just to buy it.
Rob:I went to my wife's friend's Halloween party a few years back and she was like, oh, they're having people over, let's go. I was like, oh, this is going to be stupid and they were like you got to dress up.
Rob:I was like immediately, this is going to be stupid. I went in that house. It was literally like a TV show Everything I mean like soup to nuts decorated. They had like a smoke machine in the house. They had like a cauldron bubbling. It was the coolest thing I ever seen and it was these people did it up for Halloween, but some people are into that.
Victor:Did you stay for the orgy or did you leave before that? I left right before I left right before.
Rob:yeah, my wife stayed, though which was weird, I got out of it.
Chris:I'm sure she had fun.
Cesar:You're not here for the orgy.
Chris:Alright, so what did you guys think, victor?
Victor:I think that we're doing Halloween wrong. It seems like all these other cultures are really just embracing this long tradition of celebrating ancestors and now that I'm hearing that everyone else is doing this but except for us and we're just like commercialize the shit out of it and just like we need to buy candy, we need to load up with sugar and get us one step closer to diabetes. This is probably not the right way to do it, rob.
Rob:No, we're doing it wrong, man, we're doing it wrong. I just don't. Yeah, we've commercialized it. It turned into Costco size. You know bags of candy $40 costumes that are sold out in July. But you know what I think is that it's one of those holidays that I think everybody's got to get into it. Like right now, chris, you say you go home, you don't do anything. You know my wife's big on decorating the neighborhood I live in, big on decorating. Everyone's got Halloween stuff out and that's what just makes it fun for the kids. Now, I mean, the saddest thing I ever heard is this trunk or treat thing. Like that's ridiculous. That is is absolutely ridiculous. Like going door to door hanging out with your friends even your parents were nearby.
Cesar:That was the best part caesar, I have fond memories of halloween as a kid. You know it was always fun, going out with the family, trick-or-treating and stuff. And now, with kids, I have those same memories and, uh, my family never was like, oh, this is for to celebrate the dead or to celebrate your ancestors, maybe they said it, I don't remember. For the most part, it was all about buying candy pumpkins, costumes. Are we doing it wrong? I don't know.
Chris:It's fun as we traveled the globe, we discovered that celebration like Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, oven in Japan, agni Santi in Italy and Chuseok in South Korea, all have one thing in common they know how to throw a party for the ancestors. So each culture has its unique twist, but they all remind us to honor those who passed and while keeping their memories alive Whether it's lively parade, heartfelt rituals or family feasts its traditions show us that death isn't the end. It's just another reason to gather and celebrate. So this year, while you're indulging in those Halloween treats, make sure to remember your loved ones too.
Victor:They might be behind you touching you, touching me, touching you, grandpa, is that you, sweet Halloween?
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Cesar:See you later.
