115: Uncle Fester Takeover (HALLOWEEN SPECIAL)

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski reminisces on her childhood Halloween experiences and researches the history of Halloween traditions. Watch The Broski Report AD FREE: https://patreon.com/broskireport The OFFICIAL Songs of The Week Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ULrcEqO2JafGZPeonyuje?si=061c5c0dd4664f01 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Follow The Broski Report: https://www.linktr.ee/broskireporthttps://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Royal Court: https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourt https://www.instagram.com/royalcourt https://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Follow Brittany: https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanybroski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski ICE OUT OF OUR CITY / PROTEST RESOURCES: ACLU – https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights Immigrant Defense Project – https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit Freedom for Immigrants – https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resources Immigrants Legal Resource Center – https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights Immigration Justice Campaign – https://immigrationjustice.us/ CREDIBLE RESOURCES TO HELP FREE PALESTINE: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/ UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-trauma Doctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND. DWB_CKMSF-BRAND. DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand. E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wc World Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/ World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/ Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/ IG ACCOUNTS FOR A FREE PALESTINE: @eye.on.palestine @aljazeeraenglish @palestinianyouthmovement @byplestia @motaz_azaiza @impact LGBTQ+ RESOURCES: https://Translifeline.org https://translifeline.org https://Glaad.org https://glaad.org https://Pflag.org https://pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ REPRODUCTIVE RESOURCES: https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com Brought to You By: Cash App – Get $10 for free – Download Cash App and use code THATSMONEY10 Songs of The Week: Jungle Blues by CW Stoneking Amarcord by Pino Calvi Heroin by The Tiger Lillies Grown Woman by Beyonce Standing On The Sun by Beyonce Hymn for the Weekend by Coldplay & Beyonce CHAPTERS: 0:00 – Intro / Costume 2:43 – Halloween 4:36 – Childhood Halloween 7:21 – Trick or Treat 10:20 – Minion Language 11:00 – Trick or Treat 20:37 – Jack-o-lanterns 34:52 – Book Club 38:58 – Witchcraft 41:25 – Ghost vs Ghoul 43:29 – Universal Studios Orlando 46:04 – Frankenstein 46:53 – Superstitions 54:33 – Essential Halloween Viewing 55:49 – Songs Of The Week #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #halloween, #adamsfamily, #halloween, #history, #folklore, #books, #reading, #superstitions, #frankenstein

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:35Speaker 01

  Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.

• 0:45Brittany Broski?

  Da-da-da-dun, da-da-da-dun, da-da-da-dun, da-da-da-dun, da-da-da-dun. They're creepy and they're spooky, they're serious and spooky, they're all together, they're a cookie, they are a family. Gomez!

• 1:08Brittany Broski?

  Gomez! Guys!

• 1:13Brittany Broski?

  Is it giving Trans Uncle Fester?

• 1:18Brittany Broski?

  Is it giving Trunkel Fester? Guys, be serious! Gomez! Debbie, with all my soul! No, but can we hear some fucking chatter for Uncle Fester?

• 1:34Brittany Broski?

  Okay, guys. Happy Halloween!

• 1:43Brittany Broski?

  Pumpkin!

• 1:46Brittany Broski?

  Pumpkin, pumpkin!

• 1:48Speaker 03

  Dumber pumpkin.

• 1:52Brittany Broski?

  Okay, guys. Happy freaking Halloween. It's the day, it's the time, it's the year. It's the most wonderful time of the year. There'll be much whistle blowing and... I don't really know the words to that song. Okay, and I texted a picture of myself to Drew and she said I look like Nosferatu. Fuck you bitch. Fuck you bitch. I'm Fester Adams, hoe. Okay, so, what's on the docket for today?

• 2:26Brittany Broski?

  First of all, I need to tell everyone Uncle Fester is on his period.

• 2:32Brittany Broski?

  Uncle Fester's on his period. And that just needs to be said because there's a lot of things going on in my brain right now. And maybe I don't know how to put on a bald cap and let my ears out. Because I'm kind of deaf in both ears right now. I'm kind of...

• 2:49Brittany Broski?

  You should have... First of all, I did my own glam. Thank you. I did my own glam. Stop. Yes. And was I in the mirror for about 20 minutes practicing Uncle Fester faces?

• 3:04Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, I was. Okay? Guys, for the audio listeners, unfortunately, this is kind of a visual one.

• 3:12Brittany Broski?

  This is a visual one. Okay, we all know that I freaking love Halloween, okay? Millennial moment. Sometimes you gotta tap into that. You gotta tap into the millennial cringe to be free. And I'm not even millennial. And don't, don't, I don't want to hear it. I'm not even millennial, but sometimes you gotta tap into "I freaking love bats." Moms love that video, by the way. Moms freaking love that video. Friggin'. Bring back friggin'. I'm trying to bring back fierce and I'm trying to bring back friggin'.

• 3:43Brittany Broski?

  That is totally friggin fierce. Okay, guys, we're gonna deep dive into kind of the backstory of Halloween here today because Halloween, guess what, Irish holiday. Hate to tell you guys, I hate to report it. I know every country, every culture kind of has their version of Halloween, but Irish Halloween, okay?

• 4:06Brittany Broski?

  Here's the deal. I kind of want to tell you guys what I, my family did growing up for Halloween and some hot takes that I have on Halloween because there is a best type of candy, there is a worst type of house to go to to trick or treat. And I also think, we discussed this on Drew and Caleb's, on Caleb's podcast and me and Drew went on, can I speak? Can I speak? I think that there is an age that you kind of graduate out of trick or treating, unfortunately. However, however, look at me. If I showed up, if I showed up on your doorstep, you're telling me you wouldn't give me candy? If I said, "Gomesh."

• 4:49Brittany Broski?

  Like this.

• 4:52Brittany Broski?

  And then I had a pillowcase and I was like, "Excuse me, Mish. Gomesh, Happy Halloween." And I, and I did this. Actually, they might call the cops. Cause I'm looking at myself in the viewfinder and I'm like, oh, wow. Wow. When I was a kid, we used to do, we either some years would go full like balls to the wall Halloween where we would do like fog machine. I would scare my, I would scare the kids that came up to the door because that's a simple pleasure in life, okay? I had this friend in high school named Kaylee who used to do like special effects makeup. That was her special interest. She used to do like gory, nasty special effects makeup.

• 5:38Brittany Broski?

  And she used to post it on Tumblr and Instagram and shit like that. And so she would do these crazy like, look like she got hit in the head with an axe, like flesh flaying off the bone. And we, I would just wear a cape, okay? Because sometimes a cape is the scariest thing of all. A, a grown woman in a cape. Actually, I was 15. And my dad would be at the door with the fog machine going, you know, "Happy Halloween candy." And that's already scary enough, right? Like, you've got five, six, seven-year-old kids coming up to the door, "Fog machine." We've got scary Halloween music playing. We've got, you would do the fake cobwebs everywhere and the, like, shit in the yard. Then you've got double whammy, me and my friend Kaylee, two mentally ill teenagers rushing these kids.

• 6:22Brittany Broski?

  Okay, so they come up, "Happy Hal-"

• 6:26Brittany Broski?

  Or me and Kaylee would do, "Help me! She's gonna kill me!" We'd do that, and then the kids would run away crying. And there is such a, an innate joy in causing that, in being the cause of that. We would do that. One year for Halloween, I was a red Eminem, because the costume was plus-size friendly. One year, I was, well, I was Kylo Ren, two years ago. I like a costume that is, uh, easily recognizable, and I say that dressed as Uncle Fester, okay? Because I, I figured, "Bitches know Uncle Fester! The bitches go crazy for Uncle Fester!" Yeah, Halloween in my family is fun. It's definitely, my nana dresses up like a witch.

• 7:10Brittany Broski?

  She paints her face green. And like, does her witch cackle, and she scares away the kids. Because it's a test of honor, okay? It's a test of courage and honor. If you can come to the door, and if my nana's doing,

• 7:30Brittany Broski?

  can you come get a candy? Because if you can, you've earned that candy, okay? And if you can't, then get, "Get the fuck off my porch!" Sometimes I wonder, "Why am I like this?" And I'm like, "That's my nana." She made, she kind of, it's genetic. Whatever's wrong with me right now, here, that you can see kind of visually, my nana gave it to me. So.

• 7:52Brittany Broski?

  Okay, let's deep dive into the history of Halloween. Halloween. Because what is trick or treat? That's kind of a fucked up concept. Trick or treat origin. The cookie and the cookie.

• 8:09Brittany Broski?

  Okay, trick or treating, traditional Halloween custom for children and adults in some countries. Da da da, October 31st, yes. People dressing costumes and you get a trick and or you get a treat confectionery candy sweets. Although in some cultures, money is given instead. The trick refers to a threat, usually idle, to perform mischief on the residence or their property if no treat is given. We need to bring back tricks on Halloween. Way too many treats. I'm tired of seeing treats. I'm tired of the gluten free, sugar free, carbless, like high protein Halloween treat. Okay, what I want to see is more tricks. Trick or treat. And then you gotta start dancing.

• 8:55Brittany Broski?

  Trick. Okay, and then I do a head spin. Trick. Armed robbery.

• 9:02Brittany Broski?

  Trick or treat. Trick. Arson.

• 9:06Brittany Broski?

  I throw a Molotov cocktail through your window and I run away. And it's like, who did it? I don't know, it was a little girl, maybe it was a little boy, I don't know, dressed as Uncle Fester. Actually, they weren't that little. They were kind of midsize, plus size, and they were about five foot nine. Grown ass man, Uncle Fester.

• 9:26Brittany Broski?

  We need to bring back tricks. What were what tricks? For trick or treat? Oh, this is just stupid as fuck. This is actually gonna piss me off. Our son's trick is a big scary smile. Trick. Pull my finger. Okay, that's funny.

• 9:47Brittany Broski?

  Trick or treat, trick, pull my finger and then I shit myself.

• 9:54Brittany Broski?

  And then I load my adult underwear with human diarrhea.

• 9:59Brittany Broski?

  My son loves his treats, so always willing to perform a trick or tell a joke. He loves the fake eyeball lolleys to pretend his eye fell out. Motherfucker, this website's from Australia, not a real place. Best tricks for trick or treat. Okay, here we go. Reddit, r slash Halloween. Someone said, I would not do this. Do you want your house TP'd or egged? Because this is how you get your house TP'd or egged. Okay, bring back egging people's houses. Bring back, do it. I got TP'd once, actually, in high school and I got in trouble. I didn't do it. Someone TP'd our house and my parents, I was in trouble with my parents. What the fuck? I don't know who did it. The history of trick or treating traces back to Scotland and Ireland,

• 10:44Brittany Broski?

  where the tradition of geising, geezing, goes back, going house to house. Hello, hello, hello, casa de minipas. Going house to, and why do the minions speak Spanish? Why is minionies like an offshoot of Spanish? Have I, have we Googled this before on this podcast? Why are the minions Latinx? Why are the minions Latinx?

• 11:11Brittany Broski?

  Who made that creative decision? You know what I mean? How like in Avatar, Way of Water, like all, it's just like ripping it from island cultures. Hey, these are fake people. We can't come up with like a fake, why are we still, why are the minions Latinx? I digress. Going house to house at Halloween and putting on a small performance to be rewarded with food or treats. Now I like that, okay? You want a Snickers dance? Put on a show. I want to see choreography. I want to see you guys work for this fucking treat. Because that's the thing with kids these days. Entitled, entitled, they can't read, they can't write cursive. All they know is be on their phone.

• 11:55Brittany Broski?

  Have ADHD, watch Cocoon Melon, okay? And probably, I, I am an enjoyer of all three of those things as well. However, if you want some snacks or treats from me, I'm gonna need to see some dancing. I'm gonna need to see some form of entertainment that you're gonna put on for me while I sit in the threshold of my doorstep. And I can hand out this Walmart candy, okay? I don't even do that, though. I can't, cuz then people would be like, I know where she lives. Okay, and she was dressed as Uncle Fester and she wasn't wearing pants.

• 12:30Brittany Broski?

  And she wasn't wearing pants, because guess what? I'm not.

• 12:37Brittany Broski?

  She was dressed as Uncle Fester and she was tucked. Now, what is there to tuck? Not much, okay? What is there to tuck? I don't know, but she kept saying, I'm tucked, I'm tucked.

• 12:47Brittany Broski?

  Do you guys tuck for Uncle Fester drag?

• 12:50Brittany Broski?

  Gomage! Okay, moving on.

• 12:55Brittany Broski?

  I love my job. Here's the thing about trick or treating. Here's what I wanna do, okay? If I were ever to like be the house that kids come to, first of all, I'm dressing up scary as fuck. My house is going to be ominous. When I have like, okay, ten, fifteen years from now, life's kinda settled down. I'm no longer like, hey, guys, what's up? Here's the butthole picture of the day. I'm gonna be with my man, ideally Irish. We're sitting in chairs, in lounge chairs in the front of my house. It is, it is completely decorated like a haunted house. It is spooky as fuck, okay? If you approach the doorstep, I'm dressed like Fester, my man is dressed like Debbie, okay? Because, yeah.

• 13:39Brittany Broski?

  You have to come up and I'm gonna say, you have to recite five facts about the global state of politics and economics right now. You have to give me the current GDP of your favorite country now. No Googling, no ChatGPT. I'm gonna ask kids to popcorn read for their fucking treat.

• 14:05Brittany Broski?

  Go ahead and write your name in cursive for me and I'm gonna grade it. And if it's good, I'll give you a treat, and if it's bad, I'm gonna shoot you.

• 14:12Brittany Broski?

  If it's bad, I'm gonna start. If it's bad, I'm, I'm gonna call your parents. And we're gonna have a sit down discussion. You are going to be disciplined. It's not up to me, I'm not your parent. But you are going to be disciplined. iPad taken away. You know, no phone time for a week. I don't know what it is. Okay, you can't see your e-character AI boyfriend. I don't give a fuck. You can't write your name in cursive. Trick. The history of trick or treating, like we said, goes back to Scotland and Ireland. Going house to house and putting on a small performance to be rewarded with food or treats. Goes back at least as far as the 16th century. As does the tradition of people wearing costumes at Halloween.

• 14:53Brittany Broski?

  And I'm sure you guys have seen those scary as fuck pictures of like Halloween costumes from the 1930s. And it's like human flesh masks. I don't fucking know. Or like Mickey Mouse convention from 1941. And it's just like the scariest, most terrifying cult masks you've ever seen. There are many accounts from 19th century Scotland and Ireland of people going house to house in costume at Halloween. Reciting verses in exchange for food. Go ahead and recite me seven Seamus Haney poems right now.

• 15:27Brittany Broski?

  I need you to repeat the Gettysburg Address, starting in three, two, one. Reciting verses in exchange for food and sometimes warning of misfortune if they were not welcomed. In North America, the earliest known occurrence of gees-geezing is from 1898, when children were recorded as having done this in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The interjection, "trick or treat", was then first recorded in the Canadian province of Ontario in 1917. Wow, the Canadians are the spooky ones. What is the, what is the link between Canada and Halloween? Do you guys love it up there? What are you guys doing up there? Is, is anyone monitoring Canada? We need to leave you guys with like a guardian. I don't really know what the Canadians are up to.

• 16:11Brittany Broski?

  There's a lot going on down here, south of the border, meaning America. So just, can someone check on the Canadians?

• 16:20Brittany Broski?

  While going house to house in costume has long been popular among the Scots and Irish, it is only in the 2000s that saying "trick or treat" has become common in Scotland and Ireland. Prior to this, children in Ireland would commonly say, "help the Halloween party", at the doors of homeowners. What does that mean? "Up to Halloween party!"

• 16:41Brittany Broski?

  I'm working on the Irish accent. It's still, it's not where it needs to be. I'm not proud of it. I'm gonna keep doing it. Don't get me wrong, but it's not great. Okay? Oh, pure fucking Halloween costume. That's class. Grand. Very good. Very good. Very good. The activity is prevalent in the Anglo-spirit countries, great word, of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, and Canada. It also has extended into Mexico. In northwestern and central Mexico, the practice is called calaverita. Calaverita, Spanish diminutive for calavera, skull. And instead of trick or treat, the children ask, "Me da mi calaverita?" "Can you give me my little skull?" That is so cute!

• 17:24Brittany Broski?

  Where a calaverita is a small skull made of sugar or chocolate. Now, see, I like that. Cause kids, they're polite with it. They come to the, they come to the door. "Can I have this? Can you give this to me?" And then, of course, the answer is yes. I'm not gonna make you dance for it, cause you asked nice. But this bull, this trick or treat bullshit? Start dancing. Start dancing now. Recite me a poem. Recite me a scene from a play. I wanna see you dance. I wanna see a, a talent show. I wanna see a special hidden talent. Okay? Even do that shit where you like, remember those kids in middle school would like flip their eyelids upside down? You'd have to like, and we'd all, ew, do it again. You remember those kids who used to shoot milk out of their eyes?

• 18:06Brittany Broski?

  Was that just like, that is such a public school thing? Okay? I don't know if, if the little kids who were going to like Catholic school and all that, they weren't in the public lunchroom with the government-funded lunch meals, shooting milk out of their eye sockets. So I don't know if that was happening. That was reserved exclusively for the public, public school kids. And I'm, I'm happy. I'm, I'm very grateful I went to public school. Cause it made me who I am. It made me funny, I think. And it made me very aware. Private school, who the fuck knows what's going on over there, you guys? Seriously. Get your head out of your ass and start shooting milk out of your eye. Or do, find something weird to do with your body and you need to start doing it. Okay, cuz that's how you get attention and it's how you get social points.

• 18:51Brittany Broski?

  Okay, you need to be the kid that's doing weird things with their body. You need to be the kid that is a little bit off the beaten path. Because even if you're weird, you're still famous. And that's important. That's important in the social hierarchy of, of elementary, middle school and high school. Is you need to be, oh, yeah, that's Jason. He's cool. He just shoots milk out of his eye. Oh, I went to high school with that kid. Yeah, he used to shoot milk out of his eye. See, you're immortalized. Just giving you guys advice. The custom of trick or treating on Halloween may come from the belief that supernatural beings or the souls of the dead roamed the earth at this time and needed to be appeased. All right, I like that, okay? You're dancing for the ghosts. You're reciting scenes from normal people for the ghosts.

• 19:35Brittany Broski?

  Entertain them. They're fucking dead. I know they're bored. Give them something. They don't have Hulu. They don't have Disney plus. Show them what's going on. Among Celtic-speaking peoples, it was seen as a liminal time. I like that word, liminal. When the spirits or fairies, the aossi, did I say that right? A, O, S, S, I, but it's in Irish, it's in Celtic. Aossi. And the souls of the dead came into our world and were appeased with offerings of food and drink. Now, that's similar to, um, el dia de muerte, el dia, el dia del muerto. Where you leave out an offering. Similar beliefs and customs were found in other parts of Europe.

• 20:17Brittany Broski?

  It is suggested that trick or treating evolved from a tradition whereby people impersonated the spirits or the souls of the dead and received offerings on their behalf. S V pedal suggests they personify the old spirits of the winter who demanded reward in exchange for good fortune. Hmm. Impersonating these spirits or souls was also believed to protect oneself from them. I like that and it's tried and true, okay? Leave an offering as a, please don't fuck with me, dude. I, I, look, I gave you the like dried meat and fruit. Can you just please don't fuck with me? Life is hard enough. I don't need someone over my shoulder while I'm trying to watch Hulu. Being like, skip back 10 seconds or like making it load, like it's loading over and over constantly, like it's skipping, it's glitching.

• 21:02Brittany Broski?

  I'm just trying to watch my show and you're pissing me off. And it's cuz I didn't leave an offering.

• 21:07Brittany Broski?

  Okay, let's go back. What is the origin of jack-o'-lanterns? What is origin of pumpkin? Pumpkin?

• 21:17Speaker 03

  Dumber pumpkin.

• 21:19Brittany Broski?

  Jack-o'-lantern. Who is Jack? Jack-o'-lantern Wikipedia. A carved lantern, most commonly made from a pumpkin, or formerly a root vegetable, such as mangle-wurzel, rutabaga. That's how you spell rutabaga? Ha ha ha! Rutabaga. These are like them shits from Harry Potter that scream, right? Rutabaga, or swede, is a root vegetable, a form of brassica napis. Swedish turnip and turnip. Oh, it's just a turnip. That usually refers to the related white turnip. Who gives a fuck? Guys, who fucking cares? I do want to know what a mangle-wurzel is.

• 22:00Brittany Broski?

  Mangled-wurzel, mangle-beet, field-beet, fodder-beet, and root of scarcity, is a cultivated root vegetable. Very interesting. It is suggested... Oh, here we go back to Ireland, dude! I'm telling you, everything goes back to that fucking place. Everything. Its name comes from the phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peat bogs, called jack-o'-lanterns, also known as will-o'-the-wisps. It is suggested that the name also has ties to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a drunkard who bargains with Satan. Oh, I just got really excited! I just got really excited! I just got really excited at Stingy Jack.

• 22:45Brittany Broski?

  What the fuck? Wait, I just got really, really... Uh-oh, pumpkin! The Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a drunkard who bargains with Satan and is doomed to roam the earth with only a hollowed turnip to light his way. That's what I'm fucking talking about! And yeah, we're clicking on the Stingy Jack. Stingy Jackalanttern, also known as Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, Flaky Jack, Jackalanttern, and Pumpkin Jack, Pumpkin, is a mythical character sometimes associated with All Hallows' Eve, while also acting as the mascot of the holiday. Several centuries ago in Ireland, there lived a drunkard known as Stingy Jack. He was known throughout the land as a deceiver or manipulator.

• 23:27Speaker 03

  He was a gaslighter male manipulator, and he probably had a fucking mustache and wore diesel jeans.

• 23:33Brittany Broski?

  On a fateful night, Satan overheard the tale of Jack's evil deeds and silver tongue. Unconvinced and envious of the rumors, the devil went to find out for himself whether or not Jack lived up to his vile reputation. Typical of Jack, he was drunk and wandering through the countryside at night when he came upon a body on his cobblestone path. What? The body, with an eerie grimace on its face, turned out to be the devil himself. Jack realized that this was his end. Satan had finally come to collect his malevolent soul. So Jack made a last request. He asked the devil to let him drink ale before he departed to hell. Period. One more Guinness for the soul, sir!

• 24:15Brittany Broski?

  Finding no reason not to acquiesce the request, Satan took Jack to the local pub and supplied him with many alcoholic beverages. Upon quenching his thirst, Jack asked Satan to pay the tab for the ale.

• 24:31Brittany Broski?

  Ah, fuck, man, that was good. I think I left my wallet on that cross paths where I found your dead body. Yeah, no, no, I usually, no, it's right here, it's usually in my coat pocket, but, you know, we kinda, I was so taken aback, you're the devil, you're the devil, and I think I dropped it, if you wouldn't mind catching, I know I'm about to die. Would you mind covering this tab? I mean, I got you for eternity in the afterlife, but would you just mind putting down that Amex? Thank you so much. Jack asked Satan to pay the tab for the ale, much to his surprise, because he didn't carry any money. Jack convinced him to turn himself into a silver coin with which to pay the bartender and change back when he's not looking. Satan did so, impressed upon by Jack's unyielding nefarious tactics.

• 25:15Brittany Broski?

  Shrewdly, Jack stuck the now transmogrified Satan coin into his pocket, which also contained a crucifix. What the hell's going on? Jack is a master male manipulator. How are you gonna manipulate the devil? The crucifix's presence kept the devil, devil? Kept the devil from escaping his form. This coerced Satan to agree to Jack's demand. In exchange for his freedom, he had to spare Jack's soul for 10 years.

• 25:45Speaker 03

  What the hell?

• 25:47Brittany Broski?

  Now, you know, if you make a bargain with the devil, you're losing, okay? Sure, you just earned 10 years, but what's 10 years to an eternity in hell? An eternity, and guess what? Now Satan's pissed, because you got him. He got God. You got, you got Satan, and now he's gonna fucking kill you forever.

• 26:06Brittany Broski?

  He's gonna kill you every day forever. 10 years after the date, there's this famous, not famous, there's this super funny line from SpongeBob. Maybe it was from SpongeBob that I still think about, and it makes me laugh to this day, where he says, "He'll kill you, and then he'll go to work on you." Isn't that it? Maybe it's from the Squidward episode where he's in the Krabby Patty vault. And he goes, "It'll go straight to your thighs, and then you'll blow up." And the camera pans down to his big cellulite thighs. I love SpongeBob. Okay. 10 years after the date, Jack originally struck his deal. He naturally found himself once again in the devil's presence.

• 26:49Brittany Broski?

  Jack happened upon Satan in the same setting as before, and he seemingly accepted it was his time to go to hell for good. As Satan prepared to take him to hell, Jack asked if he could have one apple to feed his starving belly. Foolishly, Satan once again, again, agreed to this request. Satan, let me tell you something, man. We know Jack's not trustworthy. We know he's not a good guy. Why are we acquiescing? You feel bad for him? He's a male manipulator, okay? He's gonna keep doing it to you, and then he's gonna do it to your friend. And I'm, no, I'm coming to you as a girl, Satan. I'm coming to you as like, a friend, like, I have no skin in this game. You are not the first person he's done this to, okay? And like, I just want you to protect yourself. Like, he is a manipulator. He has this reputation.

• 27:34Brittany Broski?

  And like, I know you're giving him the benefit of the doubt, but like, protect your peace. Protect your peace, okay? Cause what? At first, it was the drink and now it's the apple. Like, gluttony, gluttony. Just kill him, just kill him already, okay? Kill him every day for the rest of forever. Foolishly, Satan once again, again, agreed to this request. As he climbed up the branches of a nearby apple tree, Jack surrounded its base with crucifixes. And you made Satan go get the damn apple for you, bro? Satan, frustrated at the fact that he had been entrapped again, demanded his release. As Jack did before, he made a second demand, that he will never take his soul to hell.

• 28:16Brittany Broski?

  Having no choice, the devil agreed and was set free. Eventually, the drinking took its toll on Jack and he died. Jack's soul prepared to enter heaven through the gates of St. Peter, but he was stopped. Jack was told by God that because of his sinful lifestyle of deceitfulness and drinking, he was not allowed into heaven. Jack then went down to the gates of hell and begged for admission into the underworld. Satan, fulfilling his obligation to Jack, could not take his soul. He gave Jack an ember to light his way. Now, why is Satan kinder than God? And, we'll get to that in a sec. And, we'll get to that after this commercial break. He gave Jack an ember to light his way. Jack is now doomed to roam the world

• 29:01Brittany Broski?

  between the plains of good and evil with only an ember inside a hollowed turnip. Turnip in this context referring to a large rutabaga to light his way. So it's not even a pumpkin. It's a rutabaga. Wow, that's crazy. And who made this up? Very interesting, very, very interesting. Okay, so that's why it's called a jack-o'-lantern. They should think, really fucking, they should think.

• 29:27Speaker 04

  Hey, it's Niall Rogers, host of Before the Moment, a Lincoln original series. I'm driving across the country, meeting some of today's most fascinating artists. We're exploring the stories before the moment that changed everything. This week, I'm joined by rising star Sienna Spiro.

• 29:46Speaker 05

  I love the 60s. I feel really jealous that I wasn't alive for it. I'd be interested, like, knowing what that was like and seeing the way culture and art has progressed today. How do you find it?

• 29:56Speaker 04

  Wait a minute, I'm gonna...

• 29:57Speaker 05

  I'm sorry, I have so many questions. Sorry.

• 30:00Speaker 04

  You're not nervous, are you?

• 30:00Speaker 05

  I am nervous.

• 30:01Speaker 04

  You are?

• 30:02Speaker 05

  I am. I feel, like, insecure about my experience. I know I shouldn't, but, you know, I'm 20. I haven't really lived my life yet. And then sitting in front of somebody that has lived an enormous life is intimidating. And sometimes I feel like talking about myself is just not as interesting. So that's why I feel a bit nervous. I'll try and ignore it, then.

• 30:21Speaker 04

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• 31:02Brittany Broski?

  Jack-o'-lanterns carved from pumpkins, pumpkin, are a yearly Halloween tradition that developed in the United States when Irish, Cornish, Scottish, and other Celtic-influenced immigrants brought their root vegetable carving traditions with them. It is common to see jack-o'-lanterns used as external and interior decorations prior to and on Halloween. To make a jack-o'-lantern, we know how to do that. It's usually a scary or funny face carved out of the rind. Now, why is it called a will of the wisp? Oh, that's scary. What the fuck is that?

• 31:38Brittany Broski?

  In folklore, oh, now we're fucking getting into it, dude. In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, or ignis fatus, foolish flame in Latin, is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps, or marshes. That's actually gonna be a firefly, son. Yeah, ain't no ghost, that's gonna be a firefly, they're bioluminescent. Yeah, they glow sometimes, they're endangered, they're endangered, man, yeah, don't catch them, don't put them in jars and shake them up, you'll kill them, you'll asphyxiate them. You'll assfixiate them, do not do it. Okay, we don't have that many left, we don't have that many left, man, please don't touch them.

• 32:20Brittany Broski?

  The phenomenon is known in the United Kingdom by a variety of names, including jack-o'-lantern, Friar's Lantern, and hinky punk. Y'all really just say anything, y'all say anything. And is said to mislead and/or guide travelers by resembling a flickering lamp or lantern. Equivalents of the will-o'-the-wisp appear in European folklore by various names. It's in French, German, Italian, Thailand. In North America, the phenomenon is known as the palding light. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the spook light in southern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma, and the St. Louis light in Saskatchewan. In Arab folklore, it is known as Abu Fanous.

• 33:02Brittany Broski?

  In folklore, will-o'-the-wisps are typically attributed as ghosts, fairies, or elemental spirits meant to reveal or conceal a path or direction. Ooh, you never know. These wisps are portrayed as dancing or flowing in a static form, until noticed or followed, in which case they visually fade or disappear. Modern science explains the light aspect as natural phenomena such as bioluminescence and chemiluminescence caused by the oxidation of phosphine, defosphane, and methane produced by organic decay. Now, that is crazy.

• 33:41Brittany Broski?

  If we didn't have modern science, trust you me, believe you me, I would have been the biggest, like, it's the signs from the fairies, that's me now. We have scientific explanations for this shit, and I'm like, no, it's the fairies. Yeah, they're texting the fairies and they're telling me to follow them. So I need to follow them down the road, into the forest, and I need to meet the bog man.

• 34:04Brittany Broski?

  And stingy Jack is actually waiting for me. So I need to go talk to Jack. Guys, one moment, I need to go have a word with Jack. He kills me. "The Will of the Wisp and the Snake" by Herman Hendricks. Look at this, they have arms, dude. What, what the hell? "Mexico has equivalence. Folklore explains the phenomenon to be witches who transformed into these lights. Another explanation refers to the lights as indicators to places where gold or hidden treasure are buried, which can be found only with the help of children." I don't like that. "In this one, they are called luces del dinero, money lights, or luces del tesoro, treasure lights." "The swampy area of Massachusetts known as the Bridgewater Triangle has folklore of ghostly

• 34:49Brittany Broski?

  orbs of light, and there have been modern observations of these ghost lights in this area as well." "The fufolé of Louisiana derives from the French. The legend says that the fufolé is a soul sent back from the dead to do God's penance, but instead attacks people for vengeance? That's not godly. Surely God's not sending down spirits to attack people."

• 35:14Speaker 04

  Hey, it's Nile Rodgers, host of "Before the Moment," a Lincoln original series. I'm driving across the country, meeting some of today's most fascinating artists. We're exploring the stories before the moment that changed everything. This week, I'm joined by breakout singer-songwriter Alex Warr.

• 35:34Speaker 06

  To this day, Ordinary would not have done anything, and I would have not been able to put it out if Book Talk didn't back it up and if my wife and her friend didn't back it up.

• 35:42Speaker 04

  Amazing.

• 35:43Speaker 06

  Pretty crazy how like, just one thing.

• 35:46Speaker 04

  Right.

• 35:46Speaker 06

  I mean, you, I bet you, we could point to nine different things in our careers where it's just one thing, all of a sudden, if that one thing didn't happen, then I wouldn't be here.

• 35:53Speaker 04

  What you're talking about right now

• 35:55Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 35:55Speaker 04

  is what I've been talking about since the beginning of my career. There's these things outside of you

• 36:01Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 36:01Speaker 04

  that make everything happen. These other forces somehow came into contact with each other

• 36:08Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 36:09Speaker 04

  and helped propel you to this place.

• 36:11Speaker 06

  It's just insane.

• 36:12Speaker 04

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• 36:52Brittany Broski?

  Oh my God, I read this crazy, actually, little mini break for book club. I started Perfume. You know that famous book Perfume? It's like a murder story. Dude, I, as a purveyor, as a, as a, an enjoyer of a fragrance, I love this fucking book. It also has just kept me like hooked. It's a short read. It's like 250 pages or something like that. I'm about three-fourths of the way through it. I'm gagged, I'm gagged. It's amazing. Yeah, Michael, get the book. Hold on, stay right here. God damn it, let me find it. Okay, I was talking about God sending down spirits to hurt people, like the Acts of Vengeance, because that's what this thing said.

• 37:35Brittany Broski?

  And I'm reading Perfume right now, okay? Gag. And look at my little, my Paris bookbag. It's Paris, because it's set in Paris. Or at least the first half is. He has this passage in here where he's kind of the main character, Grenouille, is discussing kind of in his head, because he's crazy, okay? He's crazy. He's talking about how, when you really think about the concept of God, let me just do a little fucking disclaimer, of course. If you are religious, if you believe in God, power to you, okay? This whole thing of like, I envy the faithful, sure, yes, whatever. It gives you a peace at night. The institution of religion, I don't really respect as a man-made thing, as a man-made construct. We've been through it before. If you've listened to this podcast before, you know how I feel about religion.

• 38:20Brittany Broski?

  That being set aside, like, this is not to be offensive. This is more from like a philosophical standpoint, okay? If you think about God as a concept, not as something that is real, but something that we let govern our lives, our society, our rules, our feelings, our behavior, all of these things, our thought processes. In here, this dude is like in his mind palace. Okay, so he's in a deep state of reflection and of like self-actualization. And he is almost having like an egomaniac fit, where he is realizing he is more powerful than God

• 39:02Brittany Broski?

  in the the kind of dictionary definition of what God is and the role that it plays. And he says, he's sitting in the church. Okay, he's sitting in a church after everyone's left, and he has a really distinct and savant level sense of smell. And he's sitting in this church and he can smell like the shitty incense. It's not even real incense. It's some substitute made of a blend of some fake something. He says, "He sat there for a while with an air of devout tranquility and took deep breaths inhaling the incense-laden air. And yet another cheerful grin crossed his face. How miserable this God smelled!

• 39:44Brittany Broski?

  How ridiculously bad the scent that this God let spill from him! It was not even genuine frankincense fuming up out of those turbels, a bad substitute adulterated with linden and cinnamon dust and saltpeter. God stank! God was a poor little stinker. He had been swindled, this God had, or was himself a swindler, no different from Grenouille, only a considerably worse one." I underline that, made me laugh. God stinks!

• 40:17Brittany Broski?

  But I think that's, that's, obviously it's related, but it's different of like, when you get to this level of realizing kind of how ridiculous religion is and how deeply we've let it be ingrained and how we treat other people, both positively and negatively, you know, how we let it dictate everything, that he's sitting here having this kind of out of body, out of mind realization of like, and it's not even good. Like it sucks. Anyway. Would I, okay, here's a game I want to play as well. It's called Back in Those Times, The Witch Trials. Okay, obviously horrendous, horrifying versions of it still exist today.

• 41:01Brittany Broski?

  Okay. In those times though, in the Middle Ages, would I have been accused of being a witch? Now, the short answer is yes. Look at me. Now, the long answer is I want to take a quiz. Would I have been accused of being a witch during the witch trials? Here is a list of 17 signs that you'd qualify as a witch in 1692. Number one, you are a woman.

• 41:25Speaker 03

  Okay, in this cosplay, it's a bit hard to tell, but like I said, Uncle Fester is on his period. So.

• 41:34Brittany Broski?

  Number two, you cannot support yourself financially. No. You are rich or financially independent. How is that? Why would they have called someone who's rich a witch? Wouldn't they have like glazed them? You have one or more woman friends. You have had an argument with one or more of your woman friends. You are very old. You are very young. Dorothy Good was only four years old when she confessed to being a witch. Oh my God. Dorothy was imprisoned for nine months before her release. You are a healer. You are married with too few or no children. Your neighbors are having trouble conceiving.

• 42:15Brittany Broski?

  What the fuck? You have a mole, birthmark, or third nipple. Butter or milk has spoiled in your fridge. You've had sex out of wedlock, witch. You've attempted to predict the identity, identity of your future husband.

• 42:29Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, so I guess yearning makes you a witch. Let's do the, the next one. 10 bizarre reasons people were accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. Number one, being sarcastic. Okay, so everyone was stupid. Number two, you didn't hear the question.

• 42:46Brittany Broski?

  At the hallowed age of 71, Rebecca Nurse was one of the oldest people accused of witchcraft in Salem. The nail in her coffin, so to speak, was when they straight up asked her if she was a witch, and she failed to respond because she was an old lady, and she literally didn't hear them. Slamming the church door? Lifting something heavy? Making a witch cake? Someone claimed to have seen a flock of birds land on your head one time? Your child said so? Having an unfavorable personality? Damn. That's why they call it a witch hunt, dude. It's because it's just nonsensical. It is truly nonsensical, because what do you mean witch? What does that even mean? What is the difference between a ghost and a ghoul? I would like to know.

• 43:31Brittany Broski?

  What is the difference between ghost and ghoul? We're going to Reddit. We're going to r/AskReddit, naturally. A ghost is a spirit or apparition. A ghoul is more like a zombie, specifically a sentient one. You're telling me a ghoul is a corporeal, corporeal being? Corporeal? As in having a corpus, as in being a body? Corporal? Corporeal? Ghoul? Picture of ghoul? Hey Jarvis, show me a picture of a ghoul. Oh, wow! Whoa! My version of the ghoul.

• 44:16Brittany Broski?

  r/dnd. Okay? Fallout ghouls. Yeah, I've seen this dude from Fallout.

• 44:29Brittany Broski?

  So they have like these crazy tongues, and they're kind of fleshy? Yeah, they're kind of like zombies. Okay, what is the origin? What is the origin of ghouls? In folklore, a ghoul is a demon-like being or monstrous humanoid, often associated with graveyards and the consumption of human flesh.

• 44:55Brittany Broski?

  The concept of the ghoul originated in pre-Islamic Arabian religion. Modern fiction often uses the term to label a specific kind of monster. By extension, the word ghoul is also used in a derogatory sense to refer to a person who delights in the macabre or whose occupation directly involves death, such as a gravedigger or grave robber.

• 45:18Brittany Broski?

  I would like to talk about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, because I believe it's out. I believe it's out, and I'm so excited to see it. I actually might go see it tonight. Fuck it. I'm very excited for that movie. I just went to, by the way, Universal Studios in Florida, and Dark Universe opened, an epic universe, which is that new park that's opened. And it was so fucking cool. Dark Universe is entirely themed like Frankenstein, Dracula, and werewolf. I got my fucking life. Me dressed like this in the park. Dracula real.

• 45:58Brittany Broski?

  They built like the Frankenstein Manor, and the whole storyline is Henry Frankenstein or Victor Frankenstein, whichever one of them, who created Frankenstein's monster. It's his great-granddaughter, Victoria Frankenstein, who now runs Frankenstein Manor and is creating like, with kind of modern-ish technology, like this weird siphon of energy, and she trapped Dracula, and she's zapping that bitch. She's zapping that bitch and has him in one of the crypts, and it has all these monsters, and even like a mummy in the crypt, and there's this crazy ride that you could go on that's like, it is keeping. I got my life, and I got a hoodie. You know when it's good, you have to buy merch.

• 46:43Brittany Broski?

  So I bought some merch. But I really, really enjoyed it, and they reconstructed this old like, Eastern European town, kind of like from the books, from whatever of, of...

• 46:58Brittany Broski?

  These people living in fear of the local monster. You know, and they kind of managed to combine the fear of vampires and the ghouls and the werewolf, whatever. I don't know if the werewolf's fed on human flesh. I'm not sure. But it was so cool. It's like, you know, the dark Gothic kind of like all the buildings sag a little bit. And it's all in, it's not German, but it's like Germanic, like Doss Steakhouse, like H A U S. And then you can look in the shop windows and everything has like garlic hanging from it. And like, there's wooden steaks everywhere. I got my fucking life. It was so good.

• 47:42Brittany Broski?

  It was very, very good. I got a photo with Frankenstein, really Frankenstein's monster. And, uh, yeah, I really enjoyed myself. That place is awesome. The ride was great. There's a, there's a werewolf ride. Very fun. I think that I need to figure out what the hell's going on with werewolf. Because like the burning windmill, what is that? Werewolf burning windmill. Oh, it's from the Frankenstein movie. Burning windmill Frankenstein. It's a famous climactic scene from the 1931 movie Frankenstein, where an angry mob corners the monster in a windmill and sets it on fire. The scene represents the villagers' fear and rejection of what they don't understand.

• 48:26Brittany Broski?

  It is also the inspiration for a fiery windmill effect at the Burning Blade Tavern in Universal's Epic Universe Theme Park. Very cool. Um, yeah, I had no idea. And I thought that that was, had to do with werewolf. I don't, I don't know. I've never seen any of the werewolf movies. Curse of the Werewolf, Curse of the Whatever. I do feel like him sometimes though. When I, when I get, you know, kind of freaky. Okay, let's keep going. Okay, so that's ghoul, difference between ghoul and ghost. Let's look up some superstitions. In America, some people believe in the magical powers of black cats. I do. I do, and I know that a lot of you are gonna say, "It's unfair prejudice towards black cats."

• 49:06Brittany Broski?

  I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't walk under ladders. I don't do the broken mirror shit. When I see a black cat, okay, they're cute. They are cute, I will admit that, and they look like toothless. Especially if I can see their teeth, they're kinda sweet. But I don't, I'm not gonna touch it. I don't know! I don't know! It's how I was raised. I don't put a hat on a bed. We've talked about this before. That's an old cowboy superstition. I don't do that. Like, there's just some things where it's like, "I don't know if it's real or not, but I'm not gonna do it just to be safe." And it makes me sound stupid as fuck, but I'm not gonna do it. Okay? In North America, it is bad luck if a black cat crosses your path, and good luck if a white cat crosses your path.

• 49:51Brittany Broski?

  Now that's racist. In Britain and Ireland, it's exactly the opposite. The blue cat in Russia brings good luck. The blue is often viewed as a gray cat. What the hell? Owls. Many people used to believe that owls swooped down to eat the souls of the dying. If they heard an owl hooting, they would become frightened. A common remedy was thought to be turning your pockets inside out and you would be safe. Humans are so dumb. Like, what do you mean? "This cat bad, this cat good, see an owl, turn my pockets inside out, lick a salt lick." What are you talking about? But I get it. At the same time, I get it, because like, I can't put a hat on a bed.

• 50:33Brittany Broski?

  I can't do it. I don't know. Some believe if you catch a snail on Halloween night and lock it into a flat dish, that in the morning you will see the first letter of your sweetheart written in the snail's slime. And I know some of you freak weirdos are gonna do that tonight. I know some of y'all are gonna do that. Dumb supper. No talking at the dinner table. The dumb supper was brought to America by the Africans. This is an eerie, hallow-must meal where nobody is allowed to speak, not even whisper. It encourages spirits to come to the table. In Britain, people believed that the devil was a nut gatherer. At Halloween, nuts were used as magic charms. Peel an apple from top to bottom.

• 51:15Brittany Broski?

  The person with the longest unbroken peel would be assured the longest life. Ew, that's scary. If you threw the apple peel over your shoulder, the initial it forms upon landing is the initial of your future mate. See, that shit's stupid, because what if you're already married? What are you supposed to do? Now, now you're fighting with your husband. Now, now you're laying in bed fighting this. I told you that we weren't supposed to be together. I told you that this wasn't gonna work out. I mean, look, we've worked through it. And I know that we had the kids. But I just feel like my soulmate's out there. I just feel like he's out there. In fighting with your partner. In ancient, I'm gonna mispronounce this, and I'm sorry. It's the Irish word for the festival. Shamain. S-A-M-H-A-I-N.

• 51:59Brittany Broski?

  Shamain festivals. Bats would swoop over blazing fires to eat the mosquitoes. If a bat flies around a house three times, it's a death omen. If bats come out early and fly around playfully, it's a sign of good weather to come. If a bat flies into a house, it is a sign that ghosts are about and maybe the ghost let the bat in. If a bat flew into my house, I'd kill myself. If a bat flew into my fucking house, call the police. Call fire department and set my house on fire. I can't, I can't live there anymore. That's the bat's house, it's not mine. Knock on wood. Oh my God, I do this all the time. If a girl puts a sprig of rosemary herb and a silver sixpence under her pillow on Halloween

• 52:44Brittany Broski?

  night, she will see her future husband in a dream. All right, let me repeat that for all you weirdos. If a girl puts a sprig of rosemary and a silver sixpence under her pillow. What is sixpence? Not in general circulation and has no face value in the UK. Fuck. Though a decimal sixpence was briefly valued at 2.5 newpence. Okay, well, what would it be? It's 1/40 of a pound, or half a shilling. 1/40 of a pound. I can't even do that math, and I don't give a fuck. And I don't care, too. Knocking on wood keeps bad luck away. You should walk around your home three times backwards and counterclockwise before sunset on Halloween to ward off evil spirits.

• 53:29Brittany Broski?

  But here's the thing, right? There's so many conflicting customs and traditions and best practices, because sometimes on Halloween, as we've read, you're inviting the spirits in. Okay? Like reconnecting with loved ones or lost souls. Now, other times, you're warding away bad spirits. So are you inviting them in, or are you making them go away? Pick one. And you know what's really actually the most scary of all is that I put this white-ass face paint on my face, and my hands match, and I didn't paint my hands. I'm just that fucking white. I'm just simply that white. It's upsetting. Why knock on wood? A superstition with roots in pagan and Christian beliefs.

• 54:13Brittany Broski?

  And by the way, we can't say lives. It's lives. But we can say beliefs. Well, I guess there's not an E on the end of that word. Never mind. Answered my own question. Knocking on wood is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating that one is doing or intending to do so in order to avoid tempting fate after making a favorable prediction or boast, or a declaration concerning one's own death or another unfavorable situation. Apotropaic magic? Or protective magic is a type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye.

• 54:59Brittany Broski?

  Apotropaic observances may also be practiced out of superstition or out of tradition, as in good luck charms, amulets, or gestures, such as crossed fingers or knocking on wood. Many different objects and charms are used for protection by people throughout the world. Yeah. Whoa! That is nuts, honestly, because all this shit permeates every single religion, and they're all pagan superstitions. And that, like, by definition, is, what's the word?

• 55:30Brittany Broski?

  A religious, it's blasphemous, it's blasphemous, but we still do it. There are connections between ancient spirituality and trees influencing fortune. In the pre-Christian beliefs of the Germanic people, for example, three Norns set fate up into the universe through a tree. Languages descended from these people include concepts such as knock on wood, touch wood, or three times wood, although only the first two expressions are in the descended English language specifically. Meanwhile, the ancient Celtic peoples also believed that the act of touching wood called on spirits or gods of the trees. Christians tie the practice to the symbolism of the wood of the cross of crucifixion. So much to keep up with.

• 56:13Brittany Broski?

  Pick your poison, whatever makes you feel protected. I knock on wood, I don't walk under ladders, I dress up as Uncle Fester, and I have my period. Okay, those are the four things that I kind of do to make myself feel protected. Sometimes having your period is a form of divine protection because what are you doing? What are you doing down there? You need to protect what's going on down there. Essential Halloween movies and television to watch. Number one is going to be, in my opinion, The Addams Family. Number two, Addams Family Values. Number three, Corpse Bride, Corpse Bride. I love The Corpse Bride. And let me say this, and I mean this, I love The Corpse Bride more than Nightmare Before Christmas. Nightmare Before Christmas, is it a Christmas movie? Is it a Halloween movie?

• 56:57Brittany Broski?

  It's neither. You can watch it any time of the year. I would say it's more, I want it to be a Halloween movie, but it ends up being a Christmas movie, and I don't like that. The Corpse Bride is a Halloween movie. I don't really go for the kind of like Jason, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'm not doing that scary shit, okay? I want a campy, silly Elvira. I want a campy, silly, spooky movie that I can enjoy. Corpse Bride's probably my number one. I would go for that every single year. Edward Scissorhands, maybe, maybe. There are a bunch of movies like that where I'm like, yeah, throw that on, I'll watch it.

• 57:41Brittany Broski?

  Throw that on, it's background noise, okay?

• 57:46Brittany Broski?

  Now, I would like to give you guys my song of the week. Oh my god, by the way, Rosalie a new album. Oh my god. Looks? Rosalie a new album, I can't, I can't even, I can't, we'll discuss it next week, we'll, we'll discuss it when I'm not dressed like Uncle Fester because, oh my fucking god. And I think the song drops, it drops today, it's 27th, I'm filming this on the 27th, it drops today, oh, oh my god, I have to listen to it. Okay. I've been into this song called Jungle Blues by CW Stone King. That's a good like Halloween kind of, kind of song. Um, I would also recommend Amar Cord by Pino Calvi.

• 58:30Brittany Broski?

  I would also recommend that fuck ass song I said a few years or a few weeks ago, Heroin by the Tiger Lillies. That song's fucked up. I like it. I've been into, on a different note, um, I'm back into old Beyonce, bitch, Grown Woman by Beyonce. Fuck you. Fuck you. Y'all really sleep on some of her old stuff, Standing on the Sun, her song with Coldplay. I think there are so many sleeper hits that we just kind of glossed over. So those are my songs. Guys, broski.shop, Moo Moo's, Broski Report merch. And there's something exciting coming, okay? Something exciting coming soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that.

• 59:12Brittany Broski?

  The Patreon is live. If you'd like to watch these episodes ad free, guess what, you can. Patreon.com. Go ahead and do that, all that shit's in the description. I don't know it off the top of my head, sue me. And have a happy Halloween.

• 59:39Brittany Broski?

  Gomesh. Happy Halloween.

• 59:45Speaker 07

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