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Easter Traditions: From Hot Cross Buns to Zombie Jesus
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We're recording on Good Friday but releasing after Easter, so join us for a time-warped exploration of all things Easter-related! After catching up about Davey's recent Florida adventure (complete with Disney rash and Mickey Mouse sightings), we dive into Easter traditions both familiar and obscure.
Did you ever wonder why we eat chocolate eggs or where the Easter bunny originated? From hot cross buns (which Davey loves but Hannah detests) to the symbolic significance of lamb roasts, we unpack the religious and cultural meanings behind these Easter staples. We also discover some lesser-known traditions like Simnel Cake with its eleven marzipan balls representing the apostles, Easter lilies symbolizing resurrection, and rural Easter bonfires meant to ward off evil spirits.
The highlight of our episode is a lively fact-or-fiction game where Hannah puts her Easter knowledge to the test. Learn surprising facts about Queen Elizabeth I banning hot cross buns, the world's largest Easter egg standing 34 feet tall, and why Easter Island got its name. With plenty of laughs and a few lighthearted debates about "Zombie Jesus," we celebrate this spring holiday while respecting its deeper significance.
Whether you're a chocolate egg enthusiast, a religious observer, or just curious about holiday traditions, this episode offers something for everyone. And remember—just because you're an adult doesn't mean you don't deserve an Easter egg! Share your own Easter traditions with us on social media and let us know if you've ever experienced any of the more unusual customs we discuss.
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter. We've changed rooms.
Speaker 1:We have changed rooms. Why have we changed rooms, Hannah?
Speaker 2:Why? Well, you asked me to change rooms. Why do we why?
Speaker 1:have we changed rooms.
Speaker 2:I actually can't remember the reason. You can't remember. No, I can't.
Speaker 1:No, because there was a lot of echo in the other room.
Speaker 2:I see, I see it's too small.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when we did the three episodes last time, when I went back and I mixed it and masked it, there was loads of residual echo and it took me ages to do it. So I thought we'd give it a go in your living room, because there's a lot of soft furnishings in here which will basically kind of cut down on the echo it's a sound engineer thing, because you can't remove the echo when it's already in the room. You can't do that.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, hopefully we've got more soft furnishings here.
Speaker 1:But actually this is quite comfy as well.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm glad, I'm glad I quite like your sofa.
Speaker 1:It's quite comfy.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you. How does it compare to your sofa at home?
Speaker 1:It doesn't really, because ours is just lush.
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought you were going to be like no, yours is really good, yours is leather, which means it's cold, it's not cold, it is cold, it's not cold.
Speaker 1:It's cold. It really isn't it's cold initially, but the one thing that my sofa has is it has recliners.
Speaker 2:It does have recliners, but this sofa only has two occupants and therefore we can both lay about and recline however we want.
Speaker 1:Well, our sofa's only got two occupants.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yours is like two sofas, Ours is one big one, so you know we're more in love.
Speaker 1:No, we sit on the same sofa.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the magic's still there, is it?
Speaker 1:The other sofa's there just for people who come round like yourself.
Speaker 2:And anyway that sofa doesn't recline. I tend to sit on the reclining sofa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know you kind of come in and just take over the reclining sofa and just you know.
Speaker 2:I like to play the chronic illness card a lot in your house yeah you do? Oh, I'm ill today.
Speaker 1:So what's Mitchell's excuse?
Speaker 2:He's just falling apart.
Speaker 1:Is he? Yeah, he's almost 30. He literally comes in, just sits down and puts a recliner on.
Speaker 2:He's on it. Yeah, he is, bless him. We usually share a recliner, though, just to you know, make sure that someone else has a reclining space as well, okay, anyway, what's this episode about? Well, this is about Easter, easter because.
Speaker 1:Easter.
Speaker 2:What is today?
Speaker 1:Well, today is Good Friday. We're recording this on Good Friday. Yes, and I did actually realise that we are recording it on Good Friday, but the episode is actually going to come out after Easter, yeah. It's going to come out on Thursday, so we kind of missed the boat on that.
Speaker 2:To be fair, though, why did you miss the boat on this? Because it's your fault.
Speaker 1:To be fair, it's my fault because we Recorded for three weeks. The reason being is because I haven't been in this country.
Speaker 2:No, you haven't.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:But some of our listeners might already know that because I put it on our Instagram.
Speaker 1:You did, because you did the wonderful thing of come to pick, drop us off at the airport.
Speaker 2:I did, aren't I just the best?
Speaker 1:And pick us up from the airport.
Speaker 2:So yes, where did I go, Hannah? You went to Orlando, I went to Orlando, yes, and I'm not mad about it, but I'm not happy about it because not happy about it double negative, triple negative, I don't know, because you went to Universal Studios before Epic Universe was open. I know, yeah, who is the idiot? Is what I want to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know I kind of yeah, idiot, I know Is what I want to say. Yeah, I know I kind of yeah, yeah, but it was amazing, it was amazing.
Speaker 2:It sounds like you had a good time Saw Mickey Mouse, did you? Did you actually see I'm the mascot of an evil corporation? Did you actually see Mickey Mouse?
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, yeah, and Minnie Mouse around as well. What?
Speaker 2:were they like? Did they say hi?
Speaker 1:I think they were hot. Yeah, I imagine they were?
Speaker 2:Do you know?
Speaker 1:what I felt really sorry for them, because I mean, orlando is not exactly a cold place. No, okay, it is very warm, and you've got these poor sods walking around with these great big costumes on.
Speaker 2:I wonder if they have like little fans in them or something. I don't know. They must have something. I have to ask hillary, she'll know, she'll know.
Speaker 1:She'll know yeah, so yeah, we spent two weeks in orlando so we went to every. We were up like ridiculously early every morning, straight to the parks, nice, straight on the rides, wandering around, uh, and then got home quite late, straight to bed, straight up next morning. In fact, I need a holiday to get over the holiday yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I am absolutely knackered when, when you do rollercoaster holidays, particularly because you're walking around so much, you're standing around, you're queuing like it takes it out of you. I got Disney rash.
Speaker 1:You got Disney rash. Apparently, disney rash is a thing, because my legs right, you're looking at me like this right, it's a thing, google it. Right, it's a thing, google it. So what happened was was because we were walking around so much and we were standing around in queues, all the blood vessels in the back of my legs burst. The tiny, tiny little burst is what it is, and you get it from hot, humid weather and also kind of queuing around do you mean like prickly heat are we talking about?
Speaker 2:it's a little bit like prickly, it's itchy, oh really itchy it's prickly heat. Really it's like a variation.
Speaker 1:I didn't know it's because I was scratching it and then, when I looked down, my leg was bleeding oh, you made yourself bleed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, that's quite severe yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I take back my weird stare it is a thing, and it's actually called Disney rash because so many people get it at Disney theme parks wow water chlorine. Oh my god magic, do you know what? That's the other thing I was looking for the word magic that's the other thing as well. The water tastes like chlorine, because they actually put chlorine in the drinking water oh, I didn't even know you could drink yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:yeah. We were just drinking bottled water and I mean there was one point when dad got this cup of water and he drank it and he virtually spat it out and went taste that, taste that All I could taste was chlorine. It was like drinking out of a swimming pool, bizarre. Really bizarre yeah poor Denwey, poor Denwey, yeah, he did well, do you know what right? So, dad right, my dad, denwey, had never been on a roller coaster before.
Speaker 2:Really, yeah, really His first time, his first time. And do you know what the first roller coaster was? We took him on. Please say it was velocicoaster. No, it wasn't, it was mako.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, what a great first coaster so the first coaster he went on was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the whole of orlando and you literally just had a lap bar that was it and I could see it in his face.
Speaker 1:it was. It was really funny right. I know normally I tell you off for swearing, yeah, but we would. But as we were going up Do you. Well, you know, I could have to bleep you a lot, but I'm going to do a swear now Because, as we were going up, do a swear, do a swear as we were going, because I've been with Annabelle and William, because Do a swear Got you Because we were going up. What the f*** have I done? That was so funny.
Speaker 2:I'm really sorry to correct you slightly, but Iron Ghazi is the tallest. But it wasn't operational when you went, Iron Ghazi wasn't so sorry, just in case there's some rollercoaster fanatics that haven't come to me and said Hannah, why didn't you correct him?
Speaker 1:Okay, that's the moment.
Speaker 2:By the way, can we just appreciate that you brought up roller coasters this time and not me?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, that's true, yeah, yeah, that is very true. Yes, we've got him, boys, we've got him. Tigress was really good.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I went on that. Tigress is at.
Speaker 1:Busch Gardens Might be a new one. You actually feel like you're going to make it.
Speaker 2:Am I? Am I going to make it home?
Speaker 1:No, no, not make it, but actually over the, because it's kind of slows down as you go up through the thing and then it's yeah, it's really bizarre, really bizarre. Anyway, we are. We don't want this really to be a two parter, so should we, should we crack on? Should we crack on with the episode Excellent, back on with the episode Excellent and skip the excellent Excellent.
Speaker 2:Excellent. So Easter, Easter. Yes, it is a religious holiday. Yes, please don't go on an anti-religious rant, please.
Speaker 1:I won't I promise, I promise Keep it light. I will keep it light. Keep it light. I will really keep it light. Go on then yes. Yes, so I thought I'd look at some Easter traditions and thought we would talk about them, and also also that is what you do on a podcast. I know, I know, but also I have some fact or fiction questions for you which you haven't seen.
Speaker 2:Okay. And I want to see if I'm going to tell you a fact or fiction and you're going to tell me. If it's fact or fiction, are we talking about? Are you? Is this going to be some sort of anti-religious thing where you're like, oh, it's actually fiction, it's in the Bible. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:You've actually been quite nice. I've been quite nice. I've been quite nice. Wow, remember, I have been with Father Jack as well, for two weeks as well.
Speaker 2:Father Jack. So Uncle Jack is a. Oh, I don't want to get this wrong.
Speaker 1:I wanted to say pastor, and then I stopped myself. He's a vicar. He's a vicar, yes so we do have a well, I think he just, he just has all the religious for the family he does the font of religiousness, he is all of the religiousness for the family I would say I'm agnostic, though for myself yeah, I mean, I am actually. No, you're not. What am I?
Speaker 2:you're so're an atheist who identifies as agnostic. No, I'm actually agnostic I'm very open-minded okay anyway, despite the fact that I grew up with you actually yes, isn't that a miracle?
Speaker 1:that is a miracle. Oh, oh, dear Lord, oh God Moving on. Yeah moving on. So Easter, easter. So when you think of Easter, what's the first thing that pops into your head? Bunnies, what did you ask me to bring you around this morning? Easter eggs, easter eggs.
Speaker 2:I may have dropped two links into our family chat.
Speaker 1:So they were massive hints. Have dropped two links into our family, so you, they were massive hints. I want you know what hit I mean, as in hints, as in smacking us around the back of the head with a four by four.
Speaker 2:Hint right, I'm just. I'm just gonna put a psa to all parents out there just because your kids are adults does not mean that they don't deserve an easter egg you got an easter egg I did, I got you. I'm not saying that I didn't get an easter egg. I'm just saying for other parents that may also be not willing to get their adult children Easter eggs.
Speaker 1:Yes, I bought you an Aero Easter egg. Well, mitchell, actually got two Easter eggs.
Speaker 2:He did.
Speaker 1:I felt really bad because he's the favourite. Well, no, but your mum said to me she said like pick up white chocolate because Mitchell likes white chocolate. So white chocolate because mitchell likes white chocolate. So of course I picked up your easter egg and the only white chocolate easter egg there was was like this one pound buttons thing and I was like holding them together and it's like that's pitiful. I mean I can't give him that and give you that one. That's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:So I bought him two two two, one pound easter eggs the favorite.
Speaker 2:No, he's bless him um so, yes, I think you're about to say, nah, he's not the favourite, but I actually realised that sounded really shitty of you. You were just like nah, he's alright.
Speaker 1:He's alright, moving on. So, yes, chocolate eggs is one of the most popular traditions and it says here where children receive chocolate eggs Children. So yes, I'm actually thinking about where's my Easter egg?
Speaker 2:Well, that would be Denwee's job.
Speaker 1:Would it?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because obviously Nanny Gail can't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that's Denwee's job. You need to have a discussion with him. Oh, okay, I don't buy you an egg. You're not my child, but I am yours.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, is symbolises life and resurrection. New life, new life and resurrection. Many brands release special Easter editions of their chocolate eggs. Do you know what? I think we should. I've just had this thought pop into my head. The name of this episode needs to be Zombie Jesus, why, why, well, resurrection, isn't it? I mean, that's what.
Speaker 2:Easter kind of is, I guess. But I don't think Uncle Jack would be happy with that. No, uncle Jack's cool, uncle Jack would be fine, uncle Jack probably that would make him laugh actually yeah, uncle Jack would love that.
Speaker 1:He would actually find it really funny shout out to Uncle Jack.
Speaker 2:Does Uncle Jack listen to this?
Speaker 1:podcast he does. We're going to get him on one episode, aren't we, to actually talk about religion? We need to buy another mic then. Yeah, we do For.
Speaker 2:Uncle Jack. Yeah, we are going to get him on an episode. I'd love to.
Speaker 1:Uncle Jack's great. Why am I calling him Uncle Jack? He's Jack. He's my Uncle Jack, he's your Uncle Jack, yes, so yeah, apparently there was a traditional activity about eggs, where hard, hard-boiled eggs are rolled down a hill.
Speaker 2:Have you heard about this? Like the cheese rolling thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we're chucking eggs down a hill.
Speaker 2:Let's see which one survives.
Speaker 1:And apparently the egg that travels the furthest without breaking wins.
Speaker 2:Oh well, yeah, the thing is it's hard-boiled.
Speaker 1:It's not going to break, is it?
Speaker 2:Oh, the shell's still delicate.
Speaker 1:I mean, it should be make it more fun.
Speaker 2:What if someone just drops one of them? Bouncy ball looking egg ones.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. Well, you're going to know that it's going to be bouncing all over the shop, isn't it Pinging pinging? It is going to be pinging all over the gaff, that one. Yeah, all over the gaff Nice nice, nice yeah. I also have a cold as well. I've got. Disney flu yeah your mum's not very well either.
Speaker 2:Bless her no sad times. So.
Speaker 1:Easter eggs is the biggest thing really.
Speaker 2:Easter eggs. They come out so early in the supermarkets as well.
Speaker 1:They come out on bloody Boxing Day.
Speaker 2:Probably Do you know when is the best time to get Easter eggs.
Speaker 1:After Easter because they go reduced down in price. Tuesday after bank holiday Monday Do you think Easter eggs are a rip-off?
Speaker 2:No, oh yeah, because if you were to buy an actual bar, yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:Oh, talking about chocolate.
Speaker 2:They just taste better in egg form.
Speaker 1:Oh, I got you some Hershey Kisses, didn't we? Yes, I'm slowly getting through them. Yeah, I just saw them.
Speaker 2:Mitchell doesn't like them. He says they taste like feet. Really, yeah, he doesn't like them. He likes the cookies and cream, but he doesn't like the.
Speaker 1:I love a Hershey bar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he doesn't like the original flavour. He likes the cookie and cream flavour.
Speaker 1:Your mum thinks they taste a little bit like fake chocolate.
Speaker 2:I think that's what he means by feet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I quite like it. So another Easter tradition is the hot cross bun. Can't stand them, really, ugh. Do you not like toasted hot cross buns? No, why Sweet bread, but you toast them and then you put some butter on. Yeah, really, ugh. Do you not like toasted hot cross buns? No, why Sweet bread, but you toast them and then you put some butter on. Yeah, no, not a fan, no.
Speaker 2:Really? Mitchell every year stocks up on cheesy hot cross buns from M&S. He gets like a bunch and puts them in our freezer.
Speaker 1:Cheesy hot cross buns.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Never heard of that. Well, you need to get on it, okay, because apparently it's the best thing since sliced bread. I wouldn't know, because I don't eat cheese, but Well, they are a spice. I mean, they've got spices in them. They're a spiced, sweet bun made with currants and raisins.
Speaker 2:See, that's where they went wrong the currants and the fucking raisins. Don't you like raisins? Satan's turds.
Speaker 1:Satan's turds. Satan's turds, brilliant Never heard of that before or dead flies. Yeah, I suppose they do look a little bit like dead flies and can we just segue?
Speaker 2:Yeah, garibaldi biscuits.
Speaker 1:Get out, See Garibaldi biscuits are.
Speaker 2:They're deceiving because you think they're chocolate chip cookies and they're not.
Speaker 1:No, they're not. They are an acquired taste of Garibaldi. Yeah, and they go stale very quickly, and they're already stale to begin with. They're a funny breed. They're a funny biscuit.
Speaker 2:They're rank. Anyway, carry on.
Speaker 1:So hot cross buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday, as the cross symbolizes the crucifixion of Jesus.
Speaker 2:And we started Good Friday today off with a Mackey's. We did indeed. That was our hot cross bun.
Speaker 1:We did indeed. That was our hot cross bun. We did indeed. So, yeah, so the beginning of the zombie Jesus process is marked by the hot cross bun.
Speaker 2:I see.
Speaker 1:Zombie Jesus.
Speaker 2:Didn't it start at pancake day? Isn't that when Lent begins?
Speaker 1:Yeah, lent begins, yeah.
Speaker 2:So you can retract that last name.
Speaker 1:Oh, do you know what?
Speaker 2:Honestly, what did you give up for Lent?
Speaker 1:I didn't give anything up, but Jack obviously did, uncle Jack. Uncle Jack did Bless his heart While we were in America. Of course, everything's sweet, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:America has sweet bread too, and we kept forgetting. So of course we were like Having ice cream yeah, we were.
Speaker 2:And rubbing it in his face.
Speaker 1:We weren't rubbing it in his face, but cruel we did. We did keep forgetting and we did keep offering him sweet things and immediately you could sort of see his little face. He's just like no, we're like, oh sorry, jack he's done so well, he did really really well. He really did well. So, yes, the buns are also enjoyed with butter, as I've. As I've said. So you don't like them toasted with a little bit of butter on? No, I do quite like a hot cross bun, I must admit. I must admit.
Speaker 2:Have you had any this year? Not yet Get on it Not yet.
Speaker 1:Leave this house after podcast recording or you can, if you like Leave the house after this podcast recording.
Speaker 2:Go down to.
Speaker 1:M&.
Speaker 2:Not just any hot cross bun.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ, I'm not that rich.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's not even that expensive, is it not? It's not.
Speaker 1:Lidl's.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's a little bit more expensive than Lidl's Lidl's.
Speaker 1:Bakery, though, is awesome. You must admit, lidl's Bakery is awesome. Okay, go down to.
Speaker 2:M&S, get yourself some cheesy hot cross buns. Okay.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, I'm saying this I can't tell any of our listeners, which is good, because that means we get them all. Yes, something that I would never do is. The next one is the Easter Sunday church service. Have you been to church on Easter?
Speaker 2:Sunday. I don't know if I have to be honest. There may have been a time when I was younger, when I went to C of E school.
Speaker 1:It's quite possible that there was some sort of Easter thing you would have done school, churchy things when you were at Easter?
Speaker 2:yeah, I would have done school churchy things because I used to sing, didn't I in the little churchy choir thing?
Speaker 1:yeah, I was in. Did you know? I was in the choir at school, so I did actually have to go to church right, the reason I've just gone like this is because I haven't actually told you something oh god I have.
Speaker 2:I've signed up for a taster session for the rock choir in norwich really yeah amazing yeah, I'm really excited, but I'm also really nervous. Oh no, you'll be fine, it's going to be with people that actually sing. You can sing, yeah, but I I don't think I'm choir sing ready oh god, you do, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1:So yeah, um, do you know where? What you you'll? You'll be an alto, surely I?
Speaker 2:I would have thought, so I'm quite low might even be tenor no, I'm not quite that low, I don't know. You're borderline, I'm borderline, I'm borderline man, you definitely yeah, I mean you're either.
Speaker 1:You're either the lower end of the alto or the top end of the tenor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I have been been mistaken for a different ethnicity before as well, whilst I'm singing, so that also that's awesome, though, that's really cool.
Speaker 1:It's cool, isn't it? Yeah, that is really cool, I'm excited, I'm excited.
Speaker 2:But also very nervous because I'm worried that they're going to be like super duper good singers and there's just little old me like.
Speaker 1:Nah, you'll be fine, you will be fine, but yeah, the set list looks pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I'll talk to you about it more later.
Speaker 1:Oh, awesome.
Speaker 2:Anyway, sorry.
Speaker 1:Actually, what was that? Sorry, I know we were talking about churchy stuff. You left me a weird voice note yesterday.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, this is a massive segue. Nothing to do with Easter, but it's so funny.
Speaker 2:So at the moment I am revamping. The upstairs bedroom is now my office. We have got rid of the bed in there put a day bed in there, it's now an office day bed. Ah, fighter of the night bed, um, anyway, um, yeah, so I, I moved. We've got google hubs all over the house and we moved the google hub from this study to my, my bedroom, upstairs yeah and I was asking it to play my like songs on spotify. The first song on my like songs on spotify is where is my mind by?
Speaker 2:all the pixies, yeah, nice, and I don't know if you're familiar with the intro to that song, but it does a little thing and then it goes stop, and then it, and then it goes into the yeah and then it goes yeah. So it thought so. When I said that it was turning itself off because it was saying stop and it was obviously reverberating off the wall, thinking that I was telling it to stop, so I thought it was broken yeah and mitchell comes up, says and he was like, well, I'll try it.
Speaker 2:And when he activates it with his voice, it's his spotify playlist that comes on and not mine, right? Because? Okay we've got different, different voices and it knows who's who, and I was like, oh, it's broken, it's broken. So I just used it as a Bluetooth speaker and just went throughout the rest of my day and when we got home we realised that it was turning itself off Because it was saying stop in that song and I was losing my mind. So where is my?
Speaker 1:mind. Where is your mind, yeah?
Speaker 2:I was honestly. I just thought it was broken. And then Mitchell was like it's turning itself off.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I love about that story? The fact that you have pixies on your playlist. Oh yeah, I do I know I love that. I just absolutely love that. I'm so proud.
Speaker 2:I heard it on. It wasn't on there, although I do like the song and I heard it on. We've been watching mr robot. I don't know if you've ever seen that, yeah, yeah, yeah with rami malek.
Speaker 1:Yes, right, yeah yeah, we're.
Speaker 2:We're currently watching it at the moment, um, it's really really good. I've never seen it before.
Speaker 1:But michelle has only ever watched, I think, the first couple of episodes.
Speaker 2:I really need to need to get into it anyway um, and it's all about him kind of losing his mind a little bit and they played a like piano version of when Is my Mind oh, it's beautiful. And I was like oh, mitchell, I was like you probably won't get this, but the song they're playing is really poignant, because it's when Is my Mind? And then I was like oh, I must add that to my playlist, and that's how it got.
Speaker 1:I can't remember there was a program and I can't remember which program it was, but the female lead character in it was was like quite gothy and quite emo and she went to an open mic night and she played that song acoustically.
Speaker 2:Not Orphan Black, was it?
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't Orphan Black and it was. That was probably. It was one of those versions because it was really slowed down and it really changed. Well, no, it really emphasised the meaning of the song and I was watching that and I was just absolutely mesmerised by that version. But it's such a great song.
Speaker 2:Nice, an amazing song.
Speaker 1:It's also in Fight Club as well.
Speaker 2:I've never seen Fight Club, have you not? We don't talk about Fight Club.
Speaker 1:We don't talk about Fight Club though. No, um, so back to church, back to Easter, back back to yeah, no, you, actually. You really worried me with that voice message because you never send me voice notes and like I was going going in, coming back from Morrison's and I wouldn't play and I'm like what's wrong with Hannah? So I rang you, didn't I? And then you were just laughing at me on the phone.
Speaker 2:I tried to re-record it happening, but it must have fixed itself or realized that it was a song, because when I tried to do it the next day it didn't happen, it didn't turn itself off. Right, it was really annoying and I tried to record it for you, but I couldn't, so I ended up sending you a voice message Other traditions.
Speaker 1:So yes, the Easter Sunday church service. So many people attend church services on Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Attend church services on Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This service often includes singing hymns, prayers and sometimes a special Easter sermon.
Speaker 2:Lovely. Zombie Jesus God don't go into a church and say zombie, jesus, please.
Speaker 1:No, I won't. Then, of course, we have the Easter egg hunts. Yeah, I said hunts, I see. Yeah, they are popular in gardens, parks and homes. Children search for hidden chocolate eggs or small toys that have been carefully placed by parents or the Easter bunny.
Speaker 2:I am annoyed. That again says children.
Speaker 1:I want an Easter egg hunt. We normally we did like Easter egg hunt in our cul-de-sac. Well for the kids in there. Yeah for the kids, yeah for the kids.
Speaker 2:Why don't you do adult ones with like little bottles of like rum but inside like plastic eggs?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, that would be amazing, wouldn't it? Yeah yeah, easter rum hunt, easter rum hunt, easter rum hunt. I'll be all over that. I'd be all over that.
Speaker 2:I'm going to copyright it now.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Because it's definitely never been done before.
Speaker 1:Easter Monday, of course, is a public holiday in the UK, with many people enjoying a long weekend.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, we're actually on the long weekend now, so Friday off, saturday, sunday, monday off, four days baby.
Speaker 1:And I'm quite lucky in the fact that I do work in the public sector, so I get like the Thursday and the Tuesday off as well. We have what's called customary days, as well as the bank holidays, which is an extra day on the side. So I've just had two weeks off work to go to Florida. I came back for a day and a half and then I'm off virtually for another week.
Speaker 2:It's a rum old, do that is.
Speaker 1:That's not a rum, old do, that's just my life.
Speaker 2:Lovely.
Speaker 1:But I haven't had a holiday for years.
Speaker 2:You went to Jersey last year oh yeah, I did, didn't I? Haven't had a holiday in years. New Jersey, get out.
Speaker 1:New Jersey get out. New Jersey.
Speaker 2:Oh, we're talking about New Jersey and you're going there again this year. Yeah, we are going there.
Speaker 1:Oh, I never go on holiday, yeah we're going there in a couple of months talking about New Jersey. Dogma's out soon.
Speaker 2:Oh is it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. Did you see that video I sent you of it kind of works, because Dogma is a film about Catholicism. Okay, yeah, so it's kind of segues quite well.
Speaker 2:Right, okay.
Speaker 1:Kind of to do with Easter. Sort of, do you?
Speaker 2:want to carry on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I've kind of lost my train train of thought now.
Speaker 2:You're talking about Dogma?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah because Kevin Smith lost the rights to it, so the film couldn't be released again. But he's just got them back, so it's actually coming out this year again.
Speaker 2:Well, they're re-releasing the original film. Re-releasing the original film. Why are they doing that? Why, because it's not available anywhere at the moment.
Speaker 1:Oh, I see, and him having the right. Yeah, it's very, but Kevin Smith's now got the rights back for it.
Speaker 2:Lovely.
Speaker 1:So he's going to re-release it.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:Nice. Have you ever heard of Simnel Cake?
Speaker 2:I have not Tell me all about Simnel Cake, although I've just seen Marzipan, and that's probably why I love Simnel Cake.
Speaker 1:I like this. I like this. What's written here? It says here with fruit, marzipan and icing. So it's a little bit kind of in the same vein as the old hot cross buns, yeah, and Christmas cake. It has 11 marzipan balls on top to represent the 11 apostles and then in brackets, excluding Judas, excluding, exclude, because no one likes Judas, iscariot, judas, judas, yeah, to represent the 11 apostles excluding Judas. It is often enjoyed during the Easter season, particularly around Easter Sunday.
Speaker 2:I've never heard of siminal cake no never heard of it I imagine it's a it's more the religious side of things yeah, the apostles yeah. I've never made a siminal cake to be fair.
Speaker 1:I mean, as you know, I was well. One of the reasons why I am so anti-religion, as you know, is because of my upbringing being quite Catholic, and I'd never heard a siminal cake growing up.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's a C of E thing, not a. Catholicism.
Speaker 1:Might be, yeah, might be, protestant, protestant. So have you heard of Easter lilies? No, no, it says here. Many people decorate their homes or church altars with Easter lilies, as they symbolise.
Speaker 2:I thought lilies were death, yeah.
Speaker 1:symbolise purity, renewal and resurrection. Again zombying. They're commonly seen in religious settings and sometimes in homes as a sign of spring.
Speaker 2:I thought lilies meant like death.
Speaker 1:I thought lilies meant death.
Speaker 2:Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick. Maybe it's resurrection.
Speaker 1:Maybe, maybe.
Speaker 2:The death of something, but the beginning of something else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, possibly.
Speaker 2:Poetic.
Speaker 1:Possibly. Then of course I like the 10th one on here. Ninth one sorry, the lamb roast.
Speaker 2:I thought you right. Do you know what I'm gonna say?
Speaker 1:something controversial, now go on lamb is my least favorite meat really, it used to be your favorite I don't know if it used to be my favorite.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's true but, I I'm really struggling with with lamb really yeah is it because it is a lamb and it's a baby sheep? I think. So there's a part of me that's a little feels a little bit uncomfortable about that, which is weird because, I'll eat a chicken, fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But they're quite cute, lambs.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't say oh, look at that cute baby cow or cute baby pig.
Speaker 1:Beef.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I know beef is cow, is it yeah?
Speaker 1:I mean, it's strange, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Because beef is cow, pork is pig, but lamb is literal. Yeah, I mean, it's not even like the, it even specifies the age of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that I'm not sure I feel comfortable with that spring lambs. Yeah, it is a bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about lamb. I don't mind the taste, but I don't like mint sauce.
Speaker 1:So I don't like mint sauce. I like mint, I like sauce, but I don't like the two together. Okay, yeah, I don't like mint sauce.
Speaker 2:I like mint, I like sauce, but I don't like the two together. Okay, yeah, I don't know that might not be for me anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think now, when I was Googling this, I think the next ones were kind of really trying to scrape the barrel.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Because have you ever heard of an Easter bonfire?
Speaker 2:Can't say I have.
Speaker 1:No, but it says here. Here, in some parts of the UK, especially in rural areas, easter bonfires are lit to symbolise the arrival of spring and to ward off evil spirits never seen an Easter bonfire nope, never seen an Easter bonfire it seems too springy for a bonfire. If any of our listeners live in any rural areas, such as we do, and you're having an Easter bonfire this weekend, please let us know how it went.
Speaker 2:Well, they'll have to let us know on Thursday next week.
Speaker 1:Please let us know next week how it went.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm finding it really difficult to look at the camera.
Speaker 2:I know you are because you're not trained to look at a camera.
Speaker 1:I I know you are because you're not trained to look at a camera.
Speaker 2:I know I'm not, it's really bizarre. That is the feedback we've been getting, though we need to look at the camera a bit more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the funny thing is it's like I'm trained to ignore cameras.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's really I find it.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's glaringly obvious that it's there either.
Speaker 1:No, it's not glaringly obvious that it's there.
Speaker 2:This is just another participant to the podcast.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:It's like the third you should put a head on it and hair like a mop. Yes, yes, then we'd actually speak to it like it was a human.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hello, Hello listeners and watchers.
Speaker 1:But I'm not very good at the fourth wall break.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not. So yeah, easter bonfires Never heard of that. Easter plays now I have heard of an Easter play.
Speaker 2:That's a thing I definitely remember being in a play at school or something like that Jesus coming out of a cave situation. He has risen. Look, I'm still alive. Easter had the best hymns. You know one. The one you're looking for is Jesus crucified. Won't find him in a grave, because he is alive. Zombie Jesus. See, something very special has been happening. It's a well-done one.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I pop into my head when you think about Easter hymns and Easter songs? I've just got this image of Eric Heidel on a cross, going always look on the bright side of life.
Speaker 2:I also. When is Harvest Festival? That's like. That's the other end of the like.
Speaker 1:That's like, um, that's in autumn, autumn, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Harvest Festival song is so good. Yeah, it's a harvest festival where we bring up fruit and vegetables. They're so good. I think hymns are very well written. Come on musically, think about it. Think about it musically.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're catchy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean they're catchy. And then you've got people like Creed when you take me higher and it's like you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, christian kind of rock.
Speaker 2:Christian rock is.
Speaker 1:There's another group called Live. That's very kind of Christian rock.
Speaker 2:They sound Christian rock just by the name but Creed, you'd be like, oh, they're just a rock band.
Speaker 1:No, they're not. No, Isn't the Killers, aren't they quite?
Speaker 2:religious as well. The Killers, or Kaiser Chiefs, are Mormons, aren't they?
Speaker 1:Kaiser Chiefs are Mormons, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know if the Killers are Christian rock bands.
Speaker 1:I think they're quite religious.
Speaker 2:Are we human?
Speaker 1:Are we dancers, anyway? Yeah, anyway. Easter tree Whilst not as common as Christmas trees, some families in the UK decorate an Easter tree with Easter-themed ornaments, like little eggs, bunnies and birds.
Speaker 2:I think I have seen something like this, like a structure of some sort, not like a tree, as in like a fir tree, but just maybe like a white little spindly thing, and then they just hang little bits of it. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I feel like I have seen that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then Easter Monday fairs. Many towns and villages in the UK host Easter Monday fairs.
Speaker 2:These can include funfair games, funfair rides sorry games, food stalls and entertainment.
Speaker 1:I can't say I've ever been to an Easter fair no can't say I've been to an Easter fair and then Maundy Monday.
Speaker 2:Maundy Monday Maundy Monday. I've heard of this.
Speaker 1:Is a unique British tradition where on Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, the monarch gives out specially minted coins to elderly people in a royal ceremony yeah, this, this rings a bell.
Speaker 2:I've not. Is that? Yeah, that would have happened yesterday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, presumably it's a thursday before easter I was playing hogwarts legacy yesterday, so what?
Speaker 2:was I doing yesterday? Building a freaking day oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Day bed, ah, fighter of the night bed ah for those of you who don't know what that is, you need to to watch. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2:Just I think there might be need to be a trigger warning with Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It was filmed at a time where a lot of things were acceptable that aren't acceptable today.
Speaker 1:There are also still there are some episodes of it's Always Sunny where they cannot actually be broadcast.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:There are, I think, three episodes where they cannot be broadcast, but yeah, there are I think, three episodes where they cannot be broadcast, but it is. It is funny though. Yes, there is, yes, there is definitely a trigger warning with it's Always Sunny. You're going to do a fact or fiction with it. So, Hannah, we're going to play a little game now. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 2:Aye, aye Captain.
Speaker 1:So question. So these are I'm going to read a statement and you're going to tell me if it's an Easter fact or an Easter fiction.
Speaker 2:I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Are you ready? Yeah, the Easter bunny was originally a chicken.
Speaker 2:It would make a bit more sense egg wise, wouldn't it? I'm going to go with it was a chicken.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a chicken Fiction.
Speaker 2:It's always been a bunny.
Speaker 1:Yes, the Easter bunny has always been a bunny, but in some cultures like Switzerland, because the Swiss, a cuckoo, delivers eggs instead. So I was right. So, no, it always has been a bunny. I think it's because the Swiss are all about the chocolate.
Speaker 2:They are all about the chocolate. They are all about the chocolate, and I would say they're more logical because a bunny does not produce eggs.
Speaker 1:Just putting it out there, that's one wrong.
Speaker 2:How many questions are there?
Speaker 1:There's 15.
Speaker 2:15?.
Speaker 1:One five, not 50.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:The date of Easter changes every year. Fact or fiction? Yes, a fact it is Easter is a movable yes. Fact or fiction. A fact it is. Easter is a movable feast. It's celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. Okay, I'll let everyone else work that out, because I'm which suggests to me, it's got nothing to do with the thing of Christ at all. It's more to do with a pagan festival. But no, let's move on.
Speaker 2:Stop.
Speaker 1:Did you know? Oh sorry, no, so that is a fact. That is a fact.
Speaker 2:So next question I got that one right yeah, you got that one point to me how are we doing a tally?
Speaker 1:we? Need to do my point you do your points okay. Question three hot cross buns were once banned in England, fact or fiction. Why would they be banned, hmm?
Speaker 2:Is this some sort of King Henry VIII situation where he was like oh, let's do divorce, let's do divorce, let's do divorce?
Speaker 1:And bin off the hot cross buns as well. No.
Speaker 2:I'm just wondering if there's someone, is there a religion that doesn't support the resurrection of Christ? I'm going to go with fact Correct why?
Speaker 1:In the 16th century, queen Elizabeth, I banned them.
Speaker 2:A royalty banned them why.
Speaker 1:For the entirety of the year, other than Good Friday, christmas and funerals, because of their religious symbolism. So they weren't actually like totally banned, but they were only allowed to be made on certain times.
Speaker 2:Elizabeth, I would you say Lizzie I.
Speaker 1:So, not our, not our Lizzie, not our Lizzie, not our Lizzie.
Speaker 2:Not our Lizzie.
Speaker 1:I got two right Four. Four Easter is the most chocolate-consuming holiday in the UK.
Speaker 2:Oh, christmas has got to be high up there though as well, but Easter is chocolate chocolate. Fact or fiction, I'm going to go with fact only because I feel like there is more chocolate at Easter than there is Christmas. Was it Christmas Fiction?
Speaker 1:Christmas takes the crown. Gutting Yep, yep.
Speaker 2:Gutted.
Speaker 1:Yep. Next question Two the largest Easter egg ever made was over 30 feet tall.
Speaker 2:I mean, I have no reference of that. That's like taller than this house.
Speaker 1:Oh, do you know what? What? So you know, your mum is five foot.
Speaker 2:I am aware.
Speaker 1:So when we were looking at how tall the roller coasters were in Orlando for my niece and nephew to see whether or not they could go on them, we were measuring them in how many Auntie Sharon's they were. So if a roller coaster was like 50 foot high, it was 10 Auntie Sharon's.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, sneezy maths.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was. So it was like how many I thought you meant the height restriction, I was like no, no, no, no. How many Auntie Sharon's is that? Auntie Sharon's shoulder height? Yeah, how many Auntie Sharon's is that?
Speaker 2:That's cute. Sorry, what was the question? So the largest Easter egg was over 30 foot tall.
Speaker 1:Fact In Italy in 2011, a giant Easter egg measured over 34 foot tall I have many questions and weighed over 7K.
Speaker 2:Was it hollow? 7,000 kilograms Was it hollow, hollow, it'd have to be hollow.
Speaker 1:It would have to be hollow.
Speaker 2:Structurally it'd have to be hollow right, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's little holes in it so the wind could get through. Well, this house is. So you've got, like you've got 10 foot floor. Basically, this house is 30.
Speaker 1:That egg would be this no, the house isn't 30 feet. No, no More than that, oh, okay. You've got three levels, Hannah.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh yeah. Of course I'm a three-story, aren't I?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Your house then Well, I'm on three.
Speaker 2:Okay, the word Easter comes from the name of a spring goddess. I do know a few goddesses, but I don't know of anyone that's close to Easter. Can you give me a hint of what goddess?
Speaker 1:no well it won't be a goddess that you studied so it wouldn't be a Greek or Roman, because I know those ones no.
Speaker 2:Persephone being the Greek one. Yeah, oh yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, it is a fact. Woohoo Easter is believed to come from Eostre, who is an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility.
Speaker 2:Eostre, yeah, is it Essos, yeah, essos, yeah, yeah, I should have thought about that Peeps the marshmallow candy Eros as well?
Speaker 1:Tell these questions. Are American Candy Peeps? The marshmallow candy were invented in the UK.
Speaker 2:I don't know what that is Fiction.
Speaker 1:It is fiction. It is fiction. They were created in Pennsylvania by the Just Born Candy Company. Oh, so that's one for our American viewers and listeners. Let's see if you were listening earlier. Oh, shut up, okay. Simnel cake is topped with 12 marzipan balls to represent the 12 disciples.
Speaker 2:No, because of Judas, judas, judas, judas is great. Do I get that?
Speaker 1:point? You get that point. You get that point, judas. In medieval times, people had to confess Before they were allowed To eat eggs at Easter.
Speaker 2:In medieval times.
Speaker 1:In medieval times.
Speaker 2:Probably I'll go with fact.
Speaker 1:That is fact. During Lent, eggs were forbidden. Confession and absolution Before Easter Allowed people to enjoy them again, hence the celebratory egg eating. What if?
Speaker 2:you didn't Actually do anything wrong. Yeah, oh, I'm just going to confess to. Oh. No, I accidentally left the toilet seat up. I know.
Speaker 1:Well, they probably didn't have toilet seats many, many times. But you know, Say 10 Hail Marys for our fathers and you are absolved 10 Hail Marys for a toilet seat up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's extortionate. No, no.
Speaker 1:That's not even so. In the UK it is illegal To sell chocolate eggs Before Palm Sunday. What a stupid question.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:No, of course it isn't, because they get put out On the shelves On by Boxing Day.
Speaker 2:I'm doing well by default here.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Seven, let's go.
Speaker 1:Easter Island.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, was named Because it was discovered On Easter Sunday fact or fiction.
Speaker 2:I call bullshit. I reckon that's fiction, you reckon yeah it's fact.
Speaker 1:Oh, a dutch explorer called jacob and I'm not even going to try to pronounce his last name, uh discovered the island on easter sunday in 1722, so he called it eas Easter Island.
Speaker 2:Lovely, what a chap yeah.
Speaker 1:Jacob, jacob, jacob. Question 12. The tradition of egg decorating began in Victorian England.
Speaker 2:That right. I think that is something the Victorians would do.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Because they were all about trying to show their wealth. And they often brought in things like pineapples to symbolise wealth.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I'm sort of going somewhere with this and Faberge eggs. I think I'm a bit of a thing around then. Okay. I'm going to go with fact Fiction.
Speaker 1:Ah, which time. Egg decorating dates back to ancient civilisation like the Persians and early. Christians in Mesopotamia.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sorry, Victorian era. I've really painted you in a bad light. There there's no one alive now?
Speaker 1:from then, who's actually going to be offended?
Speaker 2:True, you're fine, you know, just in case they're listening Up in the clouds, up in the clouds.
Speaker 1:The White House holds an annual Easter egg roll.
Speaker 2:Oh, probably they do that sounds like an American thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's fact, that's fact.
Speaker 2:They See, I feel like Americans know how to holiday. They know how to holiday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, again, let's see how much you were listening earlier on. Oh no, lamb is the traditional Easter meal in the UK Because it's symbolic of Jesus.
Speaker 2:Because it's symbolic of Jesus.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I just thought it was because of the time of year, oh fact.
Speaker 1:It is fact. Lamb symbolises Jesus as the Lamb of God and also ties into Passover traditions.
Speaker 2:Oh, lamb of God, yes, lamb of God, yes.
Speaker 1:Lamb of God.
Speaker 2:The wolf flies with the lamb. I don't know. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And last question how many have you got right so far? I've nine, nine right. Nine, nine, nine. This is the best question okay the UK that's us once had an Easter parade where people raced whilst wearing bunny suits sounds like something we'd do fact no, no, no, but it needs to be a thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'd dress up as a bunny and race.
Speaker 1:I'd get behind Easter if we did that, dressed up as bun bunny and race, I'd get behind Easter. If we did that dressed up as bunnies and had a race down the stream.
Speaker 2:That would be hilarious. 9 out of 15 that's pretty good.
Speaker 1:That concludes the.
Speaker 2:Easter episode. Thank you everybody for watching us. We've got listeners too. Thank you everybody for watching, watching us and listening. Yeah, I know, I know we've got listeners too. Listeners we love our listeners because they were our first. But if you're watching hello as well and we'll probably just keep changing locations around my house, so you'll probably just get a house tour whilst we're doing- this.
Speaker 1:We should do one from the toilet oh no, we absolutely should.
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