Happy Halloween!

Woo!

Thanks, Ryan.

I had a lot of fun doing our Halloween takeover last week.

Tenors, if you haven't heard it, the episode link is in our show notes.

Halloween is obviously the word of the week, so I've decided that I'm going to do as many crazy voices as I possibly can in this episode.

Oh, boy. Okay, well, I'm Pamela Kirkland. And I'm Brian Willard. It's Tuesday, October 31st.

This is 10 things you need to know about the spookiest holiday of the year.

First up, did you know that Halloween dates back to more than 2,000 years ago?

That means your great, great, great, greater, greatest, and greatestest ancestors trick-or-treated, too.

Actually, instead, they celebrated with feasts, dressed up in costumes to trick the spirits, and held sacrificial bonfires to ward off

ghosts. The festival was called Sawin, which is Gaelic for Summer's End. It took place on the last

day of fall harvest, which was believed to be when

the veil between the living and the spirit world was the thinnest, allowing spirits to cross

over into the real world. Number two, the myth of the jackalanturn. It's believed jackalanturns originated from an Irish legend about a man named Stingy Jack.

According to legend, Stingy Jack invited the devil for a drink and Jack convinced the devil to turn himself into a coin for Jack to pay with.

Jack kept the money, put it in his pocket, next to a silver cross,

and prevented the devil from changing back into his original farm.

These tricks continued over the years and Jack eventually passed away.

And due to his acts, he wasn't accepted into heaven or H.E. double hockey sticks.

Instead, the devil sent Jack off into the dark

night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack then carved a turnip, put the coal inside,

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