What is Halloween? Where did it come from? When do people start asking for candy?

When do people start performing tricks? When did it become an excuse for grown women to dress like porn stars?

All of this answered on a very informative and hopefully equally entertaining episode.

Shove work up your ass. It's time for TimeSuck.

Alright, let's start with the origins of Halloween. Like, is it as I heard growing up, uh,

Satanic? And in quick note, I don't want to turn this podcast into like a constant knock against

or even reference to Christianity. But when you're talking about the history of things, which, uh,

I don't consider this to be a historical podcast. I know it's kind of leaned that way so far, but

but we could get into totally different time sucks to have nothing to do with, you know, digging back

into history going forward. Who knows? I think, but I think, you know, a fair amount of info when

you want to learn about it, you got to learn about the history of it. But when you're talking about

history, especially in this country, you know, Christian references are almost impossible to avoid.

So yeah, it's just, you know, it just kind of has shaped our culture. So it's just probably going to

come up with fair amounts. So if that bugs you, man, maybe this isn't your podcast, but I hope you can

let it go. But, but as far as is Halloween, uh, Satanic and origin, the quick answer is no.

It's not Satanic. It's pagan, which where I grew up, uh, was the word that was kind of synonymous

with Satanism, but that's just, that's not true. So let's start off by kind of defining paganism.

To be pagan as defined by Merriam Webster, uh, is to be heathen, is to be a follower of

polytheistic religion, like an ancient Rome, you know, multiple gods, or one who has little or no

religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and materialistic goods, like an irreligious or

hedonistic person, uh, Google has its own definitions now and Google defines pagan as a person holding

religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions. So I mean, that's, that's a really,

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