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The Esau McCaulley Podcast

Halloween History, Scary Movies, and a Candy Draft!

The Esau McCaulley Podcast

Esau McCaulley

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this Halloween special, Esau teams up with Kaitlyn Schiess and Emily McGowin for a deep dive into the mysteries and controversies of October 31st. Is Halloween too pagan for Christians, or can it actually be a way to mock and confront evil in a deeply faithful way? And why do some people shun haunted houses and horror movies, while Kaitlyn finds them thrilling—and even theological? Plus, a fierce debate over the best Halloween candy, and a shocking discovery: Esau's childhood nightmare, Freddy Krueger, might be closer than he ever imagined.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Passion in my pocket so my pennies should be.

0:10.0

What they selling is cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free.

0:13.0

I've been becoming me.

0:15.0

See when Jesus taking the lead.

0:16.0

With purpose I bleed and riles like doing under the heat.

0:19.0

Defeaters are never.

0:20.0

You can't reattach with a sever. What's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your

0:24.3

treasure when storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better

0:31.5

Welcome to the Issaa McCauley podcast I'm your host Issaa Macley. On this episode, we actually have a member of the Holy Post team. We have Caitlin Chess. I get that right, right? Chess. Yes. Schlesch. Chess. That's what I think. It's like chess. I get nervous every time. I get, I got, I got named panic already. A coworker. Caitlin Chess is here with me today.

0:55.4

And another coworker who's actually right around the corner for me,

0:59.0

Emily McGowan, who's also a professor of theology at Wheaton.

1:02.5

Thank you both for coming on the podcast, even though you had to because you're my friends.

1:07.2

Good to be here.

1:08.4

Yeah.

1:09.7

So this is a Halloween-themed episode, and we are going to do some real questions about theology in Halloween in a minute.

1:18.9

But before we did that, I thought we'd do some stuff to the people really wanted to know.

1:23.0

So we're going to have a candy draft.

1:25.3

This is going to be a Halloween candy draft, and we're going to judge it. There's going to be five rounds. And it's going to be a snake draft. And so we're going to each get to make your selection. And then at the end, Mike's going to tell us the reviews of like how it goes. And then we're going to post this on the internet. And the people of the world are going to judge you on your candy drafting skills. So it's a snake draft. It'll go one, two, two, three, two, one, two, three, two, one, two, three, two one, two, one, two, three, two, it'll be okay. If you get confused, don't worry about it. Mike would tell you when it is your return to draft. We did this in alphabetical order. So Emily is going to draft first.

2:02.8

I am going to draft second. Caitlin, you will draft third. Okay. Caitlin, all you need to know for a

2:08.2

snake draft is each time you actually draft twice. It may seem like you don't get to, you'll get five,

2:15.2

but you'll be third and then the second round you'll be first. So you'll draft twice, okay? Okay. So Emily, you'll get five, but you'll be third, and then in the second round, you'll be first.

2:18.0

So you'll draft twice, okay?

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