Selects: Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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We aren’t exactly sure who invented trick-or-treating – kids who realized they could extort adults for candy, or adults who bought off kids in exchange for laying off pranks? The bigger question is: Will trick-or-treating survive the 21st century? Learn more in this classic episode.

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0:38.3	you have to get away from the extremes and listen to the middle.
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1:02.0	you get your podcasts.
1:04.0	Hey everybody, for this week's Select, I've chosen our 2019 episode on trick-or-treating.
1:11.5	It's a really in-depth look at trick-or-treating, and it's got a lot of surprising stuff inside.
1:16.8	Like it turns out that if you don't set abandoned buildings on fire on Halloween, then you've
1:21.6	been trick-or-treating all wrong all this time.
1:24.7	But don't worry, we're releasing this just in time for you to learn the ropes this Halloween.
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