Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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?

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0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and there's Jerry and this
0:47.4	is Stuff You Should Know, the right before Halloween edition.
0:52.0	About a little kid at every Halloween.
0:56.8	I'm pretty excited about it.
0:58.0	Yeah, do you get trick or treaters?
1:00.4	No, not really.
1:01.7	Kind of life, hashtag, etc.
1:03.6	Yeah, and I've told my story before but I'll just briefly summarize again that my
1:09.4	house is after a big curve in the road and people seem to just stop at that curve in
1:14.5	the road.
1:15.5	Well, they don't want to come up on Old Man Brian's house.
1:17.7	No.
1:18.7	They're the old dead oak tree with the big hole in it that boo-radly hides figures in
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