00:00 The hosts discuss their lack of Easter traditions and the recent trend of stores closing on Easter.

04:07 Easter is an ancient tradition with roots in pagan rituals and has a variety of different traditions and dates depending on who you ask, but it is not mentioned in the Bible.

08:51 Easter was co-opted by the Christian church from ancient pagan holidays and rituals, and while the origins of Easter can be traced back to pagan festivals and the goddess of spring, it is ultimately a celebration of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

13:45 Easter was co-opted by Christians from ancient pagan holidays and rituals, with legends of the sun dying and being resurrected possibly being connected to the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, and there are many stories of important people dying and being resurrected.

18:45 During Lent, observant Christians traditionally go vegan for 46 days, but many people choose to symbolically give up something they love, such as chocolate, and on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent begins, people eat all of their supply of forbidden food so that it doesn't go to waste, and on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, people receive a cross of ashes on their forehead made from palm fronds from the previous year's Palm Sunday service, which are also significant because they were used to fan Jesus when he rode into Jerusalem triumphantly.

23:16 During the Easter season, palm fronds from the previous year's Palm Sunday service are burned and used for the following year's Ash Wednesday, and holy water is used with the ashes to put on the forehead.

27:36 Easter is a day of celebration, often marked by Easter egg hunts, which may have originated from Martin Luther and are tied to the symbolism of newness and rebirth associated with eggs.

33:05 In Bulgaria, there is a tradition called egg tapping where people tap hard boiled eggs to crack the other person's egg, and the last person with an uncracked egg is said to have good luck throughout the year.

37:08 In a town in England, there is a tradition where a wealthy woman who was saved by a hare from being gored by a bull, deeded some of her land to the local church and requested that everyone in the town receive hare pie and as much ale as they wanted, which is commemorated in a procession and a bottle kicking match.

41:38 During the Easter bottle kicking match, the winners drink beer in front of the losers to rub it in, and a sober person collects palm fronds from Palm Sunday to store in a giant wicker man until the next year.