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Episode 12 - Easter Special with Chase Sult
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We have our first return guest to afternoon delights! Chase Sult joins us again and brings the gusto this time. We discuss March Madness, why we have an easter bunny and then wrap things up drafting our favorite board games. Be sure to tune into the discussion and don't forget to comment with your favorite board games growing up.
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Introduction of Chase Salt and Episode Growth
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I'm gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight Gonna grab some afternoon delight My motto's always been, when it's right, it's right
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good afternoon delights this is your host matt latimer just trying to bring you a smile on this wednesday but i couldn't do that alone so i had to bring on a very special guest a repeat guest the first one in afternoon delights history this man he asked
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Nay demanded for another return on the podcast because he loved it so much. One of my best friends in the whole world. I call him Big Sexy. You know him as Chase Salt. How you doing today, Chase? What's up, Big Dog? I am doing great. I am happy to be back on, ready to bring the energy today. I just want to say thank you for inviting me back on.
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You really begged me to come back on and I was a little iffy about doing it. But I guess the people were requesting it. You know the numbers better than I do. I guess my episode was a huge hit. Everybody was listening. So I'm just excited to be back on. The people want what they want and we're going to give them what they want. So thanks for having me back on and thanks for convincing me to do it.
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I will say this, your episode was not the biggest hit at first. You were a slow grower and it was really maybe Julie's episode that helped push you through the finish line, but most people get the majority of their listens in the first week. You by far have the most growth after the first week.
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Well, I've never been called a slow grower in my life and I shot up pretty quickly and kind of stayed that way But yeah, I mean your podcast is huge. It's America's number one podcast. I mean everybody's listening You've got millions of listeners. They probably the world's number one podcast. I think you're up for a Grammy I you know, I saw you won an Academy Award the other day
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I think I saw an article, Trump was going to endorse you, but he's got too many lawsuits going on and he was a little iffy about the copyright on your intro song. And then Biden too, you've got both sides of the spectrum. He was going to endorse you, but he just forgot.
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he was mixed up with the title he kept calling it afternoon midnight which doesn't even make sense but you know he's getting 12am and 12pm a little bit mixed up but yeah congrats on having you know both sides of the table are listening to you so couldn't be any bigger and that's why I had to come back on
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Hey, that's what it's all about here on Afternoon
Favorite Podcast Episodes
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Delights. I don't know if you're getting some of your facts messed up, but here on Afternoon Delights, we're not too picky about getting facts 100% correct. We're just about having a good time and bringing a smile to people's faces, trying to brighten up people's day. That's what we're about here. Have you been listening to all the episodes? What's your favorite episode so far? My favorite episode, I got to go with
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Jen Nave's episodes, that was really good. I'm sure some people were a little bit startled about how much you seem to talk about Jacob and his outfits and his body. You might be more into him than she is, but overall, that was a great episode. And I really liked Marty's episode. That was very entertaining. You know, I don't understand a man like him as good looking as he is, as smart as he is, that he's still, you know, out there on the field and hasn't gotten scooped up yet. So we're going to need to
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get an update on that because, you know, somebody needs to come in there and cause he's just a, he's just a great guy and he's great looking too. So yeah, I enjoyed listening about that. And like I said, hopefully somebody can come in and, uh, you know, husband him up. Look, Marty knows what he wants and he's not going to settle for anything less.
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We've had a lot of women reach out asking about Marty, you know, trying to get his number, trying to set dates up with him, and none of them are just bringing to the table what he's worth and what he needs. Marty is the Excalibur of men, and right now his sword is stuck in the stone, and he is waiting for the King Arthur, or in this case, we'll call her the Queen Marie, and that's just what he's waiting for, is that perfect somebody to come and pull the sword from the stone to prove that they're worthy.
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Yeah, well, Marty, if you're listening, and I know you are because everybody listens, it'll come. Not many people can pull the Excalibur out of the stone, but he's going to find the
Easter Traditions and Candy
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one. Speaking of loved ones, Chase, I'd like to know, in your opinion, who's the better basketball player, you or Julie?
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Are we talking better just, you know, in general, or are we talking, uh, more successful and better in their perspective? You know, cause we've got men and women's, um, in their perspective, gender. She's obviously 50 million times more successful than you as a basketball player. So that's not even close. Yeah. Who'd win in a one-on-one game?
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You know, I'm gonna have to plead the fence on that one man I don't I don't want to help myself and you know, it's my choice smart choice. That's kind of a lose-lose for you Yeah, that's a lose-lose for me. But we'll just say it. She yeah, she'd probably win We'll just say it, you know, it's just we got Easter coming up here pretty soon You big Easter guy big Easter guy. Well considering about a week ago multiple people had to tell me that Easter was
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coming up I'd say I'm not a big Easter guy but when it comes I am excited about it and I always enjoy the day but can't say I really see it coming around the corner you know as much as you anticipate Thanksgiving and Christmas Easter just always seems to come but definitely as a kid it was always a it was always a good day what about you are you a big Easter guy?
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oh yeah i'm a big easter guy i love all the holidays anything that gets people to come together and just just enjoy life a little bit and every holiday has its own special traditions and i like to live up to those traditions did you guys do anything crazy or special was your kind of easter tradition.
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If our listeners remember the last episode, I was always going up to Kentucky to Louisville to visit my cousins. And we would normally go there for Easter as well. We hosted a couple, but normally we would go up there and we just did the traditional family gets together. The kids do the Easter egg hunt, hiding the eggs, you know, throughout the house inside and outside my aunt and uncle have a nice big house and nice yard. So that was always fun, finding everything.
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I've heard that some people, they find the eggs, but there's no candy in them. We've always been, there's a candy in the egg kind of family. I don't know about you and how that works. No, same. Candy has to be in the egg. Otherwise, what are you doing it for?
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Yeah, people are like, oh no, you find the egg and then you get the candy after, but it's like, well, then there's no point, there's no incentive to find the egg. I mean, it's crazy, but yeah, we always had the golden egg, you know, the golden egg, you would get 20 bucks or something. If you found the golden egg, I don't know if you guys did that too. It was usually just me and Chris, so there was typically a golden egg, but like we each got one golden egg no matter what. So I'm trying to picture you and Chris. If it was just you and Chris on Easter morning,
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your so your parents would hide the eggs would you guys fight it out would there be some you know some tackling like what was that like there was enough eggs it really wasn't any tackling we would both kind of to split up in the yard and just sprint around and they usually got some place in some pretty tough to get to spots and Chris was a big old boy so he couldn't really get those ones that were too tucked away or heading too well and I couldn't get the ones that were high up so there was a pretty
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even split, we usually came out pretty even. So we'd start every morning, we'd look for eggs, and then we would decorate Easter eggs. The biggest tradition in the Latimer House is, you know, we always got the eggs where you had the clear crayon that you could write on the eggs, and then once it died, it would come out with whatever you wrote on it. And you know that every single time that we dyed eggs on Easter, there was at least one egg with the word poop written on it. That's a tradition in the Latimer household.
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And who put the poop on there was that you are chris or was it microtina cuz i could see that really be in the other four of you it was usually me and chris both making an egg with like poop on it but i mean we probably decorate like three dozen eggs and do all different multi colors and with the stickers and
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Decorating eggs was always big. And then dinner was always a ham with cheesy potatoes and rolls, your typical kind of Easter stuff. And in my younger days, we would get a second round of egg hiding where we would go to my grandparents' house for Easter dinner. And then we would get a second round with me and my cousins going after it. It was a lot of candy in the Latimer house. That candy drawer was stocked full 24 seven. And most of it was holiday candy because of how much we got.
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Yeah, I mean, and I feel like even not during the holidays, you guys had everything. So I mean, Easter, Halloween, that was just, that was just, you know, icing on the cake for you guys. But two egg hunts. That's, that's pretty crazy. Did you guys have the baskets too? Oh, of course we had an Easter. I still get an Easter basket. Do you really? Oh yeah. Every year I get an Easter basket. I think it runs in the family. Everybody pretty much gets an Easter basket. My dad got an Easter basket until Chris was born.
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wow yeah so that's a tradition that needs to be passed down exactly when do you think you guys stopped doing the easter egg hunt so i know chris had foot surgery when he was in middle school and we were still doing it that year because i
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had to find all the eggs that year because he was being wheeled around in a wheelchair because he was still recovering from surgery. And then we split that candy and stuff 50 50. I'd probably say right around the time that I stopped trick or treating, I think is when we stopped doing the egg hunt, which was probably seventh grade ish, eighth grade ish timeframe.
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Yeah, I mean, not to talk about too many different holidays here, but we did have a lot of good times on those Halloween trick-or-treating days. I remember we would basically just sprint in the neighborhood to every house and get as much candy as we possibly could. And speaking of Chris and surgeries, I don't know if it was his first foot surgery or if it was when he had the ACL and I trick-or-treated for him and brought home a huge bell case full of candy to him. I'll always remember that.
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I think that was the first ACL because he tore his ACL in his sophomore year. So we were in seventh grade. And I remember that we were older and yeah, we always started in a big group and nobody else would ever want to sprint. So it always ended up being just me and you. And I think me and you always got as much candy as the other eight kids in the group combined. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We were savages. Good times. Good times. Okay. I just say now that we're old people, what are your Easter plans for this year?
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So we did Easter with my family, uh, this past weekend and we watched some March madness and we got Easter baskets and ate some carrot cake, had a pretty good time. That was with the whole family, cousins and uncles and stuff all came over. And then this weekend for actual Easter, we're going down to Kentucky to see Brianna's family hang out with the nieces and nephews and participate in the egg hunt with them. That's a, that's what we're doing past the tradition on to them down there. What about you?
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So we're going to go to my parents' house on Friday. Some of my cousins from Illinois are coming up, so we'll have dinner with them and then we'll head up to North Canyon and do the whole festivities with Julie's family.
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you know, have dinner and get together with her and uncle and her grandparents. Um, so yeah, I don't really know a ton of the plans, but, um, you know, probably just hang out with the family. And I'm sure there'll be, will there be basketball on? I don't even know. There will be basketball on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the elite eight in the suite 16. Yeah, we'll definitely watch that then
NCAA March Madness Discussion
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for sure. Do you, uh, make a bracket this year? You've been watching some March Madness.
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So I've been watching March Madness. I haven't watched a ton of it, but I've been catching it here and there. It seems like there aren't that many upsets this year as there normally are. My bracket is pretty bad. I chose way too many upsets as I normally do every year. I chose, you know, upsets that didn't happen. I didn't choose some that did.
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Yeah, there really hasn't been any upsets this season. In each division, there's only one team that wasn't a top four seed that didn't make the sweet 16. So you didn't have a big run by anybody. You don't have multiple upsets. I mean, even like the teams, they're out like San Diego state made it, but they're a five seed. Gonzaga made it, but they're a five seed. North Carolina state, I think is one of the only double digit seeds that's been able to advance this. So this one's a little bit historically different. We'll see if it hits. There's only been one time that all four, one seeds have ever made the March Madness tournament.
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That might be this year. I was thinking that Purdue, you know, probably want to make it past the sweet 16. So we'll see if they do or not.
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But have you been, uh, you've been watching the women's game at all? Really a lot. We've had it on on work a little bit, but that's about it. I, I peeked into the high state game and they blew it against Duke. And if they're not playing, I really don't have too much interest. I might watch the national champion. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. Julie and I were pretty heavily invested in the women's team this year. We went to three regular season games and then we actually last minute decided to go to the, uh, game against Duke and.
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You know, it was a home game for them in the tournament and I don't know what happened. They came out looking pretty good, but then they just lost it in the second half and that was disappointing. So I was pretty sad about that yesterday because they had a good team and, uh, you know, I don't know when's the next time they'll be that good.
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That's pretty much the standard across all college basketball, especially at the men's level. There's like so many games that ended just like the Ohio State one where teams have 10, 15 point leads and then they go on to lose by double digits. And it just doesn't make sense how so many of them are so bad. This is the worst college basketball has been in a very, very, very long time. A lot of the games are unwatchable. I think a lot of it has to do with so many players opting to go play overseas. You have like top recruits just going straight to the G league.
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Maybe with NIL now it'll change because guys will stick around, but guys didn't want to stick around because they wanted to get paid and they wanted to make money and they all thought they were great. Then they would go and they either wouldn't get drafted or they get drafted in the second. And then they just end up in the G league instead of staying in college for two or three years and developing. So you've lost anybody with like, anybody that's above, was above average talent has been leaving after one year, regardless of if they make the MBA or not. And now we're seeing like the result of that happening where you just don't have like great juniors or seniors right now.
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Yeah, and I think also the continuity is a little bit messed up because players are transferring every year. You might have a team and four out of their five starters just transferred into the school this year. So I think that has that plays into it a little bit as well. I think it does at the beginning of the year. But by the time that you get to March and you've had an entire offseason and played 35 games together, you should be gelled pretty well with those guys. It's odd to see so many teams. I mean, Virginia scored 42 points in their tournament game. That's a point a minute is terrible.
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That was really bad. And I mean, like the Texas Tennessee game, Texas shot in the 30s, Tennessee shot, I think maybe 29 or 30% and they ended up winning. I think they were like one of 20 for three and they won that game. So that just kind of shows you, you know, the state, but who are you picking to win it? Who's your pick?
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So I make kind of one bracket a year. So I submitted two brackets to pools and I do it exactly the same for the two teams that I think are most likely to win and then I pick one and one. So I have North Carolina one bracket and Houston in one bracket.
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Wow, those are shocks to me. I thought you would have said UConn for at least one of them. That's my pick, and I think they've been the best team all year. I don't really see anybody who's better than them, but we'll see. I mean, it could be anybody. Yeah, so I don't know if you know this, but I build my brackets solely off of historical statistics. Oh, I do know this. You do all the stats.
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So, UConn would be going for a back-to-back winner. There hasn't been a back-to-back winner since Florida in 2007. UConn is the number one overall seed. The number one overall seed is more likely to lose on the first weekend than they are to make the final four over the last 20 years. More often than not, they don't advance past the Sweet 16. And UConn also comes from a conference that this year only had three teams selected to the NCAA tournament. No team that comes from a conference with three teams or less has ever won a national championship.
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A lot of working against you. Yeah, well you say since 2007, so I think it's about to-do time. You know what else was going on in 2007? A lot of crazy stuff in college football. I was 12, so I don't remember anything. I was asking you what was going on. I think they're due.
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I will say the one thing that scared me in picking Yukon is every single national championship, national champion sense. They started coming out with like the Ken Palm rankings or like net rankings or whatever. The national champion has been top 25 and both offense and defensive efficiency, except for one team. And that one team was the 2014 national championship team by you're saying there's a chance.
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So I'm saying there's a chance. Yeah. So they were the one team to buck the trend and, uh, we'll see if they're able to do. Yeah. I'm looking forward to catching the rest of it. Looking forward to catching the, the woman's too. Um, you know, I feel like anything can happen with Caitlin Clark and that's what everybody's going to be watching. So we'll see what happens there.
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Yeah, we will see how that happens. I was really hoping in the women's tournament for it to be a South Carolina Ohio State national championship game. That way we could do a big watch party with Jacob and Jen and have everybody going crazy. Everybody get a dog in a fight. But now we're, I don't know, I guess I'll cheer for South Carolina just to see Jacob's school get a little bit of happiness. But I think everybody else is going to be cheering for. Yeah. I mean, if you're not a South Carolina fan, you're.
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You're cheering for Kaitlyn Clark and, you know, I'll support Jacob. He was pretty sad that they lost to Oregon. He, you know, he made the trek all the way out there to Pittsburgh to watch that game. And so I'll, I'll send some love Jacob's way. Yeah. He definitely don't. We all need a little love. We all need a little bit of love. We all need a little bit of afternoon delights. That's why we're here. All right, Chase, you got anything else you want to bring up before we get into some afternoon delights place? I'm ready for it. I'm ready to learn what you have in store for us today.
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Alright, well we, Chase, are going to cycle back on a little Easter here. And, you know, a lot of people know that Easter is, it's a Christian holiday celebrating at the end of Lent. You know, we try to remember Jesus Christ and the sacrifice that he made for all of mankind.
Origins and Symbolism of Easter
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That's what we all think that it's about, but the real question is, Chase, is why do we have an Easter bunny? Yeah, I thought it was about the Easter bunny, so this is news to me. Tell me more.
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Well, you know, it's all well and good but like you said is Easter really about Jesus or is it about candy? We don't know but the real mystery is the Easter Bunny and why the heck is he carrying around eggs? So to understand the origins we got to look back at the country that created pretty much all of the crazy folklore that people followed today and that's uh, that's Germany. Like I said Easter being a Christian holiday like many other Christian holiday has plenty of pagan influences
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that helped them kind of assimilate into the areas and groups as Christianity grew. So in Germany the pagans they used to celebrate a spring festival celebrating new life and they worshiped the German goddess Auster and then spelled E-O-S-T-R-E-N. This goddess of life and spring and fertility she had a mythical animal with her and that mythical animal was a rabbit or a hare and rabbits for as
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as long as they have been around, have been linked as symbols of fertility because of their ability to procreate at a mass level. So it makes sense why the rabbits used across a bunch of different cultures. Now, this pagan tradition had mostly died out before Easter was celebrated as the holiday that it is today. So why did we keep the namesake and why did we keep the rabbit? Well, in medieval times, it was widely believed that the rabbit was a hermaphroditic
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animal and was able to have babies with itself without having sex. So in Christianity, going way, way, way, way, way back to the beginning, people actually used to link the rabbit as a symbol of the Virgin Mary for centuries because it was able to reproduce without having to have sex. Well, we know that now not to be true, but that's what they thought, you know, 2000 years ago. But then you got to ask yourself, Chase, why the eggs? Because we know that rabbits don't lay eggs.
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Well, as the folklore states, you know, the Easter bunny used to be a bird. And the goddess Astar transformed the bird into a rabbit that was able to lay colorful eggs. And then the egg is also another symbol of rebirth and has been recognized as such for Christians for 2,000 years. And they adopted the symbol of an egg to represent the tomb that Jesus Christ was kept in. And the egg became popularized with Easter in the 17th century when churches in Europe
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banned the eating of eggs during Lent. So when Lent ended at the end of Easter, people would celebrate by eating these colorful eggs that were brought to them by the Easter Bunny. And the Easter Bunny made its way to the US in the 1700s by way of German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania. They quickly adopted to this tradition and they began creating nests for the Easter Bunny to lay their eggs in. And eventually that led to what we know as Easter baskets.
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What really started popularizing the Easter egg hunt though was in the 1600s, Martin Luther, he started to hide eggs for his congregation and this was really only popular in Germany and stayed that way for a couple hundred years and then the egg hunt began to spread widely in the 1800s when Princess Victoria, who would later become Queen Victoria of England,
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her mother was a german-born duchess and they used to celebrate easter at windsor castle one year they went to one of her mother's family's estates in germany when she was fourteen and they did an egg hunt and she wrote in her journal about how much fun the egg hunt was and how great it was and it got reported back in england and then it became a tradition at the english castle
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And it caught on like wildfire in England. You know, this happened in like the 1830s and by 1850, they had started producing artificial eggs for Easter for people to buy and hide for their kids. And by 1874, this had actually become the most popular method for hiding eggs.
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So Easter eggs and the Easter egg hunt became popular in mainstream England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as society began to change. Family life became more of a priority for the expanding Victoria class and they had more disposable income and the Victorians were also fascinated by old traditions. So as a result, Easter moved away from being a primarily religious holiday and a communal celebration. It became more centered on family home and the pleasures of children. And that is how we got the Easter bunny that
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we all know today. So you're telling me this all started because there was some girl running around in Germany with a rabbit? Well, yeah, not just some girl. She was a goddess. Oh, okay. She was a goddess of new life in spring, and she turned a bird into a rabbit. And that's why the Easter Bunny has eggs, because it used to be- These are the things they don't teach her in school. They don't. Who would have known any- I know, right?
00:22:40
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These are the important topics that you can only get on afternoon delights. That's how it got the name Easter because in Christianity it had a different Aramaic name that meant resurrection or resurrection day. That's what it was for like an extremely long time, pre 1600s, before Christianity really made its way into Germany. And then as they started blending with like German traditions and then they got austere and then
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Easter and austere kind of became one like resurrection day and everything became one and then as it got translated into different languages the pronunciation changed when it got switched into old English to be closer to Easter and then that's how we got it pronounced as interesting stuff never knew any of this you're you know you're teaching people all over the world all sorts of things on this podcast and that's what we need in this world and I appreciate it
00:23:26
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I do what I can. Do you have a favorite Easter movie? I'm thinking of some of the famous Easter bunnies. You got Peter Cottontail, Hugh Jackman's Easter Bunny. He's not an Easter. He's just a rabbit. He's just a rabbit. Peter Cottontail? Yeah, he's just a rabbit getting into people's gardens, eating their carrots. Is he associated with Easter? I don't think he is.
00:23:47
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I feel like he's he might be famous Easter Bunny I can't think of any movies. Well there's the what's the movie with Hugh Jackman's Easter Bunny where they save Christmas the greatest showman.
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No, no, not the greatest. Wolverine. It's an animated film. No, it's an animated film and it's got all the mythical creatures. X-Men 2. Jason, you're no help here. I don't know, Matt. I have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, uh, Saving Private Ryan. No, Rise of the Guardians. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's all the different mythical creatures, Rise of the Guardians. So you got the Australian Eastern. Yeah, I never saw that one. It looked good though.
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Well, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. All right, so he's the Australian Easter Bunny. Then you have the movie, Hop, and that's got the little Easter Bunny, and he doesn't lay eggs. He poops jelly. What? And this is a movie? Yeah, it's a little kid movie. Where'd you find this? What kind of site did you find this movie on?
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Did you have a favorite Easter candy growing up to Easter candy you know i really i really enjoyed you know they have those chocolate balls and they had something in the middle of them like maybe they have a few nerds or something like that. Are you talking about the wonder balls the wonder balls i enjoyed those i also enjoyed anything sour sour patch kids warhead i was big on the anything chocolate and sour i could get down on how about you.
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There is only one correct answer to the best Easter candy and that is hands down, without a doubt, the
Debating the Best Easter Candies
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jelly bean. Jelly beans are top candy all the time. I love jelly beans and the best jelly bean that there is, is the Starburst jelly. That's just such a weird take. I don't want jelly beans. How is that a weird take? Who likes jelly beans? I mean, they're okay. Everybody. No, they're amazing. It's just pure sugar deliciousness and a little ball and the Starburst ones are the best. Are you the guy that enjoys the Harry Potter ones where you have like earwax and
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vomit and dirty shoes. Oh yeah, birdie bots, every flavor. Yeah, you like eating those too?
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Yeah, I mean, those in and of themselves, like the quality of the jelly bean isn't really anything special. Like I don't think jelly bellies is that special. There's way better jelly beans than jelly bellies. And the birdie bots is kind of like a gel that style, but they have like, they basically turned birdie bots. That's the game. Same, same. I thought you were going to say, um, like a Reese's Easter egg, Reese's cup, or like Easter bunny Reese's something. Cause those are good too.
00:26:12
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I mean, I do love the Reese's egg and the Reese's egg is better than a regular Reese's cup. Now in terms of shapes, I'll save this debate for another episode, but at one point in time, you will hear us debate the best Reese's egg shape. Does the shape affect the taste? That's the real question.
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Yeah the shape affects the taste that the egg is the chris loves the egg i think you'll line them all up the pumpkin used to be the best then they kind of changed the shape of the pumpkin and they made a little bit smaller and the pumpkin's not as good as it used to be which is super sad christmas trees are pretty awesome now they got the ghost the ghost is pretty good but yeah they have they have different shapes and the shapes have different tastes different amounts of chocolate different quantities of peanut butter
00:26:51
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This is very signed yeah i feel like we're gonna have to do you know later down the line maybe a halloween episode or something where we take samples of each shape and do a blind taste test and you know see which one comes out on top cuz i'm a little skeptical but you know i know you wouldn't lie to your listeners so we'll have to do that experiment when these days.
00:27:13
Speaker
We'll definitely do that experiment and my listeners already know this. They're of the same opinion. They know that the shapes are different and that the shapes are better. I believe you. I believe you. I also, we used to always get one of like the Russell Stover's giant bunnies and they had the little like tach eyes on. I mean, those like Marie Callender's, like the chicken pot pies. Is that what you're talking about?
00:27:36
Speaker
No, I'm not talking about him right now. Oh, you said, you said doffers. Russell Stokes. Oh, okay. S-T-O-V-E-R, the chocolate. Okay, I thought you were talking about it. It was a giant chocolate bottle. Oh, okay. I thought you were talking about TV dinners. I was a little confused. Oh, Chase. Oh my gosh.
Board Games Draft
00:27:56
Speaker
All right, Chase. Well, let's get into this draft here. All right, the meat of the episode, Chase. So we are going to draft our best board games. Best board games? That's what we're drafting?
00:28:07
Speaker
That's what you want. You told me, you told me specifically, you said we are drafting best Disney sitcoms from our childhood featuring Dylan and Cole Sprouse, not named sweet life of Zack and Cody. That's what you told me we were drafting and I was having a hard time figuring out. So this is actually better because I couldn't find anything. So I'm glad we're doing board games.
00:28:30
Speaker
Okay, well, I'm gonna kick off this board game draft chase with the 1-0, 1-0, the best game, Settlers of Catan. You gonna give me the first pick? I'm gonna take the best game from the first time that I played Settlers of Catan. I knew that it was special. It's highly repeatable, but ever changing. It's interactive. It pits loved ones against each other. There's tons of different ways to strategize and win. It has plenty of different expansion packs.
00:28:55
Speaker
It can just make things fresh. And it's also a very simple game to learn how to play, but it is a hard game to become a master at. And that's why I love Settlers of Katana. You can really get at it. You get it down people's throats. There's trading back and forth. You've never wanted a piece of wheat so bad in your life as when you're playing Settlers of Katana. Or brick for that matter.
00:29:16
Speaker
All right, give me your first pick. Yeah, that was a good one. You know, I told you I'd let you go first and I knew that that's the one you would take. So I'm going to take another one, Monopoly. Monopoly is a classic. It's really hard to beat Monopoly. We used to play it all the time. I would, I would play it just one on one. I know most people would probably think that's pretty crazy to have two people sitting across the table playing Monopoly for four hours, but I would do it. I would do it all the time and I would always play it with my dad and I'm sure that he hated it. I'm sure he was like, Oh no, we got to play Monopoly again.
00:29:45
Speaker
But I just loved it and they have like 75 million different versions of it. We had Disney, we had NBA, Star Wars. But no matter which version you take, it's a great game and it's a classic. So I'm going to take that one off the board because I know you had it.
00:30:02
Speaker
Yeah, Monopoly is a classic game. We played a bunch of it. I used to kick the crap out of Chris in Monopoly. One time Chris, he was always the banker, and he would steal 500s out of the bank without me noticing, and I still beat him in a half an hour. And after that day, he was so pissed that I beat him and that he was so terrible at Monopoly that he got Monopoly on his phone, and he played five or six games a day until he got good enough to beat me. All right, give me your second pick. My second pick.
00:30:24
Speaker
This is a personal favorite of mine. I know people have a lot of strong opinions on this one one way or the other, but it's going to be Scrabble. My mom and I would play Scrabble all the time when I was a kid and I just really got into it and not a lot of people will play it with me.
00:30:40
Speaker
Because like I said, either you hate it or you love it, but I just love it. I love the strategy of it. Some people think that you got to make the biggest word out there, but it's really about getting those double and those triple word and those triple letters. So it's about placement. And if you got an X and you put it on that triple letter, you're golden. So I'm going to go with Scrabble.
00:31:00
Speaker
Yeah, I've never really played Scrabble. I'm not much of a speller. I've got the spelling capabilities of a kindergartner. So not a game that I've excelled at so much in my life. One thing I'm good at is spelling. All right, Chase. Well, you just opened the door for me to get my second pick. My number two overall. The game that I have probably logged the most hours on in my life. A game that you are familiar with and that you oftentimes lose at when you go against me, I'm taking risks.
00:31:25
Speaker
I wasn't going to let it pass up. We've talked about this on our first episode, how much we both love risk. It can carry on for days, has the nostalgia factor for me, tons of different strategy, tons of different ways to fight back. You're never really out of a game. Kind of like Monopoly, there is a lot of different versions of risk and stuff made from, from different movies. So you can kind of play that and that all those versions have a little bit of different rules. The one downside of risk, its biggest downside really is if you have two big armies go against each other.
00:31:51
Speaker
and you're playing with multiple people, you might just be sitting there for 40 minutes while two people just constantly roll dice. That's the biggest downfall. Yeah, I feel like we got to get it going again and kind of see what it would be like now that we're a little older, maybe have a little bit more strategy under our belt and don't want it to last nine days. So yeah, we should run that back.
00:32:10
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my third pick i'm taking another one of my classic all-time favorites i still love it to this day it can also get heated because everybody every little kid grows up and they want to solve a murder and they want to be a detective so i'm taking clue with my favorite pick you can still really get into this game as an adult they have different versions of it you know you get pitted against your loved ones you start accusing people that they're the murderer you can play each other
00:32:33
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play against each other, you keep little notes in your pocket and ultimately the way that it's kind of laid out and designed and with the turns and everything is everybody always has a chance to win every game. So that's what I like about Clue. Yeah, that's a good one. Classic one. All right, give me your third pick, Chase. Another personal favorite of mine, a game that my wife and I have probably played upwards of 2000 times
00:32:57
Speaker
Yahtzee is a great game especially if you know you only have two people and you just want to play a quick game and you know a pretty mindless game you got to go with Yahtzee so that's that's what I'm picking. Yahtzee is indeed a great game and if you were ever over at the Latimer household growing up you knew that we had little special handheld games. It wasn't like a Gameboy game that you slid in it was just an individual game and we had the Yahtzee game
00:33:22
Speaker
in the bathroom, and I played a lot of hours of Yahtzee on that little handheld device while I was taking a poop as a youngster. Yeah, I had that device too. Can't say that it was in the bathroom, but I definitely spent a lot of time on that one too. Alright, give me pick number four.
00:33:37
Speaker
Pick number four. We're going to go with another personal favorite of mine and that is Mexican train. Mexican train is a Domino's game. I don't know if a ton of people are familiar with it. I think there are a few different versions of it. I've heard some people talk about chicken foot, which is a similar version of it, but it basically, it's just a really simple Domino's game. It's best played with a large group of people. We started playing it with my family and extended family years back and we continue to play it to this day.
00:34:07
Speaker
I'll give it to you, I don't technically count Dominoes as a board game, because there's no board.
00:34:12
Speaker
Well, there's a little center console that everybody has to lay the dominoes on and put their pieces, you know, based off of that. It's a good game. I've played chicken chicken foot before and a few other dominoes games that my aunt Irene taught me when I was a youngster, haven't played dominoes in a very long time. I don't remember really any of the rules, but it's not too bad of a pick. You know, I'm going to take a new game here that is technically a board game and I'm going to take secret Hitler.
00:34:38
Speaker
Secret Hitler is my favorite game for large gatherings, eight plus people, quick rounds. So you just go, go, go, go, go. You know, it takes 15 minutes and then it's done. And then you're on to the next game. Seeds, a lot of distrust between people, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, just people going at each other's throat. And it's a heck of a lot of fun and you can get in a lot of arguments. It's a good time. It's similar if you played mafia or resistance or anything like that. I haven't played them, but the way that people have described it to me, similar to those games, but I like Secret Hitler a lot. So good. Love that game.
00:35:07
Speaker
You know, I had another one on here that I was going to take, but there's no way that anybody has actually ever heard of it or played it. I'll leave it for my honorable mention. So with my last pick, I'm going to take a very classic game chase. I'm going to take Checkers. Checkers. Checkers, the most classic.
00:35:22
Speaker
board games you can play this for hours and hours and hours you can go to cracker barrel when you're a kid and play it with your brother while you wait for your table to be ready and that's what me and Chris used to do and Chris was a checkers savant beat him a few times smoked everybody else it got to a point where me and Chris can no longer play checkers against each other because we will draw every single game
00:35:44
Speaker
we will draw every single game without a piece being taken. And whoever is like, well, if we just do all these moves that we all know to do every time so that you don't lose pieces, then the game's going to end. So whoever box first and decides to lose the first piece loses that checkers game every time. Yeah. Well, remind me not to play checkers against you then because
00:36:02
Speaker
Every time I play, it just makes me feel stupid because you're like, Oh, checkers, surely it's, it's super easy. Like I'm not going to lose. And maybe if I do it, at least it'll be close, but no, I'll get, I'll be, get destroyed. It's like tic-tac-toe. It's like, Oh, surely I'm not going to lose it. Tic-tac-toe, but I find a way. All right, Chase, give me your last last pick. Well, I've got a few options here, but I'm going to go with another classic and that's the game of life. Everybody loves life.
00:36:27
Speaker
And like Monopoly, there are different versions of life. I know one specifically that I really enjoyed is Monsters, Inc. Life. You got to adopt monsters, you got to get your little monster house, your little monster job. Classic movie paired with a classic game. Life is always a good time.
00:36:48
Speaker
Here's my bugaboo with life, is that sometimes it doesn't matter how good you actually are in the game, and it just matters how lucky you are in the life cards that you get. Like the tokens that you pick up, that's all the money at the end. And if you happen to get all the ones that were $100,000 and the person that you played got ones that were 20, you smoke them. Yeah.
00:37:07
Speaker
But there's strategy involved, and that's really any game, is luck. There's gonna be luck involved in any game. I don't know if that's a legitimate bugaboo. It's still a good game, but that's just a bugaboo with me. All right, Chase, do you have any honorable mentions for us? Yeah, you know, I could say a few, but I'll pick a couple here. I'm gonna go with what do you meme. You know, a few days ago, you and your wife and Jacob and his wife came over and, you know,
00:37:35
Speaker
and you know my wife were here and we played What Do You Meme and we went through every single card and we just had a blast. We were laughing hysterically pretty much for two hours straight or however long we played. So that's a great if you guys have never checked that one out. And then the last one is Sequence. Sequence is a classic. I hadn't played it until I met Julie but
00:37:56
Speaker
It's a really fun game. You can play it with two people, all the way up to six people. What are your honorable mentions here? My honorable mention, so first one's Ticket to Ride. My next one is a game called Aggravation. Maybe not a lot of people have heard it. I played it all the time with my grandparents. Almost put it over checkers, but it's kind of like a dice game. It's similar to Sorry, actually. It's very similar to Sorry, but you play with dice instead of cards, and there's not as much help stuff, and you get to move around the board, and you knock people out. Aggravation's a great game. And then my last honorable mention is one that is actually
00:38:25
Speaker
It was in my top five, but nobody else listening to this has probably ever played it or ever heard of it. And it's called Spectre Ops. And I've been trying to get people to play it for a long time. And it's a no scene movement game. So you play one person versus everybody else. And the other person, like the person that plays by themself tracks their movement on like a separate piece of paper. So they're like invisible on the board and you're trying to catch a spy on the board and stuff that's trying to steal information. I also have Red Rising the board game. So everybody out there that reads Red Rising, we need to get together and play Red Rising the board game together.
00:38:54
Speaker
I read the first one solely for you, so I can play. Good. Now go read the next five. I need to get caught up. All right, Chase. Well, that brings us to the end of our episode. I'm glad that you could join us a second time. You brought a lot more gusto on this episode than you did the first one, and I'm proud of you.
00:39:08
Speaker
Thank you. Yeah, I mean, thank you for convincing me to do it. And, you know, like I said, I'm just trying to give the people what they want. That's what we're all about here on Afternoon Delights. Once again, Chase, you were a great guest. Thank you out there to everybody listening. I hope this brought a smile to your day. And I'm your host, Matt Latimer. I'm just reminding you that it's a good day to have a good day.
00:39:33
Speaker
I hate to go and live this pretty side So long, farewell, I'll be to Saint Andrew I do, I do, to you Andrew, Andrew