Double Take-March 29th-Easter

The hosts of a radio show discuss their week and their plans for Easter. They talk about their school work, going to the gym, and donating blood. They also discuss their memories of Easter, focusing on the commercialized aspect rather than the religious significance. One host remembers an Easter egg hunt at a church when they were younger, while the other host doesn't have any specific memories. What is a godless song to play on such a holy day? Good evening, Zeal Nation and beyond. You're listening to WCCU Radio, Coastal California University's student-run radio station. We welcome you to Britain Hall 301 for this week's edition of Double Take. It is a beautiful Friday evening here in Conway, South Carolina. Um, not a relatively, it was just a little bit of a short week we got today off from classes due to it being Good Friday, but other than that, Kate, how was your school week this week? Happy Good Friday to those who celebrate, first and foremost. As far as school goes, nothing really remarkable, just the daily grind of getting, you know, going to class and doing work at home. We did TEAL Talk on Monday and then had a couple of assignments I had to work on. Besides that, I missed my AAMR class on Thursday. I kind of, I hate that because I don't like missing classes, but, you know, aside from all that, the school week for me was pretty chill, pretty laid back. Okay. Yeah, same for me, it was just kind of, you know, get up, go to class, go do some things and then go to the gym and eat. Oh yeah, how was that work? Well, yeah, you had work and stuff. Yep. Tuesday, Thursday. But the gym, too, that's coming along pretty good. Yeah, going to the gym, finally got a consistent schedule under our belt. It's like three days. Just in time for the semester to be over. Yeah, I know, that's, you know, it is what it is. My legs are so sore from yesterday. Anyway, yeah, like I was saying, my week was relatively okay, just kind of wanted to limp into Friday and get into the long weekend so I can buckle down and have some time to do a lot more assignments, have some time to myself, doing some things like playing video games. Like, I've just been needing it, it's been rough. I know that's cap. Like, time to play video games, I know that's cap. Okay, but you've been able to, you've had that time. Yes, I've been able to, but I've also been able to do work. I put my nose to the grindstone and done work. I would say I'm going to put my nose to the grind, but I know very well I'm going to be procrastinating the entire time. Oh yeah, for sure. And then today went to Myrtle Beach because I got a call on Friday, hey, Blood Connection, come donate blood. We need your blood type. Sure. Guy went down to Double Red. You did, you called this morning, or yesterday, and then they scheduled you for... No, I called this morning. You called this morning, they scheduled you for 12. Yep, 12, yeah, 1230. They took my essence. Yes, and it's been a long, it's been a while since I donated blood. Go out, donate blood. Good cause. Today's episode is going to be about Easter. It's Easter weekend, but for now, we're right back here on Double Take on WCCU, Coastal California University Student Run radio station. Or back to gasoline, are we? Welcome back to Double Take on WCCU, Coastal California University Student Run radio station. Yeehaw. Like I had... Please don't do that. Why? You peaked the microphone and it hurt my ears. Well, then maybe turn me down a little bit. No. Back on you, buddy. Like I said before the break, we are doing our Easter episode today. We've already covered a couple of the major holidays, dating back to Halloween when we did our little candy taste test. Now we're doing Easter. Talk about it. Talk about Easter. What is it? We've come a long way since then. Yes, we have come a long way since then. That was within the first month of our, of the show. So go ahead, tell me. First I'll scratch that. We'll talk more about that one. I remember scheming for the show. We were in the, we were in a T-Mobile just scheming like what we wanted for... We were going to Aldi. We were going to Aldi. We were going to Aldi. We were scheming, okay, like what the show name, what it would be about, what we'd be doing on it, all the different little things. And the Halloween one, that was what we had thought about doing before we even started doing this. And that came to fruition and then we just, everything just kind of fell into place as we got into a rhythm. We'll speak more upon that when we hit the last episode of the semester, which is coming up rather quickly. Yes, very, very soon. So let's get back on track here. Easter. What did Easter, talk to me about it. What do you want to know? Well... Like what do you want to know about it? Well, Easter, like what... Very ambiguous prompt. What Easter memory comes to your mind when you hear Easter, when you hear Easter's coming around? Just the baskets, really. I was never, I know what Easter's about, but I was never... I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I was never, I know what Easter's about, but I was never brought up on the religious aspect of Easter. So for me, it was always getting up and getting those, like seeing what Easter baskets, what we got in the Easter baskets, and then having Easter dinner, and that's basically the long and short of that. We never went to church. The religious part of Easter is more so just the, like focus on the knowledge of the baskets, the eggs, the egg hunt. The commercialized Easter. The commercialized Easter, yeah, that's the better word for it. It's like with Christmas where you have, yeah, there's like the religious aspect, and then you have the fully commercialized thing about Santa Claus, with Santa Claus, with the decorations, the lights, the presents. So for Easter to you is like more, you know more, like what comes to mind is more the commercialized. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think of it as the Mr. Peter Cottontail. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think of it as the day that the Lord rose. Yeah. Well, even though it's like, yeah, you do think about that you are, but I know what it is. I'm very well aware of what it's about. I was never raised and like brought up on that, and I was never, like I said, we didn't go to church on Easter. We rarely practiced the, like the leading up to Easter, like today, like literally today is the only day where I'm not eating meat, and that's because my father specifically asked like, hey, don't eat meat on Good Friday. You don't have to participate in Lent and like the rest of the days, but as long as you don't eat, just please don't eat meat on Good Friday. Right, right, right. That's all I ask. Right. So like you said, the better word to commercialize, I was more so brought up on the commercialized aspect of Easter, the baskets, the eggs, the little gifts here and there. Yeah. Little Easter bunny. A little note on that, just for the record, after we donated blood, we did go to a Chinese buffet. Yeah. We only ate seafood. Yep. Only sushi. Sushi, mayo shrimp. Mayo shrimp. That was interesting. Mayo shrimp was interesting. That was pretty interesting. But when I, when Easter, like your Easter memory, like what's your, what's the most prominent Easter memory you have, like specifically, not just like the baskets every year, like specific one moment in one Easter? I can't conjure up or think of a specific one because to me, like I remember what we did on Easter is just, but for me, Easter was just like a normal, regular day. Like yeah, you get the, like I just don't remember. That's, I don't think that's a bad thing. It's because like, it was, nothing was really that memorable. Like I appreciate everything I was given. Yeah. But it's just, I don't, like nothing really specifically stands out to me and I know you're probably going to say something that's going to remind me that, oh yeah, this did happen. But for me, I can't really think of anything off the top of my head. So like you, you seem like you have something, so like I'm going to throw it back over to you. Like what do you got? Well, you had no choice to throw it back over to me. I was just going to wait until you were done talking. You don't got to throw it back to me. There is a memory specifically, and that's back when we were still living down here, when we were still in single digits, like below the age, still below the age of like eight, eight or nine, there was this church off of Magnolia Road leading to our, our house in Little River. And they had an Easter egg on the front here that I just remember vividly going out where like the near the, because it was a huge, I guess, cemetery surrounding the church for some reason. I don't know. And we went out into the yard where there was like a big patch of clear grass and they just tossed. They didn't even hide them. It was like an Easter egg hunt, but they just tossed eggs, the little plastic eggs out into the grass and were like, all right, three, two, one, go. And they just let everyone go buck wild in the grass, just fighting over, fighting over these colorful eggs with little, little candies in them. I just don't quite remember that. I do. I don't remember that. I remember that quite vividly. I don't remember the events afterwards. All I remember is the going there, doing the egg hunt and then going home and that's about it. Something that I actually, you bring it up, I vividly remember now is the one Easter when I looked in the oven and there was nothing in there and then I came back like maybe two minutes later and there was like presents in there. I was like, whoa, like it, it, it still boggles my mind how that happened so quickly. Your old child pea brain didn't. My pea brain couldn't comprehend like what, what just happened because I was just in here two minutes ago. It was like that. There was nothing. And then, oh yeah, there's something in there. It was like that one year where, and I always talk about this during the Christmas episode where I woke up and I saw like red, like a red, like someone dressed in red in our room, like just leaving the room and I'm like, Santa, and I hop out of my bed and I run into the living room and there's nobody, nobody, not a, not a single person. I think that was different. I think you just have a house is dead. I think, I don't know. I think you just have a schizophrenia. Maybe. I might've had a little, I might've had a little schizophrenia. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not that hallucination, little childlike imagination. No, there's, there's nothing wrong. Like childlike wonder is an amazing thing. That's probably what I manifested in my mind that I just saw Santa Claus. It was hallucinating. Cause you're probably tired and you've hallucinated. He was there. Well, it was like early in the morning. I woke up like it might've been like seven o'clock, eight o'clock in the morning. And I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I was like, oh my God. I don't want to say, because I can't remember, I can't remember vividly Easter's in Pennsylvania, but I feel like when we moved to South Carolina, Easter kind of lost its charm. Oh, baby. Like I said, for me, Easter has not been really a remarkable day. No, it's not like Thanksgiving or Christmas, where it's like, it's a big hype up to the event. Well, not Thanksgiving as much in the last two years, because we've been at college. But it's been like a big hype up, and then it happens. It's like, oh, wow, this is great. This is awesome. Easter is just like, hi. One other thing I really remember is that the Good Fridays where Mom would take us to McDonald's and get Filet-O-Fish. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. That's when we were still here, though. Yeah, when we were still here in South Carolina. That's what I'm saying. The little whimsy of Easter kind of just died when we left South Carolina. And that's not a bad thing, either. I'm not saying I wasn't appreciative of every Easter after that. I am. I am appreciative of spending time with my family, having dinner with my family, and getting little Easter stuff, like candies. Right. Yeah, so it's just, it lost that little bit of charm after we had left. And I guess it was, we were getting older. The move was big, so it kind of like, you know, grew us up a little bit, especially moving twice when we made it to Pennsylvania, and like twice in a matter of like five years. Yeah, it is what it is. It is what it is. But yeah, Easter, not a big holiday for me, but I dig it. I still dig it, yeah. I still celebrate it. Yeah, and I still have like every, there will be pockets of memories that I just didn't remember that will pop up in my head. I know what it's about, and I'm always going to know what it's about, but it's not big for me. We'll be right back here on Double Take and talk about Easter candy here on WCCU Radio. Welcome back to Double Take on WCCU Radio. Well, it is now time to talk about Easter candies. And a lot of the holidays have a trend with releasing their niche candies and their special candies on their specific holidays. Yeah, like Halloween, you got the candy corn. You got, what else do you have on Halloween? Candy corn, that's about it. Yeah, candy corn. Circus peanut. Circus peanut. Well, they kind of like, they're an all-year-round thing, but they kind of rear their ugly heads during Halloween. Certain holidays. Yeah, and then you got the, like Reese's Pumpkins. They do little pumpkins out of their Halloween-themed candies from different companies. Yeah. Then you move on to Christmas. You got candy canes. That's the niche one for Christmas, where it's just like specific to Christmas. And then obviously the Reese's Trees, Hershey Kisses are a big thing. They don the red and green wrappings. That thing, that commercial always plays. Yes. Yes. I hear they kind of change it sometimes, though. You never know which one you're going to get. The Sunset is absolutely beautiful up here on the third floor. I can't see it, but I trust you. Yeah. And now you move on to Easter. Easter has a couple of, has two very specific candies that are very polarizing, depending on who you ask. So, before I ask, what's your favorite and least favorite Easter candy? So, I would have to say my favorite Easter candy would have to be the Reese's Eggs. Okay. It doesn't matter if it's just a Reese's peanut butter cup shaped in a different way. It's goated. It's unbelievably goated. It's like the Reese's pumpkin, but like no frills, no nothing. Just an ovular shaped Reese's peanut butter cup. And it's good. I'll show you what the perfect chocolate to peanut butter ratio for me. And then my least favorite. I know what it's going to be. Oh, you know what it's going to be. I despise with a passion, I do not like Marshmallow Peeps. Yeah. I do not like Marshmallow Peeps. They just make my teeth hurt thinking about them. And they leave a sour taste in my mouth just thinking about them. Like when I was a kid, I loved them because I'm a child. You know, sugar. Yes, I love sugar. But as I got older and my pal started to change, I absolutely despised Marshmallow Peeps. And I still do. I don't care if I haven't had one in a little bit. I do not desire to have a Marshmallow Peep. And that's crazy. I'm with you on that. I don't like Peeps. Not because they make my teeth hurt. It's just the flavor. Yeah, you get the marshmallow, but then you get like a weird, not metallic, but sort of sour taste in your mouth. And it just doesn't feel, and it's just not good. And we're from the land of the Peeps. We're from Pennsylvania. We're close to, like an hour away from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Peeps originated from. And then my favorite is a more specific to Easter candy, rather than like a variation of a mainstream thing. Yeah. Robin Eggs. I do like Robin Eggs. Robin Eggs. They're top five for me. I know they might be mainstream, but I think they're Whoppers. I think they're different than a Whopper. I think they're the same. I thought Robin Eggs was just like a hard, outer shell with chocolate in the middle. Let me get them. You see, they are indeed, many Robin Eggs are indeed Whoppers. Okay. No, they could be different because I've had Robin Eggs that are chocolate. I've had Robin Eggs that are bubble gum. But when I think of a Robin Egg, like the little egg shape, of course, but it's like actual 3-D egg shaped, you know, pink, blue, or white candy, I think of Whopper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The little malted milk duds or malted milk balls. Those would be my favorite. And I know we're going to go back to the Peeps discussion. Peeps are very polarizing because some people do love them, some people do hate them, like candy corn. What I don't agree with is these different flavors of Peeps that I see every time I walk in the Dollar Tree. And that's the only place they belong in the Dollar Tree because they are cheap, bad candy. No, Dollar Tree has some cheap, good candy. You should not be selling a box of Peeps for more than $1.25 if a dollar. Exactly. I agree. Because you can taste how cheaply they're made. Right. And they just, like for me, they leave a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah. They, like, they don't hurt my teeth, but like, it leaves like a film on my mouth. I said they don't really hurt my teeth. But, like, they just leave a film on my mouth that makes me just feel a little icky. Anyway, what I don't appreciate is walking into Dollar Tree and saying, okay, you have the pink Peeps, you have the regular yellow ones. Then you have birthday cake flavored Peeps that are in like a bunny shape. First off, they change the shape, but that doesn't forgive them for their flavor. Just because you change the shape, they got the bunnies in there, they got the birthday cake flavored bunnies, they got sour blue raspberry flavored Peeps, they got Dr. Pepper flavored Peeps. They're not, they don't deserve all these flavors. And I don't, instead of wasting your time shipping all these, like, different flavors of Peeps to Dollar Tree and these different stores, ship a fan favorite candy like Kit Kats. Ship their different flavors, not just the ones we see, but when I see, like, birthday cake, like, the dark chocolate strawberry, I'm talking, like, the green tea flavored ones. The, like, the peach flavored ones. The orange ones. The orange creamsicle ones. No, I agree. I just, we both really despise the Peeps. And I know this is the only time of year you see them, but the only time of year I should see them is never. Yeah, I would rather not see them at all. The only time I should see them is when I'm on my deathbed and crossing to the next realm and I see, and I'm just waiting in purgatory for where I'm gonna go. And the only snack they have is Peeps, and it's like, ah, well, you know, I may as well be in the place downstairs. I don't know if I could say it, but. But, you know, that's one of the more polarizing candies, one of the more polarizing snacks out there. Another very polarizing, yeah, we should talk enough about Peeps. Another polarizing candy that is usually popular around this time of year is Jelly Beans. Now, I can't really get behind regular Jelly Beans, like Jelly Belly, Jelly Beans, any of the off-branded regular Jelly Beans, I don't really like them because they're not, they don't balance out their flavoring. It's just, it tastes to me like just sugar and nothing else. It just tastes like sugar and like a sugar, a really sugary jelly of the flavor that they are. Right, and it's not even like, it's not even really flavored, it's just a bunch of sugar. Yeah, I know it's the Jelly Bean, like it's obviously, it's like, okay, you said flavored jelly, yeah, no duh, that's what this tastes like, but it's like there's increased sugar content and it just tastes artificial, very artificial. Yeah, that's the crux for me. However, I really, really love the Starburst Jelly Beans. Yeah. I could eat a whole bag of those if you put them in front of me. I would not be able to stop myself. They are just so good. Mm-hmm. And I haven't had them in a long, long time and I really kind of want to get some. Starburst Jelly Beans, Sweet Tart Jelly Beans? I've not had Sweet Tart Jelly Beans. Sweet Tart Jelly Bean is very good. I'm a very big fan of Sweet Tart Jelly Beans. Do you remember, and I don't know if M&M's still doing it, do you remember when M&M's had like Easter-themed M&M candies where it was like the pale blue, pink, white, and there was like I think a yellowish fancy color? Yeah, I do. Yeah, pastels. The pastels, yeah. Do you remember that? I feel like they used to print, like you could print photos on them. You'd get like a custom bag with photos printed on them. You can still do that. They still let you do that. They do? Yeah. Oh. Now, I'll read you one better and let's talk about another company doing it, the Reese's Company doing the Reese's Pieces carrots. Yes. Well, let's go a step further and like broaden the horizon of the carrot bag candy-coated chocolates and, you know, peanut butter, I guess. I honestly prefer off-branded carrot like with the chocolate in it rather than the actual like M&M. Yeah. I don't like Reese's Pieces. I'm not a big fan of Reese's Pieces. No. If it's a Reese's, it needs the chocolate. Right. You can't just have straight-up peanut butter. No. It doesn't work. Now, I will snack on them every so often if they're available. If I'm really craving something, it's like, okay, I haven't had these in a minute. Let me taste them. They're not bad. I just remember why I don't eat these. And then, as well, like just off-brand chocolate is pretty good. I've had a lot of good off-brand chocolate. Yeah. They usually come in that bag. Off-brand chocolate is not bad. Like, there's the ones they sell at the dollar store, the big chocolate bars they sell there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, like speaking of chocolate off-brand, let's go like actually on-brand chocolate. I remember around this time of year, every year for the school, they would sell, before Easter hit, they would send you home with a calendar of Gertrude Hawk chocolates, and you would be able to choose from that. That's what I remember for Easter candy, and I really love that because you get the smidgens and all that such thing. Oh, yeah. The smidgens are goaded. Yeah, I love smidgens. If you were not blessed with Gertrude Hawk in your life, you're missing out. We'll talk more about candy when we come back from the break. For now, you're listening to Double Take on WCCU Radio, Coastal California University's student-run radio station. Welcome back to Double Take on WCCU Radio, Coastal California University's student-run radio station, continuing our discourse on Easter candy and Easter in general. Do you, it reminds me, there is this niche little candy shop back home in the Poconos. I forget what the shop is called. Do you remember what it's called? Nana's going to kill me. I know, I know. Nana's going to kill us because she would take us to that like every year and be like, all right, go pick out some candy. It's sweet something. Sweet treat? Sweet, no. Is that an ice cream place? That might be an ice cream place. It's not Sweet Valley. It might be. Anyway, we'll get back to that. We would go up there, and I don't know if they're just open for Easter. I never really bothered to check, but every time Easter rolled around she'd take us up there. And it was just, like it was a whole bunch of candy, like an actual candy shop. It makes my assumption that they would stay there because there was also a thing in the back, a little shop in the back that you could see through and they were making pretzels, like chocolate-dipped pretzels and stuff. Pretty sure. Pretty sure I found it. What is it? The candy kitchen? Candy kitchen, probably. Cali's candy kitchen? Maybe. These photos look pretty familiar, so I'm pretty sure this is it. You're pretty confident? Yeah, I'm pretty confident that this might be the place. Okay then, the candy kitchen. But they'd have, obviously the chocolate or pretzels, they'd have like all these different molded chocolates that were literally just chocolate, but. Yeah, shaped and colored. Shaped and colored or just shaped like you had baseball bats, you had $100 bills, you had cell phones. You had bowling balls. You had, obviously, the crosses. The bunnies. The bunnies. Eggs, baskets. Right. Full on letters as well. Actually, now that you bring that up, that actually conned up a memory of mine from Easter. I remember Dad asked us for Easter what game we wanted, and I remember I told him full confidence that I wanted, what was it, Farming Simulator 17? I think so, I don't know. I told him that I wanted Farming Simulator 17. Looking back now, I could have picked something different, but it's like I was digging Farming Simulator. I love the charm of it. It was a nice little time waster, but regardless, that was just a little. Because I remember coming back from there and the kitchen and having that question asked to me. I might boot that up over the weekend. Probably not going to. Maybe not. I might just grind on the show. Probably going to do that too. But regardless, they'd have gummies of like a bunch of different gummies. Chocolate-covered gummies. Chocolate-covered gummies. Candy-covered gummies. Sour gummies. Sour gummies. Licorice. Popcorn. They had popcorn there too. Like when you go to a fair and there's like little bags of like the. Yeah, kettle corn. Like kettle corn. Blue raspberry popcorn. Rainbow popcorn. Caramel popcorn. Cheese and chives. Cheese and chives. Cheddar jalapeno. Cheddar. Buttered. Parmesan. And it was just the best. Yeah, it was great. Not only being able to go there and like look at all the different candies and like be able to pick some out, but like also going up there with our grandma. Spending time with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fun to spend time with family during Easter. As well as they also had the buckets of the taffy up at the front. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and the display cases, they had fudge in them. They did have fudge there too. They were really a one-stop shop for a lot of good stuff. But really everything Eastern. Was it marked up for the time? Maybe. Might have been. I wouldn't know because I don't know what the regular price would be up there. I don't know what the going price for a chocolate bar that's shaped like a cell phone. I don't know what market value is for that. I don't know what the market value is for a chocolate-shaped cross or a cell phone-shaped chocolate. Regardless. Regardless, it was amazing. It was fun. It was great. There's a picture on Facebook circulating around every time Easter rolls around of us taking a picture with Easter Bunny that one year when it was up there. Yeah. That's the last time I took a picture with the Easter Bunny. I don't know what year that was or how long ago that was. I feel like that was 2019, either 19 or 20. It might have been. It might have been 21. I don't know. I don't know. That range, 2019 to 21, there's the range of when that picture was taken. There's a lot of gray points. Yeah. Well, 2020 is kind of blurred. I think it might have been 21 because I think we were still wearing masks in the store. And we wanted to go up after they opened up again because the lockdowns were over. Yeah. I think it might have been like 21 or late in 2020. While we were also up there, there was another thing that we would always get when we were up there in that area. As we were going back from the little candy shop. Do you remember, Cade? Do you remember what we would get when we were up there? No, I don't. I don't. It's not ringing a bell. Cheesecake eggs. Oh! From a sanitary bakery. Yep. They were cheesecake eggs. Cheesecake. Like sliced cheesecake shaped in an egg as the shape of an egg and coated in chocolate. With a jelly bean on top. And a chocolate shell, yeah, with a jelly bean on top. Oh, my God. Oh, my goodness. Those were good. Those were so good. I just love sanitary bakery. Yeah. They make good stuff. They do. They're a little out of the way. Yeah, but it's worth it sometimes. For like special occasions, it's really worth it. Oh, yeah. Especially those eggs. Because we only have them like one year. And they're really good. Yes. And then you get back. You have those eggs. You save in the eggs for dessert. Those chocolate coated. Those candy. Chocolate coated cheesecake eggs for dessert after Easter dinner. After Easter dinner. After Easter dinner. Easter dinner is what is going on. What do we have for Easter dinner back home, Gabe? I don't remember the last time we had an Easter dinner. We've been in college for two years. So, yeah, it's kind of. It's been a minute. It's been a minute. I can't really recall what was on the spread last time we had Easter dinner. I think. Let me think. I know. Didn't Dad do that pineapple stuffing? I think so, yeah. I'm pretty sure he did that. Obviously, the ham. Yeah, pineapple stuffing. Don't knock it until you try it. It's actually very good. It's very good. It's like. It's just baked. It's kind of. It's like bread pudding. Yeah, it's like bread pudding with pineapple in it. But, like, with the stuffing spices and stuff like that. It's a savory sweet bread pudding. Yeah. And then ham, obviously. And then rolls, obviously. Mashed potatoes, I think. Didn't we do corned beef and cabbage one year with soda bread? I think you might not. I think you might be on the mark. But that might also be blurring it with St. Patrick's Day. I don't know if we did a dinner for St. Patrick's Day. I forget. No, I know we did one year with just a little get together. We had Dad made soda bread. I think we had corned beef. Corned beef and cabbage. I might be misremembering it. It might have been one Easter dinner, but regardless. Regardless, yeah, it does go on. It might be. It might mesh into the Easter dinner. Maybe. Did they have. I think we had this ham and cabbage sort of thing. Maybe. Like, that was in the crock pot. I don't know if that was at Dad's or that was at Mom's. I think that might have been Mom. Like the little cut up pieces of ham with the slow cooked with the cabbage in it. Yeah, I hear you. Yeah. I hear what you're saying. The chunks of ham. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, the chunks of ham and the cabbage you throw it into a bowl. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear you. I hear what you're saying. And obviously mashed potatoes I would think is on there. Pickled eggs. Pickled eggs, yeah. Mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans. And then you get down at the table. You have hard boiled eggs that already were pre-painted, pre-determined where they go. Yeah. And before you eat, you obviously you say grace. You say, you know, you bless the food, bless the day. And then you pick up the egg. And this is probably the same for a lot of households, not just ours. You pick the egg up and you smack it against your forehead. Yep, to break it. To break it and then you peel it and you eat the egg. And that's it. And that's what, quote, unquote, that's what christens the dinner. That's the long and short of it. Yes, and it's a fun little thing. It's a fun little tradition we have. Yeah. I enjoy it every year. Mm-hmm. But Easter dinner, Easter is always fun. It's a fun holiday. Yeah. To wrap it up before we go into our, like, break again and then last talking points. It's a fun holiday. Yeah, I love it. I like it. I like it a lot. It gets family together. Yes. Good food, good company. You can never knock something like that. And it's an excuse to eat, to gorge on candy halfway through the year. True. You know, before, I think that's the, Easter, I think, is the halfway point between to Halloween. I don't fact check that. I think it is six months out. It might be. It might be. Yeah, it is because it's in April. So April, May, June, July, August, September, October. So it's the halfway. You get to gorge candy halfway to Halloween. There you go. We will be right back here on Double Take for the last two minutes. You're listening to WCCU Radio, Coastal California student-run radio station. Welcome back to Double Take on WCCU Radio. We are in the wrap-up now. So the plans as it stands for Easter, we actually have plans for Easter this year. We didn't last year. We just kind of, so our Easter last year was, it consisted of, Yeah, I remember that. of mashed potatoes that we had to cook in the microwave. Oh, that was mashed potatoes. All the mashed potatoes that we had to cook in the microwave. We split a bowl of like these Cracker Barrel, this Cracker Barrel mac and cheese. Steamed vegetables, it was California mixed vegetables, In a bag. In a bag, steamed in a bag. It was cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots. And we cooked, we got pre-cooked ham in like little, it was like in little already pre-cut slices. But it was like ham steak pre-cut slices and we just cooked them in a waffle iron. And boom, that was our. Did we also do rolls? We did rolls. Yeah, we had rolls as well. We bought rolls and we. We made do with what we had. The woods gave us what we had and we used what we had. Yeah, now this year, if you want to go ahead and talk about the. Yeah, we're going down to our girlfriend's grandmother's. Our girlfriend. My girlfriend, I said. No, you said our. My girlfriend's grandmother's. Yes, I did. We're going to my girlfriend's grandmother's. She invited us to go and so that's what we're going to be doing this Easter. We're going to have dinner down there. We're going to hang out with our family. It's going to be a real nice time. Yeah, Easter. Yep. Really, Easter is a time. It's a changing of the seasons. When Easter rolls around, you know you're in the heart of spring now. Yeah, spring is sprung and. It reminds you like the flowers are actually coming back. Everything is getting bright again. Your seasonal depression is gone. Now you're back to your regular depression. True. I'm just kidding. No. Everything is starting to get warmer. Everything is starting to get, you know. Nice again. Nice again. Except for the pollen. The pollen is not that nice. Well, obviously. But it's lighter outside later. It's now getting 8 o'clock and the sun has gone down at 8 o'clock, which if it was 8 o'clock now, the sun would have already been gone. There would be stars and the moon in the sky. So you're staying up longer. Yeah. Yeah. Yesterday, time kind of slipped away from me and it went from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock to 4 o'clock really quick. Yeah. I went down a YouTube rabbit hole. I was watching YouTube videos. Same. I'm not going to. I was watching Dead Meat. I was watching James A. Janisse do kill counts for the different horror movies that he does. It's a fun thing. I like those videos because I don't want to watch the horror movies on my own. Yeah. But that's Easter, for me at least. Yes. Yes. We're back on topic. It's Easter. Happy Easter to you and yours. Don't eat meat today. You're almost at the finish line. This has been Double Take. I'm Caleb. I'm Cade. Again, you've been listening to Double Take. Good night, Teal Nation. Shots up!