The Origin of Halloween Explained | Elizabeth Banks

will save your life. We tiptoe are on the Senate debate that everyone is talking about, and we discovered the truth about Halloween. Plus my guest tonight is the one and only Elizabeth Banks. Everybody, I'll call the people. Let's self track into today's headlines. All right, Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world, starting with health

news and you. Study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health has found that kids who played video games for at least three hours a day have better memory and impulse control than non gamers. Yeah, and uh, I'm not the kind of person who would say I told you so to my mom because she could still whip my ass. But I told you so, It's not okay, he's making sure, just making sure she's up behind me. But yeah, it

turns out gamers have great impulse control. So the next time a teenager calls you the N word in a game of Call of Duty, he really throwed it through. In travel News, virgin Australia has announced that for the next six months, anyone who selects a middle seats will be automatically entered into a lottery with more than two hundred and thirty thousand dollars worth of prizes up for grabs. Yeah, and here's my first question. Is one of the prizes an aisle seats? Because I mean that's the only way

I've ever selected a middle seat on a plane. Plus winning the lottery makes it worse. Now I'm in the middle seat and the island window seats are looking to rob my ass just like well, well if it isn't Mr Jack Park, leave me alone. Oh he's one of

the strangest human interest stories I've ever heard. A hermit known as the World's dirtiest man right, actually known as that has died at the age of But get this, just a few months after bathing for the first time in sixty years, which is a real lesson here, guys. Don't try anything new because it will kill you. It will. Oh and and more importantly, congratulations to the new world's dirtiest man, Steve Bannon. Well done, but move on to start the bigger folds of the day started once again

with the mid terms. You know that time of the year when your baby is at the highest risk of being kissed by Ted Cruz. There was a major debate last night that could change everything, and we'll tell you all about it in our ongoing coverage of Vote Demmick. The big question leading up to election day right now is who will control the Senate when the dust settles, And with so many close races around the country, it could still go either way. But a pivotal moment may

have occurred last night at a debate in Pennsylvania. On one side of this neck and neck race you have Democrat John Federman Lieutenant governor and bounce on on the sets of Jerry Springer. And on the Republican side you have doctor Oz, not to be confused with the Wizard of Oz, who also lived in a mansion that wasn't

in Pennsylvania. After securing the Republican nomination, doctor Oz has been trying to distance himself from the MAGA side of the force and reposition himself as a bipartisan voice of reason, trying to scoop up all the centrist voters on election day. You know, he's basically doing that that TikTok thing where you flip your head down and then when you come up, you act like you suddenly didn't want to hang myke pants, you know that thing. But here's the thing, here's the thing.

Being pro Trump and pro reasonable is a lot harder than people think, which was apparent when doctor Oz had to explain his position on abortion. Should abortion be banned in America? Sixty seconds? There should not be involved in from the federal government and how states decide their abortion decisions. As a physician, I've been in the room when there's some difficult conversations happening. I don't want the federal government

involved with that at all. I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that's always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states

can decide for themselves. Oh yeah, that's right. Dr Oz said abortion rights should be decided by women and their doctors and local political leaders, which was pretty slick right like I did, because he started that sentence like he was on the side of women when he snuck in the politicians at the end like a teenager buying condoms

at a gas station. He was like, let me get those cheetos and the root beer and I canna get the terms and count You're gonna get a liserves another back, because let's be honest, if you pro choice, what doctor Oz is suggesting is bullshit. All right, I think we can all agree there is only one politician who should have a say in your abortion and that's her, Shall Walker, because it's his, it's his, it's probably his ladies check

they're all his now. Unfortunately, the Democrat I couldn't exactly take a victory lap off the Dr Oz's performance at the debate because it was their own guy who was getting most of the attention. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman started off the hour long debate assuring voters he's still capable of doing the job of senator five months after having a stroke. Let's also talk about the elephant in the room. I had a stroke. He's never let me forget that.

I might miss some words during this debate, two words together. But it knocked me down, and I'm going to keep

coming back up. Fetterman's use of a closed captioning device during the debate, where he read questions in real time on a screen above the moderator's sparked debate on social media, with some observers seeing a strong performance of mid recovery, while others cast him his unsteady Federman especially lost his putting on the subject of fracking when questioned about interview where he said he would never support the industry versus

his current position supporting fracking. I do support fracking, and I don't. I don't I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking. You know, what's interesting to see is how people have reacted to this clip because on the one hand, obviously that was a part of the debate that tripped him up, because he has had a shaky record on whether he's full or against the fracking, But also beyond that, people wondering about the stroke, and

it was interesting to see if people support him. They're seeing a guy who's overcoming a temporary disability, but the people who are against him see a guy who's not mentally fit to be senator, and I guess because of polarization. It's like that with everything these days. You know, everyone's seeing the world from two different sides. Like if you're a die hard Christmas lover, you hate the Grinch, But if you don't like Christmas, then yeah, he's extremely faible

and you smash. Everything is subjective everything. Look at that mouth. And I personally feel bad for John Federman though, because he had a stroke. And on top of that, after the debate, dr Os try to send him a sup moment that would cure him. You know, if you ask me, I don't know why Federman ever admitted to having a stroke. This is American politics. He could have just done whatever he wanted. Right he's running for the sentence of Pennsylvania.

He could have just showed up to the bed and be like, sorry for my words, everyone, I'm drunk off my ask. The entire state would have been like, hell, yeah, man, Sam, your go Phillies. Yeah, I love this guy. But the truth is Fetterman's limitations right now are just something voters will have to consider when they make their choice. Like maybe they don't care whether Federment is capable of debating.

Maybe voters prefer his policies, or maybe they just want a senator who can block the door the next time it's getting storn by riots. Is that could be very useful. So all up to them. Anyway, Let's move on and talk about natural disasters, because no matter where you live, they could happen to you. One minute, you buying groceries and an earthquake hits and boom, you're buried alive. Or you're hiking suddenly and avalaunch hits, boom you're buried alive.

Or et at home. You're at home watching TV. A tornado hits, picks you up, rips off all your clothes, then throws you through your neighbor's window into the bedroom with his wife. Right as your neighbor walks in, he knocks you out with a shovel and boom, buries you. In life happens all the time, all the target first and peace. But he had some good news. If you've been buried alive by a natural disaster, there's a new

first responder who might be coming to your aid. An unlikely hero is being trained to help certain rescue teams during natural disasters. We're talking about rats. The rodents are fitted with tiny, high tech backpacks carrying video cameras. The project, created by Belgian nonprofit, trains the rats to help first responders search for survivors among rubble and disaster zones. Once they locate the target, they pull a switch on their little vest that triggers a beat before heading back to

the trainers to get a treat. And the leader of the project says rats are perfect for the job since they're small, curious, and prone to explore. Oh oh my god, that's so adorable. Did you see the little backpack in the tiny camera. I want to be rescued by one of them. Lock the doors, let's blow the building up. You're gonna fact me when there's a bunch of rats saving all of us. No, but for real, though, this

this is incredible. This is incredible. Just just take a moment to think of some of the things that rats can do. They can sniff out land mines, right, They can detect tuberculosis in New York City restaurants. They taste our food before we eat it. And yet can we appreciate that. No, we're terrible to them. We're terrible to rats. We don't treat them with any respect. In fact, we've got to pray that if we are ever trapped under the rubble, we've really got to hope that the rat

that comes to rescue us doesn't hold a grudge. Well well, well, but it isn't the guy who tested that toxic makeup on my cousin. Oh look, you can't move your arms. Oh they weren't fine when you were putting out all those traps though, didn't they. Huh, but you wish you hadn't appropriated my culture for your chucky cheese now, huh, Yeah, why don't you rescue yourself? You're a little bit I'm gonna go poop in a Cheerios box bite. Okay, okay, I just realized at some point my mom is gonna

be like, what do you do at your job? I'm like, don't, don't worry. All right. Finally, he's a really fun story from the world of higher education. You know, universities are always doing the utmost to try and stop students from cheating, and for good reason. For good reason, you don't want students to cheat, right, because you don't want someone cheating their way through engineering and then one day building a bridge, all right? Or what if someone cheats their way through

fourteenth century? It's helly and poetry. I don't even need to tell you the chaos that that would unleash on society. For one, professor in the Philippines is going viral for how she decided to stop cheating in her class. The Washington Post says a Philippines college professor asked her students to wear anti cheating hats for a midterm exam, and they went all out. The students showed up for their mechanical engineering tests this month wearing all sorts of designs

on their heads. Photos of the students in their head gear went viral, though on local news. All Right, I don't know who this professor is, but that's genius, right. I love that. No, No, because instead of just telling kids not to cheat, obstruct their field of vision. Because most of the time teachers can't actually stop anyone from cheating, alright, The best they can do is walk up and down the aisles like a pigeon looking for pieces of bread. You know, just do that thing. Hey hey hey, hey,

hey hey hey. I like the system. It helps the students focus, and it removes the temptation, because, let's be honest, that's what it's temptation. Most of the time, cheating is a spur of the moment thing. All right, don't go into the test intending to cheat. What happens is you realize you know none of the answers, and then you notice out of the corner of your eye that Angie's flying. And now, if you know that you're probably wrong, why

would you just stick with your wrong answers? Right? In a real will situation, we want to encourage people to go with whoever has the best ideas. It's not cheating. It's called having an open mind. People, You're gonna explore your opportunities. That's why my uncle was in his neighbor's bedroom's wife with All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go to a quick break, let's check

it on the stock market. Very on finance expert Michael Cost to everybody, Michael, crazy time, man, crazy crazy time in the markets? Right now? What's happening? I am shing it. I mean you might need to call a rescue rat because my crushing has caused a lot of people to be trapped under rubbles. So well, it sounds like your financial advice has buried people in debts. Well, if and if you want to get out of that debt, I got a hot tip for you. So stay tuned. Okay,

all right, let's do it. Let's do it. So this week, multiple corporations had their third corner earnings reports, which included Google and Microsoft, both of whom had disappointing numbers. Okay, but before we get into that, that the rescue rats, right, I found this story so useful. Okay, When my landlord came by to evict me because about rat infestation, I told them, Hey, you're wrong, I'm actually training an elite group of search and rescue rats. Bought me twenty four hours.

But you're right. Animals are amazing. I mean, pigs can hunt truffles, dolphins are helping the Navy with their Sonarn't my dog. He'll lick peanut butter off my body wherever I put it. Okay, look, look that's a lot of sex thing. I'd just eat peanut butter sloppily. Okay. And I heard Trevor in Africa that you can hang wet laundry on a rhinoceros is horn. Michael, that that is not true. That is, it's not true because you don't

have laundry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, honestly, I'm just you know, can you just get to the well, here's the thought. Anybody asks, what cats do you know? How do they contribute to society? To me, it seems like cats have nine lines, and they're waste in every single one of them. If you were trapped under your building and your cat saw you, it would yawn and go back to sleep, or even worse, it would kill a rat, the one thing that's trying to save your ass. Trevor's right, Rats

need more respect. That's why it's called respect. Okay, think about it. They're basically fireman, okay. And that's why it wasn't weird that I made a sexy rat calendar. What does this even Mike, Let's get let's do the markets. Okay, okay. So Alphabet okay, which is Google's parent company, I binged it all right and Microsoft both had their quarterly earnings calls which were so bad it led the stock to a dramatic fall. Look at that, which makes me say,

it's all the company owners. If you know your earnings calls are gonna be so bad Why aren't you making that call? Okay, if you have bad news, don't call people. I didn't call my landlord. When I found ninety three rats in my apartment. I put little bells and backpacks on them, and now I gave them names. I'm helping society. So look, this is Google and Microsoft. Everything's going fine. Right. There's a little dip here in October, but that's not a big deal. The guy that draws the lines actually

just sneeze. Sometimes that happens. But what the hell is going on here? Well, turns out Microsoft's cloud company didn't generate as much revenue as they thought. Well, obviously clouds just disappear, right, But the bigger drop came from Google. Ad revenues down on YouTube because advertisers don't want to advertise to us, knowing the economy struggling and we don't want to buy anything. Well, well you don't, I'm crushing okay,

but here's some advice to YouTube. If your ad revenue is down and it's affecting your stock, why are you letting us skip ads? Of course I'm gonna skip your ad for road Game. My two pay is perfect. Okay. No other company has a skip revenue button. CBS doesn't have a skip payment button. They do have those self checkout things, though, and those are pretty much the same thing. Hey, hot tip, hot tip to media companies, force your viewers

to watch profitable ads. Trevor throw to commercial and the cost of don't tell me what you do, right, Okay, sorry, Yeah, you're right, You're right. Sorry, I'm gonna do whatever I want. Are We're gonna go to a commercial break right now, Michael Coast to everybody, stay two because when we come back, let it, it's gonna scat ship alloy. Were welcome back to the Divine Show. Next Monday is Halloween. It's the reason we've been mutilating pumpkins all months. But where did

Halloween come from all? Daisy Lak has the answer. Hello, my dearies, Halloween is right around the corner, which reminds me we need to get a costume now. According to my local CBS, Halloween is a two month festival beginning September one, which celebrates the worst candy of all time. But actually, Halloween is an ancient holiday with a rich and spooky history, and by spooky, I mean interesting. It all started in ancient Ireland, where they celebrated the earliest

version of Halloween, the Festival of Sawin. That's right, the Irish gave us not one, but two holidays where people get wasted and have sex behind the dunkin donuts. Hey, Ireland, thank you. They believe that on the night of October thirty one, the veil between the world and the afterlife was lifted, and that spirits returned for one night, like a divorced dad on your birthday. So to win favor with the spirits, they lit bond buyers and offered gifts

to them. But most importantly, they disguised themselves in costumes so the dead wouldn't recognize them. Because trust me, no one wants to get stuck in a conversation with the ghosts. They're always like, avenge me, avenge me. It's like, okay, weirdo, I just met you. Costume during Sawin consisted of animal heads and skins you. But in their defense, it was ancient times. Those were the only costumes Party City had

back then. For thousands of years, someone was celebrated in Ireland by the Celtics, sorry Celtics, until Ireland got a very special delivery on its doorstep Catholicism, and the Catholics gave the festival a holy makeover, naming November one All Saints Day a k a. All Hallows Making the night before Hallow's Eve. Eventually this evolved into Halloween. Like many other scary things, you have the Catholic Church to think After this transition, the earliest version of trigger treating began.

Medieval beggars would pray for people's dead relatives in exchange for food. And that's pretty depressing, outsourcing your praying to the less fortunate. I mean, how lazy are you? Oh my postmates with a single bottle of water is here, bring it in. But there was fun trigger treating too. Kids dressed up and cost jumes and offered to sing or recite a poem and exchanged for food or money or wine. And I know what you're thinking, kids drinking wine,

But don't worry. It's Irish wine, so it's basically just rancid grape juice. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Halloween started getting popular around the world, especially in America, after a Halloween poem by Robert Burns became popular. And I know it might seem weird that something became mainstream due to poetry. But if you think about it, it's the

same way we all learned about scissors. At the turn of the century, the influx of Irish immigrants made Halloween even bigger in the US, and it actually started to get a little rowdy. Kids used the day as an excuse for vandalism and general assholoy, a tradition that continues to this day. I will kick your ass at soccer practice, Timmy. It was so bad some politicians wanted to cancel Halloween altogether. Luckily,

the solution was already built in trigger treating. Everyone figured out that if they gave kids treats in exchange for not acting like little dickheads, they'd be chill. Trigger treating exploded by the nineteen fifties with the mass production of candy. Although back then candy was weird. They had all these suggestive names like zag nuts and sugar daddies. If you like candy, kids, you'll love Uncle Jimmy's pull smokers whole. By the nineteen seventies, Halloween wasn't just for kids anymore.

Adults started to get into it too. They threw parties, they wore costumes, some sexy and some really sexy. Oh yeah, Dick Nick's high. Where are you at these days? Halloween has taken on a new meaning, celebrating the maccab and having a safe space to explore our identities with our friends and family. I'm just working with you. It's about making as much money as possible. It's the most expensive holiday after Christmas, and we don't even get a PlayStation

out of it. Just some highly regrettable photos and a mouthful like avities lost another one. So now you know how Halloween got to be so spectacular. I hope everyone out there has a safe and fun time this year. Enjoy it because the next holiday is Thanksgiving, when you have to spend the whole day with your entire family. Ha ha ha ha. Thank you so much about daddy. All Right, stay tuned because when we come back and listen, thanks for joining me on the show, so don't go away.

Welcome back to the Boy Show. My guests as an actor and a director, you know from Mrs America, The Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect. She's going to talk about starring in the new film called Jane, which will be in theass October. Is welcome, Elizabeth. Thanks they were a wonderful audiens. Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you, thanks for having me, and congratulations on creating what I think everyone is going to enjoy as not just a heart felt film, but a film that, in more ways than most,

feels completely apt for these times. My character j Joy seeks out an abortion when her life is in danger and it's life or death for her. And this is a woman who never thought she'd seek out abortion care. And when she gets there, it's it's the Chicago abortion is illegal. This is pre ro versus Wade. And she

meets a collective of women called the Jans. These are real life women's The stories based on real life group the Jane Collective of Chicago, who provided abortion care abortion healthcare to nearly eleven thousand women in the late sixties before abortion was legal in Illinois and Chicago. It's it's a it's a story about bravery in the face of everything that stands against you. Because in the story, you know, we we we meet a woman who's living like a

cookie cut to life. You know, your characters just like she's living her life. She comes from a conservative family, but we don't really talk about that, and it's almost not about the politics per se, but it's about how society was was oppressing women at this time. And what feels again put in too this moment is seeing her not just fight for herself, but for every other woman who needs to have an abortion and can't afford it. Yeah,

that's exactly right. You know, I'm I'm pro abortion, and I like to tell people who aren't pro abortion that I'm fighting for them to have that abortion that they don't need, know they need yet? Right, all right, I'll fight for you. I'll fight for you. I'll fight for your daughter and your wife and your mom. Don't worry. It really is a powerful story though, because you know it.

This this is what this is What what gets me about the film is you think, first of all, you would think this film was made now, that's the first thing. You you started planning this, and you filmed this how long ago? I first read the script nearly three years ago, and you know, we we had the pandemic and we

finally got to make it. Get Sigourney Weaver in to be this amazing activists and you know, I think at the time, we knew that there were what we call abortion deserts in America, which are areas where abortion was so inaccessible that basically people were living in in a time that was like pre row And this film really presents the dangerous, um often desperate situations that pregnant people found themselves in when they didn't want to be pregnant.

And you know, we all know that abortion bands don't ban you know, they don't they don't solve abortion because as long as they've been pregnant people that we people that don't want to be pregnant, And this film reminds us that their safety matters, right, that we can recenter women and the health care that they need um and make make sure that it's safe for them. And safety relies on legality frankly, um, and that that's that's sort

of the time that we are now talking about. It was in the in the movie, but it's today in fourteen states. It also showed a side of the conversation that is necessary but painful at the same time. You know, the film isn't flippant when it comes to talking about abortion. You know, you know, there's there's the scene, for instance, where we're in the room. We're seeing a lot of what the procedure is, We're seeing the pain. We're seeing what the woman goes through, and I wanted to know

why you felt it. What's so important to have that in the story. Some would gloss over it, some would say, oh no, no no, we don't want to put that in because it makes it complicated. But it felt like it was kept in for that reason. You know, one in four women American women and have an abortion, so it's a pretty common practice. And there's this mythology, there's this lie, frankly that that anti abortion activists will say, which is that abortion can kill you, and that is simply not true.

Abortion is very, very It's safer than getting your wisdom teeth out, it's safer than a colonoscopy. So the James didn't lose a single life. They performed eleven thousand abortions, didn't lose a single life. And so I think partly why we wanted to put the procedure in was just to normalize it, you know, just to destigmatize the entire process and to show you that she was fine after and went and had spaghetti. She's like, it's a it's a it's a procedure that somebody is having to have

autonomy over their lives. You also choose to have many funny moments in the film, which which somebody wouldn't think at first. You know, if I said to you, oh, there's this film and it's about abortion, it's about people go like, oh wow, this is going to be a very serious one. And it is serious. But there are so many moments where you find like laughing out loud as well, like any really laughing out loud in a in a human way. You know, that also feels very intentional.

Why not just have it to be very drab and and and and I think we all felt like the way to de politicize this whole thing, which has become so politicized, is um to remind people about the stories, right. It's really it's these are real people's lives that these politicians are messing with. You know. These are real women who have hopes and dreams or already have kids for whatever reason, are making the decision to seek out abortion healthcare, and regular real women. They have fun too. You know,

they laughed too. You know. I also have my rule about this character was I just said, I don't want to cry after because she's so relieved after her abortion, she chooses her life she's the very life affirming decision for her um. She's not particularly tortured over it. She's already a mom and her pregnancy is threatening her life and she wants to stay alive, to your mom, to her daughter. And because she suddenly realizes when she's faced with life or death, wow, I have so much more

life to live. I have so many things to do. Shit, I gotta I gotta list, I gotta get through, you know. And she's really has a real awakening, political awakening and emotional awakening. And I love that for the character. I mean, total right turn in her life, right right right now.

It's it's it's a it's a change in direction because it's a moment where, you know, we don't want to spoil it for everyone, but it's just that that key moment where somebody realizes their life is at risk, they need to have this procedure and then they have to fight to basically save their own life. It's it's a powerful one. I feel like you're one of the more perfect people to tell this story. No, because because of

what what you represent. You know, you you've been a champion of women in all fields, with its business, with its film, You know, people have come up to you and they've they've gone, like, you are you know, you create some of the funniest films for women to act in. You You're You're funny behind the camera. You're funny when

it comes to the writing. And what I loved is something that you said recently, which which was everyone will say to you A many people will say, oh, it's it's powerful that you're doing this, because you're doing this to show that women can do it, and you make films for the women. You You said something to the effect of, what I make films because I like making films and I am a woman and I'm having fun.

What do you think people miss sometimes about a woman doing any type of job that they just want to do? You know, well, do we have three hours? You know? I think there's a lot we live row For me, I'll speak to it in terms of the film right now, which was when Dobbs. The DBS decision is a decision that overturned rob Way, that came down this summer. When it happened, I felt foundationally like less of a free person than I did the day before, and so and

I and and so. When you live in a society where your human rights can be taken a from you. You're kind of a second class citizen. And when you're considered a second class citizen, everybody thinks, how does the second class citizen get to direct of Hollywood movie? Like it's that deep, you know what I mean. It's like it's the way. It's that there are people that are entitled to do things, and then there are women who have to fight to do things right. It's almost you're lucky.

It's like you to do it. Well, You're not lucky. You're amazing. You truly one of the funniest people I know. And the film is amazing. Thank you so much for joining me again. I appreciate you. Thank you so much for big deal. When you fact everyone make sure to check out the film. It's gonna be in theaters everywhere you watch a movie. We're gonna tell you quick right, well, you watch that talkative thanks to do well, let's our

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