Mischief Night

That could be.

Is that still a big thing, Mischief Night?

I don't really think it is anymore.

I don't know if it's a big thing, but it happens.

Eggs.

Yeah, eggs.

yeah bags are pricey now but it's also yes but the other thing is people got you know exterior get ring cameras exterior yes security cameras so you got to be real careful if you're going to try and pull that off ring cameras have really ruined mischief night if it you know unless it's you're playing a prank on a friend then it's kind of like yeah

is what it is my mother one time um i had to be younger than nine because it was in the house we lived in isle in new jersey and um i remember the cops were in our living room one miss shift night because some kids put um sugar in my mother's gas tank little punk so if i just got she called the cops well i well yeah we called the cops and what did they do about it al We went out looking for these punks.

And something else appeared around that holiday that I think embody this story.

embodies the id of the human experience, and that's Mischief Night.

Have you heard of that? Mischief Night, yeah.

Okay, cool.

I'm also familiar with the id because I have my bachelor's in psychology.

This marks the transition into winter and becomes associated with supernatural beings and the dead.

The belief that boundaries between the worlds and another could be thinner.

Meanwhile, in parts of Britain and North America, traditions of nighttime pranks developed into what we now know as Mischief Night.

We have talked about October 30th as a date already.

Many times on this show, especially always around Halloween, it's mischief night where everyone's going out.

They're TPing, they're egging, they're smashing pumpkins.

Well, that night, I believe Martha had actually been grounded.

I don't know what else.

I don't know if they were drinking or smoking.

It's mischief night.

Could have been getting into anything.

Hey, we still carve and light our jack-o'-lanterns, right? But back then, kids in American cities and rural towns celebrated a Halloween that had been stripped of any religious meaning and leaned heavily into tricks.

By the 1850s, there was a mischief night epidemic.

Halloween became synonymous with utter chaos.

Kids blocked streets with wagon wheels.

Why? Mass hysteria about the safety and the possibility of tainted homemade goodies, which caused parents to reject anything not wrapped and sealed in factory plastic.

That officially turned Halloween into the multi-billion dollar corporate holiday it is today.

So Halloween, in its present form, is just a part of the evolution, with its roots in a prehistoric tradition going back thousands of years, evolving through a period of violent mischief night upset, and finally giving big business an opportunity to become even bigger.

This Halloween, as you carve your pumpkin or hand out goodies, for just a moment, close your eyes.

Hey, we still carve and light our jack-o'-lanterns, right? But back then, kids in American cities and rural towns celebrated a Halloween that had been stripped of any religious meaning and leaned heavily into tricks.

By the 1850s, there was a mischief night epidemic.

Halloween became synonymous with utter chaos.

Kids blocked streets with wagon wheels.

Why? Mass hysteria about the safety and the possibility of tainted homemade goodies, which caused parents to reject anything not wrapped and sealed in factory plastic.

That officially turned Halloween into the multi-billion dollar corporate holiday it is today.

So Halloween in its present form is just a part of the evolution with its roots in a prehistoric tradition going back thousands of years, evolving through a period of violent mischief night upset and finally giving big business an opportunity to become even bigger.

This Halloween, as you carve your pumpkin or hand out goodies, for just a moment, close your eyes.

fillings and whatever so i didn't like it but this was the thing at least when we were kids i don't think kids do this anymore you give me a toothbrush fair enough dude i'm egging or shaving cream in your house like that was the trade-off you made with the kids you give a shitty candy or a bad or toothbrush or whatever your house is getting bombed that's just the way that i think the halloween stuff works i don't i don't know about like you guys but my neighborhoods are not like that anymore i don't know like the city of chicago if they ever did that but it's chilled out a

It used to be mischief night.

It was the night before Halloween would be the night that we would throw bean bowls.

What the fuck is a beanball? That's an

East Coast thing, I think, because I think we talked about Mischief Night like 2018 or something on a snake draft, and none of us – I never heard of it in my life.

Really? Yeah.

It might not have been a snake

signed it.

The other thing I was going to say is that because Halloween's on a Saturday, Friday is mischief night.

Mischief night.

Mischief

night falls on a Friday.

mine was similar to Vicky.

I was just remembering that in Liverpool, the night before Halloween is called Mizzy Night, which is Mischief Night.

Okay.

And so

basically when you were a teenager, you would graduate from trick or treating into Mischief Night.

And Mizzy Night was basically you run around and egg people's houses and get up to mischief.

And it was like notorious, but I've never known it anywhere else.

That was just like a memory that came back to me.