 Navratri. Happy Navratri, everybody. Back to our stupid reactions, idiots. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter from all Tuesday content. And, uh, thank you also to Patreon and follow us on official Twitter account. And, uh, the celebration started yesterday. It's true. But the, uh, this, it's not Durgaputra. Durgaputra is specific to Calcutta. And then, but if they take place at the same time, this is, um, I forget what part of India this is from, but this is their celebration of it. Yes. Which I actually think they're linked because Durgaputra officially begins October 4th. Yeah. But there's a pre thing that starts. Well, I know that. I know they're kind of linked, but they're not the same. No, they're not the same. I was told at the beginning of the, like I was told specifically that these two are not the same thing. No, they're not. So Durgaputra and that one. So this one we're reacting to is, um, say it for me again. So don't mispronounce it. Navratri. Navratri. Yes. Um, and so we're going to do a little video on this. Um, cool. And this was sent to us by Stupid Babies. So this is not something I just picked out of random. Good. Here we go. This should give us a little... Yeah, because that didn't teach us a thing about the festival. It was pretty, but obviously it didn't. And I, we still don't really know what's going on. I was thinking about this happens at the same time as the beginning of what's going on in Calcutta, which is Malalia. Malalia starts the beginning of the festival season leading up to Durgapuja, which is your starts October 4th for all of you Bengali brothers and sisters. And that's what I was, I was thinking about that when we were looking at the name and got confused between the two. So forgive me. They're done the exact thing. At the same time. At the same time. They're different. Correct. Totally different. Totally different cities and totally different festivals. Yeah. Related to what's going on. Because in Calcutta it's for the mother goddess, which is depicted actually a khani that has done the end of khani. She's the mother goddess with the eight arms is being walked down the streets. And that's what's coming up. So there. This is a long description there, everybody. You better grab a fresh cup of chai. Garba is a form of dance, which originated in the state of Gujarat in India. The name is derived from the Sanskrit term garba, womb. Many traditional garbas are performed around a central image or statue of the goddess Durga, also called amba, or a clay lantern with a light inside called a garbadeep, womb lamp. Traditionally it's performed during the nine day Hindu festival of Navarati, nava, nine, ratnahtri, meaning knights. The dancers honor amba, the feminine form of divinity. The traditional clothing for men is the kiryu, while the traditional clothing for women is beautiful. Beautiful. Is the chani achori. Garba is performed in a circle as a symbol of the Hindu view of time. Cool. The rings of dancers revolve in circles as time in Hinduism is cyclical. As the cycle of time revolves from birth to life to death, and again to rebirth, the only thing that is constant is the goddess, that one unmoving symbol in the midst of all of this unending and infinite movement. The dance symbolizes that goddess is the only thing that remains unchanging in a constantly changing universe to God. Got it. Cool. Yeah. That is... So yeah, that makes a lot more sense. I probably should have read that before. But you know... That's all our stupid reaction. It is our stupid reaction. Obviously we don't know what we're seeing until we see it. Yeah, but it was really pretty. Obviously it just didn't give us what they're doing a why. Yeah, right. That did in the description. But obviously some other ones that we've shown kind of explain almost in the video. Yeah, I learned more about the United Way than I did actually in the festival in the video. I thought that they're involved in making things. If this is not a great video to explain the festival, I'm sorry. I didn't pick it. I just... I'm so stupid, babies. But it was really pretty. No doubt. Yeah, it looked fun and outlawful it is. From what I hear on Twitter is that like people say like for nine days they just dance. Dang. Constantly. Like non-stop, like a dance-a-thon? Yeah. Something like that. We've got those, you know, dance-a-thons. You could see it, especially back in the 1950s and 60s, it was like this big deal. And Israeli dancing. Ashley and Harrell have done that. It's a big deal to dance all freaking night. Like you don't sleep, you just dance. I like that. Dancing is a lot bigger in a lot of other cultures. Like in terms of like... Hardcore dancing. Community dancing. Community dancing, yeah. Community coming together and doing dancing. We have nothing here in the United States other than Friday nights at a club. Or literal like festivals. Or weddings. Weddings would be really the only cultural thing where we have collective dancing as a community. Yeah. That I can think of. And then like those big old festivals, like what are they called? Running Man or Burning Man and all those kind of things. Yeah. Those kind of stuff. Right. But those are like specific for music people. I've got to say, we really don't have a lot of culture and art involved in our holidays. Yeah. We really don't. I mean, we've got fireworks on the 4th of July, which are always fun and beautiful. Well, it's a thing. A lot of other cultures, they have a lot of like, a lot of one type of either religion or obviously it's not India's state of a thousand religions. Right. But America, since it's such a melting pot, is not one that really dominates. True. The most dominant one obviously is Christmas. But that and that one for me is the most favorite in terms of its art expression, because that one has so many songs and music that is done. And there's so many things done expressively through light. Yeah. It's a really, and that's the largest one here, which you guys all know about that. But yeah, I agree with that. Halloween's huge. But again, there's no dancing in the ball. It's also not really a season. No. People will celebrate Christmas literally from Thanksgiving sometimes before all. All the way up to New Year's Day. New Year's Day. Halloween celebrated basically one day. But yeah, that's happy. What have you said again? I hope I'm not butchering it. I think it's Navarate. Happy Navarate. I'll look up to see if there's any festivals going on here in LA. I would love to. I would love to find out if there was that and particularly if there was coming out, if we could find a Bengali community that's celebrating Durga Pooja and doing it. I mean, they're not going to do it the way they do in Calcutta. I'd be astonished if they came even close to them. No, they would have to have pandals built and all this stuff. You bet I didn't know about that, did you? I know what a pandal is, you Bengalis. Cool.