 how many intros do you think we've done? how many videos have we done? thousands? no i think actually we've only done like 600. welcome back to our new direction video, it's i'm corbin i'm rick and you can follow us on instagram and twitter. we're good now. i took my medicine. but uh... thank you for the picture and follow us on twitter. yeah i can see Godzilla in a miracan. yes uh today actually yesterday uh all your trouble seems so far away. yes there was a another festival that we missed so i apologize um i'm sure you told me about it sorry but there's another one it's called uh Dushara. Dushara and it was on october 8th so yesterday uh so we got two short videos to kind of explain it to us. cool. uh you know one of the thousand festivals they have in india they just party all the time. best of people man. like like all like we don't have that many festivals here. no. especially not ones that just everyone just celebrates. no we've got the really awesome like big pumping festival days like labor day. or you you you turned up on president's day. here we go. let's just get into it. here we go. Dushara is the festival celebrated to commemorate the victory of ram. start it over. how'd she pronounce it? Dushara. that's what i said. shut your hole i'm gonna hear her pronunciation. hold on. Dushara is the festival celebrated to commemorate the victory of ram over the ten-headed king of rakshasas. ram. like ram leader. this is perhaps the most popular tale that every indian associates with the festival of Dushara. when Sita was abducted by ram along with his brother Lakshman his follower Hanuman and an army of ape men waged a war against ram. the conflict culminated with the defeat of ram and his death in war. this happened on the day of Dushara. it is this occasion that people celebrate by burning effigies of ram. it is said that before ram left for Lanka he had prayed to Durga for his victory. Durga who was associated with Shakti had blessed ram. another story that is associated with Dushara is the one about Durga one question was each day as a name on the festival. when Maheshasur reeked havoc and had defeated all gods Vishnu, Brahma and Siva combined powers and created Shakti in the form of Durga to destroy Maheshasur. the victory of Durga over Maheshasur is celebrated as Vijaya Tashmi or Dushara. after the three-day celebration of Durga puja the fourth day is celebrated as Vijaya Tashmi. this is the last day of Durga puja where the idols of Durga are consigned to water. a lesser known story that is associated with Dushara is that of the Pandavas. after the Pandavas lost the game of dice to the Kauravas they were exiled for 13 years. in the last year of their exile the Pandavas had to live in disguise. before they left the forest they hid their powerful weapons under a shamu tree so that nobody could find them. when they returned after a year they found their weapons lying under the tree untouched. the Pandavas declared war on the Kauravas soon after this and won the battle against them. since then the exchange of shamu leaves has become accustomed among people as it symbolizes goodwill and victory. in many parts of the country people worship the shamu tree on the shara. according to another story in Ayodhya there lived a boy called Kautsup the son of a brahmin called devdatt who had pursued his education from rishi varatattu. when it was time to pay his gurudakshina the rishi asked him for 140 gold coins unable to pay his gurudakshina kautsa requested the king to help him. kautsa's wish was answered when kubair the god of wealth showered gold coins from the sky near the apathy tree. kautsa collected the gold coins and gave his gurudakshina. he distributed the remaining coins to the poor on the day of the shara. since that day people have offered leaves of the apathy tree to each other considering them to be a symbol of gold. the festival of the shara also marks the beginning of the war season. it is said that in ancient times kings used this festival to cross borders and fight against their neighboring enemies. the celebration of the shara in india however started in the 17th century when the king of Mysore had ordered for the celebration of the occasion on a large scale. since then the festival of the shara has been celebrated with great pomp and enthusiasm. this festival is symbolic as it enables people to win over their fears and celebrate the victory of good over evil. obviously yeah it says in the for me the which one the artist giddish malab yeah super talented yeah i love watching time lapse drawing like that because i that's one talent i do not have oh no and then the voice is just not sastry she sounded like an indian um boy what's her name uh black widow uh oh yeah uh scarlett Johansson yeah she sounded like indian scarlett Johansson it did you're absolutely right i was that's like a soothing voice like right it is a scarlett Johansson indian in it uh i didn't know anything about that yeah but i did when you said it and you said it was yesterday because i knew that drigapooja ended yesterday well well i'm gonna don't know when we're posting this so obviously it ended on october 8th uh i thought is this what i think it is because um and it is yeah yeah uh now it's really good actual very informative i think this one is like more of uh the actual celebrating of it so it's like what the what the festival had it that's what it was about this is what it's done yeah what it's done i believe uh could be wrong if it's not that don't blame me blame somebody else yeah here we go it's plain ocean in a second wow they they burn up fast that's actually pretty cool it's a dancing distance yeah but that looks like to a little kid these people yeah nara's targaryen just is there something no and it looks like they're going to grab pieces that didn't burn why they're doing that they're probably getting pieces of the effigy that weren't fully consumed and either they're gonna form a mini mixture they are consumed or maybe they say part of it i don't know i want to get close to it yeah that's cool i got sent a bunch of uh uh they didn't explain that enough to think well i know they said they burned effigies but i didn't expect it to be i expected to be like a calcifer here yeah yeah me too something small i don't expect them to be freaking five stories high yeah and i know that the last day of durga puja they like in calcada they take the images of the goddess and go submerge yeah her in the river i don't know about the burning of anything maybe this is that night no that's done at night too oh is it yeah there's like ceremonies that's that are done by the priests to end the festival and it's the departure of the goddess and the idols go in the water i don't know that they do that i could be wrong correct me if i'm wrong the burning of the effigies there and there may be people who just celebrate this festival as a standalone and don't also do durga puja i don't know i would imagine i learned you have so many festivals i know the first video was very informative so i like that one that's actually one of the most informative videos i think we've been on on one of the festivals and it was obviously really well done and the next one gave us a little more which was really cool and i know they dance and they shoot off fireworks as well because i got a bunch of videos on twitter right uh people celebrating it last night yeah uh and there's fireworks going off everywhere people dance and everywhere every festival they dance in india yeah yeah yeah just a standard thing there's either burning or there's colors or there's something very uh lively going on with the festivals oh and i had mentioned osha this little fyi there's there's an organization here called osha stands for occupational safety and hazard association and they oversee things like this as would the fire marshal and so if things aren't up to osha standards you can get fined or your business can be shut down so that's why we jokingly said that's not up to osha standards oh yeah i they might celebrate this year somewhere in america but they don't do that if they do it's going to be done out in a field and they have to get the permission from the fire department or in the middle of a lake or yeah like they have to do burning man basically in the desert and it's got to be done like here in in socao we'll have times a year a lot of the times we'll have red flag warnings and you can't even do bonfires or even barbecues in some places because it's too dry and it can set off brush fires so it's fire season right now right now it's fire season yeah but man that was cool i'd like to see one of those things what are they made of might be just like like straw burning things yeah like yeah they're loaded with fire crackers and fireworks and stuff that's awesome i don't know if it was loaded with fireworks so those would just go shooting off and well some of them did cool some of them did they went off into the audience i was like how was that safe hey randy how'd you lose your eye well during the festival let's stand a little too close why are they talking like that that's so cool though i'm i'm glad i'm glad you guys have so many festivals because it's like it seems like every single week there's another festival that we have to learn about which is awesome as a culture y'all just like to party yeah and as a culture you guys are in a consistent state of having a appreciation for life and an appreciation for the the connection between the physical and the invisible realm and the spiritual as well as the physical this was really it's very very cool well happy belated pronounce it you didn't carbonize it do share it right on corbin i screwed it up this time they're all dead they're probably no you both screwed it up