Too Many Holidays ?

Do you find that there are just too many holidays going on nowadays? Do you think that we've gone overboard celebrating every little thing? Let's talk about it this time on Weis's Thoughts. It's time for a virtual campfire sit down with Terry Weiss. Welcome to Weiss Thoughts. Hey, everybody, welcome back, Welcome to the podcast. Welcome to Weis's Thoughts. I am Terry Weiss, your humble host, and I am so glad you decided to spend some of your valuable time with me today. So thank you first and foremost, right off the bat, welcome to the virtual campfire sit down we call Wi's Thoughts. And if you want to listen to more episodes of Wei's Thoughts, by all means, go to my website Weis's thoughts dot com. Just make sure you spell my name right, WYC. That's Weiss's Thoughts dot Com. There you can listen to each and every episode of this podcast, comment on the show if you're so inclined, and check out all the other things that are waiting for you at Weiss's thoughts dot com. Okay, the other thing too. If you need voiceover services, audio production services, visit my wife, my website, That's what I'm trying to say. Visit. Yes, yeah, that's a good, great plug Terry for your voiceover service, you know, fumble over the words. Go to Terryweiss dot com and there you can hear some audio samples and check out my website. My contact info is in there as well. Okay, great, all right, let's get right into the podcast today, shall we are? There too many holidays, that's what we want to talk about now, I myself, I myself me grew up with your traditional holidays. You know, you're you know, Labor Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Veterans Day, Chris SMIs, Easter, stuff like that, July fourth, things of that nature. There were a scattering, there weren't a lot. But you know what I'm realizing in recent years, especially especially over the past at least decade or more ten to fifteen years, if I had to actually maybe put a round number on it, there is a holiday for literally every single thing out there. Everything there's a holiday for I mean, for grant Aloud. I mean we got holidays for food. That's right, yes, I said it. Food. We have holidays for food. Now, I know what you're gonna say, Terry, Terry, Thanksgiving, man, that's a holiday based around food. Well, yes, and no, I mean it's about pilgrims and the discovery of America and you know, them surviving a hard winter and being thankful that you know, the Good Lord or whatever you pose to believe, intervened to help save them from starvation, being shown things by the Native Americans at the time on how to do crops and preserve food and what have you. But I am talking when I say food, I am talking about stuff like, oh, it's Taco Tuesday, or it's International Canned Bean Day, or I mean, there's just so many of them out there, you know, National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day and National Hot Dog Day. To me, it's just a bit overwhelming and too much. You know, National Beer Day. As much as I love beer, trust me, as much as I love a good adult beverage. But you know, come on, right, Am I right? Am I right? That's all I'm going to ask you. Am I right? Or Am I right? Because you know you've got this celebration and that celebration, and then you know this demographic we're going to celebrate, and that demographic and this particular season and that, folks, I don't know about you. I'm finding it a bit overwhelming, and I just start tuning it all out and I go back to my core ones. You know, Christmas, Halloween, Fourth of July, Labor Day, you know, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, stuff like that, Thanksgiving. Okay, I just go back to the core, the core ones. And I'm sure I've probably excluded a couple, but I've gone back to the core holidays. And that's what I'm celebrating, me and my family at least, that's what we celebrate. Now before you all jump on me and start giving me a bunch of static and saying, well, what about you know, this holiday for this group, and Indigenous People's Day, and you know, and National Italian Day and National Polish American Day and national this and folks, when do we say enough is enough? I mean, we just arbitrarily And I'm asking this honestly, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just throwing it out there for discussion and for thought. Are we just arbitrarily at this point making up or puoling together as it were, groups just to have a holiday to celebrate, just to have something to waive the virtual banner and say, hey, look at this. You know, let's celebrate this. Is that what we're doing? Is it? I mean, because it really to me, and I've talked to some other people, and the reason we're talking about it on this episode of Wie's Thoughts podcast today is that I've talked to other people as well, and there is a consensus of good majority of you out there kind of feel that, Yeah, we're just kind of throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks and go with that. I mean, And again, please don't get me wrong, don't interpret this wrong. And if you take it wrong, well there's nothing I can do about it. But I'm discussing this today and sharing my thoughts on it because and again, it's not to put down any particular people or leave any kind of group or idea or ethnicity or place or event out. It's just I'm saying, I think it's enough. We've got enough on the plate. Why do we just keep going back to the buffet and adding and adding and adding, adding and adding and adding adding, for just the sake of saying, well, we celebrate that, and we celebrate you, and we celebrate this food. And you know, this time of the year, and I just think it's unnecessary. A lot of it is just unnecessary complications in and already for most of us complicated life. I mean, if you think I'm totally out of line on this by all means, you know, you can email me mail at weissthoughts dot com. Okay, you can do that, send me an email and say, hey, Terry, you're being a total jerk and you know I don't see anything wrong with it. Or you can say, yeah, I hear you, man, I know where you're coming from, and I agree with you. I mean, it's okay to disagree with me. I don't mind that. I don't I don't get my feathers ruffled if people disagree with me. In fact, I welcome it because I want to hear somebody else's opinion, you know, because sitting here in the booth today and recording the podcast, it's me, myself, an eye, all three of us. So I want and invite your feedback. I do you think I'm wrong telling me I'm wrong, Mail at weie thoughts dot com or put it down in the show notes at the website wie thoughts dot com. I invite your commentary and feedback on this. But I just think we're just kind of going overboard with the holidays, as you know here, especially in the United States of America from whence the program cometh. I think we are just overloading our plate with a lot of unnecessary, arbitrary things, just to maybe it's under the guise of, you know, looking busy or seeming busy, or seeming like we're so caring in a what can be perceived at times an uncaring world. But I don't know. I you know, we're gonna find out. You know, we'll take a quick break and after the break, when we come back, we're going to do our word smith word of the episode here on Wiyse's Thoughts. So stick around and we will be right back. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to White's Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss, And before the break, we were talking about holidays in the United States of America especially, do we just seem to celebrate too much of nothing anymore? And I don't know, for my money, for my dollar, I think we are just kind of going overboard and celebrating a little bit too much of everything and just kind of throwing everything out there and kind of you know, just seeing what sticks. And uh, you know, it just seems like we're it's much to do about nothing, At least for this guy here, it seems much to do about nothing. And you know, we're going we're going into ways that we really don't need to. Okay, we really don't need to. I think just put stuff out there for the sake of putting out there, because I don't think it's as heartfelt, and I think it takes away a lot of the actual meaning of it. I mean, we don't have to celebrate food every month or every you know, three weeks, celebrate of food. I mean, can you get together with your buddies and friends and pals and family members and loved ones and say, today's hot dog Day. Let's all celebrate the hot dog or let's all celebrate potato salad. Yeah you can do that, Sure you can. Okay, you can definitely do stuff like that. But when it gets you know, crazy and arbitrary, excuse me for the uh, for just the point of doing it under the auspices of, hey, we're doing it, I think it really just takes away a lot of the intent. It takes the intent and just kind of flushes it down the whoops as I hit the mic stands sorry about that. If you heard that, I think it takes the intent and just totally flushes it down the Johnny flusher. But let me know what you think. Mail at Weiss's thoughts dot com, m A I L mail at Weis's thoughts w y C E T h O U g h t s dot com. And uh, you know, if you think I'm just being a total moron about this and it's much to do about nothing by all means, you know, hey, let me know. But anyway, let's get to what we promised before the break. It's that time again. It's time for the wordsmith word of the episode. Uh, thank you, mister podcast announcer extraordinaire and today's wordsmith word of the episode. What is it? Let's hear it? Ameliorate it say one more time for me. Ameliorate ameliorate a m E l I O r A t E, which means make something bad or unsatisfactory better. That's ameliorate ame e l I r ate make something bad or unsatisfactory better. So let's let's try a couple example sentences. Shall we I get a message every week to help ameliorate my chronic back pain. Okay, more of a fancy word than necessary. I guess we need ways to ameliorate the high turnover rate at our stores. And finally, one more sentence with the word ameliorate. My grandmother gave us hot tea with honey and lemon to ameliorate everything from colds to stubbed toes. So there you go. There's your wordsmith word of the episode. One more time from the wordsmith word announcer. Ameliorate, ameliorate, amel I are ate, and you can go out now into the day and impress all your friends with your big brain and your wordsmith knowledge. So there you go. So all right, let's dive back into the subject at hand. Holidays. Are we really overdoing it, especially in the United States of America, in celebrating just maybe ambiguous or unnecessary holidays and just you know, just taking it to the limit and basically, you know, stressing people out. So I'm going to pull right here from the internet here as we chatter along public holidays in the United States of America. You got New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. That's six already Martin Luther King Day, Washington's Birthday. Okay, that's eight. Now we have Columbus Day and Veterans Day, so there's ten. Now we've added juneteenth National Independence Day June nineteenth. So those are the ones. I mean, you got basically eleven if I'm if I'm right, Okay, so you got eleven. Now, some states and cities have had an additional holidays honoring African Americans. You got Emancipation Day in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, d C. And the US Virgin Islands. You have Malcolm X Day in various cities, Harriet Tubman Day, Rosa Parks Day. They have Confederate holidays, evidently the Confederate States of America that seceded from the United States. Do you have Confederate Memorial or Heroes Day and Deserved in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, amongst other places. And what else we got here? Excuse me? Always have water or something? Well, I got to I'm breaking one of the cardinal sins of voiceover when you're and when you're recording, No sugary drinks, and here I am, I'm gonna take a swig of PEPSI mm hmm, yum yum. It should be just water only. So for the for you aspiring voiceover people, water only, you want to stay away from the sugar and carbonated sugary sweet drinks now. Other traditional and informal holidays Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, Patriots Day from the Revolutionary War, Earth Day, Harbor Day, May Day. You Buffalo Sabers fans might know that May Day, Bradby. Anyway, I'm up near in New York, near Buffalo, New York area. So from When's the Program Cometh Again? Part two? In this episode? And uh, that was just a famous hockey call. Sinko d my Mother's Day, Flag Day, Helen Keller Day. I didn't know about that one. And you know, I've been around for a while. I did not know we actually should celebrate Helen Keller Day June twenty seventh. Maybe, well, now you know as well as I do, Father's Day, Pioneer Day, Woman's Equality Day, Patriot Day, September eleventh, which is nine to eleven. As we know, well, what happened in the US. There for US Constitution Day and Citizen Citizenship Day September seventeenth, octoberfest for US beer drinkers. World Vegetarian Day. I'm sorry did I say that? I'm sorry? I'm sorry you vegetarians know nofense. World Vegetarian Day, October first globally. Oh what else? Nevada Day, Election Day, which is very important here in the USA. Black Friday, which is coming up here in just a few short days in the United State. Day to America. That's the and for those of you listening overseas and and what the heck is Black Friday. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States where people just lose their minds and try to save money and retailers try to have a one day cash cow come in by offering what they feel our incredible deals on items to get people to motivate people to shop and spend money. Better known as Black Friday because in business, you're either in the red or in the black. Being in the red is bad because you're not making any money. You're at a loss. Wow, that's a big truck going by the studio Holy Macro. Was that a helicopter on the road or what. I don't know if you'll hear that, if we'll try and edit that out. But anyway, so what was I saying? Oh, yes, black Friday, black versus red in business, Red you're not making any money, you're losing money, and black is the is the profit line and margins go up, you're making money. So hence the name dubbed black Black Friday, Cyber Monday, which is a floating Monday, the week of Thanksgiving, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, New Year's Eve. Now the other let's see what else they got. All they're opening notable holidays in the US opening day for Major League Baseball, winter Break, spring Break, summer vacation, Super Bowl, Sunday, the Sundays, Mondays, Monday. Gotta going. Man, it's her voice. So, I mean, that's just a few. That's just a few of the holidays. And then you've got all kinds of different holidays that you can get into. Some states have certain holidays, and again the ones that really just give me the moment of pause and just make me, you know, sit back and collectively shake my head and go all these food holidays, all these holidays that have to do with food, you know, Pizza Day and National Tuna Fish Sandwich Day and all this other kind of hullo blow. I just sit back and I go, hmmm, you know, really, do we really need all these other holidays? Because for me, it just it just doesn't seem to make sense to have all these crazy holidays added on. And again, let me maintain I am not trying to disparage any group of people, any time of year, any activity or an event that may have happened. That may have happened, okay that I just feel that we celebrate enough and you know, enough is enough. How much more do we need to put on our plate? And you know, go along with I don't know. But anyway, as I stated many times earlier, if you disagree, let me know. If you agree, let me know the topic of discussion. It's always an open forum here at wise thoughts. So you know, that's that's where we are on this. So we'll see what happens. So well, see that and do that and we'll catch you next time. Hey, thanks for listening to the program today. I truly appreciate each and every one of you out there, and remember to see a change in the world, you have to be the change in the world you want to see. It all starts with you, the person looking back at you in the mirror every morning. Remember to be kind to yourself, be kind to others. If you want to tweet at me on Twitter, it's at Terry Weiss. Stop by the website Weis's Thoughts dot com just to make sure you spell my name right. Wysee Wis's thoughts dot com, and hey, leave us a positive rating and review on your favorite podcast provider. Won't you tell your friends, tell your family, tell your pets about Whife's thoughts, and I look forward to gathering yet again around the virtual campfire with you real soon. Take care,