President's Day Sales, Holiday Commercialization
The hosts discuss the commercialization of American holidays, specifically President's Day, which has replaced the distinct celebrations of Washington and Lincoln's birthdays. They note that retail stores like Macy's remain open for extended sales periods, rendering the holidays "bogus" in terms of actual business closures.
president's day· washington's birthday· lincoln's birthday· macy's· retail sales
00:01 originating from opposite corners of Gitmo Nation. I screwed it up already. This is No Agenda with Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! Coming to you from Gitmo Nation East in the southwest part of London in the Curry Terrace. I'm Adam Curry. I'm John C. Dvorak here in northern Silicon Valley where it's wet and rainy and this is the Gitmo Nation. Yo, yo, yo. I told you we're sleepy this morning. We were just talking about that before we started. Hard to get up. It's pouring. It's pouring. It's pouring. It's not nice here either but it's just like British weather, you know? It's not rainy and it's just kind of gray.
00:44 Yeah, well we need the rain and so it's gonna take a while to catch up but these poor people, anybody who went up to Lake Tahoe which is what everybody in the Bay Area tends to do on these three day weekends, we have a three day weekend here. Meaning it's a holiday on Monday. It's President's Day. Yeah, which is in between Washington's birthday which used to be a holiday and Lincoln's birthday which used to be a holiday which was actually yesterday, or no, Friday. They stop doing those because you know they're trying to make more generic Labor Day, I mean a darmestest day is gone. They keep changing these things so these holidays are bogus. It's a It's just a commercial thing isn't it kind of like Valentine's Day. No because there's no connection to commerce except for all the President's Day sales
01:34 Oh yeah, there's a lot of President's Day sales. Which last, well, three weeks beyond President's Day, the President's Day sale is on! Yeah, that means Macy's open. The holidays means nothing's closed. I mean, usually a holiday, retail stores should be closed, technically. But no. Anyway, so, holiday. So what's going on, John? Besides the storm, not much. A couple things you forgot to talk about last week, including Darwin Day. We kind of missed the boat on that. I had been, on my blog, I tend to do some post every so often on creationism and how it's trying to make inroads into the school system.
