SPEAKER_00 0:22

Welcome to the pod for our special Father's Day episode. I'm your daddy, Ashley. And sitting across from me is the one, the only father figure herself. Christy. What up, girl?

SPEAKER_01 0:33

Hi. I have a little bit of a cold, so I do sound like a daddy. So sultry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Yeah. I like it. Okay. Um, do you have any corrections or anything?

SPEAKER_01 0:43

I don't think so. Okay. Oh, wait, no, no, no, I do.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

My husband pointed out that we forgot to mention that in Spanish, uh, the term for pet, mascota.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

Yeah, it's a mascot.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

Mascota. So team pet. Your team pet. I like it. Yeah. Going back to your mascot episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Yeah, that I had to cut a lot out of. So go see our socials for that um admission because sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Ashley had to confess her sins.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

I confessed my error in believing anything AI told me. Um okay, are you ready to talk about some stuff?

SPEAKER_01 1:20

What if I said no?

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Then we just leave. Okay. I do that all the time. I ask you.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Are you ready?

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Are you ready? Are you ready to be ready? I don't know. I'm like sitting.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

I'm ready. I'm sitting here.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

I finally locked you into a seat to sit and listen to me for an hour.

SPEAKER_01 1:36

Go, lady.

unknown 1:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Today I'm gonna tell you about the history of weird ass holidays and why everything in the world is basically a giant marketing scheme. I'm also just gonna take this moment to say with my full chest, eat the rich and fuck Elon Musk. I know, right? Yeah. Nobody needs that much money. It's criminal.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

No, it is criminal.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Um, but since Father's Day is coming up, let's go ahead and start with that one first. Um, so according to Google and History.com, Father's Day in the United States was first celebrated in the early 1900s, but it did not become an official federal holiday until 1972.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

So it took 72 years for dads to be recognized nationally. Um, so the evolution of Father's Day. So the individual credited for this holiday was actually a woman because of course she was. Shocker. Her name was Sonora Smart Dodd, and she mentioned this idea in 1909 when she was listening to a Mother's Day sermon and realized there was no equivalent to honor devoted fathers.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Oh, so Mother's Day had already been rolling.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Yeah, Mother's Day had been rolling.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

And then she was like, Well, the other 364 days of the year, we do kind of honor our men. But let's let's like get tribute one day specifically.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

She was basically like, Hold my beer because her own father actually raised her after her mother, or yeah, after her mother had passed away.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

I take my comment back.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

So her and her five siblings were raised by her father, and we love a dad that rises to the occasions, um, which is incredible. There are a lot of good dads out there, even though there's a lot of trashy men.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

Um, but she chose the month of June because she wanted it to be on her dad's birthday, which is like kind of that's nice. I mean, kind of, except for no, it's not. You're trying to just double up on two things. Oh you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Like was her maybe her dad wasn't still alive at that point.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

No, I think he was.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

She wanted it on her dad's birthday. Okay. Um, but it turned out the actual day was it wasn't like it was later than the actual day because people needed time to do like to write up their sermons and stuff. Um, so initially she wanted it to be on June 5th, but it ended up being much later than that.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

Yeah, because it's always the third Sunday of the month or something.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Yeah. And I'm assuming he didn't want to share his birthday with a bunch of other dudes, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

He was fine with it.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Listen, we don't yuck others' yums around here. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

We don't juice other people's squeeze. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Unless you're into that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

And again, we don't yuck your yum.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Um, but the actual like day that was celebrated on June 19th in 1910 in Washington State. So it was at that time just like states that would celebrate it, not necessarily like a federal holiday.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Um, I'm sure her daddy was honored to be the pioneer for decades to come of whiskey stones and ugly neckties, and probably super pumped that it wasn't on his birthday, so he could get spoiled twice. Yes. So when I was looking into this, I asked Chat Bestie about the true origins of Father's Day, and as a surprise to nobody, it came up with the most like cold robot bullet pointed list. So it gave me that brief jumping off point for um Sonora Dodd. And then at the very bottom, it tossed in just like a little tiny bullet point labeled a lesser-known one-off attempt, and it gave like a kind of just like one fluffy line about um this one-off attempt being something that honored fathers who died in a mining disaster, but that it didn't take off.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

What it completely left out of that was that this mining event was the deadliest mining disaster in American history.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Rnar.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

It was the monoga mining disaster, and bestie just glossed over the fact that 362 miners were killed.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Um, so yeah, no shit, it didn't take off. That's kind of depressing. Nobody wants to celebrate dads when they're all dead.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Yeah. Nar.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

But because AI can't really process heavy human things, it pivoted back to the happy space of and now it's celebrated worldwide.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

But don't you worry, we now celebrate yearly.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Um, so like, you know, as if rewriting tough history from a toxic positive point of view has ever really helped us move forward in a healthy way.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

And I just wanted to take this moment to say, I know we joke about chat being our bestie, but it's a brief reminder that AI is not your friend.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

No.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

And it is very unregulated, which means it's dangerous.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Yeah, it's dangerous, but I it can it can be your friend, but you gotta you gotta be sussy about it.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

Yeah, you have to take it with like, this is my friend that lies a lot.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

And just wants to please me.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

This is my friend that just takes what I say and regurgitates it back at me in a more positive tone. Like then tells me I'm pretty.

unknown 6:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Pats you on the head.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Here's the thing.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

You are worth it. You're you're enough. You're kinuff.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

You're can you're knuff.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

That's not the phrase, right? Kenough?

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Kenough, yeah. You're knuff, yeah. From the Barbie movie. Um, so think of your chat bestie as more of like your frenemy. Um, and assume everything it says is a lie until proven otherwise.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

It's or or okay, train yours like I've trained mine. Two.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

We'll talk about it later. Call you daddy. Yeah. I'll be your father figure chat. Um, so through the Great Depression. Oh my gosh. Don't hit the MRI machine. No. So through the Great Depression, struggling retailers pushed heavily to market Father's Day as a way to sell ties, socks, tobacco. And basically, capitalism did what capitalism does. And narcissist Not a Crook Nixon signed it into law in 1972. And now Daddy Is that his middle name? Yeah, I think so. I don't even know what his first name is. I think not a crook is his middle name, right?

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Not a crook.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

I am not a crook.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Sure, Dan. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Yeah, no, you're good. I mean, I put it in there to make you laugh, so it did.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

You got me.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

But now dad's everywhere gets some form of meat, alcohol, or clothing item to celebrate them for their three-minute contribution to a nine-month group project.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Yay, men.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Yay.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Yay men.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Rate your partner on this experience.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

Oh my gosh, you did three minutes of this project. Good job. You know?

SPEAKER_01 8:33

Now you have to change every diaper.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Forever.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Which men should be doing. Yeah. I know it was like a common thing that the men shouldn't men didn't change diapers. Not anymore.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Oh no, not anymore. No. Oh, my husband changed all the diapers. Not all the diapers. We were a 50-50.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

A good majority. Yeah. Same. That's how it should be, right? You go in a you tango together.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

You make a human and then And shout out to him when we had children, and you know, you have the baby monitor that whatever. I was always just so tired that I didn't even hear it. So he was always the one that I think I can't even remember. It might have even been on his side of the bed, but because I couldn't even hear it.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

You remember how I always do it. I mean, initially I could.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

Initially I could, but like when once they got like six months or later, it was like goodbye.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Dad, dad's gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

I tell you all the time that you are my spouse.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Yes, I am your spouse.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

You are my spouse. He can't hear the baby monitor. He gone. He's gone. In fact, if I go like on a trip somewhere and he's home with the kids, he says he just doesn't sleep. Like he can't he cannot sleep because he's paranoid that he's gonna like mess the kiddos.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

That'll pass soon because they're getting big.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Yeah, now they just get out of their beds and come find you.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Okay. Anyways, we love that.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

We love that for us. Back to track, back to yay men. Just kidding. So um Father's Day was just the gateway drug to this. Um, if you think a holiday born out of a mining tragedy getting hijacked to sell socks is bad, we need to talk about the absolute wild west of completely fabricated unhinged calendar days. Okay. Because listen, once corporate America realized that they couldn't just invent a day and make people buy stuff, the floodgates opened. Hashtag America.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Hashtag. Hashtag buymycandy. Hashtag it's all the stuff from last year.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

Yep, pretty much. This is Halloween candy repackaged.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Oh, it probably is repackaged, girls. Why not? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

That's why, well, I don't know. That's why they started doing shapes, but like it's probably good on them to do like, you know, like the pumpkin rhesus and the Santa Reese so that you can't say like a like at Halloween when you're repurposing your Easter candy.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Okay, so the the following are some of the weirdest quote holidays that I could find in what they celebrate. So these are really bizarre. I looked them up. They are like real.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Real, okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

And I say that with like major air quote real. Okay. Um, but they are listed on Google and other places, so not just chat besties. It's hot in here. It is. It's getting hot in here, so take your sweatpants off.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

I only took my sweatshirt off. I don't know why she said that.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

But like they're like sweatpants for your arms.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

Yeah. Thank you. We've talked about that, right? Yeah, it's a big sweater. I like it.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Yeah. It's also um what? June. What you doing, bud?

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Listen. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

It's my comfort. That's my comfort cardigan.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

What are you doing January 21st?

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Um, I am celebrating. It's not Martin Luther King, that's the 15th. No, not. Oh. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

It is Squirrel Appreciation Day. How dare you not know this?

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Wait, is Martin Luther King though January 15th?

SPEAKER_00 12:06

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Sorry, I'm gonna do what you hate that I do, which is to look at my calendar.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

Okay, while you look in your calendar, I'm gonna talk about it. Squirrel appreciation day is January.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

I have no appreciation for that.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

It's January 21st.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

Nar.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

So Squirrel Appreciation Day was started by a wildlife rehabilitator in North Carolina to encourage people to feed and appreciate backyard squirrels in the dead of winter. Which I think is so sweet. So cute. They are menaces to society. Yeah, so am I. That doesn't mean we don't deserve some nuts every once in a while.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Okay, MLK Day is just, I think, the Monday. The third Monday. I'm sorry. Say that again. Never? Okay, I'm sorry. I won't touch my phone again.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

I'm making really funny jokes over here, and I'm my primary audience, so I don't even need you for that. Do you want me to pat your head?

SPEAKER_01 13:02

I got you.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Oh, I really can't wait until you listen to this back and realize what I just said.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

Do you want to say it again or I have to find out later? No, you gotta find out later. Okay, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

What about May 9th?

SPEAKER_01 13:12

What are you doing on May 9th? May 9th, I am celebrating um Tulip Day.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Oh, cute. No, you're not. Oh. You're celebrating Lost Sock Memorial Day, a humorous day dedicated to acknowledging and mourning the single socks lost to the abyss of the laundry cycle.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Have you ever heard that theory that like all the laundry, all the missing like single socks come back as tubware lift?

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Oh my gosh, yes. And it's true. Yeah, it's so true. Um, okay, August 7th. What are you doing on August 7th?

SPEAKER_01 13:47

August 7th, I am celebrating River Rafting Day.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

Nope. You are celebrating National Underwear Day. Oh established in 2003 by an intimate apparel retailer. It has grown into an annual celebration and sometimes public gathering in New York City. Everybody's just chilling in their endings. Why? Because probably not, I mean, I don't know this for a fact, but probably Victoria's Secret's like, we need money.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

Yeah. Give it to us.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

So we're gonna make National Underwear Day on August 7th. I don't know. I don't know. Okay September 19th. What you doing?

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Uh is that the start of fall?

SPEAKER_00 14:35

No, I think that's the 21st.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

Okay. Oh. Do you remember? No, I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

I am celebrating what happens in September. Nah, you're not Métis. It's international talk like a pirate day. Oh, I have heard of that one. So this crazy ass holiday was conceived by two guys in Oregon in 1995 during a casual game of racquetball. This bizarre celebration escalated into a global tongue-in-cheek phenomenon.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

Is it ever just a casual game of racquetball? Have you seen Racquetball?

SPEAKER_00 15:10

It looks pretty intense. Listen, I've seen the Bluey episode where they play the racquetball, and I'm like, that's enough for me.

unknown 15:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Or no, maybe it's squash. Is that the same thing? You know what? It's none of my business.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Yeah, who cares? This is gonna be your favorite. This is gonna be your favorite day of all time. And I already know the I already know.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Okay, December 15th.

SPEAKER_01 15:29

Oh, that's not my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

I wonder if you're gonna say my favorite. Probably not. Obsolete holiday. I'll tell you later.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

What's December 15th?

SPEAKER_01 15:36

December 15th is uh Krampus Day.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

National Cat Herder Day. Oh created to recognize the frustration of dealing with chaotic, unmanageable tasks akin to herding cats. This holiday is honoring professionals, parents, and leaders who manage chaotic, unpredictable, and highly independent situations.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

Don't do that on December 15th when we're already stressed out about Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

I said clearly we need more things to do in December.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Stupid.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

That's so stupid. So I want to know what some of your those are the just a couple, like a little short list of what I found that are kind of just like off-the-wall ones. Tell me your favorite.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

June 5th.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

June 5th. Which is guess.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

June 5th. Okay. It is a, I'll give you some hints. It is um dedicated to a treat. And what treat do I love? Donut day.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

Yes! I should know that because I love donuts. I actually talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

So let's get into that a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

I love donuts. It's bomb.com.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Um, so I went to Chat Bestie expecting to fight with it on why weird holidays exist. Because of course I did. But I think I broke my chatbots programming because it completely side-eyed capitalism with me. And uh that's that's how you train your robots. I don't know what to tell you other than just bully it so much that it changes its entire identity.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

Oh, so you liked you liked the change?

SPEAKER_00 17:12

Yeah. Oh, good. Cause I because it it told me. So um it told me that sometimes holidays start off innocent and then get hijacked to make a book. Which I was like, okay, Sha, I see you.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Yeah. Way to way to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Yeah. I mean, as you at the very bottom of this explanation you give me, give me an ad for something to buy.

SPEAKER_01 17:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

But okay, I mean, we're getting there. I'll train it out of that eventually.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

Hey, you just asked me about this, but do you want to buy this thing that is just like it?

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Um, so National Donut Day, June 5th, which I didn't know it was June 5th, but um yeah. Do you know how it was originally created?

SPEAKER_01 17:51

No, tell me.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

This is really cool. So it was created by the Salvation Army to honor donut lassies, which were brave ass women who dedic who delivered donuts to troops on the front lines of World War One.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

And it doubled as a fundraiser to help those in need during the Great Depression. Oh, I like that. So like people at home a holiday with a purpose. Yeah, yeah. Um yeah, that was back then. And then corporate America's like, hold my chocolate milk, we have money to make.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

Hey, if you're making a good donut, I'll buy.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Yeah, yeah. But that's actually how donuts came to America. Is that in in World War One, Donut Day, they were like, these donut lassies were delivering donuts, and then when those troops came back, they're like, I want a donut.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

I'm gonna Google donut lassie. I'm sorry, I'm pulling up my phone again.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

Do it, donut lassie, do it. Um the troops were called doughboys. Um, so that's kind of fun.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Oh, they're cute. So they're wearing helmets and probably a dress of some kind with a tie and then a big bucket of donuts.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Yeah, so they were helping the war by delivering delicious fried donuts to the troops.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

And there's a poster that says, Oh boy, that's the girl, the Salvation Army lassie, keep her on the job.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

So beyond that, Chat Bestie called out um most of these weird holidays talking about how it's just marketing in disguise created by PR teams to boost sales. And it called it a viral marketing before viral was a thing. So you remember like like office talk before there was like major social media. Back when like social media was just like social and not like uh the hellscape that it is, yeah. Ads and trash. Um, yeah, it was like something to be like, oh, did you guys know it was National Donut Day? Or did you guys know it was dressed like a pirate day? Just a conversation starter, water cooler talk, probably. Yeah. Um, and then you know, as things do, um it becomes a money-making thing. Yeah. Somebody's like, we can make money off of this. So chat based on the.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

And we're just mad because we weren't the ones that made the money off of it.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Yeah, but we're going to. Okay. Don't don't worry. I got I got a plan. Cool. So chat mentioned this website called National Day Calendar, which I went on. Uh-huh. Um, and it's basically where corporations can pay to register a random day. And it the, you know, they can just decide that this is the day that they like for their sales need to boost this product or whatever. Uh-huh. And so they register it as like National Taco Day or National Donut Day or National Yeah. Buy my Swiffer Day.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Can you can you like register something for Christmas Day or do they like block off days? Do you know?

SPEAKER_00 20:36

I don't know. I didn't look that far in advance. Um, I did look at a couple different days, and like today, for example, today is June 14th. It's Flag Day, which is pretty recognized, but today is also um Pop Goes the Weasel Day.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

Oh, yeah, that's what I'm celebrating today. Do you see all my Pop goes the Weasel things upstairs?

SPEAKER_00 20:57

And my very good friends, today is their wedding anniversary. Oh. And so my husband texts our group chat with like, happy anniversary. And I was like, Happy Pop Goes the Weasel Day. I mean, anniversary.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

We all know what we're really celebrating here. Yeah. Which Pop goes the Weasel.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

Honestly, what a funny day for your wedding anniversary because of all of the things.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

So, did you find that there was essentially a day on every day? Pretty much. Yeah. Like a a holiday. A holiday on every day.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Yeah. And multiple holidays. What was that?

SPEAKER_01 21:27

I want to look at it now.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Pop goes the weasel day?

SPEAKER_01 21:29

No, what was this calendar?

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Um, national day calendar.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

National day calendar. Everybody at home, go ahead and add that really quickly.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

Yep. And then just look it up.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

And then find your day.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

I really don't have to do this right now. It's also children's day today. National Day. And National Bourbon Day.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

Yeah, there's lots of them.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Oh, and National Cucumber Day.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

And the Army's birthday.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

So coming up, coming up, oh, today is actually also National Strawberry Shortcake Day, which is my favorite type of cakes.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

I just wanted to see what was on my birthday. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. National Senior Citizens Day. Oh check down, checks out. Oh my gosh. National Spumoni Day. I love National Brazilian Blowout Day, but the best. And this just really fits in with me. Okay. National Fantasy Football Draft Day.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

No freaking way. Yeah. On my birthday. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

On my birthday.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

It was meant to be. Mine is sometimes Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Tell me. Tell me what.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Ashley's. I'm gonna I'm gonna read these on what I find it, and I'll save the best one for last. Okay, so National Underground America Day. So get in your bunker.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

My bunker? Okay. Your bunker.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

That chicken is National Buttermilk Biscuit Day.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Oh, hell yeah. I bring them biscuits.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

National Decency Day.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Okay, but this is the best one. National Dance Like a Chicken Day.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

On your birthday. Hell yeah. Very me. Very me.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

I'm never celebrating your birthday again.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

It's just National Chicken Day Dance Like a Chicken Day. Okay. Yours is still gonna be National Senior Citizens Day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

I'm basically a senior citizen. Yeah. This year I'm turning the clock to senior citizen status. So turning 50.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Hell yeah, brother. You look real good for your age.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Proud of you. Thank you. You know, aging is a privilege.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

It is.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Except for when you tell that to old people, they do not like it. Don't do it.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

Yeah. I do not recommend. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Okay. So um let's get back on track.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Okay. Sorry. Um let's get back on track. I will stop looking at my phone. That just gets us off track. Sorry. Get it together.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

So I know I said AI isn't a friend, but I love that even AI was like so tired of hustle culture when it was talking about this. Yeah. It's basically looking at human social media and saying, you guys are running out of normal calendar space because you need an excuse to post a picture of a donut for engagement metrics and KPIs.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

I'll always look at a donut picture.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

When even the robot is judging our consumerism culture, we've reached a weird peak and I'm tired, grandpa.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

You've been tired for a while.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

I've been tired. I'm still tired.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

You're 50.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Yeah, I am 50. But listen, we can't just sit here and complain about capitalism. We are a we are Americans. Yeah. We we it's what we believe in. Capitalism is in our blood. So if the world is going to let corporations pay a weird website to invent holidays to exploit our psychological flaws, then damn it, two brains, one bot is getting a piece of the action.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Oh, okay. Let's do it, lady.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Because we're patriots, obviously. And um America's birthday is just around the corner. Okay. So of course. Um, to wrap up this episode, we are going to decide what our holiday is. And maybe if I get around to it, I'll crowdfund some money and make it official on the weird calendar. I don't know. It's probably a lot. It's probably a lot. Or we just start telling everybody that's the day, and then you know, I don't know. Um, so I'm gonna give you three options that chat bestie came up with for our holiday, and you can tell me which one's the best, and and then we can also decide what day it should be on.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Okay. I think I even have an I have an idea.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Oh, okay. I want to hear it. Do you want to start with one?

SPEAKER_01 25:41

No, you go, because what if we say it already?

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Okay. Option number one, T Bob Day.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

It means tabs, burnout, overthinking, and bratwurst.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:52

The concept is a day honoring having 63 tabs open emotionally and digitally, thinking about doing things instead of doing them, aka our social media that we always talk about. And then being tired from doing absolutely nothing. The core traditions of this holiday would be open a hot dog package and forget it exists and then find it later.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Moldy. Not moldy, they don't mold.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

No, because they're probably still good. Yeah, they're um, start four tasks, finish none of them, and then and then just say, I just need to lock in at least six times. I just gotta lock in.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Just gotta lock in. Focus.

SPEAKER_00 26:39

So this is why chat said that it fits us. You both deep dive everything, but also live in the we're spiraling but make it funny space. And this is peak, two brains, one bot energy.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

The date it recommends for this one is the second Wednesday in November. And here's why. Your show launched in November, so that keeps it sentimental. Wednesday is your release day, which is very on brand. And the second Wednesday just feels fake legit, like a real holiday. So it's the second Wednesday because we're meant to pick the first one, but we didn't get around to it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

I like it. It would even be better if it was the last one because it's like we waited all month and then we're friendly like, oh shit, that holiday. Wednesday's here.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Okay, so that's the first one. It is it is the tabs burnout overthinking and bratwurst. Yes. T Bob Day. Option number two T Bob Day. Two brains, one bite of a questionable hot dog.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

The concept is a celebration of debating things you absolutely did not research, having strong opinions that change mid-sentence.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Uh splitting one metaphorical hot dog take and somehow both being wrong.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Okay. I like this one the best.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

The core traditions are argue about something dumb, mascots, AI, conspiracy light topics. Um, take one bite of a hot dog and immediately overanalyze it and say, wait, no, actually, at least 12 times.

unknown 28:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

Why it fits. Don't be so judgy. Why it fits us. This is literally your show format, two perspectives and one chaotic conclusion.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

AI, you don't know nothing about me.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Yeah. The date it recommends is November 12th, our anniversary. Why? Because it's clean, meaningful, and easy to remember. Okay. It gives us a built-in annual birthday episode and feels most official. Okay. So we could say on this day, two brains became legally bound to one bot and one recurring hot dog bit we cannot escape. But with that being said, we would also be competing with National French Dip Day. Oh delicious. National chicken soup for the soul day. No. And national pizza with the works except Anchovies Day.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

Stupid. Why is that a thing? Do people really put anchovies on pizza?

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Yeah. Okay. I don't yeah. Okay, so that's the second option. It is the two brains, one bite of a questionable hot dog day.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

I do like it though. It's got a good fill.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Option three.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Tell me.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

T Bob Day. Time blindness, brain fog, and overcooked hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Ew no.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

The concept. It's a day dedicated to losing track of time completely. Me.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

That's everyday. That's not what do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Forgetting what you walked into a room for.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Everyday, Kay. This is not unique to T Bob Day.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Accidentally ruining something simple like hot dogs. Okay. And then the core traditions are put hot dogs on the stove, forget, rediscover charcoal. Sit down for five minutes and emerge three hours later.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

Get a burst of pro productivity at 1042 p.m. I think it meant to say 3 42 p.m. Oh, okay. That's when I get my productivity.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Um, why it fits us? We've got mom life mom life chaos, full-time job brain, podcast brain, existential spiral brain. This one has hits real life a little too hard. And the date it recommends is the last Sunday of every month. Why?

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Oh, every month. This one we're celebrating every time. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Why is it the last Sunday of every month? Because it feels chaotic and reoccurring, like the symptoms.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

The Sunday scary is like where did the month go energy? And it gives us 12 chances to forget it exists. So the lore is we picked the last Sunday of the month because that's when you realize time isn't real and everything is due tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

Yeah. I would almost love that one just being always just the last day of the month. Not even the last Sunday, just like just the very last day. The very last day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

And that's even more chaotic because it just changes. It changes. Sometimes it's the 31st, sometimes it's the 30th.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

Sometimes it's a Monday, sometimes it's a Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. I like that.

SPEAKER_00 31:11

Okay, so those are the three options. Which one appeals to you the most?

SPEAKER_01 31:14

So I think number two. But I had one and it kind of pairs along with number two.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

And it was National Hot Dog Walk Day.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Oh, National Hot Dog Walk. Okay. Two brains, one bite.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Yeah. So I mean it's kind of the same thing, I guess. So I just put a different name on it.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

Yeah. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Be everybody just goes around with eating a hot dog and Barton. Two brats, one two brats, one two brats.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

Two brats, one hot dog walk. One hot dog walk.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Yeah, I like it.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

Alright, perfect. Well, that's all I've got, unless you have anything else you'd like to add. Alright. Um, that's the show. We're gonna put up a vote on our socials if you guys want to like check it out to help us decide what day T Bob should be.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

And I promise we really will do that.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

I think I don't think it should be the day we first um like put out an episode. I think it should be the day that you text me and said we're doing a podcast.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Oh my god, October?

SPEAKER_01 32:16

I think it was Sept. Was it September though?

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Oh, I think it was September. Yeah. End of September. Yeah. We started recording in October, I think.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Um That's the day I think it should be.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

Okay, Dill. So as always, I'm gonna kick off the tagline because Christy has robots chasing her 24 7.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Rude.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

So remember to stay human.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

Stay curious.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

And don't let the robots win.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Ever.

unknown 32:40

Bye.