Speaker 1: It's time for another epic encounter with a Brandon Kravitz,
Speaker 1: not Rushmore. We have.
Speaker 2: This will be controversial.
Speaker 1: Well, there are certain holiday favorites that are left off
Speaker 1: for very particular reasons, and we will get into all
Speaker 1: of it right here. Number one is the reason for
Speaker 1: the season, always the Fourth of July fireworks. What makes
Speaker 1: you feel more proud to be a red blooded American
Speaker 1: than fire in the sky. Even if it's ninety three
Speaker 1: degrees that feels like temp is one oh two and
Speaker 1: we're getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, there's still something that
Speaker 1: feels so right when we gather to watch this display
Speaker 1: in the sky. Whether it's red hot and boom, or
Speaker 1: you're watching down by Disney or your over zealous neighbor
Speaker 1: that overspent at the tent down the street, the Fourth
Speaker 1: of July fireworks an absolute A plus celebration. Number two,
Speaker 1: the second face on the Mountain is trick or treating
Speaker 1: fun for the whole family.
Speaker 2: You get free candy on top of it.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, you do have to cut this one off at
Speaker 1: about the age of thirteen if you don't have kids,
Speaker 1: because then it gets weird. But still, even in today's
Speaker 1: world where you really can't trust anybody anymore, and people
Speaker 1: aren't as friendly as they used to be. This one
Speaker 1: is still holding on for dear life as a nationwide standard.
Speaker 1: Number three is the Thanksgiving Feast. This is as good
Speaker 1: as it gets. It's so good it deserves its own list.
Speaker 1: You've got the food, you've got the football, you've got
Speaker 1: the family, you've got the classic.
Speaker 2: Macy's Day parade that precedes it.
Speaker 1: It hits all the notes and you can gorge yourself
Speaker 1: with no judgment whatsoever. And the NFL has been kind
Speaker 1: enough to tack on an extra football game just for
Speaker 1: good measure. And if you aren't hosting to get together,
Speaker 1: you also are absolved of dish duty, which is great. Now.
Speaker 1: Number four is where I think things can get a
Speaker 1: little bit controversial. I think a lot of people expect
Speaker 1: at this point for there to be a Christmas celebration
Speaker 1: in this Mount Rushmore. I'm going with Saint Patrick's Day
Speaker 1: at an Irish bar instead. If you are fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to make this happen on Saint Patrick's Day, and for me,
Speaker 1: it's been years since I've been able to do this,
Speaker 1: but there is nothing like it. The cheesy green beer,
Speaker 1: the guinnesses, the crappy Irish music, everyone's wearing green. I've
Speaker 1: never been to an Irish bar on Saint Patrick's Day
Speaker 1: where everyone isn't having a blast, So it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a sleeper here at number four on the list.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't do a mount Rushmore and not have
Speaker 1: a drinking holiday on there fourth of July, Trick or treating,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Feast, Saint Patrick's Day at an Irish bar.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, so to be clear, these are activities that
Speaker 3: occurred during the holiday, not the holiday itself.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: I think these are the celebrations within the holiday.
Speaker 3: That I think it is in a very important detail
Speaker 3: at a point now here.
Speaker 1: Because Christmas is an even for someone that grew up
Speaker 1: in a Jewish household, Christmas is a mount Rushmore holiday.
Speaker 1: The reason I left I think what most people would
Speaker 1: consider in terms of the the mainstream celebration is wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning, you go to the tree, you
Speaker 1: open up the gifts. This is a new endeavor for me,
Speaker 1: by the way. I'm just experiencing this and I'm enthralled
Speaker 1: by it. But that I left it off because it's
Speaker 1: so isolated. You've got a couple of people. You're not
Speaker 1: inviting the whole family over for this. All of these
Speaker 1: other celebrations that are on the Mount Rushmore, you bring
Speaker 1: a group together. You're either out in public or Thanksgiving feast.
Speaker 1: If you've got a big family, there could be twenty
Speaker 1: people at your house. With Christmas Morning, it's not as
Speaker 1: much it's a tradition, not a celebration. That's where that
Speaker 1: one didn't lie.
Speaker 3: I think I think that it can be fair, and
Speaker 3: this is where the religious hall it's kind of you know,
Speaker 3: how how do you factor it in Easter?
Speaker 2: Egg hunts on Easter?
Speaker 3: It's a big one that if you do celebrate Easter,
Speaker 3: then obviously that's huge and the same kind of thing
Speaker 3: as Christmas Morning, whereas it's probably some of your best
Speaker 3: childhood memories.
Speaker 2: And then once you.
Speaker 3: Get older, you get to watch your child go through
Speaker 3: those same memories and you start to enjoy it for
Speaker 3: different reasons. You when you're young, you light you love
Speaker 3: receiving the gifts, and as you get older, you naturally
Speaker 3: shift towards loving to give the gift. So that's why
Speaker 3: Christmas Morning it holds up through time. But where I
Speaker 3: would kind of push back a little bit is I
Speaker 3: think the percentage of people that actually do Saint Patti's
Speaker 3: Day the proper way, or even do Saint Patti's Day
Speaker 3: is limited. You have cities that go crazy for it.
Speaker 3: It's Chicago, I believe that dies their river green for
Speaker 3: it for the celebration. You know, that's that's awesome, And
Speaker 3: I'm with you. If you can be in one of
Speaker 3: those scenarios every year, sign me up. However, I just
Speaker 3: don't think that as many people do it because similar
Speaker 3: to the fourth of July, which fourth of July is
Speaker 3: a holiday and like people have off, you're not working
Speaker 3: on the fourth of July more often than not unless
Speaker 3: you work in hospitality or something. But if you are
Speaker 3: in the business world and follow the traditional work schedule,
Speaker 3: you are not working on the fourth of July. The
Speaker 3: same with Thanksgiving, and I think that's why those two
Speaker 3: kind of separate themselves. But Saint Patti's Day, you gotta
Speaker 3: work a lot of times Saint Patty's Day unless it
Speaker 3: falls on a weekend.
Speaker 1: But that's what makes it so good when you do
Speaker 1: get to when you do get to experience it without
Speaker 1: the you know, you're almost playing hooky in some ways.
Speaker 1: You know, it is it is definitely the least attainable
Speaker 1: of all four. Yeah, but when you're able to do it,
Speaker 1: it hits all the notes.
Speaker 3: That's where bringing up like, I mean, well, we can
Speaker 3: get really hot and.
Speaker 2: I love Fourth of July and I don't want that's
Speaker 2: get twisted. And this isn't a list of holidays. It's
Speaker 2: a list of holiday activities.
Speaker 3: It's the fireworks on the fourth, the trigger treating on Halloween,
Speaker 3: the Thanksgiving feast. That's where the Fourth of July it
Speaker 3: falls on a Wednesday. You get lucky this year or
Speaker 3: the Friday. A lot of people are getting three four
Speaker 3: day weekends this year, and we will for the next
Speaker 3: couple because but the last couple of years, guess what,
Speaker 3: I started this show on July fifth of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I didn't have as good of a Fourth of July.
Speaker 3: That was on a Tuesday that year, knowing that I
Speaker 3: had to come to work the next day.
Speaker 2: It's our new job that day.
Speaker 3: So that's part of the downside of the Fourth of
Speaker 3: July is you can you can plan and do whatever
Speaker 3: it is you want to do, but most years you
Speaker 3: are going to have work the next day. And that's
Speaker 3: where the sleeper is like the Labor Day, the Memorial Day,
Speaker 3: the days where it is guaranteed that you have a
Speaker 3: three day weekend, those can be sneaky on on certain
Speaker 3: list of like best holidays and the activities you're able
Speaker 3: to do. Obviously, the beach are getting in some body
Speaker 3: of water big for some of those three day weekend holidays.
Speaker 1: One of the things I realized in researching this is
Speaker 1: because I did do that, you know, I pulled up
Speaker 1: all the holidays online. I did my due diligence, and
Speaker 1: there's just not enough celebrations for the holidays that we
Speaker 1: have that we have days off, and most of the
Speaker 1: celebrations are just a Rooms to Go has thirty percent
Speaker 1: off couches. You know, we need to do better than
Speaker 1: this as a collective. And I don't think I'm going
Speaker 1: to get any pushback on Valentine's Day dinner or a
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve party.
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve party is good, but they're usually pretty overrated.
Speaker 1: I do like the ball dropping though, I like staying
Speaker 1: up for that feeling the newness of the new year,
Speaker 1: so that one almost got on there. But I thought
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day really needed a Saint Patrick's They need
Speaker 1: a tip of the cap. That's a good time.
Speaker 2: How here's one thing of what I'd say for ah Man.
Speaker 3: But you can combine the two now with the ball
Speaker 3: What really killed the ball dropping.
Speaker 2: Is George is Ohio State football.
Speaker 3: That's what killed the ball dropping because every sports fan
Speaker 3: in the country was left in a decision years ago.
Speaker 3: But do they still do those games on New Year's
Speaker 3: Eve with a new playoff format? I think that they
Speaker 3: still do it, just didn't go as late this year.
Speaker 3: I might be mistaken on that though.
Speaker 2: Years ago I think they move it around.
Speaker 1: We were left with a decision do you want to
Speaker 1: see the ball drop or do you want to see
Speaker 1: the end of a college football playoff game? Many chose
Speaker 1: the ladder and missed the ball drop.
Speaker 3: So if it's this iconic event in the modern world
Speaker 3: for sports fans, because we're people too, you know.
Speaker 2: You got it, you gotta factor that in.
Speaker 3: Whereas Thanksgiving feast, Listen if grandma wants to turn the
Speaker 3: game off, if you want to do a traditional round
Speaker 3: the two able dinner for twenty minutes, no one's fighting
Speaker 3: grandma to watch the third quarter of the Cowboys game,
Speaker 3: all right, would you listen?
Speaker 1: I would fist fight my grandma for that. Yeah, there's two.
Speaker 1: There's two things. There's two things you gotta do. Leave
Speaker 1: the game on, keep that air running, don't sweat