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Older & Wilder

211: Goodbye 2023

Older & Wilder

GGW Media

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It has been 4 years of This is Joy and Claire! Happy anniversary to us! We reflect on the end of 2023 and go down a rabbit hole of discussing Boxing Day history and the weird world of retail. It’s a Christmas and New Year reflection episode! JOIN OUR IRELAND TRIP! SUPPORT OUR AMAZON LINK […]

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0:00.0

Hey, guys, this is Joy.

0:20.2

Happy Boxing Day. It's Boxing Day. We're recording this on Boxing Day. And I had to look up the meaning of Boxing Day because it's, oh, this synopsis says it's nice. It's a nice thing. What was the synopsis you read? The synopsis that I read, it says, what is Boxing Day and why is it celebrated? This was just on a Google, initial Google search. is as the synopsis that I read, it says, what is boxing day and why is it celebrated? This was just on a

0:38.7

initial Google search. It says the synopsis is boxing day originating in Victorian England

0:44.8

diverges from its boxing sport misconception. It symbolizes generosity as the affluent once boxed

0:51.3

surplus items for the less fortunate. Oh, that's code for we made our servants

0:56.0

work on Christmas and so today is the day we give them our extra presents. Oh, nice job, Google.

1:03.1

I'm not laughing because of the meaning. I'm laughing because I'm like, oh, that's, that is kind of weird.

1:07.7

It's cute, right? Yeah. It's like the old meaning, yeah, the way old meaning trying to like, you know, polish it up and be like, but really everyone's being generous. Everyone's being. No, it's like we made all the lower class people work on Christmas. So today we box up all the presents that we got that we didn't want and all the food that's left over and give it to them. And they give the day off. That why are we celebrating that?

1:28.2

I don't know.

1:28.9

Why do we celebrate a lot of things?

1:30.3

Why do we celebrate a lot of things?

1:28.9

I mean, we just got rid of Columbus Day, like, barely. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Well, now I feel bad because all I think, this is horrible, but this just gives you inside of the ignorance I have on certain things is like, oh, when I go to Lulu Lemon on Boxing Day,

1:30.1

everything's on sale.

1:45.1

I'm like, oh, when I go to Lulu Lemon on Boxing Day,

1:46.3

everything's on sale.

1:51.4

I mean, everything now is like a way, you know, and that's fine.

1:51.9

I know.

1:52.9

Everything's a marketing.

1:53.5

I don't know.

1:56.6

Are we all just being total assholes at all times?

1:57.6

Yes, yes, we are. And honestly, the thing is to like when you work in like any sort of like retail

2:02.2

individual commodity sale yeah like a product any any type of product like that once you have a

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