Saturday Matinee: Who Smarted?
History Daily
Airship | Noiser | Wondery
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we ring in the new year with some silly trivia and fascinating facts all about why we celebrate New Year's Eve.
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| 0:29.7 | Happy Happy New Year, History Daily listeners, and with this new year and all its fresh starts and new leaves, I hope you flourish. It's a good thing to get a new beginning. We can all use some |
| 0:34.2 | forgetting, some forgiveness, and some forward focus. Psychologically, it seems obvious why we would celebrate the new year. |
| 0:41.0 | But many of us don't celebrate the new year on the new year, do we? |
| 0:45.0 | We celebrate on New Year's Eve and then recover on New Year's Day. |
| 0:49.4 | Why is that? |
| 0:50.5 | When did that tradition get started? |
| 0:52.9 | For today's Saturday matinee, be sure to gather the kids |
| 0:55.8 | to listen to the Family Learning podcast, Who Smarted, tackle this question. Why do we celebrate New |
| 1:01.5 | Year's Eve? With four new episodes released weekly, Who Smarted blends trivia and fascinating facts |
| 1:07.7 | to educate and entertain both kids and adults alike, so I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:12.0 | While you're listening, be sure to search for and follow Who's Smart? We put a link in the show |
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| 1:42.4 | P's! Hey, Smarty Pants, it's almost New Year's Eve. |
| 1:47.6 | So what are you up to? Are you eating grapes? Wearing red pajamas. Did you sprinkle salt on your doorstep? |
| 1:54.9 | Huh? Yeah, I know. It sounds crazy. But is it any crazier than this? |
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