The holiday industrial complex (Classic)

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Where do holidays like National Potato Chip Day and Argyle Day come from? We trace the roots of one made-up holiday until we find out who is running the global holiday machine. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.4	Hello, this is Erica Baris.
0:07.6	We're in the thick of the holiday season.
0:09.4	So we wanted to revisit one of our favorite planet money episodes.
0:13.2	It's about many factored holidays and the industry that surrounds them.
0:17.6	This episode originally aired in 2017.
0:20.8	We hope you enjoy it and have a happy New Year.
0:23.6	Hey Ed, it's Kenny Malone from NPR.
0:31.0	How's it going, man?
0:32.0	Good Kenny, how are you?
0:33.2	This guy is Ed Shapui.
0:35.0	He's the news director at Fox 40, a television station in Sacramento.
0:38.6	But on this particular day, Ed was so much more than that.
0:42.6	Ed was the key to unlocking a mystery I had been desperately trying to solve.
0:47.4	Let's start with the facts here.
0:49.0	On June 18th, 2015, you guys ran a segment.
0:53.0	Yep, do you remember this segment at all?
0:55.0	I do not, but I clicked the link.
0:57.6	I followed it and I watched it.
0:59.4	May, she's going to be telling us about some great eats about another big stinkin' deal, guys.
1:05.0	So it was a wonderful, lively segment with our morning anchor, May Fizzai.
1:09.0	Yeah.
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