Why The Holidays Are Secretly Crucial To Our Survival
The Cracked Podcast
Literally Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Alex Schmidt and his special guest Jason Pargin (who writes for Cracked as David Wong) are taking a Christmas-sparked look at the overall, global, all-encompassing meaningfulness of holidays. Why does your culture, no matter who you are, spend time and resources and energy on a set of traditions? What are we missing if we become Too Modern to value a break from everyday life? And how can anyone generate a holiday feeling in their own heart, any time of the year?
Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/why-holidays-are-secretly-crucial-to-our-survival
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | The podcast all about why Being Alive is more interesting than people think it is. |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm the head of podcasting here at Cracked. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm also known as Schmidtie the Clam. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm also known as Schmidtie the Champ and I am also also confident today's episode |
| 0:26.4 | applies to any holidays you celebrate. |
| 0:29.7 | For your culture or religion or tradition might be, this show is for you because here's |
| 0:33.6 | the topic. |
| 0:34.6 | We're talking about why the holidays are secretly crucial to our survival. |
| 0:39.6 | One more time that is why the holidays are secretly crucial to our survival. |
| 0:44.9 | And we're releasing this show on December 23rd because many of our show's listeners celebrate |
| 0:49.4 | Christmas. |
| 0:50.4 | If you do, Merry Christmas, good buddy. |
| 0:52.4 | And this episode exists thanks to my Holly Jolly guest this week. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm joined by someone who writes for Cracked and The New York Times bestseller list as David |
| 1:00.2 | Wong. |
| 1:01.2 | His true name is Jason Pargin. |
| 1:03.4 | And he has a fantastic column that this episode springs from. |
| 1:06.8 | Also I think it's worth saying that yes, this episode's coming out around Christmas and |
| 1:10.8 | Jason and I both grew up with Christmases as our thing. |
| 1:13.9 | Also both in Illinois. |
| 1:14.9 | Fun fact. |
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