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Speaker 3: in our pre easter aisle.
Speaker 1: That was amazing. They're pre easter asle. The way they
Speaker 1: do that at those big convenience stores. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: just overwhelming amounts of whatever the next holiday is going
Speaker 1: to be, right.
Speaker 2: Right, it's a seasonal aisles.
Speaker 1: I was amazed by the things you can or can't
Speaker 1: find at like a CBS or a Walgreens. I'm often
Speaker 1: shocked that, wow, they have this, and often shocked that
Speaker 1: they don't have this. Yeah, you know, like I need
Speaker 1: some automotive to something or other, and they have that
Speaker 1: than some other normal household thing I think, and they
Speaker 1: don't carry that for some reason.
Speaker 4: I'm still lunged away by how early Christmas stuff starts
Speaker 4: popping up each year.
Speaker 1: It's like creeping in closer to the summer. Yeah. That
Speaker 1: that has been a point of humor, like my whole
Speaker 1: adult life. But it's reached so much absurdity now that
Speaker 1: I don't even it's practically year round. Yeah. Costco especially,
Speaker 1: and I often think that, you know, they're a for
Speaker 1: profit business and very smart, and they've got a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of data. I assume they wouldn't put the Halloween
Speaker 1: stuff in there as soon as they take out the
Speaker 1: fourth of July stuff unless it works somehow.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, right, Yeah, they have a certain amount of
Speaker 2: floor space and they've done the data analysis. It's like
Speaker 2: CBS or Walgreens or whatever with the season allisles. It's
Speaker 2: just nobody goes there. Nobody goes shopping there to buy
Speaker 2: Halloween decorations. But you see something the cute as an
Speaker 2: impulse buy, they must make it work and you.
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Speaker 4: A lot of companies now do the Christmas in July thing,
Speaker 4: Christmas in July sales. I don't know why that irritates
Speaker 4: me so much.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: They start selling Christmas products in July. It's just like
Speaker 4: Black Friday in July. It's that's their thing. It's hey,
Speaker 4: it's Christmas in July, and they just think it's the
Speaker 4: greatest thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know why it annoys you in particular, Katie,
Speaker 2: but you're an old soul. I just what what occurred
Speaker 2: to me when I was raising my kids? And this
Speaker 2: is such a weird example, but it works for me.
Speaker 2: We used to in my generation wait all year for
Speaker 2: the Christmas specials, the kids Christmas specials, Charlie Brown, Christmas Rudolph,
Speaker 2: you know the rest of them. Yeah, Frosty, the dialed
Speaker 2: back Snowman.
Speaker 1: I'm Frosty, I Q.
Speaker 2: You're what was the one with the heat Miser? And uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Uh, but we used to Weiser the Abominable Snowman. Was
Speaker 1: it its own thing?
Speaker 2: No, but of course the Grinch and uh and and
Speaker 2: and yeah, the heat Miser and like the Winter Warlock,
Speaker 2: Santa Claus is coming to town, I think right any
Speaker 2: that had the hot puppet chick in it his love interest.
Speaker 2: Whoo man, they spent some time on her wood. They
Speaker 2: carved it up right anyway, stop action sexy, That's what
Speaker 2: I say.
Speaker 1: Where were we he is talking about a puppet? Folks,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 2: Oh but we'd wait all year for that, and then
Speaker 2: it would be a very special thing. And then when
Speaker 2: my kids were little, we just bought the VHS tapes
Speaker 2: and everything is available all the time, and the concept
Speaker 2: of the rhythms of the year unfolding just it's gone away.
Speaker 2: Now it's everything all the time, which I think is
Speaker 2: part of the reason people are so crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the everything bagel for anybody who's seen the
Speaker 1: movie that won the all the Oscars, everything everywhere, all
Speaker 1: at once, m everything bagel. Yeah, I know. And I
Speaker 1: can't tell if it's important or not. I really can't.
Speaker 1: I know I preferred one or the other, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just a tiny, niche example of
Speaker 1: something that changed for the worst but it doesn't have
Speaker 1: any overall meeting, or if it says you say, it's
Speaker 1: just all of life has become that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's the second one.
Speaker 2: And here's my evidence as usual, and maybe this is
Speaker 2: backward reasoning. I don't know. But human beings for millions
Speaker 2: of years saw life unfold in a certain rhythm. We're
Speaker 2: made for that. We're not made to be shopping for
Speaker 2: parkas in June or throwing on an extra zebra fer
Speaker 2: or whatever we have been. We have been, you know,
Speaker 2: part of the turning of the seasons since mankind crawled
Speaker 2: out of the primority you lose or evolved from the
Speaker 2: minky or whatever your particular view of of early man is.
Speaker 2: It's all about the rhythm of the year unfolding it
Speaker 2: now not anymore.
Speaker 1: It's why we're so cuckoo. You couldn't go to the
Speaker 1: village elders and say, let's do the harvest dance. It's
Speaker 1: not harvest danced. There were six months away from the
Speaker 1: harvest time.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Why do we have to wait six months through the
Speaker 1: harvest dance. Let's do it. It's a great dance.
Speaker 2: And with the way you shake your leg and then
Speaker 2: you shake your leg. No, no, no, it's not harvest.
Speaker 1: Get back in your hunt or whatever right you have.
Speaker 1: It's enough. Are you a very complicated view of evolution
Speaker 1: or something? I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: Or don't you have a mammoth tusk to polish or
Speaker 2: something else? I don't know a lot about prehistoric men.
Speaker 1: I think you need to reread Sapiens perhaps out all right,
Speaker 1: don't you have an arrowhead to craft?
Speaker 2: You're on the arrowhead committee. Get to get to sharpen
Speaker 2: or them with your with your stone axe.
Speaker 1: M I agree?
Speaker 4: Coming soon the Labor Days sale in February. Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: I guess that's it.