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National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day - Ep11 Shownotes Today’s featured holiday is, “National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day”! As a former police officer, trainer, and Chief of Police, this day is near and dear to my heart. Across the U.S. alone there are more than 800,000 sworn police officers serving communities large and small. When we add in federal, military, and special police, we have...

Ep8 - National Bubble Bath Day Today’s featured holiday is, “National Bubble Bath Day”! While the exact date when the bubble bath was born, we know it extends back to the 1930s. Bubble bath photos appeared with the marketing of a product called Dreft in 1933. A bubble bath scene was in the 1936 production of a play called, “The Woman. According the statistics site, “Statista”, the leading bath fra...

National Say Something Nice Day - Ep7 Today’s featured holiday is National Say Something Nice Day! When I looked at the various holidays celebrated on January 7, none of them called to me as worthy candidates for you and I to celebrate. Those holidays are: Old Rock Day; National Bobblehead Day; and, National Tempura Day. When during meditation I asked my subconscious what should we celebrate, the...

Show Notes: National Cuddle Up Day - Ep6 Today’s featured holiday is National Cuddle Up Day! For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere, January typically is a cold, snowy month. Keeping with the cold weather, January is National Soup Month and National Hot Tea Month. So it’s no wonder someone came up with the idea for Cuddle Up Day. While there’s no reliable source to identify the genesi...

Show Notes: Episode 5 - January 5th - National Whipped Cream Day Welcome to episode 5 of the Weird and Wacky Holidays Show”. I’m your host, Stephen Carter. Today’s featured holiday is National Whipped Cream Day! Before tasting today’s special item on the menu, I would like to revisit an item I mentioned in an earlier episode. January is “National Blood Donor Month”. I encourage you to schedule a b...

National Spaghetti Day - How it Came to Be: January 4th, Ep4 Welcome to episode 4 of the Weird, Wacky, and Traditional Holiday Show: How They Came to Be”. I’m your host, Stephen Carter. With each daily episode, we identify at least one of the official or unofficial holidays celebrated that day and explore how that day came to be.  Today’s featured holiday is, well, I gave it away already, National...

Today’s featured holiday is, “Fruitcake Toss Day”. Year’s ago comedian Johnny Carson, host of the “Tonight Show” frequently quipped he believed there was only one fruitcake in the world and people simply passed it around because nobody wanted it. A little research tells us that Carson’s take on fruitcakes wasn’t totally right. There is more than one fruitcake in the world. He was, however, right i...

January 2 - Motivation and Inspiration Day: Welcome to episode 2 of the Weird, Wacky, and Traditional Holiday Show”. I’m your host, Stephen Carter. With each daily episode, we identify at least one of the official or unofficial holidays celebrated that day and explore how that day came to be.  Today's featured holiday is Motivation and Inspiration Day. Before we explore the details of Motivation a...

Why do we celebrate the beginning of the new year on January 1? We can thank Julius Caesar who in 45 BC proclaimed the Roman Empire would adopt the Julian Calendar, which identified January 1st as the beginning of the new year. By the time Julius Caesar assumed office, it was clear the traditional lunar based Roman calendar in use since the seventh century BC no longer was sufficient. Caesar enlis...

Preview of coming attractions for this new show about the weird, wacky, and traditional holidays. This show will entertain, inform, and bring smiles. You’ll be saying, “wow, I didn’t know that!”.