8/29 Nearly Impossible Question

The first one of these was celebrated in the United States in 1882. What is it?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Toby and Chili's nearly impossible question, Chillie, what's the question
on this Friday as we get into Labor Day weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, the first one of these was celebrated in the
US back in eighteen eighty two.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
What was it? Eight six six nine two seven forty
three sixty one? Here is the question again, one more
time case she missed it.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
First one of these was celebrated in the US in
eighteen eighty two. What was it?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Call now eight sixty six nine two seven forty three
sixty one? It is ninety seven point one wasch FM?
You'r nearly impossible question on the answer coming up?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Toby and Chili's nearly impossible question.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, so hit us with the question one more
time there at Chili Yamar in case somebody might have
missed it.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Okay, So the first one of these was celebrated in
the United States back in eighteen eighty two. What was it?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, we went down to Beth who's in DC, and
she gave us this answer. She said that the answer
to the question.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Is labor Day, and she was correct. Congratulations, it was
back in eighteen eighty two. You had said something interesting
about that whole history of Labor Day, Toby.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
There's a whole lot of things that I could tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Like, it was initially brought about because.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
It was born out of protest. People wanted better working conditions.
So the first one was in New York City. Ten
thousand workers hit the streets. They wanted an eight hour
work day. So your day off is brought to you
by those people back then who got a little unruly.
That's right. Oh and one more fun fact, it's not

(01:36):
just an American holiday. Canada celebrates Labor Day two on
the same day, inspired by the American worker. One more
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