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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's actually Leif Erikson Day today, is it is? Man? See,
I'm sad because I was totally making some stuff for Monday.
Oh no, there really is a Leif Erikson Day. It's
look it up right now, Happy leif Erickson Day. Good good, Urgan. Yeah,
(00:23):
it's today, Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day is on
Monday next week, which is what kind of created that conversation.
We had. Those days float though they always land on
a Monday because of you know the implications of you know,
the places like the government run buildings that need to
close and stuff. You know, it makes more sense to
(00:45):
do that on a Monday, like President's Day and Martin
Luther King Junior Day, those always land on the Monday.
You know what I mean. Well, Leif Erikson Day is
always on October ninth. Heying, good ding, good they're getting
Did you find it? He's seen it. Yeah, I'm seeing it.
It's a real thing. The federal government of the US
first recognized leif Ericson Day in nineteen thirty five. Okay,
(01:09):
why though, so, we've known about it for almost one
hundred years. In nineteen twenty nine, Wisconsin became the first
US state to adopt leif ericson day as a state holiday.
There is a Okay, so why has this happened? You know,
we don't know the exact date of Leif Erikson's arrival
(01:30):
to the United States, or not the United States, but
to North America specifically. And there's a book written by
Norwegian American Rasmus b. Anderson. Rasmus B. Anderson, he wrote
a book in eighteen seventy four called America Not Discovered
by Columbus. I think he probably could have got a
(01:50):
little bit more creative with the name, but that was
a name, and that popularized the idea of the Vikings
were the first Europeans in the New World. That was
officially verified in nineteen sixty. So with that being said, also,
you know, congrats to Rasmus b. Anderson for making that
a thing. Did he just get like a kick out
of this, because I mean, he certainly didn't get money
(02:10):
out of it. Did he just care enough about like
his heritage and Norwegians and the Vikings to like make
this push in the nineteen twenties and thirties eventually to
because he was the Rasmus died in the mid thirties,
but he wrote that book in the mid eighteen seventies
and spent basically most of his life, you know, saying
(02:31):
this is a thing. Like all of his works, like
he's an author. All of his works were very like
Nordic history, Norwegian history, and a lot of them had
to do with the fact that it was Norwegians that
discovered the Americans. It was an important thing for him
for whatever reason. I'm just mulling over how we can
(02:51):
celebrate this. I'd like to work it into the rotation,
Like why does Saint Patti's Day get such a run
and we just look over leaf ericson day. Well, SpongeBob
square Pants did celebrate leif ericson day. He woke up
with the Viking hat in a red beard. Go watch
that episode again. Yeah, I mean that's a cool way
to celebrate. But I'm thinking, like, what can we do?
What is that episode called bubble Buddy? I think that's
(03:11):
the bubble Buddy episode. I think it's if you go
find the bubble Buddy episode bubble Buddy. Yep? Is that right?
It is? It is right? See, I know my SpongeBob.
He knows his SpongeBob. First three seasons of SpongeBob, I'm
pretty good at Yeah. So, so SpongeBob wakes up and
he wants to celebrate leef erics a day with other people,
(03:31):
and everybody's busy, so he makes an imaginary friend out
of a bubble. He makes a like he's really good
at blowing bubbles, and so he has a bubble buddy
that he carries around and they just wreak havoc on
the town on accident, and Squidward watches from his window
and scowls. Is that a word? Scowl? Yeah, that's a
different thing, though. I think Squidward is working that day.
(03:54):
Oh he's at the Krusty Krab. Well, he didn't take
it off, no, and he also, I mean, let's be honest,
he would not have wanted to anyway. That doesn't seem
like a big leaf Erickson day kind of guy. Now,
why to October ninth? By the way, we don't know
the exact date of Leif Erickson's arrival to the America's
is unknown. They do guess that it was an autumn
October ninth was a suggestion from Christian Hoen. I don't
(04:17):
know who that is, but they settled on that because
it took place in the fall, and it was already
a historic day for Scandinavians in America. And the date
was chosen because the ship Restoration coming from Norway arrived
in the New York Harbor October ninth, eighteen twenty five,
which began a wave of immigration from Norway to the US.
I do like the idea of Leif Erickson Day always
(04:38):
happening before Columbus Day. That just feels right to me,
because he was here first, Yeah, by like four hundred
years probably right. Even though if that's the case, why
didn't he stay? Like what happened after that? The Viking
was here first and murdered less people like that makes sense,
but there was less people where they landed, and they
weren't the smartest bunch. Sorry to say this, but they
(04:58):
didn't even try to find other place in the Americas.
They just stayed up by Nova Scotia. Do you know
anybody who lives there now? I mean there's not even
any buddy there now. Name one city in Nova Scotia, Saskatoon.
That's in Saskatchewan, you weirdos. There is a big one,
(05:19):
New Brunswick. No, that's another state. Nova Scotia. Cities there's
got to be one Halifax. There you go. That's one.
That's a big one. Send me a Halifax about it. Ah,
largest town is ninety seven thousand. Wait, no, ninety seven thousands.
(05:41):
The total cumulative population of the entire state or province
of Nova Scotia. Wow, there we are. Largest city is
only twelve thousand people. Yikes, news ready eleven take afab
it is three forty nine on this Wednesday, Leif Ericsson Day,
Haying Day. There you can. I did do a little
(06:05):
more research and recont on this. The reason anybody knows
about Leef Ferrickson Day is quite literally because of SpongeBob.
Should we kind of like help facilitate this holiday? I
mean us, Yeah, two guys that probably have zero Norwegian
in them. For what I mean? SpongeBob just wanted something
(06:25):
to celebrate every single day. Yeah, that's not us. Like
we observe things. We don't like actively celebrate every single
thing that happens every single day of the week. I
think that maybe there should be some pillaging today, pillaging,
pillaging in a fun way, fun pillaging? What it? Okay,
So let's just pretend like I'm into this idea. What
would like like, what would that look like you walking
(06:47):
around with like a pool noodle and some soccer boppers
and just like running into people and saying, hey, happy
leaf rickson day punch. So now you're making it fun
pool noodles. Yeah, just whack people with pool noodles. I
was actually thinking, like if you know, like in your family,
like you got a sister to go pillage her room,
you know, and like and like take some things. I
(07:08):
don't know, I don't this is a fresh idea. I
don't have any I don't have any good ideas yet.
Go pillage her room. Yeah, pillage verb rob a place
using violence, especially in wartime. Don't do that friendly nice pillaging. Yeah,
a fun light pillaging on this day. I'm gonna go
ahead and say it's a no from me, dog. Okay.
(07:28):
There's a way we can make this work, is there? Yeah?
I think so? Is there a fun light pillaging, lighthearted pillaging.
SpongeBob woke up. He had a red beard on in
a Viking hat, and then he sailed a small boat
to Patrick's house to celebrate. That's the extent of the
celebration that we know of, you know, leif ericson day Okay, Okay,
(07:48):
now people are saying. Forbes has said this The holiday
is often mainly associated online with his appearance on SpongeBob
SquarePants and poses that perhaps this is the best way
to remember the day, so it is arguably responsible for
popularizing the holiday outside of the Norwegian American community. So
all SpongeBob did was were a viking hat and a
red beard. How about that? Enough? How about we drink
(08:10):
some mead? But where you're gonna get a good mead
down at the mead hall? Is there? Do they have
a mead hall in Omaha? Well, there could be one
just for leif ericson day we could we could uh
mead honeywine hydromel, an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey
mixed with water and sometimes sometimes other added ingredients. Wouldn't
(08:32):
it be fun to dress up like a viking and
meet all your buddies at a at a haul a
mead and like sing songs and drink mead? Okay? On
the reddit the Omaha reddit, this is from a few
years ago. Somebody asked where can I buy some mead?
And there are people that say, yeah, you can find
it in a bunch of places. Basically wherever you can
get your alcohol, and then after all the mead, you
do a light hearted fun pillaging of your friend's house
(08:54):
and good of good taste and fun and no crimes committed.
How does that work? Though? Pillaging is literally just robbing someone,
like destroying their place. Yeah, like you you storm the
gates of your friend's house, like the demand to go inside,
and then you each steal something from his fridge. How
do you decide who's the one who didn't show, the
(09:15):
one who didn't show. Yeah, I mean it wouldn't like
you wouldn't just let somebody into pillage, because it wouldn't
be pillaging anymore. So you would have to, like you
would have to at some point violently break into somewhere
for its technically by definition, be pillaging. It doesn't have
to be violent. The dictionary quite literally says to rob
(09:38):
a place using violence. I know, I walked myself into
a corner, But there's got to be a way we
can pull this off without committing any crimes. Pillage definition
of meeting, according to Merriam Webster, the act of looting
or plundering, especially in war or something taken as booty. Well,
now we just open up an entirely new way you
can pillage. You take something as booty. Speaking of way,
(10:00):
I was looking up Carry Carpenter's three run bomb with
the home run he hit for the Tigers the other day,
and I just was looking for, you know, reaction to
that on my x account, and I've just searched Carpenter
to find it. Instead, a bunch of Sabrina Carpenter video
showed up. I can kind of see why people are
into her at this point. Let me just say that
I've underestimated how I feel about Sabrina Carpenter. That's inappropriate,
(10:24):
and I want to return to Leif Erikson day. What
do you mean it's inappropriate? You're gonna disagree with that.
You've seen her. Look, save that topic for the mead
hall and all the buddies get together and we're swilling
with mead. We don't have a meat hall. You have
to buy meat and then create your own. There's places
in am how to buy mead. You just don't go
to a meat hall. There's not a meat hall somewhere
else there shall be on this day of Leif Erickson. Okay,
(10:47):
So which place are we going to pillage and turn
into a meat hall. Yes, now that's a conversation i'd
like to have. Yeah, and we'll have it in jail
once we're arrested for trying to pillage a place of business.
That's your next remote. Yeah, I'm out here at store X.
We're about to pillage it, turn it into a meat
hall for the day to celebrate leaf ericson day. I'll
(11:07):
be spending four to six in jail. You can come
stay hi and send me letters. I'd love to chat
with you. I will not be on the radio for
the foreseeable future. That's how that would go, but it
would be kind of fun. Let's kick the ideas around.
Let's remind ourselves in like eight months to talk about
ways we can celebrate leaf ericson day as you know,
the true Norwegian Americans that we are not. Because I
(11:29):
don't know about you, but I have absolutely no Scandinavian
in me. Yeah, I don't think I do either. But
Sabrina Carpenter, nice, very nice. It is three fifty six.
We'll come back have four o'clock hours. Gonna be fun too.
On news radio eleven ten kfab
It's actually Leif Erikson Day today, is it is? Man? See,
I'm sad because I was totally making some stuff for Monday.
Oh no, there really is a Leif Erikson Day. It's
look it up right now, Happy leif Erickson Day. Good good, Urgan. Yeah,
(00:23):
it's today, Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day is on
Monday next week, which is what kind of created that conversation.
We had. Those days float though they always land on
a Monday because of you know the implications of you know,
the places like the government run buildings that need to
close and stuff. You know, it makes more sense to
(00:45):
do that on a Monday, like President's Day and Martin
Luther King Junior Day, those always land on the Monday.
You know what I mean. Well, Leif Erikson Day is
always on October ninth. Heying, good ding, good they're getting
Did you find it? He's seen it. Yeah, I'm seeing it.
It's a real thing. The federal government of the US
first recognized leif Ericson Day in nineteen thirty five. Okay,
(01:09):
why though, so, we've known about it for almost one
hundred years. In nineteen twenty nine, Wisconsin became the first
US state to adopt leif ericson day as a state holiday.
There is a Okay, so why has this happened? You know,
we don't know the exact date of Leif Erikson's arrival
(01:30):
to the United States, or not the United States, but
to North America specifically. And there's a book written by
Norwegian American Rasmus b. Anderson. Rasmus B. Anderson, he wrote
a book in eighteen seventy four called America Not Discovered
by Columbus. I think he probably could have got a
(01:50):
little bit more creative with the name, but that was
a name, and that popularized the idea of the Vikings
were the first Europeans in the New World. That was
officially verified in nineteen sixty. So with that being said, also,
you know, congrats to Rasmus b. Anderson for making that
a thing. Did he just get like a kick out
of this, because I mean, he certainly didn't get money
(02:10):
out of it. Did he just care enough about like
his heritage and Norwegians and the Vikings to like make
this push in the nineteen twenties and thirties eventually to
because he was the Rasmus died in the mid thirties,
but he wrote that book in the mid eighteen seventies
and spent basically most of his life, you know, saying
(02:31):
this is a thing. Like all of his works, like
he's an author. All of his works were very like
Nordic history, Norwegian history, and a lot of them had
to do with the fact that it was Norwegians that
discovered the Americans. It was an important thing for him
for whatever reason. I'm just mulling over how we can
(02:51):
celebrate this. I'd like to work it into the rotation,
Like why does Saint Patti's Day get such a run
and we just look over leaf ericson day. Well, SpongeBob
square Pants did celebrate leif ericson day. He woke up
with the Viking hat in a red beard. Go watch
that episode again. Yeah, I mean that's a cool way
to celebrate. But I'm thinking, like, what can we do?
What is that episode called bubble Buddy? I think that's
(03:11):
the bubble Buddy episode. I think it's if you go
find the bubble Buddy episode bubble Buddy. Yep? Is that right?
It is? It is right? See, I know my SpongeBob.
He knows his SpongeBob. First three seasons of SpongeBob, I'm
pretty good at Yeah. So, so SpongeBob wakes up and
he wants to celebrate leef erics a day with other people,
(03:31):
and everybody's busy, so he makes an imaginary friend out
of a bubble. He makes a like he's really good
at blowing bubbles, and so he has a bubble buddy
that he carries around and they just wreak havoc on
the town on accident, and Squidward watches from his window
and scowls. Is that a word? Scowl? Yeah, that's a
different thing, though. I think Squidward is working that day.
(03:54):
Oh he's at the Krusty Krab. Well, he didn't take
it off, no, and he also, I mean, let's be honest,
he would not have wanted to anyway. That doesn't seem
like a big leaf Erickson day kind of guy. Now,
why to October ninth? By the way, we don't know
the exact date of Leif Erickson's arrival to the America's
is unknown. They do guess that it was an autumn
October ninth was a suggestion from Christian Hoen. I don't
(04:17):
know who that is, but they settled on that because
it took place in the fall, and it was already
a historic day for Scandinavians in America. And the date
was chosen because the ship Restoration coming from Norway arrived
in the New York Harbor October ninth, eighteen twenty five,
which began a wave of immigration from Norway to the US.
I do like the idea of Leif Erickson Day always
(04:38):
happening before Columbus Day. That just feels right to me,
because he was here first, Yeah, by like four hundred
years probably right. Even though if that's the case, why
didn't he stay? Like what happened after that? The Viking
was here first and murdered less people like that makes sense,
but there was less people where they landed, and they
weren't the smartest bunch. Sorry to say this, but they
(04:58):
didn't even try to find other place in the Americas.
They just stayed up by Nova Scotia. Do you know
anybody who lives there now? I mean there's not even
any buddy there now. Name one city in Nova Scotia, Saskatoon.
That's in Saskatchewan, you weirdos. There is a big one,
(05:19):
New Brunswick. No, that's another state. Nova Scotia. Cities there's
got to be one Halifax. There you go. That's one.
That's a big one. Send me a Halifax about it. Ah,
largest town is ninety seven thousand. Wait, no, ninety seven thousands.
(05:41):
The total cumulative population of the entire state or province
of Nova Scotia. Wow, there we are. Largest city is
only twelve thousand people. Yikes, news ready eleven take afab
it is three forty nine on this Wednesday, Leif Ericsson Day,
Haying Day. There you can. I did do a little
(06:05):
more research and recont on this. The reason anybody knows
about Leef Ferrickson Day is quite literally because of SpongeBob.
Should we kind of like help facilitate this holiday? I
mean us, Yeah, two guys that probably have zero Norwegian
in them. For what I mean? SpongeBob just wanted something
(06:25):
to celebrate every single day. Yeah, that's not us. Like
we observe things. We don't like actively celebrate every single
thing that happens every single day of the week. I
think that maybe there should be some pillaging today, pillaging,
pillaging in a fun way, fun pillaging? What it? Okay,
So let's just pretend like I'm into this idea. What
would like like, what would that look like you walking
(06:47):
around with like a pool noodle and some soccer boppers
and just like running into people and saying, hey, happy
leaf rickson day punch. So now you're making it fun
pool noodles. Yeah, just whack people with pool noodles. I
was actually thinking, like if you know, like in your family,
like you got a sister to go pillage her room,
you know, and like and like take some things. I
(07:08):
don't know, I don't this is a fresh idea. I
don't have any I don't have any good ideas yet.
Go pillage her room. Yeah, pillage verb rob a place
using violence, especially in wartime. Don't do that friendly nice pillaging. Yeah,
a fun light pillaging on this day. I'm gonna go
ahead and say it's a no from me, dog. Okay.
(07:28):
There's a way we can make this work, is there? Yeah?
I think so? Is there a fun light pillaging, lighthearted pillaging.
SpongeBob woke up. He had a red beard on in
a Viking hat, and then he sailed a small boat
to Patrick's house to celebrate. That's the extent of the
celebration that we know of, you know, leif ericson day Okay, Okay,
(07:48):
now people are saying. Forbes has said this The holiday
is often mainly associated online with his appearance on SpongeBob
SquarePants and poses that perhaps this is the best way
to remember the day, so it is arguably responsible for
popularizing the holiday outside of the Norwegian American community. So
all SpongeBob did was were a viking hat and a
red beard. How about that? Enough? How about we drink
(08:10):
some mead? But where you're gonna get a good mead
down at the mead hall? Is there? Do they have
a mead hall in Omaha? Well, there could be one
just for leif ericson day we could we could uh
mead honeywine hydromel, an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey
mixed with water and sometimes sometimes other added ingredients. Wouldn't
(08:32):
it be fun to dress up like a viking and
meet all your buddies at a at a haul a
mead and like sing songs and drink mead? Okay? On
the reddit the Omaha reddit, this is from a few
years ago. Somebody asked where can I buy some mead?
And there are people that say, yeah, you can find
it in a bunch of places. Basically wherever you can
get your alcohol, and then after all the mead, you
do a light hearted fun pillaging of your friend's house
(08:54):
and good of good taste and fun and no crimes committed.
How does that work? Though? Pillaging is literally just robbing someone,
like destroying their place. Yeah, like you you storm the
gates of your friend's house, like the demand to go inside,
and then you each steal something from his fridge. How
do you decide who's the one who didn't show, the
(09:15):
one who didn't show. Yeah, I mean it wouldn't like
you wouldn't just let somebody into pillage, because it wouldn't
be pillaging anymore. So you would have to, like you
would have to at some point violently break into somewhere
for its technically by definition, be pillaging. It doesn't have
to be violent. The dictionary quite literally says to rob
(09:38):
a place using violence. I know, I walked myself into
a corner, But there's got to be a way we
can pull this off without committing any crimes. Pillage definition
of meeting, according to Merriam Webster, the act of looting
or plundering, especially in war or something taken as booty. Well,
now we just open up an entirely new way you
can pillage. You take something as booty. Speaking of way,
(10:00):
I was looking up Carry Carpenter's three run bomb with
the home run he hit for the Tigers the other day,
and I just was looking for, you know, reaction to
that on my x account, and I've just searched Carpenter
to find it. Instead, a bunch of Sabrina Carpenter video
showed up. I can kind of see why people are
into her at this point. Let me just say that
I've underestimated how I feel about Sabrina Carpenter. That's inappropriate,
(10:24):
and I want to return to Leif Erikson day. What
do you mean it's inappropriate? You're gonna disagree with that.
You've seen her. Look, save that topic for the mead
hall and all the buddies get together and we're swilling
with mead. We don't have a meat hall. You have
to buy meat and then create your own. There's places
in am how to buy mead. You just don't go
to a meat hall. There's not a meat hall somewhere
else there shall be on this day of Leif Erickson. Okay,
(10:47):
So which place are we going to pillage and turn
into a meat hall. Yes, now that's a conversation i'd
like to have. Yeah, and we'll have it in jail
once we're arrested for trying to pillage a place of business.
That's your next remote. Yeah, I'm out here at store X.
We're about to pillage it, turn it into a meat
hall for the day to celebrate leaf ericson day. I'll
(11:07):
be spending four to six in jail. You can come
stay hi and send me letters. I'd love to chat
with you. I will not be on the radio for
the foreseeable future. That's how that would go, but it
would be kind of fun. Let's kick the ideas around.
Let's remind ourselves in like eight months to talk about
ways we can celebrate leaf ericson day as you know,
the true Norwegian Americans that we are not. Because I
(11:29):
don't know about you, but I have absolutely no Scandinavian
in me. Yeah, I don't think I do either. But
Sabrina Carpenter, nice, very nice. It is three fifty six.
We'll come back have four o'clock hours. Gonna be fun too.
On news radio eleven ten kfab
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