February 1, 2026 • 8 mins
Today on the podcast we go deep into public holidays - should we just bin them and start again?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Eh, yeah, Monday, not only Monday, Monday, the second of
February twenty twenty sixth night.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh no, February. Man, that is terrifying.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I mean, the good news is there's only twenty six
more days of February left, thank god, because who likes February.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And also on top of that, we're not working one
of them because of what they call it White Tongue Day.
You may have heard of that, Bob Marley's birthday. As
I've said before, I thought that we actually just got
the day off for Bob Marley's birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But no, so good news this week. We've only got
a four day week. Ye look, not often you have
the holiday on a Friday. No, so quite good. It's
kind of like we're already on a Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday's
pretty much done for us anyway. Yeah, which is pretty exciting.
I like the I quite like the Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, there's Martriiki is always a Friday. Do they need
to just start Friday izing instead of Monday izing?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, I think for White Tongue Your Day, you need
to have the day off, but I think it should
be a double bang. You should friday eize it, or
maybe it should be the world's first holiday where wherever
it falls, you bridge it to the weekend. So I
say it's on a Wednesday, you get the Monday, Tuesday
or the Thursday night. That.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, I've always thought because we obviously got Easter, which
comes up and we often do holiday check, don't we
Easter because we're very holiday focused. Easter in April, and
it moves around. It's all about the moon, which is
I only found out about two years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Third Sunday after the harvest moon. Yeah, or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, how weird is that? But cool?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Actually, well, because they didn't have calendars back in the day,
so they were just like whatever, whenever the moon's fall
and then fucking a couple of days after that.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. And also I think
it was a pagan ritual before because it was the
spring spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's the beginning
of everything starting to get back going in there room
and get excited because like, yes, hence the fertility thing. Yeah,
the rabbits and the eggs and all that crew, which
(02:02):
made sense to me as a kid. I was like, so,
why what's the eggs got to do with Jesus?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
They are a symbol of the pagan god ishtar, after
which we get the name Easter. And that's where the
that's where they come from.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Fertility.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, got a root.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And so that's where that come Yeah, but you're right,
because the eggs.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Don't really Yeah, that one never made sense, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That we don't have strong I feel like ossies make
a good go of Australia Day, which is the national
holiday and and Anzac Day and a huge day, massive
day and day over there, and they got a lot
of you know, traditions to up and all that kind
of stuff. Australia Days basically just go and hit the
ever Living Purse and then listen to Triple Ja and
complain about a countdown. But then, well we don't really
(02:47):
have you know what I mean, Like unless you're going
to White Tonguey on White Tongue Day, then there's not
really you just sort of take take the day off
and go.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I reckon, there needs to be one in March. There
needs to be an early March when I'd go there
should be a white tangy should definitely always be a weekend, Yeah,
like always, because does it really matter? Does it really
matter that people signed it a treaty on our particular day,
ages and ages ago, or is it more about celebrating
(03:17):
the vibe of it? Yeah, And I think that's It's
the same as Anzac Day. It's like I know that
it was the day that the ANZACs landed in Gallipoli,
but like the twenty fifth, like, why are we going
to go over weekend here? And then if you go, yeah,
I think there's just nothing in March, which makes no
sense to metal because March is actually quite a good
time in New Zealand. It is, so you surely want
(03:38):
to do another one in March. I feel like Matariki
is a good thing, like let's celebrate another holiday or
good But I think that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Negli time weird time. That's why you know King's birthday,
you may you may know it as Queen's birthday weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That was not.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was actually birthday before it was Queen's birthday, and
it was brought in because that King's birthday was just
at the wrong time of year, and so they Jeremy
Wells it and then just moved it to where the
weather was better in England. There you go, and now
we as the colonies, we're observing it an awful time
a year. Yea, Queen's birthday weekend, King's birthday weekend, first
of June or something.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, it's early June, first Monday, first Monday of June,
and it sucks. It sucks.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No one wants a day off that time.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
But that's our problem. We've got one that moves around,
the matariki, one that moves around. I feel like there
was a lost opportunity there because it just arrived that holiday.
There was never any come on, should we have a
bit of a discussion around where this holiday should be?
And people go, what kind of holiday should we have?
It just could have got thrust upon everyone. And because
(04:47):
it was a holiday, no, no one's going to be
like no, no, yea, not going to look a gift
horse in the mouth. But at the same time, at
this point in time, New Zealanders are still trying to
work out, Okay, how do we celebrate as a firework? Yeah,
when that would make sense because we're not planting crops.
Nahna na. That's there, And I take take away all
(05:07):
the political parts around it, because then you get some
guys are going, oh it's anti this or anty there.
Don't shut up with all that stuff. That's not the point.
The point is what is it actually? What is it
as New Zealand is what is it to us?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What do we want to be? And if the answer
is we all just want to hit the purse, then
that's what it should be. That's what Australians have done.
They've gone, what do we want? What would our ANZACs
want us to do on this day? And it's go
down the pub and hit the ever living purse and
gamble And that's what they fucking thought for. But we
(05:41):
in New Zealand we'll be like, no, no, you can't
do that. You can't do that. That's what they you
think they like when they're over in the trenches. What
that picturing when they get home is parking up with
their mates at a pub and just having a good
old fashioned these up.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's what they're I'll tell you the person a person
that I can't I just can't. I'm for be friends
with no matter what. As a person who gets angry
the fact that we have public holidays occasionally you'll get there.
I feel like they listen to news yeah and only
and generally like business owners or something they genuinely believe.
(06:18):
But they're not. They're not like most business owners don't
think like this. It's just and they think that it's
bad for the productivity of the fuck off what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's bad for them. It's bad for in particular. It's
bad because they'll have to pay time and a half
to someone, They will have to go over rosters and
you know what, they have a nerdisc and ten and
a half.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Come a day at all.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, that should just be part of running a business.
If you can't afford to pay staff over the statutory holidays,
then you can't afford to stay in business. That's just
what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah. If you see them complaining about Boxing Day, I
mean there's the day after Christmas Day, right, yeah, and
it's a saturtury holiday. No's ever going o bloody boxing day.
You know, we don't need boxing out all the day
after New Year's Damian. If there's ever a day that
you might go, oh, that's probably a slight holiday, it's
the second of January one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, you've never heard anyone complain about that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Everyone's always on holiday anyway. Yeah, it's a that's a
that's a kind of a silly one. I'd take that
one away if I had to. Yeah, and i'd move
that into March.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I think we just fuck half of December and January
off entirely, you know what I mean, just like all
of this, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Can we can we actually just have a look at
them and go, why don't we just start to start
from scratch? Yeah, and just go what we are? The
ones that we like? What are the ones we don't like?
What means something? What don't? When?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Do we want to work? When don't we want to work?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah? Yeah, because surely everyone's got to a point now
we're all old enough to realize that life is not
just about working. No, and anybody that goes, oh, we're
going to work hard, I come on run.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We pride ourselves on that in New Zealand. How many
times have you met the guy who's like, I'm taking
a bloody day off on you?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ok, good on you. It's great.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, someone's probably listening to this at work right now
thinking the exact same thing, gone blood red mad.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We are pro public holiday on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, absolutely, infac Should we take one right now?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Let's do it. Jerry and Manaiah catch the radio show
from six to ten weekdays.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Eh, yeah, Monday, not only Monday, Monday, the second of
February twenty twenty sixth night.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh no, February. Man, that is terrifying.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I mean, the good news is there's only twenty six
more days of February left, thank god, because who likes February.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And also on top of that, we're not working one
of them because of what they call it White Tongue Day.
You may have heard of that, Bob Marley's birthday. As
I've said before, I thought that we actually just got
the day off for Bob Marley's birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But no, so good news this week. We've only got
a four day week. Ye look, not often you have
the holiday on a Friday. No, so quite good. It's
kind of like we're already on a Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday's
pretty much done for us anyway. Yeah, which is pretty exciting.
I like the I quite like the Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, there's Martriiki is always a Friday. Do they need
to just start Friday izing instead of Monday izing?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, I think for White Tongue Your Day, you need
to have the day off, but I think it should
be a double bang. You should friday eize it, or
maybe it should be the world's first holiday where wherever
it falls, you bridge it to the weekend. So I
say it's on a Wednesday, you get the Monday, Tuesday
or the Thursday night. That.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, I've always thought because we obviously got Easter, which
comes up and we often do holiday check, don't we
Easter because we're very holiday focused. Easter in April, and
it moves around. It's all about the moon, which is
I only found out about two years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Third Sunday after the harvest moon. Yeah, or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, how weird is that? But cool?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Actually, well, because they didn't have calendars back in the day,
so they were just like whatever, whenever the moon's fall
and then fucking a couple of days after that.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. And also I think
it was a pagan ritual before because it was the
spring spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's the beginning
of everything starting to get back going in there room
and get excited because like, yes, hence the fertility thing. Yeah,
the rabbits and the eggs and all that crew, which
(02:02):
made sense to me as a kid. I was like, so,
why what's the eggs got to do with Jesus?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
They are a symbol of the pagan god ishtar, after
which we get the name Easter. And that's where the
that's where they come from.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Fertility.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, got a root.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And so that's where that come Yeah, but you're right,
because the eggs.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Don't really Yeah, that one never made sense, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That we don't have strong I feel like ossies make
a good go of Australia Day, which is the national
holiday and and Anzac Day and a huge day, massive
day and day over there, and they got a lot
of you know, traditions to up and all that kind
of stuff. Australia Days basically just go and hit the
ever Living Purse and then listen to Triple Ja and
complain about a countdown. But then, well we don't really
(02:47):
have you know what I mean, Like unless you're going
to White Tonguey on White Tongue Day, then there's not
really you just sort of take take the day off
and go.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I reckon, there needs to be one in March. There
needs to be an early March when I'd go there
should be a white tangy should definitely always be a weekend, Yeah,
like always, because does it really matter? Does it really
matter that people signed it a treaty on our particular day,
ages and ages ago, or is it more about celebrating
(03:17):
the vibe of it? Yeah, And I think that's It's
the same as Anzac Day. It's like I know that
it was the day that the ANZACs landed in Gallipoli,
but like the twenty fifth, like, why are we going
to go over weekend here? And then if you go, yeah,
I think there's just nothing in March, which makes no
sense to metal because March is actually quite a good
time in New Zealand. It is, so you surely want
(03:38):
to do another one in March. I feel like Matariki
is a good thing, like let's celebrate another holiday or
good But I think that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Negli time weird time. That's why you know King's birthday,
you may you may know it as Queen's birthday weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That was not.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was actually birthday before it was Queen's birthday, and
it was brought in because that King's birthday was just
at the wrong time of year, and so they Jeremy
Wells it and then just moved it to where the
weather was better in England. There you go, and now
we as the colonies, we're observing it an awful time
a year. Yea, Queen's birthday weekend, King's birthday weekend, first
of June or something.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, it's early June, first Monday, first Monday of June,
and it sucks. It sucks.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No one wants a day off that time.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
But that's our problem. We've got one that moves around,
the matariki, one that moves around. I feel like there
was a lost opportunity there because it just arrived that holiday.
There was never any come on, should we have a
bit of a discussion around where this holiday should be?
And people go, what kind of holiday should we have?
It just could have got thrust upon everyone. And because
(04:47):
it was a holiday, no, no one's going to be
like no, no, yea, not going to look a gift
horse in the mouth. But at the same time, at
this point in time, New Zealanders are still trying to
work out, Okay, how do we celebrate as a firework? Yeah,
when that would make sense because we're not planting crops.
Nahna na. That's there, And I take take away all
(05:07):
the political parts around it, because then you get some
guys are going, oh it's anti this or anty there.
Don't shut up with all that stuff. That's not the point.
The point is what is it actually? What is it
as New Zealand is what is it to us?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What do we want to be? And if the answer
is we all just want to hit the purse, then
that's what it should be. That's what Australians have done.
They've gone, what do we want? What would our ANZACs
want us to do on this day? And it's go
down the pub and hit the ever living purse and
gamble And that's what they fucking thought for. But we
(05:41):
in New Zealand we'll be like, no, no, you can't
do that. You can't do that. That's what they you
think they like when they're over in the trenches. What
that picturing when they get home is parking up with
their mates at a pub and just having a good
old fashioned these up.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's what they're I'll tell you the person a person
that I can't I just can't. I'm for be friends
with no matter what. As a person who gets angry
the fact that we have public holidays occasionally you'll get there.
I feel like they listen to news yeah and only
and generally like business owners or something they genuinely believe.
(06:18):
But they're not. They're not like most business owners don't
think like this. It's just and they think that it's
bad for the productivity of the fuck off what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's bad for them. It's bad for in particular. It's
bad because they'll have to pay time and a half
to someone, They will have to go over rosters and
you know what, they have a nerdisc and ten and
a half.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Come a day at all.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, that should just be part of running a business.
If you can't afford to pay staff over the statutory holidays,
then you can't afford to stay in business. That's just
what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah. If you see them complaining about Boxing Day, I
mean there's the day after Christmas Day, right, yeah, and
it's a saturtury holiday. No's ever going o bloody boxing day.
You know, we don't need boxing out all the day
after New Year's Damian. If there's ever a day that
you might go, oh, that's probably a slight holiday, it's
the second of January one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, you've never heard anyone complain about that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Everyone's always on holiday anyway. Yeah, it's a that's a
that's a kind of a silly one. I'd take that
one away if I had to. Yeah, and i'd move
that into March.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I think we just fuck half of December and January
off entirely, you know what I mean, just like all
of this, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Can we can we actually just have a look at
them and go, why don't we just start to start
from scratch? Yeah, and just go what we are? The
ones that we like? What are the ones we don't like?
What means something? What don't? When?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Do we want to work? When don't we want to work?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah? Yeah, because surely everyone's got to a point now
we're all old enough to realize that life is not
just about working. No, and anybody that goes, oh, we're
going to work hard, I come on run.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We pride ourselves on that in New Zealand. How many
times have you met the guy who's like, I'm taking
a bloody day off on you?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ok, good on you. It's great.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, someone's probably listening to this at work right now
thinking the exact same thing, gone blood red mad.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We are pro public holiday on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, absolutely, infac Should we take one right now?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Let's do it. Jerry and Manaiah catch the radio show
from six to ten weekdays.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
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