I guess I'll grandly now call it a holiday tradition. I turned a past blog into a pod pondering the various uses of the words "thanks". Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving weekend, and "thanks for everything"!
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Welcome to Kansas City Profiles, presented by Eastern Roofing, where
we will be profiling a word today, not a person
or an event or anything else.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
A word.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And you'll find out that word here in a minute.
But I'll say it before I even reveal it, because
it's Happy day after Thanksgiving, and actually I am taping
this on Thanksgiving. I've just completed a vigorous workout which
included watching the television and watching a variety of things,
Sports Center in Top ten in Australia, golf, and the
(01:05):
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And it seems weird, but I
really do enjoy the parade.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
They've made it a fast moving thing. It goes from
one thing to the next to the next. I even
like the floats. My wife and I actually one year
stayed in a hotel that was right on the parade route.
I think it was the Hotel Pennsylvania. I believe it
was one of the times I was still running and
I got outside the parade route and I ended up
running about fifteen miles because I couldn't get back to
(01:33):
the hotel. I didn't have a cell phone. My wife
thought I might have been abducted.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So we have great memories of the parade. I like
the Rose Parade, I like the Thanksgiving Day parade, the
Macy's Parade. Anyway, this is a day to give thanks
and we're going to talk about the word thank and
I am as as a little holiday tradition for me,
going to trot out my blog that I wrote a
few years back, in Every thanks Giving, I kind of
(02:00):
bring it back because it has a Thanksgiving theme, although
it's really not about Thanksgiving per se. It's about the
word thank in the various ways that you can use it.
We are six years in too. Danniklinkscale dot com and
the Reasonably Irreverent podcast, and of course we do all
kinds of different things, including blogs, although I don't blog
(02:20):
as much as I used to because people tend to
like to listen to things at about ten times the
eight they read them. So today I put the blog
out there, but I also figured I'd do a version
of the blog in audio fashion, So that's what I'm
going to do. It doesn't take very long to read
a blog, and that will be in our next segment.
And we have a lot to be thankful for now,
(02:41):
that's a positive use of the word thank And sponsors
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like Eastern Roofing and twenty third Street Brewery and Advanced
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fine company, and I hope they are having a great
Thanksgiving weekend. In fact, two of my sponsors are down
(03:05):
at the lake having Thanksgiving down there, Joe Spiker and
Eastern Roofing and Zach and Strategic Partners, Inc. So certainly
thankful for that. And a random occurrence actually led to
the blog that you will hear me read in the
next segment and you'll hear about that. It was a
chance happening at a grocery store, and it inspired that
(03:27):
I do enjoy this holiday. I think everybody enjoys this holiday.
We've got a more stressful holiday ahead, and I'll talk
about that towards the tail end of this brief little package.
But anyway, coming up next, I hope to add to
your holiday weekend entertainment by profiling the word thank and
that comes your way next right here on Kansas City
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Profiles presented by Eastern Roofing.
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This blog that I originally wrote in twenty nineteen, I
put out every year again because I like it and
people seem to like it, and it's sort of reflects
variously on the very vast, versatile and fascile word thank
and it's entitled thanks for everything and for nothing, Thanksgiving thoughts,
(07:04):
and here we go. It just might be the most
versatile and off use five letter word.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
In the language. Think.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It can be good, it can be bad, it can
be gracious, and it can be harsh. And as a
part of longer words or phrases, it can be all
those things and more. The thought came into my mind
the other day, not because Thanksgiving is here, but instead
when I held the door open on a cold evening
for a young lady at the grocery store. She passed
(07:33):
by and said nothing, and I quietly said under my breath, well,
thank you very much. The tone was extremely negative, and
then I thought to myself, Hey, don't be a jerk.
You don't hold the door open for praise. You do
it because it's a common courtesy, and normally I treat
it that way. But this time her attitude as she
mutely moved by, bugged me. We can and do change
(07:57):
the very meaning of thank thanks, thank you, and other
derivations merely by tone of voice or the word or
words surrounding it. G Thanks is almost always negative, but
thanks a lot is kind of split depending on tone.
Thanks a bunch would skew more to the negative. Sometimes
it's pretty cut and dried. Thanks for everything is almost
(08:19):
one hundred percent gracious, and thanks for nothing lives up
to its literal meaning. At this point, I feel compelled
to note that it would seem like I'm channeling my
inner George Carlin a bit. He would no doubt have
taken this idea to a much higher level, But I
will plow on anyway. It seems when you're giving thanks
or giving out thanks, that you're almost always sincere Giving
(08:40):
thanks is often in a church setting, and give my
thanks involves a third party and who wants to get
them in any trouble. You would hardly be feeling this
sentiment when you dole out a no thanks to you,
And the more you dollop on this, the more heated
the exchange might become no thanks to you and your
greedy company. Or how about getting realed down and dirty
(09:02):
with no thanks to you and that bunch of snobs
you run around with. You can follow up and double
down with thankfully, I've washed my hands of the whole bunch.
The recipient will not be thankful to be treated that way.
The word thankfully itself is more of a bemoaning than
a real feeling of gratitude is almost always followed by
(09:23):
something bad, most commonly and thankfully that's over. But really,
in trying to put anything bad in the rear view mirror,
even though it seems like you're actually apologizing for not
meeting up to a standard, I can't thank you enough
is always a nice thing to say, and I don't
think I've ever heard the phrase I can thank you
enough used. Maybe I could try that as a backhand
(09:46):
slap and see if the person even gets the intent.
It doesn't get used much anymore, but thanks a million
was almost unanimously sweet. Maybe when that was more prevalent,
you could trot out thanks a thousand and see if
it was demeaning. Thank you ten times over used to
be something that you would hear a lot of, but
maybe people's lack of affinity with numbers these days has
(10:09):
gone and killed that. Why thank you isn't negative on
the face of it, but there seems to be a
somewhat sinister undercurrent to it. It seems to be something
that is said in not so Good Mystery shows when
the person who delivers the line is up to something
or knows more than you do about what they are
thanking you for. Even bringing in a higher power does
(10:32):
not always lead to a clear meaning of our versatile word.
Thank God can be a sigh of relief in one
tone of voice, and it can be an exasperated refrain
in another. And just throw well in front of it.
And perhaps it's about time behind it, and you're probably
using the man upstairs in a way he wouldn't like.
(10:52):
The phrases also have a close cousin in thank Heavens,
it is now Thanksgiving time, and that moniker expanded out
from thank might be the nicest use of the word imaginable.
Because Thanksgiving is the nicest and least complicated holiday. There
is really nothing to complain about except for the passive
possibility of overeating. There are no presents to stress over,
(11:15):
and on top of that, it's always on Thursday, which
guarantees a nice holiday weekend. It's not the Fourth of July,
which has the good and the bad of fireworks, not
fun fun if you have dogs, and can always fall
on a Wednesday, which generally is an ideal. It's not
really a religious holiday, so there are no complications that
(11:35):
can evolve from that. Be it snickering at Easter at
those who only show up at church in their fancy clothes.
Does that happen anymore? I mean the close part or
what kind of cards you send on Thanksgiving? Just get
together as a family or a group of friends or
just a couple of people like meat today, eat food
that you usually don't eat the rest of the year,
(11:55):
and more of it, and lays around. It is the
only time it's really acceptable to just doze off in
front of company. Therefore, is the easy going holiday that
it is? We now have seen it completely trampled over.
Christmas lights, trees, sales and commercials all now appear well
before Thanksgiving, and the day itself and certainly the weekend
(12:16):
are brutally undercut today by Black Friday. Maybe online shopping
will help quell the vermat phenomenon. Little note here it hasn't. Somehow,
Black Friday is still a thing, with all the online
shopping anyway, lemmings lining up outside the stores and the
cold at four am after our wonderful day, So even
(12:37):
the thank in Thanksgiving has been complicated and compromised, typical
of the word itself. My wife and I are heading
to dinner when I originally wrote this, we were going
away to Thanksgiving to a quiet place or remember that
it snowed on the way back. We actually went to
Eureka Springs. But we'll definitely not be thinking about Black
Friday sales. And we usually don't put up our Christmas
(12:59):
thing until at least a week into December, and that
tradition has held. I am uncompromisingly thankful for that. We'll
close it up next. Thank you Laura listening.
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Welcome back, well, I thank myself for mostly reading that
fairly well, and now we can transition to the more
stressful season, Christmas time.
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Now.
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I did start my Christmas time season by finding out
yesterday that my daughter, who lives in Amsterdam, is coming
home for Christmas, which is a cool thing. She'll be
here for about ten days. And of course we start
off the holiday season as it were, or the post
Thanksgiving holiday season anyway, with Black Friday.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
And hope you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Weren't one of those early risers today, maybe one of
the weirder American traditions, to say the least is Black Friday,
and as I mentioned before, online shopping seems to have
done well some to undercut this. I don't get it.
I'll never get it. I guess people like it and
maybe now consider it a tradition, even if they could
(18:26):
shop online very easily. Whatever you can get Black Friday
deals starting basically on November first. I don't understand the
whole thing. Maybe the most stressful thing of the day today,
maybe not, will be the Kansas City Chiefs, who seem
to provide stress but victories. Every week. They'll be playing
the Las Vegas Raiders and they're supposed to win and
should win by a lot. Maybe come about five o'clock
(18:47):
there'll be Holiday chief stress as they try to eke
out another victory, which they do just about successfully every
week despite making a lot of drama. And we can
thank them for what they've given us over the last
ten years or so, because it certainly has been a
fantastic ride for Kansas City and quote unquote Chief's Kingdom,
(19:09):
which has gotten to be a phrase that I think
is overused, adored, hated, reviled, praised, whichever you like. Words
are versatile. The word thank is versatile, and I thank
you for listening.
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Welcome to Kansas City Profiles, presented by Eastern Roofing, where
we will be profiling a word today, not a person
or an event or anything else.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
A word.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And you'll find out that word here in a minute.
But I'll say it before I even reveal it, because
it's Happy day after Thanksgiving, and actually I am taping
this on Thanksgiving. I've just completed a vigorous workout which
included watching the television and watching a variety of things,
Sports Center in Top ten in Australia, golf, and the
(01:05):
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And it seems weird, but I
really do enjoy the parade.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
They've made it a fast moving thing. It goes from
one thing to the next to the next. I even
like the floats. My wife and I actually one year
stayed in a hotel that was right on the parade route.
I think it was the Hotel Pennsylvania. I believe it
was one of the times I was still running and
I got outside the parade route and I ended up
running about fifteen miles because I couldn't get back to
(01:33):
the hotel. I didn't have a cell phone. My wife
thought I might have been abducted.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So we have great memories of the parade. I like
the Rose Parade, I like the Thanksgiving Day parade, the
Macy's Parade. Anyway, this is a day to give thanks
and we're going to talk about the word thank and
I am as as a little holiday tradition for me,
going to trot out my blog that I wrote a
few years back, in Every thanks Giving, I kind of
(02:00):
bring it back because it has a Thanksgiving theme, although
it's really not about Thanksgiving per se. It's about the
word thank in the various ways that you can use it.
We are six years in too. Danniklinkscale dot com and
the Reasonably Irreverent podcast, and of course we do all
kinds of different things, including blogs, although I don't blog
(02:20):
as much as I used to because people tend to
like to listen to things at about ten times the
eight they read them. So today I put the blog
out there, but I also figured I'd do a version
of the blog in audio fashion, So that's what I'm
going to do. It doesn't take very long to read
a blog, and that will be in our next segment.
And we have a lot to be thankful for now,
(02:41):
that's a positive use of the word thank And sponsors
have been with us for the longest amount of time,
like Eastern Roofing and twenty third Street Brewery and Advanced
Sports and Family Chiropractic and acupuncture and Cinematic Visions and
new ones like Strategic Partners Ink, Zach Reidemeier and his
fine company, and I hope they are having a great
Thanksgiving weekend. In fact, two of my sponsors are down
(03:05):
at the lake having Thanksgiving down there, Joe Spiker and
Eastern Roofing and Zach and Strategic Partners, Inc. So certainly
thankful for that. And a random occurrence actually led to
the blog that you will hear me read in the
next segment and you'll hear about that. It was a
chance happening at a grocery store, and it inspired that
(03:27):
I do enjoy this holiday. I think everybody enjoys this holiday.
We've got a more stressful holiday ahead, and I'll talk
about that towards the tail end of this brief little package.
But anyway, coming up next, I hope to add to
your holiday weekend entertainment by profiling the word thank and
that comes your way next right here on Kansas City
(03:49):
Profiles presented by Eastern Roofing.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
More of Danny's Reasonably Irreverent podcast after this.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Hey, Kansas City, Joe, Eastern Roofing Year.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Don't you hate it when people start talking about Christmas
before Thanksgiving? Even arrives me too, But right now I'm
that guy. Call East and Roofing today and get on
the schedule to have your custom Christmas lights installed before
Thanksgiving and receive a ten percent discount on your holiday
light installation. Stay off that ladder and let the pros
hang your custom holiday lights this year.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Eastern Roofing integrity matters. It'll be real nice.
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Clark, have your investment statements had a lot of peaks
and valleys over the years. The peaks are great, and
even the valleys can provide opportunities for you as an investor. However,
the closer we get to retirement, the more challenging these
market swings can become. This is Zach Ridemier. I would
like to get to know you and your goals for
the future. I offer financial planning services across the United States,
(04:48):
focusing mainly on Kansas and the Missouri area. I look
forward to meeting with you face to face with the
highs and lows throughout the financial landscape. My goal is
to make sure you feel protected once you've set your retirement.
Growing up in a tight knit community, I understand the
importance of knowing you can rely on someone to have
your back. I'm always a phone call away to talk
with you about your investments. Make you feel you're getting
(05:11):
the most out of your retirement. Give me a call
today at Strategic Partners, Incorporated. Ask for Zach Reidemeier at
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friends at Active Life Physical Therapy where you can reclaim
your active life or, like me, enhance it. I have
been seeing doctors Troy and Jaden for a couple of
months now as I was looking to improve my posture
(05:49):
and the flexibility in my surgically repaired knee, and it
has worked. They're friendly and professional, but will also really
challenge you at their brand new facility and create a
personal plan that you can follow away from your scheduled
sessions if you are rehabbing after surgery, feeling pain and joints,
are muscles, or want to fine tune like me. Troy
and Jayden are the ones to see at Active Life
(06:11):
Physical Therapy at one hundred nineteenth in Greenwood. Find out
more at alptc dot com. That's alptc dot com for
Active Life Physical Therapy and get the same quality service
that I enjoy Active Life Physical Therapy.
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Speaker 2 (06:40):
This blog that I originally wrote in twenty nineteen, I
put out every year again because I like it and
people seem to like it, and it's sort of reflects
variously on the very vast, versatile and fascile word thank
and it's entitled thanks for everything and for nothing, Thanksgiving thoughts,
(07:04):
and here we go. It just might be the most
versatile and off use five letter word.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
In the language. Think.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It can be good, it can be bad, it can
be gracious, and it can be harsh. And as a
part of longer words or phrases, it can be all
those things and more. The thought came into my mind
the other day, not because Thanksgiving is here, but instead
when I held the door open on a cold evening
for a young lady at the grocery store. She passed
(07:33):
by and said nothing, and I quietly said under my breath, well,
thank you very much. The tone was extremely negative, and
then I thought to myself, Hey, don't be a jerk.
You don't hold the door open for praise. You do
it because it's a common courtesy, and normally I treat
it that way. But this time her attitude as she
mutely moved by, bugged me. We can and do change
(07:57):
the very meaning of thank thanks, thank you, and other
derivations merely by tone of voice or the word or
words surrounding it. G Thanks is almost always negative, but
thanks a lot is kind of split depending on tone.
Thanks a bunch would skew more to the negative. Sometimes
it's pretty cut and dried. Thanks for everything is almost
(08:19):
one hundred percent gracious, and thanks for nothing lives up
to its literal meaning. At this point, I feel compelled
to note that it would seem like I'm channeling my
inner George Carlin a bit. He would no doubt have
taken this idea to a much higher level, But I
will plow on anyway. It seems when you're giving thanks
or giving out thanks, that you're almost always sincere Giving
(08:40):
thanks is often in a church setting, and give my
thanks involves a third party and who wants to get
them in any trouble. You would hardly be feeling this
sentiment when you dole out a no thanks to you,
And the more you dollop on this, the more heated
the exchange might become no thanks to you and your
greedy company. Or how about getting realed down and dirty
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with no thanks to you and that bunch of snobs
you run around with. You can follow up and double
down with thankfully, I've washed my hands of the whole bunch.
The recipient will not be thankful to be treated that way.
The word thankfully itself is more of a bemoaning than
a real feeling of gratitude is almost always followed by
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something bad, most commonly and thankfully that's over. But really,
in trying to put anything bad in the rear view mirror,
even though it seems like you're actually apologizing for not
meeting up to a standard, I can't thank you enough
is always a nice thing to say, and I don't
think I've ever heard the phrase I can thank you
enough used. Maybe I could try that as a backhand
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slap and see if the person even gets the intent.
It doesn't get used much anymore, but thanks a million
was almost unanimously sweet. Maybe when that was more prevalent,
you could trot out thanks a thousand and see if
it was demeaning. Thank you ten times over used to
be something that you would hear a lot of, but
maybe people's lack of affinity with numbers these days has
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gone and killed that. Why thank you isn't negative on
the face of it, but there seems to be a
somewhat sinister undercurrent to it. It seems to be something
that is said in not so Good Mystery shows when
the person who delivers the line is up to something
or knows more than you do about what they are
thanking you for. Even bringing in a higher power does
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not always lead to a clear meaning of our versatile word.
Thank God can be a sigh of relief in one
tone of voice, and it can be an exasperated refrain
in another. And just throw well in front of it.
And perhaps it's about time behind it, and you're probably
using the man upstairs in a way he wouldn't like.
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The phrases also have a close cousin in thank Heavens,
it is now Thanksgiving time, and that moniker expanded out
from thank might be the nicest use of the word imaginable.
Because Thanksgiving is the nicest and least complicated holiday. There
is really nothing to complain about except for the passive
possibility of overeating. There are no presents to stress over,
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and on top of that, it's always on Thursday, which
guarantees a nice holiday weekend. It's not the Fourth of July,
which has the good and the bad of fireworks, not
fun fun if you have dogs, and can always fall
on a Wednesday, which generally is an ideal. It's not
really a religious holiday, so there are no complications that
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can evolve from that. Be it snickering at Easter at
those who only show up at church in their fancy clothes.
Does that happen anymore? I mean the close part or
what kind of cards you send on Thanksgiving? Just get
together as a family or a group of friends or
just a couple of people like meat today, eat food
that you usually don't eat the rest of the year,
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and more of it, and lays around. It is the
only time it's really acceptable to just doze off in
front of company. Therefore, is the easy going holiday that
it is? We now have seen it completely trampled over.
Christmas lights, trees, sales and commercials all now appear well
before Thanksgiving, and the day itself and certainly the weekend
(12:16):
are brutally undercut today by Black Friday. Maybe online shopping
will help quell the vermat phenomenon. Little note here it hasn't. Somehow,
Black Friday is still a thing, with all the online
shopping anyway, lemmings lining up outside the stores and the
cold at four am after our wonderful day, So even
(12:37):
the thank in Thanksgiving has been complicated and compromised, typical
of the word itself. My wife and I are heading
to dinner when I originally wrote this, we were going
away to Thanksgiving to a quiet place or remember that
it snowed on the way back. We actually went to
Eureka Springs. But we'll definitely not be thinking about Black
Friday sales. And we usually don't put up our Christmas
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thing until at least a week into December, and that
tradition has held. I am uncompromisingly thankful for that. We'll
close it up next. Thank you Laura listening.
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Welcome back, well, I thank myself for mostly reading that
fairly well, and now we can transition to the more
stressful season, Christmas time.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I did start my Christmas time season by finding out
yesterday that my daughter, who lives in Amsterdam, is coming
home for Christmas, which is a cool thing. She'll be
here for about ten days. And of course we start
off the holiday season as it were, or the post
Thanksgiving holiday season anyway, with Black Friday.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
And hope you.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Weren't one of those early risers today, maybe one of
the weirder American traditions, to say the least is Black Friday,
and as I mentioned before, online shopping seems to have
done well some to undercut this. I don't get it.
I'll never get it. I guess people like it and
maybe now consider it a tradition, even if they could
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shop online very easily. Whatever you can get Black Friday
deals starting basically on November first. I don't understand the
whole thing. Maybe the most stressful thing of the day today,
maybe not, will be the Kansas City Chiefs, who seem
to provide stress but victories. Every week. They'll be playing
the Las Vegas Raiders and they're supposed to win and
should win by a lot. Maybe come about five o'clock
(18:47):
there'll be Holiday chief stress as they try to eke
out another victory, which they do just about successfully every
week despite making a lot of drama. And we can
thank them for what they've given us over the last
ten years or so, because it certainly has been a
fantastic ride for Kansas City and quote unquote Chief's Kingdom,
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which has gotten to be a phrase that I think
is overused, adored, hated, reviled, praised, whichever you like. Words
are versatile. The word thank is versatile, and I thank
you for listening.
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