Channel: Good Mythical More
YouTube Video ID: zwIQ4ZUWKeA
Episode Post Date: January 21, 2026
Episode Number: 2963
Transcript
We're ranking every holiday in a tier list. Welcome to Good Mythical More. We've got all the holidays, not all of them, but you know, all the one, you know, the major, all the ones that we have, all the major ones. We're gonna rank them in the definitive tier list. And also at some point during this, because I won the game. I'm setting a timer. You don't know how long it is, but if this timer goes off, you must do what is being called the wait for it dance. That is up to your interpretation. No one sees the time. Wait for it. Just wait for it. Alright, Father's Day, Halloween, Mother's Day, Christmas blah. Black Friday. Black Friday is a holiday on this list. Alright, let's start with Father's Day because we're fathers. Father's Day is the best because I was gonna say we don't have to do anything, but then I remembered our dads correct. Whoops. Um, it's Father's Day's pretty good, man. You know, I always, what's, what's a typical Father's Day like for you? Like, not do, not what you give your dad, but like what you decide, what you do. Yeah, like, um, uh, like where you go eat and stuff? Yeah. Yeah. It's usually like, we're gonna take dad to a barbecue place or a, a burger place, like give his, get his favorite food and we're all gonna be there and be his kids, and for one day we'll be his kids. That's pretty much, that's, that's pretty much it. So no, like physical. Gifts. No gifts for me. No gifts. No cards. Does Jessie do cards? Yes, Jessie will get cards with notes. Something. Jessie will get something. Sometimes the boys who are my actual kids will not, but they will give cards. Throw that at, throw it at a for now. I know. Just keep in mind, mind now. We are fathers. Yeah, we're fathers, mothers. Let's, let's skip Halloween. Oh. Skip Halloween, Mother's Day. I have strong opinions. Lets go ahead and get Mother's Day. Let these, and I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna wait on those. Mother's Day sucks. It's so much more expectation than Father's Day because mothers do so much more, right? And they deserve so much more. And so the bar, bar is for disappointment, and then there's so much disappointment between where the bar is and where the execution is. But but hold on. But here's the thing. Drag it to D for now. It's, it, it's, it's about, it makes you seem like you hate moms. I love moms. What? What's a typical Mother's Day for Christy? Every year has gotta be something different. You gotta keep her guessing and she gotta feel very appreciated. So it always involves a card and she never does, is what you're saying? Never fully does. Yeah. Hold on. This, I feel if, if so far it feels very personal to you. Uh, I just don't think we can. Last year, last year was good. It was a surprise picnic In a, in a, in a. Remote location, but everybody, everybody loves celebrating. Mom. What I'm saying is that not everybody, we can put Father's Day at a, because we're fathers, but like you gotta put Mother's Day at least at B, because it's an opportunity to celebrate. We gotta put it at a, you gotta, we gotta at least put it with a Yes. We gotta put it with fathers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We gotta keep those two together. Do your boys get Jessie a present for Mother's Day or No? They keep it solid. No presents or anything for both of you? They do. Oh, they do. Sometimes they do Mother's Day, they don't do Father's Day. It might be, it might require, I think it might require prodding me to prod them because they're not, you know, they're, they're very sweet. They're not the most thoughtful. They, they, they can kind of think, sneak up on both of my boys. And so I have to be like, Hey guys, Mother's Day's coming up. Oh really? Oh yeah, it is. You know that kind of conversation. Oh, hit it. Oh, a little seal. Little ish. Caught fish. Uh, someone else is doing this, you know. Can, can we come back to Halloween and Christmas? Sure. Dude. Uh, black Friday. Let's put that pretty low because it is not a holiday. It's not a holiday, and it's it's off manufactured consumerism. D Yeah. Valentine's Day. You're gonna say things, you're gonna say the same. Things about Valentine's Day. Pressure. So much pressure. Much pressure. Now. Back when we were dating, boy, that was the opportunity. To really shine. This is also a manufactured holiday. I mean, in some, in some senses they're all manufactured, but this one is definitely a consumer holiday as well. But it is based on like some saint that did something. But I think the thing about Valentine's Day is that it is an opportunity to do something special in the context of your relationship. And a lot of people are like, I don't want a manufactured thing. Like every day is Valentine's Day. Right? Yeah. But I actually like the, like. Uh, curated menus that restaurants do, and like, you know, and it's a, it's a holiday that's just about you and your partner. It's not about anybody's else's birthday, whether that's your mom's or Jesus' birthday. Like it's just your relationship. Okay. So I think that this is, I think may, I mean, but there is pressure and it is a manufactured holiday, at least in its current form. So, um, we don't have to go higher than B, but it feels like it's pretty middle tier. Yeah, because the flip side is, is that for the lonely people, for the single people, it's very exclusionary. True. Well, let's put it at B for now and see where we end up. April Fool's Day. April Fool's Day. This is just about pranks. Yeah. You don't have to buy anything. You can go big, you don't have to participate. Nobody cares. But you can sit there online and see who did what for April Fool's day. And then if you do participate, low pressure. It's just fun. All upside really. All upside unless you're the victim of the joke. I think that might, this might be an adjective. I, well, listen, I have a case to make for some stuff. New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve and then we have New Year's Day. We gotta think about these in tandem. New Year's Day is not nearly as good as New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is when the party happens. Yeah, and I wish I, I wish I could say that I've had some really memorable New Year's Eves, but I haven't had a lot of those. See, I think the pressure's high for New Year's Eve. Not from your partner, but like. Because the expectations are to make it count too high. To make it count too. What to party to have the time of your life. Yeah. Yeah. And I usually end up going to bed a little bit early. Yeah, me too. Also, so you don't feel great about each. And also, I think the other thing is, um, and, and I need to, I don't know how to break this habit, but I, every holiday so far I've been like, what about the traffic? What, how many people are at the restaurant that night? Yep. And New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. Oh boy. Oh, you, you, you gotta fight. You gotta fight out there on the, on the streets. But it's better than New Year's Day, which is nothing. Yeah, nothing. It's just, but New Year's day, hangover day. I'm going B and C. It is January 1st, or C and D. Let's go B and C. Let's go B and C, B, C with that. Okay. Thanksgiving is, Thanksgiving is just about the food. Thanksgiving is a good holiday and you get to see your family. But it is unfortunately in too close proximity to Christmas. It's forgotten and I just feel like it is. Yeah, it's a little bit of the forgotten season, but I feel solid B to me, like right in the middle because you can have a good time and there is a parade and there, and there's good food associated with it. We put Mother's Day and Father's Day in for now. That's weird. That's look, feeling real weird on side. Can I make my case for Halloween? Let's just start there. Yeah. Halloween S Tier all day long. It is a season that is unlike, it is a holiday that represents something completely different than every other holiday. It is the only haunted holiday. It's the only holiday that has. I mean, there's another holiday we'll get to in a second that has a whole lot of movies associated with it. It's like a season, I mean, this is your same song. Yeah. So. Candy is, candy is available. People do decorations in their yard that are unlike any decorations that you'll see. I mean, it, it, it requires, there's an activity. You can have Halloween themed parties. You can't have Father's Day themed parties. Entire candies are invented for it. Yes. S tier all the way. Yeah. I'm not gonna stand in your way. Okay. St. Patrick's Day. Okay. They dye the river green in Chicago, you get pinched Y. Yeah. You have to wear green and you have to remember and drinking. It feels like it's all over the place. It's just all over the place. C, I would say B. I think New Year's Eve might have to move down to C, which is better. New Year's Eve or St. Patrick's Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, clearly St. Patrick's Day down to C. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Independence Day. That's the 4th of July. That's just not, I could go the rest of my life without watching a firework display. And I, I wouldn't have, I wouldn't miss a thing. It's just, Hmm. Okay. Hold on. Lemme think about that for the rest of your life. No more fireworks. I think I'd be okay. I don't know if I would be, and I mean, like you can cook out hot dogs and hamburgers. I like, I like hamburgers. But it's in the middle of the summer. If you've got the right group of friends, which, and you're in the right place, it can be a good day on the lake, but we don't really do that. I, I was gonna say, it's like one of the only like daytime celebration holidays, so that I, that's, you know, it's the sun is out and, and you're awake and the traffic is bay. You're awake. You know you're awake. And it's not dark outside. I mean, I'm not gonna put it higher than B, but it's definitely not a D no. Feels pretty. Let's go to C now. We're stacking them even. Okay. Easter is, I mean, Easter's not great. Easter growing up like we had, I had to get in like a special suit to go to church on that day, and then I never wore the suit again. Right? In the pastels, I've never been much into that. And then, and then you're hunting for eggs, you're hunting for eggs, and then you don't get what you want. I mean, and then they tell you that this isn't even about the bunny. It's about Jesus, the kids. Yeah. The hunting for eggs thing for me in my suit. I mean, I didn't wanna mess up my suit that I was never gonna wear again. All of a sudden I'm thrust into competition with all these other ankle biters and it's on a Sunday, which you already are like not going to school anyway. Easter is D tier. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's just not great now, but hold on for the. Uh, you know, for those who, who celebrate the religious part of it, I think I just can't, we can't, we can't D it up. Even when I believed in the resurrection, I didn't like it. Oh, okay. Yeah, me neither. You know, I was more into the idea of the resurrection than I was the Easter part of it. Yeah. I think we gotta keep, it's been so commercialized. I think we gotta get, keep it at D unapologetically. Can I now make a second case? Christmas is the only other S tier holiday. I disagree, but. Here, let me explain why I disagree that it's the only other S tier. Okay, let me explain why everybody gets gifts. It's not just all going to one person. There is a gift exchange. Everybody gets gifts. There's a whole bunch of movies. There's a whole bunch of songs dedicated to it. It also is great food. It is the longest period of time in which you're out of work. Uh, you get to see family. Now that might not be a great thing, but you know, you don't have to, you don't have to. Uh, tinsel. There's so many like decorations there. I don't know. Tinsel's kind of like glitter. There's whole stores. The only two things on this list that have stores dedicated to them are Halloween and Christmas. Also, towns is Christmas stores, and there's Halloween stores. Complete towns dedicated there. Easter stores, no, and there never will be. Hold on. There's a whole St. Patrick's country. Christmas is my favorite holiday. Christmas is my favorite holiday, but it's very closely tied with Halloween. Like this Christmas, but if you had to choose one, you would. I think I'm choosing Christmas just because it's a longer season. The best thing in the world is a Christmas themed horror movie. So many different memories made over Christmas. You know, you can, you can go the religious route, but you, you can go the pagan route, you can go the pagan route. You know, it's all there for the taken. You can do both at the same time, which we all unwittingly do. Now, do we want to create a perfect bell curve on this with S tier for both of those, but I would like to make, I would just like to advocate to move to S tier April Fool's Day. Okay. Because it's, this feels wrong. It's so elegantly simple. It has no baggage. It's the opposite. This is tough. It's just the opposite. Unless your prank gets outta hand and your cousin loses a finger or something, you know, what's the worst that can happen? So, you know, maybe, maybe somebody holds a grudge. 'cause they were embarrassed because of, I don't know. You put a turd in the top of their tank. You're saying the level, the level of output compared to input is worth it? Mm-hmm. Yeah. But you still gotta go to work if you miss it entirely. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you pull pranks on except for the show? Nope. Okay. And I feel okay about it and I, but why? But I enjoy hearing about those who do and it's, that's why, it's just, it's inconsequential. But the fact that, yeah, we don't give that day off. If you don't get off work, it can't be us here. Yeah. Right. You don't get off on Halloween now. Father's Day and Mother's Day are feeling weird at a now. Yeah. Give us a, give us a second, but I think they're important. Let's move. This will give you all the time you need to think about it. Uh, it's not quite as enthusiastic as it was. Nice. Nice. I didn't even do that. Right. Here we go. Keep going. Like, it feels like we need something else at B Tier. Uh, I feel like we, I feel like we need to move. I don't know what we're gonna, it's just kind of a thick, it's a thick, low curve. Here's the thing about New Year's Day. Let me make a case for New Year's Day. New Year's Day is the beginning of the year, and you don't have to work, and you get up late and you're kind of like, new year, you know? And you just like, it's a fresh perspective, like one, one, you don't have to attend it. There are no expectations, right? Anything can happen. Like, you know, if the, the rest of the year feel so far away on one, one, it, it does feel good. I think it moves to B Man. Okay. Let's see what that looks like. And then you're not tracking, are you? You know, but that's right. 'cause you gotta move New Year's Eve to a, if you move New Year's Day to You are tracking. Yeah, because we're, because we're what? Yeah. I don't, I don't feel good about New Year's and now you gotta move. Put New Year's Mother's Day to B Oh and, 'cause this is fathers who did this. I don't like New Year's Eve being at a at or, that seems wild. I think you gotta put New Year's Day and Eve together on B and put mothers back with fathers because oh my God. I think we've got to keep that going. And then I think we gotta move Easter to C something's. Gotta go to seats here. No. Easter. Easter. Kids love Easter. Christians love Easter. Okay. Or give you Easter and everybody loves Christmas and everybody. And enough weird people really, really, really love Halloween Uhhuh. I mean, the people who really love Halloween, they will let you know. Mm-hmm. And you didn't even, they didn't even, they don't have to use words. Yeah. The things I feel it's just a vibe. The most strong about on this list are Halloween and Christmas being S tier and Black Friday being D Tier. Yeah, I feel good about that. Do we, does that feel right? We've done good for the mothers and fathers, those right. Valentine's Day. This is correct. This is good. This is perfect. We've nailed it. Yes, we got an a watch our new vlog exclusively on the Mythical Society. Now I was brainstorming with Lincoln, uh, for a nice place to bring a date and I told him here. Yeah. I was like, you brainstorm with your kids about nice places for dates, pages are sexy. I told them.