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00:00Let's get going here on a St. Patrick's Day Tuesday in the Loop on Sports Radio 610.
00:05How are you doing, John Lopez?
00:06I am fantastic.
00:07Happy St. Patrick's Day, even though it's kind of a fake holiday.
00:09What?
00:10No, there are.
00:10There are certain holidays that are fake.
00:12All right.
00:13So you're coming out the gate with fake holiday, huh?
00:15Okay.
00:16Did you wake up today and say, hey, St. Patrick's Day?
00:20A lot of people do.
00:22Brother, I'm 33 years old.
00:23I'm not waking up and saying hey about any holiday.
00:25There are tears.
00:26Unless I'm not going to work.
00:27Holidays have tears.
00:28We have to be honest.
00:29All right.
00:29All right.
00:30We were going to talk about the Rockets.
00:31I don't know how many people actually want to talk about a team that is frustrating the
00:34hell out of us.
00:34Go ahead.
00:35You have the floor.
00:35St. Patrick's Day is a third-tier holiday.
00:37What are the tears?
00:38Are there names to these tears?
00:39Well, we know the main, the tier one.
00:41All right.
00:42Go ahead.
00:42Christmas, Thanksgiving.
00:43We'll get to the Rockets at some point, I promise.
00:46This might be the whole first segment.
00:47That's basically what I'm saying.
00:48I apologize in advance.
00:50Holidays have tears.
00:51We know the big ones, right?
00:53That's tier one.
00:54Name them.
00:55We're not leaving anything to chance because you're coming out the gate swinging on somebody's
00:59holiday seat.
00:59Well, you know the big holidays.
01:02Christmas.
01:02All right.
01:03I think most people are with you.
01:04New Year's.
01:05No.
01:06There's no way you come out the gate with New Year's being one of the, New Year's is a
01:09weak-ass holiday.
01:10New Year's Eve.
01:11I'm not saying for me necessarily anymore, but New Year's Eve is a-
01:13713-572-4610 is the base power text line.
01:16Ain't no damn way.
01:17Ain't no damn way.
01:19The second one out of the list.
01:21The second one out of the list is New Year's Eve.
01:22It's not necessarily not.
01:23Would you rather go out on New Year's Eve or St. Patrick's Day?
01:26New Year's Eve.
01:27713-572-4610.
01:28All right.
01:28They're not in any particular order.
01:30Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving, Halloween.
01:32I'll give you Thanksgiving.
01:33Probably Memorial Day.
01:35Fourth of July.
01:37This is your one line.
01:39This is still tier one.
01:39This is your one line.
01:40Yes, because the entire country celebrates.
01:42I am.
01:43Every family celebrates.
01:44My flabbers are gasted right now.
01:46You don't celebrate Memorial Day.
01:48You don't have family gatherings at Memorial Day.
01:49Celebrate Memorial Day.
01:49Okay, all right.
01:50Not every family celebrates Christmas.
01:52Well, this is true.
01:53The Christmas holiday.
01:55Yeah, yeah, the holidays.
01:55The holiday season.
01:57I think that Memorial Day probably slots for me.
02:00And I'm not saying that I'm not out here enjoying a good cook.
02:02Fourth of July, put on the one line.
02:04Yeah.
02:04I think Memorial Day would be at best on a two line here.
02:07And that's because we out here grilling, but we don't really like.
02:10And again, I understand what we are memorializing.
02:12Put your flags out.
02:12There's parades.
02:13Parades is a big indicator now.
02:15Parades.
02:16And St. Patrick's Day don't have a parade.
02:18Well, they have little throwdown parades, but you know, like some.
02:21Little.
02:22Hey, the city of Chicago is painting the doggone river or the lake green.
02:28And I'm happy for the Chicagoans.
02:29But.
02:30All right, wait.
02:31So let me at least get your list right before we have to.
02:33I ain't no little bit.
02:34Which we'd be so down on St. Patrick's Day.
02:36He came out with the heat off the jump.
02:38I've had more than my share of green beer.
02:39You went with Christmas.
02:41Christmas.
02:41You went with Thanksgiving.
02:43Thanksgiving.
02:43Food's birthday, as I like to call it.
02:44Yes.
02:44You went with.
02:45Halloween.
02:46New Year's Eve.
02:46You went with Halloween.
02:48Fourth of July.
02:49The fourth.
02:50Okay.
02:50And Memorial Day.
02:51And Memorial Day.
02:52I might be missing another tier one.
02:53All right.
02:54That's tier one.
02:54I might be missing another.
02:56All right.
02:57What do you have for tier two here?
02:58The ladies would say Valentine's Day.
03:01Oh, that's a tier two.
03:02That's a tier two.
03:03That's a tier two because it's a ladies holiday only.
03:05Jeez.
03:06Goodness gracious.
03:07Yes.
03:08Yes.
03:08They're getting us out of here.
03:09We are nine minutes into the show.
03:1130 disrespected women and Irish people.
03:14Yes.
03:14Any other minorities that you want to hit?
03:17You about to talk crazy about Kwanzaa?
03:19This is going to get the people going.
03:21That this?
03:22This is what I'm going to do.
03:22You haven't done it already?
03:23Let me tell you about Juneteenth.
03:24No, let me.
03:28This is going to get.
03:32All right.
03:33This is going to get the people going.
03:35Oh, my God.
03:37MLK Day is a tier two holiday.
03:39All right.
03:40MLK Day is a tier two holiday.
03:42So.
03:43I just want to know where St. Patrick's Day ranks.
03:46Valentine's Day.
03:46Kwanzaa.Hillis at Odyssey.com if you want to fill what I imagine will be a vacancy that
03:51is opening up in the loop.
03:56That's tier two.
03:57Also tier two.
03:58And this is what's going to also be controversial.
04:01Cinco de Mayo is above St. Patrick's Day.
04:04Cinco de Mayo is a tier two holiday.
04:07I had them listed kind of the same.
04:11Exactly.
04:11They're the same.
04:12They're the same day in different colors.
04:14Valentine's Day.
04:15Valentine's Day is a tier two.
04:17All right.
04:18All the Mother's Days and Father's Days.
04:20Tier two.
04:22All the government days off that are not the major holidays.
04:25You're full of it.
04:26You are full of it.
04:28Like Juneteenth.
04:29Those are tier two holidays.
04:31You are full of it.
04:32Those are tier two holidays.
04:37Lopez is just out here with this blowtorch.
04:39What is happening right now?
04:45He's about to have St. Patrick's Day on the same line as like Flag Day.
04:52Hey, don't go to no Irish bar.
04:53Oh, get the hell out of here.
04:54Flag Day is tier three.
04:56St. Patrick's tier three.
04:58Arbor Day tier three.
05:00Groundhog Day tier three.
05:02What?
05:05They're tier three.
05:06Three holidays.
05:08I don't know what to do right now.
05:10I had no preparation for this show starting this way.
05:13Oh, I forgot Easter.
05:14Easter's tier one.
05:15Easter's tier one.
05:17But, yeah.
05:18I mean, I think that's a sound list.
05:21That is a very sound list.
05:22I'm actually shocked, man.
05:23Why?
05:23I thought you had a little more respect for St. Patrick's Day.
05:26Did I say I didn't respect any of these holidays?
05:28You got it.
05:28Yes.
05:29It's implicit.
05:30Did I say?
05:31From the 713 Lopez 100% correct.
05:34What the hell are you talking about?
05:36Here's the thing about it.
05:37I understand if it was tier two.
05:40If it was up there with Cinco de Mayo.
05:43I feel like they're twins.
05:44You know what the issue is with this?
05:46I don't see the underlying logic in these tiers that you're putting here.
05:50Here's the logic.
05:51Can you, yes, give me some level of underlying logic.
05:53Here's the logic.
05:54It is the logic, not just the Lopez logic.
05:56No.
05:57Think of these holidays as everyone celebrates the country shuts down.
06:03That's a tier one.
06:04A lot of people celebrate and it's a holiday worth taking the day off.
06:09That's a tier two.
06:11And then you have throw down holidays like St. Patrick's Day and Arbor Day and Flag Day.
06:19Do you even know when Flag Day is?
06:21Don't look.
06:21No.
06:22I've never assumed it.
06:23Do you even know what month it's in?
06:25No.
06:27Point made.
06:28Buddy, I had no issue with Flag Day.
06:29But you know when St. Patrick's Day is?
06:32Everybody know when St. Patrick's Day is.
06:34That checks one box.
06:35You got to at least put that in tier two.
06:37That checks one box.
06:40That got to be a tier two, man.
06:41I'm with you, OG.
06:42Keep going.
06:43I'm telling you, you don't have to like it.
06:46Let's be real.
06:47St. Patrick's Day, we all know St. Patrick's Day for drinking.
06:50Exactly.
06:50Going out drinking beer, corn, beef, and all that type of stuff.
06:54I think that I understand the logic that you're going.
06:56I think that the starting point of your logic I'm with, right?
07:00The starting point of a day in which, one, everybody gets a day off.
07:05But two, like it is universally kind of understood and basically celebrated.
07:09Obviously, with some caveats in some places.
07:12The tier two of you're probably going to get a day off, maybe not as.
07:16A lot of people celebrate.
07:17Sure.
07:18But not universally.
07:19I think there has to be some appreciation for the fervor with which some of these things are celebrated.
07:25There is.
07:26Like you can check some boxes, like Figgy was saying.
07:29You know, the passion for a, I'm trying to think of a good holiday.
07:34Maybe some people are really into Flag Day or Arbor Day.
07:39You know, that group of people is extremely passionate.
07:42But that doesn't check the same box for everyone.
07:45Easter is tier one, according to me.
07:47Because it's one of those where everybody celebrates.
07:50Look at, I got to tell you, I'm not going to do it.
07:53Y'all look at the text board.
07:54Oh, I'm looking at it.
07:55I'm looking at it.
07:56It's pretty split.
07:59But it is pretty split.
08:01I'm just trying to, I don't understand why you have it at tier three and you have Cinco de Mayo
08:06tier two.
08:06That's also a great point.
08:07I think Cinco de Mayo is more nationally celebrated.
08:11Nationally celebrated.
08:12And in some places internationally celebrated.
08:14I'll be St. Patrick's Day in Ireland.
08:15But no.
08:17I just remember everybody trying to wear green on this day.
08:21Correct.
08:21At one point.
08:22And then pinching you like that.
08:25Look, I can't tell you last time I actually celebrated St. Patrick's Day.
08:29Exactly.
08:29But that's my point.
08:31But a lot of people do, though.
08:32It's tier three.
08:33When's the last time you celebrated Cinco de Mayo outside of getting to Margarita?
08:36I can't tell you last time I celebrated.
08:37Every year?
08:39Every single year?
08:40In what way?
08:40Labor Day is a tough one.
08:42Somebody texted that.
08:43Labor Day might be teetering on tier one, but I think it's a tier two.
08:47I think it's just to take a long weekend.
08:49I understand the logic you're coming with.
08:51I think that there's some flaws in it.
08:53I also think that it's not being applied evenly.
08:56It absolutely is.
08:57In your personal list.
08:58Look.
08:58Okay.
08:58See, like, you have a personal vendetta against St. Patrick's Day, man.
09:03No, I don't.
09:03I can't lie to you.
09:04I feel weird because I'm the dude defending St. Patrick's Day.
09:06I know.
09:07And I'm not a beer drinker.
09:07I know.
09:08So, like, this is like a beer drinker's holiday.
09:09I can't tell you last time I celebrated St. Patrick's Day.
09:13All right.
09:13Y'all wouldn't do it, but I am getting 90% support.
09:17There's no way.
09:18All right.
09:18All right.
09:19So, that's how you end up with this list.
09:20All right.
09:20All right.
09:21All right.
09:21All right.
09:22That's that Aggie math.
09:23Hold on.
09:24That's that Aggie math.
09:25Let me just go down the list.
09:27Well, I'll just read every one.
09:28Well, not all of them because some of them are kind of weird.
09:31Lopez is 110% correct.
09:34I am going to exclude some things from the data set because they look funny to me.
09:37I'll read them all.
09:37I'll read them all.
09:39Because some of them are boring is basically.
09:41Usually St. Patty's Day lands on the first games of March Madness.
09:43That doesn't mean anything.
09:45Lopez is 99% right.
09:47Super Bowl is basically a holiday.
09:49John, do you think Jewish people eat ham on Easter?
09:51I don't know.
09:51This is actually.
09:54I'm just doing what you asked me to.
09:55I'm reading them all.
09:56I know.
09:56And I'm enjoying it.
09:57I'm reading them all.
09:58I'm enjoying this.
09:58This is actually a good list.
10:00Respect.
10:00Lopez is 110% correct.
10:02Yes, even Matt closes his store on Easter.
10:04Lopez is going to be on Take-A-Mania, maybe.
10:06Yes.
10:07We know why, Figgy.
10:08No, he's wrong.
10:09Unk is spitting.
10:10Unk is spitting.
10:11Let him cook.
10:12OG is spot on.
10:13OG is spot on with his list.
10:15I'm pretty partial to April 20th.
10:17Lopez, that's a different topic.
10:19Labor Day is tier one.
10:21Any holiday that requires specific clothing to avoid physical violence is at least tier
10:25two.
10:25Whatever.
10:26I can't believe I'm texting this, but Lopez is 100% correct.
10:30You got to love the caveat on the front end.
10:32Like, I typically don't agree with you, but.
10:34I agree with Lopez 100%.
10:36Where's Easter at?
10:37Tier two?
10:37No, I said tier one.
10:38Lopez is right.
10:39St. Patrick's Day, I completely forgot.
10:41Where does Pearl Harbor Day?
10:42Whatever.
10:43Whatever.
10:44No, I'm saying that's not relevant to what you're saying.
10:46Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
10:47Makes sense to me.
10:49Racist Lopez hates Irish people.
10:51Facts.
10:51I don't know about that.
10:53Boxing Day tier two.
10:54Medical industry, what's a holiday?
10:55Lopez quit while you were behind.
10:57Okay, there's one.
10:58There's one.
10:59One that didn't agree with me.
11:01There's more.
11:02Okay.
11:03Rockets Nation dejected.
11:05Okay, we'll get to that.
11:06So far, I'm with you, OG.
11:07Keep going.
11:08April Fool's tier five.
11:09Lopez never lies.
11:10It was nice knowing you, Lopez.
11:12You won't be on air tomorrow.
11:14Let me ask y'all this.
11:16So, I want, is this a-
11:17One, Reggie.
11:18One.
11:18Is this a Houston thing?
11:19Mm-hmm.
11:20Lopez grew up-
11:21Or just not caring about St. Patrick's Day?
11:22Or just St. Patrick's Day?
11:24No.
11:24There's definitely some places that have a bigger-
11:27Because there used to be a big parade in Cleveland for St. Patrick's Day.
11:30Yeah, there's something.
11:30Like, every single year, it was always a big deal.
11:33And obviously, like, Chicago has-
11:34Now, I got older.
11:35Chicago has a big deal, but Chicago also has a large immigrant population from Ireland, or at
11:39least that you can trace lineage to.
11:41I know that when I was in Dallas, Dallas did, like, a big, like, St. Patrick's Day thing.
11:45I feel like there's probably some places in the country that really go harder-
11:49Look, Dan Orlowski wearing green.
11:50Yeah, Dan Orlowski is wearing green.
11:52Mm-hmm.
11:52He does look like a leprechaun right now for some reason.
11:55I don't understand.
11:55Maybe it's the way he did his hair.
11:57Anyways, I'm getting distracted.
11:58Am I off 90%?
11:59Uh, yes.
12:00No.
12:01You're definitely off on 90%.
12:01I read every one.
12:02I read every one.
12:03There was one detractor.
12:03You're definitely off on 90%.
12:05I think you are not interpreting some of these properly.
12:07However, I will do you a favor here, John Lopez.
12:11I will go ahead and I will run with your premise and what we will do for the remainder of
12:15the show.
12:16St. Patrick's Day, tier three.
12:17On the base power text line, 713-572-4610.
12:20Send in your holidays for John Lopez to tier as we continue the program on a St. Patrick's Day Tuesday.
12:28I had no idea this is how the first segment would go.
12:30Apologies to anyone for whom it offended because there's a likelihood that it did.
12:34And we will just keep that rolling all through the show.
12:37Some say Houston can't afford parades.
12:39Okay, very good.
12:39All right.
12:41We have to get to some sports at some point.
12:43This is Houston Sports Leader Sports Radio 610.
12:45I'm shot, man.
12:46I don't know what to do with any of this.
12:49I'm going to be honest.
12:49It doesn't.
12:50Just because it's true doesn't mean it feels right.
12:52But it's true.
12:54St. Patrick's Day.
12:55I just thought you had a little more respect for St. Patrick's Day, man.
12:57I do respect St. Patrick's Day.
12:58It's a respectable tier three holiday.
13:00All right.
13:01Just to start off, to get us a little bit of a taste here.
13:04Where does Super Bowl Sunday fall on the John Lopez holiday tier list?
13:09That's above St. Patrick's Day.
13:10Tell me I'm wrong.
13:11Just place it.
13:12Tier two.
13:13Tier two.
13:13Okay, very good.
13:14I'm done fighting this.
13:16We spent more time than I would have ever imagined on the front end of this.
13:20Somebody said we're German here in Houston.
13:22Oktoberfest is bigger than St. Patty's.
13:24Okay.
13:24All right.
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