Hello and welcome to another episode of Just Melissa with special star, special guest.

Daniel.

This is Just Melissa and Daniel, of course. And it's Thanksgiving. It's Thanksgiving. We just ate a little bit. Nice and full. Well, I asked you to be a part of this

Just Melissa because I actually researched something

kind of interesting. And it goes along with some questions that you had asked me a couple days ago.

You'd ask me about Black Friday and what it actually is and when did it start? The history of Black Friday.

Yeah. So I started doing some research and I thought this is really interesting. So now I want to tell you about it. All right. Black Friday.

Are you excited? Oh, I'm super excited. Because if we didn't do this, I was just going to go lay down on the couch before one of the kids does.

Well, you are a trooper, so I appreciate that. Happy Thanksgiving.

You're like, hey, do you want to listen to me do this? I said, like, just sit in silence?

You're like, no, like, join me. Be a part of this chaos.

All right.

Well, we're just going to jump into it.

Okay.

So how did Black Friday come to be?

So it began as so many American traditions do.

Money.

With crowds, confusion and a city utterly overwhelmed.

The streets of Philadelphia were packed.

Holiday shoppers, football fans, tourists, bargain hunters, all crashing together the day

after Thanksgiving.

The police actually had a name for it, a name

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