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It's been quite a few years since we dusted off our classic episode on the insanity that is Black Friday.

So we thought we put it out there for you again.

I'm glad we made this episode when we did because Black Friday's nearly gone away since then.

So we kind of inadvertently came up with a document on a fading cultural phenomenon.

And I assume historians of the future will rely heavily on this.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this episode.

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Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and with me as always is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's over there. And that makes this stuff you should know. You just checked to make sure Jerry was there. She's very quiet. You literally turned your head and body. Right. Yep, she's there. I did the bigfoot thing, though. Like I had to turn my whole, the whole side of my body to look over my shoulder. That's how you know that was real footage. Well, typically when you know Jerry's here, because you can just smell like miso soup or something emanating from our right side. Yeah. Or my right side. Your right side. But it's not emanating from you. It's coming from Jerry. Yeah. She stinks like miso. Which is actually a very pleasant smell. salty, and umami. That's right. So Chuck,

yes. Have you ever been to a Black Friday sale? No. No. And I want to say H no. Oh, yeah.

Well, I mean, that's not for me. That's a decent qualifier, though, because it's not like an average sale. And like if you don't go to a Black Friday sale, it's a pretty good reason why is because you're scared. Well, yeah, and I think this is one of those, a very divisive topic. You're probably either really into going or it's the last thing on Earth

you would rather do. I don't know. A lot of people are like, maybe I'll go check out a doorbuster

at 3 a.m. I think there are people who do have that kind of, that idea, but maybe not at 3 a.m.

Sure. It's almost like a multifaceted creature. Like it is for some people, like,

just in the middle of a normal shopping day on the Friday after Thanksgiving, they'll go to a

store and it's fine and there's some sales or whatever. But then, you know, hours earlier,

these hardcore people, you know, who had bathed in the blood or their fellow shoppers. Well, sadly, yeah. Yeah. We'll see. Had already come through and gotten all the best deals. Yeah. And then there's those of us like us who are just like, I'm not going out. It is literally, and I'm not overstating this because people always say literally when they mean figuratively, but it's literally one of the last things I would ever, ever do in my life.

Yeah. I can't think of many. I'd rather go to the DMV than go to a door buster. The DMV? Yeah. In between North Korea and South Korea? No, no, no, no. That's the DMZ. Right. Okay. I always get those too confused. Now, I'd rather go take the last ticket from the DMV and have to wait all day than go to a door buster sale. Yeah. No, I don't blame you. All right. So we'll get to more hate spewing about this layer. Right. And I should state my opinion. I feel like if this is your thing that's awesome well true true i'm not like

cast dispergence on people who uh disparaging remarks is dispergence a word nope it is no though

uh you're like your own like american dictionary the new chuck dictionary we should make that up

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