NBC's regular daytime schedule will return tomorrow.

Today is the beginning of the holiday season,

and it starts with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Five-time winner of the Emmy Award,

NBC proudly presents its special holiday coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

It's our annual tradition on the Purple Stuff podcast, Matt.

We're going back 40 years to the 59th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Wow, I didn't make the connection, but you're right, 1985, 2025, 40-year anniversary.

Yes, and I know this is one of our favorite podcasts of the year, November 28th,

1985, New York City, live on NBC.

We're going to be running through the whole parade talking about floats, the celebrities,

the balloons, the commercials, the whole smear.

The whole shmere.

And we've done 1984 and 1986, you wouldn't think there'd be that much to talk about in 1985,

but you'd be wrong. You are tuned to the only place where you can see all three hours of this spectacular morning of entertainment.

That's right here on NBC. We don't want you to miss a minute of it.

It really speaks to why these old parades still hit us as being so charming.

Today's parades, they're like just staged live

television events that are masquerading as parades when the opposite was true in the 80s.

Listen, now, we may be having a little rain here in New York, but it doesn't matter. We're going to

have a terrific day. You clowns must have some work to do, huh? All right, I don't know how you

dismiss clowns, but I think we just did it.

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