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🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 108 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.1 | Is the thing. |
0:07.1 | It is as I have been told a thousand times, Black Friday, and I would just like to say, |
0:17.4 | again, that I'm not buying anything on purpose. |
0:21.6 | Thank you. |
0:22.6 | Okay, I've never really understood Black Friday. |
0:26.0 | Why makes no sense? |
0:27.0 | Because we don't have Thanksgiving here. |
0:29.7 | If we don't have Thanksgiving, there's no point in going out and buying things tomorrow. |
0:33.8 | I'm not asking this ironically is a joke question. |
0:39.1 | What is Black Friday is a thing when people do Christmas shopping? |
0:43.1 | Is that right? |
0:44.1 | It's a bit kind of sale day in the United States, but it makes sense because it's the Friday |
0:47.6 | following Thanksgiving. |
0:49.4 | You emerge from your festivities and then you realise it's virtually Christmas, so you |
0:54.9 | need to go and buy things. |
0:56.4 | Why is it called Black Friday, which sounds like a not great thing? |
1:03.8 | Because I have not absolutely no idea. |
1:09.0 | Our production team are now going to research why Black Friday is Black Friday, but I just |
1:14.8 | don't know when it became. |
1:15.8 | I think it was probably Amazon. |
1:17.2 | I think they probably started it because there's no point in having it really. |
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