We Went Black Friday Shopping. Terrible Idea.

Amy & T.J.

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Like so many Americans, we got the kids up before the sun was up and hit the road to our favorite outlet mall. After spending an hour on the road, it took almost as long to simply turn into the entrance of Woodbury Commons in Harriman, NY and that was just the beginning of our adventure. We’ll take you along our Black Friday experience and give you a little history lesson on the origins of this day after Thanksgiving tradition, and here’s a hint, it’s not what you’ve been told all of these years!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.2	Hey there, folks.
0:07.2	It is Friday, November 28th.
0:10.4	It is Black Friday.
0:12.5	And did you get out in this mess today?
0:14.7	Did you get out and get a good deal today?
0:17.8	And how did it go for you?
0:19.2	Because for us, it was pretty dark and depressing. And with that,
0:24.1	welcome to this episode of Amy T.J. Robs. We went out. We were in a good mood. We were looking
0:29.2	forward to this, of course, in a word, or maybe a couple words. How would you describe
0:36.1	the atmosphere, the mood of this official kickoff to the Christmas shopping season?
0:42.9	Intense chaos.
0:44.4	Okay.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:46.2	It was intense.
0:47.1	Chaos is one thing.
0:48.7	There was an intensity to today that took me by surprise and made me want to leave the place.
0:55.1	Here's the deal. We love Black Friday shopping. We love outlet malls.
1:02.3	Yeah. And we have combined the two. But today, we took on the juggernaut. We took on probably one of the biggest, most well-known outlet malls in the country.
1:18.4	And one that we've gone to countless times over the years, even together.
1:23.9	But we've never gone to that particular outlet mall on this particular day.
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