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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now he's Armstrong and Getty.

American shoppers are looking forward to Cyber Monday after shattering records on Black Friday.

Adobe says consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Friday.

That's up more than 9% from last year.

More than 55% of those sales came through mobile devices.

Okay, so let's jump into some of that stuff.

We have long mocked Black Friday and Cyber Monday as completely made up things.

Black Friday going way, way back was

that's when businesses finally went into the black

for the first time for the year and it was never true.

And then people built sales around it.

Now, the idea of contriving a day

to try to boost commerce is not new see everything Halloween

Christmas not the Jesus's birthday part but the presents part um just everything it's just

to contrive you know mother's day father's day they're all... They try to convince us to spend money on a particular day.

Well, and even if there was a legitimate creation, like, I think Mother's Day and Father's Day were efforts by nice people to pay tribute to family ties.

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