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Black Friday Nostaglia

November 25, 2024
Our Gen Z'er, Daniela, gets introduced to the OG Black Friday experience.
Show transcript
00:00
Daniella, you have no idea what you're missing,
00:01
dude. Like we had Black Friday was it used to slap
00:05
It was a vibe and now I don't even know what
00:09
to say. Like it's mid like it's already Black Friday right
00:11
now as we recorded this like,
00:13
how is it already?
00:14
Three weeks ahead of time?
00:14
It's a day now.
00:16
I know we're from the pre promo code era,
00:19
right? Like promo codes weren't promo code was you sit in
00:22
line at 1 a.m. You know what?
00:25
Actually it is a little montage I could put together.
00:27
So let's check that out so you can see what you're missing
00:28
out on. Oh man,
00:33
the memory of it was like a,
00:37
it was like a team thing,
00:38
man. You know,
00:39
like you would finish eating dinner and then go straight to the
00:42
mall. Look at that packed car.
00:46
So there was a pick up curbside pick up hell no.
00:52
When did that even come up?
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Was that during COVID?
00:54
Is that like when I,
00:54
I think so? Or even when it did not exist?
00:57
The gamestop didn't gamestop.
01:00
That's your boy right there.
01:01
That was me, me and my brother and the smart thing
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if you were smart,
01:04
you got dropped off because the parking lot was even crazy.
01:07
Like looking for. That's the day that people really threw it
01:09
down for a parking spot.
01:11
Like I might get out and slash the tires.
01:13
That is true. There were fights starting in the parking lot
01:17
before even getting online.
01:19
You were, you were scrapping for parking spots.
01:22
Wait, I feel like I've seen videos of,
01:24
like, people fighting and then like,
01:26
there were like TV,
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S in hand that happened.
01:28
That was a, no,
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it was a, people used to really throw down.
01:32
So I don't know about Eugene,
01:33
but my game plan on a thing for Black Friday was right
01:36
after dinner, right?
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We kind of just hang out together.
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All the premo actually had money for the other one for sure
01:41
And like, yo,
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we're gonna mob out to Best Buy to the mall to whatever
01:45
like right after dinner,
01:46
like, like, yeah,
01:48
like Thanksgiving, but it's Black Friday.
01:50
Like, well, because at midnight,
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at least where we live,
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the mall would open up.
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So you like, you would eat,
01:55
go pulled up with the crew,
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you would line up,
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post up, you're gonna go do the line,
02:00
we're gonna go shopping.
02:01
You're gonna do this split up when you're at the line,
02:04
call me, I'm gonna be there when you start getting close
02:07
to it. This feels like a,
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like a very thought out game plan like there was strategy involved
02:12
There was like teammates,
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there was because there was,
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you would plan it out during the dinner,
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right? Like yo,
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like you would have,
02:19
you would come out with a game plan while you're eating the
02:22
food, you're chatting.
02:22
It's just like, yo,
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you know what, like I'm not even gonna eat that much
02:25
because I don't want to use the bathroom because I'm gonna be
02:28
outside and you would willingly wait in line.
02:30
I would just be like,
02:31
I'm gonna fight that bein when I get back.
02:33
But right now I gotta go shopping.
02:35
I think it was a meet up point.
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It was like the pregame.
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Yeah, there you go.
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All the cheese stuff.
02:41
OK, cool. We had dinner now let's go freaking mob
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out with the low key.
02:48
That sounds fun. Yeah,
02:49
that was the vibe because that was my first year with a
02:51
license and I was like guys we got went out and got
02:54
your Christmas shopping done.
02:56
So all of this effort it had to be for a reason
02:59
Were the price is worth it?
03:01
I mean, yeah,
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you'll be walking around like grabbing like headphones for $5 like yo
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I want those Nikes right there.
03:07
I don't know, 30 bucks.
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The only thing that everybody would have the same fit,
03:12
you know, like yo,
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that shirt is on now the whole hood has the same shirt
03:16
as me running around.
03:18
The same Tommy Hilfiger.
03:21
It like you smell like the perfume.
03:23
My grandma got me.
03:24
Oh, shit, we got the same 10,
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the diesel one. Yeah.
03:26
Yeah. Did you ever work?
03:29
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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So, so I,
03:31
I missed a lot of,
03:32
Thanksgiving dinners because I would have to leave earlier than
03:35
usual when I was working black Fridays.
03:38
What? Wait, so I was gonna say,
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I feel like a lot of stores are closed now on Thanksgiving
03:42
So you work?
03:43
Well, yeah, now you know everything is online but back
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then I had to pull up,
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you know, set up the store with the squad.
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If the company cared about you,
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you had a nice breakfast waiting for you there.
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Sometimes you didn't like,
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I'm not gonna say the company I worked for but you know
03:59
like who the hell is eating Domino's at 10 a.m. Oh
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Y'all really got me cheesy bread at 10 a.m. Like come on
04:08
like I've been up since 5 a.m. though.
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So it's kinda like,
04:12
what is it in Chorro?
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I mean, how about you,
04:15
Lisa? How was the,
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how was the Black Fridays for you,
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man? Like working or not working?
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I hated it because I worked at a coffee shop and so
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everyone would stop by before going to their shop and like,
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oh where are you going to go shopping?
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I'm like, I'm here.
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What the fuck? Like why would you ask?
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It's like, you know,
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like on things that she should be like,
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oh my God you believe you guys are open.
04:35
It's like, yeah,
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well, because of you like what the fuck?
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Oh This makes me a little bit sad because I just love
04:41
chaos. Sorry. And this seems really chaotic.
04:45
It also seems so meme friendly.
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Like I think we need to bring back Black Friday.
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I think Black Friday is essential to character development.
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I think it's humbling and I think my generation needs that frankly
04:58
Sorry, not to shit on it,
05:00
but we got it handed to us.
05:01
OK. What do you mean?
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We don't have to wait in line anymore.
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I mean, to me,
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listen, I'm a diva and to me,
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I see a line and check out line,
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I'm skin, I'm ordering it and it's coming to my house
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the next morning already already.
05:15
I literally, I mean,
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like you said, Black Friday doesn't happen anymore.
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I never really got to experience it.
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I want to experience it.
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I want to be on the news because I got the cheapest
05:23
TV, in the target.
05:25
You know what? And it's good for the economy.
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Look at the malls,
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bro. All the malls.
05:30
Yeah. Since we're all working about the economy,
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I think, I think they just need to pull stuff and
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just make it in person.
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Like yo you want this toy,
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you want this Elmo that can dance,
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but out there you gotta come into the store and buy it
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like we're not selling it.
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The other thing we gotta stop like making stores completely different.
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Like the shitty version is the in person shopping experience and on
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it's got everything you want.
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Everything you need, every size you need,
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everything is online. Nothing is in store.
05:58
Cut the shit. I wanna go and I wanna shop and
06:01
I wanna see the clothes.
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I wanna try the clothes on.
06:03
Bring that back. I'm sick and tired of online shopping.
06:06
Maybe, maybe, maybe we'll,
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we'll, we'll Black Friday lunch and we'll have a,
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we'll fight for lunch later.
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We'll make it like a little line,
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you know. And then right when you're about to get yours
06:17
oh, give it a little taste of it.
06:18
We'll give you a little taste of Black Friday.
06:20
You know, like 1000%.
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Like lunch is served.
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You're about to eat and you swipe it,
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it was on sale.
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Sorry, I'd really appreciate that.