Advent 2025 E3 - Black Friday...

A micro dose of smart ass nodes to listen while it snows.

December 3rd um yet another topic that many many a great many people love.

Uh but jen pancake really hates black friday yeah black friday sucks do you

have to be black to shop on Black Friday?

Pancake, let's keep your racist rants quiet. I'm just asking.

Actually, I think he was just possessed by Grandma Pancake.

Yeah, right. Grandma Pancake, she is racist, and she definitely was.

Like, I get why they do it, or maybe, or whatever, but like...

So, it wasn't always like this.

So, it used to just be you had nothing to do the day after Thanksgiving,

because everyone was off. And you're like, with your family,

who don't probably want to be around that long. So it used to just be,

hey, we're just going to go shopping tomorrow. It's the holiday season. It'll be fun.

Well, it used to be. People used to enjoy it, and I worked retail.

But then... Where at? I worked at the Disney store.

Holy shit. You guys didn't know this? This is a revelation, my friend.

I think, right? I did not know this. I was the guy. Oh, my God.

Do you still have the uniform?

Put that on. I don't. I got rid of that.

It wasn't much of a uniform. It was just a denim shirt. At the mall?

At the Southlake Mall. Oh, man. You worked in the mall? That's coveted, man.

Jerry likes that. I always wanted to work in the mall. I had to work mall adjacent.

I wasn't good enough for the...

I was just in the outer loop of the mall. Were you in high school?

No, it was my second job out of high school. I was a bank teller for a year,

and then I worked at the Disney store for four years. They let you work at a bank?

Why didn't you want to just be a bank teller forever?

You could own a bank right now, probably.

Because they cut my hours to four a week, and I had nothing like that.

Bank tellers don't really move up, I don't think, do they?

They do, but the guy who ran my branch was also a fucking asshole.

He was accused of sexual harassment multiple times. Oh, so he probably runs

the whole bank now? No, he actually got fired from that bank,

but they used to call our branch the Barbie branch because they used to have

the young, attractive women working there.

So I think he was playing great. Which one was it?

It was, well, they're closed now, so fuck them. It was First National Bank in Portage.

It's now a first source, but you know where the Dunkin' Donuts is?

Catty Corner? That was my branch. Dunkin' Donuts. Okay. Anyway, we're going.

We don't have time to. Anyway, it used to be normal, but then all the marketing people,

well, if we get them in the stores early and then

they used to do the like if you're there so the disney store was

infamous if you were there before 10 o'clock they'd give you

an extra 25 off your order or your

shopping well i guess that's fine and then everyone

else that's when the door's a lot off i know

well if you got there at 6 a.m when you're when your merchandise is

one million dollars but yeah that too but i

mean it was not unheard of to have like five

but then my manager always put me in charge like five

six hundred dollar transactions black friday we cleaned up

well i should say disney corporation cleaned

up josh graham didn't see shit of course

you didn't no one ever sees shit that's the

point why do we give a crap about whether they make their red line black or

whatever well it's black because that's the do you know the source of the name

yeah well isn't that what it is they want to get it to get into the black so

they used to they called it Black Friday was because that was the day that most

retail stores went from the red to the black.

I understand that, but you know what? Fuck all of them. I don't care.

Well, also they say if you- We should be going to Indy Indy Bang Bang.

Amen. Or we should be going to- Somewhere local. Somewhere local.

Your local drug dealer probably could use the money. Or you should go to your

local artisans and buy their crafts. Yeah. Or how about this? Not crap.

Don't buy homemade alcohol from anyone. No. Not recommended. No.

But- I would totally do that. But I love- No, Indy Indy Bang Bang,

I know they're one of our sponsors for this, and God bless them,

but they have, you literally go in there and I will buy just cards for birthdays

and Christmas, all that because they have great ones.

For any listeners out there, I want everything in that store.

So that is always an option. I especially like the socks. They have a lot of

cool socks. Great socks.

I have a pair I bought from there that says, I guess saying go fuck yourself

would not be professional. Yeah.

Jerry's favorite, Nobody Cares. Nobody Cares. I got those socks there and they

look like the Bears socks.

You got pizza socks, all kinds of socks. All kinds.

They're awesome. But yes, Black Friday, also a tip to our listeners.

If you wait, usually you will get almost the same exact deals a couple weeks

later. Still well in time for Christmas.

It's all garbage anyways, except for those big screen TVs.

We got to clean up on those. I just saw a 65-inch high-def 4K TV in Meijer today. I think it was $85.

Are you serious? I swear to God. Well, I got that one. The mighty TV industry has fallen.

That you can't see. I mean, it might have been a fit for a price for him. In the so cool studios.

It's a 65-inch. It was $200 out the door.

I'm not sure. And that was a couple years ago. I mean, like,

I really hate just almost everything about Christmas, but Black Friday might

be one of, like, it's high up there on my list.

Yeah, it's not fun. I don't think it's fun to work on Black Friday.

I'm never going overnight. That's insane. Actually, it wasn't bad.

Because I got there early enough and like I said, my boss is just like,

just run the registers. You stay up there all day. Keep that going well.

Working it, as long as you didn't have to move around, as long as you didn't

have to do a whole lot of effort, which I didn't because I had to lock down, it's not bad.

I went to a Black Friday sale once because we were going to get my grandfather

a computer, and Best Buy had one for like $200. Oh, yeah, yeah. Did you take a tent?

No. We drove up. I walked in, immediately walked right back out,

said, we're going home. Sorry, Grandpa.

You're not going to be able to look at the porn tonight. Yeah,

I know. So speaking of Black Friday Black Friday sounds like the seventh circle

of hell I'm just gonna say that Sorry, Chrissy Kringle, a.k.a.

Chrissy Count Chalk No offense So speaking of Black Friday SoCoolShirts.com

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or fifth shirt. So you can just buy a bunch.

All right. There you go. Shop local. Yeah. Cyber Monday.