why is Black Friday called Black Friday and why are we not participating let’s talk about that I’m Houston I’m Titus I’m Leo boy I’m glad John frum to see good mythical more mythical morning this episode is brought to you by the redolent community go to Rhett link comm click home beast and then find yourself in a wide world of awesome things that happen that I’m actually afraid to be a part of look what you shook is this related to me and it’s related to you a little weird don’t you go over there all the time you’re going over there right after this yeah I’m okay yeah I don’t feel weird I feel flattered and thanks for contributing to forms communities pictures all all types of great stuff it’s awesome it’s awesome Dorsett also Black Friday and listen link you know what’s happening right now there people are shopping people are getting on people are worked up pushing on each other’s I want that and then I think it Xbox is Xbox not even nobody cares about that right now but you know but you never get that we you uncle push the tap and go ahead that kind of thing you know that’s what’s going on right now how much are they going for I’m a little interested in that but yeah I mean I just I’m on the sideline it’s like it’s like they become people become animals just to get a deal and it starts earlier and earlier everything some of you are watching on your phones right now and you’re liking some line and you’ve got a big pile of stuff and a cart and you’re you’re giving people the evil eye and you’re looking at people’s stuff and you’re thinking about stealing it and you’re don’t do it using weapons and stuff and it’s no listen let’s keep it clean I’m gonna sign oh why they call it Black Friday and I cuz I’ve been doing some research actually well somebody else did some research and I just read an article oh really that’s pretty much what our research comes down to hey well that’s okay you don’t have to admit that and we’ve got a link to this article into the script I actually have thought about that why you’re good called Black Friday what do you think it is and then give you the real reason well I think I knew that you were gonna tell me so I want go and come up with a theory and sound like an idiot well I’ll just guess uncle John I’ll get you I’ll get you a we you if you I’ll go kill someone to get a wiiu if if you Oh God if you guess correctly um Black Friday uh I really don’t know because it starts at night before the Sun even comes up so it makes you feel safe to go out in the dark because it’s well how can it be Black Friday if it’s during the day right so as to start in the dark when it’s black outside that’s interesting theory horribly wrong but actually it’s funny because I’ve never looked out my window by the way and said look it’s black outside it would be called dark Friday yeah so there goes my theory am i right no you’re not right uh because I don’t I don’t you think they started doing it like before the Sun came up I think that the time has moved earlier and earlier and earlier over the years daylight savings acting like the 60s the cumulative effect of daylight savings time right when it when it started they just it was just in the morning well here’s the reason okay first of all a lot of people will say and you will hear this said in fact this has become the accepted reason for why Black Friday is called Black Friday whisper it to me and I’ll say it no and that is because this is when retailers get into the black in other words they have a profit they’ve been in there as opposed to the red they’ve been in the red they’ve been in a deficit and now they’re gonna make a profit they’re gonna get into the black and that is what a retailer will tell you now because it sounds cool and it sounds like it makes sense and way and it sounds like you’re doing something for them oh yeah I’m gonna go out and shop this day because it’s gonna help them get in the black you know I want good old K mark to be in the black not in the red I’m doing this for you Kay well it’s not it hasn’t it that’s what the reason the stated reason is now but it actually before it was called Black Friday for why it’s called Black Friday now it was in the 60s in Philadelphia but basically what they used to do is they would all the retailers and this is across America the retailers would have Thanksgiving Day parades it wasn’t just like a Macy’s thing but it was just like your department store in your town okay would have a Thanksgiving Day Parade and then they say and then the last Flo the Thanksgiving Day Parade is of course the Black Friday for Santa Claus it’s the Christmas float it’s Santa Claus yeah and when sent when the Santa Claus float came out that was the beginning of the holiday shopping season he wore a black suit no so what ended up happening is that especially in Philadelphia in the in the 60s is that there would be all these people in town to shop but then there’s they would have the army-navy football game on Saturday that Saturday and so I’ve got this Friday in between there there’s all these people in town all the cops and all the taxi drivers are having to worry about all these people and now all of a sudden the retailers start doing this sale and so it would be super congested and it would be a headache for everybody and so that is caught they started calling it Black Friday like they hated it yeah it had a negative connotation and so and then of course they were just like well you know let’s come up with a better way to come up with why it’s called Black Friday and the retailers were like let’s not have to tell this story about Philadelphia let’s just say it’s because it’s when we’re trying to get into the black that’s what this guy on the internet said wait by the way leave it by the way neither explanation is as riveting as I was hoping that you would get because you get up early and it’s still dark the my @u let’s just go with mine I mean at least it’s at least it doesn’t make enough sense I guess you can’t make it out that’s kind of what they did but what I want to talk about is the fact that neither of us are going to participating antibody decided and I’m deciding currently I do not believe I have ever shopped on Black Friday I I went one year and just for the fluke of it I said you know what I never go out on Black Friday I’m just gonna do it I’m just gonna I’m gonna see and I remember going to Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh North Carolina the biggest mall in the biggest part of Wake County and that’s what they call themselves biggest parking lot and I could not find a parking parking space mm-hmm and that was horrible you just went home and then I you know I sent Christy in and I just kept I just kept traveling kept like a like a fisherman Oh former motor sounded leash were you dragging something leg around trying to catch shrimp dragging a cinderblock behind it behind my car I never got out of the car man it was just bedlam I’m really in general I am so averse to shopping by by in no way am I going to try to go out on the on the worst day of shopping I can’t go out shopping in general and have a good feeling about it even if I’m if you know if there’s nobody there and it’s not even about the people shopping is just a horrifying thing for me really quiet this is kind of well I don’t I don’t know the exact wise but I do know the symptoms I know that from the moment I step into any shopping zone be it up mom’s owned be the mall being a store beat a parking lot or anything it’s as if I have one of those power meters that you see on like video games like video games like Street Fighter we’ve got like a power meter over the time I call it health bar ever tell me every time you get hit it’s like Duke it goes down from the moment I step into a shopping zone my meter just starts taken away it’s just like literally life is being sucked out of me to be in a shopping place is traumatic and there’s lots of men like this I mean if you ever walk down a mall you see that they have they have like chairs positioned outside of stores and just miserable men see to their whose their energy has been entirely too bleak Clarissa snapping on that bench yeah I mean there’s there’s zombified men sitting in front of Victoria’s Secret and they’re not even looking at the at the Victoria’s Secret placards you know something’s wrong them on the minitor foot crew eyes roll back in their head placards not even looking at the victoria plaque we need a new placard okay I uh I hate it I also hate shopping for I don’t know different you didn’t really say Wyatt deplete shirt I said I don’t know why it just does it’s like I know why I’m being pummeled I know why and I have a literal literal health issue with with shopping and that is is when I go to a mall you inevitably have to walk through one of those department stores you know to get into the better part of the mall yeah we’re talking like a like Dillard’s or a Bell Cora Macy’s Macy’s did you say Dillard’s is that still around I think so and as soon as I’m in there my eyes are really expensive and they’re really sensitive to makeup and I know you’re going to perfume and there’s all this perfume in there until as soon as I get into the department store and then by the time I get to the better part of the mall I’m like I look like I’m crying yeah when you leave the department store and you have to pass through like a fog of these women so I don’t think they sprayed it you can’t get they spray it on other people but then you have to look but I think it more be AIT’s the whole mall because because you test getting in the mall for 30 minutes or so you can ask my wife she’s like yeah I can tell ya I’m gonna call her and you start and don’t do that but couple that with this now we all know I’m a big man and usually if I’m at the mall and I’m shopping and I have decided to actually go it’s because I need to get some clothes for myself right and I’m very difficult to fit and this is exactly what happens I go to a store and I will pick out 15 I’m not joking I pick out the maximum number of things that you can take into the dressing room let’s say that’s 12 to 15 things whatever it is I go into the dressing room I try on all of them and there is a 94% chance that not one of them will even fit me it’ll like like it’ll be like long enough for this and then it’ll be like up here on the sleeves or be long enough for here and it’ll be like a midriff you know it sells here is your problem and so instead then I’m just getting mad I just get mad like why can’t they fit at all man everybody’s not big and tall some people are just tall where’s the tow man’s story I started saying things like this and so and like the woman’s outside of the dressing room like hearing you and then and so now I’m just a man who looks like it’s just a depleted soul I’m crying first of all because of the perfume and then I’m mad and I’m with I just look like a miserable man with my family so thanks what shopping is so then you sit down in front of the Victoria’s Secret good I don’t wanna sleep your eyes roll back in your head Black Friday people it you know move move through it at your own risk yeah good luck to you you’ll be sitting there crying on the bench we’ll be here when you get back you know we’ll be waiting for you you’re going to take part in Cyber Monday hi that depletes me too interpretive dance whose turn is it I think it’s my turn what you take this you leave this one on the way over cuz it’s fine it’s Friday and I look out my window and I see that it’s still dark oh I gotta go I gotta get to Walmart gotta get the Walmart oh I’m there look at the crowd it’s a sea of angry people they all want the Wii U and then the guy comes on says hey it’s not here do we use the here yet we’ll be here for a couple of months and then I look into I look at the woman next to me and I see a Wii U in her purse somehow she got one she’s not looking I’m gonna grab it oh she has struck me with her umbrella right in the eye it hurts so bad now I’m crying now I’m going home