November 26, 2025 • 45 mins
The turkey isn’t even cold yet and the group chat is already asking who’s lining up for doorbusters. We pull back the curtain on Black Friday with first-hand stories from the retail floor, from walkie-coordinated openings to the hard lessons that taught stores how to keep crowds safe. If you’ve ever wondered whether that 3 a.m. sprint is worth it, we’ve got the context, the cautionary tales, and smarter strategies that actually save money without sacrificing sleep.
We explore how the frenzy evolved: midnight openings fading, Cyber Monday swelling, and mobile checkout turning couches into checkouts. But it’s not just tech and timing. We dig into what people really want to unwrap now—smart TVs, laptops, noise-canceling headphones, robot vacuums—and when a mid-tier brand beats a hyped name. We talk toys old and new, from Tickle Me Elmo and Cabbage Patch chaos to today’s evergreen Legos and the rise of creator merch from YouTube stars that Gen Alpha treats like team colors. If you’ve felt lost in endless product pages, we help you pick with purpose.
There’s also a case for shopping small. Unique mugs crafted by local artists, limited-run prints, custom hoodies, and thoughtful pieces that carry a story—these gifts outlast the algorithm. We share tips for mixing in-store and online, using price history and alerts, and even waiting until after the holiday to catch deeper markdowns and better size selection. Along the way, you’ll hear outlet legends, crowd-control insights, and the best times to park, glide in, and skip the chaos.
Hit play, get a plan, and shop with intention. If you enjoy the show, follow, share it with a friend who still camps out for TVs, and leave a quick review to help more savvy shoppers find us. What’s your Black Friday strategy this year—lining up or logging in?
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SPEAKER_00 (00:11):
Woo!
SPEAKER_01 (00:12):
What's up?
Welcome, my friends.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Yes.
What up, fellas?
I'm doing great.
Cool beans.
All right.
Great to be here.
So this week.
Yes, another one.
Another one.
SPEAKER_04 (00:26):
Is the week of Thanksgiving.
Right.
If you're listening to it onpodcast day, the day we drop the
podcast tomorrow isThanksgiving.
Exactly.
So and the my favorite holiday.
The topic, yes.
Yeah.
Really?
Just like get together, family,friend.
I don't like havingmotherfuckers in that.
(00:46):
I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_01 (00:46):
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_04 (00:48):
So the topic actually is going to be about
holiday shopping.
Black Friday.
As soon as Thanksgiving over,Thanksgiving's over, that's what
it becomes.
SPEAKER_05 (00:56):
Black Friday.
Yeah.
Everybody gets uh Black Friday.
Does anybody do the linesanymore?
You know?
I think some people still do.
No.
The lines, you know, because noweverything's online so much now
that you can do it on the body.
SPEAKER_01 (01:09):
I think they still do like like Yeah.
They still do them.
They still have the peoplerushing, but it's not the same
kind of I think depending on thestore.
Because depending on the store.
So like going into Wally Worldand stuff like that.
You know, Target that they'llhave lines and stuff to come in.
I haven't gone black uh Fridayshopping in an easy 15 years.
Okay.
Like literally.
SPEAKER_04 (01:29):
Yeah, Tara used to like religiously go.
SPEAKER_05 (01:32):
Tanya and her sister and her her daughter, they
always did it.
They always did it.
I done it I also had to workthrough it.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, me too.
At night?
Yeah, because I had worked forTarget at the time.
Oh, and that's probably supposedto say that it's not a big deal.
But I did work for them.
And you had to, you know, yougot the holiday off, but then
you had to come in early in thatmorning, like five in the
(01:52):
morning.
Oh, okay.
Just step ready for Black Fridayshopping because people out
online waiting and all thisother stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, I've done that a quitea few times actually.
Yes.
Well you would you said youworked V tail before, right?
SPEAKER_04 (02:04):
Yeah, same thing.
You know, worked for a big boxstore.
And, you know, they they thesame thing of people lining up
at the entrance.
Because and I think uh the bigbox stores still do that.
They have like a special deal,but like it's gotta be they only
get like a handful of thosethings in.
It's just to draw people.
And then there's other salesonce it's out, it's out.
(02:25):
Sometimes or sometimes they haveit depends.
But like, yeah, sometimesthey'll have like you know 200
of whatever it is.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (02:32):
Well, because yeah, but because the sale usually
lasts the entire week.
SPEAKER_04 (02:35):
It's just the anchor to get people to the Because the
sale lasts the entire week.
SPEAKER_01 (02:38):
So then they'll end up getting more.
Like they'll be on the delivery.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
And I'll tell you what, man, ifyou've never gone Black Friday
shopping, it is insane.
Yeah, it depends on where yougo, too.
SPEAKER_04 (02:50):
I mean, it's like the Twilight Zone because like
you get up like, so like I wouldget up to go to work that
morning, and it's like there'sregular traffic on the road at
like three in the morning.
SPEAKER_02 (03:02):
You're like, what the heck is going on?
SPEAKER_04 (03:04):
Why is bananas?
SPEAKER_02 (03:05):
Why is there regular traffic at 3 a.m.?
SPEAKER_01 (03:08):
Let's go.
I'm like, yo, what the fuck?
Yeah, it was like over inMiddletown, bro.
It's right off of 84 and 84 andRoute 17.
And yo, the traffic was, I mean,like there was no, like you
couldn't drive anywhere.
You hit the guns and shit atearly hours.
At like midnight.
Yeah.
One o'clock in the morning.
SPEAKER_04 (03:27):
I worked in Middletown as well.
And that's the thing that youknow, now they do.
I mean, I think they're startingto ease back on it.
But I know that like the the themidnight openings and or like
the like some of them were openlike like 10 o'clock on
Thanksgiving.
Right.
Like opening super early.
But I don't think they're doingthat anymore.
I think a lot of people werelike, Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (03:44):
Well, I think they too.
I don't think the mall isopening up like that.
I'm it's I haven't been there soI don't think it's as open.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_05 (03:49):
I think it's taken the other direction for sure.
SPEAKER_04 (03:51):
People are doing a lot of online stuff now.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, that too is like onlinesales are good.
They got Cyber Monday.
Cyber Monday and all that.
SPEAKER_01 (03:58):
And I think that's another thing that has switched
up how many lines, how long thelines are gonna be, or how many,
you know, people are rushing,because now you're able to go to
all those to get all that stuffshipped to your house.
Right.
You know what I mean?
It's it's it's true, you don'thave to deal with it.
Now you're dealing with onlineand go to whatever.
SPEAKER_04 (04:17):
I feel like if you're going for like the door
buster stuff.
Yeah, if you if you reallybigger.
Then you gotta camp out for it.
But like to me, to me, like howmuch money do I really need to
fucking save?
Right.
To like uh to camp out.
SPEAKER_03 (04:31):
Like I it better be like a like like they're like
the stores losing money becausethat's how cheap it is.
Right.
You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04 (04:40):
Like the like the manufacturer, like the lowest
price is a hundred dollars,they're selling this rating.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (04:47):
Yeah, no, no, I feel you.
But it's the thrill.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I guess I mean it's the one yes,it's the super adventure.
Because so, like when I had doneit, it was some of the ladies
that I had, well the one one ofthe times that I had done it,
one of the ladies, a couple ofthe ladies that I was working
with, they're like, You comingwith us.
And I was I was on a shift.
And I'm like, Yeah, yeah,whatever.
Don't bother coming to get me.
(05:08):
Dude, on their way out, theytook my car keys because they
were coming back to pick me up.
So then I had to go with them togo Black Friday shopping.
So I'm driving with them allover the place, and I'm like,
you guys, and they're all happyand they're excited, and you
know, they're elbowing peopleand trying to muscle their way
through to get some of the shit.
I'm like, yo, this is whatyou're doing.
(05:28):
So now it's like two o'clock inthe morning, three o'clock in
the morning.
I'm starving.
So at the Walmart over here inMiddletown, they have a subway.
SPEAKER_05 (05:36):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (05:37):
So I was like, yo, hold this stuff, I'll be right
back.
I go, I get, and I had the theyhad the cart, the shopping cart.
And I went, I got two foot longsand a shoulder.
And I'm eating what I'mfollowing them cutting through.
And they're like, they'reeating.
I'm like, I'm starving, bro.
I didn't get a chance to gohome.
Excuse me, sir, there's noeating in the store.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, you guys arefreaking insane.
But no, man, it's a it's it isit's a thrill, it's a little bit
(05:59):
of a rush.
And and then when you go, thereis a little bit of excitement to
it, right?
But like what Tom is saying,though, is it really like I I I
don't think that there's enoughof a deal that I can't get at
eight o'clock in the morning oryou know, noontime, you know,
for me to have to be up and onlybe so many of whatever their big
(06:19):
deal is anyway, typically.
Right, because they and theystarted getting away from the
city.
SPEAKER_05 (06:26):
Whoever's on the beginning of the line, most of
those.
SPEAKER_01 (06:28):
Right, would end up in the first hundred people
would be able to get it, youknow, because then they have to
stock up for the next two orthree days because then that
truck wasn't gonna come in,right, you know, or or whatever
else.
And it was crazy how they usedto stock up.
It's just it's bananas, bro.
Just thinking about how peoplelike really jump like they're up
and they've got their coupons onand they got everything ready
because we're going and we'regonna be there.
(06:49):
I'm like, yeah, no, bro.
SPEAKER_04 (06:51):
But what's wild is the op when they open the doors,
the opening, the rock.
Yes.
I mean, at the big box stores.
But when I got to experience andyou know, because I would never
do it myself, but working there,you don't have a choice.
Yeah, right.
And like you see, when they openthe doors up, they you know,
they got the handheld radiosbecause they opened the doors at
the same time.
SPEAKER_00 (07:09):
So because then that one's doing it up because
everything's on walkie.
SPEAKER_03 (07:14):
Everything's on walkie.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (07:15):
So when they open the doors, it was like we used
to have to tell them we wouldwalk the lines, like there would
be people outside walking theline and then kind of just in
the front of the store, and theypeople would talk to you.
I feel like that answer would belike oh, we're rushing.
No.
They you have to tell themlisten, no running.
We're gonna let you in so manyat a time.
(07:36):
They controlled the line.
They didn't allow the crowd totake the initiative they did.
But then we're gonna let you in,but we gotta do it this way.
Otherwise, it's gonna be peopleare gonna push through each
other, man.
SPEAKER_01 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Fucking A, bro.
Yeah, people people haveactually been killed.
Like, see some of those films?
SPEAKER_06 (07:54):
You ever see some of those videos of the game?
Dude, you're gonna be able to doit.
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04 (08:00):
I think that was uh one of the one of the thousands.
We ever watched Thousand Ways toDie?
That was none of them.
SPEAKER_05 (08:04):
Was it really shop and got trampled up?
SPEAKER_01 (08:07):
Oh my god.
Yeah, and the fist fights,people fighting in there.
Oh, yeah.
That's mine, I'm getting thatgetting my toy back, blah, blah,
blah, blah, you know, and yeah,later for that shit, bro.
Yeah, no, later.
No.
SPEAKER_05 (08:18):
And and it's it it's definitely grown.
It's it's progressed from whereit was to where it is now, you
know what I mean?
But people used to get crazythough.
They would bring tents.
Yeah.
You know?
SPEAKER_01 (08:28):
That was the dumbest shit ever.
Like, and they would hang out,and they I know So you spend
your fucking thirty your turkey,instead of being in your house,
you sit and camp the fuck out infront of a store.
SPEAKER_05 (08:37):
People got excited about it.
SPEAKER_06 (08:38):
Like, I want to get this TV, or they wanted to get
this new Xbox or whatever systemwas out.
SPEAKER_04 (08:44):
Xboxes.
That's the thing, yeah.
The PlayStation when the newsystems come out.
That's a camp out situation.
Yeah.
Everybody is at that when theywhen they release a new video
game, there no matter who ispeople are camping out for that.
You can't just like walk into astore and buy one the day it
(09:05):
releases.
Like there's pre-orders.
There's people at the mallwaiting for the mall to open.
I didn't one of my friends,because he wanted to sell it on
eBay.
He's like, oh, let's go.
What's happening to venture?
Like he wanted me to keep himcompany.
So all right, we'll go.
And it was like, it was, it wasa shit show.
Yeah, it's nuts.
And not only was it a shit show,like security messed everything
up.
Like, everybody wait here.
(09:26):
And, you know, and but thenpeople were waiting on the oh
and then like they let thepeople in, and then people who
were waiting, like, didn't gettheir cis.
It was like so messed up.
Yeah, see.
They mishandled it.
SPEAKER_05 (09:37):
When uh when I did my first when I did my first
Thanksgiving overnight, youknow, for Target, we would it
was early in the morning and wedid it where they would stand in
the mall.
You know how you walk in themall and you walk into that
store that way?
So they're like, all right, whatyou're gonna do is just let
everybody know that when youwhen you get in there, tell them
(09:57):
no running and all this othershit, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
When I turn, I I they open thegate, I go under, turn around
and look, and it felt like I wasin a zombie movie.
Because all these people werestanding right there, they'd
like this look on their face.
SPEAKER_06 (10:13):
And it was like, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05 (10:18):
So then you had to walk up the line and tell
people, please don't run, justtake it easy, they're gonna let
you know, just explaineverything.
SPEAKER_06 (10:24):
But it was kind of like when you turn around,
you're like, oh man.
SPEAKER_01 (10:28):
No, I'd have walked up to the line, okay, no
running, we're doing that.
They didn't have one yet, theydidn't have one.
No, no, no running and I'mdigging in my head, but it was
like a zombie.
SPEAKER_02 (10:37):
When you walk up to the door, they all start getting
because then you're gonna openthe freaking door.
SPEAKER_05 (10:45):
Like, wait, wait, wait, not opening yet.
Get easy, relax, breathe, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (10:49):
Bro, that is.
SPEAKER_05 (10:50):
In through the nose, out through the mouth.
SPEAKER_01 (10:52):
No, no.
I worked in, I did a uh wasworking at a at well a a music
store uh for Black Friday, andmy boss did the early one, but
they were getting in, I thinkthey got in at like 11 o'clock,
the first crew at night.
And then they opened up forBlack Friday because we weren't
too far from the from the mall.
This was in Florida.
(11:13):
All right.
So then it was hoping, they werehoping that what would happen is
the instead of people rushing tothe mall, they would come to the
record store because we soldvideos and in the laser discs
and stuff like that.
That's how far back that shitgoes so with CDs and laser
discs.
Yeah, remember that?
Oh my god.
So that was a thing that people,you know, they used to be.
(11:35):
RCA.
RCA, yes.
So that then they, you know, wewere hoping that that would be
the overflow.
The people would come to therecord store to or the music
store to buy them.
SPEAKER_04 (11:44):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (11:45):
What was the commercial of the 90s?
SPEAKER_04 (11:48):
Where he was like Memorex.
SPEAKER_01 (11:49):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Is it live or is it memorix?
Is it live or is it memorix?
Yeah.
And he's got the wind blowing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
From the sneaker to just got thespeaker right in front of him.
Yeah.
It's like, yeah.
Yeah.
And he would slide across, hecaught his, he would catch the
drink drink.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (12:06):
That was such a cool commercial back in the day.
SPEAKER_05 (12:08):
That was the shift back in the day.
Yeah, yeah.
My show.
And everybody always got those,or um, what was the other tape
that people advertisement?
SPEAKER_01 (12:16):
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_05 (12:17):
And it was around for a long, way long time.
SPEAKER_01 (12:20):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (12:20):
Because I remember it most of my Oh, that
commercial?
Young, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (12:24):
Yeah, they aired that commercial for years.
Yeah, yeah.
Because it was so good.
Like, why?
Yeah.
Why make a new one?
We got some work to do.
SPEAKER_01 (12:32):
There's a lot of memory.
Great, man.
You ever been to the WoodburyCommons to go shopping?
Oh, yeah.
On Black Friday?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I've done that.
SPEAKER_04 (12:39):
No, Madame Commons is great.
I think she may have.
Just I want to say, just forthose who don't know, Woodbury
Commons is outlet shopping up inNew York.
Yeah.
So around the Harriman area,right?
No.
SPEAKER_01 (12:50):
Harriman Monroe.
It's right off of Exit 16.
SPEAKER_04 (12:53):
They got the deals because they got the outlet
stuff.
SPEAKER_01 (12:55):
They have, and it's a big outdoor outlet.
Man, the Nike store, holy shit.
It was like it was like walkinginto a concert, like the line,
because it was just that zigzag.
Um Uggs store, the same thing.
All the all the sporting stores,they all had that.
The bad thing is that they'renot inside.
They're all outside.
Yes, it's an outdoor shoppingmall, I guess we'll call it like
(13:18):
that.
Man, but it was great.
I I went there only just to gosee what it was, how crazy it
got.
And they have people that werethey already had staff working
from eight o'clock the nightbefore.
So on Christmas, I mean inChristmas, on Thanksgiving, you
would come into work at eight,nine o'clock at night.
So this way you can, you know,help set up the store and
whatnot.
(13:39):
They had security, the police,and uh traffic cops.
Right.
You know, that was directingpeople.
So that's how many people showedup to it.
That's how many people wouldshow up.
People used to park across thestreet because there's a school
across the street.
So people would park across thestreet in the in the schoolyard.
Like the cops had set that up.
Yeah, man, it was it's bananas.
But it was fun.
(13:59):
It was fun.
For me, I had a good time, but Ilike just walking through and
just taking all that shit out.
Yeah.
So now, but you said you'vebeen, you've never been, you
said, right, Lou?
What do you mean?
You never went Black Fridayshopping?
Like actually just go, or youjust went Friday?
I think I might have done itonce.
I can't remember.
SPEAKER_05 (14:12):
But I did it all the time when it came to doing the
work.
SPEAKER_01 (14:15):
Right, right.
SPEAKER_05 (14:15):
You worked at actually shopping.
SPEAKER_01 (14:17):
Yeah, yeah.
And you only shopped.
I mean, you only worked at two,you said?
SPEAKER_04 (14:20):
Yeah, I've never shopped Black Friday.
Well, I I mean, I've gone likelater in the evening after like
the mess is done.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
But I've never done like morningor before the sun comes out, you
know, it's not that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:35):
I will tell you when I went, it was around the time
when Tickle me Elmo was theshit.
SPEAKER_05 (14:39):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_01 (14:40):
And people were going, yo, they really went
crazy because then it wasn'tthey didn't have the actual
tickle tickle me elmo, themoving one, that they ended up
getting all the stuffed animalsand all the little ones, like
the the little super small dolluh tickle me elmo dolls, and I
was like, what the hell?
People were literally fighting.
Like they were holding it, likehugging on that.
(15:02):
Like it was water.
Yeah.
And I'm like, what the fuck?
You need to survive over atickle me elmo?
Are you kidding me right now?
Yeah, but it was like that forthe cabbage patch kids way back
in the day.
Back in the day.
SPEAKER_05 (15:12):
Oh, yes.
So remember that same shit.
Yeah, but I don't think therewas any Black Friday back then.
Yeah, there was.
No, no, there was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But was that was that like theit wasn't like it it progressed
into what it was at work?
SPEAKER_01 (15:23):
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
It wasn't like nothing, yeah.
Black Friday wasn't the same,like you know, it was early
morning shopping kind of thing,you know, maybe opening up at
six, you know, in the morning oropening up at five.
SPEAKER_05 (15:32):
People probably would wait certain stores for
toys and stuff.
SPEAKER_01 (15:34):
Right, but to get to where people were there camp,
like Tom was saying, camping outthe night before, like, yeah,
no, no.
SPEAKER_04 (15:39):
But that was the first toy, I think, that was
like the black or like theholiday shopping, like the big
cabbage patch?
SPEAKER_05 (15:46):
Cabbage patch.
SPEAKER_01 (15:46):
Oh, cabbage patch, yeah.
That was a big deal.
No, man.
SPEAKER_05 (15:48):
Yeah.
And you had to get a big thing.
My mother bought a bunch ofthose, man.
SPEAKER_01 (15:51):
Yeah, my cousin wanted one and and my aunt had
to go and get her.
SPEAKER_05 (15:54):
To me, they were the ugliest things I've ever seen in
my life.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (15:56):
I wasn't a big fan of it.
SPEAKER_04 (15:59):
I I had got a knockoff cabbage patch.
And like my but like it was likenot like a knockoff where like
it was garbage dump?
Is what that was.
No, no, it was like it'sgarbage.
It wasn't like like the a legalknockoff where like it was like
I remember like someone likemaking me feel like a piece of
shit at like four years old.
They're like, Well, mine, look,yours isn't the real one because
(16:21):
it has the signature on thechest.
Yours is on the butt.
Yeah, yeah.
I was like, oh, nephew, youknow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (16:28):
This is childhood, uh childhood um uh bully shit
stuff that you're trauma fromyour bully.
Yeah, you're sharing right now.
SPEAKER_01 (16:35):
Well, because it came with the birth certificate,
right?
It came with all that shit.
All that kind of stuff.
There's like a seal on it.
Yeah.
Yep.
Golly, man, she's that's fuckinginsane.
Well, see, you guys never wentreally like well, I said I I
haven't done it in a long time.
And when I went, it was likesad.
But he was on that took on meElmo time.
And, you know, I don't I don'tremember all of the toys that
(16:58):
people were going that kind ofcrazy for.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, remember Teddy Ruxpin.
Teddy Ruxpin, you know, and thatwas like saying that was going
way down.
SPEAKER_05 (17:05):
That I got from my daughter when she was a baby.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (17:08):
Like the the PlayStations on my table.
Those things were like thosethings were like.
Yeah, they were.
They that's what I said.
There, maybe Tedusa.
Yeah.
Daddy Arabs gay.
SPEAKER_04 (17:17):
Remember that?
SPEAKER_01 (17:18):
Oh god.
That was uh that was that was uhmaking fun of the Teddy Ruxpin.
But they said that about the thecabbage patch uh cabbage patch
dolls too, yeah, that they werepossessed.
That they were fucking evil.
SPEAKER_04 (17:35):
They do look, they are creepy.
SPEAKER_01 (17:36):
They are creepy looking fucking dolls.
They are, man.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
But you know what?
It was a teddy bear, though.
SPEAKER_04 (17:41):
But you know what?
The the the the the toy crazefrom the holiday shopping, it w
got so out of hand that theyactually made a movie about it.
SPEAKER_03 (17:48):
He's put that cookie down now.
SPEAKER_02 (17:54):
You don't have to pull a smart nigga.
Oh my god.
What the movies that but jingleall the way.
Jingle all the way.
SPEAKER_01 (17:59):
Yes, yeah, we're gonna do it.
SPEAKER_02 (18:03):
He's talking to Phil Hartman.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (18:05):
Yes.
Oh my god, bro.
I can't believe you rememberthat movie.
SPEAKER_02 (18:09):
Uh about that shit.
You know, I know all the Arnoldmovies.
Yeah, I can't help it.
SPEAKER_01 (18:13):
I know.
I I just that was when I wasfucking hilarious.
SPEAKER_02 (18:15):
You know how me and my buddy Steve had voice
messages to each other.
Yeah, no, Arnold voice.
SPEAKER_01 (18:20):
Yeah, I hear so now I was looking up to see what was
this year's hottest toy.
Now, the funny Well BlackFriday.
Well, because here's the shit.
Toys aren't what they used tobe.
There's no more Toys at Rust,there's no more cage.
(18:40):
Well, there is in Canada.
Well, yeah, I'm I'm I don't evenknow they do like the Black
Friday like that.
I don't know, but I'm sorry.
Well there is, but I thinkthey're gonna be coming.
SPEAKER_05 (18:46):
I think they're coming back.
I think it's a good thing.
SPEAKER_04 (18:48):
Well, they're something American Dreamwall has
uh the toys in it.
SPEAKER_01 (18:51):
They do.
SPEAKER_04 (18:52):
But it it's not.
SPEAKER_01 (18:53):
That's what I'm saying.
Because I know like a Sears, notSears, A S.
Is it AS?
AS, you mean Sears.
I think it's A S in Manhattan.
They have uh they make a quoteunquote Toys of Rust corner up
in the up on their toys floor.
You know, where they do theSanta Claus and shit like that.
But it's not Toys of Rust.
Same thing with F.
A.
O.
Schwartz.
You know, FAO Schwartz, I knowyou guys have never been to the
(19:15):
F.
A.
O.
Schwartz.
Oh, yeah, I've been.
You went to the one in the cityback in the day where they did
the movie Big?
Yeah.
Have you been inside that?
That's like a homage as a kid ifyou're going to be.
SPEAKER_04 (19:24):
If you're gonna visit New York and you're sort
of, you know, you're gonna go toRockefeller Center, you gotta go
to the city.
Yeah, it goes to FAO SchwesterF.
AO Schwartz.
Yeah.
It's a little bit of a hike fromthere, but not too bad.
SPEAKER_01 (19:33):
Right.
And but it was amazing.
It was great.
They had the niftiest toys, likeeverything that if anybody ever
saw that movie Big, it wasexactly like that.
It was exactly like thePlayStation.
I mean, that was really the thatwas really, you know, it was
filmed in the store, but it wasjust like that all year round,
and it was amazing.
And then after a while, like,you know, the toys started to
fade out, and you know, theyonly did it like you know once a
(19:55):
year.
They're just different now thanfor.
But they don't promote the toysthe same way like when we were
kids, because we had Saturdaymorning cartoons and then they
would they would push it likethat.
SPEAKER_05 (20:05):
It's really more on the parents to get that stuff
from.
SPEAKER_01 (20:07):
You know what I mean?
Then we had the Sears catalog,you know, that you turn around
and see them.
We would get the um oh, I can'tthink of the name of the other
catalog we used to get in themail, and you'd be able to look
through and get the Sundaypaper.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And you would get all the flyersto the different stores and
whatnot, and you'd be able tolook.
So then I didn't even thinkabout it, but now even looking
for gifts is not the same.
(20:27):
Because like even now, me goingon the website on the Yeah, you
go on Amazon, you just go on onyour ad, you know, on the phone.
SPEAKER_04 (20:33):
Right.
But I'm just saying it's likenow you're gonna have to get the
colour.
Well, Target still makes thecatalog.
SPEAKER_01 (20:38):
Well, yeah, but I'm saying you have to know what
you're looking for.
So, example, you have the metaglasses.
So then now we would turn aroundand have to look in tech to find
out where to get the metaglasses.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
Now we would have to go look incosmetics, you know, for like
everything is so different forlike, you know, the the you
know, for some of the makeupstuff.
(20:59):
Like it's just depending on whatyou're looking for, that you
know, you'd have to sort of thennow there's so much to choose
from.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Yeah, like just the headphonesalone, for noise cancelling
headphones.
If you go into Best Buy, there'slike dude, I want to tell you
maybe 35, 40 headsets to pickfrom.
Well, look, check this out.
Here's some there.
SPEAKER_04 (21:19):
I got an amazing one.
I got mine's got high fidelityon it, it's got live support,
yeah, spatial audio.
SPEAKER_01 (21:25):
Yeah, it sounds better than a home theater.
Yeah, it sounds like it'samazing.
Yeah, and then it's the levelsof it because it goes.
SPEAKER_04 (21:33):
So you don't hear shit.
SPEAKER_01 (21:34):
Yeah, right, exactly.
I love it.
Yeah, you're on your zone, man.
You're getting your zone.
So you got the bows, right?
You have the the I have the onesthat I just the Soundcore or
whatever it's called.
Yep, Soundcore.
We have Bows, I said Bows,Beats, Sony, uh, I have
Soundscape.
It's Soundscape is another goodone too.
I mean, it's just Soundscape.
SPEAKER_04 (21:53):
I got sound, mine was like 150 bucks.
Yeah.
And it's a good one.
Yes.
With all the stuff that it has,that's those are in like the$300
range.
Yeah.
They sell the Soundscapes for$150 and they're good.
Yeah.
And it's and they're durable.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I dropped mine.
SPEAKER_01 (22:07):
It still works.
That's even my durable.
SPEAKER_05 (22:12):
Yeah.
Check it out.
These are the things that aresupposedly going to be the big
items.
Smart TVs, laptops, right?
Earbuds, streaming devices, homeappliances, vacuum, kitchen
gear.
Right?
SPEAKER_04 (22:23):
Robot vacuums, yeah.
Vacuums.
Robot vacuums, maybe.
Oh, robot vacuums.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (22:29):
Giftable gadgets and small ticket items, trackers,
earbuds, accessories, fashion,especially your trendy brands,
so whatever shoes and shit youlike.
SPEAKER_01 (22:37):
So we'll start to cut you off second.
Hang on, remember where you are.
Because then my question is, isit better to get the earbuds, or
is it better to get the over theheads?
You know what I mean?
Well, that's the better sound.
SPEAKER_05 (22:47):
I don't like earbuds, I like the regular
phones.
SPEAKER_01 (22:50):
Well, then I guess the eat, you know, it depends on
who likes what.
But again, I'm sorry, guys.
Right.
SPEAKER_05 (22:52):
So then the next one would be home decor, seasonal,
and whatever this, you know, sowhatever it is for you're
getting for the yard or thehouse or whatever.
But then it's got, you know,like they said, they had the
electronics.
Well, now did there's anythingin there about Apple AirTag,
Dyson is one of the vacuums,ACCOM.
You should dyson.
Dyson.
SPEAKER_01 (23:16):
Cyber Dyson systems.
That's funny as hell.
Because, well, see now, toys.
So for me with toys, I'm lookingright now.
You know, the one thing withtoys is the one thing I'm sorry
that doesn't die out is Legos.
Like everybody now because allwho?
Lincoln logs.
SPEAKER_02 (23:32):
Wow, do they still do the man?
SPEAKER_01 (23:34):
Well, I'm sorry, I meant more like the do the
Lincoln logs come the same way,like uh the the different things
you could build, the way thatthe Lego comes in, because like
Lincoln.
SPEAKER_05 (23:42):
Oh, Lincoln Logs, you're building stuff, you're
making uh logs, different cabinsand stuff like that.
But you it was always a fun toy.
I loved it.
I had it when I was a kid.
Well, I had and then I had likeLegos.
SPEAKER_01 (23:53):
Yeah, because the Legos, I mean, it's like the
Star Wars Legos, the MCU Legos,you know, then you get the
science ones, you got, you know,that they move, you got the
cars.
SPEAKER_04 (24:02):
Uh, Chase is usually the Legos.
I think that's a good thing.
That's what I'm saying.
He's got he he gets the he lovesgetting the like adult ones that
are like the the black box blackbox sets.
Right, yeah.
So you're right.
Legos is one like his one of thecoolest ones we put together was
the tie interceptor.
You see?
Yeah, yeah, that's gotta be coolas hell, man.
SPEAKER_01 (24:22):
To do that.
I would love to do that.
So you said Legos and what elseyou said?
SPEAKER_05 (24:25):
Legos is a big one.
Building and construction toys,licensed character toys, TV
show, tie-ins, right, big playsets and deluxe items for older
kids or shared families, outdoorride-on toys.
Yeah.
So, like, you know, bikes andstuff like that.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, educational and stem toys.
Those are always popular.
SPEAKER_01 (24:43):
Powerwheel's been around forever.
Those are popular too.
Yeah, the wife likes buying thethe educational stuff for the
for the game.
SPEAKER_04 (24:48):
You know what I'm surprised as I I didn't hear
come up on that list is stufffrom like YouTubers, because
like Chase's generation, GenAlpha, they love YouTube, like
all those channels, likeUnspeakable, Mr.
Beast, all that stuff.
Carter Sherer, he watches, allthese different like they're
like big channels.
They got millions and millionsof followers and they sell
(25:10):
merch.
So like we usually get him someof their merch for Christmas.
I'm surprised that didn't comeup because that's like a popular
thing.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (25:17):
Well, and now even too, w what what's the merch
looking at on a lot of thisstuff?
SPEAKER_04 (25:21):
You know, like hoodies and t-shirts.
Yeah, they sell sub or they'llyou know, they might have
plushies if they have likecharacters, like I forget which
one one of the channels he usedto watch, he doesn't watch
anymore, had like charactersafter themselves.
Right.
So like some plushies.
SPEAKER_05 (25:40):
So there's gonna be listen, everybody and their
mother who has a freaking itemor product, they're gonna have
it on their own Black Fridaysale.
So I'm sure if whatever you'relooking for, you'll be able to
find it.
Right.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, sure.
Whatever it is or whatever itemit is, clothing, jewelry.
SPEAKER_01 (25:55):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (25:56):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (25:56):
You know, just I think everything and anything,
really.
I think like this year, I don'tthink I know.
This year I'm going I'm notgonna so much do a lot of the
big shopping, like for the wife,I probably will, because this is
the of what she's already askedfor for Christmas.
But for a lot of other people, Ithink I'm gonna hit the mom and
pop shops, the little places,because it's so much like is
that I'm gonna end up gettingyou guys something that you
(26:19):
already have.
You know what I'm saying?
Or or just an upgrade of whatyou already have, kind of shit.
You know, I want to getsomething different, you make
it, you know.
Like that's why I was gettingyou the art stuff, you know,
right and you the the stuff.
Right.
So like, you know, for me, itwould like you know, pick your
brain and find out, oh, thiswould be the cool thing, you
know what I'm saying?
You know, for you, you know,whether it's getting you a gift
(26:39):
certificate to lids, you know,for new hats or whatever, and
getting the same, or you know,getting you some hoodies and
shit, like that's you know whereI'm at.
And you know, for me it's easierto do it at a mom and pop shop,
you know what I'm saying, youknow, brick and mortar kind of
spot, because they got differentthings.
Right.
You know, they have the peoplein the in the community that are
actually making it.
I got this mug that my youngestMaggie had got me a while back,
(27:03):
and it's a mug that your handthe people made it that your
hand fits in the mug.
So it's not a handle.
You're you're literally walkinglike that.
Oh, that's right, bro.
And I bought it in Kingston.
Well, she bought it from me inKingston.
Yeah, so your hand is in thereand it's like.
It's freaking amazing.
So I want to go back and buylike three of these bitches, you
know, three or four, because ofthe handful of people that I
(27:25):
know that drink coffee and ortea.
And, you know, I use mine likeevery day, bro.
Literally, like when I go homenow, I'm gonna go in and I'm
gonna make coffee and I'm justgonna have a cup of coffee.
And keep your hand warm at thesame time, bro.
It's amazing.
I love that thing, you know?
Like I said, hoodies or evenshirts like this one, you know,
like knitted shirts and shitlike that.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Or just buying a hoodie andbeing able to, you know, get it.
(27:47):
That's like I did for you guyslast year.
They got the um printed on thet-shirts and the hoodies and
shit.
Right.
Stuff like that.
Like I said, that's the, youknow, I think that's what I'm
gonna end up doing this year.
I'm not gonna do the as I said,I'm not gonna go to, you know,
the big companies and buywhatever shit, you know.
Because uh it's like I want toget something unique this year.
I want to, you know, geteverybody something that they're
gonna do.
(28:07):
I don't need anything, man.
SPEAKER_05 (28:09):
I'm good.
SPEAKER_01 (28:09):
Well, you know what I mean, though.
I mean, I appreciate it though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's still just thesomething, you know, something
different, something cool, youknow.
It's been it's been a rough, youknow, just rough as a whole.
People just been on edge andshit.
So to buy something to turnaround and put a smile on your
face and something different,that's where my head is at, you
know.
Like, yeah, oh check this out.
You know, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah.
Like me, I would love to haveLegos, but I don't have the time
(28:30):
anymore to sit and put a fuckingLego together.
And if I put Legos together, mywife's you've got to do it a
little at a time.
SPEAKER_05 (28:36):
You can't do it in one shot.
SPEAKER_01 (28:37):
But then once I make it, I don't have wife isn't
gonna let me hang it from theceiling because I want like an
X-Wing case.
She's not gonna let me hang itright over.
SPEAKER_05 (28:43):
You're gonna have to break it down to whatever.
SPEAKER_01 (28:46):
What they sell?
SPEAKER_04 (28:46):
They sell a special adhesive that actually fuses
like the plastic together.
Really?
That's what they do.
That's what they use at Lego andthe guy was telling me it's a
special industrial adhesive theyuse.
So when they when they have alltheir stuff outside put
together, it that you can't takethat shot.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
It's like it's like strongerthan a pocket.
SPEAKER_05 (29:05):
Right.
Yeah.
That's good.
SPEAKER_01 (29:06):
So they must do it to each individual piece.
No, I think that's that's gottabe tedious.
Like I don't even know.
No, I think that they put on theLSP.
I think it's like a paint.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
I think like they paint it onkind of thing.
Like they put the whole thingtogether and then they put the
putting.
It's like an epoxy.
Like an epoxy, yes.
SPEAKER_04 (29:22):
It's not like they have to put it over each other.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01 (29:25):
Yeah, you're on your fingers and then you're stuck to
like you're stuck like that andshit.
Yeah, it's a spray gun.
Yeah, right, right.
No, no.
I don't think that it couldspray it on too.
Yeah.
But yeah, I'm sorry, we weretalking over this way totally.
SPEAKER_05 (29:34):
No, no, I'm just responding to what you guys were
saying.
It's just like I was saying,like, I'm sure like my wife laws
boots.
I'm sure there's gonna be acrisp there's gonna be a Black
Friday thing on that.
You know what I mean?
Or uh Whatever it is you'relooking for.
This is crazy 'cause noteverybody jumps on the
bandwagon, you know.
But if it's a really crazy itemlike everybody normally goes
for, like the TVs and the v theuh the video games and
SPEAKER_00 (30:00):
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_05 (30:00):
Now we see earbuds.
Now everybody's doing that.
That's a big thing.
SPEAKER_01 (30:03):
Yeah, I don't want earbuds.
SPEAKER_05 (30:04):
I don't either.
Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_04 (30:05):
I I like over ear.
Yeah, I like over ear.
You know what the thing is withearbuds is?
Is like they never feelcomfortable.
No.
Like, unless it's the one thatgoes over your ear as well.
In the back of the ear, right.
And then kind of goes in.
Yeah, that's okay.
I feel like you have to wedge itin your ear.
And after a while, I like theover-the-head.
SPEAKER_05 (30:21):
And listen, we're old school.
That's where we come from.
That's how we were having it.
SPEAKER_04 (30:25):
Remember the old Walkman one?
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (30:27):
So old Walkman used to have the big over-the-head
earphones that you would pluginto your Walkman.
They got cheaper in the 80s withthe Little Food.
SPEAKER_05 (30:35):
Yeah, Sonya was a big one too, because they have
the ones that went in your ear.
SPEAKER_01 (30:38):
Yes.
Remember those?
And that's what I'm saying.
I think everybody you have toknow who you're buying for.
SPEAKER_05 (30:46):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (30:46):
Know where you're going to go.
Well, that's the thing.
SPEAKER_05 (30:48):
You don't want to just buy something for somebody
and they're not going to likeit.
SPEAKER_01 (30:51):
So here's what I was going to go with.
So I was going to be nice aboutit, but fuck it.
So dig it.
If you're not going to see theperson on Christmas, you buy
their gift the day afterChristmas.
SPEAKER_04 (31:01):
That's true.
SPEAKER_01 (31:02):
So this way it's even cheaper than what it would
have been on Black Friday.
Yeah.
And everybody's returning shitso you get your size.
So anybody who's like a sneakerhas always sales and you're not
going to find, yep, you're notgoing to find your size.
SPEAKER_05 (31:14):
Or just do your Christmas shopping then for next
year.
For next year.
SPEAKER_01 (31:17):
Well, yeah, you could do that too.
Yeah.
Well, also, you know how.
SPEAKER_04 (31:21):
You know how Chase is obsessed with Halloween.
We had Chase on the showrecently, and uh my son, and he
uh loves spear Halloween.
So when Tara does, she goes to50% day, which is after you know
November 1st.
Yeah.
Right.
And she loads up to Christmasshopping then for him.
That's awesome.
He loves that stuff.
So, you know, yeah, see, that'shis wheelhouse right there.
(31:43):
He likes to uh wear costumes forfun.
So who didn't?
We get like half-wolf costumes.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
That's not a bad idea.
Shit.
That's really cool.
SPEAKER_01 (31:52):
Damn, I didn't even think about it.
SPEAKER_04 (31:53):
You know anybody likes Halloween spooky stuff?
SPEAKER_01 (31:54):
Yeah, as I say, my daughter did this little shit.
She turned around Samantha, theolder one.
Her ass, she's already put upher tree.
unknown (32:02):
Really?
SPEAKER_01 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah.
She'd already got her tree.
I'm like, no, what are you doingtoo?
Don't rush shit, man.
SPEAKER_05 (32:06):
My wife does it the day after Yeah, after
Thanksgiving.
After Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_04 (32:10):
Some people now are day after Halloween.
SPEAKER_05 (32:11):
That's easy.
And most of that's out ofrespect for me as well, because
she knows I love Thanksgiving.
It always started for me the dayafter.
Yeah, no.
And I always like that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (32:21):
I don't want it to be the, you know, I don't want
to Christmas shit right away.
Who are like, day afterHalloween, we're gonna have two
months of Christmas.
No way, man.
No way.
Some people love Christmas thatmuch to where they're like, ooh,
like us.
We we start we start Halloweenin September.
SPEAKER_01 (32:38):
Yeah, no, bro.
SPEAKER_04 (32:40):
Well, that's different.
But I get it.
Not the decorations, but well,the indoor decorations start
coming out.
SPEAKER_01 (32:44):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (32:45):
Like time of doors.
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01 (32:48):
But Halloween's different, man.
No, I need to I I listen, I needChristmas to be December 1st.
Like, you know, I'm notChristmas Day.
I'm just gonna start inDecember.
Right after Thanksgiving.
Uh yeah, I no, I don't even needit right after I don't need it
the day after Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_05 (33:02):
Well, I mean that's that's the general Yeah, and for
me, I think that's what I'msaying.
SPEAKER_01 (33:06):
Like they're already doing the Christmas the
commercials, you know?
SPEAKER_05 (33:08):
Dude, you walk into the big stores now and do the
already.
SPEAKER_01 (33:12):
This all the big shit is out already.
Oh man, come on.
No, I can't.
I can't.
I don't I hate it.
That bothers the hell out of me.
Matter of fact, it started tosnow over here last week, and my
daughter's like, Dad, send me atext message, Dad, why is it
snowing?
What the hell's going on?
I'm like, because your assdecided you want to put up that
punk ass Christmas tree in yourhouse.
So this shit is your fault.
SPEAKER_05 (33:31):
Right.
Whatever.
Oh, and Bobber did the samething, too, by the way.
Yeah, lady I worked.
The whole office is done.
Her house is.
She does it.
SPEAKER_01 (33:37):
Bro, if you see her house, oh my god.
SPEAKER_05 (33:41):
She got all my she got most of my father's
decorations.
Yeah, right.
There's a whole entire officewith it.
Yeah.
And my father had a lot, and sheloves every one of those pieces,
dude.
She does.
Dude, no, man.
SPEAKER_01 (33:53):
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
Her house, when she does, nolie, bro.
I went to her house and duringChristmas time.
And her and her cousin, so youknow, Barbie lives in her house
and her cousin another.
Dude, their house is like ifChristmas threw up in their
house.
(34:13):
Right.
I'm not even kidding.
She's got all the figurines.
She's got Barbie, ChristmasBarbies, bro.
Christmas Barbies.
And she doesn't take them out ofthe box.
They still sit in the box, butshe sets these bitches up.
She puts up the barbies, she'ssending the box.
And it's like a ChristmasBarbie.
SPEAKER_06 (34:28):
She thinks the holiday, man.
That's her shit.
Oh dude, oh my god.
I give her shit about it too.
Because I'm like, it's tooearly.
SPEAKER_01 (34:34):
Yeah.
I'm like, no, no, no.
The radio now is playing themusic now, too, or right?
I'm telling you, bro.
Listen, that I'll turn that shitoff.
I don't listen to it yet.
I don't listen to it at all.
Don't listen too early.
Nope.
Matter of fact, her cousin, shehas a Santa Claus, like a
zipline shit kind of thing.
So Santa Claus comes down.
She has it across the livingroom.
And Santa Claus comes down withthe radio or some shit.
SPEAKER_04 (34:58):
We have one of those for a ghost.
He goes, ooh.
SPEAKER_01 (35:02):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (35:03):
He travels up and down the zip line.
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (35:07):
That's great.
Yo, dude, that is freakinghilarious, man.
No.
It's too bad.
SPEAKER_05 (35:14):
Spirit Halloween doesn't stay long enough for
like they do their own BlackFriday show.
I wonder if they have one.
I bet you they do.
That's what he said.
It's online, probably.
SPEAKER_04 (35:21):
Well, it's the day after Halloween.
One now.
They may even have one online.
Well, you know what they do havethough?
They started this year, SpiritChristmas.
No, no, this is the second yearthey're doing it.
That's right.
I read about that.
So they only had a handful oflocations last year, because it
was the first year they'retesting.
Okay.
The second year they're doingit, and they're expanding to
even more locations.
So by me in Jersey, they haveone in Paramus and one in
(35:46):
Rockaway.
Did you go in it?
Not yet.
We're going to let me know whatit looks like.
Yeah, we're in Jersey.
If they do it the way they doHalloween, man, in the sense the
way, you know, like we were atthe one at Old Bridge last year.
And that was really cool.
The only thing I would warnanybody, if you're bringing a
small kid, be careful.
It is owned by Spencer's.
(36:06):
You know, Spirit Halloween's ownby Spencer's, but for some
reason, some of the adult themedstuff made it into that store.
So just, you know, a heads up.
Cover eyes, that kind of thing.
Or just don't go to that area ofthe salt.
Yeah, yeah.
Because they got like some ofthe like Christmas, ugly
Christmas sweaters.
Because that whole section ofugly Christmas sweaters.
And like they're the same onesthat they have at Spencer's, and
(36:27):
some of them are like, you know,perverted.
You know, a little, you know,adult themed.
SPEAKER_05 (36:31):
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh shit, I'm going to have to goto Spencer.
They have the sex toys in it aswell.
Right.
SPEAKER_04 (36:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, they don't have thatspirit of Christmas.
That means like a one shapedlike a candy cane or something.
That'd be a great.
SPEAKER_06 (36:43):
Or it was the color of a skin of a candy cane.
Yeah.
The peppermint colour or theright strike.
SPEAKER_05 (36:48):
Like from uh, you know, oh my god, what the mental
like a fucking cementeddoctor's.
SPEAKER_03 (36:56):
Yo, that's adult from Hooville.
SPEAKER_06 (37:01):
Hilarious, bro.
But what would it be?
What would it be for a guy?
What's the toy that they callit?
What is it, a sleeve orsomething?
What the hell is that thing?
SPEAKER_01 (37:09):
Oh, yeah, like the sock.
Yeah, you put like just theunderwear with the sock on it.
Yeah, that right down becausethat would be the Candy King.
Or that it's uh Rudolph the RedRose reindeer.
But I know you're talking, but Ithink it is called a sock, bro.
SPEAKER_05 (37:20):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:20):
That's fucking hilarious.
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04 (37:23):
Yes, for some reason for Spirit Halloween, like
stuff, they do sell some stufffrom Spencer's because Spencer
smells a lot of the Halloweenstuff anyway, and all that
stuff.
But they don't really have a lotof the adult themed stuff.
Right.
Well, some of the costumes atSpear, but like they don't have
but like at like SpiritChristmas, like they got like
some stuff.
I was like, what the hell'sgoing on here?
Yeah.
Right.
Because that like they have agift section.
SPEAKER_05 (37:44):
Which is the one we went to in the mall when we were
in uh Palisades.
Which one did we go into?
We went into one of theSpencer's Spencer's Hot Topic.
They had all that stuff in thatstore.
They were loaded.
Yeah, they had the store andshit.
Yeah, a few months ago we allwent to the mall.
We were stuff.
So we that place is gonna bejacked on on uh on Black Friday.
(38:06):
Palisades jacked.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (38:08):
But Palisades has enough uh parking for all that
shit.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (38:12):
I mean they got downstairs and then it's just
scary because that damn thing issinking, man.
SPEAKER_01 (38:16):
Yeah, but no, it's not good.
And they'll put a new car, soit'd be like whatever.
I know.
SPEAKER_04 (38:21):
Yeah, so those for those who don't know, the
Palisades Mall is in Nyack, WestNyack, uh New York.
And they built it on landfill.
And apparently they didn't putthe pilings deep enough, and
it's sinking slowly.
It's just this slow decay.
And uh eventually, I think theowners we were talking about
before, I think they're gonna beclosing it because I don't think
at a certain point it's gonna beIt's not gonna be safe anymore.
(38:44):
I think right now it is forsure.
As it slowly sinks down.
SPEAKER_05 (38:48):
Yeah, but uh, you know what?
They that's crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (38:50):
I don't want to be in there and be like where they
waited too long and like there'ssome like the building falls and
it'll be in a movie orsomething.
SPEAKER_01 (38:57):
Yeah, yeah.
I love that mall, bro.
I'm not even gonna lie.
SPEAKER_05 (39:00):
It's a good mall.
It's a nice size mall, but thefact that the way they went
about it, they didn't they justdidn't do it right.
Engineering structurally, itjust sucked, but they got it.
I think that's what it is.
I th so if I'm wrong, yeah,wait, you're wrong.
You could be absolutely right,because we're only going by what
we know.
SPEAKER_04 (39:12):
So Palestine's mall's gonna sue us for
defamation.
That's Star Wars.
SPEAKER_05 (39:16):
Okay, yeah.
Yeah.
No, we don't we're we're nottrying to say anything, but just
what we hear.
SPEAKER_01 (39:20):
That's the word on the street.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (39:22):
That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01 (39:22):
Yeah, but no.
That's I wonder what that I'venever been there for Black
Friday or anything like that.
No.
SPEAKER_05 (39:27):
I bet you it's I bet you there's a lot of people
jacked up in that one.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Because they probably doeverything inside.
SPEAKER_01 (39:32):
Yeah, they have to.
Yeah.
They have to.
The what?
The the order like having theline can happen by outside.
Well, the store, it's a mall,bro.
It's a mall.
SPEAKER_04 (39:39):
Yeah, so they're gonna have to wait like in the
lobby and everything.
Yeah, they'll probably have aline along the inside.
Because it's like it's thetypical mall where they have
like it's it's four floors, butthere's in the middle of the
store is uh the middle of themall is like you can see all the
floors.
Right.
Right.
So they'll probably have themline up against that glass.
SPEAKER_01 (39:57):
Maybe, but then there's like four stores that
are next to each other.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's what I'm looking at.
It's like, you know, you havethree stores together and they
have to have lines or space forthe lines in the three stores.
SPEAKER_04 (40:06):
So it's small stores do big doorbusters.
Oh, yeah.
Unless it's like a specialstore.
SPEAKER_01 (40:12):
It might be a small stores that are not open at all.
No, the perfume store, like eventhe perfume store, it's always a
small ass store.
That's a good store.
But you know, they have theythey always have a huge line to
get into that shit.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
So, you know, but yeah, I I lovethat shit, man.
You know, and I I I wish thatkids had more selection of
actual toys.
(40:32):
You know what I mean?
Not just because, you know.
SPEAKER_04 (40:35):
You know what would be fun though?
I've never got like I said, I'venever gone shopping for Black
Friday, and I still won't, butit would be fun to go out and
video record and see otherpeople.
Why not?
Yeah, it's fun to be a good one.
Just be a spectacle.
Like spectator.
SPEAKER_01 (40:47):
But wait, now you have to think about your own
sanity.
And I'm saying it like thisbecause it's crazy with the
traffic.
Uh-huh.
And I'm telling you, thetraffic.
But is it still like thatthough?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Well, again, like I said, I hadit on for a handful of years.
I heard last year it was prettyhectic.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't that crazy, but it wasit wasn't crazy like, you know,
(41:08):
you know, 15 years ago.
But like, you know, it it's it'sstill pretty, pretty busy,
pretty full.
And you don't want to go out atmidnight.
You want to go at like threeo'clock in the morning.
Yeah.
Because that's when traffic isnow moving again.
And now it might be a little biteasier to find parking because
people are actually, you know,coming in and out of the stores
and stuff like that and whatnot.
(41:29):
And I mean, I don't know aboutwhere you live, bro, but over
here, there's so much shopping.
You know, we've got the indoormall, we got the outdoor mall,
you have all the mom and popshops, you have I mean, there's
just so much shit.
It's insane, insane.
Like they built new roadways,bro, to try to deter the
traffic, uh, you know, detourthe traffic to get around.
(41:51):
And it's actually worked, butthe problem is that now it's
like 30 miles per hour overthere.
So now when you go over thereand people are doing now 10 or
15 because they're windowshopping.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like you get the fuck out theway, just get out the car.
But whatever, you know, it wasone of those things.
But I think last year, did Ihear last year, bro, that Black
(42:12):
Friday uh Home Depot was open?
Probably.
They were all those too, Ithink.
SPEAKER_04 (42:16):
Yeah.
So it says here.
Don't forget Home Depot alwaysdoes that big thing with the
with the they stopped doing it,but they used to remember they
used to cover the all thepallets with like black tape or
black like cellophane in in thein in Home Depot.
Oh, I remember that.
Yeah, they were doing it for somany years.
Home Depot, they'd have like inthe middle, like like two days
before Black Friday or uhThanksgiving.
I know that.
(42:36):
They start putting the stuffout, but it would be covered
with black cellophane so you cansee through it.
Oh, that's right.
I do remember that.
Yeah, they'd have all thesepower tools, the wall, Milwaukee
would have special deals orRyobi or all those.
SPEAKER_05 (42:53):
I just asked Chat GBT, and it says yes, a large
growing portion of Black Fridayshopping is done online,
although in-stores still playsan important role.
Here are some of the keys data.
So US on sa online sales, BlackFriday, 10.8 million and up.
10.2% from prior year.
(43:14):
Wow.
That's crazy.
In terms of people, an estimateshows 87.3 million shopping
online versus 81.7 who visitedphysical stores.
So it's really not that muchmore.
SPEAKER_01 (43:27):
Yeah, okay.
All right.
So it's split in the middlealmost.
Like they're dead even.
I thought it was gonna be morethan that.
Wow.
I thought it was gonna be abigger difference than that.
You know?
Yeah.
That's cool, then.
I mean that people are actuallystill going out there and going
shopping, which is a good thing.
So, you know.
SPEAKER_05 (43:41):
It says one survey for Black Friday 2025, it was
reported that seventy-onepercent of people plan to shop
online, while twenty-ninepercent plan to shop in person.
Mobile devices are verydominant, for example, seventy
percent of global online salesduring the Black Friday, Cyber
Week period, were made viamobile devices.
(44:03):
Oh damn.
This is interesting stuff.
So I'm just asking as we'retalking and getting some
answers.
You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01 (44:09):
That's groovy.
Well, that is it.
We're done for today.
But listen, everybody that goesout there Black Friday shopping,
be careful.
Be careful.
You know, people say drivingcrazy and whatnot and trying to
rush for for you know to get fora parking space or running for
whatever item that they see andall that other stuff.
SPEAKER_05 (44:30):
Yeah, I don't think I think people know now this
they're not gonna put up.
SPEAKER_01 (44:33):
You know, somebody just turned around and grabs the
last, you know, that last vaseand is like, you know, that's
mine.
That's mine, mine.
You know, anyway, just be safe.
Yes, everybody, be safe for theholidays all together, man.
Be safe, you know, be kind toeverybody.
Love, peace, and hair grease.
Live long and prosper.
SPEAKER_04 (44:49):
And stay shopping or stay home.
SPEAKER_01 (44:52):
Hello.
Woo!
SPEAKER_01 (00:12):
What's up?
Welcome, my friends.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Yes.
What up, fellas?
I'm doing great.
Cool beans.
All right.
Great to be here.
So this week.
Yes, another one.
Another one.
SPEAKER_04 (00:26):
Is the week of Thanksgiving.
Right.
If you're listening to it onpodcast day, the day we drop the
podcast tomorrow isThanksgiving.
Exactly.
So and the my favorite holiday.
The topic, yes.
Yeah.
Really?
Just like get together, family,friend.
I don't like havingmotherfuckers in that.
(00:46):
I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_01 (00:46):
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_04 (00:48):
So the topic actually is going to be about
holiday shopping.
Black Friday.
As soon as Thanksgiving over,Thanksgiving's over, that's what
it becomes.
SPEAKER_05 (00:56):
Black Friday.
Yeah.
Everybody gets uh Black Friday.
Does anybody do the linesanymore?
You know?
I think some people still do.
No.
The lines, you know, because noweverything's online so much now
that you can do it on the body.
SPEAKER_01 (01:09):
I think they still do like like Yeah.
They still do them.
They still have the peoplerushing, but it's not the same
kind of I think depending on thestore.
Because depending on the store.
So like going into Wally Worldand stuff like that.
You know, Target that they'llhave lines and stuff to come in.
I haven't gone black uh Fridayshopping in an easy 15 years.
Okay.
Like literally.
SPEAKER_04 (01:29):
Yeah, Tara used to like religiously go.
SPEAKER_05 (01:32):
Tanya and her sister and her her daughter, they
always did it.
They always did it.
I done it I also had to workthrough it.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, me too.
At night?
Yeah, because I had worked forTarget at the time.
Oh, and that's probably supposedto say that it's not a big deal.
But I did work for them.
And you had to, you know, yougot the holiday off, but then
you had to come in early in thatmorning, like five in the
(01:52):
morning.
Oh, okay.
Just step ready for Black Fridayshopping because people out
online waiting and all thisother stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, I've done that a quitea few times actually.
Yes.
Well you would you said youworked V tail before, right?
SPEAKER_04 (02:04):
Yeah, same thing.
You know, worked for a big boxstore.
And, you know, they they thesame thing of people lining up
at the entrance.
Because and I think uh the bigbox stores still do that.
They have like a special deal,but like it's gotta be they only
get like a handful of thosethings in.
It's just to draw people.
And then there's other salesonce it's out, it's out.
(02:25):
Sometimes or sometimes they haveit depends.
But like, yeah, sometimesthey'll have like you know 200
of whatever it is.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (02:32):
Well, because yeah, but because the sale usually
lasts the entire week.
SPEAKER_04 (02:35):
It's just the anchor to get people to the Because the
sale lasts the entire week.
SPEAKER_01 (02:38):
So then they'll end up getting more.
Like they'll be on the delivery.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
And I'll tell you what, man, ifyou've never gone Black Friday
shopping, it is insane.
Yeah, it depends on where yougo, too.
SPEAKER_04 (02:50):
I mean, it's like the Twilight Zone because like
you get up like, so like I wouldget up to go to work that
morning, and it's like there'sregular traffic on the road at
like three in the morning.
SPEAKER_02 (03:02):
You're like, what the heck is going on?
SPEAKER_04 (03:04):
Why is bananas?
SPEAKER_02 (03:05):
Why is there regular traffic at 3 a.m.?
SPEAKER_01 (03:08):
Let's go.
I'm like, yo, what the fuck?
Yeah, it was like over inMiddletown, bro.
It's right off of 84 and 84 andRoute 17.
And yo, the traffic was, I mean,like there was no, like you
couldn't drive anywhere.
You hit the guns and shit atearly hours.
At like midnight.
Yeah.
One o'clock in the morning.
SPEAKER_04 (03:27):
I worked in Middletown as well.
And that's the thing that youknow, now they do.
I mean, I think they're startingto ease back on it.
But I know that like the the themidnight openings and or like
the like some of them were openlike like 10 o'clock on
Thanksgiving.
Right.
Like opening super early.
But I don't think they're doingthat anymore.
I think a lot of people werelike, Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (03:44):
Well, I think they too.
I don't think the mall isopening up like that.
I'm it's I haven't been there soI don't think it's as open.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_05 (03:49):
I think it's taken the other direction for sure.
SPEAKER_04 (03:51):
People are doing a lot of online stuff now.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, that too is like onlinesales are good.
They got Cyber Monday.
Cyber Monday and all that.
SPEAKER_01 (03:58):
And I think that's another thing that has switched
up how many lines, how long thelines are gonna be, or how many,
you know, people are rushing,because now you're able to go to
all those to get all that stuffshipped to your house.
Right.
You know what I mean?
It's it's it's true, you don'thave to deal with it.
Now you're dealing with onlineand go to whatever.
SPEAKER_04 (04:17):
I feel like if you're going for like the door
buster stuff.
Yeah, if you if you reallybigger.
Then you gotta camp out for it.
But like to me, to me, like howmuch money do I really need to
fucking save?
Right.
To like uh to camp out.
SPEAKER_03 (04:31):
Like I it better be like a like like they're like
the stores losing money becausethat's how cheap it is.
Right.
You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04 (04:40):
Like the like the manufacturer, like the lowest
price is a hundred dollars,they're selling this rating.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (04:47):
Yeah, no, no, I feel you.
But it's the thrill.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I guess I mean it's the one yes,it's the super adventure.
Because so, like when I had doneit, it was some of the ladies
that I had, well the one one ofthe times that I had done it,
one of the ladies, a couple ofthe ladies that I was working
with, they're like, You comingwith us.
And I was I was on a shift.
And I'm like, Yeah, yeah,whatever.
Don't bother coming to get me.
(05:08):
Dude, on their way out, theytook my car keys because they
were coming back to pick me up.
So then I had to go with them togo Black Friday shopping.
So I'm driving with them allover the place, and I'm like,
you guys, and they're all happyand they're excited, and you
know, they're elbowing peopleand trying to muscle their way
through to get some of the shit.
I'm like, yo, this is whatyou're doing.
(05:28):
So now it's like two o'clock inthe morning, three o'clock in
the morning.
I'm starving.
So at the Walmart over here inMiddletown, they have a subway.
SPEAKER_05 (05:36):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (05:37):
So I was like, yo, hold this stuff, I'll be right
back.
I go, I get, and I had the theyhad the cart, the shopping cart.
And I went, I got two foot longsand a shoulder.
And I'm eating what I'mfollowing them cutting through.
And they're like, they'reeating.
I'm like, I'm starving, bro.
I didn't get a chance to gohome.
Excuse me, sir, there's noeating in the store.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, you guys arefreaking insane.
But no, man, it's a it's it isit's a thrill, it's a little bit
(05:59):
of a rush.
And and then when you go, thereis a little bit of excitement to
it, right?
But like what Tom is saying,though, is it really like I I I
don't think that there's enoughof a deal that I can't get at
eight o'clock in the morning oryou know, noontime, you know,
for me to have to be up and onlybe so many of whatever their big
(06:19):
deal is anyway, typically.
Right, because they and theystarted getting away from the
city.
SPEAKER_05 (06:26):
Whoever's on the beginning of the line, most of
those.
SPEAKER_01 (06:28):
Right, would end up in the first hundred people
would be able to get it, youknow, because then they have to
stock up for the next two orthree days because then that
truck wasn't gonna come in,right, you know, or or whatever
else.
And it was crazy how they usedto stock up.
It's just it's bananas, bro.
Just thinking about how peoplelike really jump like they're up
and they've got their coupons onand they got everything ready
because we're going and we'regonna be there.
(06:49):
I'm like, yeah, no, bro.
SPEAKER_04 (06:51):
But what's wild is the op when they open the doors,
the opening, the rock.
Yes.
I mean, at the big box stores.
But when I got to experience andyou know, because I would never
do it myself, but working there,you don't have a choice.
Yeah, right.
And like you see, when they openthe doors up, they you know,
they got the handheld radiosbecause they opened the doors at
the same time.
SPEAKER_00 (07:09):
So because then that one's doing it up because
everything's on walkie.
SPEAKER_03 (07:14):
Everything's on walkie.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (07:15):
So when they open the doors, it was like we used
to have to tell them we wouldwalk the lines, like there would
be people outside walking theline and then kind of just in
the front of the store, and theypeople would talk to you.
I feel like that answer would belike oh, we're rushing.
No.
They you have to tell themlisten, no running.
We're gonna let you in so manyat a time.
(07:36):
They controlled the line.
They didn't allow the crowd totake the initiative they did.
But then we're gonna let you in,but we gotta do it this way.
Otherwise, it's gonna be peopleare gonna push through each
other, man.
SPEAKER_01 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Fucking A, bro.
Yeah, people people haveactually been killed.
Like, see some of those films?
SPEAKER_06 (07:54):
You ever see some of those videos of the game?
Dude, you're gonna be able to doit.
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04 (08:00):
I think that was uh one of the one of the thousands.
We ever watched Thousand Ways toDie?
That was none of them.
SPEAKER_05 (08:04):
Was it really shop and got trampled up?
SPEAKER_01 (08:07):
Oh my god.
Yeah, and the fist fights,people fighting in there.
Oh, yeah.
That's mine, I'm getting thatgetting my toy back, blah, blah,
blah, blah, you know, and yeah,later for that shit, bro.
Yeah, no, later.
No.
SPEAKER_05 (08:18):
And and it's it it's definitely grown.
It's it's progressed from whereit was to where it is now, you
know what I mean?
But people used to get crazythough.
They would bring tents.
Yeah.
You know?
SPEAKER_01 (08:28):
That was the dumbest shit ever.
Like, and they would hang out,and they I know So you spend
your fucking thirty your turkey,instead of being in your house,
you sit and camp the fuck out infront of a store.
SPEAKER_05 (08:37):
People got excited about it.
SPEAKER_06 (08:38):
Like, I want to get this TV, or they wanted to get
this new Xbox or whatever systemwas out.
SPEAKER_04 (08:44):
Xboxes.
That's the thing, yeah.
The PlayStation when the newsystems come out.
That's a camp out situation.
Yeah.
Everybody is at that when theywhen they release a new video
game, there no matter who ispeople are camping out for that.
You can't just like walk into astore and buy one the day it
(09:05):
releases.
Like there's pre-orders.
There's people at the mallwaiting for the mall to open.
I didn't one of my friends,because he wanted to sell it on
eBay.
He's like, oh, let's go.
What's happening to venture?
Like he wanted me to keep himcompany.
So all right, we'll go.
And it was like, it was, it wasa shit show.
Yeah, it's nuts.
And not only was it a shit show,like security messed everything
up.
Like, everybody wait here.
(09:26):
And, you know, and but thenpeople were waiting on the oh
and then like they let thepeople in, and then people who
were waiting, like, didn't gettheir cis.
It was like so messed up.
Yeah, see.
They mishandled it.
SPEAKER_05 (09:37):
When uh when I did my first when I did my first
Thanksgiving overnight, youknow, for Target, we would it
was early in the morning and wedid it where they would stand in
the mall.
You know how you walk in themall and you walk into that
store that way?
So they're like, all right, whatyou're gonna do is just let
everybody know that when youwhen you get in there, tell them
(09:57):
no running and all this othershit, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
When I turn, I I they open thegate, I go under, turn around
and look, and it felt like I wasin a zombie movie.
Because all these people werestanding right there, they'd
like this look on their face.
SPEAKER_06 (10:13):
And it was like, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05 (10:18):
So then you had to walk up the line and tell
people, please don't run, justtake it easy, they're gonna let
you know, just explaineverything.
SPEAKER_06 (10:24):
But it was kind of like when you turn around,
you're like, oh man.
SPEAKER_01 (10:28):
No, I'd have walked up to the line, okay, no
running, we're doing that.
They didn't have one yet, theydidn't have one.
No, no, no running and I'mdigging in my head, but it was
like a zombie.
SPEAKER_02 (10:37):
When you walk up to the door, they all start getting
because then you're gonna openthe freaking door.
SPEAKER_05 (10:45):
Like, wait, wait, wait, not opening yet.
Get easy, relax, breathe, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (10:49):
Bro, that is.
SPEAKER_05 (10:50):
In through the nose, out through the mouth.
SPEAKER_01 (10:52):
No, no.
I worked in, I did a uh wasworking at a at well a a music
store uh for Black Friday, andmy boss did the early one, but
they were getting in, I thinkthey got in at like 11 o'clock,
the first crew at night.
And then they opened up forBlack Friday because we weren't
too far from the from the mall.
This was in Florida.
(11:13):
All right.
So then it was hoping, they werehoping that what would happen is
the instead of people rushing tothe mall, they would come to the
record store because we soldvideos and in the laser discs
and stuff like that.
That's how far back that shitgoes so with CDs and laser
discs.
Yeah, remember that?
Oh my god.
So that was a thing that people,you know, they used to be.
(11:35):
RCA.
RCA, yes.
So that then they, you know, wewere hoping that that would be
the overflow.
The people would come to therecord store to or the music
store to buy them.
SPEAKER_04 (11:44):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (11:45):
What was the commercial of the 90s?
SPEAKER_04 (11:48):
Where he was like Memorex.
SPEAKER_01 (11:49):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Is it live or is it memorix?
Is it live or is it memorix?
Yeah.
And he's got the wind blowing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
From the sneaker to just got thespeaker right in front of him.
Yeah.
It's like, yeah.
Yeah.
And he would slide across, hecaught his, he would catch the
drink drink.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (12:06):
That was such a cool commercial back in the day.
SPEAKER_05 (12:08):
That was the shift back in the day.
Yeah, yeah.
My show.
And everybody always got those,or um, what was the other tape
that people advertisement?
SPEAKER_01 (12:16):
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_05 (12:17):
And it was around for a long, way long time.
SPEAKER_01 (12:20):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (12:20):
Because I remember it most of my Oh, that
commercial?
Young, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (12:24):
Yeah, they aired that commercial for years.
Yeah, yeah.
Because it was so good.
Like, why?
Yeah.
Why make a new one?
We got some work to do.
SPEAKER_01 (12:32):
There's a lot of memory.
Great, man.
You ever been to the WoodburyCommons to go shopping?
Oh, yeah.
On Black Friday?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I've done that.
SPEAKER_04 (12:39):
No, Madame Commons is great.
I think she may have.
Just I want to say, just forthose who don't know, Woodbury
Commons is outlet shopping up inNew York.
Yeah.
So around the Harriman area,right?
No.
SPEAKER_01 (12:50):
Harriman Monroe.
It's right off of Exit 16.
SPEAKER_04 (12:53):
They got the deals because they got the outlet
stuff.
SPEAKER_01 (12:55):
They have, and it's a big outdoor outlet.
Man, the Nike store, holy shit.
It was like it was like walkinginto a concert, like the line,
because it was just that zigzag.
Um Uggs store, the same thing.
All the all the sporting stores,they all had that.
The bad thing is that they'renot inside.
They're all outside.
Yes, it's an outdoor shoppingmall, I guess we'll call it like
(13:18):
that.
Man, but it was great.
I I went there only just to gosee what it was, how crazy it
got.
And they have people that werethey already had staff working
from eight o'clock the nightbefore.
So on Christmas, I mean inChristmas, on Thanksgiving, you
would come into work at eight,nine o'clock at night.
So this way you can, you know,help set up the store and
whatnot.
(13:39):
They had security, the police,and uh traffic cops.
Right.
You know, that was directingpeople.
So that's how many people showedup to it.
That's how many people wouldshow up.
People used to park across thestreet because there's a school
across the street.
So people would park across thestreet in the in the schoolyard.
Like the cops had set that up.
Yeah, man, it was it's bananas.
But it was fun.
(13:59):
It was fun.
For me, I had a good time, but Ilike just walking through and
just taking all that shit out.
Yeah.
So now, but you said you'vebeen, you've never been, you
said, right, Lou?
What do you mean?
You never went Black Fridayshopping?
Like actually just go, or youjust went Friday?
I think I might have done itonce.
I can't remember.
SPEAKER_05 (14:12):
But I did it all the time when it came to doing the
work.
SPEAKER_01 (14:15):
Right, right.
SPEAKER_05 (14:15):
You worked at actually shopping.
SPEAKER_01 (14:17):
Yeah, yeah.
And you only shopped.
I mean, you only worked at two,you said?
SPEAKER_04 (14:20):
Yeah, I've never shopped Black Friday.
Well, I I mean, I've gone likelater in the evening after like
the mess is done.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
But I've never done like morningor before the sun comes out, you
know, it's not that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:35):
I will tell you when I went, it was around the time
when Tickle me Elmo was theshit.
SPEAKER_05 (14:39):
Oh man.
SPEAKER_01 (14:40):
And people were going, yo, they really went
crazy because then it wasn'tthey didn't have the actual
tickle tickle me elmo, themoving one, that they ended up
getting all the stuffed animalsand all the little ones, like
the the little super small dolluh tickle me elmo dolls, and I
was like, what the hell?
People were literally fighting.
Like they were holding it, likehugging on that.
(15:02):
Like it was water.
Yeah.
And I'm like, what the fuck?
You need to survive over atickle me elmo?
Are you kidding me right now?
Yeah, but it was like that forthe cabbage patch kids way back
in the day.
Back in the day.
SPEAKER_05 (15:12):
Oh, yes.
So remember that same shit.
Yeah, but I don't think therewas any Black Friday back then.
Yeah, there was.
No, no, there was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But was that was that like theit wasn't like it it progressed
into what it was at work?
SPEAKER_01 (15:23):
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
It wasn't like nothing, yeah.
Black Friday wasn't the same,like you know, it was early
morning shopping kind of thing,you know, maybe opening up at
six, you know, in the morning oropening up at five.
SPEAKER_05 (15:32):
People probably would wait certain stores for
toys and stuff.
SPEAKER_01 (15:34):
Right, but to get to where people were there camp,
like Tom was saying, camping outthe night before, like, yeah,
no, no.
SPEAKER_04 (15:39):
But that was the first toy, I think, that was
like the black or like theholiday shopping, like the big
cabbage patch?
SPEAKER_05 (15:46):
Cabbage patch.
SPEAKER_01 (15:46):
Oh, cabbage patch, yeah.
That was a big deal.
No, man.
SPEAKER_05 (15:48):
Yeah.
And you had to get a big thing.
My mother bought a bunch ofthose, man.
SPEAKER_01 (15:51):
Yeah, my cousin wanted one and and my aunt had
to go and get her.
SPEAKER_05 (15:54):
To me, they were the ugliest things I've ever seen in
my life.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (15:56):
I wasn't a big fan of it.
SPEAKER_04 (15:59):
I I had got a knockoff cabbage patch.
And like my but like it was likenot like a knockoff where like
it was garbage dump?
Is what that was.
No, no, it was like it'sgarbage.
It wasn't like like the a legalknockoff where like it was like
I remember like someone likemaking me feel like a piece of
shit at like four years old.
They're like, Well, mine, look,yours isn't the real one because
(16:21):
it has the signature on thechest.
Yours is on the butt.
Yeah, yeah.
I was like, oh, nephew, youknow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (16:28):
This is childhood, uh childhood um uh bully shit
stuff that you're trauma fromyour bully.
Yeah, you're sharing right now.
SPEAKER_01 (16:35):
Well, because it came with the birth certificate,
right?
It came with all that shit.
All that kind of stuff.
There's like a seal on it.
Yeah.
Yep.
Golly, man, she's that's fuckinginsane.
Well, see, you guys never wentreally like well, I said I I
haven't done it in a long time.
And when I went, it was likesad.
But he was on that took on meElmo time.
And, you know, I don't I don'tremember all of the toys that
(16:58):
people were going that kind ofcrazy for.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, remember Teddy Ruxpin.
Teddy Ruxpin, you know, and thatwas like saying that was going
way down.
SPEAKER_05 (17:05):
That I got from my daughter when she was a baby.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (17:08):
Like the the PlayStations on my table.
Those things were like thosethings were like.
Yeah, they were.
They that's what I said.
There, maybe Tedusa.
Yeah.
Daddy Arabs gay.
SPEAKER_04 (17:17):
Remember that?
SPEAKER_01 (17:18):
Oh god.
That was uh that was that was uhmaking fun of the Teddy Ruxpin.
But they said that about the thecabbage patch uh cabbage patch
dolls too, yeah, that they werepossessed.
That they were fucking evil.
SPEAKER_04 (17:35):
They do look, they are creepy.
SPEAKER_01 (17:36):
They are creepy looking fucking dolls.
They are, man.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
But you know what?
It was a teddy bear, though.
SPEAKER_04 (17:41):
But you know what?
The the the the the toy crazefrom the holiday shopping, it w
got so out of hand that theyactually made a movie about it.
SPEAKER_03 (17:48):
He's put that cookie down now.
SPEAKER_02 (17:54):
You don't have to pull a smart nigga.
Oh my god.
What the movies that but jingleall the way.
Jingle all the way.
SPEAKER_01 (17:59):
Yes, yeah, we're gonna do it.
SPEAKER_02 (18:03):
He's talking to Phil Hartman.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (18:05):
Yes.
Oh my god, bro.
I can't believe you rememberthat movie.
SPEAKER_02 (18:09):
Uh about that shit.
You know, I know all the Arnoldmovies.
Yeah, I can't help it.
SPEAKER_01 (18:13):
I know.
I I just that was when I wasfucking hilarious.
SPEAKER_02 (18:15):
You know how me and my buddy Steve had voice
messages to each other.
Yeah, no, Arnold voice.
SPEAKER_01 (18:20):
Yeah, I hear so now I was looking up to see what was
this year's hottest toy.
Now, the funny Well BlackFriday.
Well, because here's the shit.
Toys aren't what they used tobe.
There's no more Toys at Rust,there's no more cage.
(18:40):
Well, there is in Canada.
Well, yeah, I'm I'm I don't evenknow they do like the Black
Friday like that.
I don't know, but I'm sorry.
Well there is, but I thinkthey're gonna be coming.
SPEAKER_05 (18:46):
I think they're coming back.
I think it's a good thing.
SPEAKER_04 (18:48):
Well, they're something American Dreamwall has
uh the toys in it.
SPEAKER_01 (18:51):
They do.
SPEAKER_04 (18:52):
But it it's not.
SPEAKER_01 (18:53):
That's what I'm saying.
Because I know like a Sears, notSears, A S.
Is it AS?
AS, you mean Sears.
I think it's A S in Manhattan.
They have uh they make a quoteunquote Toys of Rust corner up
in the up on their toys floor.
You know, where they do theSanta Claus and shit like that.
But it's not Toys of Rust.
Same thing with F.
A.
O.
Schwartz.
You know, FAO Schwartz, I knowyou guys have never been to the
(19:15):
F.
A.
O.
Schwartz.
Oh, yeah, I've been.
You went to the one in the cityback in the day where they did
the movie Big?
Yeah.
Have you been inside that?
That's like a homage as a kid ifyou're going to be.
SPEAKER_04 (19:24):
If you're gonna visit New York and you're sort
of, you know, you're gonna go toRockefeller Center, you gotta go
to the city.
Yeah, it goes to FAO SchwesterF.
AO Schwartz.
Yeah.
It's a little bit of a hike fromthere, but not too bad.
SPEAKER_01 (19:33):
Right.
And but it was amazing.
It was great.
They had the niftiest toys, likeeverything that if anybody ever
saw that movie Big, it wasexactly like that.
It was exactly like thePlayStation.
I mean, that was really the thatwas really, you know, it was
filmed in the store, but it wasjust like that all year round,
and it was amazing.
And then after a while, like,you know, the toys started to
fade out, and you know, theyonly did it like you know once a
(19:55):
year.
They're just different now thanfor.
But they don't promote the toysthe same way like when we were
kids, because we had Saturdaymorning cartoons and then they
would they would push it likethat.
SPEAKER_05 (20:05):
It's really more on the parents to get that stuff
from.
SPEAKER_01 (20:07):
You know what I mean?
Then we had the Sears catalog,you know, that you turn around
and see them.
We would get the um oh, I can'tthink of the name of the other
catalog we used to get in themail, and you'd be able to look
through and get the Sundaypaper.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And you would get all the flyersto the different stores and
whatnot, and you'd be able tolook.
So then I didn't even thinkabout it, but now even looking
for gifts is not the same.
(20:27):
Because like even now, me goingon the website on the Yeah, you
go on Amazon, you just go on onyour ad, you know, on the phone.
SPEAKER_04 (20:33):
Right.
But I'm just saying it's likenow you're gonna have to get the
colour.
Well, Target still makes thecatalog.
SPEAKER_01 (20:38):
Well, yeah, but I'm saying you have to know what
you're looking for.
So, example, you have the metaglasses.
So then now we would turn aroundand have to look in tech to find
out where to get the metaglasses.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
Now we would have to go look incosmetics, you know, for like
everything is so different forlike, you know, the the you
know, for some of the makeupstuff.
(20:59):
Like it's just depending on whatyou're looking for, that you
know, you'd have to sort of thennow there's so much to choose
from.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Yeah, like just the headphonesalone, for noise cancelling
headphones.
If you go into Best Buy, there'slike dude, I want to tell you
maybe 35, 40 headsets to pickfrom.
Well, look, check this out.
Here's some there.
SPEAKER_04 (21:19):
I got an amazing one.
I got mine's got high fidelityon it, it's got live support,
yeah, spatial audio.
SPEAKER_01 (21:25):
Yeah, it sounds better than a home theater.
Yeah, it sounds like it'samazing.
Yeah, and then it's the levelsof it because it goes.
SPEAKER_04 (21:33):
So you don't hear shit.
SPEAKER_01 (21:34):
Yeah, right, exactly.
I love it.
Yeah, you're on your zone, man.
You're getting your zone.
So you got the bows, right?
You have the the I have the onesthat I just the Soundcore or
whatever it's called.
Yep, Soundcore.
We have Bows, I said Bows,Beats, Sony, uh, I have
Soundscape.
It's Soundscape is another goodone too.
I mean, it's just Soundscape.
SPEAKER_04 (21:53):
I got sound, mine was like 150 bucks.
Yeah.
And it's a good one.
Yes.
With all the stuff that it has,that's those are in like the$300
range.
Yeah.
They sell the Soundscapes for$150 and they're good.
Yeah.
And it's and they're durable.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I dropped mine.
SPEAKER_01 (22:07):
It still works.
That's even my durable.
SPEAKER_05 (22:12):
Yeah.
Check it out.
These are the things that aresupposedly going to be the big
items.
Smart TVs, laptops, right?
Earbuds, streaming devices, homeappliances, vacuum, kitchen
gear.
Right?
SPEAKER_04 (22:23):
Robot vacuums, yeah.
Vacuums.
Robot vacuums, maybe.
Oh, robot vacuums.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (22:29):
Giftable gadgets and small ticket items, trackers,
earbuds, accessories, fashion,especially your trendy brands,
so whatever shoes and shit youlike.
SPEAKER_01 (22:37):
So we'll start to cut you off second.
Hang on, remember where you are.
Because then my question is, isit better to get the earbuds, or
is it better to get the over theheads?
You know what I mean?
Well, that's the better sound.
SPEAKER_05 (22:47):
I don't like earbuds, I like the regular
phones.
SPEAKER_01 (22:50):
Well, then I guess the eat, you know, it depends on
who likes what.
But again, I'm sorry, guys.
Right.
SPEAKER_05 (22:52):
So then the next one would be home decor, seasonal,
and whatever this, you know, sowhatever it is for you're
getting for the yard or thehouse or whatever.
But then it's got, you know,like they said, they had the
electronics.
Well, now did there's anythingin there about Apple AirTag,
Dyson is one of the vacuums,ACCOM.
You should dyson.
Dyson.
SPEAKER_01 (23:16):
Cyber Dyson systems.
That's funny as hell.
Because, well, see now, toys.
So for me with toys, I'm lookingright now.
You know, the one thing withtoys is the one thing I'm sorry
that doesn't die out is Legos.
Like everybody now because allwho?
Lincoln logs.
SPEAKER_02 (23:32):
Wow, do they still do the man?
SPEAKER_01 (23:34):
Well, I'm sorry, I meant more like the do the
Lincoln logs come the same way,like uh the the different things
you could build, the way thatthe Lego comes in, because like
Lincoln.
SPEAKER_05 (23:42):
Oh, Lincoln Logs, you're building stuff, you're
making uh logs, different cabinsand stuff like that.
But you it was always a fun toy.
I loved it.
I had it when I was a kid.
Well, I had and then I had likeLegos.
SPEAKER_01 (23:53):
Yeah, because the Legos, I mean, it's like the
Star Wars Legos, the MCU Legos,you know, then you get the
science ones, you got, you know,that they move, you got the
cars.
SPEAKER_04 (24:02):
Uh, Chase is usually the Legos.
I think that's a good thing.
That's what I'm saying.
He's got he he gets the he lovesgetting the like adult ones that
are like the the black box blackbox sets.
Right, yeah.
So you're right.
Legos is one like his one of thecoolest ones we put together was
the tie interceptor.
You see?
Yeah, yeah, that's gotta be coolas hell, man.
SPEAKER_01 (24:22):
To do that.
I would love to do that.
So you said Legos and what elseyou said?
SPEAKER_05 (24:25):
Legos is a big one.
Building and construction toys,licensed character toys, TV
show, tie-ins, right, big playsets and deluxe items for older
kids or shared families, outdoorride-on toys.
Yeah.
So, like, you know, bikes andstuff like that.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, educational and stem toys.
Those are always popular.
SPEAKER_01 (24:43):
Powerwheel's been around forever.
Those are popular too.
Yeah, the wife likes buying thethe educational stuff for the
for the game.
SPEAKER_04 (24:48):
You know what I'm surprised as I I didn't hear
come up on that list is stufffrom like YouTubers, because
like Chase's generation, GenAlpha, they love YouTube, like
all those channels, likeUnspeakable, Mr.
Beast, all that stuff.
Carter Sherer, he watches, allthese different like they're
like big channels.
They got millions and millionsof followers and they sell
(25:10):
merch.
So like we usually get him someof their merch for Christmas.
I'm surprised that didn't comeup because that's like a popular
thing.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (25:17):
Well, and now even too, w what what's the merch
looking at on a lot of thisstuff?
SPEAKER_04 (25:21):
You know, like hoodies and t-shirts.
Yeah, they sell sub or they'llyou know, they might have
plushies if they have likecharacters, like I forget which
one one of the channels he usedto watch, he doesn't watch
anymore, had like charactersafter themselves.
Right.
So like some plushies.
SPEAKER_05 (25:40):
So there's gonna be listen, everybody and their
mother who has a freaking itemor product, they're gonna have
it on their own Black Fridaysale.
So I'm sure if whatever you'relooking for, you'll be able to
find it.
Right.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, sure.
Whatever it is or whatever itemit is, clothing, jewelry.
SPEAKER_01 (25:55):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (25:56):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (25:56):
You know, just I think everything and anything,
really.
I think like this year, I don'tthink I know.
This year I'm going I'm notgonna so much do a lot of the
big shopping, like for the wife,I probably will, because this is
the of what she's already askedfor for Christmas.
But for a lot of other people, Ithink I'm gonna hit the mom and
pop shops, the little places,because it's so much like is
that I'm gonna end up gettingyou guys something that you
(26:19):
already have.
You know what I'm saying?
Or or just an upgrade of whatyou already have, kind of shit.
You know, I want to getsomething different, you make
it, you know.
Like that's why I was gettingyou the art stuff, you know,
right and you the the stuff.
Right.
So like, you know, for me, itwould like you know, pick your
brain and find out, oh, thiswould be the cool thing, you
know what I'm saying?
You know, for you, you know,whether it's getting you a gift
(26:39):
certificate to lids, you know,for new hats or whatever, and
getting the same, or you know,getting you some hoodies and
shit, like that's you know whereI'm at.
And you know, for me it's easierto do it at a mom and pop shop,
you know what I'm saying, youknow, brick and mortar kind of
spot, because they got differentthings.
Right.
You know, they have the peoplein the in the community that are
actually making it.
I got this mug that my youngestMaggie had got me a while back,
(27:03):
and it's a mug that your handthe people made it that your
hand fits in the mug.
So it's not a handle.
You're you're literally walkinglike that.
Oh, that's right, bro.
And I bought it in Kingston.
Well, she bought it from me inKingston.
Yeah, so your hand is in thereand it's like.
It's freaking amazing.
So I want to go back and buylike three of these bitches, you
know, three or four, because ofthe handful of people that I
(27:25):
know that drink coffee and ortea.
And, you know, I use mine likeevery day, bro.
Literally, like when I go homenow, I'm gonna go in and I'm
gonna make coffee and I'm justgonna have a cup of coffee.
And keep your hand warm at thesame time, bro.
It's amazing.
I love that thing, you know?
Like I said, hoodies or evenshirts like this one, you know,
like knitted shirts and shitlike that.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Or just buying a hoodie andbeing able to, you know, get it.
(27:47):
That's like I did for you guyslast year.
They got the um printed on thet-shirts and the hoodies and
shit.
Right.
Stuff like that.
Like I said, that's the, youknow, I think that's what I'm
gonna end up doing this year.
I'm not gonna do the as I said,I'm not gonna go to, you know,
the big companies and buywhatever shit, you know.
Because uh it's like I want toget something unique this year.
I want to, you know, geteverybody something that they're
gonna do.
(28:07):
I don't need anything, man.
SPEAKER_05 (28:09):
I'm good.
SPEAKER_01 (28:09):
Well, you know what I mean, though.
I mean, I appreciate it though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's still just thesomething, you know, something
different, something cool, youknow.
It's been it's been a rough, youknow, just rough as a whole.
People just been on edge andshit.
So to buy something to turnaround and put a smile on your
face and something different,that's where my head is at, you
know.
Like, yeah, oh check this out.
You know, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah.
Like me, I would love to haveLegos, but I don't have the time
(28:30):
anymore to sit and put a fuckingLego together.
And if I put Legos together, mywife's you've got to do it a
little at a time.
SPEAKER_05 (28:36):
You can't do it in one shot.
SPEAKER_01 (28:37):
But then once I make it, I don't have wife isn't
gonna let me hang it from theceiling because I want like an
X-Wing case.
She's not gonna let me hang itright over.
SPEAKER_05 (28:43):
You're gonna have to break it down to whatever.
SPEAKER_01 (28:46):
What they sell?
SPEAKER_04 (28:46):
They sell a special adhesive that actually fuses
like the plastic together.
Really?
That's what they do.
That's what they use at Lego andthe guy was telling me it's a
special industrial adhesive theyuse.
So when they when they have alltheir stuff outside put
together, it that you can't takethat shot.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
It's like it's like strongerthan a pocket.
SPEAKER_05 (29:05):
Right.
Yeah.
That's good.
SPEAKER_01 (29:06):
So they must do it to each individual piece.
No, I think that's that's gottabe tedious.
Like I don't even know.
No, I think that they put on theLSP.
I think it's like a paint.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
I think like they paint it onkind of thing.
Like they put the whole thingtogether and then they put the
putting.
It's like an epoxy.
Like an epoxy, yes.
SPEAKER_04 (29:22):
It's not like they have to put it over each other.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01 (29:25):
Yeah, you're on your fingers and then you're stuck to
like you're stuck like that andshit.
Yeah, it's a spray gun.
Yeah, right, right.
No, no.
I don't think that it couldspray it on too.
Yeah.
But yeah, I'm sorry, we weretalking over this way totally.
SPEAKER_05 (29:34):
No, no, I'm just responding to what you guys were
saying.
It's just like I was saying,like, I'm sure like my wife laws
boots.
I'm sure there's gonna be acrisp there's gonna be a Black
Friday thing on that.
You know what I mean?
Or uh Whatever it is you'relooking for.
This is crazy 'cause noteverybody jumps on the
bandwagon, you know.
But if it's a really crazy itemlike everybody normally goes
for, like the TVs and the v theuh the video games and
SPEAKER_00 (30:00):
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_05 (30:00):
Now we see earbuds.
Now everybody's doing that.
That's a big thing.
SPEAKER_01 (30:03):
Yeah, I don't want earbuds.
SPEAKER_05 (30:04):
I don't either.
Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_04 (30:05):
I I like over ear.
Yeah, I like over ear.
You know what the thing is withearbuds is?
Is like they never feelcomfortable.
No.
Like, unless it's the one thatgoes over your ear as well.
In the back of the ear, right.
And then kind of goes in.
Yeah, that's okay.
I feel like you have to wedge itin your ear.
And after a while, I like theover-the-head.
SPEAKER_05 (30:21):
And listen, we're old school.
That's where we come from.
That's how we were having it.
SPEAKER_04 (30:25):
Remember the old Walkman one?
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (30:27):
So old Walkman used to have the big over-the-head
earphones that you would pluginto your Walkman.
They got cheaper in the 80s withthe Little Food.
SPEAKER_05 (30:35):
Yeah, Sonya was a big one too, because they have
the ones that went in your ear.
SPEAKER_01 (30:38):
Yes.
Remember those?
And that's what I'm saying.
I think everybody you have toknow who you're buying for.
SPEAKER_05 (30:46):
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (30:46):
Know where you're going to go.
Well, that's the thing.
SPEAKER_05 (30:48):
You don't want to just buy something for somebody
and they're not going to likeit.
SPEAKER_01 (30:51):
So here's what I was going to go with.
So I was going to be nice aboutit, but fuck it.
So dig it.
If you're not going to see theperson on Christmas, you buy
their gift the day afterChristmas.
SPEAKER_04 (31:01):
That's true.
SPEAKER_01 (31:02):
So this way it's even cheaper than what it would
have been on Black Friday.
Yeah.
And everybody's returning shitso you get your size.
So anybody who's like a sneakerhas always sales and you're not
going to find, yep, you're notgoing to find your size.
SPEAKER_05 (31:14):
Or just do your Christmas shopping then for next
year.
For next year.
SPEAKER_01 (31:17):
Well, yeah, you could do that too.
Yeah.
Well, also, you know how.
SPEAKER_04 (31:21):
You know how Chase is obsessed with Halloween.
We had Chase on the showrecently, and uh my son, and he
uh loves spear Halloween.
So when Tara does, she goes to50% day, which is after you know
November 1st.
Yeah.
Right.
And she loads up to Christmasshopping then for him.
That's awesome.
He loves that stuff.
So, you know, yeah, see, that'shis wheelhouse right there.
(31:43):
He likes to uh wear costumes forfun.
So who didn't?
We get like half-wolf costumes.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
That's not a bad idea.
Shit.
That's really cool.
SPEAKER_01 (31:52):
Damn, I didn't even think about it.
SPEAKER_04 (31:53):
You know anybody likes Halloween spooky stuff?
SPEAKER_01 (31:54):
Yeah, as I say, my daughter did this little shit.
She turned around Samantha, theolder one.
Her ass, she's already put upher tree.
unknown (32:02):
Really?
SPEAKER_01 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah.
She'd already got her tree.
I'm like, no, what are you doingtoo?
Don't rush shit, man.
SPEAKER_05 (32:06):
My wife does it the day after Yeah, after
Thanksgiving.
After Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_04 (32:10):
Some people now are day after Halloween.
SPEAKER_05 (32:11):
That's easy.
And most of that's out ofrespect for me as well, because
she knows I love Thanksgiving.
It always started for me the dayafter.
Yeah, no.
And I always like that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (32:21):
I don't want it to be the, you know, I don't want
to Christmas shit right away.
Who are like, day afterHalloween, we're gonna have two
months of Christmas.
No way, man.
No way.
Some people love Christmas thatmuch to where they're like, ooh,
like us.
We we start we start Halloweenin September.
SPEAKER_01 (32:38):
Yeah, no, bro.
SPEAKER_04 (32:40):
Well, that's different.
But I get it.
Not the decorations, but well,the indoor decorations start
coming out.
SPEAKER_01 (32:44):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (32:45):
Like time of doors.
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01 (32:48):
But Halloween's different, man.
No, I need to I I listen, I needChristmas to be December 1st.
Like, you know, I'm notChristmas Day.
I'm just gonna start inDecember.
Right after Thanksgiving.
Uh yeah, I no, I don't even needit right after I don't need it
the day after Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_05 (33:02):
Well, I mean that's that's the general Yeah, and for
me, I think that's what I'msaying.
SPEAKER_01 (33:06):
Like they're already doing the Christmas the
commercials, you know?
SPEAKER_05 (33:08):
Dude, you walk into the big stores now and do the
already.
SPEAKER_01 (33:12):
This all the big shit is out already.
Oh man, come on.
No, I can't.
I can't.
I don't I hate it.
That bothers the hell out of me.
Matter of fact, it started tosnow over here last week, and my
daughter's like, Dad, send me atext message, Dad, why is it
snowing?
What the hell's going on?
I'm like, because your assdecided you want to put up that
punk ass Christmas tree in yourhouse.
So this shit is your fault.
SPEAKER_05 (33:31):
Right.
Whatever.
Oh, and Bobber did the samething, too, by the way.
Yeah, lady I worked.
The whole office is done.
Her house is.
She does it.
SPEAKER_01 (33:37):
Bro, if you see her house, oh my god.
SPEAKER_05 (33:41):
She got all my she got most of my father's
decorations.
Yeah, right.
There's a whole entire officewith it.
Yeah.
And my father had a lot, and sheloves every one of those pieces,
dude.
She does.
Dude, no, man.
SPEAKER_01 (33:53):
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
Her house, when she does, nolie, bro.
I went to her house and duringChristmas time.
And her and her cousin, so youknow, Barbie lives in her house
and her cousin another.
Dude, their house is like ifChristmas threw up in their
house.
(34:13):
Right.
I'm not even kidding.
She's got all the figurines.
She's got Barbie, ChristmasBarbies, bro.
Christmas Barbies.
And she doesn't take them out ofthe box.
They still sit in the box, butshe sets these bitches up.
She puts up the barbies, she'ssending the box.
And it's like a ChristmasBarbie.
SPEAKER_06 (34:28):
She thinks the holiday, man.
That's her shit.
Oh dude, oh my god.
I give her shit about it too.
Because I'm like, it's tooearly.
SPEAKER_01 (34:34):
Yeah.
I'm like, no, no, no.
The radio now is playing themusic now, too, or right?
I'm telling you, bro.
Listen, that I'll turn that shitoff.
I don't listen to it yet.
I don't listen to it at all.
Don't listen too early.
Nope.
Matter of fact, her cousin, shehas a Santa Claus, like a
zipline shit kind of thing.
So Santa Claus comes down.
She has it across the livingroom.
And Santa Claus comes down withthe radio or some shit.
SPEAKER_04 (34:58):
We have one of those for a ghost.
He goes, ooh.
SPEAKER_01 (35:02):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (35:03):
He travels up and down the zip line.
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (35:07):
That's great.
Yo, dude, that is freakinghilarious, man.
No.
It's too bad.
SPEAKER_05 (35:14):
Spirit Halloween doesn't stay long enough for
like they do their own BlackFriday show.
I wonder if they have one.
I bet you they do.
That's what he said.
It's online, probably.
SPEAKER_04 (35:21):
Well, it's the day after Halloween.
One now.
They may even have one online.
Well, you know what they do havethough?
They started this year, SpiritChristmas.
No, no, this is the second yearthey're doing it.
That's right.
I read about that.
So they only had a handful oflocations last year, because it
was the first year they'retesting.
Okay.
The second year they're doingit, and they're expanding to
even more locations.
So by me in Jersey, they haveone in Paramus and one in
(35:46):
Rockaway.
Did you go in it?
Not yet.
We're going to let me know whatit looks like.
Yeah, we're in Jersey.
If they do it the way they doHalloween, man, in the sense the
way, you know, like we were atthe one at Old Bridge last year.
And that was really cool.
The only thing I would warnanybody, if you're bringing a
small kid, be careful.
It is owned by Spencer's.
(36:06):
You know, Spirit Halloween's ownby Spencer's, but for some
reason, some of the adult themedstuff made it into that store.
So just, you know, a heads up.
Cover eyes, that kind of thing.
Or just don't go to that area ofthe salt.
Yeah, yeah.
Because they got like some ofthe like Christmas, ugly
Christmas sweaters.
Because that whole section ofugly Christmas sweaters.
And like they're the same onesthat they have at Spencer's, and
(36:27):
some of them are like, you know,perverted.
You know, a little, you know,adult themed.
SPEAKER_05 (36:31):
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh shit, I'm going to have to goto Spencer.
They have the sex toys in it aswell.
Right.
SPEAKER_04 (36:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, they don't have thatspirit of Christmas.
That means like a one shapedlike a candy cane or something.
That'd be a great.
SPEAKER_06 (36:43):
Or it was the color of a skin of a candy cane.
Yeah.
The peppermint colour or theright strike.
SPEAKER_05 (36:48):
Like from uh, you know, oh my god, what the mental
like a fucking cementeddoctor's.
SPEAKER_03 (36:56):
Yo, that's adult from Hooville.
SPEAKER_06 (37:01):
Hilarious, bro.
But what would it be?
What would it be for a guy?
What's the toy that they callit?
What is it, a sleeve orsomething?
What the hell is that thing?
SPEAKER_01 (37:09):
Oh, yeah, like the sock.
Yeah, you put like just theunderwear with the sock on it.
Yeah, that right down becausethat would be the Candy King.
Or that it's uh Rudolph the RedRose reindeer.
But I know you're talking, but Ithink it is called a sock, bro.
SPEAKER_05 (37:20):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (37:20):
That's fucking hilarious.
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04 (37:23):
Yes, for some reason for Spirit Halloween, like
stuff, they do sell some stufffrom Spencer's because Spencer
smells a lot of the Halloweenstuff anyway, and all that
stuff.
But they don't really have a lotof the adult themed stuff.
Right.
Well, some of the costumes atSpear, but like they don't have
but like at like SpiritChristmas, like they got like
some stuff.
I was like, what the hell'sgoing on here?
Yeah.
Right.
Because that like they have agift section.
SPEAKER_05 (37:44):
Which is the one we went to in the mall when we were
in uh Palisades.
Which one did we go into?
We went into one of theSpencer's Spencer's Hot Topic.
They had all that stuff in thatstore.
They were loaded.
Yeah, they had the store andshit.
Yeah, a few months ago we allwent to the mall.
We were stuff.
So we that place is gonna bejacked on on uh on Black Friday.
(38:06):
Palisades jacked.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (38:08):
But Palisades has enough uh parking for all that
shit.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (38:12):
I mean they got downstairs and then it's just
scary because that damn thing issinking, man.
SPEAKER_01 (38:16):
Yeah, but no, it's not good.
And they'll put a new car, soit'd be like whatever.
I know.
SPEAKER_04 (38:21):
Yeah, so those for those who don't know, the
Palisades Mall is in Nyack, WestNyack, uh New York.
And they built it on landfill.
And apparently they didn't putthe pilings deep enough, and
it's sinking slowly.
It's just this slow decay.
And uh eventually, I think theowners we were talking about
before, I think they're gonna beclosing it because I don't think
at a certain point it's gonna beIt's not gonna be safe anymore.
(38:44):
I think right now it is forsure.
As it slowly sinks down.
SPEAKER_05 (38:48):
Yeah, but uh, you know what?
They that's crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (38:50):
I don't want to be in there and be like where they
waited too long and like there'ssome like the building falls and
it'll be in a movie orsomething.
SPEAKER_01 (38:57):
Yeah, yeah.
I love that mall, bro.
I'm not even gonna lie.
SPEAKER_05 (39:00):
It's a good mall.
It's a nice size mall, but thefact that the way they went
about it, they didn't they justdidn't do it right.
Engineering structurally, itjust sucked, but they got it.
I think that's what it is.
I th so if I'm wrong, yeah,wait, you're wrong.
You could be absolutely right,because we're only going by what
we know.
SPEAKER_04 (39:12):
So Palestine's mall's gonna sue us for
defamation.
That's Star Wars.
SPEAKER_05 (39:16):
Okay, yeah.
Yeah.
No, we don't we're we're nottrying to say anything, but just
what we hear.
SPEAKER_01 (39:20):
That's the word on the street.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (39:22):
That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01 (39:22):
Yeah, but no.
That's I wonder what that I'venever been there for Black
Friday or anything like that.
No.
SPEAKER_05 (39:27):
I bet you it's I bet you there's a lot of people
jacked up in that one.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Because they probably doeverything inside.
SPEAKER_01 (39:32):
Yeah, they have to.
Yeah.
They have to.
The what?
The the order like having theline can happen by outside.
Well, the store, it's a mall,bro.
It's a mall.
SPEAKER_04 (39:39):
Yeah, so they're gonna have to wait like in the
lobby and everything.
Yeah, they'll probably have aline along the inside.
Because it's like it's thetypical mall where they have
like it's it's four floors, butthere's in the middle of the
store is uh the middle of themall is like you can see all the
floors.
Right.
Right.
So they'll probably have themline up against that glass.
SPEAKER_01 (39:57):
Maybe, but then there's like four stores that
are next to each other.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's what I'm looking at.
It's like, you know, you havethree stores together and they
have to have lines or space forthe lines in the three stores.
SPEAKER_04 (40:06):
So it's small stores do big doorbusters.
Oh, yeah.
Unless it's like a specialstore.
SPEAKER_01 (40:12):
It might be a small stores that are not open at all.
No, the perfume store, like eventhe perfume store, it's always a
small ass store.
That's a good store.
But you know, they have theythey always have a huge line to
get into that shit.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
So, you know, but yeah, I I lovethat shit, man.
You know, and I I I wish thatkids had more selection of
actual toys.
(40:32):
You know what I mean?
Not just because, you know.
SPEAKER_04 (40:35):
You know what would be fun though?
I've never got like I said, I'venever gone shopping for Black
Friday, and I still won't, butit would be fun to go out and
video record and see otherpeople.
Why not?
Yeah, it's fun to be a good one.
Just be a spectacle.
Like spectator.
SPEAKER_01 (40:47):
But wait, now you have to think about your own
sanity.
And I'm saying it like thisbecause it's crazy with the
traffic.
Uh-huh.
And I'm telling you, thetraffic.
But is it still like thatthough?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Well, again, like I said, I hadit on for a handful of years.
I heard last year it was prettyhectic.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't that crazy, but it wasit wasn't crazy like, you know,
(41:08):
you know, 15 years ago.
But like, you know, it it's it'sstill pretty, pretty busy,
pretty full.
And you don't want to go out atmidnight.
You want to go at like threeo'clock in the morning.
Yeah.
Because that's when traffic isnow moving again.
And now it might be a little biteasier to find parking because
people are actually, you know,coming in and out of the stores
and stuff like that and whatnot.
(41:29):
And I mean, I don't know aboutwhere you live, bro, but over
here, there's so much shopping.
You know, we've got the indoormall, we got the outdoor mall,
you have all the mom and popshops, you have I mean, there's
just so much shit.
It's insane, insane.
Like they built new roadways,bro, to try to deter the
traffic, uh, you know, detourthe traffic to get around.
(41:51):
And it's actually worked, butthe problem is that now it's
like 30 miles per hour overthere.
So now when you go over thereand people are doing now 10 or
15 because they're windowshopping.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like you get the fuck out theway, just get out the car.
But whatever, you know, it wasone of those things.
But I think last year, did Ihear last year, bro, that Black
(42:12):
Friday uh Home Depot was open?
Probably.
They were all those too, Ithink.
SPEAKER_04 (42:16):
Yeah.
So it says here.
Don't forget Home Depot alwaysdoes that big thing with the
with the they stopped doing it,but they used to remember they
used to cover the all thepallets with like black tape or
black like cellophane in in thein in Home Depot.
Oh, I remember that.
Yeah, they were doing it for somany years.
Home Depot, they'd have like inthe middle, like like two days
before Black Friday or uhThanksgiving.
I know that.
(42:36):
They start putting the stuffout, but it would be covered
with black cellophane so you cansee through it.
Oh, that's right.
I do remember that.
Yeah, they'd have all thesepower tools, the wall, Milwaukee
would have special deals orRyobi or all those.
SPEAKER_05 (42:53):
I just asked Chat GBT, and it says yes, a large
growing portion of Black Fridayshopping is done online,
although in-stores still playsan important role.
Here are some of the keys data.
So US on sa online sales, BlackFriday, 10.8 million and up.
10.2% from prior year.
(43:14):
Wow.
That's crazy.
In terms of people, an estimateshows 87.3 million shopping
online versus 81.7 who visitedphysical stores.
So it's really not that muchmore.
SPEAKER_01 (43:27):
Yeah, okay.
All right.
So it's split in the middlealmost.
Like they're dead even.
I thought it was gonna be morethan that.
Wow.
I thought it was gonna be abigger difference than that.
You know?
Yeah.
That's cool, then.
I mean that people are actuallystill going out there and going
shopping, which is a good thing.
So, you know.
SPEAKER_05 (43:41):
It says one survey for Black Friday 2025, it was
reported that seventy-onepercent of people plan to shop
online, while twenty-ninepercent plan to shop in person.
Mobile devices are verydominant, for example, seventy
percent of global online salesduring the Black Friday, Cyber
Week period, were made viamobile devices.
(44:03):
Oh damn.
This is interesting stuff.
So I'm just asking as we'retalking and getting some
answers.
You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01 (44:09):
That's groovy.
Well, that is it.
We're done for today.
But listen, everybody that goesout there Black Friday shopping,
be careful.
Be careful.
You know, people say drivingcrazy and whatnot and trying to
rush for for you know to get fora parking space or running for
whatever item that they see andall that other stuff.
SPEAKER_05 (44:30):
Yeah, I don't think I think people know now this
they're not gonna put up.
SPEAKER_01 (44:33):
You know, somebody just turned around and grabs the
last, you know, that last vaseand is like, you know, that's
mine.
That's mine, mine.
You know, anyway, just be safe.
Yes, everybody, be safe for theholidays all together, man.
Be safe, you know, be kind toeverybody.
Love, peace, and hair grease.
Live long and prosper.
SPEAKER_04 (44:49):
And stay shopping or stay home.
SPEAKER_01 (44:52):
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