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Episode 87 - How Christmas Became Commercialized 🎄🤑
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On this episode of Not Rocket Science, we get our history lesson on by deep diving into the past to piece together how the holiday season (and in particular Christmas) has become the commercialized juggernaut that it is today’s. While we are hitting crunch time when it comes to holiday shopping, we recap department stores or the 20th century’s influence on what is now the common aesthetic of Christmas, how Black Friday was a term that came from the police and how some of the most well known Christmas tales and traditions can actually be traced to clever marketing campaigns (including that little red-nosed reindeer). While we sit at our laptops mindlessly shopping on Amazon we figured it would be a good time to reflect on how we got here and how the meaning of the holidays has transformed all on the latest episode!
Have a request, comment, question, or hate rant against us? Hate holiday shopping? All about the holiday spirit? Did I ruin your childhood on this episode? Hit us up!!
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Manage episode 248244624 series 2182907
On this episode of Not Rocket Science, we get our history lesson on by deep diving into the past to piece together how the holiday season (and in particular Christmas) has become the commercialized juggernaut that it is today’s. While we are hitting crunch time when it comes to holiday shopping, we recap department stores or the 20th century’s influence on what is now the common aesthetic of Christmas, how Black Friday was a term that came from the police and how some of the most well known Christmas tales and traditions can actually be traced to clever marketing campaigns (including that little red-nosed reindeer). While we sit at our laptops mindlessly shopping on Amazon we figured it would be a good time to reflect on how we got here and how the meaning of the holidays has transformed all on the latest episode!
Have a request, comment, question, or hate rant against us? Hate holiday shopping? All about the holiday spirit? Did I ruin your childhood on this episode? Hit us up!!
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @nrs_show (very active!)
Twitter: @nrs_show
Become a supporter of this podcast: anchor.fm/not-rocket-science/suppor
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/not-rocket-science/support105 episodes
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