The Sloppy Boys - [UNLOCKED] The Mall

Episode Date: June 29, 2022

The guys venture out to the mall, each allotted twenty dollars on the The Sloppy Boys LLC card.Enjoy this [UNLOCKED] episode from our weekly Patreon bonus podcast, The Sloppy Boys Blowout!www.patreon.com/thesloppyboys Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys Blowin', I'm the Big Ham Bopper and I'm sittin' here with band members Jeff Dutton. Can we get married at the mall? I love it. He's pulling a reference from last episode and his little bandmate, Tim Kalpakis. You mean the bathroom stall? Is there an echo on the podcast? I love it.

Okay, you two are changing your hair color. No, wait a minute. I'm looking at the notes wrong here. Jeff changes the hair color or likes to, wants to by the week. What's going on here, Jeff? You haven't done the purple hair yet. No, still thinking about purple. I'm sticking with blonde.

Wearing a bit of a mauve shirt, so we're getting there. We just need to work our way up. And Tim, you're still touring, right? Yes, I'm still constantly. Yeah, we're on the road. We live on the road. We're road dogs. We love it out there.

I love it. I don't have the guts to get out there on the road. Come on, Bopper. We'll take you out. No, no, I have a fear of hotel rooms. Okay, that's weird, Bopper. We'll take you out. No, no. I have a fear of hotel rooms. Okay. That's weird, Dutch. Very weird. Cool.

That's why I ask you every week, what are you guys doing on the road? How could you? I want to live through you. I really thought it would be more about maybe partying isn't your scene, or you didn't really want to find yourself doing drugs backstage, but I didn't really think there would just be a fear of your own little hotel room. No, no. I've got a fear of those nasty bed bugs that you hear about every so often in bad reviews.

Yeah, that's true. You ever go on Yelp and look up bad reviews? Ooh, some of those things are brutal. You ever get a book in a hotel room, and you thought it was just going to be a king bedroom, but you're by yourself, and you've got two double beds, and then one night you sleep on one, the next night you sleep on the other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Spread out the filth, you know.

You know what I do? One bed can't handle it all. Don't worry about coming in here and making up this bed. I'm just going to ruin the other. That whole bed's used up. I got to move on to the next. What about, you know, you go in there and,, oh no, I was going to say, if I do a two bed situation, I'm usually in one bed

and my suitcase is on the other. Oh, that's nice. I like to use that little stand. The suitcase traveled so far. It helped me out so much and I filled its body with all my crap that I said, you can get a rest. Sometimes I

kind of spoon the suitcase and we're in the same bed. Yep. Yep. Yep. Hey. So you two are on the road. No, we're not going to do that. We're not doing that. We're not doing that big hand. Mike, Mike, hold pause the telephone.

We're on Zencaster dot com is the software that we use to do our podcast. I had my windows real small today, like little thumbnails. But then I kind of just blew up full screen for the first time. And I'm seeing a new hairdo on Hanford. It looks fantastic. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. I went old school style. You could use a shower, though. Yeesh. Comb my hair with a pork chop over here. But here's what I like. It's short on the sides, a little longer with a little swoosh on the top, but then boosh.

A little duck tail in the back. A little Huey, Dewey, and Louie in the back. Yeah. And up top, they're Uncle Donald. Boosh. Yeah. And underneath, the heart of Mickey. Ha-ha.

I went in, and I said, do the thing I do. And so I get results varying. I say, I like my haircut. Just clean it up. And this guy decided to make that a short haircut. I said, that's fine. That's amazing. Wait, wait.

Because I have this too where I think we all know this. You get a haircut. They're going to buzz the way they want to buzz no matter what you say. But for you, just clean it up. It looks on the sides, he used clippers, right? No, but I mean, he did the thing where he puts, he combs your hair and then uses like a shaver to cut it down.

Yeah, clippers. Yeah. Yeah, he shaves it down with clippers. Did you think I was talking about the LA Clippers? They came into the barbershop? Yeah, they didn't show up. There was no NBA teams there. Mike, I'll tell you, he did you some favors.

It's a hip cut. You look like Jack Schramm. Boo! No, Jack Schramm's got a buzzed cut, I think. No, no. These days, he's got kind of the cool Chelsea mullet. A little bit of a flap. I got to call him.

We got to go out. I love that guy with all my heart. Me too. I love Schrammer. Schrammer, I know you're listening. Love you, buddy. I got to call you. Yeah, this guy, you know what's funny too?

In the scientific world, in the practical world, we all know an inch is an inch. Okay? Twelve of them make up a foot. This guy, an inch to him was not the same as the inch from the lady before. Hey, you know what I heard as a dude who's had long hair of recent? Is when you go to get a haircut and you ask for a trim, that doesn't mean length. They're cutting off the unhealthy hair. And that might be oh that might

be a little bit it might be a lot well wait okay so nobody in the world knows that nobody i it took me 38 years to figure that out i was today years old when i figured it out you know what i went into uh i was at rudy i don't think rudy's is around anymore in the one in la is now fellow they've been all part of my fellow barber shop what is that rudy so no no no um there was a coca-cola commercial with adrian brody and he goes hey hey brody hey brody it was like very clear that coca-cola was like okay brody might not be famous like nobody's gonna know who this guy is just say his name. I was in Rudy's once, and I was, I don't know what we were talking about.

Oh, no, they got new, they're like, oh, these aren't my usual scissors. And they switched up. Like, okay, let me just get back to my normal scissors. These were new ones I was trying out. I said, oh, okay, what are these? Like, are those, are barber shears expensive? This person's hair shears, I think were 800 bucks. Oh!

Yeah, yeah, I've heard that. Could you believe that? It's like, you know, if you went to a mechanic or something, his tools are probably all a lot more expensive than you would think. It's just like having, so many professional has tools that are good. You gotta have the good tools. As a novice outsider, I've got, during COVID, I bought Clippers 40 bucks. Yeah, you look like shit.

I mean, this is what I'm talking about. I don't have the tools for the craft. Even though I did have the tools, I wouldn't know how to do it. Wait, what is that? Bottle rocket. Bottle rocket. bottle yes so you mean to tell me if i went to michael's arts and crafts and i bought a nice new pair of fiskars you know what i'm talking about the orange large scissors i couldn't give myself a a1 haircut no no no you

need you need the good stuff damn and i get the good stuff. It's just like it's made with good steel that cuts well and doesn't dull. And the hinge works well. Fits your hand nicely. You ever put on a nice, like an expensive pair of sunglasses? Very rarely. When you put them on, they feel better on your face. Somehow the plastic is better. You know, I buy my sunglasses, I buy them in bulk, right?

You know, I got like, there are $4 ones I wear. So I've got dozens and dozens of pairs of them. And then the reason is because I always lose them. And you know, of course I'd love to own some nice Ray-Bans, but I'm going to misplace them. And then one year for Christmas, the in-laws say, Tim, here's your Christmas present.

Open them up. Beautiful, classic Ray-Ban Wayfarers. Just, you know, the original good looking shade. I put them on and Mike, that feeling you're talking about.

Exactly. I was like, wow, that feels perfect. It fit my face. Great. I could see so well. Right, because it's not like shitty glass.

It's all polarized and clear and almost like magnified. I'm like, I can't wait to live life with these things. I swear to God I lost them before New Year's. From Christmas to New Year's. Gone. Wow. Yeah. It was probably 120 bucks.

You got to get a set of croquis there. Put them around your neck. Yeah. Sleep with around your neck. Yeah. Sleep with them like that. Well, what you might be setting aside with looks and hipness, you are gaining in nice sunglasses. Hey, I've got an idea. I've got an idea.

You know croquis. They're great. Functional. But they do change the look, don't they? Oh, yeah. The croquis. Yeah. I like it.

I think it's a great look. Go to a tackle shop. Oh. Oh. Bait and tackle or just tackle? Just tackle. Just tackle. Get that bait out of here.

Get yourself some fine, fine filament. Some fishing line. Make your own croquis out of the fishing line. See, I thought you were going to say a couple of worms. No, no bait. Remember? Oh, right. That's bait.

I'm so sorry. You said no bait. If you want bait, you want to go to hot coffee. Cold beer and fresh bait. I'll tell you, me, you know, one of the ones I have no bait is during No Nut November. Come on. Come on. Come on. It's not that type of show.

It's not a gross out bro show. Here's what type of show it is. Do you know what they call croquis in Australia? No. Croquis. All right. Today, we have a show. I just want to get that out of the way.

We've got a show to end all shows. This is another one of these ones where the three sloppy boys have been set out into the real world to record their, what they do in the real world. And we went to the mall, the American mall. You've been? Yes.

Yes. We've all been to the mall. What were you saying before, what's the Kanye lyric? Let's all go to the mall. She said, yay, can we get married in the mall? Married in the mall. Now, what is that about, you think? Because we were 90s kids, us and Kanye, I think.

So he's saying, like, let's go back to the mall where we fell in love the first time. Yeah, yeah. I remember going to the mall and it being like, yeah, me like middle school pre-internet oh we love the pre-internet you go to the mall with people and just walk around it i don't think i bought anything i don't know what the hell i was doing there maybe you ended up in a movie or laser tag but then you go home see i never did i would i would be going into sax i would be going into barney's i would be getting outfitted with the latest threads. The new collection is out.

Have my guy take care of me. Hey, take this in. Take the inseam way in. Hey, listen. Timmy, I can't go any farther. Go in. Push it to the limit, Geppetto. And when you swing her out of the ass, that's going to have to be let out.

Keep that fabric, Andy. We're going to need it in the back. Don't you put that fabric in the garbage because it's going around back. And don't ask me to wear them backwards. I was actually connecting that idea with this idea, going back to the haircut. When I was getting my haircut, one of the guys, as I was waiting, I'm sitting in my chair, looking at my phone, and

this guy gets up, and he puts his shirt on. He's got one of those sort of fleece, half zip-up things in the front. I was looking at him. I was like, hey, psst, your shirt. I was like, just switch it.

And he's like, what? And he looked down and his shirt was, his fleece was on backwards. I was like, I don't want you going to a meeting looking like that. You look like a fool. He's like, I haven't done that since I was a kid. The quarter zip zip was in the back of his body? Yeah. This guy was drunk. Hold on.

Hey, this is the new shirt that I'm hearing a lot about. It's the quarter zip fleece. Yeah. Like a Patagonian. I'm hearing a lot about, Jeff. This is from like L.L. Bean from the 80s. Yeah, but this is like it's gone for a minute. Now it's back again, you know? Not in Hanford's world.

It's been there since he was. No, I know, but like so when you say quarter zip, you mean the zip goes down to the sternum. Right to the sternum, and you're looking to the left and right, you got nips right next to you. Yeah. You got a couple of mommy milkers. Okay.

I don't wear, here's the thing about me. I love, when I see someone with a cool vintage Patagonia quarter zip, I think that's cool as fuck. But I don't, I feel like on me, gotta be careful when you say that it makes me think of a sandwich keep going i i've got an ll bean amaranth anorak that's pretty cool i've got a fucking really cool molson ski oh yeah that is like windbreaker zip but the fleece zip i'm i'm really afraid there's a certain type of I flirt with preppy attire, kind of with the polo shirts and the rugby shirts.

But when I wear a quarter zip, it's something to do with being kind of like a fleshy white guy that I really just kind of look like a banker in the bad way. It's tough. It's because the collar is just always popped. And if you unzip it a little bit and then bend the collar down it looks not cool that's what i just i think of my dad like my my i had like those performance david yeah david walter dutton uh he had so many of them i rocked him too in high in high school

and then when i went off to college i said dad I'm not into the quarter zips anymore, dude. You will be. You're no son of mine. Bend over for your latest spanking. The latest. The latest. But hey, maybe you'll catch me wearing one of those. I don't know if you will. I may wait for this one to pass right by, just like every other

fad. Here's a cool thing. You didn't let the mauve shirt trend pass you by. Oh no other fad i here's a cool thing you didn't let the mob shirt trend pass you by oh no i had that one pretty good yeah that's a huge fan um you know that patagonia is like a cool uh environmentally conscious company and stuff here's the thing that that's cool about them they don't do corporate like vests like like let's say you got some yeah you have a silicon valley company and you're having your big mixer and you you want to buy the linkedin symposium is happening in in the fucking grass valley and you want to buy 10,000 fleece vests for your dumbass bros,

Patagonia will say no. They don't do it. That's cool. Love it. Take that shit to North Face. They had an ad campaign for a while. They had an ad campaign for a while that was like,

it was a picture of their stuff or a picture of their coat and said, don't buy Patagonia. Yep. Which I think in its own is also an ad. They know what they're doing but like uh that's pretty bold move yeah they talked about that on business wars they were saying like

they're like yeah like to reduce our carbon footprint we shouldn't be making these but then also they know it's a winky little ad and jeff you mentioned their direct competitor north face they have a great relationship with North Face so much so that they link together on big issues that they both care about. You know, like specific like climate change stuff. Yeah, climate change stuff and things that like directly affect skiers and, you know, mountain climbers and stuff. They work. They're like, hey, we're direct competitors, but we're working together just to show that climate change is more important than our petty squabbles. Here's something, too, with Patagonia.

Somebody told me about this, and I tried it pre-pandemic, so maybe things are a little different now. I had a raincoat, like a windbreakery raincoat thing. The lining on the inside, like the waterproof lining started to like peel off it like started in one spot and then just all started like peel away and somebody told me that you can go to patagonia and say hey i got this patagonia thing it's falling apart give me a new one you know say a little politer than that and they they give you i went there and i was like yeah yeah, I'd like to exchange this because this is falling apart. And they're like, yeah, hold on.

And they took it and they showed me that style, that year's version of that. And I was like, oh, those are pretty cool. Do you have it in different colors? I just don't really like that blue or something. And he's like, yeah. And we went online and I ordered a brand new coat.

Free? Same model, but just this year's version. Like the coat or just like the liner? Yeah, I wasn't clear. The coat, like the waterproof liner that's like, you know, stuck to the jacket. Like the rubbery part of it just started to peel off. But it's part of the jacket. It doesn't unzip

from the shell of the jacket. Damn! So it was a $160 coat that he gave me for free, essentially. And then they take it, they take old coat, and I think they donate them because they're useful to some. I think they donate to some homeless shelters or something. Damn, dude. They're great. Sustainable.

Sustainable. I've also gone in there. I went in there once with my backpack. I needed just like a little loop thing for the zipper. I said, hey, can I get one of these? And they took me down this little room. They had a bunch and they said, what color? I said, go with green.

I don't know. I'm feeling crazy. I walk in there sometimes and I'll say, hey, can I have the shirt off your back? And they'll look me in the eye and they'll say, yes, brother. Anything for you. Yes, brother. Man, those are some brands that.

Should we, as the the the ceos of this patreon should we like be um a a bit like a responsible business like that yeah we should get we should get patagonia to sponsor us but well like what if the listener says hey this episode was all fucked up and didn't work for me uh i don't like the wall. The podcast is one of the most sustainable products that can be made. There's no physical media. There's no waste. I use a lot of water over here.

I mean, I got ones and zeros filling up my apartment. And I'm mining crypto. But you make one product and that product can go to one person or it can go to 7 billion people. Yeah, that's true. Covers the earth. Your money is well spent here, Patrons.

What's the population of the earth? 7 billion? 7 billion, I think. 7 billion won now. That's how quickly people get born. That's amazing, Jeff. Oh, yeah, back to 7 billion. Oh, shit.

Our condolences. Oh still born oh stop tim well it was an old person it was an old person no i'm being macabre but they were not you're yeah you're dabbling in the dark humor dark humor wait hey the name of this episode is Dark Humor. Now, Mike, you know the brand well. You know those brands well. REI, EMS, Patagonia. Sure. PMS.

PMS. Those to me, I left them behind when I became a city boy. I've got no use for them. Probably when you stopped going to those suburban malls. Those were popular mall brands at the time. Yes, I did spend my time at EMS in high school in the mall. Yep, and you go over there and say, oh, let me try on these boots, and you walk up their little incline. Oh, these boots are good.

I just can't afford them right now. The mall, my man, is dead. I don't know what to tell you. It's all online. That's not true. I got to get online, man. I got to. You got to sign in.

The malls are dead. Yes, that's true. But the outdoor mall. Not a mall, Clooney. Continue, sorry. Yeah, that's true. But the outdoor mall is the new thing. I don't know.

Maybe this is just an la thing but the grove the americana those are booming because people it's just like changes the shape of the mall everybody wants their mall to be a little bit of a disneyland and they don't want to go to like a weird indoor retro mall those are hurting yeah right and we've literally got we've got the guy that builds those malls like running for mayor right now off of the steam of how much everyone – there's been a resurgence. People love the Americana and the Grove. Me too. Why not?

It's fun. You go there. Because of COVID? Like you can get outside and use it more? I just think in general, people love that fucking mall. You know, the Americana. There's the Americana memes. And there's the... I just feel like everyone fucking loves the Americana. I couldn't think of a worse activity than going to the mall.

It's so fucking frustrating. It's like you park and you're walking around. Tim, Mike, I like it. You like going to the mall. I enjoy. But I mean, it you like going to the mall i enjoy but i mean it's like it's like a weird rare treat and i i like to i like to go with like one or two friends or just by myself and like just sort of let my stream of consciousness take over you know what was your go-to childhood the mall i'm going to the mall michael the name of it yes eastview mall

eastview i don't know that i've in rochester i've been to i want to say there's is there like a place yes i've been there that was not yours okay that was that was a i think a better bigger mall and now they're all dust um wow duddy well there's the nashua estates well in uh I grew up in Londonderry. We didn't really have a mall per se. So I went to the Manchester Mall, the Mall of New Hampshire is what they called it. And I worked at Suncoast for many years. Ah, yes.

And then I remember when Best Buy showed up and we were like, oh, we got a Best Buy. Now we can all get TVs for $199 or whatever. Best was a was a real that was a game changer when that showed up and the cds were cheap because um before best buy we had like sam goody or saturday or whatever and it was like cds were 1899 and then best buy came in it was like 12 or 999 um and then uh also in nashville we had the Pheasant Lane Mall. That was another fun one. Ooh. That's where you would shit in a Dunkin' Donuts bag and leave it out front.

Ah, yes. Ring-dong-diggers. Mine was the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, New York. But then also, if we wanted to be fancy, that was kind of like your very down-the-middle classic mall. But we could also go down to the poughkeepsie galleria or maybe we want to go up to albany the crossgates mall or the colony center mall and i really felt like these malls were like the center of the world i lived exactly 100 miles north of new york city didn't care didn't no interest in manhattan but the poughkeepsie galleria was like the center of the universe to me.

Do you remember, would you guys ever run into a girl from school at the mall? God, the excitement. Yeah. What the hell are you doing out here? At the mall. I would say meet me in the bathroom stall. When I was working at Suncoast, I would have friends. I had a friend who worked at Oban Pen.

I had a friend who worked at Best Buy. And then a girl from my school worked at Bath and Body Works. And I went, brrr. He said, I wouldn't mind working that bath. Wait, watch it. Well, Tim, all you have to do is go back to our Sloppy Boys Take a Bath episode and see. Oh, I will. I'm going to revisit that as soon as we finish.

Hey, hey, hey. While we're discussing this stuff, we said, because we have Sloppy Boys LLC debit cards now, each of us, to do this episode. Rise and grind hustle culture. Continue. Yes. We said, okay, we each get 20 bucks to go to the mall for this episode and i'm interested to see how each of you spent your 20 bucks oh i'm interested to see how you do you want to go to the tape i'm going to go first because i

think i have a very classic mall experience for me okay and then um wait what you went to pheasant lane no fine you went to manchester i'll let the tape speak for it but um did we say can you go over 20 bucks i my thought was no no because we get yelled at because our tax lady said, you don't want a bunch of clumsy reimbursements. Yeah, Marta would not let us go over to her. Here's Jeffy's tape. Hit it. Ooh, the car. Hey, folks.

Dutz here. I am headed to the mall, my favorite mall, the Glendale Americana. Wow. It's a beautiful outdoor mall. I'd be surprised if Tim doesn't go there too. And we all know, every East Sider knows, you don't park at the Americana because that's going to take a little pinch out of your 20 bucks. You want to park in the Glendale Galleria next door. That's the traditional indoor mall where parking is free. That's going to put me in the right step for my mall visit today.

Here I am pulling into the Galleria Target parking lot. All I know is I got $20 to spend today on the Sloppy Boys LLC car. My goal is to get pretty close to $20. See if I can hit $20 on the nose. I should say I don't really have a plan as far as what we're doing today. So this is going to be a little stream of consciousness. A little journey into my twisted head. We're going to see what kind of trouble we can get into today at the mall.

If we are starting at Target, I figured we might as well take a quick look at the Legos. If they got anything good under 20 bucks, could be a short trip. Okay, a lot of Frozen, Lego City, that's, excuse a little younger. N38? Ninjago, never got into Ninjago Hey excuse me All the Legos would be over there right

There's not like another section somewhere It's just all kid stuff you know Yeah Slowly coming in Sweet thank you Yeah Damn these nerf guns are sick. Ooh, they're kind of cheap.

You can get a good Nerf. 20 bucks, 20.99, oh my god, close. All right, now I'm entering the actual mall. Walking past the Starbucks, I'm wanting the Starbucks mall. I'm walking past the Starbucks. I'm wanting the Starbucks, but I'm not going to do it because I want to keep that 20. I don't want to end up with 16 and a coffee. They got good egg bites. Ooh, Hot Topic.

Let's do it. Hot Topic looking much the same as I remember it. A little less scary, a little more cute, but I'm into it. T-shirt's going to run you 28 bucks. I might be out. I feel like when I was a kid, there was like one Hot Topic, and now there are several,

and they're all a little different. Like, I'm walking by Box Lunch right now, and that's another place that's just like cartoon, skater-y crap. Not crap. It's good stuff oh shit there's a fucking lego store here i forgot about that oh shit hey man hey how's it going up there hey uh did i see you had a new delorean uh it comes out april 1st april 1st yeah it's gonna be a mad line out the door most likely that morning so if you want one be here as soon as you can damn

it's a big one too yeah yeah the previous delorean we had a long time ago was like 35 like that tiny oh how much is this one i think i forgot the prices oh between 100 and 150. yeah or i might be wrong it could be even 200 but it's somewhere between 100 into it somewhere other Wow People Apple Store, this would be interesting for 20 bucks. Let's even get anything for 20 bucks here I was just looking around and yeah, how much is just this? This is the Mac Studio. Mac Studio. Mac Studio starts at $2,000. I'll give you $20 for it. Oh, I wish.

Give me that. I'll take it, too. All right. But there is, like, financing options they have right now. It's not a great food court here at the Galleria. They do have a Dunkin Donuts, which is nice to see. But I haven't heard of a lot of these. Masses Kebab.

Ardy's Express. Middle Eastern. Panda Express, love it. I'm looking at that Panda Express. I am really not wanting to chip away at my 20. Can I do a bowl of orange chicken and fried rice? Yeah, anything you want to eat. That's it.

Thank you. You're welcome. You guys got a big breakfast crowd? I'm sorry? You got a big breakfast crowd? I wouldn't say that. No? No, not really.

This is a treat for me. I bet it is. Folks, I had to do it. No? No, not really. This is a treat for me. I bet it is. Folks, I had to do it. One Panda Bowl. Fried rice, orange chicken. 871. Ouch!

So now I'm down to a mere $11. Tell you what, though. First bite, that was worth it. A couple years ago, I had some Panda. at CityWalk, Universal CityWalk. What did I find but a little inchworm out with my fork, put him aside, kept on eating. Kept on eating. Because it's a classic malt treating, I love it. As we finish the panda bowl, our eyes drift to the fortune cookie. What wisdom lies therein?

Here we go. See if you can get a nice crack oh yeah damn sound design your podcast partners are holding you back ah come on Tim can I have her

kidding folks it says you are destined for success and happiness. You and your podcast partners. Wow. Panda. Amazing stuff. All right, folks. I got 1129 to my name.

I've returned to Target. Because I don't want to get, like, a shirt or socks. I want to get, what's that line? There's a movie where a girl is like, I don't want to get like a shirt or socks. I want to get, what's that line? There's a movie where a girl is like, I don't want something I need. I want something I want. What is that? It's like an adult thriller. Hey, buddy.

How's it going? How's it going? Did you want a bag today? Oh, no thanks. I'll just carry it. Huge success. Huge success. Huge success. Nerf Elite 2.0 Volt.

This thing's got a fucking laser pointer built into it. $9.99. I don't know what the tax is added up to, but I think I'm just under $20. Alright, folks. With the

Panda Bowl being 871 and the Nerf Volt being 1101, that's a grand total of 1792, baby! Pretty good! Beat that! Mike and Tim, beat that!

1972. Beat that, sweetheart! Ha ha ha! The Batman! And here it is, folks. 1972 beat that sweetheart the batman and here it is folks whoa look at that not even out of the case yet I kept it in the box for presentation I'll take it

but it's got a laser pointer on it well you know it looks like a laser pointer it's probably just a red light but I'm happy but does it put a little dot on your target yeah if you're standing really close cool damn dude uh but you can't get it you can't get legos for under 20 bucks huh you can but like they were like it's kid shit yeah yeah you're not building

an ad you're not building a um a movie a prop from a movie, which actually is a lot bigger than the old one. The old one was only about $35. Oh, man. I love that Lego guy's energy. It was perfect. When he was telling you about the price, he mentioned it was like, oh, it's like $100. It might even be like $200. It almost sounded like he was saying that higher price

as if that was like a selling point. It's cool. I think that's a big part of, I don't know, like buying culture these days. It's like a sneaker drop. It's exciting. Yeah, yeah. The larger price means like it's more pieces,

it's more complicated, and it's like more finely rendered out of all those bricks. Like the old DeLorean is like a little piece of shit. This one is like a beautiful. All right, calm down. No, no, no. I understand the difference with more pieces. No, no, no. I understand the difference with more pieces.

I need to be clear. This DeLorean, you can build to look like the one from 1, 2, or 3. It includes all the pieces. Shit. You could even get in it. So, yeah. 1972. Yeah, you did the math wrong on the tape

i was excited it never crossed my mind to get multiple items that's smart you had a little breakfast orange chicken and then you got a very fun toy couple comments i comments I had for your tape. You mentioned the parking at the Galleria and then walking over. Recently. I never made it to the Americana, by the way. I stayed in the Galleria. Yeah, right. You didn't get to the Americana. You dined at the Galleria.

And let me tell you this. Are you aware of the original location of the of a certain chain called panda express oh no oh tim you dined at it no really yes because the there's a plate there's a restaurant in pasadena called the panda inn i go there a lot uh and it's great and it was like a restaurant in the 80s and then they were doing so well that they're they're like let's open up a second location in glendale and it'll be kind of stripped down fast foodie and it'll be that now i think it's maybe moved around and and come and gone and blah blah blah i don't think it's that exact like food court wow it um it the glendale uh panda express the original and now still

pasadena being the hometown of panda in they have a cool one too they have like the panda express innovation kitchen or whatever where you can go and you can taste the new dishes that haven't hit the rest of the pandas yet kind of cool man okay i'm gonna hit you with another one oh hit me with it the first brick and mortar apple store was at the glendale gallery no shit one of two glendale galleria and tyson's corner in mclean virginia this is saturday may 19th 2001 that's fascinating that wouldn't have been uh san jose or there should be a plaque yeah it should be in cupertino so wait is there still one in the galleria i know that the americana one yeah there's one of each which is like maybe the closest proximity of two apple stores and i

a little hack for you jay yeah you meant you mentioned the parking and the walking over uh well i saw a film at the americana recently it was a late film and when i left the the parking like the uh arm the latch thing was open and they let you drive out without paying so if you stay to the bitter end they let you out i think it's after 11 so let's say you find yourself there at noon just wait till 11 p.m and you don't have to pay for parking well jeff that was a good little jaunt yeah i really felt like i was right there yeah um and i'll be honest with you yeah your lego store uh uh uh foray mentioned a little something that segued very nicely into my story. Shall I launch my tape? You shall.

Please. I'll call it, Jeff. Please. Yes. What is up? Copy K here. I am standing in a place I've always wanted to go to. Uh oh. And this is kind of cool.

This is the south parking lot of the Puente Hills Mall aka the fucking Twin Pines Mall from Back to the Future, later the Lone Pine Mall. I'm standing in the very spot.

Out here in the San Gabriel Valley I'm facing north over the mall. I see the mountains. I'm standing in the very spot where valley i'm facing north over the mall i see the mountains i'm standing in the very spot where the libyans were where the delorean thing went down uh what you guys would know is uh jc penny is now a ross dress for less split into a couple and a 24 hour fitness and stuff like that but uh this parking lot is exactly as it was in Back to the Future Part 1. Paved out. And I'll tell you one thing. I hate to ruin my reputation because I know you guys all

listen to this and you think I'm kind of Mr. Cool, which is true. But I will admit that this to me is kind of thrilling to be here. I watched that movie a lot as a kid and a teen. And it's not just, I'm not one of these guys who watched it and got into sci-fi. I watched it and I said, damn, Marty McFly is cool. I want to wear jeans and Nikes. And The Power of Love is a great, has some really good guitar work. Maybe I'll play guitar. So that's the type of shit. That's some influential day one type stuff. I'm walking through the parking lot and I've got $20 that I can put on the Sloppy Boys

LLC card. Let's see what I can find in this classic mall. Okay, I'm walking into what was JCPenney is now Ross Dress for Less. Nope, door's locked. Okay, let's try the other way in. Okay, now I'm walking in what is essentially just like a mall entrance. Welcome to the Puente Hills Mall. In I go. Oh, yes. This is classic mall stylies here.

It really takes me back to the Hudson Valley Mall of my youth. Down to those kind of weird couch areas in the middle and potted ficuses that you sometimes see on architectural Instagrams that show retro stuff. Okay, Macy's is going out of business. That's sad. Half the storefronts are empty. That's sad. But I see a little group of Euphoria teens around the corner. So there's still a little bit of action going down. Maybe they're scoring some heroin or something.

There's an out-of-business Hollister. And it's funny to see that kind of like the Spanish roof and columns in the front of a Hollister. And then there's nothing in there. Okay, we got a Claire's. That is classic. I can't remember and I think you should leave season two. The ear piercing sketch. Do they call that a Claire's or is it a do they kind of wink and not call it Claire's? I'll have to review the videotape for that one. You know what's funny about this mall is it's got some, like, non-chain stores. Like, right price shoes.

I like that. And, of course, a Navy recruitment center. We got a Burlington. They don't call it Burlington Coat Factory anymore because apparently they're more than great coats. Yeah, so this is definitely, I feel like since 1985, this has maybe had one redo in this mall that I would place the redo at around 1992. But I'm really being transported. And it's a time like this where I start to ask myself, how am I going to spend my $20? It is that type of time. how am I going to spend my $20? Because typically I'd be looking for like a Auntie Anne's pretzels or pretzel time or Cinnabon.

But I kind of just ate some Starbucks sous vide kale and mushroom egg bites. So I'm not exactly hungry, but let's take a perusal. Oh, they got a Wetzel. Let's see if there's a free sample for timmy damn they got no samples at wetzel's pretzels which is kind of rude because you know it's smelling up the whole area like butter and it smells amazing i would love to get a little nip oh there's an amc cinemas i wonder if they serve the batman cocktail here let me take a peek yes oh first off this amc rules it's got carpeting with like red and yellow circles on it almost like like um olympic rings

but it's black with like red and yellow on it and that really takes me back. And there is a MacGuffin's bar, and the MacGuffin's bar is serving the Batman, which is, as we all know, a contemporary of the Calpe Cordial. Yes, yes. Okay, I'm going to look around. How am I going to spend my bucks? Baskin-Robbins would be fun. I'm an ice cream fiend,

but I don't really have a go-to flavor at Baskin Robbins would be fun I'm an ice cream fiend but I don't really have a go-to flavor at Baskin Robbins I kind of just riff it imagine if I got a whole ice cream cake and then just put it in my car just put it in the trunk and drove home oh I think I've got an idea

for how I can use the sloppy boys card how's it going do you know if there's an ATM in this mall Oh, I think I've got an idea for how I can use the sloppy boys card How's it going? Do you know if there's an ATM in this mall? Oh perfect. Oh, yeah exit on your left if you go towards that door you should see a bank okay perfect thanks so much i'm gonna circle around i appreciate it there's that blue card going into the machine come on baby go blue okay it's asking me for my pin don't listen to that okay Okay, it's gonna work. Do I want cash? Yeah, do I want... Six.

20 bucks? You know I do. Do I want a receipt? Hell yeah. Oh, God. Okay, $20. Receipt. Got my card back.

You have a good day thank you and i am out i left back at the jc penny door which was one of the burlington coat factory door now burlington sorry and uh well i've got a cool, crisp $20 bill that is going into my wallet that will then, on a later date, be deposited into my savings account and saved for a rainy day. Because I'm, you know, I'm thinking about my future. Back down in the parking lot here where the Libyans chased old Doc. And, well, they shot him down. But maybe he didn't stay dead because perhaps he did read a little letter after all. But I don't want to get into any spoilers. This parking lot rules. If you're a big Back to the Future fan, I recommend you come take a spin around and get a little bit starstruck like I just did.

Well, that's all for me take care brush your hair oh tim you're no better than the than the ceo crooks from the 2008 collapse tim you did us dirty unbelievable i'll be the one laughing fraud That is corporate fraud right there. When your Nerf gun has, when the scope light has died, and when your orange chicken has turned to nothing but feces, I will have $20 in my savings account accruing interest. That's pretty well played. That's cool being at the old school mall like that. When you mentioned the ficus plants, that was, yeah, before my mall got a facelift.

Yeah, it had little potted plant areas that were built into the, like seats were built into it, but they weren't comfortable. I love that. And there was chips all over the place, like mulch chips everywhere. There's an Instagram account I follow, something design, I forget,

but those ones, at Puente Hills, the stuff wasn't like built into the floor as much, but I love that sort of like split level, like the couches and the greenery

is like kind of like built into the tiles. It's cool. And the carpet at the movie theater is very specific. When I got my roof reupholstered, sorry, not my roof, my ceiling reupholstered in my Mazda, you might have seen the glue. It was hanging down.

It hangs down. And I was just like, this is unseemly. I got to go fix it. And then the guy had all these different fabrics, and I was really hoping that he would have some, like, movie theater floor pattern or, like, an arcade pattern to just put some, like, give me some galaxies in the roof of, like, Mazda. I love that old carpeting.

Two very good mall trips. Oh, Tim, to answer your question, I think it is a Claire's on I Think You Should Leave. And then to answer my own question, I don't want something I need. I want something I want is from Love Actually. Oh. Oh. Who says that? That's Alan Rickman's.

Secretary? Alan Rickman's secretary. He's like, I'm going to the mall if you need anything. And she's like, I don't want something I need. I want something I want. I want your big rod, Alan Dickman. Isn't she? That's the rest of the line, I think.

Hmm. Yeah. She's like, I want your wand, Snape. Yep. This one. I'm in the wrong costume. Okay. I'm going to send you guys... This is just a Google image search,

so you can see the place I'm going to. Should we look now? Yeah, take a look while I'm doing the thing. It's a bit of a longie. It's 10 minutes. Jeff, you can cut it all down if you want. Sure, here we go. But I just kept it in.

So here we go. I go to the... We'll hear all about it. Damn. Okay, go. But I just kept it in. So here we go. I go to the... Whoa. We'll hear all about it. Damn. Okay, what is up? Sorry, Tim. I am down here in Tribeca area.

I'm staying across the street from the Oculus. It's a big, huge, brand new mall. I don't know how brand new it is, but a mall near the World Trade Center. Damn. It's near the World Trade Center Memorial if you've ever been down there. It's pretty interesting and I will tell you my thoughts about this mall being so close to the World Trade Center Memorial when I get back into the studio.

The thing I like about this mall is, you know, you know me, I'm a architecture fan from way back. This is a really cool looking building. It kind of looks like a big old discarded huge whale bone. A bunch of whale bones. Like these big ribs. I took some pictures and you can also find them online. But you'll see what I'm talking about. Okay, in we go. Oh God.

Some little art student just looked at me when I went, Okay, in we go. I feel like a fool. So now I'm standing inside, you can hear the ambient music playing maybe. You walk in this place and it all goes down. This is not your daddy's mall. This is your mommy's mall. Big, huge cavernous inside here. Again, you feel like you're in the inside of a whale's belly with a huge white ribs going all the way up to the top to the spine. taking pictures of this place. How many malls have you been to where people are taking pictures, aside from Mall of America, which I hear there's a Legoland and roller coaster inside. But no,

you're not going up to the valley and all the mall kids are going, oh my gosh, you're going to take a picture. I mean, that is just ridiculous. This place is a modern marvel. All right, I just took a picture for a family. I'm not even down the escalator into the main shopping area yet, and I'm already taking pictures for people. That's how hustle and bustle this place is. Took a picture for this family, and it was clearly a... They had been out for the day. It was a husband and wife and a couple little kids, one in a stroller, and the husband was trying to take a selfie holding his arm way out,

and he just couldn't do it. I said, hey, I can take that for you. And he was like, the guy had a look in his face and said, thanks, man. I don't want to be here. I wish I was, you know, at the bar watching the damn March Madness with you. But I got to be here showing my kids the cool mall. So I helped him out, and I think I took some really good shots for that family. I hope they're happy with it.

All right, I'm looking out over on the, going down the second floor down. I'm looking out over the thing here. Can you hear there's a piano right in the middle of this place? I don't know if you can hear it, but it's one of those just sort of public pianos. Somebody painted it really nice. There's a bunch of them all over the city. And some guy's just sitting there playing away. I'm going to go down and request party with the Reds

that's got a nice piano part for them so this is kind of an upscale mall as I'm looking through here they have a lot of like high-end stuff let's read off some of these stores as I pass it Sam Edelman never heard of it but it looks nice ladies shoes Reese that's a high- it, but it looks nice. Ladies' shoes. Reese. That's a high-end clothing store, it looks like to me. Boss, Hugo Boss. I'm looking right at it. Venus et Fleur.

Sounds French to me. Stuart Weitzman, more shoes. Kate Spade. Well, we know Kate Spade bags, of course. What we might not know is that Kate Spade was the sister-in-law of you guessed it David Spade Cole Hahn they make some stuff too it looks like you know mole scheme for all your notebook needs they got an Apple Store across the way you know I'm like go in there and see if I can get a I'm

gonna walk over there and see if they got a sale on iWatch as I got $20 to spend maybe they got $20 iWatch is today and I'm walking past another boots as going where the iWatch is downstairs downstairs okay wow it's a two level yeah okay how much of those usually they start at $299 maybe even less than $299 depending on which one you're getting I was wondering if there was a sale or something that's somebody told me there was a sale wow okay there is all right so we're gonna go all the way up so whoops that's the how low do these things go like when you guys do sales do you do sales here uh not typically

like straight from a device so what we'll usually do is we'll increase the trade-in value of like an older device. That's usually like the closest it gets. Okay. Like let's say, for example, if you have the iPhone 12 Pro Max, we would give you $650 for that. Oh. Which is, right, that's a huge chunk out of a $700 or $800 phone. Yeah, true. Okay, I'm going to go check those out.

My friend Tim has one. He loves it, but he never wears it. You're right. I just take his. You're right, yeah. His trade isn't. Yeah, I know. He loves it, but he never wears it. You're right. I just take his. You're right, yeah. I just take his trade isn't. Yeah, I know. He loves it, but he never wears it.

We're walking past a place called London Jewelers. They got... They got Rolexes and stuff. I'm not even gonna go in there. They're gonna look at me and say, Nope, you got to move on, my man. There's a store here. Looks like all it sells is eye serum. Alright. Another jewelry

store named Shavorsky. A Sephora for all your creams and conditioners. Ooh a Tumi! That's luggage and such. A Tumi! Ooh, under armor apparel for all the athletes in your life. Here's the problem with this place. There's so many expensive stores. Like there's a little cost down there. I think if I got a t-shirt there would cost me 50 bucks. Here's a, here's an I love New York gift shop. It's, you know, the I love New York, all types of NYPD, CSI New York. They got hats and bags that just say New York and shit on it. I'll be honest with you. That's probably probably where I'm gonna be spending my 20 bucks. Do I just get $20 of Auntie Anne's pretzels? I gotta say my review of this mall is that it sucks. There's nothing to get here It's all high-end shit. You know, shirts you can only wear to nice dinners.

Jewelry and... Shoes. There's something that's cool, though. There's a subway station. You get off the train and you walk right into the mall. It's right here. That's kind of neat. You know what this mall needs? This mall needs a Spencer's Gifts.

It needs something kind of kooky. It needs a puzzle shop. It needs one of those science stores for kids where you can go in and play with the slime. No one's playing with the slime here. It's too uptight. There's another watch store. Very expensive looking watches. They got an ad out front with a guy posing with a watch and I think it's the guy from Bridgerton. out front with a guy posing with a watch and I think it's the guy from Bridgerton. Bridgerton is selling watches. I love it. I've never seen Bridgerton. Is it good? We'll talk about it in studio. Okay, I just stepped out of the Tumi, the luggage place, and it's nice. I mean they've got great, great products. Really well-made suitcases, backpacks, all that. Very nice place.

I wasn't in the mood to spend $900 on a laptop case, but if I was, boom, that's the place I would be. Toomey, bring your checkbook. All right, I just walked past a group of teenagers. First group of teenagers I've seen in this mall, which gives you another idea of what this place is all about. I think of them all i think that's where teenagers hanging out and this is just not the mall that these kids are wanting to hang out in but the group i saw they were doing what you know teenagers do they

were laughing loudly and pushing each other and punching each other in the arm and you love to see it just these two things for me oh how much 1950 Wow thanks have a great day all right I'm walking out of the I love New York gift shop with personalized license plate for TIG and a torch lighter with an American flag on it that would be good I guess for smoking cigars if we ever do cigars again and it came out to 2035 so that's the best I could do at this mall without going too far over $20 I don't know if it's the supply chain or just New York prices, but this mall is expensive and not exactly worth it. Take me back to the mall with the Gap and a KB Toys and a mini golf inside the mall any day of the week. This place, while structurally unique and astounding to look at,

is lacking in customer convenience. See you two back in the studio. Damn. Great, now I'm leaving through a revolving door. I never have a good time with those. Hey, hey, hey. That was it

Michael I got a little New York license plate With Tig's name on it And a lighter Torch lighter That's jet propulsion baby Yeah And that's it

How many seconds do you think that thing has I was looking at all the lighters there. Most of them were dead. And this one had a... That's a good point. I shouldn't be shooting this thing off. You got to get yourself a stogie. Also, Mike, for anybody listening who thinks that you found a license plate that says Tig on it.

Right, right, right, right. No. It says Taylor. Taylor. But people call her Tig. Yeah. Because her middle name is? Grace. There you go people call her Tig. Because her middle name is? Grace.

There you go. Taylor Grace Tig. So, yeah, you know what I'm realizing now? I should have just walked back. I shouldn't even have bought this. I should have just walked in and been like, all right, take it back. I want my way back and put it back in the Sloppy Boys fund. That's good stuff.

Mike, this is not good stuff. You did well. You went over the, I mean, if we were being real pricks about it, we would say, like, well, you bounced. Yeah. You went over. And then, I mean, Tim, technically you won because you hit 20 right on the nose. Right.

I think, Jeff, if you and I teamed up, we would have hit the $40. I think exactly right. Oh, yeah. Kind of exactly. i gotta say mike listening to that i've never i haven't had a chance to go to that mall yet but the the music was enchanting that like ambient that that is cool the guy on a piano the whole time oh he was live the whole time it's one of these things and they there's this uh group somewhere in new york that takes these upright pianos and paints them and then drops them off places in the city and

people can sit down and play uh damn dude um yeah because i thought that was it was it was making me think of like uh you know that japanese musician uh harumi hasano he like had albums in like the 70s and 80s and i think eventually he there's a chain of department stores in japan that commissioned him to do retail music and he made this album that you could hear at this i forget the name of the stores but it's like a beloved uh kind of department store and there's like these long like 19 minute tracks and stuff and they're like that where it's sort of it's not like a song that's repetitive it's an ambient tone that puts you in the mood to shop well it's it's also like uh if i implore the listener to look up oculus uh oh i've been there mike it's beautiful yeah it's

really cool looking and the sound sound works really well in there. I bet that's part of it. I don't know. But yeah, it was just like, the thing I was going to say about it being next to the Twin Tower Memorial, which is actually pretty cool. If you're ever in New York, go to see that because that's pretty wild, pretty moving. Yeah, I liked it. That's pretty wild, pretty moving.

Yeah, I like that. It's a big high-end mall that's right next to a very... Somber, yeah, monument. Somber, but where you're going to get a lot of tourists coming. There's something in that that I'm settling for. It seems a little cynically placed. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. But the mall, man.

Get to the mall. Hey, speaking of in-store music uh have you guys heard those kmart in-store tapes that somebody uploaded yeah no they're great like i'll i'll try and put it in the description but um yeah this guy who worked in a naperville illinois kmart just took the tapes hometown of bob yeah hometown of bob um this guy was a kmart worker for many years and just kept the store tapes when they were done with them, and he digitized them and put them all up on archive.org. So you hear a combination of Muzak and real pop songs

and in-store like, hey, check out ladies' handbags. Yeah, yeah. In-store automated ads. It's crazy. And they have like a really throwback-y, obviously, feel. How do we know? I think Witt and Clay used one of those songs in one of their shorts or something. Yeah.

It was like a piano. It was really appropriate. And I remember you showed it to me. I was like, oh, my God. It's the song from The Buddhist, I want to say. Yeah. But he's Witt and Clay the Hasano

retail music I only know about it because that was sampled in a Vampire Weekend song kind of that 2021 will you think about me there's a kind of weird little off-putting kind of synthy thing in the background that they looped well what do we think

of the mall that was looped. Yeah. Well, what do we think of the mall? That was three little takes. Amal Clooney? Yeah. She's good. She tamed the handsome beast. Oh, the bachelor for all those years, Amal. How did you do it? We got three different malls. We kind of got like a Goldilocks situation

here. Tim, you got like the classic dying mall. Yep. Sad. I tried to go to the um alive and well outdoor mall you didn't make it across the street from the galleria the galleria has been limping along because of its proximity to the americana but i like it it's a good it's a good place i think i always just thought that there was all the same big mall i didn't realize i guess the gallery was called the Galleria. They're like technically separate, but...

Because isn't one, isn't like the Americana at the Galleria or something like that? I think they're different because Rick Caruso, the LA politician guy, did the Americana and the Grove, and you never hear about the Galleria. Not a peep. Well, yeah, I mean, when you hear Spielberg talking, he's talking about Jurassic Park. He's talking about Schindler's List. He's not talking about Hook. Oh, just to remind everyone, I did something shitty too,

but come on, Tim, you're not a good politician. Okay, let me take a look at the Twittersphere. We have enough data, and the winner is me! Best mall, Tim! Oh, shit, man. With 100% of the vote. He's good. Well, he's good. Yeah. Folks, we've done it. We went to the mall,

we took ourselves back. I hope you enjoyed it. And I hope you too go to the mall and take a look around and see if you can spend $20 as well let's kick this economy back into high gear please I hope you too goes to the mall to shoot their next music video oh hey speaking of which

have you seen the Billie Eilish video that they shot in the Glendale Galleria no that's I do know that video yeah it's the one where she's like running around um an abandoned mall from the new album from the last album I do know that video. Yeah. It's the one where she's like running around. Um, yeah. And that's funny. From the new album. I wrote from the last album.

Uh, I remember when, uh, therefore I am is shot in the Glendale Galleria. I, I recognized it when I watched that vid, you know what I wanted to do? The first mall that I thought of was the Sherman Oaks Galleria,

because I was like, I know that's like the Valley girl mall, but when I've been there it's not at all it's like it was an arc light theater and just kind of like no stores just like stuff to do and restaurants and i looked it up and it basically it got a uh a redo in like 1999 but it had been the mall in the free fallen video tom petty riding up the escalator oh yeah and that is like that's like the epicenter of like the valley girl accent and the whole san fernando valley vibe was the it's right kind of where the the 405 and the 101 and and

ventura boulevard all intersect it's not it doesn't it's not really a mall mall anymore. Sorry, folks. It's not a mall Clooney. It's not a mall Clooney, no. And George finally did settle down. He was a confirmed bachelor for a while, but then one woman stole his heart. The Onset Prankster. Somebody pranked him into falling in love.

She pranked his heart away from him. That's right. Jeff, take us out with some of that nice mall music you were talking about. Oh, we probably can. Sure we can. We can do anything we want. It's the Patreon. Thanks Patrons for showing

up and hanging out with us again. We love you and we love to hear you chime in on the Discord. And we love you even more. If you ditch this level and jump onto the pay pay. And I want to plug that. I w I watched a documentary and I forget the title.

I want to say it was on who, who knows on Amazon. There's some documentary called like probably American mall or something like that, but it was about a mall and it was just a fly on the wall documentary very cool like a current like mall no it was like it was early 90s and there's a mall that's shutting down and like the ladies that work at the hair salon are kind of freaking out dude it's very cool i remember at a cassidy's wedding there was a mall i had to go pick up

like a like an audio cable just for like the speakers or whatever and it was the deadest mall i've ever fucking seen like is that like woodland hills yeah and i think like a quarter of the stores were open and the rest were like gated down it was it was uh scary but still open you know my uh my hometown mall the hudson valley mall in kingston had a funny thing where more than half of the stores are gone. And it was so depressing. But the ones that were still there were still there. But they didn't want the depressing vibe.

So they kind of covered them up. And then they put all these big pictures of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River acting almost like it's a museum. It's intentional. Like, oh, this is historical stuff. You're walking to 24-hour fitness or Old Navy, and you have to pass a bunch of pictures. Enjoy a mural. Yeah.

That was never... The gym at the mall is funny. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why. Do you remember seeing groups of people walking the malls? That was their workout? Oh, that's still something they do.

They open it up for seniors early sometimes. That's in that documentary a little bit. Also, no arcades in the mall anymore. I was hoping that Stranger Things, all the love we have for Stranger Things, would open the malls back up, get people back in the malls. That was my go-to in my mall was there was an arcade called Just Fun. That was my go-to in my mall was there was an arcade called Just Fun, and then also my go-to electronics boutique, where you go and you buy a TurboGrafx-16 game like Bonk.

Yep. Who is the lady in Stranger Things who dies, who everyone loved for that one? Barb. Barb. Barb and Star. Bring back Barb. Bring back Barb. Bring back Barb. Bring back Barb.

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