F**kface - Mall Talkers - Lakeline Mall

Episode Date: April 12, 2026

Geoff and Eric are joined by Nick to take a walk around a once prominent Austin mall: Lakeline! What happened here? It seems like the place to go for... shoes. Maybe only shoes. Enjoy a little local chatter with Nick as we lament how maybe not every mall is back. Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I've never been to Lakeland Mall. Well, we're going to go in through Macy's. Are we? Cool. Looks like. It's got a better food court than the other one. It has Wetzels, Pretzels, and Annie Ants. What was the last time you came here?

A month ago. Okay. Much more recently than me. That's not a spot. Uh, it is now. Certainly it's not. Macy's side to see in better days. Why does it look like the symbol for Russia?

Yeah. Communist. Mees. Geez, is dower in here. Get your bedroom, comrade. You know, it's interesting. Is it this way? Sure.

It's interesting to see a store like Macy's because Macy's can be many different things depending on where it is. Look, it's a Toys R Us. Yeah, it is a Toys R Us. The Macy's at Barton Creek, you're like, uh, the Macy's here, you're like, oh. But then like you go to a Macy's in Detroit and you're like, wow. Yeah. Those are the three noises you would make. Those are good noises.

Macy's. Oh, that's a nice jacket. So this is your first time here? Yeah, never been here. Oh, welcome. Why would I drive this for this? Yeah, oh, it's the malls. Welcome Eric, welcome Nick.

Welcome audience to episode two of Mall Talkers. We are in Lakeline Mall, which is the other mall in Austin. It's in the extreme north of Austin. Austin, Austin. Austin City used to have four malls in our lifetime, Nick. That's right. North Cross and Highland. have gone the way of the dinosaur.

North Cross Mall is a Walmart now. Oh, is it really? Yeah. And Highland Mall is ACC. It's a college. That's right. This has an FYE. Yeah, I took Archie here.

He'd never been in one, obviously. Well, yeah. It looks like a break time. Snacks. See, cigarettes. They have that candy in there that Andrew had us get. Well, that, the one, what was that the one that had the rat bites in it? What kind of candy was that?

Squishies? Squishies. Yeah, they have a bunch of squishings, squambles. Squamples. Squambles? We should get so. Fans is closed. We should see how many, we should count how many stores are closed.

Okay, two. Two. So fans. Oh, three. Three. I don't even think that's a store. I don't think it was maybe once. So this place has a little indoor play place. There's also like a bungee thing right here. Lakeline Mall is the is the mall you go to if you want to buy a pair of shoes that's cello wrapped. Oh, cool. Nice. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, I know what you mean. There's an empty storefront. This is the most mall-looking mall. Is it, am I just misremembering, dude, is it just Austin that has carpeted malls on the inside?

All the ones in San Antonio, I remember having, like, card floors. No, carpet malls are pretty common, man. Okay. Did you want to look at cards? Yeah, I'm going to go look at cards at GameStop real fast. I mean, I, what kind of cards? That's right. Whatever they got.

That's what we're going to see what they have. Like the GameStop's heyday, is it? So if you go, you're not evil. What? It's out today. It's how it. Uh-oh. Can you believe it?

Uh, no. We're gonna get... Oh, you're getting those? Oh, I didn't realize the characters here. He never got delivered? No, I got more. Oh. These are just from Funsies.

I'm pretty sure you're gonna hit off of them. That's right. Hey, how you do. There's a spurs hat I want to buy from lids. Nice. Well, let's do it. Archie has one, and he took it to my parents' house. And my dad is a dentist.

And my dad was like, oh, look at these incisers. They look real nice. Okay. I'm like, okay. The one without the head to gear. Oh, you like the 90s? Yeah. You guys like Cyclops?

No, he's a nerd. Cyclops is my favorite ice man. He's fucking weird. He's such a good. He's such a little. That's why he got ripped to pieces in the third movie. He's just so fucking... They are gonna bring him back for this new one and just kill him again.

Oh yeah. No, they're gonna take his kin. It's like they're just gonna kill him and then that's gonna be it. Oh, Jeff, it's the pink panther. And he's got the weird fucking eyes. They do have the pink panther here. What's with his eyes? At the Miss USA Store.

A store. Well, it's just called Miss A. Dude, when was the last time you went to a Yankee candle? Oh, not recently. When your mom made you probably? No, I go with my wife. I like the smiles. Yeah, my wife, uh, she fucks with candles. Yeah, here's, uh, Hot Topic. Didn't even clock it. Dude, Hot Topic is all anime.

Yeah. Oh, yes. And Ghostface, apparently. I guess there's a new screen. Yeah. Oh, seven? Uh, yes. Yes. Yeah. That's crazy. And then there's also a new scary movie. Oh, for real? Yeah.

It's got me six? Hypnotic bakers and coffee. So this is where you get you. Yeah, I remember standing here for a while last time. Okay, so this is the better food court. Yeah. That's what he said. There is a Wetzel's Pretzels.

Well, they have the K-food place, which is like the infused Korean hot dogs, corn dogs. Reve-a-social. Panda Express is good. Villa pizza is fine. Villa pizza is fine. Fonda Express is not food, dude. Taste of that. Yeah, it is.

That is the most Jack Patillo-ass fucking place. What's the... Ooh, taste of hungry has the potatoes on a stick, though. The Incredible burger looks good. Do you want to try sample, Nick? Go get a sample, dude. Come on, Nick. I already said no.

Yeah. Keith Food Austin. What was the base exchange pizza place, Robin Hood? I don't remember. That's a great question. What is a solid pizza? Yeah, it was. I don't know if it was Robin Hood, but it was something.

Something, yeah. God, that's funny, Nick. I thought about that in a long time. There's a movie theater. Is there a movie theater over there? Yeah, there's a movie theater over there. There's also this cotton candy machine that makes it right in front of you.

Get a Rinaldo jersey? No. There is a cotton chain. There's a cell phone doctor. We fix phones and tablets and more. Oh, a peri, Perry Perry Chicken place. Oh, Perry Chicken? Whoa.

I'll leave that. I don't know if it deserved that, but all right. Have you ever had Perry, Perry Chicken? Yes. Good. I do a cheeky nandez. Yeah. AMC movie theater.

Okay. They got some cookies in the shit? So this AMC is the one down at the other mall? Is that also AMC? Yes. Yeah, I believe so. So there's this side of malls, huh? I guess.

Oh, I guess it's not open right now. And then there used to also be one outside of the mall over there at Garden Creek, but it closed down. Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah. You can win and then carry around a human-sized Donkey Kong. Or a switch, an original switch. The original Switch. Fantastic prize.

They haven't updated. They haven't updated this in 10 years. Sweet Mo. No one can win it. I can't believe that's the better food court. I think those had to be Lafoufou. So you think which is the better food court? That's I mean, he said that this one was I can't believe that. Oh, I think maybe I was weighing Wetzel's pretzs pretty heavily. Yeah, it was really doing the heavy lift there. I don't know. I mean, it is doing all of the lifting. There's also a margarita bar. Great. It's all Wetzel's pretzels and a taste of Hungary. Hungry is delicious. Well, that's what you eat when you're hungry. Here's a store called Waikiki. I don't think that's what they wear. I don't think that's what they wear. there. It's also an entire store on sale because it's closing. Everything must no kidding entire store 599 last two days. Who? Lids and auntie ants. What are the odds we'd be here next two days of a business?

Antianns. Here's next spot and then Nick wants to go into lids. Yeah, why not? You can get a pretzel lick? Um, maybe later. Nick wants to look at a hat. Yeah, you have to walk inside to do it. That's right. Hi, how are you? Simpson's hat. Simpson's hat. It's a Simpsons. Kiss hat ACDC what are you looking for I was looking for a spurs hat a very particular one that is not here What was it? It's like a is this one? No it has this one? No, it has the old school colors on it The a fiesta colors. Is it that one? No That one are there? No, it's not any of those. It's not here right now Hard would you like it's I saw it the last time I was here. No, no, it's okay. I appreciate it though

This one has a bear on it Oh, bear. They call Winvignon the bear? You get a Seattle Mariner's hat. Like Rumba? They call them the Alien. Uh, a Mariner's hat? Or you can get a Texas Rangers or a little cowboy hat.

Hmm. Why is this Rangers hat upside down? That's like a thing they've been doing. All the teams have them. Oh. Fond Dutch. Wow. Did you not know?

No. This and Ed Hardy are back. I mean, back. Back is in pretty hard quotes, but back. Wow. Yeah. Old school Florida Marlins. I make that the look.

Yeah, seriously. Why? I don't know why we're playing around. You know what I mean? But why are we playing around? Why are we playing around? That's what I'm saying. So we are on the second floor of this mall.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is a two floor. And we've already re-sing the second floor. Well, we got to kind of cut in loose, you know. It was a boba tea store, totally tea. It has all the accoutrements of a major mall. I definitely, I came here to check it out a few years ago, and I gave you guys a report on it. Yeah.

I said the mall was not back. I do remember when, after you came here and you told us, Hey, I was wrong about the mall. It's not back everywhere. Yeah. No. I feel like it's a little more back than it was last time I was here. Here's Spencer's.

I can understand Van Store. I don't know if it's back, but I feel like it's more back. It feels more excessively back. Yeah. Oh, wow. They have a whole shoe department. Yeah, this is what, I think this is what Jeff meant too. It's like, that's what you get.

Well, that's all. Well, it's just all like sneaker reshows shops. There's one. We got to go and make $300 for a pair of shoes that's been key-racked. You want to take the escalators down? Oh, I'd love to. You don't want to complete the circuit? Oh, let's complete the circuit.

Then we'll go down. Oh, I like it. There's Kauai Klaws. Those claw machine places are popping up like crazy. Oh, we should walk over there. Okay. They have like an indoor kids thing here too, like a ball pit style place. The, uh, we did this on a Michael Jordan podcast.

We went down to Barton and we did, like, just for like half an hour, went through and played like the claw games and stuff. It was fun. Very fun. You know, for like something like that. Yeah. But I can't imagine going like, dude, we got to go to the claw game place. Right.

In the mall. Three Kings barber. That's a big ass barber shop. Yeah, but that's a lot of chairs too. That's pretty smart to have that. Like, let's have a podcast studio in here. I don't want to drive this far, but why not? I mean, you could rent a space.

I would actually, I was eating lunch yesterday at Smalls Pizza again, which is where we went that the other day for lunch. Yeah. The traffic was or parking was tough. Yep. And I was sitting there eating my pizza and I looked up and the second floor is just like an office space that wasn't in use. And I was like, there'd be a great place to put a podcast studio. That's way smaller than the other one.

Yeah. Pretty tiny. Huh. Pretty tiny. Okay. All right. And then over here is the chiropractor. I just think having, like, if it was this, like that's fun.

But it's really small. Like we have to, like the square footage that we would need would be really big for a mall, I think. Yeah. Well, he'd also be the loudest thing at the mall. And the most probably popular thing of the mall. It'd be like when people tour 30 Rock and he's gonna get the look in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See a live production.

It's like watching, you know, oh wow, there's Conan O'Brien and he's not even doing his show yet. And he doesn't have his like costume on and you just get to see Nick smoking a cigarette outside. Is Liz Lemon here? A lot of shoes at shoe department encore. Well, that's good. That's sort of like their thing, I think. God, I hate shopping for shoes. store. By the way, the tent pole is one of the things that they love to do with the mall now.

Yeah. You have your tent pole stores at the ends. They just wall it in and make it look like there was never a store there. It's just a cool place to say, come for the shopping, stay for the. Oh, yeah. So there's a space there that's just hidden away, huh? Yeah, that there should be a JC Penny back there. Yeah. Was it the Burger King or the Taco Bell that was like in perfect condition behind a wall in a mall? That was the Taco Bell. Yeah. Perfect condition. Well, do you remember it was like all the old color and style? Touched Taco Bell. Yeah. American Eagle. I've never been in an American Eagle in my life.

Oh, you can shop, like, this is brother worked there briefly. Like basics and stuff. Like that's fine. It's like, I think it's a little preppier than probably anything that you ever get. Probably. Dillards.

You get photos with the Easter Bunny here. Oh, good. And Santa. Money dance parties. Every hour and the hour. Vantage jewelry. That's what I'm going to do. That's going to be my side gig,

is I'm going to be the dance rabbit. Every hour on the hour. Every hour. Picture booth at the mall. It's only $12. Great. What a steel. Oh, here's the like key store.

Yeah, we're back. Yeah, I don't think that is the stuff that typically wear there. Dude, can I hang out at the drink margarita bar in the middle of the day? That's what I'm talking about. That person is. Now we're living. It's Friday? Oh, dude.

That was the time of my life. I know. It's sounded like a perfect afternoon. It's five o'clock somewhere. Victoria's Secret and the Pink Store. Side by side? Mall classics. Ball staples.

Body Works. Got to have the Bath and Body Works. Is your wife also like Bath and Body Works? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We go to Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works. Okay. It's in the... It's in the loop. Yeah. I hear that. Sometimes we go to Lush as well. Ah, lush.

Express but no. Express mess. I need some new jeans. Oh, there's some. See, like that suit, I'd get that suit. I'd get a couple of these. Yeah. It's a fine place like that.

The guy in the pictures are very well dressed. Lennon, I like the brown. I just don't know if I can. I always want it like a brown suit. I think it would be cool. But then it's like, I'm not really going to wear a brown suit. I feel like you could. I think I could, but I don't have anywhere to wear it.

Where am I all dressed up nowhere to go, Jeff? And you get a new black suit. Here it is. There's the Pink Panther thing. They had that. We went to VidCon one year, and there was a take a picture with that Pink Panther thing. Really? Yeah, and it was ugliest shit. And we just kept going, why?

Here's another story. I don't think I've ever stepped foot in Hollister. Oh, yeah. I worked there. Did you really? I did. How'd you like it? Hated it. Oh, he loved it. Nick got to take off a shirt, shows abs. I quit, no, I never had those. You never had abs?

Buckle. I never, I quit there to go work at a store that sold uniforms for, like, Catholic schools. Weird. I got the job because of a girlfriend who worked there at the time. So this would be the fourth. It's just closed. Fourth closed down. Yeah.

But closed where it's filled with stuff. Right. But you've got to figure out what the fuck to do. Yeah. Someone's just on breakers on the journeys. Honestly, this mall is mostly shoes. It really is. It really does seem to drift that way.

Yeah. Ed Hardy. A lot of Ed Hardy stuff in there. A lot of Ed Hardy stuff. Oh, fans is open now. Hey, is it that hat? This one's open. You can take one off the list.

Is it that hat? No, it's not that hat. It's like the new logo. More shoes. So it's the spur. Finish line. And then it's like the three stripes, like behind it. Oh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also trying not to do flat brims anymore. Wow, FYE. Look at that. They got cards. Oh, they got cards, Jeff. Should we take a look? He's slowing.

He's thinking. No. He's thinking. No, it's okay. I already got cards. It's the same cards I already got. Oh, these are just off. Break time opened up too.

All the stores we thought were closed, up late, and the escalators are closed. Well, the escalators are stairs. Stair escalator. Is that you, Mitch Hedberg? Poca maniacs. You want anything? Candy?

Usually. Star Electronics? Sophie Books. Star Electronics. Any Pokemoniacs in the house, or what's up? No, that's all right. One of the more heavily traffic stores, though. Pokemon maniacs, but then also plushy maniacs.

So this is servicing all maniacs. In this... Oh, is this the indoor... No, that's the jumpy thing. The jumpy thing. The jump spot. That's a jump spot, Jeff. In front of the...

JCPenny. You want to win a Tesla? A footlocker sign, but no store. Maybe it's by the exit. You think you gotta go around with a secret entrance. It's like how in Australia, all the restaurants are back alley in the instance. Oh, is that right? In Melbourne.

They want to make it hard. They want to trick you, you know? There you go. A foot locker. It doesn't go over to where the sign is. It does not. Oh, wow, it sure doesn't. You think they just have reduced as they've sold product?

Yes. Yes. I think that's all you can do. Yeah. So last hut. The aim store. They have this down at the other mall too. Oh.

Airsoft shooting? Yeah. A little airsoft shooting gallery. It's the third cell phone store, repair store. I don't get this luxury soap stuff that looks like food. Yeah. Yeah. I get something.

Let's not add a confusing element to Washington. Dude not do draft, huh? Ooh. I liked that lady didn't even attempt to try to sell us. No, she looked in something. She knew. Those dudes are a waste of my time. Ah, where are my gloves?

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Yeah, we go to H&M. Yeah. They have ladies, men's, kids, and accessories. Dent them too. Look at that kid on the poster over there. It was a weird kid. Weird kid. You know who he looks like one of those kids?

You ever seen the children of the corn? Yeah. Yeah. Or like Village of the Dam. He looks like one of those kids combined with Elliot from E.T. He does look a little bit like Elliot from E.T. If he was... If he was blonde, yeah.

Yeah. You can get a 76ers shirt? Yeah, at the H&M. H&M. Trust the process. Someone asked you. Oh, Mbeed's all bought in. What a failed experiment, Joelle Mbeed is going to end up being.

Yeah. He has his moments. That is Tyrese Maxie and Vijay Edgecombe's team now. Yep. I like that. Who is the other dude who couldn't shoot on that team? Ben Simmons? Is he playing anyone?

He's in college. Who was the other team? Didn't he go back to college? Did he really? Yeah. Who was the other dude who couldn't shoot on that team? That's so funny. He could shoot. He just chose not to.

That's cool. Either he took it to the hoop or he missed a jumper. He took it to the hoop and passed out to the three point line every time. It's crazy how- How much is this? 19 bucks. Yeah. That's cheap.

Yeah, it's H&M. I got to start shopping at H&M. Yeah, me too. It's just like not expensive. It's just basic. It's 13 bucks. I mean, like, the thing about like the cuts on their shirts now is like they're so boxy. They are boxy.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's a style. What do you mean why? That's what it is. Boxy good or boxy bad? I don't like how boxy. It doesn't fit. I'm not looking for slim fit, but it's like...

I have trouble finding basic t-shirts, and I actually, for Christmas, Emily got me a bunch of Abercrombie and Fitch ones. Yeah. Because that's what Gavin. Meg told her that's what Gavin wears. And they're great. Oh, yeah?

See, this is relaxed. It's so big. It's a boxy. That's just like the style. I don't like that. I don't like that either. I don't like that. I feel like I don't want to be swimming in my shirt.

No. No coming back around, you know? Also, it just makes the parts of you that stick out look weird. I agree. When can we get rid of the long socks again since that's the I like this but I wish it was on one pocket Let the audience know that Eric is looking at a long sleeve brown shirt Basic I'd say kind of wide though it's boxy yeah it's relaxed it is relaxed I do like a tight fit Yeah, it's just you know it's a closer fit. Oh, that's nice I like this this looks like some you might actually have the shirt like that

It's like we're going voting if you heard noises it's because I've dropped everything you dropped everything you dropped everything It's not having. It's pretty cool. We are going boating. Relaxed Oxford. Alright. I think I'm good. Now these pants are a little too the dude for me.

A little too relaxed. Yeah, a little too hanging out at the beach club for you. See, this is a... Oh, now that's nice, Eric. Well, yeah, for... Off the rack, yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying, for $85 to be able to walk in and get a suit jacket. Like a...

Audience, it's a tan suit. And then to do a pant that matches or mix and match and make something that's interesting. I think... I like a tan suit. I think you could look like a real southern gentleman in a suit like this. I have a tan suit. I bet you look like a real southern gentleman.

Just don't wear it if you get elected. I wore it to Barbara Trevor's wedding. Oh. Number 95. West Coast. Oh, hey, you're from the West Coast. This seems like something you'd buy in Japan. It's just a generic sports jersey.

That's a pockmarked shirt. It's very strange. I like checking the sales stuff, because you can always just grab something easy. You like that? Like a maroon hoodie that has a flower base on it. Or, uh, basically little, what is that, corduroy?

Yeah. Corridorffernel shirt. Here you go. Oh, look at that. Find some matching pants with that. Some track suit mafia, they are. Yeah, be in the rushing mafia. You're rocking it, dude.

All right, let's ski d'addle. Ooh, I like that mint green. Oh, look at that as some mint green. Holy. There's a very green shirt. It's up pants art too now. It's just like that relaxed fit. Like this is like the baggiest pair of pants that I own.

I did buy all my pants from Costco now. I've been doing that. It's a solid move. It's cheap. Sometimes they. 20 bucks. Yeah, they're solid. I go to co-wear.

You get a co-wear? Yeah, dude. I heard they have 75% off at their outlet store. Well, it's where they have my favorite brands. American Fighter. Do you? Hoopper Vital. Hootie?

Hootie? Howdy? Hootie? I love hooey. Me? Oh, I'm wearing hooey. Oh, men's warehouse. White House Black Market.

Cool. What is, oh. It's like, I would say. Business ladies? Yeah, women in their 30s who are dressing up for the office. You need a blazer. Oh, you're ready for prom 246A? Oh, I thought you never asked.

The men's warehouse chicos. And the man? Well, it's weird that you see, not often you see a mid mall escalator. It's to get to the food court directly. I've been hearing good things about the food court. That's pretty cool. It's pretty accessible. Oh, they got some VR.

stuff right here? The AVR park. Fun rides for the entire family. They have a game called VR Egg 360. Oh, nobody here to work on. Well, it is a, oh, it's Friday. It is, it is a Friday at 2 p.m. Here's a, here's a make-your-own Skittles deal. Skittles remix kiosk? Have you tried freeze-drying Skittles? Yeah. Are they good? Yeah, I've never done it myself, but I've bought them. Yeah, but I mean, are those good? Yeah, they're awesome. They're better than Skittles. Oh, not hard to beat Skittles. They definitely dumps. Oh, Jeff. Look, we can get a big Texas

for the office. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's only $250 for... Oh, faux vintage... Team sign with... LED... No, with like light bulbs. It's like marquee light. It's supposed to look like you bought it at a gas station in 1948. Yeah, it's for your main cave. You know, your main cave. Oh, my man cave!

Yep. Well, there's a lot of Texas stuff. You think they would have your hat neck? Rally. Cowboys, I see... Dallas Mavericks. Jesus, dude. That's a lot of... Nassar stuff.

You know, Nick, I don't see Spurb. I don't know either. Mostly UT. I like the way this guy's just waving. He's just sideways. Hello! Hello! This is where you get your Kinsenera dress or your palm dress.

The sweet ceremonious. Oh, the Greenman's pretty. Hey, hey, Jeff. Yeah, man. I don't think the mall is back. This mall, I don't think is back. She'll just place. I used to shop for clothes for Millie there

when she was much, much, much, much, much younger. It was a wee one? You can get, like, a barrel of clothes there for, like, $18 bucks. A barrel of clothes? It was just so cheap, children's place. Back in the day, I don't know what it still is. There's a barrel of clothes. Clares.

Here's a little kid's thing. Build a barrel workshop. It's been a lot of my life. Oh, I see. Inflatable Wonderland. Yeah, they got, like, yeah. So you just, like, throw your kid in there, let them go. It's like Discovery Zone was.

So the tent pole stores this mall has are Dillards and Macy's. Yeah. I think that's it. I think that's it. Do we not see another one? I don't think we did. Did we see a JCPenny? There's an inflatable wonder.

Are we going up to walk back? I think we got to be going up. There's one else to go unless you want to go to gift world collections. Fuck no. There's this gift world. Oh, you guys want to get some pictures? A gong. Get our prom photos.

Well, they're selling Labibos for $50 off. Normally 350. And they have a big Godzilla. How cool. You know, he's the king of monsters. the king of monsters. I've heard of him. I'm familiar. They make it another one. Big into energy available here. Man. Jeff, I don't know about this mall, man. Yeah, dude. This mall's tricky because in the abstract, it's laid out well, and it seems well appointed. Yeah. And it's not

dingy. No. It's well kept. Yeah, absolutely. But once you walk through the entirety of of the mall, you find yourself feeling incredibly lacking without being able to point to any direct reason. There's nothing really here. It's like a personalityless mall. Not that malls have personalities, but you know, there's got to be something. But wasn't this like the personality mall? Didn't this have like...

It was a big deal back in the day. Yeah. But it may have even been the, you know, one of the, it was probably the second nicest mall. North Cross was kind of dumpy. Highland was whatever. Barton Creek and this were good. Yeah, Creek was always, I feel like, my go-to anyway, though. Yeah. Well, this is so far away. Yeah, it took a long time to get up here, but everyone wants a pretzel, so, you know. It just, I will say last time I was here.

And this hasn't been a problem this time at all. Uh-huh. But last time I was here, it was like, like, the dude that just tried to give us boba or whatever. Yeah. They were outside of every store and people was like, carnival barkers. and people were very aggressive. Just going for it. It was like trying to walk down the street in Baltimore next to a strip floater. They're only trying to grab you and pull you in.

Speaking of. Now that one I'll take. What did you get? Pretzel. Pretzel. But that hasn't been the case this time. No. Like there were kiosks in the middle of the mall

and you had to like fucking fight people off to get past them. And that's just not, people are pretty chill here. There's anime on it at the margarita bar. There is anime on the margarita bar. That's cool. It's like old anime too. Yeah, that's old school.

Deep cuts. It's all they give a life. licensing for. We don't need to deep. Oh, a latte factory. Yogurt smoothie. Fucking kill me. Gross. Something. Oh, yeah. You're not a yogurt guy. Oh, dip in dots.

There's like, okay. There's like smatterings of people here. Oh, no, thanks. No, thank you. Let me give it a shot. Eric's going in for a sample of us. Strawberry and mango.

Oh. Nutella crunched toast. Good or bad. It was the sweetest thing I've ever tasted. What was that? Watermelon, strawberry, Kiwi, refresher thing and it is like I'm trying to you know you know like if you had like five otter pops that were like different flavors and like you melted them together

yes and then you just drank that that's kind of what it tastes like I'm getting all the flavors distinctly so we're approaching the end of our mall let's get that cookie cake our mall talk here uh-huh let's go over the highs and lows well like what would you guys say was the highlight of the mall for you what do you think this mall I mean I guess you's over indexing I mean like you you like got cards so I I guess that's nice. Yeah, that's cool. It's over-indexing in fucking shoes.

I like that it does an FYE still. It's got a lot of shoes. The best part about the mall to me is definitely cards. I don't know that I can get cards of Barton Springs Mall. And there were like three stores here that sold cards. So that's a, that's a huge boon. However, I still can't shake the depression. It's so, it's so.

You know what? There's just something sad. Yeah. There's just a sadness that hangs in the air here. Yep. I'll tell you what made it better is when I was here with Archie, is there something about, like, a kid seeing stuff like this for the first time? They don't know any better than depressing air.

And so that young life, having that kind of, like, excitement gives you excitement. It's one of the best things about having a kid is you can enjoy anything through their eyes. For sure. I mean, I get that. They have a supreme kayak if you want to get a... You can blow it up. That's the problem. I want to go kayaking.

I don't have a room. Fans is open. Yeah, it was open when we walked by a minute ago. Oh, cool. No, you could have got your stuff. first hat. Probably could have. This guy doesn't even care about his first hat, dude.

No, I'll get it eventually. Fake fan. I'll get it eventually. I'll fucking get it eventually. I'm so particular about hats when I think. I also feel like the quality of store has improved since I was last year.

Is that right? I feel like there's more real stores and less like, you know, gray market stores. Yeah. Well, break time, the brakes over if you wanted to look at cards. Oh, they sell these things. Don't. But that is another store that sells cards.

Well, they also have the Marvel Rivals. puzzles. Oh, in kids' toys. Cool. We're back in the Macy's. Back in the Macy's. I could spend time in here and just go through and buy Just basics. I bought a sofa from Macy's once. Is that right? Yeah, many many years ago Like all like I could go through racks and racks of this stuff I think you're gonna come suit from my Macy's Like I don't think I could get away with that shirt, but I like the idea of it. Which one the tropical one? Oh, yeah

No, you could do it. I just don't think I don't think I'm that kind of guy I think I'm close I just don't think I'm that kind of guy. I feel like you're closer than the rest of us. I think you are definitely closer than the rest of us. Like this? I try that. Yeah. I get close.

It looked like you did. It's a little too heavy. I was going to say, I don't think it'd breathe well here. No. For, since this is an audio podcast, let the audio. It's like a knit shirt.

Yeah, imagine what a like a 75-year-old barber would be wearing. 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's kind of what I'm going. The kind of shirt, you put a long cone in the pocket of. See? This is more what I'm looking for.

Yeah. This is my old guy thing, I think. It's these. Short sleeve buttoned up. With like the stripes. There's a real nice thing material. Yeah. What's it called like a Guy Avera shirt or something?

Yeah, yeah. Like that's like this would be. Like the old Cuban dudes wear all the time. It's a good beach shirt. That's nice. That's what I'm talking about. Like this would be like bury me and that. Well, I was gonna say put it on the company card.

Get one right now. Bury me in that. That's nice jacket. Looks like the other jacket you have that. Yeah. It does. It's hard. I don't know if there's just a guy thing,

but I find this problem to them. I found myself buying the same over and over again, and then getting home and going like, I have three of this. Yeah, but if one works, I like the rest work. I like four brown jacks.

You look good in that. Yeah, thank you. It's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, March. So there's, I'm not going to be able to wear this until December. It's the thing of like, yeah, this is on sale. It's like, well, it's on sale because you can't fucking wear it. You can't, see, I can go through like all, all this shit. This, the green one.

I could wear any of this stuff. You know what I'll never wear? What's that? Camouflage. I was gonna say a camera. Why? I cannot fucking stand camouflage as a fashion statement. You scared someone's gonna...

What if you wore these? Jeanne, hemmed jeans, shorts? Just so everyone knows, the Levi's 412 slim shorts. Dude. Black. Non-cut-off shorts. I'd rather fucking die. What?

Yeah, I don't... Maybe it's because I was in the Army, I don't know, but I just fucking hate camouflage as a fashion. I get it. Device. Well, because it's not something that's designed to be comfortable, so it's odd to see in the wild. Yeah. Now, this is a nice Levi's jacket.

It is. I feel like you have the brown version of this, and I have the blue version of this. This is the black version. What's funny, too, is I have an olive green one and then more of like a drab green because Blaine gave me his old one. He's like, he's like, this doesn't fit me anymore, so he gave me that. Oh, this is yours right here, right? The cordero? Oh, this does look exactly like it.

I don't have, I don't have the corduroy, but it's pretty close to this color. It's just a little more green. Oh, he's good. You think? Yeah, it might be a little big. Maybe a little big in the sleeves. But I do like the color. Yeah, it's a little long.

It is a little long. What size is that? Around the waist thing. I don't know. Let's take a look. But it's, I like the color. Because if you can find a size down. Yeah, it's a large.

See if you got a medium here. I think it's the single one. Oh, bummer. That's all right. Like you said, I don't need it. Oh, thank you. It really did. It's horizontal striped Levi's jacket.

A little bit of leather at top. Like leather at the top. I don't know. It's nice. It looks nice. I do like this look though. It's very Joel. I could wear a pair of pants. From Last of them, Last of Us.

I could wear a pair of pants that are the color of Gavin shorts. You definitely could. They have them. What, 42 bucks for Levi's not that. Well, they're 70, but they're not down the price. The same color shorts? Just white pants. What if I just started wearing white pants?

Well, no, and eat mustard. Well, it is before Labor Day, so you can. Crazy. All right, we're over here. Oh, you're looking at plates now? You plates guy? Fiestawear, dude. That's what my, uh,

That's all my wear used to be, Fiesta. Lost into divorce. Well, that's the mall boys. Final thoughts? Lakeline Mall's not back. It is better than last time I was here. It is not back. No.

Now we've got to figure out. It is. What's next? Yeah, what's the next mall? We're out of mall. Round Rock outlet. Well, there's the Round Rock Outlet Malls. There's the San Marcos Outlet Malls.

Yeah. That one's pretty well traversed. Yeah. People love the San Marcos album. All right, well, so are those outdoor? Yes, interesting. That's what I'm used to in a mall. So that makes sense. Well, it's perfect weather for it here.

Yep. Wink. Well, that's mall talkers. We went to the mall. We talked. We did it. We did it. Nick found a really nice jacket that was just a little bit too big.

Yeah, too big. Next time. I got some cards. It's tough. There's a bunch of bags on top of this car. Oh, yeah. That's interesting. Yeah.

Well, I guess we'll. They're not going to be for very long. No, thanks for listening. You can check out Good Morning Gus and every other episode of Anman Now. And we'll see you guys next time. Bye. I'm Gus.