Regulation Podcast - Mall Talkers

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

Mall Walkers was already taken but Eric and Geoff have a stroll around Barton Creek mall, having a look at the pre-Christmas festivities and talk mall. Maybe we'll explore more malls, maybe we'll get ...more people. This is Mall Talkers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You know. Where would you like? Where you had it was fine. But you said it was pointed at my chest. It was pointing at your chest. You seem to have a problem with that. No, I was just telling you where it was. That's low. I know it's low.
Starting point is 00:00:12 Oh, okay. I don't have a button up to hang mine off over here. Oh, you blew it. I don't think I did, I think. Aren't you worried about it rubbing? It's like this? Like, what if you have good audio and I have bad audio? You probably have bad audio.
Starting point is 00:00:25 I should flip it around. If you want to. I do. Okay. I don't care that it shows. I mean, that's up to you. I'm most concerned about the quality. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:00:37 For this? For what we make? Fuck no. First question. Do you pay attention to where you enter a mall? Do you have a mall entrance that you prefer? Yeah, this is it. Why do you pick this entrance?
Starting point is 00:00:54 Because this is the easiest one for parking. It's the closest to the entrance. Yeah, this is like, there, this is it. Because there's, I've done it on like the other side. I've parked on the other side of this mall. And it's not better. And it's not easier. No.
Starting point is 00:01:11 This is, to me, you're also starting at one end. You're not in the middle. You're starting at one end of the mall. I completely agree. I also prefer, and I don't know why this is, I prefer to enter a mall upstairs. Like we have entered on the second floor. My mall growing up didn't have floors.
Starting point is 00:01:29 Oh. Like, there was only one mall in San Diego that had, like a multi-layer and it was the rich person mall. And so this is the, now every mall here is like two layer and all this stuff. And that was really, until I moved to like Orange County, I'd never like really dealt with that. Dude, when you go to a big city like Chicago or LA and their malls are like six stories, it's fucking.
Starting point is 00:01:51 Have you been to Costa Mesa? Have you been to that mall? I don't think so. South Coast Plaza or whatever. It's like, it's like three floors or something. And then you cross a bridge and you go to the other one that's like four. It's just, it's huge. It's massive.
Starting point is 00:02:05 I'll tell you one thing that I appreciate about this mall. By the way, this is Jeff and Eric. We are at Barton Creek Mall, which is the good mall, Barton Creek Square. Yep. It's a Simon Mall, whatever the fuck that means. We go to the directory. We entered by the Great American Cookie Code,
Starting point is 00:02:19 which has been here the entire time I've been in Austin. Yeah. This is one of the few stalwart tent poles, foundational stores in the mall that is, I don't know that it's always been the Great American Cook. but it's always been a cookie. A cookie company. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:35 Right there. Yep. That's new. The claw. These claw machine places are everywhere now. So I think Meg was really excited about this place. I walked by it and it wasn't open yet. But they had to sign up and I sent her a picture and she was like fucking jazzed.
Starting point is 00:02:48 The outside of it looks like every mall in Las Vegas where it's the worst art things you've ever seen that are just characters that you recognize but ugly. It's like there's Pinocchio. Yeah, but he's fucked up. Is that a... Space Marine or a Moorhammer guy? I'm sure it's for Moorhammer. I'm sure it's for Moorhammer. This is like the only mall that I come to in Austin.
Starting point is 00:03:11 This is the only mall to come to in Austin. North Cross Mall is not really a mall anymore. And it's like an education training center, a skating rink. And then really good Asian barbecue restaurant there. Okay. Or fried chicken restaurant there. And then what's the other one? Lakeline Mall, which.
Starting point is 00:03:32 pretty fucking far northwest Austin. It's really up there. It's uh, it's the sketchy mall. That's the one that everyone tells me that used to be like the mall. It used to be a good mall. Yeah. And now it's not. No, it's not. It's, uh, it's like just a bunch of kiosks and people aggressively trying to get you to buy whatever is in their kiosk. I want to get a drone and a little foo foo and get, get my eyebrows wax. I want to get lined up. Where you want to, which way you want to go? I'll go this way first. Let's go left. Okay. Because we're at the ass of the mall.
Starting point is 00:04:05 We're at one of the asses of the mall. Our mall's kind of like a, like a caltrip, I think. Uh-huh. Uh, this used to be what? No, it's not JC Penny. Sear? Dillard? Dillards?
Starting point is 00:04:16 No. Dillards is still here. Dillard's is still here. So was this, this is what I wonder about. Like our mall's doing well. I've talked a lot about how the mall was back. But when a tent pole, like a JCPenney or Sears goes away. Yeah, it's exactly what it was.
Starting point is 00:04:31 What comes in to fill it? That is two floors of space. Yeah. It's probably one of the three biggest spots in the mall. Why wouldn't you turn that into like a gym? You know what I mean? That's interesting. To get people here.
Starting point is 00:04:46 It's interesting, you know, that malls are having to come up with a lot of different things to try to survive. There's the, I don't know if you've seen the malls in the northeast are putting apartments in, like turning. Oh, wow. Converting like floors into apartments. So you have like the third floor is all apartments. Yeah. And then second floor is the van. Thor and Great American Cookie Killer or whatever.
Starting point is 00:05:04 That would be, see, here's the thing. The idea of that, I like it. Like, the idea of living there for a little while, that's fun. And then it gets to a point where you go, I don't want to be here anymore. I don't need to eat. I don't need to eat the pizza again. Can I stop and bitch about something here?
Starting point is 00:05:21 Yeah. So we're walking through the mall. We're close to the food court, right? Uh-huh. There's a place here called Twisted Cork that sells beer. Yeah, it's liquor, stuff like that. I don't think, I don't know if they sell water. Oh, no, it is.
Starting point is 00:05:32 It's beer and wine. I think it's beer and wine. Yeah. But it annoys the piss out of me. That stuff like this didn't exist when I was drinking. You know how much fun I could have had in a mall that had a little fucking bar where I could sit and slam 80 beers at on a Tuesday afternoon? They're doing this in the grocery store. You can go to H.E.B.
Starting point is 00:05:53 and get a beer and walk around and shop. Are you fucking serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you not seen that? No, I haven't seen that at all. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I'm so far into my, uh, sobriety.
Starting point is 00:06:05 My life, yeah, my, my, my, my, uh, my journey as an alcoholic. Yeah. Uh, that I'm no longer, it's not that I miss booze as much anymore. Yeah. I miss. I miss. I miss the improvements. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:19 You know, like I, I know. Like, no, I invented white claw like a year after I go drinking. Yeah. I have no idea what it tastes like here. I feel like I would have drank those all day long. Yeah. For, for, for, for, they're pretty cool for like a. summer, like, and then you go, all right, I've had like enough of like this flavor.
Starting point is 00:06:34 Yeah, yeah. But it's like Zima. You already had it. It's true. It's true. I did already have Zima. You already did. You know, it's just repackaged and it.
Starting point is 00:06:41 It is. It's exciting. Fucking drinking at the grocery store and the mall, like. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Also, probably better that those things didn't exist because I would, I might have sped up my recovery. What is Miss A? A lot of this stuff is, uh, dude.
Starting point is 00:06:59 I don't know. We walked by without even noticing Hot Topic. Oh, yeah. Because you don't even see it. No. It is invisible. Yeah. You walk into that store, what do you think you're going to see?
Starting point is 00:07:09 Now it's like, I mean, what do they have on the outside? Wicked, of course. Stranger things. Yeah, a lot of like anime and stuff now. I wonder how far you have to go to get to like a Marilyn Manson T-shirt. Oh, yeah, that's not what it is anymore. It's totally, yeah, it's just not that. It's interesting to see.
Starting point is 00:07:26 This is why I'm partially fascinated by the mall. Uh-huh. It's just interesting to see how these. businesses evolve to survive right yeah yeah and which ones do and don't like seers or whatever the fuck was back there so there's macy's so you know that's still here diligence yeah there's dilett's yeah there's gapp you big gap guy no man what when i was growing up in the 90s gap was uh was like the antithesis of punk rock and school absolutely yeah that was what we rebel was what we made fun of his gap absolutely i get it well a boxer puppy can you just bring your dog to the
Starting point is 00:08:06 mall no i don't think so i wasn't a support anything no that was just a dog it's just a dog it's a dog the big ass boxer big dog in a mall uh it's also christmas time when we're doing this yes it is the beginning of december and uh you almost wouldn't know it walking around the mall but uh i don't know it's right after black friday too i mean i know it's right after black friday too i mean i I know it's like a Tuesday morning or whatever, but... Dude, I'm gonna tell you something. Yeah. Because I do think the mall is back and it doesn't look back today.
Starting point is 00:08:38 I don't think it's indicative of the mall. I think it's indicative of the American pocketbook. Oh, yeah, definitely. I think we're gonna be shocked at how little people spent on the holidays early next year. Is that a Dr. Pepper jacket? Dr. Pepper Windbreaker and Hollister. Hollister's dipping into like the real like late 90s early 2000 shit. That like, so when I see that and I'm like, oh wow, a Stone Cold Steve Austin t-shirt.
Starting point is 00:09:04 It's that. And you go, all right, weird. That's crazy. I guess it made its way from urban outbursts to. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's making its way around. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:13 I feel like they used to sell skateboards. Paxon's real different from what it used to be. That's all the malls. You were talking about the stuff shifting and changing or whatever. That's all the places here. It's all different. This place simply sells crystals. Well, they have more.
Starting point is 00:09:31 That's just crystals. Oh, you can send my daughter some money. College See if she wants to go to... See if she wants anything from Pomeiniacs. It's a lot of Pokemon. Oh, yeah, there's like four different, like... Yeah, this Pokemon, which means nothing to me.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Yeah. Obviously. Store, and then there's a Press Play store next to it. What is Press Play? I see it's video games. It's just animated stuff. But I don't know it's that different from this one. No, this one just is Pokemon.
Starting point is 00:10:03 This one has Mario. So we're looking at a wall, a display wall in the front of the store here. I'm not walking into the store. That has 50... Something like that. Or so. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:13 Pokemon. Do you know the names of all of them? No. It's Evie, Joltion, Flerion, Vaporion. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:10:24 I don't know half of the EV things now. I think that one's Pipplup. I don't know. I only know like the... Do you know the fish one? See like these guys? Yeah. This Squirtle, Charmander, Bulbosaur, Pikachu.
Starting point is 00:10:36 That's my shit. Okay. And then we get to like... single-tooth fire, like lizard? It looks like one of Bowser's kids. Yeah, I don't like him. I don't know him. Growlith, know him. Yeah, I know like the 150, like the original 150,
Starting point is 00:10:50 but like, I don't, that one looks like orange candy bar. I don't know what that is. I don't know a lot of these guys. This is not my, but Gavin would, I think. Interesting. He knows, like, more of this stuff. And you know all this anime. Yeah, you know, Penguin Maria.
Starting point is 00:11:05 That's my shit. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Ugly Sonic. Ugly Sonic's girlfriend. Aren't the sunbleached anime figures, but there's no sun in the mall? That's a good point. Aren't the Mega 64 guys in anime?
Starting point is 00:11:21 I mean, yeah, you know, what you do with the anime, who can say? But, like, check out, they got a Tenga sponsorship. You check that out, too. You can do whatever you want. Yeah, this is like not my speed. No. I don't. Like, here's Nordstrom.
Starting point is 00:11:39 Oh, Nordstrom. So it must have been, it must have been JCPenney. No, no, JCPenny's open. Where? I think it's right around the corner here. We're going to have to find out. I think we're going to, I think we'll get to it. We came and did a, uh, uh, uh, in ANMA here.
Starting point is 00:11:53 We did. You and Gus and I did. Yeah. And then we got, we did it. And then there was a, we met a fan. We drank coffee right down, uh, right down the stairs right over here. And then we met a fan. That's true.
Starting point is 00:12:03 And we'll be getting, at least I'll be getting coffee down there. Oh, I'll, Yeah, it'll be my third cup today, and it's almost noon. All right, here's the stuff where we can shop for Nick. He's the official Cowboys pro shot. I love watching Nick during the football season. He's a Dallas Cowboys fan, and then he's not, and then he is, and then he's not, and then he is, and then he goes, I don't hate this team. Oh, hey, man, they'll look pretty good all season.
Starting point is 00:12:25 Can you believe they're like, you know what? I think Dallas won them like a person straight. It's so, it's so insane. It's crazy. It is crazy. It's... You're like, son of the bitch knows what he's doing. Jerry Jones, master plan, baby.
Starting point is 00:12:45 What the fuck? Oh, man. I don't remember the last time I, like, went to the gap and it looks exactly the same. It's like the last time I went to the gap. I'll tell you when I used to go to the gap. is when Millie was younger.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Gap Kids, that's pretty affordable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And pretty inoffensive, you know? Yeah. Yeah, it's a place for like your basics or whatever, but I just don't remember the last time I went in and I'm like, I gotta get something. I can't, I don't know that I've ever owned anything for me.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Oh, I might have a pair of shorts I got from Costco. Oh, awesome. That would gap. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, see, JC Penny is down that way. Oh, or it was. Oh, but it was.
Starting point is 00:13:30 I wonder if that. Yeah, Macy's Dillard. Yeah, I think that's it's it. have been at. Yeah, because here's Macy's. Yeah. Huh. And we're, we've done upstairs now, right? Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's what, I guess it was JCPenney. Man, I'm all smaller than I remember. It's got another like arm to it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. We do. That's a good point. Are you a, uh, get a snack and walk around the mall guy? I might eat whenever I'm hungry guy. Uh-huh, uh-huh. So yes and no. Okay. You know? Like, I'm fucking hungry.
Starting point is 00:14:09 Right now, so I can eat a lot. I haven't eaten anything yet today. We should get a burger. We should get a burger. Oh, box lunch is where they have Snoopy stuff sometimes. I sometimes box lunch? This place. Oh, yeah, they had Snoopy Camp and stuff earlier this year.
Starting point is 00:14:24 Yeah, they got a, so where I have that, I have like a little button-up shirt that has Snoopy on it that, uh, I really like from that place. But you have to, like, order online because it's all, I don't know. It's such a crapshoot on, like, what you find there. Every store has blind boxes. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean that's that's like the thing. That's crazy. Yeah, but that's like that's that's the hotness and stores I've never stepped foot in buckle. Yeah, yeah Trade home shoes. These would be another eyes. These stores look made up. It does look made up. I'd be like the shoes though. They have my Nike Vermeras. Yeah, there's JCPenney. There's J. So what was the store they closed? It must have been Sears because there's Dillard's.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Yeah, that's the thing. It's like there's no more, there's no other department stores to fill that space with. Montgomery Ward's gone. Yeah, Montgomery Ward. Sears is gone. What else is? Woolworths is gone. Dude, Montgomery Ward. Like, what do we got left? If I was in Alabama, I could be like Gafers is gone. Yeah, man, where's anchor blue? We had Mervins and Mervins California. Mervins. Dude, there's a store called fucking Mervins that we would shop at. Mervins.
Starting point is 00:15:36 Mervins. I've never been to Windsor. No. Which, everything in that sort of looks identical. Yeah. It's just all the same color. Erypastol. And then we'll go to...
Starting point is 00:15:47 No, thank you. Appreciate the outfit, though. I don't need to go in, but just glances we walk by. Oh, yeah, the foot reflexology. The reflexology, like, foot diagram. Yeah. Looked like pizza. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Kind of did. It looked like a slice of pizza. Seeing if there's any... But an up... Good place for a... Express Mids. Yeah, cheap suit and some like easy clothes. That used to be Forever 21 and that's gone.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Yeah, that's totally gone. Gone gone. Should we go downstairs? Yeah, I think we have to. I think we're done. Yeah, it's like gone, gone, gone. Wait, here's Dillard's. Didn't it used to be Old Navy?
Starting point is 00:16:29 It might have been. No. But that's, it was Forever 21 up until a couple months ago. I think you're right, it was Forever 21. They just closed it. There's like a two-story old Navy in this mall. it was oh that would have been a long time ago fan outfits what are the these are like made up fucking yeah hallmark gold crown that's a special hallmark store oh that's the gift solution
Starting point is 00:16:53 that does not look like a real sign i have a i have a gift problem i'm gonna be honest with you yeah i need a gift solution stat why am i going to call from page texas do you think i should answer this they could be bank related no Wait for it to leave a message. Okay. That's a men's warehouse where I bought my suit to Gavin's wedding. I was going to say this is a place where you get a suit for a wedding quickly. Here's a worn moon jersey.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Pro-image sports. God damn, dude. So the mall, oh, there's a mini-so. Oh, that's cool. Is Snoopy in there? I can buy some stuff for the break show. Do you want to look? Sure.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Okay. Whoa, it is. I only would come to these places with Emily, like, when she was into it, which was when, like, the Mad Dash was. So I'm not used to, like you have to stand outside behind a velvet rope like it's a Gucci store. Wait to get let in. Well, oh boy.
Starting point is 00:17:53 This is like a different world for me. Smells good at here. Not around stuff like this very much. Because you don't hang out with Vanessa and... Yeah, that's true. Meg and Emily. You'd be fucking... Yeah, I don't hang out with any of my friend's wives, right?
Starting point is 00:18:08 You'd be balls deep in this stuff if you did. This one's mushrooms. I don't even know what I'm looking at. This one's mushrooms? I hate this music. That's just fixed on a week. I was looking for Snoopy, but I don't see anything. I don't see any Snoopy.
Starting point is 00:18:26 They might not have them, it might be the other one. There's like a, there's like mini-so and the other one. It's all the same to me. Some of them have some Disney and then some of them are some other. There's Baby Yoda. Oh, yeah. You like that? Here's Pokemon. You like that?
Starting point is 00:18:39 Uh, I do not. Okay. Here's Head in the Cloud's Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse. Yeah. Look at that. That's got baby... That's... Nomi? I know.
Starting point is 00:18:50 That was... Snatched shapeware. Hell yeah. Look at that. It's just pictures of dudes with their packages. Yeah, hell yeah. Attic salt is the worst fucking name. I've seen this place a couple times. The worst name.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Attic salt? Doing all right. Attic salt? No, they can. Don't know where they got the attic salt. What is it trying to say? Addic salt? Maybe it's a...
Starting point is 00:19:17 Maybe it's like an adage or something. You know what I mean? Attic salt? Let me, and maybe it's like... A-T-T-I-C-S-A-L-T, A-T-L-T, A-T-Salt. And it appears to be like one word. No, maybe it's two. Okay, it's two words.
Starting point is 00:19:31 Attic... Attic salt. Well, they have 60 locations. Okay. What does Attic Salt mean? Yeah. Attic Salt refers to witty, refined, and delicate humor. The term originated from the Greek region of Africa...
Starting point is 00:19:45 Okay. No, I read that wrong. From the Greek region of Africa. of Attica, whose creators were known for their sharp and graceful wit. It can also be used to describe a repartee that brings water into someone's eyes. It's going to Tillies real quick. Tillies? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Do you know this story? Yeah, this is where I grew up. This was like everything that I like has a guy. See, this is what I thought they were going to have, which is a lot of Snoopy. A lot of Snoopy. Snoopy Baseball clubs? Yeah, do you. That's new, the Snoopy Gym Club. That's when he's at the gym.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Do you wear that when you work out with Blaine? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wear like an XL and I'm just like, it's my pump hider, you know? Here's a Frankenstein shirt, it's got Frankenstein on it. It does have Frankenstein. Yeah. There's a Virgin Mary?
Starting point is 00:20:30 This is like where my wife will still shop sometimes because we're from East County, San Diego, so we're like kind of trash. And that is like what a lot of this stuff is, like here's Cheetah Print Rebox. Cheetah Print Rebox, you know what I mean? There's a dog with a Dublin Pinscher on it?
Starting point is 00:20:47 I'll never... Stonecold Steve Austin, there is. Exactly. There will never be a part of me that escapes liking the way that this looks. Oh, yeah. It's the praying hands, like, here's a rose and a spider web, like all like the tattoo shit.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Like an old American tattoo? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a part of me that will never escape that. I'm right there with you, dude. Yeah, it's, you know, he's what it is. All right, oh, well, hang on. Oh, they have surfboards. Are you a member of the salty crew?
Starting point is 00:21:15 Here's Snoopies and a fight club. Oh, Snoopy! Riot Society, Japan, Konichiwa Snoopy! Snoopy Dasoo! Snoopy is bigger than ever. Oh, dude, Snoopy's hot. Get out of here. Ski Club Snoopy?
Starting point is 00:21:37 Damn, dude. He's everywhere. Imagine getting that and then cutting the sleeves off and being fucking jacked. And then everyone goes like, damn, there goes big Snoopy guy. Or I can get a hat with deep... deep embossed letters that say holy grail. What's with the trend? I don't see it here, just maybe think of it, of like, here's my baseball team, the logo's upside down.
Starting point is 00:22:01 I hate that. I think that is, it's like your baseball team's in distress. Yeah, right? It's like your baseball team's in distress. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:22:12 I feel like that trend's on its way out already. Yeah, definitely. Like, yeah, it came out of nowhere a couple, maybe a year ago. Yep. A little longer, two years ago? A bunch of Spider-Man and Venom shit. Dennis Rodman. See, it's like the right amount of throwback for me.
Starting point is 00:22:26 But, like, I can't actually spend money on it. But, yeah, like, I don't get it. It's like, yeah, here's the L.A. and it's upside down. It's like, I, okay. Dodgers are in distress. Is that where we are? We're having to relive the early 2000s? Yes, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:40 Oh, yeah, 25 years. 25 years. It was a pretty uninteresting time for fashion. I agree, but, you know, people pick and choose different parts of what is. Manette, consider. There's been a republic, been in the Republic really changed. Fossil, dude, been in a Republic. I watched a TikTok about the demise of that company.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Yeah, it's The Gap, I think, bought it. Yeah. Got rid of the owners. Yeah. It was like a, when I was a kid, it was like a Jay Peterman catalog, you know? Yeah. All military and fucking. Real different.
Starting point is 00:23:16 There's Zo-Me's. You wanna see if we can get a shirt in Zumi's again? You get an achievement hunter style? No? All right. You know, our profit margin, we weren't in Zumi's. We were in Hot Topic.
Starting point is 00:23:28 And our profit margin was something, we might have been in the Zubis as well, I don't remember. I think our profit margin was something like 7%. And I just, after like a year, I was just like, it was a lot of work. It's like, what's the point?
Starting point is 00:23:45 For pennies? For pennies, yeah. Like, what's the point? And they were, constantly like they were not fun to work yeah no i don't doubt it and there's we just walked by a journey's and that just had like a bunch of turnstile playing or whatever spencers is all christmas sweaters well there's where you go get your marilyn manson shirt matt one time explained to me that's crazy that the way the hierarchy of merchandising works yeah is you go from like and you just go
Starting point is 00:24:16 down levels yeah with your merchandise until it loses value and spencer's is the floor oh it's like when you see something in Spencer's, you know it's been in like five other stores before and didn't sell. And it's just like where it's like the, it's not like a dirt cheap or one of those places, but it's like the, it's like the floor of pop culture, ephemera. That's brutal. Here's Santa. Santa, oh, that's the thing. He looks like Santa.
Starting point is 00:24:41 The Santa the other day, Emily and I were here, he had a cowboy hat on. Oh, there it is. Cool. Santa cowboy hat. It's a hair. It's lids. It's lids, which is fine, whatever. I just figured out the kind of hat that I love.
Starting point is 00:24:53 like, which is the, they're not just gonna have it or whatever, but they have like this A-frame style hat where it's like that bigger in the front or whatever, and I just figured that out. I think it's the, what is it, like 490 or whatever, like the A-frame, where it's like real big. I love that shit. When they're like real flat, like dad hats or whatever, I just can't get into it. These is all I wear from my head. Yeah, I have a, I have a odd shaped head.
Starting point is 00:25:20 You think like, no, you don't. I had this conversation with Emily and I'm like, here, let me put a normal hat on. And she goes, oh, oh, you do. So I have to wear these dad hats now. That's funny. I like this 47 brand, but I hate the number 47 currently. So I've been having Emily pick the seven off. Oh, that's funny.
Starting point is 00:25:35 The little seam riper. Yeah. I'll let me take what cards they have it. All right, yeah, let's have a look. That's pretty funny. What's that? Using a seam rubber. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Is this a poker? I got a, we were in Detroit. I got a, we're just looking at the cards in GameStop here. You were in Detroit at the Red Wings game, I got a red Red Wings hat. Just like the logo in the front. And the second I left the store, it hit me. Yeah. I was like, you should get out of white one.
Starting point is 00:26:06 So that's when we did the seam ripping. That's funny. So I feel like I can wear a little bit. Yeah, I get it. All right, I don't know nothing. You know, original squish mellows. The Panini Squishmellas. Who knew?
Starting point is 00:26:23 Weird. Cheesecake Factory. Who is a shooting at that Cheesecake Factory last year, right? Jesus. Hey, here's the old navy. Oh, there's the old navy. Okay. And the AIM star, which is like carnival games?
Starting point is 00:26:39 It appears to be a carnival game store next to the barbershop. Three Kings Barbershop. There are a lot of chairs in that barbershop for two people being in there. Dude, that is a lot. There's claw and fun. So we made it a full lap. We did it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:58 That's the mall. That's the mall. We didn't make it back around downstairs. to get our coffee though. No, we'll have to go eat a hamburger and a cup of coffee. Yeah. Because I don't know. This, see the claw machine stuff?
Starting point is 00:27:13 I'm so bad at it, then I'm never, like I don't find enjoyment in it. Same. Doesn't do anything for me. It's fine. I like an arcade game. I enjoy that other people enjoy it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:22 But it doesn't really do much for me. Huh. Well, that's the mall. This was just walking and talking and doing something at the mall. What we call a little supplemental. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we went to the bank and we got some stuff done and then we went, oh, let's just go to the mall.
Starting point is 00:27:39 So we did it, and that was it. That was the whole thing. I got to say, the mall's not looking especially back at the moment. Listen, it is. But I don't think America's back. No, it's 1130 on a Tuesday. You know, it's. In December.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Just not going to be, it's not a ton. Oh, I got 100 views on my review of my barber on Google. Dude, that's awesome. Right on, man. Hell yeah. Well, thanks for listening. This was the mall. This has been Barton Creek Square.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We should check out other malls maybe around and see if there's anything, but. We should do this every time we're anywhere. Like if we go to. It's not a bad idea. Wherever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Eat a hamburger somewhere.
Starting point is 00:28:28 Yeah, go back to Vegas. And then go to a mall and just walk around. Yeah, we have to tour every mall and every city. we go to. Not every mall, but we have to tour a mall everywhere we go. I kind of like that idea. I did too. I like that idea. I like that idea. All right. Well, thanks for listening. Nick, did you enjoy editing this? I hope you did. I bet you did. Yeah, baby. All right, we'll see you again soon. Bye.

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