Speaker 1: Look Mayer, oh, I see you my own line and
Speaker 1: look over there is that culture. Yes, goodness, wow, lost
Speaker 1: cult ding Dong lost culturistas calling Well. Thank you again
Speaker 1: to all of our big money players Diamond subscribers for
Speaker 1: listening to the special bonus up of our lists, our
Speaker 1: top ten lists.
Speaker 2: You guys are the definition of not like other girls,
Speaker 2: because you actually pay a little bit more to get
Speaker 2: this episode earlier, which makes you different from so many
Speaker 2: people out there in the public. And we thank you
Speaker 2: for putting your putting your dollar into you know, our
Speaker 2: great cause. I meant, we'll see I was a little
Speaker 2: bit more transparent. Yeah, well, let's be really transparent. When
Speaker 2: when you get money, what do.
Speaker 1: You do with it? You go donate to charity. I
Speaker 1: was going to say, shopping girl, I think you're at
Speaker 1: You're lying. I was trying to align with you because
Speaker 1: you said you're putting your money towards a great cause,
Speaker 1: and I said, you're putting money in our coffers, and
Speaker 1: so I was trying to like make ay those two ideas.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm not even going to hide my checks
Speaker 2: from this podcast. Some of it goes to charity, A
Speaker 2: lot of it goes to shopping and that really sort
Speaker 2: of brings us to what what this episode is. What's
Speaker 2: on the table in front of us, this this bonus episode,
Speaker 2: as it were, this top ten. Yes, this is I
Speaker 2: guess it's really capitalist culture. Huh, it's capitalist culture. You know,
Speaker 2: money is one of the great collective hallucinations. WHOA, it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's a LARP, a live action role play. It's a
Speaker 2: live action role play. That's what money is at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, and that what capitalism is.
Speaker 1: And would you say.
Speaker 2: That the the ten stores we're about to talk about
Speaker 2: which will make up the top ten stores are this
Speaker 2: is some place where you'd like love to go LARP.
Speaker 1: Well, the store is where you larp the most with
Speaker 1: in terms of money. Oh yeah, when you when you
Speaker 1: hand the cashier the cash the car, that's a transaction.
Speaker 1: When there's the transaction, that is the ultimate LARP. WAF
Speaker 1: you're scanning at the self checkout kiosk, that's LARP.
Speaker 2: When I buy something, it can only be described as
Speaker 2: a transaction.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I think so, I think I know.
Speaker 1: Now talk about the experience of going to the store,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to we're not going to talk
Speaker 1: about any e commerce on this episode, we're not talking
Speaker 1: about add to cart, No, how about push the cart.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about good old fashioned walking in. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about stepping into an environment where there's pieces and really
Speaker 2: thinking aboub a plenty, just like look at this troll.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to say. When I'm going into
Speaker 2: a store. Sometimes I know exactly what I want. A
Speaker 2: lot of the stores that we're going to be talking about,
Speaker 2: you really do go there with a purpose. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: do just want to go into a store and say
Speaker 2: at this, Yeah, what's gonna happen, what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I can walk out of here penniless. I could walk
Speaker 1: out here penniless, but I could walk out here with
Speaker 1: something new, something new, something that really lifts my spirits.
Speaker 1: Retail therapy is a thing, y'all I learned during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: It works, And if it weren't for stores, you would
Speaker 1: never have a lyric like so I went to Nieman
Speaker 1: Mark's on a shopping spirit. Yeah, and my way, I'm
Speaker 1: Sully and me. If there were no store, then Blue
Speaker 1: Cantrell would have no way of coping with the way
Speaker 1: her man was wronging her. Well, that was actually a
Speaker 1: retail therapy anthem one, and that's when you go, maybe
Speaker 1: stores are good.
Speaker 2: It's actually a real culture number thirty because of the
Speaker 2: contral and her retail therapy.
Speaker 1: And them you go, maybe stores are good. You might
Speaker 1: even work in a store if you listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: you might even work at the store.
Speaker 2: You might be listening to this podcast right now while
Speaker 2: you're working at the store and works face. I have
Speaker 2: to tell you you are breaking the law of your workplace.
Speaker 2: I know it's not above board that you listen to
Speaker 2: podcasts while you're at work, honey, especially if you're in Florida.
Speaker 2: I know DeSantis's past legislation saying people who work at
Speaker 2: stores cannot listen to these Bay guys. On last Culture
Speaker 2: rest one, he said that with his chest, with his chest.
Speaker 2: And today we're counting on the top ten stores. And
Speaker 2: I'm ready to get into it because I think that
Speaker 2: definitely everyone's going to be feeling the instinct. I want
Speaker 2: to go out and you know, pick up a new item,
Speaker 2: and I just want to get into it so that
Speaker 2: people can start turning their whiels about just where they
Speaker 2: want to go.
Speaker 1: Let's activate the economy, y'all. Let's let's let's give back,
Speaker 1: and like the ariostour is in your town and you're
Speaker 1: buying up all the beads for the friendship Bracelet pretend
Speaker 1: you're tailor. Pretend your tailor. It's so noble that Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift and Beyonce, you know that part of the virtue
Speaker 1: of their tours was that they, you know, added money
Speaker 1: to the economies of these cities.
Speaker 2: Number ten, Hudson News. Listen to me right now. There
Speaker 2: is a communal experience at the airport. And it is
Speaker 2: either walking past the Hudson News and saying, Hm.
Speaker 1: Is there anything in there I want?
Speaker 2: And deciding against it, or there is the really just
Speaker 2: everyone knows what it's like to go in there and
Speaker 2: ultimately buy a water and that's it.
Speaker 1: A seven dollars water, Yeah that you need. Picking one
Speaker 1: bag of Werther's originals from a wall of Werther's originals,
Speaker 1: picking up magazines a magazine, a drama, mean, a lifestyle, white,
Speaker 1: a fucking ben and drill.
Speaker 2: You ever have those little sandwiches they sell at the
Speaker 2: Hudson News.
Speaker 1: No way, Absolutely not too much self respect.
Speaker 2: See I guess I don't because I've actually eaten one.
Speaker 2: I've had a tuna salad sandwich from the Hudson News.
Speaker 1: There is any other place at the airport to get
Speaker 1: a sandwich.
Speaker 2: All right, But I think what it happened was something.
Speaker 2: And tell me if you feel me. Sometimes you show
Speaker 2: up to the airport just a little too late. You
Speaker 2: gotta grab and go right. And that's really where the
Speaker 2: Hudson News thrive from. My grabbers and goers, My grabbers
Speaker 2: and goers. But I just think if you keep walking
Speaker 2: two gates down, there's gonna be a little there's gonna
Speaker 2: be something a little better and even maybe less crowded.
Speaker 2: All this to say is why Hudson News News is
Speaker 2: number ten on top ten stores.
Speaker 1: Last coach number nine. Pizza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this also is known as pizza store. This is
Speaker 2: the store you go to buy pizza and other Italian
Speaker 2: garlic nots such as little calzones, such as different types
Speaker 2: of pizza. I'm talking about PEPPERONIU, I'm talking about square What?
Speaker 1: Why did why did you? What's going on? You? Itchbald? God?
Speaker 1: What I thought I thought I thought she was I
Speaker 1: thought she wasbald. She she was just simply sneezing. She
Speaker 1: didn't burst out laughing. She sneezed out. SnO, can we
Speaker 1: say that was disgusting? Disgusting? That was awful to watch.
Speaker 1: You're listening to this, she's she's currently going to the
Speaker 1: restroom being so courteous. Anyway, Pizza, when you go to
Speaker 1: the pizza store also known as pizza Rhea, do you
Speaker 1: think let go I'll take one of everything. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something.
Speaker 2: I often think that, but you you can't really leave
Speaker 2: with everything. I mean, you just can't eat that much, though,
Speaker 2: I will say that the leftover value. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of compelling choice in a pizzeria. And I put to you,
Speaker 2: what's your favorite pizza supreme?
Speaker 1: I want pepperoni? You want it all. I want a
Speaker 1: pepper I want a mushroom. I want maybe some sausage
Speaker 1: if I'm in a mood. If I want a little protein,
Speaker 1: extra protein. I want a red onion. I want it
Speaker 1: heavy on the tomato sauce. You like, shar Pei, Do
Speaker 1: you want it all? I'm like, I'm like Ashley Tisdale. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And in her most iconic performance, I think to Sharpe,
Speaker 2: it's true, what about you? The truth about me that
Speaker 2: you don't know is that I really will just be
Speaker 2: eating a regular slice.
Speaker 1: Regular slices. I mean, I think that that's here's the
Speaker 1: thing about pizza. Sometimes it okay, in the beginning of time,
Speaker 1: there was no pizza, right, and so then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden there was one pizza, pizza. And I think
Speaker 1: because we crushed it so hard on the invention of
Speaker 1: pizza that we actually often try to like reinvent the
Speaker 1: wheel in terms of things that need to be on it,
Speaker 1: when what we had to begin with already was like
Speaker 1: a creation that was worthy of its own standing in
Speaker 1: the culture, you know what I mean, Like a lot
Speaker 1: of people here think it's boring to maybe just say
Speaker 1: I just want to have regular size of pizza. But
Speaker 1: what I would say is like just stripping everything away.
Speaker 1: If you took away the knowledge that there is this
Speaker 1: culture of pizza and there is so many types of pizzas,
Speaker 1: you would be way, way, way happier to just like
Speaker 1: accept what we have. It's in front of you, Like,
Speaker 1: pizza is so great by itself, and I get that
Speaker 1: you're supreme. We're I guess we're coming from opposite ends
Speaker 1: of the spector duality that is that is this podcast.
Speaker 1: That's very this podcast. If you think but I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of pizza is an open faced hot sandwich.
Speaker 2: It's like, what do you know what I mean open
Speaker 2: face hot sandwich. I guess because of the bread of
Speaker 2: it all.
Speaker 1: It's bread, sauce, top like like things that you would
Speaker 1: maybe put in a sandwich.
Speaker 2: Girl, you are going to be out here on your
Speaker 2: own if you're if you're if you're trying to say
Speaker 2: pizza is a sandwich, I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying the beautiful innovation pizza. I will take whatever tone
Speaker 1: I want. The beautiful thing about pizza it is a
Speaker 1: large flat disc. Yeah, come back in. No, No, pizza
Speaker 1: is a large flat disc and that is the that
Speaker 1: is the innovation of it. He's trying to I just
Speaker 1: want to fill it.
Speaker 2: So basically what's happening on the podcast at this moment
Speaker 2: is Bowen is trying to convince me that pizza is
Speaker 2: an open faced sandwich, a.
Speaker 1: Hot, open faced sandwich. Excuse me, excuse me. If you
Speaker 1: were to put another slice of pizza face down on
Speaker 1: top of it, a face up slice of pizza, is
Speaker 1: that not a cal zone? Is that on a sane
Speaker 1: in an essence a sandwich? It's it's things encased in bread.
Speaker 2: You know what you know what you sound right now,
Speaker 2: crazier than a soup sandwich. You sound crazier than a
Speaker 2: soup sandwich right now, And think about eating a soup sandwich.
Speaker 2: It would it would be a lot like pizza, which.
Speaker 1: Is so crazy to me. And our engineer is literally
Speaker 1: doubled over right now because he thinks what you've said
Speaker 1: today here so far and we're at number nine is
Speaker 1: some of the craziest ship you've ever heard. You're to
Speaker 1: to talk about the store experience of pizza store. Talk
Speaker 1: about what it's like with the vibe, what the right
Speaker 1: vibe is when you walk into a pizza First of all,
Speaker 1: I want guys with doe, guys with dough.
Speaker 2: First of all, with this if you're if you work
Speaker 2: at a pizza store and you are so fucking hot,
Speaker 2: and I want you to breed me.
Speaker 1: Oh now listen.
Speaker 2: But the second thing, when I think about the smell
Speaker 2: of a pizza store, I'm so happy inside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I have to sing a song? What what song?
Speaker 1: The pizza song?
Speaker 3: Pizza is My Boyfriend, Pizza is God, Pizza is on
Speaker 3: the weekend, pizzas a relaxing did she should go relaxing dog?
Speaker 3: If Taylor came out with a song called the Pizza Song.
Speaker 1: It would be huge if you think that Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: if she released a song called the Pizza Song, and
Speaker 1: if you don't think that would be one of her
Speaker 1: Billboard Hot one hundred number one hits, he'd be deeply
Speaker 1: mistake that that will be the biggest song of all time.
Speaker 2: She would tear eat Sleigh and Prosper, Prosper the Big Four.
Speaker 1: That's why Pizzeria is number nine in our list of
Speaker 1: top ten stores Lost College.
Speaker 2: I don't have to say, just like, discourse around pizza
Speaker 2: made me so happy?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna have pizza? SAIDAI? Now I think so,
Speaker 1: me too, Oh my god. For eight Wegmans go on.
Speaker 1: Wegmans is elevated grocery shopping.
Speaker 2: Say that Trader Joe's. You have to be in the
Speaker 2: right say something. It's not twenty eleven. Sorry to you Jays.
Speaker 1: That one is so shook, disturbed, destroys. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: becomadic and say that Traders is not an all the
Speaker 1: time situation. No, Wegmans is an all the time situation.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I got from Wegmans recently. Die coke, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to do that box of twenty frozen corn dogs.
Speaker 1: What and it's the perfect snack if I'm coming home
Speaker 1: from a long day at work, if it's like three
Speaker 1: in the morning and not a lots open delivery. Wise,
Speaker 1: I'm too tired to cook, But I I'm never too
Speaker 1: tired to pop a cold, hard corn dog into the
Speaker 1: microwave for one minute exactly, and then it's cooked to perfection.
Speaker 1: Then I drizzle mustard, and then I take a little
Speaker 1: finger bowl, put ketchup and mustard, mix it into a
Speaker 1: special sauce, dip it in that I'm in heaven.
Speaker 2: You should do a corn dog talk show, absolutely, because
Speaker 2: you know how there's chicken chop Date. You know how
Speaker 2: there's hot wings challenge.
Speaker 1: What's it called hot ones? Hot ones? You should have
Speaker 1: a corn dog show. Yeah, And it's just vibes. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's not even chicken chop Date where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at us in this chicken chop It's not even
Speaker 1: hot ones where it's like, oh they get to a challenge.
Speaker 1: We're sitting on a big couch eating corn dog. And
Speaker 1: what is a corn dog if not a sandwich on
Speaker 1: a stick. That's from WandaVision that's from wand Division. All.
Speaker 2: This is why Wegmans is number eight on top ten stores.
Speaker 1: Lost Coach seven, best Buy still kicking, kicking ass.
Speaker 2: I have so many amazing memories in the best By,
Speaker 2: such as buying a charger. I feel like everyone needs
Speaker 2: a charger, everyone.
Speaker 1: Needs You're making fun of best Buy and I actually
Speaker 1: really do know. I'm not what the fuck are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Started off the sense I have so many
Speaker 1: special little memories at best Buy, and I was gonna
Speaker 1: say yes, my sister, and then you took a hard
Speaker 1: left into I love buying chargers from best Buy. Fuck off.
Speaker 1: Here's my memory of best Buy, of walking over from
Speaker 1: when my mom was at the Costco next door. I
Speaker 1: would walk over to best Buy when she was busy
Speaker 1: doing her shopping. I would go to the dance dance
Speaker 1: revolution pads in the middle of the store and have
Speaker 1: dance competitions with the employees there to deed, to sandstorm,
Speaker 1: bitch to fucking the number one people. This was what
Speaker 1: was happening. This is where I learned my performance instincts. Okay,
Speaker 1: people would start to gather yep, I can see this time.
Speaker 1: When ever, when was that best Buy? I was the
Speaker 1: star of best Buy because I was. I picture fifteen
Speaker 1: year old me with braces throwing his legs around next
Speaker 1: to the fucking thirty two year old goth best Buy
Speaker 1: employees of the mid odds, and I was kicking their asses,
Speaker 1: wiping the damn floor. I'm sorry, the damn dedr pad
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 2: Do you think that when they saw you came in,
Speaker 2: their heart sank because they knew that they were in
Speaker 2: for defeat.
Speaker 1: Pone's here. Did they know your name? No? They were
Speaker 1: just like that little Asian kid is here to fucking
Speaker 1: fucking sweat and stomp sweat stone. Would you get incredibly
Speaker 1: sweaty doing it? Yes? It was. It was my idea
Speaker 1: of exercise. I didn't quite know my day. We were
Speaker 1: right about that. I didn't really know my way around
Speaker 1: the gym, and part of me like selling it to
Speaker 1: my parents. They would never buy it for me, but
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna go exercise mom. I thinks
Speaker 1: by One of the common misconceptions about dan Stein's Revolution
Speaker 1: is that it's not exercise. Oh, I think it is exercise,
Speaker 1: and I think that you proved that they had a
Speaker 1: calorie counter. If there's a workout mode in DDR two
Speaker 1: where you can dance to whatever song. They would show
Speaker 1: you like a completely off figure, but they'd be like,
Speaker 1: you burned two hundred calories dancing too. Can't get you
Speaker 1: out of my head? Or whatever I.
Speaker 2: Want to ask you. So a lot of people they
Speaker 2: asked the question of what was the first CEED you
Speaker 2: ever bought? Speaking of best buy, Do you know or
Speaker 2: could you guess what the last CD you bought was?
Speaker 1: Oh? My god, this is an interesting because the last
Speaker 1: CD I bought must have been with the purpose of burning,
Speaker 1: like not burning it, reverse burning or whatever you call it,
Speaker 1: like uploading it to your iTunes to put on your iPod?
Speaker 1: Right right? Can I tell you what I think it is? What?
Speaker 1: Blackout by Britney Spears, WHOA? What was yours?
Speaker 2: I think that if I had to guess with the
Speaker 2: last Oh, I know, but the Goga Goga goa?
Speaker 1: What I was? I had a car rental somewhere I
Speaker 1: forget where, but I didn't have I didn't bring like
Speaker 1: a Bluetooth thing or whatever. I didn't bring like a
Speaker 1: a an Ox cord adapter thing. So about twenty five
Speaker 1: by Adele on CD to put in my car? Wow,
Speaker 1: my rental car to like listen to.
Speaker 2: I think that if I had to actually say what
Speaker 2: was the last physical CD I bought, it had to
Speaker 2: be one of Kelly's albums, because I probably said to myself,
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna stream up it's help for numbers, I
Speaker 2: have to go.
Speaker 1: To the store and buy the CD. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to guess that it was like, so we both all
Speaker 1: I ever wanted, We both love our Vegas queens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's beautiful and all. This is why best buy. This
Speaker 1: is number seven on the top ten door Doors Lost Coach,
Speaker 1: number six record record store. So this sort of speaks
Speaker 1: to exactly what we were just talking would I would say
Speaker 1: that record store invest by were very much It's not
Speaker 1: a redundancy, it's that they're very closely tied. I think
Speaker 1: this is a dead heat. And in terms of if
Speaker 1: he was coming in at number six, I think that.
Speaker 2: Like the record the idea of the record store short
Speaker 2: of speaks to another type of store that's going to
Speaker 2: come in a little bit later and that you really
Speaker 2: go in for the experience. And I will say some
Speaker 2: some some of the coolest stores I see in New York.
Speaker 2: Record in the LA area is like a hybrid record
Speaker 2: store slash coffee place or like you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like it's like they there's a really cool place in
Speaker 2: green Point, like a North green Point where around where
Speaker 2: I used to live, which is like half record store
Speaker 2: half coffee place. And also if you think there's not
Speaker 2: a venue in the back for stand up night, you'd
Speaker 2: be wrong.
Speaker 1: And honey, if you don't, if you think there isn't
Speaker 1: a place to get a fucking barbershop cut at the
Speaker 1: record store, coffee shop, stand up venue, deeply mistaken, deeply sorely.
Speaker 2: You know that we shot my video for Everything you
Speaker 2: Want featuring Moon at a record store that was also
Speaker 2: a bar that also had a stay.
Speaker 1: Thank god, because that video turned out amazing. And also
Speaker 1: that is the perfect place to shoot a music video
Speaker 1: where you need different kinds of sets.
Speaker 2: We got there and we were like and was that
Speaker 2: moment Bowen of like can you believe we.
Speaker 1: Have this space? And that is true of so many
Speaker 1: record stores across the globe. Thank you to Amba, Thank
Speaker 1: you to Rough Trade, Rip Tower, Record r Ipe Tower.
Speaker 1: We do remember you, We remember you fondly, and all
Speaker 1: this as well.
Speaker 2: Well, this is why record stores are number six on
Speaker 2: Top ten Stores last coach.
Speaker 1: Got out to twist and shout in Denver. I think
Speaker 1: it's still around. Maybe it isn't, I hope. So number
Speaker 1: five Lord and Taylor, talk about this because I don't
Speaker 1: really have any real.
Speaker 2: So this is sort of like my Wegmans. Yes, Lord
Speaker 2: and Taylor was a place where my mom would take
Speaker 2: me to go shop. It was often like so Lord
Speaker 2: and Taylor was like us, like a little department store where.
Speaker 1: They just had it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't call it like a ton of fast fashion,
Speaker 2: except like kind of would like it was a lot
Speaker 2: of like I think you'd go there to buy a duster.
Speaker 2: You'd go there to buy like some cheaper t shirts,
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, like Lord and Taylor,
Speaker 2: like if you know.
Speaker 1: You know? Sure? But Lord and Taylor really Nordstrom, right?
Speaker 1: And I was gonna this is what I was gonna
Speaker 1: bring up, which is why did Lord and Taylor make
Speaker 1: the list and not Nordstrom? And I don't want to
Speaker 1: challenge it. I just want to I just want your
Speaker 1: perspective on what makes Lord and Taylor exceptional enough?
Speaker 2: And can I say, why can I respond to aft
Speaker 2: to you? I think it's because we made this list
Speaker 2: very quickly seconds before we started recording this because Becka
Speaker 2: said we had to do a bonus episode to court.
Speaker 2: And that's just the truth. That's just the truth, is
Speaker 2: that we just recorded with Tina Fey and then we
Speaker 2: were actually asked very nicely to please do our bonus
Speaker 2: so late. Yeah, because epis this episode is very late.
Speaker 2: It's it's very late, she asked. Beca asked us so nicely.
Speaker 2: And then but then she igbald. We thought she igbald,
Speaker 2: but then she actually came out. Yeah, she sneezed on
Speaker 2: the beat and the beat got sick Yance all on
Speaker 2: his mouth like Lecca, have you ever heard that?
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever done that? Like Becca? Yonce all in
Speaker 1: his mouth? Like Becca, do you hate it? Or do
Speaker 1: you like it? You? And Yonce is in your mouth
Speaker 1: all the time. All right, there you go.
Speaker 2: So all this is why Lord and Taylor is number five.
Speaker 2: You know who's loving this list? My mom counts slow
Speaker 2: and just tagged me in a story.
Speaker 1: What's this going to be? You wanna look?
Speaker 2: Let's just look, Oh the picture, it's it's me asking
Speaker 2: a question about whether or not she's coming back to Ronnie.
Speaker 1: Well, then, because I was at her famously after crushing
Speaker 1: the rumors, I'm not not beating the allegation.
Speaker 2: Beating those returning allegations number number four Cosco.
Speaker 1: Now, a lot of you may be wondering why this
Speaker 1: didn't make four might be a low placement. I think
Speaker 1: that to say this is like, this is almost up.
Speaker 1: This is almost a stump. But also, I didn't you
Speaker 1: know what you know what my theory is and why
Speaker 1: it was snubbed. That the card of it all, the
Speaker 1: membership of it all, you're right, years of it all.
Speaker 1: It's like we don't want people gatekeeping. There there's gatekeeping.
Speaker 1: Literal gatekeeping. Yeah, literal highlight keeping. Let me look at
Speaker 1: the receipt and quickly do a little eye your shop.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I was on trial into the store.
Speaker 1: The surveillance state is with us. Oh yeah, this this,
Speaker 1: this seventy year old woman is like eyeing me down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's already the real world is already socially stratified in
Speaker 1: such perverted ways. And for me to be reminded of
Speaker 1: that if I go into Costco and if I want
Speaker 1: to apply for membership, oh there's this too, there's the
Speaker 1: gold executive. I don't want to hear it. I want
Speaker 1: to go to the store and just shop.
Speaker 2: Can I say something? I'm calling you in this has
Speaker 2: gone to a very negative place. No, this has gone
Speaker 2: to a very negative love Cosco. I know you do, sister,
Speaker 2: and I know that what you're trying to say is
Speaker 2: that they should make it easier to be more equitable.
Speaker 1: It should be cardholders non cardholders. That's even that's gatekeeping.
Speaker 1: So let's just say to those in charge, we want
Speaker 1: to share in the joy of this store. Everyone wants
Speaker 1: to come to Costco. I wrote a this is actually
Speaker 1: my thing. I wrote a sketch about Costco with Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1: By the way, where we sang up with the virtues
Speaker 1: of Costco. They didn't say a peep. They didn't send
Speaker 1: us one beef Wellington, they didn't send us one two
Speaker 1: dollars dollar fifty hot dog. Again, that's crazy to me.
Speaker 1: This is gone to a very But we put you
Speaker 1: on the map. See, that's crazy. Kim and I did that.
Speaker 2: This is crazy to me that you would say that
Speaker 2: you and Kim Kardashian put Costco on the map.
Speaker 1: Chris Jenner didn't do shit. Well, I don't think it
Speaker 1: didn't do shit about Costco. All right, I don't care.
Speaker 1: No one gives a shit that they go to Costco.
Speaker 1: They're moms. Of course they're going to Costco. I'm here
Speaker 1: a young gay man say it with the most famous
Speaker 1: woman in the world. Okay, boosting your signal and nothing.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. It's a travesty.
Speaker 2: I do want to say, though, just to say how
Speaker 2: much we love Costco, because I do think this, this
Speaker 2: will be closer to their heart, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 2: if you want to actually reach out to tell you somebody,
Speaker 2: you have to do it with kindness.
Speaker 1: You have to do it with kindness. And can we say, Costco,
Speaker 1: you have given us so much such as samples of food.
Speaker 1: There is no other store that is doing samples like Costco.
Speaker 1: There's no other store that is doing all the produce
Speaker 1: is in the coldest room in the world where you
Speaker 1: have to walk through the plastic fucking pedals that hang
Speaker 1: down from the door. Parking lot more like parka is
Speaker 1: what I need to be wearing in that aisle. Pitch
Speaker 1: eight eight? What's four plus four eight? How many letters
Speaker 1: in devoured? Eight? How many continents should there be? Eight eight?
Speaker 1: That's what North Pulhan. You think can't really lock stud
Speaker 1: released a song I think landed on the eighth content. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you should do that.
Speaker 2: I think the song's fine how it is, And that
Speaker 2: is why Costco is number four on Top ten Stores
Speaker 2: lostcal number three. Thrifting, thriftingrift, thrift, thrift stores stores.
Speaker 1: Yes, you feel you're a part of the problem. You
Speaker 1: feel you're a part of the problem doing your fast fashion.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, the reader. You can change. Go
Speaker 1: to a thrift store today. Greta Thunberg implores you to Berg. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you know who'd be so thrilled with you? Chloe seventy,
Speaker 1: Chloe seven, She famously thrifts her a little behind off.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a fashion icon like Chloe,
Speaker 1: get it together, hun head to the thrift store. Toss
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff together. You don't know if it's
Speaker 1: going to be iconic or not. Right, This is the
Speaker 1: most this is some of the most ethical shopping you
Speaker 1: can do. But the reason why it's number three and
Speaker 1: not two or one, where are you laughing about?
Speaker 2: I'm laughing you being like this is so ethical, age
Speaker 2: that I looked at number two.
Speaker 1: Or we'll get to that don't. Yeah, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. The only note I have for
Speaker 1: thrift stores. Okay, let's do something about the smells. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know this is all secondhand, and this is all
Speaker 1: We're going in great lengths to make sure that this
Speaker 1: is all presentable and that people want to buy and
Speaker 1: repurchase these things. I think the barrier of entry for
Speaker 1: a lot of people is the smell. Have you ever
Speaker 1: donated to a thrift store? Absolutely, if you don't think that.
Speaker 1: When I moved apartments, I went to the Goodwill in
Speaker 1: Queen's because I was the closest one, and then I
Speaker 1: did four trips to that Goodwill with bad of clothes.
Speaker 1: Good for you, you have another thing coming. I've gone.
Speaker 1: I've done repeat trips to Out of the Closets. Oh,
Speaker 1: we love Out of the Closet. We love Village Discount
Speaker 1: in Chicago. We love el Trained Vintage in New York,
Speaker 1: specifically Brooklyn. Can I get a peek behind the curtain?
Speaker 2: So all, speaking of my video earlier, everything I wore
Speaker 2: for my music videos and my styling for the album
Speaker 2: that I released last year called Havyhard of Christmas was
Speaker 2: all thrifted by our friend Melissa label is a thrifting
Speaker 2: icon at Molesey Mouse m U l s y us
Speaker 2: incredible vibes, incredible thrift talent and dressed me down with
Speaker 2: all thrift stuff. And I will say, as a result
Speaker 2: of that experience working with her on it, I've been
Speaker 2: very into thrift stores as a concept, and I am
Speaker 2: not gonna lie. I used to be that girl doing
Speaker 2: a lot of fast fashion and trying to cut that cutback,
Speaker 2: always learning.
Speaker 1: Like a sponge. That's what they do and that.
Speaker 2: Is why thrift stores is number three on Top ten Stores.
Speaker 1: Lost Coach number two. Apple. I'm gonna give you the
Speaker 1: floor here because I think that.
Speaker 2: You you more than anyone I know know.
Speaker 1: They're way around an Apple store. I know exactly where
Speaker 1: the things are hidden. Oh, check the tables, the displayed tables.
Speaker 1: There's a head and drawer there, treasures on sl Sorry
Speaker 1: I didn't match your key your pitch. You were maybe
Speaker 1: coming for me a little for saying the ethics of
Speaker 1: Apple store is a little questionable. For sure, They're they're
Speaker 1: going carbon neutral by twenty fifty or something. We love
Speaker 1: Apple and there might not even be a world by then,
Speaker 1: but they're they're they're making inroads. I will say.
Speaker 2: One thing that frustrates me Apple is so I have
Speaker 2: the new iPhone here right the charger.
Speaker 1: You see USBC.
Speaker 2: Okay, So can I actually ask my sister this question?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like I said, you might have the answer.
Speaker 2: If anyone does in my life, it's gonna be you.
Speaker 2: So there's the USB C. Now, this is the new
Speaker 2: charger for the new iPhone. Then you go into your car.
Speaker 1: And some cars now have USBC.
Speaker 2: But is there an option for USB that plugs into USBC.
Speaker 1: Are some cords that go USB A to USBC. I
Speaker 1: gotta find those cords. They sell them, all right, go
Speaker 1: to a best Bye, go to the Hudson News.
Speaker 2: I'm trusting you, girl, I have them. I have multiple cords.
Speaker 2: You think I can go to number ten on this listen?
Speaker 2: Get something I can get at number two?
Speaker 1: They sell it at number two or they also sell
Speaker 1: the adapter. All right.
Speaker 2: I get very confused and turned around with the USB
Speaker 2: d D of it all.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I just.
Speaker 2: Get very turned around when it comes to different USB variants.
Speaker 2: I don't know why life can't just be more simple.
Speaker 1: And I say that that's the point of USB C
Speaker 1: is that everything is going to be usb C in
Speaker 1: the near future. But this whole journey started me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, like even seven years ago, when people were like,
Speaker 1: let's let's all we're making the switch to USBC, it's
Speaker 1: gonna take a minute, okay, and we're in this transition phase.
Speaker 2: Now I'm feeling that discomfort right now at my twenty
Speaker 2: I'm gonna check in with you in about three years.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, you're gonna be like, don't I can't
Speaker 2: live without USBC.
Speaker 1: Do you trust me? Do I tell you we got
Speaker 1: a new car? No, got a new car? What color? Black? Amazing?
Speaker 1: Be careful. People might get in and thinking it's an uber.
Speaker 1: Well listen, better that than my red car. I know,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: I was having a red Hound Wanda the Scarlet, which
Speaker 2: you can understand why. And I was getting tickets a
Speaker 2: lot because I think the car was too ostentatious. And
Speaker 2: I remember that's what Joel Kim Booster said when I
Speaker 2: picked him up one day. He said, I don't like
Speaker 2: this car, and I thought that was very rude, and
Speaker 2: then he said, well, it's too it's not your personality.
Speaker 1: It's too ostentatious.
Speaker 2: And then I actually I had a really understand the
Speaker 2: fact that he doesn't think I'm ostentatious.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with being ostentatious.
Speaker 2: I wish he thought I was more ostentatious because I
Speaker 2: felt the car was very my personality.
Speaker 1: As I loved that car, I was very sad to
Speaker 1: see it go the Apple Store. What's your favorite memory
Speaker 1: memory of Apple Store? All the geniuses I've met. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some really good people there. Unique, unique loving. That's what
Speaker 1: you are, tech superstars. That is why Apple Stores is
Speaker 1: number two on the top ten. Stirs lost culture, this
Speaker 1: is number one. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: We just had our guest, Tina Fe she left the
Speaker 2: studio and we said, you know, we're doing the top
Speaker 2: ten stores.
Speaker 1: What's the number one store? And she said on three, one,
Speaker 1: two three, Target. This is I mean, you must have
Speaker 1: all seen this coming, especially by the time we got
Speaker 1: to number five, and you were like, they haven't said
Speaker 1: Target yet. You know.
Speaker 2: One of the great things about Target too, is they're
Speaker 2: so seasonally on top of it. If you walk in there,
Speaker 2: like when of the clock strikes midnight on like even
Speaker 2: like Halloween, Thanksgiving, like they somehow they magically waved the
Speaker 2: wand and it is all the holidays are there and
Speaker 2: everything is there, and like, if you want a.
Speaker 1: Reef, what it is? Wreathreth Why did I think it
Speaker 1: was because I'm so addicted to marijuana. I love reef
Speaker 1: for so much. Up top, you you understand. Target is
Speaker 1: one of those places that helps you understand the passage
Speaker 1: of time. Thank you God. It is the sundial of
Speaker 1: our culture. Yeah, and never going anywhere. Good luck. They
Speaker 1: have made some missteps recently with their pride stuff and
Speaker 1: they've caved. Oh god, these these crazy things were going
Speaker 1: to get in trouble for this. I don't care. They
Speaker 1: can they can take this pop. What was it that
Speaker 1: they took all the pride stuff down because of fear?
Speaker 1: Because of fear they have been a little bit spineless
Speaker 1: and other and other similar ways around the sort of
Speaker 1: like let's acknowledge the queer people exist. Well, here's the
Speaker 1: thing is.
Speaker 2: It's like, so when a corporation, like let's say, like
Speaker 2: Target or something like does the pride thing and they're like,
Speaker 2: we are all gay like, and that becomes very much
Speaker 2: the vibe like we are all gay like theo's pride
Speaker 2: everywhere and it becomes Target. It's like that's one thing
Speaker 2: that people can choose to have a complain about, and
Speaker 2: then when they take it all down, they're like, well,
Speaker 2: you guys are spineless, and it's like, okay, we're just
Speaker 2: trying to keep people safe because we have to ignore
Speaker 2: the reality of the fact that there's a lot of
Speaker 2: ongoing and escalating violence in this country, towards of course,
Speaker 2: all minority groups. But also, no, I'm not defending Target.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, is it is it a sort of you know,
Speaker 2: damned if they do situation? And do we care that
Speaker 2: much at all that there's a rainbow above? Like I
Speaker 2: guess the reef stile, I guess. I guess to me
Speaker 2: what reads is like.
Speaker 1: What does pride mean to you? What pride means to me?
Speaker 1: Is that level beyond tolerance acceptance? Yeah, what gets me
Speaker 1: is that pride you can't like it's like the heel
Speaker 1: turned the renagging on. It is like, is sad? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's all. I never hated Target for having pride stuff. No,
Speaker 1: I absolutely love Target no matter what. And I understand anyway,
Speaker 1: what can you get a Target? You can get Oh
Speaker 1: my god, lunch, first of all, lunch Starbucks often if
Speaker 1: you're lucky, a plastic bin for storage, not for nothing
Speaker 1: but sex stuff, sex stuff, a toaster, pills, if there's
Speaker 1: a CVS in there.
Speaker 2: There's a target in Chicago that I go to that
Speaker 2: I think I've been to on four different occasions, four
Speaker 2: different years to buy lube and lube only amazing because
Speaker 2: Chicago is one of those cities you kind of have
Speaker 2: a guy, you know what I mean, Chicago.
Speaker 1: Be fucking. It's one of the most fucking cities in Chicago,
Speaker 1: be fucking And that's actually real culture number ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Chicago be fucking.
Speaker 2: And luckily there's targets all over Chicago, it being a
Speaker 2: major city, this being number one on the list, and
Speaker 2: they have lube.
Speaker 1: And that's a huge part of why Chicago be fucking
Speaker 1: is is that it's a It's a plentiful, bountiful I
Speaker 1: would say New York is not super. The targets aren't
Speaker 1: thriving in New York City the way they are in Chicago,
Speaker 1: the way that they are in Los Angeles. Driving in
Speaker 1: LA for sure, I know that's been in Chicago. I
Speaker 1: think that's a sleeper target town. And I mean you
Speaker 1: and I have both been on our separate on separate
Speaker 1: and separate scenarios, of course, but like we've both been
Speaker 1: plowed in Chicago. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean I have some of my most iconic sexual
Speaker 2: tales yea. And my book is coming out called The
Speaker 2: Sexual Tales of Matt Rogers. It's not what you think.
Speaker 2: It's much darker. It's more of a psycho sexual thriller.
Speaker 2: It's actually fiction.
Speaker 1: But uh no, yeah, we've we've we've gotten it in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Was Chicago meth for you? Chicago was not meth for me?
Speaker 1: Where was where did you accidentally do meth? Queens? It
Speaker 1: was at home.
Speaker 2: So if you don't know when, you're sort of just
Speaker 2: joining the podcast now and not years ago, but one
Speaker 2: actually did meth ones and had what you described as
Speaker 2: acrobatic sex with a man for hour.
Speaker 1: Sex moving furniture around. I took the gene Traine home. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But and that's not an euphemism. No oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no ghb absolutely never ever. But you could probably buy
Speaker 1: g at Target, to be honest, some day they got
Speaker 1: it all. Hey, Target, here's how you correct the pride stuff.
Speaker 1: Sell g I want to see poppers on the shelves too.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna sell lube, why not sell poppers to
Speaker 1: put the g next to the men of mucile. Yeah
Speaker 1: that the gays can shit. Stop pretending like it's not
Speaker 1: what it's for. It's like, when I'm in the you
Speaker 1: should just call it the butt aisle. Have everything that
Speaker 1: you need for your butt, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's like, why should I have to go all the
Speaker 1: way over there, you know, like, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: here for. I'm not. Here's what's in the butt aisle? Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me Sharman. Dude wipes the lube fleet enema fleet enema,
Speaker 1: which I've been using. Don't use it too much, right,
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, like, you get the hype about the
Speaker 1: fleet enemas, but it's not it's I know, it's to
Speaker 1: destroy my stomach finding. I know what else is in
Speaker 1: the butt aisle? Some meta mucil? Yeah yeah, yeah. Even
Speaker 1: at Target you could get some toys. I mean, is
Speaker 1: that crazy to think? No? I think that's a bridge
Speaker 1: too far. I don't think they saw like you can
Speaker 1: get butt plugs and stuff at Target. How do you
Speaker 1: know that massages? But massages looking for your tampons and
Speaker 1: it's in the same secsion the tampons the loop got it.
Speaker 1: If there was a pussy aisle at Target, we need
Speaker 1: a bussy aisle, period I there's there. Heartedly agreed, there's
Speaker 1: a pussy aisle, there's a pussyile. There should be a bussyisle.
Speaker 1: That's real. Coaching number fifty, Hey, Target, If there's as
Speaker 1: there should be a pussy aisle, and that is why,
Speaker 1: that is why Target number one, number one on the
Speaker 1: top lost Coach.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm super happy that we decided to put this
Speaker 2: definitive list together as quickly as we did because we
Speaker 2: questioned nothing.
Speaker 1: And that is how you know you've done something right.
Speaker 1: It's when something just flows out of you and you
Speaker 1: just need that sort of prompt from someone like producer Backround.
Speaker 2: What happened was, in many ways, producer Becca was the
Speaker 2: fleet enema.
Speaker 1: She got right up.
Speaker 2: Our butts, she had her eyes, she got right up
Speaker 2: our assholes and said, you need to do an episode.
Speaker 2: And then we flushed out this list and now we're
Speaker 2: ready to fuck.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I don't know when I'll do it,
Speaker 1: but hopefully soon. Two weeks off I'll go to Chicago
Speaker 1: get fucked. That would be wonderful, be wonderful, have everything
Speaker 1: you need well.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us, and yet another
Speaker 2: amazing bonus episodes.
Speaker 1: I can I just know there'll be more. Yes, stay
Speaker 1: tuned for the next month.
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