Episode 106 : He's A Real Heterosectional

[00:00:00] Gooning is a disgusting thing and we need to talk about it, okay? We can't pretend that no one's gooning We can't act like the goon caves aren't happening. That's what they want you to do. They want you to say darling. It's okay

[00:00:12] There's no goon cave. There's no gooners anywhere. No one's gooning I Was molded by the goon cave shaped by it I didn't see an unprolapsed answer till I was a man I Gould goon cave The the latter's pit is just not

[00:01:10] Three different beverages over here. You're a max and relax and over there you got this week old Yeah, you got the peach bush. Yeah the bush like any got a little bit of that dark amber modello

[00:01:21] Yeah, I don't know how to properly pronounce the the word there and negra I feel like I shouldn't yeah, it's like when you try to say Andy the ghost and the ending go is like shit Can I say that? Yeah, I know

[00:01:36] It's a little boy. I don't know like I feel like there should be like a skin tone chart Where it's like safe to say shade yeah above this Crayola skin tone color. You're good. Well it cautioned by bad versus yeah, yes, just be aware so uh

[00:01:52] starting a new job and uh It's fine. It's fine definitely since the toes it's happened. What do you I mean? It's like I haven't actually like because it's a big corporation

[00:02:03] I have to do like all this orientation all this like like all of this like the safety stuff that they were doing Cuz like this like logistics and all that like it was like me and like two old-school warehouse guys, and we're just chuckling

[00:02:15] Like that's what you're supposed to do with like in practice like like nah You aren't ever gonna chuck your wheels the pull pork a forklift up into a trailer Like I'm like, you know

[00:02:27] Like the last time someone called me a f to my face was why I asked if he chucked his wheels on his trailer You know like damn like it's just like, you know, I'd rather just die than deal with with that

[00:02:38] you know, I rather just cause and though we should complain but like the first day orientation ended with an HR thing and like, you know, like our benefits and all that and We're like in this conference room there's like I don't know a of us and

[00:02:52] The lady that's leaning it she walks out of the room and there's just like a zoom call that we're kind of like a part Of like from the wall. Yeah, and one of the old-school warehouse dudes

[00:03:02] Just like strip pulls up the call on his cell phone and doesn't like music cuz there's like links and stuff coming by Yeah, and he just like lets the audio fly

[00:03:11] And it starts like getting to the point where it's like distracting her as she's talking because she's like hearing this Echo and I think a couple points it was starting to create a feedback loop. Yes, and we're all just guys sitting there

[00:03:23] Like I don't know the say this is like dude that I don't know right the like Hey, man, you should like turn off your phone like are you should at least turn the volume down? But he's just like why is it doing that?

[00:03:38] This guy like sitting there just like man damn damn like this is this is so tight Like and she comes and lay comes back like oh like after the calls over and she's like, oh everything go well And we're just like yeah

[00:03:56] So good why is it doing that and that's when you knew he was like fucking with you. Yeah, it's beautiful No, I think that guy legitimately did not know cuz he didn't know what QR code was okay

[00:04:08] Well, this is how old like like I was like helping one of the dudes with his computer He's like I was a head shit Dude I'm telling you where to click a link I'm not like doing any port forwarding or like yeah

[00:04:24] This is this is a slightly dumber than turning Google in the nighttime mode Well, welcome to nighttime mode it's 48 minutes of dogs barking my name is Jason this is Brian We're very excited to have you with us today

[00:04:41] Because today I found out that a vice presidential candidate for for the For the United States for our election here a very normal way to say that is possibly a guy who fucks a couch Getting good. He's fine all that loose change. He's getting deep

[00:05:01] Found your blockbuster card. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's getting in there so this started with so as all good things do with with a tweet at Rick Rude's calves Rick Rude's calves can't say for sure

[00:05:16] But he might be the first VP pick to have admitted in a New York Times bestseller to fucking an inside-out Latex glove shoved between two couch cushions and then he cites The book hillbilly elegy with page numbers So good 179 to 181 he says and

[00:05:37] Now it turns out that was that not actually true but not until after the internet got a hold of it Oh boy Twitter user at Wunderbar triple six unironically tweeted the story as a criticism of Vance Kept going reddit got a hold of it

[00:05:54] Our political humor included a fake screenshot of Craigslist which was JD Vance's used couch That's the one I said you that one's all no upon that is a nasty ass

[00:06:05] Like if that was like if you that's the couch you don't even if it's at the punk house you don't even sit on Yeah, I wouldn't you know, that's just nasty. It's like that. That's a dog's couch

[00:06:17] As baby dogs exactly baby dog we love baby dog. Yeah, just um, and but it just spread all over the place I love this idea that just like yeah We're willfully spreading this information for fun because the original poster

[00:06:32] Did include the bit from Arthur you think someone would do that Just go on the internet and tell lies under the original post So very clearly they knew what they were doing and it has been deleted. It's no longer around now

[00:06:45] That's a shame. It's such a good tweet and you know Vance is Insane motherfucker. Yeah. Yeah, like Trump's fucking wild like but Trump's like a out-of-touch like New York Wallstreet schizo, but also somebody's weird grandpa Like the J Vance is like Fucking gripper type. Yeah

[00:07:09] I bet Jay Vance has some really anti-stomach viewpoints about the seed oils Yeah, just like a different type of crumudgeon He's a return guy, but he only cares about like beef tallow is one of those your fuckers Which ears the gate here to get pierced? Oh

[00:07:28] That's some old-school homophobia. That's yeah, just just like I've read some stuff for people like this might be the worst VP pick since Palin oh wow and it's entirely possible

[00:07:40] Oh, it is very very possible one of my favorite memes to come out of this was the falconry finance fella Bernie posted this and it's a it's a mashup of not like us by Kendrick Lamar but also with various photos of JD Vance and then

[00:07:56] Couches that he'd like to interact with Just these really uncomfortable looking pictures of him and then the The different couches that look like they have facial expressions. It looked real worried. The one were beavers. Oh is humping the couch

[00:08:17] And it says JD Vance 20 seconds after his wife leaves the house Just Having a field day with JD Vance having a field day with the people just going ham on this guy

[00:08:29] I love to see it, you know the fact that felt believable. Yeah, well I first saw that tweet when it was fresh I saw that tweet before probably had even like a hundred thousand views. Yeah and

[00:08:41] I was like huh, like I went put past him. Mm-hmm have some weird sexual hangup thing getting Hillbilly grift book like the shit about drinking diet Mountain Dew. Oh, yeah You gotta be drinking full strength

[00:08:56] And I do feel like that by championing your like if you're trying to be like a good boy You talk about dream on dude. That is a racist I have worked with guys is it oh it is

[00:09:08] Oh absolutely. There is a brand of white man that like champions drinking Mountain Dew above all of their liquids besides alcohol and There's definitely like, you know You know show Obama's a man kind of like vibe to them. That's bizarre. I drink diet Mountain Dew all the time

[00:09:28] Well, maybe you just think it's weird that like black people don't like sidewalks or something Like some of those things were like it's like that's racist, but this is more just weird Why do Puerto Ricans sleep at the bus stop? He's wondering that Filipino men gain muscle, yeah

[00:09:48] Why is that your concern? Being very concerned about Japanese birth rates for some reason. Yeah, not really not really your problem Yeah, man, this is a little weird you're thinking about that Or at all no, I can't say that I do actually hold any of those

[00:10:06] Weird uncle like well, you know the the wildy Sudanese They're allergic to flour You know our medians they they have to open rug stores because that's all they know

[00:10:20] Yeah, it's um, it's their culture man and like the deny them that is to be disrespectful. Actually you're a racist man Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah speaking of One man that we wish were dead

[00:10:34] And now a man that won't die. This is actually the second story in a row as well of Someone straight-up lying on the internet Senator Mike Lee Republican from Utah Reposted apparently without reading this letter

[00:10:52] supposedly from the office of Jimmy Carter announcing his death and it reads very much like a form letter up until the second paragraph President Carter served as president United States from 77 to 81 during his administration

[00:11:06] President Carter championed human rights around the world achieved significant foreign policy accomplishments including selling the United States out to Panama the Camp David accords a Now failing Treaty of Peace between Egypt and Israel getting soft on the Soviet Union

[00:11:23] failing to rescue several hostages from Iran and the establishment of US diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and again It's more boilerplate Despite these successes as president the letter continues all his life president Carter

[00:11:39] Considered his marriage to former first lady Rosalynn Carter's life's greatest achievement at her passing last November president Carter said quote Rosalynn was a baddie Jill Melania even throat goat Nancy Reagan got nothing on Rosalynn. She was the original brat

[00:11:57] She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it as long as Rosalynn was in the world I always knew somebody loved and supported me. They were married for 77 years and

[00:12:06] So because these things were kind of buried in here. Yeah people fell for it including, you know actual representatives I believe Ted Cruz also fell for it

[00:12:16] But yes, it was it was obviously a fake because I don't think anyone's gonna call Rosalynn Carter a baddie the original brat Nancy Reagan the original throat goat. Yeah just They buried a Rosalynn Carter and her favorite Amazon meme of sweatpants

[00:12:37] The juicy on the ass no the ones that make it look like your your ass is like a fucking like some shit from like Robotron or whatever No, I don't know that so don't you don't know the I'm

[00:12:51] Know this is a years-old thing, but there was like a trend of women buying these leggings Mm-hmm that really accentuated your apple bottom. Mm-hmm Like it was like really weird to like go work and have like female co-workers wearing like These like very like aggressive

[00:13:08] I'm a thought thought joggers like that's not like absolutely just like are you like do you are you going to the club? Right. Is there something what's going on here? We're gonna warehouse. There's there's no one here

[00:13:19] There's no one here worth impressing because you because you because I also work here and I know Well, you know that's fair They buried her. Yeah, they buried her in the thought joggers Well speaking of juicy ass, that's all I got

[00:13:38] People have been making a big deal about The presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris Not only the coconut memes which we've talked about on the show We're coconut-pilled at least for the time being she still caught Mala. Don't don't let me forget that but you know for now

[00:13:53] we're gonna let some of that shit slide, but she's also has Let's just say a famous ex-boyfriend Montel Williams Former television host he probably is still hosting something. I don't know. He's probably doing something out there. He does a lot of commercials That's true Yeah

[00:14:10] He I always get him in Montel Jordan confused for some reason even though Montel Williams probably couldn't even sing this is how we do it anyway but Montel Williams was on the receiving end for some reason of fucking cat turd 2's

[00:14:25] Shit posting. Yeah, all Kamala has ever done is date bod tell Williams and fuck deck And so Montel Williams just posts the other day who is cat turd And People inundated him with responses he kind of okay this guy's kind of a piece of shit

[00:14:44] So he quote tweets himself the cat seems to have gotten cat turd 2's tongue and all he can muster up is a few Emoji I hear he has a drinking problem and once ran over his dog while drunk driving Let's all pray he finds sobriety and some peace

[00:15:01] This is by the way of our good friend you went post aka miles Miley That's right miles clee who also he responded to the his own tweet with 5150 by my family because I keep asking them if they heard about the Montel Williams cat turd beef

[00:15:19] Which is yeah, it is the kind of thing that makes you sound fucking crazy Williams was telling cat turd to go fuck himself like who? Mama man. Yeah, I know Montel Williams, but who what a weird week and it's only gonna get weirder brother

[00:15:34] Oh, it's only gonna get weird We've already got anti Kamala hair and stuff Apparently people do not want to take the coconut pill which is a damn shame, but no I've heard like Kamala toe that's clunky doesn't work. Yeah cackling Kamala though

[00:15:55] Given where he's been I thought it was laughing laughing come on. He's done cackling. Oh, he's done cackling Oh, well, okay that one has in Kamala. Yeah, that one has I mean, okay That's fine laughing about

[00:16:07] Yeah, young lithium folks and you know, of course the we can't go any further out talking about you know Lagoon or himself dropping out And then there's conspiracy theories saying that he's been dead this whole time there's all sorts of fun stuff going

[00:16:24] You know, he ain't dead. He's spoken a kush blunt. I Figured I Texted you I was like he's in like the basement of the compound with oh, yeah 19 old cathode TVs. Oh, yeah, just playing a VHS porn Reflecting his aviators he's um

[00:16:44] You know, he's got chumble one bond the stereo he's just absolutely good in himself He's calling his call his wife dr. Jack off Jill, you know And we all thought this was gonna be like a boring

[00:16:59] Yeah, just one that was just a death march into the ocean and it's gonna be like that still I think it's just there's Gonna be like some party favors and yeah, we're gonna have a good time getting there at least

[00:17:10] So I think that's gonna be it's gonna be a little bit more like the road Do you carry the flame no you carry the flame come on Oh On that note Script of scam of the week, baby You're listening to 48 minutes of dogs barking the podcast

[00:17:43] This week this one was brought to us by a fan of the show at a geez EZ EZ Easy easy I should say yeah, a bio only says the post maker so The website they list also is gyms bike A real URL on actual URL but

[00:18:09] Boy, we're really fond of this So their post was do you have this week's crypto scam of the weekend? Which I did not at the time and and it was The American Communist Party now I

[00:18:26] Don't know about you but on just hearing the name and like oh, okay interesting. Tell me more But then this This is Johnny socialism posting. The American Communist Party is a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme with an artificial

[00:18:43] Artificial valuation which requires all of your personal information is hosted on a Peter Thiel fellows blockchain platform a company run by alumni from McKinsey and Google Nothing has ever glowed harder. Yeah, not good. You're gonna give all your personal information to Peter Thiel

[00:19:05] No at all ever no no Not unless this lure him into a dark alley second with a hammer Well, you know Sometimes the sacrifice must be made but yes The ACP has come out and said this coin is not ours all the party infrastructures on the blockchain. So

[00:19:26] So fucking weird very strange was was that tick-tock say So this was your commie dad on tick-tock and it didn't even take but mere Moments for the scamming to start check this out just in case anyone's wondering I did some digging and the founder of this coin

[00:19:43] Artificially enriched its value and then only 30 minutes after launching it immediately withdrew all of the ETH They initially enriched it with Y'all don't let these guys these guys Ideologically and financially Scam you run the other way and yeah, so he did show a post where someone said yeah

[00:20:06] They they artificially increased the value 30 minutes later rugged it took all the ETH out of the project Just just a real shit show and apparently this American Communist Party is actually crypto fascists. So that's fun Yeah, American communism is just a real fucking shit show man

[00:20:23] Yeah, they were saying Jackson Hinkle's involved in all those guys. There's some real Oh Just not great and of course people are tagging coffeezilla this you know, like again Johnny socialism finally a truly American Communist Party a

[00:20:41] fictitious use of capital to utilize AI bot networks to replace the workers Forged signatures in an attempted hostile takeover then fake evaluation by juicing it with bots and blue check morons to entice investors to drop money To hammer this point home the American Communist Party website is built

[00:20:59] With a crypto engine NFT web 3 engine called immutable literally a crypto bro Peter teal Ponzi scheme disguised as a Political party here. It reads Sydney, Australia March 7th immutable announced it secured 200 million in series seed funding financing led by Timosec with investors from Animoke brands

[00:21:23] Tencent see Parify capital Princeville capital Arrington capital Mirai asset and Liberty Global also joined the rounds as new investors. Yeah, it stinks to high heaven folks Bringing its valuation to 2.5

[00:21:39] Billion billion with a B. That's right. That was back in March a March of 22. Oh 22. Oh for God's sake Yeah, and again the post continuing to join you have to generate a security key and authenticate

[00:21:53] Telegram which exposes your real physical mobile device. This would be a huge security issue for a political party But for a fed honeypot operation, it's a feature not a bug And yeah, somebody said truly this would have put a tear in William Foster's. Hi nasty shit

[00:22:07] Well, I mean politically driven meme coins aren't all that new I'm sure pump dot funds got a ton of Kamala coins and all that but all the Trump shit There was a couple Vance coins that fucking pumped really hard couch fucker coin

[00:22:19] Yeah, all the crypto nerds are really rooting for The Trump Vance ticket because Trump's pro crypto ish now but Vance and one of his last disclosures of his finances

[00:22:32] Had to reveal that he owns somewhere between like a hundred and two hundred thousand dollars of crypto currencies. Whoo boy Well last time I heard Trump talking about Bitcoin mining It sounded like he thought it was literally taking bitcoins out of the ground though. So yeah

[00:22:47] Well, there's like some big Bitcoin conference where RFK jr. Trump and apparently even now Kamala Are going to speak really? Yeah, it's it's fucking wild man Like I said, like we thought this was gonna be like a boring death march

[00:23:03] Yeah, not great is it good to let crypto fascists as in fascists who love crypto Blow all their money on this useless shit. Sure, but you gotta think They're blowing their money on it. But who's walking away with a bag probably the bigger more connected crypto fascist

[00:23:21] So yeah, whoever wins we lose really fucking depressing The world's bad, I don't know like the world is a mess so Brian I brought you here tonight to talk about Dead malls Yeah, those things that used to exist but also a website you brought this to my attention

[00:23:43] I had not been to this website in many many a year dead malls comm in particular dead malls comm a place for photos of A place for photos of dead balls Yeah, it's um a weird Aaron at 1.0 website. Mm-hmm that I think the Facebook

[00:24:06] Page might be more active than the real page. Yeah, apparently they have a general comments hotline Mm-hmm. They've had over 4 million views. It looks like here They have they also have a soda finder comm ad here at the bottom

[00:24:20] Okay, I gotta see soda finder. I gotta see what this is about So to ship directly to your door. Okay. All right. Let's see. What do they got diet or sugar-free? Okay Oh tropical zero damn 25 bucks for a 12 pack $23 for a 12 pack of 7up cherry

[00:24:38] Arundel I've never heard that. Mm-hmm ale 8 1 Okay, 20 so 26 dollars for a 12 pack of some of these 25 bucks for a 12 pack of big red. Yeah, no fucking cheer wine. Yeah

[00:24:53] Again, 25 bucks for a 12 pack $3 for a bottle of Mexican Coke Cooper's cave birch beer had that that's a good one Doc X that's a weird one. Yeah, this was oh shit Yeah, they had this at the vending machine in my high school after they pulled dr. Slice

[00:25:08] They wanted to have a dr. Pepper competitor and so they it was doc X Yes, it was how did it is an energy drink it tastes like pre 2002 Pib Stock purchased August 2022 freshness date May 20 23. Mmm

[00:25:25] It's now a year out of date. I'm gonna pass on soda finder comm person. Yeah, that's That's where I want to go for mine But we're here to talk about dead malls my man the site itself two guys Peter Blackbird and Brian Florence It was Pete's hobby

[00:25:44] He calls himself a retail historian It boils down to him researching and learning as much as he can about the many facets of the retail industry Let's see the quoting here from their about page having himself worked for Hills department stores during their transition into Ames

[00:26:01] Along with Brian who worked at Cal doors as well as other various retail oriented contacts They find themselves captivated by the current trends in the retail industry and have seen firsthand the demise of many of these great Giants of retail they say retail a lot in this sense

[00:26:18] Having had a hand in retail working the two continued to devote their time to tracking the cause and effect of dead mall Phenomenon and preserving the memory of these shopping centers for years to come. Thanks to the power of the internet

[00:26:29] We have been able to compile information from people all over the web Contributing invaluable information to our cause dead malls comms and endeavor designed to promote the history of these malls as well as their nature

[00:26:40] Whether thriving or declining and the impact of time and competition on these establishments So it does not say when they were founded, but by the look of the website boy. It looks Like you said very very web 1.0. Well the copyright there For I

[00:26:59] Feel like the first time I saw this was probably like late 2000s. Yeah, it definitely seems like the kind of thing You would stumble upon well, I mean st. Louis has so many dead malls and yeah around the mid 2000s with online retail becoming more and more popular

[00:27:15] Yeah, these malls to start fucking cratering and you can tell like just going by the Missouri section like how Infrequent it's updated because oh, yeah Think the most recent dead ball on there is Crestwood when we also have

[00:27:30] West County or not West County Chesterfield. I don't know why the fucking mall That is not in West County is called West County Mall, right and the mall that's actually in West County is called Chesterfield I mean the Chesterfield mall is located in Chesterfield, Missouri

[00:27:46] Mm-hmm, so that's fine, but I just want my coffee flavored fucking coffee, right? But there's been two or three dead malls Mm-hmm in the last decade or so and none of them have been updated

[00:28:00] Now at Northwest Plaza is still around. It's just different retail. It's not a mall proper anymore Yeah, the last time I walked into Jamestown. I want to say was like early 2014 Mm-hmm. It was a Saturday. Yeah, or not a sorry. It was a Sunday

[00:28:17] It was a Sunday I Was out taking photos and in that part of North County I was like, oh, let's drive by as he was gone. And I want to say the only thing open Were churches the movie theater there which used to be a Wehrenberg

[00:28:30] I want to say where I I had a friend high school who worked there and we probably saw Kill Bill part one Dozen times. Oh, yeah, we had a lot of fun with that But that was like a weird DIY movie theater that was showing like greenhouse movies

[00:28:45] So there was like a lot of people that were in the horror grindhouse scene here in st Louis that were making very specific trips to go see movies at Jamestown's movie theater. I remember Eric Eister who played bass in Shame Club and currently

[00:29:00] We have a space in hell night. He I remember him posting photos on Facebook I'm just like yeah, I'm everyone this movie theater used to be poppin It's just like a dude like his family like running it like like you see like the teenage daughter

[00:29:14] Like working like the ticket booth and stuff. He's like, yeah, it's a little weird But like it was five bucks you mentioned the mall out in Chesterfield and that one had this place called the neutral zone It was another mom-and-pop kind of operations really just the one guy

[00:29:30] He sold like old Star Wars toys and you know, he had all these other Machine these arcade machines. He was trying to sell But you paid 20 bucks and they opened about noon so you could go there hang out all day and just play on

[00:29:45] Free play on all these arcade machines. Yeah problem is the guy didn't maintain any of his machines Like the Robocop machine was like broken. There was a an old Street Fighter machine That was one of the joysticks was busted. They had a the two screen x-men side-scroller

[00:30:01] Two of the four controllers were busted like there was just he didn't keep any of it up But it was still like well, okay I can still play house of the dead all day for You probably walk away getting your money's worth at least yeah eventually yeah

[00:30:18] Eventually took a minute. Yeah Star Wars arcade you could beat it a couple times or you could play You know play all the extra missions or whatever like all the different branching stuff and all that

[00:30:27] Yeah, I mean there were a few real good classics. He had a rampage machine that still worked which was a surprise I love fucking loved rampage as a kid

[00:30:34] That was one of my favorite arcade machines and the scream was a little burnt in that the CRT was starting to fail and The Simpsons machine but everything worked so you could place it the Simpsons arcade

[00:30:44] But that's the same thing downstairs where the food court was now all those food courts You know are it's all gone and now it's a pickleball arcade Yeah pickleball court I've seen arcade because I'm still thinking about the fucking neutral zone that movie theaters gone

[00:30:59] That was yeah, that was it comes at night. I saw there and neon demon That was like a weird one that would play those AMC. I was a was a MC

[00:31:09] Yeah, I was a MC at least at the end. Yeah, but that one always played stuff that you wouldn't even find High point or Chase Park Plaza Hmm yeah, there was sometimes we made really I saw fucking super troopers to there

[00:31:23] Which was a which was a waste. Oh, yeah, I was gonna say you're probably Probably better off having one good joke in it. He did not have to build a whole entire film or

[00:31:36] So if you have a history with malls like Brian or myself or if you don't if you Missed that era zoomer and you're too busy doing your tic-tox in your Scooby-toot toilets and shit they have at some points included walkthroughs videos. Here's a one from

[00:31:55] 2012 yeah, I actually went and photographed Crestwood mall Early 2013 spent a couple hours there until security kicked us out. It was weird you know, I mean Crestwood mall was the one where all of my county friends would would hang out because I

[00:32:11] Went to a high school in Clayton and I lived in fluorescent and so all these guys lived Kind of around the area. They all kind of lived in Sunset Hills or they lived, you know right off the by the sculpture park some of them in the area

[00:32:28] Yeah, and Meyer sorry It was all in that area and so the natural place to meet Was to go to Crestwood mall Crestwood mall was really interesting to me because there was that bit where?

[00:32:40] You drive in and you go into the parking garage, which is underneath was insane Yeah The parking garage is underneath the mall and then you take the escalator up into the mall proper and the parking garage goes Fucking deep. It was the whole width of the mall

[00:32:54] Yeah, if it was bad weather didn't matter you just drive into the thing. Yeah structurally It was a very interesting building also like where the food court was and the arcade mm-hmm on the same level as the parking

[00:33:05] Garage. Yeah, it was fucking surreal. Well because it was on a hillside That's what's really screwy and so they well let's put the mall part on top and then everything else can kind of go underneath and it worked because

[00:33:16] Obviously going down to the food court very common you see that at the Galleria still He's you know, you still saw that at a couple other places food court and the arcade were all together

[00:33:29] Just like they are everywhere food court in the arcade. That's the perfect thing you go you get your McDonald's or you get your whatever You get your Not Jersey Mike's. What's the one with the?

[00:33:38] And so borrow yeah, I get your fucking sub bar. Oh, I gotta get a slice Yeah, I really gone to a mall Too often since the pandemic I've gone to South County a couple times and that's like on the verge of really Crapping out it's not good

[00:33:56] Gallery is still holding on West County still holding on some of those ones Where they're right where the highway is I think they're gonna have a little bit more staying power Galleria is in a richer part of town Same thing with West County. Yeah

[00:34:10] Yeah, so people are gonna that are kind of in the area are gonna go there when they need whatever They need to go to forever 21 for whatever fucking reason They need to go get their ears pierced and the Claire's or you know blow all the money. Yeah. Yeah

[00:34:26] Go to Urban Outfitters and get a $30 copy of a Strokes album on vinyl, you know, whatever it is that they need They're There tell you about one. I worked at the Galleria and I worked at the fucking T Vanna

[00:34:39] Yeah, you've mentioned it but I don't know if you've told that was a bad job Yeah, I learned a lot about tea, which is nice yeah, that's really interesting and they gave me a passion for tea and

[00:34:52] Appreciating and the different types of tea in different ways you can prepare it and enjoy it But the job itself was hot wet garbage The district manager apparently was such a drunk that they had to take away her corporate card from her no tabs

[00:35:06] From the way she acted when she would be in the store It seemed like that was true. Oh, but um the chick that plays Roxy Richter. Yeah, Mae Whitman. She's from st. Louis

[00:35:18] Uh-huh or she has family here and there would be times like on a quiet like Friday morning I'd be sitting there with the fucking Sample cart fucking hate doing the samples Hey, you want to check out, you know

[00:35:32] Strawberry passion bum fuck. No, you can't drink the one that's been on the fucking tray for 20 minutes That would be gross you fucking heathen. Let me get you a fresh one. Oh no Yeah Okay, I have another one like

[00:35:45] You've already had three man like you can get a cup. It's like four bucks. Anyways But Mae Whitman she has family here and Every once in a while I would hear someone just go her because she played that character in a rest of development

[00:36:01] That's right. Oh god her yeah, I was like, oh I guess Mae Whitman's here That would drive me bananas were I her yeah That just cracked me up. Oh man egg

[00:36:14] I think it was the other nickname they had for on that show. I love that you immediately said Roxy Richter and not Roxy Richter and not I could name was on tip my tongue. I'm like, well, that's the other thing

[00:36:26] She's known for besides I think being on like the reboot of 9210 maybe or something. I can't remember What else she's done. She was on that show Parenthood for like five years. That was good. Okay good girls I think was one good girls. Yeah, okay

[00:36:39] That was a good one too. Actually these middle brow like middle of the road Kind of tv for everybody kind of shows. Yeah Because my wife's watching this is us when mandy moore the fuck you know the mandy moore isn't I don't know very strange

[00:36:54] She can act though. She's been a couple things. No mandy moore rules. I loved her and saved. Oh, yeah saves is great But man, I feel like we're really just walking around the fact that this our topic today is a little thin

[00:37:06] It's a little thin but what I do like about it And I mentioned this briefly before is that they include the videos of the walkthroughs That's always interesting to me because I think if just talking about it because I mean these guys do

[00:37:17] At length, you know, the casey dirx is one of the contributors wrote about crestwood plaza Some of the other contributors have gone through like northwest plaza was written by uh, jt august They've got contributors that write these really lengthy very descriptive things, but I don't think

[00:37:34] Unless you have the video You get the full effect because there really is something about Experiencing the walkthrough of these malls, you know what I mean? Like I could tell you where things were in northwest plaza by memory because I spent a lot of time there

[00:37:48] Oh man that fucking uh arcade. Oh tilt. Yeah tilt was a phenomenal arcade Yeah tilt was awesome spent a lot of time there as a kid a lot of movies I saw at that at that wehrenberg as well. I saw the weird robot She drove adventure movie

[00:38:04] Oh man, well speaking of robots that's where I convinced my mom to Buy tickets for my friend dan and I to see terminator 2 which was an r-rated movie for me when I was 13

[00:38:15] So it was like the first time I saw an r-rated movie in the theater. I'd seen him on hbo You know, but it was something very different to see terminator 2 opening weekend

[00:38:26] Because I just could not wait. I couldn't wait for home video. Who knows when that was going to come out It would be a year from now. I saw Jurassic park there

[00:38:34] Saw one the alien movies. I think it might have been aliens three probably was yeah. Oh, I saw spawn there Oh, but are the the film reel? Melted no 20 minutes in no And everyone's super bummed

[00:38:49] And they gave us vouchers and we just like hung around the mall until the next screening happened We're so stoked for spawn and I remember rewatching that movie a couple years ago because it was on hbo Go or something and being like this was never good

[00:39:03] I was just a child Yeah, it's got a few high points. The high point I will give it is john leguizamo as the violator Uh, and the other one is martin sheen. Everything else is just kind of okay. Yeah, sounds about right

[00:39:16] uh, and you know, it was just one of those things but yeah like Reading about the history of northwest plaza or reading about wentsville center even or wentsville crossings. Excuse me This was the mall in wentsville. I never went to this one

[00:39:28] Yeah, well, I mean it's a bit it's a bit a ways away, you know, some of these are you know, there's not a lot to them It's here's the history of it And that's it

[00:39:37] So it really does depend on where you're where you're looking back to missouri. Let's see st Louis center st. Louis center that was the mall downtown, correct? Correct. That was downtown That was actually a really fucking crazy mall. That was huge

[00:39:52] Several stories. Yeah, I mean there was uh, let's see here The only stores left in the mall in 2001 this according to uh, adam godfrey who wrote this Were walgreens gnc the general the general nutrition company the supplement store the supplement store

[00:40:09] Uh pay less shoes local restaurants that set up shop on the food court Wear chains like es barro chick-fil-a taco bell at mcdonald's had vacated and that walgreens had crazy security I don't know if you remember

[00:40:22] I do because downtown st. Louis. Yeah, so it was like it was like, uh Yeah, it wasn't really worth like even like going into because you just felt like you were being watched So that st. Louis center was where? My family would go

[00:40:38] To get the pictures with santa every year So we would go to st. Louis center and to uh to the famous bar One of my earliest memories is my mom And I on the car park on the the level

[00:40:52] On the top level so the sun was coming in and her adjusting the little bow tie. I was wearing however I i'm pretty sure it was like something like a mint suit. No she had me in

[00:41:03] And adjusting my bow tie before going taking foes with santa. I guess that was a pretty common experience for Those the fancy mall. It was the fancy mall for a very long time

[00:41:14] And I still have and speaking of the mint tie with the bow mint suit with the bow tie I've got one where it's myself my cousin kelly my cousin megan and we're all in matching blue and red sailor suits I gotta

[00:41:31] Find this and put this online during for when the show goes live. But yeah, just What a strange time to be a child but I should try and find some of the like children photos from I was young because

[00:41:42] Some of the stuff that my mom put me in she was like, yeah I found this little photo and I made a copy and print it on the photo printer and I put it in my cubicle and You know all my co-workers just go wow

[00:41:53] And i'm like, yeah because you made me dress like I was like a background extra in the john wires film You had to have the big lollipop. There's one of me in the backyard of my grandparents house in spanish lake

[00:42:08] By the attached garage and it was a tree That grew alongside the garage that uh Was something that my mom planted in high school And now the tree was like taller than the garage and all that was like a dogwood

[00:42:20] I want to say or something like that and i'm probably like three or four years old and i'm wearing a I want to say like puke green pants. No, no and like a shiny Like silver and black houndstooth. Oh, no blazer with like some other like

[00:42:39] Disgusting color dress shirt beneath it and like a disgusting color bow tie like I look like a background extra from crybaby, right? It looked like uh, um, I wanted to say jd vance but no

[00:42:53] It looked like a young tucker carlson, you know, like just just yeah like did you like me? Why were you doing this to me? Was this was this uh for my expense for your gain? It was a torture child. Yeah make him dress like shit

[00:43:08] If I thought I had a really awful kid like check it out, we're gonna get you some granules. Yeah We're going overalls. We're gonna do the whole gosh. Yes, gosh bitch And so something I wanted to talk about in relation to dead malls because again

[00:43:23] The dead malls thing is is is very thin on the ground as far as the website goes A couple guys had an interest in retail. They made a website about it and the website Is not nearly as up-to-date as we would hope

[00:43:36] But it did make me think of kind of a larger idea and this idea Is something that edge did run form against the show did talk about you know And I believe dan olson even has a video titled this which was the future is a dead mall

[00:43:50] This idea that the web Like sites like this is increasingly becoming much like these malls Dying and the things aren't getting updated. There's no sense that an individual website Is important enough to focus on

[00:44:06] Because now what we have and we've talked about this before I think is just a series of platforms Substance newsletters even sub stack or or whatever the beehive is the other one. Yeah, twitter facebook

[00:44:18] Whatever your social media, you know reddit even a platform not a website that you built out of care Out of some weird obligation to like tell people about dead balls or some weird obligation to tell people about This idea that you have about ninjas like this

[00:44:37] Something's missing from the modern web and I think your opinions about the birth rates in japan Whatever it is. Yeah, whatever niche interest you have No longer is it confined to?

[00:44:50] Go to my site and read all about it. I mean the time cube guy may be the only One who continues to update his site, but he's kind of gone off the deep end It's this idea that Instead of being siloed

[00:45:05] Into a place that something like portal of evil would discover or or the awful link of the day would discover and then put In front of some people Now it's just you're posting it on an account on another website

[00:45:17] I'm posting it to reddit in the our dead malls subreddit. You're posting it to your twitter account, which is like Mall underscore dead, you know, whatever. Yeah, you'll still build an audience. Sure, but it's a very different experience Because like you said this website is very much

[00:45:33] Web 1.0. I mean some of this stuff is is somewhat more modern, but it's still Very old school in its presentation. It's built for smaller monitors because you can see all the borders on the side there

[00:45:46] It's definitely built for these square crts not for the widescreen monitors of the present day It's made for ease of reading. It's got the black background with the white text classic stuff before that became an option

[00:45:58] Night mode like no no, this is how you make a website readable. Yeah, this was this was the way I do like going back through The press section of this website because it is in order from when they first started the site

[00:46:12] To the last piece of press they got which was This year was in february of 2024 And this one is the ct insider Many malls in the northeast are declining this connecticut man is documenting them. This is a standard video for tom grady

[00:46:30] The unassuming heartford man has made a hobby of documenting local malls on his youtube channel flea bitten adventures And this is the kind of thing that I was referring to when trying to walk through

[00:46:40] This guy is mentioned in the same breath as dead malls, but he's doing something on youtube He's doing something on another platform These websites are becoming dead malls talking about dead malls if you have a chance by the way do check out

[00:46:54] Grady's channel. It's called flea bitten adventures It really is fascinating because he does go through Here's crystal mall better than ever. I mean a little bit of the click baity titles, but you know, there's There's just some great stuff where he does the walkthrough of an arcade

[00:47:11] Here's what is 30 minutes right the half moon family fun center at weirs beach in laconia new hampshire Anyway, this is this is 30 minutes. I'm not good but uh, yeah, it's just an example. It's it's an example of kind of

[00:47:25] Instead of a personal website like this like dead malls someone is going out there And documenting things in a different way. So it's not so much that things aren't being Handled the same way. It's just that they're not on their own sites, I guess is

[00:47:43] i'm still kind of coming around to this this idea because This website is about as dead as some of these malls are the the facebook page that that That's attached to dead malls.com is much more active um

[00:47:56] Also was worth mentioning that you're talking about people doing video there was on youtube a long time For a long time a bunch of videos of a guy. I guess it was a security guard at jamestown mall when it was closed

[00:48:10] Like it was just like him riding a mountain bike through the mall, but like blasting music on like a boombox It was on the mountain bike. So it's like it's like him like fucking listening like zz top

[00:48:21] Hell, yeah, it's like cruising through the mall. I'm like that's where the uh, the fucking food court used to be and that's so that's where the fucking diamond store was and No, damn, you know fucking reeling in the ears and shit. It's just really surreal

[00:48:36] Yeah, almost like outsider art unintentionally. Um, but also There's a photographer. Uh, it goes by the name of seph lawless. Okay, s-e-p-h I believe lawless who has published a couple books. I believe on a carpet bombing culture, which is a british publishing house

[00:48:54] He's published like I said a couple books Specifically about dead malls and he's kind of been The foremost dead mall photographer at least for a couple years. I think he's kind of Chilled out. Yeah for a little bit because I think like security guards

[00:49:10] Are looking for him. Yeah, no, no joke Yeah Because like who's this guy with like a weird haircut with like the smoke show girlfriend like sneaking into a dead mall Outside like canton, ohio It can only be one guy

[00:49:23] Right. I did see I believe I have looked through the book black friday the collapse of the american shopping mall That was 2014 You can find a copy of that is that very skilled some really beautiful photos Some people say that like the work that he did

[00:49:40] Some of the foes he did were like inspirations for like the last of us like I think the video game and the show things like that Um, he's even photographed some stuff here in st. Louis. He photographed jamestown mall a few times a couple other places

[00:49:54] Yeah, very talented guy, but he's really chilled out over the last like couple years. I want to say since the pandemic All right. Well with the dead mall explored. I think it's time for Well something you might find in the basement of the dead mall

[00:50:08] Gross pictures gross pictures indeed. It is the shock.jp And now the moment you've all been waiting for shock.jpg So this one comes to us courtesy of the uh freak.org Someone's called skinny dipping it is a series of photos of very overweight people in a pool

[00:50:37] a nude And the header the header just says Yeah This reminds me of like these albino like wire frogs my mom had And so first we got them showing off their asses and then you've got uh, The pool net the skimmer is not gonna work on that

[00:50:59] The pool net is is not and then an attempted sex here What's really mystifying about this one is that it's just from it so it's under the somebody who's taking a photo in the water So you don't see the people's heads. So it's just these disembodied overweight people

[00:51:15] nude and it's just it's Off putting in a way that I I can't begin to explain but yeah, they're they're that's them Off putting isn't necessarily the subject matter. It's no how it's being documented Yeah, they've removed

[00:51:30] everything but the genitals and the the weight of these people and so it's just this kind of disembodied pieces of people Alien photography. It's just very straight unless of course you have this very close-up shot

[00:51:44] Of the beaver asshole and there's the fourth one and then uh, okay. Well, I guess that explains uh Uh And then at the bottom very tiny text good thing I don't have a dot mov of this now that's insulting

[00:51:59] It's it's it's funny because they're fat, right? Yeah exactly right according to the screamer wiki It was made in 2000 by quote an unknown creator. Well freak.org I would imagine they created it. Anyway It was taken around about 2014

[00:52:14] The comments though is what i've at the bottom of the sea sounds like a normal ass pool to me Yeah, and so like it's not really all that shocking. It's just overweight people in a pool being nude. What the hell yeah, it it's just

[00:52:28] it's fat phobia disguised as like Yeah, it's really weird more than like offensive like oh, yeah I mean and again, we're not talking about overweight like like i'm overweight I mean we're talking about people who are in excess of probably about 300 400 pounds go one of those hypnotists Yeah

[00:52:49] But at the same time something like this is just like yeah, they're overweight people and they're getting freaky in a pool What do you what? what is it I think I think again like I think the way is documented is like the issue because

[00:53:01] If this was photographed by someone that didn't it didn't feel like it was To meet their fetish or something like that. Mm-hmm. Like it was like a fine arts photographer doing this Like it probably just be like that's really interesting but just the

[00:53:16] Underwired the no heads the way everything's posed and and framed It definitely feels like um, like a guy that's now allowed to like go like go to that store anymore He's been banned from the golden corral. Yeah, he's been banned for the golden corral of reasons the um

[00:53:38] What's what's the what's the infamous uh thing banned for calling god gay Is that a something awful man? It was it did come from something awful. It was When there was a a rarely sanctioned forums invasion And it was like a really weird ultra right wing

[00:53:56] Like christian forum. Yeah, and someone posted their ban page or their band pop-up It was like reason for ban like calling god gay Okay, that expires never yeah Yeah Yeah Well, I mean something awful bands are always fun to kind of

[00:54:17] Look up. I always look up people's rap sheets when I meet somebody that I find out it's a goon and like oh Okay, what have you been banned for?

[00:54:24] Last thing I got banned for by the way before anyone tries to look me up. I talked for bernie in 2020 So that was the last time I got banned. I think I got banned like 2009 or 2010 And re-reged a fresh account Logged into it twice

[00:54:44] Forgot the email. Oh, no user name. Oh, no I don't think i've actually been logged in to the forum since like 2010 which feels weird Yeah, how much time I spent my life from? 2003 to like 2010 on those forums and then like twitter became big and like

[00:55:04] Everyone else funny went over there and got their internet fun box I only wish they did some of them did but not not to the extent that I Had hoped I still think when drill had a show on adult swim was kind of the yeah

[00:55:20] What's the apex of that? But uh, no i'm still on there. The only time I got banned was uh, toxin for bernie I got banned all the time. Yeah. Oh an idiot king contest Idiot kings are the uh moderators of the fiyad sub form. Yes and

[00:55:37] Every friday, there would be idiot king contest And I still had dial up One of the things Things was is that so it had to be a thing like you either had like create something or you had to i'm thinking

[00:55:50] Of an like put like this a little something more creative than this But like i'm thinking of a number between one hundred. Okay So one of the things that could get you banned or probated was trolling the idiot king contest thread

[00:56:03] And the other thing that gets you banned and probated was posting the same thing as someone else. Oh So I got banned Because it was spocker jones the guy who wrote the really weird thing about

[00:56:15] Cats getting declawed. No. Yeah, okay, which he's right. It's wrong to the claw cat That movement has been gaining traction in the united states. We're slowly phasing that out as a nation But that was like his claim to fame for a while

[00:56:29] Was writing this really weird off-putting front page article like that wasn't really funny Yeah, it was just advocating for his cause. Yeah, but he posted one. I was like what's simpson? I'm thinking of a simpsons character

[00:56:41] And it was fucking hans moleman and I posted the hans moleman and literally like 15 seconds before me Someone else posted hans moleman. Oh, they got to become idiot king and I got to become banned

[00:56:52] And I didn't post an idiot king threads after that. Yeah, probably a smart move That's I think the most notable ban it's too much work being an ik. It's too much work Yeah, but you know post cock. Yeah true and uh edit people's posts

[00:57:08] That's fair you get the mod buttons, which is nice. Well, uh, I guess it's time for the breath mint It's time for your mom's favorite part of the show. It's time for the breath mint Well this week brian I really only have one thing on my mind

[00:57:24] Well to quote revolting cocks I got two things on the mind first thing's nothing second's womankind But for this I only have one thing on the mind and that's stellar blade The video game that made everyone lose their fucking minds earlier this year

[00:57:38] And people are being really weird and horny about that game And on the other side they were being like well, why do you only want to jack off to video game characters? It's like well, I don't know first of all, I spent 500 bucks on his video card

[00:57:54] Yeah, I spent 500 bucks on this ps5 i'm gonna get some use out of it So I found this at a local library. I was just kind of cruising around i've been Slowly making my way through like a dragon infinite wealth

[00:58:07] But I saw this and I said, well, okay, this looks like one I can rent for a week Knock out You know a couple 20 hours or so seems like a near automata Devil may cry type of game

[00:58:21] And I was pretty much right it's very much got those things it's got a banger of a soundtrack though I don't know if you've heard any of this music from stellar blade, but the soundtrack is a bop Again very much like near automata. I see

[00:58:36] I go between automata and automata. I cannot figure out how to actually say the name of the game But the near game the the sexy robot game and it's very much Plot wise very similar to near automata as well almost beat for beat, which is weird

[00:58:55] Like sexy robot ladies are beating up aliens on behalf of humanity and like this is really familiar I don't know But shift up is doing their best with what they got Visually, it definitely takes advantage of The ps5 hardware looks gorgeous

[00:59:15] Booba and all but what's interesting about that is that the cosmetic stuff all the different suits and all the different That's purely optional. You can do that if you want And if you don't you don't and I think yeah, yahtzee crowshaw did put it best. He's like, yeah

[00:59:29] It's for people who want near automata, but also want to play dress-up dollies And he's not wrong because there's definitely I mean there's a whole side quest about finding the guy's stuff so he can cut your hair So you can get new haircuts

[00:59:42] Stuff that matters not at all To you, you're right to the game play at all. I don't know. It's interesting. It's got a PlayStation 3 charm. It's just sure it's an action platforming Explorathon you're collecting stuff here. I mean, it's very old school in its mentality

[01:00:01] Hopefully it doesn't have nearly as many endings as near automata, but it's it's just an enjoyable ride I think people got a little overblown about a lot of stuff in this game

[01:00:12] Because you see that because there's really not much to it they keep trying to do this thing where oh, you know You're you're sent to earth for all these secret reasons You go to a place you get a thing you do a thing and it's fine

[01:00:25] It's doing the job. It's fun. It's fine. The moment to moment combat is really where it shines though Because it's that I mentioned devil may cry. It's got a lot of that action platforming thing happening

[01:00:40] You're not switching weapons so much, but you're doing perfect dodges perfect blocks perfect parries You know you're hitting the the special abilities and so there's optional bosses that are like buried beneath the earth

[01:00:51] You got to seek out some of this extra content because if you just play the main path of the game You can knock that out pretty darn quick But if you go exploring and start looking for all the different quests and all that

[01:01:02] You're gonna have a good old time and there's some really emotional stories in there Which was surprising to me for a game with uh t physics. Yes, and let me tell you the titty physics is Distracting in a way that i'm like this i'm annoyed by it honestly

[01:01:19] Is it like playing dead or alive with the the age? Pretty much. Yeah, I mean it's there you're bouncing all over the place You really when you're playing the game when you're in the combat

[01:01:31] You're not noticing that as much because you're waiting for the prompt to block or you're doing the secaro parry thing or like So it wants to have its cake and eat it too, and I think for the most part it does

[01:01:42] Like it's got a little cheesecake for the people who want that It's got the action combat people who want that. It's got dress up dollies. It's got It's it tries to be a lot of different games at once

[01:01:54] And it mostly succeeds at being okay at all of them So i'm intrigued i'm going to keep playing it I kind of want to see how this ends obviously I kind of can see some of these plot points coming because

[01:02:05] I played near automata if you haven't played near automata and this was the one you played it might be like, whoa This is super cool But sadly, I've played the better version of this Um, but still I mean i'm still enjoying myself. So that's all that matters, right?

[01:02:19] Yeah, yeah, I think the last like don't make cry ish game. I played was Uh bayonetta that's the other one I was thinking of when I was playing this game because yeah, you are a tall sexy lady

[01:02:30] Right and it's all about combos and getting all the I thought bayonetta was so much fun Oh bayonetta is a blast. I think what I really liked about bayonetta Was that felt like a dreamcast game? Yes Okay I hadn't even thought about it that way. That's the charm

[01:02:47] I think of some of the sega games that do get made that aren't sonic fan service jerk-offs Some of them like, you know like a dragon. Yeah. Yeah, it's dna that goes back to shinmu. Oh, absolutely And shinmu

[01:03:01] For all of its weirdness is a really unique video game experience I didn't play shinmo 2 or 3 I don't think I ever want to or need to you really haven't missed much to be honest Yeah story wise especially for three. I played three and I just went okay

[01:03:18] I just did all this for to be told now. We'll finish the story later. Maybe that's why I heard was that This game took 20 years to come out Or almost 20 years to come out and it still ends on a bullshit cliffhanger

[01:03:32] Not great. Yeah, I can't get with that but shinmu was a really unique gaming experience and Bayonetta feels really weird and unique I never played two or three, but I heard they're good

[01:03:44] That's the only reason I still have my wii u around because I just haven't gotten around to playing two yet I've I've got to get in there. I got to do it

[01:03:51] But yeah sega has a interesting history now that they're not making consoles now that they're not they're just straight up publishing games You know, they got sonic great cash cow always it doesn't matter how good or bad they make a sonic game People are going to buy it

[01:04:06] but then they've also got Yakuza slash like a dragon and and that's another one where people will just straight up buy it no matter what and I'm one of those people Zero, oh was probably one of my favorite video game experiences i've had in years. It is

[01:04:23] Phenomenal and I think it's such a more focused Version of what all that came before In the context of a great story Good acting like great setting even the english dub Which has kind of been the weak spot of the yakuza games for zero was spot on

[01:04:41] I just did a japanese dub. Well, oh gee if you get a chance Just catch some youtube and look through english dub just some key moments You know, it's really surprising that they got a phenomenal cast and they did some great directing

[01:04:56] Boy an english dub can really make or break certain games because i've always played yakuza games with the japanese dub But then when I got to like a dragon when they switched protagonists, I was like, okay

[01:05:07] well, this is my chance to give the english dub a shot and So far so damn good like i've really been impressed even the they do the songs in english

[01:05:17] So dame dame they in the karaoke sections. They they have an english translation of that song and i've been a fool Oh, it's it's great As soon as I played Zero and kawami and kwami 2 I was in deep

[01:05:35] For yakuza games I got a couple hours in the kawami and I I just I think after playing zero Which was such a high quality experience That kwami 1 Just didn't hit the same because unfortunately it is stuck being a remake of the first game

[01:05:54] It's it's kind of that like yeah, we had to go back a little bit But overall just the story's good. Anyway, you can't get enough good things out of me about about like a dragon But sega has been

[01:06:07] They've got the offbeat shit. They've always got the offbeat weird shit They always had like space channel five or choo-choo rocket in the dreamcast days or power stone or like just set radio Just set radio. Yes, which they're apparently making a new one making a new crazy taxi

[01:06:20] Well, there's a crazy taxi mini game in like a dragon infinite wealth Really? It's not actually crazy taxi, but you're doing food delivery. So it's like crazy delivery It's like I know what you're doing sega. Thank you

[01:06:34] Amazing it's great. Yeah, only they gave us a new panzer dragoon. Yeah, they re-released Some on the switch though, so There's there's hope how about you brian what you've been up to this week so much So much I did photograph all access for the band kamino

[01:06:50] But i'm going to save that for the uh things I hate because that's that's a lot to talk about I got to catch. Um, everyone's weird shoegaze band that they love soft cult

[01:07:01] Ah, I get to catch them for the second time, uh monday evening, um at duck room and Yeah, they're still really fucking good now for those of you who are not in st. Louis the duck room is a blueberry hill

[01:07:15] It's a deep underground. There used to be cicero's back in the day. It's a big room It's like 200 people Well, I mean it looks big and but it's it's cabinous. It's dark. It's dank. It's deep

[01:07:27] It's under the ground and the sound bounces. It's it's so it sounds huge. We saw melt banana there That's very loud very loud very good. So seeing soft cult there. I'm sure was an experience

[01:07:38] I mean, it's the second time we've seen a soft cult there. The thing about the duck room is lying is really shit Yes, like not tough Shit It's like objectively bad. So that's like an issue. I have photographing there

[01:07:55] Um, but it's a fun room to see a show. It's intimate. It's a little weird because I think soft cult St. Louis is one of their smaller markets So they're playing like places as big as off broadway or closer to like red flag

[01:08:09] You know anywhere between a 400 and like 800 cap But they come to st. Louis and they play the basement which is whatever but just Again, like a really solid performance their new ep heaven is pretty good

[01:08:22] I still think see you in the dark is kind of an all-timer as far as uh shoegaze inspired music That's come out this decade. Have you listened so much in a soft cult? I can't say i'm as familiar No, yeah

[01:08:35] They just kind of like ran down like pretty much all of their like best Songs like they played a really great set list and some of the new stuff that's starting to grow on me um

[01:08:46] But the thing that kind of got me and it's probably going to be Something I touch upon when I write about it for the arts stl. It's just like near the end of the set

[01:08:57] Um, i'll give me a second. Let me get my names right here. Well sure I gotta use so The core of the band's two twin sisters from canada mercedes arnhorn who's vocalist guitarist and her twin sister phoenix who plays drums

[01:09:12] Then they have like a touring guitarist and a touring bass player whose names I forgot off top of my head But they're very very good musicians like all together is like a very tight four piece

[01:09:22] but near the end the set the the band has very much like a social justice like a anti-rape culture Slant to them, which is all fine. Good. Um, actually it's How they go about it is but

[01:09:36] Mercedes says this the last time they played st. Louis where it kind of just It kind of felt like I was listening to someone read off a tumblr post from like 2011 Also stuff like she's talking about, you know

[01:09:48] if you're here you're not just here because of music you're here because of like the message because of the ethics behind the music and You know you listen to this music and you talk about you share it You're also like sharing the revolution and it's like man

[01:10:00] I've been hearing this shit since I bought international noise conspiracy record at best buy In 2001 i've been hearing about this revolution shit For a minute and it's like okay like I didn't think you were so sincere

[01:10:13] I be rolling my eyes a lot harder than I am right now. Yeah It kind of struck me that like this is the best we've got for this kind of stuff is

[01:10:21] Is someone in a basement in st. Louis saying like, you know, fuck rape culture. Fuck, you know, shitty people She's speaking to a crowd, but she's really speaking to a crowd of individuals And it kind of goes back to the thing

[01:10:34] that pay smith says and being a hyper normalization the uh Am cursed documentary which he talks to I think maybe am cursed It's a kind of like a dialogue between both of them even though it's archival footage of patty smith and am cursed is

[01:10:50] weaving his own narrative, but it's basically that you know with The intellectual movements the countercultural movements of the 60s and their failure All we really had left Was a revolution of the self Yeah, collectively

[01:11:06] And that feels really disheartening. Yeah, this is still all we got is like she's like again Speaking to a crowd of individuals not a collective Right that you individual, you know can can do something about these societal ills and I just kind of had this

[01:11:23] Feeling the kind was eating me from the inside for the last couple days of just like well the spectacle the mediation of images detached from reality For the sake of propaganda or for sake of capital

[01:11:35] Like doesn't even it doesn't have anything aspirational to show us anymore. It's all sucks It's jd vance. It's donald trump. It's fucking You know, it's wesley bell It's the island boys. It's all garbage

[01:11:52] Yeah, we have ultimately picked the garbage disposal over true love every time and we don't even know that true love was on the menu No, it was a possibility and That just kind of has been bummed me out for a couple days just like oh there's just

[01:12:07] I see all this I go on youtube. I watch these videos about photography or whatever and it's not even Even when it's good, it's still kind of garbage I don't know if that makes sense like there's there's a loss there. Yeah, there's a spirit that's been

[01:12:24] Devastated that's been hollowed out hollowed out we can talk about art and we can talk about What it means to be good drawing or what it means to be good at? I don't know, you know sewing or creating cool costumes

[01:12:38] But like the ice caps are still melting like there's no nothing ever comes from it There's no hope where this is going. It's going to end in 34 years

[01:12:48] Anyways, I don't mean to be like an incredibly like huge bummer here, but like this is like well, this is neat Like we can look 100 years back at something or 200 years back at something something either like creative or something

[01:13:01] You know a political movement or thought or whatever like just a thing we can look 100 years back But we'll but from this point will we be able to look 800 years forward?

[01:13:12] Fuck man. I don't know shit. Yeah, again, i'm not i'm but like, I mean, I don't think so But again, we'll both be dead by then so oh fuck. No, we'll have to be working in the amazon warehouse

[01:13:24] Peter Thiel is gonna have uh hooked us up with the immortality gene But only because we got to pay it off at his best friend's because I bought a funko pop 2000 interest And I missed the first payment. So I really got raked over. Yep

[01:13:41] indentured service, who I really had to have the scrappy do funko pop I wanted the scrappy do found dead in Miami funko pop, but they didn't they were out So yeah, that's that's the supposed to been kind of ruminating in my little noggin

[01:13:55] All right. Well, let's uh, tell people where to find this online for now that like i've convinced you all to um Put sleeping pills in your children's food Tell us how you did it find us

[01:14:11] Brian work and they find you on they can find me on online at uh, i shock edy bor on twitter I finally i'm finally off. Uh Private so I could say really important things like pig poop balls. Hell. Yeah, and uh

[01:14:24] Just like old good old days on instagram. You can find me a music photographer If you want to check out my photography portfolio, it's uh, asshole music photographer.com We want to check out some foes and words that's over at a a music photographer.com

[01:14:41] We want to check out the last and only good media website in st Louis you head over to the arts stl.com. What do they got for us this week? Uh, this week's a little dry

[01:14:51] I am some weeks are a little quick some weeks some weeks are a little fast. Some weeks are a little slow But as far as like music stuff, there's a laura jurel Uh has a nice little foe gallery of the heart in the head and

[01:15:05] Phosphorescent over at st. Louis music park from a couple days ago. Nice looks like we're uh, my cheesy foes are up. Yay Hopefully by the time this episode goes out i'll at least have the

[01:15:18] Soft cult stuff up excellent. Those are all just gonna be black and white because the language was rough, but tomorrow night I am indeed photographing The magical magnificent vampire weekend if I can find my fucking boat and shoes

[01:15:33] I I feel like when I hear a punk, I know it feels like my activation code Like I like i'm supposed to go on the roof of like a sod company in Pennsylvania with a 22

[01:15:44] Uh, my favorite thing about a punk, uh is that maybe a year or two ago juror out of Florida there Who is uh also known as the the scotty network teamed up with jeff rosentalk to do a cover of it

[01:15:59] And that's like okay. This is I haven't heard it. Maybe I won't hate it So i've got that going on tomorrow night friday night. I might go out and see be your own pet still

[01:16:08] I ran I ran to a man about town music scene jim utz at soft cult And he was like he was also like I might think I want to go see be your own pet like we may it may never

[01:16:18] Happen again. Yeah. Yeah, that would be the time. No, it didn't happen 15 years ago Right probably won't happen 15 years from now and then next week. I've got orville peck. Oh fantastic and uh fish oh Yeah, I mean, I don't know i'm intrigued

[01:16:36] I kind of want to see what what you write about as a sober person at a fish Yeah Show yeah exactly. That's what i'm saying Uh, and hopefully i'm trying to i'm trying to get press credentials for metro booming at the pageant. Oh sick

[01:16:52] That'd be really cool. Uh, apparently there's gonna be some big guests at that show I can't really kiss and tell on that But uh, but that's word on the street the world on the street is gonna be fucking nuts

[01:17:02] Which is why it has a hundred dollar fucking general mission tag I asked I asked uh, one of my boys too rich for me, baby I asked one of my boys at the pageant if that was the most expensive ga ticket they ever did and he said

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