Why Shopping Isn’t Fun Anymore

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Twitty in the City. [00:00:04] Speaker B: Aloha. [00:00:05] Speaker A: Let's do it in that order. Want to hit grocery retail outlet? [00:00:09] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. [00:00:09] Speaker A: All right. [00:00:10] Speaker B: You guys are good. [00:00:10] Speaker A: Roberto, if you could hear that. We just strategize. Mother. [00:00:15] Speaker B: And that's how we start. [00:00:17] Speaker A: Welcome. [00:00:18] Speaker B: Welcome to Twitty in the City. That's how we do this. [00:00:20] Speaker A: We got. Man, one of these days, I don't know if they're going to do it. They got to just do a natural B roll of how we expect. [00:00:27] Speaker B: That's why I just started, because I want them to keep that. [00:00:30] Speaker A: It's Twitty in the City, man. I'm Twitty S THC the Hawaiian comedian. We're going for the 15k dog of subscribers so we can get you the twin and the city merch. I just saw some of them. We're probably gonna go with black, but get in the comments if you would like the merch to be in black, white, gray, or random color. Like we saw like a baby blue, teal or something like that. I don't know. But like, you're getting a long sleeve, a short sleeve, a hoodie, a hat, and I don't know. I said koozie. There'll be something else in there, but [00:01:01] Speaker B: throw in the colors. What colors you want to see them in? Yeah. White, black, gray. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Speaking of colors and apparel, I know you're gonna agree with me on this. [00:01:10] Speaker B: What's that? [00:01:11] Speaker A: I think shopping is all about lazy business now. A hundred percent lazy business. 100. I'm explaining. I'll let you know what I mean by that. Going back when you went out to any store. Grocery store, apartment store. Yeah. Outlet. Yes. You got dressed. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:33] Speaker A: It was an event. Yes, 100% to me. I'm gonna start with the grocery store. The grocery store to me was like going to a carnival. Because I'm thinking about when I went to the grocery store. You know, I was a Walmart kid on the East Coast. We were. We had food line and farm freight, like the Krogers in the Safeway of the worlds. It all started with mom getting the shopping cart and deciding where I'm sitting in that thing. Because you had the bottom rack. [00:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:01] Speaker A: You had the actual seat, but your boy wanted to be in with the groceries. I wanted to be that kid that if you went past my mom's shopping cart, all you saw was the head of a kid and you thought she bought that off of the aisle. [00:02:13] Speaker B: And when you say you want to be what you never was. [00:02:16] Speaker A: No, I. [00:02:17] Speaker B: Cause you said I wanted to be that kid. So I'm like, whoa, you never was that kid. [00:02:21] Speaker A: I was that kid. Okay, okay. I'm just saying I had. As an only child, it's like being [00:02:25] Speaker B: in a ball pit. Yeah, yeah. [00:02:27] Speaker A: As an only child, I had the options. I always wanted that one option. Cuz my mom would be like, get in the cart. And it's like, I'm always going to be in with the food. [00:02:34] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:02:34] Speaker A: I want to have my Swiss cake rolls over there by my neck. [00:02:36] Speaker B: My, my mom used to arrange myself in the cart so that I wouldn't be smashing anything that she put in there. [00:02:43] Speaker A: Oh, there were certain valuables you couldn't. Oh yeah. That's why really, I think all parents back then wanted the kids in the big area. Because the seat was for the fragile stuff. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Correct, Correct, correct. That's where you put your eggs, the bread and stuff like that stuff that was going to break had to go in the car, in the little car [00:02:58] Speaker A: seat thing where the, the cereal, my six pack of Kool Aid Jammers, all that stuff that was very intangible, that wouldn't break. It was in with me. [00:03:06] Speaker B: We used to have those, those shopping carts that had two bottom seats. So you had the bottom rack that was flat and then it had this little like step thing. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Oh. [00:03:15] Speaker B: And that's what kept like the soda. You could put like the soda there without having to take the bottom rack. [00:03:20] Speaker A: So. [00:03:20] Speaker B: But for me, I used to be able to climb underneath and sit like that with my head all the way [00:03:24] Speaker A: down the most uncomfortable position. But for some reason, as a kid, you thought, that kid's got it going on. Yeah, I was the kid. This is how so much I knew my mom's routine. I used to sometimes act like I was in a spaceship and was in that bottom rack. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Laying on your stomach. Yes. [00:03:41] Speaker A: Head first, barely out of, out of the way of the cart. So if my mom would have ran into something, it would have been my head first. [00:03:48] Speaker B: You know, that's the first time, every time I have. The first time I ever rode on a shopping cart, laying down like that, that was the first time I ever found myself going, damn, this store is dirty. Because you guys, you have to see everything under the shelves. You like. Man, how long have we been shopping here, Mom? [00:04:05] Speaker A: Exposure. [00:04:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And you scared to put your hand down. You don't want to. [00:04:08] Speaker A: Oh, you don't want to touch nothing. You don't want to get your hands [00:04:10] Speaker B: stuck under one of the wheels. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Oh, no. But yeah, my mom always, we would always get the sodas and the waters at the end before we went to checkout. So I knew I had that first, like, 10 minutes to be underneath there, and then I was set. But then once the stuff came, I had to get out of there because I wasn't going to fit. [00:04:27] Speaker B: That's when you walk around the store mad. Now you're like, now I got to. Now I got to walk and I do this and you look at the soda and everything underneath that, you get mad at it. Trick you. [00:04:35] Speaker A: Well, because it was petty, too. It wasn't petty, but it made sense. Once you got out the car, there was no returning. [00:04:40] Speaker B: There's no returning. [00:04:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:41] Speaker B: Once you got out, the ride was over. [00:04:43] Speaker A: So then you had to pick and choose that, like, when am I going to get out this cart? [00:04:47] Speaker B: And it's. And it's funny because, like, when you say it was like an amusement park ride, like when you. It's funny because, like, when you show up to the store, there was like a line. You were behind people to pull out the shopping carts, and the shopping cart sounded like like roller coaster cars going in. It was like [00:05:05] Speaker A: family. It was. You got your cart, everybody in there. Because we're not doing this when we shopping. No, because once we are in. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Yep. [00:05:13] Speaker A: This is parent. [00:05:13] Speaker B: And if you walking on the side, you hooking on to the side, you [00:05:16] Speaker A: better grab that handheld. Gosh. I hated being on the outside. I hated it with a passion, but it was a way of life. When you went to the store, it also was. I was dressed to the nine. Like, I would come from outside and it was, go shower. We're going to the grocery store. Yep. It wasn't this. I came from outside. You know what? You're dirty. Anyway, we're just gonna go to the store. I had to be. I had it like I was going to school. Basically. They go to any store, grocery department, or the outlets. [00:05:45] Speaker B: I went with my mom one time. I was playing outside. Went with my mom to the store one time and I was so dirty from playing outside. Then my mom. That's how we started getting left in the car in the parking lot. [00:05:55] Speaker A: Because you were so dirty. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Because she's like, you're not going in the store with me like that, but you're gonna help me with groceries when I bring them out here to load them in the car. Yeah, we got left in the car. I don't like today, like, sometimes I be seeing people that'd be like, I can't believe they left the kids in the car. I'm like, you know, when I grew Up. We always got left in the car. And somebody asked me, like, my kids would ask me, like, dad, you got left in the car, like. But it didn't get too hot. [00:06:17] Speaker A: No, it's. [00:06:17] Speaker B: If it got too hot, we got out of the car. Are we gonna get in trouble? Of course we are, but we ain't gonna burn up inside the car. [00:06:25] Speaker A: But there was something about you. There was something about. There was a standard of going shopping. [00:06:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:31] Speaker A: There was only one time I can recall going to the store dirty, but I had my sports stuff on. That was the only way I felt like you was allowed in a store dirty is if the kid came from, like a. [00:06:44] Speaker B: From a game. [00:06:45] Speaker A: From a game. [00:06:45] Speaker B: From a game. Yeah. Yeah. [00:06:47] Speaker A: But it was also like we were in. I didn't have this, like, you get to sit and it's like, no, you're outside the car, you're going to hold your hand here. Especially not getting nothing extra. [00:06:55] Speaker B: Especially when you walk in the store and it's got that ceramic thing and you walking through with cleats. Yes. [00:07:03] Speaker A: It's like, what horse is in there? [00:07:05] Speaker B: Yeah. You can't get no traction. Yeah. [00:07:06] Speaker A: And you're walking fast because mom's like, it's in and out. It was like disappointment to have a dirty kid. [00:07:11] Speaker B: But you. You right, though. Yeah. Yeah. If I was dirty. If I was. I got left in the car. My mom be like, you just wait right here till I get back. [00:07:16] Speaker A: Yeah. So the grocery store, I call that my amusement park. My department store. A legit mall that was almost like my Disney World. When I got to the age where I could kind of go one or two stores over from where mom was at. [00:07:35] Speaker B: Yep. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Oh, escalator. [00:07:39] Speaker B: Or just that little area that you can stand outside the store lobby area and catch everybody walking in. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Or the. I don't know what she called it. The play area, I guess. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:47] Speaker A: But it had. It had everything. It had the little slide for the. For the little kids. Then they had the monkey bars for [00:07:52] Speaker B: the bed seats for people to sit down. [00:07:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Sometimes mom would say, go sit out there. As I go into. My mom, she loved Bath and Body Works. [00:07:59] Speaker B: If that was the mall, those were the meeting spots. Be like, look like if my mom let me and my friends go, she was like, hey, you guys can go. But at 12 o', clock, meet me back at the dinosaur or meet me back over here. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Food court was always the meetup. [00:08:15] Speaker B: We didn't have no. We didn't have no cell phones. We didn't have cell phones. We didn't have no way to text message. We had to have a. We had to go by a clock. That was our. Our. That was our whole thing. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Yeah. I feel like there was two spots. It was either the play. The play area or the food court. [00:08:27] Speaker B: Y. [00:08:27] Speaker A: It was always food court. And it was a certain spot in the food court. You know, those fake ass plants. Y. I feel like you always had to meet at a certain plant in the food court. [00:08:37] Speaker B: That's why they put those fake ass plants in there. They put the fake ass plants in the food court so that we could make arrangements to meet at these. Yeah, these fake ass plants. That was happening. [00:08:47] Speaker A: It was like, meet me about it. Meet me at the plant by the chick Fil A. Okay. Then you get filet plant. [00:08:52] Speaker B: Then you get the one where there's, like, two plants. And then you get in trouble because [00:08:55] Speaker A: he's like, you got so wrong. [00:08:57] Speaker B: I said this plant. What do you say? You didn't say this plant. [00:09:00] Speaker A: I hate it when my mom would say, meet me on the plant on the right. And I'm like, but is she talking, like, when I'm facing the plant or if I turn and be the plant, am I on the right? [00:09:08] Speaker B: You. Yeah, you right, though. Like, going shopping back in the day, man, that was an event. Like, I mean, like, walking into, like, you know, like a. Like a Kmart or someplace like that that just smelled like popcorn the minute you walked in. Like, it wasn't none of this, you know, you didn't have people sitting there going, oh, if you ain't buying nothing, get out. Like nowadays, that's what you hear when you go in the stores. You hear to buy, get out. Yeah. Kmart didn't care if you bought nothing. You walk around with a thing of popcorn or if your mom bought you some popcorn, if you got even a popcorn wouldn't. I didn't really consider that. Like, you know, I mean, you could. You could find change in your ashtray and get popcorn at Kmart. [00:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah, like, but it was free. [00:09:39] Speaker B: It was. Yeah, it was. [00:09:40] Speaker A: And it was self serve. Right. [00:09:42] Speaker B: And once you got it and you walked around like, they didn't bug you to buy nothing. This was an experience. Shopping wasn't. [00:09:48] Speaker A: It was. [00:09:49] Speaker B: Going to stores was an experience. That's why everybody dressed up to go. We always. Were you going to Sears? Like, I mean, I know. I know some people watch that Brady Bunch movie. And I know. And I know in that Brady Bunch movie, the guy, oh, put on your Sunday best. We're going to Sears. When they said that And I. And I heard my kids laugh. I looked at my kids like, I don't know why y' all think that shit is funny. That. [00:10:10] Speaker A: That was what it was. [00:10:12] Speaker B: That's real. Like, that's. [00:10:13] Speaker A: That's what it was. [00:10:14] Speaker B: You better get on your best clothes [00:10:16] Speaker A: or you're gonna be left at home or in the car. [00:10:18] Speaker B: No Gen X. Or laugh when they heard that. Everybody looked like every Gen X. I looked and said, I don't. I don't know what's funny. [00:10:24] Speaker A: You better go pack. That's a rule. You better go get the best and it better not be nothing. That was already in the hamper. [00:10:29] Speaker B: And then it. And then it got worse because, like, we was already dressing up to go to Sears. Now. Now they start adding in Tarjay and [00:10:36] Speaker A: they start adding in all this. [00:10:37] Speaker B: Now we're like, now we really gotta get dressed up to go anywhere. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Did your parents do that? They would be certain. Like, you always had your certain going out shopping, but you knew your parent was gonna go to that one store when they were like, no, I need you to put something else on. It's like, it's like, oh, are we going over there? [00:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Yep. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Cause I usually can rock these jeans in this button up. That's my FUBU one. And with my nice case with. But I can't do that today. [00:11:03] Speaker B: I used to do that. [00:11:03] Speaker A: Okay, got it. [00:11:04] Speaker B: I know that with pictures. Pictures was like that. Like, if we were just going to get regular pictures, whatever. I can have my regular little, you know, my little thing, my little button up thing. But if I, if I had to get a collar with the, with the tide, I'm like, oh, yeah, we going to Olden Mills, right? Oh, we going to Olden Mills. So as we go into this picture, got to look, right. [00:11:22] Speaker A: I don't even know how to explain this one. Just. It was just a different animal. The outlets. Oh, this was a different beast, though. That was like the mall. But you had outs. But it was outside. Okay, okay, it was outside, bro. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Yeah. But this, this was the thing about the outlets. Okay. This is the thing about that. [00:11:39] Speaker A: That was a different monster, bro. [00:11:41] Speaker B: I'm gonna tell you something. Remember, all right, we did an episode a while ago where we was talking about how you could tell if you bougie or not. She was bougie. You was bougie. That's how you could tell you was bougie. Because they actually, like, people would. Would use it as a status thing. You know what I'm saying? Like, I could come home, I Could come home, right? And I'd be like, yeah, my mama bought me some new Nikes. Where your mama get them from? Oh, she got them from foot locker. Okay. You got them from foot locker. Cool. That's the thing. Then you had that one person coming. Yeah, I got some Nikes. Where'd you get yours from? From the Nike store at the outlets. Because it was a flex. [00:12:19] Speaker A: It was a flow. [00:12:20] Speaker B: It was like, I got it from the Nike outlet store or the Adidas out. I went like. Like, they. Like, they made it sound like they went straight to the manufacturer. Like they were sitting. They did a tour at Nike. They buy at the end of it. [00:12:35] Speaker A: You said that to a T$. That's how they like that. [00:12:39] Speaker B: They make me feel bad because I saved 30% at Foot Locker. I got mine from the Nike store at the Nike outlet store. Then they'd walk in with that little Nike bag and all that. This is from the outlet store, bro. [00:12:55] Speaker A: It was the flex, though. [00:12:57] Speaker B: It was a huge. [00:12:57] Speaker A: It was a flex, bro said. And you always had to put that, too, at the end. At the outlet store. [00:13:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:13:04] Speaker A: I don't know what it was. You could just say outlet. It had to be another outlet store. [00:13:08] Speaker B: 100%. [00:13:11] Speaker A: That throw me crazy. Yeah, my mom would say that sometimes. Like, where'd you go today, girl? Oh, you know, we went to the outlet store, and I got this from Burlington coat factory at the outlet store. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Now, my auntie. Yeah, my auntie. Yeah, My cousin. My cousin Gary's. My cousin Gary's mom. Now, she could go to the outlet store, and she could find every single discount coupon, whatever. [00:13:34] Speaker A: Oh, everybody had. [00:13:35] Speaker B: When she left the outlet store, it was different. She came back from the outlet store. Like, I got this for $10. You need to go back down there because you can only do one. One per customer. [00:13:45] Speaker A: The outlet store was like, if you found the deal, you had to tell everybody. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Everybody. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Because it was gonna be gone by that weekend. [00:13:52] Speaker B: Yes. [00:13:53] Speaker A: Did you also find yourself, too? You only went to the outlet Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? [00:13:58] Speaker B: Cause that's the only time. That's the only time. [00:14:00] Speaker A: You never rode in on a random Tuesday. [00:14:02] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:14:03] Speaker A: You didn't get picked up from school. And it's like, we're gonna go to the store. Where are we going? We're going to the outlets. [00:14:07] Speaker B: Outlets. [00:14:07] Speaker A: No, that was a weekend. That was a Friday. That was a weekend thing. [00:14:09] Speaker B: Weekend thing. [00:14:10] Speaker A: That was exclusivity. I feel like our parents kind of had to, like, prep themselves to go there. [00:14:14] Speaker B: Unless you spoil. There's Somebody out there that's gonna be like, what are you talking about? We went to the outlet. [00:14:21] Speaker A: I feel like if you did, even the bougie people would be like, that was doing. [00:14:23] Speaker B: Nah, man. I knew bougie people that was just going there to buy shoelaces. [00:14:27] Speaker A: That's doing too much. [00:14:28] Speaker B: That's. [00:14:28] Speaker A: That. [00:14:28] Speaker B: That's. I'm just saying there was a flex. [00:14:30] Speaker A: That's just. That's a few ways. [00:14:32] Speaker B: Because they was like, well, I just wanted the official Nike shoelaces for my Nike shoes that I bought at the Nike outlet store. [00:14:40] Speaker A: Toad is so crazy. [00:14:42] Speaker B: That's what I did. [00:14:43] Speaker A: How they said it. [00:14:44] Speaker B: That's what I bought it at the Nike. The Nike outlet store. [00:14:47] Speaker A: But it was crazy, though, because for me, I'm sure you on the coast, you had just like a Nike store or Adidas Adidas store. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:58] Speaker A: But if it wasn't the Adidas store. If you didn't hear the words at the outlet. [00:15:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:03] Speaker A: The regular Adidas store was way different than the Adidas at the outlet store. [00:15:07] Speaker B: The Adidas store that was. That had its building in the parking lot of the mall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that way. Yeah. They getting that again, like, people that went to the outlets would actually make fun of the people that went to the Adidas store in the parking lot of the mall. [00:15:21] Speaker A: Downgrade. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Yeah. It was like, why are you going there? You don't have to go there. You can go to that Adidas outlet store. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Always that. The outlets, bro. But you. You did go there. You're outside. And then they didn't have a food court. But it was just. It was food on, like, every corner. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Every corner. [00:15:40] Speaker A: So it was almost like as a kid, I knew I had certain options. [00:15:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:44] Speaker A: So it's like, okay, my mom's gonna go here. Oh, there's the. [00:15:47] Speaker B: But you had to leave the parking lot to go eat. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Yes. [00:15:50] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. Why? Because they didn't want all that traffic in there. I never understood that they want all that traffic in there. I did. I used to be a security guard. I used to be a security guard. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Really? [00:15:59] Speaker B: Mall and I used to be a [00:15:59] Speaker A: security guard for traffic. [00:16:01] Speaker B: It was for traffic. It was the only makes to make sure that the traffic that was there were for the shoppers. [00:16:06] Speaker A: That is true. Because you didn't see. Not near bench outside. No. Unless it was outskirts of. Because I saw grandparents. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Anything that anybody was eating or drinking, they brought with them. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Yes. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Outlet store. [00:16:18] Speaker A: I even remember. I remember my grandparents come in one time, and we still had some ways to go and they were like, I'm gonna sit right here. And they were, like, miles away. It was like, if you're not walking and buying. Yeah. Sit outside the outlet store. Yeah. Like, this isn't nowhere to just sit and look. [00:16:33] Speaker B: That's kind of like how they do it here in Idaho, in the Village out in Meridian. Same thing. You grab something to eat, you walk around, be out there. [00:16:39] Speaker A: It's just like the outlets bro said at the outlet store. And they would flex it. They would flex it was, though. He had the bag and everything, and it's like, oh, this Nikes, you know? [00:16:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:49] Speaker A: The new Jays that MJ just came out with a month ago. Yeah. Mom took me to the Nike store, and it's like, oh, okay. At the outlet store. [00:16:55] Speaker B: The outlet store. Yeah. [00:16:57] Speaker A: That was a flex, man. You said that, dog. I am. I can't get over that. [00:17:02] Speaker B: Why? [00:17:02] Speaker A: Because I had so many people that I heard that, and I never thought to myself like, that that was status, you know? [00:17:08] Speaker B: But, you know, every time I'm telling the folks out there right now, if you one of those people that used to always have to emphasize that that's where I got it from, I'm gonna tell you. There was probably a couple of people like myself that the minute you emphasize that I wanted to take your bag. Oh, I wanted to take your bag and run with it. Or guarantee you that was. I'm not the only one. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Or I was this person. That same person would say they got them, but was wearing them and thought about scuffing them up. Thought about just a little stuff on the top of the shoe. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Yep. [00:17:40] Speaker A: Put a little. Put a little black mark on it. I thought of that a couple of times. Oh, yeah. I ain't gonna get over that phrase. I'm gonna go home and ask my wife. [00:17:49] Speaker B: No, you're not. Because when you ask her, she gonna be coming back from the outlet store. She gonna be like, why are you making fun of me? Because you just came back from the outlet store. [00:17:59] Speaker A: That producer, Sean, we gotta get that. That's gotta be like, a new tagline or something. It's got to go somewhere that that line. So many people are probably in the comments, like, there was that one friend, or I always thought, why he said it like that. [00:18:12] Speaker B: Yeah, because they flexing. [00:18:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's it. But I don't know. I say all that because now there's just. There's no effort to even go, no, and I'm guilty of it. I'll cut grass and immediately be all grassed up. Throw some Slides on and go shopping. Yeah, I won't shower. Not even put on a different pair of pants. Nothing. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Okay, but does that, is it just because you know where you going? Like if, if you, if you, if I told you, if I told you, if I said, hey, listen, you cutting the grass right now, right? And I said, hey, I gotta go to Shields real quick. [00:18:46] Speaker A: No, I'll go, I'll shower you, you [00:18:47] Speaker B: go, you go clean up. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Yes, I will clean up. [00:18:50] Speaker B: But if I came to you and I said, hey, I got, I gotta run over to Target real quick or I gotta run over to Walmart real quick, you're gonna be like, yeah, I just put on my slides and let's go. [00:18:57] Speaker A: Yeah, because I don't know why saying real quick is a. I don't. You, you don't got time to shower. But if it's like, hey, in a couple minutes I'm going to go to shield that say, like, I got time to at least maybe not do a full wash down, but I at least get the grass off me. [00:19:12] Speaker B: Yeah, but, and, but you still, it's okay though. Like, you can, you can dust off and walk into Walmart be and feel great and Walmart's the still that. And I feel like that's the store that killed Kmart. Like I, I feel like that's the one that took K out. Yeah, I do. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Because. [00:19:25] Speaker B: And I think I know why. I think I know why. [00:19:27] Speaker A: Oh, here we go. [00:19:29] Speaker B: I do. I think I know why Walmart knocked it out. [00:19:31] Speaker A: Because by the way, if you think you know too, or if you agree [00:19:34] Speaker B: with T, Walmart still had the same low prices, had same. Had low prices. Kind of like Kmart. But Kmart had lower. [00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah, always. [00:19:41] Speaker B: But Walmart had name brand stuff. [00:19:45] Speaker A: So the K. And I want you [00:19:50] Speaker B: to think about the electronic department of Kmart compared to the electronic department in, in at Walmart. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you're right. There was that. [00:20:01] Speaker B: I mean, they had some stuff in Kmart that you was like, who the hell is. [00:20:05] Speaker A: Yeah, who is, who is Boar Star? [00:20:09] Speaker B: It's a Boar Star TV who is born. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Or if it was like Sony, it was beat up. It was beat up. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Or, or it was something that was. Or it was something that was old and doesn't work no more, that doesn't adapt to it no more. [00:20:21] Speaker A: And we have to call out Kmart like that. The elect, the electronic session was the [00:20:24] Speaker B: telltale because I think if Kmart was able to get more name brand products into their store, they would have been here. They'd still be Here. [00:20:31] Speaker A: No, I agree with that. [00:20:33] Speaker B: They still would have been here. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Kmart was a thumper, bro. Oh yeah, Kmart. [00:20:37] Speaker B: Kmart didn't realize how many shoppers they really did have committed to Kmart. They didn't really. They didn't really realize that. [00:20:44] Speaker A: Well to me. So you know the size nowadays, you know when you go to a plaza or like a shopping mall area. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. [00:20:52] Speaker A: You know how home goods has that giant point? Yes, I that point. I affiliate with Kmart back at home. If you went to a plaza and you saw the big point of the plaza. Oh yeah, Kmart was in that. Kmart had the biggest lot in the plaza or they had their own block. Yeah. Kmart was that standard. It was like if they point over there with it with a little red triangle that's like. [00:21:15] Speaker B: If they were able to get name brand, more name brand stuff in the camera, Kmart would have. I think they would have. They would have took down Walmart name brand. [00:21:23] Speaker A: And that freaking popcorn. Popcorn is what it sold me. I was. [00:21:27] Speaker B: I was. [00:21:28] Speaker A: Popcorn. [00:21:28] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Something about that pop. It was always cuz Walmart was starting you popcorn. Yeah. But it didn't hit like Kmart. [00:21:36] Speaker B: No. Because it cuz. That's cuz we felt like it was copying. It was like you. It either going. It's either going to be Kmart or it's not. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:42] Speaker B: You don't come in and do your own thing. And that's what Walmart didn't do. The only reason why Walmart blew them out was because they were able to pull more name products, man. Brand name stuff was able to get. They were able to get more brand name into Walmart than in the Kmart. That's just my opinion. You think some Kmart, Walmart specialists out there ready to comment? [00:22:00] Speaker A: You think Kmart can make a comeback? If it was to. Or you think they too far gone? I think Kmart is one of those that could. That could come back. [00:22:07] Speaker B: Kmart could come back. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Kmart can make definitely come back. [00:22:10] Speaker B: Yeah, but they need to get more brand name stuff in it. [00:22:13] Speaker A: And, and that electronic section when you said that, I remember walking through there being like, oh, I don't even know what that's called, bro. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Exactly. I never, I never heard of a Boar Star tv. What is a Boar star B O R star? Like where did this come from? I don't even know what country this came from. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Right. It was. [00:22:31] Speaker B: Dang it. [00:22:32] Speaker A: Kmart. You had, you had them. Yeah, just. [00:22:34] Speaker B: You had him. [00:22:34] Speaker A: You just had to just get some quality stuff. [00:22:37] Speaker B: It's kind of like Kmart was like a bad husband that didn't know he had a great wife. You know what I mean? Like, you know what I'm saying? [00:22:42] Speaker A: Like trying to touch himself up a little bit. [00:22:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Just. Just didn't realize your wife was here like that. Like Kmart had like we, they. They had some. What do you call it, loyal customers. Kmart had loyal ass customers. [00:22:55] Speaker A: But now we would say that we [00:22:57] Speaker B: would come back for anything. Kmart could have one sale and everybody would show up. Oh, they did. [00:23:01] Speaker A: Well now as you say that they. They were the start of a Walmart. Because I remember walking into the Kmart double doors. Double doors. Yep. Popcorn. [00:23:10] Speaker B: Popcorn. [00:23:10] Speaker A: Hit to the right. That was all shopping. That was clothing. Layaway area. [00:23:14] Speaker B: Layaway area. [00:23:15] Speaker A: Right in the middle was your like, kind of home decor tools. In the back was a sketchy ass electronics. But on the far left side, that was the kid toy with the pool noodles and the pop up pools and all that. The playground set, all that was on the left side at the Kmart at home. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Next time you walk through Target, tell yourself, ask yourself, why does this feel familiar? The holes, the whole range of targets. Now if you look at targets, the way that they're set up when you're walking through there is just like Kmart. [00:23:47] Speaker A: Everything is just Target in a minute. [00:23:49] Speaker B: The. From the apparel to the. The stuff to. To where they're located at in the store. It's damn near identical. Damn near. So that's what I'm saying is I think Kmart could have hung on. I think Kmart could have made it. Because these ones that are hanging on are following the steps that Kmart did. [00:24:04] Speaker A: They just got the name correct, man. Kmart. You slipped up, bro. Y. You slipped up, bro. [00:24:10] Speaker B: It could have been Big K from here on out. You know what I'm saying? It could have just been Big K. Nobody would ever knew. Known it as Kmart. [00:24:16] Speaker A: I would still be faithful. I would still be in again. The popcorn. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Yep. [00:24:19] Speaker A: And getting the DVD player. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Welcome to Big K. Welcome to Big K, man. Well, we got Sony products now. Oh, you all got Sony. [00:24:26] Speaker A: What Anybody out there? If you got money, bring Kmart back. I'll be your first loyal customer. I don't care where you. [00:24:31] Speaker B: I want Kmart to come back. [00:24:32] Speaker A: They got to come back. Get in the comments. Lazy business shopping is what it said. Hit me with your nostalgia. Do you recall growing up? Were you the kid in the shopping cart? Were you on the bottom? Were you actually in the sea? Or were you in the actual shopping cart area. Hopefully he wasn't in that seat. Unless you was. I feel like when you was in the seat, you was in trouble. If you didn't get to sit outside of the car or be in with the food, you was in trouble. If you had to sit there with the belt. [00:24:57] Speaker B: Right. You was in trouble. You knew you was in trouble if your legs almost touched the ground and you were sitting. And you were sitting in that baby seat and your leg. Your leg was almost to the ground. That's where you go. Okay, dude, we know you ain't in there for safety. [00:25:11] Speaker A: No. [00:25:11] Speaker B: Like, we already know. We know your knees is damn near all the way. No, we know you in there because you in trouble. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Mom told you you get. When you. [00:25:18] Speaker B: When. When you have to put, like, a bag of rice or dog food in it to keep the cart from doing wheelies. Shut up. That's how you know. [00:25:26] Speaker A: Shut up. [00:25:27] Speaker B: That's how you know you in trouble. When you got in there, your mom was like, let me grab some dog food real quick so this thing don't [00:25:34] Speaker A: start popping willies without pushing that water asap. [00:25:37] Speaker B: Yeah. When you see the kid walking and the carts just connected to him. Yeah. Huh? He was there because he was in trouble. [00:25:44] Speaker A: Get in the comments, dog. Hit the. Like, hit the. Subscribe. We're going for 15k to throw out a deluxe merch pack, man. It's twitty in the city. He said the legs was dragging. I'm 20. That's THC.