Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Payless, Pay less shoe source. Yeah, that's for everybody.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: The yellow everybody.
[00:00:05] Speaker A: That's everybody buying shoes there don't get you going there. $10 to come out with a pair of shoes.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: Payless I think was probably on my. On this list is truly or was is there still Payless? No. Yeah, they were the like, yeah. Overall you can see somebody in there with baggy jeans to a two piece suit gets.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: The only thing I used to always buy from Payless was my work boots.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: I saw a lot of construction people.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: At our Payless because it was the cheapest place to buy work boots. It was even cheaper than Walmart.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: And they were. But they see that's the thing. Payless, they had that.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Oh, they only lasted a couple months and then you were buying another one.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah, but they, they had that. They had the true value of what you, you get what you pay for, you know?
[00:00:48] Speaker A: You know, Payless is what taught me what a Bogo was.
They were the king. They were the king of Bogos.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: 20 in the city. Aloha, bro. Why you look like you about ready to.
[00:01:02] Speaker A: I'm cold, man.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: I was gonna say, you look see wearing black to me. I was like, I didn't get the men. When we gotta go rob a bank, somebody gotta go beat up. Like, nah, nah.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: If I had the mask on then.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Yeah, okay, that's true.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: This is, this is cold outside. It's cold outside today.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: Okay, Missed the last episode. You like being cold.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I know, but I didn't say I don't dress for the occasion. I just said I like it be. I like the cold. Okay, you know why I like the cold? I'm gonna tell you why I like the cold.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Why?
[00:01:27] Speaker A: Less bugs.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: I can't argue with that.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: Then when I'm out there, when I'm in the woods, like, I'm cold. Yeah, but I got everything on. I got my car, my hoodies, I got my stuff. But I don't got mosquitoes in my face. I don't got bugs near my food. None of that.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: You. I can't argue with that.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: That's why I like the cold. And Idaho just has it all around. But yes, it's a little chilly.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: I can't argue with that. I don't got a rebuttal for that other than I just, I like the heat. But it does come with bugs.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Lots of bugs.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: Also, this is what we do. This is Twitter in the city. We chit chat, we're on camera, we got a microphone. Just so happens to be that for some of you gosh, y' all are what, 40, 50 episodes? I don't even know what episode we on. But we deep now.
[00:02:04] Speaker A: We.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: Are we in there now. Hit the like. No, you've been doing it. These are for the newbies. I feel like the people that are watching are like, I've already hit the like. And subscribe. Twitty. I gotta do this for the newbies out there. Get in the comments. If you look at the comments, it's all, that man, thc. He comments, he comp. This man.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Bring him in.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: This man, a week ago told me he was conversating with somebody at 2 in the goddamn morning. Yep. What did you wake up and start did the conversation had started and you just ended up. It ended up being that this is what.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: No, it was 2 in the morning. This is what happened is that you ever come home from work and then, like, you take a nap and then you end up sleeping, like all the way through the night. And then you wake up at like 12:30, one o' clock in the morning.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: You had a full sleep.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And you already had like six hours. You like, man, I wasn't trying to do that.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Gotcha.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: That's what it was. And then it was crazy because, like, you know, 1 o', clock, 2 o' clock in the morning, you know, there might be an email here or there. There might be something that just pop up. You know, there might be. But then it just.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: It was like, ding, you found a buddy. Ding, ding.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: And I was like, what is going on? Look on there. And it was a YouTube. It was a comments. This dude was in the comments going at it.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: So I was like, all right, so there you go. If you comment at 1, 2 in the morning, you might catch tac. You might From a superpower nap.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: So if you comment, just be ready to comment back. But we appreciate y'. All. We. We going for 5k. That's our new goal. We had. I forgot what we had earlier and we blew that out. Y' all blew that out in like a week. So we appreciate y'. All. We respect y'. All. We love y'. All. Thank y' all for letting us do this. We cannot say our gratitude enough. And with that being said, I gotta get into this topic because I need to know thc. Okay.
What were these stores labeled to you in social class ranking?
[00:03:49] Speaker A: What do you mean?
[00:03:50] Speaker B: So I got a list. I got a list of stores. Okay. And there are certain stores that you feel like is a certain type of people.
I want to see you talking like.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: Well, you talking, like, wealth wise?
[00:04:05] Speaker B: Yeah, wealth wise.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Like upper middle, lower class.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: I hate the classic.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: I want to see if you and I were on the same level with growing up. Growing up.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Some. And some of these.
Some of these are going to be tricky because some of these are still around and some of these are gone. Okay. Okay. And so I'm curious to see where they've ranked, especially some of these ones that are still around, because for me, some of them were now low and moved up.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: What time of the year are you talking about shopping at these stores? Are you talking about after school? Before school?
[00:04:41] Speaker B: Let me look at this list real quick. I see this. This is why I had to. I wasn't just saying.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: I'm just saying, like I said, it's after most of these.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Okay.
I'll go. I'll go over in deeper. Growing up.
Summertime. All of these can be summertime.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: That. That. I think that can narrow it out of school.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Okay, go.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: So we talking 90s, mid late 90s, early 2000s. Okay.
Summertime. And we hitting these stores.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: First one, Champs.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Ooh, I think that's middle.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: That was middle. That was middle.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: Middle is.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: It was.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Because it was like I.
I put middle. As far as I see both.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: Shopping there. And I see most people shopping there because that. Because champs is where you went to get top brand shoes when they went on sale.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. And see, champs to me was the. It was my. It was my shoe store. Specifically when I was doing. When I wanted basketball or I wanted. Especially I wanted my cleats for football, I went to champs. Cause they all. They always. They, for some reason, champs always had more color variety than the other ones.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: They. They stayed with, like, for me, I was always a Nike vapor speed low top for cleats, and they had every freaking color.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: Now, if you went to Foot Locker back in the days, I kind of.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: Looked at you as bougie. Oh, Foot Locker was straight bougie.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Foot Locker, you got a referee trying to sell your shoes, you walk in.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: Foot Locker is where I went when I had my birthday money and last year's Christmas.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: But there still has to be a sale going on at Foot Locker for me to walk in.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: I had to get that coupon in the mail. That was. Wasn't even a freaking deal. It was champs.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: I'll put right in the middle.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Champs was middle class. Okay, we'll go ahead and kick off Foot Locker. You said it without me even getting there. I agree. Foot Locker was Like, high class. All right, we're gonna switch it up now. We're gonna go Kohl's because Kohl's is still around, and Kohl's to me, has up their game.
So to me, Kohl's was a very.
I don't know if you could. It was like a middle, middle, low class.
I remember growing up, Coles, to me was like, in between.
[00:06:50] Speaker A: I always looked at Kohl's like a.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Ross and Ross is on my list.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: That's. I look at them two like, the same. Like, it's kind of like, it's. To me, it's kind of. See, like I. I've watched way too many folks and Gonna be some people mad at me again. I don't care. I've watched way too many folks come out of Ross and Kohl's with stuff and then try to floss like they just got out of the high store. You know what I'm saying? Oh, that was.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: That was me.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: But that was like the. That was like the. The main thing is how. Of how I looked at Ross and Kohl's was. I was like, man.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: Oh. See, for me, it was opposite. So came out of Ross.
I felt like you had more street cred coming out of Ross than Kohl's.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Seeing and growing up. I didn't have a Kohl's. We didn't have a Kohl's when I was growing up.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: And see, we. We had.
[00:07:34] Speaker A: We had a Mervyns.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: A what?
[00:07:36] Speaker A: We had Mervyn's.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Spell that.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: M, E, R, V, Y, N, S.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: No, I didn't have that.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: V, Y, N, S. Yeah, we had.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: A Maurice A. Morris. M A U, R, I, C, E. That was a.
[00:07:49] Speaker A: Everybody. Anybody in the comments right now, you remember Mervyn's? Mervyn's.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: That was. I never heard of Mervyn.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: Mervyn's was the.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Yeah, See, Ross.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: That was our Kohl's, and our Ross was Mervyn.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Gotcha. See, to me, Ross was.
You went. You went to Kohl's if you really wanted to be cheap. Cheap. You went to Ross to be middle class. But she was an elegant.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: Well, then also, depending on what cities these stores were in, because. Exactly. Because some cities.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: Virginia. So we're both in cities. We're both in big cities. Because this is. This is my childhood. So this is 7. 5. 7 all day.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: Because I know if you go to like, like San Francisco, like, they got a Ross. That's two stories. Oh, that's what I'm saying. So.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: So they're on my level. Where Ross was, Ross was the place.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: I mean, it was, it was still the same old Ross. It was just a lot bigger.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: It was still the whole.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: It was like a Burlington Coat Factory.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay.
So are you putting. That was the next one on my list to see Burlington Co Founder. He was. See, Burlington Co Factory, to me was what Ross and Coles truly wanted to be.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Oh, you think that them two stores were like, we need to be on Burlington Coat Factory's level.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: I feel like the developer of Burlington let Coles and Ross do it. First figured out where they effed up and then was that. Gotcha. Because I went to Burlington. My mom took me there always to get my Easter outfit.
Any type of suit, clothing. I needed dress clothes.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: Burlington, okay.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see that. I see that.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's why Burlington was higher to me, because Burlington was my nice clothes. That was like going to church. Gotta go to a funeral. Going to some celebration of somebody graduating. You need to be in those itchy ass turtlenecks. But you're also.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: I didn't even, I didn't even look at it as like a clothing store dog. I, I, I, I ain't gonna lie to you. I was just going there to look for a jacket. That's, that's the only reason why I was going. The only reason why I was going into Burling because I needed a jacket. That was it.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: And see, to me, it was the opposite.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: This was the coat factory. You know what I mean?
[00:09:46] Speaker B: To me, I, we never hit the coat section. I was like, why the hell is this a coat factory? And I'm getting dress clothes out of here.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: There's so many coats in that place.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: As a kid, bro, when, when your mom got you by the wrist. Not by the hand. Got you by the wrist directly. Where you going? Oh, yeah, I was too focused on my wrists.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: Most of the time I had nails, so sometimes when she would rap, it would pinch me. So I'm over here. Like, I can't say anything.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: We had, we had to do it with our, we had to put our hands in our pockets.
We had to walk around with our hands. And don't let your hands come out of the pocket.
[00:10:15] Speaker B: I wish, I wish my mom had that rule for me. My mom said it was worse.
[00:10:18] Speaker A: It was worse.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: I'd rather have at least my hands.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: You can't swing your arms. You can't do nothing. You just gotta walk like you in prison.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: But your hands is out and about. You feel.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: No, it's in your pockets.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: No, I'm saying for me, your hands are out and about, you hit a corner too tight and the dang shirt falls off. Your mom thinks you touched it and you get an ass whooping, bro.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: The other one looked like we was already guilty and we was in handcuffs walking around the store trying to steal something. Yeah. Like they just didn't want to even come across to give us a chance. My kids had their hands in their pockets the whole time they've been here.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: All right, what about this one? Okay, this is.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: What were they?
[00:10:50] Speaker B: I can't remember what the hell they were. Yeah, they were shoe spa. Also Payless.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: Pay Less Shoe Source. Yeah, that's for everybody.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: The yell, the yellow for everybody that.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: Everybody buying shoes there don't get. You go in there, $10 come out with a pair of shoes.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: Payless I think was probably on my. On this list is truly or was. Is there still Payless? No. Yeah, they were the like.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: Overall you could see somebody in there with baggy jeans to a two piece suit.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: The only thing I used to always buy from Payless was my work boots.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: I saw a lot of construction people.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: At our pay list because it was the cheapest place to buy work boots. It was even cheaper than Walmart.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: And they were. But they. See, that's the thing. Payless, they had that.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Oh, they only lasted a couple months and then you were buying another.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: Yeah, but they, they had that. They had the true value of what you. You get what you pay for, you know?
[00:11:41] Speaker A: You know, Payless is what taught me what a Bogo was.
They were the king of bogo. They were the king of bogos. I never knew what a bogo was until Payless was. And people be like, oh, is it a Bogo? And I was like, what's a Bogo?
[00:11:53] Speaker B: Always had that giant yellow ass sign.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Buy one, get one. That was. That was Payless Shoe Source. That was their main thing.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Payless was a. I think, I can't recall.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: I think even the commercial said Bogo.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: I don't recall a time they weren't in bogo mode, bro.
[00:12:07] Speaker A: No, there was always a bogo. Buy one, get one. Buy one, get one.
That was the reason why I went down there. Yeah. Bogo. That's what Payless taught me.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: Payless was the Bogo store.
[00:12:16] Speaker A: That was the bogo store. Yeah. Every other store was copying Payless when they said Bogo.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: Well, because Payless, like, they stayed in Bogo mode. Yeah, every. Yeah, because I remember they had. Back in the malls where they had the glass.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: You would just see on both sides of the glass.
[00:12:29] Speaker A: Big old.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: Big.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Big old poster in the window.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Bogo.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: And that was.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: That's how you.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: And in fact, all you had to see was Bogo. And you knew it was Payless. You didn't have to look up to see the name. You'd be like, oh, that's Payless.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Payless. Yeah.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: Cuz.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Nobody. Everybody else had a 75% off or.
Or 50 off or limited times or clearance special. Right? Pay less. Just Bogo.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Y.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: That's. I forgot they were.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: That Bogo sounded better than 50 off. Yeah.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: Even.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:58] Speaker B: I. For bro. I.
No wonder. Because I always, I always tried to figure out. I was like, who the hell had a bogo with the yellow Pay less. It was all day because it was that yellow oranges.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: You gotta make me go, Sean, you gotta. You gotta put it in there, bro. You gotta find that.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: You gotta find that sign that says Bogo.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: Bogo sign. I bet if you type it in right now. Payless, Bogo. That a sign will pop up. You gotta put it in there, bro. We gotta find that.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Hey, less. That's for everybody, though.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Payless was for everybody.
This one to me has evolved.
Target.
I think growing up, Target was bougie for me.
Now it. Now it's for everybody. No, think. No, no, no.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: Still bougie. In fact, most people that are frequent Target shoppers don't even pronounce it Target.
You see, you see? You see? You already do. You. Are they bougie? Just by the way they say it. Like if you tell somebody who, if you talk to somebody who like goes to Target on a regular basis and.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: You say, hey, you're talking about the. The Die Hards.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: Yeah, the Die Hards. The ones that are wearing red shirts and don't work there. You know which ones up to the ones that you autumn, you go, hey, you guys got this. Oh, you don't even work honestly on. My bad. But they will still let you know where stuff is.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:21] Speaker A: Oh no. The paper towels on aisle four. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, you do work here. Oh no, I don't work here. But this is my store. This is my Target.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: I. We never shop that.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Like, what is the bougie name for Walmart?
You got a bougie name for Target? What's the bougie name for Walmart? That's. That's why Target is bougie.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: That is true.
Yeah. You don't have a bougie name for Walmart.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: I mean, you have you have a.
They call it Wally World, don't they? That's what they call it.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: They don't call it.
[00:14:47] Speaker A: That's not bougie. That ain't bougie. That's what I'm saying. That ain't bougie.
That's a, that's an amusement park in a vacation movie. You know what I'm saying?
That is what it is. It's an amusement park in a. But in the, in the, in the movie. Vacation.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: Shut it up, dog. That's so.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: It was going to Wally World.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: So messed up. But it's so true.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: It is.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: Oh God.
Okay, I got to give. Okay, so I agree.
I guess I think Target is for everybody. Cuz I go there. But I, when I think about it, I only go there when I'm.
It's just in route and literally get like one or two things. I don't shop at Target. I should take like literally like I go to Walmart, I go to WinCo.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: So you go to Target for specific items?
[00:15:34] Speaker B: No, I just go to Target if I just don't want to go out of my way to go to WinCo or go to Walmart Mart. Like if I'm driving back home and I got to pass like a Target to get on the freeway and all I need is.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: Do you buy food from Target?
Like the milk and stuff like that, do you buy that from Target?
[00:15:50] Speaker B: Yeah, if I can't do it, if I really need it.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: You can't do it for some reason I can't do. I can do it in Walmart all day.
Well yeah, but if I'm in Target, I just don't feel that the, the grocery section isn't like fully developed into like it's supposed to be a grocery. It still feels like you shopping for lamps and it's. Yeah. And it's milk.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Well, because I don't recall Walmart, you.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: Could tell the separation of where the grocery store is to where the regular store.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: Well, growing up was Target always. That's the thing.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Growing up.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: No, Target never had milk and cereal.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: And stuff like that.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: I understand that.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: I mean I think they had cereal, but I don't think they had anything cold.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: I, I'm very hesitant when I do it. Like I said, I have to really, like I really have to not have to go out of my way. It has to be like I'm gonna pass this Target to hit the freeway and I gotta go past my house, take a different exit and go to a Walmart. No, I got to go to that Target. But if it's like a two, three minute difference, I'm going in my Walmart or my Winco.
[00:16:51] Speaker A: Oh yeah, 100.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Yeah. But yeah, I bougie, I get one or two things there and they, and.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: They'Re for everybody like any, any class and go there and shop. Anybody can go there because there's always deals, there's always things like that. Even for folks that don't have a lot of money. For folks that have a lot of money. Yeah, like anybody can shop there. It's. But yeah, bougie. Bougie as hell.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah. But I will say to me, yeah, Target is not a spot I go for. I would go to for groceries. It is a, it is a clothing store. Yeah, it's clothings and then gaming or entertainment and then home decor stuff. That's like the next phase.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: And then groceries or like I said the other thing I'm going to do.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: I'll do no groceries from Target.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: Like I said, it has to be, if it's out of my way it's gotta be dry food or I'm like going camping, I forgot something and Target's.
That's fair. But I mean, yeah, I'm not just willy nilly going to Target to go get my milk because then I want.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Most of them do though when I.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: Buy the milk I'm like, I don't go back anymore for a couple of months. Okay. That's what happens. I'll buy. And I'm like I'm not coming back. And then I wait a couple of months and I'm in that situation and I buy it again. I'm like I'm not coming back but I keep going back because it's convenient.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Gotcha.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: So then we go to you and my spot Walmart.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Okay, that's everybody.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: That's everybody. Everybody. I feel like Walmart has just of all the stores, they have been very consistent from when I was growing up to now where they have always been for everybody. And I don't feel like they have changed as far as structure.
Maybe the garden area.
Because growing up if it wasn't a Super Walmart, it didn't have that whole garden area. Every Walmart was, you got the clothing, you got the pharmacy, you got the food. Yeah, the garden was for the super Walmarts. That's like the only thing I feel like has changed now. Every Walmart has that section but to me growing up Walmart, it has been Walmart. Clothes in the middle.
[00:18:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Pharmacy with the arm pump thing on the left.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: As soon as you walk in. As soon as you walk in and food on the right.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Is that how, that's how I feel. Like every Walmart is pretty.
[00:18:54] Speaker A: And you know what's funny is that every Walmart is different.
Like, I've noticed that if I walk into a Target, right. Like if I walk into a Target in one spot and then I go to a different city and walk into Target, I still almost feel like I'm in the same store.
But if I walk into a Walmart back home in the bay, to walking into a Walmart that's out here in Eagle, it's a hundred percent different.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: Really?
[00:19:22] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
Oh, you can tell what I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a secret. Okay. And this is what comedians. This is how we used to figure out when we used to be on the road and we used to travel all these different cities, we could tell what kind of a city we were.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: In based on the Walmart.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: Based on the Walmart.
You walk into the Walmart, you're gonna get a good feel of who lives here.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Oh, you're talking about people.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: Yeah, but no, I'm not. Not even people. But like, even what people are interested in. Like when you go to these Walmarts out here, there's a lot of blue and orange stuff around.
[00:19:54] Speaker B: God, yeah. Okay, okay, Go.
[00:19:56] Speaker A: Outside of Boise, everything is changing, you know what I'm saying?
[00:19:59] Speaker B: Like, okay, I thought, yeah, so like.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: The Walmart's, but if you go. But if you walk into like a Walmart in like, you know, in, in a different city, you can kind of get the feel of the whole town.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: From the one store.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: You can't.
Target still got a mask on, you.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Know what I'm saying?
[00:20:14] Speaker A: Target, Target still.
Target's still trying to deny where they are.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: Yeah, they got a standard, they got exact.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying. But I feel like every Walmart adjusts to whatever city they are in.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: I see. Yeah, you're right.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: Because if the city is like, like if I'm, if I, if I go back, take Oakland, Oakland's in my bay, in the Bay Area where I'm from. They don't even have a Walmart no more. They closed it. That's how bad that city got the Walmart left. Yeah, Usually Walmart to hang out for a while.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: Now that I think about it, back home there's seven different cities and you can interchange them. But if you know that city, Walmart, yeah. Oh, it matched the vibe of that city.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: And you Know what's funny is there gonna be people. There's gonna be people out there trying to argue with me. Stop, stop. You can't argue because the minute you argue with that, you're gonna have to remember that you told somebody one time, don't go to that Walmart. Yeah, go to this one.
Go to this one over here. Just. I'm just saying, just go to this one. And they'll need to tell you, though.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: You don that with Target.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: No Target. You don't. No, none of them.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: Not even the last one.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: You don't tell them to go to another one.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: Yeah, the last one on my list is Kmart. But you're right, you don't. Walmart is the only store that I know of where you specifically tell somebody what time to go to that.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Or the fact that that one closes earlier than this. Yes. Or it opens earlier.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: Or they probably won't have that over there because they never have this in there. So you might as well go to this one. That's great, because they're always going to have that.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: I never thought of that.
[00:21:38] Speaker A: We don't do that with any other stores. We only do that with Walmart.
We only do that with Walmart. We don't do that with Target. We don't do that with. With. Don't go to that Target. Go to this Target.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: That is true, bro.
[00:21:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:48] Speaker B: That's crazy. Yes. Target is out here. Just. He said got a mask.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: Yeah, they got their mask on. I ain't trying to show you nothing, no matter what city they in. No, we are Target no matter where we are.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: That just blew my freaking mind.
Yo, that.
I'm thinking about every Walmart I've ever been in now. And I'm like, yeah, there was never two that was the same. And there's.
[00:22:10] Speaker A: And there's ones that are out here that are beautiful.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Oh, they all different.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: There's one on 10 mile. That's all the way down. Yeah, but that one is so nice, I almost want to travel to that one. Even though I'd be going, I'd have to pass two Walmarts to get to that.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: You got to pass two Walmart.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: You got. You got a Walmart. That the time for you to get to that Walmart. You can go to the one that is two minutes. You can go to the Walmart close to your house, go back home, sit down, remember you forgot something, and still go back. You would just be getting to that other Walmart.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: Yo, that just blew my freaking mind.
I, like, just want to end on that, but I can't. I gotta. I got. Bro, that is crazy, though.
I'm thinking, like. Cause I've lived in Virginia. I've lived in Iowa. All different. I've lived in Nebraska.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: All different.
All of them.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: I might just. I might.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: That's how you did as comedians. That's how we used to start jokes. If we went to a town that we didn't know. Right. We had to know who was going to come out to our shows.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: So we was in this city that we didn't know. We go to Walmart, and we can see pretty much anybody who lives here and how. And how they live here.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: We got.
Somebody's gonna freaking steal this. So they're already doing it. I want to just do 20 in the city. Walmart edition. Just go to every wall, bro. Every Walmart in a city, dog. Tell me how.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Oh, I'd rather you go to every Harbor Freighting one.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: I do that, too. Yeah. Freight.
[00:23:35] Speaker A: Walmart.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: Hit me. Walmart. I'm.
You ain't gonna never hear me say this. Walmart. I'm more down than Harbor Freight to go do that.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: Yeah, you keep doing.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: Why?
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Shaq gonna come on. Shaq gonna come in. Oh, I'll get all y' all on there.
[00:23:46] Speaker B: Oh, I. I need to. After hearing that, I want to go back to the ones I know and just observe.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Oh, that's even worse. That's even worse. Like, especially if you come. If. Like. Like when I grew up, right? And I moved out of California, and. And. And I went back to California, back to my. My thing, and I'm like, oh, my God, that Walmart's still there. Right? And I walked in, and I'm like, it's the same damn Walmart since I've been like, yeah, the same door that creaks. The same stain on the carpet when you walk in. Like, they ain't never changed this in, like, 20 years.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: They got to make it this in the city, bro.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Dog crazy.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: I can't. All right. I got it. We got to move on, because I'm just gonna keep talking about freaking Walmart now. All right, last one.
Kmart. Miss it.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: I miss Kmart so much.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: Oh, I loved Kmart.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: I miss it so much, you know? You know what I miss? I miss walking into Kmart, and it smelled like popcorn. Yes, that popcorn. That's how I knew I was in there.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: When you walked in, was it to your right or to your left?
[00:24:40] Speaker A: It depends.
What door did I walk in?
[00:24:45] Speaker B: Let's say you walked in on the right side.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: It's on the sliding door. It's on the right.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Yeah, for us, it was on the right. It was on the right.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: Yep. And then it was. And it was the popcorn stand, and it was like a hot dog or something or what was that? And then Target started doing popcorn when you walked in there. And I was like, you just stealing. Yeah. The nostalgia from. From Kmart.
[00:25:04] Speaker B: Kmart to me is the same thing I said about Burlington Coat Factory. Kmart was the original Walmarts and Targets.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: And they expanded on other things, but Kmart, we used to go there.
One Stop Shop. Yep. One Stop Shop. Trusted day food section trusted. They closed.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: Oh. We didn't care what came out of that food section. We would. Pizza. What? It was the pizza slice, the hot dog, popcorn, lunchables. Oh, the pop. The popcorn is what I went for every time. Because I was like. I just. I don't know. For some reason, I like sitting in a cart at Kmart with the little music playing above those big speakers. They was like. But they were inside the ceiling, but it was just a big circle with holes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was that. Which is. Look, I can. I can still remember sitting in a car, looking up, eating popcorn.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Well, and they also. And see, that's where Target had to be. Target.
Because Target's popcorn had a specific bag. Target's popcorn was in the bag that you could have went and bought or it was the stuff in the brown bag. Yeah, in the brown. Like, literally a brown bag.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Yeah. The ones from Kmart had the, like, the red and white stripe.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: You felt like you was. Yeah, I miss having a popcorn.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: You have a Super Kmart.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. And it was. And. And this was crazy.
It was. It was.
It was like a superhero just putting on a. On a suit.
It was still the same. No different. No, it was none.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: It was just a name about going biggest.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: The biggest thing that changed was the sign outside that said that that was it inside. They might have threw down some new carpet or they might have put, like, new stickers on the labels on the shelves. And it might have, like, smelled different because they just cleaned it.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: I was like, they had a. Kmart is the only. Is one of the stores that can put super and make you think you was somewhere different.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: You wasn't.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: They didn't do a damn thing different.
[00:26:52] Speaker A: The shoes you used to buy over here were now on the shelf right across from it.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah, Super Kmart was stupid. But I still.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: I still went, oh, all day. I was coming no matter what they called it, they could have called a Super Kmart.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: They could have called it Mini Kmart.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: Like, if it was in California, they probably would have got hella big Kmart.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: Like, hella big dog. Kmart was. I'm sad Kmart went out of business.
[00:27:15] Speaker A: Me, too.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Kmart was my. Because you know why, too Kmart. I had to pass it. Especially in high school, my junior and senior year when I was driving, I had to pass it to go to any friend's house. And I would stop in there to go buy a Gatorade. And I really went there to go get the damn popcorn.
That was, like, at 7:11, I would go in there on my birthday to get a free Slurpee. That was. That was Kmart to me. That popcorn was my everyday Slurpee.
[00:27:38] Speaker A: You ever noticed how, like, 711 and Kmart was literally on the same street?
[00:27:43] Speaker B: Dog, you gotta shut up. I. I'm gonna pull.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: It ain't there anymore. Go back, dude. Go back and look at old pictures of Kmart and then just, like, kind of blow.
[00:27:51] Speaker B: Tell you. Yeah, literally. In my neighborhood, I was on Stanley Crestway. You turn onto Greenbriar Drive.
[00:27:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: First light was the Greenbrier Plaza. So an L shape.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Kmart's in there.
Right behind that was a 7 11. 7 11. And then right across from that was Blockbuster.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Yep, yep. And. And I don't know if you guys had a store called Pick and Save.
There was a store. I think that it went out a lot. But every Kmart had a Pick and Save attached to it.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: No, we didn't have. I don't work.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: It was like.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: It was like a Chinese buffet.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: It was like, man, what was the name of that place? We used to go there all the time. And it was right outside of Safeway because we had Safeways. We didn't have Albertsons like they have out here.
[00:28:37] Speaker B: We didn't have Albertsons. We had Food Line and Farm Fre.
[00:28:40] Speaker A: We had. We had Safeways.
But, yeah, Kmart, 7Elevens, they all were pretty much right next to each other.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: Now you all the time say that it. That's crazy.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: They all did business together. 711 knew. 7711 knew. They knew that when I was walking out of Kmart, they mouth was dry from all the popcorn that they was eating, that all they had to do was look to the left and there was a Slurpee.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: Yo, Plot twist. Kmart had 711 buy that damn popcorn.
[00:29:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: I bet you they had such a plug. They was like, we'll let you be biased. Or we'll buy extended property for you to be on. In exchange, you buy our popcorn. Yep, that's the troll. Oh, that is crazy.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Sprouts Ritz. That was the other store that was next to the Pick and say. That's what I was trying to think of. Sprouts Ritz.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: It was another.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Like, it's not a cheap store, but it's not a cheap, cheap store.
Yeah, but we used to go to Sprouts Wrist to get our candy.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: That makes no sense. But it also makes sense. Like, you. You have to. Only, you know. That logic ate a cheap, cheap.
[00:29:41] Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes. It's not cheap cheap. Like. Like, pick and save. Like, you knew whatever you bought there was gonna break the next day. Yeah, but it wasn't.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: But it was a Goodwill. It was like a Goodwill.
[00:29:52] Speaker A: I mean, it was still some stuff, and it would last a couple days, but it was still. It wasn't expensive.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: But it's not cheap.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not.
It's cheap, but it's not cheap, cheap.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: It's not cheap cheap. Oh, man. All right, get. You probably already are. Get in the comments, man. Where do you rank or what are some stores that are not on the list that I might have missed? I. I couldn't name them all. I forgot some of them. And also, it would take us probably a whole damn day to. Listen, bro.
[00:30:17] Speaker A: I was ready to go. Bougie, Bougie, Bougie. If you was gonna be like Macy's, JCPenney, Emporium, Capital.
[00:30:21] Speaker B: I was gonna be like Boozy.
[00:30:22] Speaker A: Bougie, Bougie, Bougie. That was Bougie, Bougie, Bougie.
[00:30:25] Speaker B: That's why in a mall, they were on all four different corners.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: Yep. And you had to go all the way across to get to either one. Macy's was way on the other side, and JCPenney was on the.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: Bougie can be beside Bougie. Only cheap. Only cheap and not cheap. Cheap can be beside bougie.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:30:39] Speaker B: Get in the comments, man. What stores you think or the list I gave you. Do you agree with our rankings? I'm twitty, stc. Till next time. We going for 5k.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: 5K, baby.
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