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If you missed it yesterday, our latest BIG show has dropped!This month, we’re sharing our MALL MEMORIES! Join us as we stroll through a magical mall where we have access to any store from any point in time! We visit six classic stores, and even drop by the food court!

That episode is on your normal Purple Stuff feed now, but if you want a direct link, here ya go.

As a Patreon-bonus, below are supplemental links w/ info on the six stores we talk about. Whether you’ve visited these specific shops or not, we know this episode is gonna spark a whole bunch of memories for you!

1. Waldenbooks2. Heroes World3. Kay-Bee Toys4. Warner Bros. Studio Store5. The Nature Company6. Sam Goody7. Spencer Gifts8. Spaceport Arcade 

Enjoy the show! We’ll be hitting you up with another BIG show in April, as well as our next Patreon-exclusive bonus show. For now, though, bask in the neon glow of the mall!

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Kate L

Really enjoying it! But jealous that my family moved to the country when I was 9 and I missed the prime mall-rat ages... ...though at least BOTH of my childhood malls had food courts... 😎

EternianOverkill

another killer episode y'all. those bins at Kay Bee will always be the visual for 'clearance toys'. would love more episodes like this. scratched a big itch, much needed. Matt, hearing yr joy for Roy Rogers chiken brought a smile to my face. any more tracks from the opening artist?

April

Great ep! I worked at a Waldenbooks in a high-end mall for awhile. It was definitely the black sheep of that mall but everyone came in and most of my customer interactions were hilarious.

Brendan Roney

I love that the nature company made the cut! Did every KB have one of those motorized ball with a raccoon tail in a chip bag wandering the aisles at all times?

Rodrigo Barros

I visited the WB Studio Store in Times Square back in December 1993. Those were the days. That was fun to browse just as much as to shop. And also the old Disney Stores.

PeppersGhost

In High School and all through college I worked at a mall. From Pacific Sunwear, The Warner Brothers Store and then Kay Bee Toys. I honestly loved it but you get paid peanuts and customers tended to treat you like garbage. Still it was the mall!

G

Great episode fellas, love this topic. Miss the old mall days, it was kind of a hub of media and culture before the internet blew up. Roosevelt Field, Paramus Mall and Garden State Mall were some of my favorites. Miss Johnny Rockets and Sbarro

Anders Häger Jönson

LOVED this episode! The role playing element of building your perfect mall day was so fun and hearing about all the classic stores none of whom existed in Sweden.

Doug Fuller

My memory from Deb's... Pink shag carpet and metal everything else. Static electricity shocks to a preteen sucks.

Lumberjack Nick

Thank you so much for mentioning those Garfield books. Whenever I went to a Walden’s that was my first stop! I owned a bunch of those!

Lumberjack Nick

I still have dreams of Kaybees. I’ll go in the very back and there will be 30+ year old 80’s left over toys still on sell 😆

brian kent

It's true, I'm way behind, but I've finally listened to this episode and it, of course, a banger. The description of Kay-bee Toys made me realize that, whenever I have a dream about a toy store, it's that small, chaotic mess of Kay-bee that lives in my dreams as the go-to toy store environment. I probably spent just as much time at Toys R Us as I did at Kay-bee, but my brain chose the better, but also more insidious one.

Notorious HDP

Lol... ORE-E-GON... It's Ory-gun. And we also have the last Blockbuster. I'll forgive you!