Nostalgic Treks through Hanes Mall and the Curious Case of a Nutty Alter Ego

It's a bit after St. Patrick's Day, but that won't stop us from reminiscing about the good times and the less good  (corn dog incident), Pull up a chair as we candidly navigate the often-misunderstood realm of Kegel exercises, debunking myths and offering a fresh perspective on pelvic health. You'll get a dose of our personal experiences and perhaps a new addition to your wellness routine. 

Remember Hanes Mall? If you grew up in Winston Salem like we did, it was more than just a place to shop—it was where teenage dreams (and occasionally hearts) were made. We take you on a nostalgic trip through the echoing halls of our past, from the bright lights of arcade games to the sweet scent of cookies wafting through the air. The cultural icons of our youth, like Spencer's and Sears, may be fading, but the memories linger like lyrics from a favorite song. 

To cap things off, we can't help but share a tale that's a bit nuts—literally—as we discuss a man who chose to rename himself in a most peculiar way. The freedom of identity and the stories behind nicknames lead to some lively banter, including the monikers we've picked up along the way. And as one final salute to the places that shaped us, we tip our hats to a local mall and the bygone era it represents. So tune in, kick back, and let's savor the humorous, personal, and sometimes sentimental journey together.

Transcript

GC: 0:00

Let's do it right now might as well. You have no way else to go. Let's do it.

David: 0:14

Hey everybody, it is March 18th, 2024. Happy St Patrick's Day yesterday, top of the morning to you, top of the morning. I can't do Irish right now, you can't. No, I could if I practice, but I can't do it right now.

GC: 0:28

Oh, stop your crying, you wee girl Well that was, that was excellent.

David: 0:33

That was excellent, lassie.

GC: 0:36

Hey, you know, I got a boy.

David: 0:38

GC how you doing.

GC: 0:39

What's going on with my guy?

David: 0:40

living the dream you got a little stomach bug. I do yeah, would you get that from?

GC: 0:45

I don't know. I think it's the corn dog I eat.

David: 0:49

No one should eat corn dogs past the age of 14.

GC: 0:52

I know right now.

David: 0:54

That's just not something. That's something that's like so good when you're eight.

GC: 0:57

I know, man, I just had to do it. I saw it in the store and it was an impulse buy and I'm like man, I gotta get this, I gotta have a corn dog. I haven't had one in years and you know what I'm paying for you know why you're gluten-free you can't have a corn dog. It was gluten-free bullshit. No, yes in there. No, no, no, no, no, they didn't, oh really.

David: 1:15

Yes, it's, uh, what's that?

GC: 1:17

expect apple gate. Oh, okay, it was apple gate. And yeah, man, I think it did a number on your boy. Man, it was like, oh my god, we're just trying to get through this. I, I can, I'm a power through it.

David: 1:30

Yeah, do the Kegel. Yeah, I'm over here doing. I do it all time.

GC: 1:36

You do Kegel's. We know, is it Kegel's or Kegel's.

David: 1:39

No, you know that I used to. You know like I got real.

GC: 1:41

Don't change yourself.

David: 1:42

It gives a Kegel good, it's called Kegel's right. Kegel like a bagel Is it really I don't know what kid. Why did you say Kegels? When'd you hear?

GC: 1:51

Kegels. I don't know. That's what I thought. You know, when my wife pounded out our two kids. They told her to do that. You know, they said keep doing those. I'm like, I'm like that's really gonna, really gonna help you when you just pound it out a nine pound kid.

David: 2:08

I don't actually know, but I think it was named after a doctor, dr Kegel. Oh yeah is it Kegel? It's always after a doctor.

GC: 2:15

Oh yeah, always yes.

David: 2:17

He's right German. No this is how you keep the vagina very tight. You squeeze, squeeze hard, like you haven't like, squeeze like you have orange in your side, just just the orange. I Don't know, but men are supposed to do Kegels too. Why? Now I will say this People get a little. I say that a lot. No, I will say this right now I say that all?

David: 2:43

why do I do that? I don't say that in real life. I feel like People are too tense in their pelvic region. So you know I mean, yeah, people are probably weak there. That's why you do the Kegels to strengthen those inside muscles. But also people get too tight in there. So I say, do a reverse Kegel, just breathe into your pelvis, let it go. Let it go Relax. What are we talking about? We're talking about Kegels.

GC: 3:05

Okay, you, you, you, you do those every day. No, I already said, I don't do Kegels. Oh, you're saying that men should do them right.

David: 3:12

I'm saying that that. So Kegels is where you strengthen in the muscles and I'm telling you to do a reverse Kegel to relax the muscle. Just let it go, Let go of that tension Mm-hmm, all right.

GC: 3:26

So, hey, let's get to it. I wanted to give you this message From, oh God, my rabbi, from from rabbi charlie. Yes, I saw and talked to rabbi charlie Friday. Guess what I did? You actually went, I went in the physical inside of the building. I went in Sarah and I, and he's gonna start listening to the show and I met him and I talked to him and I met his lovely wife and and he said now keep plugging away.

GC: 4:03

You know, I told him that you were reformed Catholic and he was like Interesting. He had no idea what that meant.

David: 4:12

I never said why did I say reformed Catholic? I think that's what you call me. I call you that I call myself an ex Catholic right.

GC: 4:19

I call you a reformed it because you have seen the light and you're no longer bound by Catholicism and it's Pretense.

David: 4:30

However, I'm also not bound by Judea's, just to let him know. I mean, I don't want him to get any like false hope about doing what. Well, I don't go and just send a gog or something. Oh, he's never gonna ask you to do. Well, what was it? So his message to me was to keep on keeping on. Yeah, keep on keeping on, david. Well, that's profound Thanks. So he says one day I will find what.

GC: 4:55

He didn't say any of that, he just said, hey, it's interesting, he sounds Interesting so he's basically just like wow, another ex Catholic Pretty much because there's a lot of us and it, and there's no trying to convert you to Judaism, is that's not?

David: 5:15

even look if you're listening Rabbi Charlie Mazel tov, and Is that all you?

GC: 5:23

got to say to my rabbi it's like my so tough, and then, like I, teach me some more words. No. Shalom, shalom, rabbi Charlie and he probably is a listen to this schnook.

David: 5:34

Yeah, I don't know what that means.

GC: 5:35

I don't know, you know, oh, that's not.

David: 5:37

That's not, that's not Hebrew, that's the, it is, it is, it's very it is. But no, I, I, I, I. We've talked about this like a million times on the show, you know.

GC: 5:48

I think Jesus is a Jew, so I'm closer to being Jewish than being oh sure and here's the thing I wanted to extend that to you and say hey, listen, rabbi, charlie Said hello David.

David: 6:03

Well, okay, rabbi Charlie, if you are listening, if you come on the show, I will come to temple.

GC: 6:10

Oh, that would be great, and we but you know, you're more than welcome. Without the rabbi coming on this show.

David: 6:15

Well, he's more than welcome to come before I go to send a guy.

GC: 6:21

There you go equal good, yeah, good deal.

David: 6:24

We're all equal in the eyes of.

GC: 6:26

God, what's up, rabbi Charlie?

David: 6:27

Hey, rabbi, charlie, yeah, all right. So today we are gonna talk about something. It's very Very very it's very important.

GC: 6:36

I saw this article and it was so nostalgic for me because if you have noticed that Haines ball if you haven't been is the parking lot is desolate. Now, when David and I were growing up, when I first moved here to Winston Salem, that was a number one spot to go. That's where you went. You went and hung and try to pick up some chicks. You ate at orange Julius. You played in the arcade. You went and ate pizza at Sheanos. You remember that? Yes, and then my main thing was Going to Spencer Spencer's had the best gifts man Did they not.

David: 7:21

Yeah, they were always the funny, you know dirty.

GC: 7:25

Dirty though this is dirty. You thought it was dirty.

David: 7:27

They had a lot of dirty things, dirty gifts. You know dirty words and stuff on it because we were, we were always shop at Spencer. But if you got a gift from Spencer's but you also, hey, used to go get CDs, man, you get tobacco there, remember, they have the tobacco shop oh oh, they had the tinder box. Damn sure did. Yeah, you had everything there.

GC: 7:52

William.

David: 7:52

Sonoma. I worked at William Sonoma for a couple months. Yeah, manager then hated it worst job I ever had, no second but it was so part of our culture that you know.

GC: 8:03

You went, you met a girl, all you went. The girl Invited you, call you. That's when they call you and invited you, told you to come to the mall. Bitch, I break up with you in the middle of the mall, yeah, yeah.

David: 8:17

Cuz she likes.

GC: 8:17

Johnny, yes, so you know. And then my favorite thing at Spencer's and you know, I don't know if you remember this, david, it was the black light posters.

GC: 8:30

Oh yeah, no, you walk into Spencer's in the black light and my brother and I had this Hook rigged up, these fishing wires and these air model airplanes. So when you cut the lights off it looked like the planes were in and me there in your room, in my room, in our bedroom, and then it had the black light posters and the mushrooms and it was, remember they had the light I don't know she call it where you had all the posters in the frames.

David: 8:57

So that was where the black light poster were right and you used to flip the posters used to flip oh yes, or you're going to back you pick the one that you want and Then you get underneath so they had them in the frames right. You flip it. Oh yeah, and then, and then you go underneath and you get it, you know the one you want, but I remember I mean, that was back when you were into like bands like Bon Jovi, metallica guns and roses, you know.

David: 9:22

Yeah, I remember looking at those posters under the black light and being like that one that.

GC: 9:27

Do you remember the main attraction that? Was there, besides orange Julius At the mall. Yes, what was it? What was? What was the most popular place in In the mall on the second floor? The food court? No, they didn't have a food court then this is always this, like back in 1973. Cuz I was only Thank you for that one.

David: 9:57

The, the cookie factory. Yes, that was your favorite. What are you joking?

GC: 10:04

You don't remember the cookie factory?

David: 10:05

No, I remember the cookie factory, it's just that was not my favorite thing about the entire mall. I thought you were gonna say, like cuz, they used to have like crazy shit in the middle of all you know those little what didn't they didn't they used to have a ride? No, that was in Minnesota, sorry.

GC: 10:21

No man, you remember the chocolate chip cookie factory? Yeah it came into the big-ass cookie yeah.

David: 10:26

I'm just surprised that was your favorite thing in the time.

GC: 10:28

Oh, that would know, besides orange, julius.

David: 10:31

I was gonna say it was Julius.

GC: 10:32

It's my oh my gosh and then and I meant to say this, I'm backtracking a little bit but and buying a can of fart at Spence's. Oh yeah, I got that. That was amazing. That was no.

David: 10:47

No, you spray it in the well, well, no, you also had that. You remember the can you turn upside down and it made a fart noise.

GC: 10:53

Oh yeah, that's why I thought you meant a can of fire, no, the can of fire, you shake, you shake it up and you spray it and then you keep it moving and then people walk into it. That's what we used to do, and then it like, and then you could see them Looking at each other and you be like, damn, you know who did it, know it was it. So that was what our thing. So the premise of this story Is that now the strip malls are taken over from the like Haines mall, so you got Thruway shopping center that is competing and outperforming Haines mall.

David: 11:36

And those big they're called power centers they got. They're even bigger than strip malls.

GC: 11:40

They're like multiple strip malls all together altogether right and so, and then they usually will have anchor stores like Harris teeter or, like in our case at Thruway, here in locally, trader Joe's and, and so you know they have those and they're really outperforming the mall. Is that a good thing? Are we losing something by not going to the mall, because the mall was such a big part of our growing up? All we just two old cats reminiscing about something.

David: 12:13

Days that, days gone by, my honest opinion is that, yeah, we're two old cats thinking about days gone by, and I'll tell you why. So one I'm old comparatively. I mean I'm not, I'm not 13 anymore looking to get a girl to say I like you, I want to be your girlfriend. Pass me a note that says check yes or no.

David: 12:38

You did that at the mall, no, but I'm saying I'm past those days like now I'm thinking what is the store that I can park right in front of, so that I don't have to walk too far and carry my shit? Because you remember when you went to the mall you have to get. You know you have to park, you have to walk into the mall. Then you forget. You're like, oh shit, I'm on the wrong end. So now you're like where's that fucking map? You know where? The way you are here, what's?

David: 13:06

fun really, the. You are here and you're like wait, but which level is that? Wait, you're going down. Do I have to go down the stairs or do I go up the state?

GC: 13:13

wait, it's on level one sure, sure, but that was, that was a fun part of it was you want me, you got that's why our generation was less fat.

David: 13:24

That very world could be the truth and that that was not. I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feeling. I mean I'm just talking about we had less adipose tissue because we walk.

GC: 13:34

Was that what was?

David: 13:35

issue is the technical term for fat cells, so oh my god.

GC: 13:39

So I just don't want to do you like.

David: 13:41

David. David called everybody fat and like that he's not sensitive to my issues. What?

GC: 13:47

I mean, this is this is something that we did. This is something. We went to the mall for a specific purpose. Either you were going there to specifically buy something or you were going to walk around check some girls out. They checking you out. Here's the big part of this story. I know you didn't do this, so I went to a school called Dalton Junior.

David: 14:11

I just has a tough name to it was.

GC: 14:13

Dalton, dalton doesn't exist anymore does it know it's for safe tech.

David: 14:18

West Campus oh, all right.

GC: 14:21

Well, that's a flashback yes, and we were the Dalton Junior High blue nights and we absolutely were undefeated two years straight.

GC: 14:35

We never lost a game in basketball football okay, I play football and basketball, and so what you did when you went to Dalton Junior high and a lot of people listen there, so whoever's listening that five people are listening when you your last year, your last day at school at Dalton Junior high, you your right of passage was to leave Dalton and walk across the street and hang out at the mall. That was, that was a big deal it was like the right of passage yes, if you were in the eighth grade, only eighth graders did it.

GC: 15:11

You know a bunch of seventh graders did too, you know. So the last day of school, when you're turning in your books, that school would be empty. And everyone left the last day of school and walked over to the mall. And you went to Orange Julius, you went to Frankenberger, whatever that was, and then and then you had the music stores.

David: 15:34

I know you remember the music store well, my favorite music store was peaches, which is gone. Peaches was the place to go on. What?

GC: 15:42

is that Peaches Creek man peaches?

David: 15:44

I stood in line to get use your illusion one and two guns and roses man when it came out in 1992 did you 1991, so you never went to the the mall? No, I did yeah because you were in the mall, you know. I'm just saying the best music store in town was peaches.

GC: 16:03

It makes me very sad that's gone yeah.

David: 16:05

I missed the days of where you had to buy a CD and you had to get 17 shitty songs to listen to the one you wanted. Yes to the one. Yeah, the double box set right. You remember how hard it was to get that rapper off off of the.

GC: 16:18

CD cases.

David: 16:19

You like what the heck where's the key? You had no scissors sharpen up to get through that shit.

GC: 16:25

Yeah, let me ask you something. Yeah, did you ever hook up at the mall?

David: 16:29

nope, you never did. No man, I went to a private school. You never got the numbers, no man, what am I like? A 12 year old like, hey, what's on the wheels, what's up? You know that I got all the tokens?

GC: 16:41

okay, I was just asking because you know everybody's walking by, you're right you went to a public school, I went to a private school.

David: 16:47

Man oh, that's right, that's right 15 people, 15 kids none of us allowed to go to the mall, oh sure, well no, at the private schools, no one lived in the same area, like no one was even close man, and we're all from different parts, so we didn't even hang out when we're in I got you, I got you unless we were in school.

David: 17:03

This is the thing I missed the most about the ball. This is gonna I mean, this is gonna be boring sell to talk about, but I miss Sears man, because Sears was the original Amazon. You just had to walk through it.

GC: 17:13

It had everything. Even better than JC Penney it did because, jc Penney, yeah, it had clothes.

David: 17:19

Yeah, I had your little kitchen shit. It had your bed, bed stuff, but it didn't have the tools and tools. Man, craftsman and craftsman sucks. Now that Lowe's carries it, yeah, yeah, walk into Sears, man, you had somebody helping you. They told you exactly what you need oh yeah if your tool broke, you just take it in. They'd be like, yeah, no problem, we replace it. Now. Lowe's like oh yeah we don't care yeah, that's gonna be. No, that's not the type of tool we can replace. And that shit breaks now and you know what?

GC: 17:49

eight times out of ten. When they advise you on doing something, they're fixing something, they're wrong at Sears or at Lowe's. Oh yeah, well, because they hire shmoles like me.

David: 17:59

That is, yeah. I mean all you have to do is pass the application, pass a p-test. You work at Lowe's, not like you're a Contractor that knows what he's doing. I'm bringing this back back to the mall.

GC: 18:08

Yeah, thank you you. Uh. So you you thought serious was like it was one in a. Did you go in bells?

David: 18:15

Yeah, man went to everything. But you know that was a one-stop shop, but it was always crowded, it was a little hectic and it was violent back then, which let's bring it. So then it brings us to the next point right because we always say like, oh, we're losing them all, but it's a violent place. It was violent back then, guys getting fights all the time.

GC: 18:33

Oh yeah, they're gonna miss this fight, though I'm gonna beat.

David: 18:36

Yeah, I mean, yeah, we didn't shoot each other back then. Sure, we just beat the shit out of each other.

GC: 18:40

Yeah, it was a better time. It was a better time, good job.

David: 18:43

I mean there are a few stabbings. I Don't feel like that. We had the guns that we had now. Even in the 90s I don't feel like we had as many guns they didn't. I never worry about getting shot.

GC: 18:52

I mean, I saw guns.

David: 18:53

I actually got held at gunpoint in high school. Yeah, right in the face. I told you that story where a guy robbed me in the in the parking lot of West West Forsyth of course.

GC: 19:02

Yeah, of course me and two other kids but he had the gun in my face.

David: 19:06

I remember looking in the barrel and I was like is that? Real. Is that not real? Should I do something? I only had two dollars, so I gave him two dollars. It wasn't worth the the two dollars to get shot.

GC: 19:18

Now did you look down the side of the barrel and say oh, that says Daisy, your ass is whipped.

David: 19:22

No, I mean it was. It was dark at night, man, oh, okay, and I remember the girl. So here's the funny part of that story. So we're standing in the parking lot it was after a play audition and where it's just three of us left because we were the last three kids at the callbacks for Brigadoon. And we're in the parking lot. There's a basketball game. It's gonna happen later at like seven o'clock, but this is like five o'clock. It's still dark out. So it must have been like February or something. I don't know right.

David: 19:50

We're hanging out of the car and I was in. This kid starts walking up. He's got a starter jacket on.

GC: 19:55

You remember starter jackets, right the hoods and of course well, the satin jackets. Yeah, so the girl with me.

David: 20:00

Yeah, it was like, you know, football team, yeah, I'm a thing, and the girl with me is like a guys, hey, I'm getting a funny feeling. That guy, you know, I don't. I don't like that guy walking around and me and this other kid named David Coincidentally like, ah man, that's racist, you're just, you're just scared of him because he's got a starter jacket on your Profiling right. Well, she was right, she was, she was. He walked right up, pull the gun out and put it my face.

GC: 20:27

What.

David: 20:28

Yeah.

GC: 20:29

Let me tell you something Most people get shot for two reasons, and I want you to remember. I told you this and everyone is listening. I want you to remember.

David: 20:37

I said get out your pencil, write this down.

GC: 20:39

There are two reasons most people get shot in this country. Is he the money or honey? Either one. Those two things are the most. I would willing to put my life savings, which is nil, on. Those are the two. What 90% of the time?

David: 21:00

My mother used to say only two reason people get divorced. Money or honey. She didn't say those words, but she said money or honey.

GC: 21:08

And you know what I mean when I'm home.

David: 21:10

She's listening.

GC: 21:11

You know what I mean when I say honey, right yeah. I, yeah, I get it Okay, I get it All right, I'm 46 right.

David: 21:18

So is he, though, two of those things that will get you maimed and Barrest if you dip in my wallet or you dip in my honey pop, I'm gonna shoot you.

GC: 21:28

Yes, you, you know you can put your hand in someone else refrigerator first but don't let them catch you putting your hand in. They money on it.

David: 21:38

Coincidentally, that was back at the time that the malls were huge, so let's take this back to the malls. Yes, so the malls? Yeah, they're, they're violent. Now we just had last year in March, there was a shooting like like a shoot out at the mall and they were telling everybody do not go to the mall alone, do not walk to your car alone. You like you get robbed, go into your car.

GC: 21:58

And then what?

David: 21:59

happens true line moves in and they have security. You know the parking lot, this giant mall it used to be just amazing had sears, now it's got a bank and it still has some stores. But it's weird. You know, macy's, I think, is still there right now, dillard's maybe, but Belk is probably Belk and JC Penney are the biggest.

GC: 22:19

Biggest retailers there. Yeah, yeah, it's not. A belk is still there. Yeah, okay.

David: 22:25

Belk is still there. All right, you should, you should get out sometime. Go take a look at it. So, you're worried about the closing, but you haven't been there in like 40 years.

GC: 22:32

I have not. You're right. Yeah, you're right, you're right. Closing, I just think it and I'm doing this because, like you said, I'm an old guy.

David: 22:38

Would you like your daughters to go hang out at the mall?

GC: 22:41

I. I don't know if my, my girls did or not.

David: 22:43

I don't remember what would you like them to?

GC: 22:46

now, yeah, would you like Shopping at the mall? I don't know anything about them all.

David: 22:51

I know it's dangerous. I know that I wouldn't want somebody going to the mall that I know and love by themselves be at night. At night, I know that I'd be worried about my car getting a smash and grab the entire time.

GC: 23:04

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, would I let my kids go there now? I wouldn't let my kids go a lot of places now, especially my grandbabies. I, you know, I'm Worry about them all the time, especially my 15 year old granddaughter. You know she's in high school, yeah, and where does this kid hang out, if she? And If I know her mother and I know, like my own smell, you know, because I'm her dad, so I'm sure my daughter doesn't allow her to put herself in harm's way anyway. So I don't know where she hangs out. I don't. I'm sure it's not the mall.

David: 23:44

I think most people don't hang out anymore. I mean kids today they're playing their video games. They're tweeting, they're texting, they're sexting, they're Instagramming, they're you know, they're not walking around the mall, going shopping.

GC: 23:56

That's great, or meeting, congregating, or, you know, you meet your friends and especially the girls. They're just like meet me in the mall, you know.

David: 24:04

Well, apparently Jen Zier has have. I don't know if this is a bad thing, but teens today have less sex than ever. You know cause they're on there.

GC: 24:13

That's a good thing. I have three granddaughters. Yeah, I know how you see. That's funny. That's funny how you always want a little pickle tickle when you're young but then you got daughters and you're like, yeah, they need to stay locked up. You better not go out there. I don't want somebody rubbing their pathetic pecker up against my grandbabies.

David: 24:30

And that's exactly what some father thought about your pathetic pecker when you were a kid. You know it's funny how, once you get old enough, to be a dad. I don't, I don't, if you would have thought about that when you were young like I should treat this woman, this girl. I should treat this girl like a flower. I should not handle her petals.

GC: 24:53

Let me tell you something the girls I dated, a lot of girls I dated somebody got to that flower.

David: 24:59

Sarah, I hope you're listening.

GC: 24:59

Bullshit. Somebody got to that flower long before I did my man, so I'm just saying Every rose has its own, just like every night. So I don't even try that argument on me, I'm just saying I was a good old boy, meaning no harm. What does that mean?

David: 25:18

It means I was just a good old boy.

GC: 25:20

Like Duke's a hazard.

David: 25:22

Yeah, yeah.

GC: 25:23

Really yeah. Do you think, and I want to ask you seriously do you think that these power whatever? What do you call them?

David: 25:34

Power centers.

GC: 25:35

You think they're gonna overtake them all?

David: 25:36

They already have it's over. Malls are over.

GC: 25:38

You think so?

David: 25:39

Yeah, I mean malls are gonna be reappropriated.

GC: 25:41

It's so impersonal though.

David: 25:44

Oh, you know what's impersonal Every time you get that Amazon package at your door that you've been waiting on.

GC: 25:53

Oh, you're damn right.

David: 25:53

Don't you love that, though? Do you ever think that you have Bezos? Do you say thank you to the driver as he's walking up?

GC: 25:59

No, you don't even know it.

David: 26:00

No, no, no, no I do If you see him, if I see him and I'm picking it up, the package.

GC: 26:04

I was like, hey, my man, I appreciate it. It's like, thank you, do you leave him a gift card at Christmas? I don't, I don't want to own enough to do that.

David: 26:13

You don't have, so it's only based I went to high school with a mailman and you know so. So you're like hey man, I really appreciate you delivering my letter today.

GC: 26:23

I do I tell him that all the time? You know what he tells me. He said man, kiss my ass. You know, this is my job.

David: 26:27

There you go, see, I'm like damn, I'm just saying it's a, I don't care about the malls anymore, it's not a thing, it's a thing of the past. Is it sad? I don't know. It's sad to me that Sears is gone. That's what's sad. That's what I loved their tools.

GC: 26:44

Okay.

David: 26:45

All right, they had the badass tool department. The best, the best that America had to offer was the Sears, and they were around from like the early 1900s. Man, that was the first Amazon. You know. You got the Sears catalog. You could order a house. You could order a house from the Sears catalog. Go back and look, my daughter did that.

GC: 27:05

Yeah, for I think the house she's staying in is a Sears house.

David: 27:09

I saw a comedian make this joke, so I'm not the first one, but like first, first first pornography that most boys ever got exposed to was Sears catalog, the bra section.

GC: 27:19

No, no, no, no, no, no. National Geographic.

David: 27:22

Yeah, one of the two. So, I'm just saying Sears was very important and it's gone. Hey, David.

GC: 27:29

Yes, you didn't get laid much, did you, nope? Okay, all right. So this is the reason why he loves Sears so much. And you know, I totally get that now. I'm just, you know, I didn't want to put your business out there, but you just didn't.

David: 27:43

What are you going to say? Because I love a power tool.

GC: 27:45

No, I'm just saying no, most teenagers didn't go to Sears Because I love the sockets. And then you know, I don't know.

David: 27:54

I told you, I was just you wouldn't go to a cookie factory never mean I'm and I was poor, what?

GC: 28:02

my parents weren't, but they didn't take me to cook, so you rather, you know you was being a tool instead of you know you were going to look for tools instead of look for honey right, yeah, yeah. Hey man, a lot of people do that, I was a lot of teenage boys look for tools instead of honey.

David: 28:20

I don't. I don't think you've you've listened to me over the course of this show very much, where I told you I Wasn't very popular, didn't have a lot of friends. What am I gonna do? Go to the mall to get ridiculed? To watch a guy like you walk up? Hey, what's up, bitches, you want a little pic? A tick on the left, oh, oh, you see you so funny. Oh, she's see. Oh, and I'm just sitting there as a wall flower playing what. I used to go to the arcade, though I mean that they always had the racing games, man, oh yeah, I love the racing games. Yeah, you got in the car.

GC: 28:53

Yes, yeah, that's the best part, man, that's right, you're right.

David: 28:56

So I did do the arcade, I did orange Julius, but no, I didn't go. Not going to no. No, I couldn't. By the time I could go to the mall, my parents ain't driving me to the mall. By the time I could go to the mall 16. I'm not going to the mall why? Because I mean, that was like already a thing by the time I was in high school, we already thought that like old people went to the mall to I got you.

GC: 29:17

I got you already passed.

David: 29:19

Yeah, I got back then it was like you wanted to. If you wanted to hook up, which I did not, it would be like at the football game, you know, on Friday night. It would be on strafford road. They still cruise strafford. When I was in high school.

GC: 29:31

Are you serious?

David: 29:32

Yeah, you cruise strafford and you just like I understood how that worked.

GC: 29:36

We have to do a show about that.

David: 29:38

Well, I don't know that much about it. How does?

GC: 29:40

that where how you pick up a girl in a car, are you riding by I?

David: 29:44

never. I didn't say it ever worked. I said we used to go to strafford road. It worked for other people. Yeah, you just yell it. Yell at somebody, you point, you, pull into a parking lot. Yeah and yeah, but if you would just cruise them down the road. That's some bullshit. You don't do it anymore. I actually. I think they made a law against it. They started people. Yeah, they started right.

GC: 30:02

Yeah, that's they put it into that, but you could even man listen. I made a mistake one night and I was in high school or trying to go to Wendy's because I was the closest one then, and I Made a mistake and going on strafford road yeah, I'm a brother, I don't hang out on strafford road, that's not what. What we did.

David: 30:19

Yeah, that was a burger.

GC: 30:21

Yeah, it was. We hung out on Burger King or MLK you. Back then it was called Claremont Avenue. So we hung out at Burger King in a parking lot. So you know that's where we congregate. You know we hung out, but we were. You know it was traffic, but you can get in to get a wop if you wanted to.

David: 30:39

We used to always end up at Rockola cafe or the Waffle House. Oh, you went to the awful house, I went. Don't you ever say that again.

GC: 30:47

Oh, waffle what was the Rock and Roll cafe? You think it was near Burger King. I Think it was maybe.

David: 30:55

Yeah, it was down on the More of no wood side of strafford than then the climbing side, you know, before you got the Arby's and all that. Yeah, it was, it was, yeah, it was. It was away from the mall, though.

GC: 31:06

Okay cuz.

David: 31:07

I remember I loved it because it was quiet. It was up on his little. You know you go up and they had the second tier. You know you had two parts of the restaurant. I sit up in this like second tier booth or something like that, or my cheese fries. Yeah like the Rock and Roll memorabilia on the wall. It is time for. Well, let's wrap that up. I always forget to do this. Now what you have heard today is that malls are dead. Rest in P Sains ball.

David: 31:30

Oh and all malls across America, I don't care. I think that's like a theme of this show where I say I don't care. But yeah, what do you think? Wrap it up, say it. I, I think.

GC: 31:42

It's a lost art and, I think, a lot of people People losing out because of it. You know we met a lot of friends and people in the mall. Now you know you did that, that's where you congregate it and you felt safe back then. But so times are changing. These power malls or strip, whatever you call them.

David: 32:02

Power centers.

GC: 32:03

Power centers powers in this power. They're a wave of the future, evidently, and they, you know they're gonna take over malls the wave of the future is Amazon and flying drones like yes some holes will be gone, power centers will be gone to.

David: 32:18

Okay, all right, you know what it's time for. Oh, dumb shit, settle down, settle down.

GC: 32:29

I have to put my glasses off for this one, my guy. Now I don't know if this is a problem, but but it could be. So next time you feel like changing your name I Always do I don't you think you want to change your name. Yeah, you do. No, you DJ David Joy. Yeah, that's a great name.

David: 32:52

Okay, well, thank you. What so? That's a.

GC: 32:54

Hollywood name. You have that. That's a Hollywood handle.

David: 32:57

Anthony joy, oh, anthony, anthony, anthony, anthony, what am I shake? I'm not Shakespeare, it's not Mark Anthony. Yeah, it's you just said, anthony, anthony and then he, while in New York, your name would be Anthony and I would be Tony, hey, tony.

GC: 33:17

Oh, yeah, yeah. So this cat Comes out to us from Green Bay whiskey, wisconsin. So this guy changed his name. I Just want to say, when you change your name, make sure something you can live up to. And this is a problem, because people are changing a name and only cost you a hundred and sixty four dollars to change your name. Did you know that? Legally?

David: 33:43

I didn't know that. I mean, I was gonna change my name to Python to live up to that, but you know, I was told that I wouldn't live up to that. So I save my money, I'm pretty sure.

GC: 33:53

So, uh, you, so this cat changed his name. And if you're gonna change your name, don't be a criminal, because they you know when you break the law was just asshole. Did he legally changed his name to guess what? David criminal D E Z hyphen in UTS yes, does nuts D's nuts.

David: 34:22

Yeah, you said D easy, you said easy easy.

GC: 34:25

D no, d easy, that's a desk. Yes, but he pronounces, pronounced it D's.

David: 34:34

Okay. Yeah, it's one of those where the teacher is gonna be like um, do we have a desk in the room? Excuse me, that's D's.

GC: 34:41

Yes, oh god. So he changed his name and then he goes to court the judge. So what refuses the column that? So his name is Des or D's nuts Lee Crow. So I say that all together D's nuts Lee Crow, what?

David: 35:02

is Lee Crow. His name is Lee le, that's his real name. Lee Crow really crow, and he changed his name to D's nuts. Why doesn't he go by Lee? Quotation marks D's nuts Crow, now that that?

GC: 35:14

that's what he did oh so he put hyphen?

David: 35:19

No, he didn't do that. That's why I mean like a gangster you know like it. That's. That's Lee D's nuts Crow coming down the road.

GC: 35:26

Yeah, so it's not a candy bar and it's not Dr Dre song. He calls himself D's nuts.

David: 35:32

What do you think I mean? I kind of like it.

GC: 35:35

I mean you like that.

David: 35:36

It's a little catchier than Lee. Coincidentally, my friend Lee Rest in peace. He used to make D's nuts jokes all the time when we were in high school. So I mean, I don't know, I kind of have a fond, fond memory is that when you got nuts?

David: 35:51

and Lee. So this feels nice to me. I Love you, lee, I miss you. These nuts, we yeah, we say that all the time, yeah, but I don't understand, like, why he changed his name. You know, so you're saying he became a crib. Don't be a criminal, because then the judge won't say your name.

GC: 36:11

Oh, your divorce proceedings which he had to do in his wife's life. It's like that's bullshit. I am not calling him these nuts in his courtroom, I'm not doing it.

David: 36:20

Well, I you know, if I was him, I'd be like hey, I paid my hundred and sixty four dollars. You will honor my name. You will call me D's nuts. I'm on his side.

GC: 36:30

This is a true story. I'm on his side. Are you on the side?

David: 36:34

Yeah, if you legally change your name, you, you should be a lot. Look, you should be able to call yourself whatever you want. I mean, elon Musk named his kid after some constellation star or whatever, and it's like too long to say so. I mean, why? Why am I gonna get upset about a guy called himself D's nuts?

GC: 36:49

Oh, you know there's a song. You know I have a good friend of mine that used to sing this song. Not them, not those, but these nuts.

David: 36:59

I like it, you like it, yeah, I like it. I don't care, I think that's nice. D's hey, what's up? D's yeah, that's what? Yeah, my full name D's nuts, you know what, though?

GC: 37:10

What? How high do you have to get to sit there and think about something this Ridiculous? To change your name to how high, how high I don't know, man, I'm thinking about doing myself.

David: 37:28

Oh yeah, I mean. People call me D all the time, anyway, because I don't need, because it's too hard to say David, you know, it's like what is?

GC: 37:34

how's that too hard, david? What's up? D? I do that. Yeah, I know. Oh, you talking about me.

David: 37:39

I always figured that people are just being like, you know, that's a way, call me a dick and what's up D? No one ever called me the big D.

GC: 37:46

No no.

David: 37:48

I got little D a lot. What's up? Well, I was. You know I'm only 510.

GC: 37:52

Oh, was that a little deep.

David: 37:54

Actually everybody call me DJ, but I you know I'm not this jockey. Why you call me DJ? I'm not starring on Full House. You know what did people actually call you DJ oh yeah, well, I told you already, I mean mainly it was Joy Boy, but then it was DJ and I hated that one.

GC: 38:10

DJ.

David: 38:10

Yeah cuz a full house. I hated it. Joy boy, I liked cuz people used to. You know they're yelling across the, You're yelling across the campus was off Joe boy, yeah, that's kind of fun. Okay, yeah, d's, d's.

GC: 38:26

D's not joy.

David: 38:28

Maybe that's my new name. That should be my stage name D's not joy. No, no, what I'm actually gonna enjoy, I'm actually gonna change my whole name. My first name is gonna be enjoy D's nuts, enjoy these nuts. So all right.

GC: 38:44

Well, there's the show. Is my man.

David: 38:46

You got all the information today. Haines malls closing soon. I Never said that now, but it will trust me.

GC: 38:54

It's gonna be banks. It's gonna be. Business is taken over.

David: 38:58

I don't even think your cookie factory is there anymore. Rest in peace.

GC: 39:01

I don't know.

David: 39:02

I don't think it is. I don't know that for fact.

GC: 39:05

Actually, I don't know what you remember the sporting goods store that used to be up there.

David: 39:11

Yeah, I got my target blanket from there.

GC: 39:13

Are you talking about like footlocker?

David: 39:14

Oh, I don't know, it was on the top level and it was a sporting good. Omega. Thank you, there was Omega. And then it went to through way and it went to through or Stratford Road.

GC: 39:24

Yeah, I had a target. My brother had North Carolina State, I had UNC and had to Ram Ramsey's. You know Tar Hill on it. It was white and I bought it from that store. That's the stash. I bought my tennis shoes. When I play basketball you have to go there to give them.

David: 39:44

I've seen now kids are like oh you, the one day Amazon's gonna be gone.

GC: 39:47

They're like you remember the days when you still going to Amazon to pick anything that going to?

David: 39:52

happen, they know, one day. One day you're just gonna be able to think of something and it's gonna show up at your door.

GC: 39:56

Oh, that'd be awesome, would it?

David: 39:58

Yes, they're already reading your.

GC: 40:01

The phones are already listening to you. Sarah says that all the time.

David: 40:04

The phone, well, they actually are, and then the Elon Musk is gonna put a chip in your brain so that you can just think about things. Then you're gonna think about it, you're gonna order it. It's gonna be there, right.

GC: 40:12

Woohoo.

David: 40:13

I love this world. So, yay, there's our show. Yes, should I do an applause? Thank you, hey. If you like what you hear, please like, subscribe, comment with five stars. You can find us on Apple spotify all your favorite platforms. If we're not on your platform, go ahead and ditch it. Find us on YouTube. When I decide to post anything, please buy our t-shirts, you can go to it's about Gd timeshowcom. Oh yeah, get your merchandise, get your official merchandise, your shirt man.

GC: 40:45

Those shirts are nice buy one get pie free?

David: 40:47

No, no buy one, get it in the mail buy one, you just fucking get. Anyway, thanks for listening and you ready, you gonna do it.

GC: 40:59

Hey, may Hashem bless your soul and keep living. Mazel tov, mazel tov, my guy.

David: 41:05

Here we go. Come on, bring it in. Here we go. Oh yeah, I Can't stop this. No, you can't buy this. Come on, baby, let's go to the mall and get free gay.

GC: 41:27

I don't have anything to rhyme you can't stop this.

David: 41:35

Oh yeah, look hi him. Oh, my god.