The Top 10 Stores
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to our coffers. Well, see, I was a little bit more transparent. Yeah. Well, let's be really transparent. When you get money, what do you do with it? You go... Donate to charity. I was going to say shopping, girl. I think you're lying. I was trying to align with you because you said you're putting your money towards a great cause and I said you're putting money in our coffers. And so I was trying to marry those two ideas. I'm not even going to hide that.

My checks from this podcast, some of it goes to charity, a lot of it goes to shopping. And that really sort of brings us to what this episode is, what's on the table in front of us. This bonus episode, as it were, this top 10. Yes. This is, I guess it's really capitalist culture, huh? It's capitalist culture. You know, money is one of the great collective hallucinations. Whoa. It's...

It's a LARP. A live action role play? It's a live action role play. That's what money is at the end of the day. And that's what capitalism is. And would you say that the 10 stores we're about to talk about, which will make up the top 10 stores, is this some place where you'd love to go LARP? Well, the store is where you LARP the most in terms of money. Oh, yeah. When you hand the cashier...

The cash, the car. That's a transaction. When there's the transaction, that is the ultimate LARP. If you're scanning at the self-checkout kiosk, that's LARP. When I buy something, it can only be described as a transaction. You know? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I think I know. Now, talk about...

the experience of going to the store because I don't want to, we're not going to talk about any e-commerce on this episode. We're not talking about add to cart. No. How about push the cart? I'm talking about good old fashioned walking in. I'm talking about stepping into an environment where there's

pieces and really thingamabobs aplenty. Just like, look at this trove. That's what I want to say when I'm going into a store. Sometimes I know exactly what I want. A lot of the stores that we're going to be talking about, you really do go there with a purpose. Right. Sometimes you do just want to go into a store and say, what? Yeah, what's going to happen? What's going to happen? I can walk out of here penniless.

I could walk out here penniless, but I could walk out here with something new. Something new. Something that really lifts my spirits. Retail therapy is a thing, y'all. I learned during the pandemic it works. And if it weren't for stores, you would never have a lyric like, So I went to Neiman Marks on a shopping spree. And on my way, I grabbed Solly and Mia.

If there were no store, then Blue Cantrell would have no way of coping with the way her man was wronging her. Well, that was actually a retail therapy anthem. 1000%. And that's when you go, maybe stores are good.

It's actually real culture number 30. Because of Lucantrell and her retail therapy anthem, you go, maybe stores are good. You might even work in a store. If you listen to this podcast, you might even work at the store. You might be listening to this podcast right now while you're working at the store, in which case I have to tell you

You are breaking the law of your workplace. I know it's not above board that you listen to podcasts while you're at work. Honey, especially if you're in Florida, I know DeSantis has passed legislation saying people who work at stores cannot listen to these faggots on Las Culturistas. 100%, he said that. With his chest. With his chest. And...

Today, we're counting down the top 10 stores and I'm ready to get into it because I think that definitely everyone's going to be feeling the instinct to want to go out and pick up a new item. And I just want to get into it so that people can start turning their wheels about just where they want to go. And let's activate the economy, y'all. Let's give back. Pretend like the heiress tour is in your town and you're buying up

All the beads for the friendship bracelet. Pretend you're Taylor. Pretend you're Taylor. It's so noble that Taylor Swift and Beyonce, you know, that part of the virtue of their tours was that they, you know, added money to the economies of these cities. Number 10. Hudson News. Listen to me right now. There is a

communal experience at the airport. And it is either walking past the Hudson News and saying, hmm, is there anything in there I want? And deciding against it. Or there is the really just, everyone knows what it's like to go in there and ultimately buy a water. And that's it. A $7 water. Yeah. That you need. Picking one bag of Werther's Originals from a wall of Werther's Originals. Mm-hmm. Picking up... Magazines. A magazine of...

A Dramamine. A Lysol Wipe. A fucking Benadryl. You ever have those little sandwiches they sell at the Hudson News? No way. Absolutely not. No way. I have too much self-respect. See, I guess I don't because I've actually eaten one. I've had a tuna salad sandwich from the Hudson News. There is any other place at the airport to get a sandwich. You're so right. But...

I think what had happened was, tell me if you're feeling me, sometimes you show up to the airport just a little too late. You got to grab and go. And that's really where the Hudson news thrived for my grabbers and goers. My grabbers and goers. But I just think if you keep walking two gates down, there's going to be a little, there's going to be something a little better and even maybe less crowded.

All this to say is why Hudson News is number 10 on top 10 stores. Lost Couch. Number nine. Pizzeria. This also is known as pizza store. This is a store you go to buy pizza and other Italian delicacies. Garlic knots. Garlic knots such as little calzones, such as different types of pizza. I'm talking about pepperoni. I'm talking about square pizza.

What? Why did you... Bruce Rebecca, why did you burst... What's going on? You itch-balled. Oh my God. You what? I didn't eat a tissue. I thought she was itch-balling. I thought she was itch-balling. No, she was just simply sneezing. She didn't burst out laughing. She sneezed out snot. Can we say that was disgusting? Disgusting. That was awful to watch. If you're listening to this, she's currently going to the restroom being so courteous. Anyway, pizza...

When you go to the pizza store, also known as pizzeria, do you think, let's go, I'll take one of everything? Let me tell you something. I often think that, but you can't really leave with everything. I mean, you just can't eat that much. Though I will say that the leftover value, there's a lot of compelling choice in a pizzeria. And I put to you, what's your favorite pizza? Supreme. Supreme.

I want pepperoni. You want it all. I want a pepper. I want a mushroom. I want maybe some sausage if I'm in a mood. If I want a little protein, extra protein. I want a red onion. I want it heavy on the tomato sauce. You're like Sharpay. You want it all. I'm like Ashley Tisdale. Yeah. And her most iconic performance, I think, is Sharpay. That's true. What about you?

The truth about me that you don't know is that I really will just be eating a regular slice. Two regular slices. I mean, I think that that's... Here's the thing about pizza. Sometimes it... Okay. In the beginning of time, there was no pizza, right? And so then all of a sudden, there was one day pizza. Pizza.

And I think because we crushed it so hard in the invention of pizza that we actually often try to like reinvent the wheel in terms of things that need to be on it. When what we had to begin with already was like a creation that was worthy of its own standing in the culture. You know what I mean? Like a lot of people here think it's boring to maybe just say, I just wanted to have regular slice of pizza. But what I would say is like,

just stripping everything away. If you took away the knowledge that there is this culture of pizza and there is so many types of pizzas, you would be way, way, way happier to just like, except what we have that's in front of you. Like pizza is so great by itself. And I get that you're supreme.

I guess we're coming from opposite ends of the spectrum. Duality. That is this podcast. That's very this podcast. But I'm thinking of pizza as an open-faced hot sandwich. 100%. Because it's... Wait, what? Do you know what I mean?

Open-faced hot sandwich. I guess because of the bread of it all. It's bread, sauce, toppings, like things that you would maybe put in a sandwich. Girl, you are going to be out here on your own if you're trying to say pizza is a sandwich. I'm saying the beautiful innovation of pizza. Don't yell at me. I will take whatever tone I want. The beautiful thing about pizza, it is a large, flat disc. Yeah, come back in. She's wiped her nose. No, it's okay. Pizza is a large, flat disc.

And that is the innovation of it. He's trying to... I just want to fill in back up. So basically what's happening on the podcast at this moment is Bowen is trying to convince me that pizza is an open-faced sandwich. A hot open-faced sandwich. Like a tostada? Excuse me. Excuse me. If you were to put another slice of pizza face down on top of a face-up slice of pizza, is that not a calzone? Is that not a sandwich in essence? But is a calzone a sandwich? I don't...

It's things encased in bread. You know what you sound right now? Crazier than a soup sandwich. You sound crazier than a soup sandwich right now. And think about eating a soup sandwich. It would be a lot like pizza. It would be a lot like pizza. Which is so crazy to me. And our engineer is literally doubled over right now because he thinks what you've said today here so far. And we're at number nine.

It's some of the craziest shit I've ever heard. We're here to talk about the store experience of pizza store. Talk about what it's like, what the vibe, what the right vibe is when you walk into a pizza store. First of all, I want guys with dough. Guys with dough. First of all, if you work at a pizza store, you are so fucking hot and I want you to breed me. Now listen, the second thing, when I think about the smell of a pizza store, I'm so happy inside. Yeah.

I have to sing a song. What? What song? The pizza song. Pizza is my boyfriend. Pizza is a god. Pizza is my sleigh on the wind. Pizza's a relaxing thud.

Taylor should do more of that in the song. She should go, relaxing dog. Relax. If Taylor came out with a song called The Pizza Song. It would be huge. If you think that Taylor Swift, if she released a song called The Pizza Song, and if you don't think that would be one of her Billboard Hot 100 number one hits, you'd be deeply mistaken. That will be the biggest song of all time. She would tear, eat, slay.

And prosper. And prosper. The big four. That's why pizzeria is number nine in our list of top 10 stores. Lost culture. And I have to say, just the discourse around pizza made me so happy. Are you going to have pizza tonight now? I think so. Me too. Oh my God. Number eight. Wegmans. Wegmans. Go on. Wegmans is elevated grocery shopping. Say that.

Trader Joe's, you have to be in the right space for it. Can I say something? It's not 2011. Sorry, TJs. Bowen is so shook, disturbed, distraught. I'm trying to be diplomatic and say that Trader Joe's is not an all-the-time situation. No. Wegmans is an all-the-time situation. Here's what I got from Wegmans recently. Diet Coke. Yeah, you're wanting to do that. A box of 20 frozen...

Corn dogs. What? And it's the perfect snack if I'm coming home from a long day at work, if it's like three in the morning and not a lot's open delivery-wise, I'm too tired to cook, but I'm never too tired to pop off.

a cold hard corn dog into the microwave for one minute exactly and then it's cooked to perfection and then i drizzle mustard and then i take a little finger bowl put ketchup and mustard mix it into a special sauce dip it in that i'm in heaven you should do a corn dog talk show absolutely

Because you know how there's chicken shop date. You know how there's hot wings challenge. Hot wings challenge. What's it called? Hot ones. Hot ones. You should have a corn dog show. Yeah. And it's just vibes. It's not even chicken shop date where it's like, oh, look at us in this chicken shop. It's not even hot ones where it's like, oh, they get hotter. It's a challenge. We're sitting on a big couch.

Eating a hot corn dog. And what is a corn dog if not a sandwich on a stick? That's from WandaVision. That's from WandaVision. All This Is Why Wegmans is number eight on top ten stores. Lost Coach. Number seven. Best Buy. Still kicking. Kicking ass.

I have so many amazing memories in the Best Buy, such as buying a charger. I feel like everyone needs a charger. Everyone needs... You're making fun of Best Buy, and I actually really don't like that. No, I'm not! What the fuck are you talking about? You started off the sentence saying, I have so many special memories at Best Buy, and I was going to say, yes, my sister. And then you took a hard left into...

I love buying chargers from Best Buy. Fuck off. Here's my memory of Best Buy, of walking over from when my mom was at the Costco next door. I would walk over to Best Buy when she was busy doing her shopping. I would go to the Dance Dance Revolution pads store

in the middle of the store and have dance competitions with the employees there to sandstorm bitch to fucking which was really the number one people this was what was happening this is where I learned my performance instincts okay people would start to gather yep

I can see this in my mind's eye. When everyone was at Best Buy, I was the star of Best Buy because I was, picture 15-year-old me with braces throwing his legs around next to the fucking 32-year-old goth Best Buy employees of the mid-aughts.

And I was kicking their asses, wiping the damn floor. I'm sorry, the damn DDR pad with them. Do you think that when they saw you came in, their heart sank? Because they knew that they were in for defeat? Bowen's here. Did they know your name?

No, they were just like, that little Asian kid is here to fucking... Sweat and stomp. Sweat and stomp. Would you get incredibly sweaty doing it? Yes. It was my idea of exercise. I didn't quite know my way around the gym. I think you were right about that. I didn't really know my way around the gym. And part of me selling it to my parents, they would never buy it for me, but I was like, I'm going to go exercise, mom. I best buy. I think one of the...

Common misconceptions about Dance Dance Revolution is that it's not exercise. Oh, no. I think it is exercise. And I think that you proved that. They had a calorie counter. There's a workout mode in DDR2 where you can dance to whatever song and they would show you a completely off figure. But they'd be like, you burned 200 calories dancing to Can't Get You Out of My Head or whatever. I want to ask you,

So a lot of people, they ask the question of what was the first CD you ever bought? Speaking of Best Buy, do you know or could you guess what the last CD you bought was? Oh my God. Like, this is an interesting... Because the last CD I bought must have been with the purpose of

Not burning it. Reverse burning it. Whatever you call it. Uploading it to your iTunes to put on your iPod. Right. Right. Can I tell you what I think it is? What? Blackout by Britney Spears. Whoa. What was yours? I think that if I had to guess what the last physical... Oh, no. I know. I know. But go, go, go, go, go. What? Say. I had a car rental somewhere. I forget where. But...

I didn't have, I didn't bring like a Bluetooth thing or whatever. I didn't bring like an aux cord adapter thing. So I bought 25 by Adele on CD to put in my car. Wow. In my rental car to like listen to. I think that if I had to actually say what was the last physical CD I bought, it had to be one of Kelly's albums because I probably said to myself like, I'm going to stream up to help her numbers. I have to go to the store and buy the CD. So I'm going to guess that it was like,

All I ever wanted. We both love our Vegas queens. Yeah. That's beautiful. And all this is why Best Buy is number seven on the top ten stores lost culture. Bo, listen. Vacation is something you gotta get right. You can't roll the dice. You have to make sure that it's all together. Everything is where it's supposed to be when you get where you're going on vacation. Can you agree? I have never agreed with you more. And I've

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Record Store. So this sort of speaks to exactly what we were just talking about. I would say that Record Store and Best Buy were very much, it's not a redundancy, it's that they're very closely tied. I think this was a dead heat in terms of who was coming in at number six. I think that the idea of the Record Store sort of speaks to another type of store that's going to come in a little bit later, and that you really go in for the experience. And I will say some of the coolest stores I see

in New York, our record in LA area is like a hybrid record store slash coffee place. Totally. You know what I mean? Like it's like they, there's a really cool place in Greenpoint, like in North Greenpoint where around, around where I used to live, um, which is like half record store, half coffee place. And also if you think there's not a venue in the back for standup night, you'd be wrong. And honey, if you don't, if you think there isn't a place to get a fucking barbershop cut,

At the record store coffee shop stand-up venue? 100%. You'd be deeply mistaken. Deeply sorely. You know that we shot my video for Everything You Want featuring Muna at a record store that was also a bar that also...

- Thank God, because that video turned out amazing. And also that is the perfect place to shoot a music video where you need different kinds of sets. - 100%, we got there and we were like, and it was that moment Bowen of like, can you believe we have this space? And that is true of so many record stores across the globe. - Thank you to Amoeba. Thank you to Rough Trade, RIP Tower Records. - RIP Tower, we do remember you. - We remember you fondly. And all of this is why. - This is why record stores are number six

On top 10 stores, Lost Cult. Shout out to Twist and Shout in Denver. I think it's still around. Maybe it isn't. I hope so. Number five. Lord and Taylor. Talk about this because I don't really have any real connection to Lord and Taylor. So this is sort of like my Wegmans. Yes.

Lord & Taylor was a place where my mom would take me to go shop. It was often like, so Lord & Taylor was, I guess, like a little department store where they just had, I wouldn't call it like a ton of fast fashion, except I kind of would. Like, it was a lot of like, you'd go there to buy a duster. You'd go there to buy like some cheaper t-shirts. Like, you know what I mean? Like Lord & Taylor, like if you know, you know. Sure. Yeah.

But Lord and Taylor... Sort of like Nordstrom. Right, and this is what I was going to bring up, which is, why did Lord and Taylor make the list and not Nordstrom? And I don't want to challenge it. I just want your perspective on what makes Lord and Taylor exceptional enough to make the list. And can I say why? Yes. Can I respond directly to you? I'm asking. I think it's because we made this list very quickly, seconds before we started recording this, because Becca said we had to do a bonus episode. You're peeling back the curtain.

And that's just the truth. That's just the truth. No, I know. Is that we just recorded with Tina Fey and then we were actually asked very nicely to please do our bonus episode. We're so late. Yeah, because this episode is very late. It's very late. Becca asked us so nicely. But then she itch-balled. We thought she itch-balled, but then she actually sneezed and snot came out. Yeah, she sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker. Beyonce all on his mouth like Becca. Have you ever heard that?

has anyone ever done that? Beyonce all on his mouth like Becca Beyonce all on his mouth like Becca do you hate it or do you like it? I mean I love Beyonce so I love it and Beyonce is in your mouth all the time alright there you go so all this is why Lord and Taylor is number 5 you know who's loving this list? my mom Countess Luanne just tagged me in a story I love that what's this gonna be? you wanna look? let's just look

Oh. The picture? It's me asking a question about whether or not she's coming back to Roni. Well, then... Because I was at her famous... She's not crushing the rumors. Not beating the allegations. Not beating those returning allegations. Number four. Costco! Now, a lot of you may be wondering why this didn't make... Four might be a low placement. I think that to say this is like...

This is almost a snub. This is almost a snub, but also, you know what my theory is on why it was snubbed?

The card of it all. The membership of it all. You're right. The tears of it all. It's like we don't want people. Gatekeeping. It's gatekeeping. Literal gatekeeping. Yeah. Literal highlight keeping. Let me look at the receipt and quickly do a little eye of your shopping cart. I didn't know I was on trial just walking into the store. The surveillance state is with us. Oh, yeah. This 70-year-old woman is like eyeing me down. Yeah.

It's already, the real world is already socially stratified in such perverted ways. And for me to be reminded of that, if I go into Costco and if I want to apply for a membership, oh, there's this tier, there's the gold, the executive. I don't want to hear it. I want to go to the store and just shop. Can I say something? I'm calling you in.

this has gone to a very negative place no this has gone to a very negative place i know you do sister and i know that what you're trying to say is that they should make it easier to be more equitable it should be card holders non-card holders even that's even that's gatekeeping so let's just say to the those in charge we want to share in the joy of this store everyone wants to come to costco

This is actually my thing. I wrote a sketch about Costco with Kim Kardashian, by the way, where we sang about the virtues of Costco. They didn't say a peep. They didn't send us one Beef Wellington. They didn't send us one $2, $1.50 hot dog. Again. That's crazy to me. This has gone to a very negative place. I don't want to be entitled, but we put you on the map.

See, that's crazy. Kim and I did that. This is crazy to me that you would say that you and Kim Kardashian put Costco on the map. Kris Jenner didn't do shit. Well, I don't think- Tina Nose didn't do shit about Costco. All right. I don't care. No one gives a shit that they go to Costco. They're moms. Of course they're going to Costco. I'm here, a young gay man- Say it. With the most famous woman in the world- Okay. Boosting your signal. And nothing-

I agree with you. It's a travesty. I do want to say, though, just to say how much we love Costco because I do think this will be closer to their heart. You know what I mean? If you want to actually reach out and touch somebody, you have to do it with kindness. You have to do it with kindness. And can we say, Costco, you have given us so much, such as samples of food. There is no other store that is doing samples like Costco. There is no other store that is doing...

All the produce is in the coldest room in the world where you have to walk through the plastic fucking pedals that hang down from the door. A parking lot, more like parka, is what I need to be wearing in that aisle. Bitch. Eight. Eight. What's four plus four? Eight. How many letters in devoured? Eight. Eight.

How many continents should there be? Eight. Eight. That's... What would the eighth continent be? North Pole, Han. You think Kimberly Locke should release a song? I think... On the eighth continent! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

I don't know if you should do that. I think the song's fine how it is. And that is why... Costco is number four on top ten stores. On stores? Lost College. Number three. Thrifting. Thrifting. Thrift. I'm sorry, thrift. Thrift stores. Thrift stores, yes. You feel you're a part of the problem? You feel you're a part of the problem doing fast fashion? I'm talking to you, the reader. You can change. Go to a thrift store today. Greta Thunberg.

implores you. Yes. Sorry. You know who would be so thrilled with you? Chloe Sevigny. Chloe Sevigny. She famously thrifts her little behind off. If you want to be a fashion icon like Chloe, get it together, hun. Head to the thrift store. Toss a bunch of stuff together. You don't know if it's going to be iconic or not. Right. This is some of the most ethical shopping you can do. 100%. But the reason why it's number three and not two or one is

What were you laughing about? I'm laughing at you being like, this is so ethical. Oh, then I looked at number two. We'll get to that. Don't worry. I know, I know, I know, I know. The only note I have for thrift stores. Okay. Let's do something about the smells. Okay. I know this is all secondhand and this is all, we're going to great lengths to make sure that this is all presentable and that people want to buy and repurchase these things.

I think the barrier of entry for a lot of people is the smell. Have you ever donated to a thrift store? Absolutely. If you don't think that when I moved apartments, I went to the Goodwill in Queens because that was the closest one. And then I did four trips to that Goodwill with bags of clothes. Good for you.

You have another thing coming. I've done repeat trips to out of the closets. Oh, we love out of the closet. We love Village Discount in Chicago. We love L Train Vintage in New York, specifically Brooklyn. Can I give a peek behind the curtain? So all, speaking of my video earlier, everything I wore for my music videos and my styling for the album that I released last year called Have You Heard of Christmas was all thrifted by...

by our friend Melissa Layman. Melissa Layman. Who is a thrifting icon at Mulsimouse. M-U-L-S-Y-M-O-U-S-E. Best vibes in a person. Incredible vibes, incredible thrift talent. Yes. And dressed me down with all thrift stuff. And I will say as a result of that experience working with her on it, I've been...

very into thrift stores as a concept and I am not going to lie I used to be that girl doing a lot of fast fashion and trying to cut back cut back we're learning we're learning always learning like a sponge

That's what they do. And that is why thrift stores is number three on top 10 stores. Lost Colts. Number two, Apple. I'm going to give you the floor here because I think that you, you more than anyone I know, know their way around an Apple store. I know exactly where the things are hidden. Oh, check the tables, the display tables. There's a hidden drawer there. Treasures unsold. Sorry, I didn't match your pitch.

You were maybe coming for me a little for saying the ethics of Apple Store is a little questionable. For sure.

They're going carbon neutral by 2050 or something. We love Apple. And there might not even be a world by then. But they're making inroads. I will say one thing that frustrates me, Apple, is... So I have the new iPhone here, right? The charger is... USB-C. USB-C. Okay. So can I actually ask my sister this question? Because I feel, like I said, you might have the answer. If anyone does in my life, it's going to be you. So the...

So there's the USB-C now. This is the new charger for the new iPhone. Then you go into your car. And some cars now have USB-C. But is there an option for USB that plugs into USB-C? There are some cords that go USB-A to USB-C. I got to find those cords. They sell them. All right. Go to a Best Buy. Go to the Hudson News. I'm trusting you, girl. I have them. I have multiple cords. You think I can go to number 10 on this list and get something I can't get at number 2?

They sell it at number two, or they also sell the adapter. All right. I get very confused and turned around with the USB of it all. Excuse me? I just get very turned around when it comes to different USB variants. I don't know why life can't just be more simple. And I say that... That's the point of USB-C is that everything is going to be USB-C in the near future. But this whole journey started me... I'm going to say like even...

Seven years ago when people were like, let's all, we're making the switch to USB-C. It's going to take a minute. Okay. And we're in this transition phase now. I'm feeling that discomfort right now in my 2024 Black Hyundai Elantra. I'm going to check in with you in about three years, I'm going to say. You're going to be like, I can't live without USB-C. Mm-hmm.

Trust me. Did I tell you I got a new car? No. Got a new car. What color? Black. Amazing. Be careful. People might get in thinking it's an Uber. Well, listen, better that than my red car.

I know. You know, I was driving a red Hyundai Elantra. We named it Wanda, the Scarlet Witch. You can understand why. And I was getting tickets a lot because I think the car was too ostentatious. And I remember that's what Joel Kim Booster said when I picked him up one day. He said, I don't like this car. And I thought, that's very rude, Joel Kim. Oh, I don't like that. And then he said, well, it's not your personality. It's too ostentatious. And then I had to really understand the fact that he doesn't think I'm ostentatious.

There's nothing wrong with being ostentatious. I wish he thought I was more ostentatious. Because I felt the car was very my personality. I loved that car. I was very sad to see it go. The Apple Store. What's your favorite memory of Apple Store? All the geniuses I've met. Some really good people there. Unique. Loving. That's what you are. Tech superstars.

Oh, this is why Apple stores is number two on top 10 stores lost culture. Bo, listen, vacation, it's something you got to get right. You can't roll the dice. You have to make sure that it's all together. Everything is where it's supposed to be when you get where you're going on vacation. Can you agree? I have never agreed with you more. And I've had

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Especially by the time we got to number five and you were like, they haven't said Target yet. You know, one of the great things about Target too is they're so seasonally on top of it. If you walk in there, like when the clock strikes midnight on like, even like Halloween, Thanksgiving, like they somehow, they magically wave the wand and it is all the holidays are there and everything is there. And like, if you want a reef. What? Yeah.

It is Reef. Reef. Why did I think it was Reef? You threw an F in there. I don't know. Because I'm so addicted to marijuana. I love reefer so much. Reefer. Up top. You understand. Target is one of those places that helps you understand the passage of time. Thank you, God. It is the sundial of our culture. Yeah. And never going anywhere.

Good luck. Yeah. They have made some missteps recently with their pride stuff and they've caved to fucking these crazy fucking... We're going to get in trouble for this, aren't we? I don't care. They can take this heat. What was it? That they took all the pride stuff down because of fear? Because of fear. They have been a little bit spineless in other similar ways around these sort of like... Let's acknowledge that queer people exist. Well,

Well, here's the thing. So when a corporation, let's say Target or something, does the pride thing and they're like, we are all gay. And that becomes very much the vibe. We are all gay. There's pride everywhere and it becomes Target. It's like that's one thing that people can choose to have a complaint about. And then when they take it all down, they're like, well, you guys are spineless. And it's like, okay, we're just trying to keep people safe because we have to ignore the reality of the fact.

that there's a lot of ongoing and escalating violence in this country towards, of course, all minority groups, but also... No, I'm not defending Target. I'm saying, is it a sort of, you know, damned if they do situation? And do we care that much at all that there's a rainbow above, like... I guess. The Reef Isle? I guess so.

I guess to me what reads is like... What does pride mean to you? What pride means to me is that level beyond tolerance, acceptance. Yeah. What gets me is that pride... You can't... It's like the heel turn, the reneging on it is sad.

Yeah. And that's all. I never hated Target for having pride stuff. No, I absolutely love Target no matter what. And I understand. Anyway, what can you get at Target? You can get... Oh my God. Lunch, first of all. Lunch. Starbucks often if you're lucky. A plastic bin for storage. Not for nothing but sex stuff. Sex stuff. A toaster.

hills if there's a CVS in there there's a target in Chicago that I go to that I think I've been to on four different occasions four different years to buy lube and lube only amazing because Chicago is one of those cities where like you kind of have a guy you know what I mean Chicago be fucking

It's one of the most fucking cities in the world. Chicago be fucking. And that's actually roller coaster number 99. Chicago be fucking. And luckily, there's targets all over Chicago, it being a major city, this being number one on the list. And they have lube. And that's a huge part of why Chicago be fucking. It's a plentiful, bountiful... I would say New York is not super...

The targets aren't thriving in New York City the way that they are in Chicago, the way that they are in Los Angeles. They're thriving in LA for sure. I know this, but in Chicago, I think that's a sleeper target town. 100%. And I mean, you and I have both been on our separate, on separate, in separate scenarios, of course, but like we've both been plowed in Chicago. Absolutely. I mean, I have some of my most iconic sexual tales. Yeah.

And my book is coming out called The Sexual Tales of Matt Rogers. It's not what you think. It's much darker. It's more of a psychosexual thriller. It's actually fiction. But no, yeah, we've gotten it in Chicago. Was Chicago meth for you? Chicago was not meth for me. Where did you accidentally do meth? It was at home.

So if you don't know and you're sort of just joining the podcast now and not years ago. I accidentally did meth once. Bowen actually did meth once and had what you described as acrobatic sex with a man for hours. Acrobatic sex, moving furniture around. I took the G train home. Wow. Yeah. And that's not a euphemism. No.

Oh, no, no, no. No GHB. Absolutely. Never. Never. But you could probably buy G at Target, to be honest. Someday. They got it all. Hey, Target, here's how you correct the pride stuff.

Sell G. I want to see poppers on the shelves too. If you're going to sell lube, why not sell poppers too? Put the G next to the Metamucil so that the gays can shit. Stop pretending like it's not what it's for. You should just call it the butt aisle. Have everything that you need for your butt. You know what I'm saying? It's like, why should I have to go all the way over there? You know what I'm here for. I'm dying. Here's what's in the butt aisle. Yeah, tell me.

Charmin, Dude Wipes, The Lube, Fleet Enema, which I've been using. Don't use it too much. Right. But I'm saying like, you get the hype about the Fleet Enemas. But it's not, it's... I know, it's going to destroy my stomach lining, I know. Yeah. What else is in the butt aisle?

Some Metamucil. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet even at Target you could get some toys. I mean, is that crazy to think? No, I think that's a bridge too far. I don't think they sell like... You can get butt plugs and stuff at Target? I don't know about butt plugs. How do you know this? But massagers? Because you walk through the aisles, you're looking for your tampons, and it's in the same section. The tampons, the lube, and the toys. If there was a pussy aisle at Target, we need a pussy aisle. Period. I, um...

Wholeheartedly agree. There's a pussy aisle. There's a pussy aisle. There should be a pussy aisle. That's rule of culture number 50. Hey, Target. If there's a pussy aisle, there should be a pussy aisle. And that is why... That is why Target... Number one. Is number one on top 10 stores. Last culture.

Well, I'm super happy that we decided to put this definitive list together as quickly as we did because we questioned nothing and that is how you know you've done something right. It's when something just flows out of you and you just need that sort of prompt from someone like Producer Beckham.

What happened was, in many ways, producer Becca was the fleet enema. She got right up our butts. She tenderized the lining. She got right up our assholes and said, you need to do an episode. And then we flushed out this list and now we're ready to fuck. I can't wait. I don't know when I'll do it, but hopefully soon. You have two weeks off. I'll go to Chicago, get fucked. That would be wonderful. That'd be wonderful. They have everything you need.

Well, thank you so much for joining us on yet another amazing bonus episode. I just know there'll be more. Yeah. Stay tuned for the next month. Wait, wait, I never messed up with the song. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light I have such a crush on him. What so proudly we

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