Devin, Andy, and guest Sam Talevich visit the Bandai Namco Cross Store in Industry City, Brooklyn. What is a Cross Store, exactly? How many Gashapon machines are required to have something for everyone? 150? 300? 3000?? Can you win at claw machines with proper training? Should there be a flagship store dedicated solely to Pac-Maniana? Do Taito no Tatsujin skills translate to real world drumming?

Lucky Wander Boy by D. B. Weiss

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Devin and Andy visit Daiso, a Japan-based discount home goods and variety store, in Brooklyn’s Industry City. Will “two and a quarter store” catch on as much as “dollar store”? Is pickle candy ever good? Can electric erasers bring us back to a time of buzzing offices and techno-optimism? Are we at, past, or still climbing to Peak Bag Dangler? How bougie do you like your garbage bags? Does your life have a feeling of cleanliness??

Brimful of Asha by Cornershop

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Devin and Andy visit a newly opened Lidl—a discount grocery chain with roots in Germany—on a warm August day. Do people confuse Lidl and Aldi? What about Aldo and Lids? Are all the prices with surprise endings, like, say, $2.47, trying to scramble our brains? How important is music to the grocery shopping experience? Are we ready for the grueling psychological test of comparing store brands and national brands at close range?

This episode features a new segment: “That really steams my beans!” What about the shopping experience steams your beans??

Gap playlists

LIDL wiki

Vintage Mickey Mouse ice cream bars

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After a stop at See’s Candies, Devin and Andy visit America’s oldest apothecary, C.O. Bigelow. Will the drugstore soda fountain please come back? Does Bigelow represent peak tortoiseshell? Are swanky manual toothbrushes bought exclusively for apartment photo shoots? Will the dream of Smell-O-Vision in every home be realized? What’s the best health-to-beauty ratio for a pharmacy? Are those real vices, or are you vice signaling?

Deuce Bigelow trailer

Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody video by David Lee Roth

POH (Personal Oral Hygiene)

Sun Bum & Vacation sunscreens

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Devin, Andy, and guest Jared Selsberg head to a Brooklyn Cyclones game in Coney Island and report on the experience. What is the meaning behind the more whimsical minor league team names? Is a bobblehead or a baseball cap the ideal promotional item? How about jewelry or a spirit towel? Do we miss the stadium parking lot ticket reseller? How about roving food vendors, whose numbers seem to be dwindling? Will minor league food concessions catch up with the majors in quality? Have they already caught up in price? Should Maimonides Park hand out souvenir copies of Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed? Do some heckles echo throughout eternity? Is anyone still keeping score??

Cpl. Klinger of M*A*S*H* in Mudhens gear

History of Kenosha’s Simmons Field (former home of Kenosha Comets & Kenosha Twins, current home of the Kingfish)

Sugar Land Space Cowboys shop

The Athletic on new ballpark concessions

NYT on PawSox leaving Rhode Island

NYT on Seinfeld night at the Cyclones

Cyclones Hot Dog Hats and Hot Dog Tees

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Devin and Andy visit and revisit classic infomercials and Home Shopping sales pitches. But wait, there’s more! Is the infomercial dead, or has it simply been struck down and gone on to become more powerful than we can possibly imagine? Will a new Ron Popeil or ShamWoW Vince rise to sell us on gadget bliss? Is something a true scam if (almost) everyone knows it’s a scam? Probably! Does the rich satirical culture bequeathed by the infomercial make its flaws worthwhile? Are we doomed to forever search for devices that make food preparation slightly more convenient? Are operators still standing by??

Broomshakalaka (Adult Swim)

Fartcopter (Adult Swim)

Ronco In-Shell Egg Scrambler

Slap Chop

Slap Chop (remix)

Eddie (Adam Goldberg) is a dehydrating maniac on Friends

BBC One by Ming Tea

Ginsu commercial

Mr. Microphone by Ronco ad

Simpsons Superstar Celebrity Microphone ad

Simsons Juice Loosener infomercial

Help Me, Mr Popeil by “Weird Al” Yankovic

Sobakawa Pillow infomercial

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Devin, Andy and guest Leslie Price (co-founder of Gloria) discuss Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo after a cold, cold open. Is Uniqlo’s Lifewear catalog a pretty decent magazine? Does the Uniqlo checkout, whether conscientiously handing back a credit card, or utilizing RFD tags, indicate a considered peak of customer service? Is a flagship a different store, essentially? Can an app’s sizing tech ever approach an actual changing room? Has Uniqlo digested Prep values—from Take Ivy to The Official Preppy Handbook to J. Crew—and created a superlative version of the style? Is their website confusing, or is any problem likely with the user? What is the right way to pronounce Uniqlo??

Kingdom of Prep excerpt in Vanity Fair, by Maggie Bullock

NYPost on NYC pronunciations

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Theme music by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Jed Becker⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, cover art by⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Margaret Flatley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, music insertion by Skye MacLeod

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