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3:01EcoHousing, Opportunity, Lender, Brian Keefe, Head Coach of the Wizards, he'll join us coming up at 845. I just saw a major store is shutting down. 200 stores all across the country. Is it when I frequent? I don't think so. And I actually was thinking about this. It's one that I, I know the name. Yes. I've seen them in malls. You not know what they sell? Kind of know what they sell. All right. I don't think I've ever walked into one. I'm all screwed. And I don't think I've ever owned the type of clothing from this company. So it's not, it's not a trick store. It's maybe I've owned clothing from them, but I don't think so. REI. Close. REI is more. Not nature lovers. REI more, but I kind of. OK, I'll just find an REI. Eddie Bauer. Eddie Bauer. OK. I think I've had like an Eddie Bauer like long sleeve shirt at some point or maybe a plaid shirt.

4:01I've had five Eddie Bauer things in my 56 years. Maybe I've had an Eddie Bauer like something like this. Yeah, I have a little waffle shirt. Eddie Bauer vest. I'm a vest guy. Right. But I mean, Eddie Bauer's like, it's a no name. Yes, it does give you equipment. And I feel like it is more outdoors. Can I give you a funny anecdote? And I don't know why this comes in my brain. Rob's Pee Wack was at Eddie Bauer now. I don't know why. I don't know why. That means like three people last. Rob's Pee Wack. I believe was at Eddie Bauer now. But if you're like looking at tears of like outdoorsy type clothing like LL Bean Pones Eddie Bauer, I feel like lands end. I feel like it might be higher in than Eddie Bauer. Is it land end like more order online? That might be just like a magazine catalog. I feel like it could be, yeah. I don't know if it's a retail. When EBS said REI, I kind of, I feel like Eddie Bauer is a cousin of REI. I've been in the REI. But isn't Eddie Bauer just close?

5:01They don't have tents and stuff. I don't think so. I don't think so. He's getting water bottle. REI is pretty high end. That's like, but I feel like REI, the EBS, right? None of us are nature guys. My brother. To me, REI is. My brother's big. If I had to get a, if I was going camping, I had to get a tent or a kayak, I would go to REI. Eddie Bauer don't think has kayaks. If I, if I'm wearing like boots or something or shoes you'd get to REI, you know I've been murdered and cloned. Yeah. You're not going to have to take it over your body. That ain't going to happen. But you see, you should have happened that the register at REI would stop. Listen, I went to REI one time when in the whole COVID disaster, when you couldn't find a bike. And I almost paid like $1,500 for just an REI bike. Yeah. Only time I've ever gone to REI. Didn't Eddie Bauer, for whatever reason, it pops into my head, like in the maybe mid late 90s, didn't like Ford have like some deal with Eddie Bauer. Yeah, Eddie Bauer's the Eddie Bauer edition.

6:03Oh, you were like, did he? If you had an expedition. Yeah, exactly. You had an Eddie Bauer expedition. Expedition. In high school. If it said Eddie Bauer on your steering wheel, you were pimping. Your dad was a baller. Yeah, 100%. 100%. You didn't work at the MBA like my dad. You wasn't a pastor like mine. So hold on. Is, so you're saying Eddie Bauer's couplet, are they going to still have an online? They would have an online presence, right? You don't need to have a store. Don't need the brick and mortar. You don't need a brick and mortar. Right, why would Eddie Bauer, you got to keep the name. I'll buy the name. I don't think you're going to afford the name. I mean, of course, I just rent borrow. I mean, a borrow the name. Yeah, I mean, not borrow the name. I would probably buy it. Yeah. And he's on the dollar. I would buy the Eddie Bauer name. Is it having an online store? Buy EddieBauer.com. Here's what the story says. Shoppers. You're already eb.com. Yes. Shoppers. We're all the eb hats. Well, likely soon have to say goodbye to Eddie Bauer's retail stores across the US and Canada. I said goodbye to them about three or five years ago.

7:03200 North American storefronts of the iconic outdoor peril chain are expected to shut down after the operating entity behind the stores failed to find a buyer during its chapter 11 restructuring. So you missed out on the sale, maybe. Hey, what was what was hotter back in the day? Right. Eddie Bauer or Tommy Hill figure. Oh, Hill figure, I think. Thank you. Bye, Tommy. Tommy Horskamp. Tommy Hill figure. Tommy Horskamp was a big. Tommy Hill figure. I mean, they're still around. You don't figure. Yeah. He looks like a dummy. What a dummy guy. What about structure? Oh, I was. I was. Oh, it was nice structure. You don't even know about structure. That's before your time. I don't think it was a big. I had a structure. I had a structure t-shirt. That was before your time. That was in high school. Come on. You were just. You were alive. Yes. Me and my friends, we called each other the structure boy. We get the structure. I bet you got. I bet you guys called you something else. Yeah. I think the exact same thing. Like that was like, I still consider Ralph Lauren Polo, Ralph Lauren,

8:05like a nice high end. Sure. Yeah. Maybe people make fun of it. But for me, that's a high end thing if I wear a polo thing. Yeah. Structure was like that for me as a kid. Like structure and colleges. Well, we were teenagers. I know. Well, we were teenagers in maybe 20s. Structure. Remember Jay Riggins. I remember Jay Riggins. John Riggins. Definitely had Jay Riggins. 100%. My mom would go there because it had an apple small. Yeah, but it was a little. It was more style than if you went into Sears or AC. Right. Yeah. Right step up. I wasn't silly. Listen, you were richer than me. I know you like to debate it. You were richer than me. It's a fact. I was a busto. But your mom would buy clothes at Sears. We didn't really buy clothes at Sears. Your mom. Yes, yeah. Yeah. So even though I was broker. I drew the line. It clothes at Sears. You got a four-bedroom home. I'll make a three-bedroom home. Yeah. Topskains. You had like nine homes. We had one that we did. That's the one that we did. We did not. We did not.

9:05It's my property in Puerto Rico. How do you think it was richer? Yeah. Please. I mean, it wasn't even close. Yeah. I mean, if I've been to my most famous story of how bustle where you are, my dad went, my mom didn't work. My dad went one full year, zero paychecks. I mean, JP Zero. Zero Polo in middle school. His middle school was so fancy. We would get the lady that collected the offering which he would come to the house, we'd throw a party. It was like it was Christmas. Because there was enough in the offering that paid daddy. What is the store you miss the most? Like if you could resurrect the store. So Eddie Bowers going to be done. If you want to chime in, 1-800-636-1-67, I swear, I do think. And it was probably 18 to 22. And it was probably for Rugby's. When Rugby shirts were popular. Riches? No, Jay Riggins was the spot. I don't eat beer. I feel like you're asking if the paddles a circuit city wants that bad. I love circuit city. Hey, you could get lost in circuit city for hours. Oh, but yeah. That's a bit of testosterone is raging when I'm in circuit city. Just looking at TVs.

10:06You guys, the guys behind the glass are way too young for this store. The store used to go to all the time with my parents as a kid. Was in New Carrollton. What do you know about best department store? I do remember that. Yes, I do. Yes. I used to go to Vest. Because we would get the best catalog. And it turned into W Bell in company. That I don't remember. But like if you ordered something, Bay would come out like on a conveyor belt and you're like, oh my god, we just got this. It was like a mini Costco almost kind of, yeah. Like a very mini. Yeah. If you want the best. At the certain age to know that store. I think that's where I got my Odyssey, too. You probably didn't get the Atari. Got the Odyssey, too. From Bex. And it was our joint. That's where we were going to see movies. 196361067. And I do think Jay Riggins was my, I thought I was stylish if I got clothes from there. Maybe that was actually before rug. We should, some reason I feel like that. You know where I got. I think only once in my life I had a Paisley shirt. I think it was from Jay Riggins. Oh, I had a lot of Paisley when I was a college. Did you?

11:06Oh yeah, a lot of Brad. In college, like 20 or 21, the move was Paisley shirt, buttoned all the way to the top, kind of like Christmas. And you cuff your jeans to the point where you might lose your feet. Like they're, they're cuffed so tight. Like my loose circulation to your lower extremity. What was the name of the place in the land over the wall? I'm going to tell you where I got my first suit. And there'd be a lot of people out there that my street cred's going to go up big time when I say this. My first suit. Cavalier. Cavalier. What either? No, I got mine from Cavalier. In pretty, free, free, if you don't know, Cavaliers were like every brother in town. I mean, every, I mean, that was a spot. Yeah, it was, but look, if you were in Booy, I've got my Playboy boots. We went to, if Booy didn't have, can you tell who went to Pulling Middle School? And who didn't? And we didn't have a mall. So when we were growing up, he had the marketplace, but it wasn't a mall. No, a mall. A mall has to be fully enclosed, JP. The closest mall was Land Over Mall, which is not

12:07an existence now, but it was across from where FedEx Field is. And then New Carleton Mall, which you mentioned, which wasn't really a real mall either. That was more like a plaza. I had an outdoor walking area. That's a plaza, not a mall. But that's, it had a movie there that we would go. But it had stores. Hey, did any of your parents do lay away? I don't think so. Where that broke that they didn't lay away? I think there was lay away, no. I mean, because my parents also were, we were broke, but we knew we were broke and we never lived above our means. You know what I mean? We always lived below our means. So, I mean, I had, I bought, this is another legendary story. I went to Kmart. Okay, I want you to think of Kmart in the Pantheon of Store. No, I'm, yeah, I'm, yeah, I'm gonna ride with the Kmart. And I convinced my father to get me these suede green shoes that were $16. I'll never forget it. I was so excited. I brought them home. My mom said they were too expensive and I had to take them back. They were $16.

13:09I swear on my children. And we had to take them back and they had to get me the plastic ones that were like 10. Testing season is right around the corner. And this is when confidence really matters. When kids take time to review key concepts and strengthen their skills before assessments, it can make all the difference. IXL helps reinforce what they're learning right now. So they walk into every test feeling prepared, capable and confident. IXL is an award-winning online learning platform that helps kids truly understand what they're learning, whether they're building math confidence, strengthening reading and writing skills, or reviewing science concepts designed for students from pre-K through 12th grade. IXL delivers personalized interactive practice that adapts to your child's level and pace. It's an easy, effective way to support learning as the school year heads into its final stretch. Studies show kids who use IXL score higher on tests, proven in all 50 states.

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15:10it's time to fight back. Paul Zari Law at 888-830, just with one call, you can put a proven legal team on your side. Zari Law has been serving the DMV for over 15 years, proudly fighting for our local community. I was born and raised right here in the DMV, and my team is made up of experienced, reputable local attorneys dedicated to fighting for injury victims just like you. Follow us on all social platforms at azari.law. That's a-z-a-r-i-dot-l-a-w. Don't wait, don't settle. Fight back with Zari Law. The office is in Maryland, DC, and Virginia. My team and I are ready to stand up for you. Call 888-828-Hurt. That's 888-828-HU-R-T. And let us fight back for you. Yeah, to get the one with the whale. That was not the solution. There was a place next to it called Cheap Sneaks. And that's where I got the, I didn't get Nike's. I got the ones with the whale.

16:11This is not a retail store, obviously, but what I need reopened isn't arcade in a mall. I've done me quarters and time I spent in an arcade and a mall as a-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z. As a 13 to, like, 16-year-old. Why don't you get one of the best hours? You ever heard of David Buster? No, it's not the same. That made me big-sized games. I'm talking about strictly dedicated to pinball machines and stand-up arcade games, 50 of them, and a bunch of just pretens running around with quarters falling out of their pockets, playing asteroids, space invaders, all the OG sales. Dragonslayer. Of course. All right, let's go to the phones. 1-800-636-167. Is there a store you'd like to resurrect from days or the past? I went to the mall, I told you the other day. I've been to two malls lately. I went to Montgomery mall for whatever reason, can't remember, had to do something with my daughter. And then I went to Tyson's Corner. The Apple Store now is 19 storefronts. They've just taken over.

17:11It's huge, and always busy. And the selling cars, it's not even a store anymore. It's like two electric cars somewhere. Nobody's going to the mall. Let's go to Henry. Henry, what's up? Apple. Good morning, John. Good morning. How are you, buddy? My favorite stores. My favorite stores were Models, Sporting Store, and the Raskin Shop right down the business. Gotta go to malls. Where's Raskin Shop? Oh, it's Raskin Shop. Which one's Raskin Shop? Yeah, Raskin Shop. Raskin Shop will be his main Georgia in Monday. Oh, yeah. There was like a standalone, like it sold just Redskins gear. It was on Veers Mill in Georgia. Yeah, it was in Montgomery County. I mean, during the Snyder years, he started those Redskins stores. Like they were in malls, and for sure. Yeah, but this one wasn't like corporate, like. Oh, you remember? You remember C-Models, I don't know, C-Valdes. Again, you're a lot younger than us. Irvings. Sporting good. I do remember. Was there also hermins? And hermins. That's what it was.

18:11You're selling the deal now! You're selling the deal now about hermins and hermins! I just realized, both of you guys worked at toy stores. Obviously, cakes at toys are also deformed. I worked the elite toy store back then. And E-V worked at, was it? Was it called toy city, or birds? Why not? Toy Straws thing. I didn't even consider that as a net buzzing around. I didn't know I was an toy city war. I just had to stay in a job. I was just 16. It was a toy war for a big. We just had sports authority play it again sports, and then Dix finally rolled around sports Authority was like that was like our Dix like sports story was that was had yeah But once sports authority didn't upgrade to like sliding doors eventually I knew they were What did they do? I don't remember Yeah, yeah Yeah, the handle in a blow when they have the sensor Yeah, you go to Dix and it felt like a spaceship Actually, Dix again, this work does have pull up and doors But they do All the snobs is a sports authority door That's hilarious All right How do you get a sports authority that wants to be back on that? What's the mall store or just regular, you know, brick and mortar store that's gone

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