Hello, I'm Hal Lublin.

And I'm Mark Gagliardi.

Since the dawn of humanity, one issue has gone unsettled.

With the fate of the world and the balance, we're here to settle once and for all.

Best mall store. Best mall store.

That's right. Don't worry, everyone. We got this.

Podcasts should have a theme song. Podcast should not have a theme song. Yes, they should.

No, they shouldn't. They sound good. Yeah, but people are just going to skip past it.

Hmm. You know what? You're right. We got this.

Hal, tell me about the mall you grew up going to.

I would say for the majority of my life, I went to the Willow Grove Mall in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, which at one time had been a fairground.

So in the middle of that mall, there are a lot of malls that have a merry-go-round. This one had the horses

of a merry-go-round suspended, like a decoration, almost like a chandelier. Like a warning to other

horses? As a reminder. Yes. It used to be Willow Grove Park. Now it is Willow Grove Mall. I think it

still stands to this day. But that was the main mall that I would go to as a kid.

What about you? For me, it was West Town Mall, exit 380 off Interstate 40 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

It's where I met Cecil Baldwin when he was working at the Cinebond in the West Town Mall.

See? Good things happened at the mall. No, no, no, I didn't meet him there.

I knew him from, sorry, it was where I would meet up with him. Oh, I see. And I would go to the mall and we would go meet Cecil and he would sneak us free Cinebonds because he did not care about giving away free food. No way. Yeah, right? That guy? Come on, he seems like such a corporate chill.

There are rules.

Yeah. Mark, there are rules. And I can't just give you a Cinnabon. He had that voice even then.

Welcome to Cineabon. Thanks. I feel like I'm about to watch a movie and a regal.

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