Tell me, keeps saying how much they want a strong woman.

What they really want is a cheerleader.

I'd like someone who's physically very frail and won't stop talking.

I just want what everybody wants. I seem to have a harder time getting it.

Hello everyone and welcome to Maximum Film. It's episode 287 and we haven't seen this many heads and boxes since Levin.

It is your host ify Wadi Way and in the booth with me all my friends.

So let me introduce you today.

First up we have America's favorite critic

by my, my, I say it, and I will, and I'll fight you on it.

It's none other than the Christmas that he himself

philosophers were all day.

What's good?

Oh, I'll tell you, if you, what's good for me is I, you know, look, I came of age in the 1980s,

and so I am always in forever going to be a mall person you know I know they've fallen out a

favor and you know the internet and yet it did but I just I love a mall I still love a mall and

there's this really great new book out called Meet Me by the Fountain,

an Inside History of the Mall. And Architecture Critic Alexander Lang really kind of takes us into the history of you know where the where malls came from how they were designed how they've evolved over the years their sort of peaks and valleys and

It's fascinating like I really don't know a ton about

architecture so just reading the this nitty gritty about design and how like you know

this is where the parking lots have to be and then the anchor stores and the water

treatment in the middle and all stuff.

You know, obviously it is much of the history of malls like the much of all American history steeped in racism. Why yes it is but it's

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