The American Shopping Mall: It's Giving Pompeii

Lemme Fix It!

Franchesca Ramsey

Last Name Basis, Let Me Fix It, Society & Culture, Lemme Fix It, Comedy, Tv & Film, Franchesca Ramsey, De'lon Grant

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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For the latter half twentieth century the shopping mall was a cornerstone of American social life and accounted for most of the nation’s retail sales. In the 1980’s there were around 2,500 malls in the United States, but today that number has dwindled to around 700. This week we examine the rise and fall of the American shopping mall and then as usual, pitch how we would fix it.

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0:00.0	I want to say like we're, oh, listen, I don't know what the fashion vibe is, but like, what the neck moment?
0:05.3	What's the neck moment?
0:06.4	But we're also giving you like neutrals.
0:08.9	You know what I mean?
0:09.7	Like, it feels like a, like, um, Walking Dead.
0:13.0	A muted tone.
0:14.1	A fucking Dead.
0:17.0	You watch those shows.
0:18.0	I can watch those shows, girl.
0:19.2	Right.
0:20.0	You're not missing much.
0:21.1	But in Walking Dead, it definitely feels like the color palette is, you know, discarded
0:26.4	Yeezy Alp, like collection items.
0:29.1	Everything is like gray and cream and ripped.
0:33.1	Muted and a Dowdy.
0:35.8	Yes.
0:36.5	Which is such a great word. Dowdy is such a great word. Dow is such a great word.
0:37.7	Dowdy is such a great word.
0:38.9	Dowdy is a great word.
0:41.0	I don't know why they always apply it to women, which is like patriarchy.
0:44.4	Sexism, absolutely.
0:46.1	Definitely.
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