February 5, 2024 • 15 mins
Ever wondered what it's like to be totally immersed in a world built of bricks? Join Matthew and Jay as Jay talks about a recent trip to Legoland and the park's cornerstone—Ninjago World. Jay will give you the inside scoop on the whimsical hotel rooms that had his kids squealing with delight, the convenience of snoozing at the park's edge, and why Legoland's charm holds a special place in the hearts of families.
Then, shift gears with us as we swap tales of teenage resilience, humor, and the power of spontaneous dance-offs. Remember those days when a shoe stuck on train tracks would spark an instant party rather than panic? We're bringing that vibe back, chatting about the social sanctuaries of our formative years and making the case for reclaiming the communal spirit of malls and movie theaters. Come for the nostalgia; stay for the burst of laughter and life lessons served with a side of friendship and carefree abandon.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, I'm Matthew Cote .
This is Foundation Nation,along with my co-host, hi this
is Jay Solomey, owner of Jay'sTechnology Solutions.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let's start the Fridola for Volody Matt.
It's a big word.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yes sir, I'm a long time, so what are you up to?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, we went on vacation.
And how did that go?
First time in my family,everyone to Legoland.
Legoh, that's right.
Yeah, how was that?
That was impressive, likestructure-wise or just
Structure-wise for me.
Okay, my son loved the Ninjagoattraction Actually, it's not
Disney, so it's ride.
Love the Ninjago ride.
(00:52):
Oh, ninjago.
Oh, they have.
I didn't know they had rides.
They have rides there.
Yeah, okay, they have a Techniccoaster and other.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So what?
Isso is a roller coaster, theTechnic coaster is a roller
coaster.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay, and the Ninjago ride is what Is where you ride
in?
Ahave you been on Toy StoryMidway Mania?
Yep, you know where you'reshooting like yeah yeah yeah,
you're doing the same thing, butwith your hands.
You're just shooting straightout with your hands holding back
.
Oh okay, oh okay, you know,kind of like your record player.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh, okay, okay, Just straight out, and you're just
throwing things.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't know what that was.
That was bad.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That was bad.
Yeah, bad sounding.
Yeah, try and bring back the80s.
So what wastell me aboutthelike the inside of the hotel
and the?
We have the.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Ninjago themed room.
Oh room, yeah, oh Jesus.
So there was the king size bed,and then there is the bathroom,
and then on the other side ofthat is a bunk beds for the kids
.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, and then the theme is like pictures and
carpet and painting.
Yes, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And then you can go to the bathroom sometime.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Okay, yeah, and so is there one Ninjago room or
multiple, or how does?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
There's multiple, yeah, there's different sections
of the one hotel that havedifferent theming.
Okay, ninjago, friends, I thinkCity, I think it's like four or
five ones.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
What's the history of Ninjago?
I don't even know.
Like where did that come from?
What's the deal?
I really don't know.
Just some kind of new.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Lego thing.
It's been out for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I know it's been out for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But I mean, it's just like they just A theme Okay,
and then the buildings anddreams and the city.
Are they easier to build?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're a mix of technique and standard blocks
and plates.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, but Can regular Legos work with them?
Yes, oh, they can.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Lego works with Lego.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
End of story.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Okay, all right.
Yeah, doesn't matter what setit is, which is very nice, yeah,
no?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Legos is great, so thenow, what about the hotel?
If I'm walking in the entrance,what do I see when I get in
there?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
When, you first walk in, you don't even realize it's
a lobby.
What do you think it is?
When I first walked in, Ithought it was just an area of.
It was basically like a one ortwo person customer service desk
type thing.
Oh, okay, one person on oneside, one person on the other
side, these Kiosks I thinkthere's four of them and you
(03:11):
could check in your room andeverything with a little like a
larger type iPad touchscreensetup.
Okay, I didn't even know it wasa lobby.
I thought I was walked in thewrong door.
Oh, and it was very simplistic,very easy.
And then, if you're a hotelguest, you walk out the other
side of where that lobby isRight, it was like a little tiny
(03:32):
cafe and you walk out that andyou're right at the gate to have
your stuff gone through forsecurity.
Oh sure, and you're right there, like feet.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh, so the hotel enters the park.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Then, yeah, oh, okay, so you go through security and
then they have the new castlehotel, which is next door.
But you actually don't havethat close of an entrance with
the castle hotel.
Oh, it's a little further away,it's right next door, like
literally you could throw a rockand hit it, okay, but you got
to walk outside and then comearound and come to the entrance
(04:07):
for legal land.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I loved all the theming, all the bills in
Miniland, usa and everything butthe rides.
For me, they're for little guys.
They're for little guys.
Okay, you, the kids, my wifeand I were talking you basically
outage it at around 12-ish,12-ish, it's done, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Okay, yeah, all right .
Well, you got there.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, there was a lot of fun,that's cool.
Yeah, that's great.
I took the boys there long agowhen it first opened, you know,
and I don't remember anythingbut Chewbacca.
I think there was a Chewbaccastatue there, possibly.
Yeah, there was some Star Warsstuff.
There was like the Death Star Iremember was there, and there's
(04:49):
some other stuff.
But yeah, the hotel wasn'tthere.
It was coming soon.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I have a friend that when she was younger she was a
photographer there, so she wasshowing us some of the pictures
that she had from there, theDeath Star and such.
I'm like whoa, yeah, that's notthere, no more.
Oh, it's not no.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh wow, this thing was probably.
It was big Four foot indiameter.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It was big.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, and it was all Lego.
So anyway, yeah, I just beenskiing, I went to Whistler it
was great had a snowbird day andbeen going to Stevens and
Mission Ridge and a couple otherdifferent places.
You know we're going to driveto Park City, utah.
(05:33):
It's like a 12 hour drive, soI'm excited about that.
Nice, I finally got my legsstrong enough to where I can do
very simple jumps, which ispretty nice.
That's a good feeling, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, so I like that.
But I was looking at readingthis article about.
You know, we grew up with malls.
They're a big deal and thenthey kind of faded away, kind of
(05:55):
, kind of sorta.
I mean, definitely there's deadmalls in America.
Pial up, pial up.
Yeah, there's a few.
There's a few over in kind oflike the Forks area too.
There's like a couple of deadmalls over there.
But I was reading this article.
Malls rebound from the pandemicand the reasons that they might
surprise you are Gen Z hasn'tcrossed over into the metaverse
(06:19):
yet.
What the hell is going on, Idon't even know.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You don't know what the metaverse is.
Oh, it sounds.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Trust me, you don't want to know.
Is it really a waste of time?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Social media.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Social media.
And is the metaverse.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Everyone's getting together online.
I forgive me, it may be my ageor it may just be the way I'm
wired, but I prefer being inperson with someone and talking
yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, we could just close our eyes and pretend we're
wherever you want to be.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
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Jace Technology Solutions.
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Speaker 2 (07:05):
Right now we're in Hawaii metaverse.
Let's open our eyes Hawaiimetaverse.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh shit, but malls are a thing for when I grew up
and it's been a while since Iwas a teenager it was a social
meeting place.
You went there to hang out withyour friends and walk around.
You didn't necessarily have tobuy anything, but you just
(07:32):
walked around, had fun, windowshot, grab a pretzel, a drink,
depending on the mall.
You actually had lunch ordinner there.
Right the food court Right yeah.
Which literally was a foodcourt, unlike nowadays, where
you actually have full-fledgedrestaurants.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, no, and some of them at least, at the South
Center Mall.
There's some decent food inthere.
Oh, we love Montezuma's.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about yeah.
Yeah, you know, the originalMontezuma's is from Tacoma off
of 56th Street in Tyler.
Really, yeah, that's theoriginal one.
I didn't know that.
Then it was Gig Harbor Right,and then I can't remember which
came first, silverdale orTukwila.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So what's your favorite dish there?
Do you guys got a dish?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm a limited palette , as you may remember, man, so I
like the steak fajitas.
Steak fajita, yeah, yeah, thepolar luck, the polar.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Those are kind of like a show too.
When they come out, there's alot of going on.
They bring it out to you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's like crackling, it's not like they used to.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh, really, yeah, it used to be more of a Like a
frying pan kind of thing, right,right, like a skillet.
Yeah, now it doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It does, but it's not the same.
Okay yeah, the polar laparillais good too.
Okay yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I like those.
What's the one where it's likea Like kind of a burrito but
it's a corn doughy kind ofburrito.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I just named the two things I eat, so I'm out, I
think it's like oh, tamale,that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Tamales, okay, yeah.
So tamales are yummy, I likethose.
But so Gen Z?
So we know what Gen Z is Age 16to 26.
That's generation Z.
Oh, I feel old now.
Yeah, you're Gen, not Z, I'm GenDirt.
Yeah, you're Gen Dirt, you'reGen Creation.
Yeah, they want things.
(09:21):
You know.
They grew up in the age of.
You know, click it and you gotit.
So what's faster than on yourphone, clicking and it gotting
it, walking around the mallsaying I want that and you walk
over and you get it?
That's not faster, that's fat.
If you order something onAmazon, if you're walking around
the mall and you order a pairof shoes on Amazon and then you
(09:41):
walk over and buy those, butyou're going to get them faster.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's what I'm talking about, but you also got
to think about the fact youactually have to go to the mall.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But if you're already there, eating, then you're in
the mallyou can get things If you take
away the getting to the mall.
All right, take that out of theequation.
You're at the mall already.
That's what I'm talking about.
So we're at the mall already,we want something and we can get
it immediately there.
So if you go there for food tomeet with your friends and then
you walk around and you're inneed for something that's
(10:12):
already being sold at the mallbut you can still get online, it
seems to be popular for theseguys to go there and get it.
And what I've noticed for a fewyears now is, if you go into a,
I like to go to the mall andjust walk around, but if you go
into the mall and you lookaround, I've always noticed that
there's certain areas in eachstore there's nothing there.
(10:35):
Why is that?
There's nothing there like onthe shelves yeah one particular
section of the store you go in,like you go into you know the
Build-A-Bear.
Yes, you know how you are youfamiliar with the store in
Tequila?
Yes, okay, so you walk intoBuild-A-Bear, they have all
these different bear options upon the wall and then below them
(10:56):
is the bins the bins where it'sa bear and their gear, right,
and you grab that and then youbuild it.
Well, if you go in there,there's always one gun or two
completely gone.
You have no idea.
Even the model is gone.
They sell the model on the walland it's because these Gen Z
guys get some shits on hittingthe fan in social media world
(11:19):
and Ninjago Camo Bear is superpopular and they all go in there
and they have a boba and thenthey go in and buy one of these
and do their little videos withthem or something, and so that's
so if you go to these stores,you'll see it's crazy.
I've done it like five, sixtimes.
Just walk in the store, go intoany store.
Go in the store, look around.
(11:39):
You'll see what's empty.
Find out what it was, look itup on social media.
It's a goddamn fad Over andover and I was like losing it.
And so this is what these Gen Zguys are going in there.
Then they're all fadding out onone simple thing.
The stores are very aware of it.
They're stocking theseparticular items super fast and
they're ready to go.
And then they go on socialmedia and say, hey, we got the
(12:02):
whatever Ninjago Bear.
Come check him out.
He comes with sparkly pantiesand then, boom, they're all gone
.
And that's how I mean I don'tknow how these stores survive
when they're selling.
Some of those stores just blowsme away.
Since my first time going to amall ever, they got 15 pairs of
(12:22):
jeans and that's it in a giantstore and I don't know how they
make it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's always been a mystery to me.
They sold out of everythingthey already had.
They got away for more stock.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah, so that's Gen Z , so they're supporting them all
.
So that's I mean, that's good.
I like it's nice to have brickand mortar.
I agree.
The whole world turned toAmazon.
It's gonna be kind of what else?
What are we gonna do?
Just fill up our gas and drivearound in circles?
Yeah, just nothing else.
There's really nothing else todo.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
My favorite pastime when I was a teenager at the
mall.
You know what it was Peoplewatching.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Oh my goodness, people watching is amazing At
the mall.
I actually it took a few trips,and I mean quite a few trips
but I finally got my wife to sitdown with me at Disneyland at
the hub on a bench.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And just check it out .
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And just sit and absorb everything and watch.
And while we were doing that,she was relaxing, she was taking
it in and she was.
It's amazing how you can go andexperience something and then
experience something differentwhen you do something different
there.
Oh yeah, and then all of asudden, this big group of
teenagers were walking by havinga grand time laughing, joking,
(13:37):
dancing a little bit and justwalking by and then all of a
sudden, one of the teenagers gottheir shoes stuck in the train
tracks right there in the huband they all were laughing and
they left the poor person there,and then they finally came back
to help them get their shoe out.
Nice and it's just.
(13:58):
But they were laughing thewhole time.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's probably a Gen Z, okay, well, no, and they
wanted to see him get run overby a train so they could post it
.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, it was the carts that are pulled by the
horses.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh, okay, so you're saying a really slow death, yeah
, really slow like ah.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
But the point is we got to watch people having fun,
right, and even though somebodygot stuck, the whole entire
teenage group were laughing andjoking and having fun.
And even when they helped theperson get their shoe out from
inside the train track thing,right, they're all laughing and
(14:39):
giggling, making jokes, got itout.
They all continued on their way.
Oh yeah, this is missing, right, and you go to the mall or the
movie theater, whatever, and yousee so many people just get
angry for no reason, right, like, bring back being social, bring
back being happy, yeah, yeah.
And you can't do that sittingat home posting how you didn't
(15:01):
like the way someone saidsomething in a post, right, yeah
, so the mall is a very socialway to do it, right, right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yep, I agree, all right.
Well, thanks for joining us asanother great episode underneath
the airplanes of the runway ofSeaTac.
Yes, I'm Matthew Cote'sFoundation Nation.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
This is Jay Solme Great to be here.
Foundation.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Nation is proudly sponsored by Jay's Technology
Solutions, called Jay'sTechnology Solutions at
253-376-7579, for all yourcomputer repair, IT and network
solutions.
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, I'm Matthew Cote .
This is Foundation Nation,along with my co-host, hi this
is Jay Solomey, owner of Jay'sTechnology Solutions.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Let's start the Fridola for Volody Matt.
It's a big word.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yes sir, I'm a long time, so what are you up to?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, we went on vacation.
And how did that go?
First time in my family,everyone to Legoland.
Legoh, that's right.
Yeah, how was that?
That was impressive, likestructure-wise or just
Structure-wise for me.
Okay, my son loved the Ninjagoattraction Actually, it's not
Disney, so it's ride.
Love the Ninjago ride.
(00:52):
Oh, ninjago.
Oh, they have.
I didn't know they had rides.
They have rides there.
Yeah, okay, they have a Techniccoaster and other.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So what?
Isso is a roller coaster, theTechnic coaster is a roller
coaster.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay, and the Ninjago ride is what Is where you ride
in?
Ahave you been on Toy StoryMidway Mania?
Yep, you know where you'reshooting like yeah yeah yeah,
you're doing the same thing, butwith your hands.
You're just shooting straightout with your hands holding back
.
Oh okay, oh okay, you know,kind of like your record player.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh, okay, okay, Just straight out, and you're just
throwing things.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't know what that was.
That was bad.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That was bad.
Yeah, bad sounding.
Yeah, try and bring back the80s.
So what wastell me aboutthelike the inside of the hotel
and the?
We have the.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Ninjago themed room.
Oh room, yeah, oh Jesus.
So there was the king size bed,and then there is the bathroom,
and then on the other side ofthat is a bunk beds for the kids
.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, and then the theme is like pictures and
carpet and painting.
Yes, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And then you can go to the bathroom sometime.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Okay, yeah, and so is there one Ninjago room or
multiple, or how does?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
There's multiple, yeah, there's different sections
of the one hotel that havedifferent theming.
Okay, ninjago, friends, I thinkCity, I think it's like four or
five ones.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
What's the history of Ninjago?
I don't even know.
Like where did that come from?
What's the deal?
I really don't know.
Just some kind of new.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Lego thing.
It's been out for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I know it's been out for a while.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But I mean, it's just like they just A theme Okay,
and then the buildings anddreams and the city.
Are they easier to build?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're a mix of technique and standard blocks
and plates.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, but Can regular Legos work with them?
Yes, oh, they can.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Lego works with Lego.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
End of story.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Okay, all right.
Yeah, doesn't matter what setit is, which is very nice, yeah,
no?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Legos is great, so thenow, what about the hotel?
If I'm walking in the entrance,what do I see when I get in
there?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
When, you first walk in, you don't even realize it's
a lobby.
What do you think it is?
When I first walked in, Ithought it was just an area of.
It was basically like a one ortwo person customer service desk
type thing.
Oh, okay, one person on oneside, one person on the other
side, these Kiosks I thinkthere's four of them and you
(03:11):
could check in your room andeverything with a little like a
larger type iPad touchscreensetup.
Okay, I didn't even know it wasa lobby.
I thought I was walked in thewrong door.
Oh, and it was very simplistic,very easy.
And then, if you're a hotelguest, you walk out the other
side of where that lobby isRight, it was like a little tiny
(03:32):
cafe and you walk out that andyou're right at the gate to have
your stuff gone through forsecurity.
Oh sure, and you're right there, like feet.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh, so the hotel enters the park.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Then, yeah, oh, okay, so you go through security and
then they have the new castlehotel, which is next door.
But you actually don't havethat close of an entrance with
the castle hotel.
Oh, it's a little further away,it's right next door, like
literally you could throw a rockand hit it, okay, but you got
to walk outside and then comearound and come to the entrance
(04:07):
for legal land.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I loved all the theming, all the bills in
Miniland, usa and everything butthe rides.
For me, they're for little guys.
They're for little guys.
Okay, you, the kids, my wifeand I were talking you basically
outage it at around 12-ish,12-ish, it's done, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Okay, yeah, all right .
Well, you got there.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, there was a lot of fun,that's cool.
Yeah, that's great.
I took the boys there long agowhen it first opened, you know,
and I don't remember anythingbut Chewbacca.
I think there was a Chewbaccastatue there, possibly.
Yeah, there was some Star Warsstuff.
There was like the Death Star Iremember was there, and there's
(04:49):
some other stuff.
But yeah, the hotel wasn'tthere.
It was coming soon.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I have a friend that when she was younger she was a
photographer there, so she wasshowing us some of the pictures
that she had from there, theDeath Star and such.
I'm like whoa, yeah, that's notthere, no more.
Oh, it's not no.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh wow, this thing was probably.
It was big Four foot indiameter.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It was big.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, and it was all Lego.
So anyway, yeah, I just beenskiing, I went to Whistler it
was great had a snowbird day andbeen going to Stevens and
Mission Ridge and a couple otherdifferent places.
You know we're going to driveto Park City, utah.
(05:33):
It's like a 12 hour drive, soI'm excited about that.
Nice, I finally got my legsstrong enough to where I can do
very simple jumps, which ispretty nice.
That's a good feeling, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, so I like that.
But I was looking at readingthis article about.
You know, we grew up with malls.
They're a big deal and thenthey kind of faded away, kind of
(05:55):
, kind of sorta.
I mean, definitely there's deadmalls in America.
Pial up, pial up.
Yeah, there's a few.
There's a few over in kind oflike the Forks area too.
There's like a couple of deadmalls over there.
But I was reading this article.
Malls rebound from the pandemicand the reasons that they might
surprise you are Gen Z hasn'tcrossed over into the metaverse
(06:19):
yet.
What the hell is going on, Idon't even know.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You don't know what the metaverse is.
Oh, it sounds.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Trust me, you don't want to know.
Is it really a waste of time?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Social media.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Social media.
And is the metaverse.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Everyone's getting together online.
I forgive me, it may be my ageor it may just be the way I'm
wired, but I prefer being inperson with someone and talking
yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, we could just close our eyes and pretend we're
wherever you want to be.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
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Speaker 2 (07:05):
Right now we're in Hawaii metaverse.
Let's open our eyes Hawaiimetaverse.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh shit, but malls are a thing for when I grew up
and it's been a while since Iwas a teenager it was a social
meeting place.
You went there to hang out withyour friends and walk around.
You didn't necessarily have tobuy anything, but you just
(07:32):
walked around, had fun, windowshot, grab a pretzel, a drink,
depending on the mall.
You actually had lunch ordinner there.
Right the food court Right yeah.
Which literally was a foodcourt, unlike nowadays, where
you actually have full-fledgedrestaurants.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, no, and some of them at least, at the South
Center Mall.
There's some decent food inthere.
Oh, we love Montezuma's.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about yeah.
Yeah, you know, the originalMontezuma's is from Tacoma off
of 56th Street in Tyler.
Really, yeah, that's theoriginal one.
I didn't know that.
Then it was Gig Harbor Right,and then I can't remember which
came first, silverdale orTukwila.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So what's your favorite dish there?
Do you guys got a dish?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm a limited palette , as you may remember, man, so I
like the steak fajitas.
Steak fajita, yeah, yeah, thepolar luck, the polar.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Those are kind of like a show too.
When they come out, there's alot of going on.
They bring it out to you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's like crackling, it's not like they used to.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh, really, yeah, it used to be more of a Like a
frying pan kind of thing, right,right, like a skillet.
Yeah, now it doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It does, but it's not the same.
Okay yeah, the polar laparillais good too.
Okay yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I like those.
What's the one where it's likea Like kind of a burrito but
it's a corn doughy kind ofburrito.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I just named the two things I eat, so I'm out, I
think it's like oh, tamale,that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Tamales, okay, yeah.
So tamales are yummy, I likethose.
But so Gen Z?
So we know what Gen Z is Age 16to 26.
That's generation Z.
Oh, I feel old now.
Yeah, you're Gen, not Z, I'm GenDirt.
Yeah, you're Gen Dirt, you'reGen Creation.
Yeah, they want things.
(09:21):
You know.
They grew up in the age of.
You know, click it and you gotit.
So what's faster than on yourphone, clicking and it gotting
it, walking around the mallsaying I want that and you walk
over and you get it?
That's not faster, that's fat.
If you order something onAmazon, if you're walking around
the mall and you order a pairof shoes on Amazon and then you
(09:41):
walk over and buy those, butyou're going to get them faster.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's what I'm talking about, but you also got
to think about the fact youactually have to go to the mall.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But if you're already there, eating, then you're in
the mallyou can get things If you take
away the getting to the mall.
All right, take that out of theequation.
You're at the mall already.
That's what I'm talking about.
So we're at the mall already,we want something and we can get
it immediately there.
So if you go there for food tomeet with your friends and then
you walk around and you're inneed for something that's
(10:12):
already being sold at the mallbut you can still get online, it
seems to be popular for theseguys to go there and get it.
And what I've noticed for a fewyears now is, if you go into a,
I like to go to the mall andjust walk around, but if you go
into the mall and you lookaround, I've always noticed that
there's certain areas in eachstore there's nothing there.
(10:35):
Why is that?
There's nothing there like onthe shelves yeah one particular
section of the store you go in,like you go into you know the
Build-A-Bear.
Yes, you know how you are youfamiliar with the store in
Tequila?
Yes, okay, so you walk intoBuild-A-Bear, they have all
these different bear options upon the wall and then below them
(10:56):
is the bins the bins where it'sa bear and their gear, right,
and you grab that and then youbuild it.
Well, if you go in there,there's always one gun or two
completely gone.
You have no idea.
Even the model is gone.
They sell the model on the walland it's because these Gen Z
guys get some shits on hittingthe fan in social media world
(11:19):
and Ninjago Camo Bear is superpopular and they all go in there
and they have a boba and thenthey go in and buy one of these
and do their little videos withthem or something, and so that's
so if you go to these stores,you'll see it's crazy.
I've done it like five, sixtimes.
Just walk in the store, go intoany store.
Go in the store, look around.
(11:39):
You'll see what's empty.
Find out what it was, look itup on social media.
It's a goddamn fad Over andover and I was like losing it.
And so this is what these Gen Zguys are going in there.
Then they're all fadding out onone simple thing.
The stores are very aware of it.
They're stocking theseparticular items super fast and
they're ready to go.
And then they go on socialmedia and say, hey, we got the
(12:02):
whatever Ninjago Bear.
Come check him out.
He comes with sparkly pantiesand then, boom, they're all gone
.
And that's how I mean I don'tknow how these stores survive
when they're selling.
Some of those stores just blowsme away.
Since my first time going to amall ever, they got 15 pairs of
(12:22):
jeans and that's it in a giantstore and I don't know how they
make it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's always been a mystery to me.
They sold out of everythingthey already had.
They got away for more stock.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah, so that's Gen Z , so they're supporting them all
.
So that's I mean, that's good.
I like it's nice to have brickand mortar.
I agree.
The whole world turned toAmazon.
It's gonna be kind of what else?
What are we gonna do?
Just fill up our gas and drivearound in circles?
Yeah, just nothing else.
There's really nothing else todo.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
My favorite pastime when I was a teenager at the
mall.
You know what it was Peoplewatching.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Oh my goodness, people watching is amazing At
the mall.
I actually it took a few trips,and I mean quite a few trips
but I finally got my wife to sitdown with me at Disneyland at
the hub on a bench.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And just check it out .
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And just sit and absorb everything and watch.
And while we were doing that,she was relaxing, she was taking
it in and she was.
It's amazing how you can go andexperience something and then
experience something differentwhen you do something different
there.
Oh yeah, and then all of asudden, this big group of
teenagers were walking by havinga grand time laughing, joking,
(13:37):
dancing a little bit and justwalking by and then all of a
sudden, one of the teenagers gottheir shoes stuck in the train
tracks right there in the huband they all were laughing and
they left the poor person there,and then they finally came back
to help them get their shoe out.
Nice and it's just.
(13:58):
But they were laughing thewhole time.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's probably a Gen Z, okay, well, no, and they
wanted to see him get run overby a train so they could post it
.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, it was the carts that are pulled by the
horses.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh, okay, so you're saying a really slow death, yeah
, really slow like ah.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
But the point is we got to watch people having fun,
right, and even though somebodygot stuck, the whole entire
teenage group were laughing andjoking and having fun.
And even when they helped theperson get their shoe out from
inside the train track thing,right, they're all laughing and
(14:39):
giggling, making jokes, got itout.
They all continued on their way.
Oh yeah, this is missing, right, and you go to the mall or the
movie theater, whatever, and yousee so many people just get
angry for no reason, right, like, bring back being social, bring
back being happy, yeah, yeah.
And you can't do that sittingat home posting how you didn't
(15:01):
like the way someone saidsomething in a post, right, yeah
, so the mall is a very socialway to do it, right, right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yep, I agree, all right.
Well, thanks for joining us asanother great episode underneath
the airplanes of the runway ofSeaTac.
Yes, I'm Matthew Cote'sFoundation Nation.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
This is Jay Solme Great to be here.
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