Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min · 10 segments
Remember when shopping was an event? When a trip to the mall could eat up an entire afternoon, browsing GameStop was half the fun, and finding something unexpected was part of the experience? This…
All right.
Well, so again, we're talking about shopping and kind of how it used to be and old school and, you know, specifically starting around GameStop.
Right now.
I was going to say, too, I'm going to also loop in movies to this because the reason I'm saying that is because I know you used to do it.
You used to do it, was it every Thursday you'd go buy a new movie or every Tuesday?
Yeah, it was when it came to new releases.
Games historically...
It came out on Tuesdays because they had Monday nights at midnight, hence why we released Monday night at midnight.
The movies were the same way.
And, you know, it was obviously with games, there's the whole argument about digital, but it's the same argument with movies.
Tuesday.
Do you remember walking into Best Buy, and when the movie came out, there was stanchions and new release stuff plastered everywhere for all the movies.
I remember, I think it was one of the Fast and the Furious movies, one of the last ones that came out.
Not only was there a stanchion with all of it, but you had a stanchion with the collector's edition, the steelbook, the basic, the 4K, the Blu-ray.
You know, you had...
No.
No, the only big box, I think, that's still carrying physical movies is Walmart.
gets new releases, but they're not like,
they're just on the front.
All right.
Well, so again, we're talking about shopping and kind of how it used to be and old school and, you know, specifically starting around GameStop.
Right now.
I was going to say, too, I'm going to also loop in movies to this because the reason I'm saying that is because I know you used to do it.
You used to do it, was it every Thursday you'd go buy a new movie or every Tuesday?
Yeah, it was when it came to new releases.
Games historically...
It came out on Tuesdays because they had Monday nights at midnight, hence why we released Monday night at midnight.
The movies were the same way.
And, you know, it was obviously with games, there's the whole argument about digital, but it's the same argument with movies.
Tuesday.
Do you remember walking into Best Buy, and when the movie came out, there was stanchions and new release stuff plastered everywhere for all the movies.
I remember, I think it was one of the Fast and the Furious movies, one of the last ones that came out.
Not only was there a stanchion with all of it, but you had a stanchion with the collector's edition, the steelbook, the basic, the 4K, the Blu-ray.
You know, you had...
No.
No, the only big box, I think, that's still carrying physical movies is Walmart.
gets new releases, but they're not like,
they're just on the front.
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