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The Spirit Halloween Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 10/29/2025 · 51m

We visit Spirit Halloween.

Are Spirit Halloween jokes played out or are they just getting started? Is Bobby Strings the ultimate example of the name-letter effect? How hard is it to store those 12-foot Skellys in the offseason?

30 years of the Playstation: Namco Museum The start of a vital trend, and Namco has arguably never done it better than on the Playstation.

Good morning, I'm back at @retroxp.bsky.social looking at 30 years of the Playstation, this time through the lens of Namco Museum. Namco's celebration of its past was never better, nor a deeper dive, than in its initial Playstation incarnations, and they should look to that fact in the future.

Miniature Korg keyboard and synthesizer gashapon machine

More gundam models

Grogu tamagotchi

Godzilla model breathing fire

Five foot tall gundam outside Bandai Namco

Gunpla display “Bandai hobby center quality “

Three rows of gashapon machines. 1 token = $3

Another cool red and white gundam model

The Bandai Namco Cross Store Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 09/19/2025 · 1h 3m

We visit the Bandai Namco Cross Store in Industry City.

How many gashapon machines are required to have something for everyone? Do Taiko no Tatsujin skills translate to real world drumming?

Haha it feels true for sure

What are the most unmoisturized fanbases?

C.O. Bigelow storefront. Large unlit neon sign hangs in front of the store pointing to the entryway. Large bouquets of yellow pink and purple flowers stretch across the top of the storefront. A large display for Vacation sunscreen fills the front window.

Interior of Bigelow pharmacy. Glass cases filled with cosmetics and hair accessories. White pillars run down the store with the words GENUINE, HONEST, TRUSTWORTHY written on them.

The Old-Time Apothecary Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 08/01/2025 · 1h 2m

We visit America’s oldest apothecary, C.O. Bigelow.

Will the drugstore soda fountain please come back? Does Bigelow represent peak tortoiseshell? Are swanky manual toothbrushes bought exclusively for apartment photo shoots? Will the dream of Smell-O-Vision in every home be realized?

The Minor League Baseball Game Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 07/18/2025 · 1h 12m

We head to a Brooklyn Cyclones game in Coney Island with guest Jared Selsberg.

Is a bobblehead or a baseball cap the ideal promo item? Should Maimonides Park hand out souvenir copies of Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed? Do some heckles echo throughout eternity? Is anyone still keeping score??

crowd wearing foam hotdog hats

Are these hotdog hats the best innovation in ballgame merch since the foam finger?

The Minor League Baseball Game Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 07/18/2025 · 1h 12m

We head to a Brooklyn Cyclones game in Coney Island with guest Jared Selsberg.

Is a bobblehead or a baseball cap the ideal promo item? Should Maimonides Park hand out souvenir copies of Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed? Do some heckles echo throughout eternity? Is anyone still keeping score??

so many firsty firsties

Oh wait this is Aria of Sorrow, I don’t think it has that specific track haha

Recent arrival wall at the record store. London calling, castlevania OST

I saw that Castlevania on vinyl at the record store earlier this year!

The Locavore Variety Store Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 07/11/2025 · 59m

We visit the Locavore Variety Store in the West Village, where nearly everything for sale is made within 100 miles.

Is there room for a nut company that *doesn't* use suggestive nut puns? What weird things do people want to do with/to a barrel of pickles? Who is using the tester lip balm?

Pizza Suds On a fateful winter day two years ago, Caroline spotted this big green container at her local kitchen supply store and was immediately drawn to the charming label design. She bought it, lugged it home...

Need this in a smaller container, but maybe that's the point and the charm of Pizza Suds

that doesn't look good but it does look good iykwim

was this at IFC? i just saw that it was playing there!

Barrel of pickles from Eddies Pickles in Maspeth Queens. The sign reads “please use the tongs. Don’t do anything weird”

“Please use the tongs. Don’t do anything weird.”

Tubes of “Pep Balm” for $8. “Inspired by Dr. Pepper Lipsmacker”

They carry a few “house”products—made by the proprietor of the store @carolineweaver.bsky.social

This Pep Balm was her atttempt to recreate the discontinued Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker lip balm

A long narrow shop with an island shelf down the middle, displaying a stack of locavore guide to shopping NYC books and a vase of tall pink flowers

A view from the other end of the store. The middle table has “tube wringers” for a sale, a product from Oregon which is featured as the “tourist of the month”—one product per month highlighted that is not local to the area.

Good lookin shop

The Locavore Variety Store Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 07/11/2025 · 59m

We visit the Locavore Variety Store in the West Village, where nearly everything for sale is made within 100 miles.

Is there room for a nut company that *doesn't* use suggestive nut puns? What weird things do people want to do with/to a barrel of pickles? Who is using the tester lip balm?

YouTube video by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) The Egg Scrambler By Ronco (Commercial, 1978)

I didn't believe this one was real

YouTube video by Adult Swim Broomshakalaka | Infomercials | Adult Swim

before Everything Everywhere was even a glimmer in the Daniels' eye, there was the Broomshakalaka

I had a roommate who worked overnights at the ihop and he would come home at like 4 am and get absolutely high as hell and order deranged things from QVC and then do nice stuff like cook for us using his Perfect Pancake dispenser

YouTube video by Rayan B Sobakawa Pillow (Full Infomercial)

youtu.be/CfzXRikULvo?...

yes! the night shift folks get it!

infomercial for the sobakawa pillow. they are dropping 10 lb dumbbells to simulate the "weight of the average human head" onto pillow materials, demonstrating the strength of buckwheat hulls compared to feathers or foam.

there is something mesmerizing about the Sobakawa pillow infomercial

The Infomercial/Home Shopping Shopping Experience Podcast Episode · Full Carts · 06/28/2025 · 1h 9m

We revisit some classic infomercials and test run the new QVC/Home Shopping app.

Did you ever buy a Sobakawa pillow? Has our culture lost something with the absence of late-night paid programming? Is a world without the Bass-o-matic or the Broomshakalaka worth living in?