Podcast: The American (Dream) Mall and the Geoguesser Game

It’s the state of the American Mall, mall memories, trip planning, Google Maps, and the Geoguesser game on this week’s episode of the Torg Stories Podcast.

We read two articles for this week’s podcast:

1. “The New American Mall” by Lora Kelley in The Atlantic. Click here for link to The Atlantic.
2. “Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse” by Kellen Browning in the New York Times. Click here to be taken to the NYT.

Notes for the Mall Discussion:

What do you remember about going to the mall? The toy store. Pole Position and a Choose Your Own Adventure game in the arcade.

What was in the article we could talk about?

Did you look at The American Dream Mall website? Click here to see that.

Do you go to malls? What do you want from the mall?

Notes for Geoguessing Discussion:

Here were the 3 images I picked out for Anne to guess:

image 1: Where do you think this is?

image 2: Where do you think this is?

image 3: Where do you think this is?

Images Anne sent for me to guess:

image 1: Where do you think this is?

image 2: Where do you think this is?

image 3: Where do you think this is?

Answers to the image questions:

• Top 3 images I picked for my sister Anne to guess: Oslo Norway, Naples Italy, Seattle United States.
• Bottom 3 that my sister Anne picked for me to guess: Dublin Ireland, New Zealand, Chicago

Thanks for checking out this episode of the Torg Stories Podcast!