Podcast: The Ride - The CityWalk Saga - Sector 15

Episode Date: September 28, 2018

Oh God, it's this one. The CityWalk Saga - Sector 15 consists of: Karl Strauss Howl At The Moon BB King's Blues Club (retired) Jon Lovitz Comedy Club (retired) Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/ FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A place where you can purchase A candy thong So let's go take a walk Let's all go to CityWalk. Tonight. Tonight. Podcast The Ride presents the CityWalk Saga, a daily 19-part extremely necessary series exploring the stores,

restaurants, and wonderful magic that make up universal city walk hollywood okay podcast the ride city walk saga sector 15 um folks let's uh quantify our situation at the moment as opposed to the usual leisurely you know saturday afternoon recordings the kind of things we do it is 12 30 a.m which is late for us that's not terribly impressive but like yeah the way we're setting it up is like guys it's 5 a.m oh my god i can't believe what we're doing but it is like 12 30 which is like a reasonable bedtime when you still for us yeah when you run it through the early 30s uh uh you know time zones it's definitely uh 12 12 30 is the new 5 30 oh the french champagne is a we know a little place where mrs monthly lives oh the french uh hey so i'm scott gardner

mike carlson's here jason sheridan's here i'm somewhere yeah the what we're trying to get out is that this evening we went to howl at the moon the dueling piano bar at CityWalk. And we made the very specific choice to do this one kind of inebriated. And again, to set the scale, 1230 as opposed to 530, which for a younger person would be more insane. What are the level of drinks that we've had it's probably for me it's uh three beers and some sips of your your blue nightmare so yeah i i ordered a mini bucket which is like a bucket of just like five different kinds of liquor uh and

i drank a lot of it i feel like um but i'm doing okay i'm having a we're having a beer now which is a little scandalous as well like where this is we've never drank on the show before but i'm doing okay i'm having a we're having a beer now which is a little scandalous as well like where this is we've never drank on the show before so i'm like yeah i'm i'm one coors light one bucket of blue and one other hat like one eighth of a beer in now i had a double vodka soda and then a regular vodka soda and like killed the rest of that bucket yeah you finished the bucket scott was like we got to get out of here and then i was like i want i like i have a bucket to finish you had a little more jason was like i'll help you finish the bucket finish it i eat the two cherries and i saw you like putting your hands in the bucket for the cherries to

retrieve the cherries and i was like i am out i don't even like the idea of somebody using a straw in the same bucket because somebody's like spit could find its way down the straw you had a problem with that and thus we almost avoided the bucket area all together yeah but then we we ended up all using three curly straws and went into that one bucket which was still a mini bucket i can't imagine we left the regular get up there i know we forgot to take the bucket we were told we could keep the bucket it was this is not like the good boys at all no this is as bad as you're gonna hear us this is yeah if you want to hear good boys after dark you arrived in the correct sector but you know what before we go much further though i announced howl at the moon we should hear the official sector lineup from our

good friend the sector keeper boys boys today's sector is sector 15 carl strauss howl at the moon bb kings and john lovett's comedy club and boys please don't drink irresponsibly good luck boys all right so there you have it and what this sector is is nightlife if you have not been to city walk la yourself you know that on the ground is where the squares can be found. But up on level two, much drunken fun for you. And that's what we're covering, basically the nightclub drinking zone.

Yeah. And not only the clubs that are there currently, which are not many, but also the clubs of CityWalk past. Right. So, like, this is, I'll be honest with you guys. I have not partied a lot at CityWalk. I love CityWalk. I've been there.

I've been going there for many years. But nightlife-wise, whether it be Saddle Ranch, whether it be Howl at the Moon, not a lot of experience. Never been, like, you know, a young person enjoying life at this place. Well, I have to give credit to Carl Strauss, because I've been to Carl Strauss a few times over the years. I feel like when I first moved to L.A., like, my college friends, when their parents would come to town, and we'd go up to, like, Universal and CityWalk with them,

Carl Strauss was, like like the place we would end up it's reliable you know the folks can get a nice beer a nice local california beer uh i remember carl strauss uh the few many years i've gone to comic con i've taken the pacific surf liner down you go by a carl strauss facility on the way to the ocean. Beautiful, beautiful ride, the Pacific Surfliner. Decent food. I will say Carl Strauss, I have a very funny memory of like one of the times my family was visiting. Like they drove up from staying at Disneyland and I rode with them and it took so long to get up from Anaheim. We got to Carl, like checked into the hotel in Universal.

We were like, all right, let's go eat at CityWalk. Okay, Carl Strauss is pretty good. Let's go there. We got there at like 8.30, 8.35. And they're like, we already did last call. Sorry, we close at 9. Last call is at 8.30. And it was just like us in a very boisterous 12-person party.

And we just had to miserably eat like fried chicken sandwiches and like cheeseburgers with fried eggs on top like carl strauss is that i was saying nightlife specifically in carl strauss which i've been to many times yes does not have nightlife you don't go to hang out and party at carl strauss life it's in the section i agree because it's up the stairs and it occupies some of the area that wizards at one point right did the sectors get real muddy around this point because we talked about wizards a while ago we talked about uh you know abercrombie a while ago I'm not even sure why this one's later. I guess, by the way, because we're going off of the official CityWalk map numbers. That's why.

It's only the second story, too. Camacho's occupies the first floor. And now, Camacho's, I would put next to Carl Strauss in terms of actual restaurants. Yes. They're right next to each other. One's right on top of the other. And these, you know, I think we've come to find over doing these episodes that a lot of,

in some cases, the best you can expect out of a CityWalk restaurant is it's a good impression of a regular restaurant. Yes. Yeah, reliable. But these ones are actually good so far. Yeah, yeah. I think it surprised all of us

carl strauss pretty good we didn't we didn't like go there specifically for this but i recall having good food experiences in the past yes we've eaten at carl strauss together jason and i scott and i have eaten together jason and i have eaten carl strauss we we've all had many meals at carl strauss and we're always like ah pretty good pretty good and it's yeah it's good up there it's good as as a beer truck at california adventure if anybody who's not been to california adventure that's really uh you know my number one and two of california adventure experiences are the winery and the carl stress beer truck that's a funny, yeah, we've talked about crossovers before, like Starbucks is at both, Sephora is now at both,

Carl Strauss at both properties. And I'm not going to complain about it, because a couple nights ago, I learned about the man himself, Carl Strauss. Do you know anything about Carl Strauss? No, please. I read a little about the founders, but I don't think he was one of the, was he? He wasn't one of the founders. Well,

he was kind of prodded out of retirement into starting what became Carl Strauss Brewing Company or whatever it is officially. Here's a little bit of, here's some drunk history on my part. I'll stumble through this. But basically, Carl Strauss was studying to be a master brewer in Munich, Germany, in the 20s and the 30s. And he graduated. He apprenticed with many great beer makers and was a particularly gifted master brewer. But he, by the time he was out and trying to get work, it's the dead center of World War II. And he is Jewish. And a Jewish person is not getting hired to work at a brewery in Germany. And things escalate and he fleet he uh fleeds fledds uh fleas that would be correct might be what it is i'm butchering this great man's

story you're hammered is why uh that is uh part of it yes um anyway he escapes his family does not escape carl like other members of the strauss family, do not make it out of Nazi Germany. He does. He goes straight to Milwaukee and applies for a job at the Pabst Brewing Company. Wow. He does just like real grunt work, feeding bottles into a bottling machine. And then they realize, wait a minute, we have a bavarian brewmaster in our employ we have to make use of this he ends up working there for 44 years my god that's incredible and he rises up

through the ranks from just feeding bottles into a machine to being a person actually affecting the recipe of pap's blue ribbon he retires in by i want to say 1980 or early 80s. He consults for a lot of great other beer companies and is, you know, in his elder years and has nothing to prove. Just an established great beer dude. And in the late 80s, his cousin wanted to open a new brewery in San Diego. He dove in so headfirst that he he designed the facility he trained everybody he created the original recipes and he became their spokesman in radio ads which he did until he passed away in 2006 he died at 94 my god a storied uh beer making career i was i'm just so impressed by this tale he lands in america in 1939 escapes the nazis and has an unbelievable run in in the beer industry and suddenly what goes from a

competent restaurant at city walk and a nice beer truck at california venture goes to oh my god i have immense respect for this this person and his tale wow fascinating like even just reading about the two guys who like started the brewery like their whole thing was like well we live in san diego there's not really a beer culture there's certainly not a local beer culture and it's that seems wild now because i i think san diego living out here i think san diego i think carl strauss i think uh ballast point especially like has really grown a lot in a number of years and and yeah craft breweries in general just like across the country are huge also shout out to uh brian roth my college roommate award-winning beer writer uh. Wow, really? He writes a lot of magazines and blogs.

Really? Yeah. Fun. Writes a lot about beer. I've shipped him beer from, like, a local brewery, Golden Road, out here, because beverage distribution is still very, like, segmented. Like, you can't, like, I really like Yingling,

like, Pride of Pennsylvania, Yingling beer. Can't really get it out here in California because beverage distribution is so regional specific. Sure. I studied abroad in Dusseldorf, Germany. I got to spend four months out there. And their swill beer was so mind-blowingly great. And I got to go there when i could not legally drink in america i went abroad at 20 and i can drink and i can sit along this beautiful waterfront

and for one euro get a like a gigantic really crazy good beer this one called frankenheim especially i really miss and everybody in that study abroad program really like pines for frankenheim yeah um yeah it's a bummer uh uh these things have to cross borders more was that your first beer or had you had a beer before that no i started drinking i wasn't quite uh i wasn't cool enough in high school necessarily senior year i started to get kind of pissed off so at 17 and i remember but i didn't know how to do it and i was kind of dependent on my parents alcohol so i remember like sneaking water bottles into high school and drinking in a class at 1 30 in in the afternoon, but that being

gin, like pure gin with no mixer. Wow, that's a bad boy thing to do. That is also an interpretation of like, I don't know how to do this. I guess I'll do it at 1.30 afternoon during classes? And gin,

which you're, you know, in some respects, it's a little bad boy but in some respects it's pretty grandma yeah yeah also never meant to be drank on its own i feel like gin like you don't hear like one gin neat please no i had a lot of drinking growing pains and i definitely remember having pure gin in my like childhood bedroom and then and and just vomiting it up instantly because yeah you don't ever especially gin's maybe number one on the list of what you don't drink yeah on its own that is one of the first things i drank but i remember being really into gin gimlets a lot when i first drank which i would have to bartenders

would say like in a college town you and the other retirees that you were drinking with retirees uh me and the rest of the supporting cast of chinatown would have to explain like uh gin gimlet is just one part alcohol one part like lime juice oh so like oh that's what that is that sounds served over ice so like you hear vodka gimlets too or gin gimlets and it's like very simple to make but most people don't order them and now the idea of drinking that sounds disgusting to me because there's no carbonation it's sickeningly sweet because most places don't have real lime juice they have roses lime juice which is just mostly sugar whereas if you can just get a lime wedge and squeeze it it's fine into your beverage generally on the topic of of drinking as it relates to us um we obviously i mean you know

we'll we'll cover it uh thoroughly at some point but the Carthay Circle restaurant that we're very fond of. Of course, delightful. California Adventure. What is that drink that is like Walt's Scotch Mist? Walt's Scotch Mist, that's what I order. What's in a Scotch Mist? That's funny, because that menu has changed. When it first opened, it was like Walt's drink of choice,

dark scotch and light scotch, which I've never seen light scotch before. But it was like two scotches over ice with a twist and it's very nice i feel like it's a very uh easy way to drink scotch because scotch is kind of a harsh liquor um but now i feel like it just says scotch over ice with a twist you mean it doesn't say walt anymore no it still says walt but i don't think it's it's i think they've just gone to like one kind of scotch i see what you're saying i was saying they took the branding off of uh of it because it says seem it does seem weird that you'd be like

here's what walt would drink to get hammered i feel like every night anything sure like he came of age in a time where people were just like yeah he survived the depression he drank for any reason yeah i mean it's good we have no excuse no we aren't surviving well we have an excuse we have a theme park podcast and we decided to do a 19 part series and it involves howl at the moon well i mean yeah drinking certainly necessary to counter the other effects of howl at the moon i am i mean just in general this many times up at city walk recently what are we on now sector uh is 15 like i do like i it's it's crazy how like it's part elation being at city walk and it's also part dread like yeah there's a chore aspects every time but i've got i've had a

lot of good times yeah i was gonna say i was walking up with lindsey uh as we did tonight and i was we saw a movie before hauled the moon and i said you know what i it doesn't bother me i like this i don't know i've been up here a lot lately uh i'm happy with it i'm i would have done this if we weren't doing a series it doesn't buy as everyone knows here i'm a bottomless pit for things that i like and i thought maybe by sector 15 oh my god i'm gonna hate this place but no not really um only food wise am i wearing down because i see yes pure that's fair sodium fuck i it is uh that's you're not getting out of city walk alive yeah i've only gotten like do we close with how at the moon do we jump should we go into the past probably

let's go to the past let's talk about the what hold on let's go on okay all right so bb kings and john lovitz have a lot going on but i gotta say i a lot we've been up there a lot of times recently yeah i feel like every time i've been up there a lot of times recently yeah i feel like every time i've been up there i've heard this song and i shazammed it a different way dj snake featuring law can you play that for us no i well i just had the no no shazam i gotta find it now you a lot have heard this song every time tell me the name of the song and i'll play it on my apple music it's called uh a different way a different way so dj snake i know dj snake uh you do yeah yeah i've heard of him i mean this is this is a a classic theme park trope you have a loop you have like it's it's an amount of music usually played for 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe an hour.

And because you're not going to linger in an area necessarily. So you won't hear it repeat. And City Walk, like I have heard a lot of a different way. I've heard a lot of Jimmy Buffett. That's the ad playing. Oh, I had to go to YouTube. i've heard a lot of despacito like you know the these songs uh repeat party rock is in the house yeah a different way has a sample of like a an indian uh pop song um so but as immediately i got off the, the, the trolley tram from Lancaster and I heard

this song and this is not the first time I've done that on the tram. It sounds like a city walk song. This is the kind of song that you should only listen to if you're not aware of other music. By the way, it's been playing long enough that we owe the money. God, get it out of here. I want to wait for the... Jump to the bridge. I think this is...

I'm not giving a cent to dj snake yeah dj snake we'll have to edit this out so i've heard that a lot anyway so bb king's and john did you hear it but was that just on the tram as soon as no i said i won the tram was an ad for uh margaritaville and then an ad for despicable me minion mayhem including minion stalking in their nonsense language and then as soon as i walked off the tram i started hearing that song okay um yeah so you're gonna hear fine it's a fine like song you're gonna hear your fave pop hits in here your fave nightclub sector what they stopped playing is my old favorite. Like when I was here like 10 years ago at CityWalk, you would just hear like a voice at the big screen

at the CityWalk stage. You'd hear like, express yourself, CityWalk. Like it was a weird whispery, like ad for CityWalk at CityWalk. Do you guys feel like you expressed yourselves tonight at CityWalk? Yeah, I mean, mean i honestly this is getting ahead of ourselves if like i feel like i never got quite comfortable enough to express myself but i feel like i got close uh do you ever feel like you're comfortable enough to express yourself that's a good question uh maybe at like a wedding once in a while at a

wedding you're far away from where you live it's like 2 a.m and you've had more drinks high emotions flying high then you feel like you really like let it out but like well guys i tried to get you out on the dance floor at howl at the moon i felt a lot of resistance yeah jason bailed well jason left immediately yes i'd be out pretty quickly i was trying to get my groove on to earth wind and fire september's the closest thing to the kind of music i would like at howl at the moon here's what was going through i know we should we're gonna not close with howl at the moon i guess here's what was going through my head i had ordered we had ordered a giant blue bucket

because everyone knows i drink a lot of neon colored drinks and everybody had a sip of it and then you were like i'll leave it there it'll be fine and in three uh we were with our friend andrew grissom uh you guys all left went to the dance floor and i looked at that bucket and i went i'm not gonna drink this if it leaves my sight oh and that's another paranoia thing i have i was thinking somebody's gonna drug me someone's gonna roofie me uh this is a classic halt the moon scenario way too much to unpack there and too much a fan of the podcast no i didn't say a fan would do it but like maybe a rival podcast perhaps they're trying they're also the bumper car boys perhaps were following. So I said, let me pick up the bucket. I'll take it on the dance floor.

It'll be funny. It'll be a funny photo op. But then, of course, it restricted my movement when it comes to dancing. I like, you know, in a loud place dancing. I enjoy that. But I felt like I was very wooden. So I apologize. I liked being there.

It just, I felt very strict. Also, very early in the night, too. So I was not properly loosened up. Sure sure jason maybe not into it at all i lingered for a bit on the dance floor but i realized like oh i want to see what the smoking area is and that had an interesting but that sounds like it's a your brain was like how do we get out of here what's the justification i also didn't want to be there uh there you go that's thank you that's what i'm saying let's let's build to that let's look at the smokers area kings we're going back to any of us yeah i want to go back i never got to go we have much on bb kings bb kings uh gone for a while yeah never

went on pre john lovett's comedy club which opened in 2009 did anyone ever visit bb kings no nope okay i do i have any notes about it i don't know if i do the joke i always heard uh there's a bb kings i think at time square in new york and uh uh i always heard like a lot of dates at that one featuring bb king like a lot of not a lot of other people i don't really know who played City Walk Hollywood. What do you have on it? It's like the Smash Club in San Francisco, primarily played by Jesse and the Rippers. I'm not sure there were any other acts besides Jesse and the Rippers at the Smash Club. I don't really have anything.

You know what I have is we're missing a couple clubs we haven't really called out in Fallen Brother past. missing a couple clubs we haven't really called out and in uh fallen brother past uh the rumba room which i took a little photo of whatever it is now i think it's just cubicles i i took a picture just kind of above the wall and they just like put you know universal employees in there now but there was something called the rumba room and they were ejected from the space and there were cries of racism in doing so they claimed that you know well we always paid on time and i don't know why this would um but the next club that opened was called infusion lounge and that was also minority owned but but there was like general hubbub like bb king apparently also were ejected in a weird way and they came out and spoke for the rumba room and said i don't know there's maybe something

systematic going on at city walk and they denied it and i found all this stuff at the movie theater too it's right it's where i get actually interested in the the odd politics of this place and uh uh you know as as a microcosm of the city at large you know people feeling uh a disrespect that are chased out or whatever it is andy camacho owner of camacho's cantina advocated for the rumba room and uh was upset about them getting kicked out. So I don't know. Yeah, there's been I you know, you think you're just going to talk about, you know, places that serve hot dogs and s'mores or whatever.

But there's some real shits happened up at City Walk. I'll tell you. That does feel like an actual like, you know, we've talked about it being a simulated street or a simulated like area of L.A. But it's like, that does feel like L.A. Where you're like, well, this is L.A. This is a liberal, you know, left-leaning enclave. But that also just means, like, oh, well, the racism.

It's just much, like, below. It's much deeper. It's just much. It's still there. It's just,. It's just much, it's still there. It's just like weirdly coded. And I remember even, I looked up like, oh wait, does Hal at the Moon have a weird like racist dress code? Because any club, and not kind of, not real, any nightclub. They let Mike in with his flamingo shirt, no problem.

That's true. Yeah, but any. But I'm a white man. Yeah, that's true. Any nightclub that like gets a long list of the dress code like once they start hitting like no jerseys no do rack like that's how do you find that yeah it's right it's a dog whistle it's like a weird iffy territory and how let the moon did not full disclosure did not have that oh okay oh okay i think there was a big thing was just like no overly baggy clothes or like

they may have said no jerseys but it seemed like i don't know it seemed a little uh but like plenty of people in all sorts of dress in there it wasn't like yeah people were dressed including a captain eo shirt anybody see that yeah shout out to the guy in the captain eo shirt i thought about tapping him on the shoulder asking what's up but but I didn't want to bother him. Yeah, no, he was probably enjoying. There was one Michael Jackson song played tonight, I think. Really? Yeah.

I think it was, what, Billie Jean? I lost track of music. I heard a hey-yah. There was a hey-yah, yeah. I wrote some down. Yeah. Outcast Roses. That was a deep cut.

The more deeper tracks on Love down. Yeah. Outcast Roses. That was a deep cut. Yeah. The more deeper tracks on Love Below. Yes. That was crazy. So it was pretty rough. Because I look, we're going back to what apparently we're doing now. Hold on. Hold on.

I got to use the bathroom. Oh, my God. To throw up or to pee? To pee. All right. Please. What do you mean, please? I've seen you throw up on Franklin Street.

I'm leaving all this in. I did Franklin Street. I'm leaving all this in. I'm leaving all this in. I'm going to talk about Jason while he's gone. All right, Scott's eating Pringles right now. Yeah, Jason, again, did not want to dance. A little disappointed by that. Which, again, I agree. I was not fully in, like...

Is it a self-consciousness i think maybe i mean it was i think you you went to the dance floor too early honestly uh-huh i think if it was like an hour in everyone was a little looser but what really are you doing there you're walking around you're kind of waving your arms no no i was fine i would have stand stood awkwardly all night with the little bucket full of blue liquids. I just maybe didn't look so comfortable. I guess I recognize that people are self-conscious about dancing. Yeah. And yet I don't know why you would be.

I truly, I like it. I enjoy it. I like a douchey Vegas pool dancing. I like a wedding dancing. Yeah, yeah. Anytime there's loud music and there's people standing up and being excited about it i'm totally on board about i'm with it um so not jason but not jason that's fair i mean a lot of people don't blue shit in his system too yeah i was worried he was he he

got mad at me because he had a double vodka at the start of the night and i was like you better be careful buddy um and he was like acting like i was his like dad or something but to be fair flip side of this i've seen jason aren't you there's i find from afar watching your relationship i find a lot of family member roles traded around what does he call me about usually my relationship with jason is that he kind of is like a neighbor who like kind of looks over the fence at me and is like oh looks like he's bought a new car oh that's accurate that's a big thing with him not that i bike i have the same car for eight years i'm just saying that's a general thing

of like oh new shirt huh must be doing well like that's a general thing of like, oh, new shirt, huh? Must be doing well. Like that's a general Jason with me relationship. But what have you noticed otherwise between the two of us? We were in the car on the way to the Pirates dinner adventure. And everybody was talking. You were talking about it was like the rent a car situation. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I know uh it was like the rent-a-car situation yes yeah yeah yeah i don't know i know what it was it was you it was i was saying that i was about to go to disney world and that i had made you know six or seven uh restaurant reservations and that like you know these

are hard some of these are hard to get and i didn't know exactly where we would be on a certain day so i made a bunch of them and then i would cancel them as we get closer and he was like well you know they um they use those reservations to uh you know really know who's coming into the restaurant so i go i understand that i go i'm gonna be canceling and he goes but you know you really should you really should cancel those and like lindsey even was like jason he's gonna cancel like he just booked a lot and it's fine and you were you were like, okay, but... In my memory, Jason said, Michael, he used your full name. There was a real... He's back now, so he can...

Yeah, I'm back. You guys kept talking. You did keep talking. I thought that was a joke. Yeah, yeah, we're loose. We're being loose here. Yeah, I mean, I think I was concerned about other people trying to get those...

I was also a little stoned on that. That's what you always said. We were just. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You were sucking some weird shit at the at the Pirates Dinner Adventure. You were. Oh, and you forgot there was a part of the Pirates Dinner Adventure where they came out on zip lines.

And then after the fact, I went, oh, you remember when the Pirates came out on zip lines? You're like, what? what are you talking about i was like the men over your head zipped oh and you're like i do not remember that like this is before the show though this is in the bar area they were all yelling oh that was the bar area the pre-show was a mess we were just at comic-con and we were trying to get into a party and you were like you called me a beta and then like i was like what are you talking about you're like well i was a little stone so like that seems to be a very common excuse for you that's all i'm saying that's true it is you weren't caught by a party we couldn't get into that's not true until your alpha friend got us in i think i said

on a different episode that if i if i am high i just announced that i am high i am not at ease with it remotely so i could relate to you on this level and if anything odd is said i pointed immediately back to that i am I. Sure. Yeah. Thankfully, I mean, we haven't built the foundation of this podcast on us being high guys. That would be exhausting. Oh, my God. It's hard enough to schedule three people. And I have not been high at a theme park.

Ever. Never. Me neither. Yeah, yeah. Have you ever? I would never. Have would never have you high boy oh I bet he did Universal Hollywood briefly this bad but I was like I was cranky oh I guess I and now I think about it

if we're talking Universal Hollywood because I gave you candy yeah because my friend who came out is like a big like you weren't happy about it no I wasn't unhappy about it and he was like let's take a little bit this man and then like we went in the house of horror shady dude well i'm exaggerating he's not that shady uh we went in the house of horrors man we were in the house of horrors and it was they've torn it down whatever it was called but they've torn it down um it wasn't great but it

was six like six minutes of just teenagers jumping out and scaring you when i friggin hated all of it chucky came out he slashed a knife at my friend's throat and i like lost my mind this is two years ago also this is not like when i was still scarred yeah so no that was horrible i have a similar house of horror story i went through like the very first time when i was first i've been out here like like, a month in LA. I hate it going through it. My friends dragged me through it, and I thought it was done. It was over, and then at the end, you go through a curtain, and they launch

a werewolf at you. Like, the guy in a werewolf costume. It looks like he's on a court. He's on a court, so they pull him back. But, like, he jumps out at you and they they he did it right when i was walking i don't remember that pulled him that must have been a thing it was like a fake out and they must have arranged that for you specifically because i do i do not recall

i mean launching a werewolf at me all right well that was a hallucination it didn't happen at all potentially um so let's talk should we talk about the crown jewel of this sector to the john lovett's yeah baby yes long gone let's let's do it i'd love it opened in 2009 closed abruptly in 2014 due to an unpleasant business dispute between two partners. So let's, yeah, to back you up, there was a club called the John Lovitz Comedy Club. And if you lived in Los Angeles around this time, you may have seen some advertisements that were him smiling in a big old Hawaiian shirt tarp.

Yeah, and not the only comedy club owned by a comic. Let's not forget danger fields or the atlantic city institution it only lasted about like three or four years club piscopo the in it in resorts atlantic city run by joe piscopo club piscopo is atl Atlantic City's newest comedy club dedicated to delivering a retro style comedy club and jazz lounge. Was, did Lovitz own his comedy club? Well. It was a co-investment between Lovitz and another guy named Frank Kelly. Yeah.

Yeah. And things did not end well. Right. There was a lawsuit that transpired um if if we're getting into the lawsuit uh hold on let me i've got some very uh breezy stuff about the opening because they had oh hey get into it get breezy high hopes for this uh love it said the this is from the hollywood reporter i have stuff from the opening and closing for the hollywood reporter love it said the new three-level club will differ from existing comedy clubs in la most of which have a black box feel in that it will be bright and open with beachy decor

complete with palm trees sounds like a ucb diss it sounds like a ucb diss later in the article i like hawaii and I like the beach. And here you can almost hear the ocean and smell the cocoa butter, Lovitz said. What? But why is Lovitz and Hawaii tied together? Well, I know this. He also hopes to work closely with NBC's The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, which is relocating to the universal lot which really dates that opening as much as we can mine the relationship with the very fruitful tonight show with conan o'brien yeah as much as this can be the cornerstone of this club oh oh boy oh boy uh uh

here i'm gonna show you a photo uh uh you you two of uh of the ticket booth for the John Lovitz Comedy Club. Can you see a little hidden thing, a little Easter egg here? You notice anything in this photo? The top photo? And think about other sectors when you look at this.

I see lightning on the door. You sure do. Is that the wizards? Wizards! That is a remnant of wizards that john lovitz left up and in fact you can still see very at various points at city walk saturns and other things wow uh so he didn't change though he's in a hawaiian themed nightclub it's still lightning bolts so you're getting clashing as soon as you buy your tickets who is it so let me i've got a picture uh so this is from a yelp uh page uh for the john lovitz comedy club again i mentioned three stories which is unique for a comedy club

here is the top floor which looks like a cage slash prison can you see that yes it does the yelp reviewer says uh third floor seats this is what you get for the same price thumbs down oh boy it looks like a cage jason is having indigestion from all this liquor indigestion looks like a cage when you're looking so so it's three stories but the three stories would all be looking down on one stage. On one stage... It wasn't three... Oh, three different stages of different comedians or performances.

Well, I think that was later changed. Here is another picture I have. This is a painting by... Oh, God. What's the signature? Gordo. Gordo painted this picture of John Lovitz smoking a big stogie. And I got i gotta say if you're doing comedy if you

have a picture of you smoking a big cigar a big stoke like you suck like you just suck like it just it's just rethink that photo like if that's your thing fine but, but like... Cigar and Hawaii and Lightning Bolts, these all clash. Why cigars doesn't seem to line up with the John Lovitz I know. Hawaiian shirts also don't. I don't know. What do you want out of the John Lovitz Comedy Club? He just doesn't have a particular brand because he's he's an actor what if i were to tell you uh at the opening of this uh another brand he associated with himself was like young women

with like an avril lavigne circle mid-2000s haircuts yes wait wait hold on this is the grand opening press conference let me explain this is love it's in a hawaiian shirt and three women eating like box lunches looking like bored and this is from getty images there are eight more of this identical photo my memory is that john was not a stand-up as a younger comedian he was an actor and that's an album or a groundling character and then he someone said you should do stand-up and he did it a little bit and then some you know you guys will tell me about this but some weird business partner was like let's have a comedy club i think that is accurate yeah yes and i now this this partner i like i don't want to pick sides in this argument,

but all I know is that the John Lovitz Comedy Club ended in a pile of lawsuits. I think Lovitz sued his partner, Frank Kelly, is that the name? Frank Kelly. And then Frank Kelly countersued. And the Twitter account is still live. Okay. I forget the exact at name,

but their handle next to the at name is closed comedy club oh boy which is depressing and it's it's a depressing twitter account let me say some things from this lawsuit and you can go yourself and read the legal dossier uh the countersuit from of kelly v lovitz uh this is but this is an actual quote from a legal document this is like judges and lawyers have to deal with this in this lawsuit lovitz appears to be channeling one of his most recognizable characters yes tommy flanagan the pathological liar same quote like bolded in my notes it. Also, is that one of his famous characters? Yes, it is.

Oh, it certainly is. Of course. The other one being Master Thespian. Yeah. Which you could have easily gone with all of Mr. Lovitz's claims. It is obvious that he is acting! Exclamation point. You could have gone either way with it, but they went with the liar, which is probably

the cleaner thing to do yeah it makes sense legal situation um other things in this lawsuit uh let me read some stuff the club's financial difficulties were lovitz's fault kelly alleged he claimed the comedian had agreed to financially back the club but quickly became unable or unwilling to provide the needed funding the comic meanwhile, meanwhile, made irresponsible expenses, like a $200,000 TV sign promoting the club, which this is true. There is a video sign that says Comedy Club that is still up at CityWalk.

Have you guys seen this? Yes. It's a video screen. It says Comedy Club, and there's nothing ever on the screen. This was paid for by John Lovitz and apparently did nothing to get people into the club and also a twenty thousand dollar advertising campaign that just said the ads just said get happy and didn't actually say the name john lovitz comedy club he didn't direct anyone to the actual business he was trying to promote i feel like there is still like there's an elevator the on the ground floor next to johnny rockets where

like uh you you like that elevator would go up to the level that the john lovitz club was at and i think it still says like artist entrance elevator like that would take them backstage which is still like i mean that's sad that's depressing it's still there take that sign down yeah and then it's still there's another sign that still says comedy club that is yeah it's weird there's a lot going on i mean i mean we gotta talk about the kevin smith connection yeah so all right um okay so to go back kevin smith has had a podcast for a number of years and when he he briefly experimented with having his own space the smod castle down on santa monica boulevard um uh and the smod castle it only held about 50 or 60 people 50 or 60 seats

and it would sell out a lot so they were looking to expand for like the smodcast network more than 60 people yeah it was a black box theater they needed more space so that at the same time is like the love it's club had been going for a couple years a few years and like was it that long it was the love's clubovett's Club was opened 2009 to 2014. So it did five years. I didn't think it was that long. So eventually the Lovett's Club kind of expanded and their logo became the John Lovett's Comedy Club and Vodcast Theater. Vodcast is a video podcast. Never really caught on.

Non-existent medium. Non-existent. They tried it for a while. So, and they kind of converted the top floor into like a podcasting space. So like a second space. And Kevin Smith used to record there. And now briefly, that was going to become the Smodcast Lounge. And that never happened. They just to become the Smodcast Lounge. And that never happened.

They just called it the Smodcast Theater. And of course, there was that plaque when you were walking into the Smodcast Theater. That famous Kevin Smith quote, 10 years in and we broke bone like we're cheating on each other with each other. A decade plus and her Clint Brown taint area still pones my dick that famous kevin smith tweet that was somewhere where do you wait no i'm lying i'm making that up i just wanted to read that kevin smith that's the thing he tweeted that is what he did and it comes back every few years it just lingers in our mind suppose kevin claims that his wife because of some

sort of bed or something was said there was a deal made that he she he would tweet anything that she wanted and that was a thing he was forced to tweet he says he he didn't tweet that dom sub stuff going on right now you relationship. You know all about that. Oh, sure. Absolutely. You're the young millennial of the three of us. Yeah. Kevin Smith was name checked in the lawsuit that transpired.

And let me just read this. He was not paid. He was one of the people not paid properly. He was not paid in Lovett's claim that it was because of this guy Kelly. But Kelly switched that right back on him, said he is a pathological liar. And just within the legal dossier,

additional facts concerning Levinson's defamatory conduct. Point 18. Kevin Smith is a well-known director, producer, actor, and comedian. Let me just take some words out of that statement and just boil it down to kevin smith is an actor that phrase in and of itself uh devalues the entire lawsuit

that proves that the whole thing is uh full of lies and statements you can't trust i'm still mad because kevin smith was supposed to shoot mall rats to whether a movie or a tv show you've talked about this before i've talked about this for years my childhood mall he said this on the radio uh my childhood mall was was the granite run ball uh was going to be demolished and they were going to let kevin smith film in there and dress it up and then blow it up at the end because they were going to blow it up anyway and it just didn't happen look it still could happen no that mall is rubble now they could build another mall in your hometown and they blow it up is what i'm saying two will be a live periscope event that's how he'll end up

doing it or it'll be in pieces it'll be an Insta story in 90 parts. When Mike and I were younger men, we enjoyed the Kevin Smith universe and we liked once a month when he would get online and say like, all right, here's the order I'm going to shoot movies in. I never liked that part of it, but I liked the first part. I liked it.

But once after a year of it, him going like, okay, the order has changed. As far as the law... Look, sorry to get away from Kevin Smith. As far as what happened with the lawsuit with John Lovitz, there's two people I would like to come on the podcast and explain. One, John Lovitz. Of course.

Love the hero. Yes! Big fan of his. A lot of different things. Simpsons, The Critic, blah, blah, blah. Number two, Jim Hill. The man knows his theme park history. I would love to hear a definitive explanation of what happened with the John Lovitz in regards to CityWalk.

And I think Jim is the kind of guy who researches. We've heard him on the Disney Dish podcast. And he knows exactly. He knows how to dig he knows sources he has a deep throat probably he knows where the bodies are that's what i'm saying jim hill or john lovitz come on the show explain to us what happened with the you get look you're getting the real deal what we do it's post 1 a.m and we are pleading with jim hill right i've gotten a text i've gotten a text from lindsey saying we are too loud she is trying to go to sleep and

we're being loud so i'm like from now on we'll be very hushed for the rest of the episode yeah i did notice you take the volume down a little bit yep i have let me say one more thing before we depart from the john lovitz comedy club this may have also been part of the vodcast endeavor yeah that john lovitz hosted a podcast that was live from his theater guests included dana carvey and i have an ad in front of me where dana is spelled with two n's dana carvey that's not how any dana is spelled by the way dana is generally spelled with one n no dana and also taping is misspelled the e is used the some of the artwork some of the like like uh promotional work for the john lovitz comedy club was yeah extremely brutal um gene simmons also apparently a guest on on this podcast wow really would you like to know the name of john lovitz's live podcast event yes please he would

put on oh no no no he would call his live podcast love it or leave it the year this is being done, 2010. 2017 or so rolls around, and the very funny, the funny, funny man, John Lovett, comes up with the name. Obama staffer now doing a comedy, a funny comedy podcast. Does the title love it or leave it? Love it or leave it love it or leave it i think what's funny about both of those podcasts is i would rather be pushed down the flight of stairs and mike's townhouse right here than listen to either one of those podcasts like i would rather listen more i would rather fall down the stairs and go like, well, ooh, how can I, as I'm doing this, try not to injure myself more than listen to the milquetoast speechwriter or the milquetoast comedian? Like, it just sounds like a nightmare.

I'm more curious about John Lovitz's comedy views and how he liked the 2018 election together. I have a clear favorite, and it's John Lovitz, not John Lovitz. Yeah, no, Lovitz is definitely the clear favorite and it's john lovitz yeah no lovitz is definitely the clear favorite you know it's funny that this comedy right this funny comedy writer really put his brain to the mat and he thought of the same name that john lovitz did eight years prior i just i mean akazia won because she got out there and shook hands like that sort of insight is invaluable from like a guy who will never have to struggle in his life because he he just phoned it in and every fucking thing he did does anyone care about the crossover between our political views and our views about milkshakes probably not i hope crooked media goes bankrupt is by only

hey don't say anything you'll regret when you haven't had two and a half beers and also some blue stuff and a couple sips of blue stuff well a couple cherries soaked in blue stuff cherries let's get into where gave us the blue stuff so we're watching at the moon we all want to see a movie i don't know if it's going to date we're going to release this and it's going to be like two months later um but we saw a movie we all loved it will be bankrupt uh and lindsey was with us and it was a couple of us walking up the to take or excuse me going up the escalator to go to howl at the moon and she was like yeah i'll go in there's no cover charge or whatever i was like yeah there's no cover and we got there and it was a loud cover of the killers mr bright side jeweler heavy piano she goes i am out heavy piano she turned around and was like i gotta go

to bed and this same thing had happened to keep it when aaron and i when my wife and i started dating i it was 2006 and uh i was still a universal tour guide and the go-to hangout was howl at the moon and i convinced her up there at one point and same thing she sat down at a table sat down at the high top and then said i can't do this and walked away and this is the thing that we did tonight yes now i would not describe this as any particular torture. No. I think we had a good time, and you're benefiting from our good time right now as we speak. Your now wife asked, like, oh, I can't remember what section I was.

Will you just come with me until I get to the car? And you jumped at the opportunity to not be at hell in the mood for a few extra minutes. Oh, to delay it. To delay it. I yes why don't he jumped i mean his wife made a request and he granted it which is very reasonable no but i feel like his reaction was earned day sure any less seconds i can spend at this place what is uh how that the moon is a dueling piano bar yes branded concept this began in 1990 in the city of cincinnati at a flagship location that has since closed i was trying to find out kind of the history of howl at the moon

and just by googling howl at the moon i didn't find a lot but then i got smart and i added a word to the google search and the word that i added was arrest and then i found the real deal google results let me pull the notes out um so how at the moon there are a number of locations of this i only knew there was also one in san diego which would certainly follow as there was another uh john lovett's comedy there's a lot of them there's a lot across the country and let me just give you a couple stats and it's not a mind-boggling amount of stats for arrests but um in orlando on i drive the hell of the moon there was a stabbing in houston there was a stabbing uh which was fatal someone died at the hell of the moon uh in indianapolis a man was arrested at the howl at

the moon due to uh heavy intoxication uh over the course of his arrest he tried to punch the officer and grab his genitals um and now let me take you to the boston howl at the moon piano bar which complex uh the website complex named number 14 douchiest bar in boston oh man um here's a thing that happened there a i didn't write down his name but a player for the new england patriots was judging a halloween costume contest at howl at the moon now to be totally fair to howl at the moon to this fine fine establishment, he left Howl at the Moon, went to another bar two miles away. But clearly drunk from the initial Halloween costume judging, went to another bar where he assaulted a woman. Oh my God.

Was taken to jail. And what is funny about all of this is that he was brought into jail wearing a costume of lieutenant dangle from reno 911 so this beloved football player in the boston area is dressed in the short shorts friend of the podcast tom lennon are we just why would he be friend of the party you've never been on oh he's never been on but we know him a casually. I've spoken to him for 20 seconds or so. Yeah, I think that's enough. Great, close enough. Friend of the pod, Lieutenant Dangle.

Well, we can say friend of the podcast, Nick Jennings, a man I grew up with, is a friend of the podcast. How's Nick do it? Minnie Mouse, friend of the podcast. Anyone we ever know is not just a friend of the podcast. That's not how that works. All right. Breck Eisner, friend of the podcast that's not how that works all right breck eisner friend of the podcast well oh well breck come on the show yeah we do want breck for sure is a friend um anyway uh a lot of debauchery has transpired at various health and locations and over the years

15 locations have closed nationwide but many are left including at city walk and how would you guys evaluate your evening um i will say that i um you know when you get older like me i'm the oldest one of the three of us oh yeah it is right uh is that you get a little tired sometimes when you're drinking so it's not i had a good time i do think if i had gotten more sleep i would have had a better time because i never got to the point where i was like oh wow hell yeah i'm drinking some blue liquid and i'm having a great time i'm very excited it was just kind of like a slow like but it's not the fault of howl at the moon i do feel like howl at the moon if i was a young person if i was 22

25 years old coming up there for thursday night i think i would have had a pretty decent time the people there were very excited i was expecting a place honestly on a thursday night a city walk to be like kind of sleepy not the case at all pretty wild pretty rowdy not wild but like pretty you know you know i didn't find it there i never saw anything that sketched me out i didn't see people stumbling over i didn't see sloppiness no stabbing a very nice gentleman named connor came up to us a listener of the podcast shout out to connor and his girlfriend i was too far away to catch her name uh yes i can't remember but she uh they came up to us and were very nice. And he is a regular on Thursday nights because they have dollar beers.

They have dollar Coors Lights. And I, for one, am no snob. I don't mind a Coors Light. Sure. A buck a beer, that is a good deal. A very good deal. And I can see why you'd make a point of coming up the hill to get that. Great deal.

I splurged. You know, I'm a thrifty man, but I cannot do Coors. I do not like the taste of Coors Light, but it was also $4 Sky Vodka. Not bad. And I had a double Sky Vodka and then a single Sky Vodka. And so that's where I'm coming from. Yeah. So that's why you're getting hella political.

Yeah, you're getting really rowdy. I'm getting hella political and saying, hey, that guy that's not very funny sucks. So I was earlier in the day, I was looking through Howl at the Moon and I looked at Facebook. So this is the disappointment on at least my part. And on Facebook, there was an event and it says at howl at the moon hollywood which is the one in universal city but tonight according to facebook there was supposed to be something called a stoplight party and i texted this excitedly to everyone because i looked it up what are the terms and what that means is that everyone gets a wristband that's that is either

red yellow or green so red would mean you're in a relationship you're not looking for anyone yellow means it's complicated like inquire maybe maybe it's possible and green means go ahead so i was very excited because jason is of course single and i'm all about go ahead and jason is all about go ahead according to him right right right but i was very excited with screen grab yeah and it says uh the facebook event zero going zero shares one interest yeah but that's the case when we got up there and i looked around i did not see any wristbands so i feel, that's what I'm saying. So there was a Facebook group here,

or a Facebook, excuse me, event, and they did not follow through. None of us got wristbands. I was excited to get a red wristband saying, hands off, ladies. No, hands off, gentlemen. I am taken. But Jason over here, green, go.

Yeah, I was excited to give you the green i was very excited about it but it did not happen so that is the first thing really uh going into health moon i was disappointed that the stop light party did not seem to be actually happening and it but it didn't really seem like an environment for mingle i feel like most people were watching the band like people weren't mingling there was a lot of couples there was a lot of groups there was a lot of men that even as a man i wouldn't leave my drink attended around uh what does that mean just a vibe you get a vibe from uh certain kinds of men what do you what kinds of men creeps i don't know what you want me to say i don't know what you're no i'm just i i'm trying to remember like i feel like there was a big yeah there were some creeps i felt a strong possibility

of one of the howl men uh slipping something into our big blue blue bucket full of curly i have never i was not um carrying the blue bucket full of blue liquid around because i like saw someone specific if i was in an apple bees full of you know priests i would have still carried that blue bucket around because that's just how i'm wired it's not it has nothing to do with the clientele apple bees full of priests if there was an apple bees full of priests they're having it they rented it out for the night. They can't. They're not drinking.

Honestly, I should have said nuns because priests have some creepy priests. Let's be honest. Oh, for sure. Nuns are aggressive, but not in the way that the priests are. The only priest I trust is Lenny Bilardo, the young pope. Go fuck yourself, Jason. It's all coming out sorry i'm so sorry we're salty it's you know very late i'd be why by the way you guys tell me

i'd be willing to stop this recording within the next 45 seconds but let's uh everybody say whatever you feel like saying uh what else about hell at the moon i have very little um you know we were uh connor our listener told us he's very impressed by the band by their musical dexterity he was talking about and that you can throw out any any request and they'll basically figure it out and i I agree. I'm impressed with them and no knock on them. I don't know if the dueling piano concept in general is anything that appeals to me. And you are guaranteed to hear a don't stop believing,

which is a good way to chase me out of anywhere. Connor was very savvy because he was saying him and his girlfriend, they live a few stops down the metro red line stop. So it's easy to pop on the train, have a few drinks, not worry about driving home, pop back on the red line to get home. So I thought that was smart. You're right.

It is smart. Yeah. Good job. Not drink and drive. I agree. We got to talk about the basic notion of public transit. It's great. We got to talk about the patio.

So, okay. All right. Talk about the patio. Talk about the patio. Well, you wanted to know what else. Yeah, go for it. I did, but the clock's ticking. I investigated the patio.

I stepped outside of Halifax Mood, and one of the security guys said, oh, sir, I have to take that from you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. This is good. You're right right i'm sorry and they thank you uh i deserve that apology they took the drink and they're like i was like i i wasn't sure what was going on and they're like oh just right this way and they like because there

is a gap between the bar and the smoking patio and they're like and then they we we got to the patio area they handed me back the drink and they're like that like five feet is public property so we have to take the drink and then give it back to you so which i thought was interesting i've never experienced that before so yes as you were coming outside they would say hey put the drink on this little serving tray and it was confusing because you're like what are they talking about they would say, hey, put the drink on this little serving tray. And it was confusing because you're like, what are they talking about? They would set it down. And then as you walk to the like three feet away, they would just surf it on their little serving tray to you and then go, here you go. Yeah.

And it wasn't like I think I've been to one or two fancy restaurants where they put your drink on a little stone tablet and they carry it to your table this was kind of that but like it was essentially saying like please stop getting hammered in the bar now you can get hammered in the bathroom this was just getting by a liquor law like this was just skirting by a liquor law skirting liquor law in between a sheriff's station and the uh universal talent office because that's what's in between. How about the moon? Yeah, so it was fun. So, like, you could really make somebody, like,

surf your drink back and forth, back and forth, if you wanted to go in and out. But we were not so cruel. We would not do that. That's a little howl hack. A howl hack for you. Another howl hack. Hashtag howl hack.

You can get $5 woo-woo did anybody uh i did not have one shot being poured no we were mostly in each other's sight lines i got so i think you would have noticed if we had woo woo shots i got the adios mofo drink that's what it was called uh sky vodka uh cruise and cruising rum cruzan rum sorry this is the blue bucket yeah the blue bucket cose cuervo especial tequila cose cuervo oh is that cool yeah it's especially a relaxed version cose uh pinnacle gin blue pinnacle by the way i'm looking at a flyer and the sponsors of this club pinnacle sky and bud light that makes a lot of sense so we all got tricked and it tricked me into promoting their products right now sure and and people will now run out and try they're like i want to try the liquor that mike tried like i want it in the

bucket mike's bucket yeah they definitely try that hey tap the pinnacle everyone um so i gotta say that say that bucket did not taste great that was so shit it was a bucket and mike didn't like it either although yeah very funny moment i i don't are we asked our bartender like do you like any of the bucket, like any particular buckets? She was like, I'm not going to lie. This is a new menu. I got, I found out I was pregnant right before it was introduced. So I haven't tried any of them. And then we were all like, well, congratulations. The buckets don't matter because that's so much more exciting.

And then we're like, we were truly trying to make her feel good about being pregnant and not being able to try the different buckets at howl at the moon she should honor the sponsor and name the baby sky i think that it'll be nice that the baby will know all the covers of popular songs by the time it comes out it'll have heard so many different versions oh yeah well i tried first of all i i thought it'd be funny for many different versions i wanted to recommend some songs oh yeah well i tried first of all i i thought it'd be funny for the podcast if i put like down a disney song and see if they would play it and everyone made fun of me and when i say everyone i mean you guys it seemed too broad it's interesting i wrote it's a small world down thinking like okay maybe they

won't know that but they'll know it they're like disney song or something and then you guys like shut up fuck you don't well i didn't think they were gonna break from playing no scrubs to play it's a small world but maybe like oh it's a jokey little thing one of the piano players would be like and then we'd be able to talk about the podcast it'd be great content for the listeners well we're talking about this so the failure yeah so i said okay fine i'm an idiot uh i'll put something down that maybe they will know so i wrote down i'm just trying to think of something like that would be kind of theme park related but also disney related and i wrote down uh life is a highway uh rascal flats version

which is a stronger joke like that's a better i don't know that it's a stronger joke but like i just mean it's a pop more popular song that maybe like if they were like a lot of these popular song a bunch of drunk universal people version of the song right heart like that's a more specific joke so i put it down on the piano i think i put a dollar down like as a tip like come on let's play this and i think a one dollar a yeah no i meant business uh and i think the the woman playing the piano she picked it up i think she walked over to the other guy and maybe i'm projecting she looked annoyed and she showed it to the other guy and i think they were just like waved it off and they

never played it they did not know that song so like as much as connor was like oh my god these people can play anything like they can play like 12 things let's be honest they can play a bunch of you know popular number one songs they've heard it to put it another way you managed to find a song lame enough that a dueling piano bar band refused to play it i don't know if they refused. You cracked the code. But like that, Life is a Highway was a hit before that. Like they should know Life is a Highway. So all I'm saying is like, this is not.

Do you like that song? No, I don't like that song. You do. I like the original. Turn my attention this way. Why? I like the original song. What's the original?

There's Rascal Flatts version. What's the original? Who does the original version? Who does the original original i think i have it on my itunes they rolled their eyes because you said rascal flats and they're purists and they wanted to play the original song as it was meant to be played the original song is by tom cochran tom cochran yeah and i liked it We owe Tom Cochran money now Oh god It was on the loop at the Hard Rock Orlando And I used to hear it all the time And I was like yeah this song's a banger It's good

Was that also in the Treadmill rotation When you were working out Oh yeah It would I think that was pre iTunes store but yeah it would i think that was pre-iTunes store but yeah it would it would have been just Will Smith and Tom Cochran for you on the treadmill Will Smith nod your head do you agree that with the sentiment that life is a highway uh yeah i think that's right here's because sometimes

look sometimes easy sailing you're doing a 65 just cruising along sometimes there's backup yeah and sometimes you've had too many woo-woo shots and you get pulled over i had no way patrol shots thank you do you think you guys should call the lift now while we're on the air and then help us when the lift gets here so we exactly that's what i'm saying swifter exit so scott you call the lift i still are we exactly that's what i'm saying swifter exit so scott you call the lift i still are we sharing one jason i think you have to i think we are okay um well let's figure out this so how at the moon i mean you know what you're getting into whatever you imagine you're getting into yeah it was not as it was not honestly it was not as

trashy as i thought it would be like i thought it would be kind of like trashy or aggressive. And it was honestly just like, you know, some standard covers of things. And like they were playing Maroon 5, This Love and, you know. I don't know what you expected. Yeah, I don't know what I expected either. Like I guess there's trashier bars like even in Schaumburg, Illinois. Mm-hmm. That were like much more low rent and had like a shitty cover band

and it felt much dingier yeah than this by the way we got three minutes abdul is coming okay so what's this the stone is appearing oh yeah there it is oh my god the sector 15 stone it's in the shape of well it's been looking annoyed this is saying shut the fuck up the stone now is zipping it's actually in the lift that you called oh okay so we have to go catch it now to make sure you're on time so that we can get the tiny lindsey annoyed with our volume at 2 a.m almost oh it's only it's like one of us has a job in the morning and two of us do not. Can you guess which? Can you guess which?

Extrapolating from listening to us. It was employable. Well, we wanted to go short and we went an hour and 15. Pretty short for us. Life is a highway. Life is a highway. We'll catch you next time

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