Podcast: The Ride - The CityWalk Saga - Sector 2

Episode Date: September 15, 2018

Crepes should not be served on styrofoam plates. The CityWalk Saga - Sector 2 consists of: Dodgers Clubhouse Store  The Crepe Cafe The Los Angeles Sock Market VIVO Italian Kitchen (now open, yes we know) Upstart Crow (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

FOREVER! DOG! When your town has let you down When your porch has fallen short When you're too worn out to run And need some ribs or a Cinnabon You need a place, aon you need a place a place for rock

a place for roll a place where Oakland Raiders merch is sold a sublime hot topic and billabong 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 CityWalk Hollywood. Welcome to Podcast The Ride, the CityWalk Saga, Sector 2. We're here, we're very early in the run of this great endeavor. And I want to say, because I don't think we said it in the first one our theme song for this saga music oh and lyrics by our very own music maestro mike carlson hey thank you uh who's here today sung by zach reno sung by the great zach reno our longtime our dear friend uh from the off book podcast

check out that show and putting me over wow very nice Very nice. Thank you very much. What do I get? And of course, Scott Gairdner. Am I looking sharp today? You are looking sharp. Give him a compliment. And you're the finder. Scott, you always impress me with the- Oh, now we're just being nice to each other. That's nice. The things that you find.

Like, you find these amazing little oddities of rides and theme parks. And you're very good at searching archives. The research is very good at searching archives the research is very good that that is like uh that has been a nice thing about this podcast i have always had this weird like wanting to to dig and find some little off that you know find one thing that's not on the wikipedia of the rides right i think we owe the the audience that and there's there's some there's some fun odd stuff in this sector and throughout this whole series. I'm looking forward to it.

And in case people didn't realize, this is the proof that we really are. We've never done two days in a row of episodes, and we've certainly never done 19 days in a row. Here we are. It's really happening. And the other thing that's really happening is that we are joined once again by the Great Spirit who overlooks City Walk and guides us into these sectors. It's the Sector Keeper. Boys, boys, how are you? Hello, Sector Keeper.

Hello. Good to see you, boys. Good to see you. Your strength. Your strength brings me strength, boys. Wonderful. That's great. We have a long way to go.

We have to rebuild you all the way up to being alive again. Yes, yes. Being alive and then allowing me to die and go to heaven. I guess that is what we're doing. Yes, yes. And I thank you. You're on this journey, and this journey is exciting, yes? Oh, yeah.

Very exciting. It's very exciting. You already look a little better oh thank you yes i can feel uh the blood coming back to my face and and whatnot and i can feel uh that as you go into more sectors i will grow more into my soul and this kind also on top of that color is coming back to your face and you're also becoming less translucent like a back to the future photo and we can see you much more clearly now more i think your opacity levels have raised at least three percent yes check out my shirt oh yeah

oh that was one of your favorites back in 1993 when you left This Mortal Coil. Yes. We have some bad news about the creator of it, though. Yeah, don't read. Uh-oh. Yeah, don't. Yeah, that's. Bad man?

Well, it's. I'll say it. Bad man. Yeah, bad man. Yeah, bad man. Billy West on the other hand is still a prolific, great voiceover actor. And he ended up taking over for Ren and in some ways was even better yeah I would agree yeah so everything I guess worked out so there's

good there's still good men out there and we're among them oh oh then we can help you help you tell us what's in sector 2 today yes sector keeper boys gather round gather round yes I'm listening. In order to attain the Sector 2 stone, please discuss Dodger's Clubhouse Store, the Crepe Cafe, Sock Market, Future Italian Restaurant, and the now-retired Upstart Crow. Okay. Can do. We are ready, willing, and able yes and sephora sephora part of this yes sephora but he was testing us to make sure i never went in those stores

my mom would and i'd play in the phone well i can understand why you wouldn't want to bring it up but sorry fun for a moment to do the case you're joining us for episode two, Sector Keeper Perished in the CityWalk Fountain, which we'll cover in a few sectors, and that one might be a dark one for you. We'll try to keep things light, and we can keep things light right now by talking about the Dodgers Clubhouse Store.

Yeah, go Dodgers. Go Dodgers. Go Dodgers. They're one of the great LA teams represented at CityWalk. Well, the only great LA team as the Raiders store has not been an L.A. team for some time. Right. But the Dodgers certainly are the pride of L.A. And it's a great store. I can recognize.

Look, I'm a guy who likes collecting crap. You can see it in the apartment. I have a lot of toys. There are graphic novels which by the way yes i right as i was talking i got a little distracted because i was looking at your leonardo over there yes does he have a penis no no no that's his tail okay his tail let me see if i actually can move it so you're right it does look like it's just got a little dangly penis happening here yeah uh well no it's kind of just stuck there that's so

that looks like a penis yeah we're gonna have to very much looks like his penis hold on let me see if i can make it look not like his penis because this is look these yeah give it a tug until it doesn't uh it's clearly not a penis uh okay yeah there was a limited run uh dynamic for this limited run of ones where you did see leonardo's hog but no that's definitely supposed to be a tail it's supposed to be a tail and it's probably anatomically correct as far as a turtle is concerned if a turtle was standing upright his tail would just be dangling there right between his legs why did they need to represent this because that's not on a suit or anything this is more of this is a mondo turtle mondo is a company that makes posters

and different toys and there's two different heads one is the red bandana for leonardo because they all had red in the original mirage comic they were not they did not have the color um bandanas so i believe this is sort of more of a gritty ninja turtle a more original design and and i think the original designs had the little tails had the penises had the little penises dangling. Not for children. Yeah, so this is for, it probably says that on the box, adult collectors.

You keep it out and open. You display penises. Well, I think it's cool because it's a good, it's a nice design for the toy. In future, all adult men have Ninja Turtles with penises. Okay, let's get back to the Dodgers store. It's kind of a Mike-specific.

Well, I have just some collectibles. I call them collectibles is what happens. They're not toys necessarily. That's your euphemism for your sex toys. Yeah. Adults buy toys. It's a lot to explain in a future uh sector there's a store that sells collectibles like this um things from another world so we can probably talk more about

adult collectibles then but this is um you know this is how much we're avoiding talking about sports yeah i was just trying to start talking about turtle dicks um i steered it right into like uh like stuff i liked when i was six and this is you getting in the head of yes exactly freak that's what i was trying to do sports freak heaven at dodger right i was imagining okay say this was a ninja turtle store and it was at city walk if they had the like the amount and different types of merchandise and clothing i would be in heaven if it was at CityWalk, if they had the amount and different types of merchandise and clothing, I would be in heaven. If it was just multiple different Michelangelo toys and T-shirts with Casey Jones,

and you had every version of Casey Jones, it was movie Casey and early cartoon Casey and Mirage comic Casey, but also Archie comics Casey, which is a different set of Turtle comics that were running at the same time, I would have been, oh my gosh, it would have been heaven for me. So I'm saying it's a good store because I imagined my interest being the Ninja Turtles thing that I liked when I was a little boy. This metaphor would apply to anything, though. Sephora.

Imagine if Sephora, instead of makeup, it was all Ninja Turtle things, and you've got every type of... Yes, you're making all the stores sound really great to me. So you're right about that i'm just saying the amount and the quantity of things even more so than even like if we're talking about a billabong which i felt didn't have as much merchandise and didn't have as many options for whatever their board shorts and their skateboard decks or whatever i'm talking about dodgers was pat the place was packed it was it's a crowded store because they have so many different types of merchandise that's sort of especially what i'm saying and that's why i'm trying to pay it a compliment do i care about any of it no i

don't give a shit it's the dodgers it's baseball i like going to the game i like all that stuff but if we're talking it was a ninja turtle store here's a fun fact about the Dodgers. The name comes from, the Dodgers were originally from Brooklyn. Yes, yeah. Another fun fact in and of itself. Yeah. And once when I was in New York, I took one of those double-decker bus tours and the real New York

guy giving the bus tour was very adamant about, like, the Dodgers should have never left Brooklyn. Even the name is brooklyn because there used to be these uh very cumbersome trolleys that would come down the avenues in brooklyn and that's how people would get around uh in the early 20th century and they would spark they were constantly sparking from the top but then they also didn't have great braking systems so people would dodge out of the way when the trolleys were like coming down.

That's weird. So they named the baseball team after like. They named it after getting out of the way of public transit. It's weird. That's very weird. And those were the days. Those were the days. Leaping away from fires and giant gnarling mechanisms that might smash into me.

Remember when they used to name baseball teams after avoiding accidents. Yeah. Can't believe they kept that name when they moved to Chavez Ravine. The Texas Duckers. You would have to duck out of the way of gunfire. Of the gunfire. They're always shooting those guns down in Texas. Yeah, the Duckers.

The Duckers should have stayed in Texas, okay? They should have stayed in Texas. The Baltimore Mamies. I guess they're Mamies because they aren't the Mamers, if stayed in texas okay stayed at texas baltimore maimies i guess they're maimies because they aren't the maimers if you're getting like collateral damage is the collateral damages damages damages uh oh yeah i guess that works collateral damages maybe correct yes um so yeah why aren't all sports teams related to the hurricane avoiders. The punch blockers. Local maladies should always be the source of team names.

That is interesting. That is fun. Can you imagine being a sports fan listening to this? We can't name one player. People punching their radio or their phone. Stop it! Feeding up their own podcast. Who gives a shit about Casey Jones?

You want to hear about Puig? You fucking nerd. You see a Puig. So, yeah, I got to say it's a great store. I thought it was cool. It's a lot. If you're a Dodgers fan, you'll find something there. It's packed.

It's like everything they have at Dodgers Stadium all in one tiny CityWalk location. You can make a custom jersey, which I think is cool. You used to be able to get Dodgers dogs up there. Oh, is that true? In that store? I think there was like a hot dog stand next to it or outside of it.

They did used to have Dodger dogs within the park, and I would get those on my lunch breaks as a tour guide and then i remembered that hot dogs are not good to have uh many times a week no yeah yeah nitrates too many nitrates i love hot dogs ah well you and me both sector keeper you are a child we we miss the days when we could eat uh way. Although for Jason, those days persist. They never ended. How many hot dogs a week are you eating? Five, six?

Well, here's the thing with hot dogs. When you're a single man and you buy a pack of hot dogs, you're going to want to free some because you're going to get sick of them quick. Because if I buy hot dogs, I'm going to be eating hot dogs for a few meals that week you still buy hot dogs how often other than a cookout are you buying hot dogs i don't maybe like once every six weeks or so you buy really every sector keeper you look shocked what hot dogs at home that's interesting because i haven't bought hot dogs for a while maybe i did it once like seven or eight years ago i like i i'm not anti-hot dog like if i go to a baseball

game i have a hot dog but i haven't bought hot dogs other than for a cookout in years well sometimes i'll switch it up and do like a kielbasa okay or like if that week if it's like oh i'll make uh pasta you know pasta because like a hot dog really is just bologna it's the exact same thing as bologna really it's just like this weird processed meat you get the good you get like the kosher you know to bologna as well i'm just saying if you get an oscar meyer hot dog or oscar meyer bologna it's basically the same thing. You've really turned me off with that. I've never been a bologna guy.

Oh, so now I've put you off hot dogs even more. See, we weren't a bologna household, but we were a hot dog household. We always had hot dogs. I'll say we were a bologna household and a liver sausage household, which is insane. Oscar Mayer liver sausage in that tube. Sector Keeper, you know what I'm talking about? Did you have that when you were alive father would eat liver sausage sandwiches and you spread it yes it's a spread so this is different than liverwurst it is similar but it's different yeah we would have liverwurst which is scrapple east coast we would have i've heard of this i've never

had that this is all like i don't know why we were eating like depression era food in the 1980s and 1990s but we were and in the 2010s for jason yes he's still eating scrapple i look i still my baby we were parents you know i still like going to the grocery store it's like all right need bread milk eggs uh you know i'll often be like mom why were we eating liver sausage like it's crazy it's like what even was it i my my uh my family eats very traditionally and i'll get text messages from my uh my younger sister who's uh i i think that prone to misspellings and the autocorrects don't always work out and she was complaining about the poor quality of the meal they had ham over rice but also which is a horrible ham over rice, but also, which is a horrible... Ham over rice?

Over. I was like, why was it dressed up with over? Did my mom... Tonight we're having ham over rice. And you had not had that as a child growing up? No, that was not a common. That's apparently new in the Gairdner household. But the other thing was she was complaining

about the smell of the food that was being prepared all day in the cockpot this was a text i see i see that's good that's funny so funny see a cockpot in print leonardo cooks in a cockpot he's a walking cockpot see a nice ham dinner i would i feel like we defaulted to like all grout and potatoes yeah that makes sense that's a fancy rice is not a thing anyone were you a ham were you a ham family we were not oh yeah ham pork loins pork loins really yeah pork chops i i feel like we stopped we used to be do a lot of pork chops but i think as we got older we're all like these cook these are dry and kind of like and then we switch to pork loins

which tend to be a lot juicier and flavorful you're just joining us this is podcast the ride the podcast about theme parks and rides and amusement park and processed meats and processed meats we ate as children sector keeper we have to keep moving yes please continue with the crepe cafe well this is i mean this is all me because this ties right back into food yeah this ties right back into food so i went to the crepe cafe uh i had a a caramel crepe uh uh and i thought it was good i i really like crepes i don't get them often i feel like it's not a thing you get like on the go or out and about in america a lot it's not like an everyday it's not like a hot dog yeah it's not like my beloved hot dogs but i do like crepes i mean this one was essentially like you know caramel syrup or spread

in in the kind of thin crepey pancake my big complaint about this crepe cafe though is they served it to you on a styrofoam plate if you had a crepe before you kind of gotta saw through it like crepe you gotta saw through it a bit but like when you're doing that when you're putting that extra oomph into like cutting it if you hit the plate it's styrofoam like that you don't want bits of styrofoam like flying everywhere when you were trying to cut the crepe did you ever like meet the metal of the table with the plastic knife well no because i had the the plate was on a tray and i never cut i never cut through the plate but i like you know ding the styrofoam a bit i scored it i scored it yeah so i would say like crepe cafe switch to

paper plates come on what are you doing also styrofoam in this day and age like we know it's so so cheap don't you think the presentation would suffer if you weren't no you can get nice higher i'm not sure like a thicker stock paper plate i think styrofoam looks cheaper i can help oh yes oh yes i'll put in a word yes yes yes i think that's smart it seems like it's a maybe a profit margins situation it's i'm sure styrofoam is cheaper than like heavy duty paper do you think the crepe cafe is having financial troubles and all crepe restaurant outside it's been there a while though like this is hanging on it survived a few generations of city was there a crepe craze at some point i feel like there's been attempts at it but like it's been a fits and starts with

the crepe it never hit like frozen yogurt did it never hit like donuts did which is interesting that you bring that up because the other thing about the crepe cafe is they have a whole side of the menu that is like european style like belgian fries with a variety of dipping sauces which is interesting because it's like there are i don't it seems like they're like the crepes aren't cutting it uh we need something else and fries are i mean that's a do we know is that is that is there anywhere in the world where a crepe and a belgium fry is a meal maybe in europe perhaps in europe but like jason's kitchen oh i'm not these are labor-intensive foods he doesn't fry he doesn't have a fry i don't have a fryer an oven fry i don't know about oven fries like that's a dicey proposition you don't buy oven

fries ever not usually a bag of oven fries not fine yeah i don't think you're making a face like i'm making you sick no i mean i like uh i like to like slice up a sweet potato and dress it with olive oil and bake that a little that's real good so it's like it's kind of like a fry kind of but it's like i find oven fries like those orida fries in a bag very dry you just gave a clue if any uh young eligible uh podcast the ride fans out there want to seduce old jason sheridan i made you your favorite sweet potato drizzled in olive oil with hot dogs with hot dogs as a side and a scrapple in a glass scrapple scrapple is like a loaf it's kind of a loaf a meat meat meat-ish this is a breakfast meat so you cut slices and you grill it up so the inside is soft and the outside is crispy if you go to a diner outside of philadelphia or in south jersey and you look at the breakfast section your meat choices

are many and various you're talking bacon sausage hot italian sausage sweet italian sausage scrapple pork roll keep going um leonardo dick leonardo dick you're a ghost too no i'm very much alive i'm a 32 going on 33 year old man 1930s i don't you know you just you watch enough like nick at night and syndicated like colgate variety hour shows that should have burned up in fires but were somehow preserved. I like that by the end of this we'll realize that Jason

is truly a child ghost from the 1930s and has been eating like hardtack. Who was diving out of the way of a cable car

careening down the hill and maybe the spark created kind of a lightning bolt back to the future thing. And he wanted to

be a Pittsburgh diver, a baseball player when he was older pittsburgh diver anyway i liked crepe cafe fine i i think that eight dollar 850 caramel crepe was okay i thought my popcornopolis experience was a lot more fun so i didn't try any of the savory crepes. You like Popcornopolis, Sector Keeper? So many flavors. It's great. Very fun. It's a fun name. Fun. Yeah.

Well, you know, right next door, there's a lot of flavors of socks. Well, it's not right next door. Never mind. Fuck. Oh, God. I want to talk about the sock market. That's what I'm saying. Sure, yeah.

Sure. All right. The Los Angeles sock market, not to be confused with the Las Vegas sock market or the San Francisco sock market. So this is a, there's three of them all told and the name changes depending on where you are. Obviously, it's a great pun. Did you guys clock it as a stock market? Like something about removing the T like that the pun was not clear to me until i thought about it for a while i i like many people that pass through city walk

for the first so many years of living in los angeles and going to city walk um i didn't even register that it was there um but then when i was aware of the name the sock market i think i did not think about it until maybe we started doing this series we talked about doing this saga and then it was like oh the sock market uh oh okay oh stock okay like it was truly uh like not a like i didn't the first time i saw it i didn't like stand there looking at and laughing and going oh my god that's the greatest the best jokes take years yeah hit you the logo makes it kind of obvious but they really should have gone harder with like a graph of like arrows pointing up and there's a

little of it but it should be like a picture of ben bernanke or something there should be well on the website of of the sock market there is some literature in the about us about the head of the federal reserved board i'm not sure why that's changed why there's a d at the end of that don't know but the head of the federal reserve board is alan seemspan so they did sockify i'm getting all these but i don't care for them i. Yeah, getting does not equal approval. Yeah, that bugs me when you can tell, when a company is putting a joke or something out there, but it's like, God, it's making my skin crawl

how this was approved, but it's not landing. Well, I think the sock market itself is full of things that might hit that same criteria. There's a lot of great sock comedy going on. Oh, my gosh. So much sock comedy. Anybody, feel free to call stuff out. I think this, if you had to ballpark it, it's a retail spot that is not any bigger than this living room.

And I think there are 7 000 types of socks it's like more almost as packed as the dodgers store and it's split between like novelty and like porno socks like sexy socks mike i can see on your computer rated is what the website there's different categories and they have you know men's women's and kids and then there's Shop by Design, and that says you can shop by age, animal, argyle, comic, fashion, name socks, novelty patterns, sports. And there's collections, flag, artist, photo, NFL player, sports team, and then X-rated. And of course, you got to go right to X-rated, and I'll just start with my favorite. Cover your ears, sector keeper. Yeah, so we're gonna do some bad

language here so if i get i have some allowance would you boys go in and buy me some oh because you can't go in and buy it because it's too it's x-rated so i don't i wouldn't feel like i could go to jail if i bought you like some homer sim'll buy you some Homer Simpson socks or some Batman socks, but not that. I'll say this, though, Sector Keeper. You're not aware is that now in this modern age, a lot of things are online. So if you can get your hands on a credit card. Computer. Computer.

In the lab at school, people have those in their homes now. Where you play Oregon Trail on? Yes. So they're much more advanced now, you play oregon trail on yes so they're like much more advanced now and you can buy things on the computer so i would say if you can find a credit card you could buy socks and just pretend you're an adult oh well i'm dead so that might be can you pick pocket like a person at city walk with and get their credit card it says you have that ability i yes well yes i could do that i have to continue my

training much like patrick swayze in the movie ghost where oh right so i'm still working your ability to manipulate the real world abilities my ability you can appear on podcasts and You can appear on podcasts and hold microphones, but reaching into somebody's pocket is a little complicated. It might be a little complicated. So there's like a Vincent Schiavelli type at CityWalk also that you've been training with? Another ghost man, I guess? CityWalk is filled with ghosts. Oh, wow. Really?

Yes. Really? Yes. They walk amongst the entire city yes so dimensionally you'll never see them but you see them but i see them yes horrible yeah that's part of your burden to bear um yeah it's awful they they just took out the upstart crow which is in this sector in the crow's nest. And that had a big, scary crow on the outside. I mean, it was for children, but it scared me. Is that crow stomping around CityWalk and only you see him?

That crow is the devil's best friend, is what we call him. Oh, my gosh. Yes, yes. Are you afraid of him, like, snapping your head off or something with his giant ghost beak? Sometimes, yes. But other times, I'll cut deals with him, and I'll feed him menchies, and he'll leave me alone. Oh, okay. You know how to distract him.

This is, you're smart for a little one. Oh, thank you. Yeah, you can manipulate ghost birds. I would just be careful of that, like, ghost artful dodger that's training orphan ghosts at city walk to pickpocket guests boys boys boys this is why it's so important to rescue me right we're not even close to okay let's let's talk about these x-rated socks to save your soul x-rated socks all right my favorite sock and the x-rated sock section is a sock that has like clouds and like stars maybe and it says carpe the fuck out of this dm uh yeah so sorry for swearing and cursing

too that's hurting my spirit yeah so that's like the first sock you see when you're on the x-rated section uh the next sock when i thought you said wine the next sock uh is as aggressive and it just says but it's less clever even which the other one wasn't clever uh it just says don't let anyone fuck with you and that's it what it just says don't let anyone fuck with you. If you're a person who needs that reminder on their socks, if you really get strength from that, and you're going to your job, and you know some supervisor is going to give you a flack. You're like, yeah, because there's a big, or yeah,

you're like, I got to talk to the boss today. And you're like, I'm going to put on my, don't let anyone fuck with you socks. Putting on my aggro socks, my encouragement socks. No one's going to fuck with you today, Brian. No one's going to fuck with you socks putting on my aggro socks my encouragement today brian no one's gonna fuck with you today you're the star are you trying to distribute that information to someone else because it's facing out so other people will know it's not facing out it's on your feet it says don't let anyone fuck with you like on this part of your sock okay so it's just free it's just a little special surprise for you take your shoes off yes or if you're wearing sandals sandals with garish printed socks yeah

in which case you're probably a great candidate for someone to fuck with you yeah those are the two uh i would say uh from x when they're calling them X rated those are the only two with like F's fucks in them on the website okay good but then when we were in the store I noticed there are actual like lingerie and fishnet stocking like there is actual like

that's one of a few places you can get stockings Hot Topic being the other one although they're of course themed to Harley Quinn at Hot Topic sure but yeah you can get stuff like that yeah they call them x-rated uh oh you know i take that back there's an f word on a woman's sock and it's just says i gave a fuck once that's one of them so cynical these socks are so cynical yeah sorry, Sector Keeper. I'm just going to run. I'm going to read a bunch of them real quick. All right.

These are the women's socks. Get shit done later. Don't judge me. Good slash bad weed. Hellraiser. I don't care. I'm high. I hate everyone.

Kick this day in its sunshiny ass love you weirdo my favorite salad is wine and then stay away from assholes my favorite salad is wine yes this doesn't make any more sense to us the adults who are a lot weird future? Future weird. Oh, for sure. Future weird. Future is like random. It's like seriously random. If you knew how random it was in 2018. Random equal funny? It does. For some people.

Since you died. Yes, yes it does. Commercials think they're funny and they do a lot of random humor. And then people will say like, oh, that's so random. So that's like what it's like in 2018 it's great that's a random punch line well sometimes sometimes not um depends yeah these are all socks for someone who you would describe as like lot going on or coming in hot

uh-huh there's this other yeah there's other there's other socks there's lots of cute like dogs and cat socks well in socks through which you can proudly represent your sexual preferences like the sock with an arrow pointing up at you that says under that i think he's? Why do you must feel while wearing that? Or just talk about pride, the sock that just says proud. Rainbow letters. I mean, that's good.

Next to, and proud is stacked between bitch and boobies. This is quite an array. Less inspired. And just a couple of notches over from bacon. Yes, I see on the website there's a lot of bacon stuff. Also, that's another 2018 comedy thing. It's bacon and stuff being described as epic.

It's bacon. It's hopefully on its way out. People love bacon. Again, tiring. Things being called the pizza of other things. Yes. Beyonce is the pizza of music. I thought you were going to say pizza of bacon.

Beyonce is the pizza of music I think you say pizza of bacon Beyonce is the pizza of bacon Jason is trying to push Beyonce is the scrapple of bacon Yeah I think it's time I think it's time we moved on to bacon And I tried to do pork roll a few years ago But the Newark Jersey people got very upset Because they call it Taylor ham

It's a whole thing it's all regional But now we have an audience so if our audience would please say uh instead of like bacon or pizza say scrapple please well grapple is the new thing yeah and besiege the go to the find the official twitter of the sock maker gumball poodle and demand that they put next to their bacon sock oh man a sock that says scrapple and then maybe jason you could get one of those and another one that says proud so you could have proud and scrapple sure so you could show your pride for your scrapple and then elon musk will like tweet scrapple when he's talking about like a cool thing that's what we know we'll have made it as a podcast is a cool man in the future he's uh good and not at all bad oh yeah if you were curious who the coolest

man is in 2018 he's a bounty hunter well i mean he certainly has a company he's going to set up to do that but it's going to be in 20 years it's going to be only hunting uh rabble rousing union drive uh organizers no as far as i know i think he's just like hanging out with the rick and morty staff but he's not a he's not a writer he's doesn't doesn't help with rick and morty but he's with them a lot yeah funding like uh real shady comedy endeavor or is he is that real we don't know there's there's a lot going on in southern california stealing the staff right stealing the staff yeah um there's some i a juxtaposition that i noticed in um the sock market uh there was a weed leaf uh socks but they were right next to the uh nypd socks so that's uh that's a trap that, yes, that is a trap.

And also, my favorite juxtaposition in the store, a sock with a screaming Donald Trump on it placed next to a sock with Vladimir Putin. Which to me, I do think if I posted this on the Donald's Reddit, it might create a furor. Like, what are they doing? They're trying to, at these Hollywood, these liberal locations, they're trying to marry these two figures in people's heads via socks. But there's no collusion. So like, yeah, Trump would go on a tweet storm railing against the sock market trump might tweet about this if he saw it or he might say why can't

we why can't i be on a sock next to a sock of one of our so-called enemies what bad does that do i think this is we should do this we should post this on reddit we have people we know who are on reddit a lot maybe today yeah let's see how far it goes we will get this going on the day of this episode and see if we can will will trump tweet about it by you know four hours later and and i will make uh a sock puppet account no pun intended oh i see uh for like our the resistance and say like the sock market is clearly a Kremlin backed Psy op, the sock market.

And, uh, uh, clearly Wolfgang Puck had early knowledge about it. Cause Wolfgang Puck express, uh, or Wolfgang Puck dining got out of there. They got out of the next door location.

Yep. Yeah. Um, Mueller knows all this or seven Mueller is daddy or 76 year old muller is dressed as a rocket raccoon in a meme that you post yeah i want to how about the proud you wear one sock that says proud and another sock that says q anon why aren't they appealing to the q anon crowd you know we could we could also just go back and like start to make our own juxtaposition like you could just take the trump sock and put it next to different ones and then be like look

what they're stocking next to like we could create our own narrative oh yeah via the socks and create maybe a whole like conspiracy theory web of like a narrative that the sock market is trying to push yeah really get this thing going sock market is creating a narrative and planning clues a real number 23 sort of we could also we could also make our own socks and like put them in there like like try to like add them to the the shut like so like make a stormy daniel sock and just add it to the like the pin next to the donald trump side we could do a whole i mean that's maybe a bit too ambitious but it's a good idea i think we can do the low five version of this yeah we might be able to imply that trump is interested in seizing the

fuck out of this deal you know he say what you want about trump he seizes the fuck out of every dm yeah from like 11 to 3 p.m he seizes the fuck out of a small percentage of each dm he's on a european work day um oh yeah we've been at this extra for a while where do you guys please move on to future italian restaurant so okay future italian restaurant is it gonna be open by the time we... I don't know what the opening date is. So, it's called Il Vino, and this is an Italian restaurant concept that Universal first introduced at Universal Orlando

CityWalk. It's coming here. It seems like it's well-reviewed in Orlando, so I'm excited to have a new food option at CityWalk. It used to be a Wolfgang Puck. I don't know that a full spot. Are you going to keep going to restaurants at City Walk when this is done?

Well, it's new. But not a full Spago level Wolfgang Puck. I've consumed my body's weight in sodium while doing all this. We're only two sectors in. I went to margarita

already you gotta drink some water drink some electrolyte water for not the city walk saga i went to just margaritaville the other day just with my friend how dare you so like i'm just saying i'm still going casually yeah oh boy i think i might be uh yeah i might need a break but we'll see uh you know, things are still... We got a long ways to go. That's a long and short of the Italian restaurant. That place is replacing Wolfgang Puck? Yeah.

Again, kind of a more, like, casual Wolfgang Puck. I never really ate there. It didn't seem like the full Wolfgang Puck experience. It seemed closer to, like, the Wolfgang Pucks that are at LAX. Hey, guess what? I've got a... Yeah, it was okay. I mean, by CityWalk standards, it was decent.

I've actually got a fact about one of the neon signs that is above. I'm not sure if it's above this restaurant, but it's in this sector, and it's restaurant-related. So all of the neon signs at CityWalk were all bought by the Museum of Neon Art and Universal cut a deal to bring up all of their, you know, their biggest signs and display them and make it as, you know, kinetic street art up there. And there is a sign for a place called Condi's, which I think was maybe in like Altadena or in the San Gabriel Valley somewhere. And there's two where there's a face of a chef on it and apparently it was two brothers and they would switch off who was facing the public and seating people and who was back in the kitchen making the food so they would change the sign every six months based on

which brother was going to be cooking oh my god that's so fun yeah yeah uh the museum of neon art if you're ever in los angeles very cool which is now in glendale now in glendale it has moved to a different mall the mall where uh bug main lives uh several attractions the museum of neon art and and omnipresence of bug main and susan lucci yes that is the rumor that susan lucci oh are we allowed to say that are we is this a doc that's more public i think than the spirit of bug main i mean bug main is all around us it's all time it's part of the mythology but yeah oh okay he lives there i think all right as long as that's public yeah we're not but anyway uh um hey much like bug main and his multiple identities the

condis condi sign would would change that's cool shift shapes yeah that's just a fun fact i don't even got to learn about that um i'm not sure which like is it like well he's got a chef's hat so i guess it would be the chef one uh who they would they would portray but anyway next time you're up there appreciate that condi sign and in fact all of the great neon art yeah terrific um and okay wolfgang poe we talked about sephora i don't i don't know what i got to say about sephora it's a yeah it seems nice uh it's one of the few locations at both downtown disney and city walk present at both the other being starbucks both sides of the line yeah i hate to be such

like a little boy about it but like lindsey goes in there and i like kind of wander around it'll be like oh i'm gonna go another store oh i'll meet up with you later mom like that's basically the feeling of like my mom would go into like that you know what i'm saying right on we're talking about something you can relate to yeah yeah go to a fun place yeah i go like i run over to hot topic and i look and see if they have any ninja turtle or harley quinn stuff that i'm interested in or toys or something. Well, you know what's a store with some fun stuff? Well, it's no longer there, but the Upstart Crow.

Yes. Which I forget is which is the Italian restaurant replacing that or which. I don't know. I'm all discombobulated. Fallen Brother. Yeah. Fallen Brother. That's right.

We call them Fallen Brothers, the former stores. And the Upstart Crow is there for a long time. It's in some article that I found where they were talking about, you know, what residents want. There was a minute where Universal had to pretend that this was a real city. And they had to talk to locals about what would you want to see in a thriving, shopping, living, dining community and they and apparently quote this article residents wanted a bookstore which explains the presence of the upstart crow bookstore and coffee shop a tiny intellectual oasis with a big black bird perched on it there he is sorry he haunts you this day yeah yeah look what look what they i blame the residents for this yeah that's why that crow

especially the 1990s residents. Because Bookstore with Little Cafe, one of my favorite kinds is Shotsy because I was a child of the 1990s. That is a 1990s ass store. Because every sitcom, Friends is a little bookstore, coffee shop.

Frasier, Ellen, this was the 90s thing. Coffee was new and books were uh you've got mail is about a big bookstore with a coffee shop in it and also uh rest in tm sorry to tell you this sector keeper borders has since gone under but barnes and noble is still going strong and there is a crown books even though that company like went under there's a Crown Books in a weird mall over on the other side of the 405. Yeah, there's a couple of those. They're just like outliers, but they still exist.

Borders gone? Borders is gone. Yeah, I know. It's hard. I always thought Borders was the cooler one. I always liked Borders more. How do I buy Lethal Weapon for $30? On vhs is that where you would go pick up because they had that big media section um well now a lot has changed all the books are now you buy books

from a guy a guy named jeff bezos who's even cooler than elon musk jeff bezos's a race car driver? He's probably driven a race car. When you have that much money, you can do whatever the fuck you want. He owns the books and the markets. Yeah, he was telling you about buying stuff online. He sort of figured out a way to do that and figured out how to cripple local economies and pay people low money. We found a new way for just 10 people to be in charge of everything yeah that's back in a bit that's that i mean but that wasn't in your childhood yeah that's

jason's childhood i don't remember what that was like your carnegies your melons your rockefellers pre-new deal stuff you know stuff knows from his child. This one knew Boss Tweed? I thankfully was a nemesis of Boss Tweed. Me and FDR. So he's confirming that he was a child from the 30s. Wow, you guys have so much in common. You're both

brothers. From different eras, but with a big commonality your ghost hood so yeah the upstart crow like it has it was a bookstore but then it also sort of has a section well much more so than a bookstore it became yeah this it's like hollywood junk yeah so i'd like to read this yelp review to show you what exactly yeah um oh this illustrates the transition yeah well yeah so this is from i won't say the user but this is a person who posts a lot on yelp uh it just says no more books just a bunch of the same old plastic crap they sell on hollywood boulevard who needs another fake oscar

statue anyways with the s at the end upstart crow died in the flames of tourism and the bird that rose from the ashes is a real turkey the great coffee house and bookstore is long gone city walk needs to take down the sign or change the name to store full of crap and then there's a william shakespeare quote i must be cruel only to be kind thus bad begins and worse remains behind that's an interesting choice because the term upstart crow uh uh comes from shakespeare's rival uh robert green uh in his uh groats worth of wit he described gribe shakespeare as an upstart crow uh beautified with our feathers so uh bodied owned eat it. So this was a good quote to put into this Yelp review of the upstart crow at CityWalk.

Apropos. I still don't know. Did you say apricrow? Oh, I wish I did. Oh, I wish I said apricrow. You can from now on. Yeah, but an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, I guess, because people would throw feathers,

I don't quite understand this bird. I don't quite understand this bird. I don't quite understand this bird. You aren't that old of a child. No, I'm not that old. But, you know, in the defense of the upstart crow, there is some excellent culture going on there, which specifically, they sell a very cool item, which is driver's licenses of some of your favorite stars.

This was a big loss. Before it closed. Big loss went away. Yeah, yeah. I have a pile of photos of this nature. And, you know, well, first of all, if you're in the fake ID market, if you're a youngster like yourself, actually, if you wanted to get a drink, you could get one of these and you could pose as john lennon people might believe that you're john lennon i could use john lennon's id to get naughty socks ah yes it's true go straight next door uh well you got to get this from a different location now i think now your only option for

novelty driver's licenses is the stores on Hollywood Boulevard. But if you get that, head up the hill and get some Randy Sox. Yeah, once we free you, once we release you. Yes, the first place I'm going, Hollywood Boulevard. Hooray for Hollywood. This ghost boy is getting a prostitute. You're making up for lost time. Lots to learn.

But let me read. There's a lot of great details about all of these driver's licenses because like a real driver's license, it has a lot of different stats, you know, birth date, the day that it expires, and then an area called restriction. So let me read some of John Lennon's stats here. You get just height weight regular stuff but then you get a license number fab four that's fun uh his birth date is real

date in 1940 and then expires 12 8 1980 that's insane that's the most morbid thing i've ever seen real date i cannot believe they would do that. Why would they do that? Why on this fun thing where we remember old cool John Lennon, we have to remember the date he was shot. Wait, what is his address on it too? Is it the Dakota? It's the Dakota apartment. Jesus Christ! It's insane. That is

so crazy. And then this odd kind of... It may as well be covered in blood. Like, let's be honest. What's his name chapman when it was a bookstore was this next to a rack of the catcher of the ride you can use this as a bookmark yeah um and then this odd kind of freestyle section restriction where in all of these they kind of do whatever their his restriction is listed as yoko ono what is that that's fucked up too yeah very odd um there's a light like if you keep going there's a license plate for

or a driver's license for jack bauer aka keith or sutherland keith or sutherland uh his restriction is terrorists and he expires never and of course his license number 24 uh if we keep going down the line uh carlos carlos santana is he's his class his class is smooth well that's for sure oh that's wonderful i would only buy that if i could buy the rob thomas one yeah yeah yeah restriction give me your heart class make it real address or else forget about it yeah um the uh driver's license for hallie berry uh what uh she is uh let me see a license number this is very appropriate license number 34 22 36 upsetting yeah her class is Oscar. That's true.

Good for her. And her restriction is diabetes. Does she have diabetes? Evidently. I since have Googled. God damn it. But that's a fact you learn from this novelty driver's license. And then, yeah, these are incredible. And then one more right under that megan fox whose restriction

is decepticons and hers across the top says smoking hot this is a great area of merchandise i would have bought all of them except i realized why spend 45 when i could take photos and talk about them on a podcast two years later. If the place was open, it would, that is worth investigating like what company made that to really figure out, like to dig deep and figure out like, and same with the sock market, figure out who is, there's different companies that do it, but like, well, there's different figure out the joke writers, maybe like I figure out one or two big companies on a lot

of those sock lines and just sell them as different like oh i see it's like a jeff bezos style scam where it's like all the same company but they have like different shell companies and they name it different things yeah or how like um old navy gap banana that's all like one umbrella with different lines yeah and those licenses that's insane theennon one is the craziest. It's insane. Yeah. Yeah. If there was a, yeah, if they did that for Princess Diana and Prince.

Sure they did. Like God. Restriction. Fentanyl. Opiates. Like what? Why is that a fun? Yeah.

Maybe good. Christian science. Maybe. No, it's Jehovah's Witness. Oh, Jehovah's Witness. God. Maybe good the store closed? Maybe good.

Yeah. Maybe good. That would be true. All right. So not every fallen brother is a bad fallen brother. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Ran its course. Stop insulting the dead. Aren't you offended as a dead person yes if they listed if you if they made that for you and your restriction was disease-filled fountains yeah if my restriction was staff infection and it listed your expiration you live the day that and the accident happened and i expired a week before Mighty Ducks came out. Oh, that's so rare. You were looking forward to the Mighty Ducks. Yes.

Oh, man. Well, you know what? Under class for you, Sector Keeper, I'd put first. I think you're a first class kid. Yeah. Boys. Thank you, boys. Boys, you give me strength.

Hey. And by giving me strength, I give you this. Whoa, look at that. It's a stone. It's the Sector 2 stone. Go ahead, hold it. Take you this. Whoa, look at that. It's a stone. It's the Sector 2 stone. Go ahead, hold it. Take a look. Oh, wow.

Beautiful. Wow, it's shaped like the Dakota apartment. That's right. And John Lennon's body is lying outside of it. On the backside of it, it says, Carpe the fuck out of this DM. Yes. Wow.

You know what? That's a more beautiful piece of poetry than anything that idiot John Lennon ever thought of. Yeah. So, I mean, thank you for the stone. And I feel good about this journey. Like, I really do. I think we're going to do. I'm so excited to see where it takes us.

Your opacity has increased, I think, two more percent since we started. Yes, you brought me great strength. And I thank you so much. And just remember to keep on the journey and to obey the sector scrolls. Okay. Yes. We'll make sure. We will make sure there's no deviation from these sector orders.

If it's sector seven and it's four different places, we'll stick to those four places. And that's what we'll do. Be real firm about this. All right. We'll come back tomorrow for more fun, for more city walking, and a lot of fun stuff tomorrow, and for the next 17 days beyond this.

I'm going back to purgatory. I'll talk to you later. Okay, yeah. You'll pop in whenever you can. I'll be in every now and then. Check on us. Okay, see you. Bye-bye.

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