Podcast: The Ride - The CityWalk Saga - Sector 4

Episode Date: September 17, 2018

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Forever Dog 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 city walk saga sector four now look we've been doing this for this will be the fourth episode how are we feeling about this because i'll be honest with you guys wait a minute i didn't even intro you that's crazy that's fine look all bets are off i am these for this these episodes are different yeah and i feel like already i'm feeling a little punchy and like we don't have

to we don't have to introduce jason sheldon yeah we don't have or scott garrison we don't have to certainly not uh i'm mike carlson i think it's because i literally just came from city walk i just spent hours there lucky man doing and i i don't dislike it yet i I still like it, but I am a little... The sun was out today. It was hot. Yes, I was up there, but I was up there at 11.30 this morning. You both separately went. We both separately went. I guess we could have coordinated.

And I've been solo as well. I have some reasons to dislike things, but I'll save that for whatever sector Dongpo Kitchen is in. Do you want me to check what Dongpo is? We'll know soon enough. Dongpo is sector nine. Okay.

All right. You got a little while. So I'll have to keep that anger up for five more days. Okay. I thought about coordinating with Mike, but I didn't know what his day was like. And I was also hungry in the morning and I figured I'd head up there. Yeah. And I think it's better that we also have,

look, we're going to have a couple experiences together at certain maybe restaurants or nightlife activities, but I think it's good. It's good for friends to not always be together. They have to have their own lives, their own experiences. Oh, I loved, yeah, I love riding solo. You know, I just wandered in and out.

Like I wandered the whole second floor, like the whole patio that goes from like Margaritaville all the whole second floor like the whole um patio that goes from uh uh like margaritaville all the way to hell at the moon like you're talking city loft yeah talking city loft uh uh i guess that yeah city loft because city food is uh you know the fast food options well okay so city city food is sort of part of, I'm not sure if City Loft is just in that center courtyard, or if further down by the Buca di Beppo is considered still part of City Loft. Again, if we, not again, I've never said this, we sort of reached out to Universal maybe for a little bit of help and clarity and maybe like a list of what restaurants and stores used to be there. Fallen soldiers. Yeah, yes.

In the war to uh to entertain all of los angeles to separate uh people from their money yeah we don't need the maps and everything because we have the sector keeper but right i still having some actual attention from them would help us clear up issues like is the part down by margaritaville considered part of city loft but we may never know we may never know i i sent an email i said hey is there any information on what used to be here any of the history and it was like no not really like it doesn't seem like there's there's many good records being kept in the the library of city walk very little and you know we'll get into it in this episode but this is what i ended up doing with my short

time on planet earth i spent a little bit of time looking up restaurants that used to be there but i couldn't tell what storefronts they were in or what sectors they were in so i was looking at like window compositions above the signs okay um like is this one a double window or does this one have like a column or does this one have kind of a rounded window right and that did let me know what used to be in one of these spaces um so uh but in other words that we could have just gotten a list you feel like yes but instead i'm i'm comparing google street views that people took and posted voluntarily compared to old photos off of people's like angel fire i was gonna say i bet flickr would be great for this oh people tag the photos at least sure okay yeah and maybe they can people can help us if you have a city walk photo that you're proud of, maybe you can do hashtag PTR CityWalk saga.

I don't know if it's hashtags on Flickr. But do it anyway. Jason, you should know. You're a hip guy. Yeah, I don't know. Accepted. I don't know that that's the hippest website anymore. We were not hip enough to know that.

I guess it's very utilitarian to me. It seems like Yahoo bought them a few years ago, you know? Well, just post it on anything, you know? Every place has a photo poster, basically. You're right. Take your Flickr photos, put them on Twitter, like a current 2018 person. Send us a hyperlink on Twitter.

Just add us and send us a hyperlink. If you want to keep it on the Flickr sub-site. Yes, okay. Should we throw to the Keeper to give us our assignment today? Yes, he's not in our presence right now, but let us summon the Keeper and please tell us

what our sector consists of today. Boys, boys, today's sector is Sector 4. Hot topic., today's sector is sector four. Hot topic, guests, Ben and Jerry's, Element, and Mini Monster. Good luck, boys. Okay, I feel ready. I can do this.

We have Mini Monster. That's one of the newest kids on the block. And Hot Topic, which is not original, but it's been there a long time. It's a stalwart. So I guess we go in order. Let's kick it off with Hot Topic. Yes, Hot Topic. First of all, let me say this.

I love Hot Topic. Oh, boy. And I am not joking. I'm not being facetious. I have a strong affection for hot topic now it seems like both of you are looking at me with a face that says what's wrong with you yeah uh well because i have an equally strong take which is young jason was scared of hot topic well i'm not going to disagree with that because hot topic scary fonts hot topic is gone you're not that

far off hot topic has gone through a transformation it definitely started out as like your place where you go get an anthrax shirt the band anthrax and like when i was young as well i was afraid of scott ian and anthrax for sure i was just a photo of them i oh yeah he has weird hair oh my gosh he made jokes on i love the 2000s you were i don't know what i love the 80s at that time i would cover my eyes when he would comment on chin strips uh yeah so i agree with you that when i was maybe little it seemed like an intimidating scary place yeah it was a lot more i feel like loud uh music and goth shit although by the time i got to high school i remember giving someone a simpsons t-shirt that i bought there yes yeah so as a gift it slowly evolves from just like like yeah like anthrax i think in like punk bands then it evolves

into like evanescence then we get into like the early 2000s and it's very much like new metal shit like weird other shitty bands and that kind of like it's not quite goth not quite metal right um mainstream enough for the daredevil soundtrack yes that's a good point the other guy who sang with the nickelback guy on spider-man 2 oh shit what's that guy's name? He was Josie Scott from, I want to say Tinder. I don't think it's Tinder. Tether? Teeth? Tether sounds right.

Seether? I think it's Seether. Could be Seether. I think it's Seether. Here, I'll look it up while you keep justifying this choice of yours. Who would have thought this sector would have set us down a long, dark night of the soul to our youth? You see that here.

Yeah, so they would have Disturbed was another band that would be featured there. So then slowly, I think around this time is when they start putting some comic book or cartoon stuff as well. G.I. Joe t-shirts. Twisted stuff like, you know. Transformer stuff. Sponge bob and all that stuff so now we get to get to a hot topic that in 2018 has a very pretty wide variety of stuff you know you mean of riverdale stuff a wide variety of riverdale stuff as i experienced today yes a wide variety of riverdale stuff now let me tell you this who's the star of hot topic let me ask you a question give me his name rick and or morning pickle rick pickle rick

that's they're definitely like big parts of hot topic right now but number one i think nick jackson the young bucks no they have a nice presence there and i'm very happy for all the machine gun kelly no not machine gun kelly i'm talking about a guy who's very irreverent he wears a mask he's very hyper violent and he loves chimichangas oh you talking the pool i'm talking deadpool you guys there are so there's so much deadpool merch and i think deadpool right now has surpassed the last uh most popular hot topic character harley quinn oh harley quinn must have really ruled that place yes so like if you wanted anything with harley quinn on it you could get it and now it's the same thing with deadpool there's so much deadpool merch uh and i guess right now i

realize now that i'm saying this i'm not making the best case for why i love hot topic but i like look look around my apartment there's a lot of. There's a lot of comic book shit. I'm wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt. I have a lot of shirts with characters on it. Well, they're more in that avenue than they, it is no longer goth and silky sleeves and torn up jackets. There's a little of that, but yes, it's mostly not that. It's for fans. It's a place for fans to connect with their own fandom

yes funko's it's a place of funko's there is a i saw it today i almost bought it they have a power line funko pop now from goofy movie i was like this is good i like hot topic i do think hot topic is still stuck sort of in their old aesthetic it was very dark they could get rid of it so it's like crowded i could so it's like crowded i could see it's a little bit of an uncomfortable experience because the aisles are just so thin like so yeah you know they jam so they probably have more like items per square foot than any other store yes that worries me when like a comic store or even some barnes and nobles where it's just like there's so much stock in here like

i can't even you can't even look or like browse to impulse buy because there's so much shit everywhere yes there's so much shit like i was walking around today and i was like i would have to spend like five hours in here to figure out everything that's actually in here um now for the specific hot topic at city walk what i like is there's always a robust sales section. There's always an area where there's a lot of discounted merchandise. And now, gentlemen, did I buy us all presents from Hot Topic? Oh! A guess.

Of course I did. Now, did I pick something that we'd all be very excited about? No. That has an element of surprise? You will tell me. Mystery Mini Ready Player One keychains. They are blind bags, which means that we don't know which character from the movie we will be getting. How exciting.

Place your bets now, listeners. I have four of them. I don't know if we should wait and next episode give the sector keeper this as a token. That might be nice. All right, we'll do that then. So, let's see. I'm going gonna list all the characters we can get of course parzival artemis shodo dido ek the iron giant which seems to me to be like that's the number one right iron giant i rock 101 avatar soldier you can get the jade key or there are two exclusives that they don't Iron Giant. What the fuck is this movie? I Rock. 101 Avatar Soldier.

You can get the Jade Key, or there are two exclusives that they don't even show on the back. I feel like you can go through a box of these blind bags. You're going to know if you're getting the Jade Key. You would think. You would be able to feel. Unless they sort of pad the Jade Key out. Are we opening these now? Yeah, we've got to open them on air, of course.

This is good. All the crinkling is driving the dog crazy, I feel. You know what? You're probably right. He thinks these are treats. It's a treat bag. Edwin, the show dog is coming over here and trying to... Edwin, you're in trouble if you eat hack.

This apparently has a no tear here option. I have noticed that the bags are very hard to open. But if you'll notice that these were each $3, and then buy two get two free so i spent six dollars on four of them all right scott is open got it it's uh needs to be checked on the back of the bag what are you it's i rock oh i rock i'll cherish I'm going to cherish you forever, IROC. IROC. A little skull in your chest. My mind is open now. Oh, I got 101 Avatar Soldier. Sixer in parentheses. Now, I'll be honest with you guys.

I saw the movie. I don't know who this is. I don't know who that is. I know Parvazul and I know Artemis because they're the two main characters. Oh, Jason, it's flown out of his. Did you get Shoto? I got Shoto. Yeah. Jason Sher you get Shoto? I got Shoto, yeah.

Jason Sheridan has Shoto. So it seems that none of us got the Iron Giant, which is, of course, the one to get, or the Jade Key. We still have one to open, so we'll give you guys a teaser. Next episode, we're going to give the last blind bag to the Sector Keeper to find out which Ready player one mystery mini keychain he gets these are our avatar these are our talismans are if we if we believe enough in this series if we have enough power these will become tulpas and take life that is uh an idea or a fictional thing that becomes a living creature when we go back to the void, we will be these avatars is what I hope happens next time.

There's a void experience. Well, I'd love to give these avatars to them and say, scan this and make me that. I am. I rock. And I am one on one. What am I?

One on one avatar soldier. Yeah. So, and of course, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jason, avatar soldier yeah so and of course jason shoto baby shoto who can forget jason jason shodoten so i like hot topic i like that this is there i it's a little small for me honestly

we could knock down maybe guests and make yeah the hot topic bigger i think so now i i breezed through guests pretty quickly because they uh i some guests uh stores have a men's section this one it did not appear to yeah i well here's the thing i'm going to tell you that i did not step foot in the guests i did not and there's a reason that i didn't step foot in the guests but it's going to involve the last store in the in the thing oh okay save so we'll save that for a little bit yeah i don't have anything about guests but it was the store adobe road which was a native american accessories and clothing store but like the native americans themselves they were driven from their the location they were driven from city walk that is just depressing

yeah yeah yeah they did the uh the trail of tears down the hill to lancashire and set up shop elsewhere jesus christ the the the terrible scourge of guests forced them out so i say i say i say fuck guests get out of here guests how dare you how about ben and jerry's though anyone hit up ben and jerry's while they've been up i have been to ben i did i went into ben and jerry's uh i've been to that ben and jerry's a couple times i did not have uh a treat in there for again a reason i will reveal in one second so what do you got jason uh well i i didn't get anything this time uh because i i got something that pertains to another sector that i don't want to allude to well can i ask you a question you're

doing others we're supposed to devote one sector per trip okay so i think that you're if you're gonna go do another experience at once i don't know that i agree to that i'm gonna bring this up to the sector keeper when he's back on the next episode. All right, let's see if that's allowed. In Jason's defense, you have to, except for the sectors on the end, you have to pass by other sectors to get to most of the sectors. Yes. Now, if you specifically chose to go into any of these shops and peruse items and buy treats, then I think you're at fault. But if you accidentally fell into,

you know, Sparky's, if you tripped and fell into Sparky's on the way to Ben and Jerry's, I will allow it. But if it was anything but an accident, I think you're breaking the sector rules. Yeah, I think you're, and look, I'm not going to judge you,

but the sector keeper might. Only God and the sector keeper can judge me. All right, fair. I'll say this about Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream, you but the sector keeper might only god and the sector keeper can judge me all right fair i'll say this about ben and jerry's ben and jerry's the ice cream not that it's a fancy ice cream but as you know it's a little more expensive than yeah than your average ice cream dryers or what have you but i think it's worth it i think it's worth it as well i will say that i don't think that the store the ben and jerry store whether it's the one that's literally five minutes from and walking distance from here or the one at city walk makes me feel like ben and jerry store whether it's the one that's literally five minutes from walking distance from here or the one at city walk makes me feel like ben and jerry's is a

higher quality i don't think the store itself is nice enough does that make sense i thought the one at city walk had some very nice woodwork like painted woodwork in it yeah i don't think so i think it looks you didn't like that i think it looks a little i thought it looked uh like rustic like a farm in vermont i i know what they're going for but it looks kind of cardboardy to me it looks almost like a children's show and i think ben and jerry's i do think it's got to be a little it's fun of course these are hippie men but i think you know you have to go you have to do something that's a little more upscale because i think of and maybe that's just because i'm a guy from a working class background you know

you mean like an emac and bolio's at the hard rock hotel in orlando maybe maybe that's what all the working men love that's what i just think i just think i want to see the value in the store a little more i think it's very spare in there i just think that you need the environment compared to like the local burbank one that one is barely yes that barely has anything going on yes that one is decoration, the value is exploding out of the store, for there is an upside-down pink Cadillac that was driven terribly by a cow wearing light-up, not sunglasses, but glasses.

You're going to dock it points for not liking the wood grain? You got some exciting Cadillac action right in your face. Scott makes an outstanding point. That's a very good point. This is on the exterior. This is the eye-grabbing stuff when you're walking. I'm talking about when you get inside. I want a little more theming.

This is City Walk, goddammit. Okay? I want just a little more fun. I'm telling you, but there is theming. It's mild, though though it's very mild it doesn't draw you in at all it seems like they're like moving stuff around there's no tables in there to other ben and jerry's stores it's a step up it doesn't draw you in the outside draws you in but once okay fair enough the outside draws you in you you get up to the door and then you

go well nothing's drawing me in here. Nothing's drawing me to stay. Nothing is drawing me into stay. If you walked out, it'd be extremely awkward between you and the clerk. Two words, my friend. Fish food. Possibly the best flavor of ice cream. Yes, fish food is good. I also think the fake ice cream smell is too strong.

Oh, yeah. I might agree with you on that. It's like playing across theme park world. It's cranked up so high. Unless it's not fake not fake but it smells fake to me it smells like that disney not that it's a good smell but it smells like that main street ice cream smell which is they're just pumping in like smell to make your mouth water i think it's too strong a little too much i uh also to pay as as i i feel like i'm the one carrying the banner of CityWalk history and when this place opened and here's where

maybe you do duck points because the Cadillac I don't believe was installed by Ben and Jerry's. I think they may have put the cow in there in the front seat but I think the car exploding out was due to the original tenant Hollywood Freezeway and the the z was was capital

within the the otherwise regular word freeway uh huh yeah i think that's fair i mean if you notice the crash spaceship in the studio store yes uh that you know which used to be that end of the studio the store used to be a thing things from another world which moved further down into a different sector that spaceship is still sticking out you know it's nice of the tenants to leave the protruding crashed uh vehicles that there is how many other look either way we could parse over this wood grain all day what other street are you ever going to be on where two vehicles have crash landed into walls yeah yeah that is a popular that's a popular theme thing for these type of places is that a vehicle

has crashed a lot of i think a lot of planet hollywood's featured that as well and the fries there's a fries electronic store that's very close to here in Burbank. Oh, yeah. That has a crashed UFO. And I think there might be other vehicles. I don't know if they've crashed that are inside. Like, there's a fun. I don't know why that is.

I don't know why it's not just a UFO that's landed on top of the. It's crashed. It's always crashed. I don't know. Yeah. I feel bad for any establishment where a vehicle drives in and demolishes the front of the establishment instead of sticking perfectly halfway in halfway out how many cars have been driven into stores by drunk people by old people whose licenses should be revoked and all it caused

was a mess and not a fun piece of decoration so uh good job whoever drove that pink cadillac though i hope i hope you didn't get hurt during the upside down i mean i do think those are very funny and fail compilation videos of like when someone drives a car into a storefront and no one's hurt they just drove a car into a store just out of anger are you watching compilation videos of cars driving into stores i feel like they're mixed in with like russian dash cam footage videos you know i i guess i know i mean i've i i've seen like i guess like on america's funniest home video type thing i also used to be an editor on shows where like guys would get hit in the balls and stuff so like

accident like videos what was that that was called dinkle doinks is that right it was called accident time no no it's not called it was called whacked out videos so it's that which one of those names is the silliest huge in the united arab emirates the most popular american tv show videos whacked out videos used to beat Jay Leno sometimes in its time slot, its syndicated time slot. It was so popular. There's a version called Whacked Out Sports that was more popular, so maybe it was that.

It was always the little brother and always aiming to beat the big dog. Yeah, yeah. And they were both, the narrator narrator of both were it was the guy who did the you don't know jack voice i don't remember this guy hey how are you like he's not currently tmz is he no but it's that that guy sounds like he's doing an impression of this guy i don't think okay maybe it's the same guy huh huh oh hey here's here's something i do know jack i forgot to say when i got the info earlier uh josie scott is from the band saliva way off there we go no dither no tither no zither saliva still an unpleasant sounding band name extremely unbelievably

unpleasant i'm trying to think of a worse one, and I can't. Butthole surfers? No, that's fun, though. It is fun. That suggests an irreverency. I guess that's true. It's not a band name, but around the same time, you have chocolate-covered starfish in the hot dog flavored water.

Did I get that right? Chocolate-covered? No, it wasn't covered. Chocolate starfish in the hot dog flavored water. It was about buttholes. Yeah. And sweaty buttholes. Can you buy little miniature buttholes promoting that?

Yeah, they were also drawn by Top McFarlane. Let's talk Elements. Did you guys go into Element at all? I did, and element is a skate shop very kind of similar to billabong owned by billabong yeah really yeah it is it's one of the brands that billabong owns billabong is the parent company and when i was inside i saw a bunch of the rvca brand right uh which is another which is a billabong house brand and i was like wait is

billabong own this too this is not the first case of one parent company owning two stores in the current day city walk right and we'll get to those we'll get to those that's another tease to keep you guys listening to this uh riveting city walk saga some multiple brand ownership some great uh uh shoe sales going on uh but they don't stock my size seven and a half very often. I have to really hunt for seven and a half. Seven and a half? Yeah.

Are people on Twitter now going to be disappointed with your shoe size? Seven and a half, but wide. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, gross.

Oh, God. Can you believe this, Shoto? What your bigger avatar is saying? This filth. Shoto. What's that, Shoto? Oh, he's whispering in my ear. Oh, he's into it.

Shoto. He wishes he could be that wide. I was looking through Element, and there was some stuff in there that I, because I like clothes. I like shopping for clothes sure but i felt like i i felt like this is for skaters and not for me i felt like there were logos on there that if somebody not that people know exactly what the element brand looks like but i felt like this is for skate not for michael there's for other people that like have a deck right that's what you call a skate like a deck yeah that's what you call the wood yeah so so i there was stuff in there that i kind of liked there was

a child's red child's jacket that was not in my size but if it wasn't my size i would have thought about getting it yeah so that's all i have to say about element it did make me feel like looking around the store of like i don't know that i've ever felt this young like even when i was young i was like i don't know that i've ever felt like i could see i was like i i'm i belong here i belong in the cool the skate shop store you're out of your element yeah i i mean they had like some you know a couple racks of like vans or converse too so that's that's fine this this block though is making me think i but then i keep looking ahead to other sectors and i'm wondering if i will uh go back on this is this the most mall heavy sector of like traditional mall stores guests hot topic ben and jerry's element mini monster is a curveball hey yeah yeah that's the one that's a little odd.

Totally a reinvention of the wheel. I guess it is specific. I think it's somewhere else in Anaheim. It's in Koreatown. Mike and I tried to go to the original Snow Monster.

Yes. Oh, that's right. Snow Monster and Mini Monster related brands. And the line was so long, we went to another fun Koreata town ice cream shop i gotta say korea town los angeles full of fun ice cream shops yes we went to one where they served it with fresh honey on top we went to a different one where they served it with little cotton candy

poofs on top yes we've we've got we've gotten a couple different fun ice cream treats um so mini monster you guys did not eat a mini monster is that right i poked around it and it didn't seem up my alley i'm not really a boba guy it's they they so there's a big cotton candy they put on top also not my thing so i yeah i skipped it like like roller coasters when you know you're out the koreatown one has a lot more like ice cream sandwiches these kind of things mini monster is seems to be i don't know if exclusively beverages would you say it seems like i would say that because i had something from mini monster uh because i am a theme park journalist so i need to put myself

in there all right and experience all of it so today and the story is that you barfed on items in each of the other stores anyway and gellhorn over here are going to the heart of the war huh so i looked at the menu and it's got like just mostly drinks there's like teas and boba and i've had boba once or twice and like scott i it's not my thing really but okay so. So I go and I go, I want, I want the silliest thing that I can get. What's the silliest thing here. And they have what you were saying, monster cloud. It is a drink with cotton candy on top and then fruity pebbles on top of that. Now I'm a big fruity pebbles fan.

As some listeners might know, it's my favorite cereal. I could finish a box in like a day i've done it before so i ordered a monster cloud with the uh hold on let me find it here uh it was a strawberry black tea and they added boba to it and i was not prepared for the size of this let me show you guys a photo of this did you get the light bulb glass no i did not okay look at this this you this photo does not even i can barely see the glass because the cotton candy let me hold let me hold top this is how big it is yeah and i carry it away and three women i sit down next to them and they start laughing and they're like the first time that has happened

no that's true and it won't be the last i just sit next to him well i should have run out of there like hiding it trying to hide it oh it's in the store you didn't go out to a bench and no well i eventually do i eventually leave the store with it so i immediately regret doing this because I can't eat a full cotton candy. I can't. I'm not going to sit here and eat a giant full cotton candy. Jason's looking at me crazy. He's shaking his head. You dug your hole.

Now lie in it. So once again, we're being asked to hear about how your eyes are too big for your stomach. You bought too much delicious food. I thought that it was a smaller poof of cotton candy and it was not it was like a full-size cotton candy on top of this plastic container so i'm eating this like what feels like flavorless cotton candy it's why it may have had a flavor i'm eating it anytime there's a piece of like the fruity pebble on it it would give me a little flavor and then that would be fine but i'm eating this going what the hell

did i do i can't so i eat like probably 10 of it and i've got to get rid of this so i walk out into this into city walk and maybe it's my me being self-conscious but everyone's staring at me i have a giant thing people are wondering what it is it's also like peak time when people are leaving the park and droves of people just going by me and i'm like trying to figure out like what's going on and i'm like i needed to go into guests but i can't go into guests with this this is too much i'm so embarrassed now so these are invented pro were you stoned were you no no no i just everyone was looking at me this is and i actually was a little stoned when i went up there and i survived. Incident free.

Well, no, I would never do that. I would never desecrate CityWalk with an altered state of mind. So then I have to, also, here's my thing with theory. I go, I got to get rid of this cotton candy. I can't, but I don't want to throw it away in front of the store because I don't want them to see that I've thrown away what they've just worked so hard to make i can think of like many avenues and alleys to duck in so that's what i did oh so i so yeah so i go i go to a garbage can

near that's nearby and i just rip the cotton candy off the top and just throw it away and i go okay that's fine so now i start drinking the drink. The drink is disgusting. The drink is like, I like. What was it? It was raspberry tea or blackberry tea? It was strawberry black tea. I was drinking it and I'm like, first of all, you can't drink it with a straw because the fucking boba gets stuck in the straw.

The boba is this insanely sweet kind of like cherry taste. And I'm like, I keep having to open the lid and suck out the bottom of it well did you have a big boba straw no i should have gone back and gotten a big boba straw you get into these you get into these paradoxes and paradox you get into these impossible scenarios these stress nightmares and i'm like this sucks so now i'm trying to figure out i have a boba straw when you're drinking a boba drink baby i needed to i was on a time crunch too so i needed to leave this was much like the the disney world situation where i had a limited amount of time so now i go this drink is disgusting i don't need the calories from the boba i gotta dump this so now i try to go to the bathroom you know the bathroom right by the hot topic with it by the lockers which we determined is the worst worst bathroom like yeah like like a bus station level

people passed out in the hallways yes so i go to that bag okay fine i'm just gonna go in there dump the drink out and throw it away it's cold the bathroom is closed it just says it's closed trash cans along the way but i don't want to put a full liquid into the trash can because i find that's rude i feel like when a person's pulling out the trash it'll spill everywhere so i'm just like i'm gonna dump it out and then thinking or then uh put the plastic in so i have to go out all the way into the parking lot in front of universal into like the bushes and i dump everything out there it's like boba everywhere a big piece of orange and i like run away and throw the plastic this is very satisfying to

me because i feel like often you make me play the fool but in this story you sir are clearly the fool fair enough i'll take those problems building in your head as if you would ever be the the rudest person to the custodial staff of city walk an entire day but if there was a full like large like cup full of liquid and you're pulling the bag out what if there's a hole it gets all over this poor city walk workers like shoes and then like i won't know it you're right i won't know that i've ruined this man's night but on the other end what if a squirrel or feral cat had gone by and gotten sick off of the boba or choked on a fruity pebble that was foreign to its system? There could be multiple dead animals passing out around that universal fountain as we speak.

This is just like the chaos theory discussion in the film Jurassic Park, a fine universal release from 1993. If you, yes, Jeff Goldblum, when he says, if you dump a monster cloud drink in the universal parking lot, there's a typhoon in Japan. So that was my, so I hated it. I hated Mini Monster. And thereby Sector 4, I guess. This is one of the least pleasant. We started with something I really like, which is Hot Topic,

and we ended with Mini Monster, which is a place I was excited about going. You know, Jason and I were texting for months about Monster and this stupid place. Yeah, which we still have never gone to the full. I think the full one has a lot more ice cream options and sundaes and stuff. Probably fare better, but it is hugely popular

and in an area, koreatown might be the worst area to park in in l.a there's so many cars but there's so much cool stuff there that's probably an additional part of it there's so little park and there's so much cool stuff there right how many sectors worth of cool stuff i don't even know that you could count we'll have to talk to the koreatown sector keeper which is a different sector keeper yeah our sector keeper we'll have to summon him uh um you know before we wrap up this sector a couple more fallen soldiers real fast uh element based on my window checking discovered element uh was used to be something called chocolate loco oh i love that store aztec

themed that sounded very good like originally the aztec hot chocolate choco latel uh you could get there that sounds very good they had chocolate scorpions they had chocolate cigars they had chocolate band-aids why that i don't know um uh but all of everything on this list perhaps better than your fruity pebble uh candy nightmare i believe that um and then and also so also something called dappy which i was looking forward to talking about but i couldn't find a lot about dappy d-a-p-y it was a spencer's gifts offshoot um i can't even tell really what demarcates it from other such places full of like places with you know old 50s tins and we'll get into sparkies like a piece of trash we would obsess about like the sequel to delgo it's like oh they they made delgo and dappy back to back

jason sheridan is dappy oh man i would kill to be in the dappy remake you kidding me yeah we're very excited about the dappy property uh this was really could be the next lego movie we think this reminds me of another problem with mini monster that i almost forgot about they have these light bulb shaped uh glass uh drinking containers and they look like an upside down light bulb they're not exclusive to mini monster i've seen them other places but they're glass and there's signs everywhere saying if you buy this you cannot take it into the park right so it's like an impossible situation because you want people because then if you buy the glass thing you i think you get a little more and they tack an extra six or seven dollars on yes that's what they told me that's crazy and then i found i have found

other stores in city walk that sell glass drinks and it's like drink it now or take it home but fuck you you can't bring glass into the park which is a good call of course but it's an odd conundrum right they'd have to hold the glass for you, and you could pick it up on the way out, but that would be so much of a pain in the ass. Oh, well, you would need glass lockers. You would need plane tickets. Check-in booth, a concierge.

Oh, boy. We're finding a lot of complaints, and I just found one, too. I looked up who IROC was to see if I could say one of IROC's famous catchphrases at the end of the... It's the T.J. Miller got the tj sector four is cursed oh no who's shoto um not sure about shoto jason is i think it might be ioi no it is 101 avatar he seems to be like one of many of like a group of soldiers so i think you got no actor on yours yeah what do we know

about shodo um shodo let me see if this is oh my god young shodo was voiced by brian singer and old shodo is voiced by chris hardwick what the fuck the curse of sector four minus points all right well any any other closing thoughts on this cursed sector? Oh, boy. The last cursed sector? The first cursed sector? Or the only cursed? Probably not the only one.

God, I hope. Well, but we've covered it. And here now is the stone for sector four. It is shaped like a stray fruity pebble but much bigger um thank you sector keeper uh we will add this to the group of 19 once we've collected them all like a funko yes any any info about shoto we're waiting for you sorry sorry uh yes uh shoto is it tashiro Yoshiaki, and he's a Japanese gunter, is that right? G-U-N-T-E-R, who attempts to win Halliday's Easter egg hunt. Oh.

And he's a fierce warrior. No complaints there. No complaints to us, Jason. Maybe Shoto will lift us out of the curse. And stay tuned next episode when we find out what the Sector Keeper gets. All right. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow.

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