Podcast: The Ride - The CityWalk Saga - Sector 5

Episode Date: September 18, 2018

Beware the Sparky's boy. The CityWalk Saga - Sector 5 consists of: Sparkys Johnny Rockets Jamba Juice (former Radio Station Restaurant) 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. Podcast The Ride presents The City Walk Saga, a daily 19 part, extremely necessary series exploring the stores, restaurants, and wonderful magic that make up universal city walk Hollywood. Welcome to Podcast The Ride, The City Walk Saga. Today, Sector 5, here as always, Mike Carlson. Hi, yeah, Sector 5. I'm excited. I'm refreshed. I'm ready to go. Ready to talk about a very interesting parking experience I had. Oh, all right. And Scott Gerardner, here too.

Let's start talking. We don't have to do this at the pace that the other ones go. All right. And then this week, we're joined once again, checking with the sector keeper oh yeah here he is he's here boys boys hello keeper it's good to see you good to see you you give me strength how do you feel that uh are you feeling stronger do you feel like the journey is proceeding according to plan thus far? Yes, yes. The more sector stones you take in, the stronger I become. We have four so far. You have four? Yeah.

Excellent. Thank you. Well, and we've collected some other stuff, too. And guess what, Sector Keeper? You're going to be joining us. We got you a gift. My mother? No, no, no, no, no. No, your mother. mother well we still have a track we're not supernatural we can't pull strings like that but please find

sector keeper on the last episode i went to the hot topic of course you know it because for those of you tuning in sector keeper is sort of a omnipotent being that watches over city walk uh and that and keeps you keeps the sectors in order. And who's a baby who died in the fountain. Not a baby, but a young child who went to a limbo state due to being poisoned by the dancing fountain.

I'm permanently this many. Yes, of course. He's holding up fingers, but he keeps putting some down, so it's not clear. It was a staph infection that dig you in in that Abercrombie and Fitch fountain. Right. And when we, of course, talk about all 19 sectors of CityWalk, you will finally be able to experience a pop culture that has been missing from your life, from a sector keeper's

life for so long. Thank you. You'll find out about Saliva, the Josie Scott's band. The guy sang, he sang a song, Hero, it was in the first Spider-Man movie. It was like, if they say that a hero

can save us, it's a nice song. I'm not gonna stand here and wait. Oh, that is nice. If you like us just not even practicing, wait till you hear the real guys,

Chad and Josie, do it. Oh, excellent. Chad and Josie are great. So anyway, last episode, I went to the Hot Topic and they have a wonderful sales section and there was a two for two goodbye buy two get two free and i bought us all um blind bag ready player one keychain toys so we've all opened ours ready player oh that's

a good point i the second was not it was a book it was a best-selling book and and that was a movie made by steven spielberg and it has all these characters like the iron giant who oh you don't know that easy it's full of chun li chun li from street fighter you remember her she's in it that's from your time excellent excellent so so basically we've opened uh ours i'll give you yours and you can open it now uh we'll refresh which characters we have. Of course, I have 101 Avatar Soldier. And I have Soto. Wait, wait, wait. Shoto.

You called him Soto. I heard an H. Oh, okay. Sorry. Yeah, Shoto. Sorry. So much bag crinkling. I'm very sorry. There isn't. They're hard to open. In the future, is there perforation? There should be. Yeah, Sector Keeper, there's not. They're hard to open. In the future, is there perforation? There should be.

Yeah, these are like really sealed. These are like... Sector Keeper, I would think... Maybe use your deep... I would think that the Sector Keeper has some sort of power to be able to open a bag. Guys, don't blame him. His hands are disappearing.

We're going back to the future. Oh, Sector Keeper's going for his car keys, which I didn't know the Sector Keeper even had a car. They're my keys to the future. Oh, he's going for his car keys, which I didn't know the sucker keeper even had a car. They're my keys to my job. Oh, you have a job? Wait, you have a job? Yes. I check people in and out of purgatory.

Oh, no. What a depressing job. That's why you haven't been on every episode, because you're having to go to your job sometimes. I'm working overtime. Oh, gosh. It gets sadder and sadder. I'm picking up extra shifts. every episode because you're having to go to your job sometimes i'm working overtime oh gosh it gets sadder and sadder i'm picking up uh extra shifts oh it's open it's open okay i have what care it says on the back sector keeper the main one he's a parzival you got parzival oh i

got parzival that's the main character who uh goes into the Oasis and ends up finding the Easter egg. Well, he's the hero, just like you, City. Just like you. Sector Keeper. Just like you, Sector Keeper. I almost said Citywalt. Just like you. Well, you are Citywalt.

What a way I am to personification. Toss me that Parzival, baby. Sure. Well, he looks real sickly. Much like you, Sector Keep oh yeah you're gonna get as pale as parsable uh if we don't save your soul soon enough and he's got what i think is a sword on the back of his jacket but it looks like a christian cross hey all right oh yeah that's pretty good i'm presbyterian oh really i was also raised Presbyterian when I was a child. Thank you.

Both practicing still? Not really. Religion's not allowed in purgatory. Okay, well that makes sense actually. Well, now all you follow, your religion is the way of the sector. And we need you to enlighten us about what today's sectors are. Boys, boys, come close close yes okay we're coming in you don't need to whisper it but go ahead today's sector is sector five right sparkies

johnny rockets and jamba juice formerly known as radio station restaurant, that may have been a typo in the sector seeing stones. It was the Radio Station Restaurant was not in the Jamba Juice. It was where the Johnny Rockets is now. I don't want to go out of order necessarily. I'm going to go to hell. Oh, shoot. No, no. It's okay.

Here, we'll do it the correct way. Our Presbyterian God I hear about on Christmas and Easter. It's going to make everything okay. Okay. All right. So it was Sparky's? Yeah. Okay, let's go in order.

Sparky's is the first one. Sparky's is a store with an adorable little boy like yourself on the sign. My best friend growing up. Oh, you knew Sparky? Mm-hmm. Wow. You must have had a real sweet tooth even back then. Yes.

He loves his donuts. up oh you knew sparky you must have had a real sweet tooth even back then yes he has like donuts he has like a kind of a beanie like a jughead style beanie on his hat or that's his hat yeah he's got a little hat okay it's like a beanie though right everyone's gonna be like i'm crazy i just learned that jughead that the jughead like that whenever the archie comics started that the crown was like a thing people did. Gomer Pyle also had a crown. Yes. Well, isn't it supposed to be like when the British celebrate Christmas,

the little paper crowns and poppers? Is that right? I thought it was like a beatnik thing. Yeah, I think it might be. I think it's like street kooks or something. Well, I think Archie started earlier than the beatniks, didn't it? Maybe. I mean, i don't know the history

i think it's bullshit here's the thing if anyone knows all about being jughead it's you oh well yeah and so i don't even want to talk about the the sexy jughead on the tv show i mean he's very handsome lad but uh that beanie yeah he's got a beanie crown i don't understand it the point is this is the first store i've written down nothing about so you guys will have to take it from here all right well i will take it from here because i was at sparky's today sparky's is like kind of advertised as just like little donuts yeah but then there's like this kind of fancy candy store i that candy store kind of boned me out all right go ahead well i so here's the thing about sparkies sparkies seems to be in my mind doubly redundant because now there is voodoo donuts right which kind of cancels out

like the little sparkies they have like donuts these little plain fried donuts and i was like oh maybe i can get it seemed like the smallest option they had was half a dozen mini donuts for like 8 50 and i am a man of principle and i love my donuts but i'm like no no not nice try sparkies and and this is a thing that comes up for me sometimes at City Walk which is living in the area I know a mile down the road there is a donut shop multiple donut shops where 850 gets you a full dozen full-size donuts so in principle you could not bring yourself to buy a bucket of Sparky's donuts because you knew how many donut establishments were nearby well and i had a lot of sugar already today so i didn't want to crash so um yeah but then all the candy stuff they have a lot of uh the same stuff that it sugar has down the way yes now sparky's i think is the only place

at city walk that has like a chocolate case like has has a traditional confectionary case. So I guess that's why it's still hanging on. And that stuff all looked good and fresh. So let me say this. This one likes treats. You got my ticket sector, Kiefer. He's pointing at Jason. He understands.

Yes. We all like treats, but Jason might be the biggest treat liker of all. But because I'm a theme park journalist, I felt that i had to try some of the treats so i got three treats from the case from the chocolate case i got a little salted caramel i got a sugar-free peanut butter cup which i didn't know was sugar-free until she said oh it's sugar-free is that are you sure and i went oh yeah of course and then i went why did i say yes and then i got a homemade twix which is the one that fascinated me the most because i love twix do we all what do we feel about twix i'm up there

with that's one of the best ones yeah of course so i said homemade twix this is gonna be delicious this is gonna be like twix but with better. So I had the peanut butter cup, fine. Salted caramel, fine. Homemade Twix. I bit into it, and I was like, this sucks. This is bad. Like, I craved a regular Twix. It was just like they shoved a cookie inside a chocolate shell.

Like, it wasn't even, there was a little caramel in there, but it felt like a totally different thing. Branding it Twix is insane. It's crazy. Why would you compare it to a better candy just call it something else and maybe i wouldn't have had the expectation in my head that this thing was going to taste like a homemade twix or something something that's going to be you know the thing i like but better because it's home quote unquote homemade and i was very disappointed by it about what was the size it was about this i would say like six, five

inches. Wait, just one of them? I just said one Twix. What do you mean just one? They don't sell them in pair. I feel like the pairing of Twix is vital unless you're talking Twix ice cream bars. You think that I should have had two Twix on principle alone? No, I don't think.

It shouldn't be your responsibility. It should be the shop's responsibility. They should be selling you two little strips. Forcibly pair the homemade choice. Forcibly. Well, I'm glad that they didn't do this because I was disappointed. And yeah, it was a real bummer because I was very excited about it. I was like, oh, I'm going to find my new favorite treat.

It's Sparky's because I'll be honest, this was the first time I stepped foot inside that Sparky's. Yeah, same. I'm an it's sugar man and we'll get to that later. That's my favorite candy store in CityWalk. I go there a lot. Oh, yeah, yeah. Of the seven.

And let's be honest, It's Sugar, a lot sexier than Sparky's. Okay, Sparky's has this sort of like fancy-ish, but also childlike thing. But not really. Yeah, it's got the little Sparky guy up front who, look, he seems like a nice enough guy, sector keeper. No, he's bad. Oh, he's bad.

Okay, well then then to hell with him but inside i don't know it just kind of bummed me out you know what else they had they had a bunch of the glass soda bottles i talked about this before the places at city walks selling glass drinks that you can't take into the parks this came up with mini monster and the other thing that bugged me they have that weird bottled off-brand butterbeer. The one that looks like Harry Potter logo and design and stuff, but he's just different enough to get by. That's crazy to me that they're selling that at multiple locations in CityWalk. Sparky's is bad.

Sparky took my place in heaven. Wait heaven wait what he's why you can't be there yes in addition to you okay so you got sick and then uh it was a choice which way you would go yes but he had already taken this there was a little boy shaped spot and he took it so also he's are you created a bad candy store. Huh. So let me ask you this. Did he take your place? Would you have been the little boy on the front of this candy store

if it weren't for him? Ideally. Oh, man. Secties. So do you think maybe there's a chance that if we complete our 19 sector mission, the Sparky will float off the front and secty is that what we revealed your first name yet i don't even think we've talked about that i can't

remember he doesn't remember he now is the sector keeper but i can't promise you that if you complete your missions i will not only not go to hell but but Sparky will file for Chapter 11. Oh, wow. So we'll put him out of business at least. Yes. It's not like you'll replace it. It'll just be like people will be out of a job and he won't actually be a celebrated little boy anymore.

And then in the display case will be a new kind of candy, non-homemade Twix, which will just be a regular Twix bar, but non-homemade is written in marker. And you have to buy two. Yeah. You're forced to buy two. Well, no, you shouldn't be forced to buy two.

Wait, what? Look, they should, whatever the size. That's what you said. You said forced to buy two. No, they should be packaging two. That's forced to buy two. But no, it should be the same price, or they should just cut the one you had in half, and they're next to each other.

Wait, wait, wait. That doesn't make sense either. When you buy a Twix at a store, there's a minimum two unless you're talking fun-sized Twix. Yeah, I understand the concept here. Am I crazy? Boys, boys, please don't fight.

I'm sorry, Sector Keeper. I fear you won't accomplish your mission. All right, all right okay i have a few more sparky thoughts and we can get on to the right look okay why are there so many goddamn chocolate eggs and sparkies there are the guinness eggs like chocolate eggs there's a lot of like booze oh yeah there's a lot of booze candy there's a whole bunch of generic salt water there's more eggs here There's like the after eight dark chocolate mint egg.

It's a giant egg. Who would want to eat a giant mint egg? Who is that for? You wanted to have a giant cotton candy yesterday. But that's a normal sized cotton candy. This is fancy trash. This is fancy trash.

I don't know your logic, but I might buy you a chocolate egg and think you might like that. Why not an egg? I would hate that. A giant egg with chocolate? That's too much. Cotton candy is light in the air.

I'm buying things that are too much proudly while ordering, but then after the fact complaining. There's a, look. There's a box that just said Hollywood on it. Yeah. Okay. So that's the last thing. after the fact complaining there's a look there's a box that just said hollywood on it yeah okay so that's the last thing that's the last thing i have to say about sparkies is that there are a number of different chocolate boxes that are clearly gift box postcards from los angeles so like this is just i don't know maybe malibu will post this obviously on twitter uh and then this one says like discover los angeles so it's like you're gonna gift somebody some

chocolate but you're also gonna it's gonna be an ad also is that a picture of downtown as the sun is setting yes it looks like a shot like right before the heist or like right before the purge starts it's not even like a nice picture of downtown it looks like a picture that's that would be the front of a movie like a shot from the front of like start of a movie like the to live and die in la poster 2041 los angeles los angeles has gone to hell in a nuclear glow a warm orange nuclear glow bathes the city so there is a strange amount of like los angeles propaganda but then that also redundantly until very recently there was upstart crow which is full of that stuff. Yes. So, donuts covered elsewhere.

Coffee covered elsewhere. Candy covered elsewhere. Los Angeles crap covered elsewhere. Covered everywhere. Everywhere. And cute little boys sent away into the bowels of purgatory. A Faustian store only exists because of a bargain. Well, you can feel it in there it does it's redundant it's pointless feel the faustiness i will call let's see this is smell

good it didn't even smell i agree with you it didn't smell good i will let's let's right here on episode five let's call for this thing to be shut down that's what we want i think for sure i mean we're going to be working toward the goal. And the workers give a new employment opportunity. I don't think so, actually. Oh, you think they are punishing the workers. I want to punish the workers for working at this store. That's just the way I feel.

No severance? No severance. No way. Not even like the leftover candy? No, I think that should all go to jason they're just following orders from a very demented little boy they shouldn't be punished for this i don't like it i don't like it one bit so sparky's thumbs down oh oh no no no all right jamba juice boys please move on jamba juice next uh can we you want to start coughing immediately can we just skipped it

already i there's nothing there's nothing it's a jamba juice it is a jamba juice i got thoughts on jamba juice mike was really into jamba juice a few years ago well i was i was into jamba juice because they had a secret menu this is one of the first places i ever heard of a secret menu and i thought this was really cool this was also the was also the part of my life when I was a fucking idiot and thought that Jamba Juice was healthy. Yeah, they pulled the wool over a lot of people. Yeah, so you'd be like, this tastes delicious, but it's also good for you. And it's like, it's not. It's just a bunch of sugar.

And even you shouldn't be having that much fruit because fruit is full of sugar. It's good sugar, but still. You're still going to crash. You're still gonna crash you're still gonna crash uh and they have like they had like a fruity pebble one and like a red gummy you'd get your order off the secret menu just get a box of fruity pebbles why are you parsing out the fruity pebbles because it's fun to order secret stuff i just usually always got a green thing there like a green thing or a chocolate the green thing fooled me for years too because you'd go like you'd get a green thing from uh jamba juice and you'd be like this tastes delicious

and it would be like apples and then it would be like a bunch of sugar bananas strawberries and it would just be a bunch of regular food they would fool you by making the thing green i yeah it does feel like a trick at city walk is like oh something healthy up here right i mean i guess it's the closest thing to probably the closest thing the healthiest yeah and i will give jamba juice credit they now finally have some things on the menu that are kind of healthy that has kale is the first ingredient and that you can get like real carrot juice or some real actual vegetable juice i mean i would just load up whatever i used to use it there used to be one by an old job, and I would go as a lunch replacement.

Sure. You can get the protein boost. Of course. Soy protein or whey? I don't think I ever really noticed a difference. I think I always just defaulted to whey because it's cheaper. I don't know what you're talking about. We're talking about the stores.

I have 15 more minutes. Okay. All right. So, Jamba Juice. That's all I really had to say we gotta keep the sector keeper all right we must keep you alive boys are you still there we're still here boys oh god he's like transparent so this johnny rocket's recently redone in a very sparse modernist style yes um what's your number so this is a couple observations uh i've noticed in our many joints up to city

walk recently one a lot of the places that have been there for a while and seem like they're gonna stick around for a little while have kind of redone to like take away the more kitschier louder style and more like sort of a minimalist style yes um and certainly this johnny rockets has done that which is also odd because it is a johnny rockets doesn't often update its look past the idealized 1950s version of a diner a lot of them update their look by closing forever that's true that's considered an update yeah you do lose a little bit of that like trashy mall johnny rockets now they've redone it so like you're missing some of the fun of being in a terrible place but i will say this i ate there today i had a hot dog from johnny

rockets pretty good usually all of this today and yes i did and i had a nice beer and i'll tell you what i loved it they have a nice open area which i think they kind of did before but now it's a little more open air i sat at the bar alone great shakes great i've heard the shakes are good i did you have a shake not i've had one before i'll tell you this my main memory of johnny rockets is i once went there uh and was served a very wet burger like i was like i came right from the kitchen i'm like why is this so wet and then i went to open the this is going to sound like i'm making this up i went to open the ketchup bottle fries i opened it a bunch of water came out and i swear i'm laughing but this happened i'm like how did you even i haven't even tipped it it's still upright where was all this why was this water inside the cap so i've had some very wet dining experiences like everything tasted

you walked in and they rounded up all the employees like look at this guy we should probably we should probably all spit hey boys i'll spit it up i don't know i feel like that huh oh sorry i was gonna say i feel like that you could tell but this it felt like they're like all right just dump a glass of water on that send it out and did you send it back or i know i just kind of took it out of the wrapping i feel like it was just probably sitting there for a while and it was just condensation like well it's universal studios and they love getting you wet that's a good point that is true just keeping with the studio sure they wheel the kitsch they wheel the burger past like all the way from the park, and it gets hit with all the different things.

Water, water, water. It's good, yeah. It goes through the Waterworld splash zone. It gets those Dilophosaurus on the tour spit in them. The T-1000 used to, the T-1 million used to explode all over the burgers. T-2. The tram. Yep, yeah, yeah.

The tram. The flash flood. They would have to transport the hamburger on the tram they'd have to give it a seat that's why it took so long uh something i noticed being up there in the morning again uh there are there was just so many people like in business casual with universal id badges or land you're just people like clearly going from office building to office building or like taking eating lunch together or doing a lunch meeting and there is i mean i i remember when i was like an intern on the back lot you did get a decent discount at city

walk and it's kind of a pain in the ass to leave and get back to city walk so you're telling me god knows about all this time i think it was a pretty decent uh discount but from tour plaza you get all the way through security get scanned and everything make it all the way up to city food uh and get your uh like what was in the food court i'd get ruby o's. Yeah, I'd get a Rubio's, Panda Express maybe. But that blows your entire 45-minute lunch period. And you might get called out on tram three, your tour three for the day, right when you get back. Well, that's true.

Leave that food sitting cold. But the people working directly above CityWalk and the offices above CityWalk, they just take the elevator right down, walk right out. Maybe they go out to CityLoft for some little quiet, you know, time away and the office is above City Walk, they just take the elevator right down, walk right out. Maybe they go to City Loft for some little quiet, you know, time away from the office. Again, a thing I witnessed, like

someone quietly, like, you know, read in a Kindle, read their lunch. I've written up there. I have written scripts. I thought about that when I was up there today, like, wow, this would be a great place to just write a little. Nobody's in the city food to city loft transitional area and we're getting we're crossing the different sectors i apologize

it's okay i'm enjoying it it's part of it's on it's on topic but yeah aspiring screenwriters oh now we're gonna get the word out and it'll be flooded with people with laptops and typewriters can you pick up the xfinity wi-fi or is that just within park limits you got to use your own hot spot i think i think you're stuck with that um i will i've never written a script at city walk um but i also have thought about it yep there's a fantasy of working at theme parks uh yeah just i mean we've casually gone to these places but i really should uh you know finish a movie writing a movie up there i've done a lot these places but i really should uh you know finish a movie writing a movie up there i've done a lot of good times i've been to disneyland by myself

with a little notepad and written down little uh blurbs and ideas uh that turned into the hollywood magic later turned into things that over 30 people have seen wow do you get the magic right and get the theme park magic branded content hold on wait a minute right branded content uh i don't know i took a guess oh do you just hear like the people going from the office buildings you hear them talking about branded content or quadrants yes yeah quadrants and vertical and then yeah and if you're an actor at universal studios then the mother of all jackpots is to be in some branded content yeah we've all done it one thing i've observed recently is that there used to be an entrance if you worked on the lot the universal lot uh you could walk into city walk and that has since been closed because some writers from certain shows were walking through and being a

little too rowdy uh walking back from uh city walk margaritaville too rowdy really interrupting really by the city by the margaritaville specifically? Because I saw Walter's Gate is still there. It would be on the north side of City Walk. Do we have names of, not the people, but of the show that may have blown the privilege? I'm not sure. Maybe it was a place that was not so good? I can't speak to that. Maybe a certain project

with a certain Mindy involved that was not masked super carefully that one didn't work as well maybe the tonight show with Conan O'Brien eight years ago nine years ago so this

I must apologize for this this is going to kind of veer into an eventual sector but i have to tell my co-hosts because we're still in this journey we're going to be going back to city walk a lot i didn't realize that because one part we're talking about parking i'm talking about parking we We often mention that there's not a lot of good options if you're just going to pop in and out. Yes, that's why I walked from my house to Lancashire, bottom of Lancashire, took the tram up. Yes, I like doing that.

That's fun. You can park real close by and then walk and get in a free tram and take that up, or you can walk from Ventura. Sector Keeper and I walked up one though when we went to michael up yes it felt like he was carrying me up the hill was there only one set of footprints there was only one set of footprints on the concrete when we were when i walked back down uh so so but i and maybe you guys know this and forgive me if this is not new information. If you are only going to spend two and a half hours there, you can get $7 parking with validation from a restaurant.

This is a terrible deal. So I went to Johnny Rockets. I had a beer and a hot dog and paid $7 to valet park. That is much better. That's interesting. Much better than $25 flat fee. Yeah. So basically $7 valet is not crazy.

Where's that valet put you out? Oh, well, the valet puts you out. First of all, I want everyone to know that Jason aggressively pointed at me when he said that. It puts you out right under City Food. So it's like kind of by the main hub, by the movie theater. By the Skechers? Yes. Yeah, I've come out there before.

We all have. Great spot. Great spot. yeah i've come out there before we all have great spot great spot we've all come out there it's not a special but the valet i'll talk more about the experience valeting when we eventually talk about the parking garages of course but i want you guys to know that if you're going to pop up there it makes sense you just go into johnny rocket you could probably order fries for five bucks and you can get free, basically not free valet, but validated valet, $7. And that cuts down so much of the price.

$12 fries. Best deal in Los Angeles. So $12 fries. But does that work at like, say, what we talked about before, the crepe cafe. Needs to be a sit down restaurant.

Needs to be a sit down. I don't know if the crepe is considered in there but fast casual i would call fast casual i was surprised johnny rockets counted the americana is free the americana has good restaurants in it the problem why are we touting this parking deal i mean you have to go up I guess, or if you're like a tourist in town, it's a great... Well, we're the only idiots who have to go up there. Yeah. We don't really, but now we do. All I'm saying is I don't blame them because it's attached to a theme park, and that's the problem.

That's the reason the money is so expensive, unless you go to a movie. But up until very recently, downtown Disney had a strong window of free parking. Yes. And CityWalk never has. Yes, that's true. They've been sucking us dry for a while. Well, we don't need to talk about that yet. We're not talking about parking.

No. In fact, we covered it, I think. Actually, we can be done unless there's tangents we've missed. I think that's the whole sector. I will say a tribute to a fallen hero. KWGB, World's Greatest Burgers, was a radio-themed burger restaurant that was in where the Johnny Rockets is now. There was a live DG recall.

There was a live BJ, a burger jock. And you would call from a phone at your table. You'd call the burger and boogie hotline you'd walk over and pour a glass of water under your burger you wouldn't even have to get up get your burger also very wet um uh i i found it on a site so deep even we haven't been there or i haven't mouse info i found a foreign well i found a little story of not really a story but a man who had the privilege i'll just read his post i had the privilege of being a live dj at kwgb world's greatest burgers um uh from 1996 to 1998 the food was awesome and hearing the best rock pop disco new wave and r&b from the 60s 70s and 80s made for an awesome experience uh i left about

six months before they closed but i was sadder the day it closed and the day i left what did they replace this alive place with the daily grill which is some of the blandest food i've ever tasted this along with other unique venues have shut down to be replaced by stores you just find in your local mall which has been a frequent complaint of ours that special city walk locations with live burger djs are being demolished for boring places with watery burgers thank you for your service burger dj yeah you have to say johnny rockets i think a better uh a better estimation of uh uh the clientele going there than daily grill i find daily grill even off even just civilian daily grill in the area a little pricey you know and

daily grill is a very like office park a very like very lunch business lunch sort of thing people who can like who like don't feel weird spending 18 dollars on a cob salad maybe expensive as we are rich um so the oh i have one more thing do you remember when we uh we went up there a couple years ago and the guy the waiter made a minion out of ketchup oh yes i do remember that i got a picture of it i'll post that that's some sweet uh social media yeah that was really fun yeah he did a good job he was very nice and a good ketchup artist and almost no water was poured on yeah there was no no water in your dog today mike uh no not really what uh toppings

you put on that bit well it comes with just sort of relish ketchup mustard and then like diced tomatoes oh interesting bothered by that was i bothered or jason were you bothered no no i like all that okay you said a little like alarmed i would think dice raw onion i would put that over instead of Diced tomatoes I liked it I'll tell you though I was sitting there

There was a nice breeze Coming in from outside And there was a man Playing some cover songs Outside And I was writing down The covers As he would play them

And he played Real smooth versions Of Free Fallen Treasure by Bruno Mars Island in the Sun By Weezer would play them and he played real smooth versions of free fallen treasure by bruno mars island in the sun by weezer and i was loving it and it was the best so far of this whole time it's my most pleasant nice time at city walk was this moment well eating a hot dog best of all you were not with any friends or loved ones i was a family i alone. There was a person next to me at the bar who I sensed might want to start talking to me.

I was not interested. I kept kind of looking to the right. You know what I mean? You can feel somebody want to talk to you. You kind of just kind of like, I don't want to make eye contact because it's going to open it up. And I did that,

and I focused on this nice man playing music. I assume he's nice. I hope so. I followed him on Twitter. I'm going to give him a plug because i enjoyed what he was doing and let me find it that's a very great uh can i ask your uh on the fourchette scale uno due tre quattro cinque uh the italian the legally cleared italian fork scale give me the fork scale again uh uno due a tre quattro

cinque i'm gonna give it uh cinque tre tre was that what you said tre tre would be three yeah i'll say tre all right tre for chip day and then i was gonna say just uh follow at i am johnny martin on twitter he's the guy who was playing the covers johnny oh it's a j-o-h-n-n-y all right thanks for the tunes as we wrap up the stone is materializing for this sector and it boys it it it just looks like a regular stone but it's very wet yes yes boys sector five stone the wet stone is now yours hey cool there it is there it is jason take it and it made a sound i've never heard this before it's very wet usually water is supposed to run off a stone or get absorbed this is like it'll be permanently wet oh it's chlorinated so you're okay oh okay i wish the fountain was chlorinated. Oh, man. Could have saved your life.

But you give me strength. Yay. You give me joy. Another stone towards your freedom. I'm one step closer to being an okay boy. Wow. And then you can finally hear that song by the lead singer of Saliva and Chad Kroger from Nickelback.

Yeah. We are the heroes who will save you. We're not going to go in a way. What are the lyrics? Stay like all the wings of an angel. Watch as we all fly away. So good. The end.

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