Podcast: The Ride - Unlocked: Fry's Electronics

Episode Date: April 19, 2024

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Welcome to a podcast the ride that I have been building up to my entire life. I'm Scott Gairdner, and I'm joined by Mike Carlson and Jason Sheridan. Hey, fellas. Yeah, there's a nervous energy in the room that this is going to even go well. Pressure's on. Yeah. Pressure's on. I've been thinking about it.

But that can't be where I come from. I have to come from a place of uh of enjoyment yes uh because like when i realized this podcast was potentially the outlet for me to talk about this area of fascination that i've had forever which is fries electronics uh i just like when it all came together of course of course this is where i can finally because i didn't know there was one point in time where i thought uh should i try to make like a documentary where i go to every single fries and explore the theme of every single fries that doesn't seem like a good idea my date with drew you know following your journey. Oh, absolutely. And it'd be cute as hell. Yeah. A real, you know, it's a super, super watered down, super-sized me. Where I don't get unhealthy or learn anything.

I just waste a lot of time. But it's this. This is where I put it. Right. And I'm ready for it. I think the documentary, though, still could happen. I think, well, you know, maybe there's more interest in it now. But I'm going to have to do it quick because I don't know how much time these stores have left. If anyone on the Patreon has a bunch of money to make documentaries and they want to fund this, please contact us soon.

Yeah. Because... Look at you, Kevin Perger. Oh, yeah. He's a documentary funder that's right that can be number two after the helix one we're in that's on the way so so let me ask because the the long and short fries electronics chain of electronics stores yes i was unfamiliar with it until like i lived out here for a few years yeah there's one by the burbank airport and i i used to work over there i used to work at a post house and some of the engineers

that was sort of like their go-to place for cables or components and then sometimes i think if they're just like oh i'm gonna treat myself at lunch i'll go to fries because i don't know if i call that a treat but sure i well i think for engineers uh that oh to like get to peruse and do all of it yeah look at the wires and the circuitry because yes it is an electronic store but it's sort of more in the radio shack yeah area components is a perfect word it's like yeah it reminded me of like i feel very safe there i'm like oh this is so fun it's like being back in the 90s and like i didn't really know what home computers were and every oh what's that what's that like yeah and a place where you would go get wired magazine and where wired magazine would be

prominently featured and the bible was wired magazine in that in the hallowed halls of a fries a new issue of the good word um but you were getting were you getting at a specific point or just you're just like refreshing like what you knew about it before you got to los angeles yeah and and and my experience i went there i think about a year year and a half ago because i was told like oh as i said something like i have a printer it's kind of old but i I need to print some stuff, but I want to buy a new cartridge. And they were like, oh, if you have the old one,

take it to Fry's. They'll refill it. Okay. Which they did. And that lasted, that kind of worked. Right. It kind of works. The printer is on its last legs, granted,

but I feel like it went through that refilling pretty quickly. Well, let me be clear. As a store a store fries is a horrible store yeah uh it's maybe i shouldn't say that if i want to get in good with them to do the documentary i have all right scratch horrible it is uh it leaves some things to be desired my experience is that i everything that i've ever bought from there has not worked and that is usually like eight dollar items it'll be like you know how there's like the red and yellow sound cables and you you know what if i needed a wire that put that into a single stereo oh they have a part of fries okay sounds good try it at home nothing happens i need to go somewhere else and get a real one you know i've never hard drives i've gotten just fizzled immediately never worked once almost every product i've ever gotten from there

didn't even didn't break it just never worked i'm trying to think because i think i bought fans like usb fans uh there's a indie wrestling show out here called pwg and in the summer months when you there's a thing called the battle of los angeles and it's three days and it used to be that you would await in this receipt a parking lot in the oppressive heat yeah so i was so prepared this year i went and got a bunch of usb fans and i went to fries to get them and they didn't know what i was talking about and then i did finally find a few i bought them and they did not work they wouldn't work with because i was going to put them on like a battery like a iphone battery the external battery. Oh, yeah. And then keep that going the whole time that you're there,

three days. And they didn't work. And I had to buy them off Amazon, I think. So your experience is zero. Mine's zero. Jason's kind of. We had a podcast related one where we were. Oh, yes, yes.

You and I went there because we have these mic stands now. All right. We've had them for a while. We were trying to brag, bud. Hate to brag. We do have stands. We were like, I forget, we might have eaten lunch. But you were like, oh, let's, I think I'll run to Fry's,

try to find some mic stands. And they had a mic stand. They did not have three identical ones. They did not have three priced reasonably i think there was one and it was weird they had like one and it was like a hundred dollars or something yeah there was a single mic stand possible to find item a microphone stand this because i think also and maybe once in a while i start going you shouldn't order from amazon we should just go to a store yeah and get it it's easier you're start going, you shouldn't order from Amazon. We should just go to a store and get it.

It's easier. You're supporting the business. Amazon shouldn't have any more of our money. And then we went to Fry's and it was impossible. And there was like a $15 mic stand on Amazon that are the ones we're using. Yes. And there's things that you would maybe get from Best Buy. But if something you think is covered

by Best Buy, go to Best Buy and Best Buy will be fine. If it would only be at Fry's, you're kind of screwed because there's a very good chance you'll buy that thing and it just won't work at all. Yeah. So why would we be talking about an electronics store where not one item you buy works and they don't even have microphone stands because this is maybe the best themed chain store that exists and there i guess there's other things that are themed you know obviously restaurants your rainforest cafes and whatever i can't think of another example of a not nationwide

chain but a chain that is all over the country with many many locations where everyone has a distinct theme and it's not even crappy often it's not even just like they put up some flowers and that's supposed to feel like hawaii or something some of these places have aggressive theming massive show pieces there's i would argue there is theming and fries that is in some places better than like original california adventure yeah there is a feature of the burbank one that once i was in inside of it i was like oh my god i was shocked yes like i was shocked some Some of it is melting. Uh-huh. Some of it is very good. And the Thousand Oaks one is... Or you said Canoga Park, I believe.

Is Canoga... That's the one by where I grew up. That was my home one. I don't want to spoil that theme. No, I... If you're building to it. Well, maybe it's a good place to get into it a little. I imagine we'll talk the most about Canoga Park and Burbank. to it maybe it's a good point this is a good place to to get into it a little but i i imagine

we'll talk the most about canoga park and and uh uh burbank but this is probably where my obsession started because one of these opened in the 90s very close to where i grew up and okay we're gonna go to this store okay sounds boring i guess we got to walk in and the the initial like check-in tunnel is an alice in wonderland flipped on its side rabbit hole it is an entirely like would you call it a vertical perspective it's like you are going down a rabbit hole so there's chandeliers hanging the wrong way there's mirrors on the ceiling it looks like you're going down and it would be a perfectly acceptable set to be in a ride uh it's legitimately very well done and beyond that the entire store is this very well done alice in wonderland theme with massive hulking statues of not even disney style it's very like old lewis carroll line drawing like

creepy as hell massive statues there's like dozens of them uh of many many characters from allison wonderlove jabberwockies uh like everything playing cards uh uh people pay the cards painting the bushes big scary mad hatter queen the queen of hearts yeah yeah you so you've been in that i have been in there yeah i had i ended up in there once and i saw there was fries and i went low let me see what the theming was this is ages ago that's how long you would like suggest it like yeah that and i went in and i was like oh my god it's crazy it's crazy you don't see stuff like that just in some big box store like truly if you know it's not maybe a lot of the stuff in the in fries isn't theme park level but it is okay you know those uh the mini golf courses at disney world your fantasia gardens are yeah i would argue that at

least this alice in wonderland one in canoga park if if that's what the theming was if it was a bunch of those statues around in like a mini golf course you'd be like this is incredible we gotta take pictures of everything this is so well done i have no information about why these stores are so good who did all of this stuff was it like former imagineer people it's at least also maybe the level of like the haunts like the knots haunts right that are shockingly well done they're a little like rough around the edges and put together with tape but pretty great for something it's only up temporarily um i don't know i don't know who did the why is why are these stores this way yeah it's a good we probably I don't want to say fries 2 coming eventually but we probably could do some more investigative

journalism and figure it out yeah maybe we should available I'm just there's plenty for this fries part one sure well and I'll tease right now there there will be a reason to do a fries 2 and we'll get to that at the end stay tuned at the end uh there's a little bit of a cliffhanger coming but yes you're right why we should have thought ahead and gone wait was it like recently laid off imagineers who like had to get it out was it people who wanted to do it diy rough and tumble style like just get their hands dirty again yeah i mean it takes look it takes a while i'm i've been chasing some mcgruff leads here for months now for mcgruff too some of these episodes

are in the queue for a while i try yeah nothing you gotta keep digging you gotta keep as my dad says in the newspaper you gotta keep pulling the threads you gotta keep on the story you gotta get a journalist you know how much we've said so. You really get to maybe use some lessons from him. Yes. In the show. Yeah, he'll send some stuff once in a while. If I mention I'm looking for a certain thing, certain address, although I already have an address. Oh.

I have to write a letter is what I'm saying. I've tried email a lot. This is intriguing. I've tried a lot of email. Do you know how to say more about what letter you have to write i have to get in contact with the guy who wrote the songs the mcgruff songs and i know where he lives i think oh my god and it's not from weird and this is i had my dad had nothing to do with it i just look up in the white pages okay yeah and i said i don't think i can i don't think this

guy's checking his email don't get addresses on the dark way make sure you do it legally it was your compact computer you bought it in france whitepages.com do it the right way i'm gonna write a handwritten letter i think which might be the only way that might be the medium that he shows respect so we'll see he's not wasting his time on twitter he wrote some of the greatest songs of all time why is he like leaving his dms open yeah he shouldn't yeah uh well so we got to do that next yeah discover who did these friends uh uh you know while we're talking about the woodland hills one let me just try if i remember anything else uh uh i mean one of the craziest things there is a knight fighting an airborne jabberwocky

i didn't you know the jabberwocky is not in the movie not in the disney one so i had to look up is that what that is this like crazy fanged beast with big dragon wings and it's terrifying i'll post some photos but they created this really crazy monster that is perpetually airborne and then the rest of it's all great it's all hedges it's like black and white checkered the cat or the caterpillar is crazy right right cheshire cats uh there's a there's a frog with a powdered wig um can't be mad at that no no well it's just next to you know like a i either like it's a it's a bunch of washer dryers or like a um you know like a pack of like lipton ice teas that they haven't unwrapped they just like left

all of the plastic on and they need to like yeah the palette that's the word yeah yeah um it's uh i would also say that with the level of creepiness uh mike you know what i'm talking about some of the stuff in this one is kind of like the especially the downstairs of san rio puerto land oh yeah there's some like kind of ghastly horrifying uncanny valley kind of statues yeah yeah and the little cottages yes yeah yeah yeah, yeah. A giant Alice sobbing. Jesus. She's got her head in her hands, covering her eyes, crying. Oh, you know what they have also with Alice?

They have the house, the little cottage that her arms are bursting out of, and you can walk through the middle of that, and that is a little tunnel where you can test car stereos. You know, the car, like what we use we you know those little plates that you have installed yeah that connect to your mp3 player that's what they sell like the most easily stealable stereos that exist this is still and so this is also a dimension of what's crazy about going to a fries is the locked in time aspect so many of them have like a big a huge cd and it says audio cds right or like video software things that are not exactly how we frame things anymore the burbank one you go into a ufo for the like testing room with a theater like a big theater like a theater to like see how good this projector and uh audio setup is and when i was there last week well first off you could enter from two sides and one sides had a lot of tower speakers which i don't think has been that hasn't been in

fashion as far as i know for if i'm being generous five years might have been the end of that if you're building a great like 2001 hi-fi system if you want if you're like looking to support your non-hd big screen TV. Yeah. If you want the thing that Needles is on in Back to the Future 2. If you're making one of those setups. But if you went the main entrance of the Flying Saucer, you enter this theater room and they were playing. I believe it was Cars 3.

Okay. Reasonably recent. I was going to say that is at least a movie in the last decade. Yeah, yeah. The aspect ratio was not recent. It was not, like, it was a big screen, and it did not take up much of it. Was it 4.3? No, it was widescreen, but it stopped.

Like, there was a lot of wall on either side. It did not stretch it was not like where you have to go in with the remote and click like source picture view uh theater four by three 16 by not like they had not done that yeah correctly they have these okay so most fries have uh what they say on the door is a presentation room uh and it is like it is truly a demonstration of exactly what you're describing where you need to do so many settings and where you have like seven remotes and the presentations are all like that the remotes are all splayed out it's like a it's a mini movie theater with like probably eight in a row and then three rows maybe and the remotes are just scattered everywhere there's just loose wires there's like there's wires connecting to

speakers that aren't there anymore sometimes there'll be like a faded poster that's like avatar or one that i went to has um like a framed photo that's just like 150 faces all from the star wars prequels it's just like here's hayden and here's natalie and all of the characters uh there was one the one that i went to in vegas i went to a fries in vegas i took time out of a vegas trip uh this one i looked in the back of the projection room and there was no projector in the spot where there should have been and it was just like a it was just like a little uh a container of potpourri it's just like a bunch of pine cones and shit i didn't even see the remotes because it was pitch black in that room besides the image this is news to me There were remotes in there. But what I did see when I was exiting was this display of earmuffs.

Earmuffs for your baby. Earmuffs? Earmuffs. And I was like, oh, is this a health thing? And I'm like, no, this is just literally comfort your child. If you want to bring your baby to a concert. Yeah. Voices can be heard, but everything will be much less loud the child seems to enjoy the here muffs i don't believe it oh of course yes a baby would keep on a massive studio monitor headphones yeah

that makes them that muffles all the sound around them uh fries i think is a good place to go if you fail on shark tank and you fail on all any other like sub cnbc way to get that guy qvc didn't accept you home shopping fries will uh there's all kinds of bizarre they will carry almost any product yeah including just like you know kites i got kites bugles any snack oh yeah yeah i'm sorry i should have because they might carry they do have musical instruments as well but they also just have onions and like circus peanuts an upsetting amount like convenience store level amount of snacks yeah in a really long like impulse buy aisle they fries is always they're built to hold 30 people in the checkout line yeah typically you

will go and see one person zero people perhaps in the entire store this is really this didn't used to be the case a couple years ago it wasn't this way as much but mainly you will like walk around a fries and see no one and probably not see items on the shelves if you do a google news on fries a lot of places are going what's going on are they closed or not how can a store stay open that has like 75 percent empty aisles one of the things i liked about about it, they closed the Fuddruckers in Burbank, which is a very sad day. I know Scott's not a fan, but I was a big fan of the fact that when you'd walk in there, it felt like I was five years old in Schaumburg, Illinois. The music was the same.

They hadn't changed a thing on the wall. The only difference is Burbank has a Tonight Show booth, which is great beautiful downtown burbank beautiful downtown burbank but i like that about it is like felt you like you went back in time it's the same way with fries except more like there's an apocalypse happened or something oh yes it's been rooted everything feels like the quickie mart with the the hurricane chow yes her cat is crossed out and says hurricane chow you can imagine a scenario where like you're one of the last people on earth when you're in a fries yeah yeah yeah and you can only live off of funyuns bugles fax machine ink fax machine ink what's the nutritional value of fax machine there's got to be some protein in that now hold on one second because

the burbank one is area 51 themed yes and we haven't mentioned the atomic cafe yeah the restaurant that's inside so did you also have a stint at the atomic did you eat i wasn't sure i didn't eat i did uh well here you go first i'll explain my experience we and air just to say the burbank theme you're right it's area 51 theme but it's also really what it is yeah you're inside a b movie right you're in a bad 50s sci-fi movie where aliens have landed and they've caused things to be gigantic yeah so there's flying saucers uh there's huge ants that is really the crazy thing there's massive ants everywhere a bunch of them so many of them there's jeeps that were demolished and blown up down the center like they had to

bring these huge artillery vehicles in and then like torch them through the middle there's mannequins of soldiers like crying like they're about to get disintegrated there's amazing tableaus in this entire thing i mean the very first thing that happened is i walked in and was immediately startled by the statue of a young news boy holding a newspaper i thought it was a person and i was like oh you were staring yourself in the mirror i was looking and i'll tell you this as kind of a fries expert and i'll give you my full stats in a little while um the you can tell if the prize is going to be good based on that entry tunnel as with my childhood one that kept me interested my whole life that alice going on the rabbit hole it's amazing already that paper boy is right away so if you don't see something cool in that like first 10

feet you could probably skip the rest of the fries but with uh canoga park and burbank they're they're hitting you right off the bat yeah i think it's and and the the customer service is supposed to be like a facade of a gas station like a 50s gas station and then the checkout is a diner right so there's like there's like you know egg specials and everything sadly you can't have the egg specials but as you were saying if you go to the back corner there is a full cafe you can have lunch in the fries with uh real neon that was what impressed me. Real neon signs. It buzzes. It buzzes loud.

It buzzes loud. Like, it's the real deal. And there are Cadillacs that you can sit in with what appears to be the original seats because you sink below the table. Like, not exactly thought out. Playing on a giant projection screen, I had to watch it for a few minutes and then search some specifics. Playing the famous B-movie, This Island Earth, when I was there. The main film in Mystery Science Theater, the movie.

The movie, yeah. The theatrical release movie. Whoa. So, if this sounds familiar at all the disney world sci-fi drive yeah uh it's they have a miniature one of those in this in this awful electronic store and it's pretty good yes it's good there's three cars it's very it's all very well done how who's going to eat here okay well so here's what happened to me so i looked it up it's not it's one of those unclaimed places on yelp which either means the

restaurant's gonna be really good or something's up it was the latter so one of the few pictures was a sign saying cafe hours 9 a..m. to 7 p.m. I found this in the middle of the day. And I was like, OK, it's a few minutes before three. I will swing by and get a late lunch or a snack or whatever they have. I walked in at 310 to be greeted by a sign that said cafe hours 11 to 3. And I went, hey hey are you still open the woman was surprised to see me i went oh no we're closed so the next day i went back at two and i was served i did uh eat how many people were there eating the first day there was one man who had finished like looked

like a sandwich and a cup of coffee okay second day there was me you were the one man i was the one man they have one man a day that eats at this cafe in four hours in four hours scott did you order anything what did you have i ordered a smoothie okay i did not have hard food uh what did you have um did you have hard food i had a hard food i had an iced coffee and a slice of lemon cake wonderful and i gotta say pretty good i was surprised also have to say that i enjoyed the smoothie very much shockingly large smoothie menu i was gonna say what is it basically the gist of the menu is smoothies some desserts so can you get a sandwich sandwiches like club sandwiches um like one breakfast like it said breakfast burrito breakfast quesadilla i wasn't sure when i asked for half and half with the coffee they gave me coffee mate they gave me the red red cap coffee mate

sweet and green i was like oh do you have milk instead i don't the answer is no uh they did they did they did they know the coffee menu the iced coffee was uh wasn't the worst i've ever had it was fine it was kind of you know but who is this why do they have a diner in here no who are people doing such exhaustive i didn't know this existed until a few months i didn't know that i've been in that fries a couple a handful of times i didn't know this even existed so you probably thought it was like theming like this little fake little diner but it's a real diner because it's off to it's way in the corner to the side so i must have seen it from afar and went oh that's fun and it's behind like huge shelves like it's by where they store shit which none of the

fries really cover where the storage very well yes and and they just as i've said they just leave loose pallets out everywhere it's like a sam's club like a shitty looking sam's club yes yeah yeah when i look to my right i could see the other cadillacs and when i look to my left i could see an entire aisle of aquafina 24 pack bottles the longest row i have ever seen of one item the there i was next to like a like a display case for red bull that was empty um it also an empty display case for something some some drink that has as guarana like the like it's you know weird new like the natural energy thing uh so much emptiness as said now uh there's also some things to say about the the smoothies because again as i've said well here let me just get this out uh out of the way now uh as i said months probably like over a year ago we said maybe fries could be an episode and i was already pretty

fries versed but in the time since then i have made a point of going to as many fries as possible. And now, at this point, I've been to eight of the nine fries in the Southern California area, including in San Diego County. And I've been to one in Las Vegas. So, I've got a lot of fries to compare and contrast. Now, you know you're in a really good one. You're really at the mother load if there is a cafe and all the cafes are different um there's there's a like a nasa themed one where it's called cafe canaveral or this one's the atomic cafe yeah uh but no matter what the

theme is the smoothies are always themed after rock and roll uh i'll read some of the items shunk berry yogurt a friend i guess after the carol king right um peach boys the same pun as in food rocks right epcot one is called and again i've seen this in another state i saw saw this in Nevada and at the Atomic Cafe. Hawaiian webbing song. And the ingredients don't give you a clue why it's webbing. I'm like, is there some, like, is there pollen? Well, the bees don't make webs. I honestly don't know why webbing. But it's not a typo, I don't think.

Or it's a typo that's standardized at every fries. The drink that I had was called peachy Paul and mango. Does that mean Peter, Paul and Mary? But then when you see Paul and mango, you think of Paul and Ringo, but peachy isn't, but peachy also doesn't sound like Peter.

No, but it's got a P. Yeah, I guess it's Peter, Paul and Mary. It's peachy something in mango. Peachy Paul and mango.y paul and mango peachy paul paul they didn't change that word i was gonna say wait wait paul peachy paul and mango

chunk berry still none of it really works peach boys and then i'm drinking one item it's got to be multiple you can call it a peach boy you can't call it the peach boys because there's one singular item the drink yeah it's like they made one yeah because if you make multiple versions i i should also mention on the way out i i you know it seems fitting that you mentioned the aliens made everything bigger because uh you know i picked up uh something you you know, to share with my lady friend. I got this big muffin. This muffin was so big. It was a really big one.

Did you bring part of this muffin to a record one time? Were you still eating the muffin? That was a different muffin. It was a different muffin. It was also a very large muffin, though. That was like the standard Trader Joe's muffin. This was a big muffin. Only $1.99

so a fair value had an electronic store style price tag uh in front of like to take it off like it was liquor like no just on the display buying a video on the display it was like buying a video game you had to take a slip they get it out of the jewel case this cinnamon streusel muffin was pretty good too the lemon cake also good there's some bougie cafes that i've gone to in in los angeles gotten a baked good and been like this is stale this has been sitting in the freezer cake this stuff was better than some of that weird so will you stop off at fries now to get a baked good maybe probably i want to go back and get a sandwich it might be the

cheapest like club sandwiches should they convert mostly to selling muffins and smoothies just every nationwide for these many square feet is just all muffins muffins fry fries is now pivoting to muffins and the screening room is uh muffin based i'm not sure how yet it's just while they're playing a video of a rotating muffin oh boy the greatest film uh um when you add this up that there's this one has the presentation room so you can go sit and watch like a scene i've been to fries where uh they were playing just like all of bumblebee you're just watching the full movie bumblebee sometimes they just do snippets of scenes one time i just sat and watched the full t-rex attack from jurassic park and that was a very that one was a very well done theater like the sound was great the picture quality was great

they the settings were right and there was another family in there doing the same thing we're just watching jurassic park on the big screen on a random saturday it was lovely great scene um but so this one has the presentation room but also you can sit in the drive-in and watch a classic old sci-fi the people behind the counter i when i walked up it said like do not detect video i asked do you ever put that on and they were like oh is it not on sure and they put on the movie for me hey great and I sat and watched earth versus the flying saucers it's not always the same thing no and they told me sometimes they play like just a bunch of trailers yeah yeah the woman working there was great I mean she was very nice and um yeah I I really enjoyed it I would definitely go back to shame the hours are so

short on it i mean four i guess if you're like running you know if you are a home theater installer and you're picking up some components and you need a bite to eat this is fine there's office there's office parks are you a home theater installer who needs a bite to eat when i worked around the corner i wish I realized there was a restaurant there. Because every now and then I was like, I just kind of want a plain sandwich. Well, you know what? It's a very industrial area where there's not a lot of choices. That's right.

So actually, if we can get the word out, maybe we can help save this thing. If you work in the North Burbank area um go frequent the fries because i am worried about all of these they are starting to go we're i'll say we're recording this in early february i'm not sure when we're putting it out but even if we put it out in two days like half of these could be gone but it kind of looked like this like two years ago that is also the thing just own own the land and that was my question do you have an answer for that stay open how i saw that the anaheim one has been bought by another company like they bought the land but they aren't kicking the fries out yet they're just like

getting the jump on owning the land uh-huh so that maybe is a little example maybe we'll start seeing the land go and then when places can figure out what they're going to build there, then that's the end of fries. How are they making any money? Oh, there's another corner of the Burbank one that I forgot about. They have a very robust office supply section. Uh-huh. And like I used to, you know, talking about trying to not use amazon so much i used to like

go to a few like mom and pop stationary stores for like pens or notepads and then you could also buy stuff individually if you didn't want like a pack of 10 you know legal pads or whatever and a lot of those have closed down um but like fries still has a lot of the like do you just need one of something here's a variety you know a lot there's less staples now there's less office depots now circuit cities are gone i don't know how fries is sticking around but i'm glad for things like that yeah now i was thinking like oh i've been thinking like, swapping out the memory on my laptop. And I try to, like, well, if I want or a little, I'll find that section in Fries. And I got tired of looking before I found it. And I was also like, I don't know, because this aisle says component.

This aisle says memory, but there's nothing in it. There's nothing in any of them. I saw an aisle in one that was all Nintendo branded. It's big, bright, you know, cardboard pieces that have Peach and Donkey Kong and all the smiling faces. And there are no games. It is only the display. Nintendo, here's your place for Nintendo. And not one game could be found

a lot of sobi style beverages a lot of like glass elaborate glass that have been there for seemingly over a decade i yeah or as you said scott gorwana stuff when that was going to never like i don't it's a mystery i love it i kind of i love it there is like so the mysteries of la of which there are many like get less and less every year there's very few places that are just you can walk into and just wander and have a bizarre fun time when i was thinking about doing this episode i thought how how much i every time i go to friday's i'm reminded of a part of a movie that i like very much which is the uh the brady bunch movie live action very

much movie with live action that's the show is live action as well um the the very much movie where the the family's kind of down and uh gary cole as mike brady says put on your sunday best gang we're going to sears and then set to it's a sunshine day. They have a big romp in Sears and just have a blast and look at everything and dance around. This is how it is every time Aaron and I, my wife, Aaron and I go to a fries. We look, we look at the theming and the theming is fun, but that's only part of it.

The rest is like, what bizarre items do we have? There was one time where we found like a refrigerator that you could draw on. like you i don't know like you can write your your note but we were just like i don't know let's draw a little like cat pictures on this thing and then you'll open the fridge and there'll be something in there that doesn't belong um i one time at my favorite fry i'll go i'll say now the best fries that i've been to maybe i don't even say which one it is but the most fun we had our fries was when we were perusing refrigerators and then opened a fridge that had a jake paul month calendar inside why is it in the fridge what's happening and i think that same one they there were a bunch of wine glasses that were branded for Tempur-Pedic.

Like the mattress company. Tempur-Pedic wine glasses. Also, so many of the nine stores that I've been to have had just empty shelf, empty shelf, empty shelf. Then huge full shelf teeming with Will Smith genies. Tons of Will Smith geniesies the one i gave out at the live show yes that one yeah yeah i didn't even put together yeah you didn't even realize there was the price connection there yeah all they have so many of these we the last one we went into we like hit all the butt their chest buttons at once so that they're all just like

you ain't never got if you ain't never had a friend you never never you ain't um you could do shit like that yeah playing with the toys uh they also oh bizarre magazines i wrote down at the same one of the one of the friends i went to among the magazines they had ukulele magazine and then american Waterfowler. This is where print media has come to have its last gasp. Waterfowler. Like duck hunting, I guess. Yeah, I was going to say, is that what that is?

Like we're reviewing the new whistles for this year. The new decoys. I've heard there's a new duck blind I wanted to check out. So the book aisle was not what i was the book i was a mix of like sheet music books technical guides

one or two non-fiction or fiction but like i don't we were in when we were there for the music stand we were in the music area and there's like sheet music like two different types of casio keyboards and then like like john carrey's reporting for duty or whatever like some some there was definitely some like odd non-fiction book that was like oh i see like uh yeah yeah i was gonna say profiles and courage is that obama's general wesley clark's profiles and courage i believe is john kennedy's uh book what's the obama one i'm thinking of yeah right here right too i can't remember uh this is where yeah if you're wondering where like you know there's's like the Dennis Rodman's Bad As I Want To Be book. An original sitting there still.

If you're a president's brother who wrote a children's book, wondering where it was distributed. Billy Carter's book, children's book. There's also a lot of them that have, you know, they have big signs that say compact discs. you will no longer find any of those. I will say, I recall as a kid that Fry's was a good place to find CDs. Really specifically, I remember Fry's carrying the most obscure Beck album, Stereopathetic Soul Manure. Wow.

An album that is not even on Spotify today that I think is a little hard to find. I was a was a huge beck fan and like here really like it's this it's like this album of oddities and like so they had like carried deep cut music at one point in time now it's mostly empty vinyl shelves again i'm glad i checked several several fries had a bunch of very expensive vinyls of uh mystical uh uh wait what's the song what's the ass song shake your ass watch yourself yeah yeah yeah uh uh a like 20 vinyl of an album that is so old that it has a guest appearance from snoop doggie dog as opposed to snoop dog well they are

their new because you know they they reprint these via was it yeah i assume it was a reprint why a matt who needs i don't understand getting music on vinyl from like 2000 because that was not the medium yeah i can see getting a nice vinyl of fleetwood Mac where it's like, that's the medium it was distributed in. But why would you want a vinyl of baby one more time? That was never the way it was released. Yes. It's a good point. Maybe though you want to hear baby one more time with the little needle at

the top and a little crackle. Maybe that actually makes it special. I don't know. It makes you feel like Britney. You can imagine the Britney Spears was like Billie Holiday. Yeah. Maybe it's sort of, that's the idea. I don't know i'm just it makes you feel like britney's you can imagine the britney spears was like billy holliday yeah maybe it's sort of that's the idea i don't know i'm just i'm just guessing not real music unless there's a crackle you got a little crackle and then the breaks you ever heard of this old i forget you know real americana singer and the name of britney spears now now now like that's better i think the old lady dropped it in the water at the end

that part on vinyl that does really sparkles oh yeah yeah you feel like you're listening to a 60s comedy album it's very new art it was funny before but now uh so yeah look it's a blast they're they're all a blast and i mean especially the one yeah if you're listening to this in the la area you got to go go to the burbank one go sit in the in the drive-in go go make sure the atomic business cafe doesn't go out of business i really love the canoga park one too uh but if if you guys are down i'd like like to go in reverse order of my favorites. Yeah, yeah. Well, counting down.

Like a Casey Kasem style. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Although I don't have the number ready to go. Now, actually, let me also say there's plenty that I haven't gotten to. As I said, Southern California I've covered. I haven't been to NorCal. I haven't been to Texas.

There's a few of them there. Oh, my God. There's so many. There's a ton. There's so many of them there. Oh, my God. There's so many. There's a ton. There's so many. I know some of the other themes. Phoenix, it's an Aztec temple. Tempe, Arizona.

It's golf. Everything looks like golf holes. Ancient Egypt, the Wild West, the Mayans. Milton, Georgia. The store is themed after the history of Milton, Georgia. There was a downers grove one which i never even i don't think we ever went to in illinois but that says regional history it was just about now that's where you go to watch out uh some of them i have that in the in

the the category of essentially themeless uh fisher indiana wilsonville i'm not sure what state that's in renton washington these are themeless and they are dead to me yeah if you do not care uh uh how dare you you should have tried like your brothers uh in austin texas or san marcos california uh um mike y'all so you were saying before i get into the specific ones you brought up this piece of history that they're what they essentially merged with another store yeah so there was a company called tandy who uh let me see here uh many internal corporate philosophies at disney theme parks were borrowed by this company what they which they basically to boil down all of this information they opened up a crazy

electronics are called incredible universe jason did you see any of this no incredible universe is and i'll show you the photo then uh it incredible universe was like a fries but maybe even more ambitious there were mcdonald's inside the incredible universe and let me show you jason you see that i don't have a big picture what time period are we talking here mid 90s yeah oh okay um there were two test stores that were very profitable uh and then they opened like 17 and it was just an insane flop okay it went down so fast and they sold the couple that were working two fries yes and one of the ones that i experienced uh in the san diego proper location i could tell used to be an incredible universe right i was versed in this stuff enough

and that one had uh let me remember let me find the photo oh yeah that one you walk in and there's this huge marquee that says the big show and a lot of real neon on it it's it's pretty jaw-dropping another one that says music theater and it's a neon sign that looks a lot like old like disney the neon armadillo right um so and this one mostly was unthemed and mostly sucked but getting the vibe of incredible universe it was it was exciting incredible universe also had daycare facilities for shoppers whoa huge showrooms for displaying and demonstrating products uh and the tandy company which i was talking about um eventually they bought radio shack oh. Oh, okay.

That's why the name Tandy kind of rings a bell to me. Tandy. And they, yeah, they have other holdings or had other holdings. I think Incredible Universe also had like karaoke booths. Yeah. You can record your own CD inside the store. Uh-huh. It's, their pictures are, the pictures honestly look very similar to like

a fudruckers too yeah me all those you were saying like a lot of neon flashy too many aesthetics yeah there's one i'm thinking of have you seen it there's like an illustration of everything you can do in it and it looks like where's waldo i don't think there's so much to do in the like again brady bunch and sears you could go spend five hours potentially at an incredible universe yes it's i admire the ambition yeah um but it is fun up clearly they don't have the staying power of the fries franchise oh here it is it's like a drawn map like a theme park yes yeah yeah are there any details on that that you can note because i small i think i don't

think i'm making up that you could do karaoke in this store it's a small picture let me see if i can find a bigger oh here it is uh uh yeah this is what i love the vibe of the picture right it looks like that looks like a theme but that looks like something advertising you know universal florida yeah okay it says how about some popcorn or juji fruits in our home theater room you'll feel like you're at the movies these rooms are filled with all the best audio and video technology so you can just sit down and experience the products uh there's an area here it says game never over dude and it's like arcade games yes uh don't you feel you would have like hung out here all day oh yeah yeah um auto oh they had a place where they

would install stereo stuff into your car damn sure best buy a lot of best buys have that still all right don't put it down well no i'm just kidding um we can make yeah scott's right karaoke booth or i guess butcher their favorite songs while starring in a music video by the way if some famous producer makes you a star we want our cut you see you and your mom could have reprised your crotch grabbing duet yeah i was right yeah they they didn't open one i don't think in illinois tandy chance oh ran computer city 2 which was later sold to comp usa kind of remember computer city for me it's just generic enough that they all used to sound like this everywhere used to be like these places yeah dandy had like incredible universe computer city uh the edge in electronics

mcduff electronic like all of these chains that are just like nothing to us. The people dedicated their lives to. The Edge. It's just dust to us. It lives to the Edge. There's a stage here in the drawing where two cheerleaders are dancing. What? And there's a big video screen behind and it says, where all the cool stuff happens.

This is where the giant screen display is and the occasional live performance and prize giveaway sometimes there's a clown running around making balloon animals no fuck off get out of here no who knows what else well i'm pretty sure somebody actually does very irreverent there's another there's another moment in the simpsons where in the episode where they go to the try and save to get a photo and uh they're they're all bart wants to get in and out of there because that's where he like stole the video game but all the simpsons have things they want to do and march says we're gonna have a great time like that's what these stores feel like we're gonna like yeah the family is gonna hang for when does this happen anywhere in the world now the family's just gonna hang at a store maybe like a new whole foods where you can like drink that's the only

yeah that might be the more modern equivalent i mean we used to go to uh there was a retail store called venture in the midwest i'm sure i've talked about on the show before i don't remember that did you have venture i don't think it was a west coast venture no venture though was where we went before target was around target didn't come in until i was maybe 10 or 11 i feel like we had jane's way in caldor like all these smaller scale what are those cal c-a-l-d-o-r caldor but we used to we would go my grandmother would come over she had a discount on wednesday's adventure we would go and like eat a grilled cheese sandwich at the tiny little cafe and venture and they would sell like they would have icies yep cheap

stale popcorn and they would make you a grilled cheese so we would like make a little day or night of it whatever i guess and yeah we remember eating grilled cheese and a venture it's where it's where you would go so your parents could run some get like some stuff and if you do enough if you get the kids walking around the store a bunch and you get them some snacks then they will be tired when they go they will like it is a place to wear out children's strategy. Yeah. And every time you'd go to venture, there was a chance if I cried hard enough,

I could get a toy because venture had toys. And I don't think I threw a fit every time, but I did once in a while, but I found some of the best Ninja turtles in event in venture. Then one of the greatest moments of my life is finding April O'Neill figure. I must've been five years old, five or six years old. adventure that one of the greatest moments of my life is finding april o'neill figure i must have been five years old five or six years old she was the hardest one to find they don't make as many female characters at least they didn't they probably have changed it a little bit impossible

to find i remember i'm walking down the aisle towards the the checkout and i'd already checked the ninja turtle aisle and i looked and i saw a face down ninja turtle toy and i had a feeling i could feel it in my stomach i could feel it and i turned it over and it was april and i was so thrilled like venture from that point on i think was extra magical so there's always been part of the retail tradition in america i didn't i didn't realize fries was going to open up this bigger thing of how much i liked hanging out in stores not any some i have dreadful memories of like where we got to go to mervin's mervin's some of them are so boring yeah and it didn't help when they named it mervin's

california that didn't do anything to change the vibe you put a cool font on it doesn't fool me mervin's california is still boring old mervin's but the right store where you could make a day of it i miss this a lot there's almost nowhere but yeah the warrant that like the dark wood and the cafe smells of a board like even the first few years i lived out here if i was i would go to borders like buta fincher their venture black and white like zebra like diagonal zebra stripes because the virgin megastore oh yeah the virgin megastore is worth taking time out of your disney world what a treat incredible i bought listening stations wait i missed lit why don't why aren't there listening stations now why aren't there rows of

35 oddly nice headphones fries has headphone testing stations because i did do that oh i bought some nice headphones a couple years ago and i did i don't think i actually learned anything from the ones i tried at fries but they did have them there they had them they're carrying out they're carrying some of that let me say something else that fries has and i've never seen this in person and i can't imagine when this ever occurs. But in theory, on the right day, and if there is an event going on, you could say hello to your old friend, Charlie Chip. We know him. Charlie Chip.

The mascot who is outside of all the fries. He's on the signage. He is a big, yellow, rectangular creature. And noage he is a big yellow rectangular uh creature and no he is not spongebob square pants he's not a sponge he is a computer chip obviously and well the store is themed also his costumes are themed i found the website what the place that made the the the suit so here he's a cowboy here he's like the creature from the black lagoon uh he's an old prospector is my favorite one he's he's the mad hatter from my own town he's a rocker with a big triangle guitar. He's in a train. He's in a little conductor's uniform.

Charlie Choo Choo. He's an Aztec guy. Yeah. I love Charlie Chip. And he's a golfer, an astronaut. He's had so many jobs. Charlie Chip rules. And Jason, if you weren't already endeared to him, when I Googled image Charlie Chip,

look, save the date for a hot dog and a pepsi for 50 cents 50 cents that's costco prices wow from charlie chip to you as he doffs his top hat and his fancy uniform i love charlie chip there there appears to be plush too what there appears to be a charlie chip plush i can't find it on ebay i don't know if they saw sold in stores at one point but it does exist there's gonna be a lot of viewer homework or you know so to our facebook or twitter if you've ever met charlie chip please if you have a plush just send us a photo look at charlie chips plush not to be confused with charles chips the chips that come in a tin can no that's totally my grandmother

did have charles chips was my father charlie charlie not mr chips and not uh charles entertainment cheese no this planet is a lot who also wears like a hat and a suit um so that's all the the big picture stuff i think maybe now i could kind of store by store it and i don't have a lot except for my the final one my my favorite one uh um also if you're in the la area you may have been to the manhattan beach location uh that one's nice it's kind of it's like sort of like island hawaii themed and this one is nice because it has a little like outdoor patio in the center of the store with a little lake with koi and turtles in it um there's several fries where that have creatures that live in the fries they get to spend their entire life

in the fries lucky lucky animals yeah um there's it's a great place to live it's covered in dirty hoses and pond skimmers um there's like a really dusty bench that doesn't seem made for anyone to sit in and if you did it would shatter immediately when you're in this little like uh island zone you can see through the window behind shelves and just see all the shit that's fallen back there see like how you know like old missed cds that no one's removed since it fell in 98 uh um that this was the fries where i noticed that um some at least this fries uh sells pepper spray um out of an aisle where they dub the larger category

heat guns. Can you buy a taser at a Fry's? I think maybe. Maybe? You'd have to call that a heat gun. So, cops, you know where to go. I bet Charlie Chip

has worn a cop uniform at some point in time. Can you get a 3D printer that could print a plastic gun? I don't think so because I think 3d printers are too new for friends yeah so thank god they aren't participating in this wave of 3d printer violence right it affects us all right that's good um i uh i was going going up the list um fountain valley which is in orange, off the 405. This one's themed after ancient Rome. So there's all kinds of marble statues in it.

Beautiful statue work and those amazing murals. It's all very well done. Too much hubris for that one. Too much metaphor. The ancient Rome. Is there a neurofiddling? That one is doomed to fall doomed to fall um now this is the fries where i discovered that there is another is an item that we haven't

talked about that they sell and that is bizarre fragrances they there are huge aisles where you could just wander forever and look item by item at bizarre made in China and seemingly named in China fragrances. Allow me to read some of the names that I've seen over the years. Four Lady Classic. Hello Pretty. Gold Number One. Okay So Cool. Most of that is in lowercase okay so cool super army for man man cool best best orange bravery for man what popular sport What? Popular sport. And that one did, I recall, have a little football player silhouette on it. Popular sport.

Popular sport. If you're a football player looking for a fragrance to cover up your sweat, try popular sport. Black intense. Low extreme. This one in all caps says bros and then in smaller font inspired by hugo boss inspired by is it even it's not a hugo boss product no it's

inspired by inspired by how do you spell was it b rr-o-s-s-b-r-o-s-s that's so unpleasant to hear bros it's bros that's like we like so could you sell rc cola and it says inspired by pepsi yeah like that's allowed i guess you could in the ripoff game well it's like when you see you see a generic product in like a target or something and in real fine print it says like check the check the ingredients yeah active ingredients similar to advil or whatever oh it's like the generic yeah from cvs or whatever but they don't say inspired like when you go to see the generic like safeway cereal and it's like magic gems and then it doesn't say inspired by lucky charms shorms lucky charms yeah that's better equivalent obviously for this the blessed shorms blessed shorms leprechaun leprechauns bounty

frost i mean we could do this for all the cereals flakes flokes they're okay cheerios are like churros churro chummyos

like chums two friends fruit loops fruits fruits yeah that's easy fruits is easy count chocula chonk chonk chonk is good uh yummy mommy yum yummy mommy's a real one really yeah yeah yeah yummy mommy i was just laughing it's a funny name i think it does just honestly make me laugh yummy mommy what flavor is yummy mommy the same as the other

monster cereals essentially except for count chocula but not like and then we got boo berry too boo berry uh there's fruit brute as well yummy mommy and fruit brute are the lesser known of the monsters which is the Frankenstein that's Frankenberry the Trinity is Frankenberry Count Chocula, Booberry but then the lesser known are yummy mummy and fruit brood

and of course the crunch back of Notre Dame that's very good here I'm almost done 777 VIP men which for some reason says under it, you are exalted. What? These are so bizarre. This is like a weird nightmare. And then one that is a perfect clone, either for if you are this person or if you're looking

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game busters something like that yeah it's i think it's a game works yeah um you pass by if you're driving to vegas from uh from california you do see it right before you get to the strip um i'm sure i've seen it i've all i always wanted to do it every time again this podcast opened up now i can go it's justified we went and had a great time uh it was bizarre to have to explain to aaron's parents who we were with like wait what are you doing they were in the car they didn't know they didn't go with it but they just asked like so what are you guys up to today um well you see um these electronic stores are so bad that they are funny you you see. Oh, you know what?

Something I forgot to say is that I've always found it a little confusing the way the logo is where it says Fry's huge and electronics really small. And I think it's like above. It is above. So I, for maybe over a decade, called this place electronic fries. I had it reversed. And I mean, that works just as well but i true i think i said out loud a lot of times without being corrected yeah can we go to electronic fries um so the

vegas one the inside there's not a lot to to talk about except for the potpourri in the projection booth uh but the outside's really nice it's a big slot machine uh the the barricades that stop a truck from driving into the store uh are big stacks of quarters that's a lot of fun and then inside it's just like photos of vegas history like evil kenevil jumping over the mountain and uh you know good good way to like have some fun off the strip you don't feel like firing guns or the other stuff that people do during the day in vegas the liberace i mean i'd like to i go to michael jackson's house bizarre house as he clarified a man takes you to a man has champagne in his limo and takes you to michael jackson's house get in i i honestly am contemplating a quick jaunt to go see uh aerosmith in two weeks in vegas

you wait now you saw the grammys did you not that's not their fault that was an audio mix problem what do you mean that was a mix problem i believe not a problem with the greatest rock and roll band of all time what is your one episode you're telling me that his skin looks perfect the next you're telling me the Grammy's performance wasn't their fault. What is the Zerosmith defense? I don't think that the performance was their fault. I think they couldn't hear. Were they on the rotating Lil Nas X stage that I just missed?

That was a room. They forgot to go to that room. They're banging on the door. Come see us. Mason Ramsey, the yodeling kid, locked us in here. The Aerosmith also going to see Aerosmith is also if I can figure out a way to get free tickets.

Well, listeners. Well, I'm not. There's a few things I'm exploring. Oh, I see. Yeah. I'm writing a letter to Steven Tyler. Handwritten. I got his address. I like how this is stationary. Yeah. It's just real letter based now.

Claiming that you're his son. It's another Liv Tyler situation. Yeah. He just have to pay up. He doesn't even want to go through it. Two tickets will shut me up, sir. You don't even have to meet me after. Yeah.

Though I'd let you. Yeah. If you would drape a scarf from your mic stand on to me during the performance. Like it to bless me. It'll ravel you up. Yeah. Though I'd let you. Yeah. You can, if you would drape a scarf from your mic stand on to me during the performance, like it to bless me. Ravel you up. Yeah. My next favorite one is the city of industry. The theme is industry.

Yes. Yes. There's big gears. There's huge bolts on the outside. Wonderful. And then inside there's like big 1800s tech. It kind of looks like the journey to the center of the Earth ride. It's very exciting.

Gears and steampunk. Yeah, yeah. If you're a steampunk and you want to do some cool photos, go check out the prize and check out the city of industry in general. This was one that had a great toy selection. Toys that no child would ever want uh one that i saw was from a brand of toy called yellies and the the specific i don't know what yellies means i guess they make a sound if you touch them but the and i don't remember this i just took a photo that the specific yelly i was looking at was named toofy spooter so if you want if you want to if you want to give your child a toofy

spooter and then have him like wait to see if then you're just playing a prank and you're gonna give him the real toy i i've looked up yellies fluffer puff is one p uh yellies peaks is one i believe yellies klutzers yellies klutzers toofy spooder bo dangles is one mr bo dangles mr bo dangles uh here's toofy spooder i see toofy spooder right here oh well only one left didn stock. Order now. There's one child who's been brainwashed into thinking like Kyle's movie, Brigsby Bear. He thinks there's only one piece of entertainment and it's

Yellies and Toofy Spooter. The only character. Parents are listening to this going like you idiots! Yellies were like the Tickle Me Elmo of last year, you morons! People are so mad for not knowing Yellies were like the Tickle Me Elmo of last year, you morons! People are so mad at us for not knowing Yellies. I barely survived

the two-feet-spooter phenomenon of 2017. Did we mention the... In Uncut Gems, there's a two-feet-spooter that's diamond-encrusted. I got a two-feet-spooter! It blinks! I originated the shit. Houston, Texas's entryway

is oil derricks cool there will be blood ass entryway oh man Ray Truss Perot visited

he'd be so happy the Austin Texas one is a huge piano it's for attributing the music scene there

um really a lot of not all the entrances are great and sometimes there's a theme that's great beyond then we forgot to say about the burbank one ufo crashing out of it yes this belongs in

city walk yeah it's total city walk style yeah um they also had a toy in city of industry called pooperooze these are toys that poop prizes there's another little toy inside if you squeeze. Hold on, let me look it up. Pooperoo's. Pooperoo's. I just found something called Fur Real. Fur Real Friends Ricky, the trick-loving interactive plush pet toy. Trick-loving. Sorry, what am I looking at?

Pooperoo's. Pooperoo's. P-O-O-P. It's not Toofy Spoodler. Pooperoo's is not Toofy Spoodler is not too many spoodler is not a pooperoo pooperooze squishy surprise pooping pet and toy toilet styles may vary toilet yeah you can get a toilet with this character look at she's coming out in the toilet jason look she lives in the toilet wow and just to be mattel makes pooperooze whoa oh look at this this is a glammed up toilet this is a pink sparkly toilet yeah we

got sparkles all over that thing my jay leno is my is your sandler yeah yeah squishy surprise pooping pet and toy toilet assortment i want to clarify that again on these shelves that there were as many toofie spooters and as many pooperoo's as there were will smith genies exactly the same amount of stock oh there's also a toy called lock stars that is a toy where it's like locks that are that have faces what if your favorite locks came like stars oh my god no all right lock stars lock stars we gotta get all of these guys not rock stars lock stars which is good i'm gonna dunk all these in some ceo love like gentlemen today or mr yes big time number one big time number one makes

great time midnight man download the collector's list for lock stars from the hasbro website so these are all like the lock stars have names that's what i'm looking for oh yeah please we gotta know oh this is in a different language. They're just locks. List of... There's definitely some angry bird tie-ins. Teach your kid to love locks. Yeah. That's a thing they need. Locks and toilets.

Lock stars. I can't find their names. Now I look forward to going to the bathroom because I think I'm giving a gift to my favorite pooperoo. Pooperoo. It says also pooperoo. Pooperoo. It says also pooperoo surprise-a-roos, which are blind figures. So you don't know what pooperoo you're buying

and what toilet they come with. The toilets are different. This is a gold toilet. Oh, and you scoop out their shit. Okay, so here's what happens. Sir, what is a pooperoo? A pooperoo lives in the toilet and shits? A pooperoo lives...

Okay, so this is like a bunny pooperoo with a little pink wig on. And then once you take the bunny out, you take a little scooper and you clean up the bunny shit from the gold toilet. A gold toilet? So like a Liberace toilet. I guess he would have that Or he would have the pink sparkly toilet So the pooper is also poop Yes

They are They live in a toilet And probably eat poop But then poop out the poop as poop But one of those is a toilet with a face This is Yes Is a toilet a pooperoo

Or is that just the housing of a pooperoo I think it's the housing of a pooperoo But the toilet is sentient And likes getting pooped in Nom nom nom So housing of a pooperoo? I think it's the housing of a pooperoo, but the toilet is sentient and likes getting pooped in. Nom nom nom. So this is pooperoo's... Like our droid invention, P-O-O-P. Yes, like the droid, the bathroom droid

that we had Mace Windu take a shit in. He says delicious. He thinks you messed a windu. Family of whimsically cute, squishy, pooping pets. This Pooparoos multi-pack comes with two original Pooparoos figures, a sheep and a dog, and one surprise baby Pooparoos figure.

There are two possible baby figures for each set. Unbox your Pooparoos family pack to see which baby Pooparoos pet will be yours. Includes a mini toilet that hides two magical dissolving paper packages with your pooparoos pet baby themed foods inside feed your pooparoo pets then squeeze to help them go oh my god so they eat food they shit in a special toilet that is sentient that can talk and winks at you and then you clean up the toilet so the toilet is not actually hooked up to plumbing you're the one who scoops it out as if it was cat litter oh yeah oh great so if you don't like

that toilets make their own poop go away with water and you wish you could fish out of toilets okay here's a storage case for your pooper roos in a briefcase all right yes well I've been working very hard on the presentation and I think you're going to invest a lot in our company if I could just oh no I took the pooper roo briefcase my

goddamn son screwed me again I left it in the right I left it in a cab. My toilet briefcase in a cab. Moving on. I'm sorry. I should have made this a drug deal where there's $3 million in a briefcase,

but he took the pooper-oos. Yeah, that's... All right, Hasbro quarterly earnings call. Moving on from the Star Wars unit, heading into the pooper-oo unit. We're seeing record sales i this is i do like this a lot get some pooperoo so i may have to start getting some pooperoo i cannot find the names of the lock stars but i don't know how would you name a lock star the i'm kenneth key

i'm kenneth keyhole there's like there's no themes when you're dealing with yeah uh no facets i'm a connie combination lock star name metal mickey metal is pretty good um this elsewhere besides toys this particular fries had a price tag printing machine that was just printing into oblivion with the tag it's just a big ribbon of tag piling up i feel like maybe now it just has engulfed the entire store like no one stops it and if you open the door you would just get flooded by one single giant price tag ribbon um and maybe most notably in the cool vinyl section, uh, this fries had a vinyl of the essential R Kelly. Oh my, I checked the date.

This was the month after surviving R Kelly aired and they were featuring it huge by your R Kelly guys. Slow it up before it's illegal to do this. Yeah. Um, incredible. R Kelly right next to two feet, Spooters and Pooperoo's. This is the place.

So that's my number three. I'm down to two more. Atlantis is the theme of my second favorite, which is in San Marcos, California. And I credit a listener to the show. And forgive me, I don't recall your name offhand if you're listening now uh but somebody after our christmas show was like uh do you i mean i know you guys want to talk about fries you have to go check out the say this one it's like near carlsbad themed after atlantis and in fact it inspired a trip

there and i took like we ended up going to Coronado Island with partially thinking, oh, and then we can go see the remaining fries for this episode. Oh, my God. This one. Yeah. Oh, yes. This is a lot of information to get, isn't it? This one, as I said, the rule of thumb is, is there anything good in the entrance area? When you walk into this store there are two

soldiers there are soldiers in the war for atlantis they are like standing in tubes they're they're being preserved like by amniotic fluid so that they can fight protect atlantis one day they look like stormtroopers mixed with like uh sea diver helmets like gold like you know 20 000 leagues into the sea helmets and they have armor that is made of turtle shells and scorpions like this is like atlantis world building they thought like what would an atlantis soldier uniform look like well they protect themselves with big turtle shells that's awesome that's legitimately that is great yeah then above you you look and there's a huge chariot made out of shells made out of like a big cone shell

it looks like something king triton would be in again this one incredible art design it's so great the chandeliers are made of shells there's a language that they made up like the indiana jones adventure wow really yeah i think so if you like you where you can kind of read the english if you look close but if they had decoders like that right um a language in a store um there's uh giant aquariums all over the thing and they say like the fries fish thank you for not tapping on the wall uh there's like a there's so many fish that live in this one this one has a little cafe with an aquarium window outside and there are eels in it there's eels that live right outside i took a video where i just panned from an eel

over to a pepsi machine that no one's taken a pepsi from in four months wow uh but that's a cafe that's a cafe there's a cafe in that one okay which i don't think is named anything fun uh even though it's atlantis but like truly the set design in this one this one has like i forgive me i don't know the technical term but you know like uh the old electricity conductor where it's kind of rabbit ears and then like like single bolts are shooting up and out of it there's a couple of those that are huge and plaques that tell you the history of those. Some of this fries genuinely looks like a lower budget Tokyo Disney Sea.

That is how it feels. Yeah. I can't even, we need to know who made these. Like it's, you have to, we have to figure that out. Yeah.

Yeah. Because they tried, they really tried. They had to like, Atlantis doesn't write itself. We don't really, there's no firm movie that is the Atlantis movie and they figured it out. I would want to watch the movie that is like this store.

I'm going to text Doug Barnes and see if he knows. Good idea. Yes. Theme park insiders. Yeah. He might. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a very good call. Also this one, you can buy a flash drive that looks like a minion. Oh yeah. That's nice.

That's fun and helpful. Was it a listener BD who told you about fries, who gave us the record albums after Christmas? Yes. Yes. Who gave us presents. Yes. Yes.

Okay. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. If you're listening, thank you for inspiring a fun trip. And and yeah this was what you were totally right it's

totally worth making the trip for yeah uh this is great this is what this one's wonderful i went looking for pictures of this fries and found a message board for people into something called mermaiding and that appears to be living their lives or being mermaid enthusiasts and uh well this will keep me up but they seem very excited to find out about the Atlantis fries you Jesus

oh no it's like a place where they can go live don't judge I think they're just gonna go hang I mean I guess if I can support steampunks taking photos of the industry It's like a place where they can go live. Don't judge. Don't judge. I think they're just going to go hang. I mean, I guess if I can support steampunks taking photos at the industry one, then I should be happy for the mermaids. And if we're going to support the pooperoo's and all these other alternative lifestyles. There's a ton of, there's room for specific fetishists within the fries community.

I assume, yeah, there's humans that are like kind of pooperoo's. Like they're living like furry versions of pooperoo's where they poop in a toilet with a face and then scoop it out and don't send it to the sewer system. I'm not a person. I'm a little pooperoo.

To play in the toilet all day. Oh, man. We need to dress up as pooperus uh if fries was really smart they would start catering to that market and selling gigantic toilets that people could live in and pretend to be pooper yeah and yes and of course make them gold each giant gold pink sparkles gold thousand dollars the placement of the big aquarium in the atlantis fries makes it seem like that is the brain trust like this collection of coral and fish and eels are like this is we must protect we must protect the brain trust the council it's like the citadel yes that's where the justice

league lives yeah yes and so you'd cut to board meetings there with like a Neptune guy and then a huge turtle who speaks and they're good. They're going after the core. The coral wall won't be strong enough. They'll chip away at it. Just throw out the HD DVD players. Blu-ray won that battle years ago. We never know.

It could come back around. It's not going to come back around. It's not like a laser disc or cassettes. There's no enthusiasts. Silence. And then a Triton guy like whips a big line of seaweed. Watch. I will not have this insolence here in the presentation room um so that brings us to my absolute favorite one

and counting down all the way to number one and we're finally here the number one of the themed fries countdown uh and they really had to bring it in the backyard of disneyland anaheim california the pressure was on and they did not disappoint the anaheim fries uh it's not going to sound like the greatest thing once i i say it but it is like a nasa space station um and it's you know it's just it's just very well done there's big satellites it has cafe canaveral where of course you could buy rock music themed smoothies there's like little toy uh space shuttles that are going along tracks that just like go back and forth and you can watch those for a while uh the theater is inside a huge space shuttle they have apple think different posters still classic um uh this is the one where he opened a refrigerator and a jake paul

calendar was inside um so i mean none of that sounds that great in and of itself but here is why it's my favorite fries there is a sign and the sign says launch your own space shuttle what are you talking about what does that mean then you look under the sign and there is like a giant half space command i don't know spaceships well enough to describe but it's almost like just the capsule part that the apollo 13 astronauts have to land in is the big triangular thing it's like one of those sliced down the middle and there's a little set of stairs and you can walk inside of it and it's a full console unit with like computers and buttons that you can push and you're and i think it's a photo of neil armstrong and you go in there and like wow this is cool and then a little video starts and the video is so it's just like kind of some

like space doodads uh uh you know a little like asteroid shapes whizzing by and then a man appears in in a little frame and he's in an orange astronaut jumpsuit. And he's very flat and pleasant, just like the most, like, you know, kind of by-the-numbers guy. And he says, welcome to Mission Control. We need you on our team. Your role as our new flight director means that you are directly in command of today's space shuttle launch. Our launch sequence has begun. So prepare to press that red button directly in front of you. You turn and look,

there is a red button and it starts flashing. Press the red button. And we're like, what, what does this do? And then we look around the bigger store and the same video is playing on a huge screen projected like over by the checkout aisle. Uh,

uh, and now pressure is on. What do you mean? I have to launch the space shuttle myself you like you're not sure when to press it and then finally it starts telling you oh okay you press the red button and then you turn and you look and that you see a video of a space a spaceship launching from a top of the anaheim fries specifically it is the one that that you are in and you recognize it and then beautiful apollo 13 music plays wow it's all very stirring it's there's a space launch and you did

it you did it yourself it's very similar to blue 32's alien spacecraft taking off yes from the yeah composited into the mgm grand yeah where you are uh it's all so wonderful it's like an interactive experience uh they need you let me play you a little bit of this video just to get a sense of the guy and just kind of the vibe of the graphics it's small where you guys are but take a look. Welcome to Mission Control. We need you on our team. Your role as our new flight director means that you are directly in charge. So I don't know who this guy is. I don't know if he works in the store or something, but it's what this guy got to do, essentially, is my dream. This is a pre-ride video that plays in a really specific location all day,

constantly on a loop. And it can only be seen at the Anaheim fries. It's, it feels so much like the Warbird and Soren intro or something. Um, and I just love that this is there. It's exactly my dream. Like you go into some boring store and there's a video that plays that is

only there. Uh, and the only thing I don and there's a video that plays that is only there. And the only thing I don't like about it is that I'm not in it. I am so jealous of this. I want to be the guy directing you to press the red button. It would make me so happy. There's no reason it should be me. Why would it be me? I'm not really an actor.

I didn't know the people making this at the time. I don't know when it was made. I don't know if it was made 15 years ago or two years ago. But I really want to be in this video. Yeah. So here's what I did. You put yourself in the video. I put myself in the video.

Now allow me to explain what exactly I mean by that and i'll pull out the second screen so that you guys can see uh what i'm about to show you fries does seem like a place that would still have a lot of ads about the second screen experience a thing the media was trying to really catch on eight or ten years ago that did not stick it's happening with with this because we now you the listener are gonna have to go to our twitter so that you can uh see a clip of this so what i'm gonna show you guys the clip that i just showed you of that fellow uh i have recreated to a t oh my god welcome to mission control i'll let it play for a minute

wow good luck and have a good flight uh so i rented a space suit to do this wow i i it happened to be once i got it and put it on by just a sheer coincidence the exact same space suit that he was wearing really i don't know if it was rented from the same costume place wow it's just a standard issue space suit costume but it was exactly it uh and i uh filmed this by myself in front of green fabric in my apartment how long wow how long all of it to to take to put together uh i'm not sure i've been i've been shipping away at it uh slowly i filmed it a really long time ago. Wow. I've tried to prioritize, you know, like actual work. That would have generated a massive amount of income, hopefully.

Or some income. I've tried to do things that, yeah, have not been like at a financial or time loss to me. So it took me, but a month or so ago, I picked it up and I recreated. So we'll post a side by side but this is exactly the i recreate like i'm about to motion graphics too i recreated the frame and i tried to recreate the delivery i didn't like put a bunch of stank on it i even tried takes where i was a little more we need you and blah and then i realized no no i gotta be like that guy yeah i have to do exactly what he did that's the charm of it yeah yes he's not

showy he's not putting on some like sweaty performance and that that's what i tried to do uh as well um so where does that leave us now uh i what i now have to go do yes i'm sure i'm gonna i'm thinking the same thing but yes continue i have this produced and i i have, I didn't show you this, but I have all of the components up through the Space Launch part as well. The opening logo with the Charlie chip. I've been spending my time very wisely. Wow. This is a second gate episode too.

It's behind the paywall. The reason to do all of this is none. It's just for my, you know i get it it's from i feel like i have an opening here disney's not gonna put me in something universal's not gonna but i don't think even a bush gardens is gonna put me in a video right this feels like my chance to give people instructions in a specific place to do a specific thing uh and be seen on a loop uh all day every day um but first i have to do one thing. I have to go talk to someone at the Anaheim Fries

and get them to play this. Yes. Now, I don't know who that person is. The website lists, you know, an official general manager you can call. I'm just going to go and suss it out and see who I can talk to. I'm trying to think here. Is there any scenario where the manager doesn't start hitting the panic button like i used to like in a casino or a bank well you know it's

really i mean what so let's let's here let's play this out okay i i go in and you know maybe important context uh is that uh i i've thought through like why would they just for no reason take out the video that they already have and potentially i don't know who that guy is in the original one right could be an employee could be like the ceo of fries i don't know so the stakes could be yeah i don't know uh i think it is an actual fry family so that guy could be a fry right in which case i don't think i have any chance of overturning right no right but if he's some if he's like a manager who perhaps even left in a huff and was like a problem then maybe they've been looking to get rid of him i don't know i truly have no information what is your approach are you going to send a letter first are you

going to go in person are you going to wear a suit a shirt or just a shirt and tie i think well i think i'm gonna call i i need to come up with a reason like what is the shorthand for why i need to speak to the general manager i don't know that offhand i'll figure that out i'll just say like maybe i can say like i'm a vendor and i'm interested and no i shouldn't say i'm trying to sell a product i don't really know that that that initial approach i'm not totally sure but why does the store need to change out this video yeah put me in it i'll tell you why okay the old version was not 4k hd which the new video is i finally and people have been begging for it. I've finally taken the Anaheim launch sequence and rendered it in the best format we have, 4K. And this is an electronics store. They need to be cutting edge, right?

They need this thing to be in 4K. Is the TV monitor they're using 4K capable? Probably not, no. It's like it's a projector and then it's like a little tiny screen inside of a space okay but i still think it's gonna look sharper it's gonna look nicer um so i just out of because i'm a local and i'm a fan of the store just on spec i wanted to recreate this presentation in 4k and because the original actor wasn't available to me i decided to step in for myself i recast the part i think that you should uh say all of that all the things you just said

all that information uh you should run into the fries yelling where is the manager with the computer open and just start yelling that at the manager and playing off of your computer. I could add that I have a heat gun that I purchased at a Fry's. I would not yell I have a gun of any kind. I would ease off the urgency. But I didn't have the original actor, so I put myself in the footage. Take a look at the footage. Let's

do this now. Let's go change out the footage. All right, let's talk followers. Here's the number of followers you have on the internet. Here's the number I have. I can boost your followers. Yeah, that's right. How many followers does Fries have on Twitter? Let's look that up. I thought we were competing, even.

I read that Fries, it took them a while to get into the online game. Yeah. Their website has been weak. Yeah, it's real bad. Yes. So I don't even know. I don't see. They don't have like a fun snarky.

35.6K followers. Damn it. But we got six that. But they haven't posted since Black Friday. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Well, look, when we post this, they're going to see Twitter activity like they haven't seen. And they're going to be shocked at the numbers.

Just like when we gave Eisner the podcast, The Ride Bump. Yes. One of his most active tweets was our video. Right. And this video could do the same thing for Fries. And we got acknowledged on the other one. And I think we could get acknowledged here. I think you're right.

Oh, some controversy in the replies. Uh-oh. At Fries? Yeah. Oh, no. Bernie bros. Fries bros. Well, at Gravis Lizard lizard says in case you missed it we now know why fries electronics is a ghost town

they're trying to convert to a consignment model because they can't or won't pay for merchandise apparently this is what best buy on walmart do and fries vendors haven't bit yet. And Fry's replied, Hi, Gravis. We are adding vendors every week and stock along with it. We appreciate any patience and support during this transition. So, you know, I don't know what Axe, this Gravis, has to grind. I don't know what his deal is, but... They did respond. He was a little negative and he got their attention, but that was mid December.

And it's been radio silence ever since, even in the replies, it's time to liven up the Twitter. It's time to give their social media something to do. Yes. And I don't want to do, I don't want to do some approach. That's angry.

I don't want people demanding that I be in the thing. What I'm going to do, I'm going to post this. And if, if, if you're listening to this and you want to watch my video and just comment something nice, like,

wow, cool vid boy, people would flip out if they saw this. Yeah. Excellent work. Astronaut, sir. Yeah.

Just say, just say something nice in that, like it, you enjoyed it and I seem cool. Yeah. And then they'll see so much positive reaction and i'll i'll have like a kit you know like like when a uh how it's always a good idea to cast somebody who's big on social media in a movie yeah yeah because that's kind of what i'd be getting here it makes the

movie better it always does and all of the followers all if you put a vine star in your movie every all the followers are going to go see the movie yeah for sure and that's what i think could happen i think i could even propose that you know i'm i'm actually a host of a of a podcast and we've got a pretty big following and i think i could promise and it's people who are often in anaheim going to disneyland right and i think i could promise that if we did you know say you did some kind of events to uh now you know officially unveil the new video we could get probably a lot of our listeners to come and spend some money in the store to get some to get a peachy paul and mango at cafe canaveral broken usb fan yeah catering's taken care of or you know get a, buy a cologne called like the number one city gentleman.

Mr. Justice. Or a poopable. What is it called? The poopadillies. No. Pooparoos. Pooparoos. I said poopables.

But what was the first one? The yellies. The yellies. The yellies are not pooparoos. There's probably a cologne called like poo opposite. If you want to smell like the opposite of poo. Good poo. So go buy some poo perus, buy some poo opposite.

I think if there was going to, this is a great chance for them to do an event, to drum up interest in the store. I know the podcast ride fans are loyal and positive and you're going to come see your old pal Scott make his debut on the big screen you'll come out right i can't wait to see you there i think they will and then we all when this happens all of us together what will we be doing we'll be having fun in a store together yeah just like it's incredible universe and it's 1996 and we're having fun we're having a real experience in person we're living our fries

story right wow there will be zero clowns though no clowns unfortunately yeah yeah unless i pay out of pocket for that uh and there are one of you guys wants to dress up i'll dress up oh all right you know jason will do it too all right carlson the clown i mean we could also invite an old friend named choco but no wait a minute okay cancel the clowns no clowns i'll say this if the fries doesn't want to play ball uh i say uh fuck them and we'll find a store that will play this video we'll play the space so they don't have to be space themed yeah it doesn't matter yeah we'll find like a tj max with like a break room tv and that'll be enough i think we'll get everyone out to the tj max broken tv feel like no i meant break room tv okay like a thing in the back that they wheel around and

they haven't upgraded that in 25 years yeah that's fine or play it on the you know the little tv at a checkout counter uh at supermarket. I don't care. Gas station radio network. That's always been a dream. Gas station radio. Oh, man. Yeah. Why have we all just settled into that it's only Seth Meyers clips? Right.

We could be providing quality content for gas station TVs all the time. So, do you guys think I have a shot? It's a good question i i think that if you could get to someone in fry in the fries company that is interested on a creative level if it's just the general manager i'm a bit skeptical that they're going to even know how to do what you're proposing i don't know that they can even access the machine. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's a concern I have. You have to go up to a higher level in the Fry's company. Yeah.

Because I would imagine this stuff breaks down once in a while. I mean, oftentimes it seems like they don't fix it. So maybe they don't have a handy man to repair things. Probably one guy who works all the Fry's. Yeah, one guy who works all the Fry's. But if you can get some, I think maybe you shoot for a higher level you shoot for a fries pr even yeah and you see if you can get in that way it's because because yes going up to the general manager who just wants to go home might be tough on a deal like somebody who buys uh television shows for networks all they want to do is not do any work

yes so they're gonna pass immediately uh and it's exactly the same all they want to do is not do any work yes so they're gonna pass immediately uh and it's exactly the same thing they want to be lazy they just want to like check who's working on sunday yeah that could be trouble so maybe yeah maybe try to go up the corporate ladder a little bit and don't feel look i think you know uh you don't have to be humble about this podcast uh exaggerate yeahate how many people listen. Now's the time. Yeah, we've said numbers that are like, you can stretch things to where the number million is used.

Oh, yeah. We've had a million downloads in 2019. Over. Wow. Yeah. That's true. You know, a million downloads in 2019. So we could be looking at,

we get a million new shoppers for this price. That's right. Hey, you guys know that uh wired magazine you sell um guess who's been in it okay we've been in this this podcast has been featured in your own we've been in your store our own magazine right under your own noses we've been here hope to someday sell vinyls our music career is on the rise you still have that gq issue from two years ago where we are in a list could we just go to the owner of a fries and like have a little usb drive and say like we're selling our podcast in fries now well if they're a consignment model i leave consignment you just put it on the shelf and no one makes money until it sells right so that's what i'm saying so we could put like 10 up at 10 we'll put like the first year I leave consignment You just put it on the shelf And no one makes money Until it sells Right

So that's what I'm saying So we could put like Ten We'll put like The first year of Podcast the Ride On little drives That's a great idea

With our logo Yeah Oh wow This is an angle No podcast is thinking of Yes Selling in stores It's like

Country music Still sells CDs You gotta go to the right Stores And sell the physical media. Wow. Podcast the Ride season four. Right.

Yeah. Wow. You'll buy the seasons on a little flash drive. This is where the, like, which one's on? Oh, yeah. Hershey Park with Susser. This is a classic season. Mm-hmm.

I got to buy this one. We could do commentary on the episodes. Sure. We could do special features. Mm-hmm. Interactive menus. Interactive menus. Interactive menus. Second screen experience.

It's going to be a real second screen experience. The making of Scott's Anaheim launch video. Yes. Yes. Unused takes. Outtakes. Moments where I was just cracking myself up. Production notes.

Handwritten notes. Read all of our i miss that from dvds read everyone's just credits oh yeah jason sheridan the circle uh this is great well okay so this is maybe even a bigger we this is a saga

and this is we i think we can collectively have a bigger this could be the start of having a bigger presence by guys or it could be the the primary podcast of prize electronics yeah if it doesn't close tomorrow if they aren't entire the anion store might be closed by the time this comes out we might want to put this out soon i also yeah maybe we should probably rush it the i also the last time i went to the store you know in order to film the exterior shot so i could do my new comp of the uh my 4k comp of the shuttle taking off uh i the last time i went to

the fries they were not playing this video so i could be up against the issue of they don't do it anymore yeah that's yes and again i'm really worried about who this guy is who was in it to begin with right is he the heir to the prize fortune you would take it just being played once and then back to the regular absolutely oh my god if we could say a time and all of my friends and family and listeners are going to come and watch the pride that i would feel pilgrimage yeah to the fries anaheim right next to disneyland then when everybody goes there after right the best day we ever had and then we recreate a video a disney ride video and see if

we can sneak it on something sure yeah well that's that's step two yeah if we can get this one working um we've met a few ride operators i wonder if anyone's like you know there's just a vcr drive if i put it in there i could kind of switch a wire. It's us. One of us is saying high-speed roller coaster type ride in the dark. No one notices. Oh, hell yeah. I mean, that's good.

Wait a minute. This video is too crisp. This hasn't been played 10,000 times. Yeah. Lost color as it's gone. Okay. So that, look, that's my fries journey i so now clearly fries 2 needs to happen yes because i need to begin this saga i need to see if i can successfully

get this thing played or if i don't right uh uh you know hopefully things go the way that we want it to hopefully the stores don't close and in a perfect world we'll see you at the launch of fry's launch fry's anaheim launch mission 2 starring scott gardner wow i i can't imagine what would get in the way of this happening i can't wait to see you there hopefully before the summer hopefully hopefully it's in 2020 this is a good goal to set for the year yeah sure yeah huh um yeah get figure out your carpools now uh who are you gonna ride with the store's gonna be packed it's gonna be it'll be the most people in a fries in 20 years in all of them by the way not the hardest thing to do no i think 10 people would uh would do it um so we'll

see you you survive podcast the ride thanks guys for walking down fries that's great empty memory lanes i mean there was too much in this episode honestly it could this could have been split in and of itself but now as i said you guys help with my journey go say nice things on the twitter let's get fries talking and uh see you at the launch yeah three two one forever dog this has been a forever dog production executive produced by mike carlson jason sheridan scott gardner brett boehm, Joe Cilio, and Alex Ramsey. For more original podcasts, please visit foreverdogpodcasts.com and subscribe to our shows on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Keep up with the latest Forever Dog news by following us on Twitter and Instagram

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