Podcast: The Ride - Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Lamar Woods

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

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Forever Dog. Warning, the following podcast may contain photo op stress tests, Mr. Spock's napkin, Burbank statue rumors, and a place to rent famous lamps. All that plus Lamar Woods returns to chat about his time working the Warner Brothers studio tour on today's podcast, The Ride, a theme park podcast hosted by three men who are only interested in historical tours if they include seeing clothes worn by dead actors who've been dead at least 80 years. My name is Mike Carlson. Joining me as always, Jason Sheridan. Those clothes are hanging on.

Yes. They are barely hanging on. Oh, you mean in existence? In existence, yeah. Not just on hanging on oh you mean in existence in existence yeah you're not just on hanging on a like a hanger no they're doing that too but if they are jostled too much like the trench coat from uh casablanca will just fade yeah scott garner here as well yeah i don't disagree with that statement except for maybe the 80 years because that implies that we're a level of film historian that we aren't, because 80 years takes us to 1944. And like now let's all name people who we know died before 1944.

Jason, please, if you would. That's on Jason. It's got to be people who died in the war, maybe. Oh, yeah. It's got to be people who were drafted. Well, either. Either are the worst. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. It's got to be people who were drafted. Well, either. Either are the worst. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Probably a Barrymore. There's a lot of them, if you look back. That's saying on. The first one without a specific name is really making us look bad. I don't remember Lionel Barrymore was pretty old, like in the golden age of Hollywood. Yeah.

Died in 1954. Damn it. I'm sorry. In Van Nuys, California. Should I re-edit the joke so I said 60 years at least? Possibly. Okay. Well, because what you're after are people who

then were alive and in old and bad shape just long enough to be on a bunch of hokey 70s variety shows. Yeah. That's what. Yeah. And death's door on that 70s variety show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Barely then door on the 70s variety show. Yes, that's optimal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Barely, then barely, barely hanging on enough to tell three bad Bruce Valanche jokes. A young Bruce Valanche. To the actor who played Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. Oh, great idea. He looked pretty old by the time that movie was released. He was probably one of those, yeah, he's 54, 42 years old in that movie or something. Okay joke didn't work i hear that it's gonna be a joke that don't work when

i do it at the top of episodes that is lionel barrymore oh that is lionel barrymore oh jason you're making us look foolish again wow rosemary clooney rosemary oh she was alive longer than alive yeah yeah 90s at least oh this is so humiliating henry potter is the name of that character confusingly close to harry potter yeah really character who figures into the events of today's episode yeah i think right before we get to the events of today's episode let's get to events happening today as you're hearing this if you're hearing this the day that it drops which is friday july 26th 2024 unless you're hearing this many years from now then you're totally 80 years from now but if you are hearing this today and you're in san diego and at comic-con and have a badge

already there's a lot of layers of access here but if if you have all of those things then certainly you need to come see us at our panel street sharks Sharks, 30 Years of Jawsome, done in tandem with Mattel. Yeah. We're celebrating Street Sharks and a new release of Street Sharks, 1 p.m. at the San Diego Central Library. Right. Featuring special guest and completer, Griffin Newman. Yes. He'll be there you want to complete all of your times having

seen us with griffin in a live setting then you really got to get down there today it's today if you're in line for hall h right now and you're tomorrow you're like you're waiting to see like kevin feige come out and announce that they've written like their 17th draft of the movie blade get out of line and see us see street sharks boring yeah that's corporate this is well it's corporate in that mattel is involved however we're we are at a table and we're not checking everything we say with them it can't be done right that's technically it's from our mouths straight into the microphone i am doing a chef tapping badges when people get it you know they have the rfi you need to tap in to get into things this is news to me this is how much of not a comic no not a long time so uh

yeah this you watch me learn about badge tapping yeah among other things uh yeah please make it down don't want to take up a ton of time but uh happening today yes if you're there come on out yeah but that's sent that's separate from the guest who is sitting here yes uh he's returning to the he's a returning guest he's a he's a writer an actor a musician he's a wax expert i would say we called him maybe the wax man last time we were wax guys we were wax guys last time but you were the wax we're we're The Wax Man Marwoods is back. Hey. Keep that intro. The story of my life. We're humiliating ourselves left and right today. Oh, man. What's up, y'all?

What's good? What's up, Jason? How you doing, man? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm looking directly at Jason. We're directly across from each other. It's like Jason and then a guy with a chainsaw behind him.

Oh, all leather faces hanging out as we record most days. Yeah. Strange context. Don't like doing shows here. It's so good to see y'all so they're gonna be back i'm happy to be here yeah wax man and a full effect we're so happy to have you if for a listener any newer listeners because it was a little while ago but if you if you don't remember lamar was our guest for when it's been long enough that i don't remember the proper pronunciation of madam tussauds versus madam tussauds oh yeah was there a go-to for you i mean i always said

madam tussauds but i think tussauds is might be the correct one but i feel like i would we didn't respect that we did we just said we want no yeah madam tuss yeah, Madame Tussauds. Yeah, Madame Tussauds. Madame Tussauds. Did I tell you? I can't remember. I'm like, I don't want to repeat stories I said in the last episode, but I remember this guy, he called her Madame Moselle. He was like, yo, so what's up with this Madame Moselle? He was like a guy from Brooklyn or something.

He was like, yo, tell me the story about Madame Moselle. I was like, sir, it pronounced madame tussauds please don't disrespect is she available yeah she's a mademoiselle not a madame we're on hollywood boulevard so yeah is this i don't know is this some sort of lady of the night facility or um no i'm sorry It's a tour through Hollywood history. It's insane. Someone walked in there thinking,

oh, there's a prostitute. This is the nicest brothel I've ever seen. I'm very disappointed. And I say that having pounced on one of the characters. Disappointed when they didn't move. It is a lot like Cat House on HBO where you go through and you choose the person you're going to be with. Well, the lineup. Oh, is that what it's called, the lineup on Cat House?

Yeah, the sex worker. You know, when everyone lines up in a lineup. Like, lines up in a line. And it's like, here is our stinky little theater that shows a weird CG Avengers movie. Yes. Going back, is the lineup something they say on the HBO show about the brothel? Or is that something you just know in your head?

Because you really pounced on that. I know it is a term. I'm assuming they say it in the show. Okay. Right. Got it. I just wanted the terminology to be correct. Brothel term on Western. I just wanted the terminology to be correct.

Yeah, yeah. Don't want to mess it up. I'm sure everything is booked online nowadays, but I'm sure there's an in-person walk-in lineup. I'm not sure that that's true. I don't think everything's booked. I don't think you want

a record of that. Yeah. Everyone fill out this paperwork. In some places, it's fine. Give me your address and your ID. Send your Venmo record.

I mean, obviously, you could just write it for like a soup or something. Roses. G your Venmo record. I mean, obviously, you could just write it for like soup or something. Roses. Gifts. Sure. Well, listeners, let us know by replying to this episode's tweet with your personal record. Send us a screenshot of your online prostitution.

We've never. The vans tell me Back Pages is back. Like, that's what all the vans that are parked in LA. Okay, got it. Well, we'll review these things one day, I guess. Backpages is back. Is that a themed experience? They're physical items in our city.

Maybe. It's kind of themed. Yeah, I can come back and talk about it. Episode three. Episode three, topless me that's true that's a thing you'll see in los angeles by the way there's they'll be like trucks driving around that say topless maids on them and it took me maybe 10 years to realize that's prostitution i was like well that's kind of a weird thing i have i knew it was ironic in some ways but then I finally

put two and two together when I was in my 30s where I was like oh you were just concerned like they're gonna spill caustic cleaning chemicals on their tops

I was worried or lack thereof I was under chests yes yeah my only association with that is the Broad City episode

when they when they were when they were like they needed to make some money I think to get to a Lil Wayne concert or something like that when they were like, they needed to make some money I think to get to a Lil Wayne concert or something like that and they were like, we'll do this, but they didn't want to take the clip. And then, what's his name, Fred Armisen was just like

creepily watching. But yeah, I didn't realize yeah, I can't imagine, I didn't realize I just thought it was like, they just cleaned but I don't know, I didn't realize they were like having sex or stuff. I didn't put that together or stuff I assume that's what's going on I could be wrong but

what there has to be some elements it's the idea of like you're just sitting there like you're naked like you're just watching a queen

like this is crazy don't forget the dust on the ceiling yeah that would be Jason would do it and then be the most cleaning concerned person. I can't reach it.

Coffee mugs go in the second shelf. I'm so sorry. I don't want to be a bother. I've got a system. You look beautiful, by the way. I should have written this down for you. Do you want a glass of water or some orange juice? Have you scrubbed my lettuce crisper?

No one thinks about cleaning out the fruit and vegetable crispers, you know? But so Madam T says you were here before because to refresh listeners' memory, you were not on just as a fan of the organization, but someone in the organization for many years running the show and with wild tales of dealing with the hollywood boulevard it was a big part of my life yeah yeah yeah i mean we were you know i was telling my because i'm uh kind of helping this like a student like with writing and stuff and you know she was asking advice about balancing her career and her actual job and wanting to do comedy and i was like yeah like i was just talking about it today like i've been that was like my career i mean it was like there was no other version of like i know i wasn't sure if i was ever going to get into comedy stuff

but it's like i was working out every day like the success of that museum was very important to me because it was like it was like a new place like in hollywood i just don't understand i mean that boat that boulevard is still not really gotten ever back to glory i feel like but the person who does that who actually does that i think will i don't i you know i don't know mayor bass is up for it but it's like not on her agenda but someone's gonna do something over there. It's still fun, but it doesn't feel... I wish it was more exciting, that people really want to go there.

Well, have you checked out the redone Hollywood and Highland, which I believe is now called Ovation Hollywood? Am I making that up? The area where, just listeners, if you haven't been, there's this whole zone on Hollywood Boulevard. Manitou says it's part of it it kind of right next to the chinese theater and then this uh pretty

hellish uh shopping center kind of over to the right of all of that uh that is also where the academy awards take place and it's weird thinking about how all the biggest stars in hollywood have to walk past the uh hard rock cafe and beard papa uh on the way into the most important night of their lives uh but anyway yeah it's uh no it's a whole other ball game it's ovation hollywood now the uh it's it's painted different um different establishments are closed instead of the ones that were closed before uh they have they have uh artificial grass they have grass there uh yeah i gotta get back over there david buster's still there still david busters that's right yeah yeah sammy hagar's cabo wabo

still there i think that's been closed for an extremely long time but it's not closed closed i think it's closed closed yeah and you know and confusingly there's another thing that i think is called cabo cantina yeah that's because my friend who works at kimmel i was always walking past and like wait is it the sammy haggard place and no one's ever in here and i'll go in and then sit there for 10 minutes and no one helps me and then i will just leave and then i look in the yelp reviews are all like i sat there for 10 minutes and no one helps me and then I will just leave. And then I look and the Yelp reviews are all like, I sat there for 10 minutes and no one helped me, so I left. And yet they have very desperate promotions outside,

like, come in, really great drink deals. Well, basically, it's free, basically. Just come in. And then you try to and nothing happens. It's a hell of a... Listen, if you've never been to Hollywood Boulevard in general, what a scene. I don't know that I'd recommend it. How do you feel at this point? I mean, I haven't beenvard in general. Yeah. What a scene. I don't know that I'd recommend it.

How do you feel at this point? I mean, I haven't been there in decades. No, I still love the Chinese Theater. I mean, that's like, when I went to see Dune there. Oh, sure. So, yeah, that's still my anchor into the Boulevard.

And what else? I mean, the Roosevelt Hotel is like really dope. I do like a lot of that classic Hollywood shit that's there. Even like the Gypsum Theater. But the general, like for entertainment,

for like just hanging out, it's tough, yeah. I haven't really got back to it. I mean, my friend invited me to Dave and Buster's. My friend, my girlfriend.

My current girlfriend you should be friends we were friends but and you still should be that's an important part of the relationship she was like

we're going to David Busser you should meet us there but I we have really good boundaries and I was like I don't think I feel comfortable

ready to go there today I don't feel up to it today so that was my one opportunity but yeah I love the Chinese theater I there today. I don't feel up to it today. So that was my one opportunity. But yeah, I love the Chinese theater. I love, you know,

I love the theater, what's the theater where they have the Oscar, the Kodak theater, right? What is it now? Oh, Dolby. Is it Dolby currently or has it changed again?

I don't know. I think so. Don't remember. Kodak theater, that's like aging me. I'm aging myself. That's way back. That's when they started

holding the Oscars there. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember now. Home to the Slap. It's always like a camera thing. It's where the Slap happened. That's really. Oh, yeah, yeah.

They should call it the Slap Theater at this point. We're all about the Slap Theater. It's like how the Laugh Factory should just be called the Michael Richards Place. So should the whatever theater just be called the michael richards place so should the whatever theater just be called the slap thing anything that was like landmarks in hollywood and los angeles at large to be named after the most infamous thing that happened yeah yeah that's why i want uh vitello's to be uh oh yeah just just called blake blake just call robert blake's yeah does robert blake own it no it's where he went to go get his gun.

Right. I take him at his word. It's his alibi. Yeah, yeah, yes. And he was proven not guilty, so I believe it. I believe him. Sure. I can't believe you.

There's a Muji. Do you know Muji? The Japanese department store right block past Hollywood and Highland. Really? Kind of attached to it. And they have clothes and home goods and stuff, but I think got big in America for their journals and pens and stuff. Okay.

Kind of high end stationery. So you think that journals and pens at Hollywood and Highland though? Yeah. I was looking at the journals and pens and stuff. Okay. Like kind of high end stationery. So you did journals and pens at Hollywood and Highland though? Yeah, I was looking at the journals and pens ones and I... He's like, let me get a quick journal real quick. He's like, I have a thought.

I need to jot it down right now. I was in there once and a man was kind of like, you know, picking up a box of pens and he had a sack of journals and stuff and looking around. I was like,

oh, what is that smell? And this man had very clearly shit his pants. Oh, okay. It was very, but he didn't look like

just, you know, Hollywood and, he just seemed like a guy and I'm like, he just, what if he had to shit his pants?

He's like, I'll just go where that happens a lot so no one knows. Oh, yeah, there, it's time it doesn't. But he went to shit his pants? He's like, I'll just go where that happens a lot. So no one knows. Or you help one day. Yeah, there. It's time it doesn't.

But he went to the very calm, chill Japanese department store to do it. And I went, I have enough pens. And just put everything down and walked out. I was like, I don't know what's going on here, but I don't want any part of it. And I want to go back to my car and go home. I think it's important to remember, anyone can shit their pants at any time. Yes. No.

And that is likely what the realization that horrified me. Like, this could be me at any moment. But I think you would not just continue shopping. Well, hold on. You might go home and rectify the pro. Well, I don't know. If the pens or the notepads were very good

and there was a pen on them. If there's no one at the register, I might go ring up some, get some pens. I might sign up for the loyalty program

if no one's paying me any money. You're going to sign up for a loyalty problem or a loyalty program with pants full of shit? Well, it's already there. I'm not coming back.

There's no coming back from this. Oh my God. It's an interesting spot, Hollywood and Highlands. Yes, but not to sidetrack too much. I brought up that context of you and your history running the show with Madame Tussauds

because this led to this other chapter of my career besides your comedy career which has taken off since you also have kept a foot in the themed entertainment yeah neck of the woods brought your expertise from that into today's main topic the warner brothers studio tour absolutely yeah that was a big that was a big deal because i was like i i was in there from the beginning. I opened this, not the tour itself, but what they call Stage 48 is like the script-to-screen experience. And it was a new part installment into the Warner Brothers tour.

Wow. And I got recruited over there to do it. But it was directly related to my wax museum career like this was a this was basically just a kind of like you know it's like going from writing on one show to another like it was like not the same company but people were talking you know they were hearing about me at wax at the wax at wax place at the wax place i worked at madame tussauds, and then I got recruited out of there. Yeah, I mean, it's like, yeah, it's kind of fun. Like, yeah, if you're listening to all this,

you should listen to this episode right after the other one, because it's basically, like, there was a continuation of my life after that, after my experience at Madame Tussauds. You were poached. Yeah. You were like headhunters. Yeah. Yeah, did I like headhunters. Yeah.

Yeah, did I tell y'all that? Or did we talk about that? You teased a little at the end of what had happened, yeah. Yeah, like, basically I was like doing very well. So just, all right,

this is where it gets a little complicated, but I'm gonna explain this only once and don't ask no questions. It's like a very specific thing that companies do a lot, but I think it makes it hard to talk about the Warner Brothers thing without explaining this part. So basically, I worked at Madame Tussauds,

a company that's owned by Merlin Entertainment, which has a bunch of theme parks in the UK and all over the world. I was a manager there and i was running for a long time i ran the photo department the people who would take your picture when you walk in but that the the people who's provided that equipment is a company called pixov right so pixov they're like a camp they do all those like they do them at at Six Flags at all the at Legoland

they have the they're the ones who's basically operating the photos and then take and then sort of trying to sell you at the end

and figuring out how to like you know do they give you a card with a code so that you can have the opportunity later

and like how do they and storing and managing all that and is it green screen or is it yeah they did all like they installed the green screen. And whenever we had tech issues, that's who we were calling.

So the person, Jessica, who was kind of like the liaison for Pixof, we worked together for years while I was working at the Wax Museum. So she's the one who basically, she knew me very well, and she was like, we're opening up and this was like the low had to be secret because they were literally poaching me like underneath the Merlin's nose I should understand a sense that it was happening yeah Yeah, yeah, some wizard he is. So then, so she,

you know, took me out to dinner, you know, up in the motherfucking, speaking of Hollywood Boulevard, because, you know, she comes into town like every, you know,

every quarter and, you know, she'll take me out because they kind of like woo us. They want to keep us as clients and she's super cool

and like one of those girls who like is always injured because she like because they kind of like woo us. They want to keep us as clients. And she's super cool. And like one of those girls who like is always injured because she like is like always climbing mountains and doing crazy shit. Like every time I see her, she has like a boot on her leg and crutches, but she's awesome. So she takes me to dinner at this, that Japanese restaurant that's on the hill up in.

Yeah. So. Yamashiro. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah. You can see the hill up in uh uh so yeah yeah you know what i'm talking about yeah you can see the whole city from there yeah yeah oh it was i felt so that is yeah heavily there was super like immersive and uh uh yeah just like transportive environment and they have like a giant buddha like statue and you can walk around like the zangard and all that yeah food is okay yeah i want you there we've talked about it many times on the show of them but the better the like statue and you can walk around like the Zangard and all that. Yeah. Food is okay. We've talked about it many times on the show. The better the theming,

probably the worst. Yeah. But yeah, cool place to be for sure. So she was like, yo, I'm, you know, this between us,

but we're, we made a deal with Warner brothers. We're going to open up this new experience inside the tour so basically the tour will drop them off into this place and experience the script to screen thing and they're gonna get to ride the bat bike and they'll ride Harry Potter and uh we have this really cool technology where you get to take the video home and it's awesome right i'm like this is dope and uh but i was like really loyal to the whack you know i'm the wax man i was like i was like jessica i can't believe you would do this try to take me away from them like that and she's like i know i know

look we just love you with big fans i'm like look i don't know let me think about it also i'm thinking like i don't want to if i do this i'm i'm just forgetting my my comedy career like i was just like i was just like in this headspace of like if i don't stop like taking these jobs i'm just gonna do this forever right what year are we talking about this is 20 uh 2014 so this is like 2014 and up to 2015 yeah uh so i was like really conflicted and also like i'm such a i hate conflict so i was like i don't even know how i would tell my my boss's stuff who was you know he's he's i told y'all last he's like a short british guy who cusses a lot like i was like terrified of him so i was like i don't know well i'll think about it. So a couple months go by.

Then they make an offer. And it was pretty good. I mean, at the time, I was like, I've never seen any money like this. I mean, I was making like $15 an hour running that whole museum. I was like, I didn't get no money. So I'm like, I wouldn't get paid shit. I mean, at the time, I just was more like just trying to survive, right? But the money they were offering was like, I mean, it didn't even compare.

It was just like, oh, this is like a career. It's like a job. So, I went to my boss and went to his office and I was like, yo, like, Pixar, they made me do this offer. But, you know, because I kind of looked at him like a mentor a little bit, too. Just like, what should I do, really? And he was like, how much they paying you? And I showed him. He was like, you got to take that.

He was like, we're not going to match this. And I was like, oh, shit. So then I was like, so now I'm like, I got his blessing. But now I'm like, man, I don't want to open up a whole. I'm responsible for this site. And I'm trying to do comedy. I'm doing improv i like i'll do that was back when i was doing one love improv at like 11 p.m on a monday just like fully grinding on that shit and i was like but um but it just i i had no money i mean i

i was like i need to live like and like it was you know i'm getting older i'm like we got to do something so ended up taking it and basically leaving. That's when I had a whole little goodbye and all that to Mounted Souls. But it was directly off of that job into this job, which was crazy. But yeah. And then we had to really, I mean, you're talking from the ground up. They hadn't even built it yet. So it was like, I don't think, have y'all ever done anything like that?

Like, been in a company where something is fully opening? Like, doing the ribbon cutting type of thing? Not really. We don't work in physical. We don't do manual labor. Yeah, where a place is being built. Well, we don't do manual labor. That's true.

We don't use our hands. We use our voices. Yeah, these are our tools you see a lot of ways harder than lifting doing swinging things but is this the whole is this the zone that uh because i know that the tour leaves from a difference like uh uh it's there's like i don't even i don't know if i know the street but there's like a whole like dedicated parking garage facility a little like store cafe neck of the woods uh um i that that's like a little like cul-de-sac near the studio or is that what you're

talking about that like that was being built or what is the or is it something within the were you mainly doing like uh like a stop within the tour yeah it wasn't it didn't exist the entire building hadn't exist yet it was like when i so there's there was like gift shops and stuff but this was like okay you're on the tour they take you through the you know because i had i remember writing and they take you know to where they shoot all the stuff and Batman and all that. And then they just stop the tour and you go into this thing. There is a gift shop in it. But it's very specific to Harry Potter and The Dark Knight

because those were the two sort of like experiences. It's not where the tour begins and ends. That's not what we're talking about. Yeah, it's like literally the middle of it. Okay, gotcha. I'll tell you why that's a problem. Big problem. Okay, so they hired me.

I mean, this is like crazy. I mean, even talking about it makes me so uncomfortable because it's like, it's just a lot of pressure. It was like, it's like it's like, because the company it just felt like I got a job. You know what I mean? It's like, I got, it's like I'm a corporate man. Like, I'm like, oh, doing doing this thing so they take they send me to florida because that's

where pixov is located the original the main headquarters and i had to go down there and meet the whole company and like train and stuff and they're like in orlando i bought this really like fancy i felt i was like mad man like like it was like i had red like a red uh dress shirt and like a black suit i look fly as fuck like it was crazy but then i go to florida and it's just i don't know it was just fucking so hot like so humid and like no one is dressed like everyone's wearing like t-shirts and jeans and shorts because they're like we not we you know we live in florida we would never dress like this to work and shorts. Cause they're like, we, we, you know, we live in Florida. We would never dress like this to work.

And I, so I felt so awkward cause I was just in there just like, I'm like, you know, like just like trying to, you know, trying to impress them. But they're like,

they're like, ah, bro, you, you know, you don't, you don't need to dress like that here. And then,

um, so what they did is they took me to Legoland and, uh, cause there's a Legoland and, and, um, where is it? It's not in Orlando, because there's a lego land and um where is it it's not in orlando but it's like outside orlando it's like it in winter garden yes it's like a it was like an hour away from the old cypress garden yeah yeah yeah because they took over it yeah

and they changed it to uh lego land which is all part of they wanted their clients but also yeah uh another merlin company so it was like still connected to the wax life because there were people the person who used to be my boss was running that lego land at the time so i was trying to avoid him but uh so but it was so like it was in the country like but i was like there for like three months just sort of like they're like training me how to do all the like uh all the tech stuff that i used to have to call them to do but now i'm learning that stuff you lived in wait were you based in orlando or winter haven winter haven that's it yeah yeah yeah yeah the company was in

orlando like the heck where the ceo and stuff he was cool like this group his name is don he was like he's like i'm like he had to slick back here I was like this I was like this is it it was such a different vibe from the British because uh Madison was such a British company but this is like this is like a real American Florida company it's an hour south of Orlando okay okay oh weird so did the training came back and then this guy Chris was cool guy he was like my kind of regional supervisor and he kind of we like just started higher like we started doing the group hires and everything it was crazy like it was like I was like man I'm in charge like I'm picking my staff everything so I'm picking I'm doing like you know I'm putting it on this is well this will be important later when I tell you

how crazy it got but like i'm putting on um you know ads on craigslist and you know just trying to get people to come in and it's like very la like local like not actors or whatever just like people who want a job and uh they were all really cool and like i was like really proud of the people the staff that I built. It was like, and I poached somebody from Man of Two Souls, too. I took one of our employees with me, and they were mad about that. And this was all LA, an LA staff you put together. Yeah. Yeah, you were done with Florida at that point.

Oh, yeah, I'm back in LA now. Yeah, after the train is over. That was like, yeah, a couple months, learned how to do the thing, and now we're all in Warner Brothers. So then I go to warner brothers and also feel free to jump i feel like i'm talking too much but uh but yeah like um i go to warner brothers and the first thing yeah lebron james is there uh doing a fucking back like we have it it's starting to get built up now and they gave him like a private like pre like experience of it so he got to like because you know i think at the time lebron had a

overall deal with warner brothers so he was there and he did the bat bike and uh him and his kids they and they did it and it was like this is gonna be fucking tight this is gonna be awesome no it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't uh celebrities who topped lebron james every day like all right we start with lebron it only gets better better from there i'm like no can i ask what your height the hierarchy was and what your title was yeah okay so what do you call so the the guy ch Chris was like the regional manager. So he was overseeing all the West Coast. There was like a theme park in Arizona and one in San Diego and then one in LA and then what we're doing in LA. So he was above me.

And then my title was basically like what was it like i don't want to say store manager but it was like i was basically like the head of operations i guess yeah or like yeah like something that i don't i guess i don't remember but i think it was the most senior person in la yeah yeah yeah like when we do our we would do these conference calls and it would be so early because they had the people from you who worked in uk on it right and i and i'm like the only i was the only west coast person over on that was california west coast right and uh they would um uh i'd be up at like 6 a.m like on these calls but i was literally representing right like like i was like representing this this establishment there was no one else speaking for it and that was like really intense but we were like they but they were all excited because i did such a good they

heard about me through the man of two souls so they knew like i had a pretty good rep so they were like oh it was kind of like they they're like it's like paul george going at the sixers like we heard about you you know is it gonna work no Because there is a Warner Brothers studio tour in London. Is that what you mean? I don't know if there... Oh, there is. There is a Harry Potter thing. Yeah, I think they do something there.

And also, they also worked at all the Madame Tussauds. Because they have this huge partnership with Merlin. So the London Eye and the Madame Tussauds in London, they were also working on. So I was still kind of weirdly in the world the Madame Tussauds in London, they were also working on. So I was still kind of weirdly in the world of Madame Tussauds, even though I wasn't working for them anymore. Right, through Pixoff. And Pixoff was not previously part of the tour.

It was like they were going to establish this new thing that is a way to get like photo opportunities. Exactly. With Bat Bike and Harry Potter and others. It's so strange. So more of an American, so that the tour is not just like, hey, look at that soundstage.

That's where they did Friends. Can I go in? No. Okay, you keep going. It's so that you get like something like physical and tactile. Yeah. You know, guaranteed when you take this tour.

And they do it like, it's like in this way that's like, it's literally script to screen. Like you're like, it's script to screen. Imagine an experience that's script to screen like you're like it's script to screen experience that's script it starts with this like the script process and there's like literally scripts that you can look at like they like they have like uh memorialized and then you go into like casting a section about casting and then you get to sit on a friend's couch and like and they pretend to be like you're with your friends and then uh pretend you have friends yeah yeah

and then you go into uh the the experience which is like the harry potter broom where you basically get on the broom and you're just riding it through uh quit what's it called quitta i should know this the quidditch game yeah yeah you're riding through that and then the bat bike is like you're riding through the dark night that truck scene basically so then um uh but basically uh what they would do is like because they don't want it to be no separation so it was like we got we had to wear it's like everyone's wearing the uniform of a warner brothers tour guy so it's like you wouldn't, as a customer, wouldn't know that these people are working for another company. Right.

It's like we're all kind of seamless. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the scripts to screen experience. One seamless process. The magic of the movie. Yeah. Hollywood magic. But let me tell you, like, that place, Warner Brothers as a studio,

is like very, when I say, I'm saying, using the word conservative in a loose way, like, just, like, very strict. Like, not, like, they don't mess around. Like, it's, like, very much, like, everything's got to be buttoned up. It was just, like, a lot of rules and stuff. So, now, I'm, like, coming in, pick-solve guy, and I got all these la like people straight from like crenshaw like you know like you know they're like real humans you know yeah yeah but it's like you know they got the hair dyed and they're like i mean they're like people that i would that are like okay this is this is real la yeah yeah and it's i mean it's so fascinating fascinating and i think

the people they've hired for the tours are more like attractive kind of not that my people i mean my people were attracted i don't shouldn't be talking about that but i'm just saying they when i say i mean like they're like you know put together put together like the clean cuts yeah like you know actor types like good posture white i'm trying to like i'm not trying to call them racist, but it's like, you know, there was a clear difference. Like it would be like,

you go on a tour and it's all these like, it's like these beautiful, you know, like crispy actor, white actors. And then you come into my area and it's like, it's like, it's like diverse

and like cool, like hip street hip hop music starts playing out. But it's like, it's like, it's like, oh, there's like a clear, it's like it's like diverse and like cool like like hip street hip-hop music starts playing out like but it's like it's like it's like oh there's like a clear it's like if you if you weren't for the shirts it's like a clear shift right right and it did feel like we were like if we felt like not a part of the the thing it was like and they uh so we was like in the beginning it was kind of like we were kind of i mean think of it like we were like the bad news bears kind of thing like we were like they were like they weren't like you don't belong but it was like it did feel kind of like we was like just this like outcast a little bit

like all of us me and the whole staff and everybody because weren't they had their own setup already and we're like coming in with this new thing right and uh it was it was kind of like a disney movie so then uh but no one had faith in like they just thought we were just ruining the you know the vibe but we were like cool like i mean you know we come in you know i'm like afraid to all right i will go back and cut some stuff out if i have to sure yeah like one girl had it like you know it's just funny to me at like someone who like doesn't give a fuck anymore looking back but it's like you know one girl had she got the the pants kind of low waist with the thong showing you know how they do it

where it's like it's like a little bit of that and it's kind of like all right you know my boss would cut the not my not my boss at pixar but the warner Brothers boss would be like can you you know go talk to your employee and be like but I'm like you have to have that conversation yeah I'm like I don't know

I'm like let them be I'm kind of I'm all like let everyone be who they are that's how I'm feeling sure and uh

but you know it's like we got one standard one rule like that so uh is it are you

so are you joining then award this is like this new outpost and the rest of the tour is like hollywood magic robots who've been doing it for 20 years right who are who are buttoned up and potland like because they're yeah there's a way that tour guides can be just like uh yeah super slick and kind of uh yeah like like uh cyborgs a little bit uh uh and you and you guys are not as uh yeah we're like we're just more like you know just like chill like i don't know it was just like a reflection of me basically it was just like i just hired what i thought who i want to hang out with know? Not thinking about what they're doing over there. Yeah, yeah.

And also, I think I kind of was avoiding, maybe I subconsciously was avoiding hiring actors, or not hiring people that wanted to be in Hollywood. Right. Because that was an issue for me at the Max Museum, where they would always leave and go on auditions. So I was like, I just want people who just need a job and want to work. So it felt like more like the working class or whatever right but uh but no disrespect to

either side whatever you do it's good i i support it uh but um so you know it was kind of like there was just this energy where they were like we ain't fucking with y'all kind of you know i mean and but we hadn't opened up yet so so there was so much pressure on it and like it really felt like yeah Mighty Ducks 3

where it's like cause it's like it was like you know how they're like they just want yeah that's what I'm trying to think of we're like

you know how they came into the school they weren't like it wasn't like it was like they were kinda like yeah we're like a ragtag group of people and it's like you're only at this school because they're trying to make the school look cool or whatever.

But you guys don't really belong here. I haven't actually seen D3. It's like a kind of a stuffy boarding school kind of environment. And then the, yes, but the ragtag Mighty Ducks have a different vibe. I mean, I'm going off of D2. Is it called D3? Yeah, I don't know. It's in D2 where there's the evil Icelandic team

who are a very, very stiff shirt buttoned up and who don't appreciate the odd idiosyncrasies of the Mighty Ducks. That's right. It's a similar thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah it's not it was nothing like great nothing that we need to like you know tweet it tweet about or anything but like it was just like uh it was just like okay we we got a different vibe coming in we're

not we didn't we're not cut from the same cloth it was like goodbye but this is the makings of a great story where you the underdog story where you turn around and show them you had you always had it the whole time. Man, let's get into it. Yes. Did you have it? Did the underdog rule the day? Is there a triumph here at the end? We just killed all.

No. Are we going to sneak it at night? We're going to fuck up the tour. Because it did start to feel like the tour people versus the inside people. The inside studio, the State 58 people. But I don't know, I haven't worked there in like years, so I have no idea what's going on there. Yeah, this is, yeah, it's like 20, now we're in 2015 now. Ancient history.

A lot of turnover, I bet. Yeah, and also, well yeah yeah i mean that those jobs turn over like crazy anyway um so we um uh so now it's like all this pressure and people are like you know we got this big it was kind of like a friends and family kind of event where they're gonna try it all out for the first time so i got everybody trained up you know and like feeling good we got the thing everything working and it's like all right like this is like our big like our big showcase to show everybody who we are what why they brought us here because we ain't fucking around i mean fuck everybody yeah i told her i

was like, man, fuck, like, this is our shit. Let's show them who we are. You know what I'm saying? So, because it was just weird.

I mean, it's like, but that's a weird thing anyway. That's why I always explain that, that difference of like, the company within a company. Right. Because you're like,

we don't work for them, but it's like, we work at the same place. Like, there's one, like, it's like, they would even get mad. Well, I don't want to say that.

All right, we'll cut that. Okay. But so then, all right, here comes, it's friends and family night. And I don't just think it's a friends and family night. I invited all my homies from Madame Tussauds. They came through. My old boss came through. He wanted to check it out.

So it was great. And then, but what I didn't know, it was was also supposed to be like a stress test for the thing. We watch Bar Rescue. We know about stress tests. Yeah, yeah. That's where it can all fall apart. It usually does. Yeah, I know.

It's like you're stressing me out. The bad bike tipped over. The kid fell off. He got crushed by the back bike. Shut it down. Shut it all down. I want it all shut down. Someone just flew off the broom.

Someone just flew off the broom. They're like, he's flying around the whole village. Because Stodial is using the broom to clean. They stole the broom. It's a brown broom. It's getting real dirt on it. Oh, man. It was great.

So it started off great. And it was like, holy shit. It's like, it's got to be. I mean, I found out later it was like 3,000 people. Wow. They sent through this thing. I'm like, why is there so many people here? And it's also like in a matter of like a few hours.

And it's just our shit is not handled our tech stuff is not handling it at all because we never hadn't we stressed this i guess but we like so now everyone's it's hype like people are loving it like like emotionally loving this experience so i'm like happy about that but then uh now they can't get the video of it to take home and the pictures because it's basically what happened is the way it was sending to the computer was all out of order so every time someone come up the arc my employee would have to go through the whole everything that's taken to basically look at physically looking at them and trying to find their picture in the computer and uh it took out i mean it took forever so like i mean there was a point where there was i mean the entire tour was just stuck right and it was because they kept driving people up like and it was the whole building was packed and people were pissed like

and complaining and it was just and i didn't there's nothing i could do because it wasn't really anything i could do because it wasn't really anything I could do because it was a tech issue and I'm calling them like they're all in Florida and it's like

nine o'clock on West Coast time so it's like midnight over there and I'm like yo we need help man this is going crazy we brought you

to Winter Haven so you wouldn't have to ask these questions we trained you in Winter Haven you learned nothing in Winter Haven

I was like they don't respect women in Winter Haven. So then I was like, yo, what the fuck? Okay, so now I'm like just trying to, you know, I'm like just telling, you know, just keep trying to keep people happy or whatever. I'm running around. I'm like, you know, trying to help them out and jumping on registers and stuff. And then my boss, who's like this like cool, slick back guy, not my Pixar boss, but the guy who runs the whole tour, he's, like, he does the, like, Lamar, come with me.

And I'm, like, oh, man, I'm, like, this is bad. He's, like, and he just, man, he let me have it. I'm getting emotional now because I started crying, like, was like he was like this is unacceptable like you know just a full like i just you know just like i've never in my life seen anything like this just like dressing me down and i was like i'm like i don't even want to be here i want to be a comedian and i'm just like in the cry ball the choke and i'm like i'm like because i'm like i'm like a full failure right here and then And then it was like also they all have, now they really feel like we really don't belong here now.

Because now all the tour guys people, they're mad. Even though they're, I don't know why they care so much. But they're like, you're ruining the tour for all the people. The tour's been going so well except for the stage 48 or whatever. And I'm like, yo, man, chill out. Anyway. It's like a mean kids camp. Yeah.

They're shitting all over the meatballs. Do they call themselves the meatballs in meatballs? I don't know. I don't know. Well, let's just say they do. You guys are the meatballs. You mean well. Yeah, yeah, you mean well, but.

This is a test. This is a test night. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I didn't know. Maybe I shouldn't have known it was a test. It Yeah. That's what I was saying. I didn't know. Maybe I should have known it was a test. That's why you test. It is.

You are right. It is very strange to put that sort of thing in the middle of the tour. Yeah. Because I've been on tours and stuff, like the NBC one at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, 30. You're not there, Joe. Seven seasons. You know what it is. I. You're not on the show. Seven seasons, you know what it is. I was tripped up on Plaza or Center.

Yeah, or both. Both, sure. And the green screen thing was right at the end so that if people didn't want to do it, they're like, all right, I'm just going to leave. I'm going to buy a t-shirt and then leave. I'm going to buy a Today Show t-shirt. I'm going to buy my full-length Matt Lauershirt and then lee i'm gonna buy a today's i'm gonna buy my full length matt lauer t

and then lee full length it's a long t oh it's a tall t and it's so it's nearly his full size get this you're fired mug which i will cherish always this phrase will always mean a lot to me i'll never have different feelings about the host of this show. But yeah, right in the middle then it's holding up the back half. And was it, did everyone get the pictures and video or was it like a money add-on? Oh, yeah, yeah.

That's a good question. Oh, no, wait. Were things included? You asked if they were comp? It was free. Oh, it was free. Okay. Yeah, so nobody was spending money,

but that also means everybody wants to do it. Right. So nobody was skipping it. So it was just like, yeah, we were giving them away, but it was like, fuck, there's nothing we can do here. And then we just started having to, eventually we got it fixed, but it was by that point it had already died down,

the guest count and stuff. And so we failed that test man i was like i'm about to get fired this is crazy and then uh and then we we you know we we you know the ceo the guy don he had to come out like it was we were in trouble like it was crazy like so he came out and he had had it like you know calm everybody down and like we had this meeting where it was like like so he came out and he had had it like you know calm everybody down and like we had this meeting where it was like you know like kind of what went wrong you know uh like the inquiry what's that called when you when you go back like commission a 9-11 it's like it was like what the hell happened you know and it's like ultimately it was like also like yeah it wasn't really on me you know it really was just a like the equipment just couldn't

handle all that people right it was just like not made for that so like you know in a normal day you're not getting a thousand people coming in at once so but ultimately like we squashed it all got our shit together opened up and then we started making money money and like and it was just like now we're like number one we end up becoming number one in the out of all the picks off thing and everybody was doing it because we were like because I knew what I was I mean I knew what I was because I brought a lot of the what I did at the Max exam over to it and it was like the prices everything was just perfect like we were just like cashing out and everybody was like dang like nobody could say shit you know i'm saying because we were like now we're probably fucking caking out on y'all

and then um and uh it was great and then that was like probably two months of doing that and then my friend phil hit me up like yo are you still looking for a job and then like i was uh and then i met with this show runner for survivors remorse just thinking you know long shot uh like he read my pilot or whatever and then he's like hired me and then i like basically was like i gotta start work next it was like the next week so i just left i was just like and i was like yeah i was like i was like a real hollywood situation where i was just like i'm I was like, yeah, I was like, I was like a real Hollywood situation where I was just like, I'm out of here,

y'all. Sorry. Like my dreams just came true. Yeah. I was like, literally script to screen. Like, I was like,

I'm out of here. But like, so, and then so I left my, they were all happy for me. I mean, the Pixar people were happy because they knew I,

they knew that about me, but I was like, but it was like, I had like, I felt bad for the employees because we felt like we built a little community and I was like, I gotta go. But so I haven't been back since. So I don't know what it's like now. Did you ever like fantasize that you would like be on the actual tour where you're on the tram and then you would just step off with like a packet and you'd be like, I'm in this building now.

I work here. I'm a writer. Yeah. I do fantasize about, I probably have more, because I have less of a connection to that place, but I have more of a fantasy of becoming a wax figure. Or if I get famous enough one day where they put me in my uniform as the manager with the walkie-talkie,

and they could be like,'s he used to work here or something like that that would be cool but that's if you if you write the pilot in the smash hit show about working at the wax museum

right and then your character is so iconic the wax museum guy yeah and then the character and you in characters put into the wax museum

that would be in the spot where you worked and where it was all based on I mean it's funny because the possibility of that is not that unlikely yeah yeah it's like very like i'm working on something when the wax man has nine successful seasons on peacock so i just i did this tour a couple months ago we we got invited to this or i got invited this i don't know why actually usually i have to beg to get invited to things and this just came into the into the inbox i think

weirdly i thought this had come through lamar like this episode was brewing and he hit up his contacts and he set us up with some sort of vip no you had nothing to do with this news to you all right okay so no thanks required uh yeah? So that was just out of nowhere? Yeah, I don't know. There's like a mysterious benefactor. I think there's some listeners over there. Maybe, but no one DMed me like, hey, heads up, I'm going to send you an invite to this.

Because this was a big event. Ben Menkiewicz was there. This was a whole thing. I sat outside. There were pastries. I didn't know all this. I knew there was going to be a little presentation or something, but there was food and stuff on the lot.

Is this because they have recently opened something with TCM components? Yes. Well, I don't know if that's why the thing happened. That's not why we were invited. It's not? It wasn't because that stuff is new, that there's new like this videos that you watch that are TCM? Yeah, I'm just saying that is why people were invited, but I still don't know our direct connection to why we got invited. I don't know

because maybe they list, you know, we're the top dogs in the entertainment game and they got new TCM stuff they're proud of. Yeah, they probably want you to talk about it. We're doing it. We're doing it. Geez, well now I feel pressure that we're fulfilling the other end of some kind of invited...

Well, at the very least, I didn't beg like I usually have to on this show. I beg for press invites to things on this. I'm pathetic on this show. Please, please, let us come for free. We want a free drink, please. Your knees are unscuffed. You haven't been on the ground groveling lately. Your knees look fantastic.

Thank you. I mean, I'm also curious if there's anyone still working there. I hired everybody. Carl worked there for a little bit. Carl Turner? Yeah, Carl Turner. Wow, wow. I hired all the homies for a little bit.

Vlad. Yeah, they were all... It was fun for a bit. What did Carl do? He was taking pictures. He was like, right, go to the left. Would he give the direct... Not to get too far away from what mike's talking about but like i as you've been talking i looked up like warner brother studio bat pod and what i've found is that people have posted this on youtube that it's you get like a minute long

sequence where it's footage from the move from dark knight like you were saying intercut with like you know here's real footage and then there's it'll go to a kid and he's on the what do you call a bat pod bat pike yeah yeah and then the wheel's really spinning yeah there you go but like the camera's like the camera's moving and the bike's moving it actually blends really well and you can tell that the kid is getting direction like look up look down okay now make a face like phew like wipe sweat off like oh barely avoided that truck oh and then he's shaking his fist like oh yeah get back here so that's just so carl's doing that stuff yeah directions for kids if that's something we came up we came up with the direct so i could take a

little credit for that like here's some of the things you could tell them to do right but carl and that you know these guys you know they performers, so they're killing it in there. Because they're directing them to all types. Because if you don't tell them, they'll just sit there. And then they'll see the video and be like, I don't want that. This stinks. I don't want me listlessly writing a bad book. Looking sad.

Also, kids, you probably get like like they're excited to do it and then once they get there and there is a light on them they just like totally terrifying and your entire family's watching you like i mean it's pretty wild things like that then terrified me so much more than like a full audience today you like things like that when you were a kid feel like i am now i am suddenly doing a rec recital at Carnegie Hall and everybody paid to come here, but I forgot to have a talent to do. Right. And I'm going to be laughed at and I'm going to pee my pants. Like anything of that nature feels like the most high pressure.

That's the video I did with my mom in Disney World, the Gloria Estefan song. And I'm sitting singing karaoke with my mom on this video we bought at MGM Studios and I'm just grabbing my penis like I'm just like nervously touching myself

I'm not like stimulating anything I'm just like I don't know what to do like you're just like I don't yeah that's terrifying

and it's so I was like I remember being like freaked out that like focus is on me and I don't know what to do

I don't know this song I don't know what's going on any memory of having to tell an awkward young boy, please don't touch your crotch? Did that happen for you? It must have at some point.

You can't have a Suicide Squad picture and doing that. Yeah. Yeah, like, I feel like parents back then would just be like, they had no respect for, like might not want it like it was just like stop being a little like just get out there like it's like like as if like forcing you to do it you'll realize this was fun like like right thank you for making me do that but sometimes i mean i don't i mean i this was an interesting thing because it was people from all over the world were coming there. So it was like a lot of people from different countries. I'm not sure how much of them were like clocking.

I'm not sure what they were clocking, but it was very interesting seeing different cultures of stuff react to Batman. I wonder if it's still the Batman. I mean, that feels like almost dated at this point. Do we know? I believe it is. Is this stuff going at all? Yes. Okay.

It is still going. I did not do it. I guess I should have done it, but they have, let me see. Let me, I have a photo of it here. Yeah, this is the same. Yeah. That's kind of a bad photo, but that's the Bat Bike. Okay.

That's a green screen. That looks the same. It looks exactly like it. Yeah. This is also the good old demonstration of green screen at all. There might be people who don't know about that and the magic of, and then you hit the flick of a button, and then you're transported. I mean, look at that video just now.

It's like, wow, it was pretty impressive. It's kind of good. It's pretty good. The Harry Potter one was definitely the popular one, because it really feels like you're flying through, and it's a little easier to believe, it's like for some reason because it's like there's only one batman let's be sure it's like this seven year old is not batman i know but he could go to hogwarts yeah children are at hogwarts typically unless there's students who've been held over there could be a 40 year old stuck at hogwarts

held back many many years actually if you count the Christopher Nolan one there's been three Batman since there's been an Affleck and a Pattinson oh since you mean since then? since then so there's actually a number and hundreds of children who've taken

this tour so technically the Batman number is 3000 that'd be still my favorite Batman sure classic I guess at this point in this tour. So technically, the Batman number is 3,000. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's definitely still my favorite Batman. I mean, Dark Knight.

Sure. Classic, I guess, at this point. But I do wonder if they were to change it up to something else. Like, what's the Warner Brothers?

They got all types of properties. I mean, you could do anything. Oh, Dr. Pimple Popper. What's all this stuff they like now?

It's hard. I mean, a lot of What's all the stuff they like now? It's hard. I mean, a lot of it's been thrown in the trash can, I think, at this point. Yeah, yeah. Zaslav has thrown it away. Is Vanderpump in that umbrella? Oh, baby, I don't remember the rules. Vanderpump. You're going to be in the bar yelling at someone.

Everything is still Batman heavy. DC heavy, Batman heavy. They have models of the Batman Forever Batmobile, which is cool. They have the original. They have like the Keaton outfit, the Christopher Reeve outfit, and then I think the one we put. And they have, I got very excited. They have Mr. Free, Arnold's Mr. Freeze outfit. Oh, yeah.

Which is really cool, and it was lit up. I remember, I used to, some of my awareness of this area and the tour zone in general is that I worked in this building across the street from the lot. Wasn't Warner affiliated, really. But, like, the nearest Starbucks, I think, technically, was the Starbucks in the tour. Or it was that, like, there was, was all right there's one a little bit closer or there's one that's a little bit further and if we all take

a walk over there we can go see the mr freeze costume before we get our cup and we would always choose that one despite it being further yeah what a little boost to the that's better than a caffeine boost is seeing the real miss the lit up Mr. Freeze. Yeah, it's so cool. It's actually a pretty dope costume. I mean, that movie was insane. It's fun, though. It also looks a little shittier than you think

when you're really up close. Oh, really? You're like, oh, it's falling apart a little bit. But when it's lit up and you take a picture, you go, oh, it looks awesome. Yeah. Yeah. But they've got a lot of new stuff.

They have the Pattinson Batman costume. Oh, so they... Yeah, I should take the tour. They have the Batmobile. They have from Batman versus Superman, they have Robin's costume that he was wearing when he was killed by the Joker hanging up here. If you remember this from Batman versus Superman. I have never seen this film.

I don't think I knew Robin was in this film. Robin was in that? He's not. His costume is hanging in the Batcave that Batman has hanging there so he reminds himself of when Robin was killed by the Joker, but Robin is not in there. Jesus.

Gotcha, gotcha. That was a big storyline in the 1980s in the comics that they kind of use as background material in the movie. Yes, that Batman wants to torture himself even more by having his dead partner's outfit. I was going to physically put it up in a way that's like he's gone. Don't want to bring us down, but does he do it in a whimsical Joker way or does he just shoot him in the face? Well, it's unclear. He has, he's spray painted on it.

It says, ha ha ha ha jokes on you batman so i guess it's open to interpretation i don't think fx says exactly how it went down in that movie but it's that's the joker whimsy but the rest was just uh yeah and they got the pull they got the big part of the plane in here the bat plane from which from which, from which one? Did they take it to the Gilmore Girls set? Yeah, I remember doing. Is there a Batplane

in the Pattinson? Is there a plane? I didn't actually identify, this is embarrassing, I didn't identify. I can't remember. Because it's not the original Keaton.

This is like a newer thing. I think it's maybe in Dawn of Justice or something, there's a Batwing or one of the Snyder movies. They do have the Keaton Batmobile. That's shit i'm going to mcdonald's commercials oh yeah weren't we recently

having a conversation about which batmobile we would have sex with yes that was a topic on this show recently yes uh i don't want to make you get in on that but do you have a thought i mean it doesn't have sex just attracted to oh yes yeah yeah Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the sexiness of it. Yeah, you don't have to go near it. Probably the Pattinson one, I think. Oh, really? Can you pull it up? I don't have a good photo of the Pattinson one. I was reminded because I said the Keaton one because it has that kind of

big nub up front, which I feel has... It's very phallic. Yeah, I think that has some... But it could be a nipple as well. Yes. You can interpret that. You can interpret the nub however you want. It's a a nipple as well....garaginous. Yes. You can interpret that. You can interpret the note however you want. There's a single nipple on the front of the Batmobile. Well, of course, the nipples come into play in Batman and Robin. Well, that's true, too.

But we're not... Yes, that's a different point. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. But it was really... That's a whole different sex act. A pioneer of, yeah, before the Schumumacher nipples the car had one giant nipple

and that's why I think I have to declare it the most attractive I mean that was my first thought but then I was I was like

I really like the one in the in the Robert Pattinson one or maybe I just like Robert Pattinson I just want to have sex with Robert Pattinson

you're a scribing pen yeah it's cool cool weird yeah just a couple they have the

Toon Squad jersey here from the first Space Jam. Nice, nice. They have a big Selena. Did they have Algy Rhythm's bomber jacket from the second Space Jam? I did not see Don Cheadle's Algy Rhythm bomber jacket. I didn't see it there. Hey, wait a minute.

There was a problem on the server when Lamar was trying to do his thing and do the friends and family. There was a big mysterious tech problem on the Warner Brothers lot. It was probably the nefarious Algy rhythm that's interplayed by Don Cheadle who lives in the WB server versus messes everything up. From Space Jam 2.

A new legacy. 2015. He was in there. Are you implying he escaped and in the current news site he is responsible for the worldwide computer? Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.

The recent. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think so. I don't remember how. They never stopped him, right? See, I don't know because I fell asleep the hardest you could possibly fall asleep while watching Space Jam and New Legacy. So I don't actually know what became of. Me too.

I'm going to say right before I find out if they won or not I don't know the game but they won Bugs Bunny dies and then comes back to life and it's not really he's like oh yeah he does die what he comes back to life like a camera cut later oh I think a computer deletes him maybe? Yeah, you were asked to feel emotion. You were asked to, with all of your experiences and feelings about Bugs Bunny, now process Bugs Bunny's death and then unprocess it approximately two minutes later. Yeah, the next scene he's just kind of standing in a street corner talking to LeBron and his son. Never mind.

That was pretty crazy. Yeah. Did you see the old penguin in the watch in our baseball game? Are you guys going to play together one day? Maybe. They'll get it right with the third one, I think. Yeah. Who's going to play?

Who's going to be the basketball player? Oh, I don't know. It could be Brawny. Yeah, that's true. Let's bring Jordan back. Yeah, yeah. It's so wild when you think how young basketball players are.

Jordan could totally do it. He's very physically healthy. It'd be a great way to follow up on Last Dance too. Last Dance mania. Just take it into Space Jam 2. Space Jam 3 is more of a documentary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's just doing

an interview he's like so then then I had to go back to fight the monsters but I was still with some gambling stuff yeah yeah

and the monsters said they were gonna turn my friends into theme park attractions and I took that personally yeah yeah and if I see

Isaiah Thomas there I'm gonna we're gonna we're gonna fight him i'm gonna fight him oh man pretty good idea talking trash on bill murray and yeah i would totally watch that that sounds good why didn't we do that parody they're all about space jam yeah that sounds like a that's like a slam dunk that's the thing actually when i yeah well hey what do you say, Mike? That is a thing.

To bring up... Actually, that is a thing that I think about when we pass by, because Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, very close to where we all live, that is a thing that I think about now when I pass by it, is that the tidbit in The Last Dance, that when he was filming, when Jordan was filming Space Jam,

that they, that was one of his, he's like, hey, I need to stay in shape like the movie whatever kind of fun but i have to like yeah uh be the best basketball player in the world again can you just like build me a court and they go yeah sure and that and like and then this cut to this immaculate facility where all the greatest players everybody like traveled to make a point of doing these cool private games and that's the thing i like i've already watched that part of it a lot just like that's so crazy that on this studio there was just michael jordan's private basketball facility where he'd go play four hours after filming all day that's the thing i'd like to know that's the thing i would ask about if i were on

the tour is where was the private yeah jordan oh yeah that's a great because i'm sure they don't have it on the little plaque. Right. Yeah. And is it somewhere that now an official building has been built, or is it that long? Yeah, I wonder. Because they must probably turn that stuff into other things,

I guess, at some point. Yeah, yeah. When there's, yeah, a lot of, like, any lot has the situation. I feel like I was recently talking about how, like, if any studio lot had a giant Western sets area, that got blown up a long time ago to build a fancy new office building or something. Right, yeah. There's a thing I wanted to bring up while we're talking about the tour.

There's only one, like, I've only seen one source on this area. There's a YouTube channel, I think, called Pardon Our Dust or something that brought up how, I don't know how far this got, but in terms of like tourist attractions on the Warner Brothers Studio Tour, have you guys ever heard of this? There was talk of doing something called Superhero City. And what Superhero City was going to be is that like, I'll get hyper specific and local. If you're like on the Hollywood Way Olive entrance,

basically like Hollywood Way is a big long street takes you all the way from the airport there's a like from very far away the street is such that for a while if you're driving south in burbank you are facing the famous warner brothers water tower where the animaniacs live which is kind of cool that like that's like looming over the city yeah it's kind of fun because it's like icon from our childhoods. But so on that side of the studio, basically, they were going to like build around that and make that kind of a centerpiece of it, but that you would drive on onto the studio that way because currently it's all private unless you're doing the tour, but that they were going to take a big strip on that side of it and make like sort of a city walk, a

little bit of a city walk, like a tourist attraction with stores and restaurants and stuff and as part of this gigantic batman and gigantic superman as tall as the surrounding office buildings looming over the studio and a full bat cave that you would have uh gotten to hang out with like no like immersive attracts i don't know maybe some little experience like this too where they film you or whatever um it's insane this is a thing that would change the fabric of the city because it's like a pretty like stately kind of classic lot as it is now there's nothing as stupid as giant batman and superman like morning it's very much like how there were these disney plans michael eisner wanted to build a hotel that just looks like a

gigantic mickey mouse it would have been straddling riverside drive uh and everybody was kind of like what's that oh yeah everybody's staring yeah everybody's staring up while you're under mickey's crotch oh man i love she like i feel like burbank is just like no to all that stuff that city maybe because i think yeah there's kind of, I don't know. There's a style. I would like to think there's, you know, a style, a classiness to Burbank. And that's all pretty stupid. But that's all kind of of the nature of now that there's a big minion overlooking the

101. Yeah. That feels like a pre-minion situation. Right, right. But they did those a couple of years ago. They did like Halloween mazes on the studio tour or i don't know if it was on the tour but it was a separate event but you would go like they made arkham asylum in one of the sound stages they only did this one year though i don't know

if it was a bust or what and it's like pre-haunt it's like right around the time where i started going to these so i'm a little upset that i had to do this because it feels like they didn't want to do it ever again yeah what could have went wrong i mean it's cool right there yeah i don't understand that i mean i guess like i just feel like people it's like the same thing that happens in hollywood too it's just like they green light a show and then the people who did that got fired and now there's new people who are like i don't want to do that and then they kind of like kill an idea this is really the thing. Can executives just keep their jobs for longer?

For God's sake. It's the story of anybody we know. All the biggest shows in the world and movies. Then the executive got fired and then we couldn't do it anymore. I know. Garbage. Just keep these people in their jobs for longer. So people can work.

God damn it. Yeah. I mean, Burbank, they've been different superhero statues have been, or at least the Batman one has been popping up. That's true. I've heard tell that there's maybe a Green Lantern going up at the Empire Center. Oh, really? There's going to be more. Really?

Yes. I think Green Lantern or Wonder Woman. I can't remember. I think it's Green Lantern. There's a Wonder Woman outside the tour. Outside of the new facility. Oh, yes. That's where you, that's like the entrance exit point for the Wonder Woman.

And that's where the Starbucks you would go to? No, it moved, actually. No, it moved. Yes, yeah, yeah. There's like a commissary building. It used to be over there, and then they moved it kind of across the street, which that's a little pro tip hack. If you don't want to pay for the tour,

but you just want to kill a little bit of time and see some themed bullshit it is free to go into the visitor's center yeah you don't even have to go in to see the wonder woman statue and then you can go in and get the most expensive starbucks you could imagine and see like a big brass bugs and daffy and the store you can just walk around like we were killing time before dinner one time like you want to go see what's in there and then like I don't know there's like a big Harry

Potter bell or something if you like Harry Potter do you know what oh no it's a big cup it says whiz anyone know what that's about no alright like the whiz not like the Michael Jackson's whiz no it's not i don't think it's that unless i'm unless i'm vastly misinterpreting no i think this is a harry potter

thing probably the cup the cup is it the god blade of fire could be this really shows you yeah that little i know because when we were doing interviews like we would that i couldn't get into the lot because i didn't have access yet. That was like the one place we would go and meet because I would do stuff there in that Starbucks. And it was like, yeah, you could just walk. It wasn't like. It was a little bit of free stuff to see. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You just got to do the security screening. That's why it's a hassle. The current thing and the one I used to go to at work is that like having to get a security screening in order to get a cup of coffee is very silly. But worth it if you get to see Mr. Freeze. I do see that one pop up on the app every now and then. But years ago, I knew someone who lived over there.

And because there were apartment buildings kind of around the Warner Brothers lot. And they talk about walking to get Starbucks in the morning. I was just like, where the fuck is there a Starbucks in that part of Burbank? And it turns out, I think they were walking to the visitors that they were walking to that Starbucks. I think you were very suspicious or angry or wondering if they were lying.

A lot of people were lying to me about it. It's a good thing the desks were counter built into the wall or we would have flipped it. Jason, would you be excited to know in the gift shop you can buy Wonka's jacket

from the new Wonka movie? Which? The Chalamet Wonka? The Chalamet Wonka, yeah. You can buy his jacket. It looks a little big. Yeah. It does look a little big.

It was on sale. It was marked down from, I think this is, I think it was $119. It is from i i this is i think this is i think it was 119 dollars it is now 1999 wow wow that's so cheap that was a few months ago that's an ambitious ask i would say yeah yeah i think so um but oh yeah i forgot sorry a couple things real quick uh they have in the in the uh tour they have leonard nimoy's cloth napkin from a big bang theory episode oh where he says live long and prosper and he says it's not one of those mobile

vacuum things yeah it looks like that yeah to sheldon live long and prosper leonard nimoy it's a napkin oh it's a napkin on the roomba uh famous Did you ever, did anyone ever go, anyone ever go into the prop like soundstage or not soundstage, but like whatever the area they keep all the props that are rented out for commercials and TV and movies. Yeah. I went in there when I did the first time. I don't remember it too well. Yeah.

Cause like, it's interesting if you've ever, if you've ever gone in anything like this, it's just like, there'll be a room of chandeliers. There'll be a room of lamps. There'll be a room of just weird stuff that just get rented out, like old telephones. There's just a row of them. People come in for an old movie, and they go, I want this, and they sign it out or whatever the money is. And I'm keeping my eye out for exciting stuff for me. And the most exciting thing I saw,

and they didn't mention it, the person didn't mention it, but the big skeleton, like a skull head from Batman Returns that the goons wear at the start of the movie that they're on the motorbike. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah.

I was with my friend Luke and I think he was like, oh my God, look over there. It's the skull head. And I was like, yeah, it is. But it was like hanging out in the corner yeah and i'm like does anybody why do they even have that in here somebody gonna come in and rent that like why is it here um but that is a cool part of the tour because they do have some like things with i think i think we could take photos in there but they have some things that'll be like ah this is the telephone from

uh yeah my fair Lady or whatever. Yeah, no, it's the telephone from My Fair Lady. I don't remember. Maybe like an early one. Yeah. They don't know what to do with it. Yeah, yeah. So wait, did you take the full tour on golf carts?

I took the full tour. Okay, okay. I listened to a full presentation about the magic of the movies with Bang Mankiewicz. Wow. I was eating pastries. I was having like a little orange juice or something uh we're gonna end up with a very jealous jason 105 degrees out it was just and they didn't have any covering over us oh really uh and then we got then we stood up and

we're like okay because we're not sure what was happening i think we were taken there in on a tram uh into this area of the back lot. And then we were like, oh, I guess we're going to do the rest of the tour or whatever. And then a tram pulled up with Ben Mankiewicz and everybody on it and a whole marching band playing like 76 trombones in the big parade. What? Yes, my dream. They did a full little song and dance. The dream. The dream. I could trust that Jason has long referred to this as the dream. Ben Mankiewicz did a full like this little song and the dream the dream

i know jason wasn't there my god he was invited to go i didn't know there was going to be a marching band wow yeah you didn't go why couldn't you go he didn't invite you i invited him i'm not keeping that to forget why but that's the you, you know, when you hear about it, like Warner Brothers, okay, okay. If the headline had been a 76 trombone parade playing 76 trombones in the place where the Music Man was filmed, apparently I have learned from looking at Wikipedia's today. You got a little show. That's what's happening right now. And then, yes, we got in the tram

and then they did the whole thing they you know pointed out sound stages where things filmed and then we drove by the Conan studio

that's empty oh yeah is it just empty we've all been over there I don't know it seemed it just seemed kind of empty I don't know

I didn't go in but weird but the like prop area or the whatever you'd call it the prop house is not so far from there. By the way, Mike, the place you and I met. That's right, yeah.

It started this whole, that's the biggest Hollywood history. It really is. It really is, yeah. Shooting a bit for Conan that Scott directed. Wait, if we never said this on the show, that it was like, yeah, when I worked, because I worked on the lot for the Conan show, and I got a call for a bit, like, hey, the writer who's going to do this is busy, so you need to go downstairs. There's a guy, and he's, like, jumping onto a big futon made of ramen. Go.

And I didn't know what it was or what was considered to be the successful version of that, but that was Mike. I was there, yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was really thrust together and me having to pretend that I knew what I was doing or what to tell you to do. Yeah. It was fun.

You worked there, but I was like, I actually was here a good amount of times. Was that your first time there? The thing you directed, yes, that was the first time. Wow. But then I was there for a couple of meetings. There were other things that happened in that building. So I was like, oh, it's that building and no one's there.

Did it seem like I knew what I was doing and that I'd carefully crafted the ramen bit? Did I present a professional front as opposed to I had no idea it was happening until 60 seconds before? No. I think I was probably like, ooh, I have to really impress everyone with my jumping onto this thing here. And I was not paying attention to if everybody else was comfortable. I remember I was worried that I was going to hurt my teeth biting into the ramen, which is crazy because ramen is so brittle. It's not a big deal. And then, yeah. brittle yeah it's not a big deal and then yeah i remember referencing that i like kind of like made a meal out of like putting my hands by my head and i said it was like a mike hanford move

that's what i remember saying yes which did get my attack like oh i know who that is you know mike hanford all right beginning of this guy's yeah this guy's on the level a friend of hanford so that was sad seeing that's like driving coffee sometime. We have to go through a security check. So yeah, the prop place was right by there. And we got out of the tram at that point and walked through it, which is fun. So yeah, I don't know. The tour was cool. How long was it overall?

I know it was shortened. We were not being given the full tour. Okay. But we were probably done. Once the marching band came out it was probably 45 minutes where did the marching was that like on the back lot was that in a music man type environment kind of it was on like the fake streets and stuff wow so we were all set up in this sort of section i don't even know if i have a good photo of it we're all set up in this section

of like one of the back lot areas and then around the corner we all kind of walked and waited for the tram and that's when the marching band came down this is amazing my god yeah that's like a beyonce concert yeah yeah it was fun again on the tram and they had i forget i should really know his name they had like one old actor there one guy who's at least in his 80s who was like a cowboy he's like good blazing saddles and a few other things and he was there and they didn't have much for him to do there's like here's an old guy who's just seen things he's like oh and he had like his boots on and oh well very nice to be here whatever but then he's on the tram at the front so so like i swear they were all like

waving something in their hands or something as they like turn the corner in the tram so like this guy this old actor guy and i was like oh this is really good this is really funny wow what a strange little show you got i gotta yeah it was really it was really good what's been doing while the marching band was playing was he just tapping his toes tram like waving something around like he was trying to like streamers banners or something like that yeah i really remember they really put him to work they really did yeah they made him they made him do physical effort something that we've said we try to avoid exactly yeah so and this this aligns right with the time when like steven spielberg and a bunch of other directors had to call david

zaslav at warner brothers and go like please do not shut down Turner Classic Movies. Oh, that's right. Is this whole thing in response to like let's give it a presence on the tour, let's show that we're committed in a public way? You showed like David pictures of my face being excited when I saw the

marching band or something? I will keep around the classic films i love that pocket maybe david invited us hey well if you're listening david we love you we approve of everything you've done please don't look at any old tweets yeah yeah we like that you deleted batgirl we heard that it wasn't releasable, and we'm sure you're right. Bold decision-making.

He just hit delete on it. Wait, he deleted our show. He didn't believe us, and he deleted Podcast of the Right. How could he even do that? He doesn't know. Yeah, people seem to love this new Bad Boys, and that's the same directors, but I'm sure the other Batgirl was unreleased. Must have been, yeah.

There's no way they could have solved it. A Batman property of any kind? Who would ever see that? the other Batgirl was unreleased. Must have been. There's no way. There's no way they're going to sell a Batman property of any kind. Who would ever see that? They put the tour, they put all the, they like to have all the stuff they didn't release.

The deleted room. Yeah. The deleted room. Yeah. Would you come out of retirement to put together the photo op for the deleted room?

I would totally do that. Yeah. In fact, I would love to. It's totally awesome. Oh, it's the Western digital hard drive with Coyote versus Acme. It's like, we got to do a stress test. No, we can't do it.

I can't do it no more. Oh, it's USB 2.0, not 3.0. It's not going to be able to handle the strain. Yeah, you're going to have like war flashbacks if we keep this bit going oh yeah i mean it's it i know i it's it's it's i'm gonna have to take a nap after this yeah yeah geez yeah yeah so you you wouldn't necessarily choose to uh go take a spin on the studio tour for fun given your legacy of history i don't know know. It's hard to, like I said, I was also,

it's like, it's such a weird time in my life, but I, I don't know. I would have to, like people, someone would have to come in town and really want to do it. Yeah.

And I'd be like, all right, let's do it. Would you do it in disguise or something to make sure? Just like, hmm. I mean,

Dress like Wonka. I would love to. I mean, definitely like it's like this is a great tool but yeah i think i would do it just to see that like it i'm i can't believe it's still i would actually just care who still works there yeah i would love to see the employees because i i did like them a lot they were like really cool people.

But there's no way they all still work there. People were quitting left and right. It was crazy. Like, even within that time, I'd hired, like, so many different people. But, yeah, man, it was long. I remember it feeling long, like, just when I did it, when I had to do it just for fun for just to experience it but too long because this is like i don't know for anybody who might visit or consider taking this kind of thing like you know you've got the universal tram tour which i did and that's a very like theme parkified you know that's a 50 minute that's a very different beast that's like kind of

a ride and it's a it's it's not at all what a studio tour is, where you're on a smaller vehicle and you're getting out and you're looking at stuff. But that's going to be a longer experience, something you got to commit to for more time. And there's not like a ton of these either. Disney has never offered one, which I've always found odd because i think a lot of people would be interested in seeing the disney lot yeah paramount does it which i don't know anything about paramount seems like maybe sort of a dry one a little bit i don't think they have anything i would do that's my favorite lot the paramount is my favorite lot just that it's a cool lot yeah i like that big like uh uh that big like sea they can fill up and like you you probably

park in what it can be turned into that you can fill it with water and they've got like a backdrop like a blue sky um that's cool it's the coolest gate to drive in yeah you feel like it feels like a very sunset boulevard like yeah i'm like really yeah and how you're in the 40s yeah yeah I like the Disney I mean we were all during the strike it was like a lot of like what lot do you like what lot did you like

I was at Disney it was close to me but also a lot of shade and like I am mad at Disney but also I kind of like looking at the architecture

like seeing the Robert Graves building with the dwarves holding it up and seeing the big Mickey hat I mean I'm mad at them but I'll see I'll see the sorcerer's hat, though, too. I think Daisy was my favorite, too, yeah.

And then just the time it takes to go around. You would go around once, and you would... That's a healthy walk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like I was getting exercise out there. Yeah, I think a lot of other lots, like Netflix, had very little... I don't think I ever went to Netflix, and there was very little like space to yeah you can march here you can march in this like one block little uh it's like a little dog run but disney you gotta yeah that's like uh that's

a big story yeah it was just a good exercise then i used to go to the cbs rapper that's because that's where i was like really it was that's where where all the old white dudes because it was like they would like they would be it was like no talking just everyone had phones

just more like because I was like I don't want to interact with people I just want to like hold my sign and do my laps and then

it was like this shit ain't fun you weren't there to party yeah we go to Netflix at Paramount it was like lit it was like a party yeah yeah it was crack kid went karaoke and shit crazy okay what's happening

which one which one did imagine dragons play in front of that was netflix i think yeah weezer did paramount right oh weezer was paramount weezer was paramount i I forget where. Wow, wow. Yeah, it wasn't there. Boy, strike nostalgia, huh? Those were the days. I know. I feel like I was making some other, what point was I heading for? I don't know. It's just a very different thing that you're getting,

like a two to three hour, like really like getting to explore studio grounds as opposed to the Universal one where it's a very like, you know, crank it out kind of like theme park version of it what do you think mike do you think you'd recommend the experience to listeners who might uh want to take a look around the studio i yeah i think so i mean if you're in burbank already if you're gonna be here especially i mean i guess if you're like making a trip there's enough stuff if you're

like into that that burbank i would recommend in general you don't have to go to the empire center which is a strip mall basically i would say absolutely do not go to empire center yeah that's where we go to target but it's not a place you should visit as a tourist but then also there's another airplane thing too well i think that's why the green lantern is going there because he's like a pilot. He's a pilot? Yeah, yeah. I don't know anything about Green Lantern. Yeah, yeah.

It's a tribute to Burbank's legacy of aviation? I think, perhaps, that's the thinking. I like the Batman in the AMC. Yeah. That Batman statue is awesome. He's cool. That is good. It's great.

It's silly, but it's good. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, there's a school of thought that is like you come to Burbank and you tour Podcast the Rides Burbank. Oh, 100%. good yeah i don't know i mean there's a school of thought that is like you come to burbank and you tour podcast the rides burbank oh you see the marquee of uh uh what's the club the uh uh laughers chucklers flappers flappers yes where jay leno plays every week seemingly you see the hallowed burbank sears which has come up on seemingly every episode for the last few months i mean that's that's that's just a choose-your-own-adventure kind of tour.

So that's what the show can do. But this is a... How's that Raising Cane's? I was so overhyped initially, but then I find myself craving it constantly. It really grew on me. Does it live up to the...

Because I feel like it shows up in places and then giant lines, the clogged streets. Well, I was Mr. Because I've have been mr hot chicken out here for so many years and i was like well it's okay or whatever but then i like more and more would drive by and be like maybe i'm going yeah no i know i did ate it and i was like this is just chicken tennis yeah yeah but every time i see it i'll like turn in there i think it's i think the secret of raising canes is this sort of the same in and out secret of consistency yeah i think that you get like a very consistently good fast food meal every time you go there and because of that consistency it makes your brain go i know

exactly what i'm getting yeah it's because taco bell mcdonald's you can get bad ones of those you can get the b team working one night right right rayson king seems like they always have like the a team yeah they're always on their shit yeah yeah limited menu they only have like one thing in different ways like you know as well there's a chicken tender place at the uh staple at the crypto.com yeah that shit is awful i was like i was like i wanted i was gonna get a hot dog but the line was long and i look i don't know why i didn't they take the note that nobody was in line with it but it was like yeah it was like a raisin cake but it was it was like it wasn't raisin

but it was just like chicken tenders and they had that's all they had i was like all right chicken tenders fries and they immediately gave it to me which is like i like this ain't gonna be good yeah yeah it was just it would dry as hell it was crazy they've got a really good uh promotion going with ice tea right now at raising cane so they have pictures of him in the drive-thru he's like saying hello to you and i'm like this is great wait ice tea the rapper yeah really that was very confusing to me because i was like oh yeah i see yeah i really did not think when you said when you me because I was like, oh, yeah, drinking iced tea. Yeah, I was like iced tea. I really did not think. When you said him, I was like, Kane? Yeah. Who is Kane?

No, Kane is the dog. Yeah. Kane's the dog? Kane is made out to the owner's old dog. Oh, yeah. But they've got like cardboard cutouts of him in the drive-thru if you drive by, like going all along now. So that's extra.

And I'm like, oh, this is fun. I think I love raising Kanes. I mean, mean if it likes it i'm i like it yeah can we justify raising canes as a themed experience too is there enough there because we don't want to step in on the doughboys area right right so we'd have to get an episode that's almost not about the food at all is there enough that's really how like in terms of jurisdiction that seems like that seems like enough yeah it's like it's like a living drive-thru haunt where iced tea jump scares you yeah he's like there's only one sauce you gotta get that sauce because if you don't get that sauce there ain't no barbecue sauce no honey mustard just sauce that's pretty good yeah i've

been working on it i had no idea this would be the first place I would do it. Yeah, wow. What a debut. You got to test it out before Edinburgh, you know? I just sent this to my friend. He's like poking out. Yeah, wait, so what's, so Lamar, what's he saying there?

He's like, yeah, you know, I got a little slushy for you if you don't if you don't move this line along i'm gonna throw it in the window it was just the kind of life we live at raising canes you know burbank it didn't know it wasn't always at airports out here i just like him going i like him going into facts about burbank. Yeah. Safari in across the street. It's in the end of true romance. Iconic scene from movies and TV. I'll pay tribute to Burbank's legacy of aviation. If you don't move this car along, I'll kick you so hard you go flying through the air.

That Sears has been hollowed out for some time. But yeah, man. that sears has been hollowed out for some time but yeah man i uh uh i was gonna say i totally lost my thought yeah that's all i was just gonna say it's fit i i think for sure if you're coming out here do it because it's also like it's a crowd pleaser with like the family yeah we're talking about the tour raising the tourists both okay yeah they're in the same area the tour yeah but grandma and grandpa love the tour the move of Raising Cane's. The tour itself, both. Okay. Yeah, they're in the same area. The tour, yeah. I know what I was going to say. But grandma and grandpa love the tour. They love the movies.

It's enough big stuff. And then there's like the Friends stuff that everybody likes. Oh, wait. Was that part of your experience too? Yeah. The Friends. This was like, it's not, you aren't in the place where the show was filmed. That's something you can see is the Friends stage.

Right. But like, yeah, it seems like they've tried to maintain that there's some central perk replication yeah they yeah they got the real one and then they have they created it and and i was part of that i mean i didn't help build it or anything but that was like just the cameras and you can kind of like there's like a fake camera i don't know if it's fake but you can go in there and see yourself on tv or whatever oh gotcha okay okay uh but yeah that was that was really dope because i love friends i mean i love i guess i would i would go on the tour because i do like a lot of warner brother shit yeah it's weird when you realize like you're a fan of a brand a corporate brand like that sure like it's like oh i like what they do like disney all that shit well they you know the from the

warner brother studio store i don't know if you grew up with any of those around like but when It's like, oh, I like what they do. Like Disney, all that shit. Well, you know, from the Warner Brothers Studio store, I don't know if you grew up with any of those around, but when they had a mall store, like the Disney store, I think that did something to me of like, maybe I like the brand. Wait, Batman and Superman and Sylvester the Cat? This all lives as one thing to me. I understand.

I like Animaniacs, which kind of ties it all together. They meet those characters and parody those characters. So I enough of that fondness i'd say for like 90s warner brother vibe uh and then you add big bang theory on top of that you can go in the gift store and buy a notepad that says bazinga on it now we're talking sheldon both Middle aged man And young version Yeah I was gonna Steve Were you ever at Disney

When they When Danny Trejo Was out there No Handing out Water bottles and stuff No That was cool thing

About Disney I just remember that Oh Yeah Ice tea maybe It was from ice tea To Danny Trejo Just back to this

Trejo was around No Miss Trejo Yeah he would pull up In like a dope ass Like lowrider and just chill on the road and just hand out water to everybody. Wow, wow. Well, I did, though, see. I couldn't believe that I was at the place at the time to see on day one where a classic car pulls up and who should get out but Mr. Classic Car Jay Leno. Oh, wow. classic car pulls up and who should get out but mr classic car jay leno oh wow two boxes of donuts

for 500 striking writers uh okay got out of the car left really quick but then i was like i'm like how did i i managed to be at the spot where i assume the only jay leno appearance of the strike happened uh uh i mean that felt very special that's's very special. Not to pit Leno against Trejo. Yeah, I mean, look, I mean, you can't, I mean, you have no shot. I mean, yours is way better. It depends on who you ask, I think.

I know, yeah. I mean, it was cool. Not everybody's life revolves around Leno the way mine seems to. No, I was excited to see Danny. That was cool yeah yeah um hollywood history it's still all around us and you can experience it in these places uh well i am curious how much of the what you set up is uh is still around or if at least that your spirit of

being a little more casual if the ragtag vibes that you yeah that's what i want to know because i know pixar is always i think pixar in general is probably kind of has that energy anyway even if i wasn't there so i can't imagine it just fully flipped over sure and changed but it's got to be i feel like if i went back i feel like i would know i wonder if i because you probably didn't before i told you that difference yeah you probably they looked like all just warner brothers employees right you didn't you weren't like this feels like a different company yeah i didn't i didn't know yeah like i want to i'm curious how seamless it is or if it's like if i would actually see the like there's a okay there's a company shift here right when i walk into this building but um but you know, man, that was a beautiful time.

Thank you for making me relive it. Yeah, thanks for it. Absolutely, yeah. I know, besides the stress test, which seems stressful to remember, your own stress test and having to relive the stress test. But besides that.

Yeah, it was a stress test for me to talk about it. But you did it. You made it. You survived podcast, The Ride. Lamar, what do you say?ar yeah the ride of this ride this is my favorite ride we're so glad well you're fantastic so good to have you again uh let's exit through the gift shop past the uh now marked down in 1999 wonka jacket uh is there is there

anything you'd like to plug uh yeah just just check out my album, Highly Sensitive Person. It's on Spotify, Apple, all the streaming platforms. But if you want to buy it from me and support the kid, just go to www.lamar-woods.com, and you can buy the album directly. Either way, I'll be happy, but just listen to it, though. That's the vibe. And then follow me at ProfMatic on IG.

Yeah. ProfMatic yeah and if anybody wants to get in touch with you to set up any different photo opportunity things are you open to that or is that done absolutely not do not talk to me about any of that stuff it's a past chapter best chapter you relived with us thank you But in the past. Yeah. I'm still excited about Wax. I think that was a bigger part of my life. Yeah, yeah. Because that was like my first seven years in LA. So I'm always going to have love for a man of two souls for sure.

And yet you didn't go with, as your musical name, The Wax Man. Yeah. Yeah. I might do a tape Like a Like a Oh yeah Called the wax man

And yeah It's all It's all wax Wax themed Put it on wax Yeah literally Different persona Wax on wax

Yeah Chris Gaines Chris Gaines Or you know Garth Brooks' alter ego Chris Gaines You could have an alter ego Yeah

The wax man I play the harp or something. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. But check that out. It's dope. It's about being sensitive and anxiety and stuff like that. Yeah.

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