What's New Podcast - Food News, Dubai Baseball, Toys R Us Locations, New Disney Hotel & More!

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

On this episode we talk Food News, Dubai Baseball, Toys R Us Locations, New Disney Hotel & More!

What's new? What's new with Menace? What's up everybody and welcome to another edition of What's New Pod. I'm Menace. I'm joined by Bortz, a.k.a. Brett. He's an audio expert and syndication expert with the witty show boring show that you can hear across the United States and around the world on AFN. We're also joined by our friends Eric and Randy. They're coming to us live from Downey, California. Yo, yo, what up? Plus, we have our buddy just over yonder in Whittier, California. That would be Tyler, a.k.a. Heavy T in the building, everybody. No.

The energy is always through the roof with Tyler. Yeah. All right, guys. Why did no one save me the last podcast when I was trying to promote my event that's coming up this Friday at Citadel Outlets from 530 to 730? It's been a debacle in my life because I went all over this podcast saying Cathedral Outlets because I was thinking about Coachella before we recorded the podcast and no one corrected me. I just assumed there were the cathedral outlets somewhere that I didn't know about, but I will give you this.

I searched cathedral outlets and Citadel outlets come up. So anybody who would have searched it, they kind of would have been saved, but I just assumed you were going somewhere like cathedral city, I think is a place or something. Yeah. Cathedral. Yeah.

And Coachella Valley. I don't know. You're everywhere, man. This is all over the map. So I was like, Oh, this is one I haven't heard of.

So, okay. I kind of like Eric's so far. Okay. Logical and and the google that's a nice time yeah okay yes tyler yeah so menace calls me i think it was a couple days after the podcast because i was listening to it yeah and he's like dude why did you stop me from saying citadel outlets i said to be fair you go to a lot more shopping malls than I do, so I figured there probably was an actual cathedral outlet. I had no idea you were trying to say

Citadel. Now, unlike Eric, I did not Google, so I don't have that excuse. But yeah, I just figured, yeah, he's more out and about. He knows what he's doing. Citadel outlets this Friday, 530 to 730. I will have a bunch of giveaways as always. Steampart tickets concert

tickets woody show merch and more and i'll be right in front of the giant pumpkin so look for the giant pumpkin i will be right there inside citadel outlets but guys this past weekend i was in las vegas and you know what i miss being with them boys in Las Vegas, man. I wish you guys were there. It was the When We're Young music festival that was happening. I would have loved to see Tyler rocking out to Yellow Card. Dude, Sum 41 was really good. It was a good festival, but you guys weren't there.

That part sucked. Me and my wife were talking about, we saw a couple clips. She was watching a bunch of videos. We saw some Rise Against clips, and we kind of recounted some of our vegas trips and i was like oh you remember that time and like we're like and all of them ended up with yeah we got really wasted it's like we're like oh i remember that time stadium swim yeah that was a great yeah oh remember that remember the iheart music festival we went all together the one year that was dope and then just the little trips in between it It's definitely an experience when we all get together.

That's for sure. Someone was asking me about it, too, because they're like, how come you're not there? How come none of the guys are there? And I'm just like, because we're busy with work. We're all working the NFL season. But it did take me back to all the other times we've been, and I'm just like, wow.

Us as a group, we been to vegas a ton yeah and yeah like eric said every time we are drunk as hell and i would not do that for a thing so yeah i was there um for beyonce and i think i was there the last weekend they had the trees on the front of the bellagio fountains because me and my wife we went with her sister and her boyfriend so we did some of the touristy stuff that we haven't done in a while because they're not there too often so we're like hey let's go walk to the bellagio fountain we did the stratosphere lookout and stuff like that and we you know we did the fountains posted up by the trees usually a nice little spot to strip and now it's like they cut down the trees the next weekend

i think i saw on instagram people were pissed they have the f1 construction in front of it so it's like it feels like it's completely different experience for people who are maybe going for the first time and expecting something and then it's just like yeah grandstands literally everywhere yeah it feels like you're just walking around construction the whole time which there's no strip which is pretty standard for vegas already so just add it on top of that is like a nightmare yeah but just the whole strip not just like little parts of it the whole strip under construction right but i did get to enjoy some food as always and this is where i missed you tyler i hit the bacchanal buffet twice over the weekend twice twice not once but twice no that's i mean that that's my home away from home dude i'm not even not even. Okay. So I've had my parents.

They've asked me about, have you ever done any of the buffets in Vegas? And I've done two. We've done the one at the Wynn, and then I've done the one at South Point. That's what it is. So I've done the one over there. The one at South Point is okay. The one at the Wynn is really, really good. And every time I talk

about it which isn't that often just to clarify no no no it's every five minutes every week remember when I went to the Wynn I went to the buffet he comes out of his room he's like hey guys remember that time at the Wynn I went to that buffet whenever it's mentioned I always come

back to that banana bread French toast. Oh, my God. So, so good. And while we're talking about Vegas recaps, I just got a sudden image of John Gruden as a hologram yelling at me why I should be a Raider. I don't think that John Gruden holograms up anymore. No, it's gone. That's mega gone.

Yeah, just to let everybody know we took an entire tour of allegiance stadium where we got to go into the raiders locker room and at one point they shut off all the lights and then a hologram of gruden when he was the coach at the time beamed into the middle of the locker room and it was absolutely like HD, super clear, the best hologram I've ever seen. And then what? It was gone how many months later after we took that tour? Maybe about like six to nine. Oh, okay.

And then we did the full tour. And this was, I think, the offseason after the COVID season, if I believe so. So they didn't open Legion. They played in an empty stadium. So there's nobody in the stadium watching. So we got to see the owner's box you know mark davis sits in there and it's nice right lazy boy leather couch not see we got to go in it yeah we went in it and tyler sits in the main chair which i'm assuming is in mark davis's chair and i'm like dude tyler's greasy fingers was all over this suite before even mark davis sat in there and watched a game

it was awesome you know the funny thing is that whenever the Raiders do play on national TV and they show Mark Davis, I'm like, yeah, I sat in that chair. I was in it. My tate was in that chair. I was in it. I do want to talk some sports, but let's talk some food news first. Yeah, you ready? Yeah.

All right, food news. Have you guys seen this? Ambers TV, a unique streaming service network entirely dedicated to the world of barbecue. You can visit it by going to amber.tv. Are you all in or all out for an entire streaming network dedicated to barbecue? All in, all the way. I've never drank it, so I think- Can you even barbecue, Tyler?

Dude, I love barbecue. I know you love it, Can you even barbecue, Tyler? Dude, I love barbecue. I know you love it, but can you make it? I can do... Now, if we're talking traditional barbecue... Hot dogs? No. I can roll a hot dog on a grill.

I can roll hot dogs, burgers. I can do some chicken. I can do some carne asada. That's about where that ends. If we're talking southern barbecue where it's sausage links, ribs, brisket, no, I can't do any of that. But I think I remember saying this on a previous podcast. One of my guilty things that I do is that I'll go on Netflix and I'll just watch food competitions because I just find them really entertaining for some reason and there's one that is called it's something along these lines it's like the great

barbecue cook off or something like that and I'm just watching these dudes make this barbecue and my mouth is just watering I can hear it right now you're closing your mouth more your volume is getting lower it's like barbecue bro my mouth right now is like're closing your mouth more. Your volume's getting lower because you're like, oh, barbecue. Bro, my mouth right now is like Noah's

Flood in here, dude. I am so hungry. That's the milk mama's name. Oh, yeah. Oh, all right. I'm going to recant that statement for a ticket. How would your mouth be for this? The newest hottest pepper. This is hotter than the

Pocky Chip Challenge. It was put together by the same dude that is hotter than the pocky chip challenge it was put together by the same dude that came up with the pocky chip it's called pepper x he said that he felt burning for three and a half hours after eating it and was on the floor for an hour when he first ate it are you all in or all out i'm so far out that i'm in a different area code man no way i won't even do the pocky chip stuff dude like that is you know me with spices i'm a little out that i'm in a different area code man no way i won't even do the pocket chip stuff dude like that is you know me with spices i'm a little bit of a anyways so it's like i'll mess up i'll dabble with a jalapeno here and there like even hot cheetos like i'll like my wife my wife beating hot a bag of hot fries i don't have one and she's like is that it i'm like

yep that's it one single hot fry so i don't get the i don't get the i want to be in pain spicy yeah for three and a half hours like like i'll toss some like hot sauce on a burrito you know you know jalapeno some flavor something that adds a little something but if i don't want to be peeing out my butt for five hours after because i ate a damn pepper now tyler have you ever done the pocky challenge uh you seem like you guys would do it i i never have and i never will hey do you know what i'm actually i'm actually kind of glad you brought this up because i do have a story that i don't think i've ever told wow any of you okay so this is going to be interesting shocking so going back to uh 2019 now you've all seen the hot ones on youtube uh you know the the question where they

interview the celebrities with the hot wings and all that stuff, right? So, yeah, I love that show. So there is a very specific sauce on that show that has been there, I think, since the beginning. And this sauce is called Da Bomb. Oh, yeah. Little bottle, the one with the nuclear symbol on the front, right? Yes, their big finisher. Yeah.

I'm well aware of it. Yeah, I think it's like, yeah, the big one. So anyways, I'm at my buddy's house we're watching all the nfl games and we decide hey we're gonna get pizza and wings okay cool so i finished my wings and he's like oh hey do you want any more and i'm like yeah sure i'll grab like two or three he's like all right cool like i'll grab them for you i'm like okay just not thinking anything of it so he brings it back to me, and I'm eating, and I put one of the wings in my mouth,

and I'm like, okay, this tastes a little different. And I noticed that the temperature in my mouth starts going hotter and hotter, and dude, I am on fire. And I was like, what the F is this? What did you do? And he pulls out the bomb bottle. This dude had drenched the entire wing.

The entire wing, which I shoved the entire thing into my mouth. He shoved the entire wing into bomb hot sauce. I was like, you mother ever. Like, oh, my God. I ran to his fridge. I whipped that thing. I gave that fridge whiplash i whipped that thing open as hard as i could i look it through there is no milk and i'm like oh my god and i'm like you don't have any epic milk and like dude i'm freaking out because my my mouth is on fire right he's like i't have any milk, but there's a gallon of water, dude.

I opened the water and immediately start chugging every single drip of water that's in this gallon jug. I ended up drinking, I think about three quarters of it. My mouth was on fire for about a solid 45 minutes. Wow. My ass paid for it the next day. It was brutal. Dude, like I don't, don't, don't do that. It's not good for you. Just don't do it. Randy, how much would it take you to have it? I mean, I'm never one to stray away from spicy food challenges, but that, I don't know, dude, cause it just seems kind of excessive.

How much are we talking? Like, you know, I'm a fair player. So for the sake of like content and doing fun stuff with my friends, I would i would say a fair 125 fair 150 how about this way lighter popeyes and trough collaborate for a spicy trough chicken sandwich are you all in or all out on that one oh that actually sounds good i'm all in now eric would you attempt a trough spicy chicken sandwich with Popeye's? Yeah, probably. I dabble with spicy chicken sandwiches. It's the red trough, so it is their hottest sauce.

Maybe not. Okay, can he try it with a ranch just doused in it? Yeah, that's how I eat my wings most of the time. I'll get the mild or the regular hot, and and then it's like here's a pool of ranch dressing oh yeah all right well how about this apple cider bacon by hormel black label are you all in or all out it seems very christmassy for it right it does yeah does. Yeah. Oh, I'm in. I love bacon. And it's probably a little sweet. And apple cider?

Yeah. I mean, it's probably a little sweetness to it, you know? They have a really good candied bacon at Lazy Dog, so I'm assuming it'd be something up that alley. Yeah. Tyler, do I even bother asking? I'm all in. Yeah, it's bacon.

You know I'm in. That sounds like a Christmas food coma. Oh, yeah. All right. You want some tech news? Yo. All right, guys. I'm having the Mandela effect right now.

I don't know if you guys know all about the Mandela effect. We've talked about it before on the podcast. Yeah, we've mentioned it here and there. Right. It's where the result of something is skewed by the belief of the masses basically when it's not really what happened somewhere right yeah it could be something as simple as like the name of a cereal box or the way darth vader said luke i am your father like that is a total mandela effect for almost everybody out there or like a label looks totally different than it actually was like food of the loom and that's a big mandela effect

right there yeah uh the mandela effect is named after nelson mandela people believe died way earlier than he actually did and i'm one of those people because i swear i was with my friend at his house and we watched his funeral on television and then when he died again later on tv i I was like, dude, I thought that guy was already dead. It was, yeah, very bizarre. But I'm having the Mandela effect right now because remember when we had this huge discussion in the past two podcasts about the meta glasses by Ray-Ban, right? Yeah, right. So the meta glasses, if you don't know, they're smart glasses that Facebook, a.k.a.

Meta, has teamed up with, and you can ask it questions. Hey, Meta, who won the Jets game the other day? Right? Right. And I'll give you the answer. Did I or didn't I say it'll give you the answer in text in your lens? Yeah. Yeah.

Right? I just kept on going off about that. And then Tyler's like, oh, I wouldn't want that while I'm driving, whatever. Yeah, because I don't want to read it. And I was thinking it would be like the Geiger counter from Dragon Ball Z, which tells you in text. Yeah, right. I watched a ton of videos on this thing on theverge.com. So when I was in Vegas, there was a Ray-Ban store and they just came out.

I go to the store and I said, hey, can I test out the new Ray-Bans? And they go, sure, here they are. And then they give them to me. And I was like, yeah, where's the text in the lens? And they go, what are you talking about? I go, the text that's in the lens that, you know, a little bubble pops up, like kind of like a text message. When you ask it the question, they're like, no, it's just audio. I go, no, I watched a bunch of videos of the bubbles popping up in the lens. You go, yeah, we don't know what you're talking about. I was like, oh, the workers, they don't know anything.

So, dude, I go on my phone to pull up the video. None of the videos are there anymore. Bro. With the bubble. Bro. I go, wait, what is happening? So then they had a video screen in the store that had the promo videos for the smart glasses. There's no bubble in the lens.

I go, what is happening right now? Am I tripping out? Did they delete it because they thought it was like false advertising? Was it only audio the whole time? But the videos that I saw, I can no longer find. They scrubbed it. They either went, okay, this didn't work. I didn't imagine went okay this didn't work imagine this this didn't work and we couldn't make it work and we didn't realize it to the end or we never can make it work and we're pulling this stuff like we we've talked about this before there's certain

celebrities that if something we won't name who if they say something off it gets scrubbed from the internet yeah you cannot find it again. We know a couple. Yes. It is that level of freaking hierarchy in the world. Whatever it was, Ray-Ban was like, pull it. Because, guys, wasn't I going off on this thing of exactly how it was working? You were stoked for it.

Yeah, that's all we talked about. And then no one knows what I'm talking about. Am I in another dimension? You were the one who wiped their mind, and you're the only one that remembers. Why would I do that? I want the glasses with the bubbles. I don't know, man. He said you would drop all the money for these glasses. Yeah.

I'm just saying we got to look at all the angles, bro. We got to check everything out. Make sure it's all there. All right. Is he high? Yeah. What happened to him? There was that other piece of tech news while I was in Vegas.

I think Tyler's the one that might want it now. Changing subjects. That Eric actually was posting in the group chat. Spider-Man 2 visuals on the sphere. Also the Xbox visuals on the sphere that were happening. Because TwitchCon was happening next door. Oh, that makes sense. Okay.

Venom on the sphere badass yeah they had venom they had the full uh spider-man like a little chest piece they had his full mask um i think it's coming out it already came out on ps5 i think but i'm still a little jaded that i mean that's one of the ones that that's not cross platform promoted because when i was living in glendale with you know a couple of my roommates he had a PS5 I played the original Spider-Man game and it was a blast but it's not coming out for Xbox so I'm a little a little mad about that yeah they were battling out this is a PlayStation's revenge for uh Xbox having Halo as an exclusive all those years ago so that Spider-Man game is fun man that Spider-Man game was super fun wild, though, that they're selling all those advertisements for the Sphere already.

Like, the Xbox one looked pretty sick. But, you know, before those started getting everywhere, me and Eric had seen this video of Pokemon. And we're like, this has to be real. Yeah. They had to have done this. And it's fake. And we're like, how could you not do this? Oh, it's coming.

Like, Pokemon Go Fest in Vegas. I'm sure it's gonna happen stuff is i mean it was already massive and they're barely even doing any events they have like this discover earth thing where it's you know um you go in and watch and they had was it you two opened the sphere their first concert so like the the events that are there are still really minimal it's like eventually ufc will be there it'll be massive like it's it's it's insane when you see it in person it's crazy like videos are crazy to see but they don't do it justice when you're when you see it in person and see how big it is insane yeah it's nuts there was ins and outs

at the when we're young music festival so nacho and i decided to take a break and of course we went to go eat sushi and we sat at the bar and we're eating and what's up on there something that you guys got me into college football it was a UCLA versus Stanford game and I guess I I would have to root for Stanford because I grew up like 10 minutes from Stanford and I mean I guess that would be my home team if I was going to pick a football team or UCLA, because, you know, I did take some classes online at UCLA. So I'm kind of torn, but they were just like crushing Stanford. Yeah. College football is an interesting beast, man.

You never know who's going to win. The same goes any given Sunday for like professional football. But I mean, it really honestly is like any given Saturday because these big-time programs come in and they get their butts kicked by these smaller programs. And then crazy stuff happens all the time. Who's your team? Arizona State, I would say. I mean, they're where I quote-unquote graduated from, even though it was like an online school. Yeah, that's your alma mater.

You got a rep from. Yeah, it's my alma mater. You know, I have like the little magnet on my fridge about like the cheer whenever the team is playing and stuff. So, I guess ASU. I i mean i grew up on sc i didn't go to a school with a football team so there's no like loyal to the soul stuff for me but i mean i grew up in the pete carroll reggie bush matt lionard era where they were just smacking teams and winning championships yeah i actually have the same answer for the same reasons grew up in the reg the Reggie Bush, Pete Carroll, Matt Leiner days. Those teams back then when we were 12, 13, those teams were unstoppable. I went to PCC. I didn't even go to

university, so I definitely didn't really have a football team that I'm going to. I enjoy just watching college football more than anything. College football is so crazy over the top. I love the rivalry games are nuts. We just had Michigan, Michigan State. Michigan wiped the floor with them, but that's always a crazy finish. College football is so unpredictable. That's why it's so fun to watch. I always get mad FOMO watching these stadiums. Matt, the big house in Michigan has 100,000

people there every Saturday. It's like my basketball stadium had a subpar team and we would get like 200 people. I had more people at my hockey games for a club hockey game than some of my athletic programs. It's fun, man football is nuts it's a fun watch so every saturday there's something wacky going on all right well switching to nfl eric we are in a different universe because the bills are losing and the falcons are winning what is happening oh man i i say every week dude

the bills the bills are gonna bills Bills. They look bad. Josh Allen looks bad. The offense looks bad. The defense can't win them every game. You know, the Falcons usually win when I pick against them in our little picks thing we have with Randy and Tyler and myself. I want credit for them winning because I cannot pick a Falcons game right. I usually will pick them and they'll lose.

I'm off it. I'm off it. I don't think I've picked the Falcons game right all season. So I want credit for the young way. Who was a 51 yard or two in this weekend? Because I picked against them. I picked the bucks. Now I'll double check the stats.

I got to go back. I'm almost certain. I think I picked the wrong game or the wrong winner. Every game this season in their game. Now, Tyler, do they still have that bum ass quarterback that was in the quarterback Netflix show on the Falcons? No. So they still have that bum ass quarterback that was in the quarterback Netflix show on the Falcons?

No. So we went from one bum ass quarterback to one slightly better bum ass quarterback, I guess. So Marcus Mario to the guy in quarterback, I believe he's still the backup in Philly. So I believe he's Jalen hurts back up. Okay. So he's gone, but the guy that replaced him, Desmond Ritter, this dude dude sucks i hate him so much what do you want a game no it was the ugliest win i it's one of the ugliest wins i've ever seen uh won't even get into the whole bijon robinson thing because that's a whole another mystery in it by itself uh but desmond ritter takes the falcons to the one of Tampa. And let me rephrase that.

Or let me explain that again. Not his own one, as in the goal line is behind him. The other team's one where he has one yard to score. This dude got there and fumbled the ball and lost it at the one twice. This dude sucks. He gives no stress. One of those fumbles there's a video floating around where he thinks he has a touchdown and he kind of has a smile on his face and the guy just comes up

and strip tackle and it's just like it's enjoyable to watch because i'm not a falcons fan but yeah it's it's a little less enjoyable when i pick him to win oh no all right uh yeah i was i was livid is the easiest way to say it dude this team gives me heart palpitations. It's still the most toxic relationship I've ever been in. That's the high cholesterol. It could be a combo of high cholesterol and hot sauce. I'm just not having it. This isn't fun for me when I have to hear this. If Tyler's not in pain during NFL talk, what's the point for me?

It's the upside down world right now. That's what I'm here for. Do we care about baseball right now or no? I do because the games have been mostly entertaining so yeah i do no kids it's texas not even that i'm actually kind of more entertained in the philly arizona one did you guys see that what i put in the group chat last night was dubai has announced a baseball league it's called united baseball i believe and they picked up a lot of former pro players did you guys look into that at all did you see it dubai just prints money dude they're just like throwing money around they're buying up teams.

They're making their own leagues. It's wild to be honest. Tyler, they do have a team called the Falcons. Are you all in or all out? God damn it. Fly, Falcons. I'm going to take a hard pass for right now. Oh, my God. I just saw who's playing in this league.

It's Robbins Cano and Bartolo Colon. Big Sexy is back. He's back,'s back baby now this is the thing guys i try to bring up live golf before right that was kind of backed by people from dubai and everybody made fun of it like ravey who's a golf purist and all these people and i go dude live golf it's awesome and they're like no one's watching it. Blah, blah, blah. It's on the CW. Guess what happened? Live golf ended up buying golf. That was a crazy golf civil war

there. They own golf now. So don't sleep on this Dubai League. They're just getting started. We will sleep on it. We will sleep on it. Bartoli, Romer, Cano, they're fun and all,, they're just getting started. We will sleep on it. Bartolo, Colon, Robinson, Cano, they're fun and all, but they're not going to... Cristiano Ronaldo went there

and I haven't seen a Ronaldo highlight from Dubai since he went. I get it. It's going to make a little wave here and there, but there's a difference. You're not going to revive or create a league with Bartolo Colon, who wasn't good.

You're going to start one. It's going to start really fast, though, because it just got announced, and they're already going to start having games in mid-November. Yeah. No. Sorry. All right. You say that now.

That's how they call up Tyler. Like, Tyler, we need you to do some podcasting in Dubai. Are you in or out? Guys, I already have a Dubai shirt and flag. My Falcons United baseball hat on. Yes, that too. God. Falcons Dubai all the way.

Here's the thing with golf. Golf is a lot easier to do because you just have to buy up single players because it's like a one-on-one competition. I mean, obviously, you have a giant field of players it's like a one-on-one competition. I mean, like, obviously, you have a giant field of players, but it's one-on-one. With baseball, you got to get, what, 25 dudes for one team? Like, that's, good luck with that, dude. That's not taking off.

That's going to be right where it's at. We're not going to watch games in Dubai when it's 6 a.m. on the West Coast, baseball games. Yeah. You travel around, the time zones are a little more manageable. Like, this is my thing about the London supposedly getting rumored or it's never going to happen, but getting a Super Bowl. Like, you can't shift around these time zones. Like, American time zones just won't let it happen. Nobody's going to watch.

Like, you can't have a 9 a.m. kickoff on the West Coast for the Super Bowl or you have to have a 10 p.m. to make it manageable in London there. It's like, what time is it in Dubai right now? to have a 10 p.m. to make it manageable in London there. It's like, what time is it in Dubai right now? It's freaking 10 p.m. So like three hours ago, usual 7 p.m. first pitch. So three hours ago is what? 8 a.m. on the West Coast?

Yeah, you can have your morning Joe and watch some baseball. I mean, it's going to get something. People are going to take the paycheck because people want the money. Of course.

Like you said, Cano and Bartolo, Colon, they'll get a know twitter videos because so-and-so's back big sexy's back but nobody's gonna watch all right we'll play because the money like cristiano ronaldo he took the money nobody's seen him since all right we'll see guys we'll see how it plays out uh brett you had some time off i'm assuming that you went and did some shopping right you went and go picked up some collectibles yes did you see this and one of your favorite places toys r us is relaunching 24 stores we've heard about this but the whole thing was when they talked about these 24 stores i don't know if you caught this part they said we're gonna go air land and sea see yes where are they going

and the first announcement was air and they're going to put a location in the dallas fort worth airport and the sea they have not announced it yet but they're going to be on some cruise ships as well also they already have a two-story location open in new jersey at american dream mall but that's just only a few of many stores that they'll be reopening. Are you all in or all out? I'm all in. Yeah. But man, this just depressed me.

You know why? Why? Because they keep giving me these false promises that are opening up stores. Hey, guys, they're going into the mall. Well, they're really going in Macy's. And then it depends on what's the size of Macy's, which size of Toys R Us you get. Now we're gonna put one in an airport. Now we're gonna put one on cruise ships. They're all over Canada!

Just put them back in the freaking stores! And Philippines? Dude, just put them back where they were! They're still open. They still put Spirit Halloweens in them every year. Just put them back. It's easy. How can they thrive in Canada, Mattis? They're all over Canada. How? People still go there

and buy stuff. Just give me a place to go buy crap. That's all I want. I think the cruise ship part is genius. That one's genius because there's kids on cruise ships and they get bored easy. You can just buy them some toys. Airport stuff is like, ah, whatever. There's

Lego stores in airports. Not a big deal. Manus, you don't know what I'm dealing with. I'm having to fight scalpers at Target and Walmart. They're locking up the toys at Walmart because the scalpers keep stealing them, and I can't get my damn Star Wars action figures. Ah! All right. How about this?

Did you hear this news? Well, we're currently standing. They're reopening Sears at the mall. I've seen it! So I went into the mall. This is part of my shopping excursion, right? And we look and we're like, why is there stuff inside of the Sears? Are they filming something?

Are they doing a back to the 80s movie? Kind of like Captain Marvel where, you know, Stanley was in it reading Mallrats. Like, how are we going back to that time? They were training people in the courtyard how to work at Sears. Whoa. It's coming back. Anybody here have nostalgia for Sears? Are you guys too young?

Nah, dude. I have nostalgia. Do you have nostalgia for anything that isn't crappy teams that lose all the time? I mean, actually, hold on. I do have for one. So Toys R Us, but KB Toys was pretty cool. Oh, yeah. But no love for Sears.

Nah, you know what? There was a Sears over here at the at the Whitwood over in Whittier. Didn't really go in that much, even when I was a kid. That's a lie. I just remembered. I just had a sudden flashback where I just had a sudden flashback where on the weekend every year, and I don't know if your guys' parents did the same, but my mom would take us to get our picture taken every year for your birthday.

Yes, the Sinners photo shoot. We need a copy of that. I just immediately got an intense flashback of that. So, yeah. They were super popular for that. Maybe I do have a slight by the elevators or like the bathrooms where the little yeah studio gift wrapping area was oh my gosh yeah next yeah it's like that was the thing it was like you go there get your your back to

school clothes or you get your family photos where's those photos Tyler I first off I don't know hopefully it's locked away forever second That's the podcast picture this week. Yeah. Second, I'm pretty sure all you guys have seen Ratatouille. So remember when the guy eats the Ratatouille towards the end of the movie and he has like a childhood flashback? Spoiler. That's literally how I'm feeling right now. Just going all the way back like, oh, my God.

The extra wide lens like they're taking an army platoon photo during world war ii shell shock syndrome he's like 25 people in this photo okay here we go oh wow um yes i do miss sears though i'm excited for brick and mortar to be opening everywhere toys r us sears it's awesome i love seeing physical items i do shop online but i love going into stores and looking at things and just touching them and seeing how good the quality is speaking about toys toy story check this out pixar place hotel the first fully pixar themed hotel is hitting the United States and officially opening at Disneyland January 30th, 2024. Now this is an official remix of Paradise Pier Hotel. So it's not like from the ground up. Okay. Right. This was the building in the back in the middle of

that big parking lot, right? Yeah. So youneyland hotel you have grand californian and now you have this hotel which i always forgot about yeah right this because this was up before most of that stuff i remember this parking when the in the back when it was just an empty lot basically and yeah it was just plopped that was where my sister and her like baton team used to stay we do the paradesades down in California Adventure. I've only stayed there one time. I've never stayed there but I only know about it because me and Tyler had a romantic meet up in that parking lot during COVID.

Oh we did that's right. Because we were trying to get into stuff downtown Disney during COVID but that's when they were like you have to check in you have to wait in line 45 minutes and the only parking area was the Pixar Pier Hotel. Wow. It's kind of the forgotten, the redheaded stepchild of the group.

Because the Grand Californian is dope. And I used to always use that as a cut through to get in the back way into California Adventure. You'd go through the hotel lobby and they had the little side entrance. Or you're going through the downtown Disney area. And I always think, how dope would it be to have... i don't know why as a kid you're thinking this like how cool it'd be to look in like over california venture when it's closed like you have a little balconies that overlook it actually is really cool though it's like oh it's 11 p.m and there's nobody around now if i had to choose though i would go disneyland hotel when it comes to rooms. Grand California, obviously for convenience because it's attached to the park.

Right. But the Disneyland Hotel rooms are way better, I feel. I've never stayed at either one. But ironically, a week or two ago, actually about a week and a half ago, I was at a wedding at the Grand Californian Hotel. Oh, damn. actually about a week and a half ago i was at a wedding at the grand californian hotel oh damn and yeah we were changing in one of the rooms because uh i wasn't a part of the wedding party but the groom was like one of my close friends so like you know we're all just getting ready and everything and those rooms are actually really nice this is the first time i've actually ever seen it yeah

they're really really nice and like the grand california i've known from the lobby that it's a beautiful hotel but you actually like walk through it it's really really nice in there so like i'm it's like a cat hyped yeah i'm kind of hyped to see what pixar has but yeah as far as uh which one's better i have no idea so i don't think we've talked about it but i read something online that they're gonna add like a whole new area yeah that's gonna take over part of the downtown disney area i think i was looking at like that I don't think we've talked about it, but I read something online that they're going to add like a whole new area. Yeah. That's going to take over part of the downtown Disney area, I think. Uh-huh.

I was looking at like 12 new attractions or rides. I think they're also Pixar themed, which makes sense because that's where this California adventure side where all the Pixar stuff is and going to be pretty adjacent to this new Pixar themed hotel. Yeah. I was talking about this with my brothers last night uh over in downtown disney they're putting two new restaurants in there one of them is gonna be this japanese food place that my brother described that sounds really really bomb but the other one they're putting up portos in downtown disney oh yeah there's gonna be a porto's at downtown disney nice i heard down to disney's food game is next level earl sandwiches ballast point breweries oh my god they really stepped it up i could be wrong but i don't know if you're maybe confusing it or

it's even another place but i heard that they're putting din tai feng there okay that's the name of the place oh yeah the japanese place yeah din tai feng is taiwanese oh okay yeah so he was describing it no i i went to uh what was that uh italian place called naples uh that's the one that's right next to the tram that place is bomb dude like downtown disney's food game i miss the og downtown disney rainforest cafe espn zone dude espn zone used to be my go-to birthday spot like a little like teenage pre-teen eric like oh yeah let's have a birthday party at a sports related sports bar like before i could do the sports bar thing it's like i miss espn zone that's very you yeah it's so funny because i remember when i was a kid I'm flashing back way too much on this podcast,

but I remember when I was a kid, I used to not like sushi. I used to not like Chinese food. And then as I got older, I guess my taste buds changed and I grew an appreciation for it. And it's so good. Like, I don't know what I was missing back then. It's so

good. I just keep picturing Tyler sitting there flashing back to little Tyler like going through these experiences. Honestly, I don't know what I was missing back then. It's so good. I just keep picturing Tyler sitting there, flashing back to little Tyler, going through these experiences. Honestly, I don't like this. In his little outfit going to Sears. I don't want to do this. I don't want this food. All right.

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I am officially a Mumbai Cobras fan. Nice! The draft was highlighted by draft dean Karan Patel, baby. Let's go. Yeah! Tyler, do you have anything to say before we leave? I'm going to be real. I'm flashing back so much that i think i'm in a weird state of limbo right now wait wait where are you right now you're limbo yeah what part of your life are you in i think literally in his childhood bedroom dude like what are you talking about his whole life

i'm not even joking eric mentioned baseball and Okay, so I'm already flashing back, right? Yeah. So Eric mentioned baseball, and I just got a vivid memory of watching the Angels win game six in the mountains because I was not home at the time, and we had this tiny little TV. So I'm just like, that was back in 2002. Wait, you were in the mountains watching the game? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was in the mountains watching the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in the mountains watching the game. Where in the mountains? And now I just got. This was. It was a little. It's a little bit before Big Bear. There's this place. I don't know what I'm thinking, dude.

You were in Big Bear. Like, where would you have gone? No, no, no. There's this place. There's this place below that my family used to go to all the time. It's called Forest Home. I think it was some kind of like Christian resort. Ah, that's why I was going to say it.

But no, I vividly remember being there for game six. And then ironically, the year after, I vividly remember coming back down the mountain from Lake Arrowhead, listening to the Marlins and Yankees on the radio. And the reason we were coming back down is because that was the year that Lake Arrow had had insane forest fires really late into the year.

And so basically we had to be evacuated and we just ended up going home. Is this Tyler's midlife crisis? I'm having a mental breakdown. What is happening? Foresthome.org, Family Christian Camps. Perfect balance of rest, relaxation, reconnecting, and fun. The perfect balance of meaningful, fun time with your kids.

Nice! To be fair, it was actually pretty dope. Yeah, I'm sure it was fun. I went to Christian summer camp. Yeah. Up in Big Bear. I went to a Christian camp for like a week up there in the winter. Paintball in the woods.

But also across the street from that is usually the fat camp where they said people, remember the movie Heavyweights? Same thing. Tyler's bouncing back and forth across the street from camp to camp. There was a blob at the lake that we used to jump off of. Wow. We know what side of the blob you were on.

You weren't the one being shy. You were the one providing the force. Wow. We have to do like a check-in with Tyler in an hour to see where the hell he's at in his life. of the blob you were on. You weren't the one being shy. You were the one providing the force. Oh, wow. We have to do a check-in with Tyler in an hour to see where the hell he's at in his life. Putting Tyler on the wrong side of the blob would be a problem. Are you dying? Are you replaying your life

in your head right now? Bro, I may not make it to next podcast. I'll see you guys later. Alright. Randy, do you have anything to say before we leave? We'll get them next week. All right. All right, guys.

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