What's New Podcast - Gravy Roller Coaster, New 75 Car Drive Thru, New on Netflix & More!

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

On this epsiode we talk Gravy Roller Coaster, New 75 Car Drive Thru, New on Netflix & More!

What's new, what's new with Menace? What's up everybody and welcome to another edition of What's New Pod. I am Menace, I'm joined by Bortz, aka Brett. He's an audio expert and syndication expert with the only show that you can hear across the United States and around the world on AFN. We are joined by our friends Eric and Randy who are coming to us live from Downey, California. In the same building but not in the same room. Just over yonder is our friend Tyler who's coming to us live from Whittier, California. And just before we get started, I got to do some business

because August 26th is going to be super busy, y'all. I have two events that everybody can join me at. First one is in Santa Ana, Orange County. You better show up because you've been begging for it. I'll be at Metro by T-Mobile from noon to 2 p.m. at South Bristol Street. Again, noon to 2 p.m. As always, I'll have theme park ticket giveaways,

concert giveaways, and we'll show merch and more. So come on out to that. And then later on in the evening, I'm going to be at Comedy Fest LA in Bellflower. It's a huge comedy festival. If you love comedy, come on out to that. And then later on in the evening, I'm going to be at Comedy Fest LA in Bellflower. It's a huge comedy festival. If you love comedy, come on out. It's going to be outdoors. They're going to have food trucks.

They're going to have beer and more and a huge lineup of comedians. And you can get $10 off your ticket right now if you use the promo code MENACE in capital letters at ComedyFestLA.com. Now, Eric, Randy, did you guys survive the Taylor Swift concerts at SoFi Stadium? Because your office is right next to it. Now, did you guys have any issues with like traffic and stuff like that? I mean, we're there at 9am. Parking lots didn't open until noon. But like the crowds weren't too crazy. Luckily, we were getting out right as most were coming in so like i'm sure if we had to work like if it was a sunday night football day where we were there at like 11 or 10 o'clock and the concert was getting out i'm sure that

would have been a nightmare but we were the timing of it all kind of i i think works for me i'm speaking for myself i'm pretty sure randy's about the same but this the crowd wasn't that bad i thought there would be people camping out seeing seeing people everywhere. Yeah, because... I know the whispers around the office was BTS kind of outdid them, the BTS crowd. Really? I mean, Swifties, where you at? Because in other cities,

there were huge crowds outside the stadiums and people just listening to the shows. I know there were some videos posted on TMZ of the community that's, like, right at the edge of the parking lot of SoFi Stadium and how loud the concert was like you can clearly hear every single word yeah I think SoFi kind of locked it down and we didn't want we didn't want that because yeah I saw a couple like Gillette and Loman and it's like yeah there was people outside tons of people in like the quad area outside the

stadiums I think SoFi was kind of trying to avoid that, and I don't think they were letting too many people just kind of linger outside of the stadium if they didn't have a ticket. I will say there was a lack of street dog vendors at SoFi Stadium. Yeah, it's like football games and most other events, they're everywhere. I mean, I saw a nose.

I mean, apparently Swifties aren't down with the bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Weak! They're missing out. Yeah, so I overheard a conversation that Eric had with someone about how, like, yeah, I don't think Swifties aren't down with the bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Weak! They're missing out. I overheard a conversation that Eric had with someone about how, yeah, I don't think Swifties are built to eat bacon-wrapped hot dogs. And then I jumped in.

I was like, yeah, I don't know if their bodies could handle that kind of Los Angeles cuisine greatness. Yeah, man. Pink cowboy hats, sequins, sparkles. The crowd was cool to watch. You've seen where we work. Our office windows overlooked one of the main entrances. The outfits were cool. I mean, it looked like a Raiders game just with pink, to be honest.

Nice. The outfits they were wearing, it was crazy. That's cool. Now, Tyler, I know you're a big country fan, but are you into Taylor Swift at all or no? I kind of am. I'm definitely more into her older country stuff than I am her newer poppy stuff than i am her newer poppy stuff

not saying her newer poppy stuff isn't good like it's it's decent it's just not solely my style but i do know that she just did uh re-release her i can't the speak now album i think it was uh the taylor's version it's really really good and you know she has those songs that are from the vault that i don't know when she recorded them or whatever but one of them is uh electric touch with fallout boy and that one is really fire really good that one is amazing i love that song yeah she also announced that she's re-releasing 1989, the Taylor version, and is going to have five bonus songs on it. Dude, she is just printing money. Dude, she really is.

Yeah, I wanted to ask you because I know that you're a big country fan, and I was wondering if I'm no longer a Taylor fan because she's just doing pop now. Nah, nah. now but nah nah i mean there's there's plenty of artists who have gone from like the countryside to the pop side and there's plenty of other artists who have gone from like the pop slash like rocky side to the countryside i mean i'm trying to remember his name the head dude from uh hootie and the blowfish blowfish yeah yeah uh darius rucker yeah yeah yeah so he transferred yeah he transferred over to the countryside he's done pretty well and a little more lesser known but nelly has kind of also slits ever so slightly into the countryside yeah he did stagecoach right or something like that he did some country festival yeah i think he did do stagecoach but he's also like he's done a good chunk of country songs with guys and i remember

um i went to go see this was maybe back in like 2017 i went to go see uh florida georgia line at the honda center and nelly was the opener it was great it was so fun that's cool uh switching it up what do you guys think about the barstool sports sale i'm loving it i can tell already in the first 48 hours that the content is way better than before yeah i mean that was they were they were catching slack all over the place about just like whenever they would have to do something and it's like, oh, wow, you've changed. The pirate ship has changed.

Portnoy's got nothing. So it's like, it's one of those things like, you want the money or do you want to be able to control the brand and what you built kind of thing. So, I mean, it was going to happen eventually. It came out of nowhere too, so. I know. Yeah. I'm, it was going to happen eventually. It came out of nowhere, too, so. I know. Yeah.

I'm sure ESPN is super excited. Were the Barstool podcasts going soft? Because I don't listen to too many of them. There's like a couple that I'll interview wrestlers that I'll jump in and kind of watch from time to time. What happened with Barstool is a betting company bought them. So once you're run by a betting company, there's all these regulations that you have to

deal with so the type of content that you do is regulated so you can get in trouble for a lot of stuff and then so you had to be careful just like how we're careful we work for a corporation right but when you're independent all the rules are out the door you just do whatever you want right and that's what kind of made them popular because they did whatever they want and it was crazy. And then they became regulated and they got a lot of crap for that. But Portnoy, the founder, dude, he comes out like a king. He got all the money. Yeah. Then he got the company back for free. Well, the breakdown is that he got the company back for free. But here's the thing. If he ever sells the company again, which he says he never will,

but I think that was a dumb statement. I think eventually he might sell again. He has to give 50% of the profit to the company Penn Sports Betting. He also can't start his own betting app, which he won't do. And then the third one was he can't promote any other betting apps.

And that's it. Right. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me ever since they announced the news he's just been stoked and just like really just sounds like more upbeat in general and like i'm not saying like their content was bad while they were under pen but it was definitely a little more watered down because you have to be on the corporate side you have to fall yeah and everything now when you're on the pirate ship as you know a lot of those companies who are just their own like independent yeah yeah independent it's pretty sick i mean you can pretty much do

whatever you want there's no rules yeah i'm just wondering how dave is going to fund all this you know he's not going to want to use his own money so he's going to have to line up some sponsors real quick every other week they were promoing a new barstool sports book in a new in a new city so i'm sure like they i'm sure i mean pen get pen gets partnered up with espn bet now so i mean they're not you know they're not losers in this they're coming out on top too so but yeah barstool now has complete control over it which i mean which is what the problem was a lot of their followers were calling them soft because they would fall in line to you know the the big hand that oversees them i understand that i would have called them soft too yeah but gotta pay the bills guys gotta pay the

bills yeah they have a show called lowering the bar and yesterday an hour after it got announced they posted a video that was that had obviously been recorded a while ago, which was, who in the office can roll blunts the best? Yeah. And, yeah, so it was like, without skipping a beat,

they're right back into it. Yeah, that's great. People thought they were forced to fire one of those guys named Mincy. Like, they were forced to fire him because of Penn. He was rehired,

released a video that he was rehired within like an hour or two after the announcement. So it's like, it's all falling back in line for Barstool to be kind of obnoxious barstool again yeah uh dave portnoy has this i don't know he has this uh podcast with a couple other people i think it's about relationships or something and it's hilarious yeah i don't know if you saw that one podcast yeah

i'm already like way into that i mean i, I at least watch the clips on TikTok. It's really good. This weekend kicks off Rams versus Chargers. Rams being the home team on this one. You guys are in the thick of it, dude. You ready to work? I know. Yesterday or the other day at the office,

me and Eric were in the office the other day and we were like doing some stuff on our computers. And then we started hearing the Rams playing their entrance music, and the announcer was practicing a few lines like, Whose house? Rams. And Eric looks at me and is like, we're back. Nice.

Yeah. It's like your ears kind of perk up, and it's like you have flashback to last season. And Randy pointed out, he's like, because Louis G from Big Boy Mornings, just down the hall from you guys, he the voice at most charger games he's like just a matter of time before we hear louis g yelling at us at our desks yes because we're right we're right by the front of the stadium so like people on the other side of our building don't really get a good don't really hear much we hear everything because we're right by the the entrance of the stadium and it's every time they play something our windows shake a little bit we hear it that charges cannon that goes off when they score touchdowns like if you're not ready for it it's fun i like setting off the

cannon i've gotten to do it a couple times is there any games that you're looking forward to this season that you're actually going to go to uh just a heads up guess where i'm going to go i'm going to go to the raiders versus steelers game in late september that's gonna be fun at allegiant i mean we've been inside allegiant but i've never been there for a game you know who's been there for multiple games already it's spicy nacho my wife yes damn really but they're all soccer games but she hasn't been there for a football game still man she's showing you up yeah i'm excited for that one and of course all the chargers games that are going to be happening can get tickets at chargers.com of course anything on the horizon for you i mean we've talked about it that bill's at chargers game december 23rd right before my birthday saturday night it's gonna that's the main one

that's gonna be huge yeah any of those games are so far it's a fun time like i went to rams raiders last year my wife's dad's a raiders fan i mean i didn't care about either one of those games in SoFi, it's a fun time. Like, I went to Rams Raiders last year. My wife's dad's a Raiders fan. I mean, I didn't care about either one of those teams. The game was kind of booty, but it's fun to be in SoFi, dude. It's like, you get in, you kind of, it's been, this is probably one of the longest times us as a group or individually have gone without being in SoFi. So it's one of those things when you,

every time you walk in, you kind of forget, and then you walk back in, you're like, damn, this is a spectacle. This place is massive. So that first game, I don't know what game it was going to be in. Hopefully I go to a couple before that December game. But I know that first time I walk back in,

you see the Oculus 80 yards of mega screen in your face. And, you know, the overhang that you can see the sky. But it's, yeah, man, football's here. I'm pumped. Tyler, you said you were going to try to make one game this year, right? I think I did. I'm trying to remember which one oh you know what it was uh the falcons go to arizona uh at some point later this year i would very much like to try to make that game and the more i think about it because you know i just started this new job with fanduel and i'm working the weekends probably not gonna make it yeah it. Yeah. But I mean, that's okay. Like, I mean, it's, it's kind of

funny that the two times that they came to LA wants to face the Rams. And I believe wants to face the chargers. Of course, I just happened to be in Texas when that happened. So it was nowhere near there. And now that I'm back there, nowhere near here. So I was like, well, that figures. Have you guys watched the Johnny Manziel Netflix doc, Untold, yet? Because people are raving about it. Not yet. I've seen lots of clips for it on social media, and I've been meaning to get around to it. It's a little over an hour, so it'll be an easy watch.

But every clip that I've seen has been really, really compelling, and I really want to watch it. So it's definitely on my queue for this weekend. You see it's like, well, that's Johnny Manziel so it's either they're wild stories but then you kind of remember who johnny manziel was and and the allure around him and you're kind of like yeah that makes a little bit of sense yeah makes complete sense i'm actually gonna pop it on later tonight uh because i'm just kind of just some of the stories that i've heard and i don't want to spoil it i won't say anything because i don't want to spoil anything for anybody but i think it's definitely worth the watch just some of the stuff i've been reading it's like what in the hell was going on like over there it's it's

wild stuff while this was all happening what was your thoughts on johnny manziel did you like him or dislike him i was i didn't hate him like he wasn't my favorite but i didn't hate him i'm kind of usually a fan of the guy who comes in like you know super brash super cocky and all that stuff like that but i'm a fan of it if he could back it up and like that was his problem he couldn't really back it up now it wasn't entirely his fault because he played for the browns and the browns are just inept at absolutely everything you know when you watch the documentary and you hear some of the stuff that he said, now you find out, oh, that makes a lot more sense why he didn't make it. Okay.

Switching up here on the podcast, we're huge into theme parks and I don't know if you guys saw this yet, but this is pretty awesome. Now in Indiana, they have a theme park that's called Holiday World and Splash Safari. It's in southern Indiana, and they have a Thanksgiving section of the park. You know, like here at Knott's, they have the Fiesta Village. Here is the Thanksgiving side of the park, and they just launched a new coaster called Good Gravy, a gravy-themed roller coaster.

Yes. Are you all in or all out? How does that even work? It's just gravy-themed. I have so many questions. Okay, well, there's only so much you can do with gravy. I mean, what, is this thing slathering on me while I'm riding this thing? That'd be dope at the end of the ride.

You get shot with gravy, or you go down in a dip, kind of like a like a log ride. And then gravy just splashes on you. That would rule. I'm looking at the rendition of the coaster and you're basically rolling around the track in a gravy boat. Yes. The front of the car is a little has a little drip of gravy dropping out. Nice. It looks like you're coming out of a tipped over can of gravy, too,

to start the poster. Oh, nice! One more. Let's go! Are there animatronic turkeys walking everywhere? Does that make it even better? Yeah, it seems like there's a resurgence of theme parks everywhere, all over the world and in America.

I know there was that one thing in texas i believe there's like some three billion dollar projects going on there and then in arizona glendale arizona we mentioned a couple times there's gonna be a mattel theme park and just in time for mattel mattel's back killing it dude barbie movie over a billion. They have a bunch of other movies planned in the works. Mattel is going to be the new franchise next to Marvel and DC. It's going to rule. I mean, they have that. They have He-Man, Hot Wheels.

I mean, if they could spin what they're doing with Barbie in a different way for all their different products and brands, they could just keep going. Street Sharks? They own Street Sharks. Bring it back. I'd love a good Hot Wheels movie. way for all their different products and brands they could just keep going street sharks they own street sharks i'd love i'd love a good hot wheels movie i bet that'd be so cool oh speaking of which there's a barbie museum exhibition that's in santa monica right yeah i heard that's huge it's called world of barbie wait you watched a barbie movie right eric yeah yeah definitely with my wife um that weekend it came out actually at sinopolisolis it was dope I mean you know my masculinity wasn't

threatened like so many people online it was funny was quirky there was funny references I had a good time watching it yeah I saw it two weeks after it came out and I actually really enjoyed to know I'm with Eric it's I don't really understand how people were offended by this movie if you're offended by the Barbie movie you're you're probably a loser. Rules. And, of course, shout out to our friends at Knott's. I got to get back to Knott's Berry Farm because I love the Fiesta Village.

And I got to go back to the gift shop because there's so many items I want to pick up, like all the different mixes. I got to send them off to my mom and my grandma. And then I got to cook them in my house. So many jams and jellies. then I got to cook them in my house. So many jams and jellies. The butter spreads. I'm out of butter. I got to go back.

I want it. Shout out to our friends at Knott's. And Eric, you're a pass holder. You love Knott's. I was actually talking to my wife about going tomorrow. We have a free Saturday. You know, with being a seasoned pass holder, you don't really have to spend the whole day.

So it's like do stuff around the apartment, spend the night there, come home, have a nice little night. Yeah, it's fun. Get a funnel cake or something. Eric motivated me. Me and my girlfriend are going to go to the OC Fair tomorrow. Oh, sweet. So I'm really excited for that. It's wrapping up, right?

This weekend or next weekend? This is the last weekend. I'm hungry. You guys want some food news? Oh, yeah. Since we're talking food? Yeah. All right. food news since we're talking food yeah all right you believe it or not it is the five-year

anniversary of the popeye's chicken sandwich what the sandwich that people died over what now that everybody has chicken sandwiches they're gonna celebrate it by buy one get one deal now that's called the bogo everybody and i've always I've been asking because I love using BOGO in marketing. Does the general public know what BOGO means? You guys can be honest with me. Do they know what it means? I mean, because I know we're in the industry. Most of the people don't really understand what BOGO is.

I did know. I think so. I knew what it was before being explained because my mom was all about the BOGOs that pay less shoes. Oh, hell yeah. The BOGO sales. It was like, okay, back to the BOGOs that pay less shoes. When I was growing up, the BOGO sales, it was like, okay, back to school BOGO. Buy one, get one, 50% off or something. I grew up on BOGO. I think the younger generations

of kids know because they don't got that much money. They look forward to those BOGO deals. Pay more BOGOs, pay less BOGOs. BOGO was everywhere back in the day. Hot topic t-shirt bogo yeah just because in marketing or doing commercials you never want to explain anything to anybody you just want to simplify and i'm always afraid of saying bogo when i'm doing a commercial because

i want people to know exactly what i'm talking about did he just say pogo what the hell what the heck is that so i i went to popeyes recently this was maybe about a month ago and i went with my brother i said you know let's go get food like i'll buy whatever he's like okay so we go to popeyes and i say hey can i get two spicy chicken sandwiches and the girl that's you know working the drive-through she's like oh okay it's just a different kind of meat though and i'm like what what does that mean like i asked her i was like well what does that mean she's like so we actually just ran out of the breaded chicken and it's just normal chicken without

the breading and i'm like what well i don't want i don't want that then like what do you mean like what do you think like okay first off i'm not obviously i've never worked at popeyes i don't know how their thing works yeah but i've worked with fried chicken and stuff before in the deli over at Ralph's. So I know you could just get bread or get the breading or whatever and throw it on the chicken and then fry it. Yeah. I'm assuming that's what they do. Yeah, when restaurants say we ran out of Pepsi and they're buying a grocery store. Guys, go to the grocery store and buy more Pepsi. I don't understand why you say you're out.

Things like that, yeah. That I slightly understand because I know when they get Pepsi or soda in general, it's in a big box that just has a package of syrup in it. I know, but buy some if you're out of it. Get some two liters. Who cares? I think it depends on how late in the day that is. If it's at noon, I'm sorry.

I'm not telling my employee, hey, I need you to go to Rouse and buy a thousand things of Pepsi. Well, you're not a good manager then, Tyler. If it's closer to the end of the day. You want to appease your customers. If your customer goes there and they say they want a Pepsi with their meal and you say you're out of Pepsi, guess what they're going to do? They're going to go on Yelp or they're going to go somewhere or they're going to tell somebody that they had a bad experience. Or you can just tell your employee, hey, go to the grocery store that's in our shopping center, buy a bunch of two liters, and then everybody can have Pepsi. That's good customer service right there.

I mean, there is that, yes. But I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. If you're just going to my restaurant and then you're leaving a bad review because you're bitching about Pepsi, I don't want your business anyway. Get the hell out of here. Okay. In McDonald's news, they announced a new meal. Well, it's not really a meal, but Loki sauce is basically sweet and sour sauce that they put a loki sticker on top of the sauce and then you can get the sauce with any different meal that you want are you all

in or all out on loki sauce i did enjoy loki on disney plus i thought it was really good that one was really good i enjoyed that series honestly i've enjoyed a lot of these little disney plus spinoffs i the i enjoyed the sam. Jackson one. It was the Secret Invasion. It was catching flack from a lot of people. But no, I mean, I honestly haven't been to McDonald's in a long time and I really don't do the sauce thing. I'll try it just so I got a take on it for you guys next time. Maybe I'll go today.

I'm home alone today. Maybe I'll do a McDonald's run. I guarantee you it's just sweet and sour sauce with a Loki sticker on it. But you'll know what Loki tastes like. He tastes like sweet and sour at the same time. Oh, my God. Now it makes sense. You just blew my mind, Brett.

That's what I'm here for. What? That makes sense that sweet and sour. Wow, dude. So we're just throwing a Loki label at God? Yeah. What are we doing here? People will buy it.

What are we doing? I know people will buy it. That's what makes me mad. If you do something where you make a new sauce, like with, I mean, everybody knows this because of Rick and Morty, but the whole Szechuan sauce thing, when Mulan came out, okay, then at that point, I'll try it. If you're just giving me a sweet and sour packet

and just slapping Loki on it, like, sorry, I'm going to stick with my normal sauces. I'm sorry. I did go to McDonald's the other night, if you're just giving me a sweet and sour packet and just slapping loki on it like sorry i'm gonna stick with my normal sauces i'm sorry dude i did go to mcdonald's the other night uh not for like a burger or anything i went because i wanted a sprite i was like for some reason sprite at mcdonald's just tastes better to me yeah so i went uh i went for sure but there's there's like a science behind that though isn't there like there is yes the coke and stuff the sodas taste better there because of how they're like they're distributed to the restaurants did you see this one okay as we know all the chick-fil-a lines are usually pretty packed in the drive-thru now my alliance is with

raising canes so i haven't been to a chick-fil-a in forever but did you hear in new york city that they're gonna have a drive-thru that can handle 75 cars at a time. A massive Chick-fil-A in New York City. No way. 75 cars. No way. There's no way. I don't care.

I don't even know where they're going to put this in New York. I don't care how you design this. I don't care what you think you can do. There's no way you're going to be able to handle 75 cars at once. Make it flow? No. No. No. to handle 75 cars at once make it flow uh no no not what's you like only if you had a car hop

of 75 spaces and even still would back up like all the way no way now in texas i know where you lived in houston tyler they would have like kind of these mega locations for different spots right yeah kind of um you know you'd have a basically bigger drive-thru for them. I did go to a Chick-fil-A. This is actually the only time I've really seen these. So most Chick-fil-A's in California, at least the ones that I've been to, they have the one solo drive-thru. All the ones that were around the Houston area had the double drive-thru, like you see at McDonald's, something like that. So they could handle more cars. And my God god are they efficient when they do that stuff so but i mean i'm very curious as to like 75 cars how it has to be super quick it has to be super quick

it has to be at minimum like three four lanes wide but here's my other question with this too where in new york where are we putting this i don't know it is in New York City no there's no way this thing is on the island of Manhattan and it's holding 75 cars first off do that many people actually drive in New York because everybody's like well we just take the subway we just bike we walk we over so do that many people actually drive on their own number one and number two where in the hell is the room for a 75 car chick-fil-a no there's no way dude like this thing has to the only way you could build a 75 car chick-fil-a you have to build up meaning like your car has to go like on a ramp yeah the second level to get your food or something

like that i don't know man this sounds this sounds weird i don't know man so me and randy you're gonna tell them we have a we have a we have a secret Chick-fil-A in the Downey area. So Downey has one in Downey. They're building one in, I guess, technically Bell Gardens, and there's one on the Norwalk border. So there's going to be three on about a four-mile stretch of Firestone Boulevard. Okay.

And there's one tucked right by the 605 freeway that never has a line, dude. I've texted Randy about it, and he's like, dude, I know about that one. I swear to God, I've that never has a line dude like i've texted randy about it and he's like dude i know about that one i swear to god i've never waited in a drive-through line when i've gone there really what it'll be in and you're out it's it's ridiculous it makes it make no sense they're building more chick-fil-a's which just means less traffic for another there's a fourth one already built just down uh was like off imperial so there's probably like four and a five mile radius i mean i was talking to my wife about this the other day it's like it used to be oh there's a chick-fil-a and you have

to drive a little bit for it uh-huh i have four within a five minute drive now in downey it's damn that's crazy well i guess you guys are all hooked up um i'm gonna skip this talk about news because i don't really think it's new but it says the beefy crunch burrito is making a comeback with fritos which i thought the fritos I thought that's the same thing. Fritos Burrito. I think it's, I don't know. That's coming back, I guess. I do like the Fritos Burritos at Taco Bell.

Those are pretty good. Oh, the Fiesta Veggie Burrito that has Fritos in it? Yeah. Love that one. I don't know why this is news then. It's weird. I think because it's a specific, minute item. It's not exactly like the other ones. It's just that they have the branding on it you know how t-bell does it dude they take

things off the menu bring it back a month later make a big deal they'd be playing us all the time it's the nacho fries effect dude it's there one day it's gone oh the fries are gone again by the way ah of course they are all right well i just want to shout out a lot of our partners because we have a lot of food partners, so we should give them some love. Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers. Shout out to them. Opening up everywhere.

I know Fullerton is going to be opening up pretty soon. I went by Northridge yesterday. It is lit. People are loving it. I was by Northridge the other day. Yeah. Yeah. It's awesome.

Full of people. They can handle the drive-thru, though. It's pretty cool. That's on a good street. Yep. And then also shout out to our friends at Lazy Dog Restaurants. I know you guys are big fans of Lazy Dog Restaurants. I was there two days ago.

My family were in town. We had like 12 people there. Nice. We had a nice little chunk of our change that night. Look at Eric supporting in person all the friends of this podcast. I know. Huckleberry Hayes, 22 ounce, baby. Huckleberry Hayes.

Go get it. Do it. LazyDogRestaurants.com. Also, our friends at Norm's Restaurants. All right. They stopped by the studio the other day. Yes. They fed all of us.

Yes. They had a vegetarian burrito for Bort and Caroline. So good. So good. They had some California breakfast platters for us. They had some breakfast sandwiches. It was glorious, and you guys missed it. But I could hear Randy's heart crumbling.

I did see that spread, and I was like, damn, I could go for some Norms right now. Norms is so good. Oh, did you see what they did by your work over in Inglewood at their Norms location during the Taylor Swift concerts? They had that famous Taylor Swift lookalike go to Norms and take pictures with fans. It was pretty cool.

That's awesome. Yeah, it was pretty cool. I mean, she's dead on looks like Taylor Swift. It's crazy. Wild. Oh, that reminds me. Speaking of lookalikes, Eric and I were at Dallas Cowboys camp Monday, and there was a guy walking around dressed like Tom Cruise from Top Gun, just hanging around the practice field.

And he, yeah, much like Taylor Swift lookalike, this dude looked exactly, he looked so much like him. We were recording, and we all stopped, and we kind of did the like, break your neck kind of look, and we watched him, and we watched him, and we're like, that's not him, right? We had to reconfirm that it wasn't him and it wasn't obviously but he he had the he had the crazy tom cruise laugh down and no way it took up it was it was odd because it was like uh like uh was it part of the event it was like support the heroes day at okay at cowboy train

camp so there's a bunch of like emts firefighters cops walking around and there was this tom cruise look like walking around in like jumper, Top Gun suit. It was kind of odd. Sweet. That's cool. Yeah, I forgot that you guys went to the Cowboys training camp. And I forget that it's in Oxnard, California, which is super random because when you guys were posting, I was like, are you guys in Dallas right now?

And you're like, no, Oxnard. I was like, oh, yeah. Same thing. I forgot about that. Very few sports teams have the big enough following where they could you know go what is that how many miles away three four or five states away and then still pack a practice dude and like you're there just watching these guys practice you know it's not really a huge thing what they're doing on the field i mean every team

does it but yeah these guys fly six hours to the other side of the country, and they sell out practices for people, and they have merch tents, beers, and they make a pretty penny. I want to get back to that in one second, but did you see that the Eagles had a practice, and they filled the stadium? People are way into it, but going back to the Oxnard-Dallas thing, do you know what the connection is there? No idea, but the owner was there. It's because it's Jarrah's world, dude. Jerry Jones can do whatever the hell he wants okay cowboys fans are everywhere like yeah i mean they never were they were never in la they were never in oakland they were never in california but they have a massive following the cowboys reach i think they were just dubbed like the like top like three um most valuable franchises in the world like these dudes like i said like there was said, there was people

hours. We were there early to set up for the podcast and there were people there hours before the place opened and these guys are just sitting there watching drills. That's cool. It says here the Cowboys have been coming to Ventura County since the 70s when they trained at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks.

After a break in the 90s, they started holding camps in Oxnard in the early 2000s. Jerry Jones says that he likes the cooler summer weather here. Okay. All right, yeah. I mean, it's less humid and stuff like that, so that makes sense. Randy, I guess you were inspired from the last podcast.

I was telling Bort, like, hey, pick up a mattress at Walmart, get a Serta mattress because they're super legit. And I bought them for all my guest rooms. And then you hit me up. You're like, hey, what was that Serta mattress you were talking about? Were you looking to pick one up or did you pick one up at Walmart? Buying a mattress, minus the fact that you helped me out by telling me which one you got. Buying a mattress online seems like it's worse than buying a car.

Because it's like everyone gives you different opinions, different and it's like we're just i'm just trying to upgrade man i can't do a queen anymore i need a king bed i i need more space on my mattress i'm i'm at my shoulders hurt sometimes i'm at wit's end it's time to upgrade and so that's why i hit you up because i want to get that mattress but in a king size and um i think i going to end up doing that because the mattress that you got, the Serta, the foam one from Walmart, the price is fair. Dude, the price is amazing. Yeah, the price is great. The quality is great. It'll get shipped to me in a box.

No hassle. I can just set it up and I'm good to go. Or you can pick it up. A lot of mattresses, man. A lot of mattresses, like the ones you see featured in like ads and stuff they're going for like 15 1600 bucks and then you have people talking about how it's like oh this is no difference than my 500 mattress or this mattress starts sinking on me or whatever so yeah randy needs something yeah walked around work like a decrepit old man the last two days. Wait, last two days?

He's been doing that for years. Yeah, true. I pulled my back out. I also blew your mind, Randy, because I was like, Randy, you've slept on the mattress before multiple times. You're like, oh, yeah, that's right. You already slept on this sort of Walmart. Not a sponsor, by the way, but could be.

Should be. I have bookmarks on my phone. It's my things I want folder or stuff I want folder. Your wish list. Yeah, my wish list. One of them is the Calvin Klein modern cotton bedsheets because those are the bedsheets that Menace had at his guest house.

Oh, dude. They're fire. I was like, yo, these bedsheets are legit. Don't clown. I'm telling you, everybody, those Calvin Klein bedsheets are the most comfortable bed sheets ever. It's so good. So good. I'll look into that because I also was following your path, Menace. Thank you. I was looking into the Gap brand of bed frames at Walmart.

Oh, yeah, yeah. And I decided one from Walmart. No matter what, if you look up the Gap brand brand at Walmart if they don't have the exact size and style you want there are similar sizes and styles from Walmart's other partners and you could find amazing bed frames including from Gap

for less than $200 less than $200 and the quality is way better than an Ikea. And again, the same thing with the Serta mattress. You could get it shipped to you. You could pick it up in a box. Our local Walmart has them there. I was waiting to get the frame to go get it.

Again, only a couple hundred dollars for 10 to 12 inches of pure cushiony foam. Why would you want that? Thank you. Yeah. Because I went to a lot of furniture stores last few weeks. Oh, no.

It's terrible. Furniture is so expensive. I went to discount stores. Discount furniture. Bank. I know all about this because I had these guest rooms. I'm like,

I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars to put furniture in these guest rooms. Yeah. No way. No. Walmart all day. Well, with that said you guys can go online shopping right now and go to walmart.com if you want to again not a sponsor

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August 26th, it's going down. Multiple meetups. You can hang out with me. First one is in Santa Ana at Metro by T-Mobile from noon to two on South Bristol. Again, noon to two, South Bristol Street in Santa Ana. I'll have theme park ticket giveaways, concert giveaways, Woody Show merch, and more. Stop on by. And then later on that day, if you love comedy, there is a comedy festival that's happening comedy fest la it is a big outdoor festival ton of comics food trucks beer you're gonna have a

good time and you can get a discount on your ticket if you use the promo code menace m-e-n-a-c-e in capital letters on their website go to comedyfestla.com. And that's happening in the city of Bellflower. So I'd love to see you in Bellflower that night. So people are asking me to go to these areas. You better show up and show out. Speaking of comedians, shout out to our friends, Joe Coy, J-O-K-O-Y.com.

He has Netflix specials. He has movies. He is a producer on Broadway. He's killing it online as always, and he's traveling the country. Go to J-O-K-O-Y.com to get all that info. Also, shout out to our boy Fluffy, a.k.a. Gabriel Iglesias. He has that new Funko Pop that's out. It's called the Jumping Fluffy.

He's also cruising around L.A. I saw on Instagram he was hanging out in Pacoima in a drop top Mustang. That was pretty cool. Oh, nice. They're like the people that are recording and they're like, Fluffy's in the hood. It's awesome. And shout out to Timar, also from Pacoima. I know, Pacoima in the house. You can see Fluffy all around the country and around the world. He has a bunch of dates overseas as well. Just go to FluffyGuy.com. That's FluffyGguy.com that's fluffyguy.com shout out to our friends matt and kim they are banned almost time for them to fire up their tour in september just go to mattandkim.com stream their music wherever you find music just search matt and kim shout out to blankets by tracy that's blanketsbytracy.com it's so hot we'd run the ac so cold that I still need blankets in my house. So if you want a cool blanket, just go to blanketsbytracy.com.

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Also, pick up some Diego Hot Sauce while you're on amazon just search diego hot sauce or go to diego hot sauce.com and pick up some today tag me online when you pick some up if you buy it please rate and review it as well and don't forget listen to the mothership the woody show money through friday on the iheart radio app tyler do you have anything to say before we leave yes i actually do um i have to make a slight confession what the time the time has come we have re-registered for a gym pass it is happening what yes noise yes it's happening uh my brothers my brothers uh go to this place called east border they highly recommended it.

So I went ahead and I bought it the other night. Let's go. Yeah, I know. I've been working the past two nights, so I haven't been able to go because I think I bought this thing on Tuesday. So I've been working and I haven't had a chance to go yet. However, tonight my brother's free.

I actually get off work a little bit early and he's like, hey, let's go to the gym. I'm like, I'll get you back into the swing of things. i was like okay let's go that's dope that you have a partner you know yeah it's gonna be cool and i already have three people who said um well two of them can actually go with me because they go to the same gym uh and then the all three of them have said that they are willing to help keep me accountable which is that's cool i think yeah i mean that's that's the one thing once i get start going to the gym it's not the problem of going it's definitely the problem of like what i'm eating after that makes it uh you know a little

bit because you do get hungrier after the gym yeah you know when you start going like i'm hungry all the time yeah and like i'm a bigger dude so like you know my my portion size is bigger than the average person true i feel you dog yeah so i mean it's just that part of getting yourself down to like hey this is what like a normal portion size is this is what you should eat and like i i know that but like the first couple days maybe even the first week or two is going to be absolutely brutal until your stomach's time finally gets to realizing like hey this is all we're getting now get used to it noise you know this is i know last time we got on him about

his uh how he spends his money this is at least one of the endeavors that it's like okay well we want to be supportive yeah yeah you're putting your money towards something but hey dude you just gotta i'm gonna be supportive here for tyler all right good you just gotta you just gotta get rolling you gotta get past that that first little bit of all crap this sucks and then you feel good nothing i never feel better than walking out of the gym walking in is a brutal kind of time of the day but walking out you gotta feel at least a little better about yourself yeah you got this man randy do you have anything to say before we leave? To piggyback off Eric, I agree. As someone who's also trying to get back into the swing of things in the gym,

I do support Tyler on this, and I'm here to support you. Oh, nice. Wow. Very nice. The bromance continues. Awesome. Eric, do you have anything to say before we leave? So I want to leave you guys with the description of the good gravy roller coaster.

Oh, yes, please. Yes. Your journey begins at Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma Gracie's house. And the unthinkable happens. The family runs out of gravy. As you whisk up a fresh batch of gravy gravy you'll dodge gigantic kitchen accessories and ingredients including a chicken timer a whisk a rolling pin a bottle of dairy and a box of ruth's stuffing i love it exciting let's go you know so you know what you know the incredicoaster at um at

disneyland california venture yeah you go through that one part and it smells like cookies because they're chasing Jack Jack around. Yeah. If there's not like Thanksgiving smells spread throughout this roller coaster, they really miss something. Yeah.

They need to add a stuffing portion, maybe, you know, gravy throughout or maybe you get a little a little dipper of gravy. I don't know. What about a gravy fountain

that you have to go through? Holiday World and Splashin' Fair. Hit me up. I got some ideas. Oh, dude, I forget to I forgot to mention this. Eric, it sucks that you don to go through. Holiday World and Splashin' Fair. Hit me up. I got some ideas. Oh, dude, I forgot to mention this. Eric, it sucks that you don't work here anymore because you would have loved this week. Did you see that we grew baby chickens?

We have baby chicks right now. I've checked in on the live stream a couple different times. The Woody Show live stream on YouTube. Yeah, dude, I'm kind of jealous. You got to full get up for them. I know, dude. I was holding them in my hands yesterday they jumped into my palm you would have loved it wow not only did they jump into menace's palm and he's pretty much mother henning them i am

i'm teaching them how to drink water i'm feeding them their feed they're my babies and yeah you can watch it at youtube.com slash the woody show right now we're leaving it up all weekend long it's wild man yeah it's fun brett do you have anything to say before we leave uh yes real quick this is sorry it doesn't have to do with baby chicks or the holiday or tyler going to the gym even though i support this as well tyler load up please on a ton of podcasts it will help you go through it. Much like this one. Subscribe to this one when you go to the gym. If you, much like Eric and Randy and myself,

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