What's New Podcast - Hello 2025! Sports, Video Games, Food News & More!

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

On this episode we say Hello 2025! talk Sports, Video Games, Food News & More!

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please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. What's new? What's new everybody and welcome to another edition of What's New Pod. I'm Metis. I'm joined by Bort aka Brett. He's an audio expert and syndication expert with the Woody Show Morning 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. And just over yonder is our buddy Tyler aka Heavy T coming to us live from Whittier, California, and our lovely friend, Julie Ann, coming to us live from Covina, California. I am so sorry, everybody, that we have left you for so long. A couple of things have been going on. I don't know if you heard about this in Los Angeles, California. Total devastation. I hope anybody listening to this

has not been affected by it. I'm sure this is not your priority to listen to this podcast, and I'm sure you have bigger things to do. But I just wanted to say right off the bat, it was so cool to see with these fires in Los Angeles, just seeing the whole community come together right away. Yeah, it was surprising to see this many people from around Los Angeles all kind of gather, find different ways to help everybody out, whether it was different donation centers or different ways to help people that don't have a place to live right now. Or just giving, you know, so many companies offering their help, whether it be clothes, food, shelter, Airbnb, like so many different avenues. Yeah, I have some friends, they lost their house in the altadena fire and airbnb hooked them up right away which is oh that's good awesome and so many different companies

that have gotten together and just citizens you know they're i saw a guy on the news who just showed up to the pasadena convention center and he just started handing out cash to people and randy wish he was there um even though he is not a victim of the fire just to pick up a couple bucks but randy would he would show up and put soot on his face yeah yeah do you understand the implications that you're like i know i would not okay to your point though completely ignoring the fact that you guys think i would commit fraud um it was it was very touching to see would it be the first response from the community. Especially because other people who

aren't from California or LA always have things to say about the city. And this kind of brought out what we all do. The city was all about all along. So it was very touching to see. LA's not full of just scumbags running around themselves. Isn't that crazy? What? People help out each

other in need? People actually care about each other? What? Crazy. Also, can I add, I actually get a little offended when everybody posts that meme saying, LA's not full of scumbags and all this stuff. Like, we're made of this. Well, yeah, because that's what the city's built on, and that's all the people that actually are from here and live here, and we actually go out hard to support each other.

I will tell you, the only frustrating thing when it came to information was the national news kind of just focusing on the people of the Palisades and Malibu. And I get it. A lot of famous people live there and news gets to rattle off names and things like that. But the Pasadena, Altadena area, there's not a lot of famous people that live there and it wasn't getting the national attention. So when I was getting calls from, and I'll say this, some of my friends who were acting kind of douchey, they were like, oh, you know, it's Pacific Palisades, it's Malibu. They're good. They'll rebuild. I'm like, no, like there was at the time they were

calling, it's like eight different fires going on in Los Angeles everywhere. That was the gnarly part when eight separate ones are happening and i know all of us are in different areas of los angeles area but like for me and menace being inside the valley we just looked on the little fire map and we're like okay we are literally surrounded now on every freeway exit and you're thinking dude there was one that sparked up in somar think about the people that live in somar you think of west hills people that live over in like canoga area or just anybody like that it's not like you said all these famous people that can rebuild it's all these people that

have had these homes for a long time that they can't do that yeah you know it's like family homes or people that just got their first home and it's gone i know my friends that lost their home they just finished remodeling their kitchen. It was like the last thing they did in their house. I saw an article about a woman in Altadena who the day before the fires hit paid off her house. And then her home was burned down.

That sucks. You gave me the chills. I will say the only thing that kind of like was annoying during the fires was that I feel like nationally and online, it was kind of hard to keep up with everything. I had to download like an app that everyone was promoting. Yeah, to get clear information. Yeah.

Yeah, to get clear information. And the app isn't even like a state-sponsored thing or not that I know of. I think it's like it's literally people just it's a passion project from some people and it was the most informative source of news. Are you talking about WatchDuty? Yeah, WatchDuty. It was a lifesaver. Like just being able to like because my mom would be calling me all the time and she's like where's the fires and i'm like i'd have to tell her about the app and whatever so that uh that helped a lot and what didn't help was those uh alerts we kept getting on our phone

yeah that was terrifying just kidding i know but you mean the ones that i never got so i am yeah i mean it sucks and i don't want to make fun of that because then people are like, well, I don't know what to trust. I'm not going to listen to any message at all. That's fair. This kind of stuff happens. You know, it happened to the state of Hawaii. That's right. So it sucks.

I just want to shout out a couple of our friends that have done some good and they didn't even post about it. But Wild Fork Foods, who we work with, they dropped off 24 pallets of food to the Dream Center in Los Angeles. Enough to feed people at the Dream Center for three months. It's insane. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Yeah. And Wild Fork Foods, such a cool partner to have. Also, our friends at Power of Sight Foundation.

I know tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, they're going to be at Santa Anita YMCA, just hooking up people with free glasses that lost all their glasses. They're also looking for donations. So if you work in that field and you want to support a cool foundation that just hooks up people just in general all year long that just can't afford glasses. They hook them up a hundred percent for free. That is awesome. There are friends at our friends at Suavecito on Saturday. They're going to, they're having a thing at their HQ where you can drop off supplies. You know, people that have been displaced. We're talking about, I think the number was 88,000 people or something like that. Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah. That weekend I ended up, I was like, you know what?

I'm taking off. I went to the Coachella Valley. I shared with you the photos. Like people went there just to get away from Los Angeles and like cleared the shelves of all the grocery stores there and like Target and things like that. It was like COVID all over again. I know. I was like, what is happening here?

So shout out to Su here so so shout out to suavecito and shout out to our friends at lazy dog who did the 100 donation from all their locations on monday did you end up going tyler you said you were gonna go you know because we kind of made fun of tyler we're like oh this is how tyler supports yeah yeah it's it's true like i'm going there anyways so well i mean of all the things that he jumped on it was the food one but i mean it was look he's doing something it's yeah guys you don't want him donating clothes what are we talking about here no no no not at all i but look i'll be honest i did a couple other things i just didn't really mention it because i just don't

i don't know i guess when it comes to that stuff i just don't really mention it because I just don't. I don't know. I guess when it comes to that stuff, I just don't really brag about it. You know what? I'm not bragging if we're all texting and talking about what we've been doing. You know what? I get it, though, Tyler. I get it because you see a lot of these people on social media, this like, you know, they're out there doing it for the gram. Yeah.

But like I was going to say, that kind of leads into what I was going to say next. I think this is one of the first times where at least something bad in Los Angeles has happened. And I didn't really see anybody posting at like, oh, look at me. Like I'm volunteering or whatever. I saw a couple. Oh, I did. Well, I personally did. It's not like two.

If I see one more picture of somebody handing a bag over and like going like, yeah, look at me doing it. Nope. I'm so tired. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. They're helping people, but like just help people. Units.

Yeah. Pretty shy. See that people are doing that. I've been hearing and I hope anybody who's listening, please don't be one of these people, but I heard people are going to these sites and grabbing clothes and whatever else they can free food and they don't need free food and they don't need clothes and they're just grabbing the clothes to like resell them look that's gonna happen but don't let that hinder

you from helping people there's another fire they'll have to deal with and it'll be in the pits of health so yeah for sure for sure agreed speak on it Tyler. So I did not see that on my 2025 bingo card of how we're going to start the year of that going down. Also on my 2025 bingo card, I didn't see Heavy T, aka Tyler, kind of doing stuff

for the Woody show again. I was surprised when I show up to work and Woody is doing some intros for sports for our Dallas station and our Pittsburgh station. He mentions Tyler being our sports reporter. I'm like, what? How did that happen? How the turntables.

Yeah. Look at Heavy T back in the mix. How's it been for you, man? It's been pretty cool. So how that happened, i don't actually know i just walked in i walked into work and i got a text from brett saying like hey woody shot you an email about something i was like okay and i looked at it and he's like hey let's let's do a trial run of this and i was like okay so it's it's been a two-week trial run i guess i'm supposed to find out some more info this weekend but it's yeah pretty cool not gonna lie it's um definitely gotten back to

like my roots from when i first started and was cutting highlights at nbc so that's been kind of cool but it's been kind of also really cool just laying down i i guess my voice and i'm trying i'm slowly tweaking them i I'm trying to figure out a way to make it like my own thing. There was actually one update that Tyler did where I heard the little bit of flair and I literally snapped my finger. I pointed at my phone. I'm like, that's it. That's how you effing do it. So if you listen to us in Dallas on 97.1 The Eagle, you will hear Heavy T, aka Tylerk.a. Tyler, himself. I don't know.

Does Tyler know how he gets intro'd on the... Yeah. Okay. He goes by Dumbass Tyler. No, he does not. Does he really? I love it. I'm going to be honest.

We're going to see if we can change that. Wait, are you serious? That won't happen. I actually had... Is this real? That's his intro? Yeah, had. Is this real? Yeah. That's his intro? Yeah.

Do you not remember him when he was on the show? Like he was thirsting for the mic and would take any chance he got. And he's like, yeah, call me Dumbass Tyler. It won't stick with me for years and years and years. Tyler, you got to change. All the heavy tea on air stuff has got to change, bro. It's got to be. It's got to be reflective of your audio personality.

You know what? Actually, thank you, Randy, for mentioning that. I should mention on my socials, there has been a slight tweak to my username. Oh, God. I thought I saw this already. Let me explain.

I know Menace is going to hate me because i used one of the one things he absolutely oh my god underscore no instead of heavy t on air i put heavy t underscore on air but let me explain what i've had multiple people tell me like they looked at my username and they're like, oh, heavy ton air. I saw it and I was like, you know what? We should probably change that so there's no confusion. No, that was absolutely dumb. So your new name

is Dumbass Tyler. Wow, dude. Really living up to the name. Yeah, it's moronic. I can change it back. It's not that big of a deal. Somebody's going to stash it up. I don't think you can change it in like 30 days or something like that. Washi can't change it back now. Oh, yeah. Somebody's going to snatch it up. Quick, Randy, get it, get it, get it. I don't think you can change it in like 30 days or something like that.

Just change it to Dumbass Tyler. That's not happening. Anyways, it was nice to see Tyler get brought back into the fold in some way. Because, I mean, I'm happy for anybody that's no longer on the show as a whole. If Julianne, Randy, or Eric get brought in in some capacity, that's awesome if they do. So even for Tyler. Especially because Tyler and Julianne, sadly,

it was cuts. And we couldn't bring them back. Julianne was able to come back to the cluster for a while and work on a couple different shows, so that was awesome. And for Tyler, it's a little bit of a you know, I would say a redemption return. Yeah's a little bit of a you know i would say a redemption return yeah a little bit yeah and he's also on in pittsburgh too on 105.9 the x yeah whoa

hold on yeah he's doing pittsburgh sports i know up and don't mess up the penguins highlight dude you know that's important that is the penguin station dude i'm aware that is the penguin station well also the dial station is the maverick station too yeah i'm aware of that too so the mavericks are at least the mavericks are at least decent they're a pretty good team when they're healthy i i think the other thing is i try to regulate my voice as how i feel the mood is so like earlier this week like i said the penguins are bad the steelers got eliminated from the playoffs Evgeny Malkin had his house broken into and his ring stolen. The Penguins put their goalie on waivers.

It's been like a really somber week for Pittsburgh. So you don't want to be overly hyped. Yeah, I'm not trying to come in and say, oh, look at this. Yeah, I'm like, oh, look at, like, doom is the world. But, you know, let's go have a happy, like, no. And I'm a dumbass Tyler. That's your sports. Yeah. Thank you, Don. but you know let's go have a happy like now i know and i'm a dumbass tyler that's your sports yeah i know how it feels when you know your team is absolutely in the dump so you know i i get it so i don't i don't want to come in as like over joyous dallas on the other hand especially with

the jerry jones letting mike mccarthy go as head coach that's been a big thing. And now they might get Deion Sanders. So that one I'm trying to add a little more flair to because that one went from weird to wild in the span of a day. Yeah, if that happened, Coach Prime up in there, that'd be crazy. Well, since we're on the topic of sports, I want to get into one other thing. Eric and I are shacking up for the Super Bowl, baby. Cuddle buddies. Cuddle buddies.

Cuddle buddies. Well, Eric disappointed me, and he said that, oh, I got two beds. And I'm like, dude, I thought you were keeping me warm, dude. It wasn't my choice, but, you know, people do do this. They have one for sleeping and one for, you know, extracurriculars. Oh, true. Can I be the videographer? Oh, yeah.

In the corner. Let's go. Yo, I'm very excited to, I don't even know if I'm going to be able to see you at all. You're going to be working so hard. I am going to try to attend the Guy Fieri tailgate, the Shaq party. I know our friend Bert Kreischer is having an event. And I know our friends at TCL are going to be having events. So that's what I'm going to be doing. Eric's going to be actually doing work. What are your guys' predictions

on who is going to end up being in the Super Bowl? I think it's going to be Bill's Rams. Bill's Commanders. Really? You think Washington is just going to come out of nowhere? I don't know. They got this little kick to them. Jaden Daniels has been a dog. He's had these little moments all season long. Maybe I'm rooting with my heart. It's just going to be a little

fun. But I don't know. I think they might catch the lions and then they'll team of destiny. The poetic aspect of it all will be like Rams go on a crazy run. They win the championship for LA and all that stuff. So sports is weird like that. Sometimes when you saw it last week, they beat the Vikings, beat the hell out of them,

the crap out of them after crazy week in LA. So there's that poetic side of it. But of course I'm gonna pick the bills, bills, commanders, bills, Rams. I can see that happening. Just anything something right a bills rams super bowl would be

a feel-good one because whoever wins it's like there's a fan base that's getting something so happy and but you got to get through baltimore first for the bills and that's not gonna be easy at all now you know sports betting all that kind of stuff is is big but you know what you know what topic that we it's like kind of like betting that we were heavy on be around covid was crypto crypto's back baby big time with the new administration being crypto friendly are you guys back in the crypto game at all or did you never leave i think i got some doge still i downloaded an app called kraken that i kept seeing everywhere that was like and i've i've just been kind of like i haven't really pulled the trigger on anything big primarily

because i'm terrified to do it but uh i just kind of like watch the coins and see how they like fluctuate and stuff and maybe i'll put some money to something but they're saying man doge to a buck by like September this year bitcoin to a million I'm like what the f dude that's too crazy I expect a lot of people talking about bitcoin in 2025 so yay get ready for bitcoin talk dude you can get like a good meme coin Brett like WWE coin that's too much I'm too old for this. Here's the idea, guys. Here's the game plan. We create Tyler coin, right? It's Tyler's face in the game.

Oh, dumbass coin. We get all the listeners for the show to buy in, and then we pull the rug from under them. Nope. Not doing that. None of that is happening. Do you know what? It's like the Hawk Tua coin.

Yeah, Hawk Tua. Oh, dang. We made it so long without mentioning her name. I was very proud of us. I was going to bring that up, and I was like, you know what? I'm not falling into the trap. We've gone so long without giving her name. I was going to bring that up. And I was like, you know what? I'm not falling into the trap. We've gone so long without talking about her the other day. Really? I was talking about, yeah, my work cook. Cause we were like saying what happened? Like we, yes, I know the whole Bitcoin thing. She's going to jail, but like she hasn't gone to jail. She may

not go to jail, but she's just disappeared ever since that happened if you're caught up in a situation like that you don't talk no you shut up she can just claim ignorance and be like i don't know anything about bitcoin and you know what i would believe her and to say hey these guys came to me with this opportunity i thought it was legit and this is what happened and look at her for most of the appearances that she did that she got paid for. She donated most of that money to help animals anyway. So she obviously wasn't. That doesn't mean anything. Just because you donate. No, no, no.

Before this, before the whole crypto thing, she was feeding a lot of homeless people and things like that. If I was going to be a criminal, I too would be like, look, if I make myself look good before I do a really heinous act. You know, Randy keeps leaving these little nuggets of what he would do. It's a little OJ-like. If I did it, if I was a criminal... It's a little who? Okay, well, OJ is a little crazy

because I don't think I'd kill anyone. But if I had to... No, I'm joking. I just don't think that you can be like, well, I did this bad thing, but don't forget. I also donated to the homeless animals. Hey guys, look, I may have snuck back into the homeless shelter to take back my clothes. I donated what I donated them in the first place.

I will say this now. And I'm not talking about anybody that's on the pod right now with me, but it sucks. Like if you get caught in a situation like that and the way you became famous, it was, let's just be honest, pretty easy. You were just out on the street. You said something stupid. And the next day you're freaking famous. Right. And anybody that is not a liar would say, you know what? I would like to have that opportunity. So when you get caught up in something like this, people are not going to have your back because there's an underlying jealousy thing going on where they wish they could have this opportunity

and be able to be given millions of dollars. So no one's going to have your back when stuff goes down like that. Even if you're a hard worker, let's say you even built a company and you became a millionaire and something goes down. Just because you're a millionaire, a lot of people will just not have your back. It sucks. But forget all that noise. I just want to get back to crypto for one quick second because maybe there's an opportunity for Randy and for Tyler

because they spend so much time playing video games. I did hear some tech people talk about how the new Grand Theft Auto is probably going to have like a crypto element to it. And they see a lot of people are going to have maybe some opportunities to make a lot of money. Maybe Tyler. I was going to say with the amount that Tyler played in 2024, I'm pretty sure he could make a lot of money. Maybe Tyler. I was going to say, with the amount that Tyler played in 2024, I'm pretty sure he could make a lot of Bitcoin. No, no, no. Okay, hold on.

So it's funny you mention this because Tyler and I actually had a conversation the other day. I was playing Call of Duty, and on Call of Duty you can look up your stats and you can see the hours of game you've played and compare it to all your friends. I'm pretty low, although I feel like I've been playing a lot. I came to find out that Nacho's Brother Menace is like a hardcore Call of Duty gamer. Like, dude, he's like, like pro level gaming. I would love to see his hours because I think it blows Tyler out of the water. Yeah, that's he goes to work. He does his work and then he goes in his room and he plays

games. I went in his room probably like two weeks ago during the day and i was like um where's your light switch dude he doesn't have a light in there he just keeps everything dark bort would love it just so he could see the screens better for the game man he doesn't have a girlfriend right no actually sal if you're listening i I'm not hating, brother. I'm jealous. I just game recognize game. He like, yeah, he works, he eats, and then he games.

And look, if you're that much into it, try to figure out a way that you can at least monetize it, right? I think it depends. Me, I just do it for the love. I'm not trying to make money. I know I'm not good enough to be doing tournaments and all this stuff. I'm just in it for the love of the game, man.

With your evaluation, Randy, what do you think? Do you think he's good enough to be in tournaments yet or no? Well, he's playing ranked matches on Call of Duty. I don't even play ranked matches. That's legitimate. Okay, for the people that have sex know have sex with people what does that mean well yeah let the guy who lives at home with a girlfriend uh no but um so uh like regular standard matches you're just playing and you're like ranking up your character or whatever ranked

matches well there's a ranking assigned to it and it can be used for competitive reasons um tournaments i would assume like i don't do ranked because the people that play that are, like, the top of the top. Like, very, very, people who take Call of Duty very seriously. 12-year-olds. That's what I'm saying. Like, if you're going to go all that way, and he's, like, 10th prestige. So, to give you an idea, there's, so there are prestiges. In order to do that, you have to, like, you have to level up 55 times.

Poor prestige. He's 10th Prestige. I'm second Prestige. That's why I was sending it to the group chat. I'm like, yo, how many hours is this guy putting in on COD? This is nuts. And he's playing ranked. So I would argue he has to have the skill

because if you're already 10th Prestige and you're dipping into ranked, he's got it. I mean, he's got to monetize it somehow. It's a shame that TikTok's going away because that was like the best way to do it. Allegedly. It's not going away. I don't think so. Well, alright. Let's talk about something that we all understand. That would be

food news. Food news. Here's something. Did you guys hear about this? Wendy's is going to come out with a new Girl Scout cookie, Thin Mint mint frosty all in or all out yes 100 yes give it to me right that is my favorite cookie mine too yo i'm not gonna lie do you put it in the freezer uh yes i have oh yeah i'm not gonna lie so i was

at work the other day and some dude said oh hey Samoans are my favorite cookie or the Samoans or whatever they're called get out of here dude agreed yes suck it are the Samoans the one with the coconut on them yeah the coconut sucks

those aren't bad but yeah I'm with you Tyler only in a dire situation am I enjoying coconut. Exactly. Coconut's the devil's food. What? I'll put a drink inside of a coconut, but I'm not putting coconut shavings on stuff. Oh, my God.

But I have a question, Julianne. Hold up. Hold up. We're talking Girl Scouts. You got nothing but girls. What's up? Are you guys slinging or what? Hell no.

I'm not going to put my kids in Girl Scouts. They're going to play sports like real humans. I mean, you can play sports and be in the Girl Scouts. They can do both. Girl Scouts catching a stray. Do you know how much time that would take out of my life to put them in Girl Scouts, which is like forever, many hours. I don't know.

That's just way too many hours in a day to just do something. And then you have to go to sports. That's just... I can't. Girl Scouts is a forever thing. You can go up to your 18 and go to Eagle Scouts. I don't know if that's just for boys. I don't know. Oh, no. You can't because Morgan, who works on the Woody show,

she was in the Girl Scouts until she was 18. Dorky! Which is the oddest thing when it comes to morgan like i see sammy on our show maybe doing that but sammy sammy is still a girl scout at like 30 something anything girl scouts should be morgan should be a testament of what girl scouts can do to a person or ask morgan how many hours a day she spent in girl scouts dude i was a girl scout slave growing up because my mom was a leader for my sister and her friends growing up so i was the one this is before you could do the girl

scouts order at home and yeah these would magically show up at your door i had to lug all these damn boxes for girl scout troops to the car to the rooms to their cars i was like the muscle see what i'm saying as a girl. Yeah, but think of how you look to all the Girl Scouts and their moms, dude. I know. Flexing, dude. And how many hours did your mom put into that? It's not just your sister putting hours, it's your mom. Julian,

can't they just do the cookie part and then quit? Nah, because it's like sign them up and drop them off somewhere and then be like, alright. That's what it is. It's basically built-in babysitting for a lot of families. They send them off on weekends. They send them off for hours at a time during the week. You're just looking at it the wrong way.

You're sitting on a goldmine. You don't have to worry about posting up at some random convenience store to sell the cookies. You can't get a scholarship for being in the Girl Scouts. You can get a scholarship for playing softball, for wrestling, and now they're throwing flag football in the...

Now they're throwing flag football up in the mix. Come on. Oh, that's the funniest. Girl Scouts looks good on a college application though. This is really cutting into Julianne's bar time. I know. I don't even go to the bars anymore.

You just went to a MILF bar the other week. You were just trapped in the ground. You got to a bar date a point two weeks ago when was the last time before that when was i at a bar couldn't even tell you like probably the night before yeah maybe when you were on a cruise shooting boob milk guys we're in january now that was a long time i think you just don't remember being at the bar it's my thing. You know where else I would love to eat some cookies?

When I'm stumbling out of a bar. How about I just buy you guys cookies? You just can't keep them in your purse. I'll just buy you guys cookies. Stop trying to make my kids delicate. I'm not getting involved in this and setting up shop out of a weed dispensary. I do not know. You would make so much money. No, so dumb.

Let's dress up Tyler as a Girl Scout and put him right outside a weed dispensary. I know. I'm stealing his cookies. 2024 was the year of Dr. Pepper for me, and they just announced another new flavor. Dr. Pepper is going to have Dr. Pepper Blackberry. All in or all out? All in. All in. I love Dr. Pepper, Blackberry, all in or all out? All in. All in.

I love Dr. Pepper and Blackberry. I mean, I'll try it if it's around me. I'm not going to go buy them, I think. All right. I'm like 50-50. I'll try it. All right. How about this?

Haritos. Haritos, of all people, are debuting in a can Boba-packed beverages. What? Nope. Harita Boba-packed beverages. What? Harita Boba. What? Yes. Look it up. It's a thing.

I don't know how I feel about this. Anything Boba, I'm out. Oh, you're not down with the balls or what? No. Yeah, Jules doesn't like balls in her mouth. I'm shocked. Well, they have to be big, huge ones, Tyler. You wouldn't know about that.

But those little tiny ones, uh-uh. No thanks. Damn.'s, you wouldn't know about that. But those little tiny ones, uh-uh. No thanks. See, I don't mind boba. I don't mind boba, but what the boba I don't do is stuff that's in pre-packaged stuff, like in a can. If I go to get a boba tea or something, I don't know. My brain feels differently about that,

but boba that's already packaged in something is weird. Fresh balls only. Yeah, fresh balls only, brother. No one wants those stale fresh balls. Fresh balls only. Yeah, fresh balls only, brother. No one wants those stale old balls. Wouldn't the balls get stuck trying to come out of the hole? Not if you suck hard enough. Or, I don't know, throw it back.

Look, it's much easier with a straw, it's much easier to suck those balls in when they're fresh, but when they're stale and in a can or something, you can't do it. But sometimes the ball, what I hate is sometimes the balls are too big for the straw.

That's another problem. Sometimes you're sort of batwing and you're like, how am I supposed to suck on these balls? Well, you got to pull it and then back end it. Is it possible that the balls have sat in the liquid for so long that they just shrivel up and can fit through the hole? Maybe. I don't know.

Like a raisin. One would think that. I don't wait to put those balls in my mouth. I just get right to it. Maybe you just got to flick your tongue a little bit. Maybe. Honestly, dude, I just dump out the liquid and I'm like, all right, where are the balls at? That's what I'm trying to get to.

Give me the balls, player. But please, you swallow the liquid though, right? Yeah. Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes I'm just to get to. Please, you swallow the liquid though, right? Sometimes. Sometimes I'm just there for the balls. Is the liquid with the balls or does the liquid come from the balls? These are questions that we can answer. Who's to say? Go straight to the back of your throat.

I feel like I need to create a class and you guys can be all my students. Our teacher's about to suck boba balls up. Welcome to Sucking Boba Balls 101. I can teach you how to suck Boba balls up. Welcome to Sucking Boba Balls 101. I'm your adjunct professor, Randy. Oh, yes, Boba. That's what we're talking about.

Anyways, where are we at? Okay, so we got that for news. We got the balls. Tyler, you're our movie connoisseur lately on the pod. Did you see Sonic 3? did you see a complete unknown did anything like that anything did anybody see moana no i honestly there wasn't really anything uh that came out during christmas that i was like super excited to go to the theater for what uh last last thing i saw i think was gladiator 2 which was okay um so i'll be honest

the sonic movie i do actually really want to see that but iator 2 which was okay um so i'll be honest the sonic movie i do actually really want to see that but i haven't seen any of them so i feel like i need to see the first two first and then a complete unknown i was like i'll just wait for that one uh to show up to streaming or whatever but uh yeah i mean the movies have been okay lately it's kind of the slow period um i mean just slow we'll see what happens no he's not he's not you lie there's gonna be more coming out what well randy is there something that you're excited for i watched the substance the other day oh really i've been waiting to see that is it good i yeah it's good i don't want to give anything away but uh it is it's an interesting ride it is uh

not what a lot of people are expecting i bet all right movie i a good movie. I liked it. I will mention real quick, my brothers, on the other hand, they did go see Nosferatu, and they said it was really good. What's that again? I need to go watch that too. That's the vampire one. It's Dracula, but not Dracula. Oh, I like to see that. It's a little bit more creepy Dracula. Yeah, I like movies like that.

I hear there's vampire penis in it. Dude, even better. How are his bobas? Yeah, where them bobas at? I'll let you know when I see it. Might be raisins. I know the 40th anniversary of Goonies. They're going to have Goonies in theaters

for a few days. So coming up, I think after this weekend. So I'm excited for that. But I got to wrap this up, guys, because this weekend is ufc 311 shout out to our friends at the ufc they have been so kind to us um like morgan and myself and we went to the press conference yesterday at intuit dome and it was wild because it was open to the public and one of the fighters is armenian and you know los angeles

has one of the biggest armenian populations in the u in the u.s yeah so they came out and showed up and it was a wild time like you can even like really hear the press conference because the crowd was so crazy but dana white was loving it so i gotta go back today for the weigh-ins and with Morgan to go get some content. And then after that, we're going to go to Cosm and do another UFC thing there. And then after that, going over to the Lakers. So I'm back, baby. It's 2025.

We out here. We back. We back, baby. So I got to wrap that up. But before I do my shout-outs, I would like to ask people here, do you have anything to say before we go brett rapid fire bullet points switch 2 was announced by nintendo that's awesome yes oh really because the stock went down people didn't seem to impress with it uh i don't know

what they're expecting but the console looks dope the controllers have been updated um the online gameplay there was a preview in it for mario kart 9 and it looks like you can have up to 24 people playing at once oh damn and um it's backwards compatible with the original switch i say we do an event where we have people play each other at a bar or something that'd be fun i'm stoked let's do it i know our friends at villain brewing would probably like that in anaheim uh i'm sure they'll let us set that up there. We can call our friends at TCL and get a bunch of TVs. Yes! Let's do this!

That would rule pretty hard. Totally going to wipe the floor with Randy. Nice. And Todd. Oh, yeah. I'll crush Randy so hard. Castlevania Nocturne is streaming now on Netflix. It's season two looks awesome go watch that this weekend if you guys need something to watch and um uh just a fun

little psa for everybody if you are looking for apartments and walk in and it smells like gas and you go ask the uh person who's showing the apartment hey it kind of smells like gas and their response is oh well if it still smells that way when you move in we can fix that okay um probably not a great place to rent from and just kind of walk away yeah yeah yeah that sounds like some solid advice yeah yeah that's it tyler do you have anything to say before we leave uh two things actually three number one the sonic by my house is now officially open oh nice and i know they're killing it because i have to drive by this place four times a week it's on my way home from work

every time i drive by 20 cars deep in the drive-thru so they're actually killing it so i think that's why brett and i because we're supposed to do an event there that's why we haven't done it yet because it's just so popping you don't want to clog up everything. Yeah, really popular right now. So good for them. Number two, like Brett said, the Switch 2 is announced and my question to everybody is, how many of these will Randy hoard and then redistribute on the open market? Ooh, flipping them.

How many will Randy hoard? Release week? I'll say five. Ooh, five? I was going under. I was going four. Fellas, those days are going under. I was going four. Fellas, those days are behind me. I'm a new man. I'm working.

I got full-time benefits. I ain't got to be doing it. I ain't got to be on the streets anymore selling switches. You know what? I wasn't going to believe him, but then he mentioned the benefits, and now I kind of believe him. I don't. He out the hood, guys. I don't.

We out the trenches, man. Moving on up. You never leave. Once you're in, you don't leave. You never trenches man. You never leave once you're in you don't leave you never go out All right. Yeah, and the the third thing lastly real quick So I've mentioned this to Brett and Randy knows this too. I've been playing the video game Marvel rivals a lot Recently really good video game very similar to overwatch for those who played overwatch But it's actually kind of gotten me into comics a little

bit more to the point where i ordered two graphic novels graphic novels oh yeah what do you mean by that are there that's what dorky people call comic books oh okay well so so basically it's all the comics instead of buying each individual issue it's it's put into one book it's collected it's like an actual yeah it's like a thick book. Ooh. A follow-up question. What did you order? So two different ones. Hentai? No, definitely not.

Well, that's what he asked. He asked me to pick that up every week for him from the Dalai Lama. I do not. I would like to clarify that. Shout out to Animates. I get all of Tyler's hentai from there. Yeah, Japanese girls with the big boobies. None of that. Girls? Make sure there's head tie from there. Yeah, Japanese girls with the big boobies. None of that.

Girls? Make sure there's extra tentacles everywhere. Randy, I will put your head on a stake outside your house. Okay, relax. I was getting him the guys. That's what I'm talking about, dude. The guys that succeed us. Now that Tyler's being more of a media professional,

he's got to learn how to handle himself. I know. He can get canceled, dude. Immediately, he's like, I'm going to murder you and disembowel your entire family. All right, dude. Let's tone it down a bit. This is just some friendly banter. Anyways, going back to Brett's question,

Punisher kills the Marvel Universe and Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe. Those look intriguing. Nice. I'll check those out. Those should be arriving at some point today. I've read Deadpool. That was a really good one.

The Kills of the Marvel Universe. Yeah, that one's good. Never mind. Oh, no, no, no. Now I need to know, Julian. I'm just going to say, in the beginning of our podcast, we were having technical issues and Tyler's cord wasn't working correctly. And he said that he was too lazy to go on Amazon and buy this cord.

Yeah. He's all about buying his, uh, what do you call that? Hentai. Hentai. Your Hentai comic books. Google Hentai.

You were too lazy for that. I will, I will own up to buying the normal superhero comic books that, uh, I purchased and not buying a cord, but I purchased the cord right before the podcast should be here tomorrow. Oh, nice. I encourage you to go

shop at your local comic book store too. I have done that and I've gotten some stuff from there before, so I will continue to do that. Okay, where are we at? Randy, couple things. Number one, I've been... Jesus Christ. Shut up, Eric.

There have been a couple really cool things that have been flowing around the internet that benefit the LA Fires. Violent Gentleman put out a really cool shirt with a bear saying, support your local fire department. I got some of that. I got the 100 shirt that came out. And then Tyler actually sent me a very Randy item that the company good shirts put out.

It is a LA hat that says lasagna and on the side of it is a Garfield. So I bought that. So if you can, there are creative ways to give back to the committee. Also Brett, Brett got me. I spent, since we're talking about comics, I also spent like 40 bucks on the entire collection of hellboy comics digitally because the money went to the fires brett knew what he was doing he was like this is an easy way to get someone to donate tag me on twitter i did even see the donate i just saw

hellboy it's on humble bundle.net they do a lot of charities though yes that was that was i didn't know we do a podcast with millionaires yeah i know right know, right? I bought this. I bought that. Like, what? It's like 40 bucks. Get your bread up, son. I don't know what you want me to tell you. It's like if you donate 40 bucks, you get $300 worth of comics. But yes, we're billionaires.

You're right, Eric. Legal millionaires. Bought this. Bought that. Bought this. This is on my Amazon list. There's a Switch 2 on the way. That's all I got to tell you, man.

Yeah, four of them. It's in your hands. There's a switch two on the way. Yeah. I gotta tell you. Yeah. Four of them in your hands. Uh, number two, um, more importantly, I have acquired reservations to Casa Bonita March 15th. Very nice. And I do you attend ongoing, um, explaining it to my girlfriend was an interesting conversation because she is familiar with the Laura of Casa Bonita, but, uh, she was like, so we

have to fly there. And I'm like, correct. Yeah. But she was like, so we have to fly there? And I'm like, correct. Yeah. And she's like, so we're going to Colorado for a Mexican restaurant. Yeah. Flying plane tickets, flying to Colorado for a burrito. The money is growing on trees out here. I know.

Making a ring. Oh, look. Yeah. And here I'm just trying to find an apartment that isn't lopsided, doesn't have loud neighbors, and doesn't have gas leaking through it. You know, that's my problem. Yeah. Anyways.

All right. Okay. I'll be inside you. Eric, do you have anything to say before we leave? Let me open this graphic novel real quick and read it for you guys. No, go Bills. Go Bills. Heck yeah.

I hope it happens, dude. It'd be awesome. I mean, it kind of sucks, though, at the same time, because if it did happen, they're in the Super Bowl and you got to work, you know? Yeah, I don't know how I'd manage that yet. So it'd be a bridge I have to cross. We got to win two more games. So we'll get there if we get there.

That'd be very stressful as a fan. Julianne, anything to say before we leave? Yeah. So to all you mamas and daddies out there, Miss Rachel's going to be on Netflix. I heard that name. Yes. She is going to be on Netflix starting January 27th. And it's only going to be a few episodes for now, but in case you are a Miss Rachel follower, then there you have it. And then also I switched gyms. I was going to Planet Fitness, but I could never go because I have like a million kids. So I just switched over to Choose in Laverne, California. And it's amazing. They have the best classes. They have a steam room.

They have saunas. They have body compressions, hydro beds, tanning booth. Yeah, so I really dig it. I've been going for two weeks now. Wow. And the last thing is, guys, I got a freaking ticket the other day. Oh, no. I haven't got a ticket since I was 19. I don't know if you guys saw me post on my Instagram saying,

if anybody knows anybody from West Covina Police Department, let me know. I have a question. I was scared to ask. I'm dealing with San Bernardino because it's funny that you say that. I just talked about that last week. I haven't got a ticket forever either, and I got one. And it was like their projected speed.

I'm like, what? Like it wasn't even like a radar or anything like that. And they said that was going 93 miles an hour. I'm like, you have to be confusing me with somebody else. But they're like, no,

he clocked you back a mile and a half back. And I don't know. So yeah, I'm going to fight it as well. But yeah. Well well so i've heard since you're throwing it out there san bernardino people all at me uh anyways hopefully i can talk my way out of this or you know go to court and i'm hoping that the officer doesn't show up because i heard for traffic violations most of the time the cops don't show up to court

i know so that's just what I'm banking on. But if not, then I just got to do traffic school and pay the fine. If you do traffic school, Mattis, then you get that point taken off your record. I don't want to do any of that. Let this be a lesson. Do what Tyler does. Just show him the goods, dude.

Everybody was telling me that. Them chi-chis, yo. You should have thrown milk in his face. Tyler's been thrown in jail like three times, but maybe a fourth time. Thrown in jail three times, never convicted. I rolled a stop sign, though. I didn't say that part. I rolled a stop sign.

And I always stop at this damn stop sign and this one time that I didn't. God, mother effer. Right to jail right away. Alright, just a really quick rapid fire shoutouts to all of our people. Shoutout to Joe Coy. Shoutout to Gabriel Iglesias who has a new

Netflix special out right now that you should check out. Also to our friends Matt and Kim. Shoutout to Lazy Dog Restaurants. Thank you again for jumping in and helping out all the people affected by these fires. Just shoutout to firefighters in general. Shout out to the law enforcement

that are catching all these looters who are complete garbage. And just the citizens of Los Angeles and Orange County who really stepped up, of course, across the country. People that have been helping out everybody in this region for everything that happened. It's going to take years and years to rebuild everything, but I think that we will come back stronger. We're just going to have to ride

through all of this. And if you're able and you're willing to continue to help, I suggest do so. If you know people close to you that, you know, maybe that's your project and helping them just gain back on their feet because definitely that's what I'm going to be doing. And thank you again to everybody that supports this podcast. Last year, we got a lot of shout outs of people that just love this podcast. And we're going to try to continue to make it happen in 2025 with everybody's schedule all over the place. You know, huge thank you to Eric and thank you to Tyler and thank you to Randy and Julianne who continue to do this podcast week after week. And we unfortunately don't make any money off it.

I've been trying for a couple of years. Everybody that supports it. So please rate and review it. Please write us. Shoot us an email. WriteThePod at gmail.com. That's WriteThePod at gmail.com. Brett, I would like to thank you

as well. You do use your spare time, but you don't really have to go anywhere to do this. No, I don't. And, you know,

speaking of crazy schedules, because we had to reschedule this podcast, actually, you know, because we couldn't do last week, fires,

and then this week, Tyler had a special family date, which I called sus on because I thought he had a secret date, but it wouldn't have worked out for me yesterday. I had meetings special family date, which I called Suss on because I thought he had a secret date. But it wouldn't have worked out for me yesterday. I had meetings for three hours.

So I'm just happy that we all get to hang out once a week, even for a little bit. It's great. So thank you, everybody. And hopefully we'll see you next week. What's new? What's new with Metis?