What's New Podcast - Texas vs. California Living, Pokemon Music Festival, Cash app Bitcoin, James Harden Drama and more!

Episode Date: January 15, 2021

On this episode we talk Texas vs. California Living, Pokemon Music Festival, Cash app Bitcoin, James Harden Drama and more!

What's new, what's new with Metis? What's up everybody and welcome to another edition of What's New Pod. I am Metis, I'm joined by Bort, aka Brett. He's an audio expert and syndication expert on the Woody Show morning show that you can hear across the United States and around the world on AFN. He has an assistant. His assistant's name is Eric, aka Nick Soundwave. He works on the Woody Show with us. His chair is extra creaky today.

You might have heard him in the intro. Did you hear that? No, no. You heard Randy's chair because guess who edits out creaks in Tailgater Sports? Me. Oh, really? Sorry for accusing you. Randy has a creaky chair.

I swear to God. So shout out to Randy and his chair. Oh. You know what? Actually, that's my old chair, and I put it over there because it's a piece of crap chair. Okay. Before we started this podcast, by the way, Randy, he's a radio DJ, and he's on all 987 Los Angeles. He works on the Woody Show.

He's here. We also have Tyler, who works on the Sean Salisbury Show in Houston, Texas, which is a sports radio show. Sports radio show on 790 AM. Now let's go back to bashing Randy. What's that sound like? I mean, I don't know. But it's funny that we bring up the chair because Bort wasn't in the room. But what was I bitching about this studio before we started the podcast? The chairs. The chairs.

There's too many chairs in this studio. We need better chairs. By the way, Randy is cured from Rona, by the way. What's up, guys? Yeah. Congratulations. Randy's with us. Look at Tyler. I tyler on it something that i wanted to bring up i think almost everybody in this room has been talking for a couple weeks about moving and i know uh randy was looking at some apartments

that's right eric i think you're looking at a hot topic here around the halls of the woody show i know brett and i like complain about how much we're paying where we're living and contemplating moving. And our crappy ass managers that run the apartment buildings that are complete R word and never contact you back when they ask you for something. And then you're like, do you need access? Oh, fine. Don't email me back for no reason. Thanks. So everybody's in the mix of relocating.

So Randy, what's the update on your apartment hunting? So we found a really dope spot. And it was one of those spots that we just found by pure luck, pure chance. We roll up, find out that somebody else has applied before us. It's a two-story, two-bed, one-and-a-half bath for like $17.50. Nice. Nearby. So we're applying for it.

And number one, the mansion company didn't give us a link to the application we had to seek it which took like three websites a bunch of links to go through well they wanted to see if you were serious found that no no but get this though so they asked for all i mean obviously you guys know i'm not why am i explaining this but they asked for a lot of things up front i provide everything uh we find out from the management company the guy ahead of us didn't include his pay slips didn't include the people that are going to stay there, didn't include his license. Half the crap he was supposed to include wasn't included. And they're like,

yeah, we're just going to give him until the end of the week and see if he can provide the stuff. And I'm like, yo! Are you calling racism? Yeah, let's call racism! I deserve this apartment! Oh my god! We were actually going over different locations with Randy of places to live, and he's like, yeah, we're looking in this area.

I'm like, no, that's the hood. You don't want to live there. You're going to get broken into. Okay, but here's the thing, though. I feel like as a whole, LA is pretty much becoming one big giant hood, if you think about it. And it's like, I agree. I mean, if we're being real here, I mean, for affordability sake, everywhere is a rough spot in this part of the valley, give or take. At least for my budget.

So it's like you kind of get what you pay for, sort of thing. Menace, he was looking at a place where his front door was literally on the main street and his car was on a crappy little parking lot also on the main street that was next to an empty lot. I don't want that spot, though. My buddy's like, you know, this is a pretty good spot. I'm like, no, bro.

I'm not going to. There's a homeless guy chilling in the alley on a mattress, yelling at people as they walk by i'm not gonna yeah i mean no matter what neighborhood though like you know people in nice-ass neighborhoods get broken into i mean i guess you don't want it as frequent you know it's from the bays in the building the bays in the most expensive place to live on planet Earth. And everyone's getting jacked. My old neighborhood last week was national news. Literally, the block that I lived on, national news because some lady got beat up for a Frenchie. Oh, yeah. I saw that.

Yeah. So nowhere is safe, especially right now with so many people out of work. You know how people talk about don't watch the news because it scares you? I saw that. Menace posted that, and it scared me. I'm like, yo, man, I got a Frenchie. How do we know somebody else that got jacked for Frenchies too? I'll tell you later.

So, Eric, how are you doing on your hunting? I mean, still kind of the same process as Randy. I bet you I end up in a new spot before Randy, though, just because I'm going to do it. He's not a decision maker at all. Look, losers, I have my places. It's just a little. No, it's just kind of the same situation. Me and the fiance are trying to move out.

We've lived with roommates for our entire lives. It's, yeah, it's a mission to find a spot. We found a couple of spots in Downey, California. So a nice little area. And we're trying to mainly move to get in closer range to her job, potentially, which is in Orange County, which is, you know,

not a crazy distance, but in LA, that drive could be an hour and a half, two hours. Oh, hell yeah, I can. Depending on when you're on the 5, when you're on the 605, the 105, whatever. Those freeways could be a nightmare. Before pandemic, pandemic has saved her a lot because it kind of kept people off the roads. But for the pandemic, it was taking her like an hour and a half, an hour 45 to get from just past Disneyland into Glendale, California, where we live right now.

Yep, that sounds about right. Yeah, that's a commute. So I didn't even ask you, Brett, are you going to move or not move? Or are you just thinking about it? I mean, the lucky thing about COVID was that our rent was about to go up and it got frozen.

And I've been able to stay where I've been at this entire time. I know, Menace, you mentioned a couple of places that you've seen that are available to maybe purchase or other places to move into. I think I'm just staying where I'm at unless it's something I need to go. Once I need to go, I'm going to go. But with that said, I've been looking up houses in Roswell, New Mexico.

Guys, you may lose me to Roswell, New Mexico. There are mansions. I saw one yesterday, Menace. $69,000. Four-bedroom house. Well, it's crazy because I've been looking around a lot lately, and there's manufacturers of homes. This one company that I looked at, they make homes all over the country.

So I looked into the neighborhood of Houston, Texas, where Tyler is located right now. Yeah, Tyler was here. I know. We were just all kind of chatting. Well, I mean, we're talking about. Well, because I upped and moved already. I've done my process. No, I wasn't a diss, but we were kind of just all chatting it up. Well, I mean, we're talking about. Well, because I upped and moved already. Like, I've done my process.

No, I wasn't a diss, but we were kind of just all chatting it up. And then I was like, oh, Texas. I mean, but no, I was thinking the same thing, though. Like, you know, Tyler already went up and did this. And he's already set. And he's not looking to move anywhere. So I was looking in Houston, Texas at homes for sale. And oh, my God.

Brand new, beautiful houses. Four four bedrooms two car garage nice neighborhood 185 000 yeehaw why yeah are we here love it i've been uh so for the past like for the past like week i've been uh pissing off tyler because there's this tiktoker who uh defends california and so i've been sending him just random TikToks of the guy crapping on Texas and just making Tyler pissed off. Yeah, because Tyler's all of a sudden Texas Tyler. Oh, hell yeah. He's Texas Tyler. He's all in. He flipped

so hard so quick on California. California sucks. Remember those California sunsets, dude? No, those suck now, right? I mean, the sunset just doesn't look the same as it does in California. Look, Tyler used to be able to go to the beach in the middle of the night like a weirdo and just stand there playing emo songs. Now, if he wants to, he's got to drive like an hour and dunk his feet in warm water and oil. I got to go down to Galveston.

It's so far away. Oh, yeah. Sounds like a blast. But for real, we make fun. But when I travel the country with Woody and we go state to state and city to city as a person that's lived in California my whole life you do kind of see the light of like how far your dollar can go whenever you're out of California man it's like you're traveling whether it's for family whether it's for vacation or you're just overnighter no matter where you're at you have that thought you're like I could live

here yeah I know and then but then dude but then you get back and it's mid-January and it's 80 degrees and sunny in California. But you know what, though? This has been a problem for a lot of Californians. I know we're going to sound like spoiled Californians right now, especially SoCal. But you got to look at the amenities of the areas that you live in. So a lot of people that live in like the New York area, the Brooklyn area, they're looking around and they're like, dude, because of COVID, why do we need to be here? Everything's closed.

Let's move out to a cheaper area. Same thing for us. We're looking around. We're like, everything's closed. Disneylandland is closed why are we here that's all we had time to go so tyler i might be your neighbor soon there's plenty of room over here just a heads up during the winter it gets pretty damn cold like it's not anything like uh the people that you guys have up in dickinson north North Dakota. It got down to 28 degrees over here. There was ice on my car. There was ice on the road.

Being a California dude my whole life, I'm not used to that. You sound like a California bitch right now. I'm not used to this, and that's what it is. I thought you were Texas Tyler, man. You've acclimated to your surroundings. By the way, how are the roaches?

Oh, you know what? Non-existent, dude. They kind of went away. Mega dive. Or they're frozen. I just want to hear Tyler's play-by-play of his first hurricane experience. I know you got dumped on. I've been doing it.

Over the last couple weeks, but some Facebook IG lives during a hurricane. How above sea level are you in your apartment right now? I'll have to double check that. If it's a category one or a two i might stay and check it out texas if if it's anything above that uh i do have some family friends in oklahoma so i might make the seven hour drive and just that's one of the things i notice plan oh houston texas is only 80 feet above yeah yeah that's one of the things i noticed when

i was in houston visiting my fiance's family family over Christmas break was all the houses are brick. And then all the houses have like a garage first floor. So you can escape up. And then your house doesn't blow away when the winds come in. Well, that's why everybody says move to Dallas. Yeah, because you're further inland. But then it's way, way hotter. At least you get some water down in Houston.

But then it doesn't go anywhere. Five years ago, that massive hurricane and the flood hit Houston. Yeah, Hurricane Harvey. That was a big deal over here. Apparently, because one of the co-hosts I work for... How'd you experience that when you were in California? Listen, listen.

Come on, man. He's trying to become part of the area. I say it's a big deal. It's like if I move of the area. I say it's a big deal. That's like if I move to the Bay, right? And I've been there for a few months, and I start wearing Giants hats. And I'm like, yo, that's hella crazy, bro. How much time do you give him before he can start claiming?

A year. At least a year. Are you guys through? Tyler, how much do they rag on you about it? All the damn time, every damn day. And it's just like, oh my God, dude, I can't. Eric, I think, is super legit on everything he says. I kind of get a vibe that there's a little bit of jealousy with Randy.

Yeah, I'm jealous about moving to Texas. No, just jealous of like... I will reference back to the TikTok that I sent to Tyler. Do you pay more for steak or for ramen? California is the steak. Texas is the ramen. And by that, I mean, yeah, living alone is nice. Am I jealous about him living in Houston?

No. I don't see why not. Wait, if Randy had an offer where he was on the air every single morning on a morning show and you get to have your own apartment that was $600 a month, you wouldn't be enjoying that? Or you wouldn't even take that? And they still have Mexican food there. Yeah. Well, we've always talked about stuff where it's like, when you look at, when you think

of California, like people want to come to California, what's the point of moving and leaving California for something else? I mean, I understand Tyler's thing. Tyler's move made complete sense, a hundred percent. But it's like, for me, it's like- But in your position right now, if you were offered that position, you would not take it? I think it really depends on pay. Not to get too deep into it, but like the conversation we would have

with Tyler, like Tyler is making the minimum wage... Well, look at how much you make, and you live in California. I know, but it's like, am I going to go do the same thing, but in Texas? I think Randy is too stubborn to see the possibility of it, because we're relating it to Tyler. Plus, also, Randy's very steadfast in

saying that he's a California boy. He's going to stay a California boy. No, you dickheads. I don't want to make $10 an hour in Texas. That's what my point is. When it comes to how much you can pay for other things, and here's the thing. This may be a trip to everybody else, but people live all over this country in all these different towns. Again, with this stupid

angle. They have Amazon everywhere. They have streaming and internet everywhere. It's a town. People live there. You can live a happy life in any place in the world. I'm not saying people don't, like you're not going to make 15 bucks an hour in Texas because 15 bucks is minimum wage here.

I think you're also not adjusting for the inflation costs of different places and the sales tax for different places. Like you could go to, okay, case in point, if you buy a soda here, it's going to cost you two something at a store, right? If you go to Las Vegas, Nevada, it's going to cost you one something and there's no sales tax.

Do you know what's crazy is I was totally Randy like 20 years ago until I figured everything out. Well, that's why I came to this kind of stuff. That's why I see where your frustration comes from because it's like you see yourself repeating. You're like, stop, please. I see what Randy's talking about. I'm not saying I wouldn't move. You work to get to LA, and I see him in a way looking at it

as a career step backwards, but it's also your career is like you're only like two steps into your career anyways. Honestly, you say all this now, but if you got a job offer for on-air, full-time, weekdays, somewhere, you would go, 100%. You say this now, but if you had an offer sheet weekdays somewhere you would go 100 you say this now but if you had an offer sheet i guarantee you would end up taking it all right so a lot of this stuff

has to do with financing and but there was something that cash app just did recently it's crazy so they just did an update where you can do micro investments just like acorns and robin hood also you can buy bitcoin in there see So it has all three of them. Bitcoin is one of those things I never really understood. And now I feel like I'm way too in the dust with it. I believe so too. I believe that people, they're hearing Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, and you buy it.

And that's just causing so much hype and it's making it just inflate like crazy. There probably will be a crash. More than likely. At some point, there will be but like what is the crash i mean even some of the crashes well my god bitcoin went from 40 000 to 35 000 so it's still you know it's not like it's you're losing everything i would imagine no you're not but like the people that are not aware of those type of crashes and there's like dude i'm just gonna

throw in a thousand bucks and then you wake up the next day and it's $200. You know, you got to be able to research the risk. See, my thing is too, is with Bitcoin is like, you can't just cash out and get cold, hard cash, right? With the cash app, you can. Okay. Because that's one of the things I was like, I don't get why you throw money into this.

Like at least stocks, you could cash out and then, you know, get your, you know, sell in, buy in, whatever, you know, all the terms of stuff. But then you can at least have money after. With the hardcore Bitcoin users, it always stays Bitcoin. You know, they have the hard drive and it stays on there.

But with the Cash App, you can get money back, but they limit it. You can only get like 5,000 a week. So let's say- Oh, is that it? Yeah, but no, no, no. Let's just say you bought $1,000 worth and inflated to $50,000.

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Just that five bucks for shipping. All right. I have some sad news, everybody. Oh, why are you doing this to us? Super Nintendo World launch pushback. No way. There's a national emergency. COVID is back up in Osaka and Tokyo.

No! There's another lockdown. Why? Remember when everybody said 2021 will be different? I'm feeling a lot of 2020 and 2021 so far, guys. I was reading about the vaccinations and the distribution, and they think it's going to be eight months. My girlfriend already got both shots because she works at a hospital.

My fiance got a letter asking if she wants it because she's technically in the healthcare industry. Oh, that's awesome. She works through the county of OC, and she's a healthcare worker. Nice. I would love the vaccination. It's not even at 1% of the entire population and they need for

this whole thing to go away to be at 75 to 80%. So what you're saying is the Olympics in Tokyo probably not happening. I forgot about those. Yeah, those were supposed to happen last year. We're going to have a year with the World Cup, the winter and the summer Olympics and everything. Jesus Christ. Guys, I know you're talking about the Olympics. I know that's supposed to happen last year. We're going to have a year with the World Cup, the Winter and the Summer Olympics and everything.

Jesus Christ. Guys, I know you're talking about the Olympics. I know that's important to some people. We're talking about Super Nintendo World. Sorry, sorry. I know. Bearing the lead, guys. Sorry about that.

You're supposed to get here next. I have some other news now. There's not much news on it, but I did read it today that the Pokemon franchise is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year oh yeah with a musical event called p25 so how are they going to do this musical event i have no idea it sounds like the worst time to be unveiling new events well yeah they didn't even say when the date was going to be the only artist that they have revealed so far is Katy Perry. Now, I know that you are a big Pokemon fan, Eric, and my friend Brett over here.

Will you go to a musical event involving Pokemon? I wouldn't diss it. I wouldn't write it off if it's a possibility. Yeah, hell yeah. Little Pikachus running around all over the place? I mean, if I get to see people dressed up in Pokemon cosplay and the giant suits like you got to see in Japan Menace.

Those are awesome. Like the marching Pikachus with all the EDCc kind of vibe i'm down why not would you guys dress up yeah sure i mean i'm i wouldn't say no i've worked dude i've worn pikachu onesies to rave before yeah like trust me it's not not it's not above me to dress up to something like that i mean i just got a pokemon tattoo so i pretty much like set doing it i think you have a team rocket costume that you could probably pop back on that's right i did dress up as team rocket with the wife last year yeah the uh worst pokemon getup that I've ever saw was in London in Chinatown in London this pokemon suit was awful and the guy was wearing Yeezys oh Jesus I posted it online yeah yeah it was like

the most ratchet looking Pikachu I've ever seen in my life. It's like the costumes you get on a Hollywood Boulevard. Exactly. This one was the worst. Alright, you want some food news? Bort, you might be into this. Taco Bell new space-themed midnight berry freeze swirl

is now available with juicy black syrup. Are you in or out? I assume you're just saying this because it seems like the most extreme goth thing ever. So yeah, sure, why not? Juicy black in space. It sounds a little healthy, but I'll try it. Taco Bell has some good freezes.

Their Baja Blast freeze is really good. They had the Dole Whipped freeze. It was pretty good in the last couple months. And at the cantinas, you can get them with alcohol. Yeah, their freeze game is right up there with some milkshakes for me. You shared some Taco Bell news, Bort. Oh, yeah, that's right.

Taco Bell announced that not only are they bringing back the potato food, but also they'll be introducing Beyond Meat, finally, for all the vegan and vegetarian friends at Taco Bell locations around the world. Well, let me hit you with one more thing, Bort, that I have. Some vegan news for you. Oh, yeah?

Fatburger launching vegan chicken wings. Where is Fatburger located? Two to three locations very close by that we could get to. I know they're available in Los Angeles, but outside of Los Angeles, where is Fatburger located? I think I've only seen one Fatburger in my life, to be honest. What? Out here, there was one in this plaza in Southgate, California. I've been to that one.

The one by the arcade. There's a couple near here, like Bort said, and then there's one at Morongo Casino that we go to. There's one inside there. I've been to that one, too. That was the first one I ever ate at in my life. Is it like a West Coast White Castle? Fatburger? Like sliders and stuff?

Yeah, I've never been. No, it's literally about a giant fat burger. It's bigger than your head. They had a challenge. It's like a six-pound burger you would have to eat. The best place I would compare it to is like Shake Shack, maybe, as far as the quality of the meat goes. Wait, this doesn't make sense to me as a guy that's lived here their whole life.

Never. Never been to Fatburger. Fatburger is like an iconic Los Angeles burger chain. I didn't know it was iconic Los Angeles burger chain. It's only in Los Angeles and you can only find it pretty much in the San Fernando Valley all the way

down to LAX and as far east as Pasadena. That is just clustered out here. You guys are blowing my mind right now. I've always done the In-N-Out, the Five Guys. When I think of iconic burger chains in LA, I think of In-N-Out,

Tam's. I don't necessarily think of Fatburger. I had no idea Fatburger was. Apparently, there's one in Washington. There was one just open in Texas. Tyler, as born and raised here, did you ever go to Fatburger? I've actually never been to Fatburger. What?

I never went. What is going on? My mind is blown right now. Do you see what I'm surrounded by? I agree with you. This is blowing my mind. This is the equivalent of these guys saying I've never been to a Del Taco. Yeah.

But I feel like- No, but I feel like Del Taco is different because Del Taco is more like all over the place. Like Fatburger is just- I've seen it. I know what it looks like. Biggie, the rapper Biggie, has in the song Going Back to Cali, is like i've seen it i know what it looks like biggie the rapper biggie has in the song going back to cali is like i take it to fat burger ice cube has in that one song

that today was a good day when he said uh it says something about fat burger in that song i remember that you guys are blowing my mind well speaking of taco speaking of thanks i think we broke medicine i know speaking of del taco they're unveiling a new upcoming prototype restaurant where they're going to have two drive-thrus like how they do at In-N-Out and they do at Chick-fil-A. Oh, yeah. And it's going to be called Del Taco Fresh Flex. Okay. I'd like to know just Del Taco Flex.

Like, that'd be fun. What's special about it? It's just going to be a new layout where it's going to be more geared towards drive-thru. Okay. That's where a lot of these places are going. Like, Burger King is doing that. Taco Bell is doing that. Where, you know, people don't really sit inside anymore in these fast food restaurants.

Speaking of Del Taco. Sounds like room for error. Did you guys see that Del Taco has a brand new item that just debuted? The Honey Mango Crispy Chicken Taco. And I tried it. And I tried it. I've tried it. I'm all in on those crispy chicken tacos.

Those things are so good. You get three of those and a half pound bean cheese burrito. There's a Del Taco by my girlfriend's house. So I got it one time when I was down there. Give it a solid 8 out of 10. I'm definitely going to hit Del Taco on the way. They got tenders with churros. Look at that sauce. I'm going going to hit Del Taco on the way. They got tenders with churros. Look at that stuff.

I'm going to Del Taco now too. Damn it. Did you guys see that Ben and Jerry's had just made an announcement that they have dog ice cream. Ice cream for dogs. Okay, yeah. I was like, wait a second.

Not dog chunks in ice cream. Dog ice cream. All in, all out. I'm all in. Would you try it yourself? Yeah, because I... Okay. Hold on now.

I mean, probably. I mean, if there's one dog treat I'm going to eat as like a taste test, that's probably going to be the ice cream. Yeah. I mean, how bad could it taste? Right? Like, that's what I'm saying. But it's also like what flavor...

Randy, taste test challenge. No, stop giving me animal food. Hey, Randy, decide which one's the dog flavor and which one's the human flavor. Oh, that's a good test. God. Sorry, Randy. Well, they had those puppuccinos at Starbucks. You posted a video of Chimmy and Churro eating them. Yeah, they're going hammer on them. They're crushing them. Love it.

Puppuccinos just whipped cream in a cup. They love it. One dog treat that not a lot of people know of. Pedigree actually makes frozen dog ice cream. I've given it to my dogs back at home and they absolutely go nuts for it. How much did you share with them? I know for a fact Tyler's tried it. Absolutely none. I have some in my freezer right

now. I don't have a dog yet, so I just kind of eat it on my own. Out of everyone in that house, I guarantee you one person in that house tried it. Yeah, it's on my vision board, so I'll get a dog one day and keep it in my fridge. Look, I gotta know what the dog's gonna like, so therefore I gotta test it for him now.

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that's been in development for nearly 10 years. And lots of hype. It was supposed to be the big game for the last generation. Kept getting pushed back, kept getting pushed back. Got pushed back to literally the last possible window. And for people who don't have next-gen consoles, the game runs like absolute crap. People say it's unplayable, it's buggy, it's spotty. Dude, Keanu Reeves is in the game. He absolute crap like people say it's unplayable it's buggy it's

spotty keanu reeves is in the game he was like the spokesperson for it that was that video though yeah yeah yeah so if you have to have the next level console for it to run well you have to have the next gen console for it to run smoothly like you can still play the game on the xbox one ps4 but it takes a lot of man power i mean it takes a lot of your consoles power to run it and even then, you know, the reports of the game crashing or reports of the graphics not looking as nice as they should look.

But it seems like people are so hyped for it. Well, because it's been in development for nearly 10 years. And they pushed it back so many times. Like, I think within the past, like, year and a half, they pushed it back five or six times because they said they want it to be perfect. And CD Projekt Red has a really good reputation,

or well, had a really good reputation, because the last big game they put out, The Witcher 3, is considered one of the greatest games of all time. When you say open world, is that kind of like World of Warcraft type thing, or Fortnite, where you can just go around a fake world? Like Grand Theft Auto. Yeah, think of it like a Grand Theft Auto sort of style thing. All right.

Well, then I have some news for you, Bort. Did you see the news of Ubisoft is coming out with an open world Star Wars game? Hell yeah, dude. Are you all in, all out? All in. I need a new Star Wars game. Let's do this. It doesn't say where it's going to come out on, though.

Did you get any updates on that? It's probably going to be next gen systems. Next gen. Definitely optimized for that. Yeah, if nothing's been fully announced at this point, it's not going to be on gen. Next gen. Definitely optimized for that. Yeah. If nothing's been like fully announced at this point, it's not going to be on the Xbox one or PS four. It's going to be all next gen from here on out. Dude, I'm excited.

Uh, Lucasfilm announced that they're readjusting all their different gaming companies are putting together star Wars games, putting them all under Lucasfilm games, which meant as you probably remember, there was Lucas arts games. Yeah. I used to live by the headquarters,

right? Until Disney purchased and then they disbanded. Now they're pretty much putting it back together and they're going to have a lot more games coming out, including, Randy was excited, an Indiana Jones game. Yes. Nice. Yes. I'm pumped up for that. I saw that. Heck yeah. I'm so happy for that. Also, I want to say this.

Thank you so much, Disney and Star Wars, for pulling the license out of EA's hands so that another company can have a chance at making a decent Star Wars game because some of the Star Wars games pulling the license out of EA's hands so that another company can have a chance at making a decent Star Wars game because some of the Star Wars games that EA has made are absolute crap. I mean, Jedi Fallen Order and Rogue Squadron have been pretty solid games though. A lot of buddy show listeners working at EA, I'm sorry. The big thing though was when Battlefront 2 came out and there was that whole scandal that it was basically just a pay-to-play game.

And EA suffered massive PR backlash from that. I just like that Disney and Star Wars as a whole is not keeping the title exclusive anymore and basically saying, hey, you want your chance to make a game? You can go do that. There's other companies that have their license that that are exclusive just to ea that i would do the same thing nfl but you know it's uh it's nice to see that they're making a change right there look at how passionate tyler is about all this tyler you want to talk about 2k for a second how well they do their wrestling games look that's that one's bad they just need to completely i mean the last w WWE game was so bad that

they canceled the new one because they have to completely redo the engine that's how bad it was sucks I mean knowing the way the industry works it'll just end up you know in EA's hands so never ends never ending cycle um well let's switch it up let's go to sports news sports and Tyler

is in the hub of the major sports news in the past 24 hours james harden of the houston rockets he bounced and he went to the nets right literally he probably could bounce you see the weight gain the guy put on man sorry sorry not mowing your lawn tyler go ahead no no no i'm serious he was fat like he got fat he was playing it off though he He's like, no, I'm good. And to be fair, when he was coming up in the warm up jumpsuit, he does wear multiple layers of clothing as I've been told, but he was overweight. So basically what happened is that this dude had a problem with the owner getting rid of his favorite

GM, getting rid of the head coach that he absolutely loved. And the owner brought in new people to change in the direction of the team and james harden was pissed off and he decided to force his way out of town he showed up to training camp out of shape he had a press conference the other night after the uh lakers game this was two nights ago and he basically said this team is a problem it can't be fixed and he threw his entire team under the bus well here's another thing too what was his contract for oh just a cool like 175 guaranteed yeah and he still has another two years left on that contract oh my god dude imagine so they're able to let him go and still pay him all right they moved them right yeah they traded them yeah so the funny thing about this is is that people here are so pissed off at james harden and it's the absolute worst timing for harden because

hardened has a restaurant opening up here in houston on january 22nd the restaurant hasn't even opened its doors and it's already been flooded with negative reviews yeah some of the yelp reviews are great it's the the best thing. This restaurant doesn't have championship pedigree. The cook left the food on and bounced. I don't think, but what's satisfying at least if you're a Houston fan is I don't think the Nets are going to be as good as people think.

It's going to be on paper because you've got three superstars playing with a team together. One doesn't even show up to games because he's too busy on Zoom calls. KD needs to be the face of it. I mean, Harden and KD didn't work the first time. Who knows if he's going to work the second time? But even with your Houston, you got Oladipo,

you got Wall, who's playing really good basketball. And you swiped the entire future of the Nets organization with their four first-rounders, like four more picks. It's not going to work in Brooklyn, probably, and you might get one championship out of it, but Houston has the future now because they have all the draft capital also my favorite part though when this news was breaking that his old uh co-players or on press conferences talking mad smack about Harden saying that he was terrible the the player that I was listening to saying look you had

problems with management and the owners but don't take it out on us. Yeah. The team totally morphed. That was John Wall and Boogie Cousins last night. They totally, without even naming him specifically, they threw Harden under the bus, which he absolutely deserved. Boogie Cousins, he even came out and said that he came here to play with John Wall. Yeah, the new guy.

James Harden. Yeah. And he basically, like they just told James, like shove it and get the hell out of here. So do you think James Harden got fat on purpose? I personally think he did. I think he saw it as a way to get his way up because he threw a hissy fit.

He threw a massive hissy fit. And the guys at the station have been telling me that when he's been here years before, he stays after practice all the time to put up extra shots. He does intense gym rat workouts, but he did none of that this year because he tried to force his way out of Houston, and he figured what's the best way to do it? Well, one way to do it, let me just not show up to training camp in shape.

Have you heard anything about him being just crazy arrogant or anything like that? Oh, yeah. I mean, just by listening. Like when you watch, was it the last dance with that with that michael jordan like it's so fresh in everyone's mind and people recall bits of when then like rodman would go off to vegas because he needs a few days away so it's like people like rodman wanted to be good but they didn't want that they didn't want the responsibility of mj like james harden is a number two guy he's a skilled to be a number one but he's forever going to be a number two

because he wants to do the stuff that he wants to do. He wants to go to Vegas. He wants to party. He doesn't want to have the responsibility of leading a team. So it's going to be interesting now that he's in Brooklyn with these two other guys, which like we said, one doesn't even show up to games and they're paying him mad money and this is the second time the Nets have done this.

Remember like what? It was seven years ago where they traded for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett way past their prime. They sent the Celtics basically their entire draft future and they were barely just recovering from that when they signed Kyrie and Kevin Durant. KD's a lot better than them. They're going to get some game out of KD.

KD's going to carry that team. NBA sucks. This is why NBA ratings are going down. This is why I don't like to watch the NBA because it's going to carry that team. NBA sucks. This is why NBA ratings are going down. This is why I don't like to watch the NBA because it's a bunch of crybabies, man. It's not even fair. Other teams in the league, like Milwaukee, which is supposed to be good. You got Atlanta that was supposed to be better

this year. Orlando. None of them have a chance because they keep assembling these goddamn super teams. Well, I'm just going to let you know right now, if you're paying me $170 million a year, everything's all good. For real, man. I'm going to show up to work. I'm just going to let you know right now, if you're paying me $170 million a year, everything's all good. For real, man. I'm going to show up to work. I'm going to do what you want me to do. That's the crazy thing.

I know it's not the case with Harden, but you get some of these players where they sign these mega deals and then they suck and teams pay them. The rest of the... You have three years left and we owe you $40 million. Here's $35 million. Go get another contract to play for another team on top of what we're paying you to not just work for us.

How do you get those deals? Yeah, it's like you get cut from my heart, but hey, here's the rest of your contract, but we're still going to pay you. And go get another job while you're getting paid. Like, dude, I'm trying to get bought out, man. What the hell? Rudy Gobert, the guy who had Rona and rubbed his hands on the microphones,

he signed a five-year, $205 million contract. He has been awful this year. He's been terrible. It's like once he's got to get these contracts, there's no drive. They can just chill. They can chill. And the thing nowadays with a lot of pro athletes is they bitch and moan unless a huge chunk of it is guaranteed.

So these guys have worked their ways into what if i get injured you can buy me out or cut me and you don't get money now they're guaranteed front loaded and then no matter what the performance is yeah no matter how well the rest then the rest is just ego because you're like i want to be the greatest yeah and that's and that's what that's what narrows it out i mean you got kd he gets these mega deals but kd performs he's a little injury prone but you, but there will be guys that will go down as worth the money, and there will be guys who are like, dude, you paid a freaking basket of laundry to play basketball. Man, check this out.

So we're football guys. One of the best examples I love to bring up. So Peyton Manning goes down. I think, well, Tyler knows the year, but Peyton Manning goes down. Brock Osweiler. 2011. Brock Osweiler goes in and takes over for the Broncos. He played a good enough season that the Houston Texans,

ironically enough, Tyler's team, signed this dude on a four-year, $72 million contract. Nice. He does awful and he gets benched. This fool banked $70 million doing nothing and then he retired at like 33. Wow, that's

awesome. He just had to show up to games and just sit on the bench. You get benched eventually and somebody else is playing over you and then you get cut and then you still get your cash. What's crazy is they sign these guys. I'm down with that. Dude, they sign these guys on awful teams and it's like, look, the entire team's

terrible. I can't carry this. I'm still cashing out with $70 million. You guys can call me all the names you want. I suck. Whatever. I'm still $70 million richer than you i'm gonna move to houston and buy my 185 000 house that's fat so crazy this is why people have like these massive financial advisors it's it's it's really kind of crazy to skirt all that stuff yeah put it in an island somewhere yeah espn did a really good uh 30 for 30 on it called broke and it's about how athletes, I think it's within two or three years, most professional football players go broke,

and for the NBA, I believe it's within five years. So they did a really good documentary on that. They should have bought that Bentley and that Cadillac. It says here, per game salary prior to him getting shipped off, 2022-2023 season, how much do you think he was making a game? Harden? A game, yeah. How much do you think one game check was? $250,000?

$570,732. Damn! That sounds about right. Per game! I figure this season he played half-ass for what, 9-10 games? Damn. He made like a couple mil for half a game of effort. Must be nice. All I know is Randy just depressed me.

Thank you. Yeah. Just a ton of reason to have a bunch of complaints. Anyways. God damn it, man. I'm sure you guys are going to talk about this one on Tailgater Sports. Tailgatersports.com. Follow at Tailgater Sports on Instagram. Check out Randy, Eric, and Tyler. They're going to be talking sports

all the time and ripping Tyler the entire time. Damn right. About his move to Texas from California. Also, make sure you listen to the broadcast. Go to thebroadcast.com. Oh, hell yeah. Check out the broadcast. I saw you tweeting about the broadcast,

saying that you released a new episode or about to release a new episode. A new episode has been released. I'm just waiting for it to propagate to everybody right now. But yeah, a new episode is up finally. been released i'm just waiting for it to propagate to everybody right now but yeah new episode is up finally and uh a lot of fun covering everything that's happening in star wars all lace and wrestling and shasta my friend eddie rejoined the podcast and we talked about some paranormal stuff so really fun oh speaking about shasta too because i brought this up on our last podcast that eric's mom needs to put something up online so people can buy her

blankets but shasta has some stuff online too that she's doing what's she doing oh so shasta um is embarking and you know like sewing a bunch of stuff together she was working on different outfits and uh some pet products for like small pets and then she realized man i really like tarot cards and tarot card bags tarot card mats i should make those and start putting them out there. And since she already talks about mystic things and paranormal items as well, she's selling some tarot card bags and tarot card mats. And you can find them.

If you go to Etsy, her username is Shasta jeans boutique, and I'm going to have a URL for it very soon. Yeah. You guys can get some websites together for all this. Get that set up. Yeah. And there's some people buying your stuff.

So thank you guys for that. Have actually picked up some items. It that set up. Yeah, and there's some people buying your stuff. So thank you guys for that. Have actually picked up some items. It's awesome. Awesome. Make sure you listen to the Nerd Now podcast. Go to nerdnowpodcast.com. That's with Randy, Karen, and Ravy. Anything new on the Nerd Now podcast?

Are you guys ready for WandaVision? Yeah, we're going to be watching it this week and reviewing it. But tomorrow, or today, I guess, the big thing is me talking about my experience with the PlayStation 5. And I get to gush all over it. I have no clue what that WandaVision is about. I'm the most out of the... I've seen the commercials, and I watch it, and I'm like, okay.

I think you'd enjoy it. I know I'm going to watch it, I'm going to like it, but I have no concept of what the plot is. Now, Brett, you correct me, but I think it's Marvel characters, right? Right. Who are living in sitcom worlds? Yeah, pretty much they're living in a fantasy sitcom life post whatever happened to Avengers Endgame.

Okay, because I got that, like the gist. But then me watching it, I'm like, did Wanda and what's his face? Fate? What's the guy's name? Vision. I'll say Fasion or whatever. Did they go back in time or something? like the gist so i'm like but then me watching it i'm like did wanda and what's his face fate what's the guy's name vision vision i'll say phasian or whatever did they go back in time or something but then i well there's a few there's a few theories it plays off of another storyline in the comics called house of m where scarlet witch wanda goes mentally crazy because she's a super psychic and decides to erase half of the world and put herself into a fantasy world so she did that pretty much with vision because of everything that happened after Endgame.

So now you're pretty much following through her life, but her life is transitioning from fantasy world into hellish world, into where she was in Avengers 1, to where she was in Endgame. It kind of reminds me of, there was an episode of My Name is Earl, where he got hit by a car and he started living in a sitcom world because he was really in a coma. Kind of something like of there was an episode of My Name is Earl where he got hit by a car and he started living in a sitcom world because he was really in a coma. Kind of something like that. All right.

Well, all that's going to be on Disney+. Probably by the time you're listening to this podcast, it's already available on Disney+. That would be within the next 24 hours of us. Now I get why they didn't explain that in the commercial because that's all very complicated stuff. Well, most of these comic book things are. And the further they try to expand all these comic book movies and TV shows and stuff, it's going to get more complicated and weird.

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Eric, do you have anything to say before we leave? I've got a big weekend of football ahead of us. Packers, Bills, both on the field this weekend. I don't know if you guys have thought about this, but the Packers and the Bills could play each other in the Super Bowl this year. Wait, so they're playing this weekend? Yeah, so the Bills play on Saturday night. Packers play Saturday afternoon. So Randy will be stressed out at about 1 p.m. Pacific on Saturday.

I'll be stressed out about 5 p.m. Pacific. I'm trying to make some sports bets, but since we live here, I can't make any. Dude, it's the worst. Sports betting will be legalized nationwide at some point. There's just too much money to be made statewide when you tax it and stuff like that. But we are in the lamest state in the country when it comes to stuff like that. Shocking. Tyler, can you bet in houston i cannot texas is not a legalized uh sports gambling site however or state i guess uh however new mexico is but that's on the other

side of texas hell yeah usually i screwed i do know where that new mexico is located yeah dude oh man you would you would have been I wish we saved the screenshots. There was a moment in our tailgater group chat where we had a breakdown geographically. Tyler was amazed. He's like, I'm so much closer to Falcons games. I'm like, yeah, Tyler, you moved east, bro. He's like, oh, wait, but then I could

go this way for that. I'm like, yes, man. Did you never look at a map before? My eyes have opened. If you keep driving north, too, you might hit Canada eventually as well. You know, if you go a little south, you'll be in Mexico. Tailgater Sports, we talk about all the games this weekend, too.

So get at that before they kick off. All right, Randy, anything? Most important thing to just carry on with what Eric said, Tailgater Sports, football and hockey season starts today. But hockey kind of takes a backseat until your football team gets eliminated. Yeah. And by that time, the Kings might've lost like 10 games.

Eric and I, although our teams are rivals, our hopes, uh, not very high this year. Tyler. Yeah. Uh, had another fun little stream last night,

streaming a baseball game. So I'm going to be doing that a little bit more often. Once football winds down, um, it's kind of busy right now during the playoffs, not because of work, just because I want to sit on my couch and do nothing all day.

Tyler's team is in the playoffs, guys. No, but it's still fun to watch. I was telling the guys, I said, it's nice to, the one silver lining about my team not being in the playoffs is I get to watch the game stress-free and just hope everybody has fun. But yeah, follow BoredOpTyler on Twitch,

and if you can't find it, there should be a little thing on my Instagram and my Twitter. And that is at TylerTheBoredOp on both of those. Brett. Yeah, I just want to say, Randy, congrats on getting over COVID. And thank you for not giving it to any of us. Allegedly. Allegedly. Tyler.

Incubation period. I'm waiting for that Texas tattoo waiting for that texas tattoo i know when are you gonna get it dude you've been there for at least three weeks yeah come on man it's i've got a tattoo since you've been gone come on you've been there for like two weeks and you don't have a wife or a house yet what's what come on what goes on i'm not gonna say that the next tattoo is gonna be a tex. However, I've been slightly getting the tattoo itch later. Oh, dude. What is it going to be?

I don't know. The Texas outline with the star on Houston or a longhorn on his forearm? Tyler, can we please do my idea of like if people offer to volunteer to pay for it, we can let listeners choose your tattoo? I'll think about that. I'll think about that i'll think about this what i might try and do i might try and make a california and texas fit together like a puzzle

you're the worst such a freaking loser i will throw in 50 bucks for that oh me too i'll put 100 i don't want to get that stank on cal. All right, guys. Well, thank you so much for listening to this podcast. Once again, please rate and review it. Go to whatsnewpod.com. That's whatsnewpod.com. We'll see you next week. The worst. Did you just punch the mic?

Yeah, he just hit my microphone. Great. What's new? What's new with menace?