What's New Podcast - Wild Stories, Food News, Tech News & More!

Episode Date: September 16, 2023

On this episode we talk Wild Stories, Food News, Tech News & More!

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Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BidMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. What's up everybody and welcome to another edition of What's New Pod. I am Menace. I'm joined by Borch aka Brett. He's an audio expert and syndication expert with the Witty Chub Morning Show that you can hear across the United States and around the world on AFN. Also we have our friends Eric and Randy who are joining us live from Downey, California. They're in the same building but not the same room currently and we have our boy

tyler aka heavy t from whittier california joining us as well hello how's everybody doing want to get to it we haven't had a podcast in quite a while with all of us together i think eric last time i spoke to you you were in vegas for beyonce yeah it's been it's probably been over a month i remember how to set up all my equipment dude i get the dust off the top of it you know make sure my mic was still working yeah how was that though i was cool man going to vegas is always fun you know drop the wife off with her sister at beyonce and you know there's a sea of silver and shiny glimmers and everything and one of the cool things that i realized that well i didn't know they did you

might know that they've done this menace um i didn't know they shut down that one street with the overpass over the freeway to get to allegiant yeah we were staying at luxor and it connects to the mgm and then i saw a thing that said walkway to the stadium and i'm like no dude there's you have to go over the freeway like that's barely even a walkway it's barely even a sidewalk yeah but they full-on barricaded up and it turns into just a sea of people. Yeah, I forget what the street's name is, but you know the one over the bridge, the overpass.

Yeah, to better explain it, it's pretty much just Manilay Bay and then straight to Allegiant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, yeah. So it's like, because originally we dropped my wife off and I was like,

hey, we'll pick you up over at the In-N-Out, you know, trying to set a meet-up point. Like, it's going to be a chaos, whatever but then i saw on them walking in like the the walkway i was like oh there's no cars at all it's safe it's safe enough so they just walked home 10 minute walk from easy across the way dude super easy so easy but i just want to say that the most recent thing i saw is them boys hanging out together you tyler and randy you and randy you guys decided to dress alike for going out of vent so adorable man it was terrible it was terrible timing like i i

saw the shirt in my closet and i was like you know what i have never worn this shirt i should wear it today and we hit the sidewalk we hit the sidewalk and uh eric was ahead of me already and i turned to i turned to my my girlfriend i'm like oh my god he's gonna see me and he's gonna think did this dude dress up to look like me or something recap it a little bit there's gonna be a photo on our instagram at what's new pod of you guys looking like each other but what's this event so there was this like wine like street party event and how did tyler get in the mix okay so downey's been doing a really good job this year at like including downtown downey which is like just one honestly

just one sort of street but they've been doing a lot of things and uh one of the more recent ones was the uh international food and music festival they had like two different stages going on lots of food trucks beer all that stuff so i'm like five beers in and i'm like i wonder what tyler's up to because it's saturday it's college football the the evening's going on so um like me eric and tyler were usually texting a lot about these games or just you know kind of going back and forth so we're already kind of talking to tyler and i called tyler um because i was you know i'm pretty i was getting. I wasn't fully drunk. I'm like, yo, what are you doing? And he's like, oh, I'm on my way home from FanDuel.

Brett, you brought up Tyler's attire when they were getting together. Yeah, I mean, we've already mentioned, obviously, the matching attire between the boys. Yes. You know, who might be dating. We're not really sure what's going on there. But Tyler shows up in the video and apparently he had just come from work yes stopped by and i'm like okay he just came from work look at this tire a nice clean t-shirt looks like nice clean pants and this thick

gold chain around his neck don't tell me you're wearing a gold chain at work, Tyler. Hold on. I should clarify. It is not gold. It is stainless steel. It's just normal silver, which is fine. But yes, I am wearing this. Is there anybody else in your office wearing a chain?

Yeah, there's a couple people, actually. Bro, he looks so guido. If I didn't know that he was from california i would have thought he was from the jersey shore oh yeah so i apologize that we haven't put out a podcast for quite a while i did record a podcast but did not release it you know why because i could only get a hold of tyler so it was gonna be a podcast oh yeah where i checked in with everybody and the only person that picked up the phone was tyler and all we talked about is how he was watching the air movie on amazon so i'm like

riveting you know what i'm not gonna put this out so i apologize but i was i remember that night and i was i fell asleep on the couch watching the dodger game and the next morning you're like all right well i'm gonna go be a world traveler and basically be busy for the next week and a half. I was like, shit. I should have picked up last night. Yeah, it's all good. I would like to point out that Menace told me he was going to call at night.

And somehow I got the first call at five in the afternoon. Of course, I'm not going to sleep. Well, that's night time for me. That was another situation. That was another situation where I was like four beers deep because the night you called me. Randy, God dang it, dude. Okay, man, I got to stop it.

Stop telling you how many beers you drink. I was 10 beers deep. Jesus. So you've said five, you said seven, you said four. We get it, dude. Just say I was drinking. Yeah, I was drinking. You don't have to justify how much.

All right, guys. I'm sorry. I drank a couple beers. Oh, a menace, I know. So not to jump in here, too, and derail the podcast, but since we haven't talked in a while, I know I sent a while back. I have an announcement or something I need to show you guys.

Yes. So I'm going to send you guys a picture real quick. Okay. So you guys just need to look at this picture and react live to it. I didn't tell anybody about this. Randy knows because you see me at work, obviously. Okay. But I want you guys to react live to it i didn't i didn't tell anybody about this randy knows because you see me at work obviously okay but i want you guys to react live to this it's a little gross but i want you to react live to this picture that i'm sending to what's new right now

this happened to me about about a month ago now oh what the hell is that what the hell whoa what the hell dude dude so i um oh crap so i had an accident holy crap and i sliced off a hearty chunk of my thumb with a mandolin slicer about a month ago what are you doing using a mandolin slicer you don't work in a deli i know so like it was a it was a wedding gift brand new out of the box me and my wife were meal prepping you don't need that yeah we were meal prepping and i'm like hey let's let's chop up our veggies and she's like oh and i'm like oh let's use this got it out of the box i'm like cool look at this thing bro i used it for 10 seconds one swipe and i took off you tony i omed yourself i wish you would have told me you had that

because I would have told you not to use it because you're not the first person to tell me that. Yeah, dude. So this was like Sunday night. We'd just gotten home. We just got home. I'm rushed to the ER. My wife, it happened.

Dude, it happened. I go, oh, crap. A couple other choice words. And she's like, how bad is it? I'm like, it's not bad. You know me. I'm just trying to calm down. We put it under the water, and we, couple other choice words. And we're like, she's like, how bad is it? I'm like, it's not bad, you know me. I'm just like trying to like calm down. We put it under the water and we see how much is missing.

And she's like emergency room. So we run to the emergency room. Yeah, and they stitched me up. It's pretty crazy now, honestly. I'll send you guys another picture of like my thumb has healed up pretty good. Is some of your thumb gonna grow back? No.

I mean, it's honestly based on that picture well dude it's crazy it's not that bad based off what you guys see i zoomed in like what i have now why don't you bid it's pretty wild like how much it's healed like it looks pretty wacky still like it's not a complete thumb yeah um but yeah it looks a little like gumby you know gumby has that little kind of like angled head yeah um but yeah so like, dude, it took it right off. Like that thing was so sharp. I swiped it. Didn't even stop.

Sliced right off. Were you able to like, Metis, don't hurl what I asked. Were you able to like get the piece back? Bro, yeah. So funniest part, like my Leanne grabs the chunk of my thumb off of the plate, bro.

I was trying not to say that word puts it puts it in an ice pack like a bag of ice and we're running to the thing she's trying to keep me from like because i got all like you know cold sweats she's trying to keep me from passing out because my thumb's missing not all of it people i have a thumb don't think i'm i know over here but um but yeah so then we run to the the er and like she's standing there with this bag of ice right and she's like what do i do with this and the doctor's run to the ER and she's standing there with this bag of ice. Right. And she's like, what do I do with this? And the doctor's like, what is that?

And she's like, it's the piece of thumb. And he's like, oh, no, no. Throw that away. Throw that away. We can't we can't put that back on. And she's just standing there like a lunch pail, like a little bag. And man, OK, a couple of things. Number one, did you return the slicer? Oh, dude.

Dude, so we got home. Because it happened so fast, right? We got home. There was blood everywhere. Blood on the roof. Blood on the floor. Oh, no. Because it likes, you know.

But no, the slicer went straight to the trash. Oh, the trash? I was like, no, I'm never using this again. I would have hosed it off and returned it. Yeah. No, dude. It was bad. I would have hosed it off and returned it it was bad send it back to whoever gave it to you didn't work out

I'm surprised you guys didn't notice it because when we did that McDonald's event he was there with the bandage over his thumb Eric and I were talking about it later that day like yo do you think actually no Eric sent a photo with his thumb in the background and he, yo, do you think? Actually, no. Eric sent a photo with his thumb in the background.

And he was like, yo, do you think they saw it? And I was like, I don't know, man. We were so busy that day. I was trying to keep it quiet because I wanted this interaction. You guys seeing it for the first time. So, like, I sent a picture from Vegas. The picture I sent. Like, oh, look at first pumpkin spice cold brew of the season.

And my thumb is just right there. And I told Randy, I was like, crap, he can see my thumb. You know what? Funny enough that he should bring both of those situations up. Because one, I did notice the bandage. But I was like, ah, he cut himself. Whatever. Yeah, not a big deal.

Incident. Things happen. It's Eric. He went through glass all over his shins and stuff once. Things happen. Okay. But the picture, I think I did see your thumb. I'm like, wow eric's thumb looks a

little janky right now jeez oh i i was like man i think i didn't notice that uh yeah uh thirdly thirdly did i get you a wedding gift yeah but it was like it was like uh what uh flight vouchers or something this was actually ironically enough it was from my EMT friend. So next time I see them, I'm going to be like, hey, guys, I really could have used you the other day when I was using your wedding gift. Oh, crap. See? So bad.

Cash is king, dude. Forget this. Don't crap. I sent you guys a picture of my thumb now. It's pretty healed up, dude. The weirdest part is I don't have feeling on the tip of it now, so using it is still pretty kind of weird. I don't have the top of my thumb. I can't really feel it.

The skin itself feels wacky. Weird. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't look terrible. I mean, we could call you pointy thumbs or something. As I was getting anesthesia and stitched up, I was like, damn, I can't be giving two thumbs up anymore because I don't have two thumbs. Okay.

The worst part about it, too, is he broke the news to our coworkers and bosses, and I'd be in group chats. And then I would send stupid remarks like, he says he's one and a half thumbs good, or he said he can't do two thumbs up anymore or you know all this stuff and no one no one saw the funny part in it it was like oh you know Eric was mutilated I'm like alright I have two thumbs my boss thought I chopped my entire

thumb off and he's like you're in good spirits and texting really good and then in the long run I was like yeah because he thought I was missing a whole thing. Okay. We'll see who's liked and who's not liked because Eric must be well liked if people weren't laughing at our jokes. Now, if something bad happens to Randy, have Eric do those type of jokes and see if people laugh. Yeah, stupid Randy.

Yeah, dumbass. I covered for Eric those days, so they better be nice to me. But yeah, I probably would end up being that way. He stepped up for me. Appreciate it. All right. Wow, that was crazy. But Eric, I did go on a week-long vacation.

And Eric, out of everybody, I wish you were along with me. Because I think you would have enjoyed it the most. I mean, Randy, yes, of course you would have enjoyed it uh tyler as well but eric there's one place on the list that i went to and it was called abiza and and you didn't just go to abiza you experienced the top notch of abiza abiza now one with all right so just a real quick recap. My vacation started in Barcelona, Spain, which is beautiful, by the way. I loved it. It reminded me a lot of Paris, but fun and awesome. Nice little caveat, but fun. But fun. And then I went to Valencia, Spain, which was awesome. But the third stop was Ibiza.

Now, I told Brett right before I left, I'm like, dude, I just got on David Guetta's guest list at Ibiza. Now, when you're on the cruise ship, they say, hey, you have to be back on the cruise ship at a certain time. I got on the guest list and i looked and i found out that david getta wasn't going on until nine o'clock right oh i was supposed to be back on the ship at seven o'clock uh that math don't add up yeah so what happened was the next day was supposed to be a sea day and then the day after that i was supposed to be a sea day. And then the day after that, I was supposed to be in Portofino, Italy.

It's a port. It's awesome. It's like for millionaires and billionaires and stuff like that. It's amazing. Right. Beautiful. So I said, you know what? I could stay in Ibiza and I have a whole day to catch up and get to Portofino, Italy.

I get there to the party and it's at the Ushuaia Hotel. It's like this famous, I'm not saying right, hotel in Ibiza where every major DJ you can think of, Tiesto, Martin Garrix, like everybody you've ever heard of in dance music plays at this place and has a pool party. My phone starts ringing at 730 because I'm supposed to be on the ship. Right? Right. I pick up the phone. I said, hey, yeah, I don't think I'm going to make it back on the ship.

And they're like, oh, well, can you get to the next port and meet us there? And I said, yeah. And the music's just blasting in the background. Dude, they said, it sounds like you're having fun in Ibiza. We'll see you at the next port. I'm like, yes! This is probably not the first time they've had to deal with this kind of stuff either. Because Ibiza is like, you don't just go in and you don't just leave.

Like, I got a schedule. I'm going to bounce. You let it ride. You let it ride. Yeah, you let it ride. And a lot of cruise ships, they actually spend the night in Ibiza. But the cruise ship that I was on, they weren't spending the night. Right.

So the opening DJ, I forget his name. I'm sorry. But he was the guy that did the Summertime Sadness remix for Lana Del Rey. And he was freaking awesome. Then David Guetta gets on stage and it's just glorious. The one part that I even tell you, since I was on his list, they treated me like I was the freaking president, dude. I showed up to the club. They parted the whole club, like thousands of people and made a walkway for me to get to his DJ booth.

David get us on until like midnight. Right. Then they're like, oh, hey, come on. We got to go. I go, go go where we go to this like backstage private bar with 50 people and we have open bar and unlimited sushi until six in the morning jesus did you give any baddies my number that's all i care about number one baddies at abiza dude because tyler wild I was like Tyler you could probably get a baddie in Ibiza I probably could do it as a ratchet daddy I'm there and I'm partying I'm

thinking once again I go you know? Tyler could probably pull some chicks up in here. If he had the same access as I did, right? If he had the same access. If he had the gold chain on and he had the same access, he could pull some baddies. Eric? I think you're still intoxicated from Ibiza. Yeah, I mean, truly.

He would have to stay sober because, yeah, with the access you had, he probably would just be tipped over by the end of the night. That's an excellent point. It's like fishing with dynamite. At that point, it's just hard to miss. You find somebody somewhere. Picture Tyler just standing at an open bar, just drinking constantly, and all he does? Stares.

Stares! That's it! That's what I was going to say. He'd be kicked out of wherever you were, Men menace because he'd go up to the bar nice bar nice all you can eat sushi like okay give me this drink but can you can you take a a can of red bull and flip it upside down and put it in the cup please i know my mom had about a 15 minute conversation with me yesterday about how much she loved watching your videos on instagram she's like she's like i just loved watching them they were by far my favorite videos she's like she talked to me a while about what was the greece mcdonald's or wherever that mcdonald's oh that was uh yeah that was um in barcelona and in rome she was like they were

so fun to watch and blah blah blah blah blah and i like, yep, he lived it up. I know. One thing I didn't post, though, right outside the club, and it was glorious, and I should have posted it, was a KFC. It was legit. And the same thing, a bunch of stuff that you can't get in the States. It was crazy. All right.

You guys want some food news? Oh, yeah. Yes. I don't know if you saw this yet, but Ben Affleck and iSpice do a commercial for a new, I don't know, is it a shake or a coffee drink like a mocha? But they have munchkins grinded up inside the drink. I'm here for it. Are you all in or all out?

For me personally, that's an all out. What? Donuts in the drink? i yeah but i hate coffee like i'm assuming this isn't a coffee yeah yeah i absolutely hate coffee all right i'm just still stuck on the fact that's ben affleck and ice spice collaborating like that part i don't get i know that ben affleck and j-lo did that commercial for Duncan. Oh, okay. During the Super Bowl. Okay. But this part, yeah.

I don't get what the team-up thing is, but I'm down to have some donuts up in my drink. Yeah, I'm down with that. Maybe it makes sense because you have the Queen of Munch and then you have the King of Boston, so I guess it makes sense, but it's still stupid. Huh. I don't know.

We're going to have to look into that one a little bit longer. Yeah. But either way, I'm here for it. Dunkin' is a spot you go to not so much for their coffee, but for their novelty drinks and food. So that's definitely... If it's not so much catered to the coffee crowd, but it's like, hey, there's a bunch of sweet crap in something you probably like, Dunkin's probably going to hit

it on the head. Did you guys grow up on Lunchables as a kid? Yes. Oh, are you... Okay. Not only did guys grow up on lunchables as a kid yes yes oh are you okay not only did i grow up on lunchables menace i grew up in the primo renaissance of lunchables with the introduction of the pizza hot pizza lunchables yeah and the taco bell taco lunchables okay well how about this are you here for this lunchables debuts new grilled cheese sandwiches oh yeah yes now i don't know how these are made are they pre-melted or what oh but they will debut very soon look man i didn't know how they would give me taco bell in a lunchable but when the the mixed up meat stuff

was in a packet we didn't care we, yes, this is what we want. Delicious. You're here for it. I mean, if you really think about it, Lunchables has really honestly made a hefty fortune off of kind of like just laziness. Because they just give good stuff and they're like, here, eat it cold. Enjoy your cold little pizza squares. You shut your mouth right now because they are ingenious and intuitive and engineering gods, okay, for what they can figure out. How else could they get that amazing Taco Bell Lunchable together?

How? Geniuses. Tyler? Look, man, there are two things. When it comes to sliced meats, like sliced deli meats, okay, there are two things that I am absolutely here for. One of them is Lunchables, and the other is charcuterie boards. I'm totally here for anything

Lunchables related. I will have one small complaint, because my Lunchable used to come with a free Capri Sun. What the hell happened to that? Bring that back. But other than that, yeah, a grilled cheese Lunchable, I'm all for it. Do it. That was the deluxe Lunchable okay we couldn't afford that bring those back okay yes dude he's on like a pilgrimage today like i said look what they take from us look what they don't want you to have

okay inexcusable yeah tyler wants it i'm going to lead the charge this is not a democracy this is a dictatorship bring my ish back okay bring it back all right how about this taco bell news have you heard about this cheesy jalapeno mexican pizza all in or all out i have not heard about i am all in on this are you guys going to look. Are you guys in? I'm in. Yeah. I'm in. I'm weighing.

I love Mexican pizza. It's got some jalapenos on that. Oh, yeah. Let's go. You said cheesy jalapeno. I'm immediately in. Yeah, make it spicy. I'm down.

Don't they have a new Mexican pizza out already before this one that I literally just saw it on the kiosk the other day. You did? Yeah, something was on the, damn it, now I got to look it up. Menace, I know your new favorite thing is the kiosk at Taco Bell. Bro, oh my god. It's so convenient. You know about...

Look, you know what's great about this? Okay, I will preach about the great things in life while Tyler tries to bring things back. I'll talk about what's here right now. You look up at that board at Taco Bell. You barely know what's new. Yeah. There's little tiny things. You go on the kiosk.

New. It's flashing lights at you. By me.'s new. Yeah. There's little tiny things. You go in the kiosk, new. It's flashing lights at you. Rules. Buy me. Love it. Amazing. Update. Available right now at our local Taco Bell.

Oh, yeah. Might have to hit that up for dinner. I feel like I don't really see any more commercials for Taco Bell, though. The only time I ever see Taco Bell stuff is when the fries are back, but this completely fell through the cracks. Most of the stuff I find out that's new at taco bell just by you know by some off chance going there and i'm like oh my god what is that thing like they had a had a grilled grill i think it was like grilled cheese burrito not that long ago or like uh like it was delicious it was the most amazing thing i've ever had from

there ever and they brought the volcano burrito and i thought that was amazing too and i'm like i have no idea these things are even here okay uh and other food news i don't know if you saw this but it was all over the local news here in los angeles gardena have you seen this this is crazy look this up as well sketchers they have a costcostyle restaurant they can eat outside the store, and it looks just like the Costco menu. But they do have burgers. But they have burgers, pizza, hot dogs, and apparently it is so busy it's constantly packed.

And, again, it looks like Costco, but it's at Skechers. What? Do they have the $1.50 hot dogs or what, man? It looks like Costco, but is that Skechers? What? Yeah, man. Do they have the $1.50 hot dogs or what, man? Dude, they have the hot dogs. They have the ice cream. Look at this. Damn.

It does look like it. Oh, my God. If you drop me off right there, I would assume I was at a Costco. The menu looks the same. The pictures, everything. Oh, the garlic parmesan fries. Oh, yeah. It's the exact same thing.

They have the same little parfaits. But apparently it's a little bit more high-end. Oh, 250 hot dogs? I'm out, bro. Costco or nothing. But hold on, hold on. Don't quit on it just yet. I mean, look at the pizza. Pizza's 250 a slice, man. The burgers look pretty lit. Oh, yeah. That burger does look bomb.

Double patty? Yeah. Where are they cooking this? Do the Skechers have a kitchen I just didn't know about? I don't know. Wasco before and they're like i have no idea what yeah did it make it in did was it a costco and then they made it a sketchers warehouse or something maybe i saw an article about this the other day and i think they're kind of trying to do it like nordstrom does and some of these higher-end stores and all and also you know like costco too where it's like come shop but also come eat our food. Yeah, the burgers kind of look a little Shake Shack-y.

Yeah. Don't they look like Shake Shack burgers? Like, the meat looks similar. I don't know how Costco hasn't gone after them because it looks dead on Costco. I have market confusion. Costco's like, let's get yours to have their fun. We're the big dog.

It's like the little chihuahua nipping at the, like, pit bull. It's like, get away from me. You're fine. Whatever. The churros are the ice cream sundaes, though, man. Look at this. It's so delicious. Gardena, California.

Skechers. Restaurant. Check it out. Google it. It looks crazy. Okay, how about this? Have you seen this? Now, Little Caesars is the new official pizza of the NFL, which rules.

So they're getting a lot of love these days. Have you seen the new Calzone pizza? Now, it's the four-quarter Calzone. Have you seen it? No. Okay, so remember when they did the Batman Calzone and it's all shaped all this? Oh, yeah, yeah. Another thing they took from us?

Yeah, but no, they reshaped it for the NFL, and it's the four-quarter calzone. Look it up. Are you all in or all out? Hold on, I'm still looking up Taco Bell's menu. Four-corner? Corner or quarter? Quarter. As in football quarter. This thing, oh my

God, I am getting this for lunch today. My goodness gracious. This thing launches four-quarter calzone-y. Oh my God, I am getting this for lunch today. My goodness gracious. This thing launches four-quarter calzoni. It's even got like a neat. Oh, my God. This thing is sex in a box. Let's go. Oh, holy crap.

Okay. Oh, crap. What the hell is this thing? So it has like four sections of stuff in it. It looks delicious. There's like four calzones infused together for glory and football. Wow. Getting four different pizzas combined with calzone crust. Are you here for it? Sounds like heartburn central, but I'm down.

I'm here for it. I love that. Honestly, I'm surprised it's taken. Oh, wait. I was looking at the wrong pizza. Oh, my goodness. What is this thing? Wow.

It's a life-changing joint is what it is. That's pretty cool. I wish they offered more stuff like this because as a consumer, it's very hard when you're ordering pizza for everyone because you have some people that want something, other people that want something else. But if they utilize more of this where they give you four different flavors inside of one pizza order i'd be ordering pizza a lot more often every piece is like a corner piece so you're getting a little bit of bread yeah pizza yeah i'm down i'm down with this would

you like to tell randy the genius idea you can have when you order a pizza? Yeah, you can ask them to do half and half orders. It's a thing. That stuff costs more, okay? No, it doesn't. Yeah, it does. What are you talking about? More toppings cost more money. What the hell, man?

Money bags. Whoa. Well, diet starts next five years from now Diet starts never We eat till we die Dude, it's the chain It has to be the chain around his neck It's giving him some weird confident power

It's giving him riz So much riz Alright Well, since we brought up football we gotta do it. What are your thoughts on this whole Aaron Rodgers fiasco? You know what? It's really kind of sad.

Now, I watched all of Hard Knocks, which featured the Jets this season. I actually started to like Aaron Rodgers a little bit more, and I generally wanted to see him and the Jets do well. My thing thing is and I know Eric's going to completely disagree because he's a massive Bills fan that's okay but my thing is is that the NFL is better when the Jets are good and just seeing him and it's not even like he played a quarter he played four snaps yeah And then his Achilles just decided to die, which it's so sad because you have all these high hopes, all these high expectations. And now literally in the blink of an eye, they come crashing down. And it was, I think what makes it worse is that, um, now because this game was on nine 11, they had like the whole nine 11 tribute before the game. And so Aaron Rogers is

running out in the field where the lights are dim. He's running with an American flag. It looks just really cool. It's not really scenic. Yeah. Yeah. It's this whole thing. And then four plays into his jets career, his Achille rips apart, like my bank account when i'm hungry and meanwhile zach wilson is the jets backup now was their starter last year it's on the sideline and i know he saw that and he's like oh shit i gotta go back yeah so like i'm the starter again um aaron rogers went down i was working the monday night game and we were all in disbelief like There were people still in the office that hadn't even left yet, and he's down. I'm like, oh, okay.

Maybe he hurt his toe because he had toe issues last year. And the dude goes down, and then you're finding out that it's done. It's done after four plays on the first game of the season, and then your team's losing, and it was a roller coaster. The Jets ultimately ended up winning the game somehow but that's because josh on had like the worst game of his life yeah eric how do you feel about that yeah i told somebody earlier in the day i was like you know bills on national television the bills are gonna bills um i didn't think it was gonna be like that though i mean the bills find ways to lose games that they should win but it's usually

you know a little more competitive but josh allen played so bad yeah what was going on with him he was people were making fun of him like he was running a play and they're like dude either this guy is out of his mind or he thinks he's the greatest quarterback of all time well and like he's really good like he can make some of these plays but it's like you know like plan your moves dude you don't need to be they're one of them like the hurdle he hurdled the guy like for a first down and he's he was still it would have been three yards short like why are you doing that his three interceptions were crazy there was a weird stat that he threw three interceptions to the same guy and this guy had a clause in his contract where if he got three interceptions in a season he got an extra 250k

and incentives so it's like one of the only times ever that the guy, that somebody has cashed in an incentive in the first week of the first season. Whoa, that's cool. Is it one of his friends? Yeah, so the guy just did quarter mill just because he picked off

Josh Allen's three dumbass passes. Dude, how happy is that guy? Yeah, the guy's probably going to make the Pro Bowl because of one game of the season. Josh Allen, he needs to send Josh Allen a drink or some flowers yeah like thanks dog good looking out yeah it's it was demise and like randy like so we so randy was in charge of the recap show that night and our lead host on the show we work on around the nfl he's a jets fan it was like post-mortem dude it was

it was some sad sad talk dude now supposedly theets believe in Zach and they're going to ride with him. But, man, I'm not going to lie. I mean, they ended up winning. I was bummed. They ended up winning. They ended up winning, yeah. And it makes sense. It's an emotional night for all of New York City. So, yeah, it makes sense that they won.

But just a brutal loss. Like, some people, I'll admit it, I was one of the people that had them not in the Super Bowl, but in the AFC title game. That's not happening now. So it's just, I had them, I had them going forward because their receiving core is really good. Their running backs are really good. Their defense is amazing.

But Zach can't be that bad. Uh, he's pretty bad. I mean, the, the Jets last year literally rotated through three different quarterbacks and he was one of them so if he can't keep that starting job like it's not good he wasn't great what are the what do you think about the rumors of kaepernick i mean kaepernick i know stop it stop it i know he lives in new york dude they're gonna need a third they're gonna need a third string no why not go on there for the third string. Look, first off, I think the Jets have already said that they're not going to do it, which is fine. But second, this is what I say every year.

Because every year, someone brings up like, oh, so-and-so should go sign Kaepernick. No. Nothing to do with the whole kneeling and everything. Literally has nothing to do with that. The dude has not played in, I think, going on four years. Don't get me wrong. He's in shape. But there's a difference between being in shape and being in football shape.

I remember a couple years ago, Des Bryant, the receiver for the Cowboys, he had retired and then unretired and tried to make a comeback with the Saints. In the first game, he tore his Achilles. Not because he's old, yes, but also because you're not in football shape. There's a very specific difference. But you're telling me he can't be third string? Okay, what are they going to do? Pay him millions just to sit there?

No. You know what they could do? Pay me a couple grand and I'll sit there for the third string i can't throw but neither can any of these other third stringers so i'd be just as good okay and i'll do it for half the price all right or free mcdonald's oh yeah or or or that's four quarters uh calzoni there you go bro give me a steak and little caesars and I'll do it, okay? I got this. All right.

Other than that game, how do you guys feel about the season so far? Pretty good. Packers, we kind of want to know. I know it's early. Yeah, I mean, we're just glad football's back because we kind of talked about it. Like, yeah, it's a tsunami of stuff coming at you, but at least there's games to watch and to talk about. You know, live football, it makes your job a little more enjoyable to talk about.

That's for sure. We'll see. And it's Packers Falcons this week. So I know Randy and Tyler will have a good back and forth all Sunday afternoon. And I'll just sit back and just hope Josh Allen doesn't put another whoopsie game together. The worst part is though,

is that even if the, I don't know whose expectations are lower because Tyler will, Tyler will tell you he has no faith in the Falcons ever at any, at any point in the season, but then when they're doing good, he's all in. I'm still on the fence with the Packers because it's a new quarterback, lots of new personnel. We took the Bears in week one.

That was a great game to watch, but it's anyone's guess because, like Eric said, it's week two of the NFL season. The Falcons didn't look that bad in week one. Then again, they did play a pretty bad team, but so did the Packers. I don't know what's going to happen if the Packers win. I'm going to love it, but then Tyler will say something like it doesn't matter.

It doesn't count. The Falcons are going to falcon always, and then if they win, he'll be talking all this smack. Tyler blows with the wind like he knows. Whatever he can say to make a stupid tweet out of is whatever goes. It looks like my first game of the season is not going to be Chargers because I was out of town. First game is going to be Steelers versus Raiders.

Raiders. Oh, man. Shout out to the Raiders. That should be a good game. That's going to be a wild environment. Raider fans and Steeler fans. In Las Vegas. All my friends who are all the Latino friends that I grew up with growing up,

they were fans of three teams. They were fans of the 49ers, of the Raiders, or the Steelers. And so the Steelers and the Raiders ones were the most passionate, if I could put it that way. So you're in for a real treatment. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm assuming you're going with the Woody Show Steeler crew. Yeah, so I'll wear

my Raiders gear. Nice. Oh, nice. The Steelers got steamrolled in week one against the 49ers, and the Raiders put together a decent little game, so I can't even imagine what that suite is going to look like if the Steelers play like they did in week one. Imagine how mad they'll get when I go, Raiders!

They might punch you in the face. Raider Nation. They might punch you in the mouth. I'm not even kidding. Especially because of how bad that Steeler game was. It wasn't even just like, oh, they performed bad. They got manhandled, top to bottom. The 49ers were good, but they didn't even have a heartbeat for the majority of the game. they performed bad. They got manhandled, top to bottom. The 49ers were good, but

they didn't even have a heartbeat for the majority of the game. It was bad. They lost 30-7 to the 49ers. Don't get me wrong, the 49ers are... Pickett looked so good and blah, blah, blah, but they did not show up in week one. They looked rough. They looked very, very

rough. We'll see what happens. Alright, moving on to some tech news tech news huge tech news guys well first the iphone 15 are you guys in or out yay nay all right moving on i have an iphone 12 and an iphone xr so it's gonna be a minute before i get a 15 minutes well when does it go down to down to being a free phone, whatever? Like four phones from now. Sweet. I'll get it then. I saw the tweets about that event and stuff, and I was like, you know what?

I'll just wait until the podcast so Manus can get me up to speed on whether or not it's worth an upgrade. For me, it is because I have the iPhone 13 and I've been waiting a little while to upgrade, so they have a new stabilization feature with video and photo so i like that i'm in i'm in i think i need that because i'm constantly shaking but more importantly

the big other tech news is the nintendo direct announcements uh i'm sure you'll fill us in on all the other things but the biggest announcement out of that was something that's close to my heart which i'm absolutely excited about i might go pick up a switch for because i got rid of my switch is f099 baby now if you don't know f0 came out in 1990 now mar Mario Kart didn't even come out until 1992. But in 1990, you had F-Zero, and it was a racing game with spaceships in space, and you went against your friends, and it

freaking ruled hard. And now, since everybody's online with each other, up to 99 people can race each other on F-Zero. And some listeners have already played the game because you can download it right now on Nintendo Direct, if you're a member. And they said that it's insanity. I'm looking at screen grabs from this.

This looks absolutely wild. It was one of my all-time favorite games. This is a total brawl for all of Indy 500 in space. Yeah. That's cool and i remember f0 i remember from the super nintendo they re they had a new version i think on gamecube yeah and it is 64 too as well oh yeah that's right i forgot about that one and it's a beloved franchise and to the graphics especially if you're playing on the switch the oled model dude it's gonna be wild let's go oled oh yeah but um do you guys have an oled tv like have you heard good things about those i kind of uh they're way too expensive i don't like to spend that money all i care about is the oled model switch because i was at

a target ran into a nintendo rep and i was like which one should i get man like this one's cheaper i just want to i don't want the the the? Like this one's cheaper. I just want to, I don't want the, the, the light one because it's, you can't connect it to your TV. You can't switch out the joy cons. And he's like,

here's both of them in front of you in this display. I would get that one. And he just showed me the difference of the screen. It is worth the extra, like 50 to a hundred bucks is so worth it. Was there any other announcements that you were excited about on this? I mean, besides the fact that they're taking like a lot of different beloved games, Nintendo's idea is, hey, we're going to take all these games that you love.

This is a PlayStation move, by the way, and I support them for this. They're taking all these games that you loved and they're redoing them for the Switch. They're not porting them over like, hey, here's this Nintendo 64 game. Here's this game. No, they're remaking them completely the one i'm super excited about the remake of super mario rpg nice super mario rpg came out 96 for the super nintendo it was like america's first real like if you never played like final fantasy or anything most kids went this is the first rpg i played it led

everybody in 98 to play pokemon pokemon would not have been this big without this game so they're like redoing it with all these new features and all this new like dope ass stuff but they're still keeping the core of the game and the music and it looks effing beautiful i cannot stress to you guys this is my favorite mario game of time. All time. Beats everything. Pause. Somebody's fan's on and they're listening to audio. No, it's my cat's litter box. The space box thing, it's rotating. I'm not listening to anything, I swear to God.

I was sitting here and I was like, yo, I wonder if they can hear that. Then somebody's headphones are going back. Can we leave this in? Yes. Yeah, sorry about that. I was wondering, too, because I looked on our clean feed and I saw a little blip and I was like, crap. Literally, crap. Cat crap.

All right. Between this and Tyler's chain and his fighting over food this entire podcast and Randy being drunk. It's good to be back. This is my favorite moment of the last week. Very nice. There was a Pikachu or Pokemon announcement part of this, right? Yes. Detective Pikachu returns.

Nice. I saw that. That's right. I think Brett tagged us. I did. I think you tagged us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to play that. It. I think Brett tagged us. I did. I think you tagged us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't play that.

It got a little overwhelmed by the Super Mario RPG. You guys, I cannot stress enough again. But Detective Pikachu returns. Detective Pikachu was on the Nintendo DS, re-released for the DS, the 3DS. And it is the premise of why there was a Detective Pikachu movie and the reason why we have video game movies today, because that is a brilliant freaking movie. And it's, you get to a Detective Pikachu movie and the reason why we have video game movies today because that is a brilliant freaking movie. And it's, you get to be Detective Pikachu.

You get to go around, solve Pokemon crimes. Nice. And it's fantastic. So sequel to the original coming out on the Switch. Well, you can get a full rundown of the Nintendo Direct announcement. I think the best website to go check it out at is theverge.com, one of my favorite websites. Theverge.com to go check it out at is the verge.com one of my favorite

websites the verge.com i check it every day so we're back and it looks like we're getting busy again already i heart radio festival las vegas is happening in a couple weeks then after that the woody show we're giving away i think next next week already, trips to the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas. Whoa. I think I'm in Vegas like once a month until the end of the year probably, most likely. Sounds about right. But I'm super excited for this because we're giving away trips for people to hang out. So listen to The Woody Show for that if you want to go to those things.

Now, I'm super excited, Tyler. You said you're going to the birthday bash this year, October 6th. Are you ready to turn up? I am. So this is, this is going to be really interesting. So I was thinking about how much I'm going to turn up and I'm like, dang, cause I'm still planning on working the next day. I'm like, okay, so do, do I drink a lot at the beginning and then taper it off? Do I level it out? Should I spend the night? should I go home that night I was thinking about yeah luckily uh one of my really good friends his wife is turning 30 so she's having a 90s 2000s party the following night and I was like oh this

gives me an excuse to not work on Saturday so I guess I'll just get drunk as hell at menaces on Friday so yeah I think I'm gonna get really turned it at Menace's on Friday. So yeah, I think I'm going to get really turnt. It's going to be fun. You stay in the night, right? I plan on it. Yeah, now I think I'm going to plan on it. I want to know what's up on your schedule. You guys have anything big coming up?

Randy, Eric, Brett? Nothing at the moment. It's kind of hard to tell anything. It's all football, right? Eric, you posted something. What? It was like, how long was it? My countdown, yeah, 22 Sundays.

Days is a little much when you count down the days. It's a little too daunting of a number. 22 Sundays until Super Bowl. It's basically my countdown to having a weekend back. Yeah, but you're locked in. Yeah, we're locked in. I mean, August was pretty packed for us. You know, Vegas, excursions, and all this stuff.

So September is actually kind of open. And, you know, my wife is studying for her licensing exam. So we kind of, like, said, hey, if we don't need to, let's not this month. It's always good to, like, take a little break. And then you're like, wow, I saved a lot of money. But not going anywhere. It's concert time, man. Concerts are back.

I'm in the flow of it. Let's see. This weekend, we got Calabrese. The world's greatest horror rock band is in Anaheim and Hollywood Friday and Saturday. I saw that on, was it House of Blues? Yes. Yes. I saw them.

I was like, oh, Brett will be there. I will be there. And their bassist is Goolsby from the band Blitzkid. So I get to see a Blitzkid-Calabrese mashup this weekend. It's very exciting. We got Babymetal in October. We got Wednesday 13, who is performing his... He was the frontman of the band The Murder Dolls,

which featured Joey Georgeson from Slipknot. He was the guitarist. So in honor of Joey's... The memory of his passing, they are doing nothing but Murdered All Songs. And they're going on tour this October, November. They will be at the Whiskey A Go-Go in October, I think on the 20th. And then November 18th at the Forum, live, AEW's Full Gear pay-per-view.

Wow, dear. It's on. You are busy. I got concerts. I got wrestling. I like it it it's like we just travel back five years and all of a sudden i'm back in the thick of it let's do this we're here let's go all right with that we got to wrap up this podcast we have things to go do today but thank you again for hanging in there during our break uh we are back doing more and more podcasts for you each

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It was insane. That's sick. So it's such a good time. Again, go to mankim.com. See where they're going to be at. They're also, duh, they're a band. so you can stream their music just stream their music wherever you find music just search matt and kim shout out to our friend sex with emily just go to sex with emily.com that's sex with emily.com she has a book called smart sex they can pick up on amazon

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do you have anything to say before we leave? Uh, Falcons are one to know we play green Bay this week. Sorry, Tyler, do you have anything to say before we leave? Falcons are 1-0. We played Green Bay this week. Sorry, Randy, but you're going to lose. Let's go. Randy, do you have anything to say before we leave today? Packers better beat the Falcons. That's all I got to say.

Okay. Eric, do you have anything to say before we leave? Guys, if Josh Allen is listening to this, and I know he does. He's an advent listener to this podcast. Just play better. Just have just play better you got this Josh maybe like don't throw three interceptions you're good dude do better

alright Brett, anything to say before we leave yeah, if anyone watched this week's episode of Sokka, the latest Star Wars show it is beautiful it is cinematic beauty I just started it yesterday alright, for you I'm just it yesterday. Oh, really? First episode, yeah.

It's, all right, for you, I'm just going to say this, and I know there's a lot of haters. It's a little slow at first. It's like the original Star Wars movie. It's slow at first. It can't be slower than, what was that one that I thought was crazy slow?

Not Mandalorian. Boba Fett? Boba Fett. Oh, because it kept flashing back? It was such a drag. Okay, there's not many flashbacks. There is a sequence of something later on, but if you've been a Star Wars fan or just the idea of a Star Wars fan,

you're going to get to a point whether you watch all of it or just a minute amount of it. This fifth episode, you're going to be like, holy ish, they just pulled some wild ass stuff and it ruled. I forget the name of the actress, but they showed this photo

sequence of her online dude so she's part of the flashbacks you know a soca right and she was also in the barbie movie oh yeah and she was in avengers endgame she's in all the big franchises who is she do you know who she is i forget her name but yeah she played young gamora yeah she also played the daughter in the barbie movie so everybody knows who of course my phone dies and now i can't look damn it anyways apparently that ariana greenblatt yeah apparently she's killing it so shout out to her yeah she's awesome and shout out to rosario dawson who plays ahsoka in the the you know the current age ahsoka, because Sarah Dawson's awesome. She rules. Actually, the whole cast is really good. Super good.

So check that out. All right, guys. Well, that's it. We're going to wrap it up this week. Thank you again so much for listening. And again, sorry for that break, but we'll keep it going. See you next week. What's new?

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