What's New Podcast - Zepbound, Super Bowl Predictions, Food News, Call Of Duty, Events & More!

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

On this epsiode we talk Zepbound, Super Bowl Predictions, Food News, Call Of Duty, Events & More!

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please contact Connects Ontario What's new? What's new with Menace? What's up, everybody? Welcome to another edition of What's New Pod. I am Menace. I'm joined by Bort, a.k.a. Brett. He's an audio expert and syndication expert with the Woody Show Morning Show that you can hear across the United States and around the world via the Woody Show Podcast. We are joined by our friends Eric and Randy coming to us live from Downey, California. And just over yonder is our friend Tyler, a.k.a. Heavy T, a.k.a. Dumbass Tyler from Whittier, California. And our lovely friend Julie Ann cannot join us today because she is doing, you know, the motherly duties that she has. But joining us is my brother-in-law who has been a topic of our podcast when it comes to his gaming

because Randy and Tyler are big gamers. And we've been calling out Tyler for all of his gameplay over 45 days last year. And Randy jumped in and said, hey, you need to check up on Sal because I swear Sal has Tyler beat for the year. But first, we know who's going to be in the Super Bowl call it right now Eric Tyler who's gonna win gotta hope the Eagles man yeah I'm praying for Philadelphia dude but I thought we were all against Eagles fans they were just okay crazy here's the thing number one I get it from Eric's standpoint the Chiefs just beat the Bills

again so why would you root for them so I get that but the second thing is it's really the lesser of two evils right nobody wants to see my homes do the three people like nobody cares for that it's the cheeser just city does that okay that one million people out of the entire country care about that oh there's like 300 million who cares it's so watered down at this point and i don't know if you saw this that apparently super bowl ticket prices are pretty cheap compared to what they normally are. There's just fatigue over Kansas City being in it every year. Nobody wants to see it anymore. Okay, okay, okay.

How about this? Put your hatred aside. Who's going to win? Probably the Eagles. I mean, they're the better team. They got the better roster. But the Chiefs are the Chiefs. Okay.

So they'll probably squeak something out at the end. I'm going to say Philly. Okay. chiefs are the chiefs okay probably squeak something out at the end i'm gonna say i'm gonna say philly okay i think i think the chiefs have a slightly better defense but i think philly's offense is way better sal your thoughts as much as i don't want to say it i think the eagles are gonna win i'm thinking chiefs because they flew in their own referees they can't lose in front of taylor swift it'll be the last year of Taylor Swift in the NFL. It's either he's going to marry her this upcoming year or they're going to break up. Honestly, though, like we should all hope for the Eagles to win because when they win,

we get great Instagram videos for like the next four weeks of the city. So Seabass actually he pulled the audible and instead of going to New Orleans, he decided that he's just going to be in Philly for when the game ends. Yep. Win or lose. And then he said, you know what? I'm going to get better content being here. Even if they win or even if they lose, I'll get good content.

Smart. Very smart. Very smart. Yeah. And if we're being real, when it comes to the Super Bowl, all the real fans are going to be back at home. Like the Super Bowl is so expensive. It's only rich people and then people and companies who I guess like win ticket lottos.

Like that's the only way you get it nowadays. Yeah, true. That's why I'm bunking with Eric. I posted this on social media and I've mentioned it here on the podcast before. And I thought I would just put it out there and just do an official breakdown of it. I posted it on the Woody Show Reddit and I posted it on the Woody Show Facebook group and I got a really good response because I thought I would share this information because I shared it with a listener at one of our events and they said, Menace, how did you lose all your weight? So I lost 47 pounds.

I did use Zetbound. Again, I've mentioned that before, but I didn't really give like a full breakdown on how I did that and like how I obtained ZipBound. And isn't ZipBound like super expensive? So if you want to see the post, you can go to the Woody Show Reddit. It'll say weight loss on it, or you can go to the Facebook page. But I'll just give you a quick audio breakdown right now for people that just like maybe want to lose a couple of pounds or just like been struggling to lose weight. So this is how I did it. I signed up for a thing called one medical, even if you don't want to lose weight, I just want to say one medical, not a sponsor should absolutely be one. Like let's, when you go to your regular doctor, right. It's a pain in the ass to like make an appointment.

You say like, Oh, I'm sick. And then they say, well, come back in like 40 days or something like that, right? It's hard to talk to a doctor on a regular basis. I know, Eric, do you go through that, though, when you have a kid? That's pretty easy, right? But when you're an adult, it's difficult. Yeah, definitely. With a kid, it's pretty easy.

You're usually not assigned to one doctor. You kind of like rotate through doctors when you're adults. But with this one medical thing that they have that's owned by Amazon, you get a primary doctor. They have offices all through the country. You can also do telehealth where you can talk to them through the app and like kind of via Zoom. All your prescriptions come through Amazon, like right to your door. And it's amazing, right? So I've been using them as my primary doctor. So Google Amazon Prime One Medical,

and I'll show you how to sign up. Right now it's like $9 a month to have access to all this stuff. Also, what I love about it is they walk you through all your insurance. They pretty much do everything for you because you know, like you kind of like have to figure out your own insurance to see what's covered, what's not covered. Of course, with my medical insurance, not that great. So this Zedbound thing

is not covered. But what they do is they figure out a way how to make it as cheap as possible through like discounts and things like that. And they do all the work for you. So that's how I got prescribed Zedbound because my doctor at One all the work for you. So that's how I got prescribed ZipBound because my doctor at One Medical prescribed it for me. Then I started taking it. So I started at the lowest dosage. Now I'm up to a thing called 7.5. Right now I pay about $400 a month. Now you're like, well, $400 a month is a lot of money. But let me tell you this, the amount of money that I was spending on fast food every single day and the amount of food of going out to restaurants, you can do the math. It's pretty close to that number. I'm significantly eating a lot less.

I don't feel hungry and I didn't really have to change up my diet too much. I've noticed that from you. When we've been out and going places, I'll see the reduced hunger and the reduced urge for hunger. I'm still eating Raising Cane's, but it's just like I'm not getting the Caniac. I'm getting the three-piece or something like that. Or sometimes I just get the kids meal and I'm fine. Right. I love all my Zero Cokes and things like that.

And Woody just switched to the Zedbound, and I think it's been going great for him. He was on Wigovie before. He was able to out-eat the Wigovie, and now he's on Zedbound. So I it's been going great for him. He was on Wagovi before he was able to out eat the Wagovi and now he's on Zetbound. So I think that's much better for him. I've always been on Zetbound and it's been great for me. Speaking of Reddit, there is some threads on there that's just Zetbound related. And you can see all the great things that have happened to people using Zetbound. The only side effect that I've had since I'm way less fatter, I get colder easier. So like now it's cold outside. I'm like freezing. That's why I get all the blankets by Tracy. I take

seven of them and I put them on top of myself. It's like when you get a haircut and your ears are out for the first time in a couple of months. Like, oh, geez, what's that breeze on my neck? You feel an air in places you haven't felt in a while. I know because I was sweating like a hog, you know? I know there's probably a bazillion more questions about it. I don't know if you guys have any questions right now about it, but you can see my post at the Woody Show Reddit page. And before anybody on Reddit goes, hey, this was another 10-minute ad.

It's not an ad. It's just out there for listeners that can help because some people have come up to us at events recently, too, and said, hey, look, I jumped on what you told me about. Well, that's the whole reason i end up just posting it online because i've kept up with that listener who i gave all that information i just gave you and it's been going great for him and somebody did comment oh this post brought to you by zep bound jokingly and i said actually and this is absolutely true which is so bizarre i can't get paid by ZipBound to endorse it or do commercials for it because it is approved by the FDA, which makes no sense.

What do you think? Because it's approved by the FDA, I could do commercials for it? It's so bizarre. You're really making me go down the rabbit hole right now. Wait, how many ads did we put out there for COVID shots? Were those approved by the FDA? No. Conspiracy mode.

No, no, no, no. So there can be generic commercials for Zepbound, like TV and stuff like that. But me as a radio personality, I personally can't endorse something like that. So Zepbound can make their own commercials and they can put them out on the radio and they can put them on TV. But an individual person can't influence people to take Zepbound or get paid to do that. So weird. Also, point is, losing weight is a good thing, right? Yes.

Oh, yeah. And my blood pressure is way down. Oh, nice. And I have way more energy. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. Like, it's important to get all that stuff down. I'm actually going to tell you guys something that only Randy knows about, but he's not here.

Okay. Back in October, I think it was, I was actually diagnosed with type 2 diabetes back in October. No way. Are you serious? Yeah, I swear. Love the air horn for that. Thanks, man. Hi, my name's Tyler.

I have diabetes. Yeah. Aunt has it. My uncle has it. And apparently my grandfather had it. No idea. This goes along with Tyler not knowing what ethnicity he was for a while. Remember that?

Yeah, I know. Jeez. Anyways. But, you know, it's important to lose weight. And that's one reason why I've been doing it. I've also been on Ozempic, which is weird. Nice. Yeah, that stuff's kind of wild

you know as a result looking way thinner dude that's awesome i appreciate it um the other thing is that one of your numbers that basically losing weight helps with is your a1c number so apparently for someone my age who is in like their 30s your a1c number is supposed to believe i believe my doctor said below seven when i got diagnosed i was at 10.9 so i was like way way up there now since i've lowered it down to 8.1 so it's getting better and i can turn this around like the type 2 one is reversible but like dude if you feel like you need to lose weight just do it don't let it get out of control man yeah don't think like oh i'm not gonna take that it's cheating or whatever. The big

reason I started taking Zetbound is because at the beginning of 2024, I'm like, I got to turn things around. I'm just like, I have no energy. I'm huge. I have to do something. So I was working out every single day, eating right for months and months and months, nothing was happening. So I said, you know what? I'm going to sign up for this one medical thing. I'm going to get on track and figure out what I can do. And at the time everyone's talking about Ozempic and Wagovi and my doctor at one medical is like, you got to try Zetbound. It is way better. Now Ozempic is for diabetes patients which they found out it helps you lose weight right so i think yeah with zep bound it's totally focused on losing weight yeah because i think my mom has the wagovi which is for her actual diabetes yeah like uh sal right we have people in the family that have diabetes

and they take ozempic to help with the diabetes, correct? Because they've been dealing with diabetes pretty much their whole life, right? Yeah, my dad takes it. And he's looked a lot slimmer since he's been on it for, I think, maybe the past, like, two years. Yeah, it's awesome. I love it. So that's the information. And Tyler, what a reveal for the podcast. Yeah.

Are you feeling better, though, at least? Yeah, the only thing is that Ozempic kind of messes with your stomach a little bit, and I mean, like, it gives you, like, an upset stomach. So that's the only thing that sucks about it. But I would like everybody to know. Is it because you're eating more than you should, and it makes you sick? Because with me, with the Zetbound, I only happened, like, once or twice where I knew I should have stopped eating, and I felt fine.

But, you know, I was like, hey, the food's right here. I'm going to try to eat more. And then it made me feel sick. So actually, even before I started taking that, I had cut down on my food portions immensely, gotten to the point where even when I start to feel full, I'll just stop. Like, I just don't, you don't need to keep eating that much. Now I did say that the only one that knew about this was Randy, right? So I would like give randy a shout out for one thing so about a week after i told him he sent me a picture of milo's extra sweet tea and he said would you drink this and i said no or i said maybe but it looks like a thing of cleaning solution

and then he says responds that was a test and then in all caps and you failed sugar boy you tried to lose a foot by 38 jesus oh wow eric what do you think of all this at least he's doing something right yeah no it's good i mean yeah you better do something now then yeah when you gotta lose a foot you got you doing anything else like you working out or you just taking this medication uh taking the medication right now um i wanted to let the gyms die out with all the people of the new year's resolution before i start going shut that no no but but but but i do have a free gym pass sort membership through my job so i've already started looking into which gym i'm going to go to so that is

going to happen i have two thoughts from this. One, props to Randy. Because he is notorious for telling people stuff by accident. And he didn't tell any of us this by accident. I know. So that's really nice to know. And number two, I mean, kind of props to me and Eric, because we kind of joked with Tyler that he was going to get diabetes one day. And he did.

Prediction. Prediction coming true. We warned him not to drink three energy drinks in a row, and he didn't listen. Getting this under control now. That's great. All right. Well, I'm going to move on to food news real quick, and something close to Eric's heart is Starbucks.

Eric is a big Starbucks drinker. He loves Starbucks. Cover your ears, Tyler. What do you think about this 30% cut of the menu at Starbucks to make it more efficient? Do you support it? Have they cut anything that you love, Eric, and you're upset by it? Or are you all for this? I'm down.

I usually get the same thing. I'm not too adventurous when I go to Starbucks. I usually get my cold brew. That's pretty much it. See, that's why he's the skinniest from all of us. Yeah, I don't even do sweeteners. I don't do pumps of anything. No sugars sugars no creams

black coffee just no no unicorn no no unicorn dust no sprinkle powders or whatever you put on top yeah this new uh ceo man he's making a lot of changes and he's apparently gonna make it a lot quicker to go to starbucks i think it's kind of quick except for the drive-thru over by my house it is always packed there's two by my house. It is always packed. There's two by my house. One's close. The other one's not too far, but close. But the one that's really close,

we always avoid that one in Downey. It's so bad. And every now and then we're like, oh, let's just stop in real quick. And as we're waiting for the coffees, we're like, why do we think this would ever change? Just drive 10 minutes further. There's one like literally on the other side of the street. Not to be outdone, Dunkin' Donuts, you know, they want to stay popping as well.

Oh, yeah. Tyler, was this real or wasn't real? The thing that you shared in our group chat that there's a SpongeBob menu coming to Dunkin' because I couldn't find any information on it. Were you got by AI? No, it was actually sent to me by a friend. So friend could have been gotten by AI. Hold on.

Can you confirm or deny? Okay. So apparently, so I have good news and bad news. So apparently these are real. Okay. The bad news is these are real in Peru. Duncan Peru. Come on.

Why would they do that? Hey, shout out to Duncan for, you Duncan for getting so big here in Peru. I mean, that's pretty cool. I'm not harhorning that. I'm not. No. That's fine. That's fine.

Can I add, in my algorithm lately on Instagram, because I follow a lot of Pokemon items, I see all these cool things. Pokemon items coming to KFC in Japan. Pokemon items coming to Burger King in Indonesia. What the F? Why does it come here? Hello, McDonald's Pokemon right now. Has anybody picked anything up?

It sold out. It sold out in one day. Eric, have you picked up a Pokemon character? No, I haven't. Wow. I'm also upset about this. Eric has a kid. He has an excuse to go get free Pokemon cards.

Come on. Eric, you're slipping, dude. I did. Maybe I'll just jump in right now. I did put down on our list of things to talk about a check-in with Eric. A wellness check. What's going on? What are you doing with your free time with the baby? Are you going out?

Do you have free time? We're taking the baby out with us a lot. I mean, we try to get out whenever we can. We went to the mall yesterday. Menace, you'd be happy with that. Nice. Bought some shoes. Nice. Oh, hell yeah.

He bought some shoes or you bought some shoes? I bought some shoes. He's not wearing shoes yet. Okay. Yeah. Went to Lazy Dog yesterday. Nice, of course. Yeah.

Ooh, which mall? But yeah, you know how it goes. It's football season, so I don't get out much because the weekends are short. But we get out when we can. We're going out on Monday night, downtown LA, me and the wife, just us. Sweet. Nice.

Who's the babysitter these days? Her mom. Her mom lives close by. My mom lives close by too, which is nice for us. That's awesome. I do have one question for Eric. When are we getting AJ babysat by Uncle Randy? When does that happen?

Never. Why? That's unfortunate. You don't trust randy with your baby no okay honest question honest question who do you trust more with your baby me or randy neither like the dog before you guys okay that's that's hurtful eric gun to your head randy or tyler dire situation um one of these guys has to watch your baby dude i don't even know like what's the pros for either one of them like randy i think uh even he's crying

in the background about it he doesn't want it to happen he doesn't even like this hypothetical um are they coming here am i taking them to their house yeah we're coming to your place coming to your place emergency situation my wife hears me contemplating this and she says has either one of them ever changed a diaper yes i have i can confirm i have tyler does have many brothers i guess no randy he has he has i mean tyler has animals i'm trying to base this in like some kind of thought okay well let's not dissuade you but let's see. Tyler has like 17 brothers, right? Yeah. And Randy's had one sister. How big is the age difference?

Would he change her diapers? Because I'm 13 years older than my sister, so I had to change diapers. Right. I don't think that they're that far apart, but I do remember Randy getting a lot of phone calls from his mom yelling about him not helping his sister with something. I don't know. I'd probably go maybe lean Randy. But I mean, it's like 10%, 10%. I feel like I'm so team Tyler. It's an impossible question.

It really is. Because I literally could only think about them being over here and they're just playing video games while my kid's crying on the floor or something. Dude, Randy's ADHD, man. Sorry, Tyler. I guess he didn't get the win this time. I will never forget this betrayal Eric will come back home And he's like, why is my baby hanging from the ceiling

Like Spider-Man Oh, I thought it was a cool Instagram video Oh my god Tyler would definitely use it for the gram He would try to get some cred Yeah, look at me with the baby It's his new Tinder profile He's like, single dad, looking for a milk bub I can take care of kids. Yeah, look at me with the baby. It's his new Tinder profile.

He's like single dad looking for a milk bub. I will be honest with you. That does not always convey the right message because they always think it's your kid. And then you have to have this conversation. It's like, no, not my kid. No, yeah. How many chicks is Tyler going to text if he had to come over to your house? Like, yeah, I got to take care of my boy's kid. You know what I'm saying?

I'm out here taking care of these young ones, you know? I love how you assume I'm just getting personal gain out of this. Like, it's not happening. You know, girl, I can take care of your kids. You know what I'm saying? Nothing in life better than the young ones, you know? Pay it forward. You know, I do sports reports in Dallas.

You know, if your son ever wants to go to a Mavericks game, I got you, you know? I'll take them. Oh, were we doing food news? Okay. Yeah. Wait, so Eric's good, right? Yeah. Eric, you alright? Yeah, I'm great. I'm awesome. Food news. Now, Eric, are you a Walmart shopper? From time to time.

Not regularly, but we go there when, I don't know, whenever we do go there, it's like, hey, we should probably come here more because it's like not expensive. Yeah. We don't. And then we go back. Except for the eggs are super expensive at Walmart for some reason. But I found the best deal currently.

It was Trader Joe's. And now, like, they've been clearing the shelves there. Sam's Club has been the best deals to get eggs these days. Just putting it out there. But Walmart, rich on tech, all the people in Los Angeles, you might know him from KTLA. He does all the tech reports.

He's now popping on the Woody show and we're talking tech. But last time he was on, he shouted out these pizzas from Walmart. They're called Better Goods pizzas. And if you did not see this, they get shipped in from Italy. They're absolutely delicious and they're only seven bucks. So if you're at Walmart, take a look. I went to the

Walmart in Porter Ranch and it had its own freezer. I think it's owned also by Walmart. So I guess it gave it its own section. So if you go to the pizza section, maybe at some Walmarts, you might not see it in there. It'll have its own freezer. It's their better goods pizza. We had the margarita. We had the prosciutto carne pizza, all absolutely delicious. Only seven bucks. I just want to throw that out there. That's our latest obsession. Delicious. So speaking about busy, I just want to run through this real quick. Now, Eric, I know you're super busy, but it'll be dying down for you soon. That's when it starts ramping up for me and for around here in March. Let me just run through this, OK?

Just real quick. So there will be some meetups starting up again, and I can't reveal it, but Bort, you agree with me. These are going to be the meetups to go to, correct? Oh, yeah. If there's any meetups to go to this year, it's these ones. It's going to be in this time period. Oh, yeah. So starting off March 1st, somewhere in Orange County, I'll be at a Stater Brothers on a Saturday.

Nice. So put that down. Keep an eye on my social media. And again, none of this stuff that I'm talking about is official until you see it on social media. Keep an eye out for that. March 4th, I should be in Inglewood at Norm's for its National Hot Cake Day. So I'll be there celebrating at their Inglewood location, which is where I shot that Norm's commercial, by the way. Oh, yeah.

The T-bone man with the T-bone plan. Yeah. And then March 7th. dome nice march 7th this hasn't been officially announced by the powerslap instagram account but i've already seen a bunch of flyers for it powerslap march 7th at the fontaine blue it's going down if you want to have some fun you're in vegas go to this powerslap myself and morgan we're definitely going to be there sal you're here with us you're in vegas go to this power slap myself and morgan we're definitely gonna be there sal you're here with us you're gonna be at tyler crater right at mgm that day in vegas uh yeah i am how many times have you seen tyler crater live live i want to say maybe

around like seven eight times yeah okay that's pretty good yeah so tyler crater he is um touring the country and he's gonna be be in Vegas that day as well. Now, Sal, are you down with me to go March 8th, the very next day, to an A's game? I know you're a big Giants fan, which is blasphemous on this podcast because I've got a lot of Dodger fans on this podcast. Just one. Me. Just one.

Yeah. Moving on. That was quick. Choose your words wisely. Are you willing to go to an A's game? Which everybody on this podcast, we all went to an A's game together. I have nothing against the A's. I'm down to go to a game.

All right. He seems like he's smiling that he's nervous. You can hear him smiling, right? Well, Tyler's been eyeing him up and down this whole time, pretty much. How good of a gamer he is. How good of a sports guy he is. Tyler's the creator comment right there. Like, I don't know.

Now, Sal, question. What do the Gi he is. Ties with the creator comment right there. Like, I don't know. Now, Sal, question. What do the Giants look like next year against the Dodgers? I don't think any team's looking good against the Dodgers next year. How's the Giants look in general? I'd say like third place again. I don't see anything like crazy coming out of them. What do you think? Eric? Oh, it doesn't matter. We're gonna win

a thousand games. We're gonna then buy a couple more pitchers piss everybody else off we're in the middle of a dynasty if you guys don't win 100 games that's pretty sad because these guys spend so much money on your team yeah they they went 100 in their sleep they'll win like 115 next year now sal how often does the dodgers come up when you're talking about the giants every single time oh really Why is that? Everybody's got an opinion. Now, Eric, how often does the Giants come up? Never.

We don't talk about anybody, ever. But everybody's got an opinion about LA. Cleveland, FLA, New York. And that's what I try to explain to Sal every time. When you live in Los Angeles, people are not obsessed with other teams. Not even the teams, just the city. Everybody's got an opinion about LA.

Everybody. Guess what? We don't care. 70 and sunny, 90% of the year. Deal with that. All right. Yeah. Okay. Let me continue with this. Now on March 15th, I get to be in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dallas. What? Yes. That's something new. Yeah. With 97 won the Eagle. So I'll be doing that in the morning and then leaving the parade and hopping on a plane and then going to Silverado, California for the Punk in the Park show with Bad Religion and the Aquabats, Dead Kennedys, and more. And that is a beer fest, everybody. So if you want to have fun on St. Patrick's Day, you live in Southern California, you're going to want to go to Punk in the Park. And you know how they do it.

Unlimited beer for, I don't know, I think it's like three hours straight. And then the concert starts or the concert kind of starts while the beer drinking happens. Yeah. But go to punkinthepark.com. I'm doing a bunch of giveaways on my Instagram right now. At Menace on Instagram. You can get the full lineup of people that are going to be there. But, you know, once I said Aquabats, Brett was like, I'm there.

I'm there. Definitely. I love me some bad religion, but Aquabats? Huge. Oh, dude, time to skank it up. Hell yeah. Oh, and I forgot to say that UFC 313 is also going to be March 8th in Las Vegas. And then finally, March 21st,

Burt Kreischer, he's going to be at Resorts World. We're going to be doing some contesting on the Woody Show and 93 won the mountain in Las Vegas to get tickets to that show. Also a meet and greet with Burt Kreischer. And then the very next day, March 22nd, possible live recording of What's New Pod at SeaWorld in San Diego of everybody here on the pod. So wait till I post on social media for a confirmation. If you happen to be at SeaWorld that day, March 22nd in San Diego, you might see everybody here from What's New Pod hanging out and enjoying the park.

Now, Tyler, you've already revealed a lot on this podcast. Is there any other stories that you would like to share? Because Julianne shared a big story last podcast about her dog eating her neighbor's cat. And then she left us on a cliffhanger saying that she had another story to share. I have no idea what that story is. So we're going to have to wait

until the next podcast when she's in. But Tyler, do you have anything to share? No, I do not have, nor do I get scammed, nor do I have murderous dogs. So I really have nothing to share. But I will say this. We did discuss last week about a slapping contest, I guess you could say. Oh, yes, power slap. Yeah, between me and Julianne.

And I did bring up a point where I said is a is a woman a female so it's female female are they allowed to substitute for me when it's my turn to slap julianne i have had three people ask me if they could do it really wow yeah there's three people i know that would be down to do it so just throwing that out there wait till julianne finds out yeah well she's but i know how she's who is it don't worry about it all right that's that's where we're at with that other than that i have um no scandalous stories i guess you could say i don't really have any stories at all okay um positive yeah as far as i can think unless something happened that i do not know about well actually tyler did do something oh he did um so we

signed on today tyler was the first one. And you know, or most people don't know this. We try to test with Tyler immediately because he always has mic problems. Some technical issues. Always something. And I made a comment. Oh, you know, maybe it's because Tyler's doing sports for us now. Maybe he always has his setup ready.

Maybe there's something good. Tyler, what's the update? I did get a new cord finally. Wow. Yeah, that happened. Investing in his quality of work. As far as investing in my quality of work, I also did do something else. I got rid of my old desk, which was a bit too small, and bought a new computer desk that's about a foot bigger.

Wow. Look, he's getting really serious. Yeah, we have more room to do various things, but I also bought an adapter for my monitor, so now I have my laptop, my Xbox, and my PlayStation plugged into the same monitor at all times. This is the most adult thing that you've actually revealed on here in years.

Oh, it wasn't the diabetes thing. Okay, good to know. Sweet. Nope. All right. Well, since you just talked about computing and gaming now sal we talked about tyler and his gaming last year 45 days worth of gaming and randy called you out and said you know what i think sal has tyler beat when it comes to this because he's all these different

rankings now er Eric you can take a break we're gonna have to ask Tyler on how all this works and what your ranking is and how much gameplay you've done now Tyler can you chime in because I need you to help me lead this are you aware of Sal's like gameplay or like where he ranks when it comes to his gaming are you friends online we are friends online i could probably look up via the xbox app on my phone but i mean going based off what randy said now sal correct me if i'm wrong randy said that you are basically 10th prestige like the top level that you can get in call of duty is that correct yeah i am okay what does that mean i was gonna say he said it's so shy and humble like okay so that means you have to rank up 55 levels to get to the first

prestige so i think you'd basically have to do it 11 times so if we multiply yeah 55 times 11 we get 605 sal is level 605 this is just call of duty right now how many different games do you play uh it's just basically call of duty and like marvel rivals right now now when it comes to time spent playing what was your total last year 32 days to 40 days i don't know it's high okay how is that possible? Then that Tyler just sucks that much? Because he has the same amount of gameplay. Maybe.

No, no, no. It's not that I suck that much. It's that I'm not spending all of my time playing Call of Duty. I started to get really into single-player games last year. Okay, that makes a little more sense. Okay, so if we look at Sal playing. Sal, you said, honestly, it was about 30-something? On Call of Duty.

On Call of Duty only. And Tyler did maybe four. So that's ten times the amount that Sal played on Call of Duty alone. Yeah. Now, Sal, can you look up Tyler's stats and does he suck? Well, if you said he's fourth prestige at this point, yeah, he sucks a little bit. That's fine. That's fine.

Game's been out for a minute. I found your Xbox profile. So I'm trying to see. I think it might be different too because I don't play on Xbox anymore. I play on my PC. Yeah, he ain't no bitch. Oh, okay.

Okay. No, no, no. That makes sense. That makes sense. So you're playing PC, but you're using like the Xbox stuff through. Now, Sal, no. That makes sense. That makes sense. So you're playing PC, but you're using the Xbox stuff through. Now, Sal, let me ask you another question. What level ranked are you in Call of Duty?

I ended at Diamond 3 at the end of last season. God damn. What? Diamond what? Diamond 3 is really big. So give me a second while I look up what the official Call of Duty rankings are. Hold on. You know, and usually I feel pretty dorky right now i don't understand any of this no i i'm lost

i remember it was like modern warfare 2 call of duty level 1 level 2 level 3 like what is this okay so i was gonna say this is a little past my time too so sal is pretty up there now i'm looking at the uh call of duty ranking system so you start at the lowest which is bronze up there. Now, I'm looking at the Call of Duty ranking system. So you start at the lowest, which is bronze. Then there's silver. Then there's gold. Then there's platinum. That's where I stopped in my Call of Duty-ness was platinum level.

Yeah. Then there's diamond, which is where Sal is at. There are still three other levels above diamond. There is crimson. There is iridescent. And then there is finally the top 250 so sal why are you there yet yeah what the it's hella hard to get into yeah dude plus like i said there's a major cheating hacking problem going on in call of duty so that definitely

plays a part all right sal so i do have a couple more questions now marvel rivals is a game that came out give or take six weeks two months ago do you play ranked in that uh yes i do what is your rank in that uh diamond three you're a diamond how does that happen eric would you like to go back kid this is this is how this works okay not my lane here listening and absorbing for Marvel rivals it goes bronze silver gold I believe Diamond and then Grandmaster I also play ranked I cannot get past silver too which is where I'm at Sal is the second highest level you could be which is Diamond that's that's insane let me ask who is your main on that game and how many hours do you have with that person uh my main's penny parker okay and i think i have maybe like 60 hours of there what is penny parker is that a chick so penny parker is one of the

characters in the game 60 hours now is that 60 hours total or just in this most recent season? 60 hours total. What the hell character is this? That's a lot. Now, Penny Parker, is that like Spider-Man's ants or something? No, think of it as, I don't know what her tie is to Spider-Man exactly, but she's like a futuristic Spider-Man. She has like a mech and everything that she uses.

This is extremely nerdy. It is an alternate reality version of Peter Parker from the Neon Evangeline anime universe. That's why she has a mech. Wow. Now, why did you select this character? Does she have advantages that we don't know about? Is she cute?

She's just like fun to use compared to everybody else. I don't know how to explain it. I will be honest. You can hear him smiling in his voice. That's when you know he's lying. This reminds me of like the arcade games from Ninja Turtles where everyone picked Donatello because he had the furthest reach or Marge Simpson because she actually had like an extra defense to her in the Simpsons game.

There's a reason for this. There are a couple reasons to use her. Number one, the gun that comes with her mech does not need to be reloaded at all which is great number two she does come with a web where you can stun your enemies with and then number three she has this spider nest type thing and out of this nest uh hop basically little spider mines that explode when your enemy walks by oh sweet. Her character is actually pretty good. Does it come out of her culo? It does not.

I do not believe. Have you read her hentai manga yet? I will say 60 hours with her, 60 hours with one character is... It's going to get there eventually. I don't know when it was going to jump the shark, but it was. Here it comes.

60 hours with one character is a lot. I specifically am primary with one character, and I think I've only put... Who's your character? I use She-Hulk. I use Mantis, who is pretty much a healer. Oh, dude, she's with a mantis?

She's lame, dude. Healer's the best way to go, but I only have about... What does she do with her antennas? Yeah. They just stay there. I only have about 10 hours put into this character, so... Yeah. Only 10?

It's more than with a real woman, huh? There we go. Have you used her antennae inappropriately? I hate all of you. Just ask me. All right. So is there any games that you're looking forward to? Are you going to drop everything when Grand Theft Auto comes out?

I think everybody is. I've been waiting for that for like, what, five, six years now? They're saying they're going to do crazy stuff with it. Yeah, and I think they said this is going to be the first video game that cost over a billion to make damn okay well that has been your gaming hour here on what's new pod hopefully you guys learned some things are the people that are really into gaming they got some insight on everybody that plays here unfortunately randy couldn't join us i'm sure he would have had more questions. Or he just talks about how jealous he is of your rankings. It's not even that crazy to me, to be honest.

Oh, it's nothing? It's not even that crazy, and yet he blows me out of the water. What's your opinion on Squirrel Girl? I was, hot or not? I actually use Squirrel Girl too. Oh! Wow. I do not. I would like to point that out, I do not. Is she use Squirrel Girl, too. Oh! Wow.

I do not. I would like to point that out, though. I do not. Is she always trying to get some nuts? Yes! We both had some! Damn it! Stepped on each other. Damn it.

Well, I will say, everybody, when they use her, say, oh, I just nutted on them. Oh, wow. How about these nuts? The people that made Marvel knew what they were doing so all right well we gotta wrap this up uh thank you so much for joining us on what's new pod please rate and review this podcast again march is a big month for meetups you'll find out eventually why keep an eye out on my social media at menace m-e-n-a-c-e a big shout out again once again to blankets by by Tracy for keeping me warm

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castlevania tv show last couple episodes um castlevania nocturne season two came out was fantastic the one of the creators of that just revealed the new trailer speaking of video games for devil may cry the anime oh wow coming to netflix in april i posted it on my instagram at same port go watch it it's pretty cool menace you'll really like it they set the um the anime during the time that he was playing the game the the director which was the early 2000s late 90s so he has specialized the entire soundtrack to music from the late 90s early 2000s sweet that's awesome it looks dope i should also point out that i did see that anime trailer and the music is from limp biscuit specifically yeah and someone put on twitter this morning fun fact fred durst has it in his contract

that he must appear in any anime that licenses limp biscuits music so expect him to be a character of the plot oh sick that's dope hell yeah that is a fun fact eric do you have anything to say before we leave uh no no No? That's it. I was trying to think of something, but nothing. I'm watching my kid play, so I got distracted. All right. Well, I look forward to hanging out with you in New Orleans. That's going to be fun.

Yeah, that'll be fun. Nuts to butts. Hell yeah. Are you going to get Eric to actually not work for one minute to go do something fun? I don't know, Eric. I don't know what your schedule is like, so I don't know if you'll have any downtime at all, but we'll find something. I don't know if men will have downtime for me.

He's usually pretty booked up on these things. Yeah, true. We'll find some time at 3 a.m. in our hotel room. Dinner somewhere. Enjoy a slice of pizza. Nice. One slice together. Spaghetti bowl.

We can find the last noodle. I know. Go get one of those grenade drinks. Yeah, do that. Tyler, do you have anything to say before we leave? Video games are fun, number one. Don't let anybody else tell you different or make fun of you for it. Hell yeah.

Number two, lose the weight. It's good for you. Put the cheeseburger down. Okay. It's like crazy. I mean, you can eat not as much cheeseburger. Yeah. If you're like full after half a cheeseburger, it's okay.

Throw it away. Who cares? How about put the triple bacon cheeseburger. Yeah. If you're like full after half a cheeseburger, it's okay. Throw it away. Who cares? How about put the triple bacon cheeseburger down? True. I have not gotten a double cheeseburger in probably over a year. And that was my go-to for a long time. And oh, real quick. Sal, do you have anything to say before we leave as well?

Since you're a guest here on our podcast today, would you like to, you know, say go Giants or something like that? Only thing, Tyler and Randy got to get better at the game oh wow damn shots fire remember way back when we were doing this podcast a couple years ago they were way into fifa sal was murdering them like hardcore my life has never been the same oh yeah that changed it. Yeah. Anything else, Sal? That's pretty much it.

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