July 3, 2025 • 6 mins
What starts as a nostalgic trip down memory lane—featuring a 15-year-old LeBron recruitment song—quickly spirals into a whirlwind of NBA speculation, Chuck E. Cheese slander, and one of the most bizarre analogies you’ll hear all week.KT drops a bombshell—Chuck E. Cheese is launching Chuck’s Arcade, a retro-style adult arcade with a bar. The gang reminisces about the glory days of animatronic bands and ball pits, while KT paints a vivid (and slightly disturbing) picture of the dog and chicken from Munch’s Make Believe Band “making love” while Pasqually begs them to stop fighting and just play the music.The team debates whether Chuck’s Arcade is a brilliant retro play or destined to flop like CosMc’s. Is it finally cool for adults to hang out at arcades again?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I made a song called come On Lebron when the
Mavericks were pitching Lebron to try to get him to
come to the Mavericks. Yep, it's fifteen years ago, right,
because it keeps popping up on my is that right?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
For whatever reason? Dude, it keeps popping up on my timeline.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
People keep cutting and pasting it, and people made videos
to the song or whatever, and I'm like, why won't
this story go away? Twenty ten was probably right, That
was probably fifteen years ago, and so I'm like, well,
Lebron is not going to be a Maverick. We've talked
through that, they're not going to trade for him. And
then I guess mcminnimon said, who's you know, a legendary
(00:35):
Lakers guy, writer, media guy. He's a legend for who
he married, said Lebron would something to paraphrase you with,
something like if Lebron gets bought out, he'd want to
go play for the Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's not He didn't even write
an article.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
He just had to put a tweet out there and
it was very quickly and had a big graphic of
Lebron on it, and it basically said, yeah, the Mavericks
would be interested only in a buyout situation.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Every team in the league would be interested by it,
meaning you could get Lebron on the super cheap. But
I just it won't go away, The story won't go away.
But why would the Lakers give him a buy out
and let him go to one of their rivals? I mean,
if I'm the Lakers, I would have said, you know, Lebron,
you didn't have to opt in and you could have
gone wherever you wanted. So you want us to go
ahead and pay you fifty two million dollars? Why didn't
(01:22):
you just opt out? Or are by the way, we
gave your son a really nice contract is why don't
you suck it? How does that sound? Do you think
that's the vibe there? Like there it's tints between them all.
I don't think it's tense, but I would even if
it's not tense, Like you love your kids, but if
your kids did something horrific and then just walked in,
you could be like, I love you, but no, or
(01:43):
maybe they knew all that, like if the if Dirk
had taken all those pay cuts for the Mavericks and
Dirk wanted something.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Maybe they would hook him up with it, right, But
this was not.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Taking a pay cut. This is hey, can I have
all my money and then you guys cut me?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I would want to see worth to the team beyond
what they paid him. He probably was more than they
were paying him the Lakers. Yeah yeah, oh you talk
about in ticket sales? Yeah, sure, yeah, so maybe they
had a great relationship. They owe him. I mean we're
four days removed from him just opting in right, Like,
it's not like not like stuff has changed. Why is
(02:17):
it not going away because it's the news site.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Nothing going on?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean summer is just right for terrible rumors. Yeah,
this is why a lot of sex tapes drop in
the summer.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you know what else could have happened too, though,
I mean he may be going, well, wait a minute,
Dame just got bought out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, Lebron, tear your achilles.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, if he's trying to he would have a destination
in place in mind, right, and it makes more sense
for like it to be going back home to Cleveland
for his final year.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Than yeah coming here, Well come in here, you get
a championship. But if i'm if I'm the Lakers. I'd go, dude,
we will buy you out for twenty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
If you'll get a championship in Cleveland in the East
right now, Oh no, I think that's a great point,
all right, maybe better than here.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's a weird story, and it's surprising that it's still lingering,
but it is lingering, just like an elevator fart.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But right now it's time for this. Give me that
news quickie. Yeah, it's too old to go to arcades. Man,
how old are the kids? You're saying that too. I'm
saying to you guys, and you guys like you've said
it to kids before.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So Chuck E Cheese is now creating a new business,
a spinoff. Before I tell you the details on it,
I just want to tell you, as a guy who's
been to Chuck E Cheese twice in the last two
years for my niece's birthday parties, Chuck E Cheese sucks.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now agreed, gets it's all yours.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Did debit cards, scan it, and the tickets are on
the card. You don't get to carry the tickets around.
The rat comes out and does a dance.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I like that. It's not great.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
He looks like he's just been in the back room
getting stoned. He has no energy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
They can't afford to have a staff rat. It's just
one of the cooks. It's really terrible. And then the
kind of like when Pacinto came out for the ponchos
at the game and one of the chefs.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
They got rid of the Wonderful Grammy Award nominated as
much as Make Believe Band. The animatronics are gone. It's
it's a shell of its former self.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
How is the germ pit? The ballpit? Yep, still there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's just like, I don't know, it all looks smaller.
They've torn down walls. It's just it's not good. It's
not good.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know what though, kids don't have a good frame
of reference for what it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Kids don't know, they don't know. And I'm trying to
tell trying to tell Corley, who's my seven year old niece,
and she kind of listens to me. Sometimes that can
kind of be like, look, you understand, back in the day,
it was a creepy ass band, right, and the dog
was making love with the with the chicken you're saying,
and the mouse is over there, and he's kind of like,
(04:50):
I see what you're doing Jasper and he's like talking
back to the dog and the pizza chefs like come in,
not to fight, don't want to play the music past qually.
The point is they've opened up ten locations as a
test run. One of them is in El Paso. There's
one in Oklahoma and it's called Chuck's Arcade and it's
kind of the old school games or back in and
(05:11):
this is not that different than a free play arcade
or Arcadia Arcadia. Is there a bar, There's a bar,
and it kind of looks pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So this is fascinating marketing to me because it's retro marketing.
It's essentially specifically marketing this same brand back to people
that used to go there as kids, but now that
they're adults.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So it's very smart.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They go back to the real one once they've had
kids and they're like this sucks. So you're automatically thinking
this place is gonna be awesome because you know what's
happened to the real one. So I think like there's
like an opportunity here now. I also think it's more accepted.
I can't imagine when I was a kid growing up
my dad at the same age as I am right now,
(05:55):
right going and hanging out an arcade. I think I
could go to arcade any time, minutes, no big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think this is going to end up like Cosmics,
A party pooper on a Thursday Friday, Thursday Friday
Years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I made a song called come On Lebron when the
Mavericks were pitching Lebron to try to get him to
come to the Mavericks. Yep, it's fifteen years ago, right,
because it keeps popping up on my is that right?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
For whatever reason? Dude, it keeps popping up on my timeline.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
People keep cutting and pasting it, and people made videos
to the song or whatever, and I'm like, why won't
this story go away? Twenty ten was probably right, That
was probably fifteen years ago, and so I'm like, well,
Lebron is not going to be a Maverick. We've talked
through that, they're not going to trade for him. And
then I guess mcminnimon said, who's you know, a legendary
(00:35):
Lakers guy, writer, media guy. He's a legend for who
he married, said Lebron would something to paraphrase you with,
something like if Lebron gets bought out, he'd want to
go play for the Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's not He didn't even write
an article.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
He just had to put a tweet out there and
it was very quickly and had a big graphic of
Lebron on it, and it basically said, yeah, the Mavericks
would be interested only in a buyout situation.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Every team in the league would be interested by it,
meaning you could get Lebron on the super cheap. But
I just it won't go away, The story won't go away.
But why would the Lakers give him a buy out
and let him go to one of their rivals? I mean,
if I'm the Lakers, I would have said, you know, Lebron,
you didn't have to opt in and you could have
gone wherever you wanted. So you want us to go
ahead and pay you fifty two million dollars? Why didn't
(01:22):
you just opt out? Or are by the way, we
gave your son a really nice contract is why don't
you suck it? How does that sound? Do you think
that's the vibe there? Like there it's tints between them all.
I don't think it's tense, but I would even if
it's not tense, Like you love your kids, but if
your kids did something horrific and then just walked in,
you could be like, I love you, but no, or
(01:43):
maybe they knew all that, like if the if Dirk
had taken all those pay cuts for the Mavericks and
Dirk wanted something.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Maybe they would hook him up with it, right, But
this was not.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Taking a pay cut. This is hey, can I have
all my money and then you guys cut me?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I would want to see worth to the team beyond
what they paid him. He probably was more than they
were paying him the Lakers. Yeah yeah, oh you talk
about in ticket sales? Yeah, sure, yeah, so maybe they
had a great relationship. They owe him. I mean we're
four days removed from him just opting in right, Like,
it's not like not like stuff has changed. Why is
(02:17):
it not going away because it's the news site.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Nothing going on?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean summer is just right for terrible rumors. Yeah,
this is why a lot of sex tapes drop in
the summer.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you know what else could have happened too, though,
I mean he may be going, well, wait a minute,
Dame just got bought out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, Lebron, tear your achilles.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, if he's trying to he would have a destination
in place in mind, right, and it makes more sense
for like it to be going back home to Cleveland
for his final year.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Than yeah coming here, Well come in here, you get
a championship. But if i'm if I'm the Lakers. I'd go, dude,
we will buy you out for twenty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
If you'll get a championship in Cleveland in the East
right now, Oh no, I think that's a great point,
all right, maybe better than here.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's a weird story, and it's surprising that it's still lingering,
but it is lingering, just like an elevator fart.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But right now it's time for this. Give me that
news quickie. Yeah, it's too old to go to arcades. Man,
how old are the kids? You're saying that too. I'm
saying to you guys, and you guys like you've said
it to kids before.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So Chuck E Cheese is now creating a new business,
a spinoff. Before I tell you the details on it,
I just want to tell you, as a guy who's
been to Chuck E Cheese twice in the last two
years for my niece's birthday parties, Chuck E Cheese sucks.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now agreed, gets it's all yours.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Did debit cards, scan it, and the tickets are on
the card. You don't get to carry the tickets around.
The rat comes out and does a dance.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I like that. It's not great.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
He looks like he's just been in the back room
getting stoned. He has no energy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
They can't afford to have a staff rat. It's just
one of the cooks. It's really terrible. And then the
kind of like when Pacinto came out for the ponchos
at the game and one of the chefs.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
They got rid of the Wonderful Grammy Award nominated as
much as Make Believe Band. The animatronics are gone. It's
it's a shell of its former self.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
How is the germ pit? The ballpit? Yep, still there.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's just like, I don't know, it all looks smaller.
They've torn down walls. It's just it's not good. It's
not good.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You know what though, kids don't have a good frame
of reference for what it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Kids don't know, they don't know. And I'm trying to
tell trying to tell Corley, who's my seven year old niece,
and she kind of listens to me. Sometimes that can
kind of be like, look, you understand, back in the day,
it was a creepy ass band, right, and the dog
was making love with the with the chicken you're saying,
and the mouse is over there, and he's kind of like,
(04:50):
I see what you're doing Jasper and he's like talking
back to the dog and the pizza chefs like come in,
not to fight, don't want to play the music past qually.
The point is they've opened up ten locations as a
test run. One of them is in El Paso. There's
one in Oklahoma and it's called Chuck's Arcade and it's
kind of the old school games or back in and
(05:11):
this is not that different than a free play arcade
or Arcadia Arcadia. Is there a bar, There's a bar,
and it kind of looks pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So this is fascinating marketing to me because it's retro marketing.
It's essentially specifically marketing this same brand back to people
that used to go there as kids, but now that
they're adults.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So it's very smart.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They go back to the real one once they've had
kids and they're like this sucks. So you're automatically thinking
this place is gonna be awesome because you know what's
happened to the real one. So I think like there's
like an opportunity here now. I also think it's more accepted.
I can't imagine when I was a kid growing up
my dad at the same age as I am right now,
(05:55):
right going and hanging out an arcade. I think I
could go to arcade any time, minutes, no big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think this is going to end up like Cosmics,
A party pooper on a Thursday Friday, Thursday Friday
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