Was Disney World Worth It? – March 11, 2025 - MZNOW with Michael Zavala

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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your chance to turn back in the game. Michael, don't
do red bull do uh or something?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I can't hear you.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Wow, I'm just amazed at what you think about this
is m Z. Now.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, Happy New Year, everybody, Happy New Year. We're back.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
There only what sixteen Yeah, we're almost an with the
first quarter of the Q one. Oh yeah, I and
this might be the latest time we've ever started the
show in the history of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I barely recognize the neighborhood. I know.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
I believe West said in our last show, I didn't
want to come back for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, and we didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
That wasn't on purpose.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
So we were supposed to be back about a month ago,
and it was my grandmother's eighty first birthday. Her birthday
was on a Saturday, so I wasn't gonna interfere with
the show. We were going to the show that next day.
They changed her birthday dinner from Saturday to Sunday. Still
want to affect the show. I can go after the show,

(01:50):
no big deal. Then they change it to lunch time.
So now I'm like, do I miss the lunch and
do the show, which I could do at any time
you or do I want to go. She doesn't have
many birthdays, let you know, so I better go do that.
So we hadn't started the show, so I'm like, let's
just back it up a week, No big deal. We
already had a show on the schedule for the next
week anyway. And then the next week I get a

(02:12):
text with my sister, Hey, your nephew has COVID, And
I was around the nephew, playing with the nephew and everything,
so I felt fine, didn't get COVID or anything. But
I'm like, what if I'm carrying it and I give
it to you guys, I wouldn't mind. Well, you know,
Spider's got older parents. You know, I don't know what
Eric's situation is, but you know, I don't know what

(02:34):
Lola situation. Those are her grandmother, you know, So I
don't want to pass it on and then be responsible
for a family getting sick or something.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
So I was going back and forth with Spider.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I really didn't know what to do because I really
wanted to start the show, and Spider's like, well, whatever
you decide to do, let's just do it. And I'm like,
all right, let's just be on the safe side and
let's push it back two weeks because last week I
was in Orlando with Eric Starr.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'll talk about that here in a little bit. I said, Chicago. No, No, Orlando.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I might have typed in Chicago, but okay, I was
running low on sleep, gotcha, And then we were going.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
To start the show today.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
So we're all here, we' all healthy, I said, well,
I say we all half of us are here. I
don't know where Lola is and I know where Eric is.
In fact, let's play a game. Okay, where in the
world is Eric Starr? You know he was in Orlando
last twenty twenty questions? Now, like we don't have time
for twenty question five, let's do three.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay. Is it in North America? Yes? Okay, Well that
was a dumb question. Yeap, all right? Is it in
Sate Texas? No it is not. Is it on the
West Coast? No? All right? In New York he's he's
in Nashville both incorrect, Atlanta incorrect? Cincinnati? No, in Orlando?

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Okay, So I meet him up at Disney and we'll
walk it into the park and he goes I'm going
to be here next week two And I said, what
are you talking about? He was like, Herbie's mom is,
we're taking a road trip up here. She's buying this
pass of the Disney And I said, why why didn't
you just do that all at the same time? Because
he went up there for a time share thing, a

(04:16):
timeshare thing. Yeah, he took his mom. They went for
three days, went to Universe Studios for two days, and
then he did a time share. You know how they
invite you to oh, I know how they do it. Yeah,
So he got sucked into that. He thought it was
going to be a good deal. I told him, I said,
don't sign anything, because a ten year contract they were
trying to get him into. I said, don't sign anything.
Put it in chat GBT, let it read enlist out
all the pros and cons, and then ask it questions

(04:38):
like what if I lose my job?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
How do I get out of this?

Speaker 4 (04:42):
You know, what if something happens and I can't pay
this bill for ten years?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
What do I do? And so I think he started
doing that.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
I don't know if he signed up for the timeshare
or not, but his traveling habits are it's getting out
of hand.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's an addiction. It's an addiction. Yeah, you know, that's
why I told him.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
When we're in Orlando, I'm like, you're running out of
time to do stuff. You're only young for so long.
And then he sends me a thing that Netflix is
spending two hundred and fifty million dollars on new content
in twenty twenty five, and he goes, this is our chance.
I'm like, yeah, we're waiting on you. How much two
hundred and fifty million dollars much? Maybe it's a billion,
maybe it's I don't know, let's find out. Either way,

(05:22):
they're spending a lot of money. And he's he acts like, now,
let's go do something.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Like we're gonna we're gonna do something.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, I mean, we could shoot something. He wants to
do with these movies. He wants, why do you think
I bought all these cameras last year?

Speaker 7 (05:32):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I know why he bought the cameras?

Speaker 4 (05:34):
And you know, why did we bought all this stuff?
So we could make stuff? But he doesn't show up
for it. He goes to Orlando. He's traveling, he's escaping
his responsibility. Maybe he wants to I think people that
travel a lot, or are running from something their life,
that's what I think. Maybe he's running from his house. Yeah,
maybe it's all I think. It's falling apart. I told him,
thanks to you, I will never be a home. He
did move to HV. I would travel a lot. Yeah,

(05:55):
there's nothing else to do out there, right, But why
don't you come to the studio where you can make stuff,
you know, if that's what you really.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Want to do? Right right? Mark Junior over there, did
you look? Did you find out how much they're gonna
spend this year?

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Still looking?

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Twenty twenty four was sixteen point two billion, twenty twenty
five was eighteen billion. So if it is in the millions,
they're way down.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, two hundred and fifty million. That's two movies. Yeah
that's one movie, and it's not even a good movie. No, yeah,
well whatever.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
So so anyway, I'll tell you why we went. So
I went to Orlando because they were closing down the
Muppet Vision three D attraction June or July or Disney
or is that MGM Studios, Disney Hollywood Studios.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Wait a minute, Hollywood Studios is part of Disney. Now,
well it's in Orlando. What's oh, Universal Studiosah yeah, thinking
of it. Okay, now this is Disney Hollywood Studios, got it.
They're closing down Muppet Vision three D. I'm like, I've
since I was a kid, I always wanted to see this,
and I always thought I would be at Disney World
at some point and I would watch it, right, But

(07:06):
it hadn't happened yet, and now it's running. I'm running
out of time. So Eric happened to be down there
one weekend. He was like, I'm free after two o'clock
on Sunday. So I flew in at one point thirty
went to go watch the Muppet Vision three D. Incredible.
Worth the money and all the time to get there.
I really enjoyed it. In fact, my only regret is
that I didn't go back in because the first time

(07:27):
I'm looking at it, you know, I'm paying attention to
the whole what's going on. I'm not really focusing on
them film the attraction itself right, and I wish I
would have went back in and did that.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
That's my only regret. But we shot a video. I
was going to play it on the show today, but
we're just gonna put it out online. You can watch
it on our YouTube channel comes out on Wednesday. Eric
talks about it. We have some footage from it, but
it really was great. Now, have you guys ever been
to Disney World.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yes, yes I have. I've been twice. What park did
you go to? I went to all of them? The
only one okay. The only thing we didn't do the
last time was I didn't do the Wilderness thing. I
was so hungover wild something or whatever it's called. Yeah, yep,
I didn't do that. I didn't realize that Disney World
was like a collection of parks. Now, Disney World is
like a county. Yeah, I thought it was like an

(08:16):
actual park and there are parks. No, that's Disneyland. You're
thinking of disney Land. Disney World is all the parks
together right right. It's it's like five different parks.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
So I've never been to Disney This is my first
time at Disney Okay. The only thing I knew about
the music parts is six Flags. Yeah, and Universe Studios Hollywood,
which I've been to a billion times. And I love
it right right, And I can see why people spend
like even if you just like Eric Bowza, has a
day pass to go or you know, like a yearly

(08:47):
pass to go in and he'll just go have lunch there.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Like, I see why people do that. It's a fun environment. Right.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
So I've never been to Disney, but Disney, in my mind,
is the pinnacle. It's gonna be the This is what
inspired all these people.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
What they did to agree with that. Okay, this is
the without a doubt, probably the best amusement park in
the world.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Right and I've seen documentaries on it. How they trained
their employees, how the employees act like it's it's you're
you're sucked in. It immersed in the in this world. Yeah,
I have to say, Disney Hollywood Studios. I was not impressed.
Really it was. I was underwhelmed with Disney Hollywood Sudios.
It felt like, again, I'm not a rides guy. Okay,
but you didn't. Okay, but you just went to there

(09:26):
and that's it. Well, we went there. We ate at
the Rizzo's pizza or whatever. There's like a little Muppet court, sure,
and then we walked around the whole park, which took like,
you know, an hour, not even an hour, and then
went to all the gift shops because I was looking
for like a cool Muppet shirt, right, and then we left.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
We're there for two hours. Okay, but you didn't Okay,
you didn't really go to Disney, right, But that's also
I wish did you pay to get in? That's my
other complaint. Well, almost two hundred dollars to get into
Hollywood studios. Yeah, and then I didn't have like a great,
a great time there. I could spend one hundred and
fifty and go to Universal and have a great time
and be there all day. Yeah, but you didn't. You
didn't do it right.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well, I think I went. If I went to Magic Kingdom,
I probably have a totally.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Different exactly a cut center, right, and you probably went
to the third or fourth tier right thing out there.
And it was mostly Star Wars.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
I'm not a Star Wars fan, And even if I
was a Star Wars fan, I think I would like
it more. I would if it was you were more immersed.
There was like stormtroopers all over the place. They had
like big machinery walking around at ads or whatever. Yeah,
that would have been cool, but I don't even think
it felt very Hodgepodgy.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh it's it's it's Disney, I mean, but.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
It felt like an afterthought, like that park in particular
felt like an afterthought, like everything was just kind of
placed randomly. If I was a little kid, I was
thinking about it, if I was a little kid walking.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Around, They're just trying to showcase different ipranchises. That the yeah, exactly, even.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
The Toy Story World. I was really excited about going
to see that. I love Toy Story Again. I'm not
gonna write a new rights. I just want to kind
of see everything and take pictures or whatever. It's very small.
If again, if I was a kid, I would love
the giant buzz light. You're in giant woody and stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
But well, like here here, here's the whole thing about Disney.
So if you want rides, like really awesome rides, you
go to six Flags. That's just the way it is.
But if you want like that immersive experience where characters
are everywhere, I mean, like as six Flags, it's just like, okay,
Wiley Coyotes over there, and sure you can go see

(11:22):
the Batman sunt show used to. I don't think it's
there anymore. That was the best thing and maybe yeah,
that was really great. You know, you'll ride a themed
ride just like every other place. But like if you
want an adrenaline rush on a you know, kick ass
roller coaster. I don't. I don't like rides, I don't
like the simulations. Really, then you should be enjoying the
hell out of Disney World, but I didn't. That's that's

(11:44):
what I thought. I also didn't go to the Magic Kingdom, right,
and you didn't go to Epcots.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
So I feel like this is like the worst part
to go to if you've never been to Disney Hollywood's do.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
But you didn't go to Disney, right. You went to
Disney's like you a Hilary Park. You went to Disney's
weird closet that nobody wants you to walk through the
stores closet.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
There was a it's the Disney How was is a
junk drawer of Disney World.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, that's what I felt like. Yeah, and I haven't been.
Let's see, I haven't been since two thousand and ten,
twenty ten, so yeah, i'ven't been in like fifteen years,
and before that it was like nineteen eighty seven. But
here's the weird part. Here's the weirdest part. Like that's
almost thirty years between the two two times. I didn't

(12:26):
it felt the same it was the weirdest thing ever,
like I felt like twenty three, twenty five years or whatever.
It was like, I don't I don't know, I can't,
I can't describe it. But it was like I would
smell things. I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that smell.
Yeah from nineteen eighty seven, like the State Fair, Yes, yes,
but different but but yeah, But here's the deal. You

(12:48):
want badass roller coaster six Flags if you want like
animals and stuff, I mean, I guess Sea World and
or the Zoo boo. But but Disney, uh, Disney except man,
I went, I'll tell you this, try to go to
the Magic Kingdom. And if you can go around Christmas time,
that's an even different thing. Okay, yeah, I can understand

(13:09):
that's the eat because we because I'm not riding Disney
off I would you know, this isn't on my bucket list.
If I die before this ever happens, so be it.
I'm not gonna be on my deathbed going I wish
I went to Disney Epcot.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
I would say, don't go to places that are shutting
down because there's probably a reason that they're shutting down.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, it's not that park shutting down. Just that attraction,
I know, but they're because they're building a monster's ink,
like a hanging door ride. Mons is like twenty five
years old. Well like, why are you building that?

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Now?

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Got him?

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Excuse me? Well, that's you know, I kind of feel
like that's what Disney is a They've got so much
out there, you know, like the Haunted House movie. Do
you remember that the Haunted House movie that came out
for Disney, like Monster House or no, No, it was
called the Haunted House. I think even like Samuel Jackson
was or Kevin Hart or something. Yeah, it bombed completely,

(14:03):
but that was based on a ride. Oh yeah, I
think I know what you're talking about. Yeah, Okay, that's
that's the kind of thing with Disney is that, like
it's always like a moving target where we're gonna have
rides based on attractions. Then we're gonna make movies out
of out of rides. Same thing with Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah,
that was based off a ride. Yeah, based off our ride.

(14:26):
So that's Haunted Mansion. Haunted Mansion. Yeah, yeah, that's what
it was. Yeah. Okay, oh, Haunted House. That's what I said.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
So no, I'm not writing it off if somebody said, hey,
let's go for a couple of days and let's buy
a park Hopper, which is like three hundred dollars, three
hundred and fifty dollars. But you get to go to
all the parks, which, again not being a ride guy,
I think I could get through majority of not all
the parks in a day.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah, but see if you start early enough. But this
is what I'm trying to tell you. The best way
to go to Disney is you really got to make
a vacation out of it, right. You got to go
three to four days, because that's when when me and
my family expensive I know, but I'm dude, exactly exact.
I can't even imagine having kids. No, I couldn't either.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
You're bringing them on there. It's like one thousand dollars
a person at least.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Oh without it, doubt. But like you go three or
four days. Yeah, And I mean I think when me
and my when we went back in the eighties, my dad,
we we had a trailer, so we went to like
a camping park that was there. That was cool. Yeah,
But now it's like, dude, you got to go for
like three or four days if you even when it
remotely get most of it in.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
I'm also I think I'm just not a big Disney fan,
Like I don't like a lot of the IP. I
don't not that I don't like it, I'm just not
a huge fan of it. If there was a Warner
Brothers Land and you got a Matrix and you got
Looney Tunes and you got.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
You know, well that's six flags, yeah and six.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
And then the part of six flags is my favorite
thing growing up. Yes, I would write it even as
a teenager, I would love it.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, you know that brings up an interesting question. Why
didn't you know the six flags? For all that are
out there that don't know that started in North Texas?
Oh is Arlington? Yeah, the flagship one. Yeah, that's the
first one. I'm you know, somebody can fact check me
on it, but I'm pretty sure it's the first. And
I think, like that Looney teen stuff, that IP started

(16:21):
kind of coming about in like the late eighties early nineties, because,
like I said, goes back to the Batman sunt show.
You know, it's like a branded you know, stunt show
where things explode and they shoot you know, rag dolls
out of canna.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
That was my favorite thing I love that. And you
can see the Batmobile out front. Yes, yes, why do
they got rid of that? I have no idea. Well,
maybe people died.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
I don't know. It's expensive. I mean I guarantee you.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, but Universe Studios has a water World show in
Hollywood every day, like way more money though.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's true.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
But yeah, Foxington was the first one founded in the sixties. Wow,
did not know that. I haven't been there in twenty years.
I mean here, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
If you wanted to, like I said, getting an adrenaline rush,
you're gonna get a start I guess called the Starbucks. Yeah,
I go there, you're gonna get a six Flags. But
if you kind of wanted to just hang out and
relive and be a child, six Flags are Disney Doesneys?

Speaker 6 (17:20):
Why? I hate it?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, and that's where that's where Disney can I would think.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Gets do they have a Disney Afternoon section of the
park where it's like, uh, you know, rescue Rangers.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
You can fly in the little here's I do have
a picture of me from twenty ten and we were
walking around and I ran into chippin Dale branded rescue Rangers. Okay, yeah,
so you'll see him every now and then. But there's
not a ride. No, there's no ride.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
There's no Well, honey, I shrunk the kids. I used
to have a ride like that, right, they used to
have like a Honey, I shrink the kids.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Where you were I thought the honey I shrunk the
kids was like it was like an omni experience. I
mean those kind of I would enjoy. Okay, So here's
here's the thing that I think you would have enjoyed.
I think you might have enjoyed Space Mountain. Okay. I
think roller coaster. Yeah, probably it's like a roller coaster
in probably in the dark room.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, I think I feel like, oh, it's a When
I'm in a roller coaster, I think about what if
I have a heart attack? How are they going to
find me? Are they going to find me after I'm dead?
On in the ride cup or do they have cameras
and like this guy's having a heart attack. It's definitely
cameras so that they could stop the ride and no, no, no,
so they can film it and and sell it. There
was a Michael Jackson like experience what experience in the eighties.

(18:36):
It was like it was kind of like Moonwalker, but
it wasn't and they had some sort of dragon fantasy thing.
What was it like, is like Captain Emo or something
like that. I think you might have enjoyed that, but
I think they've killed that since.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Basically from what I hear is every ride everyone enjoyed
or you know, attraction everyone enjoyed, they just killed it.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, they're well, that's that's what Disney's doing. I mean
they're they.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Were killing your childhood memories by doing a live action,
terrible remake of something that you really enjoyed as a kid.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I mean they need they need to come up with
like a live action version of Fox and the Hound, yeah,
or live action version of Bambi. Right, just the deer
just can explode three eight when.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Michael Jackson ride was at Disneyland.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Oh so there in California. Aptain EO I closed in
April and ninety seven. I thought they did Captain eo at.
I thought he was like Epcot Center. I thought they
had something at Epcot Center. I could be wrong, but yeah,
Captain EO.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
So all right, Well, uh, like I said, I don't
mind going I would go back if I had a
couple more days. I mean, I literally I flew in
at two thirty that day or one thirty, met Eric
up at around three thirty. Yeah, And I was back
in Dallas at nine am the next day.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
And in fact, as I was walking on the plane
the next more morning, I had the same flight attendant.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
She's like, you were here yesterday. Wow. And then I said,
as I was walking out, so I'll see on the
next flight, so let me let me ask real quick,
where's there?

Speaker 8 (20:11):
He's?

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh? Did I not mention that? I mean, he's back
at Orlando. He just stayed in Orlando. No, No, he
flew back an hour earlier earlier than I did. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Worked, I guess this week okay, And then went on
a road trip back to Florida with Kirby and the
and Kirby's mom. Is he staying there for like three
or four days? And then they're driving back, I guess.
But they're doing the whole Disney park. So we'll get
into we'll get Eric's opinion next week when he's here
about because he's never been to Disney either. He did,
but maybe back in junior high he didn't remember it.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Okay, I'll tell you right now. He's gonna poop poo it.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Well, he's he loves amusement parks. He loved Disney though, sure,
why not. I don't think he, you know, is against it.
He loves any type of But he's a Universal Studios
fan as well, and so that's all he knows. He
doesn't he didn't really go to Disney. So they're gonna
do whole Disney experience. So he's going to be able
to go and see every But he was with me
on Disney Hollywood Studios. He did not enjoy. He was

(21:06):
underwhelmed as well. Uh, he said it felt like to him,
it felt like it was like dated, it didn't age. Well,
that's what he said. I don't know what he meant
by that. But what does that mean?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Ask him next time.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, but now he's gonna have he's gonna been to
all the parks. How can you say it has an aged?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well?

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Have you never been there?

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Hell?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
All right, we're right back.

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Speaker 3 (24:08):
So we had some crazy storms this week, oh man.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
And spider told me a little spider told me, yeah,
that something happened to you a building.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, you know. So the thing was like they said
that that was supposed to hit at like three o'clock
in the morning, right, I hit it five point thirty
in the morning, so it was a little off. I
was really kind of mad by the timing. So but yeah,
that picture the pictures right there, So do you know
what that is? Is that the roof that is it's brick,

(24:41):
it's stone. Oh, that's stone. Yes, the on the ground, yeah,
like those are pieces of rock and I should have
opened my window to take a photo. But yeah, that's
my view.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Mister high rise over here, mister daddy wore bucks over here.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yes, yes, the air conditioned well that's yeah, exactly but
actually it's I still love it though there. But you
can hear the ac like if you turn everything off,
can you hear Oh you.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Have to turn everything off?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, you'll hear it. But I just get used to it, man, I'm.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
The only The only crazy thing is when it initially
kicks on them.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah, sound like a Tesla rocket exploding SpaceX or whatever
it's called.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
But but so here's the deal. So, like I I
heard the thunder, I heard and I heard the rain,
and you're gonna start singing or so I know, right,
And then I heard the sirens go off, and like
you know how like when the sirens go off and
it's not quite like violent yet, yeah, and you're just

(25:49):
kind of like, okay, well and I was just sitting
there like okay, what do I do?

Speaker 5 (25:53):
And these these sirens the time are for wind these days. Yeah,
it's not really for tornado.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
It's not for tornado.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
They are, but we don't get them in the city,
right right.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
So, and I'll be real with you, I feel like
they're kind of a little a little trigger happy with
that siren. Yeah, but I will say so as that
little spinning wheel starts going there like pushing the button. Yeah. Yeah.
So but here's the thing. It's like I hear the
sirens go off and I'm just kind of looking and
then I'm just I'm looking for my cat and I'm

(26:24):
just sitting there thinking, like I'm remembering the tour that
I was given as I'm signing up to get a
lease at this place in the in the nice leasing agents, like, yeah,
this building will survive a nuclear blast.

Speaker 9 (26:37):
But.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Wins forget well, but that's why, like I don't get concerned.
And then all of a sudden, like I hear something
hit the building and and it was like I didn't
know if it hit the building. I don't know if
it hit the air conditioning in it, but something definitely
impacted the building. And that's when like I heard the
wind like start to pick up. Now you see all

(26:59):
that crap that's like on my roof. Well, what also
that you can't see in that picture is that that
roof has pebbles all over it, like little rocks.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah, it's so like a playground back in the day
pretty much.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, same stuff.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Every time I rode my bike over that, I would
fall and scrapt my every yeah, and I would challenge myself.
I was like, I can do it. It's the same
exact stuff.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
And so all of a sudden, it's like I can
hear that wind pick up because those those windows are
ninety years old, and so then the wind picks up,
and it was like all of those rocks. This is
the only way I can describe it. But it was
like it was like popcorn and a popcorn machine before
it had popped. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah,

(27:41):
but it's like it's rocks and it's that crap that
fell down from getting hit with whatever. And what's not
pictured in that photo now is uh, yesterday when I
woke up. Now, there's like aluminum gutters. That's that's on
the roof, so like there's a lot of dam so
a second gutter hit the tower, so like something definitely hit.

(28:04):
Something definitely hit the building. And uh, that morning, there
was there was water all in my apartment. Uh, there
was water all on Like I went up to the
to the roof to take pictures and there was water
on the fifth floor. There was water on the third floor.
But yeah, but I didn't lose power. And to be

(28:25):
quite honest with you, if a tornado wasn't going to come,
all I need to do is just go into my hallway. Yeah,
because it's so insulated. Yeah not, I mean the hallway
basement too. Yeah, it has a basement. I mean, although
that's where the cars are, but it has a basement.
I mean that place, That place is really well fortified. Yeah.
It held my maul for three years in my peel back.
I didn't having to check it.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
I think it was longer than that.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, it probably was. Here's the thing about that building, though,
is I didn't I didn't feel it shake. The electricity
didn't go out, and there you do. That's good. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
I slept through the I slept the entire, the entire
I don't think we got it as bad where I
live because I slept through it. I heard a little thunder,
but I didn't it. I didn't hear any wind or
anything like that. It was, dude, it was over, and
it was over in light seven minutes. However, I had
taken the night rider car out and I had put
a cover over it because I was planning on taking
it to a mechanic. So I this was all on Monday.

(29:23):
I got back in my plan was I you know,
after I left here and I took a nap, I
woke up and I was I let me plan out
my week. I was gonna take the car to the
mechanics next day because there was a there's not a problem,
but I want to make sure there's like a I'm
worried that there's a head gasket issue, even though it's
been tested a couple of times already. I took it
to a new mechanic. I just wanted to test it.

(29:45):
And then I wanted to fix the headlight when the
headlights weren't popping up. So I had it out, had
a cover on it, really, you know, nice heavy duty
cover with a strap, and I only strapped it on
the back because the car is very angular. It doesn't
have to you know, it fits really nice underneath the car.
So I walk out the next morning and I'm and
I look. I see the night Writer car and there's

(30:07):
no cover on it, and it's all, you know, wet, and.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
I'm like, what happened? Did I not put the cover
on it?

Speaker 4 (30:13):
I find the cover like one hundred feet away against
a fence, and so apparently it's blown off. And so,
you know, we're getting into that time of year where
this the weather gets crazy, right, So I want to
have a building, a little shed type thing built, but
just for the night writer car. I don't want it
sharing space with tools. You mean a garage, not even really,

(30:35):
because it would be like a little maybe a detached garage,
but something custom built, but it only fits the night
writer car. That would be a gage something like that.
I don't know what you can people call it so
or like a car port type thing. Well, yeah, well
an enclosed one, but without a door, if that makes sense,
because then I would still have to I don't know,

(30:56):
I don't know what I yeah, just imagine to garage
with without a door, with you know, just without a
gage stable for your car, a stable, a car stable.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
There you go. I knew there was something, okay.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Sure, yeah, you got it as bad as everyone else
there though, because everywhere across the metroplex it was over
seventy mile an hour wind guests a few places like
Denton was eighty. In a colony hit ninety five miles
an hour.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Wasn't There also reports of tornado and Irving.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
I thought I thought I heard of it.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
I was here and we're right next to Irving, So
I don't.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Know, yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah, And usually whenever winds get real bad, I mean
apparently they were real bad. The cover flew off the car, right,
But usually there's where I live, there's a lot of trees,
and usually there's a chat falls down on the road
or in somebody's yard the street from my house.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
There was Okay, I would say this, so the tree
I mean, I work in Lakewood, which, for those that
don't know, is a very heavily wooded area, and it's
old and it's old, so it's all old trees. And
I did see a lot of trees down. Now, power
outages that like were uh, traffic lights and such that
continued on for two three days. Yeah, I did see that.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Tornado did touchdown and Irving. Wow, part of the roof
was ripped off of Plano West High School.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Oh okay, Uh.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Grace Church and Plano had its front doors, framing and
windows damaged and a gas station sign was toppled during
the storm.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
And earth why is that in here?

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Well, we will never did we will never recover here
did it mention that a gutter hit, second gutter hit
Clarks Building.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Dust turned the skies.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
That's okay, that's that's the other thing that happened just
because of the wind. I mean, the wind was just
terrible this week. But when that when the rain was
coming though that seventy miles an hour, I could not
see out my window.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
So we get back to my car stable. Yes, I
was trying to make a smooth transition here. I had
a guy come out because I wanted to build this thing, right.
I don't know how much its gonna cost, but I
want something. I want extra protection for the car.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
So I my grandmother's always on Facebook and next door,
and so I'm like, can you put something out there,
see if there's any buddy that has something like this
what I'm looking for, or that would sell it to me,
or somebody can build it.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Right.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
So she gives me a number to a guy that
responds to her message that says he can build it.
So I call him up, schedule time form to come
out to the house and I tell him what I want.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
He's like, oh, yeah, dude, is it the same guy
that's going to work on your table or was working
on your No, No, it's totally different guy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
That makes me angry. It's another thing. My to do
list is so long. Every day I wake up. I'm
stressed out. I started one hundred instead of starting at
zero every day because I'm looking at all the stupid
and it's not even productive stuff. It's stupid stuff that
I have to deal with. So the guy comes out.
He's like, yeah, man, I can do it. He's drawn

(33:55):
on his little he's got his girlfriend in the truck.
You know, it's one of those guys he's between uber shops. Yeah,
he's gotta yeah herself. Yes, yeah, this guy was Hispanic.
So the well, the the and the girl's white.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know, I'm all for interracial stuff.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Oh, straight walking man, exactly, you know exactly the type
of people I'm talking about. So he goes. He's got
a note pad and he's drawing. Like I don't even
know what he's drawing. I can't make heads and tails
or whatever's drawing is. But he's like, yeah, I'm gonna
do like thet's put this, I put the two studs. Like,
I don't really care. I'm not the one building it.
You are, so I don't need all this information, I said.
So anyway, we're He's out there for like thirty minutes,

(34:38):
way too long, and I'm like, all right, I got
things to do. So I'm like, dude, just I'll tell
you what price it three different ways, price it this way,
one like this, because we had three different options, right,
and then get back to me, and then we'll figure
when do you want to do it. I said, I'd
like to do it before March because that's when all
the storms start to happen. Because all right, man, yeah,
and I'm gonna cut you a deal, give you an
offer you can't refuse. Oh he talks like that. By

(35:00):
the way, if you didn't talk like that, I was
gonna call Ice after he built it.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
No, I'm sure don't call Ice like after he built it. Wow,
you might be right. Yeah, so he goes, he goes, uh, yeah,
I mean I'm gonna give you offer you can't refuse. Man,
it's like that, all right.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
So I'm thinking, all right, this is Saturday, I at
one o'clock, so I'm expecting Yeah. No, the way I
was very uncomfortable the way he's describing me it. I'm
gonna get a call or a text later that day
with three tiers of pricing. Yeah, and uh, we're gonna
get going on this thing, right. I don't hear from
him all weekend. Monday morning, I get a text message
from him, Hey, man, good morning. Is it all right

(35:38):
if I leave some of my personal belongings and your property?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Oh god?

Speaker 4 (35:42):
What personal? He like, what a weird way to phrase
this thing? Are you talking about equipment? Like, for the
first of all, I haven't even accepted an offer yet, Like,
we haven't done anything yet. I don't know how much
gonna cost me. You're gonna bring your ladder tools? What
personal property?

Speaker 8 (35:55):
Is this?

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Bags of meth? What do you can bring it on
the property? So I look at this and I'm thinking,
really like it's red flag already. So I'm like, I
I don't even respond to it. Again, still no offer
or you know, pricing. I don't know what's going on here.
And uh, it's been about a month and I still
don't have any pricing from this guy. Okay, So, and

(36:15):
I don't think I really want Tom working on Wait
that's it.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
That was it. I just I ghost him. Oh okay, Yeah,
that's just a weird thing to do though, right there.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
Any kind of Amish or Mormon community.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
I wish you are No, Nope, or I think they're
all more north of here.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah, I wish that would be great, but I had
so Funny enough, though, the technician that was working on
a night Rider car this week, uh, his uncle is
a contractor or a builder or something like that, and
so he put me in touch with him. He's coming
out tomorrow at nine to take a look at it.
And then I got another guy that's gonna come out
and see and I don't want to. I'm trying to

(36:55):
think of like the cheapest, quickest option at this point,
and then I can build onto it later on, Like
if I wanted to be enclosed or whatever, I can
do that later on, but I'm just trying to do
something so it's not always out in the element.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
Cheapest would be get a car tent.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
Well, you could also buy an entire like really nice
car port for like seven hundred dollars on Amazon, but
then you have to assemble it. So my next option
is I don't have time to assemble it. But if
I buy it, how much would you charge me to
put it together? That kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
So we'll figure all that out.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
But yeah, good news is nothing really nothing going on
with the night Rider car that's dangerous. Like I was
worried about the cooling system. They pressure tested. Everything was good. Okay,
they fixed the light. There was nothing wrong with it.
They just had to clean the connectors or whatever. Yeah,
and uh, he's going to go and price things out
for like suspension. He goes, the front end feels really tight,
so that's good, he said. The suspension in the back,

(37:51):
you know, probably need some shocks or whatever in differential service.
But he goes, I can do all that for you.
Let me price it out. And uh, really cool guys.
So they might be the mechanics for the night Rider
car now, but I love it, man, that's a great car.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
I've been driving a lot on the weekend to make
sure they.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
Don't full of like the mechanics from Ferris Muehler thing
in it.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
I mean this car is already seen like three mechanics already,
so I think these are the unless they miss something up. Wow,
they didn't mention anying about the pink dog that was
a red flag, so I don't know if they put
it up on a lift, though they may not have
because everything they were doing was on top.

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Speaker 4 (40:58):
Well, Clark has a myster Oh yeah, and I if
I wasn't quarantining because I thought, I you know, I
was exposed by to COVID, we would have shot a
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Speaker 3 (41:08):
Oh man, I wanted to, so I was so motivated
to get out there and like get filmed. But okay,
so I don't know if I ordered food from a
fake restaurant on Uber eats, okay, like a ghost kitchen, Dude,
I don't know, because okay, so here's just let's just
back up. Okay, So this was like a I think

(41:30):
this is a Friday night because I wouldn't have I
wouldn't have ordered so late, So it was like a
Friday or Saturday night that I didn't have to work
the next day. And you know, it's like ten thirty eleven,
and I haven't had Chinese in a while, so I'm
sure you know that probably at the late hour, your
options are not as good as they would have been

(41:51):
three four hours earlier. Yeah, but I had said, screw it,
I'll take a chance, and I ordered from someplace and
it was called Chinese Corner Now. And maybe it's just
because I was a little inebriated at the time when
I ordered. I didn't know that this place was like
an irving or this is this is.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Not the first time that's happened either, because I was
at Clark's when we ordered some smash burger that ended
up coming from Carrollton.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know like they took it.
They brought it all this way.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Wow, Well I don't know how Like I mean, when
I'm ordering food, it's like, hey, can you just please
tell me, like how far away this is? Because I
mean that smash burger. I think I ended up tipping
them like twelve buck.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
It was cold by the time they brought it to you. Well,
but I got it, but I got an air fire.
So you took the smashburger put your air fryer. Yeah, okay,
I woke it up. All right, it's good. It works anyway.
Back to the Chinese.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yes, so I order at like, oh, well, here's the
other thing. I forgot to put this out there. I
ordered from some pizza place, someplace that I had ordered
from all the time. Guy gets my order and he
gets to the place and he texts me. The driver
texts me, he's like, hey man, this place is closed.
I'm going to cancel the order for you. And I

(43:06):
was like, cool, here's six bucks, thank you. So I
had you tip the tip. The guy had six bucks. Yeah,
I mean for going there and at least texting me.
But he canceled the order. He canceled the order for me,
Oh because they didn't have it, right? Oh yeah, like he.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Would have paid more than six bucks for canceling probably
right right, Well.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
That makes sense. Yeah, and also wasn't the guy's fault
he went to go pick it up. And I'm not like,
I'm in the fact that he was like forthcoming and
nice about it in the message. I was like, you
know what, here's six dollars. That's like the value of
what the tip would have been for him to bring
it to me. Makes sense, totally totally cool with that.
So I'm like, okay, Now I got to order some
food and I was like, well, you know what pizzas out,
Let's see Chinese And so I'm looking and now it's

(43:45):
like eleven thirty and I'm like, well, but you know what,
We'll just get this place called Chinese Corner, all right?
In irving text and irving texts, I'm pretty sure is
irving it is.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
I found it.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Oh good, good, So I ordered the f dude, and
another like an hour goes by. Hey you know how
like you can watch your food being prepped, you know
what I mean? Hey, it tells you, Hey, we got
your order and now we're prepping exactly. Yeah, dude. It's
like it's like saying it said something on there that's like, uh,
not even like order received. It's like waiting for order confirmation.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
Yeah. So they're like a little tablet or whatever was
beeping like crazy.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Exactly, and they were yeah, exactly. And I've I've worked
in a restaurant that Uber eats. I know what's going on.
So I never got like, nobody ever confirmed that they
were receiving my order. So at that point, I try
canceling the order because I'm like, dude, something's going on. Well,
I guess the way that they had it set up
versus that pizza restaurant, I couldn't cancel the order. So

(44:45):
I'm just like, well, whatever's gonna happen is going to happen.
So I order food again from a completely different place
biscuit biscuit breakfast, biscuit place, biscuit bar. Yeah. At this
point in yes, because at this point it's two fifteen
in the morning and I wanted some food and it
was like, really the.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Only late too late to yeah, but I mean just
got a bad too late. You know, I don't have
to eat past seven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
I don't need your damn yeah, sorry, obviously need something,
I know, advice, pardon me. So I get my food
and then I eat and I pass out and I
go to bed, wake up in the morning, and like,
I got like a message on Uber and it's like
four thirty in the morning. I have two messages, one
from Uber and one from my bank four thirty. It's like,

(45:34):
your food has been delivered, and then from Chase telling
me that your money's been duducted out of your account,
but you never got it. I never got my food.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
This also says it's delivered by store staff.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
That's the thing. That's the thing is that it's delivered
by I guarantee you that person was Like I delivered
it and then it never got delivered, never got there.
So then you go and hit the you know, I
didn't get food order, right, Oh I do I do
all this? So I get I have to get I
have to get I have to get in touch with Uber.
Uber tells me I have to get in touch with

(46:08):
the restaurant because they didn't do anything with it. They
were just a middleman, right exactly. And so this is
at this point where I'm yelling at the Uber customer service.
I'm like, no, if somebody doesn't, if I don't get
my food, and you are the con to it, you
have just as much responsibility in this as that person.
And so basically like I have to file a fraud

(46:29):
charge on your card on my car towards Uber Eat
if I want to get my money back, or I
got to go to this restaurant and get it, which
this restaurant doesn't open up till eight I tried PM
eight pm.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Yes, they're a late night spot. I guess if they
even exist, that's a question.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
Well, it's right.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
Next to a place that the sign just says massage.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Yeah, oh you know what it was. They were a
bit too busy giving happy endings the other place. It's
owned by the same people.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
It's got to be.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
It's got it must be that place that was in
our next to our old studio. They moved, so they're
you know, got it, got the FI raids again. They
could just go, hey, we're a Chinese food restaurant.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
So they're like, now, it's like I got to take
it upon myself to get my food back. And I'm like,
you know, I wanted to find out if this place
like has a physical location. And when I put it
in at least Apple Maps, nothing pops up at the
address that was on there. And when I called the
phone number, I don't know how I got the phone number.
It's like, I get the phone number three Yelp called

(47:32):
that phone number. It's a San Antonio phone number, and
it goes it's a magic Jack phone number. You remember
magic Jack. It's a magic Jack phone number.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
This place has one star on Yelp.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
So the mystery is does this place exist or do
they just take people's money? Say they delivered it. And
so we were going to shoot a Clark Investigates, but
I was like, I didn't want to get abody sick.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
I don't know if I was sick or not.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
Well.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
See, so now well we can still shoot it. Well,
now what I wanted to do is I want to
order food from this place, like at eight o'clock and
see if they deliver it, and see if they If
they don't deliver it and you're out of money again,
well then I'm going to go down there and I'm
going to beat that ass. No, no, I'm just saying

(48:19):
like that if they hit if they have a mark
button back here. Now, well if we now we got
video evidence of them screwing us around, and then we
also have.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
Video evidence of you're threatening people.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Right, Yeah, I mean, hey, that's an ultimatum. That's not
what it wasn't out there, it was ultimatum. I would
do one thing.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Well, I think we should shoot it and then go
down there and then try to figure out if it's
real and.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Then like get all Chris handsome with them. Yeah, like
wear your suit.

Speaker 6 (48:41):
It has one point five stars on uber eat. No wait,
this is postmate. Sorry.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Yeah, so you saw it, but you were you were
not in the uh in a clear state of mind
at the time. Well that's because you would have looked
at that rating. I've been like, eh, well there's only
Chinese food available.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Oh that's true. Yeah, yeah, you're which also like, why
is there no like late night in Chinese food place?
You got to open open it? There is.

Speaker 6 (49:04):
They're just not a new bred eats.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Maybe door dash it My door dash in Florida was great.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
So now I'm I'm on door dash. On door dashing now.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Well, yeah you can get did you get yourself that
little uh benefit?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Yes? I did. Yeah, I did. That's great right.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Now when I landed. So, I landed, got to my hotel,
and I realized I was tired. I hadn't had any caffeine.
I purposely not had any caffeine because I wanted to
get it when I got there so i'd have the
energy to go throughout the day.

Speaker 6 (49:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Hm.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
So I I text Eric K, I'm here. He's I'm
not ready yet. I'm still in the meeting. Pikul me
like twenty thirty minutes. Cool, I'm gonna charge my phone,
ordered coffee and a cake pop, and I went outside.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
The guy was there, you know, in ten fifteen minutes
or whatever.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Grabbed my coffee, started drinking it, and my car shows
up like a minute later. It's incredible. I was in
a whole new city I've never been to before. By
the way, one thing I forgot to say, never been
to Florida. Never been to Orlando.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Really. Uh.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
You know how some cities you drive in or you
fly in could be a big city, small town, doesn't matter.
You kind of get like a vibe about the place
and energy of the place or whatever. I felt nothing
in Orlando. It was a soulless city, like Disney. I think, yeah,
I think. I think it's like they sold their sould
to the corporation of those Okay, we like to walt,

(50:19):
well that's that is that.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Is that place.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Then you aren't welcome.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Well, no, that's that's the whole thing. Like you probably
went to the most not Florida part of Florida, right,
I get. I'm not judging Florida from Orlando.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
I just you need to go to like if I
if I or Miami, which, by the way, I'm playing
Vice City. Oh you are, yeah, I finished, and Andreas,
I'm playing Vice I'm going back to you. I'm prepping
because when six comes out, if we can figure out
a good.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Bit, maybe I got one. I got one. We go
to Miami and play the game there. Oh I don't
know about that, because everybody's going to do that, but
I at least have one bit that doesn't cost that
much money.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
All right, Well, we'll talk about it off, but I'm
playing it. Uh, And I'm not a huge fan of
Vice City, so why not? Well, first off, I think,
I'm yeah, yeah, okay, which I like. Well, okay, so
this is what I've been told though, And I got
a friend that can hook us up.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Well, I mean I can get the original. I mean,
like we can already get like PlayStation two, like PlayStation two,
like the whole bit, we got it. Like he's got
the game. I have it too. I have it on
that little emulator thing. Yeah, I could play it up
to the TV.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
What's the name of that, the emulator.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Yeah, Ambernik RGQ. But I'd rather play it. I'd rather
really play it and not have the delay on the TV.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
I mean you can, oh my god, anyway, the I
mean I can do all that, but I'd rather play
the remaster. I like that because I didn't play the
I mean I didn play the original, but they took
music out of it. I'm not listening to radio half
the time.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Anyway. Well that's not so.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
But I think I'm starting it wrong because with San Andreas,
I was playing it just to play it Vice City.
I'm trying to, like, well, if I'm gonna put this
many hours into it, might as well try one hundred percent.
And I think that's my problem. Oh, I'm just gonna go.
I'm done with it. Like if you wanted one hundred percent,
that's we would have to. This is what I would say,
Like we we'd have to start working in shifts. Well,

(52:11):
I looked at I already looked at guides. It doesn't
take that long. It's about the same amount of time
that I spent on t But there's just so many
things to do, and I don't want to do collectible,
so I think I'm done with that. I'm just going
to play the game as it's intended, and I'm not
gonna worry about this. I've never one hundred percent of
any GTA really.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
I haven't either.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
I did Red Dead too, that was it, and that
was because I had a broken leg and I had
nothing else to do.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
I don't think I could do that again.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
Hitting me up to play Red Dead online, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
I'm just playing. I was just stuck in a chair
for three months, so that's it. I'm pretty much just
playing GTA online and just like trying to do the
online version of one percent. Oh yeah, I guess I
got years ago.

Speaker 6 (52:52):
I got the achievement for doing everything online.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
But there's so much more now. Yeah, they keep adding it.
It's like every time. Oh by the way, if you
haven't played that new RoboCop game that came out, I
say new, but it was like a couple of years old.
Now you have a new Xbox right right, it's for Xbox.
Download it. Then they have an expansion coming out later
this year that's supposed to be even better, and it's
a really great You would really love it, I would
say to Get that, I would suggest that for you.

(53:17):
It's not a very long game, maybe twenty hours, you know.
All right, So you had your mystery, and then there
was a big mystery that I was kind of wrapped
up in this week.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Gene Heckman.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Yes, So I woke up early one morning. I was coming,
I think here to the studio. I opened my phone.
I see Gene Hackman dead ninety five, and I I said,
oh man, that's sad, you know, but he lived along
life by the way.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
I loved him in Superman. I was going to say,
what is your favorite Gene hack I think.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
That that's the only thing that pops in my mind, right,
think Gene only thing? Yep, Superman, Lex Luthor. And so
I said, that's sad, you know. But I had seen
pictures of him a couple of months ago. Somebody had
posts online teams or whatever. I did too, and he
he looked real frail.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
Well he didn't. I don't know if like frail is
the right word, but he didn't look like him. Well
I guess that's right.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Very shriveled up version of himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
I'm like, okay, he didn't look that well when I
saw pictures of him. Again, he's ninety five, right, yeah,
So I didn't think much of it. Oh that's that
got the car came up here. I see an article
that it wasn't just Gene, it was his wife and
the dog. So then I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
One of the dogs. One of the dogs. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:24):
At the time though they just said dog, you know,
there wasn't They didn't mention that there was two other dogs.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Running around the property.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Yeah, And so I'm thinking, well, it's got to be
carbonoxide poisoning. That's what happened to where at ouse parents.
That's what I thought it was too, so case close
saw the mystery. Right then they go, Nope, no carbon
monoxide poisoning, No carbonoxide in their bodies. There was nothing
that they detected in the house. The gas companies said
everything was good, so wasn't that. So then I'm thinking, well,

(54:49):
this is really crazy. Then what's you know that? And
then people in the comments are like, well, the Epstein
list is about to come out, maybe that's maybe it was.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
A suicide deal.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
Yeah, eighty five year old Gene Hackman was flying to
the Islands with Epstein.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Yeah, I don't think so. I didn't hear that one.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
But and then other people said, well, maybe it was
a suicide pack. His wife is sixty six or sixty
five years old. Why should you make a suicide pack
with a ninety five year old guy. She's you know,
he dies, she gets some money, she can remarry. She
got a whole life ahead of her, right, So that
wasn't it. That was a stupid So I'm like, no,
something did somebody try to rob them? Like the reports
the door was a jar or whatever. Well, anyway, on Friday,

(55:26):
the mystery was solved, which was it looks like she
died first of a disease, which explains why she was
looking for pills or whatever. She probably didn't feel good.
I was looking for pills. And then she died about
a week before he died, and he had advanced Alzheimer's,
so he was probably looking for calling her name. He

(55:47):
didn't get food or water or medication because she was
the caretaker and then he died, and then of course
the dog dies because the dog was in the kennel.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Yeah, just a tragic story. Yeah, dude, it's some you know,
It's one of those things where like when when you
see a celebrity die. First of all, he hasn't been
in anything, what twenty years, I don't know. I mean,
like Royal tennem Bombs is the only thing the last
thing I remember him being in. So h. I mean,

(56:16):
kudos to him for actually retiring.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Retiring and then living that, like, because people retire and
they don't live that long they.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Well yeah, and and I kind of feel like there's
some there's some people that act nowadays that are still
acting that really kind of take a page from that.
Who name them? I mean, well, who you're gonna go with? No,
I'd say somebody like I mean al Pacino, but I

(56:44):
mean al Pacino is not really acting that much. No,
But there just comes a point where I'm de Niro
is is uh still acting? You know, pretty active? Yeah? Yeah,
but not to say that they like they're losing their
chops or anything, but there there just comes to a
point where I'm like, guys, y'all need to like enjoy
your life a little bit, right, It's got to be
more than just acting and then telling people how they

(57:04):
should live their life, how to vote, yeah for real. Yeah,
I mean Gene Hackman was like, you know what, I'm
just gonna go live.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
And die and a ranch away from everybody with my
wife and my three dogs.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Yeah. The weird but the weird part is is like
you know, in the week, oh man, everybody's everybody's minds
just ran wild with it. My my favorite one was
the two sisters, the daughters that they had somehow yeah,
because they were like leaving a Denny's and they were
like happy. It's just yeah, like the daughters did react

(57:40):
to it really weird. Well, but I mean they're leaving
a Denny's and who's to say that, Like.

Speaker 5 (57:46):
You only go to Denny's after a funeral, right, that's true?

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (57:51):
And also I have something Why why was your you know,
your dad was dead for like two weeks nobody called
the check on him or anything like you know what
I mean, your ninety five year old dad. I get it,
he's got all sigh, but you don't call to check
with the wife to see how's everything going, how's he
doing like, I don't know with their relationship. I'm not judging,
but it's still weird.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Yeah, and I don't know.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
You know, my dad when his parents got older, he
even if we had to put my grandpa into like
assisted of living because he needed medical attention all the time.
You know, he was there almost every day checking on him,
how's he doing. He was there with him at night
all the time. So it's just weird that, you know,
the daughters, it went that long without anybody knowing anything.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
That's just weird to me. Oh and yeah, and it's
just the simple fact that, you know, the guy's a legend. Yeah,
one of top five actor of all time. Oh, I
don't know about that. I would think he I'm not disagreeing,
I just don't know about that. I think I think
he's pretty much top five American actor of all time. Okay,
Like French Connections just a fantastic movie. I mean, I'm

(58:52):
Unforgiven Apparently he was great in it. I'm not a
big fan of Unforgiven, but I respect the work is
burning great movie. Crimson Tide one of the best submarine
movies ever. But yeah, just the simple fact that you're
ninety five.

Speaker 6 (59:08):
Give me. Two more submarine movies.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Two more submarine movies. Run Silent, Run Deep.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
I think Clark Gable was in that. And was there
a Tom Hanks where he was on a submarine. Yeah,
that's the Wolf one. I think Greyhound on a Greyhound
u U five to seven to one h October down
and that was a good one. Twenty thousand leagues or
whatever under the sea. That's kind of like a science fiction. Yeah,

(59:36):
but they're in a submarine and okay, well, if we're
going to go that route, then fantastic voyage where they're
like in a submarine but they're floating. Why don't they
remake that movie?

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Probably because it's too soon after that Ocean's whatever with
that little all the billionaires exploded in that submarine. True, Yeah,
maybe that's why I don't anyway. Yeah, rest in peace.
Gene Hackman and his wife and the dog.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
And Crazy Michelle, Tractor and mill shell track Michelle.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
That one shocked me because she's my age and I
remember having a huge crush on her and Harriet the
Spy when I was a little kid.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Was weird. Well, we were the same age, you're true,
I guess that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
Yeah, I mean that's really the only That's like when
I was say like, oh yeah, I had a huge
crush of the Olsen twins, Everyone's like, oh, that's gross.
We we're the exact same age, me and the Olsen twins.
So I was you know what I mean, it's like
we went to school together.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
True.

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
But Michelle, Yeah, that was shocking. I don't know if
they she had the health problems, but still very shocked.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Liver kidneys.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Yeah, some some sort of transplant might have gone wrong.
I don't know, but uh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I heard that, so rip oh. And then the voice
of Space Ghost.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Yeah, I didn't watch that show.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
Yeah, just a legendary you know, adult swim voice actor.
I had seen a video with him not too long ago,
and he I mean, he's old.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
So you watched the video and then he died. H yeah,
like like six months later. Yeah that's almost pretty you
know what.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
You know what it was, I thought about having him
on the show, should get him on the show, and
then he dies.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
It's like it's it's more to that point. Yeah, Now
I just think about him. I just think about voice act.

Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
We need to use this power strategically.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
I know. Yeah, I know we could save the world,
you know, real quick. I actually wanted to ask you something,
and I don't know, I don't know why I didn't
text you the story. But did you see what we
will Forte said about coyote versus ACMI? Yeah, h And
doesn't that just make you feel bad for I mean,
I feel really really bad for the guy because I

(01:01:33):
was just like, man, this is uh, this is one
of those things where I just feel like people don't understand,
is that when when people make art like that, you
know they they will pour their heart and soul into
something that's even just as silly as it sounds. Because
what it sounds, what it kind of sounded like to me,
it almost sounded like thirty five years later, we're getting
a different kind of who frames Roger Rabbit, And I

(01:01:56):
think that we've kind of I mean, I didn't see
the Looney Tunes movie with and in Frasier.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
It's all right, that's why they stopped doing Muppet movies.
Are right luey to movies after that? Yeah, And so
except for Space Jam too, because it didn't do well
the box office. I enjoyed it because I'm a Loney
Tunes fan.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Yeah. Well, I mean the space See. That's the thing
is where you see how something like space Jam will
not only succeed and then they'll redo it, uh, which
is such an inferior film. You have something that has
such a great premise in Wiley Coyote versus Acme and uh,

(01:02:32):
you know, I don't care about Batgirl, but it's the
same premise. Yeah, for no reason. And you see a
lot of the schlock that just gets thrown out now, Yeah,
it boggles my mind.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
Yeah, I'm speaking of which I've been in contact with
Eric Balza. He'll be on uh because you know his
his movie comes out this week.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Oh what's what's this thing?

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
The Daffi and Porky movie? Oh, Okay, the Day the
Earth Blew Up? I think is what it's called. Okay
comes out in theaters. I'm gonna see it this weekend,
I believe. And but he's he's doing press tour right now.
I'm gonna wait till that dies down and he's gonna
come on the show and we'll talk about it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
But he does both Porky and Daffy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
I will say this, I might have a lawsuit on
my hands because I ordered from my mom's birthday.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
I ordered. She didn't want to go out because we
were all kind of exposed, so she was let me guess.
She was at her house. Let me guess what you ordered.
And I ordered a steak.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Oh, it's a birthda it's a birthday. So I looked
on the app, but we couldn't none of us could
go to I was at my house, she's at her house.
You know, everyone's quite kind of quarantined. But I was
already thinking about ordering me a steak, so I said,
you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna order stek.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
Do you want to stay?

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Because we had a birthday dinner plan for and then
it didn't work out because everyone was, you know, we're
worried about the COVID thing. So uh, I order from
the steakhouse and I'll give you the name here in
a little bit on the app on ondoor Dash or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
I sent me one. I sent one to her and.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Uh the most And you know me, I'll eat pretty
much anything as long as it's enjoyable. I'm fine with it.
I don't have a problem with it. Everything gets a
five star thumbs up. This was the worst thing I've
ever tasted in my life. It was absolutely got the texture,
the flavor, everything. And I have a lot because I
think it's false advertisement. I don't think they're actual steakhouse.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
God, I really want to could you all right? So
it's a chain, Yeah, of course it is. You would
say it was down underchain. No, that's she loves that place. See.
The thing is, I think they didn't deliver. I'm thinking
where you're you're part of the world.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
It's in South Dallas would be it would be a
place that would be if it were in Texas, it
would be on the side of the road. I mean,
I think all restaurants outside of the road.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
If you really thought about this restaurant on the side
of the highway, it was to be in Texas, on
the side of a road. Talking about text road house
in some sort of house, yes, no, okay, Textro's house.
Way better out back way better. Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
I've never like I I love meat so much and
I could not finish it. I had to throw it away?
Was that bad man? And then I text her, I'm like, hey,
what did you if you had to give it a
thumbs up thumbs down because that's what the app asked
you to do, right, I said if you had to
give it a thumbs up thumbs down, what would you
give it? And my mom's like thumbs down, and she
loves the same She loves meat too, And then she
put it in the refrigerator. She said she tried it

(01:05:18):
the next morning and it was because she thought maybe
it was just I had a weird whatever. She tried
it the next morning, same thing. Should do it out. Yeah,
it was so bad.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
I'll give it to you and then we'll go, uh, okay,
we'll leave. By the way, we're back for the entire
month of March. I don't know if you know that,
just because we started so late and all that Logan
steakhouse absolute disgusting if you were there, if you ever
might not be all of them.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
But this particular location, isn't that a roadhouse too?

Speaker 6 (01:05:46):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
I think they're owned by the same people. No, I
think it actually says roadhouse, not steakhouse.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
No, it's a steakhouse because that's that's my that's where
my cases. That's not going to sue, all right, because
I don't know what that was, but I ain't no stake.
So anyway, we'll see you guys next week.

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