This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak Parker University brings
us the scuttle butt. Joining us now on the freak Zoom line. It
is Jonathan and Amy Evola and they run Seasoned Street Food. Now before we
speak to them directly, a quick setup here. Keith Lee was in town,
the big social media food influencer, went to a lot of places.
One place he went to was a food truck called Sweetly Seasoned. This story
kind of took off because one thing that he asked the lady that was running
Sweetly Seasoned to do was I'm gonna give you four thousand dollars, keep two
thousand, give one thousand to your person over here who's braiding hair, give
one thousand dollars to a guy who had set up there and was cutting hair.
And the lady ended up not doing a couple of those things, like
paying the guy who was cutting hair, because she was like, well,
he's not affiliated with my company. Oh, and it takes off well,
sweetly Seasoned food truck, it does sound very similar to Seasoned Street Food.
With our guest Amy and Jonathan, and Amy and Jonathan have been getting a
lot of angry phone calls and low reviews online because of people confusing them with
sweetly Seasoned and it's destroying their business. So Amy and Jonathan Evola are joining
us. Now, good morning. How are you all today? Good morning,
We're good. Thank you. Did I set that up properly? Is
that kind of the gist of it? Yeah, you did a good job.
Are you on TikTok a little bit? Yeah? Because we have to
be Yeah, So, I mean they really break it down. There's like,
I mean, it's a lot to explain the way it drug us into
it. You know, we got caught in the line of fire because the
key the ends pretty much wanted justice from the food truck owner wanted her to
do the right thing. Everybody wants her to do the right thing. She
was not being very The generosity wasn't reciprocal the generosity she received from mister Keith
Lee. She had a great opportunity and she blew it. And it's such
a sad thing to see such a wasted opportunity turns so so crazy and so
dramatic, you know, and you're just catching strays kind of out here minding
your own business, you know, And that's the thing. Yeah, I
mean, up until Friday. I'll be very honest with you, I have
never heard of Keith Lee, and I've been in the food scene for thirty
years plus in DFW. By the way, you know, we're the same
way like, I had never heard that name until we started seeing stories of
him coming to Dallas. I'm like, who's Keith Lee? Had no idea,
Well, I follow him on social media, so I kind of had
an idea, you know, but I just never thought it would somehow hit
this close to home. By the way, gentlemen, her sorry, Keith
Lee's like ninety eight percent of the audience is female women by the age of
Like, well, I'm not going to age us, but it's so all
like, I think most of those followers are probably women to be, to
be honest with you, so I went, I'm just following along, and
I went to your website and I looked up you know, Season street Food.
You have a nice website, seasonstreetfood dot com. Eoray, when it
comes up, there's a pop up says welcome to Season street Food. We
have while we have no affiliation with them, if you're looking to contact Sweetly
Season following their review, their information is as follows like getting way ahead of
it. So how many Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense to hear
it the way Kevin laid it out is certainly interesting. It sucks for you,
guys. How many like bad reviews? I guess have you gotten as
so? Google has since corrected it. But we had at one point over
seven the negative reviews we had to start with it. We had twenty five
star reviews before this whole thing started. Okay, and I woke I went
to bed on Thursday night with five stars, woke up, woke up Friday
morning to a barrage of phone calls starting at six am, from all over
the country and then all over the world. I mean, I can't believe
I was getting calls from the UK, Europe. I mean, we've gotten
calls from Dubai. And these are people that feel like they're right here with
the phone calls that they're literally most of them are telling me give them their
money. And I mean the first phone call I got was Keith Lee sweetly
seasoned, and I'm like, what are you guys talking about? First of
all, the coffee hasn't kicked in. I have no idea what you're talking
about. I'm confused, and I'm running out the door. So I mean
once I'm you know, kind of driving, and I feel a little like
at a point where I could call Amy. I I was getting attacked and
I didn't know where was coming from, and said, Amy, can you
please go online and check out it's got to do something with Seasoned. So
look at Seasoned and they keep saying sweetly and they keep saying Keith Lee,
could you And Amy, I was like, oh, Keith Lee, bro,
So you go ahead, Amy, you say the rest? Yeah,
So I you know, I immediately obviously, just like I went to the
internet, went to Google, started searching and quickly figured out how we were
connected. But thankfully it was because of somebody that was watching everything that was
going down. Excuse me, they so they actually contacted us through our website
and let us know that we were being mistaken for this company. So were
most of the negative reviews, people complaining that your establishment did not offer the
things that Keith Lee was reviewing and promoting. No, no, it was
we made them sick. We're horrible people. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
And so it was a mixture, was a barrage of all their thoughts
on Google. One star reviews. So Amy, you said that you followed
Keith Lee, and I think it's clear Keith Lee's trying to do good things
when he goes to these cities. He is doing really like amazing work and
it's great. He's allegedly still in town or would y'all be anticipating him to
swing by or is he already gone? I thought so allegedly. I thought
he lives in Vegas and went back on Saturday. I thought he was already
back because we haven't heard anything from him regarding this clearing this up. That's
the only thing connecting us to him is this situation. And I'll be honest
with you, there are no hard feelings here at all towards Keith Lee.
He is from what I can see, he seems like an amazing human.
I would actually love to meet this guy because him and I have an affinity
for food and for feeding people and eating good food and blessing others like that's
that's my that's my creed man. I mean, so he's like my twin
brother from another mother. And I honestly, I know he has nothing.
It's not his fault that this is happening. It's to be honest with you.
They call them the keith Lee effect and the Keithians. So there's apparently
fifteen million of them, and they got his back. And I see,
why have you considered that there's I don't know, a possible long term upside
that will eventually maybe counter the short term chaos that you've experienced by people having
your name publicly much more broadly known than maybe it was before this whole conundrum
happened. Conundrum conundrum. Well this, and my mom always taught me,
when when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And I'm also we
were Biblical people and in the Bible says anything that tries to get used for
bad can always turn around and be used for good and as long as like
you do it the right way and treat people with respect. And you know
this isn't guys. I grew up in the war to one country and it
you know, I know what it's like to like really experience something like scary.
This is not even though we're getting like threats and actually death threats,
you know, and it's not like it's not as scary as like some of
the other stuff I've been through. So this is you know it's yeah to
put into perspective, it's not that bad. And I really, you know,
think that if everybody could kind of respond that way to negative situations and
turn them to a positive, the world will be a better place. That's
my message. I love it. Man Amen to that. All right,
Well, your real place is Season streetfood dot com And just twenty seconds.
But what am I looking at? What's this mac and cheese with some sort
of pulled so yeah, So we started this concept for you know, Covid
kind of pushed us to the streets. We've been running restaurants and we have
a brick and mortar restaurant called Tuscan Slice and Walksahatchie. We've been over for
thirteen years and we started Season Street Food a year ago. We're gonna be
out in Faris, Texas on our new property on one hundred Town Plaza this
Friday. We're gonna be cooking for you guys, anybody that wants to come
out. It's National Pizza Day we're guys. So we're gonna have a wood
fire pizza oven out there. We're also gonna have Keith Browning. He's an
amazing chef and he took our inspiration and ideas. He put him on a
plate, and we're gonna be serving up all of our good fare and you
guys just come on down. We'll have axe throwing, we're gonna have backyard
games, fire pits music. It's this Friday, five pm to midnight or
to when you giver you guys want to go home or stop showing up.
The town is prepared for us, so the city managers aware everybody there that
there might be a lot of people coming, So come on down. Let's
make it a block party. We're going to post it on our socials.
Amy, what what's our socials? Yeah? Season street Food? Yeah,
that season on Instagram. Absolutely, well, we'll post that out there when
we post the segment after the show and i' let stuff out and tell we're
producer. Jj Is. She lives in Waksahatchie And when you said test and
Slize, she went, whoa JJ your review of Tusking Slies. I love
tuk and Slaze. I literally was just there Saturday and I had I had
the pizza for the first time. Yeah, so good. All right,
Yeah, they're absolutely checking out. There's one good review instantly to offset the
weird ones you've been getting well. I'm glad you we're helping you get the
word out. Honestly, that is a weird, tough spot. So much,
very kind of guys to have us on your show. Thank you so
much for helping us get the word out. I'm clarifying that we're not sweetly
seasoned. Yeah, and we actually we've had to make shirts that we're not
sweetly seasoned. Well, we'll keep spreading the word and spreading the love.
Thank you' all for taking the time this morning. We appreciate it. Thank
you so much. That is Jonathan al Johnny Blessed Jonathan and Amy Evola of
Seasoned Street Food. Not we had him on stream too. The camera turned
off, but it was on for a minute. John is stacked a cowboy
hatboy hat. Look at Amy, she's beautiful too. But flex that arm
arm. Let's see some Imagine that thing making your season and your food.
Think about that when you leave them a bad review, Think about giving you
a five a five star review. You could pick up that wood fire oven
by himself. There we go. That's again Jonathan and Amy from Seasoned Street
Food. We'll pump that out to on our social media. Is in all
that a little bit later on we podcast every segment absolutely now in ten to
about ten to twelve minutes, thirteen minutes, we're going to be playing you
some Super Bowl ads that you have not heard yet. They've leaked out,
you have not heard them yet. But I want to just to say something
about the Super Bowl ads real quick to end the segment. For the second
consecutive year, for a thirty second ad, it is seven million dollars all
right, seven million now. A decade ago, twenty fourteen, it was
four million dollars for a thirty second ad, and now it's seven million in
ten years. Do we know who's on the docket for thirty seconds? It's
seven So I know a little bit about who's on the docket. Paramount which
owns CBS. They're going to run nearly a dozen spots to promote its movies.
I'll tell you some of the movies in a second. The Taylor Swift
effect is real. Lori Al's running their first Super Bowl ad with Taylor makeup.
I know, is she a spokesperson for them, but it's just like,
we know women are going to be watching. This is a good opportunity.
Let's do a Loreal commercial. Ah, it's actually it's the company's actually
NYX Makeup, which is a subsidiary of Loreal. Dove. You don't see
makeup too much in Super Bowl, I don't think so. The first time
they've ever done. And Loreo's a big company, right or it seems like
they are. Dove the soap company, first Super Bowl commercial since twenty fifteen.
Don't know what it's gonna be about, but I think you could assume
probably so something related to females. Dove does have a nice masculine line of
cleaning products for your pits, indeed for men. Indeed, try our new
AI generated loofa. I don't know. That doesn't make any sense, doesn't
make any sense. You're good, keV. They're gonna have more ads this
year that have the interactive QR code component I think last year to the coinbase.
Great idea, great idea. You're gonna see a ton of that this
year, including one for avocados from Mexico. They're doing it again. They're
gonna do it again. Good for them. I love avocados Mexico. What
you have that? I like avocados. That's one that when I was a
kid, because of the greenness, I think it took me a long time,
but it's slow. W don't you have some a little bit of guawk
and you start getting in there and you're like, all right, And then
a nice sandwich with an avocado exactly. You know what I've been doing recently.
Because cheese is delicious and not particularly great for you, but there are
certain things that you want cheese on, like a sandwich or a taco.
Instead of cheese, put on the super food. It's good for you.
Avocados are great. No deal on get rid of cheese and adding an avocado.
I'm just saying, if you want, if you maybe your doctor says
you need to replace cheese or stop eating cheese a good replacement to get that
that soft, fatty texture in there. Put some avocado on your food.
From Mexico, Mexicos from Mexico, from Mexico. You're listening to Walk Rock.
Huh huh, Walk Rock. Okay, So they said, though if
a popular option for some companies, do it during the pregame show. It
costs half as much to buy time for a movie ad if you're gonna do
it in the pregame show, because those are laws. Save a little money.
And also Another strategy is what Dune did. Dune is not. Dune
two is not going to have a Super Bowl ad, but they bought one
for the AFC Championship game in the NFC Championship game. Do the math fifty
million plus watching, I know, be a little less than the Super Bowl.
It's gonna be a lot cheaper. Uh, Disney, Oh sorry,
so Marvel is. It's still up in the air, but everyone is expecting
Deadpool three trailer will drop. The movie comes out in July, but everyone's
expecting the Deadpool three trailer. It would be nuts. They destroyed it in
twenty sixteen whenever the first Deadpool trailer come out, and Ryan Reynolds was all
over the place. We interviewed him back in San Francisco ten years ago and
he was a very funny campaign. They're expecting that. They're expecting another Planet
of the Apes commercial there from Disney as that comes out in May. CBS
is care of the games. They're gonna do the Bob Marley one love thing,
even though it comes out on Valentine's Day, I think next Wednesday,
but they're going to drop that because they can paramount the other movies that you
might see ads for they're projecting are a Quiet Place Day one and If which
is Imaginary Friend directed by John Krazinski, Ryan Reynolds, Senate Randall Park.
You know these people. Is there going to be a Bud Bowl, No,
butd Bowl, although there should be incredible back in the day. I
think it got replaced by the Puppy Bowl. The Puppy bowls great too.
With the dogs at the National Anthem and they all are looking at the flag.
And every year you're looking up at hot dogs that they're looking at.
Yeah, they are tricking a beefy treat like Look they're looking at the flag.
Look at these dogs. Flag liver, flag liver. Little get you
some little patriot, Little patriot. Do put a little in front of everything,
little sailor. Stay tuned, all right, baby girl? What else?
Kevin Universal is believed to have bought time for their big movies Fall Guy
starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. That look fun, Despicable me for Kung
Fu Panda four, which I saw a trailer for that and it's hilarious.
The trailer, yes, funny and good. It has a four at the
end of it. Twisters, What about Twisters? Mike Oh, is that
the new Twister. Yeah, there's more than one boy. The Twisters two
Category five, two F fives merge and we have a F ten, the
first ever ten. Two cows flying through the air. Yeah, two buses,
two cows. I'm gonna need two belts to tie myself to this smater
thing. Okay, a bunch of mockingbirds. I guarantee it's two F five's
merged together and created F ten. Okay, And let's let's be honest.
You guarantee it. Let's be honest with those that are listening. Twister is
terrible. I hope you're in the movie. Sucks. It sucked, then
it sucks worse. Now, Oh, it's fine. It's not good.
It's horribly accurate, a terrible. It's unbelievable. There's nothing good about Twister.
He's in the Bear Chase. I lived Twister, I did to.
Okay, that's why you should understand that that's just making a mockery of our
upbringing. Like your dad was killed, he wasn't killed in a tornado.
He went up for cigarettes and never came home. Kevin wished that you were
in the path when you were yelling people craft left streets this morning, laughing
at my my orphan life. That's what drove Helen Hunt and that that movie
In this when the first scene Dad flies away. Bill Paxson's not going to
be in it, And I damn sure tell you that much killed by a
twister in Peace not Pee, Coming up next, p It was a slip
Coming up next. You can do that at the chicken ranch, Daniel,
will you tease the next second? In Pee? That was a slipop?
Now those beds, you think they're changing the fitted sheets on those bastards every
time after each use. I don't need a girl there. I just want
to rest in peee all right? Coming up next. We are the home
of exclusive audio. Today is no exception because we have leaked audio from Super
Bowl commercials, which you will see this Sunday. Spoiler alert. Maybe you
don't want to hear these, I think you do. Stick around