YouTube: DailyDrivenExoticsYouTuber James Lucas Condon, better known as The Stradman, celebrated the opening of his pizza shop with a massive car show that needed police intervention.
Although James is based out of Utah, he and his business partner, Freddy Nguyen, opened Strad Pizza in Arizona in mid-April 2025.
To celebrate the grand opening, the car-focused YouTuber organized a car show and meet and greet outside of the shop that attracted thousands of fans and millions of dollars worth of cars.
Fellow car YouTubers DailyDrivenExotics came from California to celebrate the launch of Strad Pizza and gave a bird’s eye view of the massive event, but it wasn’t long until the police arrived.
Thousands flock to Stradman’s pizza shop opening
DDE co-owner Damon Fryer filmed himself arriving at the event and was almost immediately surrounded by fans of his own YouTube channel.
He slowly drove his car to a parking spot, making his way through the crowd and interacting with fans in the process. Once parked, Fryer said it took over an hour to get there.
The YouTuber went on to say that he saw people on the roof of the strip mall taking photos of the event as thousands of people surrounded the pizza shop.
“This is absolute chaos, my god. People are on the roof trying to film,” he said.
Due to the unexpected size of the event, it wasn’t long until the police arrived to help control the crowd and guide traffic in and out of the parking lot.
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Some believed that police shut down the get-together once they arrived, but DDE’s video made it clear that wasn’t the case as when he decided to leave later that night, the crowd was still outside of Stradman’s pizza shop.
The massive crowd and police presence didn’t prevent Damon from trying Strad’s Pizza, however, as the DDE YouTuber made sure to give it a taste test before leaving, parodying Dave Portnoy’s “one bite” pizza review structure to give the food a 7.7 rating.