Podcast: The Ride - 200th Episode Safetacular

Episode Date: April 9, 2021

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Forever! Dog! Warning, the following celebratory podcast was recorded in the open air, with its hosts in the actual vicinity of each other. Will they remember how to podcast in person? Can they maintain eye contact? Or will they desperately miss the low-res zoom screen and its slight delays? We'll find out on today's 200th, wow, main feed episode.

It's the 200th episode, Safe-tetacular on today's podcast, The Ride, the podcast about theme parks where we're giving each other the ultimate anniversary gift, not being on fucking Zoom. I'm Scott Gairdner, joined on the main feed for the 200th time by Mike Carlson. I am here. It's also, this is an innovative thing because we're in the elements. We're outside. Yes. Which is another groundbreaking thing and another treat. There's a lot of history.

Yes, beyond what we're doing, the outdoor nature of it. But before we get into that, Jason Sheridan, happy 200. Happy 200. It does feel a little perverse to like podcast in God's nature where we can bother your neighbors with like bits. We can hunch outside

instead of hunch indoors. I know we're not meant to be getting fresh air. Like maybe one, maybe two go to the parks and then, you know, to get content, we force ourselves into fresh air, but we don't record the content in the fresh. Yeah, not at all. That being said, the bigger possibility is less us and more that the neighbor might start blasting loud Italian opera. This has happened every once in a while.

I'm making a guess on Italian. I don't know. Okay. So that could be an issue. Yeah. Here. Before you might know this from the art or from the title or from something or other, but to celebrate the 200th new main feed episode,

we are doing an in-person record right now for the first time in 13 months. Oh my god. 13 months. Yes, we're here. We can look into each other's actual eyes and not our video eyes. Yeah. Socially distance with masks on. Yeah, still masks. So if there's muffle, that is why

trying to project over it. We're probably going too far. Like if you give someone the direction and you're at a nightclub, so there's a lot of activity around you, so just make sure you get it here. We sound like we're doing nightclub scenes in movies right now. Yeah, if there's any plane noises, sorry, that's how flight paths work. Yeah, true. One right now, I think. Yes, there's one overhead right now, and if you hear any sort of old motors,

there's a decent chance Jay Leno has driven by if you hear a sputtering motor or something from a Model T or some sort of old Studebaker decent chance it's Mr. Leno you know I saw the president drive by once in Burbank I was getting gas and the uh the whole motorcade the limo the Cadillac the bulletproof Cadillac which one which president Obama I guess I should. Obama. Obama. And that was, yes. Three presidents ago and you said the president? I guess I should have said a president.

I saw Jimmy Carter drive by in Burbank. Yeah. He was headed to the Bob's Big Boy. Yeah. Hey, anything can happen. It's Burbank and we're out in the elements Of Burbank Yeah, this is cool I don't think

We're making the perma switch back And we might listen back to this and go We certainly won't do it that way again But it seemed like a good little treat To give ourselves Because it's been a while I've got some stats And maybe you want to take a guess

Some miserable stats But I feel less miserable about them Because it's been a while. I've got some stats. And maybe you want to take a guess. Some miserable stats. But I feel less miserable about them because I'm seeing you guys. Main feed only. How many episodes over Zoom? Oh, my goodness. Well, if you said 13 months, what, 13 times 4? Which I can't.

13 times 4, 40 plus 12, 52. So, yeah, a couple breaks, 49. A little less, I would say. I didn't give Jason a chance to guess. 40 even? 45, right in the middle. Okay. 45 of these out of 200. So, almost a quarter of the main feed this entire time.

We've been doing the podcast for uh almost four years and over a year of it has been this way patreon the patreon's so newish comparatively that wait i think okay uh 35 of the second gates have been over zoom and there's only been i'm sorry oh no 38 if you count little odds and ends like the casamigos rebuttal or little holiday episodes we've done. There's only 94 of those in general. So 40% of the Patreon's life entirely has been in the stupid way we've had to do it. Wow. Gee whiz.

Can you believe it? I mean, I can, because I feel like i've aged a decade in this last year big time i've never felt old until now i've never had concerns about and depression about being old i've been nostalgic for like 2005 i like suddenly these eras that seemed like yesterday i'm like i can barely recall it was another world then yeah i i think for the zoom recordings like i turn there's a part of my brain that turned like performing brain that turns on but usually when that happens in person at like mike's place or at a theater or something i have to be human afterwards you know have some you know we just chit chat maybe we get lunch or if that is i gotta you know say hi to people

afterwards um uh uh regardless in person or digital i just go well i feel like shit i did a bad job but when you do it over zoom it's not it's kind of bad because then you can just walk to a couch or a bed and lie face down and you just give into that sense of defeat. This is the typical. These are things, despite many episodes together, I don't know that you go face plant after an episode like a comic strip character. No, sometimes I walk Garfield. Sometimes I walk the dog. That's confusing because I just said comic, but yeah, Garfield's the dog.

Yes. Jane's dog. Jane's dog. No, sometimes, you know know i try to keep it human i try i try to like decompress a little after recording i mean we did shows at ucb for years where where i would just walk off stage like pretty much always and just be in my head of like oh well that could have gone better and i just hard on myself you know well you don't have to worry about the bad improv shows anymore that's well say you didn't like it, they might be back.

That's true. And maybe it'd be fun at this point. Yeah, I'm having this opposite thing. And I'm curious if you guys have had it or if any listeners are having this, because I think this might be like a syndrome in the world that is building. The little bit of backyard hangs that I've had, and this one right now might be one of them. I think it's the opposite of you, Jason. I'm not feeling weird and bad after Zoom stuff. I'm feeling weird and bad after things in person because I don't know how to do it anymore.

I've found myself needing to apologize for things that are made up. Checking with Erin, was I okay? And she's like, what do you mean? you mean you're fine like yeah over analyzing because all of our i think a lot of people like us our social skills were tenuous to begin with and now we might have to build them all back up i don't know how to be at a party anymore i don't know how to like introduce people to people they don't know and hop from one cluster to another it's all gone yeah i i have not been doing many i mean i would see i would see people briefly outside for the last year but jason and i were actually seeing someone for their birthday a friend of the show marissa strickland and i remember the first five minutes we're all standing very far away from each other and we're all talking and there's cars

driving by and it's impossible to hear each other and you're straining and you're like oh yeah these are like my friends that i'm comfortable with but then i'm trying and i remember like it took me 15 minutes and then i made a joke and it it killed finally and i went all right i'm back i remember like it wouldn't it wasn't working and i felt like i had been making bad jokes and then finally one worked okay and then i like settled down a bit but there was definitely a lot of like clunkiness in my head now i guess i'm just bragging about making a joke, which is annoying. Now your punishment's coming later. It was just delayed.

That's a good point. Scott's referring to the fact that I got emotional after it was done because I hadn't seen people in so long. But yes, it's very strange and it's going to be an adjustment. It's going to be an adjustment. Yeah. It's going to be weird. It was nice to see a bunch of our old friends, our old performer friends, and the podcast that came out of that group, Podcast the Ride, half of Off Book the Musical, a quarter of Wild Horses. What a time.

That's true, yes. 100% of the Ben Shapiro show. Well, I know. You know, he doesn't talk to us anymore, and he wasn't a very giving improviser to begin with. That's why he went more information, quote, unquote. Yeah, he's not a natural talent like Gutfield or something. Gutfield?

We're in the crater of Gutfield. Gutfeld is his name. Gutfeld, oh, excuse me. You're thinking of Garfield, Jason, and you Gut-field. We're still, we're in the crater of Gut-field. Gut-feld. Gut-feld. Oh, excuse me. You're thinking of Garfield, Jason, and you put Gut-field. I am,

and he's such a good boy. More not. Gut-feld is not Garfield, the dog, who's not Garfield, the cat. Yeah. We're going to do

a thing later when I was like, should I make a Gut-feld joke in here? But now I've decided not to do it because we've already mentioned Gut-feld.

No way. If that's at the end of the show, then people will be hungry for more Gutfeld. We'll see. I'll decide at the time we do it. If you don't know what we're talking about, Fox News has introduced their answer to late night comedy. And it's dog shit. It sucks.

And it took me back to one of my very first jobs in L.A. where I remember someone had a framed picture of the whole cast and crew of one of the previous jobs they worked on, the half-hour news hour. Oh, yes, of course. And I was just like, why would you frame that? You're only in this office for three months to begin with. Why do you have that? It really taints your view of somebody if they a if they have a framed photo yeah cold open the

only thing i know about that shows that the cold open was rush limbaugh r.i.p oh my god yeah yeah now i first i was really like blank in my head and then i went oh i know i remember now i do remember all of this yeah cold open yeah yeah um yeah Gutfeld's not so good. My favorite joke was he's being mean to all the late night hosts, and he says, Jimmy Fallon does more fawning than a pack of deer. Which is like, that's like when Norm MacDonald did the fake roast jokes. Yes. To shit on the idea of roasts in general. That's like,

has there ever been a joke softer than fawning, more fawning than a pack of Dior? Begging for Reader's Digest. Like, please, give me. Like, jeez,

I need to read something. You have to go way back into the 1900s to find a softer joke than that. I mean, look, would I like to talk about the Gutfeld monologue

all episode? Yes, I would. But what a waste that would be of this moment. We're together. There's theme park news afoot. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, yeah. Well, plenty.

Because things are there turning the machines back on. What are you referring to, though, Jason? Well, I mean, I have a few things. The biggest thing announced that I saw on the last day or so. We're recording this a couple days before it came out. The VelociCoaster at Universal, Orlando's Island of Adventure, opening June 10th. Oh, interesting.

I didn't know that. Wow, wow. Yeah. All right, all right. That's good. I think I've determined it might be too intense for me. I've watched some, I've looked at some footage. I mean, it looks like the greatest roller coaster

ever, but I don't know. If the digital ride through that I watched is accurate, I think it might push my boundaries a little too far. Would you do Hulk at this point? Not sure. I didn't last time. I don't know.

Again, what if my ride stamina is gone? I have not been staying in shape in the last 13 months. That's interesting. I was thinking you would be more raring to do like new things, but I guess, yeah, if we're talking about sort of shrinking in other facets of our lives, maybe it will. Maybe. Wait, wait, are you saying there's a chance that I might not like haunts anymore? Oh no.

Have you? No, there's no come on like people in the dark lunging at you strangers in like really narrow corridors of course you're gonna love it doesn't that seem more pleasant than an unseen plague lurking around every corner or potentially inside the bodies of your friends and loved ones distrusting everyone you know and like or dislike. Walking by a stranger on the street who looks very kind and you're just a second away from going, don't you dare look at me.

Back off, back off, back off. Oh my God, yeah, you're right. You've lived in a haunt this whole time. It's a good thing you got in shape. Yes, that's a good point. So maybe I'll be better. I'm so dead inside now at this point that i'll be even more ready for haunts um but i don't know with velocicoaster i feel like velocicoaster will be on par with hulk because i was thinking of the

same issue too like if first of all if you're listening to this for your first podcast the right episode uh turn it off and let's do another one because this is going to be a lot of inside baseball i think and weird muffled mask talk and it's weird muffled mask talk show doesn't sound like this a lot um but i was thinking about this and i was like when i go back to six flags should i be braver and try to do like x2 which scares the shit out of me yeah yeah and i was like i still feel i don't want to but maybe maybe i have to i don't know really to throw myself in the deep end i don't know you have to? I don't know. Really? To throw myself in the deep end? I don't know. You have to ask yourself, is it a personal thing? Do you think that the audience

will be excited enough for you to be worth it? Do you want the likes and the clicks that much, or is it a personal growth thing? Oh, I think it's both. I'm a needy, desperate performer who wants to please a bunch of listeners, a bunch of Cliffords by doing something new, and they know I'm out of my comfort zone, a bunch of Cliffords, uh, that by doing something

new and they know I'm out of my comfort zone and that's always amusing. I think I, as I, as a viewer or a listener like that. So I think I feel some sort of pressure to deliver on a new experience. And also, yeah, like it would be, I feel like a little bit accomplished when I do something new. That's true. That's part of it. I think, uh think uh hey if i can tangent for just a sec since you mentioned clifford uh check out google theme uh no what is it called human boy worldwide is uh it's this clothing startup that is doing a short run of clifford hats and t-shirts and then after that they're doing a line of shirts based on posters for Robert Altman movies, but just the logo. So, like, you can get a Clifford shirt, and then in a few weeks, you can get a shirt that says, like, The Long Goodbye or McCabe and Mrs. Miller. And I know I'm stocking up.

Honoring all the best films. Yeah. Yeah. And I think they're selling a Jiminy Glick shirt, too, which is very funny. Did they get, like, the Martin Short rights just of his whole catalog? Don't worry about it. I bought you know what I did a couple weeks ago and it hasn't shipped so I'm worried. Some weird

site was like offering like a bootleg looking Jim Carrey Riddler Batman Forever shirt and I just pulled the trigger immediately on it. But now that I think about it it was like was it legit? Did I get scammed like I did when I gave my credit card info for the Mr. Tato biography? I don't know.

Because it hasn't shipped. I don't have it yet. But maybe it's a similar situation where they don't have the official Clifford rights. Has anyone noticed I feel like Clifford is in the zeitgeist now somehow? Did we cause it somehow? I don't know. I don't know if we were just part of the zeitgeist with Clifford

or we caused it. I don't know. What else do you mean by zeitgeist? How is Martin Schurz Clifford in the zeitgeist? How is Martin Schurz clipper in the zeitgeist? I just see it more on Twitter. I know part of it is probably an algorithm thing where I searched for it. I think it's easily viewable on HBO

Max at this point. Yes, it's viewable there. I did watch it. Not great. We watched it too. We had a great time. I was ready. I was ready to go. Here we go. You know what it is, I think?

I think if you view, because I've watched clips, right? Obviously, the wonderful roller coaster scene that won the fake theme park Final Four, that's great. But besides that, there'll be a scene with Dabney Coleman or a scene with Charles Grodin that's great. And you watch the scenes and you think this is a good movie and then it all together right like i'm sure it was awesome on set they probably thought they were making the greatest thing and that's not nothing there's movies where everybody's cracking each other up where the scenes aren't good either so i do give it up to clifford for that but maybe that's the problem individual moments are good but jason you've maybe disagreed and say it's all. I mean, I had seen it a couple times already

and I just, I like the performances a lot from Grodin and Short and Steenburgen and Dabney Coleman. And so like, yeah, as a film, capital F film, like I don't know that it holds up together, but there's some very funny comedy moments. The scene where Martin Short is like, you can't even look normal, like a normal little boy, and he's looking around. That is very funny. You can't beat it.

The incredible amount to which Clifford rigs explosives to blow up the model of the public transit system. It is a really vicious explosion yes it's very impressive really nice analog tactile so much debris um yeah i don't know i think we're gonna start like we know how things go with us you start you think you don't like something and then we talk about it and we talk about it yeah you're right that's true and then and then i yes then i'm the biggest clover fan in the world. Especially you, Mike. There was a comment. I don't know if it was in a mailbag or a tweet or something, but I don't know if this ever made it your way. I just saw a listener to the show saying that there's an evolution with Mike, which is hearing about something, maybe kind of disliking it. Then coming around and starting to think that it's good or cute.

Right, right. And then the next step, which is making it so much of a tenant of your personality, you must defend it at all costs. I think I did say that. I don't know who said it or where. Take credit somewhere if you said it. But that's happened a number of times in these 200 episodes. Yeah, I do think that is true. I mean, obviously the Jimmy Buffett is the best example of it.

I guess to some degree Avatar and the Mighty Akron. I think there's levels of it. I think there's levels. Like the Buffett is, again, that's the max version of it. Duffy is, I think, one of those you started making fun of Duffy

and then it became steadily less and less around. I think maybe to a lesser extent, Baby Aladar. It's not so much as... It's in the family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's a mini version of this. Right, right. But it's like, whereas like Jimmy Buffett I'll listen to in the car and I'm not actually thinking about Aladar

so much during the day, Baby Aladar. Maybe it could become that, but yeah, it hasn't happened. But no, that's not entirely wrong. It becomes sort of a fun toy at a certain point and then becomes truly not ironic at all. Yeah. Just watch the other things just end up on the other side of the fence.

Maybe Baby Aladar would be helped along if the Baby Aladar I got you ever came. But that's a strand. That's another, like, delivery that hasn't shown up many many months ago so many months ago it was cursed you would bought me a cursed baby aladar oh yeah there was that discussion i think yeah yeah yeah wait did we add that on the show or i don't remember too i think i think there were comments that were like i had one of these and it like wouldn't stop making noise yes right there had one and anytime they tried to donate it somewhere it always ended up back in the house and it would not stop making noises

the batteries slowly gave out jesus oh my god it's the one toy that's actually alive it's not woody and buzz it's just baby aladar and he doesn't even like pretend to not be alive when you're looking at him he He's just always alive. Hi. It's like the Krusty doll. Change me. I peed again. What else is going on news-wise, though?

Well, Universal Hollywood put up a link for announced reservations for annual pass holders. They're keeping their annual pass program growing to make reservations to see the park reopen once again. And the websites crashed or didn't load at all. Again and again for people. And simultaneously, almost within a day or two, Disney has announced, here's how you buy tickets to Disneyland. Yeah. Not my favorite.

I'm not digging the amount of complication here. I don't understand this thing where April 15th, tickets are on sale, but... No, wait, April 15th... No, that's right. April 15th, you can buy tickets. April 12th, you can make reservations. So everybody has the jump on you

if they have tickets already, but our annual passes are worth nothing. Yes. I was just catching up on this right before I left. If you already bought tickets and you hadn't gone and they were still good, you have a better opportunity to book a reservation for Disney.

There's no... I had said this and I was incorrect because somebody had said they would have a new annual pass program by the time Disney opened, but that's not obviously the case. So I got very confused by looking at all these paragraphs.

And yes, it seems like all of this is a mess, like as usual and confusing. But it's par for the course. It's kind of interesting how Disney-esque syndromes have entered all of our lives with the effort to get shots and vaccines.

Yes, that's true. I think it's been reminding a lot of people of trying to get into Galaxy's Edge, trying to get onto Rise of the Resistance or what have you. In hindsight, of trying to get into Galaxy's Edge, trying to get onto Rise of the Resistance, or what have you. In hindsight, getting into Galaxy's Edge in general and even getting onto Rise of the Resistance that first day,

that makes almost every other system we've had to deal with in the last year and a half look like shit. In hindsight, Galaxy's Edge worked very smoothly. Yes. And the reservation system worked very smoothly to even get on Rise of the Resistance. It was hard to get there early and do all that stuff. But once it was done, we went on. It was great.

That was great. I mean, it sounds like this thing is going to be a disaster for a lot of reasons. And Universal is also a disaster. Yeah. So people are frustrated. We're not looking to go back first day. I'm usually a first day guy. But in this instance, I'm going to let numbers go down more.

I will wait until I'm vaccinated. How soon does everybody go, though? As soon as, like, once you're, because you get second shot, then you wait. What is it? Is it 10 days? Is it 14 days? It's two weeks. Yeah, 14 or something.

How soon do you go? It's a very good question. And to, yeah, 14 or something. How soon do you go? It's a very good question. And look, it depends on the spread. It depends on how we're doing numbers-wise in that area. So if we continue to go down like we are, and I'm two weeks out, maybe. Yeah. It's a very flexible, I'm very flexible right now. I'm optimistic like a lot of people are.

There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic. So the whole thing is flexible. I think I've said this, I'm probably, there's a good chance I will be at Disney or Universal before maybe I'm inside with a bunch of people that aren't living with me. Yeah. That makes sense. I think it is, it's a rare time, maybe ever, that this will happen where, hmm, Disneyland is competing with my desire to go to the dentist and more importantly,

the eye doctor, because this prescription is aging rapidly and my eyes are starting to are your eyes going the last year? Huh? Are your eyes deteriorating? Well, on and off, just be from the amount of screen time,

just from, uh, you know, just lack of being outside and lack of screen time i figured out tricks it's it's better now um i did go like a year ago almost a year ago i did go because my one eye was bothering me but that sometimes happens during allergy season the left eye kind of uh flares up because uh i didn't know this until i was like 32 33 that you can get allergies in your eyes uh oh yeah so uh yeah so i will probably get some new glasses soon that's kind of high on my list um uh if you haven't noticed i'm like god knows 40 30 like 35 gray it's like really crazy at this point. I have because I've seen you in person twice this whole time. Right.

This is number three. So like my hair, I mean, my hair is crazy right now, but that's going. It's kind of like you're showing us stuff beneath the surface. It seems like it's landing at the roots. You're able to hide it still. Yes. Like I can hide it with the top. The top hair is still brownish, but everything else is just going white just so crazy fast i we made there was an audition i had a couple weeks ago for a commercial

that we shot and i shot it outside on the little porch we have and the light on my hair i looked like steve martin not looks wise but hair wise and i went oh my god and then i like was emailing my agent like tell them i'll diet tell them i'll diet tell them i'll do whatever they want to my hair oh man yeah do you have to change your type now well yeah i have to change it from like uh you know some man in his 30s to aging grandparent aging granding grandparent? Yeah, very old. Your type is now 89? Yeah. I'm 88 to 89

or so. And I have to kind of, in the headshot, I have like a hunch. I added a hunch to my stance to really make it attractive to the casting people. So if it's yeah, if it's like commercials for flip phones and

medical bracelets, you really gotta call. I'm definitely going to be in commercials that are airing during Gutfeld. That's absolutely what will be happening. They're all non-union, but I'll go against SAG. I'll go against my union to work and make

$1,000 forever. Look, Mike's in it. Is it a comedy sketch? I don't know. No, he all about eaved Chuck Woolery. Snake Chuck Woolery. For a catheter spot. This is for a shower safety seat.

Huh. Well, at least he's working. Oh, I fell and hurt my butt. Yeah. Well, yeah, he's getting a payday, I guess. So, yeah, look out for that, please. By the way, the next time we record in person, this thing's...

I'm going to look so jet black. I'm going to look like a 70-year-old rock and roll guy in, like, your favorite classic rock band on stage where you go, that hair cannot be real. Oh, yeah, yeah. And special guest, Wayne Newton. Yeah. Podcast the ride.

I will have the fakest looking hair next time you see me. It will look so bad. Sopranos level. Yeah. It might just be a piece. It might just be, I'll just get a wig. It might look better. Go full specter. Just. Oh, yeah. You know, might as well make it wild, too. It might look better. Go full specter.

Oh, yeah. You know, might as well make it wild, too. Just change the image. Or I'll do a little Steven. I'll just do a do-rag permanently. Maybe I'll just wear like a bandana around my head for the rest of my life. You just like affix this. There are little pins you can put in my skull so I always have this bandana.

Yeah. It's a doctor will administer the bandana to make sure it's safe. And then I'll never take it off. It's going to be tough for the airport. That's the main thing you got to worry about. That's a good point. 70 bandana pins. Maybe I'll have like a doctor's note.

Let them know that this is a medical bandana. It's medical Stevie-ism, I see. Yeah. And then I can meet Steve and I'll have something to talk to him about. We've got to go, if everybody's feeling old, we've got to go back to where the youths are. That's Magic Mountain. Magic Mountain is open now. We could leave this and go to Magic Mountain currently.

They got right to it. I think April Fool's Day, but not a joke. No joke. Do we have any idea how it's going uh i did i was watching a youtube a youtuber go there and it seemed fine it seemed like they didn't uh it was hard to tell you know if the upkeep has been okay there it's not like you don't know if that's like normal this normal year or that was just there before. I mean, you can guess, but it seems like the park looks okay. It seemed like everything was running.

Quite a bit outdoors already. That helps them. Yeah. I mean, obviously, like, Justice League is inside and there's a couple other things. The Full Throttle Lounge, I don't know. The YouTuber did not go in there. Are there safety measures at the full throttle lounge? This is what our listeners need to know.

It's what we need to know. Are there advanced cleaning techniques being employed at Chop 6? It's a good question. The YouTuber did not go into this uh detail i will say the top floor at full throttle does not allow a lot of social distance um because we were packed in there up up there so maybe maybe only the first floor should be open at full throttle lounge um but the people there seem to have a good time and uh yeah they should really at least for a little while just keep it 25 throttle like wait for more word for the governor to go full throttle.

When Joe Biden announces that they can go full throttle, then it's time. Or Dr. Fauci. Just make sure you listen to health officials when judging how hard you should throttle it. Make sure. That's just something I think we should all really abide by. Determining a throttle percentage. Yeah. So, yeah.

Depending on what tier we are in California. What tier are we? Are we purple tier? No, we've dropped down to orange. Oh, okay. That's good. I believe. And in some cases, red, I think.

It dropped to where parks could open. And then it dropped again to parks could open from like 15 to 25 percent right i believe don't quote me on that i think that's somewhere in the ballpark they were gonna like if things were stayed the way that they were the incredibly restrictive levels like shapek would have like gone to the governor's mansion and like held Newsome out by his legs, like out of a window, Suge Knight style. He was,

it was going to get really ugly if they didn't change things. Yeah. Chapek would have put like a bomb in the haunted mansion and said, I'm going to blow this up. And you, all you Disney fans, you go and demand, like he would have done something like that.

I think Joker esque. And if you have a problem with this, here's where Newsome lives. Exactly. And like he would have done something like that i think joker-esque and if you have a problem with this here's where newsom lives exactly uh and then that would have been then finally you would see like a million mobilized people and that would have happened i mean he's still under the way folks if you don't know anything about california election law uh if you get enough signatures in california you can hold an election for governor. You can recall the governor. I believe that's how Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor. It is. Oh, yeah, yeah.

There's precedent. There's insane precedent. I don't, I'm not the, Gavin Newsom seems like a little bit of a dunce. He seems like he sucks a little. I don't know that much about him. I don't follow him that closely. But God knows what sort of Orange County psychos would come out of the woodwork if he was called what sort of like tito ortiz for governor he's already on like a city council or something yeah that's the that's

the issue yeah even if you're like yeah whatever change him like you can't be because it would be so horrific whoever swept in there yeah yeah there's no telling um doesn't seem like it'll happen but but the only you know the only plus side is uh yeah they may be like a crazy person but they would certainly let disney do whatever they want as far as building new rides yeah really push they would let them oh sure yeah i guess that aligns with yeah this is the the only area where our viewpoints might align with right wing, is our desire for there to be any and everything that Disney ever wants. Yes, this governor or mayor is a horrible right wing fascist.

But he loves the secret of Silver Springs or whatever the hell that thing is. And he said he'll open an X-Men's mansion. And I want to see the beds. I want to see Colossus' bed in an X-Men's mansion. And I want to see the beds. I want to see Colossus's bed in the X-Mansion. So please, Mr. Fascist, please win this election. They're going to do a rescuer's ride. We get to shrink down to the size of the little mice. Oh, Bernard and Bianca, thank you.

Sorry. Sorry, everyone else. Now, just now, I don't like that you poisoned the other candidate. But just don't do it again. One other piece of news that I saw real quick as I was going out the door today, and, you know, Carly Weisel has the more detailed breakdowns on a lot of this stuff, as usual,

but I saw Scott Gustin on Twitter posted, New, beginning April 8th walt disney world will allow guests to remove their mask when quote taking an outdoor photo so i think that might be a little premature just because you've trained people to a certain level of behavior and then to to i don't know to scale it back this quickly uh i also saw like variant numbers there's a variant surge in florida again i have not read a ton about this which one i who knows um but it's a florida it's a local it's the orlando variant it was created at islands of adventure i mean i think they've they've uh loosened vaccine regular like i think a lot of people are eligible for the vaccine down there

but um i yeah i don't know that taking the mask off for a photo i don't know how i feel about that well look it's all uh confusing and weird it's like the thing is even with like eating outside it's like once you're eating then you don't have the mask on. And it feels like you can get, you maybe milk like an extra minute out of that. It's like, you're not actually like eat, mask, eat, mask. Yeah. Like the rest. And it feels like, yeah, maybe you're taking a photo outside.

Obviously, if it's outside, it's a different story. I, I have, I'm, I'm so exhausted by all of it. At this point, I just go, whatever. Like, whatever. Like, whatever. Yeah, I know what you mean. I don't have it in me to get riled up about this. Like, it's not where I live. Am I going to get the thing?

Great. Can I go to the park? Can I get my plastic wine and go on three rides? See, this is all going to work out really well for the speed that I do. Well, that's true. Yeah. And if you want more detail, I mean, the Disney Parks blog has a full list of dining

and attractions that will be open when Disneyland opens and DCA opens. What's the thing that you have to sign after countries go to war and then they absolve each other of anything that happened? A treaty?

Like a treaty or something i didn't have to blanket sign a treaty with like any of my scolding instincts of seeing somebody on instagram and i go well that's bad to do that i just have to wash in the way and say all right you've all been pardoned i'm pardoning everyone in my brain i can't have this here i don't need to hold this it's been a long time it's been a long time of being edgy about every photograph we see every outing we've had we have to let go of it uh for our own mental health and yes i agree probably not a great idea to take photos without a mask at this point but you do it quick maybe and it's outside it's just this little snap off i think it depends on your uh your style yes it depends on your style.

Yes, it depends. Your technique. And I was alluding to the fact that, like, certainly you're going to get your person that's going to be like, well, I was just taking a photo for 10 minutes. That's going to happen. I know it's going to happen. People have been fighting. I think ultimately most people aren't.

You know what? I think it's crazy that there aren't more awful Florida stories. There have been these. Obviously, there was just one that got around a lot of a guy saying, hey, I paid $15,000 here. You can't file a trespassing charge against me. That one was kind of wild. So, you know, there's the spikes, and you know that the media is going to pick up on them

because they are all crazy and that they're funny. But, like, I like that there's not one of these every three days, you know? Yeah, as far as catching its storylines, is that a child or a dog? Yeah, it's kids. That's going to be an occupational hazard. Paperton, it's like we're at the park. Yeah, yeah, I'm good with it. So, yeah, no, i haven't heard it i would be interested to talk to a cast member and see if there's like low-key versions because that would the one

you're describing is like that's such a a i mean it's not funny or fun but it is a crazy blow-up of like a a scene somebody's making a huge scene about it i wonder if there are low-key ones i don't i don't know i'd be interested to talk to somebody who's been on the ground. I saw a screen grab of a Facebook post where someone's like, hey, cast members, you got to be nicer and smile. We all need this right now. And it's like, Jesus, what is your life? What is your life if you're posting that? Like, hey, come on, give that extra effort. And it's like, what are you?

Come on, give that extra effort. And it's like, what are you? Come on, lady. What are you seeing where it's not like that? Because I haven't been to fully operational Disney World. I haven't been fully operational anywhere. But I've been to Knott's Berry Farm for these food tasting things. And everyone is so nice and happy. These employees are great. I think you have to be looking for things to be upset about to have

that point of view yes i agree i i i don't know how you couldn't go to these places and not just be like you are the nicest person thank you for working you are have put yourself at risk more than other people god bless you or whatever're non-dominant, um, denominational, uh, thing you want to say. Cause like the people, as we've said before,

like my, my, one of my biggest complaints just in general is like, I wish the company had taken better care of these people in general. Cause they're like the people that make, it's nice to see these people. 99% of all the people that work at these places are really nice and like make your time nice.

So, uh, yes that that is annoying of like you should be smiling for me more i should be seeing you happy and you're like shut the fuck up yeah that's the thing to judge i think in the future if you are being unpleasant to i mean for certainly theme park employees but like wait staff or any of these kinds of, like just do not, this has to be dead. We can't do this anymore after the year that we've had. It shouldn't have been happening anyway.

Yes. Got a siren now. These things are going to happen. But it's part of the fun. You got to react and respond. Could that be Jay Leno just driving around an old time police car? Hey.

He surely deputized in some jurisdiction. Yeah, he has to be in Burbank. He could probably make an arrest in Burbank. Yeah, I could shoot some in the middle of the street. Shoot some in the middle of Olive Avenue, and they wouldn't arrest me. They wouldn't take my show away. Jay Leno's Garage on CNBC. Oh, man, I was watching a lot of Jay's Garage the last couple days.

Wasn't Weird Al just on? Oh, I watched the Weird Al clip. They always do a funny bit at the end. I was watching one with Bill Goldberg, the pro wrestler. Ah. And then that ends with Jay doing a bit where he's hitting on Goldberg's wife. And then Goldberg makes mad, and then they kick Jay out of the car, and that's the end of the bit that's yeah and Jay is so I love I love like 70 year old exhausted Jay yeah there's

something so funny about like just tired not paying attention really when somebody else is talking which I think has been a criticism of him forever but he's also he's aging in such an interesting bizarre way tell me about it. He's so top-heavy, and I don't mean in a flabby way. He's like an action figure. He looks like a street shark or something. Yeah. But little on the bottom,

and so much up there, and the head's big as always. I like the mane. I like that. He gets to have a little more fun with his hair. He used to have to be so put together on The Tonight Show, you know? I do. I don't know if he has it in him or if he'd want to or what would happen if he could. But I, like, boy, a beard would be something.

I'd just be so curious what that head does to a beard. I'm totally into that. Have you seen Jay Leno's Garage where he's with Biden from a couple years ago? I did watch it post-election. Actually, he's the president. I should probably get to this. Well, of course, it's an important piece of history now. And then they're like, there's a bit in it, and Jay's like, oh, the guy

driving up behind it. Who could this be? And then they pull over in a parking lot and Colin Powell pulls up in a car with sunglasses, and I'm like, what? Yeah. Oh, man. Anyway, check out Jay's Garage on CNBC and YouTube clips. Yeah, and

if you're hungry for more comedy, Gutfeld. Gutfeld's always there for you too. Is this the point in time where we should turn to some listener questions? Make this a Podcast to Ride post office for episode 200. Unless you want a segment Listener questions, make this a Podcast the Ride post office.

Yeah, unless you want a segment. Do we want a palate cleanser, potentially? Sure. Does someone want to? Do you have something? I have something. Let's do your thing. Okay, great. Segments.

We're segments, everybody. We have the time. We've got some segments to celebrate. Remember those? So this is one I wrote down very early on in the show, and we never had a spot for. And at the time, I called it, Da Stitch Like This.

And so if you weren't in the parks in the later aughts in the 2010s, there was a period of time where Stitch was on a lot of theme park merchandise, wearing theme park, you know, accoutrements, mouse ears, T-shirts, churros, turkey legs, and that's all fine. But Disney's very, you know, strict about, like, what they let be on theme park merchandise. And I wanted to see what the real stitch heads were about

so i went to t public and i'm gonna toss some some stuff out some collabs if you will and you can tell you guys can guess whether i was able to find like say like stitch and halloween okay okay was i able to find a t-shirt of stitch wait oh so that that is one that is you're saying like you're gonna throw us the combo and we're gonna decide we're gonna say did they do it or not well that's pretty broad there's gotta be some stitch and halloween yeah yeah here's a really cute like stitch and a jack-o'-lantern wonderful that's nice yeah okay so how about uh is there something do you is there like a way to do you is do you say like stitch with a ding or how do we deter if if there is a stitch or not a stitch um

if stitch wins the round does it always then it's you that you have to say ohana means family oh yeah that's good okay so the the little thing ohana means family. Oh, yeah, Stitch, yeah. That's good. Okay, so we'll say Ohana means family. So that was just for the sample round. Okay, let's go on to the first one. Stitch and coffee. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Of course.

I don't care what day it is. It's early. I'm grumpy. I want coffee. Stitch wants coffee, so Ohana means family. I'm grumpy. I want coffee. Stitch wants coffee. So, oh, and it means family. Oh, and it means family. It is.

Stitch and a Big Mac. Hmm. Is that, maybe there's a legal trouble there. I want to say conceptually somebody has done that, but maybe it's out on a technicality. Yeah, no sign of Stitch and a Big Mac. Hmm. Wait, so, okay, so if you don't do you just do you just say no or or uh okay that yeah no great uh stitch and adulting yeah adulting that

seems that's right yeah yeah that's a good search oh well, I did find it, but Stitch gave adulting one star. Overrated, overpriced, would not recommend. So, oh, that means family, but adulting, no thank you. Stitch understands the concept of adulting. Stitch understands the concept of adulting. Stitch and Superman. Huh. Huh, that and Superman. Huh. Huh, that's a good question.

Now, does Stitch playing Superman count? Some sort of superhero Stitch with an S on his chest. I think that would count, yeah. There's got to be that, right? Yes? I guess so, yes. I found Batman. I found Deadpool.

I did not find Stitch and superman so deadpool do you remember what deadpool was was it just him with the man him in the costume it's him in the big red costume and hell yeah and this has wear that on a first date and your date will know all everything you're about and this has to be on TeePublic? On TeePublic. Okay, because there are plenty of Stitch dressed as Superman pictures. Oh! Okay. You're looking for a la Disney. There's a way for

someone to profit from this. Right. How about Stitch and the Son of God Jesus Christ? They seem like they could be opposites, potentially. But somebody must have combined them. I'll say Ohana means family.

Yeah, Ohana means family. I fell in love with the man who died for me. That is Stitch and the cross. Whoa. Stitch and the cross. I can't see what's on the shirt. What is Stitch's emotional state in this? Stitch is gingerly holding the cross.

Like, just kind of gently. It's not a big, it's not the cross he died on. Well, it's a very big cross. Yeah, it is a man-sized cross. Wow. Oh, that means fat thing. Stitch and Dreamcatchers. Oh, interesting. Good Stitch and dream catchers. Oh, interesting.

Good search. That is interesting. I'm going to say, I'm just going to say no. I'll say no to switch it up. And unfortunately, Stitch, this is a Stitch dream catcher. It just is a dream catcher. It's a dream catcher. Ohana means family.

Oh, wait, it's with ears. With ears and it's blue. Wow, wow. Just a couple more. Stitch and antidepressants. Don't talk to me until I've had my antidepressants. I'll say yes. I think I'm going to say yes.

And you would be correct. Here's Stitch coming out of a big bottle labeled antidepressants. If I had made that up whole cloth, that would have been weird. But reality is much weirder. Coming out of one. What if he got in there and ate them all? Yeah,

that's bad for him. That's bad for Stitch. Stitch. Oh, that means family. Uh, get me to a hospital. Stitch and the Blue Lies Matter movement. That's got to be yes.

I hate saying yes, but of course. Not just one, but two different sellers. I'm surprised there are only two. Wait, he's blue, right? Stitch, back the blue. Oh, my goodness. Boy. Don't bring him into this he doesn't take sides he's he's anti one thing and that's adulting uh and so to wrap it up i'll change it

up a little bit uh i want you to fill in the blank uh of what ailment would go here i have blank i don't have the energy to pretend i like you today i have. I don't have the energy to pretend I like you today. I have blank. I don't have the energy to pretend to like you today. Oh, Stitch's ray gun? I have blank, like, you know, like Monday-itis.

I'm sorry, you're both wrong i would have accepted epilepsy fibromyalgia or diabetes what i have diabetes i don't have the energy to pretend i like you today okay so it would be specific to whatever you have with Stitch. Mm-hmm. Interesting. Same seller. It might be a robot making these, but they are all different. And, of course, Stitch says never give up for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Well, that's... Which is nice. Bizarre, but nice.

I thought something nice to... Yeah, okay. So that's been Cross Stitch. I'm calling that Cross Stitch. Oh, my God. cross-stitch. I'm calling that cross-stitch. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm really stuck on... You have a mood shirt about your epilepsy?

No matter stitch or not, it's bizarre. It's a little strange. Wow. Well, how would I mean family? Beautiful. Okay. Well, you want to crack into some listener questions? Yes, yes, yes.

Do we need a break or anything? I'm good, but if you guys want one. Probably fine. You cut the mention of the break. Sure. Just checking. Yeah. All right.

Well, then let's turn to the socials, to our wonderful listeners. Thank you for helping us out with EP200. And I have not looked at these at all, so they aren't organized whatsoever. The first one I'm seeing, if it wasn't the first one I was seeing, I probably wouldn't read it, because I don't like what it portends. Ryan Ritter, the real Ritter, asks, As it appears California is on the verge of opening back up harbor boulevard hoedown back on and just to reacquaint you we've done these uh you know we

got to 200 much faster than a lot of podcasts via our daily series the city walk saga and the dantan disney ordeal there's been discussion of um doing everything that's on harbor boulevard next to disneyland which seems like yeah it's theme park adjacent but almost none of it is disney affiliated oh it's like a bunch of random restaurants and hotels right yes i don't i don't want to lead with my answer but how do you guys feel huh i think i would want to you know like mike was saying like allow a little more time before we're, you know, back in. I'll run in a store like once or twice a week if I can get in and out in five minutes. But I think I really want to get in the mix at Captain Kidd's Buffet, you know. I really want to hunger down.

Yeah, that's the thing with the Harbor Hold On, which is, will happen, is happening for sure. A hundred percent. Well, I know I'm not saying this here. I'm just saying eventually it will have to happen. That's the thing with the Harbor Hodon, which is, will happen, is happening for sure. 100%. I know I'm not saying this here. I'm just saying eventually it will have to happen. But it needs to happen the right way. We need to be able to maskless go in a Captain Kidd's, scoop from the same troughs of macaroni and cheese and half-day old chicken wings with tongs. And we need to be able to get the full experience because I don't want to half-ass the harbor hold on which is happening eventually

a hundred percent well i like this maskless delay that'll push it so that'll do something for it that might be though here's where i'm at like there's parts of me that have you know now thrill rides i don't, maybe I've lost the tolerance in general. Daily series sound better to me now after being holed up for a long time and, you know, not just disease, but baby have been, you know, in the same place for us. So getting out and mixing it up does sound interesting. I'm almost like this, maybe this has to happen sooner than later or you lose me.

Maybe I don't care anymore once I've gotten to do something actually fun. I hear what you're saying. So we're monitoring the numbers. We're monitoring what's happening. And sooner rather than later, we could be enjoying like a big thick glass of milk in Captain Kidd's buffet from one of those milk machines you can get at a buffet. And we're all going to sample the milk and see how it is. And we'll do an episode about just the milk at Captain Kidd's. Do we have to

stay at the hotels? What are the rules of this? That's a very good question. It's mostly hotels. A lot of hotels. Some of them themed. I have stayed at one of the hotels on Harbor. Great. So I do have some information about that. I've eaten a personal

pan pizza at the pizza hut express in one of these hotels so i can i can get my thoughts on that so that's 30 minutes right there easy yeah so we'll see we'll see maybe we have jason spend a night in one of them like we'll see sure this might be a good chance to uh reach out to some travel writers who have cataloged that sort of thing. That's possible, too. Expert view. Passing the buck, huh? You guys seeing anything that's striking you?

Yeah, this actually came in, I think it was yesterday or a couple days ago, and I kept meaning to write back, but I thought it'd be better to tell on the air chris daly the cj vd on twitter asked when can we expect the good boys podcast the ride to cover the easter disney parade now very early on in quarantine we had plans to do a commentary on the easter uh one of the old easterades. And we had so many technical failures. We called it. The Twitches were such a mess. Yeah.

You'll notice that we didn't get to our 200th Twitch stream. That is not a number. I think we bailed after three. Yeah. Daily Life became so Zoom based. The video conference thing, which I'm already not super, I don't find super natural to begin with.

I've adjusted to it, certainly, as needed. But, yeah, we kind of put that on the back burner. But this specifically, we all ripped from YouTube one of the Easter parades, and we're gonna try to do a live commentary and then archive the audio somewhere and it just just didn't which is hard it was so hard it was hard so but maybe in the future because i always like the easter yeah yeah now that things are less than saying we'll find a new one i want to just i want to just mention that they're as usual everyone has

uh different opinions uh some people thrilled to be called cliffords some people less than thrilled to be called cliffords and i just want to say you know unfortunately i think everyone is cliffords that's just the way it goes um but i hear what you're saying imagine being a woman and being labeled a clifford that's one that i think can't that doesn't square i don't know i think i mean some i see some people here no shoes uh zero three nine uh and i don't know uh this person's gender but uh they there's i'm just saying there's a lot of people so there must be some women that are happy being cliffords um here's at frog wife says i absolutely identify more with being a clifford than a good girl so i welcome the must be some women that are happy being Cliffords. At Frog Wife says, I absolutely identify more with being a Clifford than a good

girl, so I welcome the shift. So that's pro-Clifford. I shouldn't go making a judgment before we get some feedback. So we have feedback both pro and con about the Clifford situation. Let me find a different non-Clifford related one.

I think this notion is really pushing me over the edge to me identifying as an Uncle Martin. Okay, well, we can work on, yeah, one Uncle Martin and two Cliffords. I can't, you like normal things. You like this weird dinosaur that's peeing. It's not normal. It's not cute.

You were, when we were talking, when you know one of our most famous arguments the tokyo disney day argument i think you were certainly being uncle martin back then i guess so yeah but i did i was there for four days i did i know come around i think you could still do it faster but uh it's always possible to do it faster um but yeah i think look we all we're all uncle martin once in a while that's what i want to say um oh wait am i up to find one i don't really have if anybody has oh i can i can uh go um here uh kevin lester is asking and this is this is a question i mean we talk about a lot he says i would also love to hear each of your pitches for how to fix tomorrowland if you were given the job.

And this is obviously a big one, and we could do a whole episode, I'm sure, of something like this. But really, I mean, here's the basics, what I think I need. I need movement of some kind. I can't just sit and look at an empty track. I need something. It doesn't necessarily need to be a ride. I just need some movement going on. I need

something to even be done. I'm not even asking for very much at this point. Would I love a giant crazy e-ticket going in to the place where they have Star Wars launch bay? Of course. That being said, just put in a weird robot show in the center and some seats yeah like

just something like oh this is cool and it's a fun weird like oddity out of the way thing with like an it could be original character it could be a star wars character it doesn't matter literally you just need to take some of those sections right now that are dead yeah and just give us a little treat and we know what we like as far as treats are concerned like something something and i do like meeting uh uh the care i'd like kylo ren or chewbacca in that section but like that's what it needs right now of course long term it needs some crazy overhaul makes play uh space mountain obviously is still pretty great and that doesn't need a ton but put in something it could be the Tron Coaster.

It could be, like, put some other cool thing that goes all the way around Tomorrowland. I would love it to be a few, like an original IP, but it's not going to be. What if you do, what if you demolish, I like the idea of Carousel Theater coming back, but what if instead, what if maybe that mechanism is a roadblock, like it having to turn. And I don't like that Captain EO slash Chinese Shrek, the audience theater has been movie previews for a long time. I think that's garbage. That's a waste of space.

So what if you do more of a stationary country bear kind of thing? Again, anything with robots will make us happy. Don't care premise, truly anything you want uh and in in in that i'd be more okay with blowing up um the carousel and having that be the base of tron if that space made any sense i'm not sure if it does sure uh this is also by the way how how beaten down we are about tomorrow and it's i think we're trying to be realistic here it's not even blue sky right it's not blue think we're trying to be realistic here. It's not even blue sky. Right, it's not blue sky. We're just like, give us something. Jason, any thoughts?

Well, I always was very fond of, I think I have one of the posters they used to sell of it, of the retro future Tomorrowland 94 future that never was. I think a lot of that still looks pretty good. It seems like they've done like a half removed like half of it and kind of like added in a lot more blue um i feel like you can still crib a lot of that maybe update it a little to more modern uh design standards modern tastes um i think some sort of people move or return would be great yeah some sort of yeah i didn't even say it but of course yeah uh uh some sort of retrofuturism i

think it's hard because anyone like who would be there's a lot of very interesting writers and futurists out there that you can read in any sorts of publications. But so many public figures, you know, that are like, oh, they're looking towards the future. Like Elon Musk are so toxic. Like, I don't think Disney would get in business with them. If they're smart, they won't get in business with them. But I think, you know, if they'll need corporate sponsorships and I think the best rides that, you know, a lot of rides, most rides have had some sort of corporate sponsorship at some point in time i think companies just need to take a back seat to their narrative like their narrative the story whatever you know mitsubishi or uh ford

or whatever sponsor is telling needs to take a backseat to just pure entertainment yeah yeah so i i don't think some like message driven like like ad motto driven ride is gonna play in 2025 i mean i thought it was kind of cute when i was a kid when you left space mountain in florida and there was the little fedex bots on mars. Sure. Like, I didn't mind that. That was fine. Not every sponsorship is so eye-rolly, for sure. Some are fine. Yeah. I mean, it was very funny to learn about, like,

as we were doing some Epcot pavilions, that, like, oh, the parent company of this ride was in, like, a Cold War with the parent company of this ride. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. The last thing I'll say, though,

is if you're going to finally do something like what you're talking about, let all the rides intersect with the other rides. Yeah, we want that back. That's what I want back. It doesn't even matter what the ride, as long as it's moving and you can go through another ride

and see into the other ride you're going into. So cool. So cool. Yeah. But who knows? Maybe it'll never happen because of Disney forward or Disneyland forward.

Here's a speculative thing that I like, and this also opens up a whole episode of Canterworms, as it should. This is from Kriley Tucker. Would Disney's America have been a cool Epcot lame or like a bad DCA 1.0 type lame.

Disney's America, to fill you in, what they were going to build in Virginia that was a historical theme park. In a broad strokes media term, it was always presented like it's going to be built on a real Civil War battleground. I don't know that that's actually true, but near enough to real historical sites

that people were upset they got chased out of town. It was like a bad time PR-wise. Eisner was on the decline. We'll get into all... We really got to do that. That's a big blank spot. I just haven't thought about it in a while. But that specific question,

from what we know about it, because one thing I do, and I like this question because i think it would be there and it'd be weird i think it'd be i think in 2021 yeah disney's america would be so strange and either they would have had to change it entirely or like there's no way just a 96 like historical park no it's just what it is still many years later there's um disney's america would have gone through so many different like changes to the robot show to include like a little more nuance when it came to american history that would be my guess

i yeah i would have had to do some i mean the explainer the vox level explainers or the takes on disney's america would takes on Disney's America would have, in 2021, just would have been awful. Yeah, I would guess that whatever the version of history they would want to present in 1996 would not have aged so well by now. I don't think a lot of it aged well in 1996. Of course. No, the whole, it's good that they didn't do this.

But yeah, like, all right, in right in 96 is it do we walk around and like this is sort of charming in a knots way or was it would it have been bad that's that's the question is it going at 90 and 96 i'm trying to think what opens in around 96 to see like what kind of level of theming because i don't know that it would have been as bad as California Adventure 1.0. Again, as far as theming is concerned, not as far as actual like information or what you learn, what version of the idealistic Walt loving type of like great white people history you're learning there. Yeah.

But as far as like how nice are the buildings as far as that judging that's more of them you know that question it's like i could see it i could see it being like very nicely themed and you go well the houses here look really nice and it looks like maybe very period authentic like i could see that still being the case like you know disney's america a real mess don't bring your kids there unless you're going to really sit them down and explain the actual reality of America. That being said, I want you to pay attention to the details in the rooms because the trim they used inside was actually the real trim. Like, there is that chance. And I think it's likely that that might have happened.

This one barbecue restaurant is very charming. But besides that, there's a lot of bad narratives. So I kind of think it might have actually ended up being like very aesthetically pleasing. And again, this is just from some art I've seen. Yeah, we don't know a lot, but we'll dive. Maybe this year. It's a good year to do Disney's America. Honestly, I like the idea of us rolling up our sleeves on an episode and really fixing Tomorrowland.

Oh, yeah, yeah. We should do that for sure. I'm thinking we should do that for sure. Yeah, yeah. Big time. Well, and analyze how did it get so bad? How did we get to this point? And how do we get out of it?

Right. I've got one here from Corn Dare. In this hypothetical future, they've just announced a new season of Ryan Murphy's feud, and it's Eisner versus Katzenberg, who plays who. Oh, man. Dream project. I just finished the audio book of Disney War. Oh, yeah.

You've been telling us good stuff on that. That book is a trip. I mean, an adaptation of that would be something. Right. book is a trip i mean an adaptation of that would be something right i think the only person who the craziest things coming out of it uh one um the frank wells is comes out as a saint like he there's not really any bad frank well stuff the most sympathetic character seemingly in that store in the book is oddly enough ca CAA founder, Michael Ovitz. Really interesting. Kind of gets tied in to like taking over for Wells and gets thrown into the

deep end with no guidance and no help. And it's not really his, he's an agent. He's an agent. Unapplicable, but it's not the same job he's put into. Yeah. Yeah.

Like he really imploded in a big way. Like he was the king of Hollywood and then sort of faded. Yeah. He seemingly was brought into Disney because he was Iser's best friend. And then he was given no support. And that was very interesting. There's a lot of interesting stuff in the book. The audio book's pretty good.

There's one or two moments where I don't know that I would have attempted to do a certain... I wouldn't have done what the narrator did. I don't know if I would have done that voice inflection of the head of Sony. I don't know that. I would have just might have said that a little flat. But those are pretty quick.

That's only happened once or twice. 2004 was a different time, I guess. But, overall, it's a very interesting book. So, Eisner versus Katzenberg. I'm looking at pictures of them. I've got to cheat. Well, off the top of my head for Eisner, like a Jason Momoa or... I'm trying to think of a different...

Brad Pitt's a little too old, but it's in the zone. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, a Rudd or you know who's like really handsome and charismatic like Chris Evans maybe sure yeah yeah I think any Avenger would pretty much be Hemsworth Evans

this by the way we're going to cut this part and we're going to send this to his company this is just a random sample of the kind of thing they talk about on the show. We didn't even share. We just like snipped a random part. Right.

So, you know, see if you like it. We're all very excited for the Tops IPO. Oh, yeah, Tops IPO today. We haven't really talked about the Tops IPO. We really want to get the word out. I have been watching more baseball in 2020 and 2021 than i have in my life i found it very soothing during the pandemic um you know who plays you we got you know who would have been good uh when he was younger is like vacation era chevy chase oh i could see that

there's like an energy that i get from like seeing young younger eisner and like meetings and like how i hear people describe him, he's very kind of excitable, maybe a little erratic, kind of. He's got a lot of energy, and he's giving a lot of ideas, and some of them are terrible, some of them are great. I feel like Chevy Chase in that era, I could see it. Yeah, that's really good. I think the hair is a similar vibe vibe yeah similar level of the way his hair receded yeah in the right era definitely could have been not now i like that um katzenberg uh

yeah gotta i think you gotta go giamatti paul yeah i was thinking that i mean he plays so many of the great like real world nuts you know not that he well whatever i you know interesting figures from he's he's eugene landy he's the guy the manager in the nwa story i feel like there's a there's a bunch yeah he i mean yeah boy that'd be a historic performance i mean and when we when he was alive uh philip seymour hoffman i, he's just a great, like the greatest actors, the greatest actors of all time. He's just the interesting character. Daniel Day-Lewis could do it too.

Katzenberg in the book is a very interesting character. He keeps scheduling like 6 a.m. meetings as a power play. He's just constantly pounding Diet Coke. He ends up,

there's like a massive lawsuit for him to get a proper bonus, which was very in plain english in the contract and they fought him all the way huh um how about i i throw out an idea like an imaginarium of dr parnas what's the guy's name parnassus yeah uh we three of us play eisner and we just take turns in different scenes or in that don't uh the bob dylan movie where he's played by like 10 different people yeah yeah and a and a child to to show his his childlike wonder right that's good too so i could see that being when my son's old enough i've i've figured out something very special

for you to do um so yeah my my biggest love will play my second biggest love i'm sorry i misspoke flip those yeah yeah make sure you get that clear i think also uh if disney itself could make an eisner movie and just make it obviously the the perfect history version like they did with pl travers with. Travers with that movie. Then you can start putting whoever plays Eisner into, like, the Avengers and the Star Wars or whatever. And, like, Grogu gets saved by Michael Eisner at the end of one of the... Well, you know, you want to talk retconning. Big fan of The Late Shift.

I really love The Late Shift. If there's any interest in an episode about the Late Shift? Is that too off topic? It might be. Let us know. But if you're up for it, you know we would talk about the Late Shift, the HBO movie for a long time. Michael Ovitz. You've got to work on your scripted podcast.

I still think about the scripted podcast or just doing a TV show of it once a week. Yeah, God. Oh, a sequel. What a dream. You've got to talk to Betty Thomas a week. Yeah, God. Oh, a sequel. Oh, what a dream. You've got to talk to Betty Thomas about this. Yeah, yeah, sure. Yes. She did a great job.

She's back on board. Wouldn't it be funny if the first podcast to ride outside of podcast was we were working on a late shift show? We sold. We're finally expanding the late shift. I mean, a lot of old IP is coming back. Yeah, it's not a reality show where we go on roller coasters. It's where we want to see more of Jay Leno in a closet.

Which, honestly, now that I say it, it makes perfect sense. Yeah. But I was going to say, a big character in that movie, Michael Ovitz, is played by Treat Williams. Oh, yeah. So Treat Williams comes back, and now it's all connected. Now we're building a Marvel universe. Yeah.

Uh, yes. The treat Williams. Um, it would be, I was thinking of potential Katzenberg is Bob Balaban, but if we were going to build this greater universe, Bob Balaban is already Warren Littlefield,

a famous, of course, shift movie. unless, but now a double duty Balaban can only be good for a film. But I don't want to push him into that. He's an esteemed actor. Wallace Shawn is Wallace Shawn.

Is Wallace Shawn Roy E? Roy E. Disney, a big character in that era. Oh, good. Interesting. Yeah, yeah. But can't you also see him getting riled up in the right way to be Katzenberg? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for sure.

You could Irishman some of these people and de-age them. riled up in the right way to be Katzenberg. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for sure. You could Irishman some of these people and de-age them. Why don't we just, I mean, them, you know, we want the greatest stat. We want De Niro and Pesci. De Niro and Pesci would be great. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. That's a very good point. Well, who will play young Gutfeld, though?

Okay, well, I have one here uh this is a fun one this is uh ellie warren at ellie wrote that now this is addressed to mike and jason but i'm going to throw it to scott of course too mike and jason now that we're allowed to drink in disneyland i must know what famous person or duo would you task with creating a disneyland exclusive celebrity tequila and would the story of its creation be better than the briefcase story well first of all no it could never whatever create there's never going to be a better tequila creation story than the casamigos story that's the best story we've ever heard i mean the only thing that comes close is the saga the hemisphere dancer and you know two stories that we like. What's that again?

Jason and I just guested on a podcast and I tried to tell it and I was cut off. Finally, a host and some balls. He was Brett Davis. He didn't know what he was doing, but he accidentally cut me off in the middle of a Hemisphere Dancer explanation. Bless you, Brett. I don't blame him.

You have no idea how much you helped. So, wait, okay. But so we're, I mean, is there an attempt to pimp the answer into being Clooney and Gerber in that answer? Or are we thinking of a new? No, no. I don't think so. Or you guys. Well, obviously, that would be the dream

is if we did it. But I think, I think, first, I think as long as the ground rules are laid down, that no, the origin story won't be better,

but it could be a different duo of people. Who would it be? Who would make sense in 2021 in the Disney family that would make sense that they have a partnership with Disney?

Oh, because they have the wines from Kurt Russell and Chris Parker and what have you. Right. How's Robert Downey not in the liquor game? That's all the mega people. He's sober.

Oh, right. So he can't do that. That would be a bad thing. I mean, obviously he doesn't have to have any involvement with it whatsoever, but probably in general. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be a no-go. As far as like, you know, Big big the rather getting the rock in the family but he already has his own thing going on so i don't think he wants to be tied to disney completely

he's he has his own brand um i'm trying to think of who else because like your your stars of yesteryear you're suzanne plushette and you're kurt Russell's Bob Newhart, Bob Newhart, you know, Bob Newhart, 90 year old Bob Newhart could be involved. The easy answer might be a Tom Hanks, Tim Allen duo teaming up with a celebrity tequila, Woody and buzzes tequila.

And it's some, like it's a translation from another language, and the translation is friend in me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's friend? Oh, yeah, that would be great. But if you want the top shelf, like the Pappy Van Winkle, like top shelf tequila to go along with that,

you get Chris Evans, because this is, it's not the toy tequila, it's the tequila that the, it's not the toy tequila. It's the tequila that the, it's the raw from the barrel tequila from the pure agave. The raw agave. The tequila is based on. Amigo and me would be the. That's yeah. Friend and me.

We could have guessed that one. I guess that wasn't that difficult, but maybe you got to do it like a deeper, it's like, you know, it's,'s we just we go into some you know estonian type language to disguise it more right but then huh i i do like the do you like the sound of that the two of them i mean now that truck goes by oh and what is it is it them like it's not them in the costumes and it's not woody and buzz because they don't want to associate the characters with alcohol but is it like little nods in that is it like that one's in a cow that that tom's in a cool cowboy hat and tim is in

what i got it i got it it's just two hands uh like toasting glasses and the one stir stick is like a cowboy hat on the end and the other is a spaceman helmet on the end oh that's pretty good um light years ahead of any other tequila on the market years ahead that's pretty good that's a little more i was gonna say the big duo right now is falcon and winter soldier oh yeah yeah they could do it too i was gonna pitch with tim and tim and Pretty good. That's a little more. I was going to say the big duo right now is Falcon and Winter Soldier. Oh, yeah, yeah. They could do it, too. I was going to pitch with Tim and Tom that the truck is actually three motorcycles with the two of them

and then Randy Newman also next to them on a motorcycle, 78-year-old Randy Newman. You've got to have a Randy if you're going to do a premium tequila. Yeah. You better have a Randy on board. I think Randy should be driving a motorcycle, and then they should each be in a sidecar. Oh, that's good, Newman. You got to have a Randy if you're going to do a premium tequila. Yeah. You better have a Randy on board. I think Randy should be driving a motorcycle, and then they should each be in a sidecar. Oh, that's good, too. It should be a motorcycle with two sidecar stats.

Somebody could draw that for us, please. Another potential tagline, you are a tequila. Sure. That's true. Randy, re-record it. Well, that's true Randy re-record it well that's all great that should be made thank you listeners for your

questions and for listening to this experimental in the elements episode we got a couple more things right Mike you got something to say if we could also do the other one animatronic? Oh, sure.

Mine is something that I realized as I was pulling up. I go, you know, I should have told him so we could work this out because the bit will be better, but let's do it anyway. Okay, okay. I want to debut a new segment called PTR 400. Okay. Okay. This is 200 episodes right now, and you're talking about 400.

And the idea I had, and again, this is why I'm starting to doubt it, was that we format this much like the Conan O'Brien segment in the year 2000. Well, yes, those were written an inch of their lives. Those were like good jokes, and I went, you know what? I first said we should really plan this. But, you know, we'll see we should really have planned this but you know we'll see what happens and if we have to edit it out we have to edit it out um okay so we're imagining what is the 400th um so basically all i'm thinking is this we'll go around and we'll do

a few just a couple and each one of us will say something that could be happened on the show by Podcast the Ride 400, maybe in each of our lives. It could be anything, really. But when we get to Podcast the Ride 400, what will have happened? Yeah. By Podcast the Ride 400, 104 of those will have been the Harbor Hoedown. So we'll be there approximately this time next year. And then we'll say,

Podcast the Ride 400. Jason, do you want to go? Sure. By Podcast the Ride 400, I will have completed my trip to Japan to tour the theme parks there. Oh, then we get the real one. This is exciting because you can do real ones.

So this segment is good. And I will also finally be being released from the Japanese prison I had been confined in. Podcast The Ride 400. We will have had Randy Gerber on the show.

Podcast The Ride 400. We're talking real ones. This is a high bar. Maybe we should set it. Dollywood. Oh, yeah. Podcast the Ride 400. I don't like this part of it, but let's keep going. Greg Gutfeld

will have really given Disney the business for introducing oat milk at their coffee outlets in the parks. Podcast of the Ride 400. Liberal commie. Bunk.

I will sit through at least two more Disney timeshare presentations for or maybe not for free fast passes podcast arrived 400

but that's happening that's regardless of if we stopped doing the show after this episode you would still yes that is a good point um okay uh well i think um let's see we've got the second gate um by podcast the ride 400 we're up to uh the 12th gate which is As long as we can avoid that ninth gate. We're up to, and that is, that's $10,000 a month. But what's the, what do you get for $10,000? What's the desired for $10,000 a month?

Jason will kiss you on the mouth. We book you a room at the Grand Californian, and it's only $5,000 a month. You live in the Grand Californian? No, it's just however long that gets you. But it's booked by, Mike will book you a place to live in the Grand Californian. Unfortunately, he takes a 100% commission. It appears. That's true. That's my podcast, The Ride. 400. 400.

400. Yes. Where were we? Who said the last thing? I just said one, but we could end it whenever. Any other dreams of a podcast? You know, I will podcast. I will say podcast or I will do something maybe that's not a podcast. I don't even know where I'm going with that, but I feel like that would be good.

Yeah. Interesting. It could be the late shift. It could be something else. Oh, okay. Oh, that counts? Like our first narrative project? Maybe.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or it's just, yeah, we just record some more video in parks, and that's it. YouTubing. Yeah. Great. TikToking. Don't have the TikTok presence yet. No pressure. Can't wait. Can't wait that's it. YouTubing. Great. TikToking. Don't have the TikTok presence yet.

No pressure. Can't wait. Can't wait to do it. And that, I guess, is Podcast the Ride. Yeah. 400. Except that I, you know what will happen by then. A lot of good times.

Good fun. Good in person. Yes. For God's sake. I can't wait to keep doing we'll keep zooming a little I don't know we'll see we'll just determine

when we're back but I think what it also hopefully leads to is getting out there and mixing it up in the world you know what we've been able to do a lot of research and stuff and we've been able to go to drive through experiences but getting back and doing things going to places we haven't We've been able to do a lot of research and stuff, and we've been able to go to drive-through experiences. But getting back and doing things, going to places we haven't been, this is what I'm excited for.

There'll be a lot of that if I podcast the right 400. Yeah, gradual steps. That's what I was saying to someone earlier. Baby steps don't do what I did last year and go from just sitting on a couch to suddenly in the middle of a set. Because that was a terrible move on my part. Yes. He's back and decided, but yes, well,

there'll be a, they're going to let's, we're going to milk going back to all these parks. We're going to get episodes out of these, these journeys back and give you a trip reports and yeah, that'll happen. And, and on that note,

here's one, one final thing in in our in our feeling nostalgic for 2017 when we started doing the show and uh when we that's right right i think yeah 2017 2017 about five or six months before it launched we um wow that's right yeah we're building up a little bit and uh we had segments back then. And we had one that the intent was to do monthly until we realized we could just talk into infinity about any topic for over two hours easily. Something we talked about doing every month was the animatronic of the month. That was going to be so recurring. And we've so let down on that. We haven't named one of those in God knows when. And with that in mind i think you

got to go broader than the month you got to go bigger uh being that it's been so long i think that we need to name an animatronic of the year and not just that but my other thought on this there's a lot of animatronics that are about to be turned back on wonderfully magically for the first time uh in in over a year and you know we could honor the ones that have just been going in florida but why not give it up for the ones that have been been stuck just gathering dust uh since last march when all the crazy crap happened um and so that's why i i propose the Dormant Animatronic of the Year. Yeah.

Give it up for these guys who are about to have purpose once more. I think we can all agree the animatronic of 2020 was malfunctioning Donald in the Mexico pavilion that was eventually replaced with a particle board cutout

and at one point in time, a potted plant and at one point in time, a potted plant with a sombrero thrown on it, and then eventually nothing. I mean, that's a way to go out. Some animatronics just break, and then you don't see them again. But Donald made a big stink on the way out, and we'll never forget it.

But dormant soon-to-come-to-life ones. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Does anybody feel like starting? I don't, because I kind of think now that I'm thinking about it, I didn't follow the assignment so well. Okay, that's fine. I have one. You go ahead first, yeah.

Okay, great. I would like to nominate an animatronic that I learned had a name. I didn't realize he had a name. His name is Pickwick. He is the ghost hanging off the chandelier via cane, holding a glass of wine in the Haunted Mansion. Yes. Oh, yeah.

Ballroom scene. Yes. Who maybe we'll get to Pickwick this year on the Haunted Mansion episode. It's like around the corner. We're going to get to Pickwick. Well, there's a lot of crazy characters. There are a lot of

different characters. I mean, we kind of laid out what we were going to do, but who knows what's going to happen when we actually get in there. Pickwick is like the closest to where it's like the first thing we'll see. I mean, maybe there's like some sort of secret roly-crump like artwork on the floor we didn't notice. That's true. I don't know what sort of secret roly crump like artwork on the floor there was an insect infestation in the exact hallway we're gonna pass through

okay pickwick pickwick is hanging off uh the chandelier via his cane he's having the time of his life and i think he's a great representation of the optimism that I much of us are all feeling after over a year of like doom and gloom and then suddenly like you know uh just stepped on the gas and everything started happening uh out here it was like you know night and day recently the seasons changed and then suddenly everyone's just like yeah you can get it it's dry to bakersfield for the vaccine yeah it's just crazy yeah uh it's i mean if you know they're talking about it's going to be a roaring 20s it's going to be such an indulgent time and pick wicks obviously uh indulge we're all we're all going

to be pick wicks hopefully soon enough hanging off off chandeliers. But we're all taking, it's much easier to take pictures of our food in 2020 as opposed to 1920. You used to have to have a big contraption and then wait days to get it back. Is that why he's on the chandelier? Is he trying to get an overhead shot of the food on the table?

Yes. Is he an influencer? The original influencer with an old film camera. Pickwick is a TikTok comedian now. TikTok. TikTok. All right, Pickwick is our first nominate. I'm excited to talk about Pickwick whenever we get to.

I am going to still pick my pick, and I've changed it around to exactly how I'm formatting. Don't worry, it'll be the same. We're saluting animatronics that are about to be turned on, but in the same way, what about saluting an animatronic that can't be turned on? And maybe you're saying that's not an animatronic, Michael. Maybe you've accidentally said that you're going to salute a statue, and maybe that is what I'm doing, but I would like to salute Mr. Incredible perpetually reaching for Jack-Jack saying, num-num cookie. Okay?

He deserves credit. I consider him an animatronic because it sort of suggests movement, and maybe, yeah, technically he's not a robot and he's not moving around, but we're going by so fast, you can sense like a, oh, he's like really trying to do it. And I'd like to salute that animatronic, I'll call him because you know he he can't be turned on that is what he's stuck like that forever he's stuck like that for our enjoyment and for the last year he's had to be stuck in that that looks like a very stressful position he's in and he's had to not be entertaining people at the very least he could

say you know i'm in a horrible position i don't have a bottom half at all, but at least people are having enjoyment and they're smelling this slightly cookie-ish smell. I don't know that it always... I barely noticed it. It smells really a ton like cookies, but I think he deserves recognition, especially in the last year when he knows the other robots are going to be turned on, but he can't be turned on. He's stuck. That's a very good framing and we do. He's stuck. That's a very good framing. And we do need to give it. That's a very specific plight. There's people who wish he was an animatronic, but he's not.

We have to love him for what he is. So Mr. Incredible in the tunnel is candidate number two. Candidate number three. You know, for all of us, this holiday season, the holidays in 2020 were very difficult. Most of us could not see our families, could not gather and sing our favorite holiday songs.

So imagine if you represented the holidays, and the holidays came and went without a single visitor or jolt of electricity through your withered wires. Woe is the plight of the holiday overlay animatronic stuck in the crate where you already spend most of your lonely year as it is. And imagine then if you represented a second holiday too, which you also miss and is also

sad for everybody. And on top of that, an increasingly loud mob of unappreciative theme park fans are mad at you and that your overlay lasts too long, straddling too many holidays. And it's not just nerds throwing shade at you, but Ryan Gosling,

a cool guy, the gangster squatter himself. How much disrespect could there be for all of these characters? But which one am I going with? I'm going with one that I think, though he's torn apart just for living his regular seasonal life, I believe that when this Halloween comes,

he will ignore the barbs, grin as wide as ever, and sing out his mocking song loud and proud scary singing plant number 15 in haunted mansion holiday you are my pick for dormant animatronic of the year oh that's great and that that's one of those robots where you can really hear it working yes absolutely when i brought this up to erin she said you know what i love about those? Clack, clack, clack. Yes. Like the Tiki Birds, like the original animatronics.

It's, I think, a fun throwback in that way. They're so loud. Also, real quick, just Gosling for Eisner, too. Decent choice. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I think if you've been on, like, GQ or just really any style magazine. I think you're a great Eisner. I agree. Well, and he would have met him, right?

Because Gosling was in the 90s Mickey Mouse Club. Oh, yeah. I bet Eisner probably swung by that at some point in time. Oh, yeah. He should have. I mean, he was very busy in the Gosling era. That's kind of when it was. That's when Wells died and it all fell apart.

Yes, that's true. Yeah. Tough time for Gosling and Timberlake to enter. Timberlake, another good candidate. Throw him in there. Yeah. And throw in, like, you know, Christina as Eisner's wife. I think that's great.

And, like, rewrite everything so Eisner, like, wrote some of the songs in the movies. He just, like, yeah, clears, like, get out of here, so Eisner like wrote some of the songs in the movies he just like clears like hey get out of here like shoves Mencken to the side rolls up his sleeves perfect on the first try a whole new world look at this stuff

wouldn't you think my ass just top of my head but I don't know collections complete okay there is it is that so hard so yeah that'll be the P.L. Trevor's saving Mr. Is it? Is that so hard? Yeah. So, yeah, that'll be the P.L. Trevor's saving Mr. Banks version. All great candidates. Yeah.

Yeah. I like all of them very much. I believe that how we did this, I had to go back and check. I think we had the audience decide. Oh, we did? Okay, good. Unlike other things where we decide for them, we pick Clifford for them, and we pick the name Clifford for them. In here, we're giving the audience a little bit of choice.

So we'll put that poll on the Twitter and you can decide the dormant animatronic of the year. I think you made a great case for that plant because it's in the box. Stuck in a box! And how much you would look forward to getting that crack

of light and I get to come out finally. And it didn't happen for the first time since the late 90s since its existence didn't get to come out right so yeah anyway you decide you listen you decide yeah yeah yeah um and uh you know you can go do that obviously at twitter at podcast the ride uh we're on all the socials at podcast the ride and i'm just dovetailing it into the plugging stuff, because you survived PodcastTheRide, and some

of you have survived 200 of these main feed episodes, and wait, I had to count, because we're close to, I believe there are 94 Patreons, so we're close to 300, which is a better, bigger one, in a way. And to those of you who've listened to all of these,

we can't thank you enough. And thanks for being with us for so many. And we hope to see you the next time. Not 300. We can't see you for that. That wouldn't be safe. We'll see you for an anniversary or for a non-anniversary. We want to see everybody soon.

Yeah. And in these mailbag questions, some we didn't get to, some very good candidates for Second Gate episodes. I'll say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, always send those. Please nudge us whatever you want us to do.

And if you want to hear those, obviously there's always three bonus episodes every month at Podcast Thread, the second gate at patreon.com slash podcasttheride. Fellas, thanks for hanging out. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. I'm so glad we could do it. There's something to it.

It's fun. It's nice to do it this way. Oh, yeah. No, there's not that. As I've said before, there's not that half second before you know if that thing you thought you said that was funny is funny or not because you have to wait for a delay in reaction. Yeah, boy.

Where you have like a little terror of like, I thought that I said it was funny and then, so you get a little more immediate. So it's nice. It doesn't make me feel as crazy. Yeah, yeah.

And just in leaving the same room that we're in all the time, that helps. That's nice. Yeah, I mean, we've been wanting to do it this way for a

long time i feel like december was so bad couldn't do like a holiday thing this seemed like the time there's optimism i hope everybody's feeling it so hopefully sooner rather than later we'll be uh having some sort of sort of jamboree oh that's right we again within doing this i hope this has been nice to listen to, and you're happy that we did something together in person, but we did bail on the country bear promise. Well, we did sort of. I mean, it's half and half,

because we did say sort of when it's safe to be inside together, we would do country bears. Is that what we said? I think so. Yeah. Oh, okay. I mean, a jamboree is going to involve like a, you know, we maybe have to record in pieces and there'll be a cavalcade of star you know multiple family multiple households would have to be

involved so that's the this is three this is fine and it's outside it's mass and it's safe the jamboree needs a lot more than that yeah yeah that will be yeah this is the the current california regulation of number of households who can we're at the max i think right now that's right so yeah so so when that yeah hopefully that's again sooner rather than later i was discussing a little bit of it today i'll just say that uh in general so okay that'll be uh that'll be coming up and we'll see again you have to tell when biden says we can jamboree, we'll jamboree. You've got to listen to Biden when he says you can pull out the.

Hey, Mac, we'll have our jamborees back. By the way, the decent chance he says something about having a jamboree in the next few months. That's possible. Jamboree is just what he calls TikTok. Right, sure. Your kid's getting on jamboree, doing their dances, doing the skidoos. Yeah. Well, this has been a blast.

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