Podcast: The Ride - Alice in Wonderland
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Forever Dog land ride we're through the looking glass it's podcast the ride
so Welcome to Podcast The Ride, hosted by three very good boys
who immediately leave the Alice in Wonderland ride
and narc on the hookah-smoking caterpillar.
I'm Scott Gerner, joined by Mike Carlson.
Yeah, Mike Carlson here.
And Jason Sheridan.
Jason, yeah, I don't like it.
I don't care for it.
It's clearly like some funny stuff in there.
You're not supposed to do that inside.
In fact, you're not supposed to do it in the parks at all anymore.
Security, they've been actually, I've been looking into it and they've taken a lot of the smoking areas away.
So, I find it a little offensive that on the ride, there's somebody not only smoking, but smoking and making vowels with his smoke.
I'm offended by his language.
He's flaunting it. He's being flashy
about his brazen breaking of the
rules. And I don't care for it.
It's only going to lead to more of that kind
of thing. Yeah. And it's not tobacco.
It can't be
tobacco. Yeah.
Is it weed, though?
What is it?
Oga is traditionally a kind of tobacco. Yeah. Is it weed though? What is it? Ooga is traditionally a kind
of tobacco. Yeah, but
I'm saying with this caterpillar, this is
not. Oh, who knows? It's probably opium.
Yeah, okay.
That actually makes a lot more sense. Or opium mixed in with
tobacco. When we're dealing with the twisted
mind of Lewis Carroll.
The twisted
mind of Lewis Carroll. What twisted mind of Lewis Carroll.
What's the thing?
Sean William Scott and Ashton Kutcher.
Or Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
That's good.
Yeah, actually.
I like to see that.
That's good.
Rachel E. Cook as Alice.
Man, this is great.
I'm trying to cast from like the She's All That era.
You're putting this in 2001.
DJ Qualls
DJ Qualls
who's DJ Qualls
Seth Green is the king of hearts
oh yes but they kind of like
shrunk him down with bad CGI
like it doesn't look good
and the queen is
already laying in drag
oh my god that's outrageous I don't know if he would have gotten that part I don't know Doesn't look good. And the queen is already laying in drag. Oh, my God.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's outrageous.
I don't know if he would have gotten that part.
No.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know.
He was in some movies here and there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It would have to have been like, there was like six months where he could have gotten
that.
Yes.
Like six months.
If he was on his best behavior and yeah, quick little window.
Like Norm Show season two.
There's a six month window we're already like
would have been cast uh yes as the queen and norm's the uh the mad hatter norm is a mad hatter
the mad hatter that's an impression of shitty norm impressions is what it is um hey well you know before we get into uh today's topic this ride
one of the disneyland dark rides um you know in the the alice tale kicks off with her you know
trying these potions these little you know they eat me and the drink me. Right. And I realized that's maybe that's a fun way to start our little journey to try a little experimental spirit.
What?
As it were.
Yes, indeed.
You're giving me weird looks here, but allow me to explain.
I've not that long ago, I was in Las Vegas.
Right.
Real life wonderland. Oh, my gosh. You I was in Las Vegas. Right. Real life wonderland, huh?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, my gosh.
You have things in this bag?
What's that?
Do you have things for us?
I do.
Oh, my gosh.
I do have things in the bag, and I can explain.
So, I was on my way to the Bally's Resort, which, by the way, I mean, I'll say this separately. I was going to the Twilight Zone mini golf course by Monster Mini Golf, the same place that made the Kiss mini golf.
If anybody's been on that.
I have.
Or been to that.
And yeah, yeah.
I think that was really great.
I think it's moved.
It's at one of the casinos now.
I forget which.
It was across the street from Hard Rock Hotel?
Yes.
I believe it is not anymore.
I think it's part of a casino complex now.
And now Bally's has a second one,
the Twilight Zone, which I would highly
recommend. It's a lot of fun. This place
does good stuff. Some great
characters and great black
light, much like today's attraction
as well.
And relatively cheap, I will
say, for it being a strip
attraction. Right.
You get out of there without spending a ton.
Is there anybody looking for weird stuff to do in Vegas?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They do take your ball at the end.
You don't get to take that home, unfortunately. I know, I know.
You're not buying a ball for that price.
But so, I was on my way into Bally's.
And what should I see?
Jump out at me in the shopping center in front of Bally's.
But one of our beloved CityWalk stores, It's Sugar.
It's Sugar.
Oh, yes.
Now in front of the Bally's hotel.
And I didn't realize until I got home, that is a brand new Bally's.
Not Bally's.
Bally's is not new.
Brand new It's Sugar.
Only opened in June.
Wow. They consider it a flagship location only the second location on the strip there's already one at the venetian
uh but now there's this new gigantic at sugar uh which is very theme parky in general when you
end up going to vegas again uh i mean i guess maybe I shouldn't spoil everything, but you can see
gigantic nerds
made of nerds.
Yes, that got a gasp
out of you. I was hoping it
would. You can get a picture
with a big jelly belly on a bench.
That's good. Yeah, there's tons of
big theme park-y figures and stuff.
But there was something that jumped
out at me and something that I haven't seen in the
city walk it sugar maybe it's a new
thing maybe they do have it but I was like I have
to bring this home to the
guys and we have to we have to give this a
try and here give me a sec let me
pull it out
what I have with me
what a treat
get ready for urine
yeah have you seen urine before what a treat get ready for urine yeah
have you seen urine before
just a few minutes ago in fact
your own urine this is
clinical looking yes
it the urine comes
in a sample jar
like you would
yes and on the back
a little form
name reason time date jar like you would be into yes and on the back a little form
name reason time
date and a sterile
sticker sterile interior if the seal
is not broken but this is a jar
of some strange yellow
liquid of candy piss
candy piss is what I hold
in my hand hashtag candy
piss the the official
name of this product is
Urine for a Treat.
Whoa. And this was also
one of the eye-popping displays
at the New Vegas at Sugar.
This is one of
50 that were all overflowing
out of a urinal
attached to the wall.
Wait, a full
regular sized urinal or a novelty sized urinal?
I would call it more novelty.
Okay.
Although urinals can be large if they go down to the floor.
But this was a mounted one, not a floor length one.
So they're all in on selling candy piss.
This isn't just like we're trying it out for a while.
Yeah, this is like a permanent part.
It's a load bearing uh just up on the pillar
of the store i feel like uh uh mike and i were talking about vegas recently and i was pulling
up pictures of the it was vince neal's tatuado uh drink party where they briefly served drinks
in uh plastic toilet cups oh or maybe it was it was E-Drink Party and
Tatuado is the current Vince
Neal restaurant at Circus Circus. Should I get a cup while you're talking?
Well, I mean, that's...
Or do we each have a piss?
How do we consume this urine?
I mean, it's... I also...
If we just want to dip forks, I have
forks with me.
I don't know. I mean, how do... Wait, is it thick?
Here. Can you see it turning?
Not really. I know what you mean by forks
though, but I feel like
it needs a sip. It could be like honey.
You could dip.
But it's viscous.
Maybe we should do it like
it's heroin with a spoon.
Yeah, that's good.
We dip a little bit into a spoon.
Should I get some spoon?
I should have warned you.
I'm sorry, but I wanted to spring this here.
So, now you can hear me cracking the seal so you know that this urine has not been contaminated.
It has not been...
It is still sterilized in as much as...
But, yeah, apparently the toilet cups were briefly popular.
And for a while, they had a version where you would drink out of the bowl or your food would be in the bowl and then the tank would have your drink.
We'll pass it down.
We'll pass it down.
Okay.
Right.
Okay.
Here.
Now they're here.
I'm breaking the seal.
No longer sterile.
And okay.
Great.
So, yeah.
Maybe you stay standing and you can hand this to Jason.
Lewis Carroll himself could not have predicted this level of whimsy and decadence.
I mean, he was perverted, but...
Okay, let me take a little dip here.
Hmm. I mean, it feels like...
It looks like medicine or it looks like
honey.
We'll document this in some...
You take and then take it to Jason.
I'll take a picture.
Take a picture of this process.
And at home, if you're In Las Vegas already get your own
Piss Edwin is lined up
To get his piss
Yeah this is gonna be a bit
Alright Scott you take yours
Mike take the cup and the spoon
Okay
Lindsey's walked in
And is staring daggers
Maybe just put it
In Jason's mouth maybe just feed jason
wait but wait let me let me take a photo of this too uh sorry listener uh uh we should have
walked in on a candy piss again thank you thank you my boy hang on here we go okay a photo
and edwin's in there too that's fantastic
okay let's oh yeah here and you do it too mike so we there's not too much of a delay i'm gonna
take a big spoonful of this here we go uh hey let me say officially mike jason eat my piss
you want to say finally
oof oh it tastes like medicine so it tastes like a yellow medicine i did have to drink out of a
bottle like that that is awful that is really sour mike is very unhappy like you left lemon heads
in the car and they melted in and you like took it mike is eating an actual lemon now for relief.
That's not a joke.
From like an old Dunkin Donuts cup.
I crave the smooth taste of lemon
to combat that.
You want more?
I think I need another.
We'll get up then.
I think that I don't because my
teeth are rotting already.
It's a rare candy that rots your teeth
instantly. I will say I have
a canker sore in my mouth. Oh no.
And it really inflamed it.
It's like medicine except
it fucks up your mouth problems
more. Yeah. It's an ulcer.
Jason has a hell bite too.
Not great.
Better because I used the end of the spoon, so I got very little.
I sometimes, sometimes some people say like, I don't like this food because of the texture.
And sometimes I'm like, I'm like, it's a real asshole and I'm skeptical.
And I'm like, well, the texture doesn't really bother me.
I will say that's maybe the most unpleasant texture I've ever put in my mouth.
Because it's somewhere between.
It is not as thick as maple syrup or something.
Yeah.
Though it is a little more solid and it is certainly not just pure water or soda.
Right.
It's a really uncanny valley of liquid consistency.
At first, I thought, oh, it's going to be like gelatin.
Mm-hmm.
And it's not.
It is like syrup.
Yeah. From a distance, it looked very watery and then
when i got up close i was like oh this is syrup it has the same color as like some
like very intense medicine i had to take when i was like very ill in high school like i had to
go to the hospital and get fluids and like that sort of thing and they're like you have to take
this for a week and it's just like oh it tastes bad yeah oh my get fluids and like that sort of thing. And they're like, you have to take this for a week.
And it's just like, oh, it tastes bad.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
So, it's the kind of thing you would only eat for survival.
Yeah.
If it meant not dying.
That's going to go on our earthquake kit.
Unless you guys want to take it.
Did you just find?
You've been looking to accrue things for a year.
We've had that earthquake thing for a while.
We just had an earthquake a couple weeks ago.
Two.
So, you know things are bad when you're subsisting on that urine.
You're drinking candy piss.
Before you get to your own.
Would you maybe, would you choose your own piss over this fake piss?
I do think my own piss would be more pleasant than this candy piss.
I think so, too.
You know what it is.
Yeah, and it's the liquid.
It's just like liquid, at least.
Not this bizarre in
between that you're dealing with here
yeah I would you know
I think the hotness of piss would
be the trouble for me but
maybe I kind of pre do it let it cool down
a little well you would piss into a
glass with ice yeah
assuming that in this like
emergency scenario ice is still
available aren't there those things where you like break it open and it turns icy Assuming that in this emergency scenario, ice is still available.
Aren't there those things where you break it open and it turns icy?
Am I making something up?
Yeah, for pain relief, not for eating.
Yeah, there you go.
It's for your back.
Yeah, yeah.
But you could use it to cool your piss in a disaster.
I suppose, yeah. Yeah, there are refree, there are like refreezable like liquid things that
you can put in a pitcher or something. Yeah, because there's a
thing like for my, there's a back thing
that we have where you like
snap it and it like turns things
on and off and it heats. Oh, sure.
So, if you use one of those not to
relieve an injury but wrapped
a cup of your piss
and that would, I think that
what I'm describing would taste better than
what we just yeah i mean thanks for thinking of us yeah thank you that is nice you know when i
saw that urinal full of these samples yeah oh my god in the hot in a hot desert uh you also talked
about like bringing back like uh italian meat delicious ital Italian meats and cheese. Oh, yes, that's true.
I went to Italy and then I and I and then I had a flight that day and I didn't have to do the full security screening.
So, yes, I in my bag was both.
Yeah, like fantastic prosciutto de Parma and the sealed sealed candy.
That's Vegas, baby piss That's Vegas baby
That's Vegas
I know it's supposed to stay there
But hey I'm talking about it I brought it home with me
My last question
About the candy piss is
Is it to
Was there intention to like obviously make it look gross
But then you'd have and you go oh this is delicious
Or is the idea that it's
Going to be like oh we're all eating a gross thing And it's like a little bit unpleasant of course it's just sugar because it's
also not like so vile it's not like right it's not like a joke like fart flavor right yeah have you
have we had any in in any of our sugar wanderings did we ever have some nobody had like a one of
the poop candies or something no i've had the had the Jelly Belly, like the Bertie Botts, Harry Potter jelly beans.
And every now and then there's like grass or booger or like...
Yeah, those are unpleasant.
Those are unpleasant but won't kill you.
But this is just...
That just feels like nothing.
This is...
I don't even know like how are you meant to consume.
Like I feel like if I took a sip i'd be really upset like it seems like a thing you would you would open the lid and then sip from it but like
it doesn't dripping yeah down yeah is that with you both with facial hair
thank god you didn't just dive in and then you've got piss in your yeah
i also wonder like why couldn't it just be like a yellow soda sure is
it just it wouldn't look right into in the container maybe like well you never see better
yeah i think the fact that because any like soda is usually contained in such a way that you can't
like quite see the flavor inside you know the bottles are dark like uh vitamin water yellow vitamin water looks like
that doesn't it yeah that's true why is it that i don't know if it's that thick piss yellow i guess
that's why it just has to be thicker because piss is thicker than vitamin water this is thicker than
water uh that was very unpleasant all right i wasn't yeah i wasn't sure it was gonna go that
way it seemed possible to me that like oh and then it's kind of a fun little lemon treat.
But that was very bad.
Very unpleasant.
And perhaps unpleasant to listen to because we said the word piss a lot.
Yeah.
Sorry about that if you're piss sensitive.
We've really gone down the rabbit hole.
Or any listeners who enjoy drinking piss and are offended that we've spoken ill of it.
So, yeah. Either way. It's an acquired taste not a flavor
We apologize either way enjoy I apologize
To you guys I suppose
But I would still recommend
A trip to the flagship at sugar
For fine products like that I just want
To know what else they're working on is there
Like a do they have blood they sell candy
Blood already right oh yeah
I think so So what other
Fluids? Never mind
There's only so many
Let's just talk about Alice in Wonderland
Let's now talk about
Alice in Wonderland
Let's open the big door
Do you guys feel like anything's happening to you?
Do you feel like you're growing 10 feet tall
From that consumption of urine?
No Is your mind open now? Do you feel like you're growing 10 feet tall from that consumption of urine? No.
Is your mind open now?
I feel like I'm coming off of a lot of opium.
I feel like I've got the shakes and I'm sweating.
I do have a weird feeling in my...
I think that could have provoked a headache.
I'm not sure.
The lemon, I really...
As if I did a shot of tequila, I took the lemon afterward.
I would rather tequila.
You want that alcohol aftertaste without the taste?
Oh, yeah.
Someone give me some rubbing alcohol, please.
I need something.
Ew.
Oh, boy.
Well, yeah.
Let's swing from that to what I think is a pretty fun and pleasant ride.
Alice in Wonderland.
Alice in Wonderland.
Disneyland.
And no other parks, interestingly.
Exclusive to Disneyland.
Disneyland dark ride exclusive.
One of the only dark rides that's only in one park.
Yeah.
51 years old.
Opened June 14th, 1958.
Same day as the sailing ship Columbia.
Important day for you.
An important day for me.
Fun fact.
When it opened, the sailing ship Columbia cost $300,000, which in
today's
money would be over
$2 million.
That's still pretty cheap.
That's one
hundredth of Galaxy's Edge.
Yeah, that is true.
Not even more. Wait, no, I'm not even close.
I think they're both a billion dollars, both Galaxy's Edge.
I think that's what Jim Hill said. He always says that i think they're both a billion dollars both galaxies edge i think that's what jim hill said or over a bit that's what he always says like that's what they admit
they've spent on both parts both parts so like it's possible it's over a billion dollars when
you factor in like movie budgets are like oh and then there's marketing on top of that uh yeah and
then the i assume to fix rise of the, which we haven't even talked about is opening next year, which is just insane.
But it's not without precedent, of course, but still, I just want to go on the goddamn
ride.
Yeah, I know.
When the Disney World gets it before us.
And yet after we've been there for our live show, tickets available now, maybe.
Hopefully, yeah.
Or they're not.
They're not.
Go get them fast.
That was Mike's theory your theory was that like
you maybe they would let
you know that would be a surprise for people going
to the parks panel well that's
a wristband to go on
rise of the resistance they
usually do that kind of fun thing at
d23 and like you at one time I
got a world of color fast pass for the new
show for that night and they
do fun stuff like that and Jim Hill was saying that they
wanted it open just at least for
D23 weekend so people would go
on it whether they're going to do that like kind of fun event
or not but no instead
of that six months later
yeah so there's only one
fun choice for D23 weekend
which is to come see the
podcast the ride Gang at the
Anaheim Hotel. The night before.
Don't do it after the parks panel.
Come do it the night before. That's when
we're actually there.
Do it when we're doing it.
Hit up the pizza press
beforehand. Design your own pizza.
It's very fun.
I feel like you love the design
your own pizza. He loves pizza press. I like the concept. I do think pizza press is feel like you are you love The designer on pizza I like that well He loves pizza press I like
The concept I do think pizza press is
One of the better ones if you remember
At City Walk I really beefed
It with Blaze okay
And I'm still not quite sure how
Much of that was them and how much was me
But
You've been working it out with your therapist
I'm still trying to figure it out
You'll crack it one day
so this
Alice in Wonderland
you know what I was going to say is did they ever do you think they
looked at the numbers for Galaxy's
Edge and thought maybe we should just build 200
more Columbia's
like for this price yeah
I think that yeah more ships
all parts every bit of empty space cram his ships bob jay pack now he's crunching the numbers on the ships
um this ride is uh this is kind of a creeper for me in that uh not in the lewis carroll way
in the uh it's a creeper on my list of uh favorite dark rides it's i depending on the
day i could even maybe list this as my as my number one of the disneyland five of the disneyland five
do you say that okay like okay i guess if that's how you feel oh i didn't intend to okay i'm not
processing uh the thing my mouth still feels bad oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's going to be a subtext to all this. We're dealing with it.
We are still, yeah, yeah.
I would not disagree with that.
I have always been a big Mr. Toad kid and I was so delighted when I came out here and
found it was still here after it had been tragically closed in Florida.
I might still have to call it that, but I think it's, those two are vying for one too
for me.
I mean, this has so many unique elements to it too that kind of set it apart.
Yeah. for one too for me i mean this has so many unique elements to it too that kind of set it apart yeah i i if the location of it for whatever reason i don't go on it that much but it's not fair to it like because it is really good and it is one of the best ones well i yeah i never feel like waiting
in that line but that's a great one if you're there in that last hour and it's sort of thinning
out because those quitter kids have all left yes um and i ended up doing this was actually the
first thing that i went to in this bizarre night that i told you guys about but i didn't go i
didn't talk about on the show that uh i ended up at i was like that was a disneyland solo
and i was like kind of looking forward to like yeah you know i'll take off early and uh you know
just like that was a good quick little trip that was nice
I got to Mickey and Friends it was full
to the brim because there was an accident
two exits up the
five and the I was looking
at the map and the freeway
was mostly fine it was
mainly affecting Mickey
and Friends because like
it was like a degree of traffic
that would have been okay
were there not you know like thousands and thousands of people leaving one location
with only one way out at the same so I got to Mickey and friends saw the crowd nope never mind
went straight back onto the tram and I went straight to Alice in Wonderland which probably
put this in my brain and I thought we should talk about this thing what was the weight 15 maybe
less maybe like 10 wow yeah and i think it's a nice uh area to hang especially at night like
that's an area that you maybe don't want to do in a hot summer sun but at night with those mad tea
party lanterns and the matterhorn looks cool at night i think that's and that's another thing
real estate wise that you get in the shadow of the
Matterhorn and when you come out
On that second layer
The Matterhorn off in the distance
It's a cool little pocket over there
Yeah it is I went on this
A couple weeks ago with a friend of the show
Andrew Grissom and then we went on
The teacups right after this was like the last
15 minutes so we crammed
We were like can we do teacups right at the was like the last 15 minutes so we crammed we were like can we do teacups
right at the end and we got it like two minutes
before nice um and
yeah hell yeah what a
hell yeah rock and roll great midnight
teacup ride
two badass bros two cool
boys uh
yeah I think I yeah
at night this is one of those I I
like it looks okay during the day, but at night it looks amazing.
Yeah.
I kind of feel like the outside of the ride looks okay during the day.
It's not my favorite visually of like the queue and like of the exterior, but at night it's awesome.
I don't know well you know that might be a point in mr toad's favor
that that the little like the little outdoor courtyard part of that line is pretty neat and
then you get inside and that uh that wooden toad statue and you're uh you know you're you're looking
at the bookcase uh the entry area yeah so maybe that might be an argument that notches it over to toad but right because the
area of about round alice doesn't beckon me until the night at night i feel beckoned by it but not
during the day not that i just go oh there's that like cramped little line and like oh yeah
oh yeah the outside looks okay and then i then i remember, it's a great ride. It's a great dark ride.
You know what I think you got to give it some credit for is that I think you're correct today.
But I think that in 58, when it opened, think about how this was not the new Fantasyland that Tony Baxter oversaw in the 80s.
When Fantasyland opened, it was much of these these flat carnival exteriors
and then this thing joins three years after and it's a much more dynamic exterior than all of
them with the rut with the with the caterpillars coming down that big vine you call it a vine or
a leaf trail i don't know what you'd call it but i think it was a super dynamic exterior compared to the
other ones in uh right at the time for sure yeah and it's two stories yeah coming out on the top
the majority of the ride is this takes place over top of mr toad yeah which i never knew
you were above mr toad and then the strange is where the duplex uh of attractions uh that's a
good did i didn't see this when i was looking it up, but is it a situation where if a fire alarm gets pulled on Toad, they have to shut Alice down?
I would think.
Because that's the problem they're having with Avatar is that the river ride and flight of passage are in the same building.
So, if a fire alarm gets pulled in one of them, they have to shut both rides down, which just destroys capacity for the land for an hour.
The whole park, I'm sure.
So, I wonder if that's the same situation or maybe it just rarely happens.
It's interesting this ride got built at all because the Alice movie was considered a flop on its first release in 1951.
Really?
Disney himself thought the problem was
it didn't have a lot of heart.
The movie has
multiple directors, I believe
five credited directors. Really?
Yeah. And so, like,
he threw it on, like, an early
episode of the Disneyland TV
show. He, like, tossed it on there.
They cut it down to an hour. Cut it down
to an hour. Whoa. And then the re-releases is tossed it on there. They cut it down to an hour. Cut it down to an hour.
And then the re-releases is when it got successful.
Especially during the psychedelic
60s. Oh yes.
And they re-released it with that in mind.
Yeah. Nodded to like
for Disney oddly
cheeky to nod to the
Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit
song.
I watched a video, a Yesterworld video that was talking about a lot of this stuff.
And there's like clips of Alice in Wonderland.
And let me, this is a realization I had as I was looking all this stuff up.
I love Alice in Wonderland.
And I didn't remember.
If you asked me last week, I would have said, oh, yeah, I like some of it.
I liked it.
I apparently love Alice in Wonderland
The movie the Disney movie
Because as I was watching this and then I went and just watched
Clips from the movie I went oh yeah
Like I guess I haven't watched this in
25 years but so many
Just like the shot of Alice looking
Through the handles
On the teak on the teapots
I was like oh my god
I just started like getting child okay i was like oh my god like i just started like
getting child memories of like oh awesome awesome all like her in the room shrinking growing big
with the doorknob i remember just being fascinated by this yeah and it was dormant in me up until
hours like days ago i think i re-watchedwatched when Netflix very first started
streaming a lot of the old, old Disney
movies like six or seven years ago.
I rewatched a bunch and I was shocked
at how similarly, how much
I enjoyed Alice. The characters are fantastic.
The characters are great. The design is great.
The colors are amazing. And then
I was shocked how short it is. It's only
75 minutes long.
But it moves and everything. It's all great minutes long. Oh. But it moves and everything.
It moves.
It's all great voice actors.
All the character designs are specific.
All the sequences are very, very imaginative because it's a trippy movie.
Sorry to correct myself.
There were three credited directors, but 13 people had the story by credit.
Wow.
Wow.
Jeez.
Yeah.
So, that was another criticism of the time of like, oh, is it too just jointed?
Are there too many cooks on this one?
I guess the fact that it is all of these little like disconnected sequences in a way.
Maybe that was the Walt's like insecurity at the time was like there's not this big story that you feel this emotion about.
But I think maybe I liked it for that reason.
Because I I you know
my favorite things as a kid were specials
and whatever and Sesame Street which is a new thing
every two minutes and so I think I liked
it for that reason that it was like a lot of like
just choppy little odd episodes
I think that's the source material is
split up and Alice's adventures
in Wonderland and through the looking glass is kind of
split up into chunks sure yeah
so I yeah everything the queen
of when she's playing croquet I was like I love
this yeah I forgot I loved
this the painting of the roses
has just a real I just have some
like baby brain attachment to
I just think that's neat
somehow for sure I think all of that
stuff and I honestly going on this
the ride a couple weeks ago
it didn't necessarily unlock
what i felt watching the clips of the movie so okay i still really like the ride i just so it
didn't quite i didn't remember yet that i loved alice in wonderland so i love so it's official
i love alice in wonderland the disney movie sure and you adore the two tim Burton ones, right? No, I didn't say that.
They're twisted.
I did not say that.
Hugely popular internationally.
Oh, yeah.
Very successful.
The second one?
The second one, I don't think as much, but still probably made a money.
Probably not as much, but there's like a walkthrough garden at the Shanghai Disney.
Oh, yes.
In Shanghai, the attraction is the gigantic Helena Bonham Carter head.
Yes.
Which is a rare case of the live action remake getting the parks treatment over the cartoon.
Yeah.
I walked by a Lion King cart at California Adventure and I was like, why is it stupid old simple Simba and not the fully dimensionalized, the photo real lion that I love?
Why is this my dad's Simba?
I want this real lion that can't really open its mouth.
I don't want the one voice by James Earl Jones.
I want the one voice by James Earl Jones.
I guess we are wrong.
The second one only made
300 million and the first one made a billion.
Yikes. Wow.
I mean, it's still a lot of money, but
That's one Star Wars land.
Yeah. One is a massive
hit and the other is like...
Great drop-offs. And who would ever blame them
for making a sequel? Right. They'd be like,
this is a slam dunk. Yeah.
What does that have... is that one of those people
that didn't actually like it
as much as they thought?
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe the Johnny Depp syndrome,
they were saying.
That's not true.
That was.
Is that internationally?
I don't think that.
But,
the Fantastic Beasts
had a very similar
drop off.
Yeah, but this is years
before that.
Yeah.
I don't,
and I think especially,
I don't know who was keeping,
I don't know why that's why
the latest tollerant vampires cd as opposed to you know the first one sold 1200 copies this one
only sold the 9 950 yeah so johnny that precipitous drop that effect
let's let's his personal life just more like I think people are a little
that coincides with people
being burned out on him.
It's going to be him.
He's going to be doing a voice. Doesn't have the same
effects that it used to.
People have been let down by those
a number of times. Remember when
we all watched the
Kevin Smith film in which
he appears. Yoga Hosers.
Yoga Hosers, yes. We started fast forwarding through it.
Yikes almighty.
The listener might not have heard those words.
They might not know that Johnny Depp is in this film.
And you might watch it and you might not even see him.
But keep an eye on a certain plastic looking man.
Your favorite character from Tusk might make a reappearance.
Is it the same character?
It's the same private detective
character. What?
This is a second View Askew
universe? There is a
second View Askew universe that has the
Tusk yoga hosers and then isn't there
one more? Or did it not get
made? I don't think the third one
got made. So Red State is not in this
second View Askew universe? No, I think Red State
stands alone. Okay. I forgot about Red State. I, Red State is not in this second view of skewers? No, I think Red State stands alone.
Okay. I forgot about Red
State. I watched Red State too.
Man.
And it's not...
Why am I having...
Why is the Johnny Depp detective movie...
Oh. Mordecai. The one you love.
Mordecai. Thank you.
He's not playing Mordecai in these either.
That's a different universe
uh i would you also believe that the these uh you know red state and yoga hosers also not
represented in the disney park shop did they buy did disney buy those do they own some of it via
miramax no miramax isn't some miramax isn't really them anymore. Yeah, right. They sold that.
So, that's a whole.
But then, yeah.
We'll have to look into that.
Don't know.
Yes.
Candy, you're an update.
My teeth are starting to hurt.
What?
Yeah, I've got a bad feeling in the back of my throat.
Got a bad feeling in my molars.
Are we sick now?
I drugged you unknowingly.
I'm sorry.
But maybe we don't even realize how good and crazy this episode is.
And people tell us, you didn't even know.
You were tripping.
And you just thought that your teeth hurt.
But really, you were on the right of your lives.
One pill makes you larger.
One pill makes you small, you know?
I'm going to set my Dexter.
Another makes your throat taste like shit. The urine
now is sitting on this table
I have next to the couch right by Dexter
Jexter, my Dexter Jexter toy
from Attack of the Clones. The diner owner
from Attack of the Clones. And as soon as I
see him start moving,
that's the sign.
You know, looking at it earlier, I did get
the feeling of when like the
Ghostbusters are trepidatiously standing around the ooze and then Ray makes the toaster dance.
Ghostbusters 2.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's right.
They realize it can be positive as well.
But right now, still at the negative feeling towards it.
If Dexter starts scooping up that urine and using it in some recipes.
So, if i play higher and
higher jackie wilson jackie wilson's higher and higher than maybe being pure something good will
happen something good something pure am i quoting that correctly that is correct yeah he says this
line like get a gunpoint way you can tell he's kind of like i don't think i'd like the narrative
thrust of this movie as much he's checked out already
I think so yeah
But he will be in the new one you think
Mm-hmm he's now like
Just when I'll do whatever you want I mean
He'd probably be like till to two days on it
Hmm he's not gonna be in the other
One too he did the other one he did the
Press for the other one mm-hmm
Oh yeah that's right right yeah
So like I don't know. He
probably needs money.
He owns a minor league baseball
team. That's one of those things that
you would think like
like, you know, Bill
Murray press on the internet is so
oh my god,
Jesus Christ hath risen again
Bill fucking Murray
and then like, oh my god god he's gonna be in the new
one and he was and nobody cares and then it'll be like yeah if he's in the new one again people go
holy shit stop the fucking presses bill and then he will be in no one like that either and they'll
be the same thing again yeah no the mist that's another am i wrong mystique there might be the
bill murray effect is what you're referring to, where there's diminishing returns.
I think, yes, similar to the Johnny Depp effect.
Yes, there's a Bill Murray effect.
But there will never, never be a diminishing amount of blog articles about Bill Murray doing anything and bothering people at parties.
Being annoying.
Yeah.
Running around being annoying.
Getting away with it.
Well, I guess I apologize. Look, look hey we like things he used to do uh this has nothing to do with i'm not trying
to form an anti-bill murray stance uh no but it's an anti-bill murray culture stance i think that's
it i yes it's the culture that's the problem wandering 60ering 60-something-year-old man. But you kind of liked him as Baloo.
I did like him as Baloo.
All right.
That's good stuff still.
I'm not as big of a fan of him like roaming from town to town, touching people and saying,
you'll never believe that I was here.
But that's the story where he-
But if Baloo the bear walked in and said, you never believe I was here.
That'd be amazing.
You'll never believe what a
terrible father I was in real life.
Blue's saying that?
You regret this time
with Mowgli?
Didn't do a good job.
My little buddy boy.
Great pilot though.
Great pilot.
Kept Don Carnage in check.
So Alice. Alice in wonderland uh always happy to see uh uh an edwin vehicle edwin of course and alice is a mad hatter yeah which was a newer edition
during the 1980s re-update yeah like they didn't talk before uh well they did it was like nightmare
okay so the original version of this
was a nightmare. That's the revelation
of the Yesterworld video, which I didn't know.
Because old
Claude Coates. Oh, Claude
Coates was involved. Wanted to make it creepy.
And Claude Coates was the person
responsible for
Snow White's scary adventures in Florida
being so scary. Yeah. And the scarier
part of the Haunted Mansion. The Haunted Mansion.
The earlier stuff in the Haunted Mansion.
Okay, okay.
Right, right, right.
Because it was Mark Davis and Claude Coates who ultimately both had the biggest influence
on when they finally decided on what they were doing with Haunted Mansion.
And Claude wanted it scary.
Mark wanted it whimsical.
Okay, okay.
And Claude was a real creep.
I mean, I'm just saying like a fun crew.
Yeah, yeah.
I know. I don't saying like a fun crew. Yeah. I know.
I don't know anything about him personally.
Well, because you got to, you know, I mean, because I was looking up Claude Coates stuff
in relation to this and it is very impressive that he was like he was a background painter
on so many of the early animated films.
And then he, you know, one of those that we talk about where Walt says, all right, you're
going here now.
And he just without missing a beat, does it.
I read an interview where he talked about how it was basically like with Disneyland set to open in a couple months.
Walt says, hey, will you come down and maybe do some painting and stuff?
And then the story changes to, hey, that professional scenic painting company that I hired,
they only have time to do Peter Pan and Snow White.
So, you got to paint Mr. Toad.
And he's, he says, well, so I was going from a medium that was 20 inches to 18 feet.
Like he's completely shifting the kind of painting he's doing.
He did an incredible job.
And I think he worked on all the other ones too.
So he worked on the first three dark rides and then this was his chance to go to town and design
it all yeah Ken Anderson also
in a similar boat where like worked on the
original movies painting the original movies
and then he's painting the rides you know
weird and that it's some of the same people
from like he paint that he did
backgrounds on Snow White and then his
you know a couple decades
later doing the same
go take you back into that world but in a whole
other medium pretty nice um but it's to where like this guy it's all him the exterior is him
the way it plays out the story is him the track layout is him and the vehicle is him like the
sketches are claude codes right and i found a story about that where he wanted the right vehicles to be playing cards he showed that to walt walt said i don't like it do a caterpillar and then he
sketched up a caterpillar by the end of the day and that was that and then they somebody came
around and said we need you to fill out a form to uh because we have to patent this vehicle
and he said i wouldn't feel right patenting it.
It was Walt's idea. Wow.
They actually said, no, no, no.
You will be on the patent.
And for that, he got an extra
$10 from the company.
Wow.
But the patent office
has, you know,
like a very clinical drawing
of you can't make your own caterpillar vehicle
that's cool yeah yeah stuff it does seem like because snow white scary adventure is the one
everyone talks about as being really scary and i obviously didn't go on this original version i was
not alive nor did i visit disneyland till the 2000s um but it does have a similar vibe from the pictures that are in that yesterworld video
of like of like a little twisted in relation to actually what the character designs were
like he was going for something like surreal a little surreal and a little scarier what you like
because the cheshire cat is a like a warped version of the Cheshire Cat. And I think it seems like it's on purpose.
With like gigantic
pupils. Yeah.
Like super dilated. Like what's
happening to us as this urine kicks in.
Right.
You guys look crazy. Have you looked in a mirror
lately?
And it seems like it's focused, much like Snow White,
it focuses on like
the scary stuff versus the fun stuff.
Yeah.
Yes.
Like the Mad Tea Party.
There's no fun element of it.
It's just big cutouts of the March of the March Hare and the Manhattan.
It's their giant heads and the smiling demonic smiles.
Yeah.
Noise.
Unsettling noises supposedly.
And just like there's the flowers look creepy as hell
it's like jump out at you if there's there's spinning teapots or teacups in this ride there
aren't any more in the original version and they're spinning wildly and it kind of looks
like they're going to slam into your vehicle which i like i think they should have put that
in still that's kind of cool that's one of the things I was like I get why this can't be like weird and surreal
Anymore but I was like those teacups sound fun
Yeah
It reminded me a little bit of the
Pooh's Honey Hunt
With the trackless vehicles
Yeah
That shoot a character car at you
And I was yeah I was thinking of that
When I watched a different
video and forgive me i don't have the credit for it but some some other videos said that
in the early days the mad tea party that the characters might come in and like join you in
their car like jason tried to do with a couple on the inside out emotional whirlwind i went on my
own emotional whirlwind. Step one shame.
Now, this was a ride I forgot to mention when we talked about emotional whirlwind.
When they rethemed that, they flew it to Italy to be redesigned because that's where the manufacturer was.
Really?
This ride they were able to do in Anaheim.
But there's been, you know, Jim and Len were talking recently about how long it takes Imagineering to announce something and then get it built and opened.
Maybe it's the flying stuff to Italy is slowing stuff down.
I feel like they did the new fantasy land in the 80s reasonably quickly.
They just banged it out.
In the grand scheme of things.
Yeah, yeah.
They blew it up. They blew a big They blew it up they blew a big hole
Yeah they blew a big hole
Speaking of that big holes
I saw pictures in that
Yesterworld video
I had never seen what it actually looked like
When they were redoing everything
Me neither yeah
It's chaos
It's scary
Cause like they gutted those dark rides in Fantasyland
When they were making new Fantasyland
And there's just a big chunk taken out of the castle
I don't know where he got these photos
Because I've never seen them before
But they're just
It's terrifying
It's like what everyone imagines
Like the post-apocalyptic theme park looks like
And it's just a castle piece
A castle gutted
Just empty thing
Because they took everything out of those dark rides to redo them
which is what tony baxter has talked about that he like when it was in that state he was looking
around like what have i done and i can totally i mean i knew it in the abstract but now seeing
the pictures i would if i was standing in there i'd go oh my god yeah that would be traumatic
that's traumatic well imagine if like a kid somehow got a view of that
Because the park never closed
But to redo Fantasyland in the 80s
They did close all of Fantasyland
And they lifted the drawbridge
So nobody could go into Fantasyland
And if a kid had somehow snuck in there and gotten a view
Oh my god
Could you see it on the skyway?
Oh, I don't know what they did on the skyway
That's a good question
Oh yeah, because I'm still open Skyway? Oh, I don't know what they did on the Skyway. That's a good question. Oh, yeah.
Because maybe you would just see holes punched
into the side of Fantasyland in the
castle. Yeah. The giant stomped around
like the Jack and the Beanstalk giant
just kicked all the doors in.
Because some of it was just like the pirate ship,
they were going to try to save the Peter Pan
pirate ship and when they tried to
move it, it was just too many years of wear and tear
and it just started collapsing. Right. It's funny that there were guests stomping around on that all
day every day and then they tried to move it once and it fell apart yeah yeah um like like a slight
nudge i found another uh related thing from tony baxter but i'm pulling a lot of stuff from the
the e-ticket magazine i went and found my issue of that about
Alice in Wonderland. It's a great old magazine.
And I think it's in there that
Tony Baxter's quoted as saying that he would like
he like especially
fell in love with the Alice in Wonderland ride
while like looking
down on it from Holiday Hill.
Oh, yeah.
The make-out hill.
Yeah, yeah. This weird like like i forgot about that part of it
it was a matter it was where my manor horn was right yeah just kind of a big mound
and teens would go up and neck oh boy not tony not our tony no no tony wouldn't disrespect the
park like that but i other teams he went and looked at track layout and that's why he is where
he is today i do like the idea of like just so many teens making out and Tony's like sitting in between just like ignoring all of them, but like sketching the track layout of how someone's doing it.
Like drafting paper and yeah.
Well, you like that idea because that's all three of us.
Yeah, really. uh yeah really um but so yeah but he uh you know what's interesting though is that he said that
he like yeah he loved looking down on the way the the vehicles moved and slinked around from
the second floor down to the first on that that big vine piece but then when he went on the ride
he always felt like and that's it and that's that childhood of like, it's not as good as what I want it to be when I'm looking at it from afar.
He got to go in and make it right in his head and give you this bang at the end with the unbirthday scene and the big cake.
Yeah.
A little extra room that they added.
Because that was not there until 83.
No, that sequence was upstairs where the Queen of Hearts is.
And they were able to
move in and of course redo it and add all the
animatronics
um uh uh
in the 80s redo and that opened up the
space for that queen of hearts
sequence and the king of hearts is there too he's
real little and he's behind the queen
he's a little
short king but he's not
a short king in our current definition of it wait what do you mean he's a little short king But he's not a short king In our current definition of it
Wait what do you mean
He's a little short king but not in the
Common not in the common not in the
The way the kids say short
Kings where it's like shorter confident
People oh it's like me
I was gonna say I've seen people
Online refer to you as a short king
So I think that's what you were getting at
I have, yeah.
It's probably on our Facebook group, but...
People are saying.
But people are saying.
Jason's a short king.
People are talking about the short kings.
Yeah.
So this one...
So, yeah, it would just end.
I haven't actually seen the video of it.
I don't know if there's a full...
I think it would just...
The Vine would wrap around back to the loading. Right. The Vine kind of was the video of it. I don't know if there is a full ride. I think it would just, the Vine would wrap around back to the loading.
Right.
The Vine kind of was the ending.
Yeah.
And originally, too, like all the other Fantasyland rides, this was just your first person.
Like, you were supposed to be Alice initially.
Okay.
Yes, correct.
Alice was not visible anywhere.
And Alice didn't even speak as she does today.
Because in 83, they added narration when you're going down the rabbit
hole and they got the original
voice actress Catherine
Beaumont who was also
the voice of Wendy
and is still alive
wow and like was still doing
voice like still like adding
voice stuff apparently up until
10 years ago or something I don't know the actual
amount of time.
But still sounded enough like your young self.
That's amazing.
So that's fun.
You know what's the thing I want to give this ride credit for is somebody correct me if I'm wrong. But is this the first Disneyland or Disney theme park indoor outdoor attraction?
Oh, that's interesting.
I cannot think of what, that's interesting. I cannot think about that.
I cannot think of what else that might be.
You may have to preclude tunnel. That wasn't there yet.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
You may have to take tunnels out of this
definition if a tunnel counts
as an indoor outdoor ride.
Do our tunnels,
do tunnels count is question one.
When was mine trained through nature's wonderland?
There was some version of that, but I'm not sure that it had indoor scenes.
Yeah.
That doesn't count probably.
I could be wrong about that one, but I couldn't.
I don't know.
Yeah, you're probably right.
Because it's 58, so it's like it's not.
There haven't been too many.
There haven't been too many rides in general.
Too many attractions yet.
I mean, it's certainly unique, especially under the crop of Disneyland Fantasyland rides.
And the building alone, like you were saying, the facades all used to just be kind of tense
before they gussied them up in the 80s.
But this was always, you know, the sort of castle-y looking thing, wasn't it? Well, that's the other thing about it.
I like that it's castle,
that it feels like an extension of the castle.
It ties
everything together nicely.
I also like that little
bathroom nook over there.
That's one of the bathrooms I'm most fond of.
Yeah, with the Cheshire Cats
poking out nearby.
Isn't the men's
Sign is the
Short king
That's a great photo spot is the Cheshire Cat
The bathrooms
Oh the bathrooms yes
All bathrooms are great
He's like just above your head
That's fun like you can get some fun pics there
I think I have several over the years.
Fake rocks.
Fake rocks.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
I think, yeah, they recently had to redo the outdoor squiggly part of the track because
of what?
Safety.
Safety regulations.
There was no handrails.
And that part is my own, like that part could look maybe a little
better but that's sort of we're not happy about
how wide yeah that track
became yeah I get
it and there's like there's no other
way to do it it is what it is
yeah but other than everything else I
like but you know it's you know it's the thing I
really like is how
you know it's alright so the car
goes outdoors so you're waiting and you can see
the path you can see what it's going to do but not until you come out of those doors and are
actually on the ride you see the other side of that open book and see the little uh the little
shoes left behind oh yeah on top of that toast i like how that's a little like that's a little
secret and you don't get to find out about it unless you actually are brave enough to go on the ride.
The mushroom?
Yeah.
On top of the mushroom.
That used to be the ticket booth.
That big yellow mushroom.
That's a nod because it wasn't there.
Isn't that in the Yesterworld video where there's like a people thought that the caterpillar
was in the ticket booth?
Well, the idea I believe what I read was that it's a nod that the caterpillar turned into a
like pitter pattered away. I see.
Off of that mushroom or turned into
a butterfly. The piss is coming back into my
mouth. Like it's something weird like
I was feeling okay and then like some weird taste
started hitting me in the mouth a little bit. We should
say we all had I mean
I don't know how to say the amount but it was
like a spoon. Less than a teaspoon.
Thick spoons you gave us a spoon full of piss.
A mild spoonful of piss.
Just a spoonful of piss?
In the least delightful way.
Yeah.
As an aftertaste.
Yeah, yeah.
As an aperitif.
Yeah, yeah. We'll keep giving you progress reports, but I don't think it's going anywhere good for anyitif. Yeah, yeah.
We'll keep giving you progress reports, but I don't think it's going anywhere good for
any of us.
No, it's not.
The, let's see, where was I?
I think, oh, yeah, the initial plans for this was a walkthrough.
Okay.
It was not going to be a dark ride.
They eventually did a walkthrough in Paris of Mostly just of the Queen of Hearts stuff.
You did it, right?
I don't think I ended up going into it.
Okay.
I liked the idea of that.
And there's a restaurant in Tokyo.
There's Queen of Hearts.
Oh, yeah, there is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was unbelievably crowded when I was passing by.
It was very popular.
Yeah.
But it was going to be
a walk through there's i think this is all from that yesterworld thing i think uh and there was
a land it was gonna be in a thing called anything can happen land which is i think not a good thing
to say no rules no laws yeah maybe that's not good uh i mean i guess if that was still the case like
then we wouldn't be upset with the
Caterpillar smoking his
Opium because anything can happen
Yeah yeah anything can go down
You can't complain about anything
It's a good thing Holiday Hill was not an anything can happen land
Oh boy
Because then it would have been you know
Some babies could happen
On Holiday Hill
But it was going to be a walkthrough
And this is going to be the only only ride i see
where i almost see the value in it being a walkthrough as opposed to um a ride vehicle
yeah because like pirates was going to be a walkthrough upon a mansion walkthrough and then
they became right i'm like i don't know i mean a haunted mansion would be really cool to walk
through it too but this one especially because like they were going to have a scene like Alice in the room where she doesn't know how to get out and the door handle and talking.
And I was like that proportions of that in my mind seem very cool to be able to walk into that room that is all fucked up.
Like it's the scene in The Simpsons where they rebuild Ned's house.
Oh, yeah. And it's like scene in The Simpsons where they rebuild Ned's house. Oh, yeah.
And it's like, that would be fun to like do that.
And it's Willy Wonka, same thing, where it's like the proportions are weird.
Right.
And maybe that's just too hard to like, people would trip over like on angles and things.
Probably hard to do.
But walking is an inherent part of Alice in Wonderland.
Yes.
She's like wandering through
trying to find a way out from this uh let's call it a nightmare world like a whimsical but then
frustrating uh dream place because the ride as it is now is a very good very good dark ride of alice
but i do think you're missing some of like the trippy stuff which maybe you got a little more from the original version of it being like
kind of this hallucinogenic thing.
But I was like,
if you're walking through a couple of those things where the proportions are
all weird and you're sort of like,
I don't know,
you're questioning how big you are versus something else.
I don't know.
That did I,
when I was watching that,
I was like,
Oh,
this would be real cool if they could have done something that would have
given you a little bit of a taste of that movie or feeling like that.
Well, I think walkthroughs as a genre just never really took off for them.
Right.
They're rare at this point in time.
One of those in Disney Paris and a cool one, this 20,000 Leagues thing in Discoveryland.
But besides that, they don't frequently exist.
I think it was on Jim and Len
And I didn't even realize this in Hong Kong
They do Halloween mazes
Really walk through mazes behind Main Street
Whoa or like maybe
Alongside like behind the shops on Main Street
I'm unclear of where it is
But in general yeah Disney doesn't do that
That has become a thing with
Universal and Knott's and everything
With the Halloween stuff.
But, yeah, in general, I guess, I don't know.
It's easier to control people if they're an old vehicle.
Yeah.
Maybe that's why.
But it does feel like certain things would be real cool.
Well, the walkthrough Sleeping Beauty Castle, I guess.
That's true.
That's a walkthrough.
Nobody's ever up there.
Yeah.
We walked up there.
I was up there with my family not too long ago.
How's it looking?
My mom likes it it looks
great honestly it's real great that's nice there's a couple really great scenes the one where you
look down into the yeah um castle is really cool like it's very cool it's obviously like low scale
like the scale isn't too big but there was briefly a walkthrough in tomorrowland of sets and props
from 20 000 leagues under the sea i think we talked about on that episode like that's where
the organ first was
before they used it for the Haunted Mansion.
And that was surprisingly a big hit.
Yeah.
So, walkthroughs are cool.
Think about a walkthrough.
Disney, that's all I'm saying.
It's not the worst way, especially to, like, you know,
if you think of them as daytime haunt mazes.
Yeah.
It's not the worst.
And if they have a bunch of props from something, I feel like they do do this temporarily sometimes.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
Like, maybe Universal has done this a tiny bit.
I think there was some, like, I think they may have had, like, a Casper walkthrough.
Oh, really?
Around when Casper came out.
Did you, was it a scare?
I mean, was it like lightly fun, scary or?
I don't think, I don't know if I did it.
Maybe.
Was I too scared to go into a Casper walkthrough?
He was a ghost.
You got to give him that.
He certainly might have been a little boy, but he was also a ghost.
I do know what you mean of short run, lightly
set dress rooms and props and stuff.
It's a very popular Comic Con, too,
of pop-up stuff.
They did do that Ninja Turtle
one out here. Yeah?
They had it in the parking garage. Oh, yeah.
So then you would get a toy at the end.
I didn't do it. I've heard about it,
and I'm insanely jealous. I can't believe I didn't
do that. Why in the world was I not told
my friend who had like one all the time
said you just get a toy every time I think it was one
of the six core first line it wasn't
like yeah it wasn't like you were getting
man ray or
Mountie moose
there are a lot I don't
know those but I'm saying like it was a
core like four turtles and maybe splinter April
shredder but you get a toy yeah it's wild so you go through the sewer I don't know those. But I'm saying like it was a core like Four Turtles and maybe Splinter, April, Shredder.
But you get a toy.
Yeah.
It's wild.
So, you go through the sewer and then get a toy.
It's my dream.
Walkthroughs are great.
You get toys.
Yeah.
So, I guess, yeah, they've been doing things here and there.
But yeah, this one, I mean, it makes sense now that they've done like two versions of
an Alice in Wonderland because so much of it lends itself to being something you should
walk through.
Yeah.
Like so many of it lends itself to being something you should walk through. Yeah. Like so many of the scenes.
This is the original, like the movie wasn't a big hit, but like the rides are popular.
Like Waterworld.
Like Waterworld.
First Waterworld, yes.
Yeah, I guess so.
And it has, and like Waterworld, it has a smoker.
The catapult.
Yes, it has a smoker.
Yeah, so anyway. So, Water want to they owe some money to disney
yeah they do they owe money to a lot of people still well for that fire i think i think i i
heard something crazy like five years ago once you factored in dvd sales water world had made
back its budget really something? Something like that.
It was like so expensive.
Ended up being a hit though.
Well, not a hit, a break even.
A break even, yeah.
Would they count though the revenue brought in by the Waterworld show at Universal?
Does that go into its official?
Yeah, I don't know that.
How do you section off that revenue?
That's what Jim Hill is always talking about though with the Fox properties where it's
like Disney wants to recoup the money so they're going to put the properties in the parks so they
do like in their minds figure that being a way to offset the cost i guess yeah because if you're
going to come for a new thing or a show you like you're going to come and see uh the ice age
characters take over a half of animal kingdom which is what he's rumored. Which still seems crazy.
He says it more than...
He says it so often that somebody had to have told him that.
There has to be some chatter
about Ice Age. It's crazy.
Who knows what
sort of mischief Skitter
and Scrat and... I could not
even think of one character. And Pebbles and all of
those characters we love.
Are those real names? I think Scrat is real.
What do you call it?
Scribbler?
Scribbler.
Scribbler.
I confuse Ice Age and Madagascar.
Yeah.
Well, you won't soon.
I won't.
No.
After they're in every park and we get full Ice Age kingdom, the fifth gate, the Disneyland.
Disney World Oh yeah
What did I say? You said fifth gate in Disneyland
Okay yeah
It'll be the fifth gate in Disneyland as well
Oh okay so there'll be another
So a hundred years from now
And there'll be two other Fox properties that are the third and fourth gate
Yeah
Yeah they'll do full
Seth MacFarlane Park
Yeah yeah Seth-y land game yeah yeah uh yeah they'll do full seth mcfarland park yeah yeah mcfarland park sethieland
you go to quahog you ride on the orville you go to the pentagon with uh stan from american dad
and then the old million ways to die in the westland oh million ways down the west
and of course ted ted talk like turtle talk oh yeah watch out ted's not leaving his paws
off of you and then yeah there's like a teenager playing ted behind a screen like turtle talk
great pretty good and then she'll add a knight when you head to the croonan kingdom oh my gosh
that's most of the park seth has a lot to say he's the one who designed it so yeah that's
seven five personally hired all of the crooners they all are doing they all look like him though
it's the reverse of oga's cantina where that when everyone wants to get into this small bar
but crooner kingdom is like a supper club that seats 500 and is never full
come on it's just rude come on in come on there's human beings in here
oh it's possible makes you so big all of this is possible honestly yeah Anything is possible in the blue sky face, Michael. That's true.
See you in Sethi land.
Oh, Sethi land. So,
what else?
The original, and now it still has,
nod to it,
Goofy is on this ride. What?
Yeah. Goofy has,
the original had three Goofy screams.
Yeah.
As you're like leaving out.
Every door.
Yeah.
When you go out the doors to the second level, it's like you're being like tossed out there kind of as the blinding light of day hits you.
And now there still is the one.
It is the Yahoo.
Right.
The famous old goofy scream.
But there used to be three goofy screams for whatever reason.
I guess they thought it was a little nod to goofy.
It's still strange.
I don't know why.
Very strange.
There's not a scream in Alice in Wonderland.
But then it sort of gets into Wilhelm scream territory.
Yeah, that's true.
Disney scream.
Right.
Which I sort of like.
Yeah.
No, I don't hate that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I like, I mean, I really like when you go outside, as you were saying, like at night,
the view of the Matterhorn is great.
And especially now that so many years have passed, that big tree in front of the ride,
it looks that the scale of, just because it's so huge now.
And it's almost cut.
To me, it almost looks like a large bush.
Like you were looking up at a massive like bush like in the polo
scenes. Yeah.
I see what you're saying. I had not thought of that.
Wow a tree that's like a big bush.
Like a big bush.
But it adds to the feeling of smallness
that you've been shrunk down. I thought that
too.
Tree looks like a bush. Alright.
No I'm saying people
are like us Oh okay
Yeah yeah yeah
No they're into it
Yeah yeah yeah
It's a good thing
It's
It's now just like
I mean it is just like
What do you
What do you like
Cause I like a lot
Yeah and I mean
All these episodes
Don't all have to be
Snark fests
No
Sometimes I like stuff
We drank
Remember we drank piss
At the start of this episode
We drank candy fests
Beginness by drinking urine
So we
We're allowed to be a little...
I like that these animatronics, more statuesque animatronics do have movement to them.
Like, they sort of look in the vein of the Pixar statues.
Sure.
That statue pier, the old statue pier.
But these guys move.
They like move a little.
Well, that's what happened in 83.
Yes.
You got more dimensional
figures and they weren't all
two dimensional cutouts. The other thing is
according to Tony Baxter the
the
original ride was it was super
black light. They were really leaning
on the black light for the
surrealism and almost like that was like
the point of it was how much black light
there was. And that also I think I think I'm right like that gave it like a 3d effect a little bit oh sure
flats mostly when that would kind of give it a little bit of dimension very novel at the time
it was a way to i think maybe maybe it was claude coates pointing this out himself in some movies
about how a giant space you wouldn't want to
use blacklight. It's too hard to fill.
Like pirates doesn't need
it because they have so much space. They can make it
look super huge. But in a narrow
space, these tricks like blacklight
are very important to make it seem
like bigger vistas than it is.
Right. But by the time
like, you know,
hey, this was not, there weren't uh you know
bong shops and such and place and uh you know bill graham posters uh it was made with black light
this was not as common uh before the 60s and 70s so they could you know this was a neat style and
aesthetic for 1958 by the time the 80s rolls, it seems like kind of a cheap chintzy trick, which is why there was a discussion Tony had was like, that's still part of it.
That's the spirit of it.
And that's all of the dark rides.
We'll always have that.
But we have to fold in some different.
It's just an aspect rather than the main aspect.
Yeah.
Right.
Sorry, Blacklight.
So, yeah, Blacklight. Take a back seat. Blacklight on the Knights in White Yeah. Right. Sorry, black light. So yeah, black light seat,
uh,
black light on the nights and white satin ride a lot too.
Yeah.
With that,
we're back to,
that's the point of it is looking at black light for a while.
Right.
Cause it's a rock and roll experience.
Um,
they,
do you guys get worried when you go on any of these rides with the black
light that you will look at,
you know,
cause you look down at your clothing and you see
bizarre stains and such
do you ever wonder like
is this going to reveal something I didn't
even know was there some
like just full pants
covering
did I pee
myself and not realize it
we were talking a lot of bodily
fluids on this episode
I am not
I'm more worried that there's some sort of
like food or drink
that perhaps
that sounds too
you don't want everybody to look around
oh look you can see things on our clothes
oh my god what is that
yeah I am pretty sure
as far as fluids I'm good
But like at lunch did I
Spill a fuzzy tauntaun on my leg
Yes I perhaps did
And will like the color
Whatever artificial color that's in that
Will that show up on my pants perhaps
So that is a concern
But I think yeah other than that I'm not too worried
That being said I could be surprised
I don't know
Who knows Jason I, what about you?
I think that's the reason why I'd have to agree with you.
Yeah.
Does fudge show up on a black light?
That's a good question.
I don't know.
Glow-in-the-dark fudge?
Yeah.
Does fudge glow-in-the-dark?
Does anyone know the answer?
Listeners, if you have a black light and you can run to a cracker barrel.
If a forensics team were to go into your bedroom, would they see fudge everywhere?
Fudge everywhere?
Yeah, it's stacked up to the ceiling.
This is where
that fudge supply went missing.
We got him.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
Famous fudge heist.
If you took some of that
jar of urine, if we
poured that on our pants and then went
on a ride, I think it would start talking
to us. Oh my god.
That's how crazy the chemical contents are.
Edwin's voice.
Which is what?
Edwin? Oh, Edwin.
Not your dog.
That was confusing.
Edwin's voice is,
that's what I do when Lindsay andsey and i are together okay kind of a wheezy yeah but edwin is edwin's voice
okay so the piss would sound like that i think sure sure it might sound different to everybody
mine might sound like like edwin the dog that's true i'm urine urine. That was creepier than what you did.
Yeah, that's my... What would your piss voice
sound like?
Sorry to put you on the spot here, but...
I know.
You can come back to it. Yeah, let's circle back.
Circle back. I'm going to think on it.
We'll tease that for the very end of the episode.
You'll debut your piss voice.
Oh, I know. You know what? Save it for the very end of the episode Is that you'll debut Your pissed voice No no no save it for the end
We need a reason the listeners are going to want to keep listening to this
Yeah yeah like the final little surprise
Like the unbirthday ring
If you want to go upstairs and workshop it too
Oh sure
We'll just add in old clips of you in other episodes going yeah this is good
This ride I like it
So they updated this
They've updated it a few times.
2014 was last big, right?
And that is what...
That was an old Jason clip.
He's not here.
I like it.
Sounds good.
Sounds good.
It definitely improved things.
I ate some fudge.
So, I forgot all about
like all the digital stuff
that they added to the ride, which is great.
Like legit great. I think it's my
favorite of the recently added
Fantasyland digital
plus ups. And it's the most
I think, and the most obvious ones, I
think. It reminded me of like, because in
Pooh's Honey Hunt, they do a lot of that too.
So, I wonder if, I don't know, I'm sure the same people worked on it.
Perhaps.
But there's so much.
They do so much stuff and they do it in such a good way.
And some of it's like subtle.
Some of it's like the subtle stuff works really well just to augment the scene.
The stuff that's a little more in your face.
Like there's just a little, like the rabbit moving and stuff.
That's fun.
It's just a little scene and then there's like they add
like trippier things in the
hallway with the door and stuff
as soon as you go in yeah that
big swirling that's it's like a
super dynamic
introduction like it's really
it really like
makes it that you
could probably argue it's the best
ride now even though I still think Peter
Pan is I'm still on team pan
but I do think like it
feels the most modern
team pan because
there's the big art we had of course that
drag knockout drag down argument
toad or pan is best dark
ride but I guess you really should throw
Alice in there as well yeah I think it's
in the conversation I think it has to be because at least it doesn't i'm imagining the civil war
captain america civil war poster with like jm barry staring down lewis carroll in terms of
you know the creators the original creators of these uh rides the original two British weirdos who made Pan and Alice.
Clash of the British.
Clash of the British weirdos.
British opium weirdos.
The scene with the cards, I can't like, there's mirrors in there, right?
Like, to make it look more or am I just a ton of them?
At least there used to be or has the effect changed?
I don't know. I went through and I was like, oh, there's so ton of them? At least there used to be. Or has the effect changed? I don't know. Honestly, I don't know.
I went through and I was like, oh, there's so many of them.
At some point in time, there were mirrors.
I forget what it is now.
But I love that.
I love the fact that you, what you were saying about how it could be walked through.
The fact that there are these, like, funhouse optical illusion elements of it here and there
is great.
And then all of the cards shooting out from behind the queen yes oh that's good
the queen's face is projection now too is that right that looks good um i really liked learning
in the in the 80s plus up they color match the flowers to mary blair's original colors
in the film oh wow i didn't see that i really like that attention uh detail i feel like it's
it's of all the ones
in fantasyland it's maybe the one that i would go on and think oh they recently built this
yeah sure like with the other one like toad feels older and pan like the the thing that feels the
oldest on pan of course is that the track above you there's a couple times when you lurch down
and he feels like the thing's about to come off the ceiling. That was fun until it
slammed into the wall when we
were on it. It slammed into
the bumper curve.
When it comes back into docking, we were on it
and it just jammed in there.
We're like, ah! But there's a part where you're
just going because it's such a pleasant,
beautiful ride. And then there's a part
where it kind of dips down.
It feels like it has
to catch itself from like letting you swing there's something on the track there baby i guess
let me swing is my feeling as well but there's there's aspects of all of the rides and i know
pinocchio was newer but this one feels the newest i mean maybe they did put the most care into to
updating it or the most money.
But I do think you could have put me
on this and go, oh yeah, this is like newer, right?
Like all the effects feel really modern
and they've taken what was there
and yeah, really made it feel
new. I think that's a credit to the movie,
the source material like
aging the best.
A little bit. I mean,
yeah, I see what you're saying because I think that the references are...
People love that Lewis Carroll shit.
Even just like the 51, the original animated movie.
Sure.
I feel like I was saying earlier holds up so well.
And people still like to do drugs.
So, that's still...
Well, that's true.
Yes.
Sadly.
I don't care to, but some people do.
So they like it.
You're hooked on the most addictive drug at all, sugar.
All those brightly colored candy drinks.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
You've had a crazy straw into that cup of piss.
You've been lying.
You've been like slurping it up.
You've pulled out your own cup, Your own one you had already bought yourself.
Yeah, I had a different, a different company makes a different kind of candy piss.
And I've been drinking it secretly.
Your disgust is because it's not as good as.
It's not as good as my company.
Pepsi versus Coke.
Pepsi challenge.
Wonka.
Pepsi.
Pepsi challenge.
I was going to say Wonka makes a piss as well yeah Nestle
makes a piss now that would have been
a more unpleasant river for Augustus
Gloop to fall into
oh yeah oh my boy
my boy oh no
he is blinded by urine
a national pastime you're making a mockery of a national pastime
A pretty good sketch would be
A Wonka candy factory
But all novelty dirty candy
River of candy piss
Everlasting
I don't know
You take it from there
My boy is choking on a
Choking on a candy thong.
Walked into the candy thong closet.
Now he can't breathe.
A candy kidney stone.
Everlasting kidney stone.
That is not, by the way, that's patented to me.
No one has gotten that yet.
No one has thought of that.
All right.
Well, make sure to offload this audio file and then mail it to yourself and seal the envelope.
So you have it, you know, if he does it before it comes out, a gray piece of candy, that's a candy kidney stone.
Fucking I'm a genius.
The most desirable.
And you it's so it's you have to suck on it to make it be small enough to pass.
Yes, exactly.
That's the whole point of it and by the
time you're done you probably will start forming real kidney stones yeah it is made of calcium
ingredient number one calcium it's good for you calcium and sugar it's also your bone buildups
for a growing boy it's good for the elderly. Yeah. They need that calcium supplement to supplement their bones.
That's a novelty gift for like,
it's nifty, you're
50 part. Like, you
get like, here's your jar of candy,
kidney stones. Hope you don't get
them. Drink lots of water.
But do eat these.
Do eat these. I don't know the logic really.
They're calcium for your bones, which are also aging.
Well, you could bring it out at a party and say like, if there's a jar of 80 of them and
like, hey, that's how many old Mike has passed.
Guess the kidney stones in the jar too.
That would be fun.
Get like a gust of gumballs.
Sure.
There's a lot of things you could do with this.
Great idea.
Unfortunately, if you look close enough in the Alice in Wonderland ride at the mad tea party on birthday scene, they're offering like tea, crumpets, candy, kidney stones.
Gotta get rid of these somehow.
Gotta get rid of these.
Candy, kidney stones.
Yeah, that's good.
I don't know.
This is real good.
I mean, you're right that we don't know. This is real good.
I mean, you're right that we're talking about are there other bodily fluids and we were avoiding certain ones probably.
But what else can your body make?
You thought of one more.
Bile.
Yeah.
Oh, bile is good.
Bile is great.
Bile is good.
Bile is good.
A bile drink.
You get a little cinnamon or a little pop rock.
So, it's like, like ah it's corrosive
Right you know that's good
Actually careful with cinnamon folks
Cinnamon can really fuck you up
Can really fuck up your life
There's gotta be rest stop water that's like
Liberal tears
Or something for conservative
People making a stop right
Damn you're good at this this is another good one
That's a good one right
It's just gotta be like the sunny water I i prefer you not uh diminish our fine highway rest stops
sure i'm well they usually with these rest stop gift shops they of course are equal opportunity
offenders you'll see the toilet the hillary toilet paper and the trump toilet paper okay i suppose
that's so they might have a different thing to roast the other side but the liberal tears water
this is good i should really leave this out because i probably would make a million dollars So they might have a different thing to roast the other side. But yeah, liberal tears, water.
This is good.
I should really leave this out because I probably would make a million dollars. You are now the head of Flying J International.
What is Flying J?
Flying J is like the truck stop.
The rest stop organization.
She stopped at one in Barstow once.
Okay.
Yeah.
So that's good.
So what's the conservative equivalents?
Like what comes
out of your body uh you're you're so mad at what uh cortez tweeted uh that you pee yourself
uh i'm not sure what uh i would just my first pitch honestly was gun water doesn't make sense why not um yeah i don't know what or that you it's vomit that's it it's a
vomit because what alexandria cassia cortez said made you throw up in your mouth a little bit
right but that's still slamming liberals uh so that's still okay that doesn't read to you as
like they're so like you could sell candy panties in a bunch because your panties are in a bunch.
You're so mad at what Cortez said.
Okay, that's not bad.
Like candy puke.
Like, oh, make it AOC making America puke again.
Like you're not making America great again.
I guess that one's back on her.
Yeah, that's kind of back on her. It needs to be
something that like the conservatives
do that you could spin off
into a candy or a drink.
They're like salivating because they want
to fuck Trump? Maybe.
That's a stretch.
That's a stretch.
How do you candy a brain aneurysm?
Because you're just terminally online okay
head bandage like is that a candy head oh it's like fruit roll-ups it's a headband
it's a white mystery like airhead like why yeah why does that old man have a bandage
yeah that's good it's a bottle of raindrops from our perfect, most beloved 4th of July celebration of America.
Uh-huh, that's good.
It went off without a hitch.
That's good.
Delicious fracking water?
Oil, too, because, you know, like National Park oil, because more conservatives want to drill in like National Parks and off the coast.
Drill that of Teddy Roosevelt's head.
Yeah, so it's like
national park oil.
Yellowstone oil.
Still doesn't read quite as
good as the liberal tears joke.
Yeah, not as concise as liberal tears.
Liberal tears is sort of the gold standard for this type of thing.
I think it's still in...
It's Pence...
This is Mike Pence's vomit because he saw a gay person smiling.
Or was in the room with a woman.
He was in the...
Not his wife.
Well, you could say that could be an assorted set because he relieved himself in every way.
He threw up pissed and shit because he was in the room with another woman.
And sweat, all of them.
So, it's a grab bag there could be like a
pen that you flip over that
a woman's clothes comes off
and it's just like says like mike pence's worst
nightmare or something or no no
it wouldn't even be no more not even new
yes yes yes yes it was just like
you turn the pen over and she would just say hello
we're in the room together and that would be it
there wouldn't be any nudity on the pen it's a novelty pen where the clothes don't come
off the clothes don't come off she just says hello and then that's the worst yeah yeah that's
the worst it could be ah oh thank god it was just a joke pen thank you this has been a wonderful
birthday she has like a full suit on and turns it up and she's got like a winter coat on She just says hello
And his fantasy would just be a big candy Garfield
Because he loves Garfield
Is that true?
Yeah, have you seen he, there's a bizarre him like taking some time out of a
It's like a congressional session or whatever to say that it's Jim Davis's birthday. Oh, I
have seen that. I have seen that.
He's been making us laugh
for 50 years.
He may not be perfect. He
doesn't care much for Mondays,
but the spirit of this cat
is like the spirit of our nation.
I say get Garfield's name out of your mouth.
Mr. Sir.
Mr. Pence, sir.
It's funnier than you.
But do we know Jim Davis's politics?
I believe he's pretty apolitical.
I believe that.
That seems right.
That's what's great about him.
Everybody can win.
I suppose Scott Adams who is just on another planet nowadays.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oof.
We have taken some turns on this one.
Back to the kooky world of Alice in Wonderland.
Yeah, you know what? I like that there's
little dandelion projections flying
around. That might be
all I have. I don't know. I'm running out.
It is one of those ones where it's just good.
It's good. And there's not a
ton of lore.
It's nice to just like rides,
but then we're just saying
this thing's good and that thing's good.
I have some background on the manufacturer oh god now we're getting to the good shit arrow development um
later followed by arrow dynamics uh they were involved in a lot of the uh early rides of
disneyland in fact six opening day disneyland rides uh mad tea party king arthur carousel mr toad uh dumbo casey jr
and snow white scary adventures yes and still around in burgeoning this day around in a
different form i believe i believe the one company went under and then reformed something like that
but they helped out a lot of disney uh rides through the year alice um the matterhorn flying saucers the mark 4 redesign of
the autopia cars um yeah good for them good for them thanks arrow we salute you i will also say
that the caterpillar cars were ultimately sculpted by blaine gibson which is weird
because blaine gibson made a lot of the famous, you know,
like a lot of the great human-esque animatronics like Abraham Lincoln, like all of the Hall
of Presidents, all the way up through George W. Bush.
When there was a new president, he would come out of retirement and make the new president.
Wow.
And the partner's statue was this guy Waltz and Mickey
holding hands but it's weird that you're
in a ride vehicle that he
at least made the mold and they made
you know 16
of them total but yeah
which is that's the thing you got to give it credit for that it's a
it's a cool ride vehicle
I think it's one of the best
of those dark ride vehicles
maybe one of the best in one of the most one of the oddest most specific ride vehicles in one of the best Of those dark red ride vehicles Maybe one of the best in one of the most
One of the oddest most specific ride vehicles
In all of the
And it's a character which is fun
And different colors
Always fun
And not dissimilar to
The leaked Nintendo art
Excuse me model did you see that
The leaked Nintendo land model
Where apparently
We're not getting it I hope Japan is getting it or excuse me model did you see that the leaked nintendo land model where apparently yeah it's
not we're not getting it i hope japan is getting it i that because because of space is that there
seems to be a yoshi omnimover type hell yeah and they're just different colored yoshis i don't know
how i don't know if it's one per yoshi or like it's a little thing on his back whatever it looks
like there's a cool outdoor, indoor Yoshi Omnimover,
which reminded me of this, because it's like all the same
character, but different colors.
Which, God, I hope
that's in Japan, because people were saying
that's so bad. Yeah, people were saying
that maybe this is like an initial
model, so we don't know. We don't have
confirmation yet
that that is going somewhere.
Hopefully, at least Florida, because that's going to be the least Florida because that's gonna be the biggest
one supposedly and if the ride breaks then every Yoshi just scurries in multiple directions until
it falls into a pit unless you can jump on top of it yes they scream at you to get back on
I had such panic as a kid when I would get hit and yoshi would run around because i would
it was it was traumatizing to seem like run off a cliff yeah because like you'd hit and he would
run around and you'd have to get him before he hit off of a cliff and i would just feel such
pressure and sometimes it wouldn't happen and i'd feel depressed there's a lot of characters being
murdered at all times in the mario games oh yeah most of them are villains right and some of them
are you and that's on you and you know you'll be
back. Yeah. Watching your pal, somebody
you've bonded with and flown the skies
with, watching him just
jump into a pit.
Because he was scared. That's what's the worst
part about it. He's scared and he
just throws himself off a cliff.
He's not. No other choice.
Straight up relatable.
Very relatable. Better do this. Getting scared and throwing yourself off a cliff
It's what we're all thinking about doing
Every time we check Twitter
I'm scared now
Oh maybe a Trump's Twitter candy
Of some kind
Something like that
This is going to keep you up at night
I gotta crack it
If you get it then do a conference call Something like that This is going to keep you up at night It is yeah I got to crack it I will crack it
Well if you get it then do a conference call
Patch us in
Wake us up at 3 in the morning
Record it and put it on podcast the ride
We will I'll do it yeah
We owe you content at all times even as we sleep
I'm looking through the last bit of my notes here
And I'm trying to I'm like I guess I just talked about everything
And then I looked at this and I said
What is this note and it says clock jam
and then I remember I wanted to
make a note because my favorite part
I think of Alice in Wonderland the movie
is where the Mad Hatter and the March Hare
try to fix the clock by putting
jam on it and you remember this
and then they just smash it
oh yeah that's one of those lodged
memories I haven't watched in forever you should watch
it because my goodness did it bring up.
I was like, oh, man, I love this.
This is so good.
I don't know what it was about.
I don't know if I like, I guess I was a fan of jams and jellies.
I think it's so silly as a kid.
Like, you know, you don't know a lot.
You can't get complex humor, but you know that condiments don't belong on a clock.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think it's also like a mix of like, I didn't like they were breaking the clock,
but I also liked what they were doing.
It was just a bunch of emotions at once.
And seeing what's in a clock, seeing all those crazy doodads.
Yes.
And I, that's another one of my own.
Oh, shit.
I think this is the best scene in the movie.
That's a snack they should sell is an edible clock.
Oh, yeah.
With jam spread on it.
They should. Oh, that'd be
great. Yes. Great. Like cakey
piece or it's like a chocolate
the shell thing that crumbles.
Yeah. Oh, man.
That's great. Yeah. A lot of good ideas
on this episode. Like with being marshmallow
gears inside.
Jason, what do you think as the expert?
Do you want to hear my
piss voice? You're just just gonna I asked you a question
Oh I'm sorry
I was asking you what do you think about the treat
I'm into it I think
They could even they're always they're fussing around
With churros so much nowadays I bet you could
Reverse and you could figure out how to do it in
Churro form or it's a wide
Churro instead of a long churro that looks
Like a clock and you spread the jam on top
A wide churro sounds fantastic Wide churro instead of a long churro that looks like a clock and you spread the jam on top. A wide churro sounds fantastic.
Wide churro sounds good, right?
Were you just sitting thinking of your piss voice?
Yeah, I was kind of.
All right, well, let's hear it.
Hey, it's Jason's piss.
It's one of two voices Jason can do.
Put me in a toilet.
Whoa.
Wow.
Wow. And applause for it. Wow. put me in a toilet whoa wow wow
wow
it's a very specific area what's your
piss voice sure there's only so many
yeah yeah answers there could be
but don't let that
you know
arousing voice don't let that incredible
voice performance overshadow
did you say arousing voice
rousing
I've been seeing a lot of people online are saying incredible voice performance overshadow wide churro. Did you say a rousing voice? Rousing.
I've been seeing a lot of people online are saying that Jason is a short king
and that his voice is arousing.
Let's not let it all overshadow wide
churro. My idea
that I am copywriting. Wide churro.
There's so many good ideas in this episode. We're all copywriting.
Yeah.
I don't know. I got nothing else.
Wait, so can I copy copy i guess i would take
i guess the deadable jam clocks was my idea you brought up jam clocks but me making it a snack
was my idea it was yes okay okay great so we don't have to sue each other i have kidney stone candy
liberal tears which i bet i bet already you can buy liberal tears somewhere oh yeah yeah that's
not i but i do believe I invented kidney stone candy.
Because liberal tear, that's the thing.
That's not like a new, that could have been sold 20 years ago.
Just would have been a more niche market.
There's got to be like a liberal snowflake cookie or something where you have like a snowflake and you eat it.
An edible snowflake.
The most fragile.
Yeah. The most fragile candy
the cookie crumbles immediately
my friend Avery Monson
briefly sold a coffee mug online
that instead of
tear he removed the
R from the phrase liberal tear so it just
said liberal tease
and everyone from every
side of the aisle got mad at him because they read it too
quickly and he's like what it's just teas it's just a mug for teas that's good uh yeah here i'm
looking i i looked up candy there may not be candy necessarily actually but there's mugs liberal
tears and melted snowflakes is on a mug right so that's that covers both of them there's mugs liberal tears and melted snowflakes is on a mug
right so that's that covers
both of them there's a coffee mug that says
I lubricate my AR-15
with liberal tears
which is nice to hear
because that probably makes it less
lubricated and less likely to hurt people
so keep on doing it sir
and how can you possibly procure enough
to lubricate the whole gun?
Firearms deal with saltwater great.
They handle it very well.
Yeah, I'm sure.
There are three useless things in this world.
A dull knife, an unloaded gun, and liberals.
I didn't know that didn't say tears until I got to the end.
Liberals is real much bigger than the rest is why I shouted it.
So, that's all great stuff you can.
Oh, wait.
I'm seeing maybe there's a Zazzle tin you can buy.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And it's, yeah, there's a little snowflake on it and it says from the salt mines.
I'm not sure what that part's about.
Yeah, that's a leap.
Yeah, I don't get it.
Is there each? Are tears salty? I suppose. salt mines. I'm sure what that part's about. Yeah, that's a leap. Yeah, I don't get it.
It's a reach.
Are tears salty?
I suppose.
Hmm.
All right.
Well, the point is, if you want liberal tears, there's many ways to get them.
I looked up candy kidney stones.
Uh-huh.
It doesn't appear.
Great.
The first thing that comes up is sugar kidney stones So maybe there's kidney stones that are sugar
Which honestly would lend itself better
So it's like a real thing
And Disney could market these also
Because as we discussed with Big Thunder Mountain
There was a study about how that ride is effective
For passing kidney stones
So they could specifically
You could sell this idea to Disney and they sell
it in gift shops outside of Big Thunder
kind of lacking for Big Thunder
merch that's true that's a good
point yeah very good point so you sell
them in a tin that looks like the
train like those popcorn
tins are becoming popular so
Big Thunder train full of
kidney stones right Big Thunder
mining company.
We hit a bonanza.
We hit a jackpot.
Look at all these stones.
All these kidney stones.
Of all the trains over the years that have been going through the mines and just shooting kidney stones off, ripping straight through the pants, banging around the innards of the
cave, and they all land in a big pile.
That's what's being portrayed here.
It is unpleasant.
There's been a lot of, well, it's all, you know, by kicking it off with the urine.
I was guaranteeing that we would, it would be an unpleasant episode and that we would feel unpleasant.
How do we feel?
Okay, now, do we ride the wave?
Do we feel all right?
I mean, that's what happens when you record a show through the looking glass, man.
Yep.
Everyone like that?
Everyone good?
Yes.
I found it very arousing.
Great.
Very arousing.
Well, I guess in that case.
I guess everyone has survived.
We survived.
Podcast the Ride.
Disgusting edition.
Disgusting.
Our gross out humor today
our nanny uh our au pair is shaking us awake under a tree wake up get up oh right it was a dream
you stupid idiot stupid opium addicted idiot is that what inspired like was somebody yelling that to Lewis Carroll? Probably.
Yeah.
Many times in his life.
Sleep down at the dock almost rolled into the water.
Candy opium another.
Yeah, that's good.
With kind of steampunky design.
Yeah.
That would be really out there though because that opium isn't legal.
Yes, true.
Yeah. All right. there though because that opium isn't legal yes true um yeah all right well uh look a lot of merch
ideas and presumably on our t public eventually we'll be able to sell all of these candies oh
yeah uh yeah and we'll start you know what we'll start selling liberal tears yeah why don't we
yeah let's just sell out entirely yeah liberal tears it's our t Public is your place for Disney theme park adjacent comedy shirts.
And also, yeah.
I use liberal tears to power my gas guzzling big dick SUV.
I use liberal tears instead of gas.
Which is also clean energy, though. though yeah that's a way to trick
people into supporting clean energy yeah we'll probably sell more conservative shirts and merch
than we do on our own podcast honestly it's half about sunny eclipse and stuff and half about
liberal tears yeah sunny eclipse with a gun is outselling all of our other shirts
just unrelated like i drink liberal tears for breakfast and it's a picture of sunny eclipse Sunny Eclipse with a gun is outselling all of our other shirts. Just unrelated.
Like, I drink liberal tears for breakfast and it's a picture of Sunny Eclipse.
Yeah, he's drinking it and he's also saluting.
It's unclear what he's saluting.
Why would this tie together?
Like Pepe the Frog. Why would these things be?
But he's a backwards man.
So, he drinks.
He salutes the ground. He salutes the ground
and he drinks
Tibberlears.
Oh, man. Anyway,
okay, what else? Live shows
coming up, as we've mentioned.
Yeah, check it out.
August 24th,
Anaheim, October 24th, Orlando.
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