Podcast: The Ride - Avatar Flight Of Passage LIVE with Zack Ryder

Episode Date: November 1, 2019

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FOREVER! DOG! is taped before a live studio audience in Orlando, Florida. In five days, the three hosts have walked a combined total of 286,770 steps. And yet, thanks to a diet consisting entirely of treats, we are in extremely poor physical health. If this theater crashes into an adjacent theater, you'll find emergency toilets under every scene. Live, exactly seven miles away from Botanicus. You know, it's Podcast of the Ride. Podcast of the Ride!

Hold on. Hey, there it is. There it is. Wow. Oh, my God. Whoa. Whoa. Hi. Hello.

Oh, my God. So many folks! Welcome to Podcast the Ride, a podcast about theme parks that is finally being recorded in the theme park capital of the world! Pretty good. Oh, my name is Scott Gardner, hello! I'm Jason Sheridan. Thank you. My name is Mike Carlson. Thank you. Wow.

Go ahead. Oh, honestly, I really didn't have anything to say. I was going to say we're... I'll say, yeah, we're happy to be here. Also, the thing with our phone... So, you were supposed to be able to cue Keynote from an iPhone, and both of our... Don't tell, don't bore them with this.

Both of our phones failed at the same time. We have a topic that has a lot of meat on the bone, and you're wasting their time. For once, for once we do. People love it, people love it. People love a little, you know... Here's what happened. Sure, yes. Here's the, well, here's what's happening,

or here's what's been happening this week, is that we all, for the first time as a podcast host trio, have been to Disney World together, to Universal Studios together. It's been amazing. We actually all, for the first time ever, the three of us, entered Disney World exactly two years to the day we released the first podcast, The Ride.

The day of! And now we've got all you folks here, which is incredible. And actually, to that end, we have some questions for you folks. How many people work in the parks? Oh, yeah. That's a ton. Oh, my God. Okay, so let's divide it up then. Where's the Disney folks?

Okay. Universal. Sea World. Yes. Good. Good. Good. Good.

We asked for this specifically. No SeaWorld employees were allowed to purchase tickets tonight. Yeah, after what they've done. So, the other thing, I mean, we are here specifically Because of SAC Comedy Lab Which is an incredible venue Thank you SAC Everybody here has gone just above And beyond in making us feel

Like welcome And giving us a lot of fun It's been such a fantastic place And hey other comedy Podcasts come here it's been wonderful And another thing And hey, other comedy podcasts, come here. It's been wonderful. And another thing that I really like about SAC is that we are, so we're sort of in the Church Street Station area

in Orlando, which is what was the more vibrant nightclub region of Orlando until Disney stole the idea and built their own. But my favorite thing about the area that we are right now of Orlando until Disney stole the idea and built their own. But my favorite thing about the area that we are right now is that just two blocks west of this theater is the former office of boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. He worked right around here.

He ran a $300 million Ponzi scheme in this very neighborhood and incidentally his organization is where we got these headset mics from it's kind of a

sort of a garage so these used to belong to O-Town now we get to use them if anyone by the way has any information on the location of O-Town. Yeah. Now we get to use them. If anyone, by the way, has any information on the location of O-Town, please, the authorities are standing by.

They have not solved Lou Pearlman's riddles yet. Well, okay, and we, you know, also while we're talking about, you know, asking what you folks are up to, I think there's somebody in the audience who we'd like to point out specifically is the person around who was at the Chicago show and the Orlando.

Is that you, sir? Water here. Wait, you know, come up real quick. Yeah, come on. Okay. Hey, come on here. Wait, you know, come up real quick. Yeah, come up. Okay. Hey, come on up. Oh, my God. Hello. What's your name? Brian. Brian. Okay.

Brian's here. Brian was at our Chicago show we did recently, and we were doing a little like, we were tossing out prizes, and we realized you came from the furthest, but there was somebody else we really wanted to give something to, too. So, we've had a week in the parks and we've thought this through and Jason, take it from here.

Sure, yeah. Brian, you know, you go to two states to see our show, there's only one word to describe that. Family. Okay? Okay. The concept that Dominic Toretto a Fast and Furious supercharge

which according to a game in the app the universal app is the character that I am closest to. So, you know, we got something to honor our family member. This is a beer koozie that says family forever on the front and on the back it says cars come and go but respect lasts forever right and also I wedged some hotel shampoo and conditioner in there because when I asked for a couple more they left

me a bag of eight because I guess they knew I was coming so here you are thank you again thank you so much thank you Brian Brian if we need to put a crew together, we're going to call you. Just letting you know.

Okay. I was going to ask him if he was a good wheel man. He's fine. We know he is. So with all that past us We should talk about Our trip a little bit Yes

Sunday Sure Alright Highlights gentlemen Well who wants to start So many Too many I have visuals

Do you have those ready to go Of course I have those Ready to go I was just going to say I just want to get a little bit of a gauge because there's people, we post a little bit on the Twitter, the social media, so people have been asking, and I think the first question they have for you is count on how many scoops of ice cream. Great. And how many hot dogs.

Hot dogs only at one. Scoops of ice cream in the last two days, up to five. And one truffle that they scoop out the chocolate and then dip in liquid nitrogen. Yeah, some people know. They know. It's great. Epcot food and wine. And a lot of people I've been, look, I kind of was mingling about and I could hear people asking this question.

How many times did Jason Sheridan go to Chicken Guy? And the answer is. Well, we went one night. Yes, we did. I've been once. And the following day, after a brief nap, I went back. Two times. You try to find a $6 sandwich

somewhere else on Disney property. Okay? And we are now members of the Sauce Squad. We are in the Sauce Squad. Who here is a member of the Sauce Squad? Sauce Squad.

Sauce Squad. If we're going to do a mission, we're going to call on you. You're going to be our Sauce Squad. So great. So two chicken guys. Any sauces you'd like to name check? Donkey Sauce. Donkey Sauce.

Donkey Sauce. Avocado Crayma. Yes. The blue cheese, honestly, was great. All right. Oh! Oh! cheese, honestly, was great. Oh, audience. Dissent. Dissent on this issue.

Wow, you're really making them mad. Did somebody shout out one habanero? Who's at what's everyone's favorite? They're all good. Oh, that's nice. It is now clear this could have been the main topic. We worked too hard. We overtaught it. Yes, we did.

Huh. So, yeah. So, highlights. Scott, how's your trip going? My trip's going great because I've been a very brave boy. Yes. Sneaking applause on this. I did it for you.

I've done it for you. Let me do the list. Rides I've been afraid of my entire life. I have done this week and had a great time. Tower of Terror. Yeah. Now I know the thing crawls. I know you go through the line, opens up.

It's really cool. Expedition Everest. Yes. Close My Eyes but it's still cool. Rock and Roller Coaster. Revenge of the Mummy. Hagrid's.

We managed to do it. We did it. Too much to say about it but we did it. But with that and the sheer amount of launches between all of these things, I think I genuinely get to call myself a launch queen. Thank you.

Now can I just, like, pull out my phone and just have you, can I just, like, call my mom and just have you guys all vouch that, like, I'm doing well, everything's, like, okay, okay, okay, okay. Please do not tell my mother about this show. Or my mother today, just today, emailed me and said, what's up with this picture of you and a goat? Because I went to Rafiki's Planet Watch and I went went, oh, no, she figured out Google.

She figured out how to look up what I am doing. And the thing that you're worried about is being pictured brushing a goat? No, I'm just saying, like, the machines have come alive. The machines have gained sentience. She's figured out how to search for it now. Uh-oh. Yeah. So she can, like, look at your old lewd tweets.

Oh, yeah. Uh-oh. Get deleting. No. No time. Yeah, we should. Yeah. We should just do that in general.

Yeah. Me too. Everyone should. I have one more thing to say about, you know, all of that was very thrilling. But you don't just come to theme parks for the thrills. You come for the emotion. You come to watch something stirring. And there's nothing more stirring in any of the parks than the American adventure.

So amazing to see, and especially amazing to see the new movie at the end. If you don't know this attraction, there's a little film that they update every once in a while with some of the some of the greatest americans the people who really represent the american story and uh and i was just so happy to see that they have recently updated this attraction with everyone's two Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mark Zuckerberg. Yes. Yeah, they put this in 20 months ago, I believe, and the Imagineers are thinking, all right, cool, should be fine,

should be set. It's not like 20 months is enough time for everyone to decide that they despise Mark Zuckerberg. It's not like this week everyone will start despise Mark Zuckerberg. It's not like this week everyone will start despising Mark Zuckerberg even more. Hell of a week

to see it. Yeah. Wonderful. Very emotional. I think there's many highlights of the trip, but I do think I hit a peak very early. The Epcot series Eat to the Beat. I was lucky enough to sit and watch 20 minutes of The Baja Men. And I will, I'm, look, I'm full of irony. I'm so sorry. It's

the way my brain processes everything. Love, kindness, it all comes out with irony. That being said, the Baja men were awesome. And I mean that sincerely. One of the Baja men does backflips. And not just a backflip and stops. Backflip, backflip, backflip, backflip. And it is a showstopper. And people were there.

I saw Mickey Thomas and Starship last year, last year at E to the B. So they're always there. And they have some hits. We love those hits. The audience was asleep. And they kind of came to life during We Built This City, which is a great song. Not the mannequin song? Not the mannequin song.

He's going to stop us now? They were asleep? Well, honestly, that might have been in one of the, like, the 8 o'clock set. Oh, sure. You gotta mix it up. They do three sets at the To The Beats. So like, Everclear spaces out their hits. That all sound very similar.

Now, do the Baja Men space out their hits? I believe they play Who Let The Dogs Out every set. Yeah. Okay. So people were loving it. They were on their feet. They were getting everyone. They were so excited. People were so excited by the Baja Men. Someone recognized me later from just enjoying

the concert. I was sitting down eating in the dark. And a woman with her husband and daughter were like, oh, you, you were the one on Instagram during the Baja man. And I said, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. And she's like, oh, what, what's your Instagram? And I was like, well, it's podcast. All right. And I was like, I don't know if this is your, and she's like, oh, well check. And she looked at her daughter. She's like, do you know that one? And they're here tonight.

Yeah. So, and she, the daughter was honestly very nice. She's like, oh, I think so. You love to see it.

You love to see, yeah. So, so anyway, go, next time they're in town, check the Baja Man out. Yeah. All right. Want to do the Baja Man out. Yeah.

Want to do our backflips now? Oh, sure. Yeah. We're doing it. The listener can't see, but we're doing it. Oh, my God. So you know, yeah. Six and six and seven and eight.

Great, yeah. We all did eight. Jason, Jason got something. Oh, right. We all did eight. Jason, Jason's got something. Oh, right. Yes, show them. I was very excited this trip because I had a couple chances to go hang out at the Boardwalk Resort. My family always loved that hotel. And I just read

about a thing at the Boardwalk and I was so excited to see it in person. Mike, can you bring up that bad boy? Mm-hmm? Great. So some of you clearly know what this is, some of you are rightly horrified. These are called nanny chairs. These are theme park history. These are obviously replicas. I believe they used an original mold though. These were what were on carousels for adults to ride while children

rode horses. This is before they figured out they could just bolt a bench in. So there's two of these usually in the lobby, and then there's two, I don't know where, but somewhere else. And they have names on the back, Paul, Todd, Carrie, and Alexander. Did I get

those right? Yes. You're a fan of the chairs. You're a fan of the chairs. But apparently, they do move around. Like, Paul isn't always upstairs. Carrie isn't always down. So, like, check out the ghoulish chairs the next time you're at the very expensive hotel

to or right under the tiny replica of Lucy the Elephant, the elephant drinking. Yeah, so, nanny chairs. Good luck sleeping tonight. Sorry. Huh. Creepy chairs. Creepy chairs.

And the people knew and applauded for her. Incredible. Wow. Okay, so with all that out of the way, it's time to talk topic. Now, we, you know, we talked, there's so much stuff. You know, in this week alone, we've done 300 things that we hadn't done before. There's so much to do here.

It could be creepy chairs the whole time. It could be chicken. It very well could be, could have been the Skyliner. That kind of, I kind of wanted it to be the Skyliner. Could have been well could have been the Skyliner. I kind of wanted it to be the Skyliner. Could have been. Could have been. We all loved the Skyliner, by the way. I loved it.

I was a little bit scared. Those landings and those takeoffs? Yeah, yeah. But when it gets to that high height, there's a little something in my brain that says no. But anyway, it's nice. I like it. I do like it.

Yep, but not the topic. We definitely today were thinking maybe the topic could have been the street that we named at Margaritaville Resort Orlando where we walked around. For anybody who doesn't know, way before the podcast,

us and our friend Anthony Gio, who we should have on more often, sent a list of a hundred street names unprovoked to this resort. And they took one, and that is Dreamsicle Drive. Yes. It was thrilling to go to a

place where the leftovers had happened, people had been called up to heaven, but not every other person, every person People had been called up to heaven. But not every other person, every person had been disappeared by some sort of force. We were walking around this Margaritaville whatever resort and Jason kept going, I don't feel good. I did not. I want to get out of here. The one character in the big short goes to a

town where every unfinished development, and I'm like, oh no, I'm living that weird scene. We all love the big short. We all remember it very well. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll cover that. We'll cover everything. We'll cover every house on our streets. Uh, it was a lovely place. Um, but you know what? Ultimately at the end of the day, we couldn't do some obscure little thing. Uh, this is a, this is a big city for us to be in. This is a big show for us to be doing.

And we had to do a legitimately big topic, which is scary for us because we love to parse them. We love to do the little micro topics, but we wanted to do something big for you guys. And even though we're scared, we thought what we need to do is rise to the challenge. Oh, yeah. Scott, I believe, Scott, I believe, yeah, the word you're looking for is Sivako. Sivako! Sivako! Sivako! Do we want it again?

We were... One more? One more? We're all saving the song. Here we go. Now, remember, folks, you can't do cultural appropriation if it's space aliens. So, yeah, we're in the clear. That was fine. Nothing wrong with that.

With us all, for the listener, that we were all waving our, it started as a back and forth sway. Started, and then we started doing the... We were doing shame in a song arms, really, is what we were all doing. Switch to Spongebob arms. It's kind of a mass happening.

Can you imagine if anyone in the world saw that? Like no context for what is happening in this room? Also, when we were setting up earlier, someone walked in and was like, oh, is there a show tonight? And they went, not tonight, 30. And I was like, oh, God bless if they come back. What they're going to walk into sight unseen.30, and I was like, oh, bless, God bless if they come back. What they're gonna walk

into sight unseen. Comedy, eh? Ah, Bema! Ah, Bema! So, wait, let's be clear, though. What we're gonna do, we're talking about Avatar Flight of Passage. Yeah.

Though, as you'll see It may really be Avatar Flight of Passage The pre-show We're keeping our eyes On the clock And that'll help dictate that Okay so

Welcome to the Avatar episode Can everyone see me okay? Good Okay Can everyone see me okay? Good, okay Now before we can begin our journey We all must honor the Navi by undergoing several important rites of passage First using powerful psionic amplification equipment,

we will blend our usual Podcast the Ride logo with the sacred font of Pandora. I'll hand it over. Okay, and the font, you'll recognize, of course, as papyrus. Mike, is it working okay? Mike, can you get it working?

I'm working on it. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. One second, one second. Mike, can you? Hold on, hold on. Everyone move your arms around a little bit. Yeah, great. Great. Okay. Wait. Oh! Whoa! Whoa. Wow. I never knew our logo could be so... Oh, no. The computer rejected it. Okay. It's back. Oh, phew. I can never

go without the papyrus in our logo again. Wow. Should we change it permanently? Yes. Aaron, our graphic designer, did this at gunpoint. I want to be very clear about that. Okay, so, okay, next. We have to establish a link between us and the main Imagineer

responsible for the world of Pandora, Joe Rohde. And I think a lot of you know Joe Rohde, but if you don't, Joe Rohde's an Imagineer who's very culturally versed, he's very worldly, and he has a very particular fashion sense. Mike, you want to remind people just what Joe Rohde looks like?

Great. Okay. So that is why, to honor this man and the land that he created, the three of us shall now don Joe Rohde earrings. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, here, wave your arms a little bit. Help Mike. Oh, it. Here, wave your arms a little bit. Help Mike. Oh, it's not working. Move around a little bit. The link's not, there's no match. You don't have a match in this earring.

I put it on earlier, but now it's a problem. Oh, boy. If this was a very different kind of podcast, we would have just pierced our ears live on stage. Yeah. Oh, I got it on working. Hey, there we go. All right.

Now it's set. Now we're ready to do it. And you know what? Like Joe Rohde, I should say, Joe Rohde likes to gather, you know, trinkets and totems from places that he visits

all over the world. And in keeping with that, I want to say that these earrings all came from a store called Icing at the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois.

The habitat of Mike Carlson. Yes. I was born and raised there. And you'll get to hear all about it in five hours. Driving home. Driving home. When we take our intermissions.

I hope everyone bought their pajamas. Well, that's it. We're ready to do it. Yeah, yeah. Ready to do it. We are ready to talk about Avatar Flight of Passage. Now, this is, as we get going, I just want to say this is one of those attractions,

this newfangled thing in Disney attractions of the last few years, where everything is multiple things. You're in Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, which is in Batuu, and specifically Black Spire Outpost. You're in Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout, where you visit the Tyvon Collection, which is housed inside

the Collector's Fortress. And in this one, you're in Pand of the Galaxy Mission Breakout where you visit the Tyvon collection Which is housed inside the collector's fortress and in this one you are in Pandora the world of Avatar in the valley of Moara visiting the Pandoran Conservation initiative working in tandem with Alpha Centauri expeditions and in this you're going to fly on a banshee Which is also known as an ikron You will who you will fuse with Ikron in a process known as Ikne Maya. Ikne Maya. Ikne Maya. Now, that is the flight of passage.

But do not confuse it with Ikne Maya, a region in the heavenly mountains. Context is important. So make sure you know what Ikne Maya you're referring to. You know what? This actually brings up a good point. I think there's going to be a lot of terms we're going to be throwing out during the show. So you better bit first. to. You know what? This actually brings up a good point. I think there's going to be a lot of terms we're going to be throwing out during the show, so we better get a verse. So, I mean,

obviously, like, everyone scan this, we'll have 30 seconds to learn it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, all nagati kami is I see you, okay? Obviously, if you want to thank us at any point during the show for all this wonderful content, e reo, thanks.

Yes. And what we would say to you is for a fiend, we're happy to visit. So just obviously, five more seconds and then you'll have this memorized. One, two, three, four, five. Got it.

All right. We're good. Well, do we also... Is this a good time to talk about some of the characters who you meet? Yes. This is another thing you guys are going to have to know before we start. Yeah. So we're going to bring up some of the famous characters from this ride.

And it's a little bit of a quiz. But we just want to make sure you're on the same page with us before we get into the queue of Flight of Passage. So, okay, here. There he is. This is Dr. Stevens. This is Dr. Stevens. That's Dr. Stevens. Okay, yeah, keep going.

Okay, this is the mighty Akron. And I'd like to do a quick side note. If you are all to Google the mighty Akron, the phrase the mighty Akron, the first two results are me. It's possible I made up the phrase the mighty Akron. I didn't know this until this morning. You Mandela effect yourself. I thought that's something from the movie.

It might not be. It might, no. I may have created that phrase. Anyway, so the mighty Akron, a.k.a. the Banshee. And then I've already forgotten this creature's name. Scott, you have it. I have it somewhere. That is the Leonanshee. And then I've already forgotten this creature's name. Scott, you have it, I know. I have it somewhere. That is the Leonatarix.

The great Leonatarix or Leonatarix Rex. Yes. Everybody got it? Great, got it. All right, now this is... This is Dr. Jackie Ogden. Now, I want to make sure that you don't confuse her with Avatar movie

character, Dr. Grace Augustine. Never. Not the same. Dr. Ogden is not Dr. Augustine. Please remember that. So, let's recap. This is Dr. Ogden.

And then, this is also Dr. Ogden. And then this is also Dr. Ogden. She's on the contraption that would eventually be the queue, the right, excuse me. The link chair. This is Dr. Augustine. A CGI

replication. You don't have an answer for why that one? I don't know. Do you have an answer of where that is from? I Google searched it and I just threw it into the presentation.

This is Dr. Augustine as an avatar. And of course this is Dr. Augustine as an avatar. And, of course, this is also Dr. Augustine, who does not appear in the queue at all. So make sure you don't confuse her. Don't remember this. It doesn't matter. Yes.

And then a couple of two quick other characters. Parker Selfridge. No pop for Parker Selfridge No And then I think No I guess that's it I think that's it

No I saw something else What do you mean? That character looks cool Parker Selfridge? No it wasn't Parker Selfridge He was looking for the unobtainium Parker Selfridge is great

I love him I saw something else. No, it's not. That was it. That was it. That was all it was. No! No!

It's Parker Selfridge. God damn it. I will leave. I could be on these rides right now, except not because they close at around 10. I could be near them. I don't know what. Look, maybe there's some sort of

parasite in my system. And we'll look at it later. Uh-oh, yes. There might be a parasite in all of our systems. We shall see. I mean, I guess you could describe our insane theme park fetish as a parasite.

And you know what? You've all got it. That's okay. It's pretty common around these parts. So, I mean, like, before we get in there, is there anything we'd like to say about the queue before you meet all these colorful characters? It's an amazing queue, as everybody knows.

Yeah, it's very long. Sure. There's no bathroom. But they have a system now, I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, where you can, like, get out of line and come back. Yes, I'm hearing a yes. So there's that. I hear they've corrected that on the rise of the resistance. Is that correct?

Someone back me up here. Oh. Hopefully? Okay. Okay. Now, I'm confused maybe. Is Flight of Passage the ride where the barbershop quartet sings at you until you're allowed to go

on the ride? I think you're thinking of Jimmy Fallon. Oh, okay, okay. Grace Augustine, Dr. Ogden, Jimmy Fallon. Oh, okay, okay. Grace Augustine, Dr. Ogden, Jimmy Fallon. And again, you will not hear anything about Race Through New York with Jimmy Fallon unless you go behind the paywall.

Coming soon, coming soon. The queue is fantastic. We'll drop the jokes for a second. The queue is fantastic. It's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got through it pretty quick because we were like there at rope drop. We were very, yes.

We were very. Shocked at how quick it went. Early, but yeah. And it's got, you know, I like it. It's got movement. It's got, you know, there's the outside. Then there's the, you know, you have different settings. There's the lab with the scariest Navi in a tank.

Yeah. I mean, everyone obviously knows this, right? There's a eight foot tall life-size Na'vi floating in liquid

and it's just bobbing there. Good point. It's an avatar. It's not a Na'vi. Oh, yeah. That's a body. You absolute dullard.

Oh. Boo. Yeah, boo this man. Boo thisard. Boo. Yeah, boo this man. Boo this man. What a foul. Oh, my God. Please. James Cameron is going to be upset.

He's got a transmission to his sub right now that I'm maybe not the big Avatar fan he thought I was. You're going to be on the no-eekney-maya list. Never again. Yeah, it's all very cool. That's extremely creepy. You're right,

because if you don't know any, if somehow you don't know the mythology of Avatar very well, you might think that that thing is dead or being preserved in a way similar to what people think happened to Walt Disney.

Right. I mean, maybe it's possible they did model the tank after his tank. Uh-huh. Is that a little Easter egg? Like in the way, in the part, like, oh, that's where Walt used to live, or this is the kind of chili he liked,

and that's the tank that he still is preserved in. Yeah, I've been in, of the three of us, I'm the only one who's been in Walt's apartment on Main Street. All right. I'm just saying, of the three of us, who's the biggest fan, you know? I've been to the apartment, and I've seen him in the tank. That's what I'm saying. You saw it.

You saw Walt. That's the secret. Head attached or not. What's that? Head attached or not. The head is attached, but he has that long, navi braid. Oh, for the link. For the link for the link yes

I will say I am a rare bird in that I have never seen the movie Avatar but through osmosis I have learned a lot about the mythology from Mike Carlson that's a shout out for not seeing Avatar how many people have not seen

Avatar and you're proud of it, too. You did not take out a small personal loan in 2009. Because you got to see it in IMAX and 3D and, like, 4K IMAX. Did you not see it because it was too expensive? It was too expensive. I wasn't working a lot. It was 2009, height of the recession.

You know, right? And everyone's like, well, you can't just see it in the regular movie theater. I've almost watched it on a plane once or twice. The ultimate version. I think you should watch it on the ride back to Los Angeles. Oh, yeah, maybe. Yeah. Yeah!

Let's all go home and watch it tonight. Yeah. Yeah! Let's all go home and watch it tonight. Yeah. Quick viewing. You know, we were trying to think of Avatar music when we revealed the topic, and there's no score. There's not, like, the theme. If you look theme for Avatar...

There's that Celine Dion song. No, it's not. It's, like, Leona Lewis. Oh, yeah, you're right. But isn't it written by the, isn't it written by the same person who wrote Heart Will Go On? Or am I wrong?

Am I crazy? Heart Will Go On. Did I say that? Something like that. It worked at short end. Gee, clean up your fucking life, man. What's going on over there? You're the guy who couldn't afford to see Avatar.

It was 10 years ago. It was 10 years ago. It was 10 years ago. Were you wearing a barrel with straps? You took improv classes with me at the Upright Citizen Brigade, which were $350. I know, I cleaned the toilets to do that. Now you have sympathy again. But how many recessions will happen before Avatar 2 comes out? We got time for a lot, I think.

Yeah. One of you said when we were at the Margaritaville resort that it seemed like it was the place... They're prepping for financial collapse. Yeah. They're like, why wait for the collapse to get in collapse mode? Getting an early start.

They've already done that thing you see in old movies where they put their suitcase up and they just throw every item in it and then they jam it closed and they're like... I really, you know, speaking of that, I was thinking, like, we should try to tell people, like, everybody go see our sign, but I don't think I want to punish people

and make them go to Dreams of Drive. The Lyft driver drove us in and he goes, Oh, like he, and he was like, I don't know. Did he say I've never, I've never been here before. It's like, this is, this is new. Massive. We, we, we roam the mall too around there which is just desolate but there isn't

it's sugar yeah and the candy urine is in stock look under your seats that's not true not true what were we talking about

the cue yeah the cue was very good. The mercury sort of thing was really cool. Oh, yes. There's all these wonderful little... If you're getting somehow to rush through the line, which we were moving very quickly, all the little lab effects

that seem to be done with magnets or some... They're all practical and physical and very cool. Like different funguses and... Someone has an idea of how it's done. Parafluids. Parafluids? Parafluids are magnetic fluids. Whoa.

Whoa. Therafluids? Therafluids, I believe. Therafluids, magnetic fluids. Wow. Wow. Okay. Jeez, thank you for doing our work for us.

Yeah, can you just come to Mike's apartment sometime and just help us out. But, you know, all right. So that's all very cool. But obviously, we are so much here to talk about the pre-show and the video with Dr. Stevens, who's instantly, indelibly

one of my favorite characters in theme park world. And I want to say something about Dr. Stevens, who's instantly, indelibly one of my favorite characters in theme park world. And I want to say something about Dr. Stevens. Dr. Stevens is played by a guy named David Danipour. And David Danipour is an improviser. He was on an improv team with my wife, Erin. I saw him in a number of shows.

He was funny as hell. Just like really naturally, everything he said was really, really funny. And so just shout out to David Danipour. And I'm sorry, we're going to talk like you a bunch tonight. But super, super funny guy. We'd love to talk to him. Yeah, congrats on booking that gig, man.

That's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, seriously. So, because this is like one of the longest, uh, eight, eight minutes or so of, of Q informational material. This is, I think we, we've talked about it before and I haven't done it in a couple, like a year and a half and it is so much longer than I remembered it being. Yeah. Uh, it is, uh, yeah, I don't know exactly.

I don't have a time count. Does anybody know the exact amount of time Dr. Stevens is talking to you? Does anyone work on Avatar Flight of the Apes? Oh, yeah. No. Because also, obviously, they have the thing which is new in the rides where if there's something going wrong,

they have an extra little piece of the video to play. They do it with Millennium Falcon. Did I hear a boo for the Millennium Falcon? Well, yeah. You know what's pretty weird is that thing where Hondo says, oh, wait, what's that? There's an alien that's landed and then nothing happens? Yeah.

What is that about? Really, I get that they were like, we need a little story beat here to keep it moving in case that there's something wrong, but make it a lot less interesting. Yeah, it's very intriguing. Like, yeah, like, oh, the light bulb is broken on the outside of the ship.

Let's fix it. Let me, and he goes and gets it or something and takes it out. Like, instead of like, there's a monster on the outside of the ship. That sounds thrilling, and we're about to go back on another adventure. A war is breaking out.

Wait, never mind. Oh, my God, the most interesting thing is happening right now. Back door opens. All right, everybody. Let's go. You did a bad job. Come on out. Everyone does a bad job.

You're all losers. Let's go. Come on. Okay, so, but you, it's very long because you need, there's so much you need to know. I mean, you need to know that you are being put into the body of an avatar and you're linking to an Ikran and you're going to fly on it. That's it, right? I mean, I get it.

I get it. Fine. But the ride decides that you need to learn a lot about the history of Dr. Jackie Ogden. Using avatars to fly this way was all figured out by my boss, Dr. Jackie Ogden. She leads our science team, which is part of the Pandora Conservation Institute. And we're here in the Valley of Moara studying banshees and their environment. Uh-huh.

Is that all it is, Jason? Keep reading. Over a generation ago. Jason has the full script at the ready, should we need it. This enormous company called the RDA created a lot of damage to the area through their bad mining practices and conflicts with the Navi.

Just like on Earth, it can take decades for ecosystems to recover. So it's very important we know the name of the company. It's very important that we know that it is enormous. It is not some rinky-dink mom-and-pop company. Enormous company. Wait, let me see it again. It's very important that it is bad mining practices. Yeah, we've been walking around for a few days,

and Scott just keeps saying bad mining practices. Damage to the bad mining practices. If they'd done good mining practices, we wouldn't have a problem, but mediocre mining practices, maybe I'd let it slide, but bad, I can't stand it. That drives Dr. Stevens up the wall.

You're good. but man, I can't stand that drives Dr. Stevens up the wall you could do a one man show as Dr. Stevens oh yes whoa laboratory assistant interviews today gotta put on that classic Dr. Stevens charm Disney Plus here we go Disney Plus. Here we go. Disney Plus series.

Yeah. Well, Danipour's got to play, but I'll run. Yeah, no, you'll get it. I'm the showrunner. I'm the writer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have his voice down. Thank you.

Not his literal voice. Well, yeah. It's a lot of fun to do. It's fun to talk about bad mining practices. It's fun to talk about bad mining practices. It's fun to talk about keystone species. Every culture has keystone species. They're not fun like keystone cops. They don't run around in fast motion, make hijinks.

They do bad mining. Wait, no. Keystone species are in danger. They're good. Okay, okay. Mining practices are bad. I was confusing the keystone species with in danger. They're good. They're good. Okay, okay. Mining practices are bad. I was confusing the keystone species with the miners. Yes.

And there is an incredible thunderstorm. There are Haunted Mansion effects being pumped into the... Yeah, that is fun. What's that? That's what I thought, right? Is somebody just outside revving their motorcycle? No. Goddamn right.

Church Station is right there. And that's where the cool guys go. When we, by the way, when we drove by Church Street Station, one of the... Oh my God. We get the message. One of the entrances was closed off,

which really didn't matter because no one was on it it was empty more empty spaces okay jason did you get into a fight with someone a chicken guy and they're calling you out now oh he told me i had to register before I could get the two free sauces. And I pissed. All right, anyway, back to the script. Yeah, back to the script. I mean, I will say, I mean, this was our first time going on it.

First time in the land. The land is great. It's beautiful. I saw a Joe Rohde lecture back in LA a month or so ago, and he just talked about looking at classical paintings to try and figure out how they inspired awe, and he applied. They tried to apply that with things of this nature,

things of this scale, and the floating mountains were great, and the foliage was great. I took some pictures and like did a double take later in the day where I was like my god that looks really good yeah but what's fun is

saying these things anyway back to the cue back to the man it's also important to know that banshees live high in rookeries is it? I just don't know. Is the whole thing killing time? Is that what this entire thing is about?

It is? So that's what we're getting. But. Wait. Oh, wait. You have specific information. Oh. Oh, that's interesting.

The restaurant's very good. Yeah. But I would also say. So who's been on Guardians of the Galaxy in California? Mission Breakout. Yeah. That's another Joe Rohde ride. And I would also say there's a lot of information Galaxy in California. Mission Breakout. Yeah. That's another Joe Rohde ride and I would also say

there's a lot of information you're told. You gotta get, my hands don't scan. Yours do, so you gotta get in. There's a gantry lift. When you get into

the gantry lift, scan your hands because again, my hands don't scan. You know what? So let me, do me a favor, stand on your number

and move your arms around a little bit. The collector's got bad mining practices, and you're going to need to know that. So when the collector comes here, scan your hands. He lives up in a rookery. You get in the ganch, you have to get to the rookery.

So it feels like maybe he also likes a little plot. That's all I'm saying. I think so, and in all of this, Dr. Ogden is brought up so much that I start to think that it's a scenario where Dr. Ogden was hurt or is missing.

And what the ride is about is rescuing Dr. Ogden, our beloved Dr. Ogden. But then it becomes like, so proceed to the next room where you can watch a video with Dr. Ogden. I think I said to you, we're not done with Dr. Ogden yet.

And you laughed like, ha ha, how could we possibly have more? And then there she's like, I think she's on a bike in that scene. Do you have more here? Do you want me to? Well, I was going to say about Dr. Ogden, you know, we mentioned we were there when the park opened. So it was very early.

And, you know, on and off all trip, we've all been saying like, oh, I'm tired. My back hurts. My feet hurt. Apparently the way my being tired expresses itself is I thought that was Sigourney Weaver for about 20 minutes. I was like, yes, of course, it's Sigourney Weaver. She was in the movie. I know she's in the movie. I haven't seen it, but I know

she was in the movie. So, now you understand why we put you through that tough quiz. Yeah. Tough exercise. You know what? Can we get a refresher? Do you have that? Can we get a refresher? We're not going to help you this time. Training wheels are off. Yes, exercise, so you didn't make the same. You know what? Can we get a refresher? Do you have that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we get a refresher?

Jason, I'm... We're not gonna help you this time. Training wheels are off. Yes. Jason, thank you so much for doing this. The audience, I could tell they wanted it. Yeah. All right.

This is Dr. Ogden. Dr. Ogden. All right. This is... Dr. Augustine. All right. This is... Dr. Augustine.

Terrifying. All right. That's... Dr. Augustine. And this is... Dr. Augustine. All right, this is? Dr. Augustine. Terrifying. All right, that's? Dr. Augustine. And this is? Dr. Augustine. No, no, stop it! They don't need that part of the quiz. What are you talking about?

This is a thing, I saw a thing. It's an action figure. It's a sci-fi movie, they make action figures. Maybe I'm just tired, I've been walking so much and sleeping so little. All right. Anyway. Are there any other choice selections, Jason, in this what could have been just a live reading of the pre-show?

Sure. Banshees live in Rookery. It's muttering. We'll all be muttering this before we die. Humans can't get anywhere near them without becoming their lunch. But the Na'vi and the Avatars can. In fact, the Na'vi have been riding on the backs of Banshees

since their earliest history. Thanks to science, Avatars can ride on Banshees too. That's why you're linking to an avatar. It was Dr. Ogden who restarted the avatar program. Uh-huh. Is that it? It's because of her that you're able to go through this rite of passage today. And that's it?

And then we move on, and then we get on the ride. That's the ride? And then the ride begins. Pandora is a breathtaking natural world. I cannot wait for you guys to see it for yourselves. So he says, but then, you know, nine more tests unfold.

And you know what? We've been doing this show for a little bit, and we want to give you guys a chance to limber up, so go ahead and move around a little bit. Move your arms around a little bit. Okay, don't you feel better? And we want to give you guys a chance to limber up. So go ahead and move around a little bit. Move your arms around a little bit. Yeah, that helps us out. Okay, don't you feel better? I literally questioned this, not a bit.

Is that it? Well, do you want the delay version or not? Oh, my God. Here, let's... All right, fine. Read the delayed version. This is parenthetical. In case of a loading delay ahead of you,

these extra lines may be added at this point in the video to take up some extra time. So let's get ready for our next huh? Hmm. Huh? Huh? I'll be right back. Put the standby system on quickly. Yeah, and then you even get

and then so then one more room where there's even a ton more explanation about like sliding your thing into the back of the cubbies. And you get to meet Dr. Ogden, who tells you again. You'll be getting on a... You really think, like, you're going to be on the right, and all of a sudden you're going to look to your left, and she's going to wave to you? Woo-hoo! From the back of it? Like, at least something.

Or like, thank you, you saved me! Yeah. Your healing you saved me yeah your healing touch saved me yeah, thank you and isn't now, of course this is all wonderful, but you're in that queue and you're in the world of Pandora and aren't you thinking, isn't this really just

a plused up green planet at the end of the day isn't it really just the home? Yeah. They got there first, the OG. You're expecting to see the flop, glopple, glopple. Come on,

man. Get it together. I'm sorry. Okay, so we read all of that. Just to compare, this is what you hear before Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Howdy, partner, for your safety, remain seated with your hands, arms, feet, and legs inside the train. And be sure to watch your kids.

And you folks are wearing hats and glasses, best remove them, because this here's the wildest ride in the wilderness. That's it. That's it. That's the whole spiel before, can you imagine if it was the length of that? Howdy, partner. Welcome here. Let me tell you about the company that built the train, all right? It's a long story, so sit down.

First things first. Barnabas T. Bullion is not a nice guy to work for. Take a look at those houses, those businesses over there. Let me tell you one by one who owns each one and what the business does. First one's a saloon. You want a sarsaparilla,

you can get it there. But you're paying in company script. See, company script is like money, but it's not money. You can only use it at the company store. Let me tell you a little bit about my kids. There's five of them and I only like three.

Hold still. Keep your... There's only ten more minutes of this. The two that were left died of typhoid. Yeehaw! Hell yeah. Now on to the next room for more. Wiggle your arms around a little bit.

Helps me out. I'm just getting on that train and I'm wondering how was I able to get on this? Did my hands scan or not? You gotta link up to the train, my man. Usually you need a ticket for a train. You can't just walk onto it for free, willy-nilly. Link up your bindle to the train. Yeah, so...

It's a contra. That's how we do things now. They did things differently back then. All that being said, then you get on the ride and the ride's really cool. We all like the ride, right? It's everybody to do it.

Yeah. You fly and it's great. We establish a link using powerful psionic amplification equipment. A human driver is connected to an avatar which would be

physically hundreds of kilometers away. There is another page of this. But it's really cool when you do it. You know, there's one part where it flips upside down. This is Dr. Ogden. Once the link takes place, you'll be connected to your avatar. It's sitting on the back of a Necron.

It'll feel like you're really there. This is the point where I'm going to say, as we were waiting in the queue, Mike just kept saying, you can feel it breathing between your legs. You can! And you just can't! You said it so much! I think I said to be fair to me, I said

it, you can feel the great beast breathe between your legs. I used flowery fun language to excite them. They hadn't been on before. And then we're on the ride. We go down the first drop. We're taking it in. It's the most immersive ride we've ever been on.

I'm not on Earth anymore. I'm in Pandora. And until I am pulled out of it by you saying, hey, feel the great beast breathing with you in your life. I think it's possible you miss it on your first time. And I, honestly, I like to just sort of maybe one hand out

and one hand on the beast. What? I love it. That's not a joke. Like it's a fucking Clydesdale? Like, yeah, good. I'm not slapping it. Good fella. I'm just sort of like, I'm caressing it. That'll do.

That'll do. Like you're checking it for testicular cancer. I'm not doing this. I'm not squeezing it. I'm like Black Beauty or something, the horse. I'm just petting its mane. That's sort of, I guess I have a connection to the animal. I'm sorry.

Well, the connection is established by a link. With a powerful psionic energy. Unbelievable. I'm getting, I'm getting, I'm getting banshee shamed. I think it's fair to say you are the most, of the three of us, you're the one most wrapped up into the kingdom of Abbott.

Is it a kingdom? Yeah, I live my life by sort of the Navi code. That's sort of what you're talking about, yeah. You could very well be the forthcoming character, the Seed Bearer. We're all psyched for the Seed Bearer. Yeah. Is that the next one, or next one or i think that's two more is that four that's a lot we don't get to meet the seed bearer but we might meet the seed bearer

yeah that could be the seed bearers movie seed bearer might be like Supreme Leader Snoke and then gets killed in the fourth. But we won't see the full story of the seed bearer until our lives are drastically different. We have grandchildren. I'm back in the barrel because there's another recession. Hey, hey, hey, brother, spare a dollar so I can see Avatar 6. Brother. Spare a future dollar. Because it's 3022.

Yeah. So, oh, you know, we missed this. Oh, yeah. Oh, the groundbreaking. Yes, indeed. Yes, for the listener, what we're showing you, we've admired this photo for a long time. There are six human beings.

And one, Navi. And all of them are breaking ground on Pandora using giant blue shovels. Because that is what a Navvi person would use to dig. In the way that we all use, you know, skin-colored, like, satan-ish shovels. I mean, sort of. Wood, I guess.

You know how you... Honey, I'm sorry, I gotta run to Home Depot. I gotta get a new flesh shovel. The shovel that looks like flesh. We will find out more about these shovels in Avatar 8, the shovel user. So we will see the blue shuttles again.

But this, this is of course, like you can, this picture is hanging in Pandora. You can see this in the land. But it is, like, gaslighting us because they photoshopped out an executive who is no longer with the company. I don't have the other photo. Is this the photo with the taken out?

Block the person who's blocked. This is the original. So is that Tom's? Did they take Stag's out? Yeah. They took Stag's and Croft's. Oh, because they were both gone. This is gone.

Stop. Okay, that's it. So as if he's framed just like with nobody over here. Did they? What? They fucking deepfaked this photo.

This is what Disney... This is what they do, because they're like... We saw the Disney Plus Twitter stuff where it's like, Miracle on 34th Street, a Disney film. No.

Not true. I remember. I was there. It's like you briefly showing Choco. I know you did it. Hey. Come on. Disney's always made National Geographic.

You've always been the caretaker. Or it's similar. We've talked before. We've been talking this week about the photos where the cigarettes are Photoshopped out of Walt's hands. Walt's famous, yeah. Which fortunately he did found a company where a lot of people have to do a two-finger point. So it looks weird, but it's kind of justified.

Everyone here who has to do that for their job put two fingers in the air. Point them like you just don't care. Wow, that's a lot. Oh, my God. Well, they can't. That's not right. Wow, that's a lot. Oh my god. Well, they can't. That's not right. They can't lie to us. We remember this

man, Tom Skaggs? Tom Staggs. Staggs. And we remember the other person. We know. We know. We know. I see you. I see you. Which one? Wait, this one? That's Staggs. Okay, I see you. I see you. Wait, this one?

That's that. That's that. Okay, I see you. No! No! Surely someone else saw it. Am I going mad? Yes.

Yes, he is. We don't know what that is. Let's gaslight Scottott yes no everyone was so nice to me about the scary rides now you're being now you've turned are you being mean just because we read instructions to you for half an hour yes we're being told yes we did a rock and roller coaster in tower of tower like in one hour, within one hour. Yeah, the bravest hour. The thought of doing that back-to-back with that little amount of time to recover for the first time,

compared to the 90s where it's like, all right, you waited an hour, you wrote it, you had another hour to wait. Good job, Scott. Thank you. Wow. Keep getting applause for that. it you had another hour to wait like good job Scott thank you wow he's getting applause for that also the mummy launch is not scary at all what was my problem no idea on that one okay but so now is it time to talk a little more in depth about the ride okay yeah yeah the ride itself I mean well yeah okay on so it's like when you, there's a lights part.

And that's like... Oh, yeah, it's this part where you land and then you really feel the breathing. It's beautiful. And yeah, you stop and you look

and these lights appear. That's cool. The lenses in the glasses are rectangular, but my glasses are more circular. So there was one or two things

that were a little blurry. How am I expected to see Vako if I cannot Sivaco? Yeah. Wow. I wrote that down in the line for the

boat ride. Like right afterwards. I was like, I gotta write this? Yeah, geez. down in the line for the boat ride. Wow. Like right afterwards. I was like, I gotta ride this? Yeah, geez. And a great job to you as well. Thank you. Great.

So yeah, flying is cool. It's fine, yeah, flying's cool. There's a big whale that pops up and you go through a wave and your words can be scary, but it's not. And that's the ride and that's what we have to say about the ride. It's great, it's really good. That's Avatar Flight of Passage.

Yeah. We may revisit this at some point, but this is a rare thing where we're actually going to fit in a segment. Yes. Yeah. One of our famous segments. Yeah, that we've committed to doing

beyond episode three. Which of our three segments we've ever done? When we were first formulating this show, we wrote down so many segments. We had meetings about segments. And then we just started talking and haven't

stopped for two years. But, there's a fun thing. I've sort of put together this. Scott and Jason don't really know a lot of the details. thing I've sort of put together this Scott and Jason don't really know a lot of the details but I've put together our famous

our famous segment Souvenir Smackdown one of our early finds oh yeah Pooh and his human girlfriend his common law wife on a shirt oh yeah you got common law wife. On a shirt? Oh, yeah.

You got a shirt. Yeah. We got a shirt in the house. Got the shirt. Wow. Oh, thanks for house lights. Yeah. Amazing.

Cool, cool, cool. Wow. Again, we did not make that shirt. Someone else did. Izzy cannot come after us. But we love to see it. We love to see it. Yeah.

But since here's the thing. Usually we're playing against each other. The game sort of works best with three people. So I'm not going to get to it. We can't just do two? That doesn't... It's not as fun. I mean, I think it would be fun if we played with someone else.

Somebody who may have, like, experience collecting collectibles and also might have SmackDown experience. What do you mean? Who could that be? What is... What? What are you talking about? What's any of this? Well, if the slide would work.

Is it the collector, Tyvon? Woo, woo, woo! What? You know it! Look at that! I? You know it! What's the way out? I go the right way. Oh! Oh!

What's up? We gotta pretend we didn't shake hands in the back. What's up? Ladies and gentlemen! What's up, big man? How are you? Zach Reiner! All right, I man? Zach Reinhardt! Alright, I'm here!

Wow! Hey, man. What's the deal, man? So we're playing Souvenir Smackdown. You know, we're basically, you're gonna... Hold on, what are you wearing, dude? This is a whole. Yeah, we all got them.

I have my ears pierced. Can I get one? You have an extra for me? You know what? I have a spirit of kindness. I have it like. It's a clip on. Oh, it's a clip on.

So even better. All right. Wow. How do I look? Yeah. Oh, my God. All right. So.

We see you. We see you. We see you. I know you'll rise to the challenge, like a lot of you people say. Yes. So basically, the game is going to work like this. I'm going to show some items I found on eBay, and you're all going to guess how much this person is selling the item for.

Okay. Okay. So you know what? We can move this chair over here. Yeah, let's make some space. Okay. Or if you want to sit. You know what?

I'm going to pop down on the lid. Okay. So I sit here? Yeah, sit there. All right. I was, oh, here's a piece of paper. So we're going to keep score. There we go. I'm back. I feel like maybe we won't care about the score after a few few rounds but we'll see. So okay so let's get started here. I have ten different items from eBay okay. We don't have to do all of them if you need to go somewhere. You can see why we didn't talk about Flight of Passage. Who cares? Ten items. So, for item number one, 1982 very rare Epcot Center Canada Pavilion serving

tray prop. Oh, sweet. Are we booing or wooing? Woo! I had a Labatt's. There was a horrible thunderstorm and we ran to seek refuge and we ended up in a little Canada store and I got a Labatt's

and it calmed my jangled nerves. I'm still scared of some stuff. Nature. Labatt's rules. All right, Jason, how much do you think the person on eBay is selling this for? $50.

$50. Scott, how much do you think? Maybe I'll take it lower to $30. $30. Now are we talking like buy it now or they're bids? This is just what it starts out as. Oh, this looks like junk to me. Five bucks.

$5. Good, good. Okay, now... I might be off to Canadian, so I can say that. That's right. Is anyone Canadian here? Oh. All right. Is anyone Canadian here? Oh. Anyway.

So, the answer to how much this item is going for on eBay, $600. Jason. Wait a minute. Are there any bids? Or it just... Well, I will tell you this. Unlike the other items on this, this sold for $600 and was the starting bid. That's unbelievable.

$600. Jason Sheridan gets a point on the board. All right. All right. So next up here. These are great. Walt Disney cartoon VHS collection volumes one, two, and three. I will show you what the VHS itself looks like.

Dirty label. It's a dirty label Walt Disney Home video. It's got that scary rotating Mickey inside. You know that logo with the multiple color Mickey? Yeah, it's terrifying. Okay, now, what? What was that? Oh, guesses?

Guesses, alright. Let's go, Jason. $10. $10. Scott? It's all three? It's all three tapes. This is what it starts out as on the eBay auction. Well, wasn't there, like, Jewelcase or whatever you call it? The clamshells were starting to go for a lot.

So, like, let me go high 400. 400. I'll go 300. So 100 for each one. 300. All right. The person is selling this for $1 million. What?

Come on. $4 million. It must be a joke or a drug front, honestly. You must, like, pay for it, and you get, like, a crate full of drugs. I got to wonder, what does the FBI have to say about all that? Do not reproduce? I don't know. Don't resell?

Yeah, so wait, who was that? Me, I think. That's you. That was Scott. Okay, well Scott's got a point on here. Thank you. Ooh! Kohler!

Alright, this is Kohler Disney Mickey Mouse Playful as a Mouth Bathroom Remodel Complete Set. And this comes with this and this. So for the listener at home, Mickey hands can hold your paper towels

and I think maybe your toilet paper down there as well. In this photo, it's like Mickey's been torn apart. His limbs all asunder. Yes. I buy a lot of shit on eBay, but this is absolute shit. Oh, man. Do you have any... You, of course, are the Michael Jordan of professional wrestling action figure collecting. Something like that, yeah.

Yeah, I think I got it a little bit wrong. Is there any, have you bought any sinks that feature professional wrestlers on them? No sinks, but I just bought the Macho Man workout set. It's this weight bench, almost like a ghetto Bowflex. It's the Macho Machine. Oh, It's this weight bench, almost like a ghetto Bowflex. It's the Macho Machine. Oh, wow. Google that. Google that.

The Macho Machine? The Macho Machine. Just got it last week. It's old, though. Very old, like mid-90s. Wow. Also, if anyone knows where to find the accountant

behind the Macho Machine, please call in. The authorities are concerned. Been missing for years. behind the Macho Machine. Please call in. The authorities are concerned. Been missing for years. I think it was Kurt. I think Kurt Hawkins got a shout out. Your tag team partner.

They love that. So, all right. How much is the person selling this on eBay for? The Mickey, Polar, Disney, playful as a mouse, bathroom set.

Yeah, $100. $100. Jason? I'm going to guess $500. $500. I'm so confused. I'll say $1,000. Okay.

$9,000. What? I saw in sold there are people that have paid upwards of thousands of dollars for other Kohler Mickey bathroom sets. So this is apparently a hard to find item. Does anyone have a sink with Mickey on it? Oh, hey, buddy. Don't use too many squares. All right.

Oh, no! I would like to read, okay, I would like, for the listener at home, these are two, there's a Mickey and a Donald toy. They look like, they look like they went into, like, the machine from The Fly,

the movie The Fly. And they came out wrong. Like they were cloned wrong. And the description on this is, vintage Mickey and Donald, Ben's 1950s, 60s, beautiful and rare. Sometimes dead is better. How much does a person want for this?

$350. That here's $350. $2,000. $2,000, says Jason. But maybe if you're crazy enough to think this is beautiful, you also don't know that you could get money for this kind of thing, so maybe it's like $70. You're 70. I'm going to go low and say $15.

$15. $10,000. Holy shit. We're going to post all of these online, so if you're listening while these are all be on Twitter, you have a Disney collection as well. You have a ton of action figures, so if you're listening, well, these will all be on Twitter. Do you, have you, you have a Disney collection as well. You have a ton of action figures, mostly wrestling, but Star Wars, Ninja Turtles. Sure, Ghostbusters, Disney.

Ghostbusters, Disney. But what is the, is there a prized Disney collectible you have? Not really. My big thing is like, I take things out of the package. I hate them in the box. There's a phrase you say. Let them breathe. Let them breathe about when it comes to toys.

But if I'm buying something off eBay and it's out of the box, we call that loose, I don't trust the person who had it before, so I got to give it a fig bath, which means I give my toys like a bubble bath. You know, there's nothing weird about that, you know? Because you have to disinfect the figure, you know what I'm saying?

Like what if someone had like dirty hands and have to disinfect the figure. You know what I'm saying? Like, what if someone had, like, dirty hands and was playing with the figure, packaging the figure, you know? Right. God knows what they were doing with the figure. So you got to get it, and you got to disinfect it. Give it a fig bath. Sometimes, you know, the lights might be off,

a candle might be lit. Nothing wrong with that, though. Waste not, you know. For this audience and for us, that is not weird at all. I get that totally. Let me ask you a question. Are you in the bath with the figure? Sometimes.

Sometimes. It's a lot easier that way. Of course. Let me ask you this question. Sometimes when you're bathing, the figures, do they ever fight? 100%. Honestly, sounds like a lot of fun. Sometimes when you're bathing, the figures, do they ever fight? 100%. Honestly, sounds like a lot of fun. I have the Bash at the Beach ring.

It's meant to float. Is that true? That is true. Wow. I have an unboxing video on YouTube. Check it out. I'm in the pool for that one. I'm in the pool for that one.

Sorry, guys. Yeah, Bash at the Beach was an outdoor WCW pay-per-view. And it was, yeah, so there's a toy of a wrestling ring that floats in water. But that's not in the game. These current creatures, I wouldn't, like, maybe you give them a fig bath and let them drown. All right. Who won that round? I did. Jason. All right, who won that round? I did. Jason.

All right, Jason's winning. He's up two. Yeah. I'd be really proud of this. Yeah. I'm embarrassed. All right, here we go. These are all crazy.

Hey. This is pre-named Duffy Duffy. What? Oh. Did he? Yeah. Uh-oh. He has red eyes and he looks sick.

Oh. Duffy. Duffy. Duffy. That is being chanted by somebody in the audience. It's a, which character? Shellatoni. Shellatoni.

With the shirt. With the Podcast the Ride shirt. In a Podcast the Ride shirt. Wow. Incredible. They said they were going to make it, and they made it. Thank you. Wow. Wow.

Bonkers. I went to Tokyo Disney. Tokyo Disney Sea, I got that and Duffy for my fiance. She wasn't impressed. What? That's what happened to my girlfriend and I. Where's Lindsay? Where are you?

Oh, she's a weirdo. Somebody's pointing here. Get him. Get his ass. Drag him, queen. Lindsay, okay, bye. Wait, what? No, he was pointing at you.

Oh. It would be really funny if someone was like, that? No, he was pointing at you. Oh. It would be really funny if someone was like, that's me, Lindsay. We have kissed before. I'm Lindsay. Take me to your hotel. See you in Los Angeles. All right. Anyway, so weird red eyes, non-named Duffy.

Duffy, how much going for? $1,500. $1,500, says Jason. $700. Scott says $700. $500. I hear $500. All right, $7,337.

God! $0.14. You're not. I just got caught. They have all the Duffys. All the pre. They have purple Duffy. You're not. I just can't go on. They have all the Duffys. All the pre. They have purple Duffy. They have green.

So they have the whole collection of pre-Duffy Duffy, which is a thing. I feel like you, when the episode came out about Duffy, you were like, I don't do Duffy. And then you went to Tokyo Disney and you were like, I gotta get Duffy. You gotta get Duffy. You had more there. You were anti-Duffy. But I didn't buy any clothes, so Duffy's naked in my house. Oh.

Oh. All right. Obviously, all Duffys should have Podcast the Right shirts. Yes. You've proven the only real way to do it. All right, so what time is it? Jason. Is it midnight yet?

No, we're good. We're good on time. Yeah. So Jason again. Yeah do it. All right, so what time is it? Jason. Is it my time yet? No, we're good. We're good on time. Yeah. So Jason again. Yeah. All right, so Jason's up three. And then, okay, so now here's the speed round. And when I say speed, slightly faster.

All right. Is this a good time to say that you will be linked to an avatar via a link chair? Yes. Dr. Ogden, help with that? This is a speed round that I like to call the Michael Eisner collectible round. What? What? Oh, baby.

I didn't. I was teasing this all day to them, like, I got some good stuff in here. Oh, my God. And there are a surprisingly large amount of Michael Eisner related items on eBay. Whoa! Oh yes, you said you tapped a vein

that you'd never tapped before. I had never tapped a vein, and I did today. Yeah. You found your own private unobtainium. But, like Parker Selfridge, I obtained my obtainium. Hello? Hello, that's right. All right.

All right, so the first in the Michael... Get that sweet Eisner meat. Michael Eisner speed round. A Mighty Ducks... Mighty Ducks puck. Mighty Ducks, Michael Eisner, sign Anaheim, Mighty Ducks Mighty Ducks puck. Mighty Ducks Michael Eisner signed Anaheim Mighty Ducks 1994 Global

Authentics. How much is this puck going for on eBay? Starting out price. $2,300. Hold on. I'm gonna go lower $800. $800. Scott. I'm just gonna go lower, 800? 800. Scott.

I'm just going to go way higher from that pattern and say $20,000. That's what I would pay. Not what you would pay. I'm going to go the total opposite way and say 15 bucks. 15 bucks. Jason Sheridan, $400. Geez. God. Next up, young Michael Eisner headshot. Jason Sheridan $400 jeez god next up

young Michael Eisner headshot hello I see you my man my man up here looking like a whole damn meal god damn geez let me ask you this we've talked a lot about on the show about buying uh if they

made like a premium michael eisner figure right yeah or would you do it i think i'd have to do it right are we talking like a plastic figure with articulation or like a stuffed animal figure oh i haven't covered that well as you'll hear on the episode that's dropping in like a plastic figure with articulation or like a stuffed animal figure? Oh, I haven't covered that. Well, as you'll hear on the episode that's dropping in like a few hours, we've come up, we like the idea of sort of a premium format Hot Toys style. With a soft good shirt.

Soft good shirt. A recreation of the desk where he says hello. That's what we like. But also we think the idea of sort of making a baby Eisner plush is also good. Yeah. So either or. Yes, you're in?

I don't know about the baby. No, I don't know about the baby. All right, but the one with the nice shirt, you're in. Yeah, the soft, good shirt, I'm in, yeah. All right, great. How much do we think this is starting out on eBay for? Unsigned? Unautographed?

It is press photo Michael Eisner, vice president. It's unsigned. $3. $3. Yeah, I got to go. I'll say like $15. $15. Jason?

$25. $25. Oh, we are It's tied between 1999 Oh wow Oh so technically Scott wins that round

Yes by a set Yes That's some Price is Right shit Alright Oh yeah Here we go Sneaked in there A photo of Sylvester Stallone

Michael Eisner And John Travolta It's an Annie Leibovitz Dude look at the fine print That's Annie Leibovitz Sneaked in there. A photo of Sylvester Stallone, Michael Eisner, and John Travolta. It's an Annie Leibovitz. Dude, look at the fine print. That's Annie Leibovitz. So you got Eisner here. You got Sylvester Stallone.

You got John Travolta. Wow. How much is this photo starting out for on eBay? Jeez. In what? What's the story? Scan of it? Like an 8x10? what's the story scan of it like an 8x10 what's the size

it is a 12x18 1983 you guys guess I'm just interested in the article I'm just gonna read it it's a little pixely those pixels seem to say

Jeffrey Katzenberg I felt like I didn't want to look into it because our own imagination is so much greater about what they were all doing. I'm sure it was like Hollywood money makers of like 1983, right? Yes.

Probably. We can all go home and write our own little short story about this. I think you three need to recreate that photo. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. Right? Yeah. That's a Right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

That's a good, like, cover of the podcast, I think. Yeah. Put all your faces on there. Who's going to wear the white suit, though? Jason. Jason. You know, I had to do it to him. Right?

Scott, I think you can do the Eisner pose there. Thank you. Yes, sort of hand-draped between the legs. Do you guys want to? Yeah. Yeah, there it is. All right.

That would do it? Great. Hey. You guys want to come over? I'll put sheets over all the furniture. You can sit on it in an unorthodox way. Oh, guys, you're here. Hello.

Hello. Hello. You want to try a hello, Michael Eisner hello? Hello. Yeah. Good. Oh, yeah. Pretty good.

All right. How much is this on ebay starting out $7 Jason $20 it's a writer $15 $49.99 $20 so that's Jason right

alright good I say good because I I'm forgetting everything already alright now we get to some good stuff here

a Michael Eisner trading card oh so it's yeah Michael Eisner owns tops oh does he really owns tops trading cards what So it's... Michael Eisner owns Topps.

Oh, does he really? Owns Topps trading cards. What? Yes. Yeah. Wow. His son's involved too. And his son, not Breck.

Not Breck. The other one. The other one. But we don't like the other one. We like Breck. Yeah. Breck had all the right ideas. Breck.

Breck. Breck. Breck. Breck. Breck. Breck. Breck, Breck, Breck, Breck, Breck, Breck, Breck, Breck. All right, so this is Michael Eisner 2014 Tops, Alan Ginter, Codebreaker, Autograph, Auto, 1-1 Disney. What's up with this The personalities Uh again We can make our own short story Hold on

Uh It's a Hmm 70 70 Yeah 25 25

Jason 200 Jason Sheridan again wins 400 dollars for this signed Michael Eisner immediately bumps it up now here

here is the last thing Jason has already won so who cares yeah alright this is by far the weirdest thing this is another already won, so who cares? Yeah! Alright. This is by far the weirdest thing. This is another trading card, and it was made by

the opposing trading card company, Not Tops. And Upper Deck, thank you so much. And it is a parody card of Michael Eisner. Whoa! Called Michael Be Eisner. Whoa! Oh! Called Michael Beisner.

B-U-Y. And it's, for listening at home, it is like a distorted face, eye patch wearing, backward baseball hat, like Dick Tracy villain, of Michael Eisner. The disrespect of the backwards baseball cap. And let me read the back of the card.

Here it is. What in the world? Upper Deck welcomes this season's newest rookie, Michael Beisner. After humble origins as a page for a top TV network and stints that included crashing a Zamboni machine in an Anaheim hockey arena, he is now the top dog searching for a way to bring Bazonka Joe into the 21st century. As big cheese of his own cardboard kingdom, he is enthusiastically searching for the baseball cards his mom threw away, and no one will be surprised to see a new big-budget film titled

Bazonka Joe and the Temple of Lost Trading Cards in the very near future. Upper Deck wishes Beisner well in the candy business. I don't think I understand this beef. I don't know what they're getting at. I certainly don't. Yeah. Yeah, I'm totally fucking confused. Guys, work it out amongst yourselves.

But I wanted to end the show more on a tease. We have to investigate the feud between Michael Eisner and Upper Deck, the trading card company. Yeah, yeah. And a good mood, like if I wanted to accuse Zach of being greedy, you'd be Zach-bider.

Okay, yeah. How much does that sting? Which honestly, if you've seen the amount of toys you buy, kind of works. It's a compliment, I guess. Before I came here, I was reorganizing my Star Wars stuff. Have you got anything cool? Who likes Star Wars here? What do you got? I just finished

the original Kenner vintage collection. Whoa. My last one in the mail this week, Luke Skywalker as a stormtrooper. Minty white. Minty white. People are like in pain. They're like so... All out of the box though though Loose

Wow No fig baths Okay so is that the most cherished part of the Star Wars collection? Of all your Star Wars stuff? Definitely yeah Because I was obviously Wasn't born when those came out Right

So I didn't grow up with them But I had to go back and get them And it took me a while Because they're pretty pricey Sure Well Congratulations Yeah Thank you you got it um you're happier than we'll ever be

all right so how much just for the hell of it how much is michael beisner who would need this there's no autograph michael beisner didn't autograph it uh i don't know. Is it big? It's a regular card. It's a regular credit card? I don't know, $8. Jason. Are you on your phone?

Yes. Is he cheating? It does not matter because I just bought it. Whoa! Yeah! Whoa. Smart. Yeah! Wow! Yeah!

Wow! Unbelievable. Good answer. Wow. Did you make an offer or buy it now? I did buy it now. And? Because it was 99 cents.

Yeah! Holy shit. You look so happy. I am so pleased with myself. Yeah! Jason Sheridan. Except for the fact that I paid four times as much for shipping as I did

for the item. Wow, wow. So Jason Sheridan, the winner of the game and the winner of life. Of Michael Bison. What a good idea. Well, Mr. Ryder, do you have any parting words? Thank you again for coming

here to participate. I'm just glad that you're wearing some fucking shoes. What was I wearing? I heard your story on Splash Mountain, that you go in. Oh yeah, what? Oh man.

With your bare feet. Tell your thoughts. It's fucking disgusting. Yeah! I don't want your sweaty, hairy feet anywhere near me. To be the way to explain to anybody who doesn't know, you have a thing that you like to do on Splash Mountain. I've done it like three times

in the log. I will very quickly and subtly and not invasively remove my shoes and socks, put my socks away, and put my shoes back on. Look, I will stop doing it.

But sometimes I don't, I'm not like Jason, I don't want my feet and my socks soaking wet. That was great after Dudley Do-Right at 6pm yesterday, the coldest day of the week, feeling like I had just gotten hit by three buckets of water simultaneously.

So I will, I will stop doing that. Is there any other grievances You have with me On the podcast Oh yeah Good point I think that's it really I mean Huh

Alright Well you want to exit Through the gift shop Plug away Yeah which way is that Which way is that Well maybe you'd like to plug Oh

What would you like to plug Oh I wrestle for WWE So Hell yeah You can follow me on Twitter At Zack Ryder If you are

A wrestling figure fan I have a podcast called The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast. So there's a little plug ski for that. And I'm kind of embarrassed that I lost this eBay game because that's my whole wrestling school. But my real job is collecting toys. Sure. I'm upset with myself. But then you're getting thrown curveballs like Michael Weisner. You have no scale on which to judge that.

Would you bathe a Michael Weisner toy in a fig bath? Only if you were there with me. Take those shoes off. You got the shoes? Take those shoes. I got it. I got it. Thanks, buddy.

Thank you, Zack Ryder. Thanks, Zack Ryder. Zack Ryder has survived Podcast The Ride, and you all have survived Podcast The Ride! Wow! That was a blast. Thank you so much for having us.

Thanks to Zach Comedy Lab. What a venue. What wonderful people. Hey, thanks to Sean and Pat for helping us out this week. Thanks to SEC Comedy Lab. What a venue. What wonderful people. Hey, thanks to Sean and Pat for helping us out this week. Thanks to Adam and Ashley from Universal. Thanks to Emily, John, and Diana here at SEC. And thanks so much to all of you for coming out. I'm tempted to say, let's just commit to it.

Next week, the downtown Disney ordeal. The gate. Um. Check it out. Whoa! My face is merging. No. And Brian, saludo familia.

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