Podcast: The Ride - Baseball X Theme Parks with Hal Rudnick (Main Feed)

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

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bleachers full of dogs, roller coasters in the outfield, cumbersome duck seats, and peanuts cracker jack and an elevated short rib bowl. All this plus a grab bag of baseball related theme park stuff with Hal Rudnick hey this is the only way you're gonna get us to talk about real sports it's podcast the ride Welcome to Podcast The Ride, a theme park podcast where two of the three hosts could eat their normal diets at a baseball stadium concession stand.

My name is Mike Carlson. Joining me as always, Jason Sheridan. I can't imagine which two of the three it would be. I don't know. The listeners will have to guess in the comment section. Let's bring in Scott Gardner. Yeah, you can do a whole meal that you could do. If you had to spend an entire day in a ballpark,

you could, oh good, my breakfast hot dog and my lunch hot dog. And then my, why do you shake it up for dinner? You take, you like throw chicken tenders onto a hot dog? Well you might eat healthy and just go bun only, just bun and ketchup at dinner. Yeah, yeah. Cause you've had a risk to your hot dog? Cause you're watching your weight, yeah. Oh, a smaller dinner.

Have we discussed? A smaller dinner. A little, just a little bun your weight, yeah. Oh, a smaller dinner. Have we discussed- A smaller dinner. A little, just a little bun and ketchup, you know? Have you ever done bun and ketchup? No, but I certainly like the combo. Well, because when eating a hot dog, sometimes you will just get like, you'll eat the hot dog like too fast.

You will be like, you'll end up with a piece of just bun and ketchup at the end sometimes. Yes. So you have had, we've all had it. Yeah, but you've never just done a vegetarian ketchup and bun No, but you get that little bun, but and maybe you're fine with that Yeah, oh, yeah, okay. No no issues with bun, but no No, Jason, you've come up with the term fun but like he seems more disturbed than like a normal episode of podcast this is absolutely a viable kind of phrase you guys would know you're misreading my reaction I was

imagining a delicious bun oh he was so my mind. He was so hypnotized. Oh, like you made a little 3D model and you're spinning it around, making sure like, oh, and actually, ooh, and you know what, I didn't even see there's a bonus little mustard on that side. Ah, there's a single onion. One, yes, one little relish square.

Actually, ooh, this is more complex than a mere simple bun bun. That was Jason's like horny face, really, if like in the same, but it was like, look mad. I think it's the same. I think it is the same emotion. Yeah. Uh, yeah, sure.

Uh, I, um, I did this did inspire a current baseball thing, which is we are talking about America's favorite pastime. Oh, sure. We will be doing that. Yeah the Vacation Kingdom of the world and beyond sure. Yes, that's part. We partly yes. I I do have a current baseball thing I think we should bring our guest in first. Oh, yeah sure opinion Yeah, you want me to bring him in you? Yeah, please. I do have eight more minutes about bun butts You want to please I do have eight more minutes about bun butts

If the guests won't suck about bun butts though, we're throwing out whatever you want to talk about and just going with that We'll bring him in his Hal Rudnick. He's from screen junkies. He impaled from community. I said his name already It's Hal Rudnick good to be here guys. And did I hear bun butts? Yeah We were talking without you for a Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. I'm glad you were alert, even though we were talking without you for a minute. Oh, yeah, I was paying attention. I will say, fellas, it's time to evolve your perspectives in regards to ballpark cuisine. Oh, right, right, right. You know, Dodger Stadium is offering short rib bowls,

squid balls, fried squid. There's a lot of Asian cuisine at Dodger Stadium. I did Din Tai Fung, I believe, a Din Tai Fung to Go. Am I making that up at Petco Park? Yeah, there's absolutely, there's a lot of Asian cuisine at Dodger Stadium. I did dintai feng, I believe, a dintai feng to go. Am I making that up at Petco Park? Yeah, there's absolutely. Oh, beautiful, Petco in San Diego, sure. Do you like, I, cause I was at crypto.com arena recently and I felt like the offerings.

Yeah, formerly Staples. Formally Staples Center. I feel like the offerings there were poor. You know, you got Ludo Bird, which is some decent fried chicken. Like that's a, I hit that up. I also like a hot dog in a pretzel bun. Well, yeah, that's great.

That's next level hot dog. But I guess what I'm asking is, is Dodger Stadium now a better quality than Crypto.com? Yes, they have several offerings in the outfield pavilion area. There's a Shake Shack there. There's a pizza joint. They have a pretty solid taqueria there. I did that. Decent tacos.

And you can get beer that is not just like age, I get a 24 ounce flavorless beer. Oh, yeah. There's plenty of good stuff. You can get beers of the world. You can get soju Korean alcohol there are so many different choices yeah no it's you can get drunk in so many ways at Todrick Stadium. I know at the Nationals Park in Washington they had a oh god what was it

it was a cheesesteak but it was like a banh mi kind of inspired cheese steak. Nice. Yeah. See, so you know this. It's time to move forward past the era of hot dogs, peanuts and cracker jacks. But sometimes you need to lean on the reliable if you are baking. Jason wants to take us back to a time when it was just the core popcorn, peanuts and hot dogs.

Oh, don't put this on me. He wants it more of a simpler time. That's what he's been saying off mic. Well, you can evolve, but you still gotta keep the classics. Listen, I may be evolved in the cuisine, but I'm also a purist at the same time. Right.

We evolve from species that also had, you know, skulls and arms and legs. You don't get rid of your skulls and arms and legs. Those are still your fundamentals. You get a bag of peanuts in the shell and then you get the little thrill of littering by just like throwing the shell. Oh, that's true.

You're speaking my language. Crunching up stuff below your feet. Yeah. Yeah, and then knowing that all of your neighbors are doing the same. It's an entire walk out where you're crunching past a thousand shells. Yeah.

What I wanted to bring up, I wanted to get your opinion on it. Do you know about the 999 challenge? Ooh, fill me in. Okay, so nine innings, nine hot dogs, nine beers. Yes, I saw that on social media last year. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I'd be done after three, four innings. Yeah. Yeah, because not because I've never had four beers at a time, but in that span of time, also Major League Baseball, due to some adjustments they've made in the rules rules it moves so much faster now So it used to be way more leisurely, but now it's like bang bang bang We got to make this game appeal to Gen Z and so it's moves much faster

I'm also wondering because I think some stadiums stop serving beer at like the bottom of the seventh. Yeah, okay. Mm-hmm. Much to the chagrin of problem drinkers. Yeah. And angry fans and everything. And anyone doing this challenge? I mean, I admit, all the 9-9-9ers should go be January 6thers and start banging on the,

do you realize what we're doing? I'll never know if I could do it. Where are you this is this a tick-tock it's like a social media thing right but there's specific social media and is it young people like tick-tock or Instagram or Twitter it's just people people is it a very natural phrase like that is young people doing it is it is it on social.com and young people are doing are there's someone doing are doing. I saw someone doing it at a game. I saw someone doing it in their home, which you can serve yourself. That's a play along at home game.

That's what I'm gonna tell my kids whenever they wanna try it is like, you are welcome to do the 999 challenge, but do it at home, okay? Do it with us, do it at home. I don't wanna have to pick you up, go to a stadium and find you in a puddle of mostly hot dog vomit.

That's a responsible but progressive style of parenting. Yes, yes, because of course I want them to try it. Yes. I don't want both of them to try it. By the time they're both 12 years old, how else are they gonna be men? With me as a dad? Yeah, no. Not happening.

Not happening. Well, Scott, I was going to ask your opinion of this challenge. I think it might kill you, or at least put you in some sort of coma. Well, let's be fair, who in this room could do the night? This is on multiple ends, this is not happening for anyone. Let's go to the last one.

Mike, what do you think? Do you think I could do the nine, nine, nine, was that what it is? Challenge? Yeah, you're a taller man. Do you think you could store it more? That should do it. Do you think you could metabolize it faster?

Some of the hot dogs and beer will go down to his feet. No, I don't think that. I think I could make it three or four maybe, three or four rings. Right. I don't think I could go very far. Do you think maybe in your younger days you could have done something like this?

Yeah, I think in my younger days. Really? No, I don't think I could've done it successfully, cause here's the concern, all that bread and all the bread in the, like, it's expanding. You're no Joey Chestnut, you are no Joey Chestnut.

I'm not a Joey Chestnut, I'm not like, uh. Kobayashi. No, I'm not a Kobayashi, I'm not even one of the guys who review fast food in their cars, you know? Here's the thing, though, with the beers. We're not talking 12-ounce beers.

The beers at the ballpark are huge. Oftentimes, they're 24-ounce tall boys or a 16-ounce cup. Absolutely. Yeah. I would like some regulation on that. I would love to know what counts as a beer. What is the minimum number? Is it also a nine?

Is it, can you get away with nine ounces? Yeah, I mean, if it's like a local thing, they might just give you the can't, like a regular standard can't. It depends on the local jurisdiction, the rules set up by your local government for how the 999 challenge works. Yeah.

If you wanna go down the rabbit hole, then it's like, okay, go to extra innings, 10 innings, 11 innings, is it the 11, 11, 11 challenge? Or if it's a range shortened game, does a five inning game count for the 5, 5, 5 challenge? This is interesting to play out, yeah. Are you stuck, if it's historic levels, if it goes to 17 innings, are you now committed?

And then you are truly committed to die and die doing what he loved. But then on the other end, if you're like you're talking a big game like I think I could do the 999 challenge. Do you want to go specifically on, let's say, April 21st? Oh, no particular reason. No, has nothing to do with the weather on that day. Like you're setting it up. Yeah. Oh, lightning. Darn.

Yeah. Or if you have a Cal Ripken like streak of doing like every game, you do it. And then, oh, and only a five inning game. I'd count it. I'd count it. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah. Because the intent was there. Some of the effort was put in. You go on April 20th, you might be able to pull it off if you have the munchies. Yeah.

I want to hear twice that much sentence done with that tone. If I do the whole episode, I guess I can. Because for 20th, when you start hitting a special little substance. He would have passed out from lack of oxygen. Oh yeah, I would have gone to sleep after like half a can. That's tough, as you're maintaining that tone, it's tougher than the 999 challenge.

So could we all declare a number? Cause I think maybe I'm, maybe I'm four, four. You think you could do four. Ooh, all the hot dogs. It's four hot dogs. I think I'm three, four. I think comfortably three, but I could, I could push it and do four, I think. Jason. I think even the same. I mean, I said, like, I'm not really drinking right now, but then if I'm drinking like an athletic brew, like a non-alcoholic beer, there's no-

No, no, no, no, are you kidding me? Get out of here with that. There's no way on earth that it's a non-alcoholic. No, no, no, I'm saying if I modify it, then I'm not getting any of the chill. I'm just getting more carbs. You're saying this is the only way you would be able to do it in your current state is what you're saying. I'm saying it's making it even worse because I'm not getting any of the like-

It's not fun. Yeah. Well, it's not fun and I'm not like chilling out. I'm just drinking flat carbs. Hmm. Well, we got, look, we got to do some version of this because you brought it up today and it seems like it's been on your mind. So I think a theme park day, if you are spending nine hours in a park, you could feasibly do it. I guess nine hot dogs, nine beers?

Nine hot dogs and nine beers? Well, how are you fitting the rides in and the lines and the lines to get the beers and the hot dogs? Well, with mobile ordering innovations. All right, so that's officially saved us 14 minutes. Now there's the rest of it. It sounds miserable. We split a handful of hot dogs in one day.

Yeah, we got nowhere near nine. Yeah, we got nowhere near it. We checked two total. How do you got a number? Yeah, you know, three or four, I'm gonna have a tummy ache, and I'm gonna be drowsy, and I'm gonna be drunk.

I remember one time I went to a baseball game, and I had like two, two and a half beers really quick. And then a foul ball came to our section, and I put my hand in front of the guy in front of me to stabilize myself when I stood up, because I'm like, oh, I feel the alcohol. Now I go for foul ball, and I didn't get the foul ball, but what happened was I never let go of the guy's shoulder

who was sitting in front of me. I pulled him out of his seat, and I turned around not realizing it. He was so angry at me for good reason, and he didn't assault me, which I would have been deserving of. You were kind of, it was like an unintended half assault on your end. Yes.

So it would have been a turnabout, it's fair play. And he sat there stewing for the rest of the game, which I can't really blame him. This was a good 15, 20 years ago. You still feel that awkward? That alcohol was not enough to make the awkwardness go away. No. I mean, I think at the end, back then, I was a little like, what's this guy's problem?

But now I'm like, no, I was the problem. Well, this seems like a, this is like a multi-part, like a serious podcast where you make efforts to find this man. Where like that documentary where they found the killer using the, or not the, the guy. That curved the curb. The non-killer, yes. They used the curb footage to place him at the Dodger game and that he didn't kill somebody.

If you, like using MLB footage we have to, and hopefully something else is filming that day too, we find the guy to get you in a room to be able to apologize for your deed. Or let him pull me out of a chair. Oh yeah, yeah, just do the opposite Yes, just flip Peru and then the resident you add a bad a baseball game You just flip it what I don't know what field you were in

But if you were in left just go to right and then it's a mirror of the entire situation and now where things even Perfect. Wow. Yeah, this would be a beautiful thing. All right. Well, this is PTR productions will right Get this So we have like a little grab bag of the the baseball theme park connection that I honestly didn't realize was so strong. I mean we've seen things in parks or whatever but there are some very themed stadiums, there are some theme parks that were baseball based, there's a lot of different stuff. So we're just gonna go around and do some grab bag talk about all this stuff.

I do at the end though want to talk to you a little bit about your time as a child Like birthday party performer you were talking about you played Paddington you played Batman And would like to hear some of those stories on the way out. Oh, yeah Faces making balloon animals all that good stuff. Yeah, but let me start here with something I found and I don't know if you guys found this as well Can I ask a basic question? Yeah, go ahead. How are you a big baseball fan? Oh smart But let me start here with something I found, and I don't know if you guys found this as well. Can I ask a basic question? Yeah, go ahead.

Hal, are you a big baseball fan? Oh, smart. I absolutely am. Hey, there you go. It's fair to say that Hal is a bigger baseball fan, I think, than the three of us, although Jason does say he's a baseball fan. I mean, I'm wearing baseball,

but Jason's, I suppose, the biggest baseball fan of the three regular hosts. But you're wearing it to look like one of those young people you were talking about. That's true. This hat was bought by Nick Mundy when we were at CityWalk You're wearing a lid yes backwards lid. Yeah. No, I I play fantasy baseball. I Scattered my father's ashes on the field of a major league baseball Stadium per his dying wishes.

Are we allowed to know which one or is it not, are you in trouble if you say? It's Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I don't know if I am going to be banned by major league baseball now, but so be it. Well, the commissioner definitely listens to podcasts the ride, so. No, of course, yeah.

We could edit it out. You gotta get your mind off baseball somehow. What's a podcast where we know baseball will never come up? Wait, what's this episode? Oh no. Ah. My field, what happened? Oh, there it is.

It says Rob Manfred. I know who the commissioner is. Sorry, Rob Manfred. The, was it, did you not have permission to do it? No, we didn't. Whoa. Our father wanted it,, we didn't. Whoa. Our father wanted it and we didn't know if we'd have to run onto the field

shaking a pant leg during the game. This is the Disney, this happens at Disneyland. A lot of years unsanctioned scattering of people. Yeah, so was I gonna have to dress up like a Major Leaguer and get on the field? Like with a big handlebar mustache? Yeah, like, hey, where's the batting practice, folks? An old timey Major Leaguer.

Right. But... Yeah, the big mustaches would blend in seamlessly. Yeah, well, Conan were in that sketch 30 years ago. 20 years. I have a question about the mechanics. Sure. Because I've gotten...

I've had some human cremains business lately. That's a word I only learned a few months ago. Oh no. Cremated remains. Cremated remains. Oh, they're hippifying the term. It's about time it got a injection of young person energy.

It's a very cool portmanteau. Yeah. It must make you feel really cool about the entire experience. Yes. It must make you feel really cool about the entire experience. Yes. But so I have some ashes split between like, I have a boxed urn and my brother has a boxed urn

and I have a necklace, you know, cremation jewelry. I learned a very large industry. Cremulery they call it. Cremulry, yeah. Hip term. Cremulry, I, oh god, I gotta, do I have to let TSA know

if I'm bringing this Cremulry? It's Cremulry, it's just Cremulry. It's just Cremulry, it's just Cremulry. Did you scatter all of them or just like a baggie? No, because all of them, that's like, I mean, it's like seven pounds of ash. It's as sizable. Yeah.

I learned. No, we just took a few Ziploc bags. Yeah. Listen, we were crazy, but we weren't nuts, come on. No, that would have been so much. That would have been like a- My two brothers and I, we each had a little Ziploc bag. We sprinkled it here, sprinkled it there.

We got onto the field through a ballpark tour. Oh, that's, okay. Oh, not a game day then. Yeah. Oh, no, I mean, it might have been early in the game day, like several hours the afternoon of an evening game. Okay, okay, but not during the prep. Cause if, yeah, especially if, yes,

were you to do the full seven pound, then it gets into like, well, then you, I mean, you would be in like blooper reels potentially forever. Like I would have to wear like some sort of like under, like my, like, do you remember the Nathan for you episode where he was the chili, selling the chili at the hockey game or whatever?

Oh yes, yeah, yeah, he wore an entire suit. Yeah, to hide the chili man. I would have to wear like a big fake belly or something filled with the ashes. Yeah, it's like a spark. And then split myself open. What happened? What's in him?

He's like a living couch. Ha, emoticlips. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Disembowelment. Yeah, like a spark- Disembowelment! A sparkless refillable water cooler thing. For real. Okay.

So, but baseball field of all the quote unquote places, you're not supposed to do it. Who are your cremains of? Also your father? Oh, my father, yeah. Congrats. Yeah, thanks. I guess.

Baseball field is constantly being manicured, constantly being washed and redone, and if there's a rain now that gets muddy. I get it, my dad isn't there anymore. Oh, okay. He's in the sky. He's precipitation. He's all around us. It's true.

We are him. I think it's reasonable, but I took on a school field trip once. We did like the Baltimore in our harbor and the aquarium. There's a big aquarium there. We got a tour of Camden Yards, the Oriole Stadium. And I think one kid plucked a single blade of grass from the field as like a souvenir. And they're like, okay, this group is out.

What? But they had divided us up. So I didn't get, my group didn't get tossed out. Oh, not all the children. It didn't ruin it for the whole school. It didn't ruin it for like 80 kids. It ruined it for like 20 kids. Wow. And when it's like you're out, you're out of the field, you're welcome to hang out in the gift shop because we don't care if you're-

You'll still take your, okay, okay. Yeah, you'll linger there for a little while. A blade of grass, that's too much of a zero tolerance policy. Yeah, and there was not a game that day. It was an off day, so. Hmm. That's too bad. You know what? Let's boycott.

Boycott. Well, there's three of us here. One in a Phillies hat, one in a Twins hat, one in a Cubs hat. I don't think we'll have any trouble boycotting the Orioles. Bye-bye Camden Yards. See ya. It is a beautiful stadium. Oh nothing.

So Hal, as we go through here, we're gonna really look to you to be the baseball guy. I'll do what I can. To like explain things. If there's rules about the game or the way the stadium is set up that we don't understand, please take it easy on us.

What are these squares that I see down on the, I don't understand. It is a nice flat field But then there's like people could trip on this this little white square could they not well about those To tell a wise baseball guy Let's start here I so there is a stadium It is a minor league stadium that has a roller coaster in right field, essentially just past their right field. What? Yes, the name of the field is People's Natural Gas Field. Oh, you gotta

love the catchy way they call these things. It's the home of the Altoona Curve minor league baseball team and it's unique because it has a roller coaster named the Skyliner in the outfield. I don't know if you guys can see this right here. Wow. There is a roller coaster just past that. That runs or I should say ran, cause it's not working right now. And perhaps it's going to get demolished,

but would run during games. That's cool. I spent a year in college in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Oh really? Yeah. And never went to the minor league stadium. No, I didn't knowona, Pennsylvania. Oh really? Yeah. And never went to the minor league stadium? No, I didn't know enough about it, and I should have, I wish I did.

Also, fun fact, the Altoona curve, it's the name, they're named after a curved penis. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that explains what the logo is then. The owner, I wanna start a baseball team, but whatever do I call it?

Hmm, scratch his head, hmm, looks down at naked body. He's naked. The owner would always be naked, so it was easy to... I've got a hunch. That would be a distraction, that roller coaster in the outfield, like going and like you're the batter trying to concentrate or something. It could be. You would think so, right? Yeah.

Depending on how far it is. And the screams potentially, if not well, it is right there, isn't it? Yeah, and it ran right until two years ago it was running. Huh. Because there's like a little park back there, there's another coaster back there that also, they're both old coasters, I believe,

that were transported from other places. I think the Skyliner is from maybe 1960. Yes, it was built in 1960 and they moved it from Rosalind Park, which is in New York. So I watched a ride through, or like an on-ride video of it, and it is old as shit. It is rickety. It looks cool. Wooden? A wooden coaster?

Yep. It looks like they haven't? A wooden coaster? Yep. It looks like they haven't painted it since 1960. The loudest kind. But it's like right up there. And I'm like, that is, because we talk about going on Big Thunder when there's fireworks or whatever, but like getting a roller coaster ride while you're watching a baseball game. And what about this? It's right there over the outfield wall.

What if someone hits a monstrous home run and it goes and clocks someone in the head while they're on the coaster? The chances seem low. I don't know if it's ever happened. I didn't see it when I was looking it up, but that would be like the ultimate America's Funniest Home Videos clip.

Oh yeah, and possibly a fatality. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, as long as it's not. Yeah, I don't know, Mike has a possibly a fatality. Yeah, that's how I was gonna say as long as it's not yeah Yeah, Mike has a twisted sense of humor like well Well, you know I worked on those clip shows where people would get hurt So I guess I'm just sort of desensitized to the violence So they aren't they aren't even people to you anymore. If a baseball went through someone's skull I'd laugh Yeah, one of those marks got hit. Yeah

I do have here the Alto Altoona Curve is, this is the mascot. He's a little conductor. Oh. Oh, I like that. Yeah. My daughter loves choo-choo trains. Oh yeah, mine too.

Oh yes, mine too. I mean, I would like to meet the kid that doesn't. Me too. In all of our boy. That's true. It is, I do know why, the name is named after the Horseshoe Curve, which is a railroad curve, which is in Pennsylvania. Jason, you familiar with any of this?

No, I don't really know Altoona that well. The curve is a double A team that feeds the, feeds into the Pittsburgh Pirates. So I really am very lacking of my knowledge in the Western part of the state. Hmm. I see. Uh, now I saw, I believe it's the Syracuse Mets now. They were the Syracuse Chiefs, and then they're like, oh, we gotta change this logo. Uh, and they became the Syracuse Sky Chiefs, named after an old train, uh, I believe that went through New York,

and that was a minor league team where there was a train track right outside of the outfield. And we did see a train going by during the game, and they like, tooted. So. They tooted. They tooted, like, so it was loud, like, so, you know, I think a lot of teams, you know,

will amp up the music and stuff during a big play. But you know, I guess you just get used to like the rattling train. That felt very field of dreams by the way, like a slow moving train. Oh, a slow moving. A slow moving like cargo train going in the outfield. So there's a higher percentage chance that like the conductor

would get would get beamed with a home run. Oh, man. Oh, potentially. Oh, and that's a lot where if you're just riding a roller coaster, that's one thing, but if you're responsible for. Right, cargo. And that brings me.

Yes, yeah, I was gonna say a lot of lives, but maybe not, maybe it's just the cargo. But that's still, that's important down the road too. That's why, you know, you still gotta use the dead man's brake, you know? Yeah, otherwise you get what happened in 1964, the great ballpark derailment. Yeah. The train went onto the field,

cut the pitcher clean in half. Yeah. It slid perfectly into a home plate, but that didn't count as a score for anyone. And now there's a ghost train at that ball park. So if you hear a toot toot, it's a train from beyond. Statisticians as baseball is a game of statistics still argue on whether that run should have counted.

They're still looking it over. Yeah, they're still being reviewed by the Supreme Court. They'll posthumously award the Hall of Fame status to the train. Oh yeah. A hundred years after it happened. I was just looking, cause it seems like they're gonna destroy this.

They're gonna just take it down. Cause it's gone to shit, they haven't kept it up. And I was looking at reviews of the actual place because there's basketball courts and other family fun center stuff and somebody just wrote that me and my dad and sister were there a couple days ago and we walked in and we got to the ticket desk,

there was a sleepless lady there, which I think they mean sleeping lady. Oh yeah. Sleepless. No, they saw it in her eyes, she was haunted by the things she could not see. And she said, she said only one ride was open. So I feel like this place has maybe seen better days.

Okay. There's a petition to save, uh, the other roller coaster is called leap the dips, which is another old roller coaster and says, save leap the dips and Skyliner at Lake Mount park, which is the name of the actual park, um, outside of the natural gas, whatever, the People's Natural Gas Stadium, but there's currently 71 signatures. I've started another petition. Tear it down. Move on with our lives. Put some boxes there for people with some money. Yeah, do you, how many, like are you a guy

who wants to go to like all the parks across America? I'd like to do that thing, sure. I've probably been to about 12 different major league ballparks, give or take. Okay, yeah. Yeah, but, and they've, there are some more recent ones, you know, well now Camden Yards is off my list. Never, do not support.

Like they're building some beautiful ballparks nowadays and so I would, I would, I romanticize maybe renting a VW van with my brothers or maybe a buddy of mine who's into baseball and traveling the country, seeing Americana. Sure. Doing the nine inning challenge and every ballpark. Every single one. Getting progressively more and more ill as you travel the country. Oh, hoping to be a full type two diabetic by the end of the trip. Also seeing some of America's finest hospitals.

Yes. More of them than ballparks. My stomach pumped. Maybe by the end, having to be revived. I, are you then more of a, are you a fan of like a classic, nothing's changed for decades and decades or do you like a new high tech state of the art? Yeah. Yeah.

You know, I think there's room for all of it. If there's like an awesome jumbotron or cool screen or amenities, uh, I dig it. But if it's an old timey feel and like, oh, it just feels like you're in a little bit of a time warp here, that's also rather enjoyable. But I will say, I went to Wrigley Field, been there a couple of times now and that's maybe the second oldest ballpark next to Fenway Park, I believe.

And it's cool, but it's not the most comfortable. Oh, okay. Yeah. So some of the actual old ballparks, they're beautiful baseball cathedrals, you might say. But they weren't designed by Mark Cuban or they're not super comfy.

Like he made the Maverick State basketball arena super high tech or the Clippers play in the Intuit Dome made by their owner, Palmer. Balmer, Steve Balmer. And that place is supposed to be just like next level, high tech, and comfortable. OK, sure. This was my problem when I went to what in my head is still the Sky Dome in Toronto,

which is not that now, but why would I start calling it something boring, sleepy, snooze, Sky Dome? I love that mainly because of a variety special when it opened with a 12 minute Alan Thicke musical number about retractable ceilings. Oh wow. But because of that special, which I like a lot, which we covered on the show,

I went there for like, I got to see the Sky Dome. And it was like, it was, everything was incredibly narrow. All of the, like, you were like, like just, like anyone was just bulging out of the extremely, like they were, they were all seats meant for 10 year olds. Yeah, I went there when I was a kid. We went up there to see some twins games. One of my favorite odd stories about the Sky Dome,

they have a hotel in the outfield and the windows overlook the stadium. And there was an incident where some people were getting frisky in front of the right in the window and the cameras caught it. So wow, the game was in the game. You know what I'm talking about? Wow.

That camera really lingered. They never cut back to the game in progress. Yeah, Mark was kind of, that view, Mark was kind of out for the rest of the game. He was transfixed. Sometimes cameramen and announcers have no shame. The cameraman will just like, let's just point the camera at this attractive woman.

Let's just ogle. And the announcer will be like, come on out to the ballpark. Maybe you'll get to sit next to her. Right. This is something I've found, and because I watch so much old ladies bullshit on YouTube that like you know, like there's just an infinite amount of footage of like Butts in short shorts walking places that will always that will end up in like it'll just be like PM

Magazine is talking about you know all the exciting stuff there is to do in You know, all the exciting stuff there is to do in Sarasota, Florida these days. And like, it's a town on the go! Cut to butts for no reason for ten full seconds. They just like, if you're like, I don't know, just go around, get some B-roll of the city. Just like, you know, see what there is to do in Fresno. B-roll? Stands for butt roll. Yeah, yeah. And in our case, it would stand for bun butt roll. That stands for butt roll. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And in our case, it would stand for bun butt roll.

A nice bun butt roll. Yeah. I feel like they do that on the 3rd Street Promenade. I feel like I've seen the shot, like they put the camera on the 3rd Street Promenade and it's like butts going by. I feel like I've seen that a few times. Or not the Promenade, more like the beach.

More like Santa Monica. Oh, down, yeah, down on the bike paths and whatever. Yeah, yeah, well, it's a buyer's market. That's a quick way to riches. the beach, more like Santa Monica Pier. Oh, down on the bike paths and whatever. Yeah, yeah, well, it's a buyer's market. That's a quick way to riches. Just go down and film butts you don't have permission to film. There will always be news packages that need it.

Oh, Venice Boardwalk, too, for if you need to establish a movie takes place in Los Angeles. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's a quick one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, it's Hollywood Sign and stars on the Walk of Fame and then yes, we have butts here. Oh, a Nightcrawler style movie of the camera guys

like just trying to get the butt B rolled, butt rolled around him. I have a twins question. Oh yeah, go ahead. Have you at some point been to the? Harmon killabrew commemorative Seat up in the sky at the Mall of America

So I've been to the Mall of America. I think I've I I think I've seen that because I was there once and I've seen that because I was there once and that Mall of America is the former home, that site was Metropolitan Stadium, the twins' original home. Harmon Killibrew, I guess, hit a home run up into that. The longest in that stadium, 522 feet in 1967. Wow. And this is commemorated by, so if you're in, and it's relevant to us

because it's in the theme park area of the Mall of America, but there's a spot that you can stand on that was the spot of Homeplay. I have stood on that spot. Okay, oh there you go. Yeah. Okay, I figured if you were, yeah, that's gotta be one of the, you know,

dumber baseball memorial sites. And then so if you're standing there, then you look at, like you can look up and 522 feet, like away and about, just above the log shoot ride, there is just a floating red chair that is the chair where the ball went. I feel like I must have seen that. But I definitely remember this.

I was there at Mall of America maybe in 2013, 2014. And yeah, I remember that. And of course the indoor theme park and all that good stuff. It's funny that it lined up that way. I don't know if they built it with that in mind to build it around as a central, so that the home plate's not just in the middle

of the Talbots or something. Yeah, that would be funny too. Yeah, that's true. Yeah Yeah, but it's a but you have to you have to go into the dressing room to do it So that's like if you're trying stuff on you where just like I just to see the player in a Claire's and there are girls Like buying earrings and then like excuse me. Where's the ball? Where's the where's the home plate Shoving girls out of the way, getting pierced for the first time. Nervous girls getting their first pierced.

I got the Harmon plate to see. Oh, that's just a suspended, hanging, dirty old red chair in the air that would mean so much to my family. You know, I did the 999 challenge at the Mall of America. Oh, sure. I vomited in an H&M. Well if you do it in a mall, then it's nine piercings,

nine hot dogs and nine beers. Oh yeah. You gotta step it up. And you can get the hot dogs, the beers, you just kinda gotta sneak in cans and a big coat. Do the piercings have to be in different parts or could you get nine in your ear? Or is it just your ear that needs to have space at some point?

Well, you can get a number in your, I don't know what the max amount is to safely get in your ear. What do you think, four? Three or four in your ear? I bet you could get more than that. I mean, I mean, I've seen people that have like these hoops all the way down to the side of their ear. I bet you could do like seven comfortably.

How many of those would you do in one sitting? How many would be safe right there? Cause would your ear lose its structural integrity if you did seven piercings at once? If we were gonna do this realistically, if I was gonna get nine piercings, and I had to, and I was fully game, I'd probably get one or two in the nose,

probably two in each ear. Okay. Maybe one nipple. I'd probably go a little. I can't do nipple. Oh, I can't do it. I would be too scared. I'd probably kink out a little bit. One in a nip. Well probably, you know, I probably go a little. I can't do nipple. Oh, I can't do it. I would be too scared. I would kink out a little bit.

One in a nip. Well, if you're gonna get nine, then it's a very different kind of experience. Yes, if I'm getting nine, I'm doing one nip. But I'm not going below the belt, Mike. Don't start thinking. What about, like a- He has a dirty, he'll do that.

He thinks about penises nonstop as listeners can attest. I know. He was gonna think it. I was just thinking about Above the Belt stuff. I wasn't thinking about Piercing the Taint or anything. Only when you're looking at Penises do you see. I've said that on a date before. Hey, I was just thinking about Above the Belt to talk about it. Shadow of Disney. There's some great fake rocks at Angel Stadium. Yes.

This is in Anaheim, and we've been together there once. Yeah, we did. With Nick Mundy. We met Mundy down there. Yes. When the Astros were in town, right. Yes. So this is-

I do recall that the feeling was like, I guess we'll go to a baseball game. Oh, I know. We could pregame with Cartay-Manhattansans and we jammed in there on a really crowded day. Yes, that is probably, I remember it took like an hour and a half to get in there. Must have these manhattans. And then that's a Disney, Disney, California venture lounge that we like. Oh, gotcha. And we like a specific Manhattan that has like a piece of spherical ice.

Oh, nice. Yeah. Very solid drink. But so pregame with that. and then like we're enjoying the game and everything. But then like, oh, right, right. The rocks. Yes, the rocks. Then held everything is. This is a whole new ball game, literally now. And they're very impressive.

Like I was like they're big. And it is I don't know. Is it the most gimmicky thing in a like a major league baseball? I would have said that but maybe it's the roller coaster, but that's minor league. Oh, yeah So probably in a current yeah. Yeah. No, I think it could be and it's the biggest sign that Disney was there That right Disney was a part owner from the beginning of the Angels But they bought the team fully in 96 and they got rid of it around 2003 and it's a from the beginning of the Angels, but they bought the team fully in 96

and they got rid of it around 2003. And it's in the Imagineering documentary, there's a brief little sad section where they say how like we weren't really getting to build big parks anymore. You know, we'd get a project here and there, and then they cut to the rocks at the Angel Stadium. So it's presented, I mean they're

very nice but I do associate them with that documentary it being like all right they threw us a bone we got to put some rocks that kind of feel weird in a baseball stadium. They do they are a little idiosyncratic but there are I would say there are other gimmicky things in ballparks like Milwaukee has this Bernie Brewer slide, the home run slide that Bernie Brewer, their mascot, slides down when they hit a home run. I think he lands in a big beer mug. Formerly Miller Park, it should always be Miller Park

as the Milwaukee Brewers. I feel so dumb, I don't know about this slide. Yeah, I don't either. This is great. Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City, they have beautiful fountains in the outfield. Like those are, they're kind of majestic. The Kaufman Stadium, Kansas City Royals fountains.

The Miami Marlins had something that was really gimmicky, but there was like a public outcry against it because it was so ugly. It was like this big Marlin statue with all the Miami pink and blue colors and flowers. And it just looked like someone vomited out Miami in a statue form. So that's a little odds and ends.

I tend to like Miami vomit. New York Mets used to have the big apple that would come up out of a top hat when someone hit a home run. And then when they moved from Shea Stadium to Citi Field, the apple was so iconic, they transported it and put it outside the front of the stadium. Oh, okay.

Like, yeah, there are certain ways. Well, they put the Miami thing in front of the, so. Like, yeah, there are certain little... Well, they put the Miami thing in front of it. So they got, like, we don't wanna deal with this inside anymore, if you wanna look at it. Yeah, it was an ice wharf, people said. Ooh, I like it, though. I like it, this is way up my alley. It is, it's got character.

Yes, oh, it's so much, like a sun and many marlins and palm trees and flamingos. Yes. It's the stupidest above ground pool you've ever seen. Wow. Folks, Michael here, summer's coming and you know what that means. Time to get your life together. Time to start eating better. Time to contact HelloFresh. HelloFresh is a meal delivery service. They make it easier to fit quick home cooked meals into your schedule every week by curating delicious recipes like pasta primavera, chicken dijon and pecan crusted trout as well as over 100 seasonal snacks,

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Is it only a digital? Drink a beer and eat a hot dog. Yeah, right. Is it only on a screen? Is you're saying digital? It almost looks like, it might be Nia. It's like giant. It's like a few stories tall in the outfield

by the scoreboard. And they also have, of course, the Philly Fanatic. But then there's- Best mascot in baseball. A best mascot in baseball. You got it, you got it. And to a lesser extent, he has his friends, the Galapagos gang.

I'd say a much lesser extent. Who the hell are the Galapagos? Well, the Fanatic comes from the Galapagos Island, so it's all his friends. And they're just in big inflatable costumes. Well, I wanted to do a Galapagos gang episode. Wow. You're withholding?

So we don't get to know their names or anything now? I don't know their names yet. You're teasing it for a future episode. I'm teasing. Letting the whistle of the audience. Maybe if they get into the World Series again this year. I like when you Google them, the top results of this are a Reddit thread titled, the Galapagos gang is a disgrace.

Some people don't. I disagree. I'm looking at them. I think they're great. Yeah, they're fun. And I thought they had been retired, but I was watching a game the other day and it cut to like, you know,

the one section above the seats and all the globbit ghost gang were like just hanging out. I'm seeing them right now. Is it because it's inflatable and they don't have the like more realistic costume of the fanatic? I, you know, they could be that. I mean, they can't shoot their little tongues out like the fanatic does they look cheaper than big kid. Yeah, I like that yellow one

He's real cute. Yeah, what is that? Is he a fish? I like him very much I'm looking at a picture of him swallowing a man. Oh, I'm seeing that too. Oh, yeah that yeah, they swallowed a man once Yeah, I would love to be swallowed by that guy. Just once? One of my favorite non-baseball related activities at ballparks is when they have mascot races. The Nationals, who we mentioned earlier, they have the President's race. So it's these giant, kind of inflatable, not like super high quality costumes.

Yeah. But these giant presidents will race each other around the diamond and yeah, whoever wins, hurrah for that president. Well, you wanna hear a similar thing if we're talking about unusual players out on the field. Before Disney fully bought the Angels, there was always a close relationship and a part ownership

and they kicked off the 1991 season, the first home game at Angel Stadium with a little bit of fun. They brought the characters down to play a little game before the game. I wonder, here, this is not the most vetted video clip ever, but I feel like if I can get the video to say Who's there it was a good lineup of characters? I feel Brayer Bear, Balloon, Donald Duck, Goofy, Roger Rocket, and Mickey Mouse. I'm not a Goofy. What? They're all not in Angels uniforms, but in separate D uniforms. They represent...

Right. But not Brayer Bear. He's just wearing a blue shirt. His normal blue shirt. Yeah, so Brayer Bear on the, oh yeah, you're right. Was that too, maybe like, they went to some costume people. He looked nude to me. Well, that's a lot of them.

That's kind of his default. Just one of the reasons he's now gone. But yeah, Baloo is also, yeah, okay, so they must have gone to some wardrobe person and said, can you get a baseball uniform for all of our characters, including two XXXXXL bears? And they said, go fuck yourself. They will wear what they always wear.

You'll be lucky if you get a hat. And I don't think they did. Launchpad McQuack just has that same giant leather jacket and his scarf. He does too, you're right. Yeah, geez, almost none of them. Okay, so this is a very half committed to. Is Launchpad McQuack a serviceman? Oh great question. Like a merchant marine for the skies. Okay. Jason really quick with that answer. It's a good,

isn't really good specific answer. So I don't have to thank him for his service. Kind of a mercenary. He's saved the world and people before though, so I think thanking him would be service. Kind of a mercenary. No. He sells his. He's saved the world and people before though. So I think thanking him would be fine. Thank you Launchpad McQuack. He also served with Darkwing Duck, which is the thing I know him best even from. He was his right hand man. That's the way I think of it.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. The service that matters the most to you. He flew the, whatever the Darkwing Duck plane. You want to see the, how the, so they kind of, it was just kind of a, they just kind of batted a, even, so they get a big group of characters together to play a fun baseball game.

And even with that, they only let the girls be cheerleaders. Oh really? Let's not be ridiculous here. I know this is a game where ducks and dogs are playing, but come on. Ladies, we're going to be on the team. Brother. Bridge too far. We were all, 91, like the MTV's Rock and Jock games

were already like integrating baseball, like softball for men and women. That's right, I assume Cindy Crawford is out there and maybe Kennedy or something. Yeah, they're out there. Yeah, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Jose Kinseko. An all-star team. Kennedy or something. Yeah, they're. Yes, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Jose Kinseko. An all-star team.

I'd like to watch a Rockin' Jock. Maybe I'll do that tonight. But this is Disney's, this is the Quackin' Jock. Nice. So, and it is Donald's, I don't know where I'm landing here, but I think we're, there were two strikes and Chip and Dale were not too nice about it, though they're all in the same team, right? fucking assholes

But let's see how it plays out. Oh Wow Roger Rabbit, yeah Roger Abbott's in there cuz it's the 90s. Yeah kind of winding up to the gold wind up from goofy He's back! It's way back! It could be! It might be! It is! It's a home run! The dude has ran into the wall trying to catch it. Yeah, Blue hurt himself bad. He'll be out for the rest of the season. This is a nice song, too. It looks like he's been juicing. I'm sorry, he's on the gears. Entirely in his butt. Seat, yeah. I'm sorry. It's on the game. Entirely in his butt. Oh, my god. Seat, sorry.

Donald Seat is really providing difficulties for him running. That's what I'm like. So, listener, what we're watching is just someone in a Donald costume running the entire bases. And you're like, this is a lot to ask a guy to do. Oh, yeah. They send a lot to ask a guy to do like there's they you know they send a character out with a guide to like just stand in place for ten minutes this guy like he's carrying so much in that seat area it

could be well it could be a female it could be now is seat the proper costume character terminology well this is something we just landed on for before describing you know what Donald's going's got going on back there. Got it. Makes sense. Makes sense. It's from the Pinocchio song, where they talk about his little wooden seat.

Oh. Which is just a cuter, nicer way. Oh, that's a sweet way to say it. That's a sweet way to say it. And there was a time on the show where you would check our social media, and 92% of the comments would be all about seats and big, thick seats.

And I'm glad that that's ended. I'm glad that the seat era dollar show has passed. I hope this doesn't open it up again, frankly. I don't know, because Donald big thick seat was bouncing up and down as he was running. It was really providing a problem. Then I won't be posting the clip. I'm not gonna add to the problem.

I think we have to post the clip. Well then that's on you to do. You're gonna have you post it. I'm not gonna add to post the clip. I think we have to post the clip. Well then that's on you to do. You're gonna have to post it. I will post it. I'm not gonna add to the problem. He's got a real badonkaduck. See that was a little more timely. I prefer the little more recent.

You prefer the 1993? Yeah, more recent than little Woody Loss. To some extent he's in the 40s. In the 40s, yeah. He's in is right. Scott, I have some, did you have more? I had some characters in. I didn't, the only thing,

just before we move on from Angel Stadium, I just wanted to, Mike, did you stumble across the name of the rock situation and what it does? It has a name. Oh, no, I guess I didn't, I missed this. That entire thing is called the California Spectacular. Is it really? Yeah. So if you're bored at a baseball game, if you don't like baseball,

and you're watching one and you're there, you're watching one film there, and you want to bore the person next to you who likes the game, tell them that's the California Spectacular. What a strange arbitrary, especially for a kind of rocks that don't really reflect California in any way. Right. It's not really, you know. We didn't really assess the rocks.

Maybe that's what we need to do real quick. Like it looks like Batuu. It looks like Star Wars land rocks to me. It is kind of, yeah, yeah. Well, it's a very big thunder and it's very pre-radiator springs. I always thought they reminded me of Lion King a little bit as well.

There is a very pride rock looking part of it too. I saw a reference to one of the rocks maybe being properly Pride Rock. Really? I think maybe that might actually be that so yeah there is you can go visit the spot where Simba is held at Angel Stadium, and it shoots water and yeah Yeah, there's by the way. There's fireworks, it does look, it's a California spectacular. Sometimes one of the great events that they do

at different ballparks is bark at the park where people can, I always think like, this is asking for mayhem, but they allow people to bring their dogs to the park. And then sometimes they'll play a Lion King song and everyone will hold up their dogs in the stadium and there are all these great shots of that. Like I wanna go, I wanna bring my dog, that would be great.

But I'm also like, I mean, are people gonna get bitten? Or like, are they, like, how do you handle the seat situation? Like there's dogs all around you and sniffing on your food and... Yeah, there's opportunity for the kind of hijinks you got into, you know, with the foul ball. That can happen 20-fold. Oh yeah. Yeah.

That's trouble. Well, that is better, and I forget whether I talked about this already on the show, but again, the Nationals did bark at the park this year. Yeah. And it coincided with Friday night fireworks. No. So no one operationally moved that through. So park at the park and then get out of there

once the game is over. They made the same mistake on Veterans Day. Oh no. Fireworks afterwards, PTSD as, you know what, I'm gonna stop there. Yeah, yeah. I'm joking. Yeah.

Yeah. Horrible, horrible apologies. They gotta think these fireworks things through a little bit better, my God. Listen, if I could just thank Launchpad McQuack for his service. There you go. That, yeah, that's the guy in the back. That's what I'm trying to say.

On to the next thing, yeah. Sure. Where are you gonna say it is? Well, Jane told me about this, and I had forgotten about it, right before I left this morning. The All-Star Sports Resort at Disney World has a baseball-themed swimming pool.

Oh, neat. And as you can see, like the bases are kind of, the bases have like the three feet deep warning, do not dive it like thing on this one. And then in the middle is Goofy on the pitcher's mound. Although I did think it was very funny because they have the water feature like splashing you a little, and it's just kind of goofy

with a cannon. Uh-huh. Well, that's how you make it fun. It's tying together the aquatic. Yeah, yeah. But it should be like a pitching machine. Yeah, it's kind of like a pitching machine, but it also looks like.

It looks like a cannon. It looks like a cannon. But the cannon balls are baseballs. Yeah, see, he's got baseballs at his feet. Okay. And it's shooting water, so those balls couldn't go in there unless you shut it off.

Yeah. There's a lot going on here. It's a confusing centerpiece. Yeah. Now, the thing I jumped to for baseball, first, in Walt Disney World on Main Street, some of you probably know what I'm gonna say, the restaurant Casey's Corner,

which is themed to the, it's a hot dog restaurant. Okay. And it is themed to, is it Casey at Bat, the baseball player? Yes. Casey at the Bat. Casey at the Bat. There is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out. Of the 999 show.

Yeah. So, and you know, there's a scoreboard on the wall, and there's a lot of Coca-Cola Tiffany lamps. But the thing I always thought was really iconic about this restaurant, this quick service restaurant, were these little bleachers you could sit on and eat your corn dog. Like, and your hot dogs. And I specifically have a memory

of going with my family in 2012. The last night we're there, we had just gone like so hard on the parks and I was so fried and just like gumming some corn dog nuggets sitting on these bleachers. Just like eating them, the person I was seeing with, the person I was seeing at the time, like we were like, shouldn't we, it's our last night,

shouldn't we eat something better than this? And we're like looking out on Main Street. The fireworks about to start, that's why we're still in the park. And it's like, we're not gonna get anywhere. I don't even know what's open. It's like, all right, I guess we'll just get corn dog nuggets and like sitting.

I have a hard time finding, I have a hard time believing that Jason Cherta could find anything better than gumming hot dog or corn dog. Eating corn dog. I mean, I think I was just so fried. But then the other thing I learned about this is they removed the bleachers in 2014. Oh really? And I was so bummed out because I thought that was like such an iconic thing. They just put in more of these tables and chairs that you can kind of see. That's that bar rescue thing you could pack two people in here instead of one.

When he was down there. This changes everything. Did you say, did I miss it, that you were sitting in the bleachers or you were just gumming? Yeah I was sitting like there was no one else on the bleachers. I had the bleachers to myself and I barely like I thought it was I liked it a lot But I to me that seemed like the iconic thing about this restaurant. This is the bleachers itself Yeah, I'm realizing now I've never been in here, but you're looking at a scoreboard where it is indeed visitor The visitors are up and mudville is losing. Yeah Time then the lack of joy in mudville Wow Mudville's eating shit. So you're watching real time the lack of joy in Mudville.

Wow. Wow. Has it played out? Have you made your young daughter watch Casey at the Bat? Yes. Not yet, but oh, I mean, I look forward to, you know, force feeding her much content. Yeah, that's what I've been doing with mine.

I was, my friend, like almost eight years ago, won a Casey at the Bat at California Adventure, a big plush Casey at the Bat. Plush Casey at the Bat. Yes, and we carried it around all day. We were shoving him in like bags. It was so like hard to manage because of how big it was. And now we have a weird thing where we're trying to make the other keep it.

So I got sent, they had Casey at the Bat for a while, and then I was all of a sudden out of nowhere sent a box, and I opened it up, and it was, because they live in Chicago, my friends live in Chicago, they sent me the Casey at the Bat in a box, and now I have to figure out a way to sneak it back to Chicago. I mean, I could send it that way,

but it feels too boring, it feels like I need to do it in a more interesting way. It's like, it's become like this unwanted flat Stanley type thing. It's just traveling, no one wants it. I mean, whenever I go back to Chicago, I think I'm dreaming of sneaking him in when I go in somehow and leaving him there in a very weird place.

Oh, under the covers of his bed. If he can get in his home. Well, you can get in his home. Yeah, you got it. You should get it. I don't even know that you're in town. I can get. Yeah. Well, my two friends, actually, they both they both probably listening to this,

so it's probably bad to be here. Oh, no, he's talking about different friends. Although it's not a Disney, not a Disney topic. So my friend usually doesn't listen when it's not a Disney. Like it doesn't say Disney in the title. So maybe we're good. Perfect, all right, camouflaged. So I think, yeah.

We can plan anything here. We can plan anything we want. You should courier it, or like, see if a process server would like, you know. What do you mean? Well, like, where it's given to him, but he has to be there to sign it. So somebody just calls him and says, you have to go down to like an office

No, no a process server will come to you. Oh Like a summons when you get summons to court. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah She'll get him come pick it up. He'll get him come bombarded on the street like excuse me, sir Yeah, like you sign for this, please. Yeah, this person married. Yeah, okay my friends are married. Oh, yeah Well, then it's like they like might think for a second he's getting served divorce papers. That's possible. Yes. The biggest package of divorce papers you've ever seen. Yeah. But it's just crazy. Like if you could bring it in a suitcase and then hide it in like a cupboard and then a month later it's like whoa. That's what I'm yeah I want that like like when I'm long gone for them to finally find it somewhere in their home.

When you're long gone, like from the world? No, no, no. And I'm saying I'm gonna go there to Chicago, get in the house somehow, then I hide Casey. And then when I'm long gone from the house back comfortably in Los Angeles, or if I'm living in Orlando by the time, don't know fingers crossed then they'll find yet some cupboard they'll find Casey this is a little morbid decapitate Casey just send them

the head oh easier to get around I mean make it more practical absolutely yeah I could send Casey in pieces yeah oh yeah in the mail. Oh yeah. Very morbid. I assume there's a bat. The bat counts as a piece. The bat is part of it, yeah. Just a severed bat. My god. Do they have a child? No. Cats though. Cats in play. If they could involve the cats that'd be great. Casey in the litter box. Casey at the Cat. Take the stuffing out of the head, put it on top of the cat's head. I guess give it breathing holes. Yeah, uh-huh.

Okay, if you send Casey in a Chewy.com box, okay? And they think it's just a refill of treats or food or toys. This isn't bad. And they cut it open and then it's just Casey and nothing else. That is pretty good. The fake out is good.

I like that. That gives you an extra little something. I don't know if I have, I'll have to order a big thing from Chewy.com. I think we're using them for your stuff. I'll just see if we have any Chewy boxes. But I'm gonna have to order like, like the biggest like cat play area you've ever seen

from Chewy to fit this casey, it's so big. Yeah. Wait, what you just showed was like two refrigerators. Maybe one. It's not tall, but it's like this big and this, wow. It's so big. And you want it, you want it? My friend won it.

Yeah. And then he took it home, but then his wife was like, this has to get out of this house. What are we gonna do with this thing? And she knows that I have a bunch of shit in my house It's getting back in. Oh, it's getting back. Yeah, it's coming back. Yep. Mm-hmm. So anyway, we'll work that out off air But anyway Jason keep us posted send some unsettling photos if you like our video of you in the house for the listener Remember that episode for two and a half years ago? No, I'm in the house. I think they're here too. So I can't talk to them.

We'll do a live episode. I'll do a live episode. I'm in my friend's house. By doing hider in the house, but solely to plant a dirty old quesadilla bag. It's not that dirty. It's a little dirty probably. Get it dirtier. Heavily soiled. It's not that dirty. It's a little dirty probably. Get it dirtier. Heavily soiled. Was that all your thoughts about that place, Jason?

You just want the bleachers back or? Yeah, I want the bleachers back. Yeah, it's probably not gonna happen, right? No, it's a giant choke point for trying to get people seated and out of the restaurant. Put bleachers in your apartment then. From salt. Ooh.

That's fun. Is there, what's the, oh you're gonna be mad at me. They don't have Casey's Corner though in Anaheim. Well is it the Coca Cola Refreshment Corner? Is that what it's called, the Refreshment Corner? I thought at some point that's what it is. That's so much more boring. I think they got it in Paris.

I think there's a Casey, because the main street there is all about transporting you to America. I think they got it in Paris. I think there's a case there, because Main Street there is all about transporting you to America. Oh yeah, I see that. Turn of the century. Yeah. So did you have a plan that Paris could be helpful for? Or, no?

No, are you wondering if they have the bleachers there? I just couldn't remember what the name of the place you get hot dogs on Main Street was, in Anaheim, in Disneyland. Yeah, I think Jason's got it. What about Tokyo? I don't know the situation with, yeah, I don't know the degree of baseball that is in

any baseball theming. I mean, they love baseball in Japan. Oh yeah, the true baseball's huge in Tokyo. As the film Mr. Baseball taught me, yes. Absolutely. How do we feel about the movie Angels in the Outfield? Oh, I loved it when I was a kid. Yeah.

You know what? A remake. Whoa. Oh, that's right. Yes. I think I watched the original. Oh wait, you know who I think, stepped right in it.

You know who I believe is in the original? Old William Frawley. Oh, is he really? I remember being very surprised as a kid to see him in something that is not a Little Lucy. Fred Mertz from Little Lucy. Fred Mertz. Fred Mertz.

Yeah, I don't think I'm making that up. Forgot he was still alive. Do you mean Wilford Brimley? What? No, Fred Mertz. No, I am through. Frawley. William Frawley from I Love Lucy.

No, yeah, it's a recurring topic on this show. In the original Angel, 1950s Angels in the Outer Seals. Oh, yes. You thought William Frawley was alive in 1995? I was, I forgot there was an original. I was so confused. I'm like, guys, William Frawley did not make it to the 1990s. No, no, no, no, no.

I think for a second you thought he was 150 in Angels in the Outfield. I, He was the world's oldest man. No, I was like, no, collapse. The movie was about an angel and featured an actual angelic form of William Frawley. Everyone rejoiced.

Bill Frawley was there. Making this up. Apparently he and Vivian Vance. Hated each other. Hated each other. They hated, 20 years difference between the two of them too. Wow. Age difference, yeah. Oh, she was 20 years younger?

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Frawley I do. I can't believe I'm the one doing it. You're not thinking of Miracle on 34th Street, are you? Is he in that? He is. He is? Huh. I don't know what-

He's got a small role in Miracle on 34th Street. I don't know what deeper Bill Frawley worked from whatand of thinking. Oh, yeah. There he goes. Yeah. Well, I'll try to figure it out What it would move on to something else? I'll chime in when I can. Okay, sure. Jason give anything else Uh, well I do this one. I Kind of went to have a rabbit hole cuz it was more based on my memory but when I was in college in, this would have been around 2006, my roommate at the time, he's like,

oh, I'm spending spring break, I'm going to Orlando to see some of the qualifying games for the World Baseball Classic. Yes. Now the 2006 World Baseball Classic, what. Now, the 2006 World Baseball Classic, what is the terminology on this? The inaugural tournament between national baseball teams that included players from Major League Baseball.

And we just had one of these. The World Baseball Classic is kind of like the World Cup for baseball, am I right about that? Absolutely. And the heavy hitters, the top squads are usually Japan, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, United States. And then you have Finland and different countries

who haven't supplied as many major leaguers, don't have as many major leaguers, but still can field a squad. And we'll see who can take the world's baseball trophy. Take it by storm. And players play on their country of origin. So I believe Shoei Tommy hit off Mike Schramm. Oh yeah, that was a big matchup.

It was huge. matchup. So the yeah a couple years ago and the final game was USA versus Japan for the for all the marbles and Shohei pitched against his teammate at the time Mike Trout and they are two of the preeminent major leaguers and it was a baseball fan's cream dream. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Why the Altena curve was a little less curved that day. Oh yeah, it was that full mast, folks.

You know, you think about baseball during sex to last longer, but if you're a baseball fan, you're not gonna last at all. Oh man, I'm not gonna last a minute! I think about sex during sex, so I don't gonna last a minute. I think about sex during sex, so I don't start thinking about baseball. You think about sex during sex? Yeah.

Yeah. My God, what an innovation. But I, the reason I remembered this so strongly was he was like, yeah, I'm going to a bunch of games at the Wide world of sports And he said and I might save a day or so for the parks and I was just at the time I was just like you're what? What are you doing? Because you wanted him to do a full week is what you're saying

I was like, what do you mean? You're gonna go to the park for a day or two like he's like Well, I'm going to watch baseball games and at the time I was not a huge sports guy, but I was so confused. But there were, there were some- Now that you're a huge sports guy, you understand. I mean, I kind of get it now. It's all in balance, you kind of get it. But you, at least you're going to go see the bleachers

in Casey's Corner, are you not? You got to sit there. I'll try to fit it in, what? The, it was just funny because the games were played around the world. In Tokyo, Japan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Florida, Phoenix, Arizona, Scottsdale, Anaheim, San Diego, and Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

So the one set of qualifiers was played at, at the time, what was called Cracker Jacks Stadium at the Wild World. That's what it was called? Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, folks. It's time for baseball. That'd be a good, if you were shoved out into it, like you need to be the announcer for baseball.

I don't know anything about baseball. Figure it out fast! Well, it's time for... Snacks and plays, home runs and popcorn! Hats and shorts! There's room for all of them here. Not for the players though, they'll be skidding around that dirt I'd imagine. Nine, nine, nine!

It's time to go. Good luck, gentlemen. So this was my thought as well. And then I dug deeper and learned that Frito-Lay sponsored this stadium for a number of years. So that's an actual- And they put the Cracker Jack name on it. By the way, the toys in Cracker Jacks

are like non-existent now. They're terrible. I guess they're choking hazards. No, they're just paper. Yeah, they're just paper. Sometimes maybe a tattoo, but a lot of times it's like, oh, you got like a QR code or something. And I'm like, I want my choking hazard magnifying glass for my child. You know what? We didn't get a lot of it when we were kids, but I feel like the legend was you'd get like little, like almost Monopoly pieces.

Like the old school Monopoly pieces. Essentially. Because those used to be like little pieces of metal. We had an old Monopoly game, which would be like the shoe, but it would be a nice little. Oh, a little pewter, pewter. Yes, there you go.

Yeah. Yeah. So was it just in there? Did they not bag it separately also? Was it just in the bag with the cracker I'm sure it probably Just so you didn't like didn't eat it when you were dumping them in your mouth probably so but like listen They played fast and loose with our health back then. Yeah now they got it down perfectly. Oh, yes

Everything is healthy Figured it out. I mean we were you know in the 90s you would The very beginning of the 90s they would just put a plastic toy in the middle of the cereal and later in the 90s They started putting it in the box, but not in the plastic bag Yeah, but they sometimes we put, it would sometimes be in a plastic, inside the cereal. And then you would have to, then I do remember they moved it to outside the actual plastic bag. So just nasty little kids sticking their whole hand

in a box of cereal trying to find like a pen from Hook. Do you remember doing that? I remember like trying to do it gently and my mom would usually just like, give me that. Like just dump the whole box out into a big bowl and then put it back in the box. Yeah, no, I have vague recollections of digging for the prize inside.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because you try to do it quickly. Yeah. You don't wanna wait for it. Oh, I want that thing. Yeah, I think we would dump it out in a bowl and then put it back in. Oh, I want that thing. Yeah, I think we would dump it on a bowl and then put it back in. Oh, what kind of like patient, like Uber child would,

I'm going to wait till we get down to the end of the box until the prize is visible. I want a reward for finishing my cereal, mother. Let's wait. Eight servings, that should be about Sunday, don't you believe? Eight servings has three days worth of sugar in it. So I'm ahead on my sugar quantity.

Patience is its own virtue, money. That's the true prize. So Frito-Lite did not keep sponsoring this stadium for a while. It was unsponsored. Oh, no. And then Haynes took over the sponsorship of the stadium and they christened it Champion Stadium. Okay. So if you can think of something more generic

that's kind of sportsy than Cracker Jack's is to baseball, Champion Stadium is really generic. Wait, champion like the champion. Like the brand. Oh, does Haynes own Champion? At the time they did, I've looked this up over recent years and a lot of them have been consolidating or selling pieces off to conglomerates. So I don't know what the current's standing.

Now, Disney owns Hanes. Disney owns any. Disney owns Hanes. It's best to default to that they own, whatever, if you have a question about it. By the way, no one is thinking about this, but William Frawley is not in the original Angels in the Outfield. I don't know what I was thinking. Wow.

And I can't even find in his filmography. Now, he was in some other baseball movie. It's not that, but it's a William Demarest No, it was probably William Demarest Well, it might have been I might be thinking of Keenan Wynn one of my favorite Maybe foolishly at 11 years old whenever I saw this like an idiot. I mean using William Frawley and Keenan Wynn smart now humiliating. I feel like a perfect performer to be a comical angel

or a comical ball player. I don't know if he was, I think he was probably an old grouchy manager. I don't know that for sure, but that would be my guess. Another good one. Keenan was like a gruff kind of a character actor and his father was very silly and and goofy. Mm-hmm. Oh

Yeah, I'm sorry. He was an old mean guy. He's like, what do you mean? He was like weird because you would think would be the opposite. Yeah Oh Paul Douglas in the movie also had some kind of just overbearing kind of William Frawley type You see the main he's the main guy? I think he's, I mean, he had to be a coach or a manager in the movie. Yeah, but so the Danny Glover of the.

Yes. Yes, yeah, yeah. Always that movie always bothered me. Naked Gun bothered me that you're watching a Dodgers game that was filmed at Angels Stadium, and then in Angels in the Outfield, you're watching Angels games that were filmed in the Oakland Stadium

Oh wait, or was told me out of it was Paul Douglas the angel his name was Aloysius. That's a very angelic Think so, but hang on I'm seeing Paul Douglas is Guffy McGovern. Oh what I don't know who who is the angel Arnold P. Hapgood? We got any of these could be old timey baseball player names. Yeah. I'd like to know who the character Chunk is. Okay. We'll deal with this stuff there. We'll deal with Mike's Casey scheme.

I'll also point out that it looks like Barbara Billingsley was in the film. The mother from Leave It to Beaver. Of course. Interesting. Well, we gotta watch this. We got a lot of answers to get. There's so many questions. So confused.

So that is still Champion Stadium? I think, I'm not 100% Last you checked. Last I checked. Which was yesterday. Yeah. This is Why Were All The Sports, now probably mostly known

at all of Disney World in terms of sports for the NBA bubble season in 2020. That would probably add the most headlines. So have you noticed that there's a place for you to play sports at Disney World? Many might not know this. A lot of people don't know this. There's like a place with a bunch of like really great,

you know, professional quality fields and you know. I mean, I did avidly watch the Bubble Championship run by the Lakers, so I do have a cursory awareness. Sure, sure. Now called ESPN World of Sports, we haven't done a full episode on it yet, but the thing that was notable about it besides school groups or travel teams training there. It was the site of the Braves spring training until 2019.

They were there for a while. Hmm. Pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. Well that's all my Disney World baseball stuff. You know it wasn't about William Frawley so I had no thoughts on it. Oh, sorry. Yeah, no, I was just trying to look at more baseball Disney World connections. Can I bring up just a baseball thing?

I love old time baseball names. Hal asked, let me know if you've heard of this. I'm sure he's very famous. Maybe we've even talked about him on the show before. Hal, have you ever heard of Johnny Dickshot? I don't think so. This is a real baseball player that just, I was looking through some different things here

and he played for the Pirates, the Giants, and the White Sox. That's a great name. That's a great name. Yes. You know, I play this baseball, this daily online game called Immaculate Grid and I come across a lot of good baseball names and just the nicknames and the odd,

and just the odd given names as well people had back in the day. I realize now I did not give him his nickname as well. His nickname was Ugly Johnny Dickshot. But given to him in an endearing way. Hopefully, it said he received the nickname Ugly because he proclaimed himself to be the ugliest man in baseball. But given to him in an endearing way. Hopefully it said he received the nickname Ugly because he proclaimed himself to be the ugliest man in baseball.

I don't think he's that ugly. I think he looks like fine. He looks nice. He's got a mug on him. He's got a mug. Sure, but- In the realm of when was he playing baseball? In the 20s or 30s?

There's no way that is the ugliest man playing baseball in the 1930s. This picture is 1942. He was born in 1910. There's ugly Johnny Dickshot, but have you heard of fuckface Timmy Cox slap? Surprisingly quite attractive. Oh yeah, real hot. Born in 1871. Wow.

This is weird, the family changed their name. They was named John Dixus. Yeah. And they changed it to Dick Shot to try to sound more American. We're not going to be respected in this country. What are we going to do? We got a son to raise. How are we going to make sure he grows up with a lot of admiration?

Let's call him Johnny Dick Shot. That's what they landed on. Maybe it worked. Maybe for the time that was like a nice, strong American name, Dickshot. You'd be proud to have like, maybe Carlson was sort of like a euphemism for something back then. And Dickshot was just like, you were a solid, well, yeah, probably meant that, but who knows? We don't know.

I wonder if Johnny Dickshot ever took a line drive to the groin. Or that was his signature knows? We don't know. I wonder if Johnny Dickshot ever took a line drive to the groin. Or that was his signature. Yeah, the Dickshot. Someone is live calling the name. Wow. It looks like Johnny Dickshot has received some kind of, ooh, ah, some kind of crotch event.

What would you call that? What would be the terminology for kind of a jab to the old. We'll find it someday. We'll find a word someday. Future generations will have to name what has occurred here today. Right. I wish he had named you.

I wish they were like in the, you know, and his name became synonymous with getting hit in the dick by a ball. Like no one said it like that before that, before he was around. We had no term for it. Ty Cobb was ugly inside. He was.

He's a horrible, hateful man. Oh, virulent racist. I'm sure. Very racist, I believe the anecdote, and I'm like half remembering this from the documentary, Ken Burns documentary series. I believe someone from a crowd called him a slur and he got so mad He cried climbed into the crowd started beating the shit out of the guy and they're like stop it stop it

Don't hurt it. He's crippled and Ty gobs response I believe was I don't care and went back to beating him Oh my goodness come up on the show before if it hasn't then I don't know why it didn to beating him. Oh my goodness. This has come up on the show before, or if it hasn't, then I don't know why it didn't, but I feel like it must have, because that is portrayed in the movie about Ty Cob, and the part of the guy who is beaten up in the stands is played by Jimmy Buffett.

What? Has this not come up? Has that not come up? I don't know. The buffet fact might have not come up. Jimmy Buffett gets beaten up in the Ty Cob movie? Why don't I remember that? By Tommy Lee Jones?

By Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy Lee Jones is Ty Cobb. Oh man, that is so wild. Yeah, no, a man who doesn't act very often. And we talk about on the podcast very often, strangely, portrayed this part that you were describing. Wow. I think I was going through the documentary,

what like shortly, like around the time we were, I think we were recording and I was like, I watched this thing this week and I can't get this moment out of my head, but that, those details would have stuck with me. The Tommy Lee Jones and Jimmy Buffett pairing would have haunted me even worse probably. Look it up. I don't know why he showed up to get beaten up by Tommy Lee Jones.

What is that movie called? Is it called C.O.B.? It's called C.O.B. Is it Frank Marshall produced? Is that why he's in it? Yeah, that's a good question. Now, I went to that movie. I was very disappointed because I thought I am about to see a movie about corn sorry it was with you and then he went ah I've been fooled again by hell his sleight of hand hand. I just was thrown because I thought there was more. Oh my

god the poster is just Tommy Lee Jones smoking a cigar, smoking a big stoker, and looking pissed. Looks like a quality film. Yes and well and you with the official IMDB credit Jimmy Buffett as the armless guy Wow, whoa, maybe hasn't come up. I don't know. I bet we all blacked out maybe six years ago We don't remember great fun fact. Yeah Well, Tommy Lee Jones apparently Or Tommy Ty Cobb would go in spikes first try to hit you in the leg with his sharp baseball Spikes when he's sliding into the base. Jesus Christ.

And apparently he appears in the original Angels in the Outfields. Look at that. What in the world? And when he's like, hey Ty, welcome to set. Thank you for appearing in the film. Yeah, good to meet you. And he did a handshake, spikes first. Spikes first.

Fuck. And then he slapped a PA in the face. I never remember, when I was playing Little League, I never remembered when you were supposed to slide head first or feet first. And so I was like, I think I was happy I was successfully sliding it all. And they're like, you don't slide feet first into, you can slide fee first into home because the catcher is armored. Uh. Cause you can knock into them safely.

Yeah. I. But you were like, you were like wrecking kids on the field? No, I wasn't. I was just clumsy and I didn't remember stuff. They're like, if you're throwing from the outfield, you're supposed to, on this playf you're supposed to on this play you throw it here and on this play you throw it here and I I was just kind of

like I am throwing it to whoever is closest because I'm not good at it. Whoever looks confident. Sliding's hard and sliding head first I have a distinct recollection of getting the wind knocked out of me because sliding head first you're doing like an in motion belly flop. Yeah, right. And still sliding. And it's just, yeah, that's difficult. Now, majorly, players wear like, I mean. Sliding gloves.

Yeah, gloves. They look like mittens or other things. So you don't dislocate a finger. So you don't break a finger when you're sliding. Yeah. So then everyone is sliding mitten first. Mitten first. And it is very funny to watch their body curve. But they're just trying to keep their mitten on the base

But I touched it I Dabbed it with my mittens. I would have loved to like get on base and go like mittens, please I need my mittens. My mittens. My mittens please. Bad boy, fetch the mittens. Don't worry I'll be out soon enough, but I still desire my mittens! My mittens! My mittens, please. Batboy, fetch the mittens! Don't worry, I'll be out soon enough, but I still desire my mittens. Do you have any footage of you playing as a little kid? I mean, I've been looking for your footage. Oh my God, I'm wondering. A footage of you in a play I've been wanting for years now. I know, I did convert it to a fire, I have to find it now.

Oh, you have it. But is there any? It was a couple computers ago. If we could get some sort of a highlight reel of you as a kid sliding into the different bases, that would be good. And get Ian Riccobani to do- Oh, God, that would be amazing. Play by play.

An old Jason game. Oh, what a perfect idea. Perfect mitten handling. Let's real, I'll hit, there's a couple, I mean, we're not gonna get to everything cause there's a couple of other places, but there's a place called Shoots Park in Los Angeles, which was a trolley park in 1887,

but then in 1910, it became Shoots Park and they built a baseball stadium inside of it. So there was a theme park that had rides and like at a zoo, but you would also go see, uh, uh, the angels play there. Um, and they won like penance there. They like, this was like a real deal place, a big place. Uh, and it didn't last too long. Let's see.

There were a couple of different teams. It was the angels and then it was like the Vernon Tigers as well that would play here. So it was like a big thing. They had a seal pond, there were ostriches there. There was something called the House of Trouble, which I was trying to find details. Maybe if somebody can Google that, I couldn't find it. And then there was something called the Cave of the Winds

where you would go in and just get blasted by wind. That was the ride basically. People talk about that for a year or two. That was so exciting. 1901 is when they had they put in a 4,000 seat theater and a baseball park that seated 10,000 people. They had a fishing pond, a small circus, hot air balloon rides, the Catalina Marine band, and a small railroad that followed the outer perimeter of the park. That sounds like a goddamn World's Fair all wrapped up in one location there.

It does, and they had other, like, there were other, they got a wind room too, you're saying? Yeah, they got a big one. They got it all. They got a wind room as well, and I was looking, this is sort of, I mean it is related, but I was looking at the 1905 Los Angeles Angels season. And I was looking at player names from this.

First of all, the team's manager and owner was Pop Dylan, which is a really good name. That's a good old timey baseball name. Not since Moonlight Gram. There was somebody named Gavy Cravath. G-A-V-V-Y-C-R-A-V-A-T-H, Judd Smith, Tim Flood, Harry Spies, Spider Bomb was one of the pictures, which is real fun, Bill Tozer, and Judge Nagel. We've got a great group of spies for you. There's just one problem.

There's something particular about these spies. They might just be Harry spies. Which is a pretty good. Robin Williams. Yeah, I was going to say. A pretty good 90s movie starring. Who's the other? Who stars in Harry spies along with Robin Williams?

There's got to be two of them, right? Who else was Harry? Dom DeLauise. It's Dom DeLauise, yeah. Avery Schreiber. Well, that would be great. I'm trying to look, at a certain point, a guy named David Horsley bought the park

and turned it more into a zoo, which is a pretty good name for a guy who owns a zoo. David Horsley. And then they put in a ride called Nemo's Trip to Slumberland, which was like a very expensive, I think it cost $75,000 to put it in, but it was like a railroad ride. I couldn't find any pictures of this either.

It was a railroad ride based on the comic strip, which now is lightly featured in Islands of Adventure. In the, right, there's like a Islands of Adventure in the Right. There's like a little Nemo in the in the food court in lagoon area Yeah in tune lagoon, but this was the first there was a Nemo's Nemo ride There was like IP a hundred years ago in this part And then I don't know there's a lot of started other. Okay. There's others other shit to Tony riders monkey circus whatever that was a sheik Haji's Tahar's famous Arabian horseman Billiken's temple of the mirth the cave of the winds which I mentioned earlier a panorama where you

could see a battle from the Civil War it was a sea battle of the monitor and the Merrimack so you would see a reenactment of this famous Civil War battle. So this place sounds awesome. There sounds like so much shit that you could've done. It's expensive, but this is a high production value place. They didn't know what they had. Yeah, and eventually it was called Luna Park,

and there was a guy who owned it, and he owned like 15 parks. So he had a franchise Basically of Luna parks across the world there were so many parks just called Luna Park Yeah, and then at one point Do you know where it what's the current look what's in that current location yes, I do Oh parking lot Paradise and. That's right. That's the one the song is about. Basically, yeah.

So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I never heard of that place before. Scott, just to clarify, I do have the dates for you on the Disney World. And I think you're gonna wanna hear this new name. On what? On the stadium, the baseball stadium.

Okay. It was Cracker Jack Stadium from 1997 to 2006, then Champion Stadium from 2008 to 2017, and is now called the Stadium at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. And I wanted to hear this? Yeah, well, you were saying what were the dates. I just thought you would enjoy- I asked what it was called now, though. Oh, sorry, I got confused.

You asked what it was called now, and I thought you would like to hear the very boring name it has. I am happy about it. It's got progressively more and more bland. Yeah. Like, I enjoy Cracker Jack Stadium. I'll take and more bland. Yeah, like I Enjoyed Crackerjack Stadium. I'll take

And then the stadium at ESPN snooze Yeah, yeah Sleep before you get to the end. I was one last note about this is baseball stadium was called Washington Park It was the home of Los Angeles Angels from 1912 until they moved to Wrigley Field in 1925. The park was located in downtown Los Angeles on Washington 8th and Hill Street. And it could hold up to 15,000 cranks as they called the fans at the time. They called them the cranks. The park fans were cranks?

Well, the baseball fans. Baseball fans. Yeah. And there are still quite a few cranks in baseball fan them, I would say. Oh, are baseball fans. Baseball fans, yeah. And there are still quite a few cranks in baseball fandom, I would say. Oh, are there ever? Let's go to the game, get that paper scorecard, and just follow the stats.

Are we talking about modern people? Yeah. When is this person from? That also sounds like a gentle, nice person, not a crank. Some of them are much older and they have a lot to say about these home run celebrations. Are you talking about yourself? Yes. They're elongating the game.

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There was a whole park called- Extra innings. Extra innings. Boardwalk and Base. Did you guys come across this? Davenport, Florida. There was a park for three years called Boardwalk and Baseball. That was the whole theme of the park. It was a circus park that they rethemed.

Yes, yes. But we'll talk about that at some other time. Hal, on the way out here, I would love to hear a little bit about when you were a child's birthday performer. Yeah, you know, it absolutely made me a better performer because like, you know, they would not abide by low energy. Like you had to commit and bring it otherwise they would call you out. But they were moderately enjoyable times but there were

a lot of like unfortunate times that haunt me in bad memories. We're gonna make you talk about the fun. Yeah a couple of the bad the the worst character to play was Paddington, and it was only because, not only was I wearing the fur carpet of the bear, but then I was wearing his woolen jacket on top of that fur, and I was in the San Fernando Valley in August. I sweated my body's maximum, like, and beyond

playing Paddington. I sweated my body's maximum, like, and beyond playing Paddington. It was just one of the worst intense heat spells I've ever felt. Here's another funny occurrence that happened. So I enjoyed playing a clown at birthday parties because clowns have no rules. You could steal people's hats and be a real just mischief maker.

Not like Paddington wouldn't steal a hat. No, Paddington had to be jolly and friendly. Paddington is a lawful good. Kind, friendly, patient, and you're just dying inside. Dying inside. But when I was a clown, I would put on clown white

and I was a pretty good cigarette smoker at the time, and heavy coffee drinker, and a kid came up to me and said, contrasted against my white face paint, he looked at my teeth and said, why are your teeth yellow? Oh my God. Yeah, from the mouths of babes. From the mouths of babes. From the mouths of babes.

If it's, yeah, if it's bad enough to read to a child, I guess. Cause the white with the contra, yeah. Yeah, that also, yeah, that brings out the contrast. Did you, what did the clown respond? Maybe like, these are just my clown teeth. Okay. Clowns have different teeth.

That's solid. This is a prank. That's really sad. My teeth are a prank. You'll float too. Oh, and then people would abuse me, like as when I was in a costume. Like I remember I was at this one kid's birthday party

and like I'd bring a pinata with me and hang the pinata. And like sometimes kids would have to hold the rope, like the older teenage kids. And I remember they kept taking the pinata and swinging it into me, swinging it into the side of me. And I'm like, hey, stop, you're hurting me. These teenagers, they're really getting all up in my business, they're not respecting my space

as a party performer. Well, this is, you should just not be having this kind of entertainment at a teenage birthday party. Yeah. That's true. Or it might have been for a younger kid, but they were there. Oh, the older kids are there. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, sure. Did you ever get like an apology from a parent or? No, but I've gotten parents who are mad at me. Yeah. They've asked for apologies. Yeah. So I was doing. They've asked for apologies. Yeah. So I was doing a little magic show for kids. And then there was like a three year old,

I think I was Pikachu at this party. And you know, in the cartoon, Pikachu only says pika pika and Pikachu. But I'm like, I'm Pikachu and I can talk cause it's magic. Yeah. Everything can be explained with magic. Because work with me here. Without that I got nothing.

I'm trying to entertain you. Look, I was a clown yesterday and a teenager got one over on me. Okay, I'm struggling here. But I was sitting on the ground doing this magic show and like a three-year-old kept running into me and then he would go back and like get a head start and then run into my back again. So finally I just, you know, I didn't do anything like, you know, I didn't assault the child, but I just put my arm up so he ran into my arm instead of my back. And then this dad angrily, and this was like, he was intimidating.

He came up and said to me at the end, did you assault my son? Ah ha! What? And I'm like, no, sir. I was just blocked him. And like his friends like were kind of staring me down. You know that was one of the parties where I did not get a tip. Oh I did a party for former

Weekend Update host Dennis Miller. Okay. His kids one time up in Santa Barbara. He was very nice, invited me in the house to take off my costume character head and stand in his refrigerated wine closet. Whoa. Wow. But not a great tipper at the end. What? No, wow. Could ask for you to come as like Kierkegaard.

What are you doing? Come on, sweetie. Well, Hal, would you be interested if the Galapagos gang had an opening to play one of those Galapagos gang characters? You've worn suits, you could wear suits. I love baseball, I don't know how I could say no to that. All right, well, Jason's going to fix it for you so you can get it, get a job. Give me that hookup.

I'm going to ruin, I'm going to fix his love of baseball or I'm going to fix it up some of these Galapagos guys? I mean, I meant to say you'll get him the job. Okay, yeah, yeah. I miss him. Also, seems like a nicer thing to do, I guess, but. Why does Philadelphia have the best mascots? Gritty, the Philly Fanatic. I mean, they're cornering the market.

We used to have Philadelphia, Phil and Phyllis. They were little kind of colonial children back around bicentennial times. I love a colonizing mascot. Oh yeah. Well, I guess, look, we're in the, you know, we're heading towards the plug portion, which you could certainly use to list anything applicable in your resume to become one of the Galapagos gang.

That's a viable use of the plug space, but I don't mean to hold you to that. Oh sure, well, you know, to become one of the Galapagos gang. That's a viable use of the plug space, but I don't mean to hold you to that. Oh sure, well, you know, my children's birthday party experience, and maybe my- Willingness to get abused. Willingness to get abused. And stand up to the parents who are accusing you

of terrible things too. Mm-hmm, and also my murder mystery dinner detective experience I think might come in handy. And also my murder mystery dinner detective experience, I think might come in handy. Did you ever do Tony and Tina's wedding? No, oh, but I could be a Paisana Tony and Tina's. I believe it. If I may wax into my wacky uncle character

for Tony and Tina. Or if that's if they want a wacky uncle character to join the Galapagos gang. Yes. Either way. But should I plug? Follow these. Yes, the protocol, the official protocol is, and I broke the protocol, but let's now,

let's be to the letter of the law here and say, Hal Rednick, you survived podcast The Ride. Thanks for being here. Let's exit through the gift shop. Is there anything besides wishing to be part of the Galapagos gang that you wish to plug? Thank you, Scott. And this has been such a good time.

Thank you guys for having me. Absolutely. Lovely chat. Good way to hang. So I do have a show coming up that I'm very excited about. And if anybody is in the Los Angeles area in June, the Hollywood Fringe Fest is going on and I'm doing a solo show called Jersey Devil, a dead dad comedy and it's about my dad who was a marine, a concert producer, a compulsive

gambler who lost millions of dollars and a burglar and a thief. And I talk about what it was like growing up in the shadow of this maniac. I bring him to life and relive such incidents as him flipping a table in a Bennegan's restaurant. Oh, potato soup going everywhere. Exactly. Doing a U-turn on the highway in North Jersey. Beating up an armless guy at a baseball game.

And going in spikes first to second base. But it's going to be a lot of fun. And it's, you know, I talk about, you know, difficult stuff that I went through, but it's absolutely a comedy. It took me a long time to just get the perspective where I'm like, oh, I can have fun talking about this and not be utterly ashamed that my dad did all this stuff. And again, if you're in Los Angeles,

Hollywood Fringe Fest, you can go to HollywoodFringe.org. I've got shows on Saturday, June 7th, Saturday, June 14th, Saturday, June 14th, and Thursday, June 26th, Jersey Devil, a dead dad comedy. Wow, so all of, and I was gonna say, thank you for not only for being on the show, but for all of the unexpected talk of the Ashes, and now I know, now I realize it's applicable.

Yeah, and that is part of the show. It's kind of a through line. I talk about the journey that my brothers and I went on to honor our complicated father. And everyone in the audience gets a piece of ash to go with. They're going to get a, what was the term you called? Creme? Creme, but cremulery.

Creme, cremulation. They're going to get a lovely piece of cremulery. You've got cremulary. They're gonna give me a lovely piece of cremation. You've got cremulary. That's not a bad idea. Well thanks for being here, Al. Super, super funny and fun. Hey, as for us, for three bonus episodes every month, check out Podcast the Ride the Second Gate or get one more bonus episode on our VIP tier club three.

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