Podcast: The Ride - Disney Village with Julia Prescott

Episode Date: June 8, 2018

Bonjour mesdames et messieurs. Julia Prescott (Everything's Coming Up Simpson's, Townies) joins us as head into the heart of darkness: Disney Village, the weird mall outside of Disneyland Paris. Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/ FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warning, the following podcast may contain buffaloes forced to live in a brittle French field, a sports bar called Sports Bar, and a Disney hostess named CJ who seems to be your dad's favorite. Finally, what you've all been asking for, two hours of complaints about the weird mall outside of Disneyland Paris, with guest Julia Prescott. Bonjour, it's Podcast The Ride. Hey, welcome to Podcast The Ride, where we know the only real way to solve the crisis in Syria is to send an intergalactic space captain to dance at Assad and unlock his inner beauty.

Right? Agreed? Yeah, we agree with that. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and that's the only way to really change the world, as it were. As long as he has sidekicks, though, that are adorable and you can make plush out of them, I think that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A band of misfits. And a literal band as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the only way to really solve a crisis. You think me beautiful? Yes, Mr. Assad, but without a key to unlock it. We're not going to fill. If you don't know what we're talking about, Mr. Assad, but without a key to unlock it. We're not going to fill. If you don't know what we're talking about, sorry. Yeah, this is the gate behind which you should stay. Yes. If you don't get the reference, then you're out.

We're all people who understand these references. I'm Scott Gairdner. I'm one of them. And I'm joined, as always, by Mike Carlson. Hey there. And Jason Sheridan. conferences uh i'm scott gerdner i'm one of them and uh joined as always by mike carlson hey there and jason sheridan hi i was trying to figure out the one-to-one of like hooter to john bolton or like hmm uh which one is michael flynn and michael flynn jr michael flynn is fuzzball i guess yeah is michael fuzzball i think john bolton is the give her the gift. I think he's that guy.

He appears to be a hologram to sort of keep him on track. Which one is Doug Benson? Doug Benson is the same character. Oh, great. Fantastic. He plays the exact same role in this crisis that he did in Captain EO. Yeah. He's like a hundredth guard at asad's uh

where does he live compound i don't know and uh yeah and he gets turned into like a into a bright red uh wearing uh break dancer that's how this is gonna play out once we get on board with this plan um anyway hey well uh joining us today also also also clearly a mega theme park nerd and one of the first real friends of the show. You were very supportive right away and I really appreciate it. She is a writer and comedian and one of the hosts of the podcast Everything's Coming Up Simpsons. It's Julia Prescott. Hey. Hi.

Thanks so much for having me. Absolutely. So excited. I'm so pumped. I was looking forward to this all day oh good yeah because i uh i think when i saw like the moment you guys announced that you were on feral because we all used to be on the same podcast network yes yes we did tweeting something like i'm angry i didn't do this myself or i found something so relevant to my interests. You know,

it, it makes me upset. Um, geez, that would have been the other topic if you'd given, uh, things you're obsessed with. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, but yeah, I've listened to the podcast a bunch. And so, yeah, all day today I was like, hi,

you know, how's this episode going to start? They're probably going to ask me like what my personal history at Disneyland, like going through like the general brief. was like what am i doing i gotta stop that's a question i have if i've uh in the rare event i'm on other podcasts like how much should i know or should i just yeah or will i speak to rehearsed if i uh uh i chose the wrong tact on doughboys which is because i listened to it a ton and I studied it too hard and I think it was very stiff.

I've been analyzing my Doughboys appearances ever since. I think you're the same way, correct? Yeah. Well, I thought there was a couple of things. I don't even remember them, which is good. So let's not bring it up. But there were a couple of things on that Doughboys episode that I did where I was just like, you're an idiot.

I can't believe you did that. And then I was like, people are going to think you're stupid. I thought your episode was great. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And it wasn, people are going to think you're stupid. I thought your episode was great. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. It wasn't fishing for compliments. Scott just brought this up. No, it was great. I have a very specific memory attached to your episode. Wow, really? Yeah, because another big fan of Doughboys,

I was saying off podcast, OP, before we started recording that I feel like my Simpsons podcast and this podcast and the Doughboys all kind of exist in the same shared universe of podcasting. We all used to be on Feral too. So that's,

I guess, another link. and it's all about like silliness and kind of like not super high art pretentious stuff. It's about rapturous love

of silliness, I think. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I like the idea of the shared podcast universe yeah and we could all come together there was an idea to bring together all right sorry Sam Jackson Marvel Avengers

speech I was about to give so I was gonna say that I listened to your episode of doughboys when my husband and I we went to Costa Rica for like one year dating anniversary and I just remember driving the winding roads of Costa Rica listening to your Margaritaville episode. That is like kind of perfect

isn't it? Yeah it was. Yeah really. Yeah I was there in my mind and I was also there presently in the jungle environment. Well thank you. Cool breeze and palm trees and dry description of fake cool breeze and palm fake palm trees and i do love that orlando margarita fell it's wonderful yeah

it's what we'll do a whole episode on it soon i haven't been actually oh my god i haven't i haven't done in orlando since we started doing this and at what point is it irresponsible for me to be presenting as a right you have to go without i have you gone like three times since i have been to orlando in the last year twice i have the premier pass which means i can get into the orlando park anytime for a year until september will i go again maybe maybe i don't know possible tickets are cheap it makes sense it does make it look it makes a ton of sense for me to constantly go to florida i went in uh 2008 i think in 2010 and i

didn't think it was that cheap but maybe there's a pen i mean you gotta look i as everyone knows on this podcast i love to check i'm a checker i'm a checker too so i love to check i check every day yeah i check for playing like stuff goes down stuff goes up but what are your sights oh uh what are your sights who are your guys i mean what are your deals are we good michael i am pretty yeah we're good mark i just had a big problem with you back at the comedy store what does lauren thinking the door man uh lauren but is it uh is our lauren michael eisner yes i think he's yeah yeah i would say so yeah probably well let's start who's bob eiger then i don't know i don't i think i care about uh eisner more than eiger yes i'm i

would like to talk to eisner i'll, I'll happily have Bob Iger on the show if we have to. If it came to that. Right, right, right. If he's not doing a million things. Bobby boy, you're right down the road. Pop right down Olive, then make a left.

I have to give directions directly to the... What are you doing? Jason, this is a secret place that no one needs to know about. I like the website. I go to just the basic stuff. I have Expedia. I have stuff like like that i do have a thing called um i forget it's called like cheap flying or something and it's a twitter and basically i have it sent to my phone the the alerts so i'll

get like la to columbia is on sale for something. I get those alerts too through, we don't, this doesn't have to be the podcast episode, but we're just talking about travel websites. Sure, yeah. Airfare, Watch Dogs, stuff like that. Yes, yes. I go on that, yeah, as well.

Sky Scanner. Yes, I love to check. I love to check everything. So yeah, you can get it still pretty good. I got my, I think my last flight was, one way was 89 bucks and the other way was 130 or

something so you can look there are deals i'm actually going to orlando in september i feel like this podcast probably played a sure yeah in making those because you you i remember message you message saying is this a good time to go and i said yeah that food festival will be going on and the crowds will be probably down because people are back in school back at work sort of thing but like buy a few travel insurances because of hurricanes i did that i missed the hurricane last year by like four or five days oh really yeah yeah i read i got deep into this internet rabbit hole of like reading a bunch of dad blogs that are based on like centering on Disney World.

I think one's just called like dadsrules.com or something. And it was like, gotta go. Hey guys, here are my top five weeks to go to Disney World. And like one of them was like the last week of September. So that's when we're going. That's probably a good time. I never thought about dad blogs. I mean, I know there's a huge,

Disney has a huge network of mom blog, like mom blog affiliates and stuff. Dad blogs are where you get the deals. And where you find out where all the best place to have a cold beer is. Yeah. Get a break from your damn old lady and kids. That's what I'm into. Shows that are live shows that are hosted by cute gals in a skimpy outfit. That's what I recall about my dad, who was kind of uninvested in Disney World

until we saw the show that was, it was in Mickey's Starland, and it was a show where all the Disney afternoon characters came to life and perform, and it's hosted by kind of a perky girl named CJ. I remember my dad talking about CJ a lot. I assume it was always a different cj uh that was the uniform cj a lot yeah yeah for days that's yeah that cj was do you want to you want to uh scott

you want to see that show again i like that cj gave my dad a little bit of eye candy cj was that was also disney's first use of using a computer algorithm to come up with like, what is the name for a cool host computer and a man or woman could slot in relatable name that is not specific to any particular race. Right. I don't think that I'm, I don't think I'm the only one who knows this, but I think that's the name of Pamela Anderson's character on Baywatch. I think you're correct.

So I, so I feel like maybe that's was on purpose because you'd associate another favorite of dad's. Yeah. Presumably. Presumably. And she's also very like classic, like short blonde, like the base definition of cute gal,

as my dad would say. Cute gal. CJ is like a 1992 as fuck name, though. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it feels like she could have also been like your camp counselor. Yeah, oh, sure.

She's the gal next door, but she's also beautiful. Like, there's a whole, you know, she's not too aggressive, but she's like the bright bowl of porridge. She's just right. I don't know. That was a wreath. She's just right. I don't know.

That was a wreath. That's something that's where you and Lindsay really sealed the deals when you were brave enough to call her the right bowl of porridge. Relationship went to a new level. My husband has yet to say that about me. Am I in trouble?

Should I? I'm not going to say it. That's a new Standard of relationship affection. He keeps looking at the dad blogs a lot. It's like trick gets closer and closer. He keeps looking at like quiet places to hide. That's a tag on these blogs. That would probably be relevant to his interest

because he's not as obsessed as I am. Yeah. Oh, do you? Well, because this is sort of, although I don't know. I never mean to present the uh the image on on the show that uh aaron or lindsey is less into this stuff than it's not just mathematically they just are because we sort of uh ascend the heights but they're

pretty big disney people as well but not quite but is it a sort of a similar ratio? Like, into it, but there's a wall. A ceiling. Yeah, well, he also grew up in Cincinnati. And so, you know, there's... I think they have... I forget what theme park they have out there. King's Island. King's Island, that's it.

Which our episode about has not come out yet, but we talked about that place. Or has it? Oh, yeah. In the space and time we're recording it, it hasn't, but in you, the listeners' timeline, I haven't a clue.

It's a surprise. I'll probably cut this out. It's worth doing. You know what? The moment you say that on a podcast, you won't. You won't. That's the rules.

You know how it works. You watch your Conans and your Lettermans, you know you gotta leave it in. Leave the good magic like this because when you say i'm gonna cut that out the listener is hearing you say that and they're going oh this was almost i don't know you're saying yeah they feel like they got a treat yeah let's dissect the art of podcasting it is an art a high art oh absolutely that we're very careful about and very committed to. Yeah, there's so much fun stuff. Like, do you acknowledge the animal walking by in the room?

Do you acknowledge the fire truck going by outside the studio? Lesser podcast wood, I would say. You think that at a certain point, you just keep rolling and ignore. You have to stay focused. We haven't had the podcast sort of coming of age at a certain point you just keep rolling and ignore. You have to stay focused. We haven't had the podcast sort of coming of age where we record a whole

episode and it gets lost and then we spend 15 minutes at the top of another episode talking about it getting lost. Oh and maybe like being with the guest again. Again. And acknowledging. That'll be a season two. This will be us. Don't wish that on second time deja vu for us this will be us

don't wish that on yourselves hopefully never yeah I shouldn't curse this episode and say we're gonna what a bad thing to have you as a guest

and say we're gonna lose your episode but I'm gonna say right now if this episode does get lost and I have to come back what a joy

hey good excuse oh hey it's like a private show basically it's like a bonus yeah yeah yeah well what I was saying is for my husband Mike yeah he grew up in

cincinnati and only had king's island and i think actually used to work he's an artist and uh he works in animation so he used to be a caricature artist that was like his first summer job as a there i think um but he like didn't make a lot of trips out um to go to disneyland when he was growing up and i grew up in la so i think and my mom's also worked at disney since i was two so i think that may have affected it but i'm not sure if that's like the root of my obsession or proximity as opposed to because i could see it going the other way where i'm nowhere near a disney park and i i dream about going to one one day and i got the little taste of it and now I'm obsessed.

But yeah, you're right. Maybe proximity makes a lot of sense too. Yeah, but he's open. It's not that I've... I have dragged him to a couple of parks now and it's not that he hates it when we go, but it would never cross his mind. Like we went to Tokyo

and that was, you know, like a real, like, let's do this first, you know, kind of thing for me. And that probably would not have been on his list. sure.

Oh, we skipped it entirely. Interesting. Oh, did he like it? Yeah. Yeah. Sure.

He didn't tear up like I did when I saw Tokyo Disney sea. Oh yeah. Said to him, it's weird. It's just weird to see something i've googled so many times in the flesh that that was my quote to him in that moment yeah i know some of these places i've looked at on just google street view and just met with this was my view in real life you just drive in that google street view and this is such a perfect setup to today's topic this is true yes you've looked at

pictures and you long to go and you two scott and julia have seen this in in person indeed or lay person yes let's say that's about the extent of my french yeah uh thank you for being up before you went oh god no i did not we pretended we were gonna learn some yeah as soon as you're in an actual transactional situation you've uh you bail yeah well i actually so i started planning this trip um late last year and then uh my work picked up and i was actually in the process of canceling it. And then like canceled everything except for the flights. And then I got laid off. Like the day I was going to cancel the flights,

like that was my lunch break task. And then I got laid off like that morning at 11 and was like, all right, trips back on. And it was happening in a couple of weeks. So it was one of those weird instances I've never experienced where I didn't have the months of anticipation of this trip. I had like put it out of my mind.

And then all of a sudden it was back on. So it was kind of a scramble within a couple weeks to like get my mind wrapped around it. Oh, weird. And so I was like furiously duolingoing. And the only thing I learned was like, I am a woman and you're a man. Like that never came in handy.

Why would you have had to clarify that but if anyone asked I could say just we la femme and that would get me around you know so knowing numbers seems to help although also in many situations the numbers are printed in front of you and they aren't those aren't different the numerals are not different in foreign countries

I feel like I tried a little bit harder in japan and this time around i was like uh you guys know you know like come on look at me so yeah just help me out yeah yeah yeah yeah we hit those moments very quickly and you're like look come on i we all know what this is cut to the chase um but anyway yeah the so uh i mean i'm and i'm sure uh there are there are a ton of theme park topics that we could be discussing with you. But I was happy you took us up on this because, yes, fresh from a trip to Disney Paris, which I did on my honeymoon a couple years ago. And I felt kind of scarred ever since yeah and i wasn't sure i we dm'd a little bit about advice about various things and then the morning you were there you tweeted us this photo of uh the the main the the mickey and donald and goofy and i forget if it was all of

them but donald at least had these very bizarre dilated eyes. Yeah. And this is at, by the way, that was, I believe, at the Disney Store at the Disney Village, Paris, which is what this episode is about. But I was wondering from that bizarre, I was like, oh, I wonder if she's having the same experience of oddity as I did at this place.

Yeah, 100%. Well, first of all, the Disney store in Disney Village is like one of, I want to say, 12 Disney stores in that area. Most of the shops are just only slightly different ticks away from each other. And they're all given like a different name. Like this one's like the Disney boutique, but this one's like the Disney store proper. This one's Disney World. You know, it's just like-

Gallery, the world of Disney. Theipedia list of shops was very weird i mean the restaurant i feel like restaurants are gonna be a big part of this yes episode uh but like just reading the shot i was like there's only like six stores and everyone has like disney like there's not like yeah i mean i know it's france and tastes are different but i'm like there's no like flip-flop shop or crocs or something or even like a newsstand or a bookstore or something or fridge magnets no stock market yeah it was really bizarre i mean the first thing that you see when you walk in is uh the giant planet hollywood yeah and i'm sure i'm not the first person to think this upon seeing it but this is still around i would have thought that they went bankrupt several

years ago i felt like that was the rumor in and out several times apparently yeah but there's still find the brand a few hanging on orlando vegas. Mm-hmm. Wait, do I have the list? Orlando, Vegas, Times Square. I think there's another few. There's six on the planet Earth. There was one at Niagara Falls that I saw, but I think that one now is gone. Does it look, do they all, because this one, when I was looking at the YouTube video,

this planet Hollywood looks like it did when it opened. It's a giant. Yeah. It's the globe. Yeah. You take like an escalator in or it's a walk yeah it's the globe yeah you take like an escalator in or it's a walkway i'm not even sure this is what the orlando one looked like until about two years ago yo it is it's been that recent that would it look like that i mean they turned it into like an observatory for disney spring me i've been to orlando many times in the last year so i've seen the observatory version of the planet hollywood i was just wondering do they all look

like this other than that observatory do we know oh the time square one is like built into right an office the sky one doesn't have as building as is um the vegas one used to be in the caesar's palace mall with the fake sky right where it's a cloud covered ceiling yeah yes and i i feel like i went to that, but now it's in a more boring part of the same mall. And it's just kind of a very bland pseudo hip design. So it's all over the map in terms of its branding, which is summoning Marcus Limonis, the prophet to me right now.

Oh, another thing. Julie and I have talked about a lot lately. That was a bright day for me when I realized not only do we have the theme park thing, but also the Prophet, which I feel like no one else. Yeah, no one else that I know in real life. I mean, we're in real life. When you said

no one else, you kind of pointed in the direction of Mike. Shoving you back into the corner. Who didn't even know what you were talking about when you guys started mentioning the show for listeners who don't know the profit is a a cnbc original cnbc show uh where a a guy named marcus lomonas who is like an investor and like i think the head of the company camping world and a million other companies famous camping world helps struggling businesses it's sort of like bar rescue my joke that i i i meant to tweet out like you forget is

that uh uh uh bar rescue in the morning to wake you up profit in the evening to cool down because the profit's pretty chill uh marcus only doesn't yell that but he's pretty nice he gets frustrated but he's not screaming at people and throwing stuff like john taffer is or it's or the hell's kitchen or what he's not yeah yeah he's not a yeller he's just such a genuine guy that's what you get with he's a genuine guy any episode where he's helping a candy company or an ice cream company he's just he just loves it because he's just like i always wanted to have a candy store growing up and since i was young i've been a candy man he's got that's my favorite so great and like wooden incredibly stiff he does the reality show moment where he's describing

something that happened as if it was that day but he's not able to do it casually like somebody on Big Brother. So it has this stilted quality, which Scott Gairdner has come to love. He gets more and more comfortable on camera. Over four seasons, you could see him get more and more comfortable and you could see them hire a stylist because he goes from a lot of khakis and button-ups

to like calm diggers on. He has kind of like a uniform. I feel like I've seen him wear the same outfit like across seven episodes in a row where it's like the white button down or white polo sorry and he's got these dad jeans and this very like thick belt that's just like holding it up and he's like walking into businesses and giving them you know a tough time and they changed the the opening credits at one point where he was just in like a normal suit and more recently he's been in aviators

in like a military jacket with like a bomber jacket. He's like a one-man shark tank. Yeah, he's like a one-man shark tank. And you actually see the stuff happen, which I suspect that a lot of those sharks don't ever go to the place unless the cameras are on. How could they? They buy new

businesses every single episode yeah seven an episode right right um which marcus buys a lot but he'll he'll bail on him too which when you realize there's only seven minutes to go and it's a bail episode um and you're usually so happy for him because he's leaving a real hornet's nest. I love it. Some of them I suspect he had no intention of continuing to stick around. Like the one that got very dramatic where it was a marshmallow company that shared space with a garlic and spice company. So like all of the marshmallows started smelling like garlic. What a stupid manufacturing problem. There's a lot more con con artists on the profit than bar rescue and stuff like there's a lot uh to bring to connect it back to the theme parks there

is a popcorn episode about a company called planet popcorn uh i still haven't done that one they have a contract and i don't know if it's still there but they were they had a stand in downtown disney and then they would sell at carnivals and stuff yeah and and the there is like hundreds of thousands of dollars they bring in a forensic accountant and realize there's hundreds of thousand dollars missing from the books and like looking around the office there's just like loose stacks of cash and stuff and like there's the person is clearly trying to pull a fast one on him because like they go to like a couple storefronts and he's like i think this would be a great storefront sell popcorn she's like i don't know it's a little chintzy this is storefront

i picked out he's like this area is no foot traffic and she goes and this is where i tell you i didn't mean this isn't for popcorn i want this to be a crepery and he's like we're back on the crepes thing like this is a thing in the whole episode where it's a popcorn company that also and the woman also wants to sell crepes and he's like okay we're not doing crepes because it's not making any money and she's just like but what if we kept selling crepes. And it takes place in Orange County, too, in California. We have to do that side podcast. We'll happily do the podcast. Jason, do you like the show?

Because it sounds like all he does is rescue businesses that have treats. I mean, there's heavy treat presents, and I do like it. And the treat ones tend to be the best ones. And do I just think that because it's fun to look at treats? Yeah, absolutely. I don't know. Also, Farrell's was a lot of fun. And Sweet Pete's was a lot of fun.

Sweet Pete, a recurring character now in many episodes. One of the great success stories. What about the one where it was that 11-year-old kid making cookies? That was legitimately moving. Mr. Corey's Cookies. Mr. Corey's Cookies. Jason was moved by an episode about cookies. That was like Mr. Theo's or something. Mr. Cory's cookies. Mr. Cory's cookies. Jason was moved by an episode

about cookies. Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise. About a little boy achieving his cookie dreams. The only way Jason can show emotion.

Anyway, I think the point is that Marcus Limonis would have some things to say about Planet Hollywood. He would. Six restaurants.

None of them look the same. Is it a hotel chain or is it a restaurant? Or do you sell board games? Because there was a Planet Hollywood board game, which looks like the little globe. That's actually pretty cool. I kind of like that. I have that. Really?

What? Yeah, I have that. Did this come up in an episode before? I didn't realize that's what it was, but I do have that game back in Illinois. That splits apart. Yep. You take off the top. There's cards in it, right?

Yes. And the cards have like, name as many Bruce Willis movies as you can. Yes, I have that game. Or I did. It's only about the actors that invested in Planet Hollywood. I think so. Yeah, yeah. Name as many Cindy Crawford movies as you can.

Amazing. Fair game. Ding, time's up. Yeah, it's a confusing brand at this point. I'm mainly confused as to how it's still around and how is it, yes, the first thing that you see as you walk into the... By the way, what was your...

Okay, so to say the lay of the land of, of Disneyland Paris, there are the, there are the two parks, which are kind of side by side next door to each other, Disneyland and Disney Studios Paris. There's a beautiful hotel in front of. Yes.

Legitimately that Disneyland hotel, which is like one of the most lavish. Yeah. It's essentially, it replaces the Disneyland train station there in the Magic Kingdom type park. And then there's a bunch of other hotels, but connecting the hotels to the two parks is this little shopping district that's like their city walk or like their downtown Disney, only incredibly worse. Much, much, much less charming. But how did you, were you staying on site or did you come in from paris we were because of the last minute-ness of the trip in general

so many hotels were sold out in that area because also we were like days away from parisian spring break so that played a factor in it too okay we were like oh shit what are we gonna do so we actually stayed in um i want to say val de europe um that's the best french accent i can do um but it was like about it was just down there's like one main road that takes you to disneyland paris and it was just like the shopping area that was um down that road And there's all these hotels. And the hotel was actually pretty nice and had a shuttle, whatever. Okay. But I would have loved to have stayed. There is one, I want to say it's like a Santa Fe Springs hotel. That's kind of like Cars Land-esque.

Hotel Santa Fe. Yeah, I think they've peppered the Cars characters around there. I thought that looked really cool. There's a lot of really cool resorts in that area. Yeah, yeah. And I wandered around those hotels. Although some of those also kind of suffer from the chintziness.

There's the Hotel New York, which is soon getting replaced by, it's going to be called, it's going to be a Marvel hotel. Oh, cool. Like an art gallery Marvel hotel. Yeah, the confusing name, Disney's Hotel New York,

the Art of Marvel. One of these Guardians of the Galaxy mission breakout type, not catchy, not roll off the tongue, too many qualifiers and parts to the name. They're just going to call it the Marvel Hotel. But it's like Art of Marvel. So it's like, don't expect to meet any of the characters, but expect to see pictures of them. Is that sort of what it's about?

Like, we're not going to go all the way. I don't know, actually. Like a quote unquote New York art gallery is like part of the pitch. Because it's like, look, it's a framed print of Iron Man. Why? Why would that be a hotel, though? This is a very tortured. Well, I will say that like the Marvel presence is already felt within especially the disney

studios park now okay and so like a new thing that i didn't quite anticipate but of course should have considered is that they would have marvel characters kind of walking around oh yeah as well as the because that's what they have now and they're putting a bunch of attractions yeah so there's one corner around what you dubbed aerosmith alley right by the aerosmith rock and roller coaster uh which is great and i really want to talk about it but there's a corner where it was um just a big sign that said rendezvous with spider-man so there's spider-man just stand in waiting for your photos there's a sign for a rendezvous there's a sign that i saw that was like whatever it is

some modification of rendezvous like rendezvous lay or something and then the english translation of it was meet him of him uh throwing a web at your face i just thought that what a bizarre phrase yeah the english translation the american english translation at least of rendezvous with spider-man to me screams you and spider-man had this all right we're gonna meet here like you planned it ahead of time it's like oh yes i have to rendezvous spider-man sounds romantic to me it does sound romantic yeah i'm expecting to be hanging upside down gonna pull the mask down he's gonna give me a little kiss yeah wouldn't that be nice that would be nice that tracks for the whole frenchness of it a swarthy euro spider-man hanging upside down all day ready to kiss anyone who comes into his alley uh now now speaking of the frenchness of it okay

so mike and i have not been to disney paris and but i i did you know i looked up a lot of pictures and i went back and listened to part of one of the season pass podcasts tony baxter interviews specifically they were talking about disneyland paris stuff and it seemed like they made a real effort to not be seen as like cultural invaders when designing the disney parks like to not just be like americans storming the beaches of europe of normandy once again uh to be great you try to be as graceful as they consider french tastes and interests and a lot of the park i think like from pictures and what i've read about it seems to reflect that disney village less so yes except and this is the leap i'm going to make the uh uh they're one of the hotels they didn't build uh was a vegas hotel designed by uh an american architect named

robert venturi and they this never got built because they needed the money and uh uh they used it to build the hotel at the park entrance instead. Okay. And Tony Baxter tells a story about he had to be the one to tell Robert Venturi and piss off Robert Venturi, which Michael Eisner thought was hilarious and put in his book. Fantastic. What a great guy. But what he said. Rick the Noose, have fun.

I'm so glad he tucked in America every Saturday night and was all of our uncles for a brief period of time hey people contain multitudes right yeah america's absent uncle um i don't really know anything about him um he seems okay i guess but what they said he said in this interview was that the french love like the exuberance of vegas like the neon they love the the kind of gaudiness of Vegas and that is the the benefit of the doubt I'm going to give them in designing Disney Village formerly Festival Disney okay I see that I see that connection sure garish still a leap well and there is a lot of I think um what disappointed me oh by the way my big thesis about this area and why it has continued to fascinate me since being there is that i think it's the only large stretch of property

on disney property that i felt had no disney magic absolutely it has none of what the charm you come to expect and just the basic and now why is there magic at the disney springs with the bongos club and the virgin megastore there but there is i love it it happens i'm not being i said funny but i meant it yeah i yeah you still kind of even though it's just chain stores and stuff there's still there's little things here and there and a quality upkeep that makes it feel disney yeah this zone is just like this weird Euro trash mall. Wikipedia calls this a festival of nineties, contemporary American entertainment,

which is quite a sentence. Nineties as fuck. This was the first time that I truly experienced that lack of Disney magic. And also like the lack of attention to detail and the pageantry that i really love and appreciate from disneyland stuff like why i defend it like the argument that i make to people that are detractors of disneyland and like all the parks yeah it's like no no you don't get it like that they're trying so hard that they want to do listen i know them they're they're not like that no it's like they're just trying to make a good thing happen and and you see that in you know all of the parks except for this and you know i

had heard the joke of course for years and you see it on the simpsons too with a gene scratchy land that like nobody cares about euro disney that like nobody goes to your disney the parisians have kind of rejected it the phrase cultural chernobyl yes large and a lot of press and like helped really hurt i mean there was up until like 1995 or so i think there was a real question about is this place even going to survive or will they just kill it all together yeah and and so i had heard all of that but still like was like no i mean it's a disney park how bad could it be and and the disney parks themselves in disney paris are not technically bad but this disney village is like the first thing you see that welcomes you yeah kind of sets the

tone for being the redheaded stepchild yeah do you get dropped off in an area where like the point there's the planet hollywood it's just right there yeah yeah it's the first thing you can't avoid it stucco in the in uh in the Florida Project, the excellent film, they really capture something about the sadness of the weird area surrounding Disney World and how it's all very low rent, but it all looks like a big orange or a big ice cream cone. And that's how the planet Hollywood feels like a sad place

where you'd watch an oddly hopeful, but still melancholy scene between the poor Florida Project children. Except they present that as like the grand entrance to the whole. Absolutely. Yeah. Also, the train station, which is how I arrived. Right. It is not a magical Parisian or Disneyney style train station it's just some train station and it's real like dirty and cruddy and there's street peddlers out there with weird like

glowing toys that they're like weird little uh you know neon helicopters or something that they're shooting up into the air it's the same kind of crap that you have to get you have to go through many many blocks of this to get to the eiffel tower or uh anywhere else you know super touristy in uh in paris and i was so surprised like on disney property there's just this kind of like times square i know it feels like there's such a strange lack of joy and a judgment for you having joy and anticipation for that experience like i remember being in the shuttle from our hotel uh going to disneyland and like striking up a conversation with another uh dad that was like on on their way and i think they may have been french i'm not sure but we mentioned like oh yeah well we're from california and you know

we're so excited we've never been to disney paris before and just getting such judgment from that dad for wanting to visit disney paris a when we had disneyland proper at our hometown and also yeah and also just why we were two childless adults there in the first place and the judgment didn't stop there. I got judged left and right all day, every day. The most French moment I experienced was waiting in line to buy a cute little Ratatouille doll for my sister with a little chef's hat and an Eiffel Tower thing.

And this French guy behind me telling me my choice was shit and that I needed to go to the regular Ratatouille area of the park to get the real dolls. You have to get the real Ratatouille, to the regular ratatouille area of the park to get the real dolls you have to get the real ratatouille not the shit ratatouille was it was there were there better ratatouille dolls though somewhere there were that looked more like it but i like the cuteness of this more cartoonish looking one and i made the case i was like no this is the one that i want and they were like, you got to, what are you doing?

Wow. This is not photorealistic. Exactly. This is not Ratatouille perfection. Brad Bird would be upset with you. He's not on model. That's like when we wait in line, we go up to people buying like the Disneyland 2018 shirts

and we're like, go buy an attraction specific t-shirt. I guess that. Buy an original something. Do something a little bit more nuanced that can, you know, be presented in real life and not scream Disney fan. The family is never going to wear all this matching ones.

They're going to wear it all once together, and then everyone's going to wear it as pajamas. You're doing the Lord's work, I think. The thick Hanes beefy tee with the screen print that's like two pounds. It weighs two pounds. It's so thick. Please make it look a little soft.

Make it soft and a little beat up. Soft, yes. Make the shirt pounds. It's so thick. Please make it look a little soft and a little beat up. Yes, make the shirt soft. We have a lot of demands about merch. Well, my question then, I wonder if you had a similar feeling to me on this, is that in Paris proper, where we spent

like four or five nights, I did not encounter such rudeness. I didn't get that stereotypical the french are jerks but i did in the disney paris area yeah yeah i did a little bit more in disney paris however i i didn't experience rudeness in paris proper but i did have my birthday and our one-year marriage anniversary over the course of that trip and on either day no one gave a shit i tried to get little like restaurant treats or something yeah well we went on a we stayed in montmartre um which

is where amelie the movie is based it just so happened and um oh so you saw the the cafe the cafe is real okay oh fun yeah and and our hotel was like right around by the Moulin Rouge. So we were, you know, hanging around that area. But I went on a walking tour on the day of my birthday. And I remember turning to the tour guide and being like, it's my birthday today. So, you know, just curious, like, what would you suggest I do today? You know, thinking that there was some sort of special treat the way we have in America, like free Grand Slam, whatever. And all he said was

uh i don't know i go eat a nice meal i don't know what you do in your free time it's uh the anniversary of you being brought into this painful hell we call the world congratulations you are one more year to dying. Good for you. I wish I could die. Closer to the glorious end. My dirty cousin said you bought a shit ratatouille. That's a fuck. Fuck you. We're on to you.

Yeah. And then on our anniversary, we ducked into this little wine shop and we're buying this bottle of wine. And as we were paying for it, I turned to the woman and was like, it's our marriage it's our anniversary today and uh you know that's why we're buying this bottle of wine

we're gonna go celebrate and she just like looked at us and was like okay uh card okay all right so that's that's what that is but you know whatever then it's hot it's bastille day and that's it yeah and then they take off for all of. So that's what that is. But you know, whatever. It's Bastille Day and that's it. Yeah, that's all they get. And then they take off for all of August. That's what I know for France. Oh, really? It's a holiday.

It's Bernard DeBardieu's birthday. And all of Europe checks out for all of August. Was there an employee at any part of the resort that was like, you know, maybe embodied the spirit of Disneyland or Disney World where it's like the idea of those employees are they're supposed to be like, hello, great to see you. So they're going to make you feel so welcome and everything.

Was there anyone in the whole resort that was like that? I'm going to say no. But also, so off of that, we kind of got not quite the opposite experience. But when we went to Tower of Terror, the Tower of terror that they have is pretty identical to the one that they had in california uh up until recently since it's been uh guardians of the galaxy and there was we were waiting in line in um the lobby part and you know how like they have the two waiting areas for the loading zones whatever of course i'm like

right by of course i'm right by that banister from one of the loading areas. And all of a sudden, one of the employees in like the bellhop uniform like darts into my face and goes, ha, ha, ha, and startles me. And I scream, fuck, full volume in the whole area. And he recoiled and went, Mademoiselle, such language. But I don't like it when people startle me.

And I saw him do that to three other women. And I was just like fuming. And you can't go to the manager and complain at Disneyland Paris. You can't do that. It would be hard, right? That shit would never fly in California, I don't think. Well, yeah, the scare has to be a much, Disney here would be hard, right? That shit would never fly in California, I don't think. Well, yeah,

the scare has to be a much, Disney here would be a much gentler scare. Yeah. Like when the door opens on Tower of Terror, people would go, oh, but you're far from the person. You're far and you're in a seatbelt. In my business. Yeah, that wouldn't be,

that's like a Halloween horror night type of a situation. Which you just avoid those things or you don't go in the maze if you don't want the characters bugging you. Yeah, Disney would never get near space like that. Out here. Yeah, he was taking his job very

seriously. Boy, it's rough and tumble out there. Yeah. Yeah, wow. But in Disneyville, Julia, the more and more I read about Disney Village, I was glad you were the guest because everything I would stumble upon something and a simpsons joke would come into my like this great looks so so many of these places look like

uh uncle mo's family yes bag where america is america town where they eat in japan where every table is a different state that's it's pretty much america town it is very much america town yeah they have um so there's a lot of like weird chicago fixation oh yeah um not only in disney paris but like in paris proper come across like some anything that was like this weird anglophile americanized sort of thing and be like chicago meat diner yeah i gotta make sure to post this picture of uh the steakhouse which says chicago beef warehouse and then has another sign that says chicago which looks very similar very similar to the portillo's restaurant in buena park yes it does it's a very portillo's is a restaurant that's mostly in the midwest um from where i grew up and it's beef it's hot dogs and they

have one in buena park which is right by the parks and right by Knott's. And it's got a Prohibition theme. I see. How fun. And yeah, there's mannequins of gangsters up, if you look up. And it's very similar in aesthetic. So there is a romanticization

of these old Chicago gangsters, for whatever reason. You're pretending you're in a world where hot dogs have been outlawed and only in raucous underground party settings. Can everyone unleash their- Ooh, we're being bad with our appetizers is the general tone there. What's fun about it if I can just eat it

and there's no rules stopping me? Chicago Beef Warehouse. And that's on the outside of the building too, but I don't think it's the name of the restaurant. It's's chicago beef warehouse and that's that's on the outside of the building too but i don't think it's the name of the restaurant it's just called the steakhouse um but there there was like a font is so big there's a bevy of like america town ass oh you're looking at the one i saw uh but rock and roll america yeah yeah well i found that they also do these festivals i don't know if i'm getting too off track here there's also if you read the bread about the festivals they do not

really a disney village yeah there's different music festivals and they have like a like a brazilian music festival and they do have rock and roll festival and they have a bunch of like it's all rock with when they say rock and roll they mean 50s rock and roll amazing so they just drive like old cars out and they put old cars out and like have a little sign that says what kind of car they are and then they just have a couple different like 50s tribute bands like tebow and the bee boppers or miss marianne ragne and the Ragtime Wranglers. Amazing. Or the Rockin' Lilies. Again, this is so much like the American Town Waiters shirt that says UCLA Yankee Cola. Well, and I was going to say, on the floor of the New York hotel,

there's a part, I have a photo of my wife Erin on a giant Yankees logo. Oh, yeah. And the entire Nework thing is kind of like that just like sort of like a level of art design that's like if a high if a high school play a good healthy high school play budget was portraying manhattan right does that carry over to a restaurant called new york style sandwich yes oh boy this may be the i mean i we'd have to debate and i did not go to all the restaurants but if i had to guess which one of the many disney village restaurants is the worst i think this new york style sandwiches might be in the running i gotta read the description i'm not gonna do this for any others uh but this one drop into this deli straight out of the streets of Manhattan for some hot and cold sandwiches and refreshing salads.

Choose from pasta, hot dogs, fish and chips, pizzas, a salad bar, and sandwiches to eat on the go or sit inside whilst admiring the Broadway souvenirs that line the mirrored covered walls of this New York sandwich bar. Now, I don't know how many New York delis you guys have been to, but pasta and fish and chips are not the first thing that come to mind for me. Why is sandwiches at the end of the list? Yeah. The restaurant called sandwiches. Also, then I looked up, like, I looked at the menu of it, and the first sample item they show you for New York-style

sandwiches is the Frenchiest baguette. Is it ham-bone? How do you say ham? Not that anyone would know. Your guess is as good as mine. Ham-bone. Spelled with a J, J-M-B-O-N. I think it's ham-bone.

Butchering this. I took high school French-N. I think it's jambon. Butchering this. I took high school French. Okay. I think it's jambon. Did you retain any names of foods or treats? Orangina. Oh, very nice. That's about it.

But yeah. Oh, croque monsieur, which is like cheese and something. Cheese and ham. And then there's croque madame. That's like their grilled cheese. One is ham and one is tomatoes And then there's Croque Madame. That's like their grilled cheese. One is ham and one is tomatoes. Yeah, I know my treats. That's right.

Now, this is the thing. I would like to, if there was a lot of French specific, if it was a Disney version of French food all over this resort, that'd be something. But it's all this odd fake America food that satisfies seemingly neither the French or the other Europeans who go there regularly or me an American it's like they found a middle that no one likes yeah well they I found also I mean outside of Disney Paris there's an affinity for burgers that's happening

over there where they yeah they're really loving like we've we've mastered it in a different kind of way i'm gonna do a shitty french accent for the rest of this episode um but there's a lot of burgers here but i did find that there were like a couple items that would pop up that seemed a little frenchy there like they i think they had a croque monsieur which just looked like the way they did it i've never seen it this way where it was it looked like a grilled cheese that was inverted, like a sandwich that had like melted cheese on top and then like ham in the middle. I think that is one of the ways

it's prepared usually. So that would be at like the sit down, not sit down, but the grab and go restaurants. There was an article recently I read where hamburgers have now outsold ham baguettes in French. Hell yeah, dog.

You wrote an article? These colors don't run. What article? It was something. What publication are you reading? I think it was Condé Nast Traveler.

Oh. I get daily Condé Nast Traveler emails. All right. It alternates between the bougiest thing I've ever seen

and like, oh, that looks like a very interesting place. I think you just have a Google News alert for ham. My inbox is hell. It was something of like, yeah.

But the numbers were like, oh, it was 2.4 billion sold as opposed to 2.2 billion. Right, right. Even still, we're number one. That's all I got to say. Yeah, hamburgers that topped it for the first time. Do you know the top selling sandwich in America? No, but I know McDonald's, the country after America, McDonald's is most popular in France.

That makes sense. The next country is France. Oh, interesting. Quite a few. The most popular sandwich in America, I believe i learned in elementary school our our national food is like a hamburger fries and a soft drink you learned in elementary yeah weird sincere yeah i don't think you've retained from like

like little uh oddly enough facts was that the day that the mcdonald rep came into the classroom and explained that to you he would be wise to he took over for the rest of the year and in fact you're not a real american unless you eat a hamburger every day hamburger elementary i do remember having a health teacher in high school um try to make the claim that like the most balanced meal was a double double cheeseburger from In-N-Out because it had all the food groups. They had the bread food group and the meat food group that got that vegetable with that tomato dressing. She wasn't the healthiest person. I was always reassuring.uring yeah i like the vegetable was just like a piece of iceberg lettuce which is no nutritional value nothing yeah nothing

there's a lot of a lot of the food around this area seems to be of that ilk the kind of like crinkly where is this what what drawer has this been in kind of lettuce and then some horrible uh dijon kind of some crazy heavy sauce squirted on way too much of it ruining the consistency of the bread i found i just saw i i ate disgusting food and i saw a lot of disgusting food around did either of you eat at the disney village what did you do no okay because we were talking about it you warned me scott before i went there um that it was garbage and to plan accordingly so we kind of avoided it but we did like we ducked into all the restaurants just to see what it was so we peeked our head into planet hollywood and i got a sweet photo with a weird

statue of sylvester stallone and that was great okay super packed we couldn't even really walk into the restaurant proper so we just kind of like you know peeked around and off the side of planet hollywood is probably the worst mural i've ever seen, where it's like different stars of the day when you would imagine like in the 90s when Planet Hollywood first debuted at Disney Village. And then since they've added more recent stars as an afterthought. So maybe there's like a Nick Jonas wedged in there

and there's like other- The Twilight game. Yes. But they're all much smaller than the original celebrities. And they don't sell it as if they're on different parts of a plane. Yeah. It just seems like here's a hulking Stallone. And then here's a very tiny anemic set of Jonas Brothers.

Yeah. It's really bizarre. Yeah. And there's a giant blank spaces. It's not a space that's all celebrity cutouts. Just like, you know, you feel like many feet, 20 feet go by. And then there's

Geena Davis. Yeah. And then, I don't know, Nick Cannon jammed next to him or something. That was where the Kevin Spacey

was painted and they haven't painted the Christopher Plummer there. Good catch. Good catch, Jason. There were 10 different Spacey characters. They love Spacey in france but then

also even more bizarre as like a design point they have you know the grommans type like handprints but they have it like blasted on the side of the building yes kind of diagonal crisscrossy that's pretty that's pretty standard planet hollywood design is it i'm not super familiar that's uh that's that's the way they uh uh you know they they throw them up on the wall also like uncle mo's feed bag style yeah street signs and doors yeah well okay an alligator with sunglasses oh now i've seen everything oh that's my favorite marge the i love marge. Suburban, easily impressed, flat life. But yeah, so there's all of those handprints and they all have little gold, not quite plaques

because they're much cheaper, and the little gold labels saying who the stars are. But like some of them have just been yanked out. Like Jimmy Stewart is gone and it feels not- See you in hell, Jim. It feels like... Lay hell. Oh, wow.

You are fluent. Yeah. You do know some words. Our French listeners are going to be pissed. So get yourself a ham bone. Make sure you go to the ham bone store. Well, you could probably get a ham bone at Buffalo Bill's Wild West show with Mickey and friends. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Faithful recreation of the actual Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Which was a thing in the 1800s or 1900s that was probably a- Yeah, that was like a traveling circus. Big old animal abusing mess, I would imagine. Animal abusing and probably uh not exactly tasteful things with native americans uh uh i guess there was something where i was reading something and it said as of 2009 or whatever year the show now stars mickey and friends like so buffalo bill

and company are still there but like mickey and play a much bigger role. Did you watch any of this? No. Oh, is there? I didn't even think to look for a video. I watched almost the whole thing today. Okay. Oh, wow. What did you learn?

It's a dinner theater show. We should say that. It's a dinner theater show. Already kind of odd for Disney. So what happens is it is not unlike the Pirates Dinner Adventure or Medieval Times. There's an area where you go in and there's like a pre-show and there's like some some like goofies on stage with some like country music singers and they have a thing where they do they say on deux trois which is of course one two three in

france uh french uh and then they go on deux trois yee-haw and that's the thing they do and then they're like all right you're ready and like pirates of interventure or medieval times everybody gets a different color and goes and sits in a different section so you have a yellow like a great device it is a perfect yeah obviously they're using it because it works uh they're tearing us apart from our fellow man with arbitrary labels it really lets you know that in conflicts, you know, the sides are arbitrary. Yes,

of course. Why can't yellow and blue get along? We were the same 10 minutes ago. Yeah. It really, but now you're hungry for blood. Yeah. Like in the wild west.

Go to hell blue. So then they go in an arena that looks exactly like medieval times. It's that big. It has the same like section kind of thing and the show is strikingly the same as like not the same to me but like there's a lot of filler there's a lot of like horses just going around for like just like hey let's kill five minutes by looking at the horses uh like oh yeah just like medieval times with that weird horse part there's a whole like with medieval times and we're again making nick weiger very upset because he loves all the pageantry of the horses and the bird flying around and that's legit

um but there's a lot of filler in the medieval time show all you really want is that is them to joust and then to swing an axe at each other that's what we're in medieval times for but that's only five minutes of the show really five to ten minutes of the show so that's not quite like this here but i want just pure blood and gore for 90 straight minutes. That's what I want. You want teeth knocking out and eyeballs dislodged. And sparks.

Axe on shield sparks. That's what I want. That would be cool. Does anywhere simulate that somehow? I mean, the Hilltimes does. Yeah. It's been a minute since I've been there. Come on, Scott. You gotta go. But none of that conflict at the Mickey and Friends one? does there are sparks really yeah yeah yeah oh yeah i've been there yeah come on sky you gotta go i guess i do conflict at the mickey and friends one well they're not the same not quite the same

conflict i'll be honest the story a little hard to follow uh here is it in french yeah it was kind of some of it is some of it isn't the disney characters all speak english uh-huh but the disney characters are clearly like kind of just shoehorned into the show of course manifest destiny they're really yeah they're really just like kind of they show up and then they say hello and they just like talk like they talk a little bit there's a kind of a

I don't know if this is a through line but Minnie is like very sure Mickey's about to propose to her and then he doesn't oh no that's a whole part of the story. It's a very Muppet-y plot. I feel like there's a lot of Miss Piggy waiting for Kermit. Like Mickey goes Mickey's like there's always something. There's something I've always wanted to say. And then Minnie's like oh and she's like getting ready like for him to say it. And then Mickey goes

we're burning daylight fellas. Mickey speaks in flowery language like al swearingen from death the rain of hells you cocksucker like they start shooting a buffalo bill and that was a perfect comedy misdirect though yes it was also it doesn't really like to be fair to mickey like there's really mickey didn't get down on one knee for this he didn't really she's reading into this i mean obviously maybe it's a problem in the relationship but i mean he wasn't saying like minnie i want to tell you something i've always wanted like he didn't say it to her he's not addressing her for 85 years what this fake this vaguely reminds me of

two things uh obviously dixie stampede which you guys have talked about on the podcast before. And I'm not sure if I mentioned it to any of you guys before, but I did a whole stand-up tour where it was called I Just Really Wanted to Go to Dollywood. Oh, really? And I did. So I planned a whole stand-up tour that culminated with me going to

Dollywood alone. And it was just as amazing as you would ever hope it would be. But then it also vaguely reminds me of, I don't know if you guys have read much about the Sanrio theme park in Tokyo. No, well, a tiny bit. I'm hoping to go there later in the year.

And we talked about this place a little bit. Oh, with Doug Jones, probably. Yeah, well, we talked on Twitter a little bit about Puroland and the presence of that egg, that egg uh yeah good at the best san rio uh character but they have like there it's a small world ride um you know we don't know japanese so we didn't know quite what was going on but there's apparently a storyline um because it starts where you you're on like the little boat and you're going through the little san rio world and you go through like the bats maru land and you go through the karopi land and whatever and there's boy we kept noticing like throughout the ride that there were these little envelopes that

were kind of scattered throughout the lands we're like oh what do those envelopes say i wonder and eventually we realized that they were all spelling out that the ride would culminate in hello kitty's wedding and that was the only goal hello kitty had in her life and here we are and everyone's waiting for hello kitty to get married and then to another hello cat oh that's right there's a male cat yeah there's a there's a hello kitty cat but it was just yeah i said no gender qualifier is koropi the frog am i right yeah okay did gutatama the listless egg make it to the wedding no he did not of course not noticeably absent jason's favorite character in fiction i love i love gutatama's the best he tried to slide into a tux and like i can't deal with this. Weird egg man. There's a guy wearing a weird pervert suit that looks like an egg, too.

It's the best. Did you see any of the... I don't know when you were there, but did you see any of the new character who's a calm office worker who occasionally has nervous rage breakdowns? No. I forget what that was.

We were there last year, but I don't think that that was present in the park it's it's new in the last year so san rio introduces like new characters every now and then is that newsletter that you read is there a san rio part that you're so up on your san rio is that in the ham google alert no i, I forget who this is. I feel like past guest Marissa Strickland told me about this. The office worker character who has rage issues. You're thinking of the show Corporate on Comedy Central. This is a whole other thing. This is not a...

It's Matt Ingebretson. He's a real person. Oh, I'm thinking of Matt Ingebretson. He's not an anime. There, we figured it out. Oh, good. I'm glad we solved it hello kitties what yeah is he is so hello kitties with like a male equivalent of herself in like a little powder

blue tuck pretty much from what yeah from what i remember and that's the ride in this that's the ride and then yeah we went on it twice there's a great photo of us that we have on our fridge now of they catch you at a weird really weird time in the ride so in the photo we just look really confused and angry and we're also alone in our boat so that was it was the perfect photo we had to buy because we're just like looking around like what is this space for 30 people and it's just you two whoa it was amazing oh this is great yeah i'm very excited about carol land and it's all indoors, right? Which sounds kind of unsettling. Yeah, yeah.

It's really bizarre. It's especially bizarre because they constantly have parades. So there's like this little walkway area. It kind of vaguely reminded me of your conversation about the Cinemarty Croft Land and the way that that seemed to be set up. But they have- Creepily. Yeah. in the way that that seemed to be set up but they have yeah they have like a really intense um indoor parade with people like from the ceiling on strings like you know dancing around and then

hello kitty is like floating on like a boat waving to people in the sky like it's really intense yeah you should go oh boy oh yeah aaron's gonna lose Her fucking mind She's so excited For Pure Olymp She's that office character Yeah Suicidal office man The Real quick

Back to the Wild West So it's a It's a dinner show Yes And the YouTube video I watched Had like a first person view

Of when they served you food And they served you Like chili So there's If you want to We can post this YouTube video If you want just a shot of a like a lazy french worker just slapping some chili in a bowl it's like the most gross looking does it come out of a big pitcher like the soup that you uh liked jason at fire

distribution method i thought it was very clever way to serve soup to so many people opinions come up that I end up baffled by okay clever if you're just admiring I'm just admiring that but soup and mass out of pitchers I don't know why you would have an affinity for this

why this is a good thing before I get roasted too much I'm not trying to roast i'm just trying to get in your head i'm just trying to figure it out where you can be coming from for the ride i enjoy your friendship very much this is uh uh i'm gonna probably mispronounce it agretsuko this is the character who's like a little she is uh 25 specifically specify this uh 25 year old office worker character and then when she gets mad she looks like uh-oh uh she looks like this oh my god like a demon whoa so you know amazing sanrio does those little you know 20 30 second cartoons that you can see on on their youtube

channel and stuff i'll check it out yeah so she if the copier doesn't work or if she has to stay late like then she freaks out i love this so much it's a sanrio about fucking my old office conflict wow it's universal you know the themes are universal we've seen it so many different so many different types of media so now it's time for sanrio good atama's her? And they have an odd couple dynamic? I think they've interacted before. I think there's been cartoons with both of them before. Gudetama is not phased by her. I know that.

He would never be. If I know my man Gudetama. And you know what? This is reminding me. Universal, you got two Hello Kitty stores now on two different coasts. Get some Gudetama in there. That's the only thing I look for. And they don't

have it it's not and and easier to find in america i remember a few years ago like trying to find guttama stuff and it's like no maybe if you go to i think i'm just in the mall now yeah now it's at the mall now it's like in the burbank mall i could find can i tell you the internet alerts i somehow get i don't know what put like what list put me on this but around the holidays i got an alert that said meet good atama in person at the sanrio store in little tokyo and i like put it in my calendar completely forgot but i was like i was like oh fuck like so excited well at comic con a few years ago you unfortunately that's just his way i know but i again if i know my man good atama i just i will i don't want him to change yeah that's what you expect out of him yeah yeah i may have told this on the podcast before but they always have a big sanrio booth at comic-con and a few years ago

there was like meet the creator of good atom meet the artist who designed and she was literally at a fold at a table behind velvet ropes just sitting there wait because you couldn't just walk up and meet her you had to spend uh like 40 to 50 on gutatama merchandise and then you could meet her that's an easy task and i guess so uh i was not looking to do that that day uh because they were also very large the main gutatama options were very large but she was just sitting there very quietly and i was like just kind of wait like, hi, I wish I could I thought you were going to say that it was pandemonium and that everybody wanted to shake our hands

It should have been Let's get off of these beloved cute characters that we enjoy and get back to the pit where buffalo are forced to perform in rural France I do have a review from, I hate to keep going back to this hellish show, but there's a review

I found here. Honestly, I have no idea why anyone would give this five stars. The tricks are clearly staged, which, yeah, of course the tricks are staged. There's a whole thing where Annie Oakley pretends to shoot out lights, and yeah, she's not shooting bullets at lights. So, yeah. She should actually hit the light bulbs and shatter the glass and have it go into your like pretends to shoot out lights and yeah she's not shooting bullets at lights so yeah she should actually hit the light bulbs and shatter the glass and have it go into your uh into your chili

there's a lot of interactions whilst you're trying to eat your awful dinner which felt odd the bison yeah so there's a little flourish there review uh the bison stink so eat before they come out that actually is very helpful yeah uh not suitable for people with allergies and then and then there's no story to it the only good thing was my daughter thinks mini waved especially to her okay so there's a happy so at least the daughter liked it but this yeah there's also there's a there's a contingent of people on the on these reviews that say uh this show's only for kids then there's a contingent of people on these reviews that say, this show's only for kids. Then there's a couple people that say, this show is for adults.

So I don't know why. My interpretation was, it's for no one. It's for no one. Yeah. I think you're the right one in this. Yeah. I mean, it's for me, but it's not for like a normal human. I don't know if you poked around in the zone.

I didn't go to the show but i went into the lobby where the show uh where you wait before the show happens and i have a video of us just it's only my wife and i in a in a heavily lit fake indoor western town that's covered in uh like warnings about how if you go to the show you might get sand and trail dust in your eyes oh fuck i wish we had poked our head and we didn't oh man i should have given you that tip to go go into this weird lobby and then and then you know so i have pictures of my wife looking very confused under a sign that says like like, a say office. And then, according to our live narration, it smelled like horses in this alley,

even though there was not a horse in sight. And the Beverly Hills cop theme is playing very quietly. And then attached to it, it is connected to the movie theater lobby. So a couple steps away from fake Western town is this very like really garish 1997 multiplex. Garmont is the, or Garmont I think is the brand. Is it also by Billy Bob's Country Western Salute?

I'm not sure. I think oddly no. I love how delighted you are by all these restaurant names. So many of these things would be condescending if they weren't so clumsy. Yeah. Around there. There's one just called Sports Bar. Yeah.

I think that one's next to the New York sandwich place. Yeah. Which was next to the weird dilated Donald Duck. That's the row. That really is the row. That's the heart of this district sports bar has a big sign next to it that says snacks and then i took a picture of a banner that's kind of of the quality of like um you know like announcing speakers who might

be coming to your college soon it's very like it's very cliparty and it says 100 sports free karaoke and dj entertainment well this mistranslated some places would be fine with 97 sports not the case with us not sufficient sports uh i mean this, this is all bringing up so many things that I'm so curious about. Like, for example, the, well, we haven't gotten to the McDonald's yet, but on the website for Disney Village, there is Disney Village Web Radio, where you can, it's just a web music station. And it took me a few tries to get it to work it just kind of opened like a browser window that looked like real player used to and it was just playing very quiet house music all of this checks out i don't and then there but there's a disney village web radio spot on the map of like it's a location you can so i don't know if that's just where the

dj booth is and the thing like tune in and you'll find a host of hits uh uh the next best thing to being there amazing i don't recall seeing anything that's yeah i mean i would imagine that description makes it seem like the way uh radio disney used to be a presence in tomorrowland oh there was that odd little booth like at the bottom of where the uh the rocket jets used to be right yeah they turned into that awful sculpture right next to where it's like the star wars zone in club buzz now yeah if it is still called they jammed so many unpleasant things into all these places i'm gonna try to pull up um the the radio but i'm probably gonna fail but maybe we'll get a nice little blast of house music

so far failing so far white screen and i don't know how much time i'm willing to invest in this yeah i thought maybe just like oh i'm using an older version of safari because i have an update but and then like i think firefox go back to the 97 version yeah yeah did you did you try your I'm using an older version of Safari because I have an update. And then I think Firefox finally works. No, you have to go back to the 97 version. Yeah. Did you try maybe? Download your browser. If we open it up on maybe an old gateway.

Oh, wait, I got it. Oh, sorry to interrupt. Yeah. Yeah. That's music. Yep. Tell your dog. It's like we're there.

That's perfect. I thought it it was gonna be like the din of guests walking around like that would have been a little bit more that would have made sense you know like a live stream crying families families coming apart i did see i mean this is a delight uh anytime you go to a theme park but i did see a little girl full face of um like fairy face paint just bawling her eyes out crying screaming with a mom who was yelling at her very uh sternly uh also full face of face paint wow the mom too and i think that was like within the first five minutes of arrival we had just landed in paris and like took the magic shuttle they have from the airport directly to the resort and that was the first thing we saw and we're like we're home i'm going to go ahead and say this is the worst

thing to happen in france in a hundred years at least i think you're right i don't want to correct you um screaming crying pixies having a meltdown well that this is also what i recall about when we poked our heads into the mcdonald's is that like it's a two-story mcdonald's which gives you plenty of space for families to have complete and utter meltdowns. Yes. I felt like every direction I looked, I could just like sense the seeds of divorce being planted. Laid divorce. Thank you so much.

France's, the beloved movie, France's favorite movie. They watch it every day. Another area though, I mean, and this wasn't just specific to the McDonald's and Disney Village, but McDonald's that we found all around Paris. But another point where they're kind of obsessed with Chicago beef. They had like a burger that was like the Chicago beef quarter pounder burger there. Wow. Is that exclusive to France? Exclusive.

I was trying to find other things that were specific to that, but that was the one that stood out. Well, that is another story that our daddy, Tony Baxter tells. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Our dad. Our spiritual father. Terminology. What did T-Bag

say? That the French love like the 20 they love like the roaring american roaring 20s and gangsters and stuff and there was concept art for like a 20s themed main street usa and then the untouchables came out and michael eisner came in and was like yeah we can't we can't do because this is the most recent 20s thing and pot was such a big hit and they're like we can't have an al capone themed main street because robert de jorah just beat someone to death with a baseball bat and a kid got blown up in that movie he had a speakeasy

it's probably wise yeah until that movie though of course people had such they didn't think gangsters ever did anything bad why would you Why would you ever? There's a reason they call the Daly family the Saints of Chicago, right? Of course. Oh, yes. We love the Daly's. They all had a work ethic that was unrivaled, you know? Sure.

Continued by the great Rahm Emanuel. Oh, my God. A political figure who's done nothing wrong ever. Great history of mayors in Chicago. Now to take a big sip of water and look up Rahm emmanuel last five years he's been on track i assume well a theme that they were okay with on the resort was commedia dell'arte which apparently this mcdonald's professes itself to be themed after

the commedia dell'arte uh in a studio 60 on the sunset strip move uh made the very relatable reference that's what i was gonna say comedian del arte was mentioned in the the making of this mcdonald's and then not again until studio 60 no pop culture acknowledgement no one gives a shit well i don't really know what it is, and I don't know why this is themed to that. I guess because there are tiny, old-timey-feeling statues of Birdie and Mayor McCheese and that captain who I cannot retain the name of. The police chief?

Yeah, the kind of constable guy. Yeah, what is his name? The constable of McDonaldland. I've thought about him so much. Officer McChe big mac i think you just made a character officer big mac i'm just gonna look up you know i'm not gonna look up that i'm gonna look up officer big mac and see what comes up i don't know either you got like a virus jason is correct yeah the character's name is officer big mac wait spin it around we're thinking of the same officer big mac oh yes Jason is correct Yeah The character's name Is Officer Big Mac Officer Big Mac

Wait spin it around We're thinking of the same guy Officer Big Mac Oh yes The guy Actually though I'm thinking You're thinking of a different

Police officer in McDonaldland I've been calling that guy Mayor McCheese this whole time That's not Mayor McCheese Oh I feel like Does he look like a mayor He's got a police officer

I don't know No he's a ruthless Corrupt cop He is the bad lieutenant of the mcdonald's legacy of corruption like the emmanuel family like uh like yes yeah um did you ever have this sorry to sidetrack uh this a play place where you'd get to play in officer big mac's mouth and it looks like a jail and it looks like jail i think one of my first memories on this earth may be blissing out inside uh officer big mac's mouth i loved that thing and if i could buy any giant mcdonald's

implement that would probably be the good one for like your backyard well spent time in officer big mac's mouth got it and yet didn't know his name until now yeah i didn't know his name either we got up close and personal to jason wow great unifier you're looking but scott you're looking for a different police officer there's like a more of a there's a sailor kind of guy oh okay with a big uh the kind of hat that um uh captain crunch has the tall yeah hat with the little uh rivets probably not a good descriptive yourself while i look this up yeah look up the nautical mcdonald's guy anyway there's statues of all of those people meant to distract from the pure misery that the families of five are all having um but they seem to fail to do so and

those statues that you because you've sent us these before these statues are very tiny yeah yeah uh yeah and when we're used to in mcdonald's giant depictions of the mcdonald's land gang these are very tiny and easy to miss what do you got i found it his name is captain crook hmm this is him right that's not a food word that is who i'm thinking yeah and there is a captain crook statue I love how half-assed all of these characters are in the McDonald's universe. Description. Well, because they're all, as we covered a little bit with the Crofts,

they're all stolen from the Crofts original. It seems like they struck gold with Ronald McDonald. They like invested all of their creative energy into that. And then afterward, everything was just an afterthought. It was like first draft written on a napkin. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. creative energy into that and then afterward everything was just an afterthought it was like first draft written on a napkin oh yeah yeah yeah not nearly as the hamburglar is good yeah i will defend mr his motivation is clear such thought and consideration well he's one of my he's my favorite character in fiction what did everyone think about that attractive hamburglar

a few years ago oh yeah sexy hamburglar didn't care for him yeah that seemed like an odd attempt to reconcile like mcdonald's needing to be cool and right it seems kind of similar to what kfc is doing now with all of the different kernels of like a way to kind of get back into the spotlight the idea that they got any feminist wave of publicity off of having Reba be the first female colonel. If you are giving KFC credit for this, if you think this is helping the world in any way, especially because she's frightening. That is the most hideous image of Reba as the colonel. The story of that commercial, commercial too doesn't make sense

at all so it kind of alludes to the fact that she's been the colonel this whole time and is in fact wearing a reba mask right is that that's sort of so that every time you've seen reba in the world right that she's wearing a wig and is truly the colonel this is awful plotty for an ad for a chicken restaurant the blowback i saw from it was people going like well well kfc has entered the gender war now more social justice warriors trying to shove their gender fluidity down our throats oh my god they're not wrong which again they want we are talking about it for it so they want for. So they won't. I'm up for it. Some other McDonaldland characters, just because I'm here. Sure.

That we may not be familiar with. The Professor. Do we know The Professor? This guy with the... Yeah. What I remember as a kid was seeing these characters in the periphery and feeling like their heyday must have come five years earlier. Yeah.

And they are not continuing to like fill us in on the mythology of who they are. How about Cosmac? Cosmac, I have no idea. Cosmac's a big boy. Cosmac's a thick boy. But this was right around the time.

He's a big boy, daddy. Oh, no. This was right around the time that Burger King was also like pushing the Cool Kids Club down our throats. And there was like

this weird need for having this like universe of different characters avengers like in in their storylines we just want to eat fries we don't care about that i like the idea that you could run into one of the one of these characters might be making an appearance yes i that i would i'll say i was obsessed with the mcdonald gang yeah and i love the universe Universe as I did the Kids Club the Kids Club would mail you Stuff right you would sign up and they would mail you

A magazine and puzzles and stuff Wonderful yeah it was wonderful The last character I'll bring up In case you didn't know oh I know this one Of course we've talked about him before many times Jason And I alone This is Grimace's uncle Uncle O'Grimacy No And he's a shamrock Shakeacy and he's a shamrock shake man he is a

shamrock shake man back on board he's sort of the mcdonald's equivalent everything that i've said so he's like neighbors with um cookie opus the carvel cookie there's cookie they don't share that universe why do you say that because i they're similar and fat and smiley. Well, Cookie Puss is the normal Carvel ice cream cake, and then Cookie Opus is the St. Patrick's Day version. Is it just green or what are the ingredients? Yeah, it's green, and he's got a little hat. Is he making this up? No.

Cookie Opus is very real. This is not like a new 90s character either. If you'll see, this is a screenshot from an old commercial with uncle old grimacy so he's been around for a long time he's so he gets fatter than grimace he is double the size of grimace there are two men in that that suit yes there are more speech there's one man and then like five kids surrounding him in the belly area it's like a part of the nutcracker when that one i'm gonna break down the nutcracker plot for you guys that one woman lifts her skirt and then five kids come out you

guys know i've i experienced culture really okay it's whatever dance that is that's what grimacy is doing uncle oh grimacy we'll see that in that disney nutcracker that's coming out that i have no desire no you mean nutcracker and the Curse of the Four Realms? Is that a live action? It's a live action. It's called, it's not Curse. It's like Nutcracker and something of the Four Realms. It's that, it's, well, there needs to be a

name for that area between animated and live action that these Disney movies are. Yeah, the bird movies. Because Lion King is not live action because it can't be and Jungle Book is a live action. I believe it's referred to as a tax write-off it is a write-off and it doesn't do well The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is the name

of this upcoming Nutcracker film who's in the film? thank you for asking it is starring Mackenzie Foy Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman this is why we don't um we're that we are so much more strongly theme park fans than we are disney fans right and if we were disney fans we would have to care about nutcracker and the curse i will tell you this forbidden realm i was at d23

when they announced a lot of these movies uh last. The crowd screaming, four realms, four realms. Everything they showed, I mean, whatever it was, the Wrinkle in Time, or if it was a clip of Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins, people losing their shit. People losing their shit.

This weird Wreck-It Ralph 2 scene that I didn't personally care for people loved it then they played the trailer for Nutcracker and the Four Realms and it was it ate shit in there and it was not these are the biggest nerds in this room

that will like just red meat throw them red meat and they love it Nutcracker and the Four Realms not that psyched about it as a whole audience so that's kind of like how like almost it's almost a guarantee if you go to comic-con whatever has the biggest building wrap or poster uh is going to be a failure like uh what was the one a few years ago sky realm or sky i don't even remember i hadn't heard of it until the billboards valerian and the four and the oh yeah and the four realms and the

things like the clunkier title though because that's a pretty clunky title yes i mean that also call it off hand then you're not gonna anything where it's like beloved european comic it's like oh americans don't care americans if that was the case ostrichs and obelisk would be all over america uh uh we have a even talked girlfriend in in france would be here by now yeah did you see rex's girlfriend maybe that's maybe they took that out no i didn't there's this odd i think i talked about on the show once before that at the end because when i went they had not changed over star tours yet so on the way out there was this odd silent robot that was clanking around but not speaking and vaguely seemed female and then i

looked it up and there is video where you can't see her in uh in action and she was like gushing with praise about rex the star tours pilot and his bravery um and i guess it's defined as rex's girlfriend although i don't think her dialogue explicitly explains that but they're gonna get married just like kitty and kitty boy i would love to see rex's wedding and rex and rex's girlfriend in uh little bow ties that are maybe still made out of gears or whatever um maybe i know you in your career you don't want to do a lot of stuff with ip but if there was a movie about Rex and Rex's girlfriend getting married, I think maybe you would write that. There's only one IP that I would care to get super invested in, which is the world of Rex.

And I could not have been more disappointed that Rex appeared in one of those cartoons. Right. It was just boring. He just said some i know star wars boring gas transit kind of dialogue yeah rex is funny he's the best he's the coolest he's my hero i want to make the movie that's about him not flying or doing star wars stuff but just meeting this girlfriend and then and then planning the wedding and having a lot of problems planning the wedding. They're like sucking all the meat off of the bone of all these IPs.

Listen, it's like the hangover except the wedding is between droids and then all the calamity happens. It's father of the bride meets the Star Wars universe. And there can be another, there can be a Frunk-esque robot as well

a fuss budget america's favorite fictional character fronk fronk we love fronk and why isn't fronk anywhere in disneyland paris martin short's father the bride wedding plan well that's what the wedding pavilion is named after in florida we talked about right the wedding pavilion wedding pavilion the wedding pavilion in the by the grand floridian of florida is named after martin short's character that's incredible bride yeah i didn't know that that's amazing similarly my vows a net designer in disney village is named after annette funicello so that's a little touch that was was my question. I liked that. Annette's, by the way, Annette's is like a diner. Yeah, it's a massive two-story diner. All of these restaurants are gigantic.

Huge, yes. It's like a 50s diner. Like an airplane hangar. It's so huge. That famous 50 diner style elevators and staircases. Which apparently they have waitresses on roller skates and they go up the stairs on them oh wow i was trying to find video of like is it a thing is it a trick that they know how to do it gracefully going up and down stairs or is it just do these people have

to just sadly skate by skate go up and down stairs carrying food all day i'm gonna say a little column a little column b yeah it's right Yeah, it's between interesting and depressing. There's also a two-story Earl of Sandwich and got to be the funniest restaurant that I came across. Five Guys. There's a Five Guys. There are Five Guys everywhere. Also, Five Guys is the first thing that you see

when you walk into Disneyland, that whole area. Oh, really? That's the entrance and then there's like a little bit uh like the the pre-disney village kind of uh restaurants and businesses the first thing is five guys and then maybe the back of the movie theater so that's the icon of the land yeah it's the five guys really the castle is the icon of disneyland paris but. But in France, the Five Guys are America, Great Britain, Russia,

China, and France. The Five Victor, the ally powers. Oh, I see. Oh, now we got where you were going with that. They changed the mythology. The permanent security council.

I thought you were going to give like, like it's Gerard Depardieu. Gerard Depardieu. Johnny Depp. He's very accepted over there. Gerard Depardieu. Johnny Depp. He's very accepted over there. The guy from The Artist. Oh, yeah. The dog?

Yeah, the dog. Augie. Augie, thank you. Rest in peace, Augie. And by the way, I was looking up things that had happened at, I was like, did any big official events happen at the Planet Hollywood in Disneyland Paris? And it did host a premiere of a film that Jean Dujardin from the artist is apparently in and the movie is called Hell Phone and let me show

you guys a photo of this um it is a movie about a demonic cell phone and I'm looking at the director and the star of the movie seeming super cocky and proud about hell phone this is in 2007 and the phone is like a little little devil guy it has little uh little like devil ear antennas yeah it seems to be like a uh i can't think of an equivalent like fucked up horror comedy um uh what's the john dies at the end or something right yeah yeah yeah that's perfect Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seems in that vein. That's perfect. Kind of, yeah, like a raunchy high school. That's funny.

So, yeah, when you're at Disneyland Planet Hollywood, remember, it's part of history. It was the premiere of Hellphone. I've also got a photo of, well, there's a few. One is Stallone and Depardieu looking oh hell yeah in those giant planet hollywood jackets yeah oh but they're real like they're so cool crispy looking they're real like shiny leather jackets because these are jackets that are meant to be worn once and never again yeah that's true brand new and they never shoved into dipardu's closet

forever unless maybe he puked on it or something i will say also that oh i was gonna say like so all of the restaurants in disney village are two stories and huge they all have incredible gift shops um so they're surrounded by all the disney stores and you can get all the disney merch there but the gift shops within the restaurants it's like the gaudiest, like most disconnected, non-Disney, like stuff you can get by playing skeeball at Chuck E. Cheese kind of bullshit. So it's like a lot of weird baseball caps and like things that have nothing to do with anything. I found a sign that is similar, like kind of big uh big obnoxious letterman jackets and the poster i couldn't even i don't know where it was advertising you would get these i guess some store

in disney village had these letterman jackets i just saw an outdoor poster for it that says be preppy and then under that nyc and then 49.90 euro what more is there to say you get it you don't even know where they go find them we did enough for you yeah there's a lack of respect that's universally acknowledged throughout all these uh merch stations yeah yeah they're rushing you through they're uh they're leaving you up to eat this crepe and take this letterman jacket you dumb bitch did you guys go to the rainforest cafe at all i did not we dipped in i have weird connections to the rainforest cafe because i actually used to work in college i went to chapman right by disneyland oh no kidding yeah and um worked in the gift shop at rainforest cafe in downtown disney so it's weird every time even though

yeah no one would remember me and like it doesn't matter but i feel like i'm crossing this like haunted threshold every time i walk into a rainforest cafe i have a real issue there uh which is that i i was thinking about going to chapman and then i went down with with the friends to uh check out the area and we went to that Rainforest Cafe after and I got way too stoned and had just like a like really freaked out upsetting dinner where like I was actually frightened of all the gorillas

and stuff and it made me decide to not go to Chapman. For some reason I tied those things together. I can't go to Chapman. Too many gorillas jumping out at you. I think it did give me this it made me feel like it might be depressing to hang out in orange county for four years which i don't but that was unfair of me because i was an idiot who uh took a drug that he doesn't like um so i don't

know how was uh or being in orange county for uh um it was interesting because so i grew up in north hollywood and grew up as a ska kid when i was in high school so i spent all of my youth um taking the disneyland bus from downtown to go to ska shows on the weekend um so it's constantly the house of blues uh yeah like sort of all around i had uh friends that would pick me up from like the disneyland bus station and then we would like go see like the aquabats at like yeah house of blues or chain reaction or something so it's very oc every weekend yeah i mean chances are yeah um so i i spent all that time like kind of escaping to orange county and then by the time i went to chapman i started doing stand-up in college and spent the weekends escaping to la so i never it was like this sort of flip-flop but it was nice working at uh downtown disney for that brief

period because then of course you get to go to disneyland on top of that so i would constantly like wake up early and like go on one ride before my first college class and then like walk into my class and be like i've already been at disney today. And no one cared. And, you know, I was the weirdo riding like pirates by myself. It was fantastic. Yeah. But actually working. Yeah. It was hard to be so close to that temptation too.

Yeah. But then working there helped that. But my job at the Rainforest Cafe was very demeaning. I basically was the person that interrupts your dinner and asks if you want a photo to commemorate your time at the Rainforest Cafe. Oh, wow. Sure, yeah.

That is the worst job. Yeah. It's the worst. People probably brush you off real hard. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I feel like I've been rude to those people. Oh, yeah. And you're not like-

Thankfully so. Well, I shouldn't be mad at the person. You're mad at the idea that why would I pay? And I know that's going to be $19 for no reason. It's so dumb. Yeah. And I was just like this meek little 19 year old interrupting like 21st birthdays and other bullshit.

And then without fail, like the memory card would jumble and I would never get a photo out and then get yelled at by my manager. So it's like I I already have the unpleasant experience of interrupting so many birthdays and so many, you know, like grad nights and then like cut to later that night when the one person wanted to buy a $20 photo. I'd be like, I don't know what happened.

Like I had it on the file and it just was the worst. So yeah. The Rainforest Cafe, the picture of it from the outside, like the one in Anaheim, even though the food inside might be horrible, is cool looking. Yeah. It's nice to look at.

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It's got a lot of water. It's got a lot of water. It's got a lot of water. It's got a lot of water. It's got a kind of themed. And then there are just a bunch, like two tall mushrooms outside. Yes. Yeah, what are those fucking mushrooms? Also, the view I saw was only themed halfway up the building.

Yes, that's a better way to describe it. It's big and blocky. Yeah. It's bad. Yeah. And the mushrooms, I don't understand. Like the rainforest, like you could just put some fake trees, a couple fake trees there maybe if you don't have that much money instead like mushroom like fun like

we're fungus is outside of this restaurant well there's also i don't know if you guys saw in your research but there is like this little cage just like right off of the entrance and it looks like this little like fake creaky lagoonie kind of thing but it's just like this really shitty rubber robot of an alligator that like every five minutes just long enough for you to go is this gonna move it's not gonna move it'll open its mouth and that's it make a sound or just open maybe but like we we kind of like just sort of peered in and had that moment of like and it moved a little bit i think maybe made a small sound but it was nothing spectacular but people all around it were reacting there's no aesthetic plan here it's all over the med the disney village logo by the way is hideous oh my

god yeah the logo gee it's every color and every font all at once is that you couldn't like memorize it and draw it micky stuff too yeah i wrote down that that's an aesthetic barf an italian restaurant but seems more like what an italian american like it seems very and there's no way to tell what cuisine it is until you're like right up close like you can't even see from afar like there was because that was something that we were like oh maybe that could be where we have our meal here because we haven't even touched on like the weird king arthur themed restaurant or yeah king ludwig's yes but that was like the one i was like maybe maybe it's just like sort of nice like basic american cuisine and then it's italian and but it's also connected to the new york hotel in a weird way isn't it it's

like right around the corner from yeah I think so I saw a video that was listing the top five restaurants in Disney Village Paris and Cafe Mickey was one of them but but in the video it's like the food is nothing much to speak of but it's where you get to meet Mickey or whatever and that was the second or maybe third time he had said, the food isn't much to speak of. And like, but this is a, you made a video about restaurants and your top five, three of them, you think the food is bad? That is really what you're dealing with there. I mean, they should just clone Disney Springs.

Disney Springs is so great. I think that's all anybody wants is like a, like an, how about just an actual type of restaurant that's my plus it up is just like not some bizarre hybrid of french and hot dog or italian but not committed to how crazy is it to you're in a city you're 45 minutes away from a city that is full of wonderful restaurants. Just one would make all the difference. Put a Pret-a-Mager in there. Exactly.

The confidence of just one kind of cuisine. The fact that it has the same kind of self-consciousness of a Cheesecake Factory scattered menu. Just throwing pasta and sandwiches and all of that stuff. But you, I would dream of a Cheesecake Factory at this place. Right, right. If only there were anything of that level of consistency. Something you could trust. You didn't eat anywhere in this?

No, no, I didn't. We just sort of poked around and sort of ate. Because they have a lot of stands that are just like crepe stands and um different sort of sweet treats so we kind of poked around there and and did things that we considered safe okay in that but we did eat inside the park in the disney studios like the aerosmith alley area oh all right we got sandwiches uh at like one of the shitty like you're on the studio lot like whatever it's called to kind of um grab and. Love to eat at a fake commissary. Exactly. Yeah, just, you know,

so outside of my normal life, I wanted to really dip my toe in. Lights, camera, dinner. Yeah, pretty much. Some lazily names. You know where I, and I would be remiss if we didn't, if we finished this episode

before I scolded the california grill the single worst uh meal experience i've had uh in a disney park it was the worst meal of the of our honeymoon in two weeks uh maybe the worst meal experience i've ever had and where is this this is in that that beautiful ornate dis hotel at the entrance of the, because we, this, a lot of our frustration is we, like, went up and down that Disney Village zone, trying to find something edible, didn't seem like anything was going to work, we didn't want to settle for Earl of Sandwich, we started going to the hotels, those places were all either booked up or closed, and that same kind of attitude of, like, we have been booked for months.

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah why wouldn't you know this exactly so we ended up going to the California Grill there's a very great restaurant called the California Grill at the top of the contemporary wonderful yes one of the best Disney restaurants so we assumed it might be in the same family as that so we went and put our name in and then went to

this like DMV waiting room equivalent not decor wise like decor wise it looked it's kind of like main street wallpaper and it's called the main street grill but it's just you know like 17 children jammed into every chair and people spilling out and screaming and chaos and like whatever the uh you know the french equivalent of rednecks are there's a lot of those around uh just shitty shitty t-shirts and shitty attitudes um you could order a drink in the main street grill and aaron ordered a chardonnay and the waitress was like oh chardonnay like made fun

of how my wife said chardonnay what yeah amazing which i uh i've watched her order a lot of chardonnays in this marriage and let me tell you she says it perfectly what is i don't know what she could have done differently is there some french way of saying it uh do you pronounce it ham bone or something um what about le chardonnay there There you go. Yeah, yeah. You know your French. Orangina? Orangina? That's what they were doing. Whatever for not ordering an Orangina.

I think there's also regions of France where they say it croque monsieur. Sure. Yes. Yeah. Anyway, then you get after a two hour wait where we're scolded for pronunciation of not French words. Then we end up in the restaurant, which is like patterns that are like, it's like what American girl dolls wear. It's just this kind of like doily Easter dress kind of environment. Like a less charming version of Mrs. Knott's chicken dinner.

And then just like endless wait for all the food. It's cold by the time it comes. She got this vegetable medley that was, there was a squash that was impossible to cut. Like she made a lot of goes at it. Didn't make barely a divot, bailed on it. All told 250 euro, like competitive to the fanciest meal

we had the entire time on our nice honeymoon. 250 euro? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ. I believe so, something like that. That's like a Michelin tasting menu. Yeah, yeah.

Jesus fuck. Prices you would pay for multiple Michelin stars for three hours of waiting, for attitude, for doilies. We found video that we took where we're all we're we're having meltdowns we're and and we scheduled this where this was the end of our honeymoon we just been in florence one of the greatest cities in the world and then we're like do we do the planet hollywood no you want to try the california grill i wonder how that is oh

the worst dining experience we've ever had i'm so sorry you had that experience hey that's all right look i've clearly gotten over it i didn't you know i mean two hour podcast complaining about the experience or not i feel in a good place about it yeah i mean it's fun it is very funny to think about like the safest options in this area are probably five guys mcdonald's earl of sandwich and starbucks yeah yeah like which which you wouldn't be i mean that'd be like i guess everything's close that'd be like if i was at downtown disney in anaheim and it's like oh it's late most places are all right i'll do yeah you know you know what i went and ordered at the earl of sandwich was a banana because a banana you know what you are getting you can see that there is uh you know nothing has nobody has cut into the peel and added salt or cheese or grease it has its own wrapper

that i know has not been befouled uh um so i i appreciated this simple banana that was the best food i had in disney village first was a banana yeah that's just what you're saying something um that and i this all basically i think it taught me something about my capacity for uh kitsch um and and going and experiencing insane places that you know are a little bad and hokey but you'll have a good time food is my hard line yeah there's if there's one solid meal i can have i can do endless hours of kitsch but i just we felt like trapped like what are we gonna do this does feel like the evil version of your aesthetic this feels like of what you like of what i know you like. This feels like the pervert. The cartoon Satan, you know, on your shoulder.

The Spock with the goatee version. The headphone on my shoulder. Right, like, you get the one thing you love in the world, but, you know, it's going to burn every time you take a bite of your sandwich or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because I think that, like, our capacity for the kitsch over

the quality of food it's great if it's i mean not great but like it's it's palatable if it's just one restaurant out of the whole collection of restaurants i feel like you kind of get that with downtown disney regular um but then there are so many other restaurants in that area that kind of like elevated and make up for it where you know you have like the new orleans style cage and stuff that's like pretty good in comparison to the shit show that is the rainforest cafe sure sure yeah you can kind of be like well that's a give and a take but the fact that all of this is a strikeout yeah it just speaks all chain bullshit all they need is one and yeah five guys at least is that is oddly a step in the right direction. Unless there's some weird overthought way.

It's some Renaissance themed Five Guys. Ooh. You know, yeah. They don't have peanuts that are free. They have, what's the French? They have weird frog legs. That's my weird. It's a big frog leg.

You throw the frog legs on the floor. You throw the bones on the floor. I would actually enjoy that. Yeah, that would be something. Even being a vegan, I would enjoy that. Yeah. It's entire frogs. You break off the legs yourself and then spit out the frog skeletons onto the ground.

Have you ever eaten, tried to eat a frog leg? No. No, have you? Yes, I have. Well, a friend, a friend. You're really dismayed right now. Andrew Grissom, who we have not, who will eventually be on the show. He, we went somewhere downtown and he ordered them.

He's like, yeah, I just got them for the table. What? And like, I eat meat, but it was a full front. Like you would break them off the body. No. And I couldn't do it. I could not do it. I haven't had them presented like that.

Have you had turtle soup? No. Or turtle anything? I've had turtle before. Neither them presented like that. Have you had turtle soup? No. Or turtle anything? I've had turtle before. Neither of these are good. Have you had turtle? I've had kangaroo, too. That one was not.

What the hell? Yeah. List the animals you've eaten. Boar, kangaroo, buffalo. Keep going. Venison. Crocodile, gator. Pepperoni.

I think I've had gator. Pepperoni. Pepperoni. Muskrat. I've never had muskrat. But I've had gator. Pepperoni? Pepperoni. Muskrat? I've never had muskrat. But I've had like game. I guess it was just that someone had made gate, like something they hunted into jerky.

I guess it was venison, deer. Disneyland cat? Yeah. Disneyland cat. Caught one and fried it up just for fun? Sure. Yeah. I mean, I think the kitsch that i will agree i i when i go into the kitsch sort of setting my expect i manage my expectations and it's like well

if at least i can get like a burger and fries yeah fine or like a veggie burger something like that fine like you you know it's not going to be like the best thing in the world but i i do have to agree like five guys it reminds me of the way that downtown disney and disney springs are like kind You know it's not going to be the best thing in the world, but I do have to agree. It reminds me of the way that downtown Disney and Disney Springs are kind of changing where there's more fast casual sort of like as tastes have changed. Less TGI Friday, more like whatever Panera or Chipotle. Right, right.

I think parks in general are evolving and I think the idea that theme park food is bad Is starting to go by the wayside a little bit There's pockets of Yeah, there's decent restaurants in downtown Disney Seems like Disney Springs has a lot And even like Universal Hollywood Which has always been horrible

That Harry Potter I didn't need it, the Harry Potter restaurant Seems to get good reviews though It's great Yeah, yeah And their beers and stuff are good I just want that Harry Potter I didn't need it the Harry Potter restaurant seems to get it's great it's good yeah yeah and their beers and stuff are good I just want

I hope that we keep going down this path because some theme park restaurants are legitimately some of my favorite restaurants anywhere

it's like there's nothing dictating that theme park food has to be a joke or stupid or bad and boy Disney Studios Paris

or Disney Village Paris offers a Jurassic Park-esque lesson in what happens if you aren't careful in your design and your plotting. Well, I think that it's just like a case of mismanaged funds too. Because when you go into like those Rainforest Cafe type restaurants and you're looking around at all the decor

and you're going, well, that costs a lot of money to get like a robot gorilla that like swats around every couple minutes. You know, surely they're going to skimp on like, you know, this quarter pounder burger I'm about to enjoy or this, you know, fettuccine. But the fact that it's all of that i'd never experienced at another theme park where inside the theme parks like i think the disney studios park closed at like i want to say 8 p.m and the other disneyland closed at 10 the restaurants would close an hour before the theme parks actually closed so at one point we were just walking around going what the fuck do we do like what if we were planning to eat at the end of the day yeah i've had that experience like

in the in the like slower times in florida maybe like in off seasons where it's just like yeah we're closing early right right but yeah i don't oh that's the other we were there in the dead of of winter we were there in december and they and you could tell it was like a less staffed time so a ton of restaurants just not open at all they had a pizza planet that wasn't open they had like decent sounding places right so and uh and they're just like just kind of funneling people into like the four restaurants that are open so they're all super crowded lines out the door it was a it was such a food crisis yeah um what did you did you enjoy your your disney paris experience uh overall or was it

i did i did i'm glad i did it i mean i feel like if you're going to do the international parks you should probably do disney paris before tokyo because tokyo was such an amazing experience okay that like i kept being like oh but it's not you know and i haven't been to any of the china ones and i plan to i'm to knock them all off my list. But yeah, I'm glad I did do it. I will say the Ratatouille ride is one of the best rides I've ever been on in my life. Oh, wow. It's so good.

And that restaurant, supposedly. Yeah, yeah. We didn't get a chance to eat there. But that whole area is kind of bizarre because it's like a mini Paris in Paris. Yeah. And so that was kind of interesting. Yeah's like a mini paris in paris yeah um and uh and so that was kind of interesting uh but like the ride though well what great ride oh it's such a great ride i mean as far as like a ride story goes like my husband mike and i we were sort of riffing on the fact that

um especially at universal like ride stories can be so chaotic like i don't know what's happening on the transformers ride just talking about that last one yeah yeah yeah i couldn't pass a quiz about that right i don't know but most rides that are that style it's like go go go all right uh now we gotta go over here oh now here's this what are you guys doing you know it's just like a lot of those kind of sound bites and then by the end without fail it's always one character being like, thank you for your bravery. And you're like, I didn't do anything. I'm just sitting here. You saved the minions. You saved the minions.

I could have done it without you, partner. But then the ride story for Ratatouille, like you get it. It's a dark ride. You're going to shrink down to,

I did air quotes, like people could hear them. You could quote, shrink down to a mouse's size. And then you're kind of scattering around and it was like such a great parallel to the experience of the movie and and it just was done really well it's in 3d and there are all these really great screens um we did uh we almost had a walkout

which my husband was very excited about because he's heard about it through your podcast so every time we got on a ride he's like do you think we're gonna do a walkout and we did not because he kept saying it um but he cursed it he cursed it but we went as far as um sitting on the ride and then it stopped and we had to go and they gave us fast passes and my joke for the day was oh they kept having to stop the ride to fetch a child cigarettes that was my disney paris joke that no one else appreciated. That's right. Children love to smoke in France and the age of consent is 12. I said that. I actually did a stand-up show when I was in France. It was an English-speaking show.

Whoa. And yeah, I was dreading it all day. I thought that it was going to be a real shit show, but it actually was pretty great. And I opened with like my disneyland paris riffs which were not appreciated um so maybe because maybe parisian people don't go to i think that must be it uh surely they were hilarious so that must not be a factor of course they worked here they work with a with a deep theme park nerd audience which is the only audience you should care about i feel yeah yeah but thank you i and i do um but yeah that was a real highlight and um unfortunately

phantom manor was closed so we didn't know i know i know but we did our first ride was um going on the space mountain out there and that was great because they've got fucking loops and like little corkscrews oh yeah it's jules verney yeah it shoots you like a bullet in a gun and you're just like zipping through and they outfitted it to be star wars like so oh they had that going for it too okay yeah i heard it was good from my wife who went while i waited outside oh no that launch yeah got the quick rush yeah i i get it i get it it seems like an amazing ride though yeah it was super fun wasn't scared yeah one thing that i realized uh quickly is is that uh

there isn't a similar sense of like waking up early and camping out culture there oh no which is huge in tokyo huge in tokyo yeah and huge out here but we got there i was surprised to learn that the parks didn't open until 10 a.m i was like it's about to be spring break guys like up your game so we got there especially early and like ran to space mountain and almost the first people in line like nobody nobody can ride operators are just finishing their cigarette i had the same experience when i went to dollywood where i approached it in the same way i'm like surely people are going to be lined up no yeah not at all and like i beat the actual employee i ran to like tour dolly's tour bus and i beat the employee like she actually called after me

and was like wait ma'am ma'am ma'am what are you doing and then she like ran behind me she screamed and then like quickly reset herself and went welcome dolly parton's tour bus this is our tour bus from 1991 to 1997 do you want to look at our wigs and i was like yes i do we gotta talk we gotta talk Dollywood at some point. Yeah, you guys got to go. Yeah, we're going to go. Yeah, yeah. I want to try to go to Paris.

I've always wanted to see Paris. And I've always been like, well, I got to see Disneyland Paris. You got to go to Disney Village. Yeah. Yeah, I got to see Disney Village. I looked up. I could see you coming back from Disney Village and going, guys, you were wrong. I love it.

I will probably love it. I will probably love it. I will probably love it. I looked up- There's a lot of great candy if you're into candy stuff. No, he loves candy. I looked up a blog, the Disney Tourist blog, which is a husband and wife who write about like they do trip reports and they go to the parks all over the world. And they, I just searched on Google google search the blog name and disney village and uh

their reactions seem to be like we walked through it it was confusing but like they had like a hundred tips for like disney paris and stuff and i was like searched food and they're like there is a grocery store close by and many hotels have full kitchens and we recommend you take advantage of that that's what we had we had like a full kitchen in our hotel bizarrely yeah but yeah that was that was weird um we haven't even gotten into the weird princess versus pirates thing oh yeah what's going on over there like the french people have a weird affinity for pirates and probably specifically jack sparrow i think they like personally relate to him on like a deeper level because he's a sleazebag yeah he's like this is the only area where like the johnny depp

wine video didn't shock anyone you know and uh and they do spend like a great bit of real estate on the property to pirates of the caribbean there's like a whole pirates of the caribbean sort of area like a little island it's sort of instead of tom sawyer island it's like all pirates it's a pirate thing okay okay yeah um well some pirate restaurant or something if they're so pirate crazy to plus that up yeah plus that disney village up uh try to figure out what jack sparrow's favorite uh meals are he's probably he's probably a gourmand he probably eats crazy uh animal all you crazy i know a i know a prefix pirate themed menu available that they could license

wait you mean the dinner adventure? Yeah, the fire dinner adventure. Is it just the soup that you love so much? Yeah, it's just the pitcher soup. It's pretty good. So maybe the idea of a restaurant that'll save this whole thing is like a giant pitcher of soup and you can like release

a spigot and then fill up a smaller pitcher of soup. I have a new category for the podcast the ride for our patented scale uh you know we usually plus it up i'm suggesting maybe plus it down maybe just go all the way with it and add like a pet store and a check cashing business to disney village like let's just if it's already there let's just make it far removed from disney and don't even maybe don't even call it just call it the village and then like you can go down there and there's a 99 cent store or something absolutely it just so happens to be within the vicinity of disney paris

we are not associated with disney paris they import pickpockets yes of course they don't need to uh okay this is pretty abundant so you're suggesting that the way to improve disney village paris is for it to have any purpose whatsoever well i guess yes i'm sort of saying abandon cut it off from the rest of the resort and then maybe it'll really only be a better greater contrast of the magic of the actual park itself um Mm-hmm. Yeah. I have one more tiny plus it up idea, which is don't have a giant creepy tent rusting away with no labels

and empty marquees and a green fabric staircase that leads to an empty mound. These are also things you can go just walk up to in this place. We haven't even mentioned those. Or the damn balloon.

Oh, yeah. Well, that's in Florida, too. That's in Disney Springs. They got, like, Oh, that's the disney that's in disney spring they got like oh that's the thing the balloon is called panorama geek and in disney studios paris there's already a thing there's a show called cinema geek and anna magic there's so much fucking magic in this resort um i we can check out the anna magic or any of that like it kind of felt like i forget what it's called oh the philhar magic it kind of felt like within that sort of neighborhood yeah of show if only though just a little bit philhar magic is i mean i was gonna say that like if there was anything though that could save the disney village i i would say like why don't you just like double down on one restaurant

like maybe just sort of demolish all of the non-Disney store areas and just make it if you love pirates so much French people just make a giant pirate restaurant combine all of the elements combine the wild west show into it so you can use that arena you walk into maybe like a huge skull similar to Pirates of the Caribbean and you're like in this you know cool waiting area with all of these you know different skeletons and so maybe all of these, you know, different skeletons. And so maybe it's a little bit like the catacombs too. Oh, sure. And there could be the-

Cut off the catacombs at the leg in terms of tourism. Yeah. Nobody needs to go there again. That was actually the best thing that we did our entire trip. It was also the most metal thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Sure, yeah, yeah. But yeah, just do a little bit of that you know get people excited for going to the real catacombs and then have um jack sparrow's

rum bar um waiting for you you can get some appetizers you could take all of the planet hollywood merch and make it look like loot that the pirates stole oh yeah just keep adding dread locks to things and then you can just sort of even the score with that yar mateys you want to see the meteor from meteor man we haven't even talked about the armageddon thing oh my god that's a whole other that's a whole we'll have to we're he's dipping our toe into paris we knew there was a lot to cover then there's a whole park right go for many hours and many hours but i'm glad we devoted so much time to a like what quarter mile bad mall we've talked about we've committed so much time to scolding this place and uh hey i i thank you for for helping us uh julia prescott you

survived podcast the ride uh thanks for helping us make this mall feel bad. It's my pleasure. As a lover of malls, I do I mean, I'm excited for the CityWalk thing. I do love CityWalk sincerely. It was my middle school hangout. Oh yeah.

I'm a Valley kid. Were you a Wizards fan? That's where I had, I forget which birthday, but I've had a birthday in pretty much every restaurant at CityWalk. Wow. Well, then I think you could probably factor into our CityWalk master plan. So perhaps we'll have to have you back around to talk about a certain sector. I would love to.

It'd be my pleasure. I don't want to spoil anything but uh anything you'd like to uh plug or alert people to uh oh um a couple things i i have that simpsons podcast we're on a maximum fun so everything's coming up simpsons and we have a collection of comedian type guests and then also uh occasionally we'll have people that uh worked on the simpsons right um come on the show and that's been a great guests and then also uh occasionally we'll have people that uh worked on the simpsons right um come on the show and that's been a great pleasure and then i also have a show called townies um it's the oc in the old west um it's a comedy western about teens uh so you can watch

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We've become a presence on the Reddit of a podcast network we're not on. Yeah, I was about to say. We also don't have accounts. Yeah, I have an account, I think. Oh, do you? I think I signed up, yeah. Because I like to upload our our own posts oh cool i have an account as dr david daniels my fictional character from the book of henry from bto henry yeah from bto henry which is my

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We gotta go. We'll talk for seven more hours. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll catch you on the next mega-sized episode. Au revoir.