Podcast: The Ride - Downtown Disney Ordeal 1-2

Episode Date: November 9, 2019

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FOREVER! DOG! Darkness falls out on the street, evil rears its head Get your crazy shake to go and your fried donut bread The villains threaten this sacred place, this downtown shopping mall We must defend the Lego store and the Splitsville bowling balls The Downtown Disney or D.U. We must protect our AP discount meals

The Downtown Disney or D.U. What secrets does the Earl of Sandwich conceal? Boys, boys, my cousin has been taken by evil forces that have inhabited Downtown Disney In order to find them them you will need to thoroughly discuss every aspect of the mall stores restaurants both of the starbucks we have 15 daily very necessary episodes in which to do so i will be there to guide you and keep your conversations from getting too off topic or boring the downtown disney ordeal why do we do this to ourselves welcome to podcast the ride the downtown disney ordeal level one stage two this is our second day

of our newest daily event i'm jason shardon here with mike carlson our newest daily our newest daily event it's new it's still very new day two what you said is right yeah it does suggest that maybe we will just really expand the daily events soon i guess scott seems to make a suggestion mournful scott character the daily events uh a daily event uh i try not to be a grouch but a daily event is a lot we're doing you know yes every once in a while is a little treat i it's been a treat so far but it's only day two so it's hard to say yes it's uh but uh hopefully it's been a daily it'll be a daily treat for everyone listening and not a daily chore a chore of deleting it from your podcast menu without listening that's a good point make sure

to make room for this you know yes you're not using uh if you have albums like if you have apple music or spotify delete those albums you can stream them also here's the thing you can go into your podcast app and if if you want to make sure you have an episode marked as unlistened to because you want to listen to it but you want to delete the file click on the little dots or click on the expand options and you can delete the file but still code it as a new episode that's what i've had to do when like stuff has gotten backed up delete other shit so you can hear things like that yeah yeah tips about dots yeah about dots um so you also listen to this daily series and you get the presence of everyone's favorite ghost spirit guides us through dining and retail locations give it up for the sector keeper boys boys you give me strength hi sector keeper hello good to see you again good

to see you day two of the newest daily one of many daily sagas um good to see you you're doing well and uh uh hey i see hey you're hitting that pb and j vape uh we went that we went out and picked up together see uncle scott hooks you up uncle scott maybe isn't the uncle danny oh yeah yeah all right i'm moving oh if i could oh i'm gunning for jesse let me see i think maybe that's kind of the subtle thing we could be doing throughout it's like character development well yeah um no what i mean is the you know we're we have a rare chance to calibrate how cool we are we have a cool youth in our presence and i think right now i'm up points because i went and bought a i went and bought a jewel forum uh by the end this, maybe you can make a determination

which one of the three of us is kind of your coolest uncle. Wow. That's interesting because for a while, Jason was sort of our barometer for the youth culture and terminology. But he never put it into practice.

Right. There's never been a young kid here. But now we got a real young kid, somebody really connected to youth culture. Yeah, sure. No layers of irony with him. He's all in on it. He's actually young. No layers of irony with him he's he's all he's all in on it he's actually irony is what he said oh no yes yes of course no layers of irony everything earnest from me yeah that's what people love about you so when you say throw up a dab

you're serious you're always yeah yes dams are not to be joked about. Right. Of course. Yeah, that makes sense. Well, I think, you know. And when I say bae. Right, earnest. Earnest.

Earnest. Yes. Yeah, yeah, because I feel like we say it with a twin. Yeah, and if you say you stan something. Then I really stan it. Right, earnest. Earnest. Yeah. And you've caught up really fast

because you were locked in an eternity uh cage for a long time yeah toby my boss at cricket wireless he would you know he he would tell me some stuff he tossed off so he caught you up on the on the coolest trends some stuff yeah was he younger than you or was he an older guy teaching you youth stuff? Much older. We're always going to be paling in comparison to Uncle Toby. Yeah. Like you, but older. Okay.

Interesting. Huh. Okay. And he really took you under his wing, huh? Mm-hmm. And gave you jewels constantly introduced me to jewels yes but now i get my jewels on my own yeah sure yeah yeah uh uh give me some credit i uh uh he helped you get the yeah yeah yeah hey don't forget about

what old uncle scott's uh and maybe hey maybe i And maybe if these guys bail on it, just you and me will go see Good Boys together. Whoa. Good Boys. Yeah. It's kind of lobbying hard to be the coolest older man here. Hell yeah. Yeah. The podcast's coolest older man award.

And you know what's great about what you got me? It's peanut butter going in And jelly coming out Oh he did a ring He did a ring plume Wow Oh my god a jelly ring Jelly ring That is so

That is so Jelly ring Jelly ring That's a youth thing I think That's so yeah Youths yell of jelly rings And I let him do it Man you and me SK

Thanks for making the room so fragrant with your jelly rings. Of course, of course. But boys, boys, it is, after all, stage. Other way. Other way. Level two, stage. He's jeweling. Give him some weight.

No, it's level one, stage two. Stage two, yeah. There we go. Yes, yes, boys. Where are we heading? That jelly jewel gets in your eyes, you know? It's all foggy in here. It's all foggy.

Level one, stage two. Boys, are you up for it? Do you have strength? Yeah. Yes, yes, we do. Yeah. Okay. Boys, your mission today to discuss and review, to help find my cousin, the level keeper.

The level keeper. Level one, stage two is Starbucks. Sunglass icon by Sunglass Hut. And of course, Curl Surf. Curl Surf, yes. All right. These are all real places. We need to get a as much A high amount

Of interesting info About all of these places Out so we can save Your cousin Yes And boy Do we have A fascinating one today

Starbucks A Seattle based Coffee chain You may have one In your neighborhood Take a peek See if you do Lots of them everywhere

This is a This is one with A very tall ceiling yeah high ceilings yeah man maybe that i mean for sure i think the highest highest ceiling one i've ever seen i don't know that exists but is there are there two-story starbucks do we know we don't know no we don't know the answer we should have looked into but there's very high ceilings. I like that. It's very wooded in there. Beautiful. Wooded, beautiful.

It's a well art directed Starbucks. Yes. Yep. I'll say that. There's some nice foliage. Good tree and plant situation. The courtyard's built around an old ficus tree. Oh, yes. We're going to get that cousin free real soon.

What with interesting facts about old ficus trees beautiful tree uh good place to get some work done i'll be honest with everyone i roam around the resort sometimes to with my laptop doing some work i feel like name checks like 10 places you just like plant and then move and then plant and then well here's what i do okay i'm gonna let the listener in on a little bit of a secret here uh So sometimes when you're a childless man in his 30s and you're trying to get some writing done and maybe you're depressed being in the apartment, you go somewhere where you're not depressed.

The Disneyland Resort. I drive down when it's not that crowded on the freeway, and I will do this. I will try to get about an hour, hour and a half of actual work done. Then when i hit a roadblock i pack it up put it in my backpack and go on a ride i will then after that leave the ride and go at a different place in the resort and do try to do some more work and i will repeat as long as i have time you want to tell the list where where do you think the strongest wi-fi spots are

that's a real crap shoot no i'm not gonna hide that from the listener starbucks is pretty good the hotels better yes the hotels i like the grain the formerly whitewater snacks whatever it's called now i forget uh what's it doesn't matter it's not part of the district so no i know i'm just saying that's good wi-fi in the hotel. Yeah. We're not supposed to be talking about this. It's a little out of bounds. It's a little out of bounds. All right, all right.

All right, all right. But the Wi-Fi at the Starbucks is pretty good, and I will sometimes go over to that Starbucks, you know, get a green tea or something. What you're saying is there's a Starbucks with Wi-Fi where you can get work done. Yes. This is earth-shattering news. It's in the best place on Earth. You can pay a buck more for everything.

Yeah, great. For downtown Disney. For beverages out of a little carton. Yes. For pre-made ice cream. And like, they're not day old baked goods, but they may as well be. That's sort of the feeling. I mean, I like a Starbucks cheese danish, you know.

I don't not like it, but it all isn't fresh. No, no. It's not fresh. I'd rather just go to a local, I like the coffee, but I'd rather just have a local donut shop. Is your dad an option? Not when you're here, no, for sure. Is donut number one or do you like danish? That kind of depends on the establishment.

At a Starbucks, Danish for sure. Sophie's Choice. Yeah, I would say that. A lot of mom and pop places in LA, if you don't get there early enough, the croissants are gone like that. Okay, so if you had to rank... Usually, add a donut chop donuts of course but like in a

bakery i like to see what their specialty is but cherry cheese danish is usually my go-to if that's available it was an establishment where they made everything pretty much of the same quality we're talking uh then donuts cheese danishissants. What is the number one? Oh, gosh. Do you think you would go to? If they're all of the same quality, if they're all the highest caliber. I mean, it kind of depends on how hungry.

Because I could eat a donut if I'm not that hungry. But a danish could be kind of big. A danish or a croissant could be kind of big. Okay, so it sounds like donut is sort of the winner. Croissant can be big. Some places make it kind of big Yeah But it's still light and fluffy though

What do you put Do you put something on it But it's buttery No You just eat it plain It's just Well no I usually gravitate towards Either an almond croissant

Or a chocolate croissant Croissant Croissant is Croissant I noticed that you I think I pointed out years ago That you call them Croissants And then I realized

A couple episodes ago You said it And I was like Oh he's not saying it like that But I think you fell back Into croissant I think I did fall back Or a cream cheese croissant

Well my mom used to Because she took French In high school She trained me to say Croissant Okay But then I feel like I sound like an asshole

When I say that Yeah Very much so Yeah so I guess I've tried not to do that Fail at Beck Yeah sorry Croissant all the way What do you guys lean towards For your breakfast treats Donut i say that yeah so very much so yeah so i guess i've tried not to do that ill have back yeah sorry what do you guys lean towards for your uh breakfast treats uh donut donut yeah i don't need

the treats ever you never have almost very rarely really yeah it's like a keeper donut yeah yeah donut yeah i mean i'm working in an office right now where there's free donuts every Wednesday, and I don't ever do it. What? Yeah. The free thing. I'm breaking young hearts here. Donuts every Wednesday? Yeah, yeah.

I haven't. Interesting. I don't know. I have like a quarter of one if I have. If you get the right ratio of like a sweet donut and coffee you're almost high because you can really you can really slow down like when i was younger when i was younger i would eat a donut like for like in the morning for breakfast and be like so sluggish because i would have it with like orange juice and it's just like so much

sugar at once but if you have caffeine if you have decent coffee and sugar you balance out to the perfect equilibrium you can ride that high all night i mean you just start the day off feeling great you are i think are the most affected by sugar of any of my friends i think because like i don't i would always know the kids would say like oh you get a sugar high and i even when i would eat candy i never felt the difference like caffeine for sure there's a difference i don't know if i noticed the high i noticed the crash i mean if i if you drink a sugary drink sometimes my stomach will feel a little weird but in general i don't feel like hyper from or i don't feel like even a big crash from having sugar. I don't really got the hyper part.

I love it. Well, you love it. Of course. Every time I have it, I want more of it. Sure. They say it's very addictive. Yeah. I'm worried that you're going to start, that sugar is going to be a gateway drug, and you'll

start getting different kinds of high. No way, man. Well, that's good. You seem like a good kid. Just my Juul Just that nicotine It's okay For now

I mean I'm worried We're gonna find out Some bad things About what Juul Does to you But for now I guess you're okay Okay

We still Scientists still have not Found out the long term Ramifications of Diet Coke So it's gonna be a lot Longer for Juul We don't know what Diet Coke Of like artificial Sweeteners and longer for a jewel we don't know what type of like artificial sweet he's saying if we don't know about diet there hasn't been enough decades of

research like oh it takes like a long yeah it takes a long time okay what about a bagel scott i've become a little more bagelish yeah maybe it's bagel is it an aversion to it or is it just sort of that part of your routine i'm not out breakfast. I'm way more likely to be out for lunch or dinner. Right. Sure. That's why. I mean, I don't have that many. I'm not going to bakeries.

Yeah. I don't have donuts a lot. But if I'm out or something. I feel like you are, Jay. I feel like you're popping into bakeries all the time. Oh, on the weekends? Yeah. You go to Dunkin' or you go to-

You have a couple donuts a week, right? I have a couple donut spots. Not a week. I didn't even-. Not a week. Maybe once a week on the weekends. You live the life I dream. Yeah. Ice cream tummy aches whenever he wants.

Yeah, actually, I recently, I haven't had a Danish in years. I had a cheese Danish from Starbucks while I was waiting for my laundry to dry. They're nice warmed up. Does he live the life that you dream? I relate to this one. You pointed to Jason. Yeah.

So. So. Oh, we talked about the screen. Yeah, there was a fun digital chalkboard. We had a lot of fun. We had so much fun together. We were with the sector keeper in this particular Starbucks. And I want to just let everyone know, this is the Starbucks closest to World of Disney.

It's not the other Starbucks in downtown Disney. We need to make that clear. Starbucks on the eastern side. And you know what? I don't think I said in the last episode that i i watched this video like at the what you watch in the hotel from 2003 that tells you what you know all of all of the night spots and everything to do and dante and disney and they used some term that they i don't think apparently this whole area that we're in right now is the eastern garden district they don't really do it anymore but it might help us since we have so many areas to right to worry about so we this is so it's that we're in the eastern garden district starbucks okay got it yeah cool jason's

writing it down in the right hand eastern garden um yeah so not the and this is the larger of the two it came in there right around when disney was beginning its its starbucks partnership because you got starbucks in the parks as of like 2013 2014 um the market house on main street in disneyland the fiddler pfeiffer and practical cafe in california adventure which if you want your starbucks to take if your complaint is it's not slow enough then go to fiddler pfeiffer if you want your starbucks to take six times longer than any starbucks on the face of the earth and to pay a dollar fifty more this is the starbucks for you that one used to have a full hot sandwich menu too that was very good and but it took forever because essentially they were serving two

restaurants they were serving a full service star Starbucks and a full-service sandwich restaurant, and it was kind of a mess. Poof. You know what's a nice thing that really helps with efficiency? Especially if you land from a drive where you need some caffeine, do the mobile ordering of the Starbucks while you get on the parking tram. Oh. And make sure you pick the right one because you might get delivered near a totally different Starbucks. It'll automatically sense your location if you

don't select otherwise. So be careful there. Pick the right one. But getting off that tram and there being a Starbucks beverage waiting for you is a real treat. That's great. I love that tip. Obviously I'm a big mobile order guy. You can't have mobile order Starbucks in the parks yet? No. Which, yeah, that'm a big mobile order guy you can't have mobile order starbucks in the parks yet no which yeah that's a big problem and get your stars and points

yes can i i'm gonna complain real quick about the app and this is not just starbucks don't get donuts this is too they won't let you just add the amount you need you have to buy a ten dollar gift card to reload if you're making a mobile order am i wrong about this no you can add it in the app you can select the amount i just think i i think they starbucks i think said it so the lowest amount you can do is 15 duncan you can add 10 but you can add value within the app but you can write specifically the value or am i just getting tricked by some like generic i think it's just a couple options but i think you can well here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna i've loaded them both recently investigate this now i try to drink coffee at home primarily but when you're out and about you're raising your voice now let's don't tell me i ordered coffee out i think we

should investigate this i will bring this i will bring it up on the next Starbucks episode, which is only a matter of days away. All right, let's save that, but I want to settle the Dunkin'. Because I just have a feeling, I feel like they try to make you, it's just sort of a trick to make sure that you come back. They'll make you put like $10 in or something, as opposed to just reloading the exact amount you need for your purchase. I'm so confused. You said so many words just now.

My brain just floated. My current balance. Only Jason and I are said so many words just now. My brain just floated. My current balance. Only Jason and I are on the same page right now. My current balance is $7.35. The sector keeper doesn't seem too interested in both of you checking apps to say different money amounts. Right, boys? Okay, so Duncan specifically says $10 minimum, $100 maximum. $10 minimum.

That's what I'm saying. You can only put $10 at a time. Meaning instead of just driving up and saying you want like one donut and that's $1.50. Basically, like you have to put $10. $1.50 and spend it and then add another. What it's doing is perpetually making you come back over and over again. But I'm going to perpetually come back anyway. You both are.

You think you're going gonna just stop after the 150 no i don't but i don't quite like the idea that they're doing a little trick they're trying to trick me into are you having this many thoughts while you order a fucking i'm a thoughtful man i think about angles you know what i'll say this i'm gonna, welcome to the middle. I think when you are like a buck or two short, when you have a balance, like let's say it's $5, but you only have like three bucks on there,

I think it should prompt you. Like, do you want to add the $2 to even it out? Yes, that's what I'm saying. That I think is reasonable. You have to load 10. So say I'm $2 to even it out? Yes, that's what I'm saying. That, I think, is reasonable. You have to load 10. So say I'm $2 short. I'm on my balances in the app. It makes me reload another $10, and I don't like it. I don't like the feeling of it.

But if you go to the cashier and I think you can add smaller amounts. $10 that you will be spending, by the way. You're definitely spending the $10. Maybe a new coffee place or a new donut place pops up. I never go to Dunkin' again. Has that happened? Not yet, but it may. There's a chance, though, that maybe I don't ever want to use it.

Maybe I have a bad experience at Dunkin' and I swear it off. I think there's a high chance that the hosts of this show never go to Dunkin' again. I don't know. I'm just saying. People who won't. I'm saying I don't like the idea of it, and I think I'm not alone. That's my feeling about it. I don't know if I'm wrong.

But do you carry the cards? Do you still carry cards you just have it in the app it's just in the app okay i still have cards just in case it's down gift cards yeah the cards that were multiple gift cards i have a dunking card and i have a gold starbucks card in my wallet really wait a minute what what yeah you carry hard cards wait a minute wait what's the dunking card is not a card. It's just a physical representation of your app. Well, when I first, no, when I first, when I first put credit, they weren't pushing the app at the time.

Right. So I just got a card. I put $10 on it and that's how I racked up points originally. So I just put that in my wallet and it's just still in my wallet. So you have the startup cards in case your apps fail. Sometimes the apps are down. Okay. Interesting.

How many cards do you have in your wallet in general? A lot. Like this ballpark? Like at least a dozen. Okay. That's not as many as... Credit and debit cards health insurance dental insurance prescription card donuts um donut card donut coffee card basics uh one or two like like a

barnes and noble gift card with like some credit left on it in case i'm out and about um what's it called when you're a spirit And it feels like your spirit Left your body A double ghost This is the epilogue we've checked out And you and me You've checked out SK is number one right now

I can tell Why don't we say To be continued At Starbucks West Of course We'll talk a lot more About this at Starbucks And obviously the listeners Will chime in and say Do you like the psychological effect say to be continued at starbucks west of course we'll talk a lot more about this in starbucks and obviously the listeners will chime in and say do you like the psychological effect of having to

load more money on your card than you're actually about to spend we'll see the time that's wasted in caring about it uh yeah that's true but this show is all about wasting time i mean that's very true this is certainly true you, I don't know much about software design, but I do notice user interface, user experience changes. But there's something. Here's what I'll say. This is my final thought on the matter. There is something psychological when you're thinking about getting a coffee

that if you know you already have $8 on a gift card, you might psychologically want to use that more because you've already spent it. So you will go to that place over a different place and i don't care for it do you hold when you get the rewards do you hold on to it until you're like i'm gonna get a real big one uh no i like to just sort of do add-ons so you do the i say i don't really do add-ons i like add-ons on my we'll talk about that in the next one because we're gonna have my order i know that hooray yeah i like donuts amen brother all right not complicated enough let's talk about the screen we stopped talking about the screen the screen is cool it's like a living chalkboard you can write things on it you could take a

picture where it looks like you're a chalk drawing yes and uh it seems like there was a function that was broken maybe that we could see what was happening in florida is that what yeah it seemed like they were trying to flash to florida a postcard to florida where we were sending our postcard to florida but we didn't receive any from yeah we didn't have to receive a florida postcard what time were we there could that starbucks have been closed because three hours i think you're right we might have been there like nine or ten yeah so perhaps earlier than that eight maybe yeah it could have still yeah who knows exactly if whether the function was broken but it was cool i didn't even really realize it was in there until we were there the i i mean the

funniest thing there was a little fly crawling along it so right so he was adding little dots it was like an interactive video screen and like you could draw things and write things on it and we saw the cutest thing in the world it was a little fly and it was drawing on the screen and at first we thought there was a problem and like why are these little dots showing up no i see what's making it It was a cute little fly In an eatery He had just taken dips in each one of the coffee With his little fly feet And then he decided to fly over to the screen And draw

And he drew for a while Yeah he made a big design We were watching a fly make art Yes Or as Jason frames it maybe that's bug main making putty sauce could have been that's what he said his viz uh uh yeah so we were uh that was wonderful that was a highlight we did a lot of hey this the sector keeper we made some fun art uh with you were you were writing our name

yeah and posing in the photos so people look closely at the photos we post on twitter you might be able to see what the what the sector keeper looks like yeah yeah if i for me it made starbucks fun because do you like any of this because of coffee are you getting into coffee you're getting older but coffee's still, I mean, I guess teenagers, that's when you start getting into it, and especially the really, like, you know, the froofy drinks. Sometimes if I have too much vape, I'll soothe my throat with coffee. Just pure black coffee.

I don't know. I think any health problems you encounter and you're coughing and what have you might be self-applied um hey sector keeper this is the first appearance of a business that's present at both downtown disney and city walk yeah yeah we have starbucks uh at city walk as well i would i would spend time there every once in a while. Sure. Both get really busy. Very busy. I can't imagine why you'd go to either of them. Maybe the Disney one because of the screen.

But other than that. Or the tall ceilings. Or the nice mountains. The possibility of seeing a fly. Riveting. I would say maybe bring your own fly in and unleash it on the screen to see what we're talking about because there's no guarantee you're going to get to see an adorable fly trap a fly go to Disneyland let it loose in Starbucks if you get it in a plastic container you can bring it to security I don't think there's any metal in a fly. The interior of this Starbucks is apparently partially made with reclaimed wood from old railroad boxcars.

Wow. Which it made me wonder, Jason, does it make you flash to some past life when you were a hobo boy riding the rails? I just hide it from the yard cops. Hide it from the Bickerton's and their shillelaghs. That's a stressful memory. Yeah. Yeah, that's not fun. Like, we were imagining a Little Rascals type situation.

I mean, once it's moving, it's fun. But once you get to those yards, you know. They start scraping the sides with their batons. Yeah. Yeah, you could end up on the wrong side of it. Come on out. Come on out, you could end up on the wrong side of it. Come on out. Come on out, you lot. You lot of you.

You lot. Come on out. It's Officer O'Brien. It's Officer O'Brien. And O'Malley's here too. My one ancestor is in the boxcar. The other ancestor is outside about to beat the hell out of them.

I also, there's one more thing about this particular Starbucks. We sent out a tweet and said, hey, if you have any memories or facts that we might not know about downtown Disney as we head into the ordeal, please let us know. I did that partially due to a dearth of interesting information i was finding uh and uh sam on twitter wrote back that starbucks is one of the only ones where everyone is allowed to wear black aprons usually it's only certified coffee masters who don't wear green wow and we got a number of responses to that tweet i think that is the most interesting one the red it is uh and i noticed a lot of people had memories of downtown disney orlando way more uh this was a and some some of the stories were just like i think somebody was

like i went on a tinder date there and it didn't go well and i left like that's what that these are the cherished memories of the place where we have to live for 15 days apron colors yeah uh yes a little dry i really like searched i didn't even find the wood that wood thing i was like whoa when you just said that wood thing i was like holy shit i'm pulling it out so that was impressive i think that's wood ficroad wood, ficus tree. Yeah. You got an outdoor wall designed with a thousand native plants in the shape of a coffee cup. Doing... Y'all. We stand. Yes.

We stand big cup. You truly, when I... I was thinking like, oh, City Walk really seems like we were talking about some of the greatest moments in American history compared to this at this point in episode two. It's also recent. A lot of it's recent. That's the problem. And it's all since 2001.

So you don't have any particularly awkward genre throwbacks. Everything's stuck in time, but in this exceedingly dull time. Yes. it's everything's stuck in time but in this exceedingly dull time yes disney still has a relationship though with that joffrey's coffee which i think is supposedly all right at like a joffrey's location but when it's brewed within the parks like at restaurants people are like this is dire this is very bad i don't have any opinion on joffrey do we know who joffrey is it's a coffee i think it's florida based i mean who he is joffrey it's not the toz rs giraffe i'll tell you that no joffrey much less likable joffrey no jeffrey is the name oh yeah yeah oh yeah that's all right

spelled the same way that's okay i think i say more like joffrey it's because of the geo yeah this is j-o-f-f-r-e-y right yeah yeah um well let's get to another topic that's much more interesting and has so much more information that we could talk about here we go uh the next one of course is icon like i always forget sunglass sunglass icon by sunglass by sunglass hut now i have a lot for this You do? Yeah I do Really? Yeah Well lead the way

Okay So I mean well Our experience with it Yes interviewer I was just gonna say How? We all went there together

We were gone in two and a half minutes Well We Stood Our experience directly Is we stood outside and it was uh there were two salespeople inside oh that was i'm thinking of curl surf okay we didn't go in did we and no we were too intimidated to go in it was not enough people they would have talked to us

uh yeah bad times this is a fun moment where we get to uh as I'm sure will happen a lot on this series, examine the parent company. So, Sunglass Icon. Here we go. Buckle up, listeners. Here's where we learn about how the glasses industry is one big con. Jason ruins glasses. Jason ruins glasses. Sunglass Icon by Sunglass Hut is clearly owned by Sunglass Hut.

Sunglass Hut is owned by just grew a couple inches sunglass hut is owned by a company called luxottica group luxottica group owns lens crafters sunglass hut apex by sunglass hut pearl vision sears optical wow really optical imed vision care plan glasses.com rayban persol and oakley they make frames for the brands that for designer brands too chanel prada giorgio armani burberry versace dolce and gabbana um mu mu or mid mu i can't i think i just call it mu and then turi birch so in 20 around 2017 2018 they merged with a company called uh essilor uh becoming essilor luxottica essilor luxottica is responsible for creating the very first progressive lens and combined this company controls one quarter of global eyeglass sales one quarter of one quarter of global eyewear what's the next biggest eyeglass company i don't

know i think it gets smaller after that so are you saying this is a monopoly i was gonna say they have a monopoly because they own different part different stores and they like supposedly competing against themselves i remember growing up doing this dance, like at the mall, my mom would be like, we can look in LensCrafters, but we'll get a better deal at Sears Optical. But it's all the same. Usually the price points were a little lower at Sears. And that's probably why she wanted to go to Sears.

But yeah, I mean, a lot of these, like Ray-Ban was just a solo company and then just got bought up at some point uh so you're kind of blowing the whistle on an eyeglass monopoly that's happening that was a month ago he's out of he's obviously out of office right now i'm sorry yeah i gotta forget we're pre-taping. Everything's fine. Yeah. And also, this isn't cheap-y eyewear. This is like designer. No, the cheapest.

I looked. Did you look? The cheapest eyewear is $50 here. And I'm going to complain because sometimes you step on your own sunglasses and you break them and you need new ones. Sure. And go in and get a ten dollar pair it's vacation i don't know why again they're catering to high-end customers exclusively i guess in the parks there's spots where you can get like a cheaper pair of hotel gift shops maybe there's

a rack i just think there needs to be like a clearance rack in here yeah for sure put a clearance rack and dress it up it doesn't have to look shabby uh what are you what's your guys's uh eyeglass uh let's say sunglasses oakley you're an oakley boy okay i love one no one day i want to own oakley you want to own your dream yeah but you just got laid off yeah i know but one day i'm gonna be wearing oakley's and playing in the big leagues like robin ventura i hope so yeah i hope so too yeah not without sun you need sunglasses first they'll never accept you how about you guys i'm uh well when you lose your sunglasses all the time there's only one brand for you and that's panama jack oh you need

cheap ass cvs sunglasses because they will be gone in six weeks panama jack mike how much are they 20 bucks i've never worn sunglasses more than 20 i i don't even i'm trying i'm looking actually what the name of it is i will generally go go on Amazon and buy a lot of $10 different color Wayfarer type. Yeah, cheapy Wayfarer. Very cheap, depending on, and they're usually under $10. I think one time, like five years ago, I just bought a box of 12 for like $25. Yeah, I used to do that. And I break them all the time.

I have these multi-color glasses i got for a freebie at comic-con two years ago there's like 80 it says at&t on the side but they're like multi-color uh i like those this is a thing where i am the one who is splurged the most because i have real ray-ban wayfarers and they are one of the most single most expensive items i own because they are prescription right i was gonna say you have work glasses so you have that's a concern yeah i mean the frames alone were like 100 bucks or 120 and then the lenses and all the coatings and like my insanely strong prescription and i had good eye insurance when i got these and it was still like 250 300 out of pocket or something yeah dollars

dollars yes oh it's like more money than anything yeah did you make like were they paying you like sub minimum wage at cricket were you in like the so like four four bucks an hour? They were paying me an experience. Oh, that sucks. You were a cricket intern and they laid you off? Yeah. Jesus. It's like a comedy theater or something. Did you audition to get in the cricket?

Yes. You just had to do like sample a wireless phone. I took cricket classes. And then once I got through level seven, I got into the advanced cricket intern program. You got onto a Palm Pilot team. Yes. Jeez.

I had to pay my boss. You had to pay to work there like essentially yeah it doesn't make any sense if anyone tweets about in anger about what happened to you i feel like it's just gonna be a big old mess that never gets solved yes i i that's why i hope you all use the hashtag hashtag sector keep sector keeper cricket wireless severance yeah yeah right when we were not at the show at cricket wireless right at the twitter account cricket wireless know how you feel about this insane training program yeah uh i found that i can get eight of the sunglasses i buy for 13 that's what i used to that or just buy them on the boardwalk like yeah down the beach so that's what i do you are you and i are sunglasses money in two years combined doesn't equal what jason yeah well that makes

sense in anxiety that i have forgotten them or like left them somewhere i leave mine everywhere i break them constantly so it just i've never ever invested in any sort of i can't have nice things yeah what will happen when i when i had uh like smaller thinner glasses i would buy yeah put cheapy wayfarers over top uh but these are when i got big thick thick glasses, I had to get the prescription. And it is nicer. It is good. I like it. Yeah, so what else we got on the sunglasses? Yeah, that's it.

It's all just one big shell game. It's all just one big con. I have a question. Yes. Why is it called Sunglass Icon? Oh, yeah, we haven't really covered that. So it is a sunglass icon oh yeah we haven't really covered that so it is a sunglass hut so it's the only there's only two sunglass icons around and they're in disney on both coasts right am i wrong another

double coaster another double coaster and i honestly now i don't know if i came upon why they call it sunglass iconcon. Is it Mickey? Are we talking about Mickey? I think it's like they're trying to like, it's a special, it's special. Like Disney World and Disneyland are special. This is a special Sunglass Hut. Who would you say is a Sunglass Icon? I'm sure there's a very thick slide deck.

Elwood Blues. Elwood Blues? Sure. Hey, that's something for later. Ferris Bueller? Yeah. California Raisins. Yeah?

Mad inconvenience dad who left them on on the Incredicoaster. They have Mickey. They have a brand of a Mickey-specific sunglass thing that they're pushing in the store and online of sunglass icon. But I don't know. Does anyone ever use that phrase? Boy, what a sunglass icon. Like, what is it even? I don't know.

With the right sunglass. You just haven't. Nobody's wearing their perfect pair yet to be a sunglass icon. So, yeah. They're trying to of there like a exclusive destination downtown the classy word icon mixed with the word hut and the double also a brand name with a one word in it twice yes mcdonald's cafe by mcdonald's restaurant well that's mick cafe and it's really an experience more than yeah well

they named it look they named it correctly if they'd called it mcdonald's cafe by mcdonald's that's stupid uh so yeah words they're just trying to be classy they're trying to make it seem like it's a classy thing i guess because that is what uh the whole idea of i think downtown disney is like a top scale you know what's interesting similarly uh we didn't get Because that is what the whole idea of, I think, Downtown Disney is, like, it's upscale. You know what's interesting? Similarly, we didn't get, I had info, and we didn't get to it when we were talking about Carthay Circle, but what Carthay Circle replaced was the, you know, the icon of the original California Adventure,

the Big Gold Sun. Yes. Which the actual name for it was the sun icon really i never knew that last icon was really near sun icon which is by the way the flattest yeah cinderella castle the spaceship or spaceship sun icon the thing that haunts and plagues us here in southern california oh yes yeah. That's getting worse and worse. Wreaks havoc on our life. And in California Adventure, also, there was that dinosaur with the sunglasses that sold sunglasses.

Am I wrong? I believe so. Now, yeah, those were a little cheaper. So, those were cheaper. But that's gone now. But I still remember forgetting sunglasses once and spending like 20 bucks for a shitty pair there. Yeah. Sure.

Can't be done. But not at Sunglass I no by sunglass hut no which i think we've determined high rollers is a monopoly a waste of money and time so there's two things i want a future president to do number one pass a law that says you can't make people load up a gift card for more than they're going to spend that should be outlawed and number two break up big eyeglass that's what i want elizabeth warren's talking a lot about breaking up tech companies talk about big eyeglass miss warren does she have a plan for these things we don't know but shouldn't we be talking to definite candidate Joe Biden instead. Yes, who is for sure still in the race by the time this comes out. I grew up with Mr. Sunglass, and what I really liked was how much he said I was great. Thank you so much, dear.

He's taking money from Sunglass Hut. He's in Ray Ban's pocket. Joe Biden bad. Oh, you don't like Joe Biden? I met him. Really? Really? Where?

In the 90s or recently? What? Did he die once already and come back? Every once in a while he'll die. God. And he gets resuscitated? Multiple times? And he comes back. Whoa.

That's how it seems. Watch closely. Does it happen like mid debate yes like if the camera's not on him he'll nap and then that turns into death if the camera is on him oh that explains that his teeth start to fall out that's like great so he came and popped in said hey to you yes yeah he'd be in and out in the holding area did he ever like pull you close and put an arm around you in a way that you didn't approve of always oh man i knew it did he ever briefly dying to inappropriately put his arm around did he have a nickname for you yeah corn pop yeah yeah he yeah he did he called me corn pop everyone's recycled the name when he talks about corn pop that could be any number

of many people he's known yeah on earth or in purgatory calls everyone yeah he just tosses it around just it's like it's like saying like or A, what's up, Slick? Like, anyone you can't remember the name of. He didn't even take the time to learn your name. What a son of a bitch. He doesn't get along like you and me do, SK. No, no way, man. Yeah.

If he takes money from Mom. Jelly rings, jelly rings. Oh. Yeah, yeah. I think you gained, like like an inch in diameter there. Yeah. Nice. Noice.

Am I even cooler because I said noice? Yeah, it feels good. Yeah, yeah. It feels good to get my fix. Are we ready to move to Curl Surf? I think so, yeah. Yeah. Well.

All right. Curl Surf. Curl Surf rules. Let's show it the proper respect. respect yes as you know the the full name you have it uh i don't do you say it i'm not sure yeah the full name of this establishment is curl surf by sammy duvall oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I do have that. Something just be a name. Only two of these exist. Two of these exist. Two of these exist.

Where's the other one? Disney Springs. God, we don't need to go to Disney Springs. It's all the same shit. But there's probably differences in the way that the stores are laid out that we really should talk about. So, okay, you go first. No, no, you go now. I just want to get that name out there.

Okay, so Scott, did you look into Sammy Duvall at all? Do you know Sammy? Oh, I missed this. Educate me me okay man okay here's what here's what i find interesting and there's not really a lot of answers is that sammy duvall you summoned a photo of like a painting of sammy duvall with jet skiers under him sammy duvall is a jet ski uh water skier an olympic athlete a child prodigy child prodigy and he is uh he has been connected to disney for 25 years in some capacity and i this is shocking to me yeah i didn't know any of this so i was looking at curl surf and it's like it's a brand that basically like you go in there and you can buy like Billabong and you can buy different skating.

O'Neal, Oakley. And like good stuff. Oh yeah. Oakley. Sector Keeper. Ooh, Oakley. Yeah. And I was like.

I'm going to play in the big league. So I was looking around and I was like, I, you know, I like clothing or whatever, but I didn't know anything about Mr. Sammy Duvall. No. So Sammy Duvall has two stores i'm like how did he get involved because like these are the only two stores sammy duvall had something at the walt disney world resort called sammy duvall's water sports center i just got to it was there for 20 years i believe and this is the place where you would water ski or parasail over bay lake

oh he took over my beloved pablo cruz water sports zone yes okay from the contemporary this closed or it closed like a year or two ago okay uh and it was there for 20 years. So anytime you were doing any of those water sports at Disney World, it was Sammy Duvall's branded water sports, essentially. Yeah, I did it. You did? Yeah. So you water skied or you parasailed? Water skied.

Sure. And it was expensive. I looked it up. It's like $ bucks to do that uh and you could did you make it did you did you get a lot of water in your mouth and your face was it pleasant um no it was fun yeah i always wonder if you if you go to disney world why do that you can because you do whatever your heart, a dream is a wish your heart makes when it's fast asleep.

So you do whatever you want when you're at Disney. I think it's very held over from the 70s. Like it's a vacation destination. That's why there's got to be golf. There's got to be an equestrian thing. It's for dad, I think. That's I think a big selling point,

especially the 70s and 80s. Dad would go there and he'd be like I don't want to go on this stupid ride and you go well do you want to get in some water skis and oh now you're talking golf yeah now I'm liking the sound early marketing for Walt Disney World was like this is a vacation destination resort you know put on a suit for dinner go parasailing go water skiing put on a suit go parasailing put on a suit and do that i there's a great i think it's called the history of disney world and documents and it like catalogs like a lot of old tourism uh brochures and documents and it's great it's great like i would love to

fully like go through like the early days of disney when they were like well you'll go to the park sure but then you also want to have a buffet meal and see some broadway singers and then yeah take a putt-putt boat out and the plans for like the persian resort yes the persian resort which looked very beautiful and then the islamic revolution happened so the funding disappeared yes uh they should bring that back yeah they shouldn't i mean it would be a great uh uh olive branch sure boys all right all right just got a text from my uh level uh the level keeper my cousin yeah he said back to sammy okay back to sammy so on the curl surf website there this is direct copy from it and this this is very succinct about Sammy Duvall.

Who is Sammy Duvall, you might ask? He one of the most accomplished water skiers in the world. So there's a typo. He one of the most accomplished water skiers in the world. So it's he and then one. And both words are capitalized. Yes. We here for you.

He one of the most accomplished water skiers in the world and i just could not stop laughing and i copied it i copied it because it's kind of in like a it's like the same copy and i put it in the notes just to make sure i wasn't seeing anything i have it in here and it just says he one of the most accomplished he it just says, he one of the most accomplished. He one of the most accomplished. He one of the most accomplished water skiers in the world. It's just a little too long to put on a t-shirt, but it makes me laugh so much. Or to fit into a meme,

because that's what I'm picturing it as now. He was a child prodigy and won more than 80 professional championships throughout his career. He was sponsored by brands such as O'neill oakley and others oakley yeah so kind of brand agnostic this it has a lot of different brands they got those herschel backpacks that are like 75 and kind of chintzy when you start to open them up uh those little backpacks with the dragon on the back that i don't know how to pronounce the name but they're all the rage and it it says that he's built on those relationships to develop the ultimate retail

experience yeah so i'm just like when did he get involved did he talk to like people at disney about opening up only stores that are at disney like he's in the family i think it's going to keep happening well i'm just like who else is affiliated with disney and then like they're just in the family they're like you know we got to find something new for sammy to do did sammy come in with schemes like you know you gotta what if i sold a bunch of skate shoes you know i don't know i'm just interested in this guy who only can get a store open at disney world that's a hard retail space to have very specific and it's like i'm just i couldn't really find i was like i looked up

michael eisner sammy duvall expecting like them to be water skiing together in a photo but i didn't find it and maybe i just need to do more digging uh but i couldn't he's like a young man like he's not old yeah sammy sammy duvall's water sports center i that's yeah that sounds to me like one time i played golf at a lawrence welk golf resort like i would have i would have expected that sammy duvall like died in 1979 man sports center i like you know i like old timey crap but when i would stay at my grandparents sometimes if they were watching us they would watch the Lawrence Wilkes show every night and I was like oh man even I have my limits

that's that's exactly the line I think is like that show that's the exact example of like things that don't cross generationally yeah at all yeah I liked Matlock okay I liked Matlock and Diagnosis Murder because they're mystery they're mysteries and like crime but they were never too stressful never too exciting and those are younger guys you could relate to yeah they got life in them uh i did have a very good uh pizza hut personal pan pizza at the welk resort and took a photo next to a lawrence wilk statue it was a good time i forgot what that is it's in San Diego County Go check out Wilk Resort

They would sell Pizza Hut at the Wilk Resort Wow They sell Pizza Hut in one of the I forget which like a Hilton hotel Near Disney that I've stayed at with my family So they do have like a Pizza Hut Express So it's interesting to know that the Lawrence Wilk Family

Interesting to know You've always said everything reboot, yes? Oh, yeah. Everything reboot, Lawrence Welk. Sarah Lawrence Welk Jr. That seems, I don't know. Maybe there's a way to. What would that look like?

Would you like polka music and bubbles if it were played by 17-year-olds? Well, would you? Yeah yeah you're exactly you're the young audience we can focus group on yeah so you'd get into polka so you like bubbles flying around like you're back in the bubble bath as a kid there's bubbles flying around and uh music yeah that sounds fun wow all right so new lawrencek. If there's a new Lawrence Welk out there. There's a new service called Quibi. You could pay me pitch that to. Quibi?

Yeah. As long as Quibi is still around by the time this episode comes out. Well, no, it hasn't launched yet. I guess you're right. So. But if you're listening to this in May 2020, then you're listening to it on quibi podcast because they bought us out because they are all entertainment now after a month yeah that's a good point uh we're all quibi employees and they also which actually was purchased by uh that big

eyeglass company oh luxottica luxottica and we have to plug their eyeglasses yeah while we're talking while we're talking just now I went back to my photos From when I went to the walk resort in 2014 And I found a sign in the window Of a beverage they serve Almond champagne The oh my gosh champagne What?

I don't know I do not remember I had this photo The oh my gosh champagne From Wilson Creek. www.gotalmond.com Whoa. Gottalmond, which just combines into Gottalmond. You got a lot of questions.

I mean, they've got to reboot this. Reboot Almond Champagne. Get the kids drinking. You'd get off the jewel in a second if you had Almond Champagne. Is that place still there? The Woke? I think so. We got to do a second gate.

The Woke Resort San Diego. Yeah. Let's go down there. Maybe after we go to that rock place that invited us. We got invited to a fake rock factory and we haven't taken them up because it's far away. Is it by San Diego or is it more by? It's weird San Diego County. Oh, it is. You're in like Temecula.

Okay. Yeah. So we can go down some almond champagne and then go see some fake rocks. God, that sounds great. You're invited. You're coming along. Yeah, I'm in. Yeah, yeah.

Bring some almond jewel, too. So Sammy Duvall has got some relationship with Disney. And I want to know what he has. What dirt does he have on them? And it's like, yeah, I mean. Is it Wide World of Sports? That's different, I think, right? The Wide World of Sports was a different.

Yeah, that was a different part of property. Yeah. Did he participate? That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that. I feel like this was his own thing. I think he stayed in his lane, his water lane. But he got a cut, I'm sure, every time any dad went up in a parasail.

You know? Grumpy dad. Yeah. Whenever one of your boat drove her dad around in the air. Sammy Duvall got a taste. The custom stores that are only in Disney Springs and downtown, is it like a couture like there it's like well you can't get these anywhere else is that what the idea i don't know i'm so

fascinated i mean this is this is a city walk has its own version of the surf clothing store that must just be a thing that sells well billabong right billabong billabong still going strong element closed so i don't know if they saw like what a great time we had an element never again i feel like it's been only months all of these places closed i know and post our show it's like we we didn't get the tourism up there or we did and they bungled it It's like I left and it started to crumble. You were holding it all together. Kind of, yeah.

Maybe we have to go back. Oh no. We're only in episode two. There's only like one new place. The rest are just empty storefronts. You're going to send us a fucking 11 more missions by the end of this. Yeah, it's really going to be our newest daily series.

One a month now no malls reviewing malls um so yeah sammy duvall he's a man of mystery as far as i'm concerned maybe they just saw an opportunity where like we need a surf shop with surf type clothing and they were like you know sammy would be perfect for this let's get sammy involved sammy's got any ideas and he's like yeah get all the brands in one spot i've worked i've developed a relationship with all these brands from my time as being a world champion water skier and they're like this guy's perfect and they got him in they brought him into the tent and it makes a lot of sense so let's say very nice scene this is a very polite business transaction well sammy seems like a great guy honestly from all the language we like the stuff in the store i think we all like we did so sammy duvall has great taste yeah so i i'm interested to see if sammy duvall's curl surf can expand past

the downtown disney and disney springs areas can we see i don't know there's not a lot of language get them on shark tank get them on shark tank it's like a water thing too hey that's great yeah there will here's a little tease a shark tank cast member will factor into a future stage great get your hopes way up for how interesting this is gonna be edwin literally popped up yeah who's gonna be cuban we don't know amen time will tell edwin i don't know uh so anyway i'm out of interesting things to talk about me too i have come to my end yes out of uninteresting things to talk about exactly i mean that's not totally true because i went to i went to gotalmond.com and it redirected me to almondchampagne.com which informed me that it is no longer known as almond champagne.

It is now almond sparkling wine despite the web address being almond champagne. Well, did it redirect or it's still our almond champagne? It's still almond champagne. Is it fermented champagne? It redirected from Got Almond. Oh, okay. Is it just a brand of champagne

or is it champagne made from fermented almonds? I can't. There's a whole story. I don't know. Who knows? Cool. But they keep reiterating that it is the Oh My Gosh champagne for sparkling wine. Oh my gosh.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. We'll deal with the Welk Resort later. Boys, boys. Yeah? You've done so well. You give me strength. And we did still, because I feel like we meandered a lot. But if you consider that strength, then I'm happy.

There was a little bit where I think I dozed off. That's fine. You didn't meet Biden in purgatory. Yeah, I did meet Joe Biden in purgatory. Not long enough of a nap. But you did so well. Yeah. And I've just learned that by giving me strength my cousin the level keeper

he's texted me and you've given him or her strength as well and I have something to add to your inventory an item for completing what was the name of it again? it was level 1 stage 2 level 1 stage 2 I reward you

3 black aprons from starbucks and we get to wear them even though we're not master brewers yeah we've earned them whoa we did something else more uh yeah valiant i've cooking a good cup of coffee. For those who didn't know, you one of the greatest of all time. We one of the greatest. We one of the greatest.

Wow. Cool. Wow. I'm pretty honored by this. I'm excited to store up these aprons and hopefully they can protect us from a boss which that is what's around the corner tomorrow yeah because we will encounter our first boss um and i'm nervous about it but now i'm invested enough thanks to the kindness of your cousin and we'll uh we'll try to help him around yeah so you've survived podcast the ride

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