Podcast: The Ride - Downtown Disney Ordeal 3-2

Episode Date: November 15, 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 Beignets 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, you will need to thoroughly discuss every aspect of the mall, stores, restaurants, and 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 today level three stage two how are you holding up gentlemen uh i'm okay i mean scott gairdner talking with scott gairdner jason sheridan and i'm mike and mike's'm Mike Did we now Did we all hit it a little hard After the last stage

Did we all go to Downtown or not downtown To Buffalo Wild Wings with our guest And hit it a little hard perhaps we did Yeah I think yeah very hard Yeah maybe a little maybe very Headache the next day hard Until 5pm hard Headaches all a little maybe very headache and the next day hard until 5 p.m hard

all around that's what roller coasters and drinking that's what happens um but uh you know i think we needed the the stress relief because we're like we're now i think now exactly at the midway point and it was nice to it was nice to blow off steam and uh let's just say things got a little real you everybody the drinks are flowing and we were saying our real feelings about sanuk yeah yeah sometimes we're very pc you know on this podcast a little guarded we were letting it fly talking about flip-flops you know we were letting our ugliest thoughts come out about the design of the uh the yoga mat taker easy flip-flop whatever one of the names of it coming out

and saying that i don't know that all our best days are spent in sandals for sure some of our best days are spent in sandals yeah but i was so i was so gone i kept calling it Sunglass Hut instead of Sunglass Icon By Sunglass Hut Do you guys even remember that? I hope you were too blacked out Because I am so embarrassed I think you were forgetting the thing when I kept correcting And you said no they're not going to make me say it

I said it one way for years And you were like really adamant That this is the way I say it Oh god It was a little embarrassing i didn't want to bring it up on the air but yeah so i mean i'm really i'm deeply embarrassed by that and especially because i guess there's this inner darkness that is coming out because i mean we're only a couple days out from when i nearly smashed the sector keeper's head in

that's right because i was so i was just mad at who was inhabiting him. Nick Valenti. I don't, it was not the keeper, but I just didn't, I didn't realize I was capable of such violence. I didn't realize I had such rage about Sunglass Icon by Sunglass Hut. I'm going to need to take it easy after this whole thing. I'm just glad we're not that far from being done. Yeah, no, we work very close, I think.

It's not. That's what it feels like. Too bad. But let's get it together. Let's get over these headaches and let's find out where we're going today. Sector Keeper, give us our mission. Boys, boys, today's stage contains black tap craft burgers and shakes, sprinkles, and the void. Cool.

Okay. Great. This is a fun. This is all things I approve of. Yeah. This has been inherently unpleasant in here. I think we've had good times at all these places. A very pleasant sector.

Yeah. Level. Oh, gosh. Jeez, Jason. That headache is still haunting me is still like are you still drunk out of your mind uh uh drunk on the quality of the sector quality goods yes what do you where should we i think a lot of level three level three is a very one... Because as I said earlier, I think we're in the heart of it here. I think the bookends get a little rougher.

We're heading down the line. We're heading west where there's barely any stores anymore. And this is where all the new good stuff is. I feel like this is very... Everything's post-2017, at least, here in Level 3. It's fresh. It feels fresh. Yeah. Level 3, that least, here in Level 3. It's fresh. It feels fresh. Yeah.

Level 3, that is. You can feel it. It has that new store smell, that new stage smell. Yeah. New for Disney in 2017, which means culturally they're up to about, say, 2014 in terms of taste. Getting there. And that's very evident in black tap crafts craft burgers

and shakes because this is a restaurant that seems designed to create instagrams and that is capitalizing on specifically a new york instagram trend that peaked probably in like 2015 yeah i mean there are disney's always gonna be a couple years late on like the hippest thing that's going on In the world But yeah this is for This is to get This is to entice This is

I'm trying to think of This is like a honey trap Of a food Situation This is Whatever you would call it It's I mean it's good

Yes We've eaten there Yes And you Yeah there's food here That's fantastic And that's uh fantastic and that is not uh you know crazy and designed for for instagram uh yeah aaron and i went not too long ago and both had uh burger bowls that were awesome and i don't even i don't really like that i don't

really ever do the protein style and lettuce and just like i want that bun i'm usually chasing that but but in this case this thing was great it was like really hearty and just like i want that bun i'm usually chasing that but but in this case this thing was great it was like really hearty and just kept going and going i got the turkey burger salad kale avocado apple blue cheese cranberries uh like fantastic one of the best meals i've had for this whole this whole time yeah pretty good uh i've had the like classic burger before and it's um it's super solid i think easily one of the best burgers at the resort on property you guys all went there on galaxy's edge eve galaxy's edge correct yeah i braced myself uh for galaxy's edge with a crazy shake

which so to that end while the food is just like solid and great, and I'll also say good, like I didn't have a beer there, but it seems probably awesome. We did a split, like a mini bottle of J. Lore Chardonnay. Thumbs way up. Sure. And also night, like, you know, I think we both sat at the bar, right? I think so.

It's kind of, what do they call it? Fast casual. It's a little easier. Some of it. Like, yeah. Maybe to get into, like the sit down lines seem to be taking a while, but a bar you can kind of um uh what do they call it fast casual it's a little easier some of it like maybe to get into like the the sit-down line seemed to be taking a while but uh a bar you can get in a little faster um so what we have here just like pretty solid restaurant like great addition for uh for lunches and you know uh dining options for for the downtown disney but what you really want to

talk about are these treats and these shakes yeah for sure uh yeah i had the the uh like funfetti birthday cake crazy shake one where so it's got a slice of cake on top and i have to give them credit because on the menu it says limited quantities available because they actually do make the bake the cakes themselves and then slice it and put it on top. Okay. These are not, there's not some frozen zone. No, it did taste fresh. It didn't taste stale.

It feels like it would be very easy to do a shitty version of, like a cheap stale version of this. If you're a listener and you don't know, this is a full, giant, real like major a major shake very with a real huge slice of cake on the top on top and icing around an icing rim yes like a vanilla or really thick yes with different flavors and candy just stuck in there and lindsey and i sprinkles when i got the bam bam shake uh and we split it and you you tackled the cake shake alone yes which i didn't think this shake was that like i finished the shake and i only ate a little of i got a to-go box for the cake because i only took a few bites of the cake and then if you'll recall

after enjoying a hot tub soak then i had the cake back at the room later i do recall like a pig and shit i do recall famously as happy as i could be did you did you split off from us that night yes we were in the park i think and you went back to go to the hot tub at the disneyland hotel i think well i think you were at the bar still like we were trader sam's uh no you were a trader sam napoli and then i think i went at the bar. Oh, we were at Trader Sam's? No, you were at the Annapolis. And then I think I went to the hot tub and then met you at the bar. I don't know, because we met you at Trader Sam's and you were wet. I may have come from the hot tub.

Yeah, I think you came from the hot tub. And I think we came to Trader Sam's and you were soaked. Got in the hot tub with socks, of course. Get those socks as wet as possible. I mean, look, we were all trying to milk our one night stay out of the Disneyland resort and enjoy the resort amenities. Yeah, I did the briefest possible hot tub stint myself. Yeah.

I just jammed it out. Yeah, you got to do it. Sure, no, I'm not putting down a hot tub. I just remember you being wet. Yeah. But the cake was good. Apparently so. The cake was good. So was good um so this is so this

is it we like this these shakes it isn't yeah it feels gimmicky it feels silly and it feels geared for instagram but they're they're good well i would say try i haven't had a regular shake if i went back i would probably just get a regular shake if i was going like with someone i would probably share the crazy the crazy shakes seem ideal for sharing and at 17 is one dollar more than a burger and fries the cake shake is 17 everything else well 15 and then the regular is like nine basically yeah so so that's really it does feel like two separate things the fact that you you were able to separate it and use it use the cake as a different dessert entirely yeah that's the most absurd one i think of all the shakes well there's one that comes with like two chip witches

stick it out of it like two ice cream sandwiches like uh yeah it's like it's excess you know it's a statement on the excess of america in my mind you know this is what's wrong with america yeah the indulgence we're willing to um there's oh i guess there's strawberry shortcake but it's i don't think it has a piece of shortcake in it there was one that had like a choco taco sticking out of it for a while i don't know how that my one complaint is we got the bam bam Shake, which is Fruity Pebble Shake with a vanilla frosted rim, Fruity Pebbles, Rice Krispie Treat, Strawberry Pop Tart.

There were just chunks of Pop Tart in it. And then there was Laffy Taffy in it. But here's my complaint. The Laffy Taffy had the wrapper on it. All of the wrapper or just like the top part of the wrapper? Like all of it. We don't wrap it. No, no, no. That's gross. I don't like the wrapper being in there. Maybe the little of the wrapper or just like the top like all of it we don't wrap it no no no that's gross i don't like the wrapper maybe a little of the top like if a place gives you a straw

i don't know i open it for me okay you know i would pay the extra two dollars if they would open the laffy taffy for me and put it in my shake i think the one thing that i would say is that because they chill those glasses, the icing hardens pretty quickly on that rim. And you kind of have to. You have to really like use your back molars to get like really scrape off the frosting on the side of the cups. Very fun, though, to watch them make it make them.

But yes, a little inconvenient. A little. You know what would be great If it was like a thick Cone Like a thick Ice cream cone material That they would serve them out of Obviously it would probably

Soak The glass is Green Yeah I wonder if that's just Probably logistically impossible Because structurally I think

Once the Ice cream starts melting And the shake starts melting Then it's gonna soak And then it's gonna The structural integrity Of the cone Will go away Let's think about this You got like 15 seconds With that I melting then it's gonna soak and then it's gonna the structural integrity of the cone will go away let's think about this with that i think but it's fun you can bake a like a sugar cone type material in the shape of a bowl like a waffle cone sure so i've

seen it done they do it at disneyland you could turn that into a cup but does it start to yeah does it start to lose structural integrity the higher you make it i mean this is going to keep me up at night i get a big waffle cone with the sprinkles stuck to the side because it's the same basic principle when you get a sprinkle cone on main street is that you have your extra candy crap stuck to the side and then you get to eat it after you've had the delicious ice cream inside but it's so much easier on a cone than this like glass that you have to just lick the glass as hard as you can your tongue is like scraping the glass maybe you need like multiple you need reinforcement you need a multi-layer where the if the first rung

gives that there's another what like you're you know there's i don't know which uh you know what would have the best consistency but you know like an oreo cup then with a cone shell like so you got multiple so if one starts to give you have a backup system in place i think that's good entirely separate entities that are both glass shaped like an oreo cone and then it's like a chocolate chip cookie like cup cone thing it's like two layers is that what you're saying yeah and i say oreo but probably oreo is gonna give uh yeah yeah cone is probably i think maybe the the really thick unless it's a super hardened pie crust kind of situation how is there been a people watch dessert shows more than i do and i like those dessert shows uh because somebody ever made a giant chocolate chip cookie uh shake cup you know what i mean like this i think that would

be possible i know i've seen shooters yes i have seen chocolate chip cookie shooters how big how big how big can you i can you go i think it's all up to the hubris of the baker. Mankind's grasp exceeds his reach. Where is it? Mankind's grasps doesn't exceed his wit. I forget what. Let me ask you this question. If the shake was $25, but it came in a very delicious chocolate chip cookie cup, essentially, that was as tall as the shake glasses they have, would you buy it?

I mean, once in a while. Once in a while once in a while yes i mean i think i'd have to examine the end of it like i'd have to see that so that's what the next the the next evolution of this is we've determined here because you can build like some sort of rice crispy treat you'd have to change the recipe to make it a little harder but like you could probably figure out a way for each of these to have their own flavor specific cup yeah i think this is in i mean that's a dream that's wonderful it's a wonderful dream but i think you need to get your cup consistency i think it's going to make the whole operation easier if there's oh if there's

just one base kind of cup i think that's right because you're fabricating multiple types of good based cups you're gonna need more employees and more counter space and and you're you're needing to cut deals with like with the rice crispy people and the the fruity pebble people yeah to create that that you know hardened reinforced yeah post the people that post cereal those those assholes and post cereal that like they'll give you just stray pebbles for free right free but for they'll toss them at you they'll cut you a deal but for that to ask them to develop a reinforced dessert cup right that is edible right yeah and also that i mean already that this place has a food program and a very intense dessert program and a beer and wine program i like how you're saying program that's

what they call it isn't that what they call you might be right i just think it's a lot it's a lot for a place of that size to try and balance so to ask them to add an aerodynamics program yeah edible aerodynamics program i'm just i'm dreaming big here you know i'm blue skying and you should but i you know like jason was doing that highfalutin quote. I'm just, I'm dreaming big here. You know, I'm blue skying. And you should. But I, you know, like Jason was doing that highfalutin quote, and I'm just thinking about, you know, the wonders of science, but the perils of science, and in pursuit of the perfect edible milkshake cup,

what if you created an edible atomic bomb? Yeah. But like Rice Krispies atomic bomb, Fruity Pebbles atomic bomb. I but like uh rice krispies atomic bomb fruity pebbles atomic bomb i'm sure i'm scared of the fruity pebbles one because if that goes that goes flying then everybody's i mean you're look it's atomic you're dying anyway but you if you survive you might get pebbles in your eyes and walk the earth unable to see yeah but what a delicious way to go sure it's probably a really powerful gobstopper in this like that's that that sets off the reaction i like that and then it's somewhere between it's it probably has something to do with pop rocks and coke yeah like like a turbo loaded

pop rocks and coke it beats i shouldn't outline this folly is this a folly man's folly but not the fun kind of folly no not a building that's useless folly not a fun little boobo-esque folly no it's a gazebo a folly because you get to sit in it i think it has a use it has a use it does have a use it'll be like a gazebo you couldn't sit in maybe gazebos were probably people in the past pre-antibiotics were probably like well go sit in the gazebo for an hour and that'll cure your ailments you think the gazebo was like a health it was health it was it's like um uh pharmacies that had soda fountains okay it was good to have a phosphate so then it was never

it was never a folly if it was it was healing people a gazebo was a cure what are you talking about i'm just guessing i'm just guessing. I'm just guessing. The road to Wellville hour. Real road to Wellville shit. Is that another Sheridan family secret, family treatment? When you were sick? Go sit in a gazebo. Go sit in a gazebo, Jason, for an hour. I mean, I love sitting in a gazebo.

I definitely feel at ease in a gazebo. It was his time out zone as a child. Go get in the gazebo. Instead of in an iron lung, you were at the gazebo when you had a whooping cough or something. Before I forget, before we move on, this is interesting to me, Black Tap, because it is like the second craft beer place

directly underneath the other craft beer place, right? Yes. What a, yeah, Ballast Point where we went yesterday. What a victory for this area yeah pretty quickly within each other and not really doesn't seem one doesn't seem to be competing with each other they're both always packed kind of different it's amazing they can sit next to each other and still be pal i mean maybe they're secretly trying to drive the other out of the game, but currently they're sitting together. And I'm glad we didn't put Black Tap in yesterday's stage

because we might be dead by now of alcohol poisoning. Yeah, the third. And Corey would mix with cake poisoning. Yeah, with a sugar crash. Is there a ballast point cake i don't even know i don't know i have seen some breweries like like beer cake your floats no like a scoop of ice cream oh yeah i've seen i got served i got like um good though i think that mix is weird i think it's interesting i had a vanilla like lager once or a vanilla beer that they put like a dollop of whipped

cream on top. And that was kind of interesting. What about like a stout? What about like a Guinness and an ice cream? I've never had it, I don't think. That I think makes the most sense. I don't know. I think it would be good.

But also like these low integrity, like the edible cup, I think that'd be good also like like these uh low integrity uh like the the edible cup i think you i think that'd be good for like one or two sips or bites whatever you want to however you're attacking it and then it gets awful right away yeah i would imagine yeah correct us i could be i feel like maybe we're missing a bit somebody could be listening going i've had the greatest beer float and it is perfect and wonderful but i don't i don't know it's not coming to me yeah i don't know um i have a quick thing also before we move on i i was so this this thing came out of new york primarily and it was i i found an article that called it the most instagram milkshake in new york um but they've expanded all over. They're in, I believe, the Venetian in Las Vegas and Anaheim, obviously.

But then it's locations in Bahrain and Dubai. Wow. And even the Anaheim one has quotes from Time Out Dubai touting their superiority. And I'm like, there's a lot of locations in Dubai. And I'm like, okay, so this place is like, you know, the Dubai thing is weird in some way. So this can't just be some normal guy who wanted to start a restaurant. And I looked up the owner.

It's a husband-wife, and the wife seems primarily responsible for the milkshake and the cake shake. The husband is named Chris Barish. He is the son of Keith Barish. He's a second generation restaurateur. And Keith Barish, I was so excited to discover all that. No wonder this guy's heading to Dubai

because the ambition of his father, he's got to try to match. Keith Barish was a big real estate guy, then became a film producer, produced the movies, his first movies, Endless Love and Sophie's Choice. Wow. Major films. He gave Big Trouble in Little China, The Fugitive with Harrison Ford, and produced the movie The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger. his buddy Arnold if he wanted to go in on a restaurant.

But before he could do that, he had to bring in a major restaurateur for somebody who knew the game, and that person's name, Robert Earl. Wow. And this was the team that founded Planet Hollywood. Chris Barish, whose son started Black Tap, had worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger as a movie producer that's why he's part of it and then robert earl for anyone who doesn't know robert earl is the namesake of earl of sandwich where we will be heading uh sometime next week and boy i mean we've talked about it before the robert earl episode i haven't begun the research in

earnest it's gonna be it's gonna be a deep dive yeah there's a lot of work ahead of me there's so much about robert earl and even putting all this together and discovering the story of keith bearish there's so much it when we get to robert earl it's gonna tie together characters from multiple stages it all comes together it's like such a fascinating the the story of the theme restaurant wars could probably be its own episode yeah for sure um but anyway just appreciate that about black tap that it's it's the new generation it's uh and like i don't know that this makes me want because when you hear about all the the Robert Earl wars, and I'll save it for later, it makes me want that ballast point, black tap rivalry to be like vicious and multi-million dollar losses.

Yeah, for sure. But I think it's all a little too polished now. Like the, just some quick from the black tap website. Come kick it at black tap. We're throwing it back to those days as a kid enjoying a cheeseburger and a milkshake. Fun and familiar, genuine quality. That's some copywriting right there. Like, that's some very...

You're saying that it's not aggressive copywriting? The website is just very, like, inspired by the old school luncheonettes we grew up in. Black Tap is the new take on the classic burger joint. It just feels very precise. And the restaurant itself is, like, old school luncheonettes we grew up in black tap is the new take on the classic burger joint it just feels very precise and the restaurant itself is like there's some exposed you know uh ceiling beams there's some tiles more like ice cream parlor tiles like it feels very consciously designed right i mean i'm just i was just one like in the old in the 90s i mean i don't want to see in the

90s you were getting everything right i mean but they weren't like but on the wall of planet hollywood didn't say like fuck rainforest cafe or anything it wasn't like that but i think behind i mean everything was a little crazier in the 90s i think everything that's crazy happening now is a little bit more under wraps i think that's sort of the difference like we just we just don't know about it's all it's all secret but everything that played out with planet hollywood and some of these other chain restaurants was all public it was very vicious it involved some of these people i'm talking about uh uh i'll save it it's uh wow don't don't strain yourself either if you need to punt some of it to a future episode maybe so there's a lot it's gonna be a lot a lot already on this

ordeal on our shoulders so there certainly is yeah yeah well we'll we'll we'll pace ourselves uh um i uh i'm even looking at a fact that i'm gonna uh i'm gonna ignore for now uh we should we should move on i'm so excited about robert earl uh this is the episode i've been dreaming of uh but for now let's keep moving on to sprinkles yeah sprinkles if you weren't if you don't have your fill of sprinkles with a birthday cake shake uh then head over to sprinkles and uh get more sprinkles we know what sprinkles is they have it here too they have cupcakes uh yeah it's i don't know it's not my favorite oh really i'll say that explain i don't know i feel like it just i feel like i had it like a bunch when the first year

when it was around and then it was like i don't know i kind of was let down i kind of got let down i feel like i don't know it didn't it didn't keep delivering it's sort of like pinkberry where i had it a lot in the first year and then it was like i don't know about this anymore isn't that the risk that's uh yeah i think that's the risk uh that that that syndrome can happen outside of food i think that what we might that's what we might be experiencing with star wars galaxy's edge very good just saying i feel like it's like a because i was watching this special where by the way i didn't realize jay leno oh yeah is talking to you from the uh the chess table in the falcon we got to do an episode about

that oh it's so good it's really good but there's the special makes such a big deal out of like the first time you see the falcon your jaw will drop and that first time that you walk and all that's true but then what then like don't i think are people still is the 10th time as yeah that's the difference magical that's yeah that's the difference i guess that makes people coming back i don't with that that's a different thing like i like yeah your draw drops but then like the 10th time is when like hopefully you love the millennium falcon ride even more than the first time which is the issue probably yeah with that it's yeah that's the problem uh sprinkles i also what's interesting though not interesting

with anything that expands fast you never quite know how they're cutting corners when the expansion happens so i never quite know if i'm just sort of sick of something. Or if they've like, you know, to save two cents per item, they've cut down on like a version of the, like whatever sugar they use. It's less good sugar. They're making it a little smaller, slowly but surely. Something, yeah. Trying to trick you.

That happened with Umami Burger. Yes, exactly. It's way too quickly, way too fast. Big fall off. Yes. The quality really declined. For like a year year maybe a little longer like one of the original ones in in the los feliz neighborhood of los angeles still pretty

good but a lot of the outlying ones have kind of closed a lot of the expansion they were dreaming of being a chipotle and i don't think that's what they are but But I think they're in Dubai, too. I think part of the direction for companies like this is like, all right, we'll expand and they're hungry for American higher quality franchises internationally. Sure. Where there is more new money in the Middle East or Asia. People have a little more disposable income now but american exports are still seen as like oh that's cool or like that's that's like a status thing thus far in los angeles there's a place called holland rays it's nashville hot chicken you got to give these

people credit because it's still as good excuse me i'm not starting to cry thinking about nashville hot chicken that was a thing in my throat i don't believe you okay fair enough i was i was choking up uh that is that's been around for what three years or so at least i've had it like and it is consistently as good when i have it now so that is my argument for a lot of this stuff falling off but there's only one of those still yes that's true and that's how they're they're expanding but they're doing it so slowly a lot of these other things they get very money happy they have i think that probably the plan is open one or two locations make everybody go holy shit this is great bring the investors in then you know launch it worldwide and make it

less good and make a bunch of money yeah i mean there are people whose jobs it is to take restaurants from one or two locations to a chain two franchises that is their whole job right and they do it probably by like we can cut a little bit out of here we can make this a little less good i don't know that this happened to sprinkles i should i don't you maybe you feel it a little i feel it but i don't know if that's real there's an la ice cream chain called sweet rose creamery and there used to be one uh pretty close to where i live and they closed it after a year or two and they had a sign up saying we're sorry um our our flagship store is still where we make a lot of the stuff in santa monica and we like to be very hands-on and oversee everything and we just couldn't make the track we just couldn't um keep an eye on it

even though it's only a few miles but you may as well be in a different city the way los angeles is sometimes sure yes um and you choked up while reading this tale i mean well it was just funny because that inconsolable place where it was i think right i think before that it was frozen yogurt and then it was craft ice cream and now it's acai bowl so it's it is changing tastes like the the sprinkles had was part of the cupcake craze which begat the fancy ice cream craze which begat the like instagram milkshake like your bible my bible yeah went out frozen yogurt before that um i don't know cupcakes were the avocado toast of the like late uh 2000s early 2010s the reason the reason we're so fucked as a generation yeah our love of

these if we could just put these things down what do you think that was coming next craze wise well i always thought and i guess i'm i was kind of right with that crazy shake i always thought like the thing after cupcakes would just be a slice of yellow cake it'd be like it would just be because then someone would realize like oh we could just make whole cakes and sell the slices which there are a few chains of like pie slices. Come get your slice of pie, you know? Yeah. So you think maybe it's back to basics.

It's not going to be some sort of an arms race right now. Well, I mean, the cupcake thing kind of also is like, people will pay a little more for the basics if you can sell them on like, oh, this is the highest quality ingredients like this is organic butter this organic show you know this is good quality so plain cake plain cake all right let's mark it down here 2019 the plain cake craze the rise of like birthday cake as a flavor cake like cake adamas sweet sweet adamas yeah what's your future man the character i just

created his name sure uh treats oh treats treats adamas yeah yeah there's if there's a cnn show the desserts like an oral history talking head show they got a book jason oh i would love that and there will and like it'll be like a week-long series like an hour for five to and they'll go like he he gave it this too much we can't like jason just talked for 30 hours straight he had multiple we weren't even going to do those episodes this season but he came in just off the dome there needs to be no research sarsaparilla to root beer he just kept talking about this one line in Carousel of Progress. Someone listening, the idea that you haven't reached out and offered Jason a hosting gig at one of these dessert shows, it's criminal.

If some listener out there knows someone who is the person who casts the hosts for dessert shows, what are you doing? He's right here. Yeah. This is the guy. I mean, there's the fun i mean he's i mean there's the there's the like fun host guy but i think there's the historian yeah student and i think that's jason's oh i did not that you couldn't do both but i was shaking in the term and i like a

very serious show oh i see like cosmos like carl sagan of desserts yes when you yes it all takes place from like the Neil deGrasse Tyson way like you're in this ship and the ship everything is made of a very solemn episode as we discuss the soda wars of the 80s the controversy of tab the failure of new coke and then the one where you discuss the Candyland

characters Queen Frostine yeah that'll be like andica was ready to fall in love with a little guy named glumpy come along shall shall we and then like cnn presents the desserts and then you're piloting a big it's like a big cake spaceship and the joysticks are all cupcakes and the hot you gotta have a little fun you've got a holodeck that takes you down to the floor like for so that you can be there for the invention of cake batter yeah and like queen like he could see queen frostine getting married and stuff like see

watch the wars being fought the candy to get her hand in marriage uh-huh this is a good we've talked about candyland stuff before but that it's sort of serious and like game of thrones yeah we're discovering how queen frostine uh ascended to the throne someone has pitched that that has been pitched right because there is a candyland thing in development they're like what if it's not like that though i mean i bet it's some dumb fart Candyland. Yeah. It's like a normal PG-RG. Oh, they all fart in different candy ways, yeah. Yeah.

With, like, the voices of their... They'll book whoever's big on the charts right before the movie comes out. Right. Slide Billie Eilish in there. They, like, show words in French. She hasn't had a chance to read them. It's like, hey, watch out, glumpy.

Okay, that's good enough. No more takes needed. Doesn't matter. Put her name on the poster. Yeah. Billie Eilish. If Fiona Apple ate a pack of cigarettes. I don't know these characters well. We should probably do a Candyland episode.

Yeah, for sure. Who would Billie Eilish be? I'm looking. It's Gloppy is the name of the character. characters well we should probably do a candyland episode yeah for sure who would uh who would billy eilish be uh i'm looking it's gloppy is the name of the character uh i think she would be princess lolly that's one of my uh so there's oh no wait there's glop excuse me plumpy and gloppy yeah they're different they're different and of course there's grandma nut we of course know grandma nut that's one of our favorite characters in fiction. King Candy, Lord Licorice, and Queen Frostine. Yeah.

Those are the ones listed. I guess there's other... Oh, there's like the Duke of Swirl. He's... I like him. These guys also... Do you have a casting in mind as you look at him? Like who's the ultimate voice? Yeah, I guess one of the jonas brothers i guess

i mean nick jonas yeah i mean gad's in there right he's oh he's gloppy yeah uh there's grandma gooey who's a different character than grandma nut what i like about these characters sort of like um the characters include different artists have interpreted them over the decades like their little changes like oh yeah i forgot all about jolly i love jolly jolly jolly's a king okay jolly's jolly's pimp jolly rules jason jason jolly jolly gunning for jolly gunning for jolly jolly for jason once you've done this cnn retrospective there it'll be like fans will go of course he's jolly of course yeah who else would be jolly oh there's a buzzy as well nobody's taking his clothes he's a vulture uh not yet he's a vulture

um so does that count as sprinkles well i like sprinkle i mean i like sprinkle i feel like i had it a lot years ago it's like offices if it was someone's birthday or at a party if someone brought sprinkles i never really hunted this stuff out i feel like there was smaller mom or mom and pop kind of cupcake shops that did stay consistent because they didn't expand yeah um sprinkles i'll say this if you're looking for an affordable snack in downtown Disney, pretty much the whole menu is $5 or under. So, like, if you want something sweet,

like, you can still get, like, a $4.95 cupcake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fairly priced. I also, I mean, the thing you gotta talk about is that ATM. I hadn't done the ATM. I walked up to the ATM, slid the card. You're watching the video we watch the video with

the claw and it picks out the box and then it's you didn't do it killer yeah you didn't do it there's no atm at the downtown disney there's not an atm there's not a cupcake atm their famous innovation no there's one in beverly hills there's one there's one at the americana americana in glendale okay well this is what i was avoiding all right look some of these stores that are in multiple locations that aren't just at downtown disney i have gone to other to more to closer establishments that closer iterations of these so yes i didn't do the sprinkles at downtown disney i went to the americana one and this is a little bit of a sore subject and i'll tell you why because we've been doing the series for a couple days here

now for a week or so uh and there is this i'll say it there's this punk uh the americana at brand memes on twitter i don't know if you guys have noticed this oh i think i i think it's a popular and also and funny twitter account uh that's all about it's all devoted to this if you don't live in la in glendale there's there's like a fancy mall outdoor shopping center with a trolley and dancing fountains uh called the americana brand and this guy does like uh you know very funny uh you know very viral content all devoted to the small and i've always enjoyed the account but we start talking about downtown disney and this guy's coming after us this guy's giving us attitude is this not getting under your guy's skin like it's getting i've seen a little bit of it and like i just i don't care for anyone going after us i mean we

should be untouchable as far as i'm concerned so i hear what you're saying and we and that we're so proud we're announcing this thing yeah and then the first thing he does a emoji of like rolling eyes and we're we're unveiling this series that we've been crafting yeah like like artisans uh building a perfect statue and this guy's giving us attitude. Every word we say is precise. Yeah. Yeah. This is a perfect series about, okay, look, is he correct that in some ways the Americana is superior to downtown Disney? Maybe. Maybe. I don't even want to give him that after all this attitude.

But, you know, how I feel about it is, you know like you know you can make deprecating jokes about your dad or something and then as soon as somebody else comes in and like lays lays it on thicker you're like hey that's my dad yeah i can do that and you can't sure that's how i feel about downtown disney we can make fun of it but this guy pointing out that the fountain's not as good i mean hey maybe i don't want uh you know old drunkards from the 50s uh singing songs at me while water splashes in my face carried by the wind that's maybe that's how i feel yeah maybe the americana maybe the trolley gets in the way yeah maybe it ruins pedestrian flow yeah and i and maybe the the cozier space of downtown disney it feel like you're more part of a community

when you're in that much narrower corridor. Maybe that's better. Yeah. And also at the Americana, there's that one stand that has the, it's a potato, it's a fries stand. And it's got a mascot that looks shitty. That is awful. Our potato corner you're talking about.

It's potato corner. Oh, whenever we see that whenever aaron i see that in the mall this is this is inferior this this this was shit out yeah uh on some clip art program in 1997 and they call that they call the americana some like beautiful shades of italy kind of place and that potato corner potatoes hanging around yeah you're never gonna see a shit mascot like that at downtown disney bullshit and and and the other thing he's gonna come to us and talk and talk shit about a place that has two starbucks one that's very convenient and one that has uh lavish ceilings it's immaculately themed uh this how about the starbucks count at the uh americana uh oh there's one in the barnes and

noble doesn't count starbucks and barnes and nobles are not true three stories up all the way up you gotta walk and walk and walk it takes forever and then it's more expensive and it's just that they technically use the same kind of tea but it's not a proper starbucks yeah so don't come at us with us boasting double starbucks and tell us that we're inferior this americana memes guy i gotta say this guy's this guy's a punk he's a loser and uh what's that that language is familiar he's very bad this guy's very bad he's bad news uh i uh i call it lousy uh americana at brand memes or sometimes lion uh as i like to say lion americana brand memes how funny you say that because you know what i say

lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep oh wow you know what a phrase lion doesn't concern himself are we still are we is that are we still the winners in that using that quote oh yeah we're higher up on the great pecking order hell yes okay so let me just look and i'm sorry to devote time in this episode to calling this guy out but if he's he's start he's gonna come after us uh then we're gonna use our platform and we're gonna fight back come at the king best not miss him i would love. I would love to see you try to respond after the true smackdown that we just laid down. Yeah, good luck. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Plus, hey, you guys, they just have a Wetzel as in a Sephora, too. It's the same thing at the end of the day. Except theirs is better. Yeah. Okay, great. All right, feel good. Yeah, I've got that out of my system. And another thing is, you know what the Americana doesn't have the void the void voids across the street a lot of the memes on this account uh you know these started coming after

us in downtown disney a lot of it is juxtaposing the americana with the galleria which is the mall the indoor mall across the street in glendale. He's always putting down the Galleria, but the Galleria is the one with the void. Yeah. The VR experience that I think we're all very fond of. There's a lot of good things about the Galleria. And it's where you park. Yes. Even the Americana man admits he got to park at the Target

and walk to the Americana. Clearly, that's the only way. That's the only way. Yes. He is right about that. There's still one glorious locked-in 80s architecture at the Galleria that I hope never changes. Yeah, so putting that down too, I don't know.

But they got the void and we went to the void and we had a lot of fun. Yeah. We did, I mean, in full disclosure, we did the void not at Downtown Disney. We did it. We did also do it in Galleria. Because we were stacking we were stacking experiences well i just don't want to get caught up in a big scandal here because the audience is gonna be very upset with us if we don't be fully honest well you know here's the thing they

don't run the one of the experiences we had not done ralph breaks vr they don't run it at night yes and we were trying to do that night in anaheim we were trying to coordinate a bunch of stuff and it didn't work out um would you guys be upset if i said that i called uh a foreign leadership to try to dig up dirt about americana brand memes would i be upset about it no okay that seems that seems okay because if we're talking about potential scandals that all seems all the up and up. All's fair in love and podcasting. Okay, okay.

He doesn't even have a podcast. There's no podcast, though, right? Well, no, but we're podcasting. We are. We are. Okay, okay. So quid pro quo. Quid pro quo.

It's all fine. We're on social media. Okay, great. Anyway, so yes, let's be transparent. We did not go to the void. So I don't know what the void's like. But they were doing Star Wars Secrets of the Empire, and we've done that. Right.

We want to do something different. And just by the, they only run Ralph in the morning. Yes. We all wanted to do it together. We all wanted to do the children one together. We wanted to see Ralph. We wanted to see Princess Vanellope. Yes.

And we, yeah. So we got there at 10 in the morning, and we called a friend of ours over to join us. Right. Buzz Buzz. He skittle scaddled across the street and came and hung out with us. He's our VR buddy. And yeah, Ralph Breaks VR. It's great.

I really liked it. I feel a little weird here recommending a thing that is not at most of the Void locations now by the time this is coming out, but it is still in Orlando. So if anybody lives in Orlando, you know, are Orlando friends and fans, I'll

recommend this. Go check it out while it's there. It's a lot of fun. And there's cycling stuff in and out. Who knows? This could pop back up a little bit I think. Yeah, I mean they still list it on their website so i think they're swapping stuff like i think they brought back ghostbusters and nicodemon nicodemus nicodemus which i still did not do which i want to do i wish it was nicodemon that laid on thick hey my name is nicodemon hey nicodevil um i'm i i legitimately am too scared of the i'm not doing any vr horror because you're you're trapped you're uh it is it seems scary it seems like it'll be a little the haptic feedback

honestly is kind of the scariest part in a way because it's like that really they can really like molest you with like the vest yeah um yeah i feel like you're yeah you're like you really get molested by electricity yeah it's very invasive you're going through like narrow hallways and small rooms in the void and i don't know i feel like that would just add to the terror like i know i'm in a room yeah and this i've heard one part i've heard they've used the similar similar trick where like you get separated from your party but obviously you're like actually next to each other in the nicotine they told us they do that right they well they told us at the void like oh don't come in odd numbers because you will be separated well that's yeah i don't know i'll do it i still

will do it i don't know are they running it past halloween i don't know. I'll do it. I still will do it. I don't know. Are they running it past Halloween? I don't know that they are this year. Maybe next. We'll see. Maybe it might be a Halloween institution for them. Yeah. The void is pretty young, and for them to have an iconic character. Yes, Nicodemus.

I hate to say it, but it's kind of their Chukko. They've got a Chukko out of the character as iconic as Chukko. Yeah, iconic and terrifying. There's some Nicodemus. Oh, man. But I don't know if i'm gonna be just like choco i don't want anything to do with him and i don't think i want anything to do with nicodemus either i don't know maybe i'll do it first and then make you guys go which i can't but i'll try it's hard it's hard to force us into not only to go there but then to force us into a backpack and uh yeah backpack with a lot of clasps what if we went what if i tricked you

into going to the cheesecake factory at the americana first and then like we did like a lot of shots that yeah sure well maybe i mean you're speaking my language but again i don't know if i want to maybe i got to stay away from the americana for a little bit yeah i just like show team loyalty here i hear what you're saying there's got to be, we go to that sweet, what's the candy store called? Lolly and Pops. Lolly and Pops. I take Jason to Lolly and Pops

and I basically say, here, whatever your heart desires. And I like basically just put my credit card down on the counter. And then when he has the bag full of candy, I snatch the bag of candy away and I put it at the end of the Nicodemus maze. Oh, at the end.

I thought you were just going to hit me with a sack and I'd wake up and I'd be... I would hit you with a sack of candy. Oh, sack. Okay. No, I would leave the candy at the end of Nicodemus and say, you have to complete Nicodemus in order to get this large bag of bulk candy. Yeah. You would do that. Maybe.

Yeah. That would probably work. you're describing an evil scheme this is you this is you your origin your villain origin story you're becoming nicodemus right now nicodemus micodemus micodemus i like micodemus okay uh yeah geez all right well demanding with the name god you really are a villain i well look i obviously as you heard there's a certain type of uh halloween uh event i like now so i am getting a little darker as the days go by oh so this is you begin this is the turn

forming what we thought was just an innocent incessant uh mentioning of a love of haunts became yeah um this is your this is your we're we're watching your joker that's right you'll be you'll be stomping around on stairs before we know it i already love stomping around on stairs you do yeah only the worst people do that yeah and you should see the weird way in which I dance in front of my mirror. You probably keep your legs down low and non-embarrassing. You're not showy about it. I'm very showy about it. No. Yeah.

You kick your legs way up high. I kick my legs very high. If there's a puddle on the stairs, you avoid it, correct? Actually, I step in it oh yeah if there were a you're the song the song rock and roll you probably stayed at part one you didn't keep going to i'm the scary song rock and roll part two my favorite part is part two no yeah that's interesting isn't it you truly are the prince of darkness yeah micademus i am micademus i'm getting going thinking about that great stop dancing your dance scares me mike

micademus i wish i had the rifle that shot milkshakes and pancakes at you like because that is the the ralph i mean ralph breaks the internet hits some of the same beats yeah as star wars secrets of the empire except except your gun you are given a gun yes which i was surprised about a little surprise you have to shoot cats there's like meme cats right isn't it funny how this this stage is all it's all milkshakes and cakes and sprinkles it's all treats yeah this is a full treat stage um yeah and you yeah you just like the star and you can go back and listen to our uh star wars void episode but it's there's this wonderful moment where you read you reach out to grab a weapon and then it's physically there

and they repeat that beat uh in the streger ralph thing but with this adorable gun that fires either pancakes or cupcakes or no milkshake milkshakes are lobbed like a grenade launcher and i forgot that this is back and forth yes and i forgot this is based on a thing that's in the movie uh where ralph is going from game to game and going all over the internet and there's a very like toddler ipad kind of game called pancake milkshake and it seems like a very mellow, simple, where you're just supposed to slide. Pancakes go to a bunny and milkshakes go to a kitty. And then Ralph gets in there and gives too many pancakes to the bunny. And he gets huge and explodes.

I forgot all of this. So that's why this movie is a long time ago now, by the way. I didn't really like it to begin with. But I did like this vr experience and in this scene you're it's this pancake milkshake game has uh gone amok and there are bunnies and kitties everywhere and they are lunging for you they're cute but you have to stop them by firing treats into their mouths yeah there's also a pretty neat like space invaders star wars like wireframe tie fighter game mashup yeah yeah that's my favorite scene i think two eight very eight bit 2d style yeah but but in 3d space yeah that's

where you're separated in this even though you're probably five feet apart but it looks like you're miles away from each other and you're shooting yeah you're on one platform and then you split so far it's really nuts yeah and you're like yeah shoot like lobbying lobbying what like i don't know we're shooting in the air you're right yeah like you're shooting it's like a gunner style thing yeah that that area is called dunderdome so it really um as opposed to secrets of the empire which is more of a consistent story this is way more game oriented yes um yeah man these two big set piece games especially and then there's sort of some plot scenes that wrap it up and i think then you end up you still have your weapons and you're firing pancakes and milkshakes

at security drones and you're like out up in the sky of the uh the internet city uh essentially um there's a fun part where ralph gets like he's like smashed up against your screen and one of the kitties is banging his head against the wall and the fact that they're able to do silly physical comedy and that it reads in this sort of complicated medium. It was just fun to do a kid version of this after the Star Wars one, which is much, you know, scarier and more serious. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, like Darth Vader, like, kills a guy on the other, on the void. And that does not happen on the Wreck-It Ralph one, which is good. There's no murder. Yes. No murders. It's not a bloody game. And it is, as I was saying, it's more of a game to the point where you're you get scores and you can look at your wrist and there's scores there i think that

was one of our complaints about the which we like the star wars a lot um but there was no score when you're shooting stormtroopers we want to know who did good and who did bad yeah yeah that's fun it's nice to quantify and i especially liked it because i won. I won this game. Oh, yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah. And I don't ever win things. I'm awful at any game that's in 3D space. I'm terrible at. But I managed to do well. You won the Pac-Man game, too, when we were in Chicago. Oh, that's right.

At the Pac-Man restaurant. Oh, the tournament. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's right. I'm on a good little streak here. Where Pac people turn on each other. Oh, that's right.

You eat the ghosts and then you eat each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Until there's nobody left yeah and packs turn uh massive right yeah so yeah you're doing fine feeling pretty good that's why i don't want to break this streak with nicodemus i think i don't know if there's any game element probably not a game man i'm looking for any excuse to not to not do it how many reasons can i list to not do nicodemus right because you don't want to have that moment where you have to put your hand in the air and have the person pull you out of VR. That would happen.

Yeah. That's a different kind of evanishment than Nicodemus' famous one. That's right. He's a demon of an evanishment, I believe. Is that what it is? E-N-V-A-N-I-S-H? Envanishment? I think so think so yeah i think that's right um this uh this the void park is open now right like to some extent since we've been doing this show evermore

they're they're um yeah real life thing uh yeah listener had gone and was posting pictures um i think they're slowly still opening stuff in chunks okay i think they're building a train oh really so neat um and where's the media invite evermore where's the plane come to central utah we're the free plane tickets and hotel lodging for us come on anyway we'll get out there that's that spirit of nicodemus free plane trip i must have it i want a media badge i want i want a thick lanyard uh yeah so uh i'm trying to think a lot of people i feel like people put down ralph early on which i had not done it but i was kind of pleasantly surprised by some of it it made me think like i kind of was like oh i want to play the game more like i want to play

i almost was like can we be in this room for 10 minutes like i'd like to get good at this space invader game yeah yeah like that was gone before we were like even got to the hang of it i feel like yeah i was not sick of being in vr space and you feel like a pro when you've done it uh once or twice now and yeah i don't think that sequel was well received for the most part i like the first wrecking ralph uh i did i think it was weirdly but not i didn't like it i think i don't think it got an oscar nomination i don't know i mean it felt a little i felt a little queasy because i kept doing like here's the portals to all of the things we have bought and here's all the princesses together it felt a little like uh oh my disney scene psychological warfare of like yeah it's good it's good this is

happening you all like this look at look at the the fun version of this that is actually being done in boardrooms. So I'm looking forward to Wreck-It Ralph 3, Ralph Goes to Disney+. Yeah, Ralph Pivots to Video. Oh boy, oh, Vanellope's lost. We gotta go find her in Apple Dumpling Gang Strikes Again. Oh, Vanellope got eaten by million dollar duck i feel like there were two minutes of this movie that used to be in it but aren't anymore i don't know is that where vanilla peas hiding she said she made some new crow friends

is vanilla pea in song of the south no no no no no she's not. Ralph, no. She could not be. No. No, Ralph. She must be in one of the 32 seasons of The Simpsons. The show which I'm also a cast member on now because of the way Synergy works. Yes, Wreck-It Ralph lives with The Simpsons, yeah. They have to keep it fresh somehow when it's on disney plus yeah they lost maggie and maggie's room is now we're

i was gonna say flanders took in a border uh well do you yeah you think homer vaccinates no way oh my god oh man Oh, my God. Oh, man. Wow. That is actually pretty cutting. That would be like any... Oh, man. Homer was an anti-vaxxer. That's the kind of thing that could happen. There could have been a Simpsons episode where Maggie died due to lack of vaccination. And we wouldn't know.

Yeah. Whatever is happening on the Simpsons is like an island. You have no idea what's going on over there. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I would believe almost anything. Could have happened. Yeah, about the Simpsons. Yeah, there was a disease

outbreak and it killed Maggie and every Harry Shearer character. They're all gone. I'd be like, oh yeah, okay. They have to do something I guess with the show. It's gone forever. All the characters have a big lay funeral. A big what funeral? Lay. lay what is that like lay show

oh yes you guys don't know lay show harry's show is not necessarily on the tip of my tongue any given second but i appreciate it you know that was the kind of dry comedy that you'd find on the show you know my justification is that podcast arrived much like the the late great deadspin is it starts with one topic the deadspin started with sports this started with theme parks but it expands out to include all of our unique interests so and uh and you'll know things have turned dark when we start firing each other for not sticking to theme parks that's true yeah i'd like to think there'd be a walkout in solidarity yeah jim spanfeller will buy podcast the ride and tell us to stick oh no we're gonna have a boss

oh no we gotta unionize now yeah podcast the right union yeah but are you sure you want to do it you sure it would be better not to have one no micka demas is so evil he's already he's breaking the podcast the right union as soon as it's been mentioned vote for joe biden he's not fully republican he's more of a centrist centrist democrat sure that's pretty that's the kind of evil vote that uh micademus would make well micademus is real what can i say the union's only us right the audience isn't part of the union no i don't know just don't definitely that's yeah but they can be supported

they can be like allies the way but they would hopefully honk at us if they saw us on the street you honk to show support of striker of union we've been we've done a walk out of mike's apartment which who's the guy again which you said his name spanfeller j Spanfeller. Jim Spanfeller has barricaded himself in Mike's apartment. He took Edwin. He's holding Edwin hostage as a bargaining chip. And we're out on the street. And hopefully fans will drive by and honk support. Yeah.

Also, Megademus saw, sorry, I was going to confirm or explain my joke. He saw Joe Biden in in hell which is where the sector keeper saw him oh that's right early on the sector keeper ran into joe biden in hell yes and that's where nicodemus lives the issue is it feels like we've been doing this for months so sometimes it's hard to remember something that happened only a few days ago that's fair that's okay but the listeners obviously all know the references yes something that happened only a few days ago. That's fair. That's okay. But the listeners obviously all know the references. Yes.

Because it was only a few days ago. Because it was only a few days ago. Well, are we done? I think we're done, right? Well, we are done. I can tell because an item is appearing. Oh, that's right. Oh, yay. The sector keeper has sent us something, I guess, gifted from his cousin, the level kid.

I don't know who's getting us the items. Some combo. They're working together, I think. Some shared fun. They're probably all part of the Keeper's Union. Yeah, they have to be. So this is a gift of solidarity from the Keeper's Union to the PTR Union. Yes.

It is. It is a pint glass made of chocolate chip cookie filled with milkshake. And it does look like it's about to give. Uh-oh. So it's a little sloppy. And of course, there is a Sprinkles cupcake floating on top. Oh, shit. Okay.

So if this thing is going to remain intact to be used as if in a future boss episode then we have to like we gotta we gotta put it on ice or it's a time bomb yeah yeah yeah in that case we better wrap up the episode fast just for the just for the sake of keeping this cookie from oh wait look oh those chips are starting to give up look one popped right now no okay it's cartoonishly a stream of milkshake is coming out. Maybe we can patch it up. Here, somebody just hold it with your thumbs. Hold it together like BB-8 plugging the holes of that leak in Last Jedi.

Yeah. I mean, look, if this thing goes away, I will say that if one of our boss battles, we can't unleash Micademus. We'll just say it's possible to unleash him he's come out a little bit here but i don't know i'm a little afraid of unleashing the power of micademus i mean i just don't know if he that just seems like a little too uh oh well look the uh that's it it broke it shattered um this is our first weapon to not make it out of the episode. So it's a messy pile we can...

It is now. I mean, it might be good for something. It could make a future villain slip or something, but it's just going to be vapor soon enough. So, God, shit. We may have no choice now, but with our stockpile slowly receding, we may need to unleash the power of Micademus. We'll see. I'm a little more concerned about

micademus and also unhinged beating scott like what is my alter ego i don't know when am i gonna break i hope you don't find out something grim about yourself as i have uh i don't love knowing this about myself but if i can maybe make peace with it, with the power I have inside me in a, uh, Bruce Banner Hulk sort of manner. Yeah. Um, and maybe if we can find the correct trigger to just briefly get the side

out of me that will beat the shit out of somebody out of an owner, a, a CEO of a restaurant chain, which seems to like, it's probably what a lot of the bosses are going to be. Um, so I don't know. Let's, well, let's just keep an eye on my powers and unleash them like, it's probably what a lot of the bosses are going to be. So, I don't know. Let's just keep an eye on my powers and unleash them only when it's right.

You, I don't know. Are you going to find out that you don't actually like treats that much? Oh, my God. That would be shocking, obviously. Or maybe I'm like the X-Man Hope who can synthesize other people's powers, who can like help other people work at their highest potential of their powers that doesn't seem right okay fair enough great improv great support michael micademus strikes again one of his powers is denial now we know why micademus got taken off oh man here's my new character uh he's a demon of yeah i know do you have anything a little

a little off that you just do a lot of demon characters usually improv shows don't involve someone stepping out and saying here's my new character so um thank you mcademus what about a hellion would that be different enough what if you're just plumpy oh well maybe or gloppy or maybe gloppy we'll see i mean maybe you were right this is his venom his like other side yeah yeah i'm a little punchy my voice is i'm losing my voice some for some reason you're gonna say losing your hair because you're rubbing your hair i'm losing my hair it's just calling gray lump of hair out of you yeah the mic just fell.

One of these series will make, if we keep doing these daily series, one of them will make us go bald. One of us will lose hair, literally. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. It's so much work, you guys. It's so hard to do.

Feel bad for us. Please. The sacrifice we're making. This is all for you. This is all for you, is all for you the listener you we don't do this for any other reason other than you my organs are failing both of you rest up because by my count there's a boss battle tomorrow oh no no no so will we see the return of will mcadema's factory will we see uh dark ass kicking Scott? Will we meet

glumpy or plumpy? Is that right? Or gloppy. Gloppy. Gloppy. All the E's. Tune in to find out what happens

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