Podcast: The Ride - Downtown Disney Ordeal 4-2 with Carlye Wisel

Episode Date: November 21, 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 do you? We must protect our AP discount meals

The Downtown Disney or do you? 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 18 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 four stage two my name is mike

carlson joining me as always jason sheridan hello and scott gerdner increasingly deteriorating scott gerdner yeah we're all on edge our mental states are declining uh we're cramming them together it's faster than city walks yeah the dog senses it and he has gotten uh i don't know other way to say it uh nervously horny because of it he's humping me because he feels such a nervous energy so he's attacking me when i'm walking around here we are losing our minds this much and it's so tense in here uh and he hates it the dog that is uh anyway we're gonna do a good episode though today yes well in a bright light hopefully who's brought us things yes that's that's gonna have to help the situation i'd have to think yes uh so we have a lot to talk about let's bring her in you know

we're from instagram twitter you're an influencer. Travel and leisure. I'm a journalist. A journalist. An actual journalist. I'm a journalist who's very vain and loves to take photos places. I think, but I mean, we're all influencers, you know, in a way.

That is true. So, but this is Carly Weisel. She's back. She's back. We are sleepy this morning, me included, even though I only saw celebrities yesterday because it's LA.

But we will be up. We we are gonna have good energy well and i feel like a ucb coach we're gonna have good energy uh i think we will because you brought us things uh treats in relation to uh the the first of the stores we're discussing we've already been to a starbucks many stages ago but now we are discussing starbucks west starbucks west my personal favorite downtown disney starbucks because there are so many you can have a favorite yeah yeah does it also trump the in park uh i i mean are we allowed to discuss the in park ones oh well that's it that's a question and we don't oh you're right well we need to check in in-park ones? Oh, well, that's a question and we don't. Oh, you're right.

Well, we need to check in with our guide through all of this, the sector keeper, who I imagine would be strict about the boundaries. He's told us very plainly that it goes from the sorcerer's hat where the hotel starts only through the temporary Galaxy's Edge Honda that's sitting in the Esplanade. So we can't cross that side of those bounds. I want to respect him, and I also want to respect him by him officially giving us our mission for today. Boys, boys,

today's stage is Starbucks West and Sugar Boo! And come. Okay, great. All right, so confirmed from the horse's mouth, Starbucks West. Your favorite of the two yes i guess we'll keep it to the two in respect to his wishes what how what uh what what is the

difference to you like why is one superior to the other to me i'm shocked that you don't know that there's a difference there is such a monumental difference i mean the big starbucks and starbucks west we know that there is a difference in like uh production design size ceiling height and the other one starbucks west is not made out of old box cars uh it doesn't have the screen the chalkboard what the hell is this screen we had a lot of fun i'll be honest with the chalkboard we did we planted a while to figure it out but we had a lot of fun yeah and there was some confusing thing where they were trying to send a postcard to the the disney springs one in orlando and that wasn't really what is this the interspaceship earth no thank you oh yeah yeah yeah yeah these interactive things that don't work to trade

2000s um so my personal favorite starbucks um so i like it because to me, Disneyland is not my home park. Disney World is, even though I live in California. Yeah. And the vibe at Downtown Disney West, Starbucks Downtown Disney West, is that the full legal name? It's more of a vacation vibe because it's so close to the hotel. So typically you get people who are there for conferences who are just exiting disneyland hotel to get coffee in the morning you have the parents who stayed at the

hotel who are like i need coffee and they're way into the park at like 7 30 in the morning so to me it's like this little wormhole to disney world while still being on disneyland property oh wow interesting so you 100 get that yeah it's even designed to go in one door and get out the other like the flow is so good it was a godsend on galaxy's edge opening day at five in the morning yeah that's the main orders and pick them up yeah and saved our lives saved our lives with no sleep at 5 30 how goddammit early way to get up that day yeah yeah no i'm interested did you stay at the hotel the night before yes we did okay see that's what it is because usually i mean the walking path could change everything but usually you get all the nobody's on the tram getting off the tram they're not going to backtrack they're going to go to the big starbucks right so this one's like

a little secret it's like a little you know like a hidden little bar like oh there's another one yeah huh yeah i feel like it's a better a class of people that are more they're better comfortable not better i would say definitely more stressed out and that is my level like i want people who are like if i don't get coffee i will not make it through the day interesting so because there's more people there's more loafers at the other one because i've loafed there i made it on the other episode i've loafed i have my computer out downtown disney absolutely i've hung out there with friends you know just getting coffees just sitting for a little bit just taking a break from the parks you don't take a break from the parks

at starbucks downtown disney west it is in and out you're right it is one door in one door out you're getting your coffee you need your high you are out but we went in the afternoon scott and i when we were down there a few weeks ago and it was even though we mobile ordered it was empty and it was relaxed it was still like nice but there's just a standing bar there's a standing bar so you can like take a breather for a second absolutely you're not like lollygagging nope it is nice it's really it's i dare i say like the ogus cantina of starbucks there's nowhere to sit like you can only stand you get your drink immediately like it's somewhere to sit if you have a group of 10 yes if you if you absolutely beg and then you have like seven children sure sure um you want a family big enough to fill that booth but the

groups of two are all punished with standing, with physical effort and labor. Yes. Have you, do you stand, what's your move? Is it standing in there or is it going elsewhere to drink? Usually, I mean, I got stuff to do. Run and gun. Run and gun.

That's the Disney World way. Oh, yeah. You get your coffee, you are gone. But it was my savior during D23 Expo because I would wake up, I think I would leave my hotel at 6.30 a.m. or something like that. I was staying in Disneyland Hotel

and I would go in and get my coffee and then go back to my room to get ready. So it was like, that's what I did on Galaxy's Edge Day. Yes. Because I went and picked up the coffee. I went through security to get coffee, went back out of security to go back to the hotel which is a very

funny move that's an odd thing if for the on-the-go nature of it and for people at the hotel you have to go in and out of security i i have a lot of feelings about listen i like disney being safe i appreciate it but i hate waiting in a line so yeah catch 22 and they've kind of eliminated there's not so we're not in the security checkpoints, the very exciting security checkpoints. Right. We can't discuss that yet. Okay. Oh, is that someone else's?

Well, but, just us. Am I getting in on their bag or no bag stuff? That's where I was going to head, is that I feel like it used to be a little easier to like kind of cut if you didn't have a bag. And now you're sort of like stuck in behind the bag people. This is the last thing I'll say about security. But I i looked forward to for an ungodly amount of time leaving my hotel

room to go through that security with no purse because i carry everything with me i'm like a future jewish mother so for me to be able to have a hotel room and only go in with like my phone and my hotel room key i looked forward to it for so long just to be like i don't have a bag and then go to starbucks it was a it was a real highlight of expo i'm free i'm unencumbered yeah they really should have like a no bag line didn't they or am i thinking of a different place used to when they only checked bags before the metal detectors you could cut if you didn't have a bag isn't there there, honestly, we should really talk about this in the other episode,

but should there be like a TSA pre-check at Disney? I would pay so much money. Yeah. So much money. Scan my entire body. I don't care. Just let me in faster.

Yeah. I can't wait. I can't wait for that Disney. I hear that. Would we even get, would we get approved us as childless men? Good question. I mean, I think if we pay the $175 would yeah yeah sure yeah so yeah if it just comes down to finances yeah yeah but do they run a

background check do they have to prove i don't even think the tsa runs a background check yeah that's my theory about it yeah it's just like give them the money and please you can you can bring whatever you want on the plane google you They google and if you are not in like a small town newspaper crime blotter they're like yeah okay. So yeah please Disney work on that.

Yeah yeah we're gonna have to confess to the sector keeper that we did a little bit of pre-security check. Wait am I gonna be in trouble with the sector keeper?

I don't know. This is delightful and terrifying. He's a nice guy but he likes his rules. He likes his rules, but he's mostly focused on jeweling now. He's gotten really into jeweling. Oh, now that it's like Four Loko when it was gone, like you got to get your hands on it.

It just seems like he was hanging out with some bad actors who got him into some weird stuff. He seems a little depressed on his way. Yeah, he's in adoles oh and he's getting a little rambunctious little rambunctious but directionless i'm sorry sector keeper it's all right he's yeah we'll bring it back to starbucks we'll bring it back it's good well with that we're bringing it back to starbucks so this will this will give me the opportunity to take a sip of what uh what you ordered for me because i was like what uh you asked us for starbucks orders wonderful to bring a really appreciate it bringing us beverages and i

was like well my order is usually just boring black coffee but yeah yeah completely uh so i was like i need to do something i need to do something elevated i need to do i i just want to do exactly what carly ordered and and before i get into that even i feel like i'd be remiss if i didn't ask you about especially via a friend and listener uh dave soldinger was like what are you gonna have carly on again you gotta ask her about that cold foam uh specific conversation i had so now that thank you dave that moment is now, explain the cold phone obsession. Listen, it's been a real journey this year. That's mostly what I can say. The top line of it is that I have accidentally become an influencer for a Starbucks product that I make no money from.

I have only been spending money and spending time. Now I don't even, there's so many layers to it. But basically, oh my God, it did all start at Downtown Disney West. I didn't even think about that. Was that this one? It all began at the Downtown Disney West Starbucks. Perfect. And you know what?

I was coming from the Grand Californian and I turned left and not right. So that tells you how much I love this Starbucks. Oh yeah. You get closer. It's a further walk. And the other one's more themed to where you were. It's an easier transition on the ice. But very busy gets overwhelming.

Yes. I don't want to wait in the line with the tram people. I want to go to the hotel people. That's true. That's the issue. Yeah. It buckles there. So I went there.

Oh, I think it was something like 70 weeks ago. I just wrote a whole story about cold foam, which is why I happened to know that off the top of my head. Wow. Wow. So it was 70 something weeks ago. I went there and they were promoting this new drink drink which was called a cold foam cappuccino and my order everywhere i go has always been an iced latte with less milk so kind of but if you

say iced cappuccino a lot of doofs will pour a hot drink over ice and then you have someone once told me you can get very sick from like them pouring foamed milk over ice and then you drinking it sounds like it so i do this like oh just like a little less milk like i do this thing everywhere Someone once told me you can get very sick from them pouring foamed milk over ice and then you drinking it. Sounds like it. So I do this like, oh, I just like a little of this milk. I do this thing everywhere I go. Which gets so annoying to have to give those out loud customizations. I already have a very difficult aura about me.

Is that so? I seem like a handful. And so it's a lot to roll in and be like, hi. So for this to be on the menu was fantastic. And then the cold foam itself was a product that never existed before. They invented a whole new line of milk. And what it is, is the core cold foam is skim milk in a blender. That's it.

That's it. It's just skim milk, but more fun. Huh. Given textures. It's kind of like a meringuey it's sometimes if you get like a pisco sour or whatever those are like where it has like a little egg white foam it's like that but just milk it's just milk there's no sugar in it i can't have a lot of sugar because it'll put me to sleep like it's just milk so it was the perfect drink for me uh i was asking lindsey

about this before you got here and she said uh it's a little bit like the butterbeer foam. There's a similarity there, Tim. Yes, but keep in mind, it's just milk. So there's no chemicals in it. It's truly milk in a proprietary blender. It's just aerated? Yeah, and it's not like a strong-as-fuck blender, because I have tried it.

So this whole thing has exploded in a way that no one anticipated, where now even Starbucks, you see, they're like, we got a, we got a pumpkin foam. Like they'll just keep shoving out new foams. Oh, so what is a pumpkin foam? So the pumpkin foam is the new cream foam, which is sugar. It's like more sugary and it's based on cream. So it's actually like pretty caloric. But it's part of like their new pumpkin cream cold brew line.

It's just the seasonal. It's like a pumpkin-y foam. And what is cascara? Oh, cascara foam is, it is, it's fine. It's not a word that any of us know and they act like we do. When I was ordering these drinks, they were like, would you like cascara topping? And I'm like, that's not a word. Yeah, that's not something even like obscure.

Or cinnamon. I have still have no idea. Is it someone's last name? I think it's like some like vanilla, et cetera. Extract? Sure. Whatever. It's like when some places use dulce de leche to mean just caramel.

Yes. When it's like, well, that's not really what it is. Yeah, just say caramel. It's fine. So the cascara foam is, it is cold foam with a cascara syrup that is topped with cascara sprinkles, which tastes like sand.

Not in my bag. But those are, the big foams are like, the ones that go on the cold brew, which are sweet cream or salted cream. Those are more of a cream based. Cascara is, this is so boring, is nonfat milk with a syrup in a topping do you have any idea what we've been talking about for many many episodes in a row this is this is on the higher

end all right this is my life passion yeah yeah you have passion you think we had a lot of passion about uh curl surf honestly he's a girl yeah we actually have interesting new ball more interesting i mean whoever thought you guys could riff for so long on those, like the body goo massage machines. It's city walk. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It works. That lit up the passion and we have some exciting stuff coming. I imagine there's gonna be a lot of passion about bath bombs. A little bit down. Oh yeah. Jason and I both went to rinse and got something, and we tried it. So we'll talk about that later.

Coming soon. Yeah, that episode soon. Jason, you're barreling through those donuts. I am. So Carly brought us all drinks, and we'll go through and get everyone's order. But I wanted to bring a little taste of Philadelphia to today's recording. So we've got Tasty Cake Frosted Mini Donuts Football Edition, tailgate tested

fan approved uh it's football edition because there are pictures of footballs and goalposts on the bag why are they philadelphia oh tasty cakes are from philadelphia oh is that like a hometown is that like a lumal nadis um it's like a regional uh version of like hostess or do they literally make tasty cake in philadelphia i believe there is still a bakery or two in philadelphia there you go and on a previous episode i was talking about my love of donuts and like uh you can almost get it i get a buzz i get a high if i can balance the right amount of like donut sugar and coffee caffeine oh yeah it's like i'm buzzing that's how i feel at like a wedding that's going too long and i'm like do i take an adderall like

what what are we gonna do here wow did you bring us adderall too i mean i i am prescribed it i'm not familiar with that word is that something that gets you high i only know of donuts and cupcakes um i am prescribed the lowest dose and I never take it because I'm scared of medicine. But a lot of people like to abuse it because it just... If you don't need it, then it makes you a real loopy. All right. And if you need it, then you're like, oh, this is what breathing for a normal person feels like. Is it similar to Ritalin? I have no idea.

I feel like it took over... I feel like it took over the popular consciousness where like Ritalin was Adderall is now but Ritalin was never like a fun drug to do I feel like people do Adderall for fun

Adderall has like a cool like we're gonna study and then rage like that's a trend yeah Ritalin I don't think I feel like I knew people in college

who would sell their Ritalin to doormates oh we have people who sell Adderall maybe it's like a generational thing. Maybe. We'll ask the sector keeper.

I think I would like Adderall, but that's another podcast. That's a whole thing. I do not abuse drugs. I don't do anything fun except for literally drink coffee. We all abuse frosting. Let's all just admit to it.

The foam I like the best is the numbing foam for literally drink coffee we all abuse frosting let's all just admit to it and well the foam and the foam i like the best is the the numbing foam in that uh drink at uga's cantina you guys are like like baiting me to like give my true thoughts about the cantina whatever yeah he gave me a little bit of a headache that drink it didn't burn it didn't do anything for me well here's the problem and this is again sector keeper's gonna be mad I'm so sorry buddy But The foam itself Is different strength

On different days It's not consistent Cause I've had It is just like the cold foam then Yeah Okay so So maybe there are Different bartenders

At Uga's Cantina So what I'm talking about There's a foam In the Fuzzy Tauntaun That's supposed to Numb your mouth And some people

Have speculated It's like wasabi It is a Buzz button foam Which is a Like a sister of the sejuan peppercorn okay right interesting i have a job yeah yeah you know real things cuisine using chinese cooking is that where sejuan peppercorn can be um it's very big in uh uh oh yeah like sejuanese food okay yeah sure um but they they don't it's not consistent i've had strong where it hits my lips and it goes numb immediately and i've had ones where it doesn't

and that also like is out of me is having this drink about five times so that's exactly what the cold foam conundrum is because the reason this whole thing exploded and became a thing is that they never make it the same and starbucks's whole brand is supposed to be like ubiquitous and everything is exactly the same wherever you go yeah yeah sure so there is this one drink at starbucks that they were promoting so hard that nobody knew how to make and they still don't know how to make it well because what you brought us today you were not satisfied i won't blame the store i won't say the name of the store. I don't even know where you went.

Everywhere but the Disney locations. Doesn't know how to make it. Oh. Yeah. Well, then let me try. I guess we'll consider this a bad version. This is a bad film. So we'll start off.

The first reason this is bad is because they didn't give you the sippy lid. You need the sippy lid to enjoy the full foam. Oh, because you get an all foam sip right at the top yeah you have taken your lid off carly oh i don't fuck around you get the hit maybe i okay okay so will you will you say what this order is so okay so um to give some context uh they ended up getting rid of the iced cold foam cappuccino about a month ago so we when i say we i mean like me and all of my internet friends who now have a private facebook group where we talk about foam all day it's a lot if you guys want to join it the links in my instagram profile um it's all it's a gas i honestly it's my favorite thing um

i'm very blessed and it has made my life so much better but it's all fun there's no weird factions forming we're all just like sharing phones being like you did it or if someone gets a bad one being like oh no email customer service this sucks i believe in you get them next time i get it it's it's really um it is the coziest comfort uh comforting corner of the internet i love it so much i love you guys um it's great keep it foam focused just don't let people talk about let's say star wars then they start to lose their minds that's the rule of society in general it's like part disney part cold foam part uh makeup recommendations so it's basically like all three quadrants of my brain great wonderful wow but so we have been trying to crowdsource a new order because the iced cold

from cappuccino is gone and it has not been going well um i what i have been trying is iced espresso you order a uh an iced espresso in a venti with the rest cold foam which i've gotten mixed results this is my first time trying to do that with mobile order it did not go well so this is this is like a mid experiment this is not road tested but you're on your way to something oh yeah we're getting there uh-huh we're getting there because the thing is you have to either get iced espresso and then grow from there or an iced latte and then shrink from there. Interesting. So you're trying to almost figure out what is a foolproof

way to order it. Really, because it'll be essentially idiot-proof making it. So that's kind of the experiment? Not to infer that anybody who works there is an idiot. No, I just, that was the best way I could describe it. Were they ever to hire an idiot? If there's ever been an idiot that worked at a starbucks i i can't even believe it but because i i don't want to deem someone a genius for properly whipping milk in a blender

that you press a button and walk away on like it it's a it's a testy position but i mean i've had managers chime in and be like what you have to do is ask for foam on four or ask for very dense foam to get the right consistency of cold foam. On four. Because yours, Scott's melted already. It's pretty thin. Yeah. Let me grab a sip while I can. Foam on four is probably like the setting of the blender.

Yeah. Right. Yes. So, and a lot of that stuff you can't say in mobile order. You can't be like, can you like an internal blending term? Right. in mobile order you can't be like can you like an internal blending term right so this um we ordered a i ordered a tall double shot on ice light ice in a venti cups that you have extra room for cold foam uh blonde espresso add cold foam and i just got one espresso shot now uh i like it it's

delicious to me but i don't know i don't know any better i'm no fun as i said i i'm like black coffee if i rolled in here with some real cold foam it would blow your mind really i ordered It's delicious to me, but I don't know any better. I'm no fun. As I said, I'm like black coffee. If I rolled in here with some real cold foam, it would blow your mind. Really? I ordered your old default a few weeks ago. Oh, yeah? The iced cappuccino with cold foam. And I think my issue was I should have still added a little half and a half

because the cold foam sits on top. And with the sippy cup lid properly applied, I was just getting a hit of foam and then really strong yes but you know and i need a little cream i need some cream mix yes it's and that's the other problem is that sometimes you'd get espresso and then foam and sometimes you get a full latte with like a little foam have you looked into getting i'm so sorry to everyone who thought they were gonna like have some cool disney country no no no no they know they know what we're doing here.

We've been making an apology in every episode. So you're coming. Jason and I were talking about moisturizing our face behind our beards for a few minutes. Oh, that is not for me. Yeah. So have you looked into getting a blender that's that strong that could do it? I have. I have.

So at this point, Starbucks and I have dm'd we have we've even chatting nice um and again like keep in mind in no point where they like here's five dollars for the good work you've done they're just like you can get any kind of foam and i wrote back and was like actually the ice cold foam cappuccino is discontinued can you fact check these three things and they were like oh you're right jeez so like you know it better you know the product better than they do in so deep i'm like i have had to fact check so many things directly with them because we're all just so confused wow but you know what that that starbucks is one of the ones that does it right wow okay are there any non disney ones that you've

had success or is it like do you think the level the the customer service is better the quality standards i always recommend a high yield starbucks because they usually have people who know what's up um not like we're not like the starbucks and the vons that that's going to be trouble with this kind of thing yeah no no no union station starbucks maybe unions is that downtown yeah like downtown by the train station oh i've never been there oh okay i'm just saying like that's a high traffic area it's pretty reliable it's too busy because then it's gonna you could yeah yeah airport's not gonna be good no no no i always every time every time i go to the airport where there's a starbucks because we fly american so there's not always one my husband's like don't do this and i'm like but i need to know and he's like just don't just don't do it

because you're gonna get it and you're gonna be pissed and it's all you're going to be talking about. Wow. And he gets the fallout. He gets the Chernobyl radiation fallout. He keeps being like, why? Why? Just find a new drink. And I can't.

I'm too in love with it. Is there an app you could start that could like mark ratings of how the foam is on each Starbucks? That is heavy lift, but I like that idea. It's mostly if you go and you say if you're very nice about it i always recommend i made a whole grid online to be like here's tips of how to get the right order and it's just like be nice just like be very midwestern be like i am so sorry this is what i'm ordering i'm so sorry also can the foam be extra dense i'm so sorry also can it

be extra foam i'm sorry i love you you have found a new, like I feel like the mobile ordering in the app was so to accommodate people's crazy drink, like kooky drink orders. They couldn't hold my crazy. And now we have figured out like, oh, they got to iterate. They got stuff for the new app. They need a notes section. Yes, because this is my thing with mobile ordering

on the Disney app is you can't make, you can't order a la carte yes yes you can't because like those corn dogs are like two dollars less if you don't get the chips or the the dry apple slices yes yeah so you can't and i guess people aren't might not be the most eloquent like typing out instructions on their phone or it might be hard to like if someone's trying to go do five orders at once they're like what is this you know like one out of every 10 would be like was walt disney a nazi like it would just be people writing things in that are just bananas i i mobile ordered a taco bell a while ago and i had four items and i changed

everything as much as i possibly could and when they pulled up my order on the screen, I heard the person laugh. And they're like, okay, well pull up. Taco Bell almost encourages it. Taco Bell is the best mobile app. That's the best. Mobile ordering app. You can do anything. You can use any ingredient and put it on anything.

It's unbelievable. See, I can't know this because I have a nacho cheese problem. And so I can't even go there. I sympathize with that, but I would encourage you to try it because you feel like you're a chef. You're a Taco Bell chef and you can try different sauces from different

things on other items and make it all with beans. You can do anything you want. You're a little Remy in the hair of the chef operating a body to make what you want and the chef's just like dude come on yes for sure uh what's remy's chef's name what's the guy's name mark don't know yeah it's not march i know we uh keep coming i don't care about the movies we care about the stores next to the parks that sometimes have images from the movies in them.

But we want to be exceptional podcasters, just like Brad Bird tells us in all his movies. We have to be the best. What is his name? Listen, I'm going to be fired for my career if I don't know this. So real quick. His name is like Chauncey or something.

It's kind of a sad name. No, it's like, no. Chauncey is a sad name. I think it is name is like chauncey or something it's like kind of a sad name no it's like no chauncey is a sad name i think it is like a chauncey you've offended all of our chaunceys and everyone listening to this is probably screaming linguine like this is some old ass episode of blues clues but i promise i know these things i promise i'm just not good on this if you were in the parks while he's in you know paris and will be in epcot but uh if you were in california i would know his name yeah that's true yeah um so real quick going through the rest of the drinks i went very wild with one of my defaults uh grande iced coffee

with soy milk which i mean from a guy known for like getting a sundae and crunch time i'm shocked that you have such a plain coffee order uh you know i uh i well i don't like a lot of sugar in my drinks okay you have to save it for every meal i have to save it for my treats so coffee iced coffee with half and half iced coffee with soy milk i like all the milks and i like to switch it up and i thought like hey i haven't had soy milk in a little while sun burns brighter when you say the word treats oh that's so sweet it went up treats we all say treats you say treats treats um you turn into a cartoon chipmunk what i like to do i get the crate when i get a free when i get enough stars for a free drink or i get my free birthday drink then i go crazy oh

so what's your crazy free order uh i think it's like the biggest possible vanilla latte they'll give you with uh i think you can get away with a quad with an extra shot. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On the free ones. Um, cool. Yeah. Oh, so you must be up when you get that pretty up. Yeah.

That kind of balances out. Cause I feel like it's, it's not as much as caffeine. Uh, uh, and then, and then the sugar that that's the buzz, the sugar brings it to the buzz.

Yeah. Um, and I was going to say cold say cold uh cold and cold brew makes me vibrate oh yeah it makes my heart yeah um wait i didn't get you there right no no just regular ice coffee uh if the if regular ice coffee or cold brew i will just default to regular ice coffee some places i would just have the cold brew now so i'd like i need to add like a lot of ice i don't need a colon cleanse like i'm fine. Just give me espresso. I mean, it's hard, though, when Dunkin' does the happy hour.

Oh, I'm sorry. That's a known thing. Nobody's agreeing with that. It's known that if you have cold brew, you're just going to poop a lot. Yeah. I'll cough. Just black coffee. No, but cold brew is like.

This rolls through me. Yeah, cold brew can be really intense. That's what I'm. I think I said in a recent episode, I'm afraid of cold brew. I've never tried it. Yeah, OK. It's terrifying. Yeah.

We recorded it in the afternoon uh recently and i went to dunkin donuts and i tried i was going to order a nice coffee and they're like two dollar cold brews right now and i'm like okay and i felt okay because i had i think because i had a lot of food in my stomach but if i was still like vibrating how many days of the year are you kind of sick from food it's like 165 it's only when i uh am doing it's only when i like this is a bad idea but i'm gonna do it anyway it's usually caffeine is involved like a caffeine imbalance i think you have more like i'm full sick. Yeah, I think more I'm full. You go like, oh, I'm full, which is like a thing a cartoon character says. Yeah.

Because like I go, I go, I'm full. But like you like I see the change happen when you're full. Yeah. He's got to put on maternity clothes for a couple hours and then change back to regular. Carly, back me up here. Sometimes you eat it too much and you get a tummy ache with you all right are you also a jew no i'm not oh see that's a big jew thing oh is it like you know i'm an irish so uh just afraid the potatoes are gonna run out thing there's like some

old john mulaney joke about it where it's like jewish girls are just always like my tummy hurts and it's very true i also uh i've always since i was a young child too the other thing is like i can use the powers of my mind to give myself a stomach oh it's like stress born uh sometimes sometimes my mom like probably as a joke as a child was like you worry so much you're gonna give yourself an ulcer and i've just been waiting for like a couple decades now like i'm waiting for the the ulcers are coming one of these days i will worry myself to an ulcer i will be like roger sterling drinking a big glass of milk pouring vodka and ice and mike yeah let's talk about let's talk about another weird thing mike's uh let me explain what i i usually do i honestly

i think i should have gotten a i got a couple i think it was like six scoops of cane sugar which is their recommendation on four um so i have a green tea and it is full of ice and strawberries uh and It's beautiful. Six pumps of liquid sugar. Six pumps, which is what I meant. You sent a screen grab. I sent the screen grab of the last thing I ordered. And then I was sort of thinking, I kind of like four usually better.

Here's the reason I have. First of all, I started. Wait, to Carly, you sent like, here's what it's got to be. No, it's a screenshot. Jason sent me and I sent my screenshot. I laughed so much at it i just sent the screen along yeah thank you thank you i thought it no i thought it was great it was it's like the encapsulation of of your taste what i don't really drink coffee and maybe i started

not drinking coffee when i uh had like a mitral valve prolapse in my heart when I was 13 years old guys you're all you're all so sick no no not sick but my heart was racing while playing uh basketball and the doctor was like that's kind of a normal thing uh you know you probably like kind of stay away from caffeine or whatever so my mom of course was worried that I was going to die. So it was like, no chocolate ever. So like for years, anything, I mean, there's the minor amount of caffeine. Anything that remotely maybe was in the room with caffeine, she was like, you can't have it. Your moms are both worrying you into the grave. Oh my God. Yes, that's true.

So anyway, so for years, I wasn't really having any chocolate or whatever. And then, you know, as you grow into adulthood is when you start doing coffee. And i wasn't really having any chocolate or whatever and then you know as you grow into adulthood is when you start doing coffee and i didn't really do coffee but after a while you know i slowly was eating a little chocolate doing this having a little tea putting green tea back and so i'm still not having coffee not not really because of the the heart thing um but i've just sort of stuck on green tea taste i never developed a taste i'm i'm willing to try i'm willing to get into it. So I kind of regret not getting the foam now.

But in general. It was a bad foam? It was a bad foam though. So I guess I didn't miss so much. But also like when I showed up to your place, you did a little like anxiety dance of like, oh no, I got the tallest drink. Like you felt bad about it.

I did feel a little bad about it. So basically I realized that i like drinks more for not for even the caffeine it's really just for having a bottle a baby's bottle that i can have yeah it's like a what boy a visco boy visco girl girl is like the like what cool teens are now and one of the things that you carry a hydro flask which is just like a fuck ton of water yeah okay but i think and i i mean i think this is not uncommon to most people that there is something it's instead of smoking for instance yeah having a big drink and something to do is a little way to calm yourself

down so if so if i go in and get a drink i like to get a big one and then i like ice and strawberries because there's something to chew on once the drink is done i love those weird special k berries yeah oh wait are you talking about these or yeah well those are like the two places that sell freeze-dried like the cereal yeah it's like special k or those yes yeah no i they're good so i drink this over the course of whatever uh you know an hour hopefully probably 30 minutes and then i chew all of the ice and i eat the strawberries so it lasts long a long time and then i search for something to do when it's over i was gonna say your pursuit of a drift a drink is meant to calm you down mission not

no no it's a perpetual it's a perpetual looking for something to do or drink. I honestly wasn't expecting your full life story from your Starbucks order. And I love that it went that way. Yeah. I mean, I'm trying to self-analyze. Maybe there's other stuff there. You are directing your compulsions to something. Yes. Because when I leave the house, I like to have a sparkling water or a kombucha.

I always like There's something nice About having it in your hand Oh because you don't have a purse Like you're not carrying anything Usually not Yeah maybe a backpack Okay

See I have like Everything in my bag Yes And you like There's something about Do you feel like armed For the day I feel like

I mean no matter what happens Like I got medicine I got earplugs I got headphones Like I have everything with me So a concert's too loud I'm good I have a headache I have medicine Like if my stomach hurts I have Pepto- i got head like i have everything with me so a concert's too loud i'm good i have a headache i have medicine like i if my stomach hurts i have pepto-bismol like i have everything with me mary poppins yeah yeah i do that yeah i do that it's great pens a couple

notebooks yes excedrin pepto-bismol uh i have a battery uh a sweater yeah see we're in the same fucking wavelength yes uh yeah you need something to do. You got everything. Yeah. So I understand, like, if you leave the house all willy-nilly with nothing. Yeah, sometimes I feel a little, yeah, I don't know. It's just, I think it's a baby's bottle, essentially, is what it is. No, but it's like you have something to hold. Yeah.

Yeah. And you're hydrated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, sometimes it just drives me out a little bit, but yeah that's the that's the rationale behind it i'm willing to get into foam i'm pro foam i've you can get it on a tea i can get it that's on a tea yeah i don't recommend it but people in the group who don't drink coffee have said it's okay there's i've had times at

starbucks where people say like do you want that with whipped cream meaning iced tea no i don't no i do that seems weird that's very strange no um yeah they they they have the different sugars in here and like i've tried i like stevia i've talked on the show about stevia before i like stevia see i don't like any of the artificial sweet ones i if i have too much coke or a coke too much stevia no yeah for sure like i it's but there's a there's the other ones i don't like whatever they i forget the names of them but stevia is okay but i can't have too much yellow and i don't love yellow pink blue yeah yeah it's yellow pink blue i used to be a blue i used to be a big blue guy yeah yeah and i'm trying i was doing diet coke

for a little while i gotta stop doing okay but uh i was forced to watch some bill gates documentary thing on netflix yesterday and that dude is chugging diet coke well so is our president oh you know what counterpoint i'll take it okay yeah he's getting he's getting a lot done and he's like should i be drinking diet coke he's great he's our president's doing fine he's in great health he's somehow still alive i mean you think that is true there's a keith richards thing with him yeah how is it not just, everything's precarious. A hundred diseases are all fighting each other. Yeah.

Perfect stasis. I guess that's a Mr. Burns. Yeah, the Three Stooges Syndrome. Everyone trying to get through the door at once. Yeah. Perfectly balanced. I don't think, yeah, I don't think that Diet Coke is going to kill me or anything. I think it's just, it's better for me not to probably.

Yeah. Just overall. I think so, yeah. So, anyway. coke is gonna kill me or anything i think it's just it's better for me not to probably just overall so so anyway now carly can you settle uh mike and i were discussing oh i said this to lindsey and she was like yeah totally i know she has to support me that's part of it but like she was like wavering allegiance she will tell me if she disagrees i mean she totally don't know what i was saying so wait we're settled you were against me is that right well no i wasn't against you met me in the middle as i recall you in the middle i'm against this being an issue worth discussing in the least so i don't appreciate uh the apps like duncan and starbucks

who make you completely load 10 more dollars on the card as opposed to just being able to load what you're paying. I think it's sort of a psychological trick to make you go, well, I have $8 on the app. I'll go back to Starbucks as opposed to maybe some other place you would go. Yes, yes, yes. And so what side is everyone on? Well, I was saying I think I kind of get why they do that. If you do it in person, I think they'll let you load like five bucks,

but I think the app should prompt you to, if you're like a buck 50 short or two bucks short, say, do you want to load this? You agree with me though? You want customizable amounts, not like full it's 10 or it's 25. So I think I can settle this.

Yes. I believe that if you have under $10, you can cash out i believe i because i was at starbucks because this is my fucking life now is like taste it's like trying to figure out how to get foam um i'm like like a real investigative journalist about foam okay so a starbucks i recently went to had a sign that said we can no longer cash out under ten dollars here but we'll mail you a check so. Starbucks will mail you a check for like 70 cents. So Starbucks is like a bank.

Yes. So there is a way to get reimbursed, but there is a way to make putting money on your Starbucks card work for you, which is if you park at Downtown Disney and you load 20 bucks on your Starbucks card,

you can get your parking verified. Yes. I saw you put that. I like this i have not slept in about six weeks that is a great tip a great tip for sure yes so that in that sense i'm like take my money yes that that makes a lot of sense to do that because obviously yeah you're going to use that i'm just saying that i do find it a bit manipulative in these apps one thing to remember is it's a business

that's trying to get your money and they're manipulating me i am keeping that in mind and they're being me they're being bad they're being mean to me yeah i don't care for it at a time yes i mean you're gonna use it eventually yes that's that is what i'm saying but i'm i understand that i mean like mentality for them to have to be like you'll come back yes but they're they're like leaving uh a thing at your apartment on a date essentially you have to come back you know like the old carlson trick it's a trick oh yeah all the dates i've been on uh so yeah i don't care i don't care for the practice is what I'm saying

And I think a president Should make it illegal But you could fucking Pay two dollars in cash If you I'm just saying I like to mobile order I like to mobile order

Yeah And I wish you could just Load what you're gonna spend That's all Yeah no I get that That's all I'm saying I'll take it up I'll email them

Next time you're talking To Starbucks Customizable reloads I've been emailing PR In unacceptable amount Yeah Well the way PR people them next time you're talking to starbucks i customizable i've been emailing pr in unacceptable amount yeah just make sure you confirm pr people blast journalists with press releases i can turn about as fair play yes but unfortunately starbucks only sent me one ever and i went back and was like hi it's very nice to hear from you here's every question i've ever had well next time throw in this one and uh yeah i'll bring it up

sure i'm just interested i'm interested yeah so they do this with electric car charging too but i guess that one there are different brands of electric car charging too as well so that's a whole thing that's another that's another episode yeah uh so starbucks west we love it we love to see it closed briefly when they were gonna bulldoze that building and then it reopened dark six or so months i gotta tell you it's very strange yeah six months very strange that whole area closed june 2018 and then reopened december 2018 i looked it up last night i'm not just like some genius and you have it in your head we have like notes in front of you have the dates and you know it was 70 weeks that's all i up last night. I'm not just like some genius. And you have it in your head. We have like notes in front of you. You have the dates and you know it was 70 weeks. That's all I did last night was be like, wait, when did it close?

Because it's part of the complex that includes the AMC theaters. Yeah. There's a weird energy there now. Oh, yeah. It's a weird little ghetto. It's like a bit of like a failing mall. Not that it's at all failing. It's just like that vibe where you're like, oh, there's a lot of stuff here that's closed what does that mean for the future of this space

well you know what it feels like is tomorrowland giant spaces not unused it does feel like the kid who leaves the hometown and on the way out it's like all right you nobodies i'm gonna go to new york city and be a star and then immediately burns out in six months and comes back can i make sandwiches again i'm sorry i'm so bummed that that hotel didn't go because it was so they felt like the monorail was gonna have like a beautiful home again it would have been like a cool contemporary resort vibe it would have brought like so much new to that area you don't think it would have been a little cramped oh yeah the blueprints but i'm um i'm always on the team of new and so i would have i would just love to see like another hotel there would have been like a there would have been a top floor bar

oh it would have been so cool yeah yeah somewhere a new place to watch the fire like a uh what's the california grill yeah at uh contemporary would have been that kind of vibe um does that imply that you are you are not a fan of that of the downtown disney monorail station um i am upset that they have been closing it like there's uh tighter hours now oh and also i find it to be much less efficient than the monorail at Disney World. I think that they load it really inefficiently. It's really slow.

You think it'll be faster, and sometimes it is because you skip some security line and it gets you into the heart of the park if you want to go straight to Space Mountain. So the problem is that when you're boarding a monorail at Walt Disney World, they have different aisles, like sections.

So you can like walk to like section one two three four five six or whatever and it lines up with the doors so that people get out one side and then you go in for that specific air car of the monorail and this way they load it like a regular queue so they have you all line up and then they feed people around and then you just desperately try to find a seat. Okay. So it's a little more scattered. It's a mess for sure. It's a little messy. Yeah. It still uses windows.

There's no air conditioning in those cars. That's right. Yeah, just a crack. It's never bothered me. I don't know. I mean, our temperate weather, besides the heart of the summer, it's pretty mild out here.

Do we have more on Starbucks or do we keep moving on tobucks or do we i think we can move on to next door the other mountain what's our time sitch oh we're good 45 minutes or so yeah and should be that might be enough to cover sugar boo in a way i don't think i don't think we'll ever have enough time to talk about what the fuck is going on at Sugar Boo. Yeah, I think we're on the same page here. What's going on? Oh my God. Here, maybe I should let them speak before we...

The phone is kicking in. Scott has come back to life now that the gift card arguments have ceased. To Sugar Boo. To Sugar Boo. No, let me describe it how they describe it uh sugar boo and co is a family-owned boutique featuring uplifting art prints and charming home goods to whimsical paper products handmade ceramics candles bath apothecary and stamped jewelry stamped jewelry eh um what how would we describe it it's like a bunch of burlap with words on it gentrification commodified

call it this store keeps telling me that elizabeth warren has plans i know she has i like her i know she has plans okay stop telling me stop saying plans it is uh um It's almost like a millennial version of Bless This Mess. Like that's the whole vibe of it, right? It's folksy like shit you'd buy in the Cracker Barrel store. But it's weird because it's elevated. It's like kind of this weird midway point between Chip and Joanna Gaines and like Catholicism. I don't know what it is there's a vague religious yeah it's like we have burlap sacks and also dream big

like it's a lot of like what is what is happening here i've honestly never i you know i'm a young woman it's kind of they're trying to make me you're the demo you're the audience but i've never walked in there and been like oh this is not for me more i've never been in a store more like a luxury store not even like i walked in and was like there is nothing in here i could feasibly put in my home i'm not sure i've met a person who this is for i think it's for it's not for the new york la person yeah yeah yeah i think it's for people who want their like who have like farmhouse inspired homes who want like very like positive uplifting things in their home right sure yeah and like a little touch of like if i could get you know like like i'm not an artist

but if i could get some inspiring words from an artist or a poet or an author and let that and inject that into my day-to-day you've ever said the phrase breakfast nook you would sure yeah i have a bachelor's degree but i didn't do most of the reading and it's all well behind me yes but i still i still think of myself as educated now i will say i think they do a very good job like they have cultivated such a tight brand yes because everything in there you're like this is all so cohesive yeah very much they have done a great job yeah it's all it's all on point but holy shit what is happening what is going on i cannot i do not know i feel like it falls into one of two categories and that is platitudes imagine platitudes and then quotes

or song lyrics removed from any context or meaning so this first one first category my whole heart for my whole life and i do not understand that i don't know it's on a tile it's on ceramics and then the the second category daydream believer so that's it we got to talk about this yeah because um what what are the rights implications about this entire store exactly what i i looked into it last night this is what i did on my cool saturday night i was like art like are these things are available are they public domain are they paying artists what is happening here and a lot i found like they quote my angelou angel angelou and her stuff is not public domain no right so are they are they operating like in secrecy or is this like is it literally like a store that brings those disney construction walls to life

like what is happening because couldn't one lawsuit bring them down you would think so like daydream believer as i know it is a monkey song um this one doesn't say anything about the monkey some of them do some of i mean some of them say the artist yes oh yeah were you that thing with the guitar are we going to get to that i imagine you noticed that i well maybe not maybe i didn't maybe i didn't see it um but like i wonder if daydream believer is something that is found in other media or other writing. And you can throw Daydream Believer without attributing it to anyone. They must have such a good lawyer. Yeah.

Because then there's like, there's John Lennon, like song lyrics. There's Beatles song lyrics. And it does say John Lennon. So I wonder if there's some loophole for inspirational saying pieces of burlap that you could hang if you attribute it can you sell like what i couldn't figure out if anybody's a lawyer please let us know well like quotes in newspapers or magazines that they reference quotes they don't have to pay right yeah but that's that i mean that's different because that's media it's not a 18 dollar cosmetic bag yeah it's it's very unclear oh uh there's bob dylan there's a yeah like and there's

there's like a bob dylan lyric on uh some sort of notebook yes and it's like we also got to discuss the product range here the product i got a the most egregious thing i saw was this massive like eight by ten leather cover notebook like it's not there's the majority traveler notebook yeah i think that's the same similar yeah this one has an eb white quote on it um he was a weird dude uh and then inside there's like big piece of paper this is 45 and the other thing about all these notebooks they smell like shit like they smell awful like i there were some tasteful little pocket ones and i was like oh that's kind of no it's like oh my god i can smell i didn't bend down just wafted it just hit me it's strange like it seems like the

whole mood of the store is you doing a fourth grade project where you have to like use tea to dye the edges of a piece of paper to make it look like the declaration of independence like that's the entire mood but also like the phrases are the phrases on notebooks i'm at least like okay you can use this the phrases on paperweights i'm like nobody uses paper now but sure um and then i don't know if you guys saw this did you see this small quote cutouts it was like an index card sized. And they're just inspirational quotes that you pay $1.50 for. I thought that was decoration. And then I realized they were product.

Yeah. I thought like you obviously get this free if you buy a $2.50 glass frosted bottle. And they're like, no, no, no, no. You have to pay to put that in the bottle. What? Yeah, they're $1.50. And because I was put that in the bottle what yeah they're a dollar 50 and because i was gonna bring you guys funny quotes in a little bottle and i was like this is getting very expensive for like stuff you guys do not want um yeah we'd laugh at once and i'm

like oh no you have and then they sell a stack of them in like a gold uh wallet clip i guess and it was 30 bucks gee i i thought about getting everyone hello darling notepads and then they were 8 50 and i was like okay so that would be uh 24 to 25 50 it's so much money but it is also like mom catnip yes like yeah i could see a 45 year old version of myself going in there and being like ah ah, finally. You'll get it someday. Yeah. But I don't think any notebook purchased here has ever been filled

or like anyone is like, well, the notes for my novel that I completed are in my Sugarboo notebook. I mean, I am, in all fairness, keeping notes during the ordeal in a large moleskin notebook but i like them because i they take a beating well like i can throw them in and out of bags and they they don't get fucked up usually like for other stuff i use like a 25 cent spiral bound or composition book or legal we've talked before we both like legal pads yeah yeah um i also okay the mom is a good justification that is potentially an audience but who is the audience for two big canvases that don't line up or match

or blend seamlessly that use a lot of rock quotes to form a guitar and then a diff and then uh it's like the inside the guitar shape is brown text and outside is black can i tell you something i don't hate that you don't hate this really i didn't see it so that's all the quotes this is uh well let me just like give you a taste of the kind of thing that it is sure bob said don't worry about a thing otis said try a little tenderness steven said dream on until your dreams come true david said we can be heroes cat said baby it's a wild world i just read about two percent of this uh your name jumped out at me carly said these are the good old days i assume simon i guess so yeah jerry lee le Lewis said, hop in the car, we're going for the state line. I don't care how old you are.

Led Zeppelin said, hey, let's fuck those fish. I don't. So I was kind of adrift at what the point of this place was, and then I spent too much time on their website, and it ends up that they operate a small vacation home slash wedding facility what and it's called uh sugar boo farms because of course oh like a little like ranch yes they like a little farmhouse

and then little little white homes that are basically intended for guests to stay during a wedding one's a bunk bed the rest are beds they're all like white farmhouse interior and they have that art in there and originally i was like i was like oh of course this place is nice because they don't have the sugar booze stuff in it and then i realized like oh it's all sugar booze stuff so in the context of a farmhouse in the south i think it works great that farmhouse would have voted for obama third time if they could i'm trying to find there's a there's there's a sign here that says come in evening or at morning come when expected or without warning a thousand welcomes you'll find here before you and the oftener you come the more will adore you and i'm trying to figure out where that's from and i'm finding like different versions of it like i wonder if they changed it so they didn't enough yeah doesn't it feel like i don't know like

secular worship though it's like it's all inspiring and vaguely religious but not yes for sure i mean it's for sure not trying to offend any religions but it is trying to give you the feeling of it and then it's also taking baby boomer rock and roll and making you feel like those are wise passages from the scripture. Well, if you guys are interested, I did make a game. Yes, please. Of real versus fake quotes.

I almost read it, but I ran out of time. Yes. What a guest. So, just, you know, I'll say them. You guess if it's real or fake. All right, sure.

An awake heart is an open heart. So right on point. It's like too trite i think it's fake it's fake wow all right but a good a good approximation did you write the fake ones yeah damn yeah i mean you could that you could start selling that i mean i will say that this whole i walked in there was a little depressed that like nothing i ever write will ever be printed on a pillow and sold for more money than I'd make for a story. But like, sure. Well, go to Tee Public and anything can be printed on a pillow or a tapestry. She's going to be like a lead of every Galaxy's Edge story I wrote.

Okay. Courage, dear heart. That's real. Real, real. We saw it. We saw it. Yeah. Be in love with your life.

Fake. Fake. I think it's fake. It's real. Oh it's real damn wow i never thought of it that way you mean i should enjoy my life hope is the thing with feathers who it's so absurd it feels fake to me but i feel like i saw it i think it's real it's real yeah this love is our love fake um fake real it's fake wow wow kiss your life that one's real i think it's real it's real wow yeah thank you for gracing oh real fake real fake It's real. Oh!

Gracing. Pray your prayer. That's right in the middle. Maybe that's generic enough that it's fake. I think it's real. It's real. Yes. How?

I'm really glad you didn't think of gracing, by the way. I'm thankful for that. Each day is a gift, and we are all christmas i think that's too religious fake it's fake all right all right i think i have two more i read these over i believe in pink that's real real that is real you complete me i don't think they're selling fake Fake It's fake Alright I think that's it I just saw one Jerry said You complete me

It would have worked If they sold it on a thing You'd be like yeah A big They should do this With movie quotes And then like They all form a film camera

Oh yeah That's good That's good That's how they get The LA market We could have If we got an investor Like much like The Rick Wetzel and his partner,

Bob Bill Phelps, Bill Phelps, I forget. We could have a store like this full of merch by the end of next week. Jason said counterpoint, you were wrong. Great. What? I'm saying we could come up with all the products in a day. I'm imagining a tapestry that's all of our quotes.

Oh, okay. I mean, that's good too. I said I just like changing my socks in the log. Wait, you know that sounds like... I was concerned that I had gotten too sleepy and said something, and five seconds later, I'm like, did I speak right there? You're sure? Your donut crashing.

My donut crashing. Oh, I forgot. They have one that says faith, trust, and pixie dust, which feels like copyright infringement on Disney Ground. I feel like they're one that says faith trust and pixie dust which feels like copyright infringement on disney ground i feel like they're selling that a block down right like it was i i you know what i didn't see it in the store but it was on the website okay oh sneaky i found one that i think now that i look at it I think it's kind of giving away the con and because it says you are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy when skies are gray and then it goes all the

way through the rest of the song lyrics whoa and it's screen printed but it's screen printed in a way to look like you were running out of ink so it's like faux like oh this is the last one whoa in the batch and i feel like that's too perfect like that would be the thing that that is where holmes figures out like uh it's fake yeah it's a trick i do kind of like i think they do a very good job of what they do i want to say that sugar you're killing you but it's not for me it's very yeah they're very effective um they also aren't uh it's still not appealing to me even though they have that perfect category in this kind of place the i like wine shit oh yeah you're an i like wine guy well i'm certainly not that i do like wine but i'm not gonna buy a thing that says where like you know the like the the the sack that

does its own spin out that's like okay i'm just having wine for breakfast that's one of the it's like i'm having salad for dinner okay it's mainly grapes okay all grapes uh fermented grapes i'm having wine for dinner or also if i ever go missing I would like my photo put on wine bottles instead of milk cartons. This way my friends will know to look for me. God damn. That's upsetting on a lot of levels. I like the mild darkness of it all. Yeah, if I go missing.

Yeah. Look, I drink a ton of wine and I may go missing someday. And put it on wine bottles so my other drunk friends can find me and reach out to wineries who i'm sure will be willing to change their brand wineries famously not studgy can they just put a picture of a missing person on for one batch that's how generational it is because nobody under 20 now knows what photos on milk cartons are true yeah now there's just like competing photos of cows being like we swear they're not tortured Because nobody under 20 now knows what photos on milk cartons are. True. Now there's just competing photos of cows being like,

we swear they're not tortured. Instead of issuing an Amber Alert for me, put my photo on a bottle of wine. Put my photo on Seamless. Put my photo under M Cafe's menu on Seamless. You'll find me. Or Postmates. They sell something that I like the look of. And it's called Mr. Giggle Pants Hibiscus Sugar.

It's for cocktails. Oh. And it's got an elephant in hot pants. And the elephant has a cocktail. And I think it's for like maybe the rim of a glass if you're making a cocktail. Fancy. And I think I will get this because I like the sugar.

I like the idea of making a fancy cocktail with a little sugar, obviously. And I really like this elephant wearing hot pants. Yeah. So for both things, I will say this is maybe my favorite product at Sugar Boo. You guys went into the store, right? Yeah.

Did a small part of you feel like if you moved to nashville you would buy every single thing in there nashville honestly i if i went back in time and moved home but home's chicago well but the suburbs of chicago there's a lot of that i feel like similar similar places yeah so like there were a lot of i feel like i went to a lot of kids houses that had stuff like that as a child oh really i think i don't think we were as enlightened on the north shore of chicago you guys you didn't have the spirituality of the northwest suburbs of chicago like we i was very you know enriched with these quotes uh so yeah that's why i honestly it did feel like houses i've been in um i feel like Barrington, like nicer houses in Barrington probably have a lot of these.

Oh, really? Yeah. All of our nice houses were people who designed their own house in the 80s and then still had it. So it was like really nice, but it looked like a set of like a Wall Street movie. Oh. Because everything was like glass. Right.

Can you give me some addresses and can i move there oh yeah highland park just there sounds good to me i'm not from highland park i'm from a a lesser suburb okay but the houses there were divine uh here's just a mug that says a little less conversation xo elvis like he's kidding he's kissing us i gotta say the more I look at this stuff I want to be like yeah it sucks and then I really want to buy it like it's working on my lady brain there's one that says to the moon

and back yeah that's a thing right that made me think of honey moon it made me think of the moon a bit yeah that's it okay I guess that's a turn of phrase it's a real phrase but i also thought of uh uh ralph or surrounding his wife with violence yeah on the honeymooners but that's not a million years old though so no no you're right that is a real quote i just thought of the uh weird wait

i'm looking at something with a very similar quote to it's this i hate this one like a a sack pillow with fucking typewriter on it oh yeah yeah uh that says to my sweet darlings do you so this is a pillow for they're meant to be given to multiple children to my sweet darlings do you see how much you are loved all the way around the world forever and a day. And then it keeps going and going yours always. And then I don't see who it's attributed to. We don't like this stuff because we don't have kids. Yeah. If we had kids,

we'd be like, I love you. Like you dream big, like you're everything. Like we would have inspirational phrases. I don't think I would give my kids a, a pillow with a script font on it. It's like how,

like my grandma buys me like crocheted blankets and say granddaughter with like a font on it. No, but it's like how, like my grandma buys me like crocheted blankets and say granddaughter with like a poem on them. Sure. It's because we don't have children. We like don't know love. Oh. Like we don't know the sugar boo level of familial love. I would buy,

what do you mean we don't have love? We have opinions about Starbucks apps and we know a lot about a water skier, Sammy Duvall. Sammy Duvall. Sammy Duvall. The child prodigy. about starbucks apps and uh we know a lot about a water skier uh sammy uh the child prodigy we're all just like garbage big city people who have creative jobs who be like don't have children who are like what do you mean like you have to be an accountant and you don't like it and then you come home and you just want like to be uplifted and you have like family and you love your children i just want to hug a pillow a pillow. Now I'm picturing the person who has this pillow

and does not have two children and just like cradles it imagining two children they don't have. It's probably like a beautiful pottery barn couch with a slip cover. I think I don't like this story because it's everything I'll ever be. Oh, no. There's tons of psychology in this episode. Like a clean woman who can handle white furniture. That's never me.

That's never me. Huh. Or this stuff cleans itself, too. So much of it is so tan and kind of like dirty looking. Or you could spill as much coffee as you want on these things. And it would seem like purposeful staining. It's very much an aesthetic that has been in style for a while. And it appears to be in style.

And still, I get, though, again, this keeps coming out of like, well, if you're on vacation and you want to splurge on something, I am sure sometimes people I've done it where it's like, oh, what if I got something for the kitchen or I got like a poster or home furnishing, something like that. So it makes sense in the district. Yeah. It gives you a little like, aw, when you look at it. It's the same reason why we buy all the garbage we buy, I guess. Yeah. Yes. I think we are probably all being elitist

in a way by trashing this. We're just childless millennials. We're being elitist by trashing this place where burlap sacks Cost $26 Well that's true The price The price is right

You're right The price is a bit expensive I forget who The other author But definitely E.B. I mean E.B. White Did a lot of stuff I mean he did

The Strunken White book And then is he Charlotte's Web Yeah Is he coming Is that no that's no i think it's eb white is one of those i think british authors who i'm like i think if i scratch a little below the surface i'm gonna find some weird quotes about the british colonies i'm gonna find some uncomfortable stuff like the who is he jane who's james and the giant peach is that eb white guys i truly know nothing anymore since starting this job i can't answer any of these questions that's

a my entire brain is like fast pass policies i am not even a full human anymore i'm starting to realize i can't like talk to other people as well i can't talk to you so much of my brain yeah yeah only the people listening to this right now yeah you're all we have hey listeners to my sweet darlings do you know how much you were loved all the way around the world forever in a day yours always four people with warped brains and let us tell you that life is the most wonderful fairy tale and the second most wonderful it's podcasting uh now carly uh i i'm gonna uh say my bad on this one because when i initially sent you the list for this sector i included the lego store and uh i fucked up i was looking at an earlier list

no jason this is clearly my fuck up because we've had multiple confusing documents based on what the sector keeper is the sector keeper like gave us tablets essentially like God to Moses were they burlap tablets with typeface

they were crafted aged tablets in the Google Docs format which I have a bad tendency to look at on the iOS platform, which cuts off the full name of it. So you didn't know whether you were looking at Downtown Disney Ordeal Game Plan or Downtown Disney Ordeal Record One. I made too many documents. They didn't sort out right on your foot. This has been, what an ordeal. True ordeal. This big WikiLe leaks mess of what's even happening techno terror i copy and paste sometimes other documents into app like i run all my stuff through apple notes so i can get it no matter what i grab when

i'm going out the door we all think y'all crazy for doing this on our end and then when you learn what goes into it oh my god i don't know i mean it's work it's it's so much work yeah uh yeah it's uh yeah it's a nightmare i take my work very seriously i stress myself out uh about work because i want to do a good job and i want people to enjoy it oh thank you thank you just now the only way that could be more meaningful is if you printed it on burlap and yes you do write a great job i'll type in around the shape of a guitar or if optimus prime or uh who do you want to say you did they did a good job every character and all there's a recent x-men issue where professor x tells cyclops he's proud of him and i texted mike but i saw it it's like you see that in the machine when professor x told him cyclops was proud optimus prime i just went on we were at horror nights uh oh yeah we were there and

then i went on transformers just so i could get a little of that of that optimus prime praise that i desire so much when he goes your bravery is what's helped save and i was like yes i've never seen those movies so that ride still makes no sense to me i have only seen the first one i think it's kind of our take i have no idea what's going on but i really like anyways it was fun we went to did you do us no because remember i left and then you're like you like really manned up like whoa no because i was like i'm getting the hell out of here like i'm done i did my mazes yeah and you were like i'm gonna go for it yeah there was not a chance i was going in the us house the us house was scary oh my god of course um but you did clowns and you did uh

ghostbusters right i was with you in ghostbusters what are you talking about i know you were with me in ghostbusters but you i meant really just to clarify that you're like you're like a holy hornets gaslighting me i have done three different maze so i'm just i'm just trying to recollect exactly the situation yes three haunt parks three haunt i did fright fest i've done but the listeners heard about me talking about that already so yeah uh anyway yes i know you were with me at ghostbusters but then you did clowns right yeah separately okay the killer clowns yeah because you yeah you went for it yes i did killer clowns and went home yeah yeah and uh yeah anyway i don't know

how we started talking about this well yeah why wait you were saying the leg yes we i i think we have to we were talking about doing the lego store but the lego store might be saved for another yes yes stage but then you because we had told you that you got us something from the yes i love bearing gifts wow okay so well we can take this into our future travels and perhaps even use yes this is the first okay so the sector keeper has been giving us items uh to use against the bosses we've been fighting. Okay. We survived battles with Rick Wetzel. We had some trouble with Ralph Brennan, but we're okay now. Oh, good. We're facing, I feel like, some big ones coming up. Tortilla Joe, perhaps?

Tortilla Joe turned out to not be a boss, except I did lose a battle to, or my stomach lost a battle with tortilla joe long ago see you get the trouble once in a while um but so i don't know so this might be the first instance of a guest giving us an item that could potentially come in handy later i'm not even going to be in more sector keeper trouble am i no no no. This doesn't overstep his. We can get items from anywhere. He's dealing with a crippling nicotine addiction right now. Well, I was going to get you guys something from Sugar Boo and then was cheap, so I didn't. Yes.

But I did make minifigures that look like you guys. Oh, my God. I will deliver each one individually. Oh, my God. I just wanted to be known that I spent too much time in this store and uh very embarrassingly was like truly like a lost woman in the lego store and someone came up and was like do you need help with anything and i was like no i'm just looking for a small gift for an adult and then she's like i follow you on instagram and i was like oh my god like this is like the worst moment of my life that i'm just like truly overwhelmed in this store

drinking a gigantic starbucks which like you need both hands to shop at Lego. And I like didn't know what to do. You were like, you're like a mirror Mike, like stressed about fun and caffeine and toys. My career. Yes. We were meant to meet you. I had a similar experience where I was buying some t-shirts at Target, but they were cheaper on the app.

And so I was getting them the price match at checkout and uh the guy went are you jason from podcast the ride and i was like yes thank you for listening it's so nice to meet you oh my god i cannot believe i uh this is uh how we are meeting uh the context we are meeting under i will give you your tiny minifigs one second, but I will mention that a few months ago, someone DM'd me and they're like, hey, I saw you at Magic Kingdom. I wanted to say hi, but you were screaming at your mom. And now whenever I'm with her, she's like,

don't yell at me. And I'm like, you're right. I can't. It's like someone could be watching. We're facing the public. Okay. This is Tiny Scott. I want you to know I spend a lot of time in these bins with like other snotty children being like give me that little food oh this is tiny you i think it really encapsulates you um i don't know why something if you want to describe it or i have well okay i'm i have well it's the hair is accurate it's kind of a swish and i i'm holding a squishy and a pizza and i'm winking i got some uh yeah you have like a

fun like jovial vibe oh thanks yeah yeah hey i try to be a big smiler and uh jolly cool jeans i thought that you'd be like these are my going out jeans if you have going out jeans oh sure i mean i think i'm i think i'm wearing them sadly they aren't super fancy, but I dig this guy very much. Yeah. It makes me hungry for pizza. And there's good toppings on these. You didn't have great food options, but I did my best. Well, I could be hiding wine in the squishy.

It's Tiny Jason. This is great. Oh, I like this guy. All right, Tiny Jason. Oh, Tiny Jason has a nice sweater. A nice argyle. Yeah, it was like a nice fall look. Very fall look.

I do very well in fall. What do you mean by that? Clothing wise. You mean you look good in fall? I think Jackie Johnson once said like, oh, fall and winter clothing suits you. Sweaters and jeans. You do well with a layer. Oh, thanks. Yeah.

I feel the same. I don't, I, I think I look dorkier in shorts and stuff than like fall. Yeah. Yeah. Coats. Uh, uh,

shorts. I've got a pretzel. I, I, my accessories are a pretzel and a big, uh, popsicle. Yeah.

That's the closest I could get to a churro sundae. That's great. Sadly, they didn't have any churro accessories, but I love, I love my radioactive popsicle. Yeah. And then the a weapon. Sadly they didn't have any churro accessories but I love my radioactive popsicle. Yeah. And then the last one. He's coming over to me

holding a mic like he's about to do a stand up set. Yes. This is amazing. I just didn't want you to. Tiny you. Whoa. Oh my gosh a boom box. So yeah. So we ran out of food but Mike likes music. Mike is real. It's kind of I wanted to give it like a party vibe. You're wearing a baseball shirt.

I was wearing a baseball shirt when we were at Horror Nights. Yeah. Yes, this is great. Thank you. What is this? That's a large ice cream cone. Oh, I thought it was an Olympic torch of some kind. Yeah, it feels a little, but I thought it would be like, you'd be like, come on, good

boys, like holding your ice cream cone. You do get the big ice cream cones, too. That's true. I do get, I will sometimes get a double scoop. Big cone, big cup. Yeah. Thank you so much. I know they're like, you should have gotten the ice cream, but it just felt like you would like the sweater and the pretzel.

You're like, it's fall. I want a carb. No, no, no. It makes total sense. And I'm the least sweets person, so the pizza's great. Yeah. I'm wearing shorts, which I was wearing. I've been wearing shorts a i was where i've been

wearing shorts a lot lately so that's perfect you used to never wear shorts and now you're really yeah what what made the global warming honestly i don't we're gonna have to go back to mike's childhood for the story look it's in his shirt pocket i love that oh you're the a's my little guy it's like honey i blew up the kid this is taking your toy on a little pocket ride here's what's gonna have to happen now i have put off and i'm sure we'll talk about this in lego i put off ever like collecting legos because as a child i love legos i love toys there's a ton of toys upstairs and i've always i walk into this place and go i should buy a star destroyer i should buy uh And now I feel like he has to go on missions with...

Oh, like he needs a home. A Lego home. Yeah, he should go on missions with the Marvel characters, Star Wars characters, and teasing the Lego friends, the Lego-specific characters they created

named the Lego friends who have their own TV shows. Come on, gang. Oh, that's come... Wait, are we meeting another... There's another IP-specific... Pandora has their own set of characters they've created called the pandora friends of course and lego has their own group

called the lego friends i've went to lego land yes hop in friends hop in lego mike's lego chevy vault and uh let's let's go yeah let's plug this into a uh trailer at six flags magic mountain and let's go well oh my god this is all fantastic and i we're we're gonna be much uh lesser uh in in this gift exchange because i in the flurry of doing these many episodes. I forgot the thing that we got you, which is a tiny card from Sugar Boo with an elephant. And it says hats off to you. Hats off to me? To you.

And so we'll just need your address. We'll just send it. We'll send it in the mail. The tiniest postcard in the mail. Hopefully it isn't irregularly sized. Most of us just shreds it. It oddly is going to need like seven stamps

even though it's extremely small. Oh my God, I can't wait to get future mail. Yeah, yeah. You got mail to look forward to. And because of this gift, honestly, I think we should all make you

some sort of burlap with a quote on it. We should all personalize a message. Oh God, if anything I said was worthy of permanence. Yeah.

Oh yeah, we'll find a quote from the episode. Hey, what did Carly say that you think deserves to be on burlap let us know in the comments i hope it's not just me being like foam on four this is how you'll be remembered it wouldn't be on my gravestone if i were to die this week that's for sure thank you for our little totems when maybe for our creature our little self you know in our little selves. Yeah, you know, in future battle, if you want to like use those in place of yourself,

to save yourself, like an extra, like a one-up, like an extra life or something. Yes, well, it's like having little avatars. Yeah. To keep our own bodies safe. Oh, I think this will definitely come in handy. So thank you so much. And now it's bizarre that we'll talk about the Lego store later,

but I think it's perfect that we, you know. Well, we only talked about us. We didn't talk about Legos. We're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? I think it all divided up fine. Thank you so much for these things.

Of course. Carly Weissel, Easter Five Podcast, The Ride, the Downtown Disney or Deal. Let's text us through the gift shop. Is there anything you'd like to plug? Yeah, find me on the internet. I'm a freelance journalist, so I work for a bunch of different places and write a bunch of different stories

if you like deep dives into anything from um strong females in the world of disney parks to disney weddings to um something coming out soon where i ate everything in galaxy's edge in a matter of three hours oh my god that's that's all coming you can find me on instagram at carly weisel or on twitter at carly weisel or at carly weisel.com nobody has my god that's that's all coming you can find me on instagram at carly weisel or on twitter at carly weisel or at carly weisel.com nobody has my name there's lots of perks you know it'll be written right i don't need to spell it uh yeah it won't be in the title of this so yeah yeah just check and if you guys want to be in my foam club come join us we'd love to have you it sounds like the most delightful club it's's true. It's just a bunch of,

it's, so it started like a week ago. It's all positivity. And I hope it stays. Cause it's just, it is so nice. Like as a Midwesterner, I'm sure you understand.

And like your, your guys' crew is all like nice and happy. It's so nice to like. People like came from our thing. And like there's some podcasts that are at Crossover. There's a few people, I think. Wow.

You're just saying our Facebook group. Yeah, because I'm in your Facebook group and everyone is so nice. Oh, yeah. I think we have the same thing. Like seeing such positivity on there when so much internet, especially Facebook can be like a very dark place.

So to find these nice pockets. Facebook, dark. Twitter, debatably dark. Yeah. Instagram, pretty positive. Instagram is the one. It's mostly you putting stuff out. It's not you having a conversation. Yeah. Instagram, pretty positive. Instagram is the one. It's mostly you putting stuff out. It's not you having a conversation.

Yeah. So I, I mean, I was in my DMs all day, but it was one way conversations with people. And I was like, you guys all like the same stuff. You should be talking to each other. Like I'm like DMing with an ungodly amount of people about foam and pressed powder and like Disney park specifics. Like you guys should all be talking about these things. Let's make some friends.

You're making connections. This is some sugar boo-esque positivity. You should make some matches. You should make some love connections. Well, wait a minute. Matchmaker, matchmaker,

make me a match. Right after I got married, I was like, Oh, I'm going to set everybody up now and had all my single friends, like email me if they wanted in. And then I never did anything with it. So you got busy with foam. Yeah, you oh my god like a foam wedding my phone party

oh wow i'm falling in love over the phone is it called is the whole group chat called a foam party oh it has some hold on it actually has a truly unhinged name i just got a puppy like six weeks ago so i have not um functioned so the name let me see. It's facebook.com slash group slash Carly Weisel, but the actual name, it's loading. It's loading. It'll be worth it. God, I hope so. You need to look it up.

The Carly Weisel Cool Time Internet Virtual Hangout Party. Whoa. That's fun. Which I think sums it up. I just found an old floppy disk of mine that I saved like six second wave clips of songs and just like the simpsons on it was called the super ultimate kick-ass disc i would buy that so this is this feels like very i think 12 year old me yeah it's the spirit of

this it's just like it's fun coming out and it had like and then it would be you'd click on it and it's like it's all caps yeah baby dot wave and it's just a scratchy file of austin powers saying yeah baby and that took up an eighth of the disc i think i had a great i think i had a wave file of austin powers saying yeah baby i think yeah before you could take the movie home or i think i replaced the sounds on my aol with oh that was a move you're right like that yes so every instead of you've got mail he would say yeah baby yeah i honestly think that's exactly what i did wow that takes me back yeah yeah absolutely but yeah come on by my internet corner uh there's lots of disney news too it's not just people being

like boom there's like a constant disney chatter you'll never guess who they fired this week you'll never guess what entertainment they've closed this week. Or which executive went from sitting in the left chair to their new job in the right chair. I'm going to save all the comment for that

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