Podcast: The Ride - Downtown Disney Ordeal 5-1

Episode Date: November 23, 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 five stage one i'm jason shard and

mike carlson here yeah i'm here uh i'm ready stage one yeah scott gerner hey we're right we're so close the finish line was there i mean i guess i knew that the level keeper would be as far away as possible yes i think we all knew maybe there was a chance of reprieve you're jason your voice i i don't want to be being insulting here but uh it sounds weary i you know i just whooped down some pizza and then it was kind of making making me a little logy and you said why don't you start this one and i i gobbled down some water okay so you're all right you're not coming i'm coming back to life i ate uh getting my strength back okay this is to place it in we have done uh nine this is the ninth episode in two days that we've recorded

yeah uh we don't usually do it this way and i'm i'm feeling it edwin's feeling it edwin is sneezed five times in a row and he's done it in such a way that is actually concerned concerning me he's okay now though but anyway so yeah we're all he's tired of it yeah as are we like yeah what is and then but and also okay if you're looking at the description of what we have to do today and we'll have the sector keeper say it out loud but like uh we're we're scraping the bottom of the barrel what what it's getting a little it's a little thin as we go west let me hear let's have the sector keeper prop in for a second tell us what we're doing and audience see if you agree or not there we go boys boys you're doing so well you're in the home stretch today's stage includes the the lego store oh fun disney's pin traders monorail station and jason various street carts

good luck boys i'm uh i mean look you know listen to that list but i was partially why like we you know we got a little bit of lego store uh from carly but i feel like it had to get drafted over here just to give us something various treat carts various trade cards as we were making up the list we were running out of steam i think you were typing out this chunk where michael one of you got like we're running out of steam typing it when you get to various treat carts. This is kind of where, yeah, I was nervous about getting to this point in list form, and now we're here in record form after nine.

Ah. We didn't really touch the carts at CityWalk. Like, there's some really janky carts. Yeah, we had to pull them in just due to lack of stuff. There's those Kanye West graduation carts at CityWalk. Still going. Those glasses with the slits in there. Yeah. Those are there at CityWalk.

We should have reviewed those, honestly. We didn't. That's obviously in CityWalk Revisited. All right. We've announced a lot, casually announced a lot of different sagas And ordeals this whole saga Yeah the Harbor Hoedown So that's another one we visited Mostly the carts that one's going to focus on the carts

The Harbor you guys are going to I will either die Of stress or Self inflicted and my parents Will call you guys cursing The very idea of the Harbor Hoedown As the cause those words he was muttering it and now he's not with us anymore i believe we we were drafted to help start up snl

bahrain oh yeah i mean that's what i'm working on leave of absence that's what i'm gonna try to do i'm sure i'm yeah i'm calling them yeah if you're gone for two weeks for any reason i think we'll do the hoedown that's just immediately yeah i think that's sort of an emergency lever we pull and we immediately set up shop at the anna our friends at the anaheim hotel and then yeah we just captain kids and it's the other hotels we booked two days that mcdonald's honestly i mobile ordered from once there's a bit of a preview of the harbor hoedown the harbor boulevard street which is right by disneyland maybe you'll entice me back in so the mobile ordering at mcdonald's on harbor is slow especially in the morning it's a big rush so do not mobile order i would actually recommend just ordering at the counter from a human which i

don't like to do maybe based on that we should maybe start pre-selling tickets like passes to the we can make this like an extra patreon tier yeah it's like 25 bucks a pop because you're gonna get info like that around everything maybe maybe jason and i just spin this podcast off into a another harbor specific podcast it's all sort of about harbor and the comings and goings of that specific street in Anaheim. Yeah. And we'll just do that,

and that'll be that $25. We start doing human interest stuff, interview the people who work there. Anytime we try to, hey, would you be interested in, no, I don't want to get in trouble with IHOP Corporation. Yeah.

With Captain Kidd himself. Captain Kidd himself sends out, like, heavies to, like, stop asking questions. But that will be. Yarg. Be gone, Avast-y. Be gone.

You no good land lovers. There's no scandal here. We did not just have a tray of onion rings with just breading and no actual onions present. Get out of here. And certainly there wasn't one that was motor oil inside. Tiffany Addish drinks turpentine it's fine uh 25 on patreon is what that'll be only paywall paywall only no free tier yeah that's what he was scott was saying i think that so we'll see

well we'll see how you gotta value the you gotta value what you're uh selling. Yeah. So much more valuable than this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. We're giving away for free now. We weren't back in the underworld. But now we're up. Yeah. Hey, we're back.

We've beaten Robert Earl. We're on our way to whatever the finale of this damn thing is. And we are having yanked the lego store into this level just to have something to talk about let's talk about the lego store yeah okay okay what do who wants you want to go first you go first um yeah i mean well carly gave us our totem she gave us our mini figs yes of all of us it was very very lovely gift um i like the lego store uh lego store has always had a presence at downtown disney both coasts disney springs uh like prince charming fighting maleficent in lego form like uh bell and beast that is prince charming from sleeping beauty right that's the

prince philip prince philip isn't it yeah it's not he doesn't have the charming moniker um i was a little bit of a lego kid i had a number of lego sets i had the lego bases that you would build stuff on kind of keep it organized i really liked mixing stuff all up and like making my own little contraptions and creations we're okay so uh scott lego kid yes uh yeah pretty uh how what if what kind of uh like uh a few sets or yeah i don't i don't remember if i the same as you and turtles where i liked it a lot but i don't remember it nearly as well as you do right fair enough spaceship i had a far like a robin hood medieval kind of thing with a few figures um yeah i had um some cars there were and i'm trying to remember the name of them not a lot

of licensed stuff back then lego proudly not licensed back then and the thing that saved them was getting into licensing right they were doing they were having trouble financially and then they decided to make all of the ips which is what everyone's doing it's happened everywhere and it saved lego because now you can get marvel superhero dc superhero star wars uh everything yeah also creating their own character those ninjago i'm sure they're still popular but ninjago i don'tago a few years ago were so big like people I knew with kids were like

I like all this Ninjago stuff is there a Lego set for that Willem Dafoe Pattinson movie lighthouse oh man if I could get a

lighthouse Lego lighthouse Lego lighthouse pals I bet there's a lighthouse one that I could like customize that I could paint

paint I'm sure there's customizable mini figs and I'm sure there's like fan painted ones like when people buy a an action figure and make it paint it and redo it to a different character um so my favorite thing in lego that i ever had and i believe this is the thing there was an ice planet 2002 series of lego okay and they had their own sort of like i don't know they didn't really have

a narrative at least that i saw but i had this and it was so exciting because it had i liked all the future-y type things with spaceships and this was these are guys that would uh explore some sort of ice planet probably not unlike hoth and then they would have skis on the bottom of their lego feet and i was obsessed with this i still have it in a rubbermaid somewhere so i was very into it but i was not like i had honestly like two big sets and then just like a lot of random blocks so i was never like a hardcore lego kid i want to be a hardcore lego, but there's no room in this apartment. No, certainly. And, no, certainly.

Every corner is jammed with toys already. Every corner is jammed. You'd have to get rid of Dexter Jetster. Jetster, that's out of the question. Although I think there was probably a Lego Dexter Jexter somewhere if they made a space diner. Dexter Jexter holds a place of honor

next to a framed photo of you and lindsey it's a good point and a video game controller which i think is just there because it's practical to be there yeah because she's something some but it is not dexter jackster is clearly just decoration yeah and then this in the living room is is where i have the least amount of my toys they're mostly up in my office area which is it's crazy is is where i have the least amount of my toys they're mostly up in my office area which is it's crazy so anyway but i have friends who have like you know they bought the millennium falcon or they bought just boba fett slave one and have constructed it does seem fun i think there's something like fun about constructing a thing i haven't done a puzzle in

years some of those big sets though are like a rent for a month. Yes. Or like a mortgage payment. They were displaying in the Lego store the Star Destroyer from Star Wars, and it was $700? Yeah. Yeah.

So, like, it's so expensive. I think they have a Death Star, which is around the same price. They have some Disney Parks-specific stuff, which, again, is getting me closer. Well, I like the Main Street Station. Even that, though, is $400. And there's different rooms and stuff.

I did have to laugh because there is one room, and I think it's just supposed to be a sitting room with a chair. I really like the telegraph office with Dale in there. But there is a room up here with a like a chair with a side table but it looks like a toilet it looks like it could just be a bathroom with a toilet oh yeah i mean you can land sitting up there you could i mean you can obviously the fun thing about legos is that you could do that you could buy the disneyland castle and then put toilets in every room so there's a lot of flexibility.

Every turret has a toilet on it and you can have all the characters shitting while sitting on the toilet, sitting on the castle. Characters like they are an engineer, a ticket taker costume, uh, or mini, mini is on like a journey.

What? Like she's, she's like got a parasol and she's got like luggage and an outfit a journey well like a traveling coat hmm is that what that's called how do you is it spelled like the uh the fun thing you go on a what how do you what are you saying what word are you saying journey a journey j-o-u-r-n-e-y going on a magical journey journey oh okay i thought you were traveling she's the uh i thought you were saying it was a thing of like a clothing item i'm sorry oh no we've been doing this a long time yeah so i'm losing my mind we've been on a journey we've been on a journey that has

not left this room mostly for 48 hours yes and i've been wearing a journey that's the way i feel the uh did anybody feel like disgusting after like just sitting in the room after yesterday just like i need to i need to shout i just like just just sitting and waiting i just i i splayed out on the bed for like 45 minutes i'm doing a lot of podcasting yes i stopped I stopped at Ralph's, picked up a frozen pizza, cooked a frozen pizza, ate it, caught my breath, did three more. Caught my breath.

Caught my, like sat for a second. From the journey. And then did three or four more levels of research and then just collapsed and came back today. Emotionally, called your mom. What am I doing? it's not going well i we i think we all left we were all like oh we should do this more often i think yet last night we left on a good note i think like one day of marathon was good and this morning we were all on edge yes yeah i i was i was gonna say i didn't feel that bad i felt horrible

this morning but i didn't feel that bad. I felt horrible this morning, but I didn't feel that bad last night. I was certainly tired and I needed to rest for a second, but I didn't feel really terrible until I woke up this morning. Yeah. So, whatever he's done. It was all okay. We spoofed it all over, but we were a little edgy this morning. Everything's fine.

Everything is fine. And I'm talking about my eyes. Everything's fine. We we're gonna talk about the various tree carts i can feel my voice starting to go it's rare my voice gives out but like i found so sorry be happy like he like he planted the it's like he planted this they'll just naturally stop this is actually what i had it's much cooler than what i showed you the listener doesn't know what you're showing i think it's the same item that's just the box but talk to them they're listening nonsense it is it is cool you used to have to use your imagination to fill out the world now it's like one-to-one this looks like the simpsons is bad car their big stand that they hate the uh i had oh i had a thing with those with those domes

it was a spaceship that had like homer's dome that is bad car that everyone hated oh yeah so i liked and on that i think we've said this before when homer's car was unveiled i went cool you didn't understand that it was bad yeah the joke did not land with me i was six years old and i went oh shit that's awesome i could sit in the other dome if i was in the car with my parents i was like that would be awesome and the rest of the show is about homer being rich from his great idea that's what i thought and then everyone's here here and here and young mike going that's a great idea yeah well it was cool i like the colors yeah It didn't make any sense to me. Don't turn.

I'm in this lane. Yeah, I didn't get it. Hey, and that baby talking machine is a good idea, too. Well, if it could work. Yeah, yeah. I don't think Homer's deadbeat brother is the guy to figure it out. No, I don't think so. He didn't seem like he was that smart.

Who was the voice? Danny DeVito. What a guy. Who was also a voice in look who's talking yeah the baby right nor was he a dog in the latter day yes he was you're right it was the dog yeah so it wasn't a baby voice twice right he wouldn't anybody was mini me in austin pussy the fake the fake powers uh and awesome 3 yeah I watched that recently and I forgot all about that now what I want is for that to be a full in reboot mania let's and I was so

excited about making Jaws uh oh yeah that's your niche we think we yeah I'd like to make uh all of Austin pussy with the original cast with Tom Cruise, Gwyneth paltrow danny devito and who was dr evil again whoever it was i'm in let's get him uh darren what's it was it oh yeah there's a guy who looked a lot like bobby darren really resemble bobby darren even though he was old with bobby darren was way older yeah somewhere splish splash i was taking a bath that was the that was a there was a writer's room discussion once where we were remembering that movie the under the sea the bobby darren um movie with kevin spacey yeah and we were trying to we were like did he do splish splash i was taking a bath and when we figured out that and it was just like went silent

for a while uh and then like we even moved on and then i think writer's assistant just like without announcing it interrupted a sentence with splish splash i was taking a bath oh yes they did i remember he sings splish splash i was taking a bath i remember uh when that was like coming out or i think i was reading an entertainment weekly and i was in high school and and they framed it as like oscar winner kevin spacey using his clout to get a very personal project made close to his heart where he'll play a 21 year old bobby darren and that was like a big moment for me to know like yeah hollywood is weird like even as like a 16 year old i was like that's not right well on the whole his romance with the whatever the actress is is all very like i'm gonna be in

love with you you'll see it's all like a creepy stalker so that holds up great right after american beauty which every minute of it is poisoned now it's just a whole well this is one of the net benning and peter gallagher actually no also poor um uh thor birch uh mostly sure i feel like she had is that the yeah that's you're talking about mina suvari or mina suvari well either birch is the other oh okay yeah yeah i both of them poor thor a birch because jinx the cat died in her arms and uh she thought jinx was dead for a little bit in halloween classic hocus pocus yeah um this is about legos i like them both a lot i like them both a lot this is one of those where clearly like i, I think I'm in a head. This is maybe for me the equivalent of the drunk episode of City Walk Saga,

where I've been like slowly nursing watered down cold foam. It's been here for hours and I'm snapping. I'd like to talk about anything but what we have to do. But the faster we do it, the faster we free the level. Yeah, the faster you hear me talk about my childhood legos show more pictures i gotta say more jet more space jets we alluded to this earlier and i think mike found a great discovery i don't hype me don't hype this late in the stone god damn it i'm just saying I don't know what you're actually getting to. The friends, the Lego friends. Oh, yeah, yeah. Grade is a, especially right now. But it's a funny trend.

The bar of grade is low. Well, yeah, so we love IP, specific IP, and then there's, Lego has that, and they've had many different sets of original Lego characters, and now they have the very originally named, much like the Pandora friends, the Lego friends. And the Lego friends have, they're not Ross and Rachel. They're not those friends, which is confusing because they have so many different IPs. You would think if it was called. Do they have a friend set?

I don't think so. But sometimes you see mock-ups of things and you're not sure if they're real or not. But they have the Lego friends and they're all, you know, characters. And there's, I was looking at this, there's a TV show of the Lego Friends. And the Lego Friends are what look to be, and I guess this is sort of just, you know, a little bit more modern. Because I think they used to have sort of more domestic Lego sets. And it was like, this is for girls and it's about uh playing house and stuff now the lego friends they all do insane things like rescue a boy from rocks in the middle of the ocean it's all like high adventure with the

lego friends and there are so many shows there are so many episodes of Lego Friends. I had no idea that this existed. But I like them. I do like them as much. What are their names? I know. What are the names? Honestly, I don't know where my phone is, which is where I have it. There it is. Hold on.

Let me find it. Let me find the names. It's rare Mike lets his phone out of his sight. I know. I'm losing my frigging mind. You've missed 40 alerts. Your eye doctor told you, like, how much are you looking at your phone? Oh, my God.

Didn't he say, like, your eyes are very dried out? She said, yeah, there was a day I had really bad eye strain the day before I went to the eye doctor. And she was like, your eyes are really red. And I was like, I think it's because I look at my phone too much. Oh, my God, dude. And she goes, I don't know. She goes, they're really red. I don't know if that would do it.

I go, I do look at it a lot. Meanwhile, I have been doing digital detox that i've turned off all notifications except texts and emails are you so special i can't do the gray scale i can't no living a pure life does no i'm not doing it's hard my digital addiction continues uh so some of the characters been reading joker tweets non-stop all takes every take i don't know what everyone thinks so i think he's the clown prince of crime ethan andrea andrea ann angus mia olivia andrea again emma what i think they might be the same people but some of them are in different sets uh daniel is also one and he's got like kind of a letterman jacket on and uh yeah why are they why are they interesting why are they all have boring

names they all have boring names they're all telling tests angus no you don't think it's interesting there's a whole movie called angus in the 90s already uh i guess that's a good point here they are uh they are this is a theme park set where they're on some sort of an octopus ride which is pretty cool oh i got stuck on one of those once as a kid where an octopus ride well it wasn't that it got stuck in the air it just wouldn't stop and like me and my dad are always saying we're like stop it you've been going it's running too long uh The Lego friends. Here's the problem, though.

There's still like you're not wrong about the generic names. If I'm a kid and I go in there and it's between the Lego friends or my friends from Star Wars Rogue One, like K2SO, I'm going K2SO. I do think they need to maybe differentiate them a little bit more but maybe it's very popular and i don't know i'm not the right demographic i guess are the lego friends like do they are does this include there's these there's a bunch of girls who are more human-y some of them wear headbands are those lego friends uh what you described was very general and uh are you saying specifically what you were looking at i see them there's like because there's a lot of big lego stuff outside the store like you said the maleficent being the beast but also next to like the ramps where kids can play and like make little cars and send them

down a ramp at the lego store uh there's all these girls anyway i was i was hanging out with them and i was i was i was in heaven i think that's them this way and this surrounded by these ladies i don't know they might be like 15 no way dude i think they're young heaven i think that's them this way and this surrounded by these ladies i don't know they might be like 15 no way dude i think they're young so i don't know that maybe these are the yeah these are like instead of generic city like i feel like there was like the police and the city hall and that yeah apartment building like this is that version of that nowadays i'm sure they still have that and those were like and they also i think they bought no no that's different playmobil is different uh but they're yeah they always had those sort of generic characters but now it's lost world you can oh it's owen grady you can get and uh

claire dennis claire dennis why would you want deering claire deering they're confusing her the singer kathy dennis that's which writer writer of the song toxic i think i're confusing her with the singer Kathy Dennis writer of the song Toxic I think I was confusing her with Kat Denning oh that too with two broke girls Kat Denning Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist Thor

this is an infinite podcast they have look they have Lego City where you get to like have generic lego guys do jobs right that's like lego movie lego movie was very big for generic legos and ip legos lego is out of control honestly with how many things there's lego elves and it's like their own brand of elves they're on top of the world brick heads They're bigger Legos that you create bigger characters. And there's like Mickey and Harry Potter. It's insane how many different Legos things there are right now.

I don't want to say that there's a fall coming, but it does feel like Legos flying a little close to the sun with all these lines and stuff. Really? Okay. You think it's over? I think it's only smooth sailing. I think ip follies are fun we determined i think that's true ip is gonna save them let me say this this is a store that i would have been obsessed with as a kid

because of the back wall where you can truly put together whatever combination of blocks you want that was such a thing i wanted as a kid yeah and the idea that we would have gone into that store and i would have gotten to you know put together all one color blocks or something that's so great that's great and uh yeah i have some really appealing pictures i was exploring the store and just putting my phone like inside a little orb full of a ton of a ton of carrots or a ton of baguettes that's great like such such wonderful colors they're great to look at it reminds me like doing like the like the mr rogers like tour the crayon factory yes seeing a bunch of vibrant colors all together

very very fun i'm sure you any like this seems like such a good place for well i was gonna say two or three year old but you know choking hazards but uh you know five and up this is it's a rare thing i think in downtown disney especially so much of being so boring that it might actually distract you from disneyland being right around the corner but i think this could uh eat up your time for a while there's magic in this place for a child specifically or an adult collector iterations of lego stores i like loved going in as a kid i wouldn't spend any money but i would like play around in them race the car and you can play in outside i feel like i would have been intimidated to play with the other kids because there's so many kids digging through lego outside lego stuff outside

i feel like i would have been like scared or like i was gonna be made fun of for making a lego thing wrong like that doesn't look good you idiot and i would have been like ashamed of myself there's a big darth vader in there too that's cool yeah that's cool the store itself there's like you know they're they're the displays are great and they've been at downtown disney for so long it's like a good part of the fabric of yes yeah this is good don't uh let our fatigue fool you into thinking we don't like this. There's a Lego. You can get a Lego mosaic for $120 or something.

What does that mean? It means you can get a Lego recreation of your face. Oh, okay. And it's weird. And I thought about trying to figure out if we could do it, but it's so expensive. Yeah. There's a big all right moving on that's it yawn means we're moving on disney ah fuck disney's pin traders all right

i used to be a big disney pin trader kid the first few years of it i loved yeah when i went every year i would always come back with a few pins i liked how brightly colored they were a lot of simple designs you still got them uh i have some out here and then some are on i used to decorate i had a lampshade in my childhood bedroom that is covered in pins really yeah i i gotta take a picture of that next time i'm home i don't know how to ship the lamp out i don't know how to gently i guess i gotta pack it and ship it is your childhood home or is your childhood room intact? Well, it was kind of boxed.

When my mom moved, when my mom and stepdad moved in together, it was kind of boxed up and then unboxed. So it's kind of intact. It's a version of it. A version of it is intact. And every time I go home, I get the, you got to get rid of this, some of this stuff. And then never do.

Sounds like you do. yeah i definitely do um so uh i like the pins uh back in the late 90s i feel like the merch was not as varied and good as it was now so the pins were kind of reliable of like getting an alien encounter logo or getting a nice MGM Studios logo. So I thought the pins were, I would allocate some of my souvenir spending money for that, and I liked them. And then at a certain point, I drifted off, and it really blew up.

It really exploded. There is so many pins now. So when you got out, it got good. I'm not sure if it did i don't really like this like they have this pricing method now where like the pin it's like it costs yellow and then you have to look at a key and yellow is 8.95 and green is 9.95 and blue is 12.95 what don't you like about that i don't know i think it's an extra step to make you think for another second that like i really like this i want this how much is it okay i'm thinking about it i'm looking up like it's like a trick it feels i guess it's simpler for them to like stock everything

yeah i was gonna say i don't know i'm trying to think of what the angle is on that why are they that would be a trick versus why that's just an easy way. Because it's a small, I would assume it's because it's a small piece of merchandise. And it's maybe hard to, you know, put a tag, which is already kind of big. They've all got tags on the back. So I don't know why. No, it just, it says yellow. And then you have to look and look at yellow.

Interesting. For the price. Maybe you're onto something. It's a unique, it's odd they only really do it for pins um and boy howdy do they have a lot of pins power line i feel like there's multiple power line pins the fictional band from the goofy movie yes uh there is a lot of power line stuff in general i feel like um but it does feel like they have pins maybe is the most varied place of like varied types of characters on merchandise. There's a pin of Chip and Dale stealing Donald's mixtape.

Why? I don't know if I've ever heard so much disdain in your face. Yeah, really. It all fell apart. My whole life fell apart in that phrase there was a mix i had to ask you because i couldn't remember what it was from the badge that jiminy cricket wears yeah you didn't recognize that it's his i forget what it says conscience yeah it's he's because he's i only knew that because it was next to another pin

where it was a pin of him wearing the thing they have pins of why they have pins of characters wearing the pins they have it all truly disney's pin traders has it all why don't i care about pin trading why don't you know what all right i'm gonna throw i'm gonna throw out a take here i uh for sure uh i have said this my wife has said this we have in people sussing out like oh you guys are like big big theme park fans. And we say, yeah, we are. I mean, we're not like pin traders or anything. We have said this. Somebody, I'm sure people are offended that I said

that just now. That being said, I'm trying to figure out why. What is my aversion? And I think what it might be, I don't think there's anything inherently bad or too nerdy about pin trading, but I feel like a lot of people do it very joylessly like it's it's like it's it seemed i get the sense that it is a chore for people and they

show up with their like ribbons with 300 on and it's just robotically sure um that i mean that i think is just the collector brain collector's mindset and you'd find that with anything with anything certainly in the comic book world i have been guilty of it i know we've talked about it before me and mike i don't know did you have that for anything or were you like a collector and like just collecting like was more almost more important than the the practical nature of the item um not a ton i'm not super uh collect honestly my recent uh wanting to get every type of rex was a rare dip into that for me i just wanted to get the park star and the vinylmation and you are the only one of us married that might impact things uh it might let's just sit with that for a second huh huh okay huh mike and i have collections to tend to there is and i this is not this i there was a comic i was getting it's actually the one

sitting right here uh it was sold out of the comic store that i first went to i went to a second comic store it was sold out and i felt a little bit of excitement about that because of the hunt there was some like yeah i like there's some collector brain of like man when i find this is gonna be good and then i wasn't i found into the third store and i wasn't disappointed but it was like okay god got it and now it's like a little rare and now it's a little so there is something collector brain i understand the the the thrill of the chase and there's been like you know there's been artists where like i want to track down all these bootlegs and rare stuff and like oh there's some weird japan only uh rarities collection of this guy and so and i

so i understand like completism and it's you know to some extent it might be the the glass half empty view of me on this might be like maybe i don't have enough passion for enough things where i want to get all this stuff uh you know i think so that's that's where like probably the more fun side of pin trading is uh it's fun this thing makes me happy and it reminds me of this ride and this is a good i'm sure there's like yeah i'm sure there's both there is a community element that that can be a fun oh i'm sure people's both There is a community Element to it That can be fun Oh definitely I'm sure people Like me Do that

And like Well I think you're right That's just how it Like you can see the people Having fun at Comic Con And you can see the people Just sort of like You know going around

And doing everything And like well I have to do it all And like not I think that's the case With any fandom Is just like Remember this is all for fun So stop and enjoy it

Yeah I mean we read the comics That we buy And I try to keep them in good shape but i don't care if like a little corner i don't like that still that i don't really like it but we were recording nick money put the microphone down on the top of the comic and i there's a little bit of me when i like i went like it was a little bit that was adding to the the very tense nick monday episode he was missing up here but also don't put it on the

table well yeah of course and also like i know it's fine i also know these are not that valuable anymore that's also partly the publishers cheaping out on decent paper and ink and they like i'm just saying there's a thing like drilled into me as a kid still of like you know these are valuable too and you got to take care of them uh i would like to see more bombs i'd like to see them black cauldron some brother bear some home on the oh so i thought you meant like just actual bomb pins of like, like a, like a cartoon with the wick. Yeah.

I want to see a pin of the new bomb, the Don Adams film. I don't like pins or stickers. And there's some weird childhood thing about it. I didn't like anything on my clothes. I didn't want an extra thing, especially stickers. Cause I would be like, I gotta peel it off. I didn't like anything on my clothes. I didn't want an extra thing, especially stickers, because I would be like, I've got to peel it off.

Name tags, I hated. I still don't like it. If you have to go somewhere with a name tag, that bothers me. And pins especially. I have some pins that are cool, but I need to figure out where to display them because I will never wear them. I don't care for them, and I don't know exactly why that is.

But just as a kid, I didn't like something on my clothes. i don't know exactly why that is but i just as a kid i didn't like something on my clothes i don't know i never got into them you know what happened a friend a friend of mine i was writing with uh got a like an incorrect package like it was for the person who used to live at the place and he didn't know where to find him so like yeah whatever yeah and it was so it was a wrong package that got delivered there was eight disney pins and he was like you like disney stuff right? You want to leaf through? If you want one of these, they just showed up here. And one of them, Horizons.

Whoa. Knocked it out of the park. I was like, yes, I want one of these. Yeah. Wow. That is the one thing is they did all the Epcot logos. And every now and then I see them on the boards. I think that would be fun.

I never wanted to trade them as a kid. I was so particular. Right. I bought the ones i wanted it never like i never thought about buying ones to trade with cast members or other people but now every now and then i go through a store and i see one of the epcot pins and i'm like i bet i could find a set of that yeah like i like those i would guide i would want that full collection and it does make me think how good our logo, inspired by that, would be on a nice enamel pin. Sure. That's merch I would love to offer, but I don't know how to offer it. I don't know where good pins can be made.

How can we do this in a way? I know some pin people. We know some pin people. I know some pin people. Yeah. There's actually a couple different people that have various interests in pin company. Pins are very popular right now. There's an ups various interests in pin company like pins are very popular right now there's like an upsurge in in pin popularity so i i again i respect the pin trading community

also i was gonna say my sister got me some like old like vintagey country bears pins which are fun and i have that and i would like to display them somewhere i have a bunch of moonbeam pity city pity moonbeam pity that's what i had after i got canceled movie movie city pins that i'm not doing anything with uh hey if you want moonbeam city pins dm me and if we're gonna be at a live show i'll bring them to you or sign them or something they're pretty fucking cool i'm amazed somebody made them yeah they're sweet they got a good little what's the thing when you like mount them on something it's like a little like postcard display uh i don't know oh yeah a little backboard i don't know uh it's cool seriously hit me up uh got the characters faces and everything yeah um so if we

know pin guys yeah that sounds cool to me um and when are also when are we going to start offering our logo on uh a big burlap a big burlap sack that's a good question uh would you know any jason i don't know if we know anybody in the burlap sack sayings uh depart like i mean if i know anyone burlap sacks they're wearing them you know down at the yard down at the rail yard you know once they ate all the potatoes from them, they put them on and on his clothes. I have asked around about plush a little bit. Yeah.

It is just not cost effective. No. I feel like even hats. Hats are hard too, but yeah. Baseball hats, it's hard. Because I think pins are, you can make pins cheaply and you make shirts cheaply. But I think once you get out of there, then it's starting to get.

Yes, a listener has a pin company. He gave us some pins at Comic-Con. What's that gentleman's name? Fred? Yeah, Fred. Hi, Fred. Nice dude. Midnight Dogs?

Is that right? It might be. I'm going to try to look it up. You put me on the spot now. I feel like I should know. I'm going to. I didn't meet this person. I don't know.

I have no. This was Comic-Con. Oh oh i certainly didn't meet them uh also we can put up we'll put up a picture of the the great lego us's that carly made and uh so you can make them too if you want legos of us go to the store and do it and if you want a great offer yeah midnight dogs enamel pins yeah uh Fred. They were cool. Cool. Oh, here's a Spider-Man Noir one. I got a Rocko's Modern Life one.

There was a lot of cool stuff. Yeah. What you can do, too, with us, if you make us, you can then put toilets all over your Cinderella castle and put us all in the toilet. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Oh, the treat carts.

The various treat carts. Various treat carts. Kind of a wasteland. Kind of the facsimile of Disneyland. Like, not Disneyland churros, not Disney hot dogs. Like, diggity dogs. Diggity dogs. A different churro company, a different popcorn company.

Some, one of the stands is Sunglass I by sunglass hut yeah another a part of it way after i think we should call this impulse by alley yeah because it is clearly like people going like oh i want a hot dog oh i want popcorn uh-huh and they don't care the level of quality or love put into it it all seems just like yeah i mean the churro one it seems like they're trying to experiment a lot there was like oh it's a corn dog but it's sriracha and they have like fruity pebbles for fruity pepper churro like i don't know it seems like people are having fun i it's fine they need to fill out that space or else it's just empty and disney is owns these companies but it's like am i wrong i don't know i think they're third party vendors question uh we watched that profit

episode with the woman who no longer runs a popcorn cart popcornopolis uh no no no because that's the big one from city what it was something else and she was like very difficult and wanted poor locations and uh their main money maker was downtown Disney. So that was like a separate vendor who just worked there and no longer does. So that goes to show Disney will torch you. They'll pull the plug. Nick Money pulling our microphone cord out. It's very confusing because you look up diggity dogs.

There's a company that's not the hot dog company, but there's a lot of different hot dog companies with a similar name and a lot of rappers called that yeah yes but i wonder that's what my dad thinks my dad's trying to name snoop dog he's like was that no good diggity dog it's like a hannah barbara character that no good talking about him like he's snidely whiplash i'll get him one day 2019's public enemy number one snoop dog i'm nervous he's just he's just been ingratiating himself for 25 years pretending he's a nice friendly guy you know from the beach bum the actor snoop dog soul planes he's in has got to be in sag after oh for sure yeah of course yes he's in starsky and hutch and me yeah he's in starsky and hutch so yeah he pays bills just like just like mitch bob eiger and i went to ithaca college me and snoop dogg are in the same union you're bound

that's your kevin bacon game of uh yeah well look i smoked weed with snoop dogg so oh yeah that's my connection that's the that's the dream yeah to get them to get everyone to calm down on a tense shoot and then i pretended to be cool and said that was good shit man wow um and i've never i felt cool in the moment because i was smoking a blunt that Snoop Dogg handed to me. And then I watched the video and it was the opposite of cool. It's very strange. I haven't talked about that on the podcast, have I? I don't think so.

We revealed you did chew or not chew. Yeah. Great. I smoked a blunt with Snoop Dogg. And I tried to smoke as little of it as humanly possible because I had to like function and do things oh for sure yeah um that's that uh i wonder like if there's i do i'm just wondering about some of these carts because it's very hard to find information about it or other carts so like does sammy duvall own something here or something like is there some sort of disney connection i'm sure is i just i

wonder because there's not any information on diggity dogs in this logo here so i wonder if it's just like we need and we need a cart name because how else would you brand it if it was a disney owned dog hot dog that's perverse no with our hot dogs dogs love eating hot links yeah that's true they're always stealing those rope sausages okay you're always trying to steal those rope sausages too this was a while back but that's if you could that uh that's like disney bounding you could do is anything that involved where you like are wearing like decorative like line of sausage links around your neck there's a german sausage company right in glendale that supplies a lot of

places it's a deli you can still get rope sausages there so you was if you if you, if you Disney bounded as Dodger from Oliver and Company. Oh, I love the Artful Dodger. Yeah. Was he called Artful Dodger in Oliver and Company? He was definitely called Dodger. Yeah, yeah. But you would just. I don't know if children in the 80s were thrown around the word Artful a lot.

Yeah. He wore sunglasses and sang with Billy Joel's voice. That's what I know. So when you're coming out of that place with the sausages oftentimes people probably think you're caught you're bounding as the dodger why should i worry with a mouthful of sausage do you need a bag no i'll carry them out in my mouth why should i care you're like jumping and dancing on taxi cabs after you buy your sausages yeah my favorite behind the scenes thing ever for the the one the chris oh yeah yeah it's great sure he can sing then can he act he can really act

as we know billy joel's thriving acting career ever since that cracked him open as an actor in 89 it is crazy billy joel is not in uncut. It feels like Billy Joel should be in Uncut Gems like Mike Francesa is. Wait, what's Uncut? Oh, that's the Adam Sandler. The Adam Sandler movie. The Adam Sandler movie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Francesa looks like he's good in that, too.

Yeah, he might be. Where's the Lego set of that? Oh. Yeah, that would be good. The Celtics, the whole Celtics team. Yeah, that would be good. Anyway, look at that trailer. Does this movie come out by the time this comes out?

Comes out around, yeah, comes out. I don't remember. Towards the end of the year. Okay. Do we have to talk about the monorail station again? Haven't we covered this? We did a monorail episode. We did a whole monorail episode, but this station specifically, we talked a little bit of it

on the Carly episode. It's a little plain. Is it supposed to be palm leaves what is it what is it screen it's kind of go away green in parts that paint shade they use to like not catch your eye go away green which is yeah you're not supposed to notice it yeah i know but go away green oh it's what a lot of like power generators or construction walls are painted when they're trying to like draw attention away from it. Oh yeah. So we're ending this episode with a thing that made in the specifically

most nondescript color, a topic that's come up in several episodes before. I say bring back the monorail cafe. I think that's what this area really needs. I think that's right. I, yeah, I think that they've been area really needs i think that's right i yeah i think that they've been closing the station a lot uh for who knows exactly some people say money some people

say they're trying to figure out how to re format the track when they do some big stuff in tomorrow land or fantasy land uh but it just it just feels i don't know it does feel like a bit of an afterthought yeah i would like it to feel it's cool when you go on the monorail. It should be feeling cooler. It shouldn't be like you're kind of like, all right, I guess we'll just do this because I don't want to walk the whole way. I mean, great if you're coming back from the park and you're staying at the Disneyland Hotel.

Sure. And you just want to get back to the hotel. Well, there's one day where it was very cool. And that is something that came up down in the underworld preview if you didn't listen to that here's the kind of thing you were missing out on down there we talked about the premiere of tomorrowland in 2015 star-studded premiere and uh afterwards the guests all took a monorail into the park uh into the the original the real deal tomorrowland and here is a picture in the monorail station of george clooney and bob eiger in front in the front car of the monorail

is to cure your ithaca boy yeah and and my uh tequila supplier my casa is Cindy Crawford's husband and George Clooney best friend Randy Gerber in that photo? Is he anywhere to be found? I don't see him. That's one thing that happened in the underworld. Talk of Randy Gerber. We've never talked about Randy Gerber, Cindy Crawford's husband before, who's George Clooney's tequila partner. The picture of them riding motorcycles was used in the advertising so much

I can picture it more clearly than some beautiful paintings. And of course, Nick Money cut off my story about George Clooney inviting all his buddies to his dining room and called them up and there was a suitcase

in front of each one of their chairs there was a suitcase in front of each one of their chair a briefcase in front of each of the chair and everyone opened it up and each briefcase had a million dollars and he's like

now we're all rich you know now it's like it's for you it's for my friends like wow that's great

yeah I don't know I think it's a nice story let's call money up and make sure he hears this let's like hey we were thinking and you need to finish the story why don't you give him call let's call money up and make sure he hears this let's like hey we're thinking and you need to finish the story why don't you give him a suitcase full of a million

dollars okay cool i'll get on that a million dollars in buffalo wild wings cash wow the current it converts differently sure it's not as expensive um do are we do we get it i mean i have some more thoughts about just how randy gerber dresses but i think we could probably be done who knew randy gerber would factor so heavily into the downtown disney no one wanted it is he the final boss oh he's in the running is he the cousin is he the level keeper? I don't know. Randy Gerber? What if Randy Gerber was a special guest at the end of the Downtown Disney ordeal? Sidney Krover's husband and

George Clooney's tequila partner. That was the big finale. Nick Weiger not involved. Randy Gerber is our guest to talk about the parking garage. Oh, I guess I shouldn't even spoil that. I guess we got that out.

No. No Randy Gerber. No Randy Gerber is allowed. Damn it. I think this is it. We survived. Okay. Podcast the Ride.

The Downtown Disney Reel. Level 5. Wait. Stage 1. The item. The item is appearing. It's appearing. There it it is do you guys see it better than i see i do it it's a little too tired to see it it's randy gerber's casa amigo tequila

shirt it's going to be used like sort of as a shield for what if we come upon attack oh it's a protective yeah it's like a thick shirt uh and it's advertising his... Thick gilded. Thick gilded shirt. It's a beefy tee. It's Randy Gerber's beefy tee. Randy Gerber's beefy tee with the Casa Amigos tequila logo on it. And he wore it. So it's got Gerber Musk. Oh, yes.

And the best. And it's some tequila stains. Yes. Because he just, yeah, he was tipping them back. All right. A dirty shirt is our reward, and lots of great knowledge is your reward. Audience, thanks for checking it out.

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