Podcast: The Ride - Drinking at Disneyland with Cait Raft

Episode Date: November 6, 2020

Cait Raft (Hot and Rich, JackAM) joins us to discuss the bars and array of drink options at Disneyland. Featuring youthful hijinks, jug cocktails, and a hotel lobby horror. New Second Gate episode next week! Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forever. Dog. Drinking at Disneyland, Kate Raft helps us rosé the day away on Podcast The Ride, hosted by, well, at least one guy who today is talking about the thing he misses literally the most on Earth. That being drinking at Disneyland. I'm Scott Gairdner. I'm that guy. Mike Carlson, I don't know where it lands on your list, but I'm sure it's on it. It's on it. It's a nice little parsley on the plate, certainly, but it's maybe not. It's not the main course. I don't know.

I want to say it's better than parsley. Parsley is really superfluous. It's not bringing a lot to the table. It's like mashed potatoes, good, solid mashed potatoes with butter on the plate. You don't need it, but oh, you're so excited to have it when you're eating dinner. Sure, sure, sure. Not the primary course, but it's there and it's doing its part. Jason Sheridan, meal analogies or whatever.

What was that? Oh, meal analogies or however you feel. I'm just marveling at the upgrade from parsley to mashed potatoes with gravy and butter. Very skyrocketed up the charts. Yeah, I mean, I like it. I feel like in quarantine, I've become practically a teetotaler. Not by any choice, just because it was depressing me or just putting me to sleep. Wait, what's teetotaler uh not by any choice just because it was depressing me or just putting me to sleep wait what's teetotaler like doesn't drink i see like i think i've had a couple glasses

of wine and some white claws and that's been the extent of it right well because you know sitting in your place and drinking is not as exciting as wandering around a space, breathing fresh life into this themed environment that you love to go so much. That's the way to do it. That's the way to consume alcohol. Right. Not stuck on your lonesome. Yeah, at the Uva bar outside at 3 p.m on a weekday afternoon hell yes the greatest um i i should say that this uh this this topic

comes courtesy of our guest uh who is from the podcast hot and rich the podcast this podcast is self-care and from jack AM. Please welcome Kate Raft. Hi, guys. Thanks for having me here. Thanks for coming. I love drinking at Disneyland. So this is a passion of mine. Is it a meal like for you?

Is it mashed potatoes? Is it a different type of food on the plate? I feel like I would say it's like the appetizer. It's the appetizer. It's a tasting menu of food on the plate? I feel like I would say it's like the appetizer. It's the appetizer. It's a tasting menu of alcohol. It's like you have to pair it with every aspect of Disneyland. I would say it's like

you know, it's a hearty appetizer. Kosher. That can eke into dinner. That can make you have to order a smaller dinner. Exactly. Like a too big appetizer. Like, um, you know, sure. That can eke into dinner. That can make you have to order a smaller dinner. Like a too big appetizer. Like, you know, wings, maybe? Oh, sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That can be sort of inconvenient if you also order the bigger. Right, it's like a wings appetizer. Or like a sampler with like the wings and the mozzarella sticks and the potato skins. And you're like, well, I want a little of each. And it's like, oh, I feel disgusting as the entrees right it's like jalapeno poppers too which like you didn't really want but they're in the platter so you you try a couple and they're and it's heavy it's little those appetizer hangers on yeah the ones that like would not

fly on their own exactly but they know the right friends to get into the appetizer party exactly yeah that makes a lot of sense i think i think depending on like kate would you say when you go to disneyland it's like it is this a like how do you do it how do you structure your day okay so like i've had many evolving eras of drinking at Disneyland because I am from Southern California so I used to go a lot as an underage person and that so that routine is different than my current drinking routine so I guess I should start with the past and just quickly say that I used to bring like we would get diet coke bottles and fill them with whiskey and bring them and go to the bathroom and chug whiskey and do shots of it and then go on rides as teenagers. And it was so disgusting,

but it was really a big part of my life, big part of my youth, big part of my youth. We would also sometimes buy sodas in the park and then secretly like go pour a little flask into it that was our method i it got really elaborate where i would like sneak alcohol in in new and fun ways so there was this one time where i put a flask of whiskey inside a flaming hot cheetos bag and i made like a fake lunch that i packed like a banana into like stuff i wasn't even gonna eat but just so that if i had to open my bag or you do have to open your bag so they would they would just see lunch and not a flask and it worked and it was great oh yeah yeah now debt now looking back are you like was this overkill was this more about the

thrill of the chase definitely didn't need chase definitely didn't need to do all that it was not sure it's not necessary fun super fun to do covert operations so fun but i would say like my current thing i love just like a rose starting off with a rose in california adventures i like the listelle rose that they there. It's like the cheapest one. It's great. Now which, are we talking about from that like outdoor, from that like Napa area you order

at the counter or is this a sit down situation? The counter is where it's at. I like that. I like to go to, I also like to go to Carthay Circle the bar there and have like whatever their seasonal cocktail is they have like different ones for like different holidays so like the halloween one is like some apple cider old-fashioned type thing that's pretty good i don't think i know

about the season yeah they have a christmas one too i think um do you get different like are there like non-drinkable decorations in these yes typically okay the halloween i still have them in my freezer the halloween one has light up um pumpkins that they put in little mini little jack-o'-lanterns that they put inside the drink it's great yes i have had this drink and you do get a little plastic keepsake. Or is it a skull? It might be a skull, actually. I can't remember. I think it is a skull.

I think it's like a melted little skull or it looks like a candy apple skull kind of a thing. Yes, yes. Yes. Yeah. You get a lot of, I feel like Disney does a lot of,

you get a little toy with your alcohol sometimes. That's a nice thing about Disney. i love that for the children yeah i mean i feel like disneyland is not for children personally i feel like it is for the drinking aged adult and i'm fine you think it's like better even for the drinking age adult than a child i feel like yeah i i i mean i don't have children so who's to say if i'll change my mind on this if i ever do but i think it's like it rules to be a childless adult i know there's so many people that talk shit about childless adults who go to disneyland and get drunk but i have to just own that that is what i am and it's what i enjoy and fuck off okay i'm gonna get wasted and buy like a 20 cocktail that comes with a toy and then i'm gonna keep the toy as a memory of my fun joy

hell yes yeah the who are you hurting with this is there anyone making this observation i'm always curious like how does this affect you why is this bothering you why are you raining on on many people hate to see just like people really hate to watch someone like piss their money away and disneyland is so expensive i think that just upsets people that it's just like a like a hemorrhage of money that you should you should be spending it on a child not your selfish adult self i guess i don't know what i don't know what it is i think it's like i think that they're generationally as you go back the generations i think you know early and earlier when you were growing up you would have to shed anything you liked as a kid you'd have to cut that off yes

like cut off anything you liked as a child like in in you know 80 years ago it was you're at 13 years old you cut it off you don't like it then it maybe moved up average to like 15 and we're maybe like in the first generation where a good majority of people have not let it all go so now we're incorporating an adult an adult element into another fun thing we enjoy as children. Yes. Which is nice. Honestly, as long as you're being, as long as you're not hassling children, I'm not like, I don't have a jug of moonshine and I'm hassling some kids.

I'm just, I'm enjoying a nice buzz while I'm walking down Main Street. It's lovely. Yeah. That's great. And I think it like, it's a way to refresh the experience. If you've been there a zillion times and you need ways to make it new and different alcohol pairings kind of help make it new and also kind of give you the like fuzzy swirliness that you probably had when you were a little kid and didn't understand what it even was. You know what I mean? It like it's i don't know it like it's yeah it's it's uh it sets you back like you feel like a three yeah you gotta you

have to kill enough brain cells that you're like as dumb as you were as a child and then yeah you start to question the reality you start to question if like maybe one of the pirates is real exactly yeah um i mean which i guess would be an argument for doing drugs there because which we are we do not typically do kate i don't know if you know this we're good boys we're very yes i know that we follow i know that about you everyone says that sure sure yes yes oh yeah yeah no that's sure yeah if you ask just general reputation that that's the answer. The good boys. I think what if we had to go by each of us when we had our first drink of alcohol, it's

over 20 for all of us, right? Or no? No, no, no. No, I started like 17, 17. Pretty good. Jason? I think I had a shot at a college party at like 19

okay I'm the only I think I was at least like 20 or 21 I think it was 20 wait this is new information that's coming out yeah I had my first beer with my dad on my 21st birthday on the outdoor

patio of the rainforest the now closed rainforest cafe at downtown wow oh my god wow uh that's your first legal drink was it the rain i think that was my first i now that you say that yes i think that would technically be my first legal drink and uh it was the thing with the shortest wait he was visiting for the weekend and it was probably 60 dropping to 50 as our meal regret like it was miserable weather in october this october it's 90 degrees in los angeles that october it was uh the appropriate fall weather you know um you know what that makes me think of i don't want to sidetrack too hard here.

Scott and I saw a concert a couple years ago. A Mr. Ben Folds. Yeah. And there's a song he has. He wrote a song still fighting it about his son who had just been born and he talked about how he was going to have his first beer with his son when his son was older.

And I believe Ben said he had the beer with his son that night at the older and i believe ben said he had the beer with his son that night at the concert oh that's cool if i remember correctly or if you're a fan of him you certainly know that line and then we're like everybody's like that line it happened this evening i love that i believe so yeah yeah oh you better believe i listened to that song and thought about having that moment uh with uh my son who's a baby right now. And so maybe, how long can we push it off? Maybe he'll be like 14.

Does that seem like the appropriate? All right, great. Celebrate him starting high school. Are you going to do it at the Rainforest? Oh, I guess it's not there anymore. But are you going to do it at Downtown Disney? Oh, it seems pretty likely right given the history? Yeah the Uva Bar

the Uva Bar Yeah Uva Bar will outlive us all with that funky 90s font. I will say that Uva Bar was also a big part of my drinking routine for a while I think before like they used to only have like beer and wine

for a long time at California Adventures, right? Or they or they had other stuff, but it was always like really weak. They would like serve really weak margaritas or something. This was like when like like probably like 10 years ago or something. They've I think they've always had margaritas over by the wharf. Yeah. That area with the Chinese food and with the Mexican food. I feel like my friends, my friends and I decided that those margaritas over by uh what am i thinking the war yeah that area with the chinese food and with the mexican food i feel like my friends my friends and i decided that those margaritas weren't strong

enough so we would leave california adventures go to the uva bar and each take like double shots of tequila and then run back into the park and be like slightly more buzzed yeah i think that it just is a rule of thumb uh for drinking tips i guess at disney in in park fruity colorful drinks don't have as much alcohol you probably should go to an actual bar to get the full alcohol content for a drink because i think yes oftentimes it's just like covered by sugar and that of course doesn't bother me that much but if you're looking for an actual full shot of something in a drink i think you probably your best bet is the bar somewhere an actual it's very clear in my mind

a time mike and i went down on a friday like early evening and went to the mad tea party like bar stand and uh we ordered i think we ordered mojitos and I watched them pick up what looked like a milk jug and dump it over ice in the cup and then they plopped the plastic light up ice cubes on top and I was like, oh the drink was already mixed

in the jug. This is what we just paid $16 for. Jason, are you talking about the Mad Hedo? Because I think that's what you're talking about. It was not a regular Mojito. It was a Mad Hedo. I'm looking at the menu right now. The madness comes from

even a lightweight like me felt nothing from that drink. Yeah, and I think it's probably wise to have, because those are the spots where people are probably consuming the most alcohol. So it's probably wise to have... Because those are the spots where people are probably consuming the most alcohol. So it's probably wise to give everybody, most people, less. That is probably smart.

Disney has stumbled upon the best way to control drinking. You just charge an arm and a leg for everything. Oh, yeah. And even partiers will call it at a certain point you know although mike and i also were at the steakhouse 55 bar once at the disneyland hotel and uh the older couple next to us were really tying a few on and talking about getting back to pasadena and i was like oh i am worried about this yeah i i was yes that's that was scary i remember that that was that was too intense and you guys offered to drive them back well we did jason and i drove them back

and then we came yeah we came back to disney it was unclear too whether they were husband and wife brother and sister uh what their relationship if they wanted jason and i to join them for a quad a quad is that what you call it okay i guess that's what you want yeah uh yeah a pasadena quad uh it was a real chaotic energy that night they were just hoping you had a hotel and that you might say like do you guys want to uh if you want to just relax a little before that drive or not drive home at all if there was a like a free hotel room he could have spent some time in jason would have done it you know i i never look a bargain in the eye

unless they turned and was like can you get us a lift we're staying at the knots hotel up the road oh but then snoopy could join for a be a fifth well that's true that's an anaheim quad i mean buena park buena park buena park well it's a it you're discussing anaheim quad and then it becomes a buena park quad yeah or quint if snoopy becomes a buena park quint right that's absolutely right um so are we mad hitos we're talking about yes so yeah so kate you're you're rosé seasonal cocktails do you are are you you're not probably as insane as we are about like knowing all the maybe like spots to do stuff but you go to the hotels do you ever go to trader sam's i do i i know i know most of the spots as well i mean like i i'm, I'm a theme park person like you guys.

I didn't mean to insinuate you weren't. I'm in the trenches finding the hotels to drink at. Depending on where you park, which parking lot you get shoved into, there's different options. But I love Trader Sam's. And Trader Sam's is like where I go at the end on my way home. Like end of the day with like a tiki drink at Trader Sam's.

It's always so fun. It's like when you order certain drinks, like certain like animatronics, it's like very Rainforest Cafe because like they have like little shows that happen in the in the bar like little like thunderstorms and shit like that like it's the best but like an intimate rainforest cafe like a little more like like the little a crafted black box theater version rather than it's amazing a broader uh yeah yeah if you order the shipwreck that's what the volcano erupts and then there's that drink that you have to get it's like i forget what it's called but it's for like four people and it has like a fire and you like flick cinnamon into the fire or something have you ever gotten

that yeah i know what you're talking about but i can't think of the name of it and it comes in the big like ceramic yes and i forget what it is i i got a version of it in orlando and i got the nautilus the nautilus i guess cup you'd call it that it came with and i have it it's on the mantle downstairs i know the cup it's like a punch bowl yeah um but that yeah trader sam's is really uh how can i say to make myself not sound so lame very special it's very special it is very special it is very special um and yeah it's it's it's a great end of the night they also have stuff like during the hot have you ever seen this during the holidays uh the volcano erupts and snow comes out the top of it oh wow i had no idea that's's incredible. That's art. I want to be there.

I want to do it. I'm sure they're, I mean, they have a whole outdoor thing, but you wouldn't get the experience if you sat outside. Yeah. The outside is nice if the weather is nice. Yeah, sitting outside is not bad.

You can hear the music. But you don't get the show. But you don't get the show. There'll be a performer outside playing some flamenco guitar and they've expanded the back area now to have more drink service uh which jason and i enjoyed while we were crashing the theo awards last year or attempting to the theme park awards and there was just a bunch of people in dresses and tuxedos and then jason and i like roaming around jeans roping around hoping to get noticed

like two losers by hoping to get noticed by non-famous yes not by no way celebrity like internal theme park industry you know yeah like somebody who like an accountant that works for the walt disney company were hoping. Maybe listen to one episode. And looks at the Twitter to know what we look like. There's two factor there they have to follow. A lot of steps to this plan. Anyway.

Steakhouse 55K have you been? I haven't been. That's the one in the Disneyland Hotel. Yes. And I have not actually been to the main restaurant, but they got a little lounge have you been i haven't been is that that's the one in the disneyland hotel yes yes and i have not actually been to the main restaurant but they got a little lounge going there and you can order off the main menu and you also can get drinks there and they those those are actual drinks that sounds great yeah i've been to the one at california at the uh grand californian they have like a lounge bar there i've been to that one yeah the hearthstone lounge i'll toss

that out as like a dark horse favorite pick because it's usually pretty empty and you can also just order a drink there and then just take it into the lobby and sit on one of the big lobby it's just this the massive california grand california often empty, and a very nice place to enjoy a drink. But what's the site of one of the most upsetting things? I'm remembering this now. I did that trick once, and I witnessed one of the most upsetting things I had seen on a Disney property,

which was someone just put a baby down on the couch and started changing the diaper on the couch. And I can see the bathroom. I can see the bathroom i can see the entrance to the bathroom it's like 20 feet away and i'm just like sitting there just like holding a nearly finished beer and i'm like okay i'm gonna finish this and get the hell out of here wow scott that was the traumatizing event sorry scott you have a baby like is that normal to uh well i don't know because i've never been in public right this is not an option in the current time that what flashed to me though

is that uh you might you know like there's there's been the change of tide where like you know if you gave side eye to somebody breastfeeding a baby, that would be weird, like, because we've accepted that happens in public. And but changing a bit. Nobody finds anything like beautiful about changing. Yeah. This is not like, yes, do it wherever you please. The fact that I was like finishing a beverage, maybe having a snack and like other people around were eating, and there's just like, ah, waste. Hello, human waste.

This is fecal matter. Yes, very good. Even if the thing making it is huge. Did you see the shit? Did you see the baby shit? I did not. No, no. I looked away.

I looked away too quickly. That was my question, Kate, as well. I did not. I also wanted to know. Because if you didn't see it, then it could have been worse. It definitely could not it it definitely could have not to downplay your trauma because like that is trauma what you went through i'm not i was yeah i'm not so offended by somebody doing it in public but the idea that like a piece a piece might fall out easily yeah

and that's well this is again i having been around a lot of uh baby shit i think you're not really dealing with pieces it's a little more yeah you're right it's a little more squishy one yes like semi-solid uh right it'd be strange and if the piece like we're able to like roll or bounce or get near your beverage that seems like beyond i mean it's just like a little chaos where like I should have said like hey if you want to go to the band I'll watch your stuff if you want to go like you would say that

I know I just extricated myself from if they had said like hey can you watch our luggage we just got to go change the bait but then also like well at that point why wouldn't you just have the bag, man? There's cast members everywhere. I don't know.

Why are they talking to you? They didn't, thankfully. Just a friendly man in his 30s alone drinking a beer in a lobby of a hotel at a Disney resort. Why not talk to him? I mean, the truth is that there's shit all over disneyland it's just that like usually like we don't see it and also like there's tons of people constantly shitting themselves at disneyland and we don't see it because it's there's adult there's adults that need a diaper change i mean i i was i one of my like most like traumatic disneyland memories was

i shit myself as a child and i like and i was so like embarrassed i was on a girl scout trip and i was like nine and i was like so embarrassed that i shit myself and i didn't tell anyone that i shit myself and i didn't like want to deal with it so i just like left the shit in my underwear for like hours at disneyland because it went on all the rides maybe i was younger than nine nine now seems kind of too old for that but like it was bad it was bad i like left the shit in my like pants and then like we had to like someone's mom had to like drive me home and everyone was like what's that smell and i was like it's my disneyland shit like i don't it was so embarrassing wait did you cop no i didn't cop to

it but like i feel like everyone knew you know like you know kind of like if there's like if there's like a minivan full of like four girls like you know who's the girl with shit in her pants was there anything else about you that would have made them think oh yeah that's in line with kate i think i was just like i'm really like i'm not a quiet person like i was a very like um extroverted child and i was not talking at all i was like i was like i'm sure they could tell because i just like wasn't talking i was like i remember being like very silent just like in my own shame that that has to happen at disney 50 times a day constantly many times a

day and i'm saying with like an older kid obviously it's happening with little kids that still have a That has to happen at Disney 50 times a day. Constantly. Many times a day. And I'm saying with like an older kid. Obviously, it's happening with little kids that still have a diaper. But even like, yeah, kids in the 7 to 10 range. Constantly. Oh, yeah. In a way. Adults, too.

Yeah, and adults, too. Yeah, probably. Because you end up stuck in lines. You're in places where you've put in the time. You've put in the legwork. You don't even know where a bathroom is if you're not there all the time so now you're gonna like not you're gonna give up your spot and go deal with i mean look i wouldn't do this i'm not justifying the doing of this i'm just uh i'm getting myself in the head of someone who would uh shit their pants

and then go on the matterhorn 15 minutes later say you're in line yeah rise of the resistance i know there's a virtual queue so it doesn't quite work but it's a opening day little mermaid it's four hour line you wait three hours 45 minutes you're so close you're alone you're a single man in his 30s and you shit in your oh god i guess you could ask the person behind you, but then... No, you're never getting that spot back. Because they're going to be gone. It's a long line.

I don't know. It's tough. Excuse me. I shit my... Also, Rise of the Resistance maybe is good because you are trapped. You're on a resistance, not a resist. You're on a... What's the fake one?

First order. First order. Yeah. You're on a first order ship and like you can't go backwards a little mermaid you could technically leave that's true you're right if yeah once you're once you're off world on rise of the resistance you have to just live with that shit oh god okay you have to get through the you have to get through You have to get through the Star Destroyer With shit in your pants Get back to Batuu

See Lieutenant Beck And then Lieutenant Beck will allow you to go to the bathroom Oh my god Lieutenant Beck or Becks? I can't remember Beck I think B-E-K I was thinking about this When you're at the grocery store

If you use the front little thing that kids sit in, it can be a shelf, but it also is a seat. How many kids are sitting in that with a shitty diaper? Every single one of them. So people put their bread in that right after. Hopefully it's not out of a bag. Hopefully. Although in some cases, you maybe are getting a sourdough loaf where you sort of bag it yourself or it might like slip out. Yeah, if it's not fully contained, if there's like one way out for the bread.

Yeah. It's gross. I don't know about any of this. I use that for cans. I use that spot for canned goods exclusively. I'm never using it again now. Yeah. I don't use it anymore.

Now you've put it in my head. I thought about that, yeah. So is it good that we're all germ paranoid now? Yeah, well, I think I am a little more germ paranoid. I'm a little more, because of COVID, I am definitely more aware of, I think, how things actually spread. Yeah, now that you say that,

SAMS might be one of the biggest psychological hurdles once everything calms down a little and stuff opens back up because sam's is is that the most intimate like attraction thing oh yeah you're getting droplets for sure oh yeah oh yeah sam is full of droplets there's for sure aerosol spread and they do it that's one of the things when you get a drink. They do. Are you ready for some droplets? Globules at you. Yeah, like a social distance Sam inside would be impossible.

It's not possible. Yeah, you couldn't put up barriers between people on the actual bar. You'd end up with two customers. Forget sharing a fishbowl with someone else. I guess the guess kills somewhat but yeah as far as a straw is concerned are we never all gonna share a big

a massive tiki drink again well have we before well we have maybe not at Peter Sam's, but we have at Howl at the Moon. Oh, yeah. The Universal CityWalk now closed dueling piano bar. I loved Howl at the Moon. I loved. Oh, were you a Howl at the Moon person? Let's take a jaunt over there, Kate. Of course. Let's take a jaunt to CityWalk.

The best part about Howl at the Moon is that they convince you that you can like, like there's a raffle, like a fake raffle that they do when you you can like um like there's a raft like a fake raffle that they do when you come in and you like give them your email address and every every single time you do it you get an email back saying you won the raffle you and your friends get a free party at howl at the moon like if you come but like in this time period and so like anyone can just have a free party where everybody gets half-off drinks. You just have to-

They were doing this grift to us whenever we did this, a year and a half ago, two years ago. We all got the free party available. We all got the emails. It's the best. I love it. I've been to many of those free parties

and they're great. And I love the dueling pianos. Love the, don't they have like buckets of like beers there and stuff like that? It's a great place. That's what we were drinking, a bucket of blue alcohol slime of some kind, like just thick sugar blue slime. Love it. In a blue bucket.

Terrible stuff. And I think, I don't think i'm rewriting history i think i even who i like i like at least one or two sugary drinks i think i said this is disgusting yeah you called it and the other thing they were it was like four dollar like stoli or sky vodka or something yeah that so yeah we had we had one night and then yeah when we went we went up to city wall a couple weeks ago just to check it out and how old the moon is closed there i think it was supposed to reopen on hollywood boulevard though but i did for like a week and then it just closed forever i think they called it yeah so yeah so we'll see maybe that'll come back kate did you party at city walk as a youth as well

no no we were more disneyland people i didn't party at city walk as much although you know i love city walk as an adult i had my birthday at um bubba gump last year oh geez yes a great place uh we should have had you on one of our many, many episode series about City Walker or Downtown Disney. Had we thrown that out, do you have a favorite place? If you had to pick one to talk about at City Walker or Downtown Disney. Okay, good question. Downtown Disney, my favorite place. It is the Uva Bar.

I love the Uva Bar. I was pumped for the Uva Bar. Like, I love the Uva Bar. I was pumped for the Uva Bar episode. I really fucking, yeah. I was very excited. It's great. Just go there for a while mentally. Even though, like, when you try to justify what's great about it, there's like nothing in the list.

It just is a place where there are chairs and glasses of wine. There's something so great about it, though. There's nothing you could say to just, yes, yeah. No, I love it. I think maybe for that reason, because you, maybe it is the lack of theming or anything. It's nothing. It is pleasant.

It's like a certain. It wipes the slate clean if you're like getting tired of little kids stuff and like cartoon characters and balloons in your face. Do that, go be in the most vanilla place i love the uber bar also special shout out to the um downtown disney sephora which is where i used to go and put sunscreen on for free every time i went to disneyland um wow that's a good heck that's a great tip so really good everyone do that you don't have to bring your own sunscreen just go put it on at sephora they've got free trials of everything wow i've never heard this

really excellent tip this this is might be a game changer because like if you bring your own sunscreen so you bring a big bottle do you carry it all day leave it in the car oh but plastic balloons out i don't know if you guys have ever experienced this you leave like hand sanitizer sunscreen in a car and then it just warps if the car is too hot it just like expands so like single service sephora is a great yeah and you can really like you can use the free samples of some very expensive sunscreen for free right so wow celebrity yeah you get some like you know celebrity brand sunscreen some like some kylie kylie jenner shit over there yeah yeah like some like twitch star as a mandy gerber sunscreen yeah yes casamigos since casamigos casamigos sunscreen. Casamigos sunscreen. Casamigos branded sunscreen. They should do a sunscreen line, Casamigos. Him and George.

Oh, yeah. Randy and George should do a sunscreen line. Oh, yeah, because they're always out talking to the workers in the field who are making the tequila. Yeah. They need that sunscreen to protect them and the workers. They're good friends. And they're two guys with wealthy, you know, wealthy looking skin. I would buy some skin shit from them.

Yeah. That's pretty accurate. That is the way to describe that sort of like leathery husk. Yeah, like a healthy, expensive leather. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, like a nice recliner. Yeah.

You could make a nice recliner out of George Clooney or Randy Gerber's skin. Mm-hmm. I like that. Or line your car with it. Yeah. Could the seats in my car be made out of George Clooney's skin? Mm-hmm. I like that.

Wait, that implies that you were previously aware of Randy Gerber, who comes up on this podcast nearly every episode. I'm not sure why. I mean, I'm a big fan of the Gerber family. Kaya. I love Kaya. were previously aware of randy gerber who comes up on this podcast nearly every episode i mean i'm a big fan of the gerber family kaya i love kaya cindy cropper love her the son the son has a bunch of has like a bunch of face tattoos i love the gerber we did we did an episode on casamigos on our patreon and we taught i only briefly touched on the family, but the family has a lot of seemingly drama surrounding them as well.

Love them. But we just tried to focus on the business side of the Gerber brand. And the Gerber group, of course, the three men in the Gerber family who all are part of the Gerber group. The Gerber group. I didn't know about the Gerber group. Yes. And I'm trying to remember. I think there's Scott Gerber family who all are part of the Gerber group. The Gerber group. I didn't know about the Gerber group. Yes.

And I'm trying to remember. I think there's Scott Gerber. There's Randy Gerber. It's brothers, right? Yeah. And there's a mysterious third part. No, it's Casamigos that's the mysterious third partner. Yeah.

He's the party boy of Casamigos. But the Gerber group is a different thing. Those the three brothers uh in the gerber family wow uh scott let me bring you back into the fold real quick i have a question since you brought up the uva bar which i i know is one of your haunts um i i have only very briefly been there have you been to uva bar since downtown disney reopened no i haven't been there uh in general um okay i'm i'm certainly thinking about it i'm getting the i'm getting the hankering um and you know we actually haven't recorded an episode since this new plan uh that they are going to open some of california adventure specifically for uh food drink and and merchandise um which i'm very excited about i feel like i might give it a shot um and this is maybe the way to finally get back to drinking at

disneyland even in the tiniest regard i don't know if you know about any of this kate but i think what what they're saying is an outdoor version of carthay circle uh and the um smoke jumpers the uh aviation themed restaurant next to soren uh will be open the bad hamburgers that's like the worst uh why why that one of all the colors of all the culinary experiences but why not bring why not bring the food and wine festival back then instead? I agree with that. I don't know if it's just proximity. There's some money reason why they only want to open that little area right when you enter the park.

And why not just... Maybe that's all they can reasonably set up and staff and lights. I guess so. Because you have to have something sit down, right? Because you can't have a bunch of people walking around. Yeah, getting hammered. I don't know, but they have the food and wine.

People are just eating and walking around drinking. I'm not really sure of the reason. I don't... Yeah, I'm not sure. Those Daily Beast, that big expose about outbreaks of doubt out disney has me so spooked like i don't know if i will try it out uh wait i don't know about this oh no what does it say oh didn't it when i texted it and i was something in september i think wasn't

it was it september and august and basically like disney is not like communicating about like if someone is positive they're not doing a good job at letting other cast members know it's positive. There were positive tests. They weren't letting the union know in a timely manner. And I was shocked this wasn't brought up when everyone was complaining about Gavin Newsom's opening plans. But there was a statistic about, like, colleagues would disappear for days at a time and no one knew why 11 people from the 12 person horticultural irrigation team didn't show up to work for a full week is a section of the article so uh yeah that combined with the lines we had been seeing

at downtown disney i think the thing that appealed to me going up the city walk was how empty it was yeah nobody not at all oh no but they're killing full horticulture groups i guess not killing them well yeah it seems like people people were okay but it doesn't seem like they were doing a good job they weren't testing on site so uh oh man yeah we'll see about that. I mean, I think if you go in the middle of the day towards these reopened downtown days, I'm sure the crowds are a lot less. Were you saying that there was no one at CityWalk?

It was light. When we went up there, it was pretty light. There was as many security people it seemed as it was. I went and it was crowded and it was scary. To Universal CityWalk. Wow. It was like, was the,

was the polling place open? Do you think that, do you remember if that, no, I went like months ago. I went probably to, I went probably too early in the pandemic. Like it was like,

it was like one of the first places I went to, to just like see about going somewhere in public. And Jack and I went went we like got our temperatures taken and and it was like i was expecting no one to be there it was like fully packed like all the restaurants like were full bubba gump had all the outdoor seating like completely filled up like it was it was scary there's like long line to get into hot topic long line to get into voodoo donuts it was like i think yeah you may maybe went when like everybody was like oh my god it's open we gotta go i think what i think what the remember that time period

when like restaurants like fully opened for some reason yeah i think that's like when i went and it was like they weren't inside they weren't eating inside but it was still like very scary right did you just get out of there or did you try we did like one lap and then like immediately went home because it was too scary wow wow you know i was thinking before this episode i was like well this is one where we're going to talk about covet a lot and where we'll say a lot of things like uh you know because when you go there and you you know you get the wine and then well you know not right now but and thinking, oh, if only this is like this may be a little idea of an invention or some tech or an app that somebody could make. If there was like in three years from now, when all this is, I hope, done.

If like there was some kind of app that could extract mentions of COVID from every podcast episode where we all had to talk about it for a long time so that they are listenable in the future where we don't have this shadow on us. I mean, it would be a lot of work. This app, if it extracted all of the COVID references, it would be just like over a year's worth

of material between every podcast that has to talk about it. Oh, sorry. You should just have some you should just like have some word that you say instead of COVID that will be like evergreen. Like we can't go right now because we all have you know, a conference.

We're all at a conference. We're all at a convention. And then like that'll be fine. People will be like, oh, well, they had a conference. They were out of town yeah what if you replace covid with conference like well we can't go because of the conference it works it does it works because of the conference trump's response to the conference has been horrible it's just some i just i'm sorry i've been sleeping really bad just because i'm scared about where everything's going with the conference i hope we get a vaccine for the conference soon

not as good yeah works works for me i yeah yeah well someone someone developed this i think a lot of people say the conference isn't real but but I mean, people are going to the conference. Yeah. A lot of people in Orange County deny that the conference exists. The conference is the most popular event in American history. That's my other thing that worries me

about downtown Disney, period, is the location in Orange County. That was another memorable bar experience I had in orange county uh at disneyland once at california adventure i like waited an hour to get into the cove bar sat down and before i could say hello to the bartender some like skeezy looking orange county crest punks walked up to the service bar ordered two zombies to go and got served before me and i was just like no please i've just been waiting waiting in the sun for an hour i just got snaked by these guys with backpacks that are mostly straps i don't understand what's going on so you hate the whole county now i You know, it's a strange place.

Two guys cut in front of you in line, and now the county's on notice. Well, it's, you know, all the other, there's other stuff in Arts County. There's not a shortage. No, no, no, the opinion's correct, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, hey, that's one thing to talk about. We all live, you know, sort of in like in like valley la you know this this part of the city uh disneyland's way down in anaheim march county uh we love to go and uh drink a good amount uh but at some point somebody's got to worry about the drive home how much do you wish there was a

more reliable transportation back and forth. How great would that be? I would love if that existed. Have you done the train? I've always wanted to try doing the train, but it seems like too complicated. Because you have to take a bus. I've gotten, yes, you have to take a bus. I've gotten so close to trying it. And then it's always just like, but then you got it.

It's another 90 minutes on the trip, maybe both ways. I think so. And it's just got it's another 90 minutes on the trip maybe both ways i think so and it's just yeah it's yeah it's too hard my sister took it one time when my family was here and she was working and she took a train down the train got delayed about five hours oh she showed up at like midnight it was crazy that's some of the risk yeah if it's off, it's extremely off. I've tried to figure this out on behalf of the company. Is there just a shuttle bus that runs every 10 minutes from some spot in LA back and forth? From the studio.

Sure. That would be nice. I mean, I've rarely ever had enough to drink that a nice five hour walk in the sun won't, you know, get me sober, but it would be nice to go. I could have a,

I could have two drinks at the end of the night and get on a bus and, and be okay. Yeah. That would be, yeah. Usually I'm just eating so much food that like, I can't ever really break through. Like,

I mean, as a, as a teen, we would get like blackout drunk at Disneyland, but now that I'm like 30, I just, I can't like ever really get that drunk at Disneyland. Cause like I just eat so much.

I mean, I love the food there. The thing I love almost more than the drinking is the eating. I mean, they're both, they're tied, they're tied, they're tied,

but yeah, I never, I can't get that drunk. It's also, yeah, it's so much walking and sweating like you're just you can't retain any of the poison yeah on a like light day you're getting those 10 000 steps at least uh pretty easily on a on a fairly typical day you're maybe

getting like 26 000 like it's a ton of what it's like way more than you do regularly like you'd never like actively go on that amount of hike or something i remember maybe somebody better than me would um but uh i don't yeah you you do so much exercise that counteracts it which i think helps you go for that like long distance i've been drinking since 10 30 a.m or whatever yeah the hardest i've ever really gone i feel like the hardest i'll go is like two carthay manhattans back to back at 2 p.m and then that's the best the way when you get like slight when you get like a heavy buzz at carthay circle in the middle of the day and you don't have anywhere to drive anytime soon

and you're just like that's the best i miss that i miss that feeling oh yeah i miss it a lot yes especially if i have a fast pass for mission breakout and i'm leaving with two carthays inside i mean that's there's nothing better than better yeah yeah yeah um kate one of my favorite sorry scott were you saying oh so it was one of my favorite experiences, like this is way up there in the Disneyland drinking, was like having a weird little Anaheim expedition with my wife Erin on the way down going to the Anaheim Fry's Electronics,

discovering that it had a weird space video that played in a loop all the time. It was a really rainy day, and then we like raided in the rain and then got into like very warm Carthay circle and then had a couple manhattans and by the end of it i was like i'm gonna be the guy on the screen like what i was so fired up from the manhattans i'm gonna figure out a way that it's not gonna be that old astronaut it's gonna be me and then i did it it happened and this was the entire i don't know if you know about this i know all about this

i followed this very closely it's something i as someone who also loves fries like and this was big for me when this happened for you oh oh wait because oh we talked about this that's right because you you grew up near the uh is it el Hawaiian one? The Manhattan Beach like tiki themed, the Polynesian themed fries was my hometown fries. And I'm just proud to be a hometown fries girl. To be so lucky to grow up with one in your backyard, it's almost better than having a theme park. I'm very blessed. I had a very blessed childhood at that fries. It's where I got my first iPod.

Oh, wow. it's a big fries for me geez do you remember like a they're still selling that generation i know they stopped right after that one um it's a top-notch fries it's a great price uh mike you were heading somewhere though oh i was just gonna ask because you, you're talking about blackout drunk. Of course, this makes me retroactively, as a kid, very uncomfortable. Like, was it, in my kid brain, it was like, oh, like, people were just looking at you, and it was like, danger was around every turn because of employees, or was it literally no one cared, and, and like you just had a

nice time no one cared we would just like rage hard at like world of color like chugging like water bottles full of like evan williams like that was the vibe it was great it was pure teenage bliss it was great so it was just perfect so so yeah because because i would imagine the scenario is i'm whatever 13 15 even if somebody had like a little like travel size bottle of liquor they like showed me before we went into security i would have been sweating so profusely the whole day i feel like but it's obviously like no one cares i think it like i feel like it was different because we were like we were like cute like teen girls and like you just get away with like so much when you're like a privileged like teenage like sweet looking girl so we would I don't think we

like thought rules applied to us I mean it's a big problem it's why a lot of problems in the world exist because of that phenomenon but I it but it worked really well for us at the time when it came to sneaking alcohol into disneyland we like weren't that scared about it i guess like sometimes i would like you know when i stopped bringing them into the water bottles and started bringing them into flasks then i would try to hide them and that would be a little more stressful that's harder yeah yeah but like marissa strickland has told us about like grad night shenanigans at Disneyland. I mean, grad night is lawless at Disneyland or- They banned it. By the time I was a senior, they banned grad night for my school because like someone OD'd

or something. Wow, that's right. I remember that being a punishment. I don't think my class did it, but I think maybe a different class at my high school. That is the punishment. If somebody, which is so so crazy somebody dies or something no disneyland we had to do ours at dave and busters that was our grad night it was at dave was that it was like in i think it was like in orange county somewhere it was like a far away dave and busters i remember being on a bus

for a long time just to go to dave Buster's not as Irvine or something probably like Jason we were at a grad night and I do think there was a kid that was am I wrong were you here where there was a kid that was too drunk and there was a problem and a security like security was trying to figure out what yeah yeah someone had to intervene yeah because we were trying to hang out like mad tea party or something and not be hassled by some drunk teen yeah we just wanted to hear covers of songs for our youth um we just wanted to see wholesome covers with uh words cut out i'm assuming yeah so i'm not sure i know an example of what you mean this is the kind of thing that was at the mad tea party well there was a set list that they would do every night princess let's go crazy was in it

yeah it was like a blink 182 song in there i think as well this we'll get to this on the mad tea party episode eventually i'll find the full set list but i think there would be a word or two i think we would think word or two here comes an inappropriate line in one of these songs and they would like change it to make sure it wasn't offensive. I don't think it was like... I'm trying to think of a dirty Blink-182 song. I don't think it was so bad, but I think they changed a little things.

Yeah. When you were talking about blackout drunk, I was recalling that there's there has been one time in my life that i was that at a disney park and it doesn't fit with the topic technically because it was at disney world um and i don't even know if blackout well i don't know like like vaguely on the line i'm using blackout like pretty liberally. I mean like just drunk, capital D drunk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That line where you know the difference.

Yes, it's not like I remember how I got home and such. But yeah, definitely the drunkest ever was, which was started with a pregame at the California Grill, which is on top of the contemporary hotel in Disney World. And that's where you can like get the monorail from the hotel you just go down into the lobby and it passes through the hotel and there was a monorail ride that was so drunky and i was just like let me look at photos of this and i just found one that i did not know existed and i going to share the screen so you can see this. This right here is the drunkest I've ever been on property.

Oh, my God. I think it shows. Oh, Jesus. Wow. That's so good. Ten years ago, I'm like swinging between like bars. I'm like dangling off of a, we had the car to ourselves. There was nobody else in there.

And I'm like, my feet are up on the seat i'm like uh swinging like uh a disrespectful teen really there's no other way to say it and i'm like i mean i'm given a very cool finger that is also between my legs so it looks uh fairly sexual what you're i love it this is this is p this is peak cool this is so This is peak cool. It's pretty, I felt cool. I certainly felt good. Look, here's some other, I'm like hopping between cars. There's other teens too. Look at these.

There's friends. There's friends once in a Pirates of the Caribbean shirt. These were the, yeah, shout out to the Cadelia brothers. We came with them. But yeah, pretty, pretty loopy here. But if the worst thing that I did was like jump over some seats in a monorail car where we were bothering no one else, it's not like I was like kicking children in the face. I'd say that's not so bad.

Can you go back to that previous photo? Yes. Yeah. This one? Are you... I'm trying to figure out how many shirts are you wearing? Oh, that's a lot of shirts. Oh, it was cold.

This is December. Oh, it's December. Okay, yeah. And since I'm from California, I don't have warm clothes. So this is always me in New York, too. I don't have a nice, thick coat. I just wear six layers of regular clothes. And that's actually how they taught us uh in the boy scouts

that's how they teach you to dress for like cold weather hiking and camping is because rather than one big coat layers so you can just take them off or put them on as needed oh yes indeed uh you were being responsible uh yes one sense this is a this is a photo of a responsible person. There's also me on the plane. Oh, wow. That's bad behavior. Pretty bad behavior from the good boy. When we started this podcast, you know, Jason and I did a lot of opposition research type research on Scott, and we did not find these photos. And I don't know if we would have started the podcast.

I don't know. Yeah. Is it going to kill the whole thing entirely? a monorail it's pretty disrespectful disrespectful yeah i get in i will defend i will i will proffer defense uh because we were down last year and i was on a bus once to disney springs last year and there were some retirees that were gone so i had to say at disney world they kind of encourage the vacation spirit the vacation indulgence because let's be frank they just care about the bottom line so uh there were some people who were you were the young person version of gone and they were the like used car dealership odor version of god uh so you know well and i didn't have to

drive anywhere when you're in the vacation kingdom uh you can just go crash at home and i made it back safe uh uh and uh and i remember did harry potter for the first time the next morning with like the thickest hangover i've had in a very long time sure. What does it take for me to not, do I just need to, in light of these recent photographs, I just want to say that I'm learning, I'm progressing. Does the public apology do it? You need to make a donation. You need to make a donation to Monorail Carpets.

Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say. I'll find out who cleans them i'll find out if there's a service and i'll like invest in a new um vacuum you better hope though that those brothers you were with don't pull a bobolinsky and go on podcast the ride and sell you out and you better hope that there's a lot not a laptop floating around yeah because if if more comes out you will be punished with the uh you will no longer allowed to be saying the phrase cocktail or alcohol on the podcast you will only be allowed to say adult

libations no don't make me do it no kate there's this thing i've been complaining about for a long time i think that we are the first podcast about Disney parks where we'll say, like, when we get drunk, we got drunk with drinks because almost every other one dances around the phrase for like the longest little socially distant dance until they finally get to. I may have had a few special potions or two. I may perhaps an adult libation i don't know i won't say anymore i it's either that i mean both ends this is a time where both ends of the spectrum are

actually very tedious of like i supped upon an adult libation on one end and the other end of like here's the places to get jack daniel that at disney world like it's like all right guys these guys uh no thank you not for me either of you i found a picture i found a picture of myself as a drunk teen at disneyland but it's hell yeah oh it's not this is more wholesome coming of age it's not as good it's not as good hold on okay here as good. Hold on. Okay, here's me. Yes. Oh. Oh, you have a mustache. Okay, so here's what we would do. Here's what we would do.

We would get drunk and then we would make the face painters paint our faces at the face painting booth. But they have very strict rules for what adults are allowed to get or like non-children. So they can't give you a full face paint they can only give you like a partial face paint so we would just get the mustache from the pirate oh which that that's good that reads as like you know you got a porn stash yeah it was truly annoying it was like in that era remember when like mustaches were funny as like a thing as like a cultural thing that was like around that era there was an article recently i think in like

vulture or something that was about the people it's like well i got a thing i got a mustache tattoo on my finger in 2011 and i'm still dealing with it yeah oh man and that is the funniest thing i like um i like holland oats uh a ton definitely one of my favorite bands and i've seen them live a lot uh and this this like dissipated a little uh in fact i saw them in vegas and there was none of this but then i saw when i saw them at the hollywood bowl one time the amount of fake press-on mustaches with these fucking irony hounds attending this show. This is not good.

Don't like this mustache parade. It's not about the mustache. It's about the music. I've never been... Look, I'm on the record. I've never been a fake mustache guy. That's good. The whole memefying of mustache.

No. Over Tom Selleck, you know know i like tom selleck fine except for his political views but i feel you know the mustache what i could dark period of history when we like memefied mustaches i don't think it was a good era but but maybe maybe it was a simpler time you know it was like we weren't all so that was enough for us just like a funny mustache we were at brunch we were talking about must we were at brunch and we all had mustaches and the cats videos you know that those were the days simpler oh no I found an actual picture of me as a teen black much more this is a better okay there's

I have a bunch of them from like this one trip where we got drunk as teens at Disneyland send us any you're willing to make public and we can black out people's eyes or we can add a mustache to people too my friend

her parents bought us a hotel room at the grand californian wait can you see this this is us as teens getting like wasted in the hotel room here's me like i'm front and center drunk with my mother a different mustache different mustache clearly a different occasion and i'm like just gone here's me like also wasted on the big grizzly rapids rapids oh these are great okay here's yeah here's us at the at the ariel's grotto just drunk out of our teenage minds truly just but you're having you're having the best time you're jammed into a phone booth the truly not an appropriate thing in the fashion fun now that's what we like doesn't work in the era of the conference i would get fit i would get fake oh i'd get drunk and i would get fake names stitched onto disney hats so i've i've made up a name that obviously isn't my name i got it stitched onto a hat

wait in this in this case the name is moxie which is like something a teenager would think is like a cool name i feel like hilarious yeah yeah i was just wondering if you had a friend named moxie i had no i didn't i never met a moxie is there a chance like jason and i are like in the background of one of these photos like being probably probably i mean look how annoying can you imagine like the level of annoying we would be as a group there's like five of us we all have different like face paints on and we're drunk teenage girls it's a great it's a great vibe but you spent money on property and that's the only thing that matters that's the thing that matters in the law ground

there really is also i feel like you know there's a level of public intoxication but like what's the worst you guys are going to do you're going to like run around and yell that's what everyone's doing exactly right yeah that's yeah you're doing that you know even at you know at a concert this would be a problem or a sporting event perhaps but here it's what's here's the poor employee that had to like indulge us with our face paint how many times did you get a mustache? Honestly, like I had an annual pass and I did it every time for like a full like two years or something. Like it was it's not like a great part of my life. I don't I'm not proud of it, but I did it a lot.

I did it like way too much. Like when I say that was a dark time in history. I mean, that was a mustache memes were a dark time in my personal history. I was very much like a mustache person i thought mustaches were very funny i thought it was funny that i had them painted on me looking back i i must cringe i must cringe at my past self but what are you gonna do i mustache i don't think you should feel bad though i do think the uh the volume that apparently exists of you with the mustache maybe does make it funny maybe if it was

one off you go well that wasn't the funniest thing in the world but if you have like two years worth of pictures of it i do kind of i really have a lot that's a pretty that's a commitment to a bit yeah that's a real yeah i mean i am serious about committing to bits so i guess i guess i haven't really changed which wouldn't you though you say it's a dark time. If you were afforded the opportunity to safely go tomorrow to Disneyland, get a mustache and drink a lot. I mean, this era you describe as dark sounds better than the whole of 2020. It was the best time of my life. I can't lie.

Yeah. Do you have a recommendation of a restroom for a bunch of teenagers to take shots at The family restroom in the Bugs world. Is it still there? Oh, it's gone. Oh, no. The family restroom, though. If you can get one that's not like a main restroom, like one that you can lock the door and it's just you guys in there, that's the best place to go do shots wow well the tiki that tiki

room single single stall bathroom or is there maybe there's two that's a little bit of a high traffic area though but it is very small um i wouldn't I, you can lock the stall in Carthay circle, but you can't lock the door. Yeah. So I'm not sure I'd have to go do some recon here to figure out what would, what would be the best for a teen. And you never encountered, you never all came out and then had some employees say,

wait a minute, what were you all doing in there no one like ever said you you reek of booze and your name isn't moxie is it show me your id moxie i knew i'd catch you again you thought you could disguise yourself with that mustache nice try moxie this was all what i thought would happen if i was hanging out with you when i was a teen i would have been like oh my god they're gonna know they're gonna know you're not moxie and i would like just be like freaked the whole time guess what they they fell for it they thought my name was fucking moxie those fucking losers they believed every last word of it those fools

there's still people that go you remember that moxie she was very nice she had mustache on there's a very fast girl named moxie another another fake name i got once was i just got britannica on the back wow that's long that's impressive i picked a long one yeah a lot of work that's good the stitcher um i'm it's like it's like westworld you know you can go and have a new identity just for that day it's a good point we we would do that we would get drunk and like to talk to people in like british accents and stuff and like pretend we were we were just little annoying little trolls but it was fun that's yeah that's a real teen bit yeah yeah or like the funny guy at the office just starts talking in a cockney accent for no reason. That would drive me up the wall on my old day jobs.

Just purely annoying. Yeah. The opposite of charming. Yeah. I've had like guy who won't stop doing Stewie from Family Guy. That's pretty rough. Yeah. I've also had like guy who won't stop doing Jason Bateman from Family Guy. That's pretty rough. Yeah. I've also had like Guy

Who Won't Stop Doing Jason Bateman from Dodgeball. Ooh. Specific. Yeah. Very specific. I was going to say, Scott, you bringing that up,

I do have some pictures from when I went with my high school marching band at 18. I have my friend sober climbing all over like you were doing in the monorail. I mean, you might do that even without. It took alcohol for me to overcome my reverence for the place.

That's really what it did. Knocked out my inhibition and the inherent utmost respect that I have for monorails. Of course. Podcasts are great because they help us make the most out of our routine. We learn about the fall of the Ottoman Empire while we drive, keep up with news while we take the dog for a walk, or turn folding laundry into a comedy show.

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In their, not a quad. No sexual things, but a third in the vacation. And we were at the Abracadabra, and I think we may have had three Manhattans at the Abracadabra, which is right by Epcot Center, right by, I can't think of the name of the entrance. Help me out here. The greatest entrance. The International Gateway. The International Gateway, of course.

And Kate, it's a magic-themed bar. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Yes, it's fantastic. Could there be a magician doing a trick? Sure, but there's not. Oh, well. But Luke and I, Luke's wife had gone to the bathroom, and Luke and I were sitting there,

and there's a woman with her husband, and they had been drinking. And this woman came over and was significantly older than us, and in front of this man, and we assume was some sort of a partner just started hitting on us basically propositioning us in like an insane then like kind of like insulting luke's wife as well in the process we were like in what regard like what like a day uh nothing not with as far as insulting like was nothing major but like it felt like dismiss maybe dismissive is a better word like kind of like oh you like you both of you are very attractive but very handsome like who's that who's that who's that woman over there

and we were like we were with it enough to know what was going on and and then the guy was just like in the conversation like enjoy like enjoying it or just helpless to stop it. And I remember Luke's wife came back out and like, we just, we bolted as fast as we could. And we're like trying to like, and still to this day, we're trying to actually figure out the series of events that led to this. Like, cause we're trying to piece it together of like we didn't talk to this woman before because we were leaving we just stood up and then this woman started to hit on us and so we're still one event in this there's one event in this series the event is you guys being friggin hung don't sell yourself short all right well thank you i

appreciate that you look we're both about six three we're both from the midwest i don't know yeah yeah corn fed corn fed we're both corn fed hunks we're both corn fed hunks in our mid 30s corn yeah they were fed so much corn that they got so so tall like a corn stock that's my problem i didn't i do every time i hear the term corn fed i just think of like boys getting like force-fed tons of corn that's the picture it conjures well it feels like an animal it was like a thing and like milk for some reason like milk and corn like i picture like a big bowl of corn with like a big jug of milk, and that's all you eat. I definitely drank a lot of milk and ate a lot of corn. That's what it feels like being someone from Southern California,

like LA area. I had never been to the Midwest. I just thought that's what corn-fed meant. I don't think that's totally wrong. It's not off. Yeah. School lunch came with carton of milk every day milk with cereal for breakfast milk with a glass of milk with dinner uh yeah sounds gross oh yeah in hindsight yeah would we ever you know this episode's called

drinking at disneyland and yet we've made the leap that this is about uh you know adult libations we could have devoted a whole lot of this episode and still could to all the various milks that you could drink so many milks there's a lot of milks yeah i don't mean that star wars stuff like that's no that doesn't technically i want to i want like cartons of milk well that's something we figured out a few years ago where if you just want a little snack you can order the kids meal or uh once or twice i've seen mike order the toddler meal um which is usually just a scoop or two of mac and cheese and a carton of milk maybe some apple slices well what i'll do is i'll i will order that if it's an app in app because i don't want to say toddler meal because i don't have a child but But if it's in the app and I can just place the order and then pick it up, then I don't

have to actually say it's a child's meal or the toddler meal. And if you want a little snack- When we get to go in a couple years, you can use my son as a cover so you can get your milk. Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott. Give me the kid. Give me the kid. Give me the kid.

Hey. All right, here we go. You run. Toss him over here. Hey, it's for him. Hey. Give me the kid. Give me the kid. Hey, here we go. Toss him over here. Hey, it's for him. Hey, I'm moving. Tyler Meal, it's for this thing. This kid right here.

Yanking him by one arm, using the app with the other, dragging him along the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not for me. It's for him. Well, Mike, this is kind of breaking news. I just got this. Shane just texted this to me. Coming to McDonald's, Disney World Happy Meals toys.

I know all about this. Okay. There is a series of McDonald's Happy Meal toys to commemorate, I think, the 50th anniversary of Disney World. And they very much seem like stuff we collected when we were kids, but it'll be like Mickey and the Tower of Terror at McDonald's. Wow. Which is very exciting to see the parks represented at McDonald's.

I think those are appearing soon, supposedly. You know what they should have as a Happy Meal is the now non-existent McDonald's French fry booth outside of Thunder Mountain Railroad. They should have a toy. Isn't they're called like westward of that of that little cart that used to sell mcdonald's french fries yeah i i think at the time people thought that was a little odd but now i think we're almost nostalgic for that it was like sure i was so sad when that went away but you know they replaced it with like the they put the chimichangas there and those are pretty good so oh yes correctly it says westward i guess that's not it that's not at disney world so it wouldn't count for the 50th anniversary

happy meal oh sure for sure yeah this was this was my one of my favorite spots this french fry stand you could just get french fries and drinks yeah yeah whoa and it says there's gold in them i didn't know that wow that's great wow um yeah well if you want to do the full episode about the French fry cart. I could go on and on. I have a lot to say about that cart. One of the best carts in all the land. That's also, that's the era. And now Disneyland especially has gotten so crazy expensive.

And I know getting a drink and having an annual pass is all nice privilege we all have usually been able to afford but 10 years ago it was such a different money landscape for disney like the annual passes they were just giving away like you could basically get an annual pass and go a decent amount for like slightly over a day ticket and now it's like 50 times that amount of money so i romanticized that era too of when i had first come to la and was going to socal resident when my family yeah came to visit like once or twice the first time they would get like a few day park hoppers and we go down there and then they're like oh you live here you can turn this into an annual pass i was like what and they're like yeah just pay us like 30 bucks i was like okay and then you just have an annual pass for a year yeah it was it was

fantastic that that era yeah um it was like six flags where like they were so cheap yeah i'm nostalgic uh for the time before i paid you know nearly a thousand dollars uh up front for an annual pass to a place that now has been closed for eight months because of the conference the conference the conference um i like if i just hadn't gone that one day i don't know what i mean at this point it's becoming it's like starting to loop around the full year so maybe i just get it back or most of it or or i can go so far into the future there's rumors now because tokyo Tokyo Disney is canceling annual passes. They're just canceling the program. And people are thinking it's possible they do that here for a little while.

So who knows? I'm not saying. What comes of me? Are they just going to take my money in order to get it back? Probably. Disney's like broke, aren't they? Aren't they running out of money? They've already had my money. So they're're not gonna give it back to me willingly well tokyo is refunding everyone with the passes yeah i mean disney will refund

here if that's what they're doing but i think disney is getting cash poor the oriole the oriental land company that runs tokyo disney might have more cash on hand and the ability to just refund it especially if they have like government subsidies uh so yeah i don't know i'm very curious to see if disneyland would cancel the annual pass program because i feel like it would just make everyone even madder they can't do that i feel like they can't. They won't do that. I don't know. Well, their business model out here at Disneyland is like 70, 30, 80, 20 locals going to Disneyland, which is what Florida has become. Usually it's the reverse.

In Florida, it's mostly tourists and a small percentage of locals. But yeah, it'll be interesting when the parks reopen out here. Can I talk about a way thatney could maybe get some of this money back in their pockets and and we've we've touched upon this here and there uh the idea this this general thing of that you can drink in downtown disney and you can drink in california adventure but you cannot drink in disneyland park uh proper unless you are sneaking it into a restroom.

Doesn't it seem like if they're going to bring it back, isn't now the time? Like, why not? Obviously, they started doing it in Galaxy's Edge. The tradition is starting to crumble a little bit. Why not? I feel like people will be so ready and so excited to drink in Disneyland. And I wanted to bring up this question. Drinking spots, if you could put some spots into Disneyland proper. And, you know, space is limited.

It doesn't always have to be a sit-down restaurant. We know they can't build those super easy. But we were just looking at the westward ho mcdonald's fry cart if there was this kind of thing for beers or uh adult sarsaparilla or what have you um i mean like are there places where you wish you could like get a drink themed to the the land that you're in a pirate a pirates of the caribbean bar would be like so perfect you could get like rum drinks and like i mean putting you could put that like in the new orleans square like where all the pins pin shops and shit just knock out one of those overpriced jewelry stores and

put in a bar yeah yeah yes yeah i mean they already have the like alcohol free mint juleps that's an easy switch over who wants that why do you want a non-alcoholic that just seems like i mean i if you're a a youngster perhaps but like i just like to use the name there's something about creating a new mocktail idea that's interesting uh and but like, just like to use the name, there's something about creating a new mocktail idea that's interesting. But like to take something that you know is supposed to have alcohol and just not have it, it seems odd. I think I've said all this before in piecemeal in the last three years of the podcast, but yes, like mint julep with alcohol they're neat you can get a beer at the golden horseshoe or at the restaurant over by big thunder i think i've even proposed the idea of

leveling that restaurant and making a like a double decker restaurant of some kind like a saloon that you can overlook big thunder yes indeed yes Yes. Yes. Some sort of observation deck in Tomorrowland where you can get a neon blue Glowtini with a little cube that lights up, and again, you overlook Tomorrowland in the park. That's a slam dunk. And then there's one more, and I'm trying to think of what it is.

Jungle Cruise? Jungle, yes. By the new area, new uh tropical hideaway is a perfect place for a small variety of tiki drinks similar to trader sam's um and do the mugs do the sell the mugs as well but they're different mugs you got to go and park to get these mugs this is all slam dunk stuff and you don't have to don't allow maybe don't allow it walk around if you really need to like ease up ease into this more you just have it be like local like in the in the actual spot like similar to like ogos that method like you know

sure if an hour in there or something if you need to if they're concerned about like ideeing people or that sort of stuff i mean i recognize that there are a lot of minors and people underage who go to disneyland alone or whatever and and it's safe and it's comfortable and so i get that concern i think there's a lot of pearl clutching on the topic of like alcohol going in the park. Walt walked in. But Walt was a lush. I mean, I've had Walt's drink at the park. His drink is like pure like gasoline. It's scotch over crushed ice with a twist of lemon rind.

And it's good. I hated it. I was like, this is just drinking scotch. I thought it would be. I thought it's. I just ordered it because it said it was Walt's good. I hated it. I was like, this is just drinking scotch. I thought it would be, I thought it's, I just ordered it because it said it was Walt's drink and I didn't even read the description, but it's like, it's just drinking scotch. Yeah, it's just scotch over ice,

which is a drink I like to have. I am, again, a total lightweight, so I can have one at Disneyland if I'm driving because maybe a second if I'm like walking around and eating a big meal for hours Kate I do agree with what you said like I just eat all day if I'm I just burn off the calories from walking around so much I'm just constantly eating I just started packing cliff bars more when I go to the parks because I'm like I cannot spend money on like a shitty sandwich again.

They're not shitty. None of the food there is shitty. How dare you? Some of the food is magical. It can be magical and also awful. The best drunk food, while I'm thinking of it, is the hot Cheeto-esque mac and cheese uh cone at the um yes at the cozy cones that's that's my go-to like i'm drunk it's the end of the day i need to eat something i love those cones they're so good and i like that and they're like you can while you're eating them you go i know how this could

be 50 better but there's something very satisfying about the the texture of the bread in the cone that's like very satisfying to eat when now it's like not the best tasting bread but you do like there i don't just something in your mouth that's nice the bread is so like pillowy and like yes just good it's so good and i'll get like the chili in there once in a while that's very good jack yeah jack and i like to get one of each and we try we try each other's that's the cone method that we do one of my sleeper favorite drinks is at one of those cozy cones which is the uh uh the limeade with vodka in it with the like alcoholic cones yes the pomegranate is like a pomegranate foam on the top as well it's like a sugar foam that i love

scott and kate you guys grew up here and i don't know when California Adventure was opening, were people scandalized by like this park across from Disneyland will have libations? Or was it just like, well, we know Epcot and MGM Studios have it in Florida. So, yeah, I guess it makes sense if our second park has it. Well, I'm happy to say I was in high school and I was not in any source of place that would be scandalized by this idea. I'm thrilled to say. I mean, I wouldn't put it past myself to be checking some lame message board. But it was certainly not in the newspaper. I don't think it was a big deal.

I think it was. My mom loves Chardonnay. And I went with her. And I remember her getting one and not thinking it was weird oh yeah what am i saying they for the marketing of the first one was like we got robert it was very wine california wine centric yeah although i have a i have a quick anecdote about the opening of california adventures because i was like went there like before they like i went there right when it opened with my parents because they got divorced okay my parents like said that we have to have a family meeting and I like you know find out they're like getting divorced and then as I'm like a crying

like 11 year old child I'm like I say like I thought when you said we're having a family meeting I thought we were gonna go to Disneyland and then my parents like stop like what they're 11 year old child i'm like i say like i thought when you said we're having a family meeting i thought we were gonna go to disneyland and then my parents like stop like what they're doing and say okay well let's go to disneyland and then as like a freshly divorced couple we all pile into a car with my like newly divorced parents and like go to disneyland as like a family. And it was very awkward. It was the day that they told us. And as a weird like curve ball, we get there and Disneyland is like, well, if you go to California Adventures

and go to Disneyland another day, we'll give you a free ticket. So because they were like trying to get people to go to California Adventures and not Disneyland. So like the first time I went to California Adventures, I was like crying the whole time because my parents had just told us they were getting divorced but still insisted that we all go and it was like so fucked up and i like hated california adventures for

years because i like associated it with my parents divorce and like really the only way i was able the only way i came back to it was as like a teen getting blackout drunk so actually i feel like i just had therapy and this all makes sense now well you know why you that's a very good reason that's insane well and what a weird you've been to like all right fine we'll go to disney well you know you could all come back again sometime you know all of you as a family together just come back the second time my dad didn't go the second time so oh man whoa this is just my mom that time my newly newly single mom wow that was the primary demographic of california adventure the first couple years was uh children of divorce and divorced dads going like where do i take them uh oh this one's cheap this is like disneyland uh is this right i don't know i got a lot of my mind and it wasn't like fully fleshed out as a theme park yet like it hadn't really it had like a such a small amount of rides it had the

the roller coaster and then this ride called mole holland madness that they got rid of and then like the um the ferris wheel it had like almost nothing and like it was just like a weird sad theme part i was expecting to go to i was first of all expecting to go to disneyland then found out my parents got divorced then i found out then i expected to go to disneyland again and then it ended up being california adventures it's like a metaphor for the rest of your childhood like you thought it would be disneyland and instead it was early california first couple years without even the tower of terror california tower of terror yeah that's wild i feel like i will always now if i'm looking at photos of like barely themed scaffolding and a dinosaur thing sunglasses i will think of divorce kate do you remember a

ride going on a ride that day called superstar limo uh no but i feel like that rings like some vague bell. It was very quickly changed, but it's one of the, I guess probably one of the least or least liked rides in the history of theme parks. Yeah. It was a, it's now the Monsters, Inc. ride, and it was basically like,

you're going through Hollywood. There's Drew Carey. There's Jackie Chan. And it's like, there were like these weird caricatures. No, I didn't go in that one I did do the the American Idol experience I think was around that time

yeah was that in or the was that in California was that do we have that in Disneyland or the American Idol experience yeah that was definitely at MGM Studios I thinking a millionaire oh maybe million yeah maybe that's what it was who wants to be a millionaire at california

adventures yeah that's what it was that was that was there that was there that was that we did that when my parents got divorced that that was there you know in superstarimo, you can pass by weird dummies of Melanie Griffith and Antonio Menderes, who are now also divorced. Wow. Oh, there you go. 50-50 odds the last few decades. So, you know, what are you going to do? I'm trying to think before we go. Oh, can I add one more to the like what

Where there should be drinks and I can't believe We hadn't thought about this before The Mark Twain If that if the Mark Twain Was a booze cruise That's where you put the mint juleps Yes with alcohol Finally where it belongs

Do you think they sell on Mark Twain I think for safety purposes maybe maybe you sell right outside. You buy it and then you board the Mark Twain because you don't want- And maybe for time purposes because there's not enough time to get everybody a drink. Right. And then also like- If they sold booze while you're waiting there, which is just this kind of weird corral anyway that's very boring.

Right. Yeah. Jason, are you offended by this notion? No, I kind of weird corral anyway that's very boring right yeah jason are you uh offended by this notion no i kind of like that that one i think for safety's sake everyone only gets one like this sort of thing you only have time for one you only yeah it's only like a 10 or 12 minute lap around so but i'm saying the bartenders will only like a bartender who says i can only give you two like you know as if you were buying for yourself and your guest or your date or whatever like some bars won't fill your like you take a tray of stuff

like if they uh were like i can only give you two buddy um so that way people aren't getting sloshed and falling off a riverboat no deal i want seven shots and i'm jumping i'm swimming the rest of the way. I think it's a limited menu service bar, Scott. I'm sorry to break it to you. And you can't. Not if I get back there. Not if I bust.

So I get one drink that gives me the confidence to go back and steal the entire bottle, run around the ship, take command of the ship, blow the whistle, and then perfectly swan dive into the river. Well, that's what some message board people are afraid of, that it will be like when Flanders orders a single white wine spritzer and wakes up married the next day in a destroyed hotel room. Well, here, that brings me to the last thing I wanted to bring up, which is when we talk about where does all this come from?

This odd, like, no, no, no, you cannot drink in the Magic Kingdom. Now, you can if you pay for this expensive club or if you're a guest of someone there and you can drink right outside of the Magic Kingdom. But you cannot drink in Walt's special place. I was like, where does this actually come from? And this is discussed on some message boards and they find an actual quote. This is from 1956. And somebody is asking Walt Disney, why is your park different than like a carnival? And he says, we got no liquor, no beer, nothing, because that brings in a rowdy element that brings in people that we don't want. And I feel they don't need it. I feel when I go down to the park i don't need a drink i work around

that place all day and i don't have one after i come out of a heavy day at the studio some sometimes i want a drink to relax and then i that's an odd out of context it cuts off there he may have just like gone on to talk about how much he loves drinking for several paragraphs and i don't know but that that's this that's the source this is what we've been picking apart for a long time much like something out of the u.s constitution where we've been we've spent uh decades like well what does it really mean and how can we stretch that and uh what are the originalists the originalists these are like amy connie barrett with wall with walt and disneyland these are the originalists

who are trying to see that as gospel versus a document that should be changed or a philosophy that can be changed i think that if what the stupidest thing i and i've said this before i think but like okay if you want to say this is a family place there's no alcohol on the grounds i i really can't argue with that no alcohol fine but if you can get alcohol five at a five minute walk from the entrance to disneyland what are we doing here what fake thing are we upholding yeah you know like the uva bar is not far california venture is not far what are we doing here i agree with that i agree even to some extent with the walt disney quote of like you the park is rich enough it's

substantial enough you don't need this no of course we we'd think of course on the other hand it's it does feel like a quote of its time because it's like, well, you had a tobaccoist on Main Street. Like, people were just smoking everywhere. You didn't have gum. Like, this park was designed by your pet peeves. There was no gum. But God forbid if people couldn't have us light up a delicious Chesterfield. People had nicotine coursing through their veins. Women were getting fitted for brassieres on Main Street.

Like, it was crazy back then the idea that you could have a sugar the craziest thing you could do a sugary cocktail in disneyland come on yeah yeah um also and i'll credit this a youtube channel called midway to main street that made a actually a great video that proved that where he lands kind of where we're landing. The video is called Alcohol at Disneyland. The letter versus spirit of Walt's wishes. Oh, my God. Oh, come on. We really are in like not just Constitution, but like biblical territory.

We're picking apart the old text, the sacred text. The sacred Jedi text. The sacred Jedi text. and the sacred jedi text and uh and he he makes the point that well yeah if we're being countered to carnivals and carnies apparently that's why walt didn't want people to have facial hair in the early days was that like well because carnies have are you are you still not allowed to have facial hair no you can't can. No, you can now. It has to be neatly kept. I'm maybe thinking of the performers

because my friend got fired for having like a mustache or something. But he was an actor. He was an actor. He depends on the role, I think. Right. Okay. I guess Disney didn't find anything funny about mustaches.

So sad. So sad. When I worked at Universal Studios, I had some review where they docked me for facial hair, which I still cannot grow. I've never had the ability to grow. But I was like seeing if I could. And I had some just some weird speckles. And they said, well, yeah, you just can't have the facial hair. And I was like, wait, but you can have a full beard though, right?

Yes. Or you could be clean shaven. Yes. But what do I do in between? Well, I don't know. I guess you just can't be here. Yeah. You have to grow the full beard before you can come back to work.

I was so confused by that paradox. Was there like a Mr. Universal in 1930 said, you know, you can't have someone working here with an in-between facial. Got to figure out the spirit and the letter. Of Carl Lemley. Carl Lemley. Nobody's picking apart his letter and spirit. Who cares? That's the thing about Walt.

At the end of the day, like, who's he? We don't got to listen to him. He's an thing about Walt. At the end of the day, like, who's he? We don't got to listen to him. He's an old racist guy. Like, much like the U.S. Constitution itself. Amen. That brings us back to that point. All right. Everyone make sure to vote this coming Tuesday.

Yeah, everybody who's listening to this, make sure that you get out there on Tuesday and vote. When's this coming out again let's check let's check each other's calendars anyway get out there on tuesday and make sure that you vote vote early vote often you know um i uh anything else we want to shout out in terms of on the way out here specific cocktails specific things specific things we like. Yes, yes, yes. One of my favorites, and maybe my favorite of all the fun, colorful drinks I like, Mickey's Fun Wheel. I believe you can still get it.

It was at the, formerly the Cove Bar. Now it's the Lamp Lighter. Is that right, Jason? Yeah, Lamp Lighter Lounge. Lamp Lighter Lounge. And that had multiple colors to it. Scott scott you know what i'm talking about uh yes because yeah i i ever pulled up in a tab to oh yeah oh that lamp light lounge lamp gorgeous yeah it's a beautiful drink uh the the thing that i the the story when we went there together is that the

thing at the bottom whatever it is at the very bottom i think does not have alcohol and maybe it's just pineapple juice and you got the drink and just started sucking right from the bottom and then we're saying this is my favorite drink and then the bartender came and said oh actually you're supposed to mix it up and then i think they might have done it for you and then you were really disappointed they did it for me they probably did it for you you're helpless you're the large you're a tall man as we've established from the corn and your hands are clumsy sometimes i like the idea that the waiter waitress at the bar here i'll do it and swirled it for me yes i do like that idea that made yeah i guess that part doesn't seem that good but it must have been then that you swirled it

and then you were like well because the problem the problem is yes i think you're right i think the bottom is just sugar something juice or something but i wanted to maintain the fun because so basically it's like there's a very light blue at the top, like a thicker, more opaque blue under it. Then there's a red. Then there's a yellow. I wanted to keep that cool color look going the whole time I was drinking it. But to get a much more smooth taste, you should mix it all together. So I was trying to just go level by level, which probably, you get you get less of a fulfilling experience that

way but you get to still get your like color levels i thought i thought this was of the same ilk of thing as you having what you called one of your favorite drinks you ever had at bubba gump and then discovering there was zero alcohol in it yes so that's true kate so i like two years ago we went and i thought i had ordered an alcoholic drink with it with added fun colors and it was as eva anderson put it you just ordered an ice cream smoothie wow uh so and then yes i i didn't realize it until later that there i was like i don't think i'm feeling anything i don't think there was alcohol in that oh uh i had a drink I wanted to shout out,

and I think you can still get it down there, but it was specifically kind of angled for when Cars Land was opening, and it's a beer. It's a Racer 5 IPA, and that's pretty easy to find in California. I think it is a California brewery makes it, and it's just a very solid beer but it's got like a race car on it so we're like we'll serve this around the car stuff and i was like i admire that's a great attention to detail you know what

i've been sitting on it the whole time and since you bring it up i did for this and i haven't been drinking due to a headache that's that's how cool i am right now but uh i do got a red trolley ale right here which is my favorite thing to get what i miss so much having in cars land and i'll open it up at the end here also i love that thematically that you can get on a red trolley in california adventure um and the and the rocks are red i've said it many times uh i don't have to keep saying that I like this beer in Cars Land. What I got to do is open it up and have a little drink. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Anything else you want to shout out, Kate, before we wrap it up? I feel like all the drinks I like have been covered, but shout out to just the people that go to the carthay circle bar and go by themselves because one time i did that and it was lovely and i just hung out of the bar by myself and had a drink so shout out to all the the the lonely carthay circle bar bar hoppers bar bar bar flies time which we hope we can do again soon hello stranger um well can i i'll briefly i'm sure i've said this before i was at sometimes i've done a show at wonder con which is over the nm convention center and i'll take the opportunity to go down early and like if i'm doing a comedy bit or something i'll work on it at one of the bars and i went into trader sam's at noon and a guy came in and the bartender was like hey joe how

are you what do you have in the usual and i was like wow that's all i want um yes boy i saw that at napa rose once the bar um at napa rose at the grand california and uh yeah it was clearly the regulars going that's a that's a big spender regular i he looked like he was ready to spend money uh yeah yeah they got fancy stuff and i in looking up that place um they have a cigar menu i did not realize wow evidently well we're gonna have to do cigars at disneyland soon you gotta that's the that's the traditional spirit of the letter of the lot yeah yeah oh yeah he has no problem walt has zero problem i have uh i forgot i wanted to shout out the, uh, the hotel, like the off brand hotels that are nearby on, uh,

that one street. I forget what it's called. Yeah. Harbor. I forget the one that has like all the like shitty hotels. Like a couple of them have free happy hours and you can just like go get like a free drink but you have to walk do you have to be staying there but you just pretend

to be staying there that's a good tip that look I have not actually heard that tip either that's like that's up there with the sunscreen tip obviously I've got some good tips I will look at any we'll look into that let's look into that and find I could be wrong but I went to one

I don't know if I got away with it Or what but If they've cracked down Since I don't know Or you ordered a drink it didn't pay for It's like the hotel guests get You know how like some hotels have like free Happy hours it was like one of those

Sure I think you get like you get like one free drink I don't know if they I don't know if i did more than like one drink but i mean you got a tip you got a tip too much stealing it's free of course always tip if you get a free thing yeah you're stealing from a hotel you're staying at yeah yeah uh can i ask one more question if you if we're you know like here i'm i'm enjoying uh my favorite beer from disneyland if i or any of the listeners at home wanted to drink as you drank at 15 in a bathroom what were you what were you hitting uh how do you make a cake get a warm like almost hot uh water bottle full of uh let's say jim bean jim bean uh-huh is it jim what is it it's it's jim beam yeah beam

so get a warm bottle of like a jim beam whiskey and um probably like you know a watery diet coke chaser and just chug as much as you can because you're you only have a limited amount of time where you're going to be in the bathroom it's going to last you like probably you know 30 minutes or at least of walking around so get a hearty chug and then wash it down with some watery Diet Coke. That's the 15-year-old cocktail. And make sure you get some face paint accidentally in your mouth. Because you're sweating from the fake mustache that you thought was really funny to get. And I might pitch that that cocktail is called a moxie. There you go. That's how you make a moxie and uh k raft you survived podcast the ride thanks for being here what a

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