Podcast: The Ride - Epcot Food & Wine Festival LIVE with Paging Mr. Morrow and Griffin Newman

Episode Date: November 17, 2023

Live from Tin Roof in Orlando! We talk about our experience at Epcot Food & Wine and are joined by Nate Darienzo (Paging Mr. Morrow) and accidental P:TR Legend Griffin Newmman (The Tick, Blank Check)! Record live at Tin Roof, November 10, 2023 P:TR Post Office up at The Second Gate: 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! Warning! The following live podcast is hosted by three men nursing severe abracadabra hangovers. One of us was nearly too depressed to perform tonight, having lost his Mickey hat on Guardians Cosmic Rewind. That's true.

During the show, one of the hosts may start floating, Yogi Bear style, towards the aromas wafting from Gideon's Bakery. And now, just down the road from the world's largest McDonald's, it's my guest at Rottweiler! Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. So, man. Oh, man.

So psyched to see everybody. Welcome to Podcast the Ride Live. Thank you. Hosted by three guys who are thrilled to be here, but also need to wrap it up quick so we can wake up at 7 a.m. for the Tron Virtual Queue. Maybe some of you guys, too. I will soon check my app to make

sure my name is in there, which is Scott Gairdner. Hi. Hello, everybody. My name is in my app as well, and it's Mike Carlson. Thank you. Tap it, applause. That's okay. And my name is not in the app. I'm having a lot

of difficulties, but I am Jason Sheridan. Here, let's have a see. Let's settle in. There's a lot going on. I think we've got some fun surprises for you. How's everybody feeling at the late show here?

Wow. You know, I did the check in the first show, but why not do it? Disney people, Disney cast members. Do we got them? Great. Universal people. Do we have universal people? What do you call that? Are you minions?

Are you minion? What are you? Team members, right? Team members. Welcome, team members. And, well, here's a round of applause, and this should be everybody. Who's excited to be at Icon Park on I-Drive?

Icon Park fans. This is the most PTR ass place that we've ever done a show. I can't believe it. We did one right before this at some point in the window, a little train passed by. So there's a lot of entertainment for us. I like that. That's true.

We're doing this like in the shadow for listeners who haven't been to this place. We're doing it in the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel. That is right behind I hope people hit it up before or after. Let's all go right after. We are really, really near a

Madame Tussauds like steps away. Like if we all just like, it's less than 100 feet, right? We could all encounter a wax bad bunny. I wish I could say that was one of our guests this evening. We are not going to wheel in a wax bad bunny. We love Icon Park. We're excited to be in Icon Park.

But we didn't come to Orlando just to be love Icon Park. We're excited to be in Icon Park. But we didn't come to Orlando just to be in Icon Park. We, of course, had equally stupid places to visit. We didn't even, of course, we wanted to come here, but it was kind of out of our hands. There was something that we had to do, something that we, a mission that we were given, if you will. It was out of our hands. It was out of our control. And we feel the weight of it now. It was out of our hands. It was out of our control. And we feel the weight of it now. It's been a tough week. It's been a busy week.

And the only person, I think, who can fully explain what exactly this mission entails is Mike Carlson. Okay. I just want to get this perfectly correct. We're here for a daily, extremely necessary series.

Exploring the stores, restaurants, chocolate emporiums and wonderful magic that makes up Universal CityWalk Orlando. It's happening. It's happening. This is the announcement right here. And we've even been issued the name. From on high, we've been given the name. What is the name?

The CityWalk Orlando Saga. The Multiverse of Madness. Wow. Wow. It has been said, this is our big Marvel Hall H, or whatever the hall is. It's Hall H. It's Hall H. Well, no, I know that, but where do they do announcements?

Like at D23, or if they're at the contemporary, what's the other D23? The one here? Is there a Hall D? Destination D. Destination D. Do they do anything for that? Is it the Hall D?

What is it? There's a Hall D23 at D23, right? Am I wrong? There were a few people talking. You know what? Ultimately, who cares? What we're about to do is going to be better than any Marvel movie yeah even the ones that were better 10 years ago

remember it's going to be better than all of them we're so excited our first daily mall oriented series in a long time we have you would be shocked how little time we have spent in theme parks since we got here on Monday we have to go

drink slushy drinks. We have to have desserts with desserts on top of those and desserts on top of those. It simply must be done. How are you guys holding up? Well, you know, I think I said in the first show, the first few days, I was like, wow, it's really leisurely here at uh city walk orlando and then um yesterday kind of rocked all our shit like kind of cleaned our clock and coincidentally was also the day that

universal florida like half the park was down and we were greeted by announcements at the front. I have never heard anything like this. Saying like, Universal Florida is experiencing a number of technical difficulties. If you have a multi-part pass, why not start your day at Islands of Adventure? And it's like, oh, I've never heard a suggestion of like, perhaps you would have more fun if you went next door

go away welcome everyone now unwelcome don't come in yeah that set the tone it set the tone but you know what you know it was good because it helped us focus it helped us focus and go have one of the worst lunches we've ever had in our lives. And I'm not going to reveal the place. We're not. It is surprising, but at least half the table was like hand in head, bent over. Like, oh no. And it only got worse from there. The night ended with me cackling Joker-esque to myself.

I was at a little bar where the bartender asked me, do you need some water? In a way where he seemed really worried. But we're not going to reveal all of this yet. The official, here's the timelines so the listeners hear it too. Here's what we're committing to. Q1 2024.

This series will be released. We can't wait to do it. And it's been such a blast being here and doing it and meeting a lot of great Orlando folks. And look, we're crazy, but we're not that crazy. We had to slot in some time for some other

stuff, which is the topic of tonight's show. You know, we could do one of these fly by night new attractions that everyone is abuzz about. tonight's show. You know, we could do one of these fly-by-night new attractions that everyone is abuzz about. One of these trendy things that people are interested

right now. But will they be in decades? Who knows? These fancy coasters and what have you. Actually, wait. So the hat. I lost my hat on the Guardians coaster two days ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'll probably retell this whenever we talk about it on an episode.

Well, you're not one to retell stories. Well, when the stories are so good, you have to repeat them. I lost my hat. I was wearing it. I forgot I was wearing it. And then the employee was like, oh, sorry, I lost my hat on the ride. Like, how do I see if somebody can find it? And he goes, uh, did they tell you to take it off?

And I go, oh, I didn't, if they did, I didn't hear it. Or like, I just kind of forgot I was wearing it or whatever. Well, they probably told you to take it off. I go yeah maybe I don't know and he goes I need like a big sigh

and I go I'm not mad I'm not yelling at you about it and he goes well maybe I don't even remember how it resolved he was just like maybe they'll find it.

I don't know. And then I found somebody else, and they go, oh, just go to Lost and Found. So kind of a comedown from an incredibly exciting roller coaster with great music into a harsh customer service interaction. He was mad at me. It did not result in you getting your hat. He made me feel, yes. At that point, what has happened since, Mike? I got an email. They found the hat. He made me feel, yes. At that point, what has happened since, Mike? I got an email.

They found the hat. Yeah. So I'm going to Disney Springs tomorrow to pick up my hat. Yes. Get that hat. Get that hat. Get that hat. Get that hat. Get that hat. Get that hat.

And here's the thing. And somebody pointed this out to me, and I'll talk about it later. That hat now has sort of had like a walk-off on a ride. So now that I'm going to be wearing the hat going forward, I will know this hat has been in the bowels of Guardians coaster, which is pretty sweet. Will I share that with any normal human? We'll see.

This hat touched a floor. Ah, but what a floor. Yes, no ordinary floor. A special floor. So, what are we talking about? What is tights entertainment? What we're talking about is a tradition. It is an Epcot tradition.

It is a tradition that we've never covered on the show. Yeah. It is very special. It is very special. It is very rare. It only runs for one third out of the entire year, every year. It appeals to our love of treats, our love of adult libations.

And what we are talking about this evening is the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival. Yeah! I heard a good yeah from the audience. Which we have now been to twice. It was going when we were here in 2019, too. Uh-huh. Yes, and two years ago for a bachelor party.

I'm representing the bachelor party right now. Cool bachelor party Epcot retro shirt. I, yeah, I love it. I'm getting addicted. It's got to be at least every two years. I have to leave my young son to go drink wine in a fake Morocco. I absolutely must.

It's been a tradition since 1996. And that's the only fact I know about it. That's the research over, the end. But here's one thing. You don't have to research to know this. The best way to do the Epcot Food and Wine Festival is to get a big group together. You want a big, rowdy, hard drinking hard snacking crew.

Right? And we got the three of us. That's something. That's a start. But we had to grow it from there. And luckily we did grow it from there. Of course, Jason's girlfriend Jane is here. Give it up for Jane. Where's Jane? She's here.

Happy Jane. Claire was with us. We made new friends as we went. Taylor, Taylor, hey, Taylor, great to meet you, Taylor. Kevin, where's Kevin? Yeah, yeah, hey, good to see you. Thanks for making it. Kevin from Telethon, who loves Epcot and Tomorrowland Music Loops as much as I do.

So, you know, we're meeting people, we're making new friends. But we still wanted more. Is there somebody who we really love who's been on the show before who could join our big Epcot drinking posse? And we started running through friends of the show who live in the Orlando area. Matt Cardona, the wrestler we discussed. Who helped us find this venue. Who brought us to Tin Roof.

Thank you, Matt. Hashtag thank you, Matt. Where's Matt? Matt is wrestling in Japan tonight. Shoot. Shoot. We thought of podcaster and founder of theme park planning site, Touring Plans, the great Len Testa.

That is someone we checked in with. He's in the area. Why can't Len Testa be here? someone we checked in with. He's in the area. Why can't Len Testa be here? He's also wrestling in Japan. Ha ha! Damn! Just kidding. He's giving some sort of a theme park-based talk at

MIT with Jim Hill. Wow. Eh, MIT tin roof. MIT tin roof. I think we're having some fun, right? So we're distraught. We don't know what to do. And luckily, a friend of the show

stepped up and said, well, I'm in the area, and by that I mean the east coast of America. I'm practically next door in New York City. I will pop down. You know, that's the kind of baller move

that makes you want to bump a guy up from being just an accidental PTR legend. Ladies and gentlemen, from blank check, it's Griffin Newman. Yeah! Oh, yes. Wow. Yes. Woo! Wow.

I really appreciate you guys introducing me with the names of guests who would have been more excited. I love a good anticlimactic wind-up. No, no. We built it up for distance wise. You traveled the nation to be here. It's so exciting. We were just saying you didn't have anything going on. Yeah, yeah.

Who's not booking? I guess none of us have been. You either just gotta become a data scientist or enter the squared circle and just start getting tossed around a little you know I've always been stuck between those two poles

hard science and physical competition yeah and I exist in this weird nebulous middle space well we'll help you out I'll hit you with a chair in the back when we're wrapping up. Thank you. I don't know how much it's going to continue

to be relitigated across the show or if I should just butt in with my Rashomon perspective now. But Mike and I were sharing a row at Cosmic Rewind. Yes. Oh no, add your perspective for sure. Okay. You have an interesting one. So when he stepped off the ride and said,

hey, I'm sorry, my hat flew off. Do people, do they collect objects? His line was, let me ask you a question. Did someone tell you to take your hat off? Like, he said it with that scolding energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To which Mike said, no, I don't think anyone did. And when that conversation's done, he walks over to me and says, I'm not wrong, right? They didn't tell us to take our hats off because I was wearing a hat. And I said, Mike,

a woman leaned over to me very quietly, not a secret, but just it wasn't a big serious pronouncement and said you may want to hold onto your hat which is very different from you must take your hat off yeah indeed and to just rewind a little further cosmic rewind a little further the ride starts we We're launched. Ten seconds in. Everyone else is screaming, and I just hear Mike go, well, I lost my hat. And I look over, and he's just full speed going. And then at that moment,

the words rung in my head. I held on to my hat for the rest of the ride, and I made it through. So because I lost my hat, did you give an extra tug or grab your hat? The bravery of your hat saved my hat. All right. Wow.

Let's all thank his hat. Yeah. Thank you, hat. Thank the hat. Thank the hat. Hashtag thank you, hat. I put my hat in the little pouch. Like a good boy does. Like a a good boy and it came back safe and

sound um it's also nice to know i mean it's clearly from you being here and for the listener that you did not then also lose your mickey ears and the ears there's something specific a character i haven't seen on merchandise before. A character that one could say has been almost willfully under merchandise. As if to spite someone who actively wants merch very badly. These are part of the Disney 100 celebration, in which they're doing a lot of merch from the different eras of the Disney company. Some of the most beloved films.

Films that have perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores and definitely have lasting permanence on the culture. And they put out a series of commemorative ears including this pair of Pip the Chipmunk. Pip the Chipmunk.

They are technically technically ears from Enchanted and not Disenchanted, but let's all agree to not think about that. You know, if Pip had,

I know some of those Epcot wine glasses are a little bit small. They're kind of sample size, but it'd be a lot for small. They're kind of sample size. Sure. But it'd be a lot for him. If Pip got drunk on a bunch of Chardonnay, what do you think he'd say? Jumping jelly beans. I'm sloshed.

Love that. He didn't know Pip would be a guest tonight. Well, so, you know, we got a crew now. We got a good crew for drinking around the world. We got friends. We got chipmunks. The crew is built up. Can I say it?

Uh-huh. I don't want to be self- deprecating here on stage. I don't want to bring the mood down. I'm a guest. You brought me out. Polite applause. Perfunctory applause. I'm not a a guest. You brought me out. Polite applause. Perfunctory applause. I'm not a special guest. You know, I've been on the show before.

I was here on the early show. Me joining the crew, it's not breaking news. It's not anything that's going to move the needle, right? This is far too much. No, Scott, hear him out. No, it's just Scott. What else don't you like about yourself?

All I'm saying is I think it's a bummer that we have here an empty chair and a mic that's going to go unused, and I'm the best guest that will come out tonight, and that sucks for everyone in the crowd, and I'm sorry. I apologize. You're right.

So let's start in India. We had some samosas and we, no, no, no, no. Griffin, I have a plan. We have a plan. We kept going. We had to flesh out this Epcot drinking crew correctly. We wanted to, okay, we're thinking only people who've been on the show before. Is there somebody who hasn't been on the show? Somebody who can bring some true Orlando flavor? Somebody who loves Epcot and the Food and Wine Fest? Maybe if we reached out to this person cold, he might join us.

And now I turn to Mike to tell you who that person is. So I thought about it, like, who would be an expert at this? Who does this and maybe documents it and shows things. And I said, well, maybe I have an idea.

And I reached out and I said, sir, would you be interested in coming on the podcast when we're going to be in Orlando? And it was one of the most magical moments. I remember I showed it to the family. I was with my family because we watch his videos. And he said yes. He

was with us at Epcot and he's here tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, from the YouTube channel Paging Mr. Morrow. We just call him Nate. Yeah! Yeah! Call him Nate. Yeah.

Center. We got you the center. Nate, hello hi wow hi guys welcome to podcast the ride it's so great to see you here geez finally excited so yeah if you if you're not familiar with nate he does a channel where he goes around to the parks disney parks but now lately he's been going to England. He's been going to Comic-Cons. His channel is one of my favorite TV shows, I guess. It's like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and then Paging Mr. Morrow.

Paging Mr. Morrow, yeah. We've been talking about him on the show here and there. It's just like your videos are so nice and pleasant and you take us through places we wish we could go more often, like Polynesian Resort, Epcot Center. And then you'll go to Disney Springs and show us the new cookie at Gideon's. And as I was telling you backstage, when I see a thumbnail when you've got the new cookie, I go, we're watching this now.

I put that up on the screen. I make my whole family watch it. And they're like, oh, that does seem like a good cookie. So thank you for being here. We're very excited. I'm excited. I've never done a live podcast before. Well, I actually think I've only done like five podcasts in my life.

Yeah. Yeah. You were telling me that you've done, you did a podcast hosted by professional wrestler D-Von Dudley. I did, yeah. I did D-Von Dudley's podcast.

Yeah, which I was like, I didn't know he had a podcast, but this is my intersection of like you and one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a child. So I haven't watched it yet because we've been doing so much city walk.

But I will get to it and I will watch it faster than I will promise to watch Yellowstone. And similar to what Devon became known for, we will put Griffin through a table at the end of this show. That's right. Hit by a chair thrown through a table. You've also been like, I'm almost like, as we're heading here, like, wait, he's going to deign to do our little thing? You're hanging out

with superstars. You're hanging out with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul at Epcot. Has any of you guys, people saw this video? Can you explain how that came together? This is a bizarre thing. Yeah, that was cool.

It was two weeks ago. We were at La Cava inside Epcot. Of course. And we were going to an event later on that night where Aaron Paul and Brian Cranston were like doing like a tequila tour. Yeah, because they have their own tequila. Yeah, they were going to Frontera, Cocina, and Disney Springs. And then they had like other stops like Waldorf Astoria.

And we were like, oh, let's go to Epcot. I started my day. I wanted to go check Moana. Then we went to La Cava, me and my friend, Sean. And I was like, I bet you they would come here. Like if I was somebody, I would want to go. If you're a tequila company, you got to go to La Cava at Epcot in Mexico. You know what I mean? And they just randomly showed

up and it was all like just regular people there. Like it was like no special event. They just came in and just started making drinks for everyone. And like, it was great. And we became friends. Like it was, it was insane. Like we were talking and uh yeah and uh oh my friend sean he uh he was like oh he told uh aaron paul he's like what have you done at epcot and he's like nothing i just walked in here and he's never done anything epcot and uh he was like what do i do and uh he was like guardians and uh yeah i gotta do guardians do Guardians. So somehow we ended up going on Guardians with them. Yeah, it was great. Jeez.

Wow. Now, cynical me, I'm thinking, well, this must be some planned photo op situation rather than what actually happened, which is an organic theme park friendship brewing, leading to then a mass roller coaster ride yeah uh with great cool actors this is great you i think you we we got to hang out with nate for a couple hours and there you do there's some pixie dust trailing off you i think in the parks i feel like like because everybody

you get stopped so often so much more often than we do much more often than we do uh um and besides that then you just, if it's not people recognizing you from videos, it's your friends. You're just like, you're the, you're, I hate to say it, Jason, you're the mayor. I think you're the mayor of Disney World. Oh, that's okay.

Hey, yesterday I met the mayor of Port Aventure at Islands and she wished me well. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Wow. Nick, can I ask you a question? She whistled me well. Yeah. Thanks. Wow. Nate, can I ask you a question?

Speaking of all the friends you make, every step you take in the Walt Disney World Resort, Cranston and Paul, I think their celebrity tequila has been very popular. It seems to have been a successful launch. It's a growing sector of the industry, these celebrity tequilas. Many people think the trend was really kick-started by Casamigos.

Have you heard the story of George Clooney and the briefcases? No. Mike, do you know this story? Well, I do know the story, but I think it would be better if Jason told it Jason do you know this story have you heard this story

I'll chime in so George Clooney and Randy Gerber Randy Gerber is spelled with an E at the end not a Y husband of Cindy Crawford father of Kaya Gerber star of Bottoms and they're friends the end, not a Y. A husband of Cindy Crawford, father of Kaya Gerber.

And they're friends. And they just sort of were hanging out in Mexico one day and they created Scott's chugging his beer while I'm telling this. For fun, the way you do when you're hanging out. They created tequila for fun and they weren't expecting to market it. And then one day

Alright, long story short... I don't ever do that. Probably a mistake. Oh, yeah. You gotta resort to something. Anyway, continue, fellas. And you know, if you're drinking Casamigos, you actually wanna do the opposite.

You wanna sip on it, because it's very smooth, you know? It's a sip in liquor. Long story short, they sold the company, and George got all his friends together, and he put a briefcase on the table in front of each of them. Some of his oldest friends, friends who aren't movie stars.

Okay. Guys he goes way back with. Regular people and production people, you know? People who knew him early on in the rough years, you know? Lowly execs and directors and sort of, yeah, common folk. So each briefcase contained a million dollars. And he said, this is for all of you for sticking with me over all these years. And he said, you all have to take it.

If one of you says no, then nobody gets it. And also taxes have been paid, so don't worry about that. And they all took it. And they all took it. And he helped out his buddies. And the reason everyone is reacting like this is because Scott feels we tell this story too often on the show.

Now that you've heard that story, do you think that that should be told in full in, you know, 18 episodes of a podcast? Does that seem valid? I feel like I'm going to tell this story to somebody else. Like I... Sounds like it was

a pretty good story then. It's a pretty good story. Much in the way that Casamigos is best sipped slowly, that story lingers the more time you spend with it. It grows. Swishes around a glass, the glass that is the podcast.

Let me tell you one more thing, Nate. I am also... I'm a little like nervous that you're here in a way, and I'll tell you why. And I think Jason should be too because I think that Mike would dropkick us in a second to have you as

his new co-host on Podcast The Ride. I think this could be the moment where the change out happens. This might be a Machiavellian scheme in play. I'm a little worried, but I don't know. I might be reading into that too much. Oh, no, no. I don't think so.

I'm scared now. I don't even know what to say. I think you're good. You think I'm safe? Can I calm down? Okay, okay. I'll let that anxiety go. As my chugged beer kicks in, I think I'll stop worrying about it.

Well, that's great, because I really don't want to go back to riding the rails with a bindle. You're safe for now, but in the future, if both of you have some opinions I don't care for about a new Aerosmith song

or an old Aerosmith song, then maybe I will reconsider. But for now, I think the core three, the Holy Trinity, as I call it, are safe. Yeah, safe. I'm sad that you didn't get to ride Aerosmith the other night. You didn't? No, you didn't.

Oh, yeah. Oh, you're sad for Mike. Yeah, the timing didn't quite work out. Mike was hoping for a last-minute jaunt to see the bad boys from Boston themselves. Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen on this trip, sadly. But instead, you had to hang out with old and new friends. Yes, well, we hung out at Abracadabra,

which is pretty good. Very good, I would say. And we went to jelly rolls. I'm still sad there were no Barenaked Ladies. We put in... We were trying to get someone on the piano to play a Barenaked Ladies song. Mike, say what was written on the napkin. What was it?

Did Kevin write it? Kevin? I think, wait, I think I know. You texted me about that. It was any Bare Naked Lady song besides One Week. Right? Trying for deep cuts. You were looking for If I Had a Million

Dollars. That would have been fine. That would have been good. Yeah, well, I know know that that must have been hard for you to be at a dueling piano bar and not hear bare naked ladies because you know it had been two entire nights since we were at a different dueling

piano bar and heard bare naked ladies where the same where it was one week and then Mike said deeper rarer and they did it. That's a little City Walk Saga preview. That's a Pat O'Brien's thing. I would love to finish that story,

but you're going to have to wait for the episode. Boys, boys, not now. Save it. Yeah, well, you know, why not? Like, look, we'll jump around. That was where the night ended, food and wine-wise. But what a good capper to go to the magic-themed bar at the Boardwalk Hotel

and then go to the Stooling Piano Bar where, admittedly, after all day drinking around the world and a bunch of magic-themed drinks, then I walked up to that door and heard a very loud version of American Girl on piano. And I heard someone say, $20, please. And I said, good night, everybody.

And I went and instead stared wistfully at the swan and dolphin. I leave and go, do it right now. Now that beer's kicking in. Sorry, everybody. Good night, everybody. Now, when I hear what one might call even an obnoxious version of American Girl, I have the opposite reaction.

I need to hang out here. And that's what I did. You sprint in that direction. As all of you did. As Griffin did. And then what happened? As Nate did. Everyone followed me except Scott.

And I feel like there was a moment when you were like, what the fuck? What are you all doing? No! No! So we're walking down the boardwalk. I think the night is over. We're just gonna let

Mike go to Jelly Roll alone. And you say, I really don't want to do this. And I go, Scott, I agree. Every step I get closer to Jelly Roll, the louder the speakers are, the less I want to go inside. I'm with you. You understood? Let's order a lift.

And then American Girl kicked in and I went, smell you later, motherfucker. Siren song, I'm in. So we kept texting you at every song that played to try to convince you that you were missing out on something. I sent you a text and I

said, Scott, this place fucking rocks. Rocks, all caps. You said, I'm thrilled with my choice. Thrilled. I said, Scott, they're performing the I'm Just Ken song now. You said, I've never been more confident in a decision. Number one, this.

Number two, marrying Aaron. And just... I threw my wife under the bus. I'm my wife taking care of my son. I'm sorry Aaron. I miss you so

much and I've never missed you more than being outside of that dueling piano bar right then. Your next text was a photo of your hand holding a $20 bill and you said, just admiring this $20

I still have. I still got it. I still got it, I think. Didn't spend it on anything. We did get free popcorn, though. And you missed out on the popcorn. Nate, no. And it was a little like, was there a little, you said there was some, like sriracha in it? Buffalo, yeah, they put buffalo sauce in the popcorn.

And it's free. It's not even normal popcorn. You got to kick up. All right. A little jealousy brewing now. And just some perspective. I was in bed and I went, what are all these text messages I'm getting?

What is going on? What is this $20 bill? Well, the last two were Mike texts. They're doing, can you picture that from the Muppet movie? And Griffin is going wild. Which I was. Which I was. Not alive.

But you put a request in. What was your request? My request was Paradise by the Dashboard Light for Meatloaf because I wanted to see if they would do... I wanted to test if they'd do the baseball section. If they would do the talking part. But they were doing... I love that song. The guys started playing American Pie by Don McLean,

which is a long song. And I said, I whispered, I don't know if I whispered to Kevin, I whispered to somebody, I go, these people know the crowd. They ain't doing this whole song. And I was absolutely right. They did two verses, moved right on. So, yeah, they would probably not do that section,

is what I'm saying. What did freaking out mean when some piano people are playing an Electric Mayhem song? What does that Oh, it's the Oh, Muppet arm. He like flops his arms around. Yay! Let's all freak out

at once. Oh, great audio content. Great audio stuff. You know how when Mike hears a song he loves at a bar, he points up with one finger? Oh, I know. Oh, I know. When they started playing Can You Picture That,

I did two fingers. And Mike texted you, he's going wild. You were going wild. I was going wild. See, Nate's right. I'm going wild. And your response, by the way, Scott, was, that's cool, I will give them that. That was the And your response, by the way, Scott, was, that's cool.

I will give them that. That was the first one. That was the first one I got. I love that you got two electrics. You got Electric Mayhem and you got Electric Light Orchestra. Now we're talking. I like electric bands, apparently. Well, Nate, what do you...

I also, look, I want to call you Mr. Morrow in full so badly. Is that okay? Yeah. You can call me Nate. It's just, I don't want to say the word. Hello, Mr. Morrow. It's just so fun to say. Here, I'll just do it once.

Mr. Morrow. He makes people happy, too. What do you want to hear at Jelly Rolls? What makes you freak out Griffin style? Oh, you know, I get excited. We've been trying to get them to do Manor Muppet. That was one for a while. I like Manor Muppet.

Yeah, yeah. It's a good one. Oscar winning. Yeah. I like every once in a while when they get all on stage, and they do like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. You know what I mean? Oh, they did it then.

Yeah. They did the Time Warp. They did the Time Warp. They add more elements than just the two pianos. They have two singers, dancers. They get up on top of the bar. They beat by, they go. They do.

Yeah. And it kind of catches you off guard, but I like that. I like good feel music where everyone's singing along. They're dancing. You just reminded me. I don't even know if we told Scott that two white men on piano performed Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot. That did happen. That happened.

That did happen. Thrilled. Thrilled with my decision. I changed nothing about the text exchange. Let's talk a little food and wine to make sure that we do the topic in the topic. And I really am. You know what's funny is we landed on this, and especially with Griffin's help, he was encouraging this. And before we put it together that, oh, my God, this is a great topic for Nate.

First of all, you must have been at food and wine this year tons of times, right? I'd imagine. Oh, yeah. At least a couple times. It's so long. It really, I know. Because I've been doing that math. Like, how come I've been here so many times,

and one was in July, and the others were in November? How is that all one thing? It's so long. I know, but you know what? They keep on releasing food, like, throughout the week. So they don't put out all the new food at once. There's new food in the first

month? Some of the boots open up later on. I think they had just some boots open up less than a month ago. Brand new ones. Do they announce ... Do they say, in two weeks, we're going to have a new sushi roll?

Oh, yeah, they're all announced. Yeah, yeah. And then one of the booths, they'll give you the times. It's all on the passport. Okay. So you have to go in to do it. Do you research the new booth before you go, or you just kind of let it fly when you're doing your videos?

Oh, no, I just go and say, yeah, I usually just pick one thing. No, I think that's a good – Sometimes, yeah, you just go with it. Yeah. No, I think that's a good... Sometimes, yeah, you just go with it. Yeah, no, I think that's a good strategy. I don't want to... There's something that I don't want to go too far without doing. Because, again, I did all that build-up. We got to build up our Drinking Around the World crew.

But now we're sitting here, and we don't feel like a crew to me. I mean, we're all friends. We're getting along, but there's something that we're missing. Shirts. We're missing the shirts. This is something that I don't think I was fully aware of. I think our friend Doug Jones

made us aware of this. Shout out to Doug. He I think turned us on to that, like, okay, look around when you're at food and wine. There are these shirts that are so nuts that are all combining Disney and classic Disney songs and all this stuff into these

wine puns. I wrote down a few just real ones. Like there's a Finding Nemo one that's just keep drinking. There's one with Vanellope from Wreck-It Ralph that says, drink up glitches.

I've seen a couple of shirts. I've been... Do any come to mind? Do you recall any like, oh, that was a crazy one or a funny one or no pressure? Pretty early in the day,

I would say like noon or before that, we stepped into a restroom and there was a pretty large burly man who looked blackout drunk. He had an arm

rested against the urinal and his body was like four feet away and he was pissing and he was moaning to himself and he was wearing a shirt that said drinking round the world checklist and when he finished and like wobbled out eyes half closed

I followed after him and there was another guy who looked exactly like him with the same shirt who grabbed him by the shoulders and went man, man up! Man up! We have two countries left! Pull it together! Pull it together! They were gonna make it.

They were gonna make it. And they were gonna make it before 1pm. Wow. Wow. Man up! Oh. It's very funny that you have a story like that because at the end of the night

I close out the end of the night by going to the France ice cream parlor to get the scoop of ice cream pressed into a brioche bun oh I'm so excited to see what flavors you got and while I was in line there was like a family

uh they all had a champagne flutes the park is about to close in three minutes and they were they were still going strong and the one guy is just telling a story about like, oh, him and his wife, they went to a wedding and this guy came up and put his arm around the wife. And was like, oh, I want to introduce you to some people. And this guy starts telling the story. He's like, and that's my fucking wife. And you don't do that. You don't come to, you don't. And then he starts, he starts saying like, so I don't want to see Jason for months after that.

If I saw Jason, I was going to beat the shit out of him. I was going to fucking kill Jason. And I am standing three feet away going like, I know this isn't about me, but I just want to get this ice cream and get away from this guy. Because he is just, like, foaming out the map, and she is just standing next to him, like, smiling and laughing, like, yeah, I'm into this. I love this story of loudly cursing in Epcot Center.

But Nate asked, what flavor? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, salted caramel ice cream and chocolate sauce. It was a good combo. Have you had that, Nate? Oh, yeah. I always mix up the flavors in there.

You can get crazy. What's your preference? What's your number one? I like it in pistachio or raspberry. Oh, that sounds good. Yeah. Oh, it's really nice. Handmade ice sounds good. It's your raspberry. And they press it in a little sandwich. Oh, it's really nice. Handmade ice cream sandwiches. Wow. Wait, and that's

all year round, too. That's not festival. That's not just food. No, no. That's year round. Okay, what I was saying, I think that you know, all of us in our individual shirts, Jason and his, what is your shirt, Jason? Oh, Jane found this on Depop.

This is, what does it say? The Mickey, it's like dress for success. And it's Mickey wearing like five layers of bespoke clothing. And it's telling you, it points at every piece of clothing and it must be like thousands of dollars of stuff I have no idea

why they were selling a shirt of Mickey in like Savile Row finery has anyone ever seen that image before I guess not I love it. He looks dressed for success.

It reminds me of Michael Eisner. Wow. Right on. Well, I hate, okay. All I'll say is that, Nate, we all share a love of a certain former CEO. Yep. Hello. Hello.

You did a hello unprompted. You didn't even know we have a thing about hello. We were meant to meet. We're all hello fans. But anyway, look, Jason's shirt's cool and all. This is some of the captions. Pure wool herringbone overcoat. Jason, Jason, say it like Mickey. Man up and say it like Mickey.

Man up! Man up! Man up! You can do this! Finish it! All calfskin leather Italian beef roll Penny love I'm trying to find it on the Pure silk crepe neckwear

Jason's having to read upside down for the listener. This is challenging. I give it up to Jason. Jason, can you do one like Stitch? Stitch is going to be good. Well, tweet trousers. Perfect. Perfect.

Perfect. Chef's kiss. Chef's kiss. Designer cologne. I don't's kiss. Chef's kiss. Designer cologne! I don't know what that's pointing at. How would they point it to that? Jason, your shirt's good, but your shirt's gotta go in the garbage.

Or at least get covered up. As does your Griffin Fast and Furious shirt. I have a Toretto Family Garage work shirt. It's all nice, but there's no unity up here. I didn't think of this in time to get custom shirts for all of us, but with the magic of a little pressing on, I am going to turn all of our shirts into Epcot wine shirts. All right, we ready for this?

Okay. And anybody can claim them Except for Nate because I have a special one for you Okay so Here is if you're a fan of If you want to get so drunk You feel like you're in a centrifuge You might like this one

Mission shit faced Can we hold that up Beautiful Beautiful Put that on that's for Mike. Mission shit-faced. Here's for the Epcot, the classic Epcot lover. This is World of Mo-Shots.

Anybody want to claim this? Either one of you? All right, all right, that's Griffin. There you go. Just press that on you. And then here's a tribute to what replaced that. And this is, I got a DUI on Test Track. Credit to Aaron for that one. Thanks, Aaron. Perfect. Nailed it.

Nailed it. And then this one, I'm going to claim this one. I'm excited for this. This is, if you're a fan of an old attraction in Wonders of Life where a little guy took you into the human body, then you might enjoy this shirt, which is, Buzzy saw my liver and quit the command. All right, that's me for sure. And then finally, for our special guest, I am so excited to present you this.

Because there's a style, for the listener, there's a style of these things where it's like a wine glass topped by the iconic hairstyle or a hat that a character typically has. And that's kind of what I've tried to do because I feel like you have an iconic fashion sense, Nate, and that is why I've made you this one, which is Paging Mr. Moore Merlot. Paging Mr. Moore Merlot. I can fix that for you here well i'll fix it up you guys chat amongst yourselves yay there we go yeah yeah i love wow i feel so honored it really you do have because we got like i mean is it a fedora what kind What kind of hat we tie? What do you call your hat? Yeah, a fedora. Yeah, and glasses. I see you in there.

This is perfect. Great, great. I'm so happy. Look at us. We're a team now. We're a team. There we go. All right.

We can properly go around the world at this point. Well, so where to begin? I mean, like, I don't know. What were particular highlight experiences for everybody at Epcot the other day? I had some sake cocktail

that tasted like juice. And then everything else I drank that alcohol in it also tasted like juice. So I don't know that I necessarily had a highlight. I had some tiny beers that I was a big fan of

because I will say overall, I won't even praise a specific thing, having six ounce beers is good. I don't need too much. Just have a little taste and then you can keep moving on obviously they give you the option to have a bigger one but i think we were every time i got a little one i got so excited i was like isn't this it's cute the cup is cute and then i would drink just a little bit and i wouldn't get a tummy ache yeah yeah mini beers definitely good

uh um and it and it fit the bill in a couple situations for sure. I mean, is this a good time to talk about... I don't know if we're jumping to it too fast, but to me, one of the most special things going on this year is over at the Odyssey Pavilion. Wow, okay. Well, good. We're going to pause for that.

I love the Odyssey. I love that that isn't gone or replaced by anything cool like a ride or whatever. Just this odd boxy building that they've got to fill up with something every once in a while. And that currently is something called Brew Wing Lab at the Odyssey.

And this is, and I'm so happy Griffin is here, because this is a Muppet experience. A new Muppet experience just for food and wine. And as soon as Griffin saw that it was Muppets, he went wild. Not only that, but

centered around my favorite Muppet straight man, Bunsen Honeydew, who I argue is quietly the funniest Muppet. Okay. He lets everyone else score the basket. You know? He passes the ball, he lets them take it to the hoop. And you know, a lot of like comedy

and comedy takes are in the eyes, but he manages to be funny with no eyes. Eyeless. Uh-huh, eyeless. Great eyeless comedian. Jason had tipped me off. He wanted to make sure I wouldn't miss this. Texted a couple days before a trip started

that he saw there was this pop-up and that the key item that was getting a lot of buzz was the pickle milkshake. Yeah. Which I did not want to try. No, but I took the bullet.

I got it later in the day so that you could have the cup. I drank the pickle milkshake. I drank about half of it. And then he was like okay um my review is this tasted like a solid vanilla milkshake that they then just put a shot of nail polish remover in uh and then as i was walking to the bathroom i was like oh i kind of dill now and so uh i uh cleaned out the glass so you could have it then i bought the frozen fusion which was just like a tea smoothie so i could have a little glass was uh sorry to cut you off jason was the dill when you tasted the dill minutes later was that

like a slow release capsule with of medicine oh yeah yeah it was like i finally bit the cyanide capsule in the back molar jason you know you most people don't know this he keeps a little capsule in his mouth that's full of dill it's a little yeah a little dill um yeah no it wasn't like abhorrent um but yeah, I wasn't wild about it. And then I just had orange cardamom wings, which were just, yeah, they were nice. It was like a nice wing, a little herbally sauce. But you guys had much more of an experience. Can I ask real quick, though?

Nate, have you had this pickle milkshake? Yes, I love the pickle milkshake. Wow. I do. Honestly, and? Nate, have you had this pickle milkshake? Yes, I love the pickle milkshake. Wow. I do. I honestly, and I don't like pickles. Really? I don't know. It works for me.

It tastes like a shamrock shake. I don't like shamrock shake. You got a hard no. One hard no. One hard no. Firm no. I understand what you're saying. Yeah, it has very similar texture and a little bit of flavor. Yeah.

I mean, I see a lot of people who really don't like it, though. They're like, oh, this is disgusting. I don't think it's disgusting. Yeah, I don't think it was disgusting. I was just like, oh, not for me. I shouldn't drink this, you know, all the way. You said you don't like pickles, Nate. Every time you've eaten a pickle in the past,

do you think to yourself, I wish this tasted 40% more like a milkshake? Has that been the missing element for you? I could probably like pickles that way. I would say so. Do you like pickles on hamburgers or anything?

I complain. Hamburger burger bun. I love it. I love it. I like that Do you like pickles on hamburgers or anything? I complain. Oh, really? Hamburger burger bun. I love it. Like, I love it. I like that style with, like, the tomato. Like, I'll eat, like, a slice of tomato on it. Right.

Or even on white bread. That's, like, the original way. Like, that one place that invented the hamburger up in, I don't even know where it is. Wherever it was. Yeah. Louie's Lunch. Yeah, they just do it. It's literally just like bread, hamburger, tomato.

Okay. I like a pickle. I feel like I generally don't eat pickles alone. I eat them on things. But I did not try this pickle milkshake. Maybe I will get back to the park. Maybe I'll try it. I'm a simple man with burgers.

What I like is just all I want is just kind of that patty and the park. Maybe I'll try it. I'm a simple man with burgers. What I like is just, all I want is just kind of that patty and the bun, but I want the patty to be sushi. I want it to be a combo of burger and sushi. Your classic burgooshy form factor. Yeah, I was searching

for the term. What I'm searching for is burgooshy. It's kind of the superior. Yeah, that's what I want. And you'll hear about that soon enough. Yes. So, Scott, I feel like you should talk about your order at the

Brewing Lab. This is what we're building up to. I'm just gonna... I'm gonna cut to the chase because I didn't give it a lot of thought. I didn't do a lot of research. I saw a term and I went for it. I looked at the menu and I saw unnecessarily spicy yet extremely tasty scotch bonnet pepper curry wings with cool cucumber yogurt. That's good.

I thought maybe I'd get more. Yeah. But it ended at the yogurt separate. The wings was the applause point. So I went for that. And because I like, I'm fine with spice, I think. I don't think I'm a spicy hot wing avoider. And it shows up and first of all look I don't I hate to

start disagreeing with the person who just yelled right now I what's that we're all good we're all all good. It shows up. It doesn't look great to me. Looks like a big old... Like, cool cucumber yogurt. You can picture what that is. That's, like, refreshing and dill and not just kind of like a plop,

like a bird plop on top of hot wings. A single bite. One single bite. And I am i am done for gone just gone beyond belief to where just it's the immediate up and like handshaking and and a tongue out of control immediately after one bite felt like you were doing a bad bit. It was a very vague sort of impression of a person eating too much spice. It took me a moment to realize

you were actually struggling. Yes, yeah. I take one bite and I'm like, oh my! Oh my! Oh jeez! And which does not sound like how I talk. It does sound like a bit mode you would go into.

That volume, that level of facial expression. And I told you, you seem like you're doing a bit right now. And you went, oh, wow. I guess I must seem like I'm doing like a season two of SNL Will Ferrell character. That was how it, yes. It's like kind of an early on, not quite as good Will Ferrell, too hot of wings guy.

Oh, dear Lord. Dear Lord, that is spicy. That is spicy. I felt like such a hack, but I wasn't exaggerating. It honestly was what genuinely came out of me. You were not playing it up at all. The wings made me hacky.

They activated the hack part of the brain. They hurt you, and they ruined your comedic sensibility. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is a good setup to then do it again on a stage. There was a mad TV character, like the Too Much Coffee guy. I felt like the Too Much Coffee guy. I think I could have gotten, if I was on Mad TV in 96,

I think I could have gotten Too Hot of Wings guy on like 11 times. I think I'm on the board every week with that thing. What's that? Oh. All right, never mind mind we'll talk later so that's done those wings are immediately in the trash

right after as if the one did it to me and then Mike had a theory and the theory was wing chasing because you had a different type of wing I got and I am going to say the name, I got the peanut butter and jelly wings.

And I thought, okay, maybe what you do is you eat the hot wing, then you eat the peanut butter wing because it's a sweeter thing. So I offered that to you. I wanted to help you. And you sampled mine too. And I think we both agreed that it was kind of an interesting

it was like a tongue coder a little bit. I think the wing chasing did work. I think you were correct. Now I didn't like the wing you gave me at all. Oh no the wings I got were bad. They were medicinal at that point. They were purely balm.

Yeah I didn't like the wings either. I wanted corrective wings. I didn't like the wings either. I wanted corrective wings. I didn't want tasty wings. Now, I have just a bad body in general, so I was telling you guys that anytime there's any sort of seasonal change, my whole

cyano system breaks down. In New York, the weather was starting to change. It went from like 80 to 40 in one week. And then I came here. So immediately upon landing here, my allergies were like out of control. And you're doing this whole act out with the wings. And you go like, do you want to try this?

And I took one bite and I felt like I was on cocaine. But also immediately my allergies cleared up. Like it did work. And then you and I at one point were like, we're not exaggerating. Like, it did work. And then you and I at one point were like, we're not exaggerating, right? Like, it does feel like we're on cocaine. It really feels like cocaine. We're really good.

We're really good. And then we leaned into each other and went, I've never done cocaine. You've never done cocaine. You've actually done cocaine? No, I haven't. But this definitely feels like cocaine. But I think that's probably what it would feel like.

This is what this feels like. It's got to be like eating a wing. It's got to be like cocaine. It's got to be. That is, yeah, that is what was going on. Yeah. And you having only had mellow peanut butter wings are like, these fucking, I'm not with these psychos.

We don't have matching shirts. I am not with them. I was checking my phone for the app. I was just looking to see what we could get on next. And I was like, oh yeah, spicy wing, huh? Oh, still going on, huh? Well, you want some of these? Okay.

Well, your true plus one at any theme park is your phone. Well, yeah, that's the way. It can be tough to get the attention. That's the way it has to be, though, because somebody has to use the time efficiently when they're at the park with that, whatever it's called, Genie Plus. I don't want to step in something right now,

but I'm going to say this. I've gotten a lot of hate over the years for not being a particular fan of the ride living with the Lant. I know. I know. Feel free. Boo this man! Feel free. Hang on. Hang on.

Let me say where I'm going with this. This hate is directed at me and only at me. We all went on living with the land together. Guess who was on his phone 100% of the ride? Get him! Get him! Get him! Get him!

Who, me? Me? Who, me? Me? Who, me? Go stand like you're being crucified against the brick wall. And this was a respectful living with a land ride. The boat was quiet as a church mouse. I haven't seen that in years. But then this little glowing light illuminating his face.

I turned it on night mode. I turned it on the contrast. I'm no villain. I was trying to make the rest of the day better for them. I wasn't texting or checking the web. At one point in the ride, Mike, without lifting his eyes off of his phone, nudged me with his elbow and went,

you should pay attention, this is an important room. Wow. That's frowning tomato girl. Well, right before that Living Lamb ride too, we had about a 30 minute ordeal where we were all trying to buy Disney Plus. I was trying to buy Disney Plus with my phone.

Genie Plus. We were not signing up for the streaming service. I'm already a subscriber to Disney Plus. We all bought straight to five years on Disney Plus. We're going to have it forever. They were sitting outside and Jan and I were down

in the food court and gotten a snack and I was trying to buy Genie Plus on my phone and it would go through and Apple Pay would come down charge and then 10 seconds later

it would go refund and it would just charge me and refund me about four times before we eventually just bought it on her phone and so then finally which is also was like i don't know how much we're going to use this today we might be used buying this to do living with the land so by the time we actually got on the ride, we were all real relaxed. We were all like, thank God it stopped.

Thank God the app stopped and we can just do a ride. The entire Genie Plus hassle took absolutely longer than if we had just gone into the line. It took us over 30 minutes to link a reservation for all of us on the ride at the same time. And the ride queue at that moment was 20 minutes long. And we go on the whole ride. Mike's on his phone.

You're just kind of stewing. The ride ends. You step off and you go, well, I'm getting wine. It disappeared. I didn't even see it. It's like the room fire the roof was just gone. This is not a bit. He ran away.

This is not a bit. I said, Scott, where are you going? You go, I don't know, and I don't care, and you ran into a crowd, and we just had to find you later. Daddy knows what daddy needs. I mean, it's app hassle, and then a ride that, folks,

I want to like the ride I want to be like you don't you understand I feel like the boy in the plastic bubble everyone is outside they're laughing and they're running free and I'm not invited and I went on it and I still

don't get it help me get the ride Nick what the ride. Nick. What? The ride music. Well, yeah, all right. A little like acoustic guitar.

But yeah, yeah, that's not bad. That's not bad. Nate, do you like living with the land? I love living with the land. I do. And, you know, you can eat from living with the land. You mean you can eat while you're on the boat? No, you can eat the food from living with the land. But later?

Later. Not on there while you do it, but they have little signs for food and wine. Right, right, right. They say like the yucca fries are like grown on living with the land. Right. So it's kind of fun. A little food and wine twist. Do you like the first part of it or the second part when you see this, like hopefully you see a scientist or something?

Oh, I like the music, and I'm always looking for a scientist. I'm always looking. And anyone that's on the, like, the behind-the-scenes, the tour, I'm like, oh, look at them over there. I'm excited. We saw some with the big pole by the trout pond, and we all

waved, and they went back. Yeah. Nate, how often, just because you're always in the parks, how many times a week on average do you go on living with the land? Or a month? If I go into the land, I'm probably going on living with the land usually. Okay. So I would say probably like once. Once a month or a week?

Once every two weeks, maybe three weeks. I did it one time. Yeah? I used to go ride Soarin' before work. I remember I did that a long time. I used to, like, you know, like, I used to work, like, 3pm. I used to actually go in, like, go to Epcot at, like, 11am

and go ride Soarin' and then go to work. Okay, this is before you were born? Yeah, I was, like, totally, like, all right, I'm ready for my shift. Yeah, I love Soarin' so much. I need help. I need help. I don't want to get booed anymore. I want to be on the right side of history.

I'm trying to get better. Do you have, answer me this question. Why do I not like living with the land, but I love the Mexico boat ride? Why is that? I love Mexico. It was one of the first things I that? I love Mexico. I like, I, it was one of the first things I did when I got on. I was so sad when we didn't get to do it a second time.

Once we hooked up with you, what's go, they're both slow moving, relaxing boat rides. What's going on? Do you have, can you, I don't know,

not to make you psychoanalyze me. What about the mighty hooves of the Buffalo? And there's like so many great things about that ride. The house, the forest scenes with the running water. Yeah. There's some atmosphere there. You got something there. Sure, sure.

Yeah, I mean, there's so many great things. And the music. Would you say... Maybe music is the key. Thank you. Yes, okay. Would you say, though, that the Mexico boat ride is better than living with the land? Oh, no.

I can't. Honestly, I do love that ride, but living with the land is, I mean, you've got to truly live with the land. Well, that's what, yeah. I mean, look, I understand the message of it. The message is to be one with the land, to live with the land, to not get distracted by your devices. Have you rode it by yourself? Like on a real nice slow day, I've done that before, and there was no boats,

and you just get to listen to music without looking at your phone. You know what I mean? Hey, I was helping. I was helping everyone. I was just saying? Hey, there we go. I was helping. No, no. I was helping everyone. Give it to him. No, no, no.

Maybe. Try it out. Go for a nice little boat ride for yourself. Take it in. Look for the hidden Mickeys. You know? Oh, sure. Oh, there's, yeah, there's shrimp live in little Mickey cages.

I noticed that. Yeah, there's tons of that ride. Look for the pumpkin Mickey. I didn't see the pumpkin Mickey. Yeah, there's a lot. I. Look for the pumpkin Mickey. I didn't see the pumpkin Mickey. I'll look for the pumpkin Mickey. Or go on the behind the scenes tour. That is one thing we didn't get to this week. It occurred to me that it would probably be funny

to go on the behind the scenes tour. I said to Griffin. But was it also possible that I would end up wanting to drown myself in a salmon tank? Also possible. I don't know. That'll be for next trip.

I believe when you ran away, I said to Griffin, is there any way we could sign him up without him knowing for the side behind the seeds tour? But I don't think that's possible. Would it just show up in your app and force you to go? I don't think so. I got bummed after we left. I found out they were selling little seedlings, little plants that they grew. You could buy little plants from living with the land. You can?

Take them home with little pots. Have you done the tour, Nate? No, I've never done the tour. Oh, we should have done the tour. Oh, we should have done the tour. Oh, we should have done the tour. I love the ride. I mean, I bet. I've been in the back area one time for, I think it was a VIP tour.

Right. But I never got to do the tour tour. I always wanted to. That's the tour, though. That's the tour. All right. Well, we're going to, OK. I don't know when.

The next time we're back, do we just need to reunite this entire group? And the love, the live show is behind. Yeah, I am ready. Beyond the seeds, behind the seeds,

behind. I, wait, wait, wait, one more chance. Mike, stay off your phone.

Mike, stay off your phone. Look at the seeds. Look at the seeds. Look at the seeds. Live with the land. Live with the land. Can you bring one of those cases you put in when you go to see a stand-up show for my phone?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, there was a lot of back and forth about what should the subjects of the shows be, the live shows, right? Right, right, right. So I was going to do a lot more stuff across several days at the park. What would give the most meat to a show? Yeah.

And Food and Wine Festival, I think the fear was, is this kind of a picker-esque story? Is it a scattered narrative? Mm-hmm. A little bites and sips here and there? Is it going to be a story of all these little glimpses? Oh, and we split off. You know, it can be,

it's aimless. You're walking around, you're having fun, but what is the tale to tell? What is that, a fucking Robert Altman movie? Where's the narrative propulsion, you know? We're not Cassavetes here. Come on. Story. Story is what we want. And I said, I think I found the spine of the story. I became aware of a certain passport that was being handed out at Epcot to participate in an event called a meal's fromage montage.

Ooh. Ooh. A meal, of course, the food-loving brother from Ratatouille presents a montage of cheese. I'd say montage is not the right word to describe a crawl in Orlando heat. Yes. Many cheeses eaten hours apart. Yes. But there was a list of 10 participating stands with different cheese dishes and if you got

five of those stamps from any, your choice five out of the ten, you could then go to Simmering Sips hosted by Corksicle and get the completer surprise stamp and a special

off-menu treat only for completers. Which, by the way, I appreciate being up to full-fledged PTR legend, but completer is the main term I would like people to associate with me. Ooh, okay. Completer. That man completes. And so

I just, for days leading up to this, I was like, guys, I'm telling you, this fucking fromage montage is going to pay off. It's going to give us like an arc. We're going to have a fun journey. It's going to keep the show in line. Here's the thing I

didn't tell you guys. Go to the first stand of what I knew had tell you guys go to the first stand of what I knew had to be 5 early in the morning check my backpack, realized I had left my lactaid in the hotel oh fuck

and I would say my body is not good at processing any food dairy pretty close to the bottom of the list you didn't talk about playing it cool. You did not mention this one word. I did not. Whoa. People talk about

Montezuma's revenge. I had a meals congestion when I got back to my hotel room. There was four hours of hacking and spitting. No. I'm telling you, but I felt the need to do this. And I did, in fact,

get five stamps. Wow. I completed the mission. I got the... What did I get here? The Schinken Nudeln from Germany. Oh, yeah. Which is somewhere between, I'd say,

a casserole and a mac and cheese, like a German mac and cheese. Nate, did you do all this too? No, no, no. I don't like that. I like doing the cookie stroll during the festival of the holidays. They have a cookie one where it's all cookies and not cheese items. Right.

I like destroying my body. That's another stamp situation? Yeah. Okay. With stamps? Yeah. Do you get a completer surprise? Yeah.

Did you complete? Oh, yeah. What was the surprise? It's a surprise. That's right. I didn't know I was on stage with two completers. Oh, yes. I was there when you completed this, and you were happy.

I've seen it. There was a level of, like, I did it. I don't know if I've ever finished a thing that much in my life. Griddle cheese from Greece. I got the pão de queijo from Brazil. I chose, weirdly, to not get the Canadian

cheddar and bacon soup during a hot Orlando afternoon. I didn't feel like chugging that, and I got the southern pimento cheese, and I got the southern pimento cheese and I think the boar sand fig and balsamic souffle from Wine and Wedge. But I got, I completed all five,

and my reward, I got this cup. I've been quietly, it's been here the whole fucking time. I didn't even realize he was drinking out of that cup the whole night. Refilled in mid-show. Wow. The clues were there. Whoa. That blew my mind. out of that cup the whole night. I know. We filled in each show. Wow. The clues were there. Whoa.

That blew my mind. You've been holding that all night. I will say it's a plastic cup with a lot of give. It may not survive a flight back. It's real flexible. Oh, yeah. But this was filled with the reward you got for eating five different cheese dishes, in my case, without lactaid, was cheesecake

flavored soft serve with a mini cheesecake on top. I was really excited when I got it. I looked at all of you. I went, this is great. This is so great. This is the best thing I've eaten all day. And then we went to the bathroom and I poured half of it out.

I didn't eat it. I thought he housed it. I was we went to the bathroom and I poured half of it out. I thought he housed it. I was like, wow, he must have loved it. I did love it. I did love it. And then it started to one by one break down my central nervous system. Jesus. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. So now what I'm putting together is that because you're going to hear about it in the City Walk saga in many, many parts. Was this yesterday? What is time? What is happening? I think it was two days ago.

What I'm saying is yesterday was death day. Yesterday was the day that broke us at City Walk, and it's the day that everything broke at Universal Studios where there were a solid three hours where we didn't do one thing somehow. How are we in here and in this heat and not doing one actual activity? The morale was so

low, and what I didn't know until now is that from the time we left you to that, you were just, you were vomiting and what else? I wasn't vomiting. I wasn't vomiting. I wasn't vomiting. Okay. But there was a constant struggle.

Ironically, at the death day lunch, you seemed fine because you just had a grilled chicken sandwich. That's true. I went a little simple. Yeah. Wait, did you eat some cheese in the pizza later too? At that point, it was kind of a sunk cost fallacy thing. No, man. I didn't even think about that.

We went to Abracadabra and we said, let's get one of each food item you have. And the three food items were cheese and meat plate, cheese fries, and cheese pizza. Wow. And I did partake in all three. Wow. Because I was also combating the amount of wine I'd had at all the booths. It was like I had to... You got to do it with something.

Can I also say, I don't know if there are further questions about my digestive system, but we went to Abracadabra and Taylor, your friend in our group, asked about if they had like what specialty mocktails were. And she listed some of the specialties, our server. And then she said, and also we have the, I forget what the two were, but she said something like, we have the Arnold Palmer,

which is, we call it the Mickey Mouse here, and we have the Shirley Temple, which we here call the Minnie Mouse. And Mike kind of immediately tensed up, and then he went, his eyes narrowed, he went would it be possible to get a mini mouse with alcohol and she went like a dirty shirley temple and mike said i wouldn't say

that and she said because i can't call the drink a dirty mini. Yeah. I said, we can't say dirty mini. And she said, oh, and she took a second and was like, oh, I understand what you mean, yes. And I said, this drink is called a dirty Shirley. But you've told us now that it's called a mini here. By transitive property, it would be a dirty mini. Yeah, but I didn't want to think about it that way. Too late. You had a dirty mini inside you. I'm stating facts.

I'm stating facts. At the table, we tried to re-dub it a flirty mini to keep it a little more PG-13. That's nice. That's wholesome. I like that better. It was. But then, Nate, you started talking about different events you'd gone to recently. And every time you talked about something at a smaller size... I said Minnie.

You said Minnie, and Mike would just go like this to me. Because we had started in such a place. I just, every time, it reminded me of her. Your Orlando Hall pass. You are talking about this like it is Casablanca. Like you're a Rick staring out into the sky thinking of her.

I have a photo as she was walking by me in Epcot and I took a quick one with her. Oh, you did a creep shot? Is that what you're talking about? Not a creep shot. She was looking. Yeah, it's not like you took a creep shot. She's out there to take photos with.

It just happened to not be when she was standing. She was walking by. Can I talk about a completest thing I did food-wise? How are you a completer, Jason? Well, so we had- You better have the stamps to back up this story, by the way. You better have the stamps to back up this story, by the way. You better have the stamps to back up this story. Oh, I don't.

So we ended up doing Guardians around like 2.30 or so in the day. And so Jane and I had gone off, and i was sampling some food stuff and you know i just wanted to have some food in my belly but not too much before a big crazy coaster like that because uh really moves you around a lot and um uh i so what i i had a half of of cheese and fruit plate, a plate of stone crab claws, half of a frozen frappuccino, and an M&M cookie. And then I got on Guardians. And I was fine. What a lineup. So you completed just a meal of your choosing?

No, I just ate a bunch of weird food. And I was like, oh, I hope I'll be okay on Guardians. The completer of the crazy crap challenge. I was eating crabs at like 1130 in the morning, and they didn't quite crack them all the way, so I was like, I had to break them all open. But I love my crab. You were asking me about those crabs a lot. You were asking if I had them.

I was like, oh, wow. He's really going on about the crabs. Welcome to the podcast, Nate. Excited about the crabs. I know. And now I see them. Yeah. Have you done the crab?

Yeah, it was good. Yeah, okay. Is it hard to break them? Yeah, a little bit hard. I got the champagne there, too. I got the Dom Perignon. They sell it in a big cup there. It was funny.

Yeah, that booth was just shrimp cocktail, crab cocktail, and three or four kinds of champagne. Yeah. Okay. It was very elegant. Yeah. Elegant, did you say? Yeah. It was very elegant and fancy. Champagne's a classy drink. I get it. Yeah, and you're eating crab claws and drinking champagne

on a trash drink. I get it. Yeah, and you eat crab claws and drinking champagne on a trash can. You pointed this out, because I was like, I mean, I assume in Paging Mr. Morrow, it has to go into food and wine fest. And I didn't realize what a thing this was. It's what you do. You grab a trash can. That's what it's about. Wow.

I did it last night at the Christmas party, and I realized, like, if it's not an Epcot, people look at you. Like, I was at the Christmas party, and I was eating, I think, a waffle and some Sleepy Hollow, and I just grabbed the closest trash can because the tables weren't there, and it just looked weird

because it was, like, ice cream. It was a sundae. Oh, okay. It was, like, on the trash can. I was just like... And no one else was eating on a trash can. Yeah, yeah. It happens at Epcot, but at Ep epcot you always see it everywhere you go right because there's limited space yeah that's what you do

i'm gonna be sad to go back home and eat at a table foreign california can i ask you because this is the type of thing we would talk about on the show is there do you have a favorite trash can to eat on in Epcot? Yes. You do? Absolutely. Over by the gazebo where Minnie actually meets. Oh, now I'm liking the sound. It's in the front of World Showcase in between Mexico and Canada.

There's a little gazebo. It's very nice. You've got a nice backdrop. You can see the monorail go by. I like a view. Yes. It's a great view. Is there something special about the trash can or it's just mostly the view?

No, it's the view. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you get a trash can, you got to have a good view. Do you have a, do you have a least favorite trash can in Epcot? Oh, probably next to the restrooms. That's okay.

Yeah. Bad view. Bad view. Staring at toilets. Yeah. Um,. Bad view staring at toilets. Yeah. We have to start winding this down, which makes me sad. I'd love to stay here for as long as humanly possible. I wish we'd done a third show that we could go into right now. But go for it.

Nate, you were saying something before the show. Is there something you have? Oh, I got you guys something. What? I did. Well, you know how we were talking about buying antiques and little Disney props and

cool stuff. My friend Taylor, we actually went and we got stuff that I thought you guys would like. Something like Disney history. What? Really? Yeah. Oh, my God. Is that a big bag for us?

What? That is a giant bag. It's been here the whole time, like the glass. Taylor, thank you. Oh, my God. This is like our- It's really cool, and I was like, I really know you guys would appreciate it. This is like our birthday.

I really wanted to share it with you guys. Oh, my God. Wow, this is the nicest. Whoa. Jeez. This is like Christmas morning. Ooh. This is big. It is like Christmas morning. Ooh. This is big.

It is like Christmas morning. I love that. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Wow, jeez. This is nuts. All right.

So like most of the stuff, I tried to make like everything. And Taylor helped me pick out some really cool stuff because like she was like, oh, yeah, this would be perfect. But like there's some things that are unique. So we got Shrek glasses in there that are really kind of cool. Wow! Wow. Shrek 4Ds, oh my god.

Cool. This is an 8x10. This is incredible. It's the dinosaur family at MGM Studios. We were talking about those kind of photos just out there and that's why I was like, oh man man, maybe I should give them to you. Because I was like...

This is a sticker or a patch with a phrase that means a lot to me. And the phrase is, the 21st century begins October 1st, 1982. That is opening day. It's opening day. I love it. I feel such emotion from that, especially also because that's when Donald Fagan's The Nightfly album came out. Yes! Hell yeah! Give me some applause

on that. Greatest day in the history of the world. This is an Epcot continuation of Dream, Dawn of a New Disney Era, looks like Epcot opening polo shirt. Nice! Whoa, mine is a

Soren polo shirt. I. Jeez. Mine is a Soren polo shirt. That's a... I think that's Walt Disney Imagineering or one of the... Oh, that's the project team one. Oh, wow. So that's how you worked on the ride. Happiest celebration on Earth. That's fantastic. Jeez.

I was specifically complaining to Taylor about a Disney merch blog that posted an April Fool's story about the Muppet Vision 3D glasses being sold as sunglasses. And now each of us have a pair of the Muppet Vision 3D glasses on our faces. This looks oddly terrifying. What do we have here? These are 1940s and 1950s Ben Cooper Halloween costumes.

Wow. Oh, hell yes. What's the deal with Ben Cooper? Now, they're very old. You probably don't want to take them out of the box. Like, most of them, they have that really cool smell to them. It's because it's the gauze. That's what they used as masks back then.

Okay, yeah. This is a 100-year- the gauze. That's what they used as masks back then. Okay, yeah. This is a hundred-year-old gauze? Yeah. Wow. This Donald mask looks like he's in The Strangers. The Strangers who come to your house and terrorize you. Wow. Mickey's mouth is like

caving in. Whoa. This is how I felt after the wings this Pluto's pretty cute I love Pluto is definitely in the best shape Pluto is definitely doing pretty good this is awesome geez gosh thank you so much this this is insane this is incredible history mixed with terror which we love that's fantastic I mean it reminds it reminds me of how weird and scary the old Mickey costumes were in the 50s. You've seen those old photos. It flashes you right to that. That's so cool.

I love these. I have several because I love them so much. Oh, yeah. This is going on my Disney shelf. Yeah. But I know that you guys appreciate it. And like I said, I love going to Lakeland Antique Mall, and I love going shopping. A lot of these props you can actually go buy right here

down, it's right in Lakeland and it's really cool. It's awesome that you get to find little bits of history. I love it. Yeah, could you, I think you said this, you have some of a country bear thing that I was very intrigued by? Oh, I got teddy bear's fur.

Yeah, that was cool. Whoa, whoa, yeah. I totally forgot. teddy bear's fur. Yeah. That was cool. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah. Oh, I totally forgot. Teddy bear's fur. Yes. And it even has some of the pink stuff still left on it. It was from a refer.

And a lot of that stuff you can get checked with like property control and stuff. And if it's sold through any of the old Disney Anna like auctions, it all comes with certification. So it's really cool. The energy with which you said that, I truly thought you were about to say, yeah, I got Teddy Bear's phone number. Yeah. Oh, I'll be right up.

Yeah. Whoa. Wow. I don't know where else to go from there that's oh my god you know let me let me do something really quick on the end because to make sure that we fully covered you can't talk about um food and wine festival without bringing up eat to the beat somebody bought something for mike for me oh wow casamigos has shown up somebody bought something for Mike. For me? Oh, wow. Casamigos has shown up. Oh, yeah.

Wow. Right on time. We were winding it down. You know what, Nate? There was a third silent person involved in Casamigos named Michael Melman. And you don't see him on the ads with George and Randy. He's not on those ads

but he is very important in the story as well and i just want everyone to know that and remember it it's less good than the brief wait okay so say his name and then do the shot thank you michael melman yeah there he does it there he goes and. And now, that's perfect timing, because here's what I was going to do. I was about to give Mike one of his favorite experiences in the world, and here's what my plan was. And I'll need your help with a little applause on this, too.

Food and wine is happening, but something else happens during that. It's at the American Adventure Outdoor Stage, and it's called the Eat to the Beat Concert Series. And this is where all of Mike's favorite bands come to rock, to jam, to play the three songs of theirs you know, and then three others.

The sick, nastiest bands in America, yeah. So here's the gift I'm going to give you now with some tequila coursing through your veins. I'm going to say the names of some of the bands that played this year in 2023, and I would like you to do the ultimate, Mike, a song is on, finger point.

And whatever you feel like you want to do, audience. Okay, so here we go. Who's played this year? Why, we got Hanson. Yeah. I watched Hanson's set about a week ago

on YouTube. From E to the B. From E to the B. And tell me, Nate, if you've been to any of these. Joey Fatone and Friends. Watched it as well. Put one up. Saw it on YouTube.

I did. That's amazing. My YouTube wants me to see sets from Eat to the Beat now. It's that and the person next to me. Your entire algorithm. Let's give it up

for the Baja Men. The Baja Men. Who let the dogs? Put one up. I saw them at Epcot in 2019. Oh, yeah, you did that one. No, that's right. Well, I'm sorry that you didn't get to do Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

We are competing. They were tonight. We were competing with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy today. Oh, we probably lost some audience. Oh, geez. I thought it seemed a little thin out here. It's Electric Daisy Carnival Night, too. Wow. That is

busy right now. I know you're going to want to put one up for Sugar Ray. Sugar Ray. Nate, have you seen him? I did. I've seen him many a times. I love him every morning. This is why

I watch you. This is why you'll be the second host soon enough. The deal will be made backstage. And finally, let's all put one in the air for Hoobastank. Hoobastank! And one more thing.

I think this could be a good applause line. This is something that I think we'll all remember for a while, that after this great day of friendship and Epcot drinking, that we were at the front of the park and we were under Spaceship Earth when we found out that the SAG after strike was over.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Hypothetically, we can work again. If we get cast, in theory, we can work again. Yeah, maybe. The only problem now is that no one wants

to hire us. Back to my phone not ringing. I believe you said the miracle of Epcot. Dude, dude, miracle. It was an Epcot miracle. It was an Epcot miracle. This entire thing was an Epcot. Dude, dude, I'm getting dressed. It was an Epcot miracle. It was an Epcot miracle. This entire thing

was an Epcot miracle. And now I'm happy, I was just so happy you could do it with us. Nate, paging Mr. Morrow,

you survived. Podcast, the ride, give it up for this guy. I'm so glad you could do it. Oh my God. Completer,

Griffin Newman. You completed Podcast The Ride. You came from fucking New York and I've had a great time with you all week. I'm so glad. He did it for you guys. I got two stamps, one from each live show tonight.

Yeah, you completed both shows. I think a lot of you folks completed both shows too and we thank you so much. We thank everybody who came to all of them. You survived. Podcast The Ride live in Orlando. God damn. I want to do this

every single Friday night. I think you guys probably all do too. And really quick, before we go, I want to thank some people who helped make this week incredible for us. Adam LaPrade, Josh Holtzclaw, Nico Wells, Kevin Tully,

Pat Rice, Carson Luter, Van Robichaux, Matt Cardona. Thank you to Connor and Eric and everyone here at Tin Roof Orlando. And thanks Aaron Gairdner and Lindsay K. Tai for holding down the fort back at home. Thank you all for coming out. This was unbelievable. We really appreciate it.

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