Podcast: The Ride - European Vacation: Tayto Park with Marissa Strickland

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

Marissa Strickland (UCB, Black-ish) joins us to discuss Ireland's Tayto Park. And we meet our new favorite character in fiction. Popeye Village episode up at The Second Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide 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! may the road rise to meet you may the wind be at your back here on podcast the rides european vacation i'm jason sheridan here as always with michael carlson oh hello there right of faith and begor yes that's correct okay great i'm here and scott carter of course oh i have to say uh one love one life uh uh elevation tour now that's bono counts as irish right sure like they say at Bennigan, sláinte. Are you going to do the voice the whole episode? I'm not going to do the voice the whole episode. I'm already well past the end point

of the voice. You know what I should have said? I should have been like, oh, my name is Chief O'Hara because that's all I know about that is that he was the side, what was he? He was the cop in Gotham on the 60s Batman show. On 60s batman yeah he was always in full dress blues that's right and he and commissioner gordon were incompetent

yes they couldn't get anything done and they were just at the mercy of batman yes uh yeah the only irish representation in film or tv you were aware of for for some time up until right now i think until today until the the place we're going in but and the character uh which i imagine will be a lot of the source of the episode look i'll be honest it's crazy that the theme park exists uh that's fine i don't almost give a shit now that i found this certain character that we're all going to talk about today i'm i'm completely with you yes but but before before that character yes our our guest character for for today yes uh joy jason you want to do the yeah jason do the voice do the do the accent yeah yeah you gotta give her one well Well, she's a Bonnie Lass, all right. It's Marissa Strickland, one of our first guests, finally returning home to podcast the ride.

Hoi, hoi, hoi, hoi, hoi. And there it is, the national motto of the country. It's hoi, hoi, hoi. A hoi, hoi, hoi. Of my ancestral homeland Hi guys I'm thrilled to be here This is a true delight

Yeah thanks for doing this Thanks for being interested in this Park and this certain character That we're about to get to Delightful Jason do you have a whole plan Here or should we just, should we say it? Do we reveal what we're doing and

why, if there's a why? Well, I think the only thing is, because Marissa, I asked you to be on this episode because when, Scott, you told us about this park, I was like, we should have Marissa on for this one. And you guys said, oh, has she been there? And I went, no,

this character just has the most marissa energy i have ever uh encountered well it's yeah it's a european spokes character which i believe marissa introduced me to another character many years ago who i was unaware of mafalda oh yeah oh mafalda is my childhood. If you wanted to speak a little bit about Mafalda before we get to our topic. Well, she's a Spanish language little girl who's kind of a, you know, the world isn't treating her so well. She's kind of a Cathy. But I think she's in fact like Argentine or something. But, you know, she's known throughout the Spanish world. And, you know, she's just kind of like a hrumpf.

You know, things aren't going well for her. And that's what I read during my childhood. And she was your favorite character in fiction. I really liked her. Yeah, she was great. I also was fond of a fairy tale called The Little Lame Prince. He was a prince that couldn't walk. My parents made me weird.

Well, sure. You lived in Europe for a little while, right? I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I lived in Spain for almost two years at two different times during my childhood. Okay. Yeah.

And then in college, you were in Prague? Is that right? Right nearby. I was in Hungary. So just south. Yeah. In Budapest. And did you ever encounter the character? I know

you weren't in the specific spots, but... No. I haven't encountered this character. I think this character is very delightful. I would say previous iterations of this character are cuter to me than the current iteration. Okay, that's fair you guys can you know i you know let's just say his name you know

do we all want to say it together we all want to say yeah sure that sounds nice all right all right three two one one mr tato we're so excited to talk about mr tato and and i guess incidentally tato park the theme park that bears his name and the name of the uh the chip brand that he endorses a rather crisp brand this is a theme park built around the factory of an irish potato crisp brand um and i think you know i think we were aware of it. I think we knew about it. I think it was on my little short list, but I wrote down almost nothing about it.

And then we did throw it out to the audience. Hey, where should we go if we do this European thing? And this is the most biggest audience influence, I think, on this series. And I want to give credit to Sean P. O'Brien, perhaps Irish himself, or at least sounds as such, who said we should go to Tato Park in Ireland for everybody's favorite theme park based on a cheese and onion potato crisp. And there was a photo of Mr. Tato with it. And I just, boy, I started staring and I just had a feeling.

Sometimes you just have a nice feeling in your heart. And I sent it to you guys And we all agreed And parks were bumped Parks were bumped because of this Yeah, thrown into the shitter Into the dustbin of history It seems odd at first

But then you remember we have Hershey Park in America Which has anthropomorphic candy bars running around And they have giant weird googly eyes and they have santa hats on and they have like ascots at halloween like with this isn't as strange as it first appears so i think it's in the family of stuff already that with the curiosities that we all have in common sorry really quick they have ascots at halloween uh in in well they have costumes at halloween and in my mind they have kind of like a one of them maybe the hershey bar itself has like out of a dracula

type kind of ascot and cape situation going on don't quote me on that i know the listener is going to be very upset if there is not a photo of hershey bar wearing an ascot um but if there's not if somebody wouldn't mind mocking one up on photoshop i'd appreciate it yeah don't forget too a lot of um bush gardens uh have a brewery next to them or at least the one in virginia where they brew because it's bush so like they brew beer right so when my family when i was like in middle school and we went to Bush Gardens in Virginia, we took a tour of the brewery and then my parents got free beer at the end of it. And the monorail that took us there broke down for a while. So we were just sitting in the cafeteria waiting and it stunk.

This place's factory tour seems much more pleasant the flavored crisps of the tato company which include cheese and onion salt and vinegar smoky bacon prawn cocktail and the limited edition tex-mex um how do we what do we think of these i don't think we've gotten to try this particular brand i don't know if it's available in america i'm not sure i like the sound of prawn cocktail but i could be wrong i don't mean that's yeah what were you saying no i just don't think it's like to me prawn cocktail sounds like a flavor that exists in other parts of the world and would be scrumptious, but maybe isn't for American tastes. But I don't know. It's possible it's not for American taste.

Prawn itself sounds so unappetizing. Prawn sounds like it's alive when you eat it and it's going to latch onto your tongue while you're trying to chew it. That's what I think of when I think of prawn. But I'm willing to try it. I'm willing to do it. I think we maybe, there was a version of this podcast where we spent a lot of money and had it imported. And we would have all tried it.

And also, there's a version where I ordered a thing I just found existed today. Mr. Tato's autobiography. Oh! That exists. We've got we gotta postpone can we postpone we here we should we should postpone but i think we'll just do it and then maybe there'll be an addendum later once i finally figured out i was so desperate to find an e-book of mr tato's autobiography i put my credit card in a website that i'm very sure is fraudulent like i put i was like i was like oh my god i found this it's an hour to go before the podcast i need to read some of this at least oh this site seems to have an ebook of it credit card credit card error message then i like google what the website was and it's like oh yeah this is a scam

i am for sure getting my identity stolen because of mr tato and my quest for information about him and it was like four thousand dollars too the ira keeps a few irons in the fire just in case this shit hits the fan in belfast again you know just to get a little you know uh slush fund and part of that is stealing credit cards from Tato Book purveyor browsers. Well, look, if it helps them, I don't mind if they want to take a couple grand from my credit card account.

I can tell you this. Mr. Tato ran for office in 2014. Oh, I know all, yes. I know all about his office. Yeah, you know all about that. I found one, seemingly one guy's blog where he was very mad that they i guess polls some polls are are for political advertising in ireland and they thought it was very uncouth that they put the like tato for office uh posters on

them let's describe before there's a couple other things I'd like to talk about, obviously, but let's describe Mr. Tato before we get rolling here. Marissa, do you have a description? You're always very good with descriptors. Okay, well. He's yellow.

He's yellow. I think he looks a little lumpy. You know, there's some lumps and bumps. He's a potato. He's got a darling little hat, like a short little black straw hat is what I'm imagining, but it could be made of felt or something.

It might be silk. It's possible. Yes. It's a little like a Heisenberg hat. It is. It is. Thank you, Scottish. It's a pork pie.

It's a pork pie, yes. And he, which maybe his real name isn't Mr. It is. Thank you, Scott. It's a pork pie. It's a pork pie, yes. And he, so which maybe his real name isn't Mr. Tato. Maybe he adopted that. His real name's just like Greg McDuff or something. And he adopted this whole persona. Very possible. Yeah. He seems to like bold red and white colors. white colors yeah a simple kind of a simple basic

you call him basic i think in his color choices yeah i like it feels like fast food i'm enjoying it um i will say the current tato seems a little too much cgi for me i would prefer a more 2D kind of older animation looking guy. And we've talked about this before on the show, especially in regards to the Keebler elves. You know, Ernie Keebler now is CGI and he looks like he's had a lot of work done

and it's not the Ernie Keebler we grew up with. You know? I mean, they say nothing is constant but change. So i guess we have to live with it i mean we're already going through hell with this whole mr peanut baby nut nut junior debacle like it's a bad bad vibe i can't keep track of it yeah what is the difference between baby nut and nut junior oh uh baby nut is aging up now baby nut stuck around for a few months um uh was not well received and now i believe he's

as of a few days ago he's nut junior he's 21 what it seems like they're trying to quickly speed him up to get him back to mr peanut okay can we delay the episode so i can do more research on nut jr because i do really want to know about him we're not ready at all we're gonna have to put this back in the can this is gonna come out in three years yeah this is gonna be a whole project um so yeah so i think you know what's related to this maybe uh or what might help us here. First of all, I should say to the audience, if you it's probably in our show arts, I'm sure that it is. But if you haven't already seen Mr. Tato, I think it's important that you Google him, you know, just so you know what we're talking about for the next, you know, for the 90 percent of the episode.

The so so you should be looking at him, maybe just like listen to the don't like drive or work out or something or while you're listening to this particular episode, just like find a photo and stare straight into his eyes. Just like really give him your attention as I'm doing as we record it. But maybe a sub link within that is I'll share my screen with you guys. I found him on a great wiki which i should we should all pursue more that the ad mascot wiki and they kind of break down the different eras and maybe we could all uh like an out loud twitter thing we could all tag ourselves in what is our preferred mr tato and i'm most curious about Marissa's opinions here. That's beautiful. So we have a couple. We have the current

which is very CGI. We go back to the 2000s, the 90s, and all the way back to the 1960s. What do we think is peak Tato? I mean, old the 60s Tato is very much like he was a member of the Avengers. The British

secret agent group he's got like kind of that like he's like kind of posing on a little umbrella same color palette as now but it's more of a bowler hat it's more of like a classic yeah the hat got smaller um I think that 60s Tato

looks like the ink hat like the pen had a little bit too much ink in it when When they drew it, the black lines are too bold, a little thick. Yes. Too bold. Sorry.

Sorry. We're all entitled to our opinion. I think that, yeah, the two, the nineties and the two thousands Taito very similar. They're very close together. I like they,

they, except for the color of the hat essentially they they appear to be the same one is yellow one in one the hat is yellow the same yellow of his skin right um and then yeah that other tato they're all kind of similar i think it's really kind of there's really only three versions as far as what we're looking at here that are very different. There's not a lot of, I was mainly just curious if 60s did it for anybody. He does it for me.

No, he does it for me. Mr. Tato from the 60s for sure does it for me. He can get it. I'm sorry. I do not like that Tato. Do you like the new Tato better? My favorite Tato, just looking at these, is Mr. Tato as he appeared in the 2000s

because his hands are jaunty. That gives me a lot. That suggests a kind of a character. I was going to ask if you felt like something suspicious was going on with him in the 60s, because the hidden hand is a tad unnerving. What's back there? It's symbolic.

It's a gun. Yeah. No, Mr. Tato's holding a gun behind him in this picture. Oh, no. He's MI6. Yes, that's right. Mr. Tato is MI6 in the 1960s. And I look, I like that.

You know, it's a fun romanticized version of spying and, you know, the classic James Bond. I don't know. I don't know what he was doing in the 60s. Maybe it doesn't hold up. Maybe it's problematic now. But I can enjoy the romanticized version of a gentleman spy. That's also a potato from the 1960s. If he was in the, I was going to say in it's his 60s he's a gentleman spy

in ireland what he was doing was not good yet yes jason i said i made a qualification that i'm romanticizing the idea that if the reality of it is yes of course he's killed he's overthrown governments but we want to we want the fun we want the sure sure bank kiss kiss bang bang that's what we want the 90s 90s and 2000s adds the striped pants and i think the striped pants that's that's a pretty good upgrade right yeah i like them yeah um so yeah i'm saying 60s what do you so you marissa you and jason both 2000s i don't the thing is is like it this feels very um not me to like something not from the 60s i find that very hard to believe that this is my choice right now but i think 2000s tato is for me wow that is shocking

because if i know anything about you is that your brain I do think Forces you to like something that's 50 years Old yeah There's something about it That just like that feels more Authentic yeah it feels It feels like where I come from Sure I wonder if there's a 70s that splits

The difference I wonder Is there I don't want to say that add mascots.fandom.com isn't doing its job i just wonder if there's this whole era is i think where we might be missing here yeah there was more of a like a disco a disco tato uh 90s tato i like you know what i like about 90s tato he's holding the bag he's holding a bag of crisps as if to say look here's my work i'm proud of it uh yeah i have a question i have a question sure um there's a big leap from umbrella to crisp bag was mr tato an umbrella mascot in the 60s was he selling mr tato umbrellas uh the potato based umbrella he was just a poorly drawn person he was never intended to be a potato

originally just somebody drew far too big of a head. This is what people look like, right? They hadn't invented skin tones for crayons yet in the 60s. So it was just that was the color they would paint skin, yeah. There is no spectrum, yes. It was the closest to what human skin is like. Yeah. So, yes, I can see how you would see this character and base a theme park around it.

I'm not 100% on this because I came across it a couple of places. But supposedly, Tato, they were the ones who figured out how to season crisps, like season chips. But then I saw somewhere else saying there is a second Tato company in ireland yes but but i i think it is this one i think it's joe murphy the founder you know when he was in charge of it they

figured out how to get seasoning on it and it was an immediate hit and all the american chip people came over and licensed the technology so they could start selling seasoned uh chips is this jason is this one of your heroes this man for developing this seasoning um uh a hero and also like the scourge of my childhood the scourge of just putting on weight in my childhood because i would just immediately come home from school put my backpack down and just fill a bowl of potato chips and get to watching power rangers batman whatever that was gonna be my next question were you a potato chip kid and the answer was yes yes uh i i may have loved them more than some extended family members. What?

I was a lunch chip kid, but I wasn't. I would eat them at home, but I wasn't eating them. I wasn't into them as much as sweets, but I definitely would have a Lay's or a Cheetos in my lunch. We've talked about this before. You couldn't not have lunch without eating some empty calories with salt. Yeah. That was part of it. And that was the problem, Michael, because I had lunch chips and then I had afternoon chips.

Were they different chips? Were the lunch chips different from the afternoon chips? You know, we always had at least three or four flavors in the pantry. Lays? Very possibly. Lay's, Chip's? Pennsylvania is sort of the potato basket of the country where you can get Lay's, Herr's, Utz, Wise,

and a lot of them have factories in Pennsylvania. So we had a bounty of Chip options. They were delivered to your door like a milkman. You gotta have them fresh. Gotta have them fresh in the glass chip bottle. Buy like a man that kind of looked like a potato. He resembled a potato.

Marissa, chips in your house growing up? Honestly, I had the worst house for snacks. I think my parents were influenced by some type of healthy foods, 1970s movement, but then like didn't go all the way to like actually do it. So like I would have just like rice in the cupboards.

You know what I mean? Like it was, uh, I was not a snack house. I feel like I ate a lot of quesadillas though. I would like just microwave quesadillas, not like a nicely grilled one. So you would come home and watch TV

and just eat a bowl of rice? No, no. That was just to illustrate that like the pantry in my house was like to me deeply depressing because it was all things that in three steps could become something good, but weren't anywhere close to being something good right now.

So it was not easily accessible snack. Like the snacks weren't readily available. You would have had to put a pot of boiling water on to make something. Yeah. And what 10 year old's going to do that? You had like a, you had all the ingredients to make chips, but you didn't have chips. Honestly, there in my kitchen growing up there was like a mortal and mortar and pestle or whatever those you know i could grind something down

can we have chips mom and it's like well if you make them if you create them yourself well get the mortar and pestle out mortar and pestle you know the thing you use to make chips uh mortar and pestle snip mortar and pestle snacks and then like books about what's what was her name morvola who's your childhood falda yeah uh falda brand true chips and then it's just like a bag of flour and salts and with like a 20 item list of instructions marissa from from what i know your your family was like really pushing back like i think jason scott and i all had a very american of its era upbringing with the exact snacks that were popular with a lot of the same like tv shows and i feel like i envy i envy you complete opposite from what i understand uh yeah yeah um yeah well i think the hard part about

being an only child is you don't know how weird your life is until you encounter other people and they tell you how cool their life is so like you would have met like a jason type and he's like yeah i go home every day i eat a bag of lays and i watch the power rangers and you were like oh my god yeah i would have like heaven yeah i would have been amazed um no do i have to have another kid i think you just made me think that was the best argument I've heard so far. Well, I could expand out that argument and say any family is unusual until you,

you know what I mean? You realize that when you encounter other families. Yeah. Scott, you want both of your kids then to be able to be like, dad is so into this theme park stuff. And he's like, he's obsessed with like Steve Lukather demos.

All he talks about is this one guitar player. I know what he played. I know he played the solo on physical. I've heard this every day. And didn't you think like every dad knew that and cares about that? Yeah, I thought that, but apparently that's rare.

Oh God. These little bastards are going to conspire against me. Yeah. You know what? Only one. and cares about that yeah i thought that but apparently that's rare oh god these little bastards are gonna conspire against me yeah you know what only one i think only one is the correct way to do it yeah i'm keeping him solo i'm gonna brigsby bear this kid and he's just he's gonna have his own little universe and i hope he never breaks out of it i think that's a good idea um so yeah i said as far as us chips we'd have the lays and whatever and we had bugles there's and I hope he never breaks out of it. I think that's a good idea. So, yeah. As far as us chips, we'd have the Lay's and whatever and we had Bugles. There's a lot of that in the house, but

you know, it wasn't I wasn't crazy for chips. Scott, were you crazy for chips real quick before we continue? Yeah, I remember I specifically remember going to the pediatrician's office and getting a pretty bad cholesterol test from the era where I was eating so many Ruffles. What is it?

Ruffles cheddar and sour cream. Oh, yeah. Which then I looked up and they have MSG. And I devoured Ruffles cheddar and sour cream. How old were you? 52? I remember it. So old enough.

Wow. 10 or 11. yeah and it's the same office where I go with my new son now and I every time I walk in I'm like that Ruffles diagnosis I think about it every time. Did they diagnose you with Ruffles?

They can tell immediately like what what's rising the cholesterol like it's the ruffles yeah look at his stomach i noticed like what's this bendy shape here i see ridges in there yeah wow well we all have made it ridged the lining of my stomach that's how much i was eating uh that those might have been the most addictive chip because i ate those for a lot in a short amount of time and then they make me i cannot eat them now the sight of them makes me i don't know i don't also like sour cream and how often do you encounter i guess on nachos or baked potatoes but it's just like what a delicious combo dairy and dairy i know i'm not a sour cream eater at all now um i and and you know i think now i can't be like a little kid in my my chip taste i'm an adult i have to step it up we all do which is why i think we need to address the more adult elevated version of tato crisps

which is of course occasions stumble upon occasions yes i saw occasions the class you look up the it's much it's so much classier it is for occasions it's a bad time for occasions none of us are having occasions of any kind right now. Can you describe them? Yeah, because I didn't look at them. I should bring, I don't want to have photos in front of me. If you Google it, it's like very, you know, it's classy font. It's classy presentation.

Mainly, I just copy and pasted the varieties, which are very mature, you know, like Bistro Caribbean Chutney. Oh, I didn't even notice the word mature. Occasions Mature Cheddar Cheese and Red Onion. That's not no little kid ruffles here. Occasions Party Mix for cheese And Mediterranean herbs These are some of the longest product names I've ever Encountered but then it's all Like presented a little hoity toity but then you

Get to tortilla original cool The end is Cool it's the last word Yes look at this Serif fonts this is class You could hardly tell it's a Tato You know that Tato is so small in the corner. Yeah, they have Mr. Tato in there with a cartoon.

But yes, if you looked at the chip, you'd be like, well, this is a very sophisticated chip. This is not for children after school. This is for cocktail parties. This is for yachts. This is what they would eat on David Geffen's yacht. You know, this is not something that, this must be $5.50 a chip. That must be how expensive this is.

That's right. And, you know, if you've ever been, if you've been to as many Irish wakes as I have, it's important to have some salty snacks around to soak up the Jameson, you know, because the bars are open. No, wait, so you are Irish, Jason, is Irish descent? Yeah, not like a few generations back. Oh, this isn't going to turn into an Elizabeth Warren thing, is it?

No, no. back oh this isn't going to turn into an elizabeth warren thing is it uh no no the i the i the child of a sheridan and a murphy i can assure you there's some irish there okay so uh sounds like it i am getting to the age of like where i you know i i uh would like to travel more internationally of course can't do that right now that's why we're doing this series but I always think about that American Express commercial where the guy uses his American Express card to take his

father back take his family back to Ireland to buy uncomfortable sweaters and stand on hills and look at old books and go like yeah that's where they were alright I like that you would elizabeth warren that you'd kind of like fudge some details in order to seem like

you're you have closer lineage to mr tato who know maybe we're related he's my third yeah he's like a third cousin i did a uh dna test and uh turns out yeah i'm related to him it's kind of a little farther away it's not a direct you know first cousin or anything but for sure yeah i'm definitely part potato uh there's this i i found a couple things about tater before we actually get into the theme park. And I'm going to share the screen here. Conan O'Brien, did you see this clip, Scott? I did see this clip, yes. He went to visit the Tato.

I don't know, he's in a store somewhere. And he found the actual pronunciation, I believe. That's sort of what he's leaning into. And I found this fun for a second we are entering the irish gift shop now here at the irish american heritage center look at these these are potatoes look at that yeah potatoes just in case you mistakenly pronounce it potato they correct you no it's a potatoato. It's a Tato. As we go down here, we have the dancing shoes here.

These are the shoes. That's fun. That's a fun pronunciation. I do remember seeing this, but I didn't know. He didn't mention Mr. Tato, which is a big mistake. Obviously, the segment would have been much better. It perfectly lends itself to that

super exaggerated pronunciation, Tato. And now, Mike, now I'm looking at you clicking through other tabs, and you have tabs of things that I have also noticed. Okay, you have all of these. Please, I think, go ahead. I'm so excited for you to share. I love seeing these tabs here. Okay, good.

I assumed you would probably have them, but yeah, let's just get a couple of these more Mr. Tato stuff out of the way before we get to the rides. You know, this is a theme park podcast. That's what we say, at least. Sometimes. Sometimes.

So there was an ad campaign about Mr. Tato looking for love, and Marissa's face just lit up. I'm in. And I will, like, i'll fast forward some of this because basically like it's you know a couple very romantic they're looking into each other's eyes and then uh they hug obviously they're gonna get married that's a plan and then the camera pans over to mr tato sitting alone at a table and he just exhales sadly.

And he's like a practical Mr. Tato. And it says, Mr. Tato is looking for a Mrs. Tato. Is he still looking? Well, there was a whole. I do think he is still looking. Okay. Because, I mean, I like Tato of 20 years ago. so maybe there's still a little bit of that Tato left. Are you saying you could be Mrs. Tato?

I'm not saying I could be, I'm saying I should be Mrs. Tato. If only you knew 20 years ago, you could have gotten peak Tato. I know. They had a whole like promotion where like there was women that women would go on the radio and sort of explain why they were a good match for Mr. Tato. Did you want to do that now? Did you want to make a case to him? Yeah, I'll make a case. Hopefully Tato hasn't found love. Hopefully he's been sad.

Hopefully he's been sitting at that table for 20 years uh with a really weird nose that nose i didn't think it translated but um it's a live action i did not like the nose um okay so if i were to appeal to mr tato to become mrs tato i would say I think beauty is more than skin deep and I can tell that you're beautiful. I want to explore flavors with you and I want to be shielded by your umbrella. I want to be eating your crisps. I want to like throw crisps at each other in,

in a satin filled bed, but tastefully dressed, you know, I could be Mrs. Tato. Wow. I'm wearing yellow currently. So I feel like that,

that, that feels like kismet. Could you resist taking a bite out of him? Um, only if he allowed me to great answer perfect answer i well look he's gonna i was gonna hear this so hopefully we get a response that was glorious that was so beautiful um and if you got with him if you got with him you could ask to borrow his hat too that'd be another little residual benefit now i'm just wondering what's under that hat you know what i mean because like you want to know who you're marrying and i'm wondering if it's like a pointy little head or like he's got a couple little sprouts up there

like little eyeballs coming out you know what's going on on a potato's head it's a ring I'm engaged. It's all happening. It's wedged into uncooked potato. So you really got to rock it back and forth to get it out. So I have to like dig in like a bad potato? Well, no, it's still good. So it's hard. It hasn't been boiled yet.

The one method of cooking in Ireland. I hope we can go to this wedding, and then we enter the church, and half of it is people, and we go sit over there, and the other half is all potatoes. Oh, my God. Hey, Scott, I think it's rude that you don't think I have potato friends.

And I'm really sorry. You're right. That's a big judgment and vice versa of course mr tato is friends with many humans i'd like to count myself among them so i'll sit on whatever side you guys want don't i won't make you put me in a box all retired spies on mr tato's side no sure i'll get him talking at the reception i'll get him liquored up we'll spill those secrets um so okay let's go to this 2015 mr tato commercial and look i as we've said i'm going through character development on podcast the ride i'm getting a little bawdier i'm getting a little more used to ribald's humor just like you said a very offensive you said a very offensive song title over on the second gate if you guys on the second gate i said the name of cardi b and megan the

stallion's new song i will not say it on the front main gate i'm not i haven't developed that much as a character you gotta pay for that we gotta only fans it if you want to hear mike say those words if you want to hear me say those words you have to pay us five dollars that's how it works um but so so when i watch this commercial you know i know europe has you know commercials that have a little bit more suggestive stuff i was very surprised though by this um can we see this commercial here yeah okay here we go so there's like a young a young lad you would say he's at his computer and he sees like a lady in a bathing suit and he's about to type i wish i was the blanket that she's laying on and mr tato unplug the computer and just shakes his head at the kid like don't post that he's like he's suddenly in

the room of basically like a about to masturbate teen or something yeah tato shows up out of nowhere to stop him sorry you want to backtrack to this it's very fast it comes very fast and by the way mr tato in this looks jacked like he has like a very like upper like a bigger upper body is a little more built than normal okay so this shot this is a really lewd commercial i can just tell you one thing and i'm falling for him even harder um he's explain this scenario because he's a gentleman here. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. How would you describe this? Well, I would say a lot of women, we know, we know some leggings are not made for bending

over because you see your underwear through it. And Mr. Tato is spotting the bum of a woman with some floral underwear peeking through her leggings and he is alerting her but he's being a gentleman about it whispering doing it discreetly so that the other people at this bus stop don't notice so yeah he really did her a favor here and that's a great lesson for all the men out there if a few of a woman's underwear is showing just whisper in their ear at a bus stop let them know and of course they'll thank you and they won't call the police on you yeah follow them to a bus stop first notice right whisper what mr tato said in her ear which was a cover up

Jesus can see your sin oh my god I don't know about this Tato I assumed it was the same thing that Bill Murray whispered in Scarlett Johansson's ear at the end of Lost in Translation alright so

so okay that's the end of that one more little scene vignette yeah the woman covers it up with a jacket and now there's a man who's leaving he's gonna go play sporting he's gonna go play like uh football uh and mr tato looks down at him as he's leaving his flat those eyebrows and he sees that the man is wearing shorts that are very tight that expose his bulge. It's a very prominent bulge. And the man looks down at his own bulge. And Mr. Tato has shorts for him. Or no, pants, excuse me.

Has pants for him already. And the man puts the pants on and thanks Mr. Tato for it. So is he like the indecency police? What is he doing? I think he's just trying to keep the world as proper as he is. You know? He's a man of virtue. Because he believes and he dresses nicely.

He's in a suit and tie. Yeah. It's not about he's, you know, he's down with casual clothes, but not at the expense of decency. Yeah, you wouldn't see his bulge. Maybe it's implicit that, like, you wouldn't want to be seen with a bulge. Maybe that's what he's trying to prove. Maybe that's embarrassing.

I don't know. He's anti-bulge? He just, he wants the bulge in other places because he's a potato i imagine potatoes being bulgy and lumpy of course of course so yeah all over everywhere it's not genitals it's just lots of different right yeah the edible bulges at the very least the underwear was a very sharp kelly green very very like a like a classic four leaf clover um so yeah and then the commercial lens and mr tato is in this like young lad's room with an arm around him as the young lad is like sad and like eating the crisps like aggressively it's very odd and then the tagline comes up and it says more than just a crisp.

And I guess that means like he's also judging you for like indecence. I guess like you should think of the potatoes when you're eating them, like to make sure that you're not putting sex out into the world or the disgusting human body. No, I'm going to defend my future husband here just by saying we're all complex. You know what I mean? Like you can want to live in a black and white world where like there's good and evil, there's right and wrong. But the fact is the world's gray.

Tato's living in a gray world and I love him for it. Okay, wow. That's a pretty big defense for him, which I can get behind the philosophy, obviously. I, too, at one point would have been like Mr. Tato, where I was offended by a man's bulge coming out of a flat in England, but I've gone through, again, aggressive character development

these last couple podcast episodes, so I'm a little bit more comfortable with it. Are you willing to just put that guy's bulge up and leave the screen shared for the rest of the episode scott i would love to i would love to leave the bulge up just look at that close-up great where is it yeah this boy randy european mike is really firing off i just love that tato's eyebrows change when he sees the bulge. They get so sad. Like they flip and like you can see he's really distressed.

Disappointed. He's very sad. He's sad. He's upset. I would like to bring up one more thing about this. A practical concern from a person who's done a few commercials in his life, as a few of us have. Can you imagine getting the casting notice and having them also explain like, your bulge will be on display in this commercial. And then you'll have to do this.

That's prosthetic. That's a fake. I don't think that's a fake. This guy ain't packing that. That could be real. We don't know. Look at those thighs. They look like Rusev's.

They do look like WWE wrestler, or former WWE wrestler Rusev's they do look like wwe wrestler or former wwe wrestler rusev's thighs i agree marissa has been a big fan of of his thighs for years that is not a joke i love your fan of his thighs this has come up before oh yeah like seven or eight years ago when she would come and watch wrestling pay-per-views. She loved Rusev and she specifically would say she likes his thighs because they were very thick. They're very thick. Yeah, they look like Thanksgiving turkeys.

Very glazed. Yes. He's been on Twitch lately. He's been playing video games on Twitch and his real name is Miro. That's a cool name. Give him a been on Twitch lately. He's been playing video games on Twitch, and his real name is Miro. That's a cool name. So give him a follow on Twitch and check out those thighs.

I'm not trying to objectify people, but I guess that is what I'm doing. You're a fan. You're a fan. I'm a fan. Rusev, Tato, Rusev's thighs and Tato's non-genital bulges just as potatoey bulges there should have been a wrestlemania entrance where rusev came out and mr tato appeared and like shook his finger at him and then like gave him like a sweater to cover up his legs

like a like a v-neck college style like 1950s sweater yes uh for sure so yeah so tato look tato is a a layered character he's got a lot of um yeah a lot of different things going on right he might appreciate that he might be encouraging body shame we just don't know i think actually we do probably know that sort of is what's happening yes this is completely and it's but at least he's he's all over the it's men and women he's shaming any anyone for showing their body i would like a full 90 minute feature made by the same that guy who made paddington with mr tato going around shaming people further dress i'm i'm yes i i'll buy a ticket so if you go to tato park very strict dress code just be aware no shorts

no showing of dirty thighs certainly no bulges yeah thick thick leggings please like five of them just load them up don't stop at the one pair i think that's good um yeah that's really i mean those are the two big ones uh i mean mr tato went to the euros and like what's the euros yeah i i wasn't i it's a soccer tournament is that right uh i believe so yeah he's got a soccer ball there uh and then it was like will he make it to france but that's not as fun as uh him being alone at a table looking for love but you know what so there's clearly levels of tato there's there's ones with articulated eyebrows and who can, you know, smile and frown and sadly sigh. And then you've got, you know, more of the mascot style. And that's really the, I think Taito is like an Irish version of the wonderful Japanese mascots.

There's this great account, Mondo Mascots. I feel like he fits right in with those guys. And then you've got the version in the park which is probably the most limited version but but still wonderful he's just it's just a great design uh marissa you're right that not every part of his face uh works in real his nose can be odd sometimes but i i now i'm like oh to see this guy in person if this could be one of the first things I do when the lockdown is over, fly to Ireland, go give him a hug, and then leave immediately. That's my plan. That would be a great thing.

I want to go to every restaurant in Ireland and just wait, and hopefully one day I'll find the one he's sitting at. That table for one, and you can make it a table for two i thought i was out of stuff but i have found a quick thing and it's a very small graphic but i will share it uh i found something called the love bus uh that mr tato is on and it's like a double decker bus that you would see in europe and he's like seductively posed on it. He's wearing his normal outfit, but that's a much more suggestive Tato. Marissa's been hit in the head with something.

She's so taken aback. I mean, this is a very suggestive Tato. This Tato, it's like a come-hither Tato. It is a come-hither Tato for sure. And it's kind of, again, it's like in contrast with the commercial we just watched, too, where it's like, this is suggestive. Yeah. What is he doing here?

Maybe he only believes he himself could be suggestive. Yeah. Oh, he thinks if people are showing off their underpants and bulges that it'll distract from him and then he'll never find his Mrs. Tato. That's got to be what it is. Cover up. I'm putting on a show every day of my life the love bus we don't know what he sounds like as far in all of this aside from that one sigh does he does he not talk is that the thing is he one of those characters or um what's the vibe of the voice, do we think? Yeah, Jason, do you got a voice for him? I think Jason's voice you did at the start of the show is the voice.

I think he doesn't talk. I think he's like a teller. He doesn't talk. Yeah, I mean, but like me. And that's the power of him is the not talk. Some people flap their mouths forever, but not Tato. He does it all with his face and his presence. He saw too much during world war

two or the troubles and he's just you know very pensive very pensive every now and then he'll open up and it'll be crazy he'll come out with something like like your underwear is showing your underwear is showing uh i blew up a Fiat once Jason could you give us The line your underwear is showing In the voice real quick Whisper too Like a real whisper Yeah Tata only whispers

I know you have to warm up I get that Take your time Your underwear is showing The the arma light is hidden in the flower bed i think jason fortado should get trending here and we could actually get you this job sure yeah let's go we'll go backwards and re-dub all of the ads so that they have full vocal presence throughout i mean we're definitely going to take that thing that Jason just said and add it into that commercial.

Yes, certainly. That shall be done. That's easy. We can do that, no problem. So, yeah. Cover that bulge up. The ladies are mine. All of them.

Yeah, so, Tato, I mean, that's all i have for tato right now uh before i guess we have to talk about rides well i did i before we get to ride the one thing we haven't talked about and marissa you brought we both immediately jumped to this when we first talked about this park yeah and that is ireland very much a place associated with potatoes from the the famine of the 1800s so then to have a potato based theme park is is kind of wild it feels that way but maybe it's like you know you got to get over the stigma right so you go real hard yeah but it it's important not to forget about it and that's why i have some a famine fun fact uh during the famine one million

people died and one million people emigrated causing a population decrease in ireland between 20 and 25 percent oh that's heavy did you call that a fun fact yeah why was that fun that's a famine fun fact i'm just going back to a thing i did i used to do more on the show where i would just drop some knowledge in the middle of stuff you know i don't did you it's been so long i don't remember that oh yeah the tortilla episode that crap about tortillas. Okay. Was that in the before times? Yeah, yeah. It was in the before times. Because I have a very fuzzy memory of ever actually seeing all of you in person.

So I might just have forgotten. That's true. Did we ever? Was this show ever in person? But, you know, bring fun back. Jason, bring the fun facts back. Yeah. Yeah, what we need during the pandemic is famine death statistics yeah oh you mean like how the famine was caused by what is

known as late blight a disease of the potato plant caused by water mold oh my god okay can you um yeah all right i have one more request. We just keep giving you assignments here. But can you read one of these facts in what we've determined is the Mr. Tato voice? And when you get to the word potato in any of them, make it me. Or if you have to pluralize it, me's, you know, like instead of where there were no potatoes, there were no me's. And you can pick whatever facts lends itself best to that. Oh, okay.

The Irish me family. The Irish me famine was caused by late blight, which is a disease of the me plant caused by water mold. All right, we gotta do, we gotta mock that up too, I guess. The me plant. I think this is, I don't want to talk about another type of

crisp or chip, but this is like Pringles. I can't pop just one. Do we have any more facts you can? This is delightful. Yeah, do you have any other me facts? It can be one you already said. Well, I'm out of famine facts, but I do have some Irish freedom fun facts.

If you have any interest in that, but there's no potato in there. No, we don't care about that. Find a way to make it come from his... You know, like if it was a very sad fact, and then like, you know, that's not as fun as eating one of me okay uh okay the drink called in america known as the black and tan

is one part stout or porter and one part ale or lager. Unfortunately, it is named after a part of the Royal Irish Constabulary that was used by the British to repress the Irish Republican Army. They were known for acts of police brutality and were eventually run out of Ireland or killed. But take your mind off that with limited edition Tex-Mex brand me's. That was great. That was great. Great scenes ever performed.

Yeah, that was like a monologue. Yeah. Boy, boy. Wow. Well, you got to do one too. You gave your marital plea. This is like, I feel like there's a lot of great Irish playwrights.

We're all like doing little one acts here. Yes. Jason, did you really only have two famine fun facts? I had two famine fun facts. So I could switch over to the Irish freedom facts. For example, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in spring of 1998, bringing an end to decades of violence colloquially known as the Troubles. Of course, Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom,

but I believe we will see a united Ireland in my lifetime. Until then, tie yourself over with a delicious bag of prawn cocktail me's. Wow. This would be such a good ad campaign for them. Oh, sure. This is such a good idea. And I'm sure they'll listen to this. Michael, you, me, Marissa, Scott, we've all spent a little time in the

ad game. We know what the Madison Avenue or whatever the street is in Derry. We all know what they want. Yeah, I mean, look, let's list the credits, okay? All state insurance for

me. Dunkin' Donuts for Jason. Dunkin' Donuts for Jason. Dunkin' Donuts for Marissa. And I directed some Nissan Juke commercials that did a lot of body shaming of Mike Mitchell. So we've all got great credits. All have great credits. It's the meanest. he's talked about it on dough

boys there's i didn't write them but he ended i i might have been said yeah sure he could be in them but boy it's so like i i it's all like all right then he gets on the scale then he gets on the scale again and then it turns out he never lost any weight. It didn't work. Oh, well. So I assume these exist somewhere. Can I ask you a question? If Mr. Potato were to come, I mean, excuse me, Mr. Tato. Who? Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I'm sorry. If Mr. Tato. He said his first name. His first name is Poe. If our friend Tato Was to show up in one of those commercials What do you think he would have said To Mike Mitchell

Or how do you think he would have influenced the character That Mike Mitchell was playing Who was a guy really struggling With his weight To no avail and being made fun of Who was a guy really struggling with his weight. It's like to no avail and being made fun of by everyone around him in a cruel script that I did not write. So let me make that very clear. Is this for Jason because he's been doing the voice?

I mean, you can set the scene and maybe Jason will add the dialogue. I have it. I have it here. He would come into the scene. He would it here. He would come into the scene. He would come into, he would break into Mitch's house. He would see that Mitch was wearing shorts that were very tight. And he would like shake his head at Mitch's bulge. And then he would say, he would say that your bulge is showing.

So your bulge is showing, Mitch. So Jason, go ahead. Breathy. Please make it. Mitch. So Jason, go ahead. Breathy. Please make it. Mitch. Please make it breathy. Okay. Yeah.

A Mitch. Wait. Wait. One more thing. Let's reset. Okay. Mitchie, my boy. Your bulge is showing.

You can't kiss the Blarney Stone with that. So much better than the bad nightmares that I was a part of. Wow. We all rewrote them on the phone. Wonderful. We just all proved our Madison Avenue prowess right now. Yeah. And we learned that some people kiss the blarney stone with their bulges

that's good luck no you can't you can't then you get the bad luck but it seems like a something people want to do and have at least tried previously uh to to be to be forewarning someone. Yeah. You want to lose weights? Cut back on me's. Very good. I like that. I feel like that's the end of the commercial

and we feel satisfied. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Even though it was an ad for a car, we've now commandeered it to be an ad for a potato crisp company.

It's like how McGruffgruff is in like insurance ads now it's like he has his own national crime prevention council but now he's appearing in insurance but he's also promoting himself if he's appearing so you know you can have crossovers is what i'm saying yeah that's very confusing yeah very confusing do we we have to talk about this theme park, right? Yes. This is some of the latest we've ever gotten to theme park content. This is an hour in. That's okay. Well, because look, the park seems very nice and lovely.

There are some nice, cute rides, and I have no shit to talk about it. You know, this isn't like the fake universal studios that we covered where i have many pages of uh complaints um i just this this place seems really nice that's that's what i will say um yeah do you guys agree uh i agree i mean there's yeah there's not there's no like unlicensed 80s NBC hour-long drama based rides there's fun basic rides like they they have a picture of their vortex tunnel which just is like a cool colorful circle which I love I mean I can't what could I say other than I'd love to walk down this vortex tunnel yeah me too uh it reminded me of that that part of universal studios tram ride right isn't there it's been like an avalanche sometimes it's been something else right

yeah it was an avalanche and a mummy's tomb and now it is nothing now it's the fast and the furious finale okay it's very it's it's very similar to that old epcot hallway With the car like it's very circular And there's colors and The greatest that's an episode right there We should do an episode about the tunnel That's probably right the Epcot tunnel That's now just closed Yeah what's just sitting there

With nothing happening that's the idea To replace it is just not opening It ever it's insane when we were there we saw it and we're like we just can't walk down the tunnel with the colors like it just seems cruel that just seems cruel we're talking about the journey into your imagination tunnel now that yeah so much better than the ride so this tunnel is far better than the ride yes um so yeah i mean it's got you know it's got a train the tato park has a train jason were you excited about this i was because i watched a couple like um

vloggers uh go through this park um the one uh this guy theme park worldwide has gone to most of the european parks we've covered and and it's pretty thorough uh the train goes fast like i would say it goes like twice as fast as like the disney train sweet interesting do you think that's good i think you would think that might be bad i think you like the slow plotting nature of a train well things are a little they do things differently in europe so you know i i, I could, you know, change it up, switch it up, just like you're switching it up with the body-ness. Scott, I thought you were setting us up earlier talking about rides for the very adorable looking Nissan driving school at Tito Park. Oh, my old pals at Nissan.

Your old pals at Nissan. Who paid Mike Mitchell very little to be body shamed on camera. My old, my good friends. Now, I do like this Nissan driving school. This is adorable. It's like, I just wrote down, it's a little town you drive in! Exclamation point. It's not like an Autopia where you have a set track.

It's like a couple little city blocks, like miniature city blocks and kids drive tiny cars around and then go wherever they want. It's so cute. Yeah. I mean, it gives the kids a lot more freedom, which is what I desired from those type,

that type of Autopia ride as a child. Marissa is agreeing with me. Yeah. Cause, because unless when you're very little, you might not even realize the i like the physics of it you're still on a little track and you can't go far but then once you get to like six years old or seven years old you're like this is kind of bullshit you're on to it you're on to

it um and that's why i always wanted like a power wheels car uh but i would i never received one and it still haunts me to this day do you feel like uh power wheels were the kind of thing where like you went over to your friend's house and they had one and you'd want to use it because you didn't have one but they were like it's old hat we don't it's like not even fun to them oh yeah yeah for sure yeah like we don't even take that out of the garage anymore yeah and you're just like how can you be sitting on this gold yeah yeah it's like a kid's like i'm driving my parents car at this point uh yeah no i i i'm trying to think i didn't have a close friend that had one but yeah anyone any kid that had it i was either, they would just monopolize it and wouldn't let me drive.

And it was never something negotiating wise that my parents took care of. Because I think that's the way sometimes you have to do that. Because when we're little, like kids get very territorial over their stuff, which I get. But sometimes the parents have to be like, well, let's little Michael do this. Like a guy I was friends with in elementary school who wouldn't let me play a sega genesis i sat and watched him play i have a question hours i have a question did your parents come on all your play dates and mediate for you uh no all my uh my mom came on all my field trips though oh wow well you know you would go to like a you know the nature museum, you would go to like, you know, the nature museum or you would go, you know, to what? Yeah, like the science museum, whatever that was.

My mother volunteered and was just looming. She was a presence anytime we were out of the school. And that was unfun. You didn't like it. It just I felt there was a pressure. There's always a pressure when you, you're like, your mom is there.

Yeah. It's kind of a freedom to go to a new place. And then maybe you're still like, Ooh, but my mom's watching. Yeah. Yeah. And if kids are all like daring each other to say dirty words or something,

and then you feel the shadow. Yeah. I'm just glancing. I'm glancing over. My mom's like, my mom did the same thing with it. Mr. Tato did where she was like you don't say those words but see i liked it i my mom would also

chaperone a lot too because i was not a kid with expensive taste i did not ask for power power wheels that sort of thing i i never went at the really expensive stuff, but when I went on trips, I was a big souvenir guy. So it was nice if I ran out of the money I brought. If I need, I was like, you know, I want one more. You know, Mom, this is nice. Can I

get that? So it was nice having the community bank around. So you were fine with her being there but you were especially happy because she could bankroll any souvenirs you needed yeah i feel like we also like i remember we went to the inner harbor a lot which is like the tourist area of baltimore it's like an aquarium and a science center with like three city walk kind of maul-y things in between so like those trips the parents always liked going on because they would just like let the kids like all right uh be back in an hour we're gonna go eat crab cakes

drink wine or drink beer um all right so the baltimore inner harbor debacle coming it's 24 part daily series in 2024 jason's mom's gonna be on that one and one of those yeah she'll be she's the sector keeper of that saga oh no jason's mom hey well she has to do it she'll be able to give you money if you need it during the show oh that's good a full daily series

where if we start to go towards a dirty word somebody's mother is like hi folks I just wanted to prepare you that Scott's audio quality is about to dip, and it's just because something happened with the recording, and I wanted to prepare you for that

and didn't want you to be shocked when you heard it because, you know, you might have dropped your bag of crisps all over your phone or your computer, and I didn't want that. Anyway, back to the show. She does not, you know, she has listened a bunch now, and she does not like it. Those kinds of words. That said, when I came down the stairs when I was visiting for Christmas last year,

she was wearing a big oversized Hauntcast the Fright shirt. And there was a bunch of magnets. There was a bunch of our logo magnets on the fridge. So that was very sweet. That's very sweet. But if we put one out,

if we had a profane one she wouldn't be happy podcast the fuck yeah you wouldn't buy that merchandise wouldn't buy that hey the inner harbor was honed to a building that when i was there i knew it was like a barnes and noble a hard rock cafe and espn zone but many years before was the infamous six flags power plant uh the oh yes incredible they the crazy designed indoor theme park with no rides just a lot of optical illusions and shows and uh yeah that sounds like an instagram museum you like just where there's not really anything to do there yeah yeah yeah i'm not a big fan of those um i uh baltimore uh the baltimore power plant i've had a sticky note

on a laptop for like years that has said uh we should do uh baltimore power that's that's a uh that's a good episode waiting yeah that's a long one yeah that's a... A lot of technological innovation was tested out there that showed up in other places, I feel like. Sure, but the thing itself was weird and bad, although I've learned it. Kind of a disaster. Okay, we're all right.

Theme parks, theme parks. Marissa, is there one ride or experience when you were looking at the website that you felt like that was like right up your alley uh yes um uh i i honestly thought that that big wooden coaster is probably very cool so i think that that would be like a delight it looked like very fun classic kind of roller coaster. And certainly the YouTube vlog that Jason referenced, that guy was over the moon about it.

Yeah, and what's the name of this? I looked up so many pronunciations, and I swear I saw like eight different ones. It's great. Yeah, I'm confused. It's very Gaelic, and I have seen it as like Cuckoo Lane, or I'm only going to try that one. It's probably wrong, but it's one of the ones it as like cuckoo lane or uh i'm only gonna try that one uh it's probably wrong but it's one of the ones that uh ireland's only wooden roller coaster and uh it

is named after an irish demigod like the the odysseus kind of of ireland um which i skimmed through uh some of the facts about that tale um spoiler for the end of this cuckoo lane didn't live for very long his legend uh did not last long died young like a like a rock star like a jim morrison or janice joplin uh he got into a seemingly got into a fight with a bunch of teenagers, like teenage kids of a guy he killed, who cut him open at the chest, and then all of his intestines fell out of his chest. But he shoved him back in and said,

let's go, let's fight more. So they did fight more and decapitated him. And that was the tale of Cuckoo Lane. And now there's a roller coaster baby fighting irish he put the intestines back in yeah for like five seconds seemingly like triumphant snow i'm fighting on all right just immediate head chop off wow i i saw him described as like an irish incredible hulk because he could like change He would get very big and muscly and stuff, like a tall tale, like a Paul Bunyan or a John Henry. One of his parts of his legend is that he at some point

kills a very vicious dog, which basically makes him the first Irish cop. So there's that. Yeah, I was not familiar with this character yeah I wasn't either it's so complicated Celtic lore it's so the pronunciations and all the variations

and stuff but Marissa of course grew up with this was one of her favorite yeah it was actually my first language so you were butchering it oh my god you were not allowed to know the story of Blossom but you were you're butchering it oh my god you were you were not allowed to know the story of blossom but you were allowed to know the story of cuckoo lane yeah no i didn't really grow up with these myths but i was like obsessed with greek myths as like a kid like i had that big

yellow book i don't know if you guys had that book um it was a big yellow book it's another one of these only child no i don't know the yellow book if you saw It was a big yellow book It's another one of these I don't know the yellow book If you saw it you'd be like oh it was like this Oversized yellow book You know what I mean with like the entire You know pantheon of Gods you know there was a sun And maybe some blue

It I'm saying this name wrong Day I'm butchering wrong. Day. Larry. Ah, fuck. I'm butchering this. It's a book of Greek myths.

I don't know. I don't remember, but like I was obsessed with that book and would like read it and read it and read it like as like a 10 year old. Would you, would you go and like talk to kids and assume they had that yellow book as well? And they were very into those gods.

Uh, yes, yes. Um as embarrassing or unusual my mom took me to a lecture and musical presentation on Gullah which is a creole language and culture with african influences that developed in the American South as a result of the slave trade. And as like a six year old, I went to that, fell in love with the music,

bought a cassette tape, brought a cassette player to school, played that tape at recess and didn't understand why nobody else liked this music or knew it. That's very sad. Yeah, I mean, beautiful music. Sure. And then you're sitting there as sad as Mr. Tato,

alone in his booth. Truly, yeah. But I just think that, like, you just don't know what other kids are doing until you show up and do something totally different. Were there any other moments you remember as a kid where you were like coming in and like, I got something that's going to really impress all the other kids? Or is that the biggest one? That's like the biggest one, because like it was like one of those moments where like we're at the park at recess because we went to recess at this like park across the street and I

just remember playing it and thinking I was going to be such hot shit like I thought I was going to be so cool and then you know I realized no one's interested and I sit on a park bench alone

oh that's that gulla girl that gulla girl's cool you talked to her yet you think that's what they were saying i think it went well you only asked they were intimidated yeah that's it that's something my mom always said to me. It wasn't that kids weren't talking to me. It's that they were intimidated. They probably are just afraid to talk to you because you seem so smart and

cool. Or it's like they're jealous of you as a lot. You'd hear that too, as a kid. And then like after a couple of years, you'd be like, I don't think they're jealous of me. I don't think they're jealous of my weirdness they have problems of their own for sure for

certain but i don't think that's right uh yes yeah marissa what you are describing is how i felt as a kid when i would start going on about like the backstories of theme park attractions or like you know here's how they do here's how this works like here's how and so this is the so okay the dream finder is figman's friend and so like at a certain point i was just like this is a private thing for me and for my family and uh yeah it honestly kind of wasn't until college uh that i was like other people i was like hey yeah this thing right yeah like yeah you yeah you found your tribe that's right i talked about the beach boys so much as a nine-year-old boy and i would like wear like a bright orange like a neon the brightest hat you've ever seen with their logo i'd wear it to school and think that was

cool to do were you anyway then jardine was you know uh jardine was less of a presence for a minute and uh some david marx came in in and anyway um want to go out with me okay so they might be giants used to have a dial song that you could call and like this is before you could get every song so it's 900 you'd have to pay a little but you would hear their songs and um i was just gonna ask, Scott, were you like, maybe this is the wrong timing, but when the Beach Boys appeared on Full House, how did you feel? Well, that made them more relevant among seven, eight-year-olds, which helped. Definitely, at least people finally had a signifier.

But I might have been a person who was like if if even i've like started connecting and like oh like uh so they oh yeah they did kokomo yeah kokomo is do it but you know like you have to go back into the 70s you know like yeah they okay you know that's kind of a pop it but like sunflower is really where things are at and uh you know they were very lush uh wonderful uh smart music. They don't like pushing people away even with the connection. Trying to. They're trying to make a connection. No, I don't care.

No, go away. You don't like it the same way as I do. What is that? Is there a word for that kind of feeling? Because I've certainly encountered it in myself and seen it in others where like someone's trying to connect and then uh you have to showcase your depth of knowledge or or that you're not a part of that elitism um okay future superior yeah feeling superiority feeling ownership over something uh cry for help. Reaching out.

I don't know. Self-sabotage. Path to nowhere. Please, I'm so lonely. All I have are my crisps to go home to. It's that boy in the ad resting on his shoulder. Mr. Tato is the answer. He can take anyone

away from all these syndromes um they have at tato park they have a 5d cinema did we come across this which is doesn't have like a specific movie it appears it is closed right now due to social distancing yeah the factory tour too is closed yeah oh that's, that's a bummer. Yeah. You feel like, why would you even go? But it says featuring air gusts, water jets, leg ticklers, flashing lights and bubbles. Sure to get pulses racing from start to finish,

but it doesn't say what it is. And it looks like it's a 4DX theater and it's got about 25 seats from this photo and they're all children and they're all children and they're all like pretending they're excited about whatever they're seeing i really feel like tato wouldn't approve of something called like leg ticklers or whatever you know but wouldn't love bus tato like a leg tick he has a leg tickler at home for private use definitely but children are not involved and children should be shielded from that.

Right. That's fair. He probably has just two of the chairs from the 5D cinema and he puts his lover in it and he just has like a little remote control that says leg tickler on it and he like controls the speed

at which the tickles happen. I mean, I'll know one day. Hopefully soon. When you're married under the, in the eyes of the church and God and your family and friends.

Let's, let's also say the wedding party for Marissa and Tato. We got Mafalda's there. Moomin, a bunch of the Moom rounded yes creatures uh european cartoon creatures hot stuff the little devil from harvey comics little devil um i think a lot of harvey

comics characters would be there there were a lot of harvey comics there were two little guys that i like this comic book i read when i lived in sp called Sipi y Sape. And they would be there. They're like little mischievous twins, one with blonde hair, one with black hair. Great. Have you ever come across a mythology called Beano Land? I guess it wasn't called Beano Land. What's the thing? Beano is the thing.

We went to the theme park last week. This whole Beano world. That's a weird British thing. Have you ever run whole Beano world, that's a weird British thing. You ever run into Beano? Are you talking about the pill you take for flatulence? No. No, no, no. That's a very common mix-up, yes.

In this case, even though Mr. Tato is a big walking potato, Beano is not a big Beano pill with a face. Yeah, they're just a series of older character or like cartoon strip style characters. I think you would be interested in if in them, because they're very, they're old. Yeah.

Which is really, that's like number one. Yeah. It's gotta be old. It's gotta be off brand. Do you know what I mean? Like it can't look too, too mainstream for me.

Right. It can't look like something people would like. Exactly. Well, then you're going to love the British version of Dennis the Menace, which is unrelated to our Dennis the Menace, even though they debuted on the very same day. It's a different guy.

He wears a striped shirt. He's got an ugly dog. It's a whole thing. And you're saying guy. Is it a man? It's got an ugly dog. It's a whole thing. And you're saying guy. Is it a man? It's just a little dude. He's like Sid from Toy Story, which

Marissa, have you seen Toy Story? Is that too mainstream? No, I'm sorry. Too mainstream. There's a French Toy Story Marissa likes a lot better. It was made in 1975. Le Petit Huguet. I don't know if that's right. The real, yeah, the real Toy Story.

The red balloon, the series. Marissa doing a Quibi version of the red balloon. It's just me with a cassette tape in a park little bicycle thieves i think these are good ideas yeah band of little outsiders they still do the dance they're just a

lot less graceful um what haven't we done oh yes like chesington tato park has a zoo next to it and um uh i just wanted to showcase i'm gonna try to screen share i i never know how to do this but here we go okay um i am going to share the these are the residents of lemur woods uh they're lemurs at tato park and um they look like they want to kick my ass so um and then one other thing that you can see at Tato Park. Let me try and get back to my notes. Make these scary lemurs go away. I guess we've been looking at them the whole time.

I didn't realize they were your Zoom background too. Boy, yeah, they're burrowing into my soul. They are my Zoom background as well. It's a horrifying way to happen. Yeah, is it because you want to kick our ass jason no i don't i'm having a great time um and but not as good as a time as i had when i rode the horse ride here at jessington as a child you mean tato oh yes here at tato at Tato. Excuse me. The pony rail. The ride is called Pony Rail.

And there is a child that looks very much like, not dissimilar from a child me. Yeah. I think that pony ride is very darling. It was one of the ones I clocked as like a cute little idea. That child looks both like a child and a very old man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The two ends of Jason, I guess.

The two ends of Jason. Guys, guys, come back. I got more to tell you. I haven't even started on Fred and Ethel Mertz. Now, they live downstairs, and they own the building, and they're friends. Eventually, they move to the country when they sell the building.

Fred became Ricky's manager. Fred became Ricky's manager. Fred became Ricky's manager. He had no experience. Well, he managed the building. I guess it's kind of simple. I'm the only one in the school who knows this. The janitor is even walking away.

The ancient janitor hates it too. Get with the times kid. I know what it is. I just don't care. Watch it. Watch. Turn on empty empty nest watch a new show i loved empty evening shade um i let's see there's a little there's a viking ride and it's very charming where you you go it's this is fake rocks as very recently they have fake

rocks at this park which makes it a real theme park in our eyes um you take little viking ships uh up into a mountain that has like a big viking helmet that is really cool look and so they're getting into theme and that's the toughest thing i think with any little theme park i think the actual theming is tough to do it's expensive they have to get on their feet before they can do it and viking voyage seems like a great step in that direction seems like really fun yeah i thought that one looked really cool it reminded me and i don't know if it is that similar but it reminded me of there's a ride at efteling and i'm gonna butcher the name of it that's called like vilende hollander uh and Vilende Hollander. And it feels like a very kind of a voyage Viking style ride also.

I think you're a merchant though technically in that. But, you know, or part of a merchant. I was going to ask you this. We specifically are not doing Efteling on this European vacation month

because we feel like we have to actually go to do a proper homage. But to represent Efteling, is there any odd Efteling detail you can give us so that we can say that Efteling had a little presence within this month? I would say one of the most magical moments of my life was turning around to see a majorette being followed by 20 ducks and all of them dancing you know i mean the ducks are like marching along and the majorette is like blowing a whistle into like a

rhythmic beat little song she has like a you know a beefeater style hat i don't know what majorettes call their hats but um so darling and like they're just going through the streets like the you know walkways of efteling performing and like i love ducks like ducks are one of my favorite animals so like turning around to see a bunch of choreographed ducks was so magical choreographed ducks so they all were in they were in a line they knew how to stop and they knew how to start they weren't dancing or anything okay uh so the number one thing you can do at efteling is see a majorette with ducks i mean it's the highest on my list. And there's a lot, like truly Efteling,

I think, you know, whenever you guys choose to explore it, I think it's my favorite theme park in the world. So it might have to be a star studded episode too, because a lot of past guests have been on, other friends have been on and just everyone, if you get people started talking about it, they'll just go like for hours. I think one of the things that I like about it, and I'm not going to go into it,

is that I think very few times in life do you get to be immersed in kind of like a world that feels very created intentionally and specifically and by mostly like one point of view and a lot of efteling was created by like one you know a director or whatever i you guys probably know the words better than i do but like a creative director that that implemented so much of you know what i's, it's very special in that way. Wow. Wow.

That sounds so up our alley. Uh, and also I'm excited to say, I found a video of this. Look at that. That's it. That's the Ganson parade. I mean, it's,

it's insane. I truly, yes. It's one. These are like mighty I was going to say mighty ducks. I was organically going to say the word. They are. They're like big, thick ducks.

They're like a bird. Like a Mary Poppins bird with a big drum contraption. Oh my gosh. It's magic. You're right on the money. It's magic. I had no idea there was that so well we'll have to break it up we'll do the full Ganson parade episode

yeah we didn't it wasn't a best angle but I mean if the ducks are thick you know their seats have to be thick have to be thick as well now now you got a you've got a Mr. Tato behind you

That word He doesn't want to see no seats That's fair They're behind Would he be okay with that He's okay with the word He just doesn't want to see them He just doesn't want to see a duck butt

Even the duck seats Unless you're married to those ducks Okay that's fair Well I will respect his wishes in this moment Even the duck seats. Unless you're married to those ducks. Okay, that's fair. Well, I will respect his wishes in this moment. I hope one day Mr. Tato gets to see my duck butt. You brought some things to the table

before we wrap it up. There were some things you wanted to accomplish yes i i created yes you take us there yeah yeah so i created a little quiz for you guys because i was like you guys are always doing the interviewing maybe you need a little bit of um newness in your life you know what i mean you get to be oh how can i answer these questions so like i love trivia i love game shows so i put together a little quiz kind of in the vein of like true or false you know what i mean you have a 50 choice either way um and because uh it's not about tato park specifically but it is about potatoes. So... Well, you've got my attention.

The name of this quiz is Potato or Jason. So you're going to have to choose, is the fact about a potato or is the fact about Jason? Oh, no. All right. And I'll just go round robin style, so it'll go like Mike, Scott, Jason, Mike, Scott, Jason, Jason. You might have an unfair advantage, but you get to play. You would think, though.

You never know. You know, you might not. You might not know. OK, so, Mike, this one is for you. OK, go ahead. Is a potato or Jason 80 percent water? Good question. potato or Jason 80% water good question I'm gonna say

see it's how specific is this gonna be that's the question here I think it's a potato it is a potato Jason is in fact 80% ice cream well yeah that's accurate of course yes of course this one's for you Scott ice cream. Well, yeah, that's accurate.

Of course. Yes, of course. This one's for you, Scott. Did a potato or Jason fish for pond eels using little pieces of hot dog as bait? Well, as much as I'd like to see Mr. Kato do that someday, I'm going to have to say that

that's Jason. That is Jason because potatoes know better. Right. The pond feels like sharp cheddar cheese instead. Jason, this one is for you. The largest one of these weighs in at 7.1 pounds. Is it a potato or is it a Jason? I'm going to have to go with

potato on this one. That is correct. It is potato, but interestingly enough, Jason is in fact 7.1 pounds potato. Wow, I didn't know that. Well you know yeah makes sense um okay mike as a child did potatoes or jason relish thumbing through used books down the shore see i i think that's jason i'd love to see a potato do the thumbing, but I believe Jason thumbed. That is correct. It is Jason.

Potatoes cannot read. Scott, this one is for you. Did the United Nations dub the year 2008 the year of the potato or the year of the Jason? I mean, as much as I want to give credit to whatever Jason was doing at the time, which I think was being a PA on American Gladiators. I don't I don't think that would have been enough to get the UN's attention. So I will say potato. It is potato. But Jason declared 2008 the year of relaxing after doing all that laundry? This is the best thing that's happened on the show in a long time. Jason, this one is for you.

My therapist calls laundry a non-preferred task. You just said a ziggy out loud jason sherman is a real life ziggy that's another one have we never gotten that one it's a way to help me keep things in perspective and not magnify little problems. It sounds like you got a good therapist and one that is, I don't know, on your rhythm or whatever. Long suffering, I believe is the term he uses.

Sounds great. Okay, Jason, this one's for you. Do potatoes or Jasons historically suffer from crippling hat headaches i okay okay it was me and eventually i just found out i had to drink more water i i'm kind of a hat guy i like my baseball caps now because i am thinning on top so uh you gotta do your best you are correct it was jason good job yes um i hope those pork pies don't give potato a headache um potatoes do know how to buy hats that fit them properly though well um mike this one i have one more for each of you This one's for you Mike

Were potatoes Or Jason First domesticated 8000 years ago In South America Huh Domesticated is an interesting word I've never heard used for Like a vegetable or a fruit uh i'm gonna say it's

a potato though that is correct it is a potato as we all know jason is feral would would a domestic off the leash baby i mean a domesticated man would not have the nickname the carouser which is a name marissa i wanted just to give a little context here marissa's digging deep here for some old style old school jason sheridan lore uh we were calling him the carouser about 10 years ago and when he would get really hyped up about something i would say like wolverine he was going feral I mean the audience has to be eating this up getting extra Jason lore getting the Cuckoo Lane myth

making our modern day myth Jason this one is for you Scott will keeping potatoes or Jason's Jason. This one is for you, Scott. Will keeping potatoes or Jason's in the dark too long cause them to become poisonous?

Hmm. I don't. Do you have any? Does Jason have dark references? And does poisonous mean like mentally? Like will he become uh instead of pretty sharp tongue i don't know i'm gonna go say it is potatoes keeping jason in the dark too long will just make him

rammy which is what his mother used to call him when he was too rambunctious now that was that was one that everyone in my family said and like everyone uses this term and that was one where like i'm pretty sure kids would look at me sideways if i said like oh he seems a rammy i mean it mean, it's crazy. It's crazy. I did not remember that one. That was a really obscure one. That one just always stuck with me because it blew me away. I think it's both adorable and confusing. Sure. We've got

to pull that into the, oh my God, like, Mike, just file that away because we'll be able to call out Jason as being Rammy. Oh yeah. That counterpoint you were wrong episode. That was a big Rammy moment.

If only we had the term. Okay, Jason, this is the last one. Okay. Did a potato or Jason inspire the mascot at tato park oh i i think it is going to have to be a delicious uh potato oh oh jason uh it's actually jason uh that little potato in a hat definitely has a hat headache.

Is that why he's like getting in other people's business? He's like, he's Rami, baby. He's Rami. He's Rami. He's wound up. He's not addressing the actual problem. He's just projecting so much laundry. Tato's got so much laundry.

Well, he has the clothes to hand out to those underdressed people. He's got laundry hanging out everywhere. Out of sight, out of mind is what I say. You should start giving your laundry away like Tato. That was

so delightful. That was fantastic. I have thought we should eventually do a full roast of jason sheridan but i don't think we need to do it now yeah i'll come back for it if you do it i think tato park aka the rest of jason sheridan um um and and you know not only that but it's like if the listener is thinking now marissa's brought more to the table than many, many guests do, not only that, we have items in front of us.

We have physical items in front of us. And keep in mind, listener, that this is still quarantine time, so physical items are harder to do. Marissa, you drove around town leaving. You were a real Santa. You were a three-stop Santa. Thank you. Tell us what's going on here.

So these are gifts for you guys kind of to celebrate this quiz. I don't know. I bought them for you guys a year ago and figured I'd give them to you whenever I came back on the podcast. So there's just a little gift you guys can open them now not only that but you drew there's a little there's a mr tato on the donald yeah i wanted i wanted you to know that it's recent i i knew what i was doing i'm gonna take a picture before i i open it. Please don't open until recording. It's a mini Christmas.

August 13th Christmas. Did we all get the same thing? Yeah. Whoa! Cool! Do not disturb from Disneyland Paris. Yeah.

The Hollywood Tower Hotel in Disneyland Paris. Yeah. From the Hollywood Tower Hotel in Disneyland Paris. Wow. Wow. Wow. Anyone feel confident enough to say the French version on the Do Not Disturb and then on the other side? N'est pas deranger? Maybe.

Pretty good. I took French in high school. This is great because this is a gift. You didn't steal this from, because obviously it has Hollywood Tower on it. You didn't stay. That's the ride. That's not the hotel. I'm not telling.

No, I bought them. I bought them. Oh, okay. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. This is good. You put this on your door when you're either sleeping or what I've understood in the last couple of weeks, making love.

It's a new thing I've learned about. Are you talking about like a sock in a dorm room? I mean, yes, I was reading about that version of it as well. Wait, Mike, you had sex for the first time due to this European? I didn't say that. I just said I'm learning about it. I'm just saying I'm understanding how it all works now because of the character development I'm having on this saga. You know that it's a thing that people do.

That's what made you exist on this earth. Exactly. I'm figuring it out. But you're saying that you learned that people put this on before you at a hotel, you're saying? Yes, sure. Oh, I thought you meant in your regular life. I see. Well, I may use it in my regular life.

Throw the deadbolt, too, for good measure, folks. You know, better safe than sorry. Can the dog read this? I don't know. How smart is your dog? He's of average dog intelligence. No dogs know English, but all dogs know French. That's true.

This is incredible. And that you bought this a while back, but that you've given it to us during a European vacation episode. You brought gifts from europe this is so appreciated and so uh appropriate yeah thank you thank you that's that's just kind of uh uh you know amazing coincidence but um yeah i just saw them and they were it was like right after our hollywood tower of terror um changed so oh yeah so it was more it's a rarity now yeah they changed. Oh, yeah. It's a rarity now. They still got it.

Geez. Well, this is wonderful. Any parting words we want to say here in an episode that was slightly about a potato theme park. And we got their final last word. Jason seems to have an iPad out. He's got facts maybe at the ready. Anyway, we got their final. What last word do you think they did?

Jason seems to have an iPad out. He's got fax maybe at the ready. Just rest in peace, Bobby Sands, and God save Jerry Adams. All right. Look it up, folks. Look it up. Here's maybe like a nice transcendent note to go out. And now most of, you know, when we were on topic in this episode, we mostly talked about the man, not the part, Mr. Tato.

And, uh, if that seems like an odd amount of weight to put on a character, uh, you know, just some silly mascot. Um, I, I, it seems like in Ireland, he's very well regarded. As I said, you know, they ran him for office. People actually voted for him. They did this. Can we say the end of the campaign of the Mrs. Tato campaign?

I think what happened is so many people applied and they didn't really have an end game. They couldn't figure out a satisfying. Here's what the end of this would be. They just said, he's not ready to settle down yet. That's good for me. Yes. Great news. You're still in the game. I got really scared for a second. Nope, they didn't end it.

The official company stated that is canon. You can still have him. He is, so he is very beloved not only that this is a quote that i saw in an article about him on prospect magazine uh okay if those are this if you want to portray irishness in pop culture in 2020 tato and mr tato in particular is more potent imagery than a tricolor or a leprechaun ever was. And you know, not as stereotypical or offensive.

So this is a journalist saying that they want to do away with the leprechaun and lucky charms and all that. He's like outmoded. We've done that. We've done our Darby O'Gills and the little people for so long that the face of Ireland and the Irish people should be Mr. Tate. Wow.

Hell yes. This is, this isn't coming from us. I'm just, I'm reading a quote, but I can't help it. But agree this. Yeah.

That seems like something we would say a little bit joking, but this was the kind of point we would end an episode on but they kind of they did it for it this is vetted this is a professional uh writer who actually is from there i'm guessing the entire country of ireland is really seeing you guys and me by association as heroes right now um so i think, you know, congratulations. We're freeing them. They've been shackled to this like this stereotypical imagery for so long.

And this article from 2020 and us doing this, it's going to be that article first and then this podcast episode are really the things that just open it up for Ireland and really be themselves and here's what i think i think we need to expand tato let's get tato out here and let's have an american version of the mascot obviously we're talking about jason doing tato's voice but maybe maybe

that's sacrilegious because he's an american let's have tato jr much like nut jr is in america we're all having we're having jr fever as far as mascots are concerned jason sheridan is tato jr the american version of this character and let's bring tato crisps into america so we can all enjoy this nice snack um i i just speaking of tato jr um i love this idea i wanted to bring this up too. There's a Japanese potato mascot that I think Tato would be friends with and now to me looks like Tato Jr. Because it feels like baby New Year a little bit to me.

If you guys would look up Calbee, C-A-L-B-E-E, potato chips, you'll see a delightful little mascot that I think Tato would approve of. Kelby. See? Kelby up here. Oh, boy. He's in a sash. He's in a sash and the same proportion of hat.

And he's like he's running for office. He's like a little mayor. This is so Jasonason-esque great wow kalby you know what i don't even shit about tato anymore kalby's my new man yeah delete hey delete this episode you have to go spend money for kalby's uh pdf yeah i want to see if kalby's autobiography exists i will i don't care what it takes i will all my credit cards can be stolen

you'll give money to ugandan princes in order to read the story of this potato mayor kalby's my man i think it's president vice president. It's just figuring out which is which. You know? Calbee, Tato? There we go. Well, then let me ask if that's the case. I don't want to throw too much of a wrench into this, but I feel like we have to find at least a cabinet

position for the mascot of Americana brand mainstay Potato Corner. This guy, mascot of Americana brand mainstay potato corner. This guy, if we've seen him before, his name is Spudster. So Spudster is, makes great use of the airbrush tool and Photoshop as well as the stroke

tool. He has many of them. He's got inner layers, outer layers. He looks like a turd, let's be honest. Oh. What? He does. He looks like a pellet. He's nice to Spudster.

I'm a whole... I'm into Kelby now. I don't care about any of these other potatoes. I'm into Spudster. I don't care about any of these other potatoes. I like Spudster. I'm into Spudster. I think his name could use some work, but other than that. Well, first thought.

Yeah. Yeah. I think I could stand for him to get a little grab. Actually, he has had a graphic redo because this is very airbrushy. But if I go down here, you'll see that in some recent art in which he's promoting social distancing and there are two spudsters

who are six feet apart, though also in the middle of a street. So while they are practicing social distancing, they also may both get plowed down by a car. And there are two people behind them that are very close. No man's behind them.

Yeah, hang on all right you know what calvi all right fucks buster uh this guy's morally in the wrong calvi's uh calvi's great mr tato's great uh marissa strickland is great uh you survived podcast the ride thanks for being here and bringing so much to the table oh yeah thank you this is delightful let's exit through the gift shop is there anything you'd like to plug um no but I'd encourage everybody to vote sure

indeed if there's a Tato campaign specifically you're saying write in Tato write in Tato in November please and write in to you're saying right in tato right in tato in november please uh and right into mr tato finds love my name marissa strickland hopefully i'll fucking become a married tato one day wait a minute look at this we're getting our passports stamped as we have at every step of our european vacation kuklunk and look at that it's mr tato himself

his beautiful eyes staring right at you and he's holding out a wedding ring it's for you for you marissa that's our passport stamp what do you say i do with rice uh being thrown at you from your childhood cabinet i'm i'm not there i'm hanging out with kelby i'm upset about the wedding kelby would have been better for you i think so anyone tracking continuity in this episode uh cheddar cheese and sour cream chips almost killed both scott and myself uh i am rami and marissa is now engaged and i mr tato and i now know the concept of intercourse i understand what it is

intellectually i'm saying i'm saying calvin is disgusting calvin's telling you what it's like because he's not a prude like mr tato oh yeah calvin's showing me some stuff calvin's got his photos of bulges and shorts calvin's got his brother's vcr and he's showing me some stuff he's got the two spots for two tapes. So we can make you a coffee. Wow. Uh, an episode,

uh, full of mythology, uh, and, a whole lot of fun. Marissa, thanks for being here. Um,

as for us, we will continue, uh, the podcast, reds, European vacation. We're heading back over. What's between Ireland and Europe?

What's the rest of Europe? It's the English channel. Great. I know it's on. Smart guy. And yeah, we're heading back over. I don't want to give any clues. I guess, you know, you can head over to patreon.com slash podcast

the ride where we will be doing the last of our little day trips and I'll say what's a good clue? We're going to deal with some IP. That's all that I'll say. Some IP will be discussed. And then we'll wrap up

the main show on Friday. It's been a lot of fun. Fun vacation. And as always, check us out on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Any parting potato thoughts for the road? Does Mr. Tato have a way to say a final goodbye? Say goodbye, Mr. Tato Jr. Oh, Mr. Ortego Jr. Oh, here, I'll just do, I'll just find the whole, the rest of the old Irish, the old parable.

No, no, W-H, W-H. The rest of the Irish parable. May the sunshine warm upon your face and rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. Like he could hold what in the palm of his hand? Like he could hold a delicious bag of classic salt and vinegar Tato crisps.

Me. Tato crisps. Yay, beautiful. Everyone give Mr. Tato crisps. Me. Tato crisps. Yay. Beautiful. Everyone give Mr. Tato a round of applause at home or wherever you're doing this. Thanks for listening, everybody. Talk to you next week. Bye.

Bye. Well, before we go, I just want to give a quick shout out and plug to the show Infinity Train, which is on HBO Max. It is a very cool cartoon about a weird train it's got a bunch of weird cool cars there's adventures there's fun there's colors and there's sadness but it's like good sadness heartstring tugging sadness i mean this is why we watch tv folks uh you will like it if you like this show and you like all the same nonsense that we like

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