Podcast: The Ride - Flintstones-A-Palooza

Episode Date: June 10, 2022

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Forever Dog. Warning, the following podcast contains a nightmarish RV campground, vitamin talk, men in the concrete business, and a wide-ranging look at themed entertainment featuring the Flintstones. Hello, dum-dum. It's podcast, The Ride. Welcome to Pod Rock The Ride, a pod rock about themasaurus parks, hosted by three cavemen in the year 30,000 BC.

I'm Scott Graniter, joined, of course, by Mike Carlstone. Hello. Hello. How are you? Oh, yabba-dabba-doo to you. Thank you. Yabba-dabba-doo to you. And yabba-dabba- doo as well to Jason Sheledon.

Sure, yeah. I'm glad you had something because I was coming up short. Wait, can we do it again? Because I've already forgot who everyone's. I'm Scott Graniter and you are Mike Carlstone. Carlstone, okay. And that's Jason Sheledon. Oh, yeah. Okay, got it. I'm going to forget it in five minutes but I love it. I don't know that it'll come up again.

That's a good point. I don't think it will be. Yeah, I won't. Although now I'm tempted to, to just like quiz, see what we are. We don't really like address each other by full names generally on the show once we get rolling. No, I'd say only if there's some – it's like an issue about like hotel booking. It's like something really mundane and that will provoke Jason to say Michael. That's true, yes. He's in his most parental... You saved $30!

Michael! His most parental tone. He will scold me by using my full name. Yes, that is true. That will happen. And we'll see. If it happens today, please use my full Flintstone-ified name. Which was Michael Carlstone, I believe. Carlstone, yeah. That's pretty clean.

Scott Granator. Carlstone, I believe. Carlstone, yeah, yeah. That's pretty clean. Scott Granator. Granator, which is a Ninja Turtle character. Oh, really? Which is one of the Dimension X rock soldiers, so I will not forget this anytime soon. Oh, so it's good. It helps. It's great. It's not like a double up.

I mean, you're stealing from the most beloved IP in my mind of all time, but that's okay. You're stealing valor. You're stealing turtles' valor. Stealing Dimension X valor. Well, I was was because it could have been graveler too so if i need to switch no i think keep it as keep it as is okay okay um oh and you know what i also wanted to thank the long-horned bird who was recording everything that we say who's pecking it onto a big round tablet. And that is how people will be listening to this here at Forever Dino Studios. Yeah.

We got a video version running if people want to check that out on the YouTube. And I think it'll be a good one for it because we were packed to the gills with visual aids for this one. It seems important. I guess it all it struck us all because today we're talking about the Flintstones. The Flintstones as they appear in the world of theme parks. Yeah. Which is oddly a lot, I think, we found.

And it's all over the theme park universe. So this is a grab bag of all the weird ways that our old pals, America's favorite prehistoric family, beating out who? People in Spaceship Earth. There's cave drawing robots. Yeah. They're out. Did you guys like the Flintstones growing up?

Yes. Yeah, I did too. Scott? Yeah, I guess so. But I was wondering, how did I see it? Where did I see it? It seems like it was just kind of ingested into the, injected into the bloodstream. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, syndication, I think, plays a big part. It's kind of ubiquitous. It's just, like, around, in addition to syndication, Flintstones Vitamins growing up. Well, that, I think that's maybe my most favorite. Fruity Pebbles is my number one. Flintstones Vitam stone vitamins number two then the actual show the flintstones is number three i think i think or no flint you know what

flintstones the movie flintstones meet the jetsons is number three then the show flint what about uh push-up pops do you remember those kind of push pops okay orange push pops changing my lineup yeah let's do it again fruityity Pebbles Flintstone Vitamins Flintstone no Push Pops Flintstone's Jetsons then the regular show then Flintstone's

the kids show from the 90s were they kids or is that where Bam Bam and Pebbles are teenagers that's a I think

that's a different shoot I think that's different let me look there's a kids there's definitely one where they're all like, where it's the Fred and Wilma and they're like six years old.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. As opposed to later years where Pebbles and Bam Bam get married. Different show. Flintstones kids, I'm looking here. These are toys I had because they were on discount. And these are when they were children. So Pebbles and Bam Bam have not been conceived. They have not been, they have not been they're just uh

no because all the all the current all the people we know are babies which of course is a different uh timeline than the one where fred and wilma meet wait no they might not meet i think is it barney what the viva rock vegas prequel timeline which I think doesn't pair them up. I think you see them both, both pairs get together in that movie. So they didn't, if they knew each other as babies, they all forgot. Right, yes. We're going to have to keep amending

these lists because I think we'll remember more Flintstones stuff as we go because now I'm just remembering the Flintstones McDonald menu when the first movie came out and I believe like glasses they had, like in the same Batman Forever style, they had Flintstone glasses. Before I saw the movie,

I was so excited to see the Flintstones movie. I think the Flintstones movie was one I knew was around. I knew about it, but I feel like everyone in my family, Scott, much like your family, it's saying like maybe skip Power Rangers. I think everyone was kind of like, ooh,

yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah, I think I can pass on this one. And now I'm like, I think I would probably like it more because isn't Kyle McLaughlin in it? And he,

yeah, that's pretty great. He's pretty good. Yes. Yeah. John Goodman, of course. Yeah.

Yeah. It's great actors. That's true. Entire Elizabeth Perkins. It is like super stacked with great people jonathan winters oh yeah terrific yeah the movie made me feel odd yeah as a little kid i felt weird watching it and not just there's like some sexy hallie berry stuff and anytime you were in the theater with your parents i've said this boy ace ventura i oh it's just like i was being like

a attack i was just like oh get me out of here and i don't even remember what it is in flintstones movie that she's kind of like sidling up to him yeah like a sexy sax will start playing yeah she's sharon stone of course sharon stone right anytime in a movie when i before the age of like 15 if a sexy saxophone played boy was I uncomfortable. Boy, was that, I had to get out. If my parents were in the room, forget it. I was mortified.

And what instrument did you play in marching band? Trumpet. So you avoided the saxophone. Not that lascivious saxophone. Slinky, sultry. No, trumpet is stiff. Yes, that's an instrument. That's a regular instrument for – Chase young men.

That's a monogamous instrument for marriage. It's a marriage between you and the trumpet, and it's something that – it's conservative values. That's what I thought when I started playing it. Is the trumpet the one that plays like – Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Not a very Is the trumpet the one that plays like... Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a very sexy song. Well, that's the bugle.

Oh, you're right. Okay. Yeah, yeah. It's the same fingerings. Well, see. No, no. That even gets you. You manage to sexualize him.

Can I... Brett, can you bring up the picture, the Katie group photo picture I sent? Again, we sent approximately 75 photos i sent 17 between uh photos and videos um so i of course a big memory is uh the characters the the hannah barbaric characters at king's dominion and at the paramount parks uh like even pre-paramount ownership king's dominion king's island um the hannah barbaric characters were there and there was this image of a bunch of them hanging out this oh i see it's it's fred and barney and yogi and scooby and hong kong phooey hong kong Fooey. And then is that Captain Caveman? Yes.

Yeah. And this was on all of their promotional material brochures and stuff. And this was just seared in my mind before a lot of extended relatives. Why? I don't know. Why just like this? Because all my friends are there. All my pals from television are there.

Captain Caveman, one of your good friends. But Barney, so just to describe to the listener, because we are back on video if you want to switch over

and look at some of this because again, we have a hundred photos. But Barney has got his arms outstretched as he's about to welcome you with a warm hug.

Captain Caveman looks weird and he's making some weird symbol which I don't even know what that is. And then a lot of waves like Yogi's waving fred's waving scooby and fred looks like a kind of a triumph yeah we did a fist in the air but it's stuff we like they are all hanging out in the

park they all work at the park they live in the park stuff we like we love it we love that we do love it um um there was this other ad too bre Brett, could you play that video ad I sent? And this was, I think, a big... I think we'll all recognize it as soon as we see it. Okay. But this was a big... Big part of your kid brain. Yeah, a big part of...

For loving... For me, yeah. Hannah Barbera and... Yeah, Flintstones in general, it's funny because there's, we're realizing slowly now that we've ingested so much Flintstones in our many years. But none of it is, like, so incredible that we are, like, do we love Flintstones more than, like, the Mac Tonight commercials from McDonald's? No. No, I don't. But, yeah, and look how quickly we were willing to sell out the show.

Like that was not the point to us. And the show's fine. I don't think the show's bad or anything. But it definitely always was around. It was like elevator music or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is this where you're talking about, Jason? Yeah, this is an older ad.

But I think we all know it. Okay, lunch is over. Now back to work. Hiya, Mr. Flintstone. Greetings, Rocky, my boy. Pack of Winstons, please. Oh, you like them Winston cigarettes, huh, Mr. Flintstone? A photo-real cigarette.

It's so huge. It's half of his face. Folks who really enjoy smoking know it's what's up front that counts. Yeah, Scott, it's up front that counts. There's a lot up front. Long cigarette. Choice Golden Tobacco's specially selected and specially processed for filter smoking. Hold it, hold it.

What are you pitching Winston's at me for? You know I never smoke nothing else. Just practicing, Mr. Flintstone. Everybody knows that. Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Of course. See you soon, Rocky. Double clap.

Jason's whole comedic voice is basically based on this commercial. Yeah, kind of. I'd forgotten about it, but I'd forgotten the details. And then I was like, wait, didn't Flintstones sell cigarettes back in the 60s? And the answer is yes, because there's multiple ones. Because they were like a primetime cartoon, which was unheard of at the time. It was like a cartoon for adults, even though you watch it and there's nothing like, obviously there wasn't a lot of crazy stuff on regular live action primetime, but.

It was all 60 years old, more also is what we're. Yes. It came on in 1960. Uh-huh. 62. So like, my mom was a big Flintstones person. I don't know that she has like quotes ever, like in the same way that Simpsons, you go, oh, remember that moment? But she just liked the Flintstones person. I don't know that she has like quotes ever like in the same way that Simpsons you go. Oh, remember that moment?

But she just liked the Flintstones a lot. So, well, there's one quote that just I feel like I say once a week. It is. Oh, it already is a Jason drinking game.

I feel like you will never miss an opportunity. That's true. Say it's a living. But I don't even think that looms large. I think that looms large for like our generation

that it's a kind of ironic. Yes. Way't even think that looms large. I think that looms large for like our generation that it's a living quote. In a kind of ironic way a little bit. Yeah, exactly. I would love to know the count on that. By which we mean this is like the birds who are the slaves essentially of all the cavemen. That's something they will say when they have to do something very unglamorous like uh uh they're like a the dishwasher like they're a dishwasher the garbage disposal or like birds are basically in place of a machine that would do some work and then you like see the like pain on the bird's

face as the bird turns to the camera breaks the fourth wall and says it's a living yeah this is one of those like do you think that was said 70 times or once? I have no clue. I can't. I have zero. Yeah. Because it might have been once and it was like memed in a way. I think it's like every other episode.

Really? I feel like it's a go to. Interesting. I'd love to know the full count or if there's a super cut or we'll investigate this further. Well, I'm sure we'll get like a Flintstones fan that we're going to get a lot of information wrong today and we'll get some notes. Yeah. So we apologize. We're not Flintstone experts.

Will we or like would we have if that person hadn't died three, two years ago? During the Clinton, the first Clinton administration? Yes, exactly. That's a good point. That's a good point. Their estate will send us a letter correcting us. Yeah. Speaking of getting things wrong, Brett, can you bring up that Kings Island brochure?

This is actually an opening brochure of Kings Island. So they had the Hanna-Barbera characters and it's got a feature that I just really like about like old school printing you kind of saw it in like the costume characters too where like oh the fabric they seemed like they ran out of the one color fabric so they just cheat at like the five o'clock shadow if you'll notice pink Fred with a white mouth whoa with white

it's white eyes into white nose into white five o'clock shadow yeah whoa and Scooby is there and Yogi is there. And then who are those? The banana splits? Banana splits, right. Yeah.

And then a really scary raid. This is like a ground zero kind of it's like a military attack map. Like they're going to drop bombs on risk. It's like a strategy in risk. It's like a military attack map. They're going to drop bombs on King's Island in Ohio. It's a scary bullseye. It gets more red as it goes.

You know, 1972, all those conspiracy movies are coming out. The government parallax view, marathon man. It's the style, you know? Yeah, so there's so much Flintstones everywhere. It's been with us for so long, and I guess we'll never leave because there's going to be more stuff. We haven't even talked about, I think,

our favorite Flintstones character at all, which is, of course, Great Gazoo. Yeah. I was thinking how this was gonna go that like i'm sure we've talked about it before but it did occur to me like i bet mike and jason inordinately love great of course he's our he's our favorite character and what is the how long did great kazoo how long was he a presence well he's a later season i don't have the stats i I'm sorry.

A state of man. Harvey Korman? It was Harvey Korman, but I was going to apologize to the Flintstone expert that had died 30 years ago. Yeah, Harvey Korman also probably died. Kind of like a Cousin Oliver. A late period edition. More committed to and probably maybe more liked than Cousin Oliver. Cousin Oliver really yeah thrown away yeah well there's also stuff in comics of like like batman has a kind of great kazoo called batmite superman has mr mixie as piddalick uh he's from the fourth dimension

almost complicated word it's hard to say yeah it's really hard to say uh and uh gilbert godfrey voiced him on the animated uh it's a trope animated Superman. It's a trope. I wonder why. It's a trope in fiction of an annoying, magical man who annoys the shit out of you constantly and can do anything. I mean, it's basically Q in Star Trek. It's like, this happens all the time. This is a fun guy that fucks with the main character.

And what day-to-day function did the addition of this little alien, what did he add to this caveman show? He insulted Fred constantly. Call him Dum-Dum. Hello, Dum-Dum. Hello, Dum-Dum. Hello. Why does he show up? I don't remember.

I think they ran out of honeymoon honeymooners plots to rip off their episodes yeah they went far beyond i think they made a lot more yeah i think so uh so uh this is this again this is like in the same way that like i'm a fan of i've news more than i'm a fan of the lore of i've news I'm a fan of Great Gazoo existing. Yes, sure. I'm not a Gazoo head. I don't know. It's a similarly vaudevillian energy. It's a funny idiosyncratic performance,

kind of in tone with the thing, but kind of not. I guess Ivanoo is more in tone with Power Rangers. Yeah, somewhat, but still like a little bit old. I guess, I don't know. I can't think of anyone

who was like an old 30s vaudeville performer that was a character on the show before ivan yeah i think i thought initially that when duffy first showed up duffy the disney bear i was like who the hell what the fuck is this like is he gonna be like a great kazoo type and then like no you thought he's gonna have magical powers i thought he was gonna be like a kazoo type? And then, no. You thought he was going to have magical powers and mess with Mickey? I thought he was going to be a weird little guy that they just added into, and of course, Mickey's teddy bear. Hey, I'm Duffy. Hey, I'm Duffy. Hey. You know that big date with Minnie?

I'm coming along, too. I'll be your Cyrano-Duffy-act. I'm turning your- Cyrano-Duff-Bird-rack. I'm turning your T-bone steak into a piece of dynamite. I'm going to make your life a living hell. I'm turning your Cyrano Duff Bergerac I'm turning your T-bone steak into a piece of dynamite I'm gonna I'm gonna make your life a living hell

I'm Duffy hey Mickey go off yourself I mean that's something there's a lot more of a character there there's a

yeah Duffy Duffy is nice seems to be his only trait yeah in reality the only real media

oh I guess there's little books of it, but the only media is like the story, the show in Tokyo DisneySea. And yes, he's got nothing, Duffy's got nothing to do, nothing to say.

He's just nice and cute. Yeah. And that's all he's got. Why not have him like tie Mickey's tail up into his shoelaces and Mickey trips and falls into a river

and make him a little jerk? Mm-hmm. I think that's a good, Jason's got a great idea that he thought Duffy was going to be like Mickey's great gazoo. Just in the sense that he just showed up out of nowhere. And I was like, oh, what is, what's going on here? Well, I think they've, you know, they've, there's other characters in the Duffyverse now. So who knows who, Jell-O Tony seems like more like he would replace a T-bone steak with a stick of dynamite. Yeah.

He seems a little bit more rowdy, a little wild. Well, he's definitely wild in one way, as we've established. Sexually. Yes. Anyways. He fucks. Let me just do the sums, and we can decide. This is like a day in a theme park where we can all decide what ride oh yeah yeah hit first but let me just do the overview really quickly of the theme park presence of the

flintstones as jason mentioned well some of the older ones they're part of the paramount parks the one-time paramount parks king's island and king's dominion long-time association with the universal parks uh via the the hannah barbara ride in florida has been stuff at universal hollywood over the years still was up till pretty recently i forget if there's anything now that universal studios has represented both the cartoons and the john goodman live action versions of everybody in here in los angeles there's a place called marine land that we've never talked about in like palace verdes that's been gone for a long time but they did the hannah barbara characters, including Flintstones.

They appeared at Wonderland in Australia. There were a bunch of weird tiny parks slash trailer parks in Arizona and South Dakota and Canada. And Australia's Wonderland, Canada's Wonderland, and Warner Brothers World in Abu Dhabi, a very new theme park. So they're still making new Flintstones stuff. But if you listen,

that's like everything, but Disney and six flags, essentially, right. They've hit every category of theme, like a very confusing IP. Right. It's just slipped and slid into every type of park they could get into.

And it feels like if Disney or six flags wanted them, they go, yeah, put whatever you want to do. We don't give a shit. They'll license to anybody. They don't seem to care that much. It seems affordable.

Maybe. Like licensing-wise. Yeah, maybe. There was some Canadian... Okay, we'll get into Bedrock City. I mean, we could just be here all night talking about Bedrock City. But there are multiple Bedrock Cities.

The two American ones are connected. But then there was a grip of Canadian ones that all had like different stories of how they got off the ground. And I feel like the number I saw floated was like $500,000 for the licensing. Oh, that's it? That doesn't seem like in perpetuity like a one is a one-time

fee yeah it seemed like a one-time fee uh-huh for flintstones which are very recognizable characters um and especially i think for an older generation is both i guess beloved so yeah that does seem a little low but i don't honestly i don't have i was shocked when there was a list of bands and how much they would charge a couple years ago there was a whole list like you could just hire cheap trick for like forty thousand dollars and i'm like what like that's not necessarily a number but you will be shocked at some of the numbers so i don't really guess i guess now that i'm thinking about i don't have a good number of like what would you license beetle bailey for for a theme park ride how much would how much does beetle bailey cost in 2022?

Well, how do you- $500,000 seems like a lot for Beetle Bailey. Yeah. I mean, how do you, to an accountant, how would you say priceless? How would I say that? I guess you would say not for sale. Yeah. High and lowest.

If I wanted to make an e-ticket high and lowest ride, what are we talking, 20K? Is that too low? Well, knowing that you're going to get millions and millions in return. I guess that depends on who it is. It's going to be like a Mario level. You're going to have to force kids out. Okay.

But if I wanted to do just an immersive family circus walkthrough down on Ventura somewhere, and I'm charging $5 a ticket. Okay. For how, forever? Forever, in perpetuity. Okay. I'd like to quit the podcast and I would devote my time to a walk-through family circus attraction, which I know you appreciate.

I see you're a big family circus fan. Yeah, I've interacted with him before. Blondie, the experience. You're in the strip. Yeah. Yeah. So, so like what this is for another episode where we

start asking questions. We each pick a different King Features Syndicate property. And we call the lawyer for King Features Syndicate and we figure out what the fee is. So an episode will be that you get a number of this comic distribution company

that is not comically named. Right Yep. Which is a Hearst company. Not comically named. Right. And it's a Hearst company. Uh-oh. Yeah, yeah, uh-oh. Because one of the things I was going to say is I do wonder if Hanna-Barbera was not the most litigious company.

Because another thing I remember growing up is between miniature golf courses or like family fun zones, a lot of off-brand Flintstones painted or statues. And there's some stuff today where I'm like, did they just give up? Did they just give up on the license or enforcing the license? I found something off in international waters

that I'll mention towards the end. It seems like maybe they just, yeah, maybe just they don't have a legal person currently yeah or address this i mean who hannah barbara is owned by warner brothers now i believe um so maybe they just they've just had so many uh new daddies over the last few years they're just like no we don't have time for this corporate you're speaking in corporate terms, new daddies. New daddies, yeah. They had AT&T daddies. As CEOs. They had Discovery daddy. Yeah, too many daddies.

What an issue. You want to dive into this Bedrock City? Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Bedrock City is this series of, I mean, you would call them theme parks. They are called theme parks, but they're also like campgrounds is what rv uh can park there and yeah you can sleep on the grounds sort of off the beaten path not too close to anything too populous um hey brett i'm just gonna spin the wheel here just pull if you see a picture somewhere of a shady looking desolate campground, we'll just bring it up to have something up to talk about.

But as that comes up, I believe the first one was in 1966, right as the show ended, in the town of Custer, South Dakota. It's about half an hour from Mount Rushmore. Custer sounds like Dakota. It's about half an hour from Mount Rushmore. Yes. Custer sounds like a great spot. Before it was Custer, it was called Stonewall. So they keep shifting between Civil War-ish names. And I looked on the Wikipedia of Custer, and there are two notable residents, and one of them is just listed, the parenthetical is just convicted murderer.

Got it. Got it. Got it. It's a lot going on in Custer. I believe that both of the places that we're talking about started because. Oh, there. This is a great one. OK, wonderful. Thank you, Brett.

We're looking at the Flintstones in front of what is some nature in the background. There is this. This is I think is pristine bedrock city. This is this is when things were going great. Yeah. Still looks like I mean, it looks like there's like a walk around Barney who just looks like he took a big mallet to the head. Like, yeah. Squished him down by half.

Yeah. And then he like lipoed all the muscles out of his body yeah and the heads were designed by the whoever designed the zodiac killer's burlap sack this make no mistake this is a terrifying photo the place looks like shit and it is by far the best photo of bedrock city i have seen that seems correct yes because things were going well back then look at what these now we're seeing details up on this big screen tv that i had not seen before the odd scattershot choices in how to represent fred and barney uh like for example uh plush heads right barney i'm sorry okay Barney regular arms but Fred plush arms yeah I think real hands

poking through at least through one of them and then and then it goes to just bare human legs but then plush feet yeah which is good because the ground looks hot they are just walking on rocks so you don't want people actually barefoot, even though that would be Flintstones realistic. Yeah. Really strange. And then look at Barney's pupils, too. Just beady whites. That is a kind of consistent with Barney. Sometimes Barney was just pupils in the cartoon.

I think his look has evolved. But for a while, he was just dots. Barney sometimes has a very Homer Simpson kind of like eyeballs going different places look to make him look vacant. Yeah. And it is certainly captured in the photo we're looking at here. So they got the essence of the character for sure. I mean, I wouldn't mind. I'd rather hug Fred because there is more plush involved.

It feels more like you're hugging a cartoon. Yeah. Barney. Just a bare muscular arm a very sunburned yeah yeah barney can yeah barney looks like somebody killed barney and is wearing his head on top of their head and the shirt is draped over and that's it if they can make it through this shift at bedrock city then they can like make it live in the mountains forever yeah squirrels and worms and see

how long they make it exactly now the second bedrock city i saw an anecdote that like they had walk around fred and barney but the second bedrock city is in arizona and it's 30 minutes from the grand canyon it's kind of in the middle of nowhere so they had to get rid of the walk around fred and barney because they did not have enough locals. They could not find enough people willing to work that day to make the commute. There's when new theme parks open, it's like, well, this can be a source of jobs. And that's what they thought. Except nobody lives in the place where they needed the jobs.

Yeah. So jobs not wanted can't be filled so that's why what you find in the both bedrock city locations more so is a bunch of plaster plaster characters and look again we sent such a a pile uh brett feel free to just freestyle let's just just see some odd, some of the frightening. Okay, well, you started with the, this is what I sent. I love this. I have this picture I sent to you.

This is insane. What are we seeing? Okay, so bigger picture here. Yeah. You are, okay, in theory, you're looking at all this stuff in Bedrock. You're seeing where the characters live and you're seeing, you know,

the post office and the city hall and the different parts of town. But in this case, we're in the bank and there is a bank robbery in progress. We're looking at a currently at large masked criminal holding up something. Is it a gun? I'm not sure how much guns were addressed in the flintstones i remember that kyle mclaughlin in the movie has a weird contraption that fires pebbles yeah at the which i was like that's pretty good they figured out a way to give him a gun yeah in this rock movie i'm not sure what this bad guy's holding a very alarmed uh woman there's a lot of leaves all over her desk i don't know if leaves are considered currency we know that shells were shells were but yeah i don't think leaves these

are just real leaves that blew into this building i believe i think so there's a it's a very dusty environment this general everything so yeah so so yeah if you want to go we're doing we're doing this on video if you want to take a look too after you've heard this or whatever and we'll post some of these photos um but i just want to emphasize imagine we're doing this on video if you want to take a look, too, after you've heard this or whatever. And we'll post some of these photos. But I just want to emphasize, imagine what a Flintstones Park would look like if it was dismal land. If it was Banksy's twisted version and everything looks like it's decaying. It's purposefully bad, dystopian park. Where also it's an art exhibit, so how much can you actually fill up the space

there's a lot of vacant space i feel like in all these bedrock cities it's kind of hard because like in arizona beautiful like big sky i'm sure in south dakota too like a clean air not a lot of pollution beautiful clouds and then when you uh tilt your head down a little and look at eye level it looks like um children of men like it looks like what the theme parks uh may look like uh without any um children around it's like yeah yeah yeah yeah post nuclear blast although we don't probably be having a great time people like us we'd be like hey there's no kids we get whatever we want well that's i mean that seems like the main way that these places have existed. They're both defunct now and in the last 10 years. And I knew of them primarily from like,

we're going to go or we're going to sneak into Bedrock City and see what's there. But I don't think it's always even sneaking into. I think there is no there's not even like a wall you got to climb. I think you just walk up and you're in it. I think also that technically all of these places were supposed to give up the copyright as part of the closure. Yeah. One of them, the Arizona one is now called Raptor Ranch. Raptor Ranch. Do you have the have you watched the promotional? No.

Commercial for Raptor Ranch. Brett, can we get that Raptor Ranch video? And I think we'll see how they dealt with um dealing with the Flintstones license yeah okay okay interesting because yeah it's you know there's there's like when we were saying like desolate like it's spread out versions of the houses and there's just there looks like there's miles between themed themed in quotation marks buildings yeah yeah yeah it's a miniature golf course with no miniature golf. With no miniature golf.

Perfect, perfect description. Now, a raptor ranch, to confuse you further, listener, the raptors in question are not dinosaurs. They're birds of prey. Current existing birds of prey. Yes, you can go see falcons there. Also, another thing to mention, this opened in August of 2020,

a terrific time for the travel industry although kind of prescient kind of a good timing because like people were looking for outdoor activities to do that's true yeah um so some might say raptor ranch people were the smartest of all yeah but i i think it'll become clear how they dealt with all those bedrock uh stuff and we'll we'll we'll talk our way through it. So whenever you want to. So it says, before you visit the Grand Canyon, look up. There's something

wild, and it's in red, not the white, in the air. Okay. So they paid for a drone pilot. They paid for like a drone operator. This is a drone, and we're seeing shots of just RVs parked in a parking lot. Very empty parking lot. And there's Fred.

So it's all about raptors and birds but then yabba dabba doo means welcome here. So there's still Fred. Fred is still and there's guys with string and they're feeding falcons and there's an owl running around and

there's a lot of cute birds. That falcon ate a critter? Was that a mouse running down? I think so. We're just seeing a lot of birds. They have the helmet on. Here's the dinosaur. Explore Bedrock.

They just said, fuck you. They just kept going. Since the 60s, motherfucker. It's just all there. The post office. Bedrock lives. Bedrock lives. Oh, they got that drone in the building.

And what I like what they've done is they- Hipsters run. If you're a hipster, you can be there. We encourage abandoned type YouTube videos. Hipsters can do the brontosaurus slide like Fred Flintstone getting off his job. And then there's a souvenir shop of knives. Geodes. Geodes, yeah.

Geodes. Emergency supplies. Hostess, end cap. And then park your RV there. You can spend the night at Raptor Ranch. You can spend the night with the rest of your walking dead caravan. And then why don't they just do a close-up of an empty Well, Scott, that's a water hookup.

That's a water hookup for an RV. That's showing that they have water hookups. You can hook it up and then you can get the shit out of the toilet in the RV. Yeah, and then they paid for this drone footage, so they're going to make the use of it. They're just going to keep doing it. So Bedrock lives

at Raptor Ranch. Bedrock lives. raptor ranch bedrock lives they have got it clean they have not changed a thing about it they didn't add a coat of paint to any of the buildings well they still also have a diner that i think is just fred's diner i could be wrong about that but they it's like lightly themed um they're and they serve like Fruity Pebbles pancakes and Cocoa Pebbles waffles. Smart. So shit you guys like. I ate one of those like a month ago. I ate a waffle tot with Fruity Pebbles strawberries and maple syrup about a month ago.

In 2020, I made a Fruity Pebbles cheesecake for Thanksgiving during the pandemic. Really? How'd that turn out? It was good. It was Fruity Pebbles crust. You make a crust out of fruity pebbles oh the crust is yeah wow and like yeah it's good hmm maybe i'll do it again i feel like do i maybe do i need to like get reacquainted with fruity pebbles in an episode like do we've been talking about this kind of like isn't that like isn't the sweetness insane or do like or when you pack it together there's some yeah i mean it is sweet.

I'm trying to think what's the sweetest cereal. I guess it is, but there is something. I don't know if it's like a chemical. There's an extra chemical in there that makes you want to have four bowls of it in a row. But there's something about it. Because there's plenty of sweet stuff that I go, I have one and I'm done. But Fruity Pebbles, there's some weird, there's like some sort of drug. There's like cocaine in it or something.

Do you think they've changed the like chemical makeup since you were a kid? They've changed the chemical makeup of so much food. Yeah. Apparently. All things. Yeah. It used to be oat and now it's all just corn syrup and other weird shit. Yeah.

We're all being slowly poisoned by all major food companies, I think, in America. Sure. Yeah. But yeah. No, I think, in America. Sure, yeah. But yeah, no, I've said this before on the show. I remember when Trix changed. I remember tasting Trix and going, these are different. And I never said it out loud because who would have believed me? And I didn't have a podcast yet. So I'm sure they have.

But Fruity Pebbles does retain a lot of my, like, I retain my love of it despite the fact that it's 60% poison. Yeah, yeah. You know, more so. It used to be 30% poison. Better than 100. Yeah. So we'll do a – we should do – Jason and I bring in our favorite childhood food indulgences. And by childhood, you mean this last Thursday.

Sure. Yes. I guess really what I'm – I'm looking for a title that better describes that we started enjoying it as a childhood. And I maintained it well into our 30s. Make Scott Eat Like Me is the name of this episode. Omakase. Treat Omakase. The Japanese tasting venue, the multi-course.

Yeah. A word that I only know because that's what jeffrey katzenberg wanted to call quibi i would not have known this term for fancy sushi uh so we'll bring it in yeah we'll yeah michael cover the pebbles family i'll cover uh little debbie's yeah scrabble well both dresses jason and i'll both dress as waiters and we'll come in like with little like the thing draped over. With the fruity pebble pattern on your bow tie. If those are available.

There's no way they're not available. That's like every fruit, every fruity pebble thing and Cocoa Pebbles is all like, I feel like you can get that. I feel like you can get a three piece fruity pebble suit and it's sugar i know that's not right but i feel like i see enough of that like uh advertised to me on instagram that you can get like pringles like a pringles wedding dress yeah like there's so much weird like food branding clothes lately that i think whatever you think of is is available the wedding ceremony where the you see the bride come in and she's in a pringles pattern and then it cuts to the groom who looks like mr pringle yeah in his joseph a bank x pringles limited edition suit yeah so um see they're now not everything at these bedrock City parks are poorly done because the South Dakota one has an animatronic show, the Flintstone Trio, which is built by Sally Dark Rides.

When I saw it, I knew I'd seen it before. Sally Dark Rides, our favorite makers of bizarre, sometimes janky theme park attractions, but some of our favorite oddities. And so this is a Sally Dark Rides original. The Flintstone Trio is Fred, Wilma, and Dino. Dino on drums. It seems like for a good length of the end of the run of the Flintstone Trio that Dino's arms had broken and did not move.

And his drumsticks were just sitting in his hands motionless but nevertheless you heard the drum sounds Did you find a clip of it? I did yeah I have two clips you can't really hear well

I'll just Brett go to Wilma's song because there's a couple songs and it's really hard to hear, but the Wilma song I believe is a recognizable song. But it was, yeah, just like a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic show with three robots that did move a little bit. And yeah,

it's not well documented. This is a VHS or not, I guess what's the old way you'd record? What's the format? I guess sometimes you would take the VHS or not, I guess, what's the old way you'd record? What's the format? You might still call it. I guess sometimes you would take the tape. VHS, yeah.

But anyway, so it's a very grainy, very poorly sounding clip. We had one of the, and my mother would not let me touch it. You'd think it was a Fabergé egg. Like I was just going to immediately push it over from a far height did you break things a lot as a kid? no I don't think any more than any regular kid so you weren't like butter fingers

I don't think so I would not call myself naturally graceful as a kid or an adult did you have butter on your hands a lot like you would slip they would slip through your hands um i don't think i was a particularly sticky kid either well but sticky would be good and i i didn't make the connection of like because we did take it to disney world and god knows where those those are probably in a box somewhere there are are. Once or twice, I think, but I don't think it occurred to me to tell one of my parents,

we're going to go on this ride. We're going to go on World of Motion, and I want you to videotape the ride. I have a video outside World of Motion that I was recording with my family in Epcot, and I'm so annoying behind the camera. Oh, yeah. I'm like, hey, Dad. Hey, Dad. Dad, look over here, Dad. Dad. in Epcot and I'm so annoying behind the camera because oh yeah I'm like hey dad hey dad dad look over here dad dad and you're like why are you doing like just capture the moment this is

cinema verite you know like let's get a real real life reactions here you're not trying to influence you're the documentarian here I had an era where I thought I could be like Tom Green and get a rise out of my parents oh yeah but of course I wasn't going to do anything as x- could be like Tom Green and get a rise out of my parents. But of course I wasn't going to do anything as X-rated as how Tom Green got a rise out of his so I had no plan. Similar to you, I think I'd probably just like, Mom, Mom.

It's so annoying. Because I hide nasal voice. Hello, Dad. Hello, Dum-Dum. I had nothing to... That would have been funny at least. I had nothing to... That would have been funny, at least. Yeah. I had nothing to say once he turned around. I was like, wave to the camera, Dad.

Wave. Wave. And then he's like, yeah, where are you going with this, pal? You are making this drive worse. Yeah. Because that is all you're doing. You're making this more annoying for both of us. Have a game plan if you're going to call your dad on camera. Okay, let's play this clip from the Flintstones.

It's Trio. The Trio. Flintstone Trio. Lounge act in South Dakota. Yeah, I came across this. This is my guy. Yes. And then Fred responds here, right?

Oh, my girl, do it, Willamette. So, I mean, this is it. You can stop it because you can barely hear it. It's so clacky. The robot noises are so loud. You have to imagine that it's not just the recording, that when you were actually watching the show, the clacks are overpowering the actual singing and music. This is now, I like that. This is from the video.

What you can tell is that this was a theatrical presentation. The lights are off. You are like, it is time to watch this children. And there's some younger than my son, kids having to watch this and being very patient. This is not a Chuck E. Cheese where you can sort of ignore it if you want.

Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. Lights down. This is what we're doing for the next 15 minutes or however long it was. This is, yeah, like we're going to need to be quiet here for this. And also, this is mostly, you would have to imagine they were like, well, this is actually, this is the least, this place looks the least like someone has been murdered here of all the bedrock city

yeah definitely it's kind of it's impressively well done i would say apparently all these places would get updated statues and like like hannah barbara would send them sure a new betty or whatever but not in all the cases and again i like like, Brett, let's just freestyle it. But I'd say especially if you see a pterodactyl that looks like it's struggling. Yeah. That's the one I want to see the most. Maybe we can just find a way to flip through frightening imagery. Because, like, yeah, some they kept kept up and i bet the priority was a

little bit like you got to keep fred pristine but he has to look the most like a character that isn't melted in the sun um and yeah the main the main four the flintstone four yeah but everybody else had a rough time i yeah like it was um in a lot of the literature about the place. They talk about. here it is. Oh yeah. Yeah. Look at,

this is like, this is a pterodactyl. Well, it's, I guess it's being born out of a giant egg, but it's flailing in what looks like, I mean, it looks like he's getting splashed in tar.

It looks like this is the moment of being trapped in time. This is haunting. At the tar pits. This is a haunting picture. Or it's birthing. This is a haunting picture. Or it's birthing. Well, that's an egg. That's an egg. Out of an egg, yeah. I mean, that is literally what's happening, but it's so horrifying.

And if that egg is just pure black inside, then it's, boy, it sucks to be a dinosaur, doesn't it? It's very Cronenberg. Oh, yeah. This is terrible. Yeah, this is is if you're a kid you can see this you're like oh my god like life is horrible this is how you get a record player this is right oh yeah and then this is how your life starts but then you're destined to just work

for some family just pressing your beak against stone grinding you down until you can't work anymore and then what yeah what becomes of you all right you can either be you down until you can't work anymore. And then what? Then what becomes of you? All right. You can either be a lamp or you can be an assistant director on a music video, which is a detail from the Universal Studios Hollywood show. That's a prime job. Is there anything else we can flip through in terms of, I mean, we'll post photo, yeah. Yeah. Imaging, imagery. But it's so, just literally imagine like, imagine like, they call somebody like,

the Flintstone killer, or something, and he has like, a basement that he's like, made to look like, the scenes from, from the cartoon. Oh,

here we go. This, I like this guy. Now we're in, there, so there was the bank robbery, but now we're in jail, and there is a guy in kind of,

not prison stripes, but more like cowhide. Yeah. And he is bald with gray on the sides and he's giving a big thumbs up. And I like this because I feel like this is I picture this guy being a white collar criminal. Oh, yeah. This is a Madoff. This is the Madoff of bedrock who and and who has accepted his fate he knows that he scammed and embezzled fred's yeah this thumbs up to me signifies the justice system is working this is

bernie mineral that's good yeah i like that what was fred's boss's name mr slate mr slate so that's not mr slate i don't think so i don't think he was gray. Yeah, he wasn't. He was a shorter guy too, right? No, Mr. Slate was never punished for exploiting his workers. This is Mr. Slate. Yeah. In case. Big round.

Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying here. He's got big glasses. I was thinking, you know what? I was thinking of Spacely. I was thinking Mr. Spacely from Jetsons. A tyrant. There's a shorter guy and a tyrant.

Yeah. Yeah. And then you find out in the Jetsons movie from the 90s, it's like, no, there's people shorter guy in a tire yeah yeah and then if you find out in the jetsons movie from the 90s it's like no there's people there's little guys there's a little little oh yes a little like furby type yeah they were displacing them to to get sprockets yeah all right they also make george jetson rap which is a very uncomfortable display for this actor, like probably not too far from passing away. And he's got to learn what rapping is quickly. I have not watched the Jetsons movie in a long time.

But as a kid, I did like it. Yeah, that was one where it's like we got a VHS somehow, either as a gift or whatever. So it's like it was on repeat, you know? DuckTales movie had that, watched it on repeat. Love early CGI, Grit Debbie repeat, you know, duck tails movie had that watched it on repeat. Love early CGI grid. Music videos. So great.

Uh, um, so that's a bunch of crazy bullshit out of bedrock city. If we missed any detail, wait, did we say the fact that it's, it was the owners of two cement plants who came together and that's why this happens.

They're like, well, we got the cement. Well, that's, Hey, that's half the battle that actually explains a lot

it explains quite a bit it doesn't quite explain why like Wilma and Betty look so absurd you know like abstract art and then Pebbles is like big like a giant head like small I guess you couldn't do a regular size pebbles

because you would be like doll sized i mean you could they yeah but then you'd be like oh it's there were not concerned with scale here because actually in the in a lot of the uh advertising they were touting the 20 foot dino that was the big thing thing I found in multiple ads. Come see the 20 foot Dino. Which he was not, obviously. He's their pet. He's the size of a collie or something. Maybe bigger. He's bigger than a collie. Maybe a Great Dane.

I think he's as big as the biggest dog. Yeah, so Marmaduke. He's Marmaduke size. How much do you think the rights for Marmaduke cost? If I want to do a pop-up restaurant based on Marmaduke. Look, not much because they just cranked out a movie on Netflix that no one's even referring. Is it out? Yeah.

Pete Davidson. Oh. What? Is Marmaduke? Yes. Yeah. They got like the biggest. Like everybody knows every move of this guy.

I guess I didn't know that. And yet he managed to put out to be in a Marmaduke movie now that nobody, like, you know, if he goes outside, you know, if Pete Davidson like. He's like one of the top 10 most famous people in the world. Yeah. So if he, so he, I guess he found a way to finally get some privacy and that is voicing a Marmaduke movie. Yeah.

Well, do you remember, this isn't pete davidson but like years ago they made a top cat movie mostly screened in mexico i think you brought this up on the show a few times they made a second top cat movie yeah it's a prequel to the first right uh top cat movie i think we have talked about this top cat movie we're looping around. There's a lot of these forming. Oh, yeah. Like we're at round three of this thing. Of talking about the international releases of the Top Cat franchise. I'm sure.

I'll check Just Watch. I should just watch it. I want to watch this Marmaduke movie, and then I want to buy the rights to make my own Marmaduke movie. I think you're in. I mean, I don't know how. It's just a matter of like talking to the bank,

but you're like, it's not an amount of money you couldn't attain. Let's get a sheet. I want a full sheet from King Features Syndicate and like what each thing costs and what the length of time is. Like, yeah, I wonder if you were like, we got Pete Davidson for Marmaduke

and they're like, great. It's $25,000. Okay, Top Captain Movie, 2011. It's $25,000. Top Cat the movie, 2011. Roku chattel and freebie. Okay. So you're going two for two. Two freebies. Places need content.

These, yeah. These, the Hanna-Barbera characters have not been maybe treated with such pristine care. Like they sort of, if you got a a thing they'll let you do whatever you want top cat begins the 2015 that's the movie name that's the prequel yeah top cat begins is uh we have to know we gotta know freebie again freebie uh to be and voodoo free the free uh wing of voodoo top cat rising Rising? What's the next one called? Yeah. More Top Cat?

More Top Cat. Top Cat. Another Top Cat? Top Cat ends. Top Cat ends. Well, yeah, we'll figure out all the pricing. Who's Top Cat? Oh, yeah.

Who plays? Is it an actor? Oh, good question. Non-American actor? cat oh yeah who plays it's a non-american actor you've never despite knowing more about the top cat movies plural than any man you don't know who is top cat tom cruise uh the they do not they list a few voice actors they do not list the voice actor of top cat let me maybe it's an ai it's's like the Luke Skywalker voice. They literally couldn't find anyone.

No one was willing to do it. The most out-of-work actors. Well, most of them actors said they didn't want to just tackle such a big role like that. Yeah. They didn't want to let people down. Yeah. No, you're setting yourself up for a fall. What's the Joker sequel called?

And is that going to be the next Top Cat? Folly, Folly, uh, do? Folly. It doesn't sound right. It means like. In multiple ways. I did. The meaning.

So, Joaquin Phoenix Joker, they announced sequel. And did you see this, Scott? No. Which movie is this going to rip off? This is, it's going to Raging Bull. Sounds good. Folly, uh, do. Which movie is this going to rip off? This is, uh, it's going to Raging Bull. Sounds good. Follie a deux. Mm.

Uh, that's the, that's Joker. Follie a deux. Okay. Uh, and the French reference being a medical term pertaining to a mental disorder which affects two or more people. Oh. Some sort of Joker. Another Joker in the movie.

How many Jokers can we get in one movie? So the movie equivalent of that video of the 10 jokers can we get in one movie it's so the movie equivalent of that video of the 10 jokers going down the escalator at the comic-con yeah what do you how to if i'm pitching on and i know this is a flintstone episode but if i'm pitching on it i say get leto in there yeah why not let's watch the world burn jared leto joaquin phoenix jokers what was it again something uh folly folly i mean i love the shirts i love like walking through a mall and seeing a shirt where seven jokers are all okay pool together so if we can get them all let me amend nicholson and joaquin okay i don't know what shape you're all in why not fair okay all in. Why not? Fair. Okay.

I mean, you gotta give, there's gotta be somewhere to go. I mean, I don't know. We'll add a Joker with each. Oh, get the deleted scene Joker for the new Batman. Deleted scene Joker. Which I thought, I thought was a joke.

After I fell for some deep fakes, I was like, well, surely this is, I mean, this sucks. This is awful. Did you fall for different deep fakes or the same Tom Cruise? No, no. The other, the Tom Cruise. This is a runner too. Jason falling for deep fakes. There, but no, well, surely this is, I mean, this sucks. This is awful. Did you fall for different deep fakes or the same Tom Cruise? No, no. The other, the Tom Cruise.

This is a runner too. Jason falling for deep fakes. But no, I, like after the Tom Cruise thing, I saw that Joker scene. I was like, this is awful. There's no way this is real, right? And then it's like, oh no, it's very real. Oh, so you're saying after the Tom Cruise. So Jason, a couple episodes ago, thought Tom Cruise leapt over Keegan-Michael Key yeah at a comic-con or something yeah I saw that

clip like you know 8 a.m watching on my phone lying on my back and you're like without my glasses I was like 60 year old Tom pretty fun okay but then that threw off like you're you're just believe like believing anything you saw for a couple weeks is what you're saying I'm clarifying so then when you saw the Batman scene, you thought that could be... Yeah, so I saw the Batman scene later. But you thought that was deep faked? I thought it was when people make fake trailers and they just chop and screw stuff.

So some guy made himself up to look like a scary guy and then cut himself into the Robert Pattinson Batman movie. Yeah, something like that. But no, it's real. Jason thinks January 6th was deepfake now. Well, you know.

They put faces of good upstanding MAGA people onto Antifa bodies. The kangaroo court of this current Congress is a few freedom fighters and then a bunch of clowns. We're going to have to do the deepfake challenge eventually here. I'm going to have to start learning how to do it. Oh like you make a deep fake for to see if it tricks jason i guess yeah i guess that's what the challenge i guess that's what the challenge will be i'll

have to figure out how to do that yeah well i was trying to i was trying to get a beta invite for this do you guys know about i think it's called mid journey it's like the ai where you can plug in phrases and it'll generate just nonsense yeah i tried it i didn't get a good one yeah you can just do it it's a website yeah it wasn't letting me access it it's a way i have a link for it i don't know if i did i tried it like two days ago developer the developers in lake nona so you didn't want you to know it okay yeah you're on the no list they did not like whatever burner discord uh username i made to access it uh yeah so you can just what jason's talking about is you can do

uh like you just put two words in and it'll generate like nine weird pictures so somebody put in like i'm trying to remember like an example. It was like a puppet something. And then like it kind of like blurifies photos where it's like thumbnails of like, I don't know, say it's like Elf, but a human man. And it like makes like a human man with like Elf's snout or snoot. I think Stefan Heck of the Block Party podcast, I believe generated one that was Roseanne getting attacked by wild dogs at a subway. And it looked pretty good. You can do it. Or wild dogs running on the field at the World Series.

It's just crazy. You can get some. Yeah, you can. There's some people like it's weird with the AI. The computer can like put together. But we'll do some of that, too. And I'll quiz you on those, I guess. Yeah.

As well. Well, they have a certain look about them. I wanted to generate like Barney Rubble cries at a Tony Robbins seminar. I put in Alf marries Pam Anderson and it didn't, and it didn't work. What? It just didn't, it wasn't like good. Cause I thought it was going to be anything. Can you do it on your phone right now?

Let me find the, see if I can find the website. Can we do something with the Flintstones? Yeah, you guys talk amongst yourself while I figure out where this was. Okay, okay. You know, there's also, one of them had a volcano called Mount St. Wilma. One of them had, there's a Mount Rockmore, which I like because it's already a mountain, right? So we have to further rockponify a thing that is rocks, that is chiseled rocks.

So that is Fred, Barney, Dino, and the founder of the town, Mr. Granite Built, which is a character I don't recognize offhand. No. But he's the only one who deserves to be there because Fred is not the king of the town. Mount Rushmore is our presidents, our leaders. Fred's just a guy there. Why does he get to be on?

And Dino, his dog? Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense. A town resident and also his pet are up there with the town's founder. And his pal next to... Yeah, they gotta reevaluate who they're putting on. Yeah, I mean, some of the characters they just made... You know, I don't really remember the school teacher

who was kind of horrific-looking in Bedrock City. Like, that one has not aged well a lot of the generic characters have really not aged well you can kind of identify willman betty yeah i have found the website uh i'm just it started with an easy one i just put flintstones money let's see if they just generate uh too much traffic okay oh this is a problem. Yeah, I think it's gotten too popular now. I'll keep trying. I'll keep reloading it as we go. Can't steal it for our content.

Maybe we should move on to some other Flintstones stuff because it was not just depressing defunct RV parks. The Flintstones, up until not that long ago, were still a presence in universal studios hollywood yes um there was yeah i mean it started with this stage show but it kind of lasted for a while there the carnival games at universal studios until recently the whole area was a rock vegas it was rock vegas casino right so that was like a pretty big footprint and a barbecue restaurant yes which yeah is the last was the last holdout of flintstones basically

yeah demolished for wizarding world construction i think if you wanted to get just blasted with just the craziest like barbecue smoke you would walk by there and it was just unbelievable. It was just open air grill. It was wild. It's lots of sort of like like kind of nasty looking. Oh, every part of it in the sun. I never ate there. It might have been fine.

It looked awful. It didn't smell great. Like it was a very strange thing especially after all the flintstone presence was gone other than that it was a very weird thing just walk by and that opened well after sorry were you saying did that open for the sequel flintstone like didn't i'm not sure i don't know when it all went in the restaurant because the the stage show was like 94 to 97 so pretty on point around i feel like the restaurant and stuff didn't come along until like 2001 like much later that might have been rock vegas promotional okay uh viva rock vegas uh to to capitalize on the mania of course we all

remember america wow when they were i might have talked about this before how i just remember seeing a newspaper article saying, hey, they're going to make a prequel. And because it's Las Vegas, there's going to be different types of rocks. That was the press release before the movie got made. Get excited, everybody. Different types of rocks will be in this.

And have you seen Viva Rock Vegas? It was one of my first pandemic views. Yeah, it might be why it came up before. This is only a second timer, as things that we've talked about many times. It's not a three or a four. It'll enter the... Our five timers club is stories that we've told five times. Is Viva Rock Vegas,

is any of the cast back? No. No. Right. Okay. No, no, all new,

all the younger. Oh, okay. Yeah. So that was, this opened in 2000. So opening a Flintstones barbecue place in 2001, I can kind of see the justification.

Yeah. And the games too. Yeah, I make sense. I was just, yeah, when I was saying it was so weird, it's because it was the only one left. The only thing left there. It doesn't make sense when you see the budget was $83 million and it made $59.5 million. The movie, not the barbecue. The movie, not the barbecue.

Okay. I do not have the financials I don't know the margins I wish each restaurant would release I wish I wish John Taffer would rescue some

we could get so much more content out of that if we knew the financials for each individual restaurant in each theme park oh now we're talking this pizza

that would keep us away from rides for so long for years the thing we do so actively try to avoid. The bottom line of theme park restaurants. Oh. All right. Back to the bulk cement statues.

Back to the excess cement they had to put somewhere. Let's talk a little about this live show. And I've got a clip here, Universal studios ad which uh starts with a flying this this kind of in 30 seconds gives you a pretty good view of what happened in this show this so it was the show was called the flintstones show this was a musical that i definitely saw and i liked a lot um okay i i really enjoyed this show and would look forward to it from this ad that we'll play

I saw a still ad for it as well with a tagline and the tagline was yabba dabba do it live which unfortunately now I just go straight to the Bill O'Reilly yeah I was going to say that's Bill O'Reilly.

He's completely taken up and fuck it. We'll yabba dabba do it live. I want to give a quick update that I've been refreshing my phone with different prompts. And the one that worked was Flintstones sexual. Oh, no. And it is up here. Can you show it? I can.

It's not, again, this is what I'm saying, where it's not like everything is perfect. But I'll show you guys first. In some of them, it looks like Fred has a penis for a nose. Okay. And that might be the best. This doesn't get, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think they've dismissed. I'm not terribly offended by any of that.

That looks a lot like some of the statues in the Bedrock City. Yeah. So, like, that's the kind of gist of it. I think you can go, like, really specific. Yeah. Like, Fred Flintstone buys Big Red Gum. Okay, I'll try that. Buys Big Red.

All right. Give that a shot while we play here this clip of the uh the flintstones show with the new flintstone show a live rock extravaganza with mammoth set and dynamite special effects it's the most spectacular that's the main thing i wanted to talk about falls backwards into a volcano we get one more play on that fred falls backwards into a volcano gets shot straight up into the air very tim and eric kind of shot up yeah yeah very digital the sound with mammoth set and dynamite special effects he's playing a guitar when it happens incredible sound yeah just get into general ad for the part but i love that moment and i was like yeah this i don't remember i do not recall witnessing what fred flintstone's death potentially yeah look at that face too. Oh my God.

Where am I going? And then the, just the rocket shot out of the, so I was like, what is this? How does this actually play out in the show? And in the show, I think it's all dummies.

I believe that a dummy gets yanked up out of the ground and then further closer to the audience, another dummy returns. So it's like a dummy getting shot straight up into the air, coming right back down. And then, oh, look at this back. Oh, my God. Wow.

So it's like the Spider-Man at Avengers Campus, but they did it 20 years earlier. Yes. Yeah. Inanimate. If it's just a dummy, we can flail it around, break all its limbs. Stunt-tronic. This all its limbs. Stuntronic.

This was the original Stuntronic. Yeah. Fred Flintstone at Universal. Incredible. I have to give this show a little bit of credit because it seemed like they did spend some money on it. Yeah. For like the sets are pretty good.

Yeah, there's a car. Multiple sets. There's town and there's the Flintstones house and then this rock video. Yes. They fly to Holly Rock on a pterodactyl plane, which you see in the commercial. Little deceptive because it kind of seems like a ride vehicle you will get in. Not the case.

Fred and Wilma get in it and it just kind of goes around stage. It doesn't fly over you. Right. No, that's not true. It does fly over you. It't fly over you right no it did no that's not true it does fly over you yeah no i recall that um and i recall this it's it's actually pretty impressive they bring out a i mean it is like some major theme park engineering like this huge prop comes out they roll it out this this puppeted pterodactyl and the mouth moves and they hook it up to ropes in front of you and then the row and then four actors get on it it does a full loop above some of the audience okay it was extremely impressive but what i remember is that when i went the it got stuck

halfway through so it's just so there was just a long long segment where the actors have to fill the time somehow and they kind of would refer to what's going on and and uh i just remember it being an early my mom saying no this is this is not planned so they're covering they're improvising so this may be actually the flintstones might have been the first I ever learned of improvising. Wow. So you think it's just to stall for time while something bad is happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just not an inaccurate description of a lot of improv shows I've seen.

Well, it's stalling for time while your bad life is happening. This will fill it. You're promised a showbiz career at the end of five different classes and $5,000. It's like I got stuck on this turd act all through. I was always taught the trick that if you're hard up for an idea,

you're blank out a little, just cross the stage and then you have the time to think of an idea. And it gives the audience a visual to look. That's a straight, really? Yes. Like, go walk over there. Yeah, yeah, walk, move a little, because it draws the eye, and it buys you a little time.

If you would see our old Jason and I's improv shows, you know, he was crossing the stage. Chris Cross and London Wright, that's the trick. Multiple times a show. Man, he's playing a lot of characters playing tag. A lot of children running from stage to stage. Yeah. Yeah, no, I thought the sets and the costumes and everything looked good. This is filled with, I think, one of the things that has made the Flintstones kind of like work in different eras,

which is all the stone jokes, all the rock jokes. It is shot full of them. Timeless humor. It kind of works. The audience is into it. There's a little sign that said, I think you're supposed to say, Toysaurus.

Toysaurus. Toysaurus. Good question. Not sure. Some are more clean. B.C. Hammer, Mastodon, New Kids on the Rock. B.C. Hammer appears to be played by a white actor. So, yeah.

Okay, all right. The premise, by the way, being that Fred Flintstone passes an audition to be the star of the first rock video. Despite not being a musician, he beats out B.C. Hammer and Mastodon and people who come in with a whole act. He just kind of like slaps

his knees a little bit and somehow it's him. Well, because they're doing like a star search kind of auditions at the Water Buffalo Lodge. Which they just call star search. They don't rockify that. No. No.

They do Ed McRock. But not. But not. And it's not man becomes rock. Yeah. Walter Concrete. That works. That's good.

Oliver Stone. Very clean. Very clean. Very clean. Oliver... We need a director of our rock video. And the director of our music rock video will be Oliver Stone. I think that works pretty well.

There's a lot of music video aesthetics in Natural Born Killers. Tilted angles. Yeah, tilted. A lot of Dutch angles. Zsa Zsa Herbivore starting to lose it I like that I honestly

no you guys don't like Zsa Zsa Herbivore I guess I admire the length of the wall that's like a cross of a stage yeah there's been a line there was a running gag in it

that the stuff is now known as fire. It was previously known as ah. And they get a lot of mileage out of that. The audience seems into that. There's a joke about the film in the line of ah. Reasonably topical. Okay.

I was going to say, yeah. I watched a little bit. They're untypical. It's not genie. It's not. I was going to say, yeah, I watched a little bit. They're on topical. It's not genie. It's not. I don't think they changed them up. Yeah. There's one where they say that we wish a happy birthday to actor George Burns.

He's 22. Pretty solid. That's good. And then you hear somebody close to the cameraman go, ha, ha, ha. It's the mile. Ha, ha, ha. That joke's timeless,'s timeless though yeah that's for the parents yeah who is our perennially old because it was larry kid there was a larry i think there was a larry king's old joke in every episode of conan while i worked there and who is our forever old now do we even do that post-covid because we know that

all the ones we love like like herman cain or emerald i don't even yeah that's true uh i don't even want to say the name of the person i thought oh i know it's yeah because i don't want to curse with the podcast the right i don't even i don't think i think i know who you mean uh uh are we talking about a you think about popping in a dvd uh i am thinking about a dvd i'm thinking about that media that physical media that you're talking about yeah just thinking about your dvd but i won't say yes that's as far as i'll say but yes uh you don't even i feel like it's different, like, because I think people, I think maybe something has changed culturally because it was probably Betty White before that. Yes.

But now we don't want to curse these people. Right. And nobody's mad that they're old. We love that, that we celebrate that they're old. It's a different thing. Larry King, it's like, there was, I've sensed some rage in a Larry King joke. Oh, sure, sure. How long is that?

Maybe people, that might be incorrect. Yeah, I don't know about, I mean, it depends what, I know you like to listen to some of the angriest comedians, so maybe they were really like laying it into poor Larry toward the end. Sacred cows. Pulling out the old Bill Hicks. Bill Hicks. You know where I'm coming

from. Bill Hicks was doing Larry King bits 40 years ago. Update. I've checked, by the way, thank you for allowing me to check on camera because I've been refreshing, refreshing, refreshing. Keeps giving me your dream come true.

It's my dream to dream, to do it on the podcast live. Um, so finally it worked. Fred Flintstone buys big red gum. Uh, and, it looks like nothing like what the prompt is.

We are not selling what is interesting about this AI art. No, we have done two bad jobs. I don't know. This doesn't look like the art that I had been seeing. This is what I've been seeing. Maybe there's a different AI that you've been seeing, but I've seen a ton of these. I'm going to try.

I'll try to get in. Nine picture grids of little little like I guess icons like looking it's this thing that's happening that is that's really long winded to describe that has failed us every time we've tried to just another modern joke going here and it's just we're eating

shit at every turn it's letting us down because all these somebody sometimes you see it and you go oh this is so funny look what somebody did and now we've just we go, oh, this is so funny. Look what somebody did. And now we've just, we've really. Well, because this is newfangled. Oh, I've dropped my keys. And he's so mad.

He dropped his key. Hey, don't. All right, easy. He's going to be throwing them next. I'm upset. Don't slice our faces up, Mike. It's not that bad. I'm going to put my keys on the table here.

It's newfangled technology. And the Flintstones teaches us right that they had everything they needed back then this is actually something that's occurred to me about all like because we've all right you know and we'll touch on some other things but there's there's you can go visit bedrock and the flintstones in a lot of different theme park yes settings but none of them are exactly blockbuster attractions that everybody loves and it's like is that because like boy you know what i'd love to do is to go be in the stone age i'd love to i don't think that's is that anybody's uh desire no but i like having my laptop here uh

huh i get what you're saying uh i think though the the one in in uh uh the one over the what is it warner brothers world that's the newest one yeah that at least captures some of it at least it's colorful and it's full of characters that your parents or grandparents enjoyed and the voices sound vaguely like to pay respects to your grandma pay respects to your grandma. Yeah. So it's not like, oh, I wanted to drive. I wanted my feet to rub against the pavement while I was driving a car. I don't think that's an experience people wanted. I don't think there's anything in the Flintstones that you would want to happen to you. Maybe you want to have some of the big ribs.

The big ribs, I think. Although. Jason, did you want the big. When you were a kid and you saw that because that would stress me out when that because at the start in case you don't know the iconic opening of the flintstones and i say that like jokingly but i guess people might not know it and you've been listening to an hour and a half of flintstones a show where the actor al lewis who's been dead for 40 years comes up a lot uh The opening of the Flintstones, they go to like a drive-in and a big dinosaur-sized

rack of ribs gets put on the side of their car. That's what it's from. They ripped open a brontosaurus's chest and yanked his ribs out. Yeah, they fucked up Fred's bulldozer dinosaur. Basically, yeah. His former crane is what you're looking at.

And they put it on the side of the car and the car tips over i think there's a variation on what happens to it too and i'm remembering there's another thing that happens too but yeah i think the one i go it impales fred it goes straight into his brain it's just uh 22 minutes of of a funeral the other the other thing that always happens is like dino locks him out of the house. Yes, that happens a lot. Which does happen in the state show. Okay, well, that's good. Or the cat, because there's also a cat who I don't think. Oh, wait, no, it's that the cat, it's in the theme song.

Then the cat will stay out for the night. I know this because, and I don't have a clip of this, but there's a really insane, too high of budget music video made on the set of the Flintstones movie, but with not the B-52s, but the B-C-52s. Nice. And they made the whole cast be in it. They took a shooting day, clearly, to end with 100 extras all in the caveman clothes. But all these esteemed actors, as we were saying, John Goodman and Rick Moranis, like nothing gets access to Rick Moranis anymore. Back then, you could get him to be in your music video

for hours banging on a xylophone made of bones with other bones. And that lyric about the cat, then the cat, and they make Halle Berry do it. So there's this weird clip where it cuts to her just to say the word cat, kind of sensually. It makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, yeah. Sexy sex and a woman saying cat.

No thank you. With bedroom eyes. Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. I recommend the music video. Sure, sure. What an insane... It shows you how much waste there was.

The glory of the 90s. The excess of the 90s where you get a band and they do a big music video about the movie and the old days, which I know Top Gun, they got the Lady Gaga song. Yeah, we're getting back to it. Yeah, a throwback kind of a thing. But really, real quick, I just want to say,

did the ribs thing stress you out as a kid or did you like that? Oh, I thought it was funny. Okay. But you didn't say like, I want to eat a dinosaur's ribs. No, I guess I never really thought about it. I mean, I guess it could be a mammoth.

It could be a mammal, a big mammal. Were there mammoths in the show? Were there big tigers, I think? Yeah, all of them. Ever since the blue milk revelation, I just, I'm always curious. You think I'm just always dreaming about eating? Because that never occurred to me as a big Star Wars fan as a kid.

I never thought, oh, I want to try that blue milk. It always looked gross. But ever since you said that you want to try the blue milk, I wonder what famous food moments in movie and TV you were thinking, oh, I'd like to try that. Well, talking about food stuffs. The Bedrock City, the Atlas, there's some good Atlas Obscura photos and like entries about this place. And they're old enough that they mentioned

that according to a public Google Plus review, Fred's Cafe has the best prices in the area. Now, I don't know what else is in the area besides tumbleweeds and, like, nuclear waste, like, lingering nuclear waste. But Fred's Cafe did serve fishasaurus sandwiches. All right. Big fish sandwich approximately a little under 500 miles from the Pacific Ocean in the middle of the desert in Arizona. Fred's Diner or Fred's Cafe, whatever they called it, is your spot to go. Look, I went to Criss Angel's restaurant, Kablip. That's true.

It's about as far from anything as this sounds. So I'm not above this kind of shit. I specifically asked you how you felt after you ate there, and you said you held up fine, like it was okay. I was shocked. You loved it. Yeah. So I might, yeah, maybe all my favorite food awaits in deep deserts,

still an hour away from major attraction cafes. I think there was various travel blogs that stopped at this place, and I just saw one of their entries was like, where to get fudge by the Grand Canyon? So the universal treat, fudge. So you can get a fish and sauce sandwich, and then you can drive another 30 to 50 miles and find a fudge shop by the Grand Canyon. What is your favorite fudge of all time? I mean, it's very popular at the Jersey Shore. Yeah, no, but I mean, like, is that where you would, if you could get any fudge right now, and you would say, say you were to impress Scott.

Say Scott never had fudge before because he doesn't eat the treats that we do. Which fudge, if it was easily available, would you get? Desert Island fudge? What would be your desert island fudge? What would be your Jason's desert island fudge? You know, if you go to like Ocean City, you might be a Fralinger's guy or Shriver's guy or fudge kitchen guy. A lot of these places are like 100 years old at this point and still using the same kettles or like taffy making machines. That's what makes it good. Probably a good move. I think fudge kitchen is a good place to start.

Kind of famously always has people with trays giving out samples of fudge. That's on the Jersey Shore? Yes. That's in numerous towns on the Jersey Shore. Okay. Yeah. All right. So how would you even say like that fudge compares to like a Disneyland fudge?

I haven't had a Disneyland fudge in a while. I think I got the like Truro fudge, like kind of a vanilla cinnamon fudge. Right. And it was pretty good. Okay. It's kind of hard to mess up fudge honestly okay so you're not even you don't have maybe like oh my god this is the ultimate fudge i i like a simple chocolate because i find like walnuts or nuts and fudge kind of overwhelms the flavor no yeah oh okay i'm agreeing with you yeah yeah okay keep it in place so fudge factory

yeah is that what you said uh Fudge Kitchen. Fudge Kitchen. They have a big- Impossible to remember brand name, but- They have a big kettle. Scott Granator. You use a paddle. You whip it. Still not quite. I think that's why they're fudges.

You use a paddle to make the- They use a paddle to whip it in a big copper kettle. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay. So it's like what we did when we were in Disneyland. We were rowing. Yeah, kind of. Yeah, so imagine So it's like what we did when we were in Disneyland. We were rowing. Yeah, kind of.

Yeah, so imagine that's all like, you know, chocolate and milk and sugar. Okay. And if somebody told you that there was a paddle coming for your ass, but maybe the paddle is covered in straight fudge. You get to lick the fudge kitchen paddle after it's been in the copper kettle. This is a future present for Jason. He's giving him a big paddle of fudge. Maybe this is a thing. Because I think you can still buy like a carnation fudge kit,

which is like a can of condensed milk, cocoa, like everything you need in one box. And a little ore? I think you can substitute a spoon or a spatula. I tried one more time with this AI because I said, God, we tried twice. Let me try three times. So I wrote Flintstones

Avatar and let down yet again. This is not a merger of the Na'vi and the... No, it doesn't work. It's not working. This thing sucks. This is the worst thing we've ever done. I was looking on a different website of the Navi. No, it doesn't work. It's not working. This thing sucks. Yeah, this is the worst thing we've ever done.

I think I was looking on a different website and it makes it look a lot smearier. It's like a lot. There's one with Fred has like a little fairy wings,

but I don't know. It looks like there's one that's like blue, but this sucks. I'm so sorry. Throw your phone away. Edit this out. Let's edit all of this out.

Scrap it. Scrap it. Grab it. Edit all out. Let's edit all of this out. Scrap it. Scrap it. Grab it. Edit all references to Navi out of the podcast, too. Do you want to, but not every episode, because there's Navi's referenced in every episode, almost. Even Dragotar. Oh, jeez.

Cut it. Oh, I remember one thing. I found there's a clip online of like one minute or 10 minutes of a few minutes of the uh there was a brief stage show at king's dominion oh okay with flintstone characters and that also involves them going to holly rock okay perfect so i think this is post this is post paramount because they say uh like oh they make movies here like days of boulder which is a days of thunder reference likely said because there was a days of thunder simulator attraction oh right right right okay days of boulder that's what you're in now yeah no one wants to see you're gonna the flintstones then go watch movies about

rocks don't they want to imagine anything maybe they can can't. I don't think they can. Are rocks their god? That's probably what they think. But it's not their money. Seashells aren't their money? Or like sand dollars, I think. Right. I think it's a mix. Now I'm thinking about it. There's another Flintstones.

There's so much. There's the man called Flintstone movie that I think was like a spy parody that Fred was in. That I think I watched when I was sick once, which made me hate it. Which I feel like there's stuff that it's associated with when you were little and you're sick and it just ruins whatever you're watching. Sometimes forever unless you watched it again. But then there was one and maybe it was that or maybe no. It was something in the 90s where Sylvester Stallone was parody and he was Sylvester Stallone Stone. That sucks.

You mean it's Stallone Stone? Stallone Stone. Yeah, that's pretty rough. That's like Sylvester Stallone Stone. That sucks. You mean it's Stallone Stone? Stallone Stone. Yeah, that's pretty rough. That's like Sylvester Stol... What would it be? Stone, I don't know. Yeah, that's not very good. Sylvester Stolag-tite?

Stolag Stone. It reminds me of Stone. I guess you gotta do the Stone, yeah. Yeah. Stone, well, you know what? Hey, and then you put us in the driver's seat, and we made out like that app. Yeah, I know.

We bungled it. Yeah. I mean, that's why you pay those. That's why they paid those 70-year-old men to write all of those. You know they poured over it. They poured over it. They were so, oh, I can't think of the right name. Oh, they didn't say like, oh, what is it?

Oh, yeah, okay. Well well let's go to lunch their eyes totally dried out because the room is just filled with winston cigarette smoke well they sponsored yeah box after box it was the writers can i ask for a photo also of if you see like a there's there's a black and white photo of a guy, of a shirtless guy. And I just want to make sure you guys saw this picture of what the voice of Fred Flintstone looks like. Alan Reed, not Alan Hale. Alan Hale is the skipper with the lobster barrel. Alan Reed. Look at this man this is a black and white photo of a guy with no shirt and he is he's got a ship wheel a captain's wheel and he's so sweaty this is the voice of fred hey we've heard this

guy's voice our whole lives and he's this and he's it's that kind of insane body that's what strong people looked like. He looks like George. A hundred years ago. If you know wrestling, it looks like George the Animal Steel. If you've ever seen the movie, Ed Wood. He's played by, why can't I think of the guy's name? I forget.

It's one of the wrestlers that plays him. But yeah. No, no, excuse me. George the Animal Steel plays the older wrestler, excuse me. Oh, I see. And I can't think of his name. But yeah, it's like an old kind of barrel chested, hairy guy. Kind of like, I just, are there even bodies like this now where you are jacked but also

have a big belly? Georgie Animal Steel played Tor Johnson. Yes, yes, yes. Oh, I got confused. Yeah, sorry. Yeah. This was the fittest man in America in his time. This is a, by the way, yeah.

I think I'm trying to steer away from the many, many women chasing after him. This guy, yeah. Please, Alan. No, I'm married. Come on. He's probably 31 years old here. I think so, yes.

He's probably younger than the three of us, for sure. He looks in his 50s. Hannah and Barbera would call him kid at this point. Like, hey, slow your roll, kid, on these contract negotiations. He looks like Fred. I'll say that. He does. Oh, yeah, that guy would do Fred's voice.

Sometimes you're surprised. Sometimes you're surprised when you see him. But no, no. This is insane. I think this is what people, this is what Trump acolytes think he looks like underneath the suit. Like, oh, sure. They're like they know that he's not skinny. So they got to account for that.

But they can only be brawny. Right. That must be what's going on. If he were to take that suit off ever, he looks like he looks like a 1910s boxer. He looks like a smiling old timey strong man who just got a barrel of vegetable oil thrown on him and he's thrilled he's happy about it most people if you ask about presidential candidates who would you want to have a beer with but they but it's with trump people it's like who could uh wrestle an alligator if an alligator showed up at my front door yeah i i mean

i there's definitely a section of of people i believe, that, yeah, what you're saying is correct. I also, there's probably just a section that literally just like, if you got into their brain, it's just like they see like the most handsome, like Zeus. They see like the most handsome version of like King Triton. Oh, yeah. They just don't even. It's just like a little squish and it corrects every like they've they've got a you've got a perma instagram filter on every piece of footage yeah you've described the section of the of the uh supporters who have maybe like a fingernail in reality yeah i'm describing to do the logic of well yeah i'm implying that logic exists yeah

yeah and i'm just saying like there's a little bit of reality going on. The people I'm talking about, I think it's more like literally King Triton at the end of The Little Mermaid because they see like the toughest man alive. Yeah. Which. Yeah. Newsflash, folks. So. Not the case.

That is half the electorate. And then the other half is people who hold like the most insane set of opinions just no consistency of just like well sure well everyone should have health care we need to do something about global warming we cannot get rid of the death penalty we need that our society will fall apart king triton says so yeah king triton says so trump is king triton uh so yeah yeah this is a fantastic picture of this gentleman let's leave him up as long as we can is there anything we have to say about this recent ride

this Abu Dhabi I'll say this it looks good it kind of does it's the first proper if you haven't seen a video it's the first actually fully committed like Kings Island one of these places had a dinky

something called fred flintstone splashdown but i don't think you got any robots on that thing but this is this is a boat ride it's a tame flume ride where you go to bedrock and there's um you know a screen it's like a there's a turntable where they spin the boat around and you see the iconic yabba-dabba-doo. The opening of Fred leaving work because he's like every American man. He hates work with a passion. Yeah, I think that opening goes a long way. I think people like the opening.

I think the opening glued in people's minds. I think the song is catchy. Oh, of course. Yes. Yeah, there's a lot I think that made the Simpsons so ubiquitous it is the

and the Flintstones and the Flintstones as well the Flintstones you were thinking of the fact that it was parodied on the Simpsons it was parodied

where Homer jumps out of the plant yeah Homer yeah hits a chestnut tree but the flintstones is like a ubiquitous reference that like tv networks and movie studios nowadays try to like generate out of nothing it's the iconography is so strong still with the flintstones which maybe goes to my point earlier like i don't know how many classic plots people might remember

but they didn't they know they love, but they know they love the opening. They know they love the characters. They like, yeah, the aesthetic of it, maybe. And again, we're going to be bombarded with all your letters. So sorry for people going to say you're wrong. There's like 10 classic Flintstone episodes. And there's also like the little nuggets of like if you walk up to people in the street and you go 10 million strong. Like, well, they say it's growing.

Yeah, yeah. Could those vitamins be good for you? I don't know. We had them growing up. I mean, I guess they probably have to pass some test, but who knows. I kind of like the taste of those. Maybe I'll make a cheesecake with ground up Flintstone vitamins. Oh, delicious. I love Flintstone vitamins. Oh, delicious.

I love Flintstone vitamins. I remember when they added, was it Bam Bam to the vitamins? They added a character in the 90s, and you may as well have thrown me an extra birthday that year. That's how excited I was. Whoa. I remember that. I should see, because they added, say it was Bam Bam, because it did bother me that all the characters were not eatable because I wanted to eat all the characters. I want to eat all my friends.

Because it was fun taking a vitamin every day when you would eat one of the Flintstones. You could pretend you were the biggest dinosaur chewing all of these cavemen and ending their lives. Did they have to have a meeting where like well can we put Bam Bam in there? Wouldn't the kids expect him to be like hitting stuff

with his club? Bad influence. Yeah. Bam Bam kind in there? Wouldn't the kids expect him to be like hitting stuff with his club? Bad influence. Yeah. Bam Bam kind of a- If we take the weapon away- A precursor to dinosaurs, to baby, what's his face? From Not the Mama. Baby dinosaur? Baby Sinclair?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. Baby Sinclair, you're right. Baby Sinclair. All right. I was wrong about what happened. Okay.

This is a travesty. All right. Well, let's cut the letter off at the pass. So this is going to be- All right. I was wrong about what happened. Okay. This is a travesty. All right. Well, let's cut the letter off at the pass. So this is going to be... All right. Move. We're going to edit this into the front of the episode because it's so important. The vitamins are widely available.

They were the shapes of Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Barney, Betty, Bam Bam, Rebel, Dino, and the Great Gazoo. For over 20 years, Betty was not included as one of the vitamins. Betty? That's weird. However, after a grassroots campaign and the results of a Bayer telephone poll came in favor of including Betty, the character was added to the lineup in 1995, replacing what? The Flintstones car.

They did the car and not Betty. The car was over Betty. Jesus. Come on. Wow. Betty's like a main character. Was this the Stone Age When all this happened?

It really is Shocking How did we live like this? But does Does the car get more screen time Than Betty? I don't know I feel like Betty's in episodes

She's in a good amount of episodes I feel like they got a lot of mileage Wait she's in every What do you mean? But Here's the letters Betty's in every episode Of the Flintstones.

How many minutes does the car get versus Betty gets? No, she's in more than the car. This is an insane argument. But people know the car from the car. That goes a lot of the time. Here's the thing. I haven't watched a Flintstones episode in 100 years. But I don't think there's just scenes with the shots of the car in the driveway.

The car is in the credits. Over cool guitar. But you went out of your way to talk about the ribs knocking over the car. What Betty specific memories have you brought up? Her and Wilma. You're in the midst of making an anti-Betty. I'm not making anti-Betty. He's not saying he doesn't want Betty in the vitamins.

He's trying to make it. I liked Betty. I was a Betty fan. We are Betty. We're all Betty fans. Jason is trying to say that perhaps the car is a more popular character than Betty in the original Fun Stuff show. I'm saying back in the day they may have given her

more screen time. I don't think the car I think the car, Betty was more in the show than the car was. But people remember the car. Yeah, but I think people remember Betty Rubble as well. Tell me some qualities of betty rubble she's nice nice okay she's nice she's nice what's the quality of the car and what's what's the quality of wilma name one of those dim dim and what uh the car uh isn't

balanced well clearly or it shouldn't be used at car hops. That's a rib problem, not a car problem. Look, what is Fred and Barney? What are their qualities? Dumb? They're both dumb. Wilma and Betty are smarter. I know how they believe what a cigarette should taste like.

There's another very funny commercial. Appreciation of fine cigarettes. That's a quality. Is there a Bechdel test that is about vitamins, is about children's vitamins, where women are well-represented in vitamins? I would say, well, most vitamins do not represent women at all. They're just plain pills.

That's a good point. That don't represent men either, but that's not the issue. I'm fighting for women to be, all vitamins to be women-shaped. It is crazy, and I will say, all kidding aside, it is sexist that Betty wasn't a vitamin. It absolutely is. Over the car? That's crazy. Is there another vitamin that has characters on it?

There has to be, right? Surely, at this point. I mean, at this point, there's gummies, but not from our childhood. I feel like Flintstones was the only... What if this is industry-wide? There's Disney vitamins and there's no mini. There's superhero vitamins

with no Wonder Woman. Because the whole... And I think it's a little bit different now, but in the old days when we were buying toys, and I'm sure I've talked about this before,

is that the female characters were not well represented. They weren't treated respectfully. Because the philosophy was, well, these are boys' toys and boys don't like the female characters were not well represented. They weren't treated respectfully. Because the philosophy was, well, these are boys' toys, and boys don't like the female characters, which not really true. It's just another, like, so they would be very hard to find in the cases. So I'm guessing it's the same, like, sort of philosophy of, like, you know,

a little boy's going to want to chew on a car more than Betty, you know? And we need them to grow. We need them to be strong to be strong and growing. Like our song says, and if there's, if they're throwing all those Betty's in the trash, they're there. We're going to have an entire generation of stunted growth boys. Also, what's crazy about it is they couldn't just add Betty. They had to take one out.

Yeah. What was removed again? The car. That was a switch out. Okay. Okay. So like, why didn't they just add one? Or it's like there was a giant apparatus that you'd see in a Mr. Rogers video that would make each vitamin.

And they were like, we don't have room for another one. So we got to just get rid of the car. The pure unit cost of like the extra five cents per bottle multiplied by however many million. Right. And also you said they had the great Gazoo. Gazoo over Betty. A one season character that a lot of people didn't like so i memory hold it in a in a way where like bam bam because it was a member of betty's family and that made more sense to me i didn't even remember kazoo was in the light you

had to do that to grapple with how this could have even occurred betty would not be in the you were a completist even as a child. You wanted each full family unit. Of course. Yeah, yeah. You wanted the full nuclear family, both nuclear families. And I also wanted to eat Mr. Slate, but that never happened. Although I guess it still could happen. What happened with Betty?

A Bayer telephone poll came in favor of Betty. Bayer the company. It wasn't a bear didn't conduct a um so those resulting in ads that say betty's here which what if this was and this was until 95 so we were all yeah so i do remember them adding a character and it was betty it was not bam bam but i was excited because it was a big oversight. It was weird. And I remember feeling it was weird that everybody wasn't on the vitamins. Yeah. We just gave up on the vitamins at a certain point.

I have – I say recently. I kind of do now. In the last five years, I have bought Flintstone vitamins and had them instead of my regular multivitamins. Is that right? Yeah. It just wasn't so fun.

It's fun. If you compare the – How does that taste? How does that hold up? Oh, they're fantastic. Yeah. They still taste – they're delicious. I remember some – I kind of liked them, yeah. It's fun. If you compare the taste, how does that hold up? They're fantastic. They still taste. They're delicious. I remember some.

I kind of liked them, yeah. It's kind of like a grape and then a slightly different grape and then maybe a darker grape. It's like cherry orange grape. It's the fundamentals of popsicle flavors that we grew up with. Those three flavors. You start the day eating a little treat, a little piece of candy. It's like why gummy vitamins are fun. Yes, and I wish I buy sometimes as well.

I have them right now. I go back and forth between adult flavorless things and then I'll do a gummy once in a while. Are some of those gummies female? These are all just little blobs. These actually do have a little coat of sugar on them.'m thinking about it i guess we have to assume that some of

them are because if gummy bears are able to reproduce and repopulate then like the spider robots on on the oh yeah well that's a that's a non-sexual type of republic population i guess yeah so so you're so maybe gummy bears create themselves that's very yeah in which the gummy bears don't have sex right uh uh so so what were we talking about uh what's that they have gummy flintstone vitamins yes i've seen this yeah but are they characters uh that's a good question yeah so we'll do a whole we'll do a whole gummy oh vitamins we'll start your omakase

tastings we will give you a vitamin course so you can sample I know we're still recording right the tape didn't run out because I remember I just opened this up and I remember when they introduced the new Flintstone vitamins extra C with immunity support I remember this orange box and I remember when they introduced the new Flintstone vitamins extra C with immunity support.

I remember this orange box and I'll show this. Why do you remember that? Because I remember I was very. I like that close up on Jason's. Look at that rack focus. Look at that. That's a great shot. I could see your watch too.

That's great. Jason, you remember this? Yeah. So I was heavily. Wait a minute. Yeah. What are you talking about? You remember when the box changed

to be about no no it was a different version it was a different version says yeah wait a minute you when did this why do you remember this i i just remember like going we went to this the grocery store and we go oh there's a new colored box for flintstone vitamins and they have a lot of different of course jason's even like worrying something else. He's like, yeah, yeah, shut up. I got other shit to do. You remember when the box colored changed? Yes, yes, I do. Well, I'm looking at all, they got multiple boxes, bottles.

Like, oh, elderberry gummies. What is that? I still don't understand why you were so excited about that that you're like, here, let me get in different camera angles to show you that now it's orange. Because I realized that the thing, okay, earlier, I'm going to amend my list. I'm going to put Flintstone Vitamins number one, actually. This is clearly, because apparently this fucking box

is the most excited I've seen you in months. I'm unlucky. It's the first time I felt... Look at the color! It's the first time I felt... Let me get in all the cameras! It's the first time I felt anything maybe pre-pandemic, before pre-pandemic.

I still don't think I understand. Wait, wait, wait. Say it one more time. What's up with this box that was so interesting? Okay, there was a new Flintstone Vitamins, which had immunity, like vitamin C, extra vitamin C. And I remember going in the aisle, because I think the regular box,

maybe it was a little more red. Yeah, it was like this. This was more the color of it. Red. And then there was like one with, and I remember when we started buying Flintstones with immunity support. And I remember in the same way that they talk about,

you know, like you were looking like a kid in the 70s is looking at like Ziggy Stardust. He's staring at the album cover. I remember just like the image of this orange Flintstones plus immunity support box with extra vitamin C. I remember it so well and vividly. And maybe it wasn't exactly the thing I'm looking here, but it was similar to this. Is it the color?

It was the idea that you wanted the immunity support? I wanted, but I was like this with any food that was character. This is like a new flavor. This is a sequel. It's Flintstones vitamins too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, we just, I just came upon, there was a cereal that was a comic strip cereal. I don't know if you guys remember this.

Anything with characters, I was just enamored with different colors. Product art and like vitamin art was not that dissimilar from like toy art. Yes. So in the same, yeah, in the same way you get, you know, you get in your room, you look at the liner notes of an album. I just took that Flintstones vitamin C box and I looked at it. I was like, oh, wow, this is so cool. And read every like – I'm eating –

Xenathine, ripohynocorathine. Wow. Wow. This man has so many vitamins to explore. It's like an almost famous movie to be made about me and like eating like ninja turtle cereal and flintstone vitamins this is what i'm talking about and i i remember before we started here today i was like oh you know we probably could do a real like concise episode about flintstones but no hell no uh here's a picture of morning funny cereal which we absolutely had

a box of so there which family circus is one of them yes so cliff is one of them it's basically like there's a comic strip on the front and it's Beetle Bailey and High and Lowest and Dennis the Menace. And it's basically just looks like some version of tricks. Mm hmm. And there it is right there for you. You've made the audience. They're all one person who you're showing shit to on your phone. That's a.

Yes, that's what it is. And that's what the whole podcast. Exactly. In general. So. So, yeah, all that stuff. Just as a kid, they could easily trick you with packaging and everything. That being said, the Abu Dhabi Flintstones ride, I think, is good.

I think the robots maybe can move a little bit more, but it's a nice long ride. I think they've got references to the show. There's like a Beatles parody at the end of it. And I feel like they that's the close thing to it being right. I don't think anyone will ever do a better, unless Flintstones has a crazy resurgence in popularity. I feel like that is kind

of maybe the ultimate Flintstones ride in a lot of ways. I think so. But however, you lost me. Because now I'm trying to find, has anyone ever posted, I'm like, what do I search for? Flintstones Immunity Support, new! Flintstones Immunity Support, new. Flintstones Immunity Support, excited. Childhood memory.

I don't know what to find. Am I setting myself up for another? You never know with these things. Either this is very singular, although not, because it's both of you, or again, I am the, Scott, you know that when the new box with the orange was there that it was important. I think people will remember that box. I don't think Jason was doing it to troll.

But has anyone's voice ever raised about it? Which even Jason's did not, even in his quick agreement. To be fair, though, he was busy with something else. So he didn't give his full energy to it. I was just making sure they are still appear to have all eight okay good yeah two families you know i'm not putting you down for nothing i'm just saying that maybe if you had scott's full attention you would have raised your voice in excitement when he asked you do you remember the orange you would have like gotten up and started doing gingham style well tv was kind of a third parent

i not that my parents were neglectful but I just watched a lot of TV. Yeah, sure. And I did not. And that's why you were excited about the commercials. You wanted to eat them. Huh? You watched TV and you wanted to eat them. That's what I was feeling.

I wanted to consume them. I needed a little snack in the morning. I need a little sweet treat because there wasn't enough sugar in the orange juice, the 2% milk, and the cookie checks. Okay. Look, I've never been more curious. Sure. This is an important memory for anyone else is the switch from Flintstones vitamins to Flintstones vitamins. Not a switch, just a new version.

Yeah, new. Malibu Stacy has a new hat. It worked on us. If you remember when that happened, yeah, please let us know. People tearfully, like, the immunity support helped me survive. Yeah. Bird flu. You're right.

Mad cow. Who knows in the 90s what. I have also never noticed a difference in how I feel when I take a multivitamin. B12, I feel a little energy. This is the whole issue with vitamins in general. It's like, well, what is it doing? Yeah. You know what I mean?

Like, it's like zinc. You're supposed to take zinc if you feel like you have a cold coming on or an illness. Which I accidentally took once on an empty stomach. Oh, big mistake. And I immediately vomited. Yeah, yeah. No, big mistake. Don't do that.

But supposedly zinc, there's some evidence that it helps. But ultimately, you'll never know. You take a zinc, you go to bed. Maybe it would have, you'll never literally know. Yeah. Other than just having, the only time you'll know is like if you take a blood test and they go, you need more vitamin D or, you know, whatever. Then you can, like, there's a measurable thing. But ultimately, yeah, it's not like you take a vitamin in the morning and you go like, oh, I'm on my way to work.

I feel great. Well, you're both ruining our eventual business of Podcast the Ride supplements. Oh, man. Oh, sure. We could make that happen. Yeah, yeah. That's what we're saying.

We wanted to come up with something that does do something. And all of the pills are shaped like different female characters that we admire. Yes. There's not one male character in there. Certainly not a car.

Jean Grey, Aurora Monroe, all the X-Men, the women from the X-Men. They're fictional. It's a lot male character in there. Certainly not a car. Jean Grey, Aurora Monroe, Julie Aitken, the women from the X-Men. They're fictional women. Shelter Chase Meridian is my main pick. If we all have to draft famous women to be in our vitamins, Chase Meridian's my number one.

Just staring, Mike, just staring at the Chase Meridian adverts in the newspaper and the chicago sun times hey but not hearing sexy sex no sexy it's a pure love it's not a pure respectful that yes there's nothing untoward um guys you survived podcast the ride we've been talking about vitamins for 45 a lot of it was a vitamin enough where we have to change the name of the episode we'll discuss that uh down the road but in the meantime you can find us on all the socials at podcast the ride merch is available in our t public store for three bonus episodes every month check out podcast the ride the second gate at patreon.com slash podcast the ride and guess what there's a new we have a new new tier immunity

support no it's as exciting as a change of a color on a box because we have a new patreon tier club three where you get one more bonus episode uh every month plus our main feed episodes ad free and again that's all available at patreon.com slash podcast the ride as will yeah podcast the rides unlicensed supplement supplements with unlicensed female characters who we right um yes that's true there'll be a lot of fun stuff there real quick i wanted to add right before we got here today i thought you know there i want people to imagine like you know any of these episodes there's infinite you know there's infinite amount of uh universes there's an infinite amount of ways things can go and i just want to people now to imagine if you're if you've a long time listener

of the podcast imagine if this episode like there was a fourth character and it was like the great uh bug zoo who was here with us oh and i just thought of it before coming here so we didn't even so i i'm not saying it has to happen in the future but there is a universe where it did happen well he should, the great bug zoo should probably pop up in a non Flintstones episode sure, yeah, it's possible

yeah, like just imagine if that had happened during this whole episode, I don't know what would have happened then we can call it a square for all the new Club 3 members who were like, you guys should watch Escape from Tomorrow. Whose cereal did I shit in that I got that curse?

Well. They want it. They want it. We aim to please. Yeah. Alright. So great, Bugzoo. Who should have thought of it? 9-11 released his own from the dim dim yeah

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