Podcast: The Ride - Foxland, Trumpland, Cadaverland

Episode Date: January 12, 2018

A news roundup of bizarre recent theme park happenings, including the arrival of the Trump robot and cadaver tests at the Yacht and Beach Club. Plus, we celebrate Disney's purchase of Fox by building our ideal Fox Land. Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/ FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warning. Today's podcast may include surprise appearances by the Capitol Critters and Fish Police, fanciful funalysis of ad hoc cadaver surgery in hotel ballrooms, and a roundup of theme park news, including the Donald Trump robot and Disney's purchase of Fox. Stay seated and refrain from protests. This is Podcast the Ride. Hello everyone, welcome to Podcast the Ride, the podcast about theme parks hosted by three men who have had fewer sexual partners than there are Disney theme parks. Correct me if the numbers are wrong. Gee whiz, no they're not. Jack's with me. I'm not adding a lot to that pile, but there's also a lot of Disney theme parks, and are you counting water parks? We can discuss all that. We'll cross-check numbers later.

Anyway, hey, I'm joined by Jason Sheridan. Hello. And Mike Carson. I also said hi to Jason's name. Sorry, I was really counting numbers in my head. But they're very low, so I was really thrown off. Can you guess at home? Let us know.

Hey, well, this is, though we've released new episodes in 2018, this is the first one that we're recording in 2018. And also, we've tended to do a lot of episodes that are recorded well before they come out. And this is the first one where we're putting it out the week of. And we felt this was very necessary because theme park news has been just bonkers lately. There's so much to catch up on. December and the beginnings of January have just been absolutely batshit, and we wanted to tell you all about it. And not necessarily good news.

Yeah, yeah, in fact, a lot of it not. But it's definitely happened. Yeah. Hey, I mean, among other things, this is only tangentially theme park news, but our podcast network fell apart. There's one thing that happened on Christmas Day. Yeah, that was great to deal with over the holidays in my PJs. We had a blast, you know, because going indie is, you know, there's just a real thrill to getting back into the grime and the muck.

And, you know, being freed up, I think, has been a real pleasure for all of us and a fun thing to deal with over Christmas. I think we're a bunch of podcast cowboys now, and that's the way I'm looking at it, just going from town to town. We'll record anywhere. We're doing this in my living room.

There's a dog floating around. You may hear him on the track. I don't know. He's probably going to wander in here and bark at me. Yes, we got your letters, and finally we now have what you've all been clamoring for. More talk about the

logistics of recording a podcast, baby. Yeah, so we're talking more referencing trucks that go by, sirens outside, humming and construction work at nearby apartment complexes. We're bringing you all of that new for 2018.

Finally, we get to do all the technical stuff that we spent months trying to get with a network to avoid having to do. Yeah. So I guess we'll say, look, Hey, if you have a network out there,

Hey, let us know. I mean, we're listening to any network. If you have a theme park specific network, there could be one. There could be one that we don't even know about that wants to, you know, we're listening to any network. If you have a theme park specific network, there could be one. There could be one that we don't even know about that wants to, you know, take us and put us under your delightful wing. Is your wing warm?

Is your wing warm? Hey, but RIP Feral Audio and thanks for the snacks. Yeah, I sure did eat a lot of free snacks that I may not have supposed to have eaten. Too late. Can't sue you now. They don't exist. Hey, but anyway,

that among other things, just a crazy couple of weeks. I don't even need to tell you about most of these stories. I'm sure you know about most of them. We're talking about the outbreak of Legionnaire's disease at Disneyland. Two coolant towers had to be shut down to prevent the Legionnaire's outbreak. I don't think, they're not sure it came from Disneyland, but they're pretty sure. So, like, people just started getting sick in Anaheim, and then they traced

it back, and they're like, all these people with Legionnaire's disease all went to Disneyland. And they had to clean out two towers, then you know scott and i were there yesterday and so far i haven't contracted legionnaires disease i don't know what the symptoms are but if being in a in a great mood and feeling fine are the symptoms then i got them did you jason do you do you know what legionnaires symptoms are uh i don't know the symptoms, no. I think it's probably fever. It's the same symptoms as every other disease. Every other disease. You get a fever and you feel like crap.

Yeah, cough. Wasn't there, there was several years ago, this is very old news, but there was an outbreak that started from a kid who had not been vaxxed. That was measles? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a small child, yeah, that had not been vaxxed. That was measles? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a small child, yeah, that had not been vaccinated and went in Fantasyland. And if your kid had not been vaccinated, or you, you could go to Disneyland, touch the wheel at the teacups, and get measles. Wonderful.

It's a very touchy park in general. Everything the kids do is like, have fun. Jump around it. Touch it. Touch all the levers and buttons and doodads. And right in the middle of a state where people have some sometimes kooky ideas on child rearing. Anyway, Jenny McCarthy, great job.

This year's Rockin' Eve. Thanks for ringing it in. Fine work as always. Blood on your hands. I will not allow the innocent Disney company to take the blame. It's all Jenny. What else happened? There was also a blackout at Disneyland that took out all of Toontown,

a lot of Fantasyland, left people stranded. It's a small world for a number of hours. Also notable, it happened on the day both teams playing in the rose bowl were there oh i didn't know that yeah so like and in addition to like wasn't it the 26th or it was christmas week it was a big crowd day already and then there was another thing going on and then the blackout and people And people had to walk off, right? Yeah, I think there were some walk-offs and some rides, sure. Have we talked on the show yet about

walk-offs and what sort of a treasured thing it is? What a valued, yeah, if you get stuck in an attraction and then possibly the hope of seeing some backdoor weird alleyway part of the attraction that people don't otherwise get to see, That's pretty exciting.

Like if it was a walk-off and you were on Pirates, the dream would be like you'd have to get off the boat in the town. Like that would be a dream to get to go up close and see the horrible Pirates. Yeah, to like pass right by one, get to plant a kiss on one. I'm sure that's not allowed. But all bets are off yeah things close uh yeah anything where you'd have to like uh uh you know straddle water or like you know uh do do some absolutely jump yeah that'd be so so the blackout was bad but it was good for those folks that probably got to walk through a few of the attractions ah yes if it happened to

you and you're listening, let us know. Tell us your tale. Share any photos. Share any kisses you planted on robots. Tell us all the sultry details. That treat is like the opposite of what happened to me when I went down to the park in mid-December and a woman kept holding up her giant dumbass phone to try to take a picture during the ride. Space Mountain,

a pitch black ride, trying to get pictures in a pitch black ride. And I'm scared to death, like, I'm going to get a concussion when that giant Android phone flies out of her hand and right up my head. And then as we pulled back into the station, she went, wow, it sure was dark in there,

like a cartoon character you would have been like fabio and the bird but a phone that would have been a fucking bird it would have bloodied your nose a lot well yeah just lodged straight into your head just a corner wedged in there and then we still do the podcast with you but it makes very little sense yeah that's concussion ramblings that was i did not wait at all i walked right on to space mountain because i used the single riders line at the space mountain disneyland another piece of story oh boy that i i are they still doing it uh are they not was that i forgot to check we didn't even go on space mountain it was very uh ad hoc when i was there a lot of

folding signs and like back back oh went through a back alleyway I hadn't seen before. Oh yeah, there you go. Splash Mountain 2 is like that where it was not intended. They don't have a special single rider. You just kind of go through the exit and then they just plop you next to somebody. Yeah. So yeah, another exciting thing that happened while we were gone. Changes.

They're shutting down. Mike and I went yesterday to bid farewell to Paradise Pier at California Adventure, which is set to become Pixar Pier, which I'm sure will change everything. You'll hear all of the earth-shattering details here on the show. Yeah, what actually happens there? The California Screamin' turns into the Incredicoaster. They put some stuff.

It looks like they're going to put some characters on it. So you'll go through a tube and Mrs. Incredible is stretching. So there'll be something, but it's the exact same ride. There's going to be no change to what you're feeling. But there'll be a few nice... There'll be nice paint. There'll be new

paint. They're going to make the Cove Bar into something like Frozone's Bar's bar we came up with a good yesterday we came up with a good retheming for the cove bar which is over on a paradise pier uh uh theme it to the up or no up jesus frame thema to wally's captain oh so it's a glutton place yeah so he likes it we assume he likes to drink so yeah so the Captain from Wally's bar. Voiced by Jeff Garland, the fat Wally guy with the little bones with the most authority, who I assume probably loves to eat and have a good time.

Sure. Yeah, yeah. So just big old food trays you just dip your head into. We need to get the Wally stuff into the park finally, because people want to see a giant trash pile that a robot collects. But this is a better version of it. So that was our blue sky yesterday. Sorry, by the way,

Jason wasn't there because his past is not good enough. I don't have the Saturdays, okay? I'm not throwing money around left and right like these two, you know. You can check out more frugal theme park texts on my uh upcoming uh podcast on our our own network by yeah theme parks on a budget the frugal uh the frugal rider i like this i want this maybe this is our Patreon side project. It's an exclusive.

I'm totally into the frugal rider. Only go to the parks on a Tuesday morning. I mean, it does roll. That's what I did. I got down there at like 8 in the morning on a Tuesday in December. You did do a Tuesday morning, right? Yeah, Tuesday or Wednesday morning. Did you hitchhike your way down there?

No. That would have been more pleasant than driving in you know that morning rush hour traffic but i wish i did ride like six rides by 10 in the morning like it's so that's the one time when people go like when is it not crowded and it's like uh before 10 a.m is pretty much your only guaranteed thing anymore. I think this would be really an ultimate tip, and one I don't encourage anyone to try, especially not yourself, but the real way to save money would be to get somebody to fly a helicopter over the park and then try to sneakily skydive down into the park.

Oh, sure. And you're skipping that admission altogether. Maybe see if you can land in the lake. That might be a softer. It's a shallow lake, though. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's true, depending on how high you're skipping that admission altogether maybe see if you can land in the lake that might be uh it's a shallow lake though oh yeah yeah that's true depending on how you're coming down from splash wise i think top of manor horn i would go with oh yeah yeah yeah it's yeah uh-huh and then you and then you're coming down and people think you're one of those mountains that's right people think oh the mountain climber is back but he's got a american apparel sweatshirt surely this is what would happen and not like

as soon as you're within a thousand feet you get shot down by disney snipers well somebody i don't know give it a shot see if you can hear somebody try to air drop into disneyland uh well it's not just in disney the world changes a foot everywhere. The Johnny Rockets at Universal CityWalk is closing. Heartbreaking news that I'm sure you're all really for. No, it's not actually. It's closing for a few weeks. Is it not? No, it's closing for a few weeks for a refurbishment.

It is a refurbishment closing. Okay, okay. I see. It's okay. It's going to be okay. So we saw different news stories in the theme park Twitter. I think they updated. What was the account?

Was it Inside Universal Twitter? Yeah, shout out to Inside Universal for catching that there were walls around it and then correcting that it was just being refurbished. Okay, thank God. Because this is no, folks, if you haven't been up there, if you're not Los Angeles natives, this is no ordinary Johnny Rockets. Why, it's 1.5 times the size it's a sprawling campus it used to be a daily grill all right here's the way that they reported so inside universal which is a twitter account that follows the universal news exclusively that the three of us all follow and no people personally involved that we know people personally so i guess. No people personally.

So I guess we're kind of, I'm sure they were doing their best. Jumping on the back of their scoop. Yeah, but here. So they tweeted, Johnny Rockets at Universal CityWalk Hollywood has closed. And that was when they put an article up about it. And then an hour later, Inside Universal has learned that the closure of Johnny Rockets is for refurbishment. The restaurant should open in a month. Okay. Oh, thank God.

So they retracted their story. What a start that gave me. They have been closing a lot at the City Walk in Hollywood and replacing it with either fast casual stuff, like your Smashburger, your Ludo Chicken, or slightly nicer stuff, I think, at some point is coming. But they still have a sock store they still have a store where you can purchase like socks yeah and a store where you

can buy the same garbage that you could buy on hollywood boulevard like uh statues that say best teacher yeah yeah uh uh myself and upcoming guest uh john daly John Daly had a pitch at the also defunct company CISO, RIP Farrell and CISO, and we went to City Walk beforehand because they were nearby each other, and we went to that store and bought shirts that say I Heart Hollywood so that we would be properly decorated for our pitch uh they were uh the shirts were met with a lot of forced grins and uh our show was not uh picked up but if it had been uh we still wouldn't be making it because he so is dead yeah so hey thanks store upstart crow is the name of i was just going through my receipts for tax purposes. That shirt was a business write-off.

It was for a meeting. So I now know it was the Upstart Crow. Thank you for helping the pitch. Yeah, you're helping keep them in business, basically. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We're legitimizing it, and I encourage everyone to go there. So, yeah.

Oh, you know what else you can get there are like what you can buy um license uh driver's licenses for oh right like mclovin or elvis presley or marilyn monroe dr evil and there's a bizarre like some of them like there's a space for occupation. And in the case of Dr. Evil, it's like mad genius. But in the case of Beyonce, it's like single ladies. There's no consistency to what the occupations are. So I will try the upstart crow for that. My memory is that half of it is also just Betty Boop merchandise. Is that wrong? Yeah, that sounds right.

There's just a lot just Betty Boop merchandise. Is that wrong? Yeah, that sounds right. There's just a lot of Betty Boop merchandise. I mean, a lot of those generic Hollywood souvenir stores are Betty Boop and James Dean and Marilyn. Mm-hmm. Maybe the easiest license to get, possibly. That might just be floating out there. Well, but so, lots of stories, but there's another tiny one that we should probably fit a little bit of time of the podcast to talk about,

which is the arrival of Donald J. Trump into the Hall of Presidents. Are we doing that one first? Oh, we could. Wait, wait, wait. Are we doing the... Well, I just don't want the... Well, we can hit the cadavers as well. Which order? don't want the uh well we we can we can hit the cadavers as well uh which order uh uh i i think let's do cadavers okay okay trump teaser but cadavers i want to take the lead on this okay

okay so uh uh this is one that i feel like a lot of theme park news sites did not pick up on uh but scott oh yes i was aware of this because of matt wyatt's uh a friend of the podcast thank you matt uh uh sent sent this to scott and this is part of a reuter series called the body trade cashing in on the dead uh uh and i have some of it in front of me uh the summary of this this series this is part six cadavers in the ballroom doctors practice their craft in america's favorite hotels big names in hospitality have a little known sideline they rent space to physicians who drain on cadavers and body parts there is scant regulation and some public health specialists warm up of biosafety risks so uh this is the opening of the article and i think you'll quickly see why we're talking about it just outside the operating theater the organizers of a medical conference

wore mini mouse ears inside as doctors practiced on three cadavers blood from one of the human specimens seeped through a layer of wrapping i guess we should have had a wording before that they leak a lab technician's set of the bodies this session so mouse ears blood leaking already in this story um the sessions held last month attended by a reuters reporter weren't at a hospital or medical school they were part of a so-called cadaver lab it was one of scores of such events over the past six years that have been held at a hotel or its convention center and now here it comes in this case doctors practice nerve root blocks and other procedures on cadavers in one of the grand harbor ballroom salons at disney's yacht and Beach Club Resort Convention Center. That's right.

There's the twist. A cadaver lab at the beautiful Yacht and Beach Club Resort. Yes, which if you haven't been down to Disney World, it's sort of the New England themed, very picturesque. One of my favorite hotels that I stayed at when I was a kid. Very upscale. Yeah, yeah. A deluxe resort, in fact, it is classified as. And the ballrooms where also just conventions

and weddings are held are also being used to take actual dead bodies and do tests and practice operations on them. Online, Disney refers to their ballrooms at this particular place as regal and resplendent. And offered no comment on this cadaver lab story. And so what's crazy to me is this resort just got like a top to bottom refurbishment. And it was already like one of the most expensive properties in Orlando. And knowing that just feet away from your room are just like bone pieces going flying.

Yeah. That was part of this article is that whatever tests and operations are being done, they do like put down plastic and sanitize the room to some extent. But also just, you know, surgeries are pretty wild and little bone pieces can go flying up and hit the ceiling and one of the concerns in the article was from people who think that this is uh you know it's it's it's basically like not these events are not really under the purview of uh uh health code regulations health code uh also like any convention people forget to shut doors so i think the reporter was like i was standing outside in the hallway which was a public access hallway and i could see a corpse like this is crazy disney doesn't need this money from cadaver labs like there's so many hotels in orlando and there's so much convention space also, this is a very weird part of like,

these bodies come from like after they, you know, organ donors or if you donate your body to science and after they're done with it, they're like, well, does someone else want to turn with this body? Like, it's the dark. You end up going to Disney World. The phrase body brokers was used in this article. Yeah.

So you go to a body broker and you you get a body for whatever you want oh my god there's a horrifying thing i think in the same article that said the reuters reporter witnessed one participant who was operating on this dead body because that's what it's for they're trying to learn how to operate yeah or test out new like yes medical devices that are for sale. One of the people that was operating just had a handful of blood, and he was trying to wash, and there's no sink in a lot of these places. You have to go to the bathroom. And he had to go arms outstretched out into the hallway, like covered in whatever.

I mean, I don't know. His blood still, depending on how old the cadaver is, I don't know what happens to blood after a while, but there's got to be some liquid. There's got to be still some liquid in these bodies and they have to be kept fresh. So yeah, you could be walking through with your family and there's a young medical student just dripping with like goo. A kid who was like, you know, the Snow White ride was too scary for me. I don't want to go on that again.

Oh, that's okay, honey. You don't have to. Quick, get me to a bathroom. I need to be sanitized. Just blood dripping off of guys. As he walks by, goofy and yacht captain attire. Yeah, the other features of this hotel are a big pool area with a water slide that comes out of a shipwreck called storm along Bay and a snack stand called beaches and cream. Hugely popular.

Both of these things, hugely popular among Disney loyalists. Steps away, blood and bone exposed. I imagine that it's like you're eating at beaches and cream and just think of the scene in the ghost and ghostbusters too. When they come from the sewer covered in goo and they interrupt Bill Murray who's eating there

and they're getting goo over all these rich fancy people that's exactly what happens at Beaches and Cream when you're trying to eat one of the kitchen sink floats which is their like $50 giant mess of ice cream you know what I'm talking about yeah you can only assume also with the New England theming that someone there speaks in that tycoon oh well my heavens i never praise this for five hundred dollars a night um yeah i really insane also the fact that see the so uh just to give the the body brokers credit the bodies in this operation are screened for hiv and hepatitis but there's certain things that you can't really pre-track, like tuberculosis. So there could be tuberculosis-filled bones flying around this room. And also, as the article points out, a little piece of bone

ends up in a carpet that they didn't put plastic down on. And then in two days, there's a wedding there, and there's a one-year-old crawling around on the floor who's like you know nobody's nobody has eyes on and it's like you know he's like licking the carpet or something i'm describing a very grim scene this is what this is why uh this article was written it's why people are concerned and yeah and it's it's i don't know i mean it's another just insane branch of health care in our country this is another insane dark side story to how america deals with health stuff um but like it's crazy to me that like disney i mean they must have known when they're booking these events like someone's gonna someone's gonna someone's gonna find out about this at some point but like

i really haven't seen much uproar about it so we might be helping break this oh yeah yeah in the theme park world but aren't reading uh the reuters website all the time yeah yeah i'm not too constantly on reuters uh just once in a while but But yeah, maybe though Disney, maybe the body brokers have a little situation, a little backdoor situation with Disney, and maybe Disney has needs for before dead bodies. Maybe you're like, you know, that's the correct amount of weight to test roller coasters with, or I don't know.

There's no other way to do that. Yeah, yeah. How else could you? Weighted sacks of sand couldn't do the same's no other way to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How else? How else could you? Wait, it's sewing together. Sand couldn't do the same job. No, no, no. Well, look, you'd have to like stack them up and make a you have to make sand arms and legs.

Who knows if that's complicated? Why not just go straight to the source? And I think they need the bodies because they need to refresh the skeletons on the Pirates of the Caribbean every once in a while. So what other way are they going to get those? There's no way to make a fake skeleton. And it's expensive. It's expensive.

Yeah, you can, but it's like $500,000 for a fake skeleton. Michael, that sounds like mere tomfoolery to me. No, I'm being highly serious. Well, I think there is one recent audio animatronic that very likely may be a reanimated corpse, which is the new animatronic of Donald J. Trump in the Hall of Presidents. Yeah, here we go. Walt Disney World.

Now that we got the cadavers out of the way, we can get on to this. Cut to the chase. I mean, look, this is a story that's been out there a bunch already if you're listening to this podcast i can only assume that you've seen photos perhaps a number of photos of the uh of the glorious uh trump bot but uh anyway it was they they snuck it in very uh just under the white maybe thinking that uh you slide it into the holiday season people don't really pay attention People's trips are pre-booked

and families are there and they don't attract a lot of trouble. I was just always, I was wondering if this was ever going to open. I can't believe it did in 2017. And suddenly one day it happened and we dropped everything and we had a little emergency session

of what to tweet about it. We had our own tweet store going. It was our little The Post style. All right, what do we do? Roll your sleeves up, gentlemen. But it's there. Trump's there, and he's making his speeches and waving his hands around every day.

Trump's there, looks ugly as sin. Donald John Trump, as he says. I am Donald John Trump. By the way, and I think people have mentioned something like this, but I haven't seen anyone say His name is Don John The same as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character In the movie Don John

He's like, I like to eat things My women, my cars, my porn I like lifting weights And I like porno And that's Don John But that's the same name Donald Trump is Don John You never hear the John It's only Jay Don John, but that's the same name. Donald Trump is Don John. I know.

Yeah, you never hear the John. It's only J. And he says it on the ride or during the show. Donald John Trump. So, I mean, a lot of people have seen the character, and we only have audio here. It's hard to describe,'s it's grotesque certainly incredibly insulted i mean it looks it technically it's a good life another

generation of lifelike animatronics but it really really makes him look like shit yeah and the speech he gives is probably the most coherent speech donald trump has ever given probably because it wasn't written by one of the fucking white supremacist speech writers he has on stand when it wasn't written off the just the top of his dome it wasn't just coming off his dough yeah imagine yours wrote like a pretty safe uh spiel about america oh jason let me correct you though steve bannon didn't really have anything to do with the presidency that's that's come oh is that what we're going with no no no yeah he had very he was a yeah he was he was a coffee boy basically he was an overblown he was he was there he was in the room but i think he was just fetching people snacks so just to correct your oh you're right yeah sloppy i forgot so he is sloppy yeah sloppy i think he was probably going

to get people coffees and tripped and fell and that's why he's now he's sloppy steve um yeah god yeah the the speech it's uh i mean i don't not not to just read it i'm trying to remember i mean the part the part that i noted and have written down is specifically the line being american is to be an optimist yes that's what i was going to say too yeah because i don't think he's ever he's he is not an optimistic man. No, no. I put that side by side to another pre-written speech of a rare pre-written speech of his, which is from his inauguration address. Rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. Though I guess that's him describing the past and the optimist in him is saying no more and i uh after the last year yeah no more of those factories he scrubbed them all up

that rust rust be gone that was apparently a thing revealed in that what is that book that everyone's going nuts on the fury the fire and the fury just released yeah this that inauguration address was supposed to be like a rousing victory cry. But because like Trump is such a grumpy Gus and he looked so unhappy. It like he came out as like just a just a horrifying like. Oh, well, and it was the weather was the weather was atrocious. No one was there. That too. No weather was horrible. The weather was atrocious. Many people were sad. No one was there.

That too. No one was watching. But people seemed like they were lining up for this all of presidents. And why not? Why not watch the train wreck? Why not check it out? Oh, yeah. Well, the day that it broke on Twitter, I was very excited.

We did all just have to drop everything. We were texting each other and refreshing Twitter every two minutes. Because imagine being in the park when that happens. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, it's happening. With no announcement, we can be the first in this audience. Yeah, for sure. Friend of the podcast, Bugsy the Gangster, as he is canonically known on our podcast.

I don't know that I'd call him a friend after the way he threatened us. Go easy on our podcast. I don't know that I'd call him a friend after the way he threatened us. Go easy on Bugsy. I loved his skeleton dance, his graveyard dance. But yeah, he's a skeleton now. So Bugsy Bones was there, presumably for a cadaver operation at the art club. Checking in on some of his buddies from Sing Sing.

I know him. I was in Sing Sing with him. He was there. He happened to be there on a pre-books trip like a week out. And like a lot of MAGA hats, he said. A lot of folks very excited to go represent and check out their guy. And he alerted me to two things. I mean, everybody can watch video of the attraction if you haven't already. It's this odd stiff speech that is pretty nothing other than the fact that it's not in line with how he talks otherwise. But this I would not know without Bugsy that when he, in the roll call when they get to Abraham Lincoln, he does this odd, like gestures to lincoln who's sitting pretty close

to him with kind of this attitude of like oh pretty good huh there he is there he is yay i haven't heard a lot of these other folks i don't know about no john tyler but uh hey link hey pretty good abraham lincoln classic best class act winner classic um but there's another thing that i haven't seen written up anywhere, which is almost odder than the gesture to Lincoln. And I'm going to turn the laptop and show you guys. Look up a video. If you look up close-up Trump and watch what Trump is doing for the entire roll call.

Because if you don't know, in the Hall of Presidents, they say the name of every president. There's robots of all of them. And right around the middle, they get to... Oh, I'm out of backtrack. Right around the middle, they get to Teddy Roosevelt. And just watch the video of this. Look what he does during Teddy Roosevelt. He kind of holds up his hand and starts counting.

There's some sort of fiddle with the fingers. I notice this too. I have this written down. He has his middle finger and his thumb and he like rubs them kind of together and it's this real odd. He only does it once. The robot does it once and I don't know if that's a thing Trump does. I'm confused by it. I don't.

Yeah. It's not. I'd be concerned if it were something. It's. I was concerned concerned if it were something. I was concerned it was going to be the OK sign. You know how the alt-right has adopted to be like, you know, a OK symbol, but it's not. Oh, is it some dog whistle or something? No, I can't imagine them putting that in there. Like, that's horrifying.

But it's not. It looks more like he's rubbing like when you know like hey you owe me money like when a mobster like rubs their fingers together like you owe them money it feels like there are a few other in addition to this subtle digs at him obviously just the way he looks but also like we were looking at close-up like video of of the other presidents who all have an odd look on their face and do like kind of slightly roll their eyes once in a while while he's talking yeah yeah and when we went back and my girlfriend and lindsey we went back and we looked at like the obama one and they don't seem to be moving their eyes at all when obama was speaking so there feels like there's some subtle

stuff also i noticed when watching that same video trump looks away when the other like so what they'll announce a president and everybody looks to all the robots look to the right trump will look to the left trump will look a different direction like and look like an idiot because they're all looking at one president except for him who kind of looks or like kind of looks bored or like looks over he's like kind of just staring into the ceiling yeah he's not focused on anything. And yeah, you can watch every single president goes hard right to hard left

and only he's just staring up. Yeah, I think he's bored. He does a very odd like thumbs up gesture at the end. That is so funny. If you haven't watched this whole video, at the very end when the music soars, his little hands and this like tiny gesture where he's just like giving the thumbs up like this he barely has his thumbs

up from his stomach like there's probably like six inches from his thumbs to his stomach and it's so funny i mean it's it's funny too they captured his dumb ass long tie and his stupid open jacket that his jacket is just always open. It's never buttoned. Yeah, he never talks like this and he never dresses like this. And I've never seen him in anything other than the, like, I'm sure he wears other ties, but I only know, like, big, bright red, long, long tie. Yeah, usually. And they dressed him up a bit. He's, I don't know, he's still one of the dumber looking ones on the stage, despite people being in, like, powdered wigs and frilly collars and 1800s clothes.

Disney really, you know, with this attraction, like, this is one of the ones that it's like, oh, you probably can't ever close it. Like, they painted themselves into a corner by, like, yeah, we have to add the current president. And then, like, in the 90s, it's like, and now the current president and then like in the 90s it's like and now the current president has to talk and like there's all these like artifacts in the lobby like they couldn't demolish this building because they would have to protect all these artifacts and then they'd have to destroy all these robots of like american heroes although that said if you look at them cumulatively it is a real hodgepodge of like rapists, sociopaths, outright racists, genocide committers, drone strike enthusiasts.

All the presidents is full of assholes. Full of outright maniacs. They don't, maybe they wouldn't deny that, though. It's not as if they're, say, these are the 45 greatest men that ever were. No, that's, No, that's. Yeah, that's true. But it's certainly. Yeah.

When you think about who's in there and what they've done. It's like, oh, there's Andrew Jackson, the butcher. Yeah, there he is. And he's looking at Trump, but he's like rolling his eyes. And you're like, hey, don't roll your eyes, Andrew Jackson. Yeah. Who do you think of the 45 presidents? And then let's just take like 45 random pirates

from Pirates of the Caribbean, who have done worse things? We'd have to make up the backstory of the pirates. Right. I mean, cumulatively, when you have the arm, when you have the might of the United States military at your head. Yeah.

All Jack Sparrow's got is a bottle of rum. And they also, a lot of the pirates seem nice. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. They are Disney-fied. The pirates are Disney-fied. The presidents, you cannot. No matter how much you wash away, you can't wash away those sins. I think it's possible somebody might buy one of those brides at that auction

and just take them out to some nice. Oh, yeah. They're very nice. Those guys are too goofy looking to have two bad intentions. They couldn't dream. Of course. Those pirates are just nice guys. They burn down the city.

Sure. But when it comes down to it, they just want to goof around. The Caribbean town carnage rusted out rusted out restaurants and if they ditch if they get rid of hall of presidents which i think they if they want to do it they have to get rid of it like in the in an election year probably like at the end of a president's tenure so no one accuses them of being bipartisan or saying before anyone's you're getting... Before anyone's running. Well, yeah. Yeah. While people are running, though, maybe.

Unless there's like a crazier guy than Trump. If by some bizarre stretch of the imagination, Trump is impeached and Pence gets in there, I could see them going, all right, you know what? If this is the way the presidency is going to be, if we're going to have to be changing these out every year and a half, then maybe we don't do this anymore. Also, if they have a replacement ready, if they're like, you can't tear down the Hall of Presidents,

well, it's the X-Men's mansion now. Okay, bulldoze it. Destroy it. Right and left can agree on that. We want to go to the danger room. You just put masks on all the existing ones. Willard Fillmore wolverine yeah strife yeah gotta get strife in there oh man that would be great if it was just a show

showing all the x-men like all of the x-men we're getting ahead of ourselves we should do this in the last segment yeah yeah we'll save the hall of x-men one last thing about the trump thing a hearty jeers to that one idiot who protested it to that one idiot who already in the lamest way possible like stood up when trump started talking and started yelling lock him up and it's like you see the picture of this guy and he's like the biggest dipshit looking white dude uh bill keep boho but he'd be looking white dude and then when reporters asked him like what do you say to the criticisms of like you kind of ruined a lot of people's uh fucking vacation or what like ruined people's day he's like these people should check their privilege said the man who paid money to go to disney world and yell lock him up he even i found

a bigger interview, and it's even one step beyond, which is that he was already going there with his family. Yeah, obviously. And he says, you know, because, hey, I couldn't afford it myself. Are you kidding? So he's being taken there by his family. Family.

He's on a parent-paid Disney World vacation yelling about check your privilege. Exactly. And like there's there were probably people in that room who like saved up for years or maybe this is the one time they get to go. Maybe there was like a family reunion and it's like come on

dude you're not changing enemies like shut up. Like go protest there's plenty of real things to go protest and go protest the president for real where he go like non Go protest the president for real. Where he go? Non-profits. But it's like, come on, man.

Most people are taking a nap during this ride. You probably just startled a lot of sleepy dads and kids and stuff. I feel like this whole time I've kind of been looking forward to maybe protests happening in that thing. And then it happened and I didn't like it. I just didn't like the way it went down. It's the worst version of it, too. I don't know what you can do other than hop on stage and try to steal the robot. Other than just trying to disrupt the show. I've said it several times, but I know that there's big old turkey legs right next to the Hall of Presidents.

I remember them specifically in the Liberty Square area and just nailing it real hard in the face. Yeah, I mean, that would be funny. That would be funny. That's true. There are funny ways to do this. I mean, you would feel a lot of nice Imagineers put a lot of time, but I think even they would have to go, oh, that was really funny that you cleanly took the head off

of the Trump robot with a turkey leg. They'd have to admire it. They would have to go, well, I get it. But aren't there rumors that there's security in these shows as well? Oh, maybe so. That they have plainclothes security officers? Yeah, I haven't heard of them. Well, there are spikes.

That we know. There's not like hard pointed spikes, but they did add like a layer. Little flourishes or little, they almost look like fleur-de-lis, but they look like they're made out of fucking balsa wood. Yeah, I don't think those are really dissuading anybody. They built a wall. They had to fill the wall. Yeah, they built a wall, alright. There's a thousand things

to say about this, but the other thing they seem to be doing to try to quell the potential outbursts is that they don't really provide a point for the booing to happen. This protester found one. He just started yelling, lock him up.

But as opposed to, I've watched now, just to make sure, I watched a video of the previous presidents who all actually gave speeches, Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama. And for sure, in all of the previous iterations, they say, ladies and gentlemen, the current president of the United States, blank. And I watched one of George W. Bush from 2009 where he gets a raucous applause. People are like, George W. Bush, yay!

It's huge for him. But they don't, so they kind of downplay that by having- Yeah, yeah. Still. Like January, when he was getting- Oh, right before, okay. I was watching the video of his last appearance. Oh, yeah, Before they closed.

Sending him out. I'm not sure. But so they sort of don't give you a boo point, which they've never done in a previous iteration of the ride. And they said they kind of get around it by having Washington make a little speech, which he also did for Obama. And then Trump says his own name as part of saying his own oath of office. It says like, and now we go to the present. That's all. That's all the narrator says. It doesn't, they don't announce the president.

Which they weirdly, they also did for Obama, but then they also say Morgan Freeman, who hightailed the fuck out of this riot as soon as Trump appeared. He says, ladies and gentlemen,ack hussein obama and they say hussein in it uh uh and uh i'm sure but there were boos for no bomb yeah yeah yeah absolutely that's why they've been worried about this thing is that they're ever since the president started talking and especially with bush and obama people have been like actively cheering or booing yeah but no one knows president baby man broke our brain so much no one knew how people would react to him because everything is chaos now everything is insane so like including our deer theme parks yeah including our dean but but you know this is

this we're all gonna forget he's in there soon enough i mean like you know what i'll say they did a good job. The fact that there's only been that one protest, I think that will dissuade other people from doing it. Yeah. Nothing else major. We didn't see anything else major. Real quick, I also think that the only one

of the only presidents Trump looks at is Nixon when they announced Nixon. Do they do that? I think we can look it up again. He looks at Nixon. The other thing also, they make a big... this has never been in a previous iteration, but they very specifically point out in the narration that it's really, it's more about the idea of a president.

They say this several times. Oh, goody. Once again, we place our trust in the idea of a president. This also, after a lot of, at the very beginning they mentioned walt disney a lot which i think is a way to say shut up nerds settle down walt wanted this yeah that's in the lobby too there's like a corner there's like here's james k polk's vest and here's lincoln's hat and here's a corner about walt disney our 47th president my president geez uh i yeah i think invoking him is this way like he would have wanted he loved american history even if it's not a guy you love don't you he belongs here

right guys he has to be here this was nixon when it opened what do do you want? Yeah. We'll show you a video of Nixon dedicating the monorail with Walt. They were buddies. You're going to complain now? He loved piece of shit conservative politicians. What are you going to do? It was Walt Disney. He'd be so happy about all this.

Not like Iger turning his back on that. Leaving the special evil council oh the special business council evil business council disney would have what would walt no that's all the councils have been disbanded by this yeah no more council by the way also another real quick thing although we okay let's talk for 45 more minutes there's a ton to say here but the uh i was very i got curious if there was a real any real um if there were any Google results for Donald Trump Disneyland before 2015, like before he was literally in the parks. Is there any association between Trump and Disney? speak of heads of Disney, Michael Eisner, actually, when Trump started campaigning, Michael Eisner said,

Trump expresses what a lot of people have in their unconscious, nightmarish thoughts. I don't think that style of insulting people, everybody you can insult should be representing our country. Michael Eisner, hard against Donald Trump, although he also made, his company made a giant deal with Sinclair Broadcasting, the right-wing fake local news syndicate

that John Oliver is frailed against. So Eisner talks the talk, maybe doesn't walk the walk. But the other, I think then I broadened the search to just Donald Trump theme park. And here's a fact I'd never heard. There's something called Steeplechase Park, which is a part of Coney Island. Oh, sure.

One of three zones of coney island and in 1965 this area this beloved seaside amusement park was bought and torn down by fred trump there it is wow pretty crazy old man fred trump the uh guy arrested at a kkk rally is that right in bro Brooklyn? Was he? Yeah, I feel like there's some weirdness in the family. Oh, there's some weirdness in the family? I feel like there's some weirdness in the family. Man, he hated it. I mean, for sure

he hated fun. He hated fun. He was like Art Carney from the Christmas special. He was a cartoonish old man who only liked business. He liked the day's business and he liked the klu klux klan he was another character so many characters have been based on donald trump in cinematic history maybe art carney's character from the disney spramps gramps was probably based on old fred trump yeah i think that's probably right oh an old man who destroyed an amusement

park he's a literal scooby-doo yeah really and they're and the end he ended up uh then like the the zoning for the area like didn't let them put up housing developments which is what he wanted to do so they just he sold it back to the city for a frustrated state three years later having torn down all the fun rides yeah crazy right so we the Trumps hate theme parks. Yeah. And look what they've done since. We're here. Now we're all mad and talking about our little escapist theme park podcast has now become all politicized because of the Trump family again.

But why don't we segue into something lighter? Absolutely. Possible antitrust media company marriages. The consolidation of all media. The consolidation of all media. Our final story that we have to talk about is, yes, is a horrible thing probably for everyone involved, media, news, everything.

The merger between Fox and Disney, or I guess Disney's buying Fox. What do they want to call it? It's not really a merger, I guess. Disney is buying the assets of 21st Century Fox, which is like the creative wing of the Fox company. Fox News. Fox, the broadcasting channel, is not going with them. Yeah, no.

But some of its shows are. Some of the shows are. Yes. The way television movies get made is insane to look at to normal people, and it's kind of complicated to explain. But there's studios, there's channels, there's production companies, there's... Yeah, and confusingly, Fox the studio is not necessarily affiliated with Fox the channel. Right. Very confusing.

I've learned some of these things, by the way, because I have a project in the works that now I believe because of this deal is owned by Disney. So I'd like to say I'm all for it. I don't know what you guys are talking about. Thank you, Disney, my beloved new overlord. Well, if you get a free pass out of it of course it's good sure boy i'm not mad or i'm not you don't want to ask for that renegotiate now if you don't if you don't give me what i want maybe i'll speak ill of this whole thing on my podcast yeah you don't want that do you uh so mike so what are some of the things disney would get out of this deal well i mean i

no one everyone's really speculating so i don't really know exactly what everything is perfectly but they're gonna get like avatar they're gonna get alien the alien franchise they're gonna get simpsons simpsons they're gonna get family guy they're gonna get die hard they're gonna get like a ton of like back catalog of tv show and movies um because it's it's very confusing because sometimes you look at the Wikipedia and it says like this was co-produced by two studios. So I'm not exactly sure everything. But I think most of the things I just mentioned, they're going to get like full control over. And of course, the big thing and probably the big reason they wanted to do this was all the Marvel characters from Fox get to finally come home to Disney.

We're talking X-Men. We're talking Fantastic Four.. We're talking Fantastic Four. And we're talking Deadpool. And we're talking Deadpool, folks. Talking motherfucking cunt ass Deadpool. Yeah, he's irreverent. The Merc with the Mouth is finally back home at the House of Ideas. Everyone's favorite, like everyone's fifth favorite 90s character that is somehow like

a giant star now is uh is yeah he's coming home to disney which and so the big question is does this does the disney ownership affect i i can't like will it affect how these properties are released or do they have to be more family friendly or anything i can't imagine they well bob eiger was asked about Deadpool. Some reporter was like very concerned. Like, is Deadpool going to go away now? We're going to get more Deadpool, right? And he's going to get to say bad, naughty words.

And Bob Iger was like, yes, Deadpool will still have his wit and his irreverency. And he's R-rated. Still R-rated. I think there's still room for R-rated. We don't allow asides to camera here at the Disney Corporation. No more comments. He can't say like, what is this, Rosie O'Donnell over here? Like one of his famous quips where he's like for some reason in 1997.

Oh, Rosie O'Donnell. He can't do a bunch of jumps and flips to third-eye blind, semi-charmed life. Yeah. It's going to have to change a little bit. But it remains to be seen because they have a whole Marvel apparatus that makes... Look, and Jason and I are big Marvel boys, as we've said on the show before. Since we were kids. Yeah, big Marvel boys.

And now they make three movies. Dizzy's made three Marvel movies a year, and they vary from good to okay, and we'll see what happens. We don't know if Deadpool, it will throw things off, because no one has said, no one said fuck in Marvel yet, so will Deadpool come in and say that,

and will it just upset everything? And it'll be the new... Now I can't go... What was the first talkie line? Oh, yeah. It's not... I was going to say, here's looking at you, kid. That is hard and correct.

No, you ain't heard nothing yet? You ain't heard nothing yet. It'll be a you ain't heard nothing yet moment. The first time fuck is said in a Marvel Disney. Hey, fuck off, Robert Downey Jr. And he'll say his real name and then people will... I don't know. I have a feeling it's going to be separate.

I feel like it's going to be its own thing. And then maybe he like winks at the camera. Or maybe in like 10 years when there's another like mega Avengers crossover movie, Deadpool shows up for a couple minutes. I think they're separate. But I think X-Men and Fantastic Four movies go back to one. I think they relaunch. I think they burn off this Dark Phoenix one.

Well, they got a lot of movies. What's weird about this is like when you buy a movie studio, they have a year or two worth of movies. So they have like three X-Men movies. They have Deadpool 2 already shot and made. Does that come out via Disney? So that has, I guess, come out via Disney. New Mutants. This deal is also going to take like a year to fully, I think, process. I think Trump's already like, hey, great. This sounds good to me.

Like he doesn't see a problem with only Disney owning everything. Is there any chance it gets shot down by, you're right, probably under the... Not in this Republican government. Sure, sure. But yeah, it shouldn't. There's no, it shouldn't. No, I mean, it's bad for like, yeah, the monopoly, like media corporation monopolies. It's a bad thing. And is it happening because the Murdoch children are failed sons and daughters?

I mean, those are fucking idiots. That's what I assumed. It's like Murdoch is going to die one day and doesn't trust any of his children with this stuff i'm just gonna uh uh parrot what i heard uh a fellow podcaster jim hill say on his podcast is that uh they're concerned that like content is the is the thing that's gonna move you know whatever streaming service you have and they were looking ahead and they're like we're gonna lose to disney we may as well cut our losses now and make 60 billion dollars and because that's how much like the deal it's like a 60 billion dollar deal they're gonna keep their news network they're

gonna still keep their organizations of evil those are gonna happen apparently does not go anywhere and a lot of discussion yeah yeah they're gonna keep that there because like modern this is a weird thing too with modern modern family is a fox owned show but it airs on abc so then disney gets control of modern family and gets all their residual money and all that shit disney gets control of avatar which they have had to license for the parks and now they will save all this licensing money because they'll own it outright and they will put out the avatar films if they are uh i think this is like trump and his fake news award show that he's like stalling on because he doesn't know how to actually do it i'm worried that there is no avatar 2 there will never be an avatar 2

um does the disney thing put the heat on him to actually uh put his money where his mouth like he hasn't shot a single inch of film or anything and he's just in a submarine going, I don't know what to do. God, oh God, oh God. Iger shows up at his house. Oh, hey man, was that today? I think Iger will show up underwater in another submarine.

Oh, another sub. And open hail him. Hidden Mickey. The portholes are hidden Mickey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh no, that shape. It looks like the Nemo sub from Disneyland. That's Bob Iger's sub.

Surrender the film. Surrender the outline. What are the kids doing? Why are their kids in Avatar now? Tell us, when will we see the mighty Akron again? Yeah. The mighty Banshee. They saw us. We will we see the mighty Akron again? Yeah. The mighty Banshee. They saw us.

We want to see them. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of that going on. Iger having to shake people down for the movies they promised years ago. Yeah. 28 dresses. We'll finally get 28 dresses now. Did you guys know I was reading about movies 21st Century Fox's release? Marley and Me and Bride Wars both released on the same day.

Isn't that interesting? I thought that was interesting. I suppose. I guess. They're kind of cutting into the same market, aren't they? A dog movie and a wedding movie? Yeah. Although Bride Wars is raunchy, though. Yeah, Although Bride Wars is like raunchy though. Yeah, I guess it was a little raunchy.

I think they're going to get like 24. They're going to get that franchise. Oh, right. So you're going to see, I think all these, we're going to get diehards for, we were probably already going to get diehards for the rest of our lives, but we're going to get everything.

Everything's coming back already. And now Disney is the king of doing everything again over and over again. I would like to put Mike and Mai's name in the hat to write a big, loud, dumb 90s X-Men movie with characters with giant guns and lots of patches and bright colors and lots of explosions

because, yeah, I think that's what those X-Men movies are missing. Yeah, I think that they need the outfit. I mean, and big thing with me is the outfits. Yeah, you gotta have the outfits. Oh, and that squealing, that rock guitar. Oh, man. Yes, Sam and a noodling. You bring the theme back.

You bring the theme back from the 90s cartoon. You like put the orchestra behind it. It's all melodrama. Every character is screaming like soap opera melodrama lines about their powers. And there's love triangles. Jubilee's got a giant yellow trench coat. Yeah.

Yeah. This sounds much better. It sounds like a lot of fun. Than the joyless black leather costumes that they've been stuck in, in their singer verse for so long. Directed by international sex criminals. I wonder how he's doing in international waters maybe he might his submarine's gonna bump with cameron one of these days all these guys are in

submarines kevin spacey submarine there's one place i'm safe the bottom of the ocean yeah um also fantastic four uh was so odd and joyless In the last round but you've also seen Fantastic Four iterations that are so Bright and Colorful that they seem kind of silly But like I would argue that that's not the problem With those movies With being bright

There's a way to do bright but I don't think anybody Knows that everybody's doing this Nolan rip off I guess Guardians is a good example of a bright fun movie that doesn't feel stupid and like Thor Ragnarok has a ton of color it's just a lot of Jack Kirby design and color and like at least like that's that's another reason why I like the Marvel movies is because they're not like joyless affairs yeah yeah and The Incredibles is essentially a great Fantastic Four movie. Like a lot of that, I mean, the family elements,

even some of the powers. They ripped off all the powers. Yeah, they just stole it. It's exactly the Fantastic Four. Like that's what you would do with that movie. Pretty much. So they have to just do that again. So The Incredibles and the Fantastic Four can meet now.

Yes. I like that. I actually, if it was CGI Incredibles and live versus live action. Yeah. Yeah. I think everything is collapsing too. Even though these companies are getting bigger and bigger, I think everything is collapsing.

No one knows, like we're bringing back The Office on NBC. It's barely been gone. Two years later, the office is back, and everyone's just like, they wanted to bring 30 Rock. And 30 Rock, they're trying to bring back maybe, and that wasn't even a hit at the time, but it was a bigger hit than what they're making now. Everyone's desperate, the walls,

all these networks are going to collapse. But I think that that'll probably happen with movies, and you'll see stuff like that. The last gasp of entertainment will be throwing like Fantastic Four Incredibles Star Wars meets Deadpool like it'll just be this

disastrous gross crossover stuff which you know will be that does sound fun but like you know it just occurred to me entire Simpsons Family Guy crossover series. This will happen. They've done little crossovers and they did the big episode.

I think we're about seven years away from entire new show where they just reset the rules and they all, they're next door neighbors. They just merge everything. Doesn't that seem accurate? Yeah, I mean, you probably should edit that out because it's a good idea that you could pitch. And they'd be like, yes, of course. And you can show run it. And I'm just given $4 billion immediately. And Seth and Matt don't get a cut.

But you'll have to voice. Seth will still do the voices. Yeah, yeah. So you'll have to deal with it. I'll have to meet him and say, sorry sorry you didn't get a cut but hey thanks for coming in we got 800 check for you i think man that peter voice so funny dude uh we did see in your contract we will get you crooning uh you will lie to rose lie to rose i'm home again row that we'll get that in there seth can now perform on the Disney holiday specials more readily.

If he starts going down Main Street like Regis Philbin used to do, but he's doing the Peter voice. Or the Quagmire voice. Oh, God. This episode, by the way, a lot of references to our own continuity. We're declaring it. We can make references to our old episodes.

Sure we can. Seth MacFarlane, I saw he commented on this because he was like, it's fine, who cares. But also he was called by Bob Iger. Bob called. He got a call. As did, I believe, Ryan Murphy.

Because Ryan Murphy has so many shows, Fox shows. And, and also FX is part of this as well. Like they'll get, Disney will get American horror story and like whatever else is on it. So like Ryan Murphy got a call. McFarlane got a call of like, Hey,

you know, just checking in. We're going to buy you and it doesn't matter if you're all right with it, but fuck you. So, so to bring it back to, to our fate, so what does this mean for the parks? Oh, well, and this is, I'm going to probably, I just listened to this Jim Hill podcast.

So if, by the way, the plug, Jim Hill. Shout out to our boys, the OGs, Jim and Len. Len Testa. They do a podcast called Disney Dish Podcast. It's very good. Ultimate Disney Dish Podcast hosted by Lentesta featuring Jim Hill. It's a long title. It's not as long as Guardians of the Galaxy.

And then the logo is a T for some reason. It's the touring plans. Oh, it's touring plans. Unofficial. That'd be my only comment, guys, is decide the name. But otherwise, we listen to it all the time yeah uh so yeah and also if like listen to that podcast if you want people that really know what they're talking about like we're we're half yeah casual conjecture yeah yeah yeah

yeah yeah uh also uh non-shout out to that one itunes reviewer who said we don't do enough research oh that's right we've saved it we didn't comment enough research. Oh, that's right. We've saved it. We didn't comment on it on the Twitter or anything. We got a three-star review. Ruined our perfect record. Way to give us a lot of stink coming into 2018. We had five stars for every review, and then this guy gave us three and was like,

these guys are funny, but man, they are inaccurate. Yeah, and we're just here to say we will never do more research. This is the amount you're going to get we will never do more research this is the amount you're gonna get all right this is about it's part of the spirit that makes that makes the the fans come back again and again that and the inside references to things we've done before ain't that right bugsy bones anyway so back to uh back to so the park so he was saying jim hill was saying that he thinks that right now the imagineers or according to his sources because he is like we we are yet to have sources on this show we don't know people in the inside but he apparently has these sources and they say that you know there was a chance that they were going to build a big marvel land in

california adventure right by that guardians of the galaxy ride but now he's saying there was a chance that they were going to build a big Marvel Land and California Adventure right by that Guardians of the Galaxy ride. But now he's saying there's a chance they may slow it down and build an entire Marvel Park. They might just do a full-sized thing with all the properties at once, put them all in the same place. Because right now, there's only so much room in California Adventure. And you're going to get a few things,

but you're not going to get all of it, because now they have access to all of it. Now you can make the X-Men's Mansion. Now you can make the Baxteraxter building the famous skyscraper that the fantastic four live in like you can do all of it and hey maybe we wait maybe we uh maybe we'd use that toy story lot and just do all marvel maybe that's the step so it's there's that's what it could mean for the parks but in the short term term, yeah, maybe Cyclops shows up. Maybe you can shake Cyclops' hand in California Adventure in front of a Ward Wieners in front of the hot dog store. Maybe you can meet the apes, Caesar and Koba.

Yeah. I don't think I'm wrong on that name. I know Caesar. I have not seen any of the new apes which i hear they're very good is dr zeus in them no what but they will own he's gonna get is that's right because they're like prequels yeah so like dr zeus comes in later by the time well dead by the end of the first original yeah they're they're they're now at a point where they're gonna go build their society and probably dr zeus will be part of the society. But there's no young Zaius either

like his grandfather? Not unless a little baby ape we've met already is a burgeoning Zaius. I think that's a big... I think they should have had a young Zaius. Well now they can have in the parks, they can have a walk around Zaius. There's so many. They can have the old one. They could have the young, old? Yeah.

They could have the Charlton Heston era Zaius. Yeah. They own multiple apes, multiple Fantastic Four's. You could have the Charlton Heston era Zaius. Yeah. They own multiple apes, multiple Fantastic Fours. You could go to Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

Yeah. Well, that's... Evergreen comedy reference, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Unless we had anything else maybe

to speculate, that leads us into this next segment. Did anyone else have any other thoughts before we do it? All right, we're going to do it. So here we go.

We are going to now build a Fox land, a Fox theme park. Now I've decided maybe we leave the Marvel characters out cause they all belong in their own thing, but using all the Fox properties, uh, we're going to sort of just sketch out what we think blue sky is what they call it.

What they could legally do. Legally now, yeah. Disney could do with all these properties that they're buying. And it's going to be called Foxland. I think we all agree on that. That's nice and simple, yes. Simple. Love it.

Foxland. I was thinking, where does this thing go? And my first thought was, Iger should call Rupert Murdoch up and say, look, we want that Fox lot over in Century City. It's about 56 acres. It's a little smaller than Disneyland, but that's perfect, I think, for the spirit of Fox.

Yeah. Okay, does everyone agree with that? It's where it all happens. It's where it all began. I think you demolish all the sound stages where the famous movies were. Just one giant steamroller rolls over. everybody's everybody's kicked off bye-bye modern family set you move somewhere else uh bye-bye simpsons offices writers go to hell

go find another place go to the disney lot everyone go to the disney lot we're building a theme park a fox theme park yeah uh and i think you gotta walk so when you walk into a theme park, a Fox theme park. Yeah. And I think you got to walk. So when you walk into a theme park that's Fox, it's got to have the big famous 20th century Fox logo with the spotlights up on the top. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. That's the castle. That's the castle. The big attraction that leads you down 21st century Avenue. And I think that you light that thing up you got those

spotlights going and you're playing the fanfare just maybe i mean at least once an hour you light it up like the small world clock or maybe once every 15 minutes or maybe just all day all the time live band this is what i have a live marching band playing the Detroit Century Fox theme. I think that, yeah, we have to go live band. That's a Disney type thing. You could trade them out in shifts just kind of in a way, alright, now the trombone players leave and we slide

in the next shift and you do eight hours of straight horn playing, straight drumming. Because there's been people who have played with the title in their movies they sometimes do a different type of theme or if it's a futuristic theme it's like an EDM Fox theme or something.

I don't know if that's real but I assume... Don John probably. Don John. If that was Fox. Wait, is Don John Fox? I don't know. I can look up Don John.

Can we get Don John in there? Oh, fingers crossed. Let's see if Don John... There's a... It's very funny on YouTube like somebody doing doing that theme as a recorder, just like in the very bad, hard-to-control recorder.

The 20th Century Fox theme or the Don John theme? Oh, not Don John. Oh, okay. The general Fox theme. Don John is not Fox. All right, you're out. You're out of Fox. So there won't be a walk-around Don John. Okay, okay. But we have the giant, the logo. That's, yeah. We can all agree that's a simple, that's a gimme Don John. Okay, okay. But we have the giant, the logo. That's, yeah.

That's, yeah. We can all agree that's a simple, that's a gimme. Yeah. Now, I'm thinking like we can start with like land ideas

or ride ideas. Do you have, Jason, do you have one? Well, I've got some legitimate stuff and then I've got some goofy bullshit. So.

Well, to be fair, Jason, this is all goofy bullshit. Yeah, that's true. The whole podcast, everything we're doing here. Okay, well, here's a deep pull. Here's like a real nerd answer is that we could finally get the very original iteration of Alien Encounter. Yeah, sure. This didn't come up earlier, but Stitch's Great Escape,

the Disney World ride, has like officially closed now and you know that was built on the bones of the alien counter ride uh legitimately the scariest ride disney ever built uh which in a very early version was supposed to be the aliens from alien uh i forget what is what are those things called they have a name uh oh the xenomorph yeah so you were supposed to it was supposed to be an alien teleported in and it was supposed to be like a xenomorph um uh uh so like that is 20th century fox so we could get a prometheus or aliens like themed ride or walk through or show or something. This is good because this segues into an idea I have.

I think there should be a whole sort of space land because we have also Lost in Space is a property that they have too and they're going to do a new series on that so I think this alien ride would be perfect. You put a fun sort of Lost in Space ride and then because I'm a thoughtful person when it comes to

corporation and synergy I think you put in a new ride based on the tv show the orville you motherfucking so and and what the thing about the orville ride is you're riding and you're going well is this supposed to be funny is this supposed to be a serious ride and it sort of straddles the line between you're you're riding it and it's fun and it kind of looks good but not good and you're like it's just you're not sure so you're done with the ride and you're like oh it kind of looks good but not good and you're like it's just you're not sure so you're done with the ride and you're like oh i kind of like that and you just you're scratching your head and it's a different type of an experience that you're getting when you ride on this ride and of course innovative it's innovative in that respect so i think that's

a good idea i think that would be a whole space section uh nice titan a AE. Perfect. I had Titan AE. Great. We can throw all of that in there. Great. Do you know more about Titan AE than I do? I certainly don't. We're going to teach the world. We're going to revitalize the franchise. I don't think I saw it on theaters. I think I saw it on videotape, but I remember

liking it at the time. We can merge the Titan AE characters and the Treasure Planet characters, finally. Here's my idea. remember liking it we can merge the titan ae characters and the treasure planet characters finally well well here's my idea speaking of titan ae because titan ae comes up on one of mine uh it's called fox's cartoon street okay because like mickey's toontown all your favorite fox cartoon characters live with each other you know so all of your favorites from the simpsons and family guy and titan ae live on the same street and who's that why it's the gang from ice age at the zoo and who's visiting them today on a class field trip why it's young alan gregory the child genius

of course yes hello alan and will there be the fish police are keeping an eye on everything police are keeping an eye on everything police are keeping an eye on everything I think that's great I think people are gonna love that uh you know you know I want to see in there the Gracie films silhouette shushing everybody that's great and I would if I may I think we should also uh see the capital critters there also oh sure yeah and the aired on ABC I believe but owned owned by fox so what capital critters capital famous 90s finally under one political satire cartoon all under one glorious roof uh and simulate a different kind of cartoon and this i am legitimately think would think i legitimately

think would be cool uh they own they made the fantastic mr fox movie and i really like that movie i think it's got a really cool look and that i feel like would be a great uh dark ride or walk through attraction yeah that would be fun um i'm looking at mine and they're all uh goofy bullshit um so look like uh the famous superstar television at disney's hollywood studio where you would get to be part of the tv show uh i think that it's fun that's fun to see your mom up there and she's doing fun stuff so i think you take maybe some talk shows that fox owns and you put those up i'm talking magic hour i'm talking the che Chase talk show. I'm talking we get actually Magic Johnson and Chevy Chase to do shifts in the park, interviewing your mom or your dad about what's going on.

How are the kids behaving? How hot is it out here? Although Culver City, it's actually not that hot because it's kind of close to the ocean. So maybe the answer will be it's fine. The temperature is fine. But both of them, basketball involved in both of those shows. They could probably use the same set, Magic Johnson, an actual basketball player, whereas Chevy Chase would come out and take a shot at the beginning of every episode

so they could just leave that up for either of them. Yeah. Chevy missed very often. Also, I want to see the full recreation of that set with the fish tank behind him. Yeah. Just keep that basketball away from that fish tank. That's a potential spillage issue. How's your vacation going, Grandpa, like Chevy would say?

And then, yeah, I think this would be great. I think you could sell a VHS copy of the appearance after for everyone if they wanted it. Not even DVD. Nope. VHS. VHS. Me and Chevy. copy of the appearance after for everyone if they wanted it not even dvd nope vhs well me and me and chevy i mean i'll run through my other ideas here real quick i think that uh you know they have guides at disneyland somebody if you're rich you'll have a guide i think that all the guys should be dressed like mr belvedere i think they should be helping you and finding you know things

you want i think that's a good idea uh i think that uh let's see here we go uh okay this is my actually my favorite idea is a whole let me backtrack uh fox owns mtm enterprises which is mary tyler moore's production company oh so when disney buys this i'm assuming they now own all of these shows so and this is and there's a lot of shows here and i have some ideas for them like for instance new heart new heart was a show bus starring bob new heart where he owned a bed and breakfast and there was a whole host of weird characters that's the hotel new heart is the hotel oh wow you stay at and then there's the people the famous wacky characters that come in i think that you, you know, you can, when you go into this Mary Tyler Moore land, which I'm going to call it,

you're greeted by the cartoon cat Mimsy, which is the famous title card for MTM. I'm alienating anyone who's under 50 right now. Instead of it's not a lion in the logo, it's a cat. Actually, in fact, here's my pitch for this area. Disney MTM Studios will not. I think that's great. I think that's great. Sue Ann from Mary Tyler Moore. You'll eat at her restaurant.

You'll learn newspaper making from Lou Grant. And there'll be a Mary Tyler Moore e-ticket where it's like an Omnimover ride where you go through the streets of Minneapolis. Aboard a news van trying to break stories. You could do a parachute ride that shoots you up real fast where you're on a giant Mary Tyler Moore hat. She's throwing you up in the air. That's great.

That's all ages. This Omnimover one, you have to be like 14 to ride. Okay. I've got a bit of a saucy one that we might have to put an age gap on or an age limit on. Yeah, yeah.

We all know Mike and Dave from Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Yes, of course. Right? Yeah, yeah. Well, now Mike and Dave need your help. That's right. You are the wedding date

in this new 4D gross-out simulator adventure. That's good. I like that. You got a ride component. You're jumping on mopeds with those goops. Oh, man. Are you kidding me? Yeah, yeah.

You know, you could maybe do an entire sectioned-off area that is 18 and up, which is where Deadpool can live. But more importantly— Well, Deadpool is everywhere. There's walk around Deadpools everywhere in my mind. Well, he can be like he's- There's him in a space suit and him as a cowboy. Oh, perfect.

There's just multiple- You know Deadpool will be in every land. You just don't know where. He can be in mouse ears over in regular Disneyland. But I think you take the- Maybe you call this area Fox XXX with all three X's. Oh, yeah. This is the 18 and over area, and this could be the home of an area that I want to see,

which is Silk Stocking Square. The famous Crime Time and Prime Time started on CBS and moved over to USA. You know, a 90s crime show. It was very sultry and very sexy. Fox, I'm unclear on it. It looks like they only produced the seasons six through eight. So you would have to pick up just the characters from season six. So late period. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Towards the end, we're talking like 96 to 99.

So you would have to center on detectives tom ryan and cassandra saint john but that gives you a lot of great plots to work with and i think maybe you could do kind of a a live show a uh you know there was a dick tracy show in the 90s at disneyland you could do a thing like that maybe not quite a stunt show because i don't know that usa could afford a lot of stunts by that point in the run of silk stockings but you could do a thing like that maybe not quite a stunt show because i don't know that usa could afford a lot of stunts by that point in the run of silk stockings but you could watch uh tom and casty solve mysteries live on stage and you could slide out different uh um formative episodes of silk stockings uh i'd love to see a live experience based on their episode where uh somebody's committing murders uh based on who he meets in a chat room.

That episode, of course, called CallMeAtMurder.com. So let's see the stunt show off of that. Also another one called Do You Believe in Magic, where Tom and Cassie's only clue in a murder case is a ventriloquist dummy. So that lends itself pretty perfectly to a theme park environment. So, yeah, a lot of sexy fun waiting in Silk Stocking Square. Wow, that's fun. Hey, and buy your gal some lingerie and some garters while you're over there.

Some steamy 90s goods. Sure. Wow, that's great. Box has always been very salacious. But I think we shouldn't forget the company's rich history. I mean, they have been releasing movies since the 30s. And so I know I said we could bring something back earlier, but I think this is just too perfect.

And we were talking about stuff going away and coming back too quickly. I think you gotta bring back the great movie ride, just exploring the history of Fox, all the way from early classics like redheads on parade and steamboat round the bend to oscar-nominated golden age films like heaven can wait and the oxbow incident all the way to your favorite movies of today like why him and the murder on the Orient Express? And let's not forget all your favorite Fox-produced TV shows,

like Ally McBeal and Judging Amy and the current hit Sleepy Hollow. They're on the movie ride? They're all on the movie ride, too. This is a good catch-all to fit them all on. I agree. And the ride culminates in an incredible climax featuring a very accurate and very graphic rendition of the crucifixion from the past passion of the crowd is that them is that fox they get christ fox has christ and the whole ride

is hosted by your good friend deadpool oh he's not letting anybody get out of there scott free the only thing i would say i have one improvement, is if you could put a show scene on there from the hit Fox show Drexel's Class, starring Dabney Coleman. I mean, we might have to dial back the perfect, wait, was it Boston Comet? I forget. There's some 90s thing.

You know, we were sort of roughing out an idea yesterday that I think could fit within this. Oh, yeah. Which is that with these purchases, we now have between Disney and Fox a myriad of Samuel L. Jackson characters and films. So I think that this iteration of the Great Movie Ride should have the hall of SLJ. You can pass through the hall of SLJ where you can meet, I mean, remind me of Nick Fury. Frozone from The Incredibles. Frozone from The Incredibles. He's Mace Windu, which Lucasfilm's owned by Disney, so you can have Mace in there.

Put out by Fox and now totally owned by you have his character from Die Hard 3 whose name is available on Wikipedia for you to look up at home Zeus Carver that's a great name imagine passing by every

within the company's ownership Samuel L. Jackson character yeah I mean that's great I think all of them badger you as you within the company's ownership Samuel L. Jackson character. Yeah, I mean, that's great. All of them badger you as you... I'd say those are the only guys who are going to be able to put Deadpool in his place. Yeah, Deadpool's like, ooh, I'm cutting out of this part of the ride.

I'll see you guys at the end. But, you know, this might get a little heavy, the history of an esteemed movie studio. And that's why I think next to it should might get a little heavy, the history of an esteemed movie studio. And that's why I think next to it should be something a little lighter, a little area called Parody Land. Because Fox put out both Meet the Spartans and Vampires Suck. Oh, no. So you can see some of the hilarious skewerings of the pop culture of, what was that, the mid-2000s, early 2000s? The Seltzer Friedberg

franchise of quickly pumped out parody films. Yes, that one! Great! Wait, are we watching the movies? Oh, there's a land. Maybe it could be a land that is parodying existing Disney That's good. Oh, yeah.

Meet the land. Meet the theme park land. that is parodying existing Disney rides. That's good. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Meet the land. Meet the theme park land. It's like, here's the... Actually, how about a great movie ride that's like the highlights of all of the Disney, the main Disney attractions, but, you know, say you're going through the room

with Madame Leota and the crystal ball in the Haunted Mansion, but inside is Snooki. Oh, boy. That wouldn't be the first Snooki reference in a theme park. Snooki famously appeared in the Disney California Adventure Aladdin show. I mean, the name appeared. Oh, right, right.

Now we're getting back to that. This is our way to get topical references. That's not without precedent. Back in the theme park. There's sort of a Star Tours kind of section, but your pilot is Borat. Oh yeah, they do own Borat. But the parody films

also, that's the fun of those movies. It'll just cut to Borat, not even a parody of it. Here's Austin Powers, here's Borat. So I think that's all fair game now within parody land. So really, in parody land, you can have every character ever,, here's Borat. So I think that's all fair game now within parody land. So really in parody land, yeah, you can have every character ever because it's a parody. You can have whatever you want.

Outside of parody land, why, you could get your pictures with the Monument Men. And then inside parody land, there's like... The Monuments Men, Jason. Oh, excuse me, the Monuments Men. Multiple Monuments. There's a sharp-witted takedown of the Monuments Men in Parodyland. Wow, yeah, both.

So you can have real Borat and fake just-off-enough different mustache widths so that they can't get sued Borat. Wow. I love it. That's great. I mean, the only last thing I have is that I want there to be a live show based on Kelsey Grammer Presents the Sketch Show from seven or eight years ago with local

improvisers, headed by one Jason Sheridan. Oh, boy. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, wow. I mean, the show. He was not on the show. I wasn't on the show. He's in the theme park version of the show. Oh, I see. Oh, okay. I thought we... Yeah, wait. That show was a while back. It would be funny if you didn't know Jason was the star of Kelsey Grammer Presents.

Kelsey Grammer Presents the Sketch Show when I was like 20 and as far as i know as far as the world knows about kelsey grammar's the sketch show uh uh yeah you know i'll put in one more which is a um you know a more hallowed fox television franchise this is going to be an area called mash mountain and uh it's it's uh it's kind of a kind of a camp snoopy it's actually i think it's with all of the the the vehicles uh famously used in in mash you can have it's you can have a lot of fun little little kids rides but the kids can also learn about the horrors of the korean war hawkeye's helicopters uh radars racers uh trapper john's tanks tanks maybe a merry-go-round that's all scalpels and different surgical instruments

and you can form your own conclusion about whether that's a war we should have been in or not I think that's to use another reference to our old show much like your Christmas pitch for the submarine ride where Santa's the North Pole's been destroyed as a way to teach children about

global warming I think this is great I think kids are going to learn a lot from it. I think that we need more lessons and I think that the property, the IP mash, really lends itself to that. I think this more adult issue oriented park is the

way of the future. Kids will learn about parody and skewering at an earlier age and about war, and there's a lot of possibilities here. So come to Foxland, which is right off Avenue of the Stars, which is the street in Century City. It's in an incredibly inconvenient location. It is, and if you've ever been there,

they try to make you park at a parking garage. It's 25 minutes. That's a little inside baseball baseball but i've had to walk literally a half hour from a parking garage to get to the lot it's insane but so they're already out it sounds like disneyland already that's a good point it's really just add a tram or a gondola and then we're good uh yeah foxlands right i think we just i think we gave them enough information to get started on it now. And I'm going to leave here and immediately make some calls and get the Simpsons meet family guy series going. So I'll be willing to invest. I'll toss in a little.

I'll toss in like a billion or so to start it off of my personal funds. And then I think we'll have Foxland up and running in no time. I think we're all getting on the phone uh with our teams after this right to start the ball moving start triangulating yeah um yeah it's uh it's it's time uh we're and then and of course because we thought of it there will be statues of the three of us in front of the Fox logo like Walt and Mickey, the statue in Disneyland, but it's all three of us holding hands. Yeah. And microphones. And also

trying to find... Well, the person in the middle is getting the most screwed because he's got a... Well, he has a cordless headset mic on. Oh, great. Perfect. See? We can solve problems so quickly in no time. So, hey, we'll see you in Foxland.

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