Podcast: The Ride - Fright Fest 2 with Anthony Gioe LIVE

Episode Date: November 3, 2023

Anthony Gioe (Duncanville, UCB) returns to the show! And he and Mike returned to Fright Fest at Six Flags Magic Mountain! Recorded live at Dynasty Typewriter, October 20, 2023 Haunted Car Wash with Eva Anderson episode up at The Cemetary Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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screaming from die nasty type friter, it's Nasty Type Frighter, it's Hot Cast the Fright Live! Hello! Hello! Hi! It's wonderful to see you. Happy Halloween. Welcome to Hauntcast the Frights Live.

We could do an opening joke, or we could get right to the costumes. What do you say? I think a lot needs to be explained here. Let's start with Jason. Wait, what were the names? Slash and Burn. No, Slash and Burn. Okay, okay, great.

Slash and Burn, ladies and gentlemen. Slash and Drain. Slash and Drain. Jagged Slash and burn. No, no, Slash and burn. Okay, okay, great. Dragon, Slash and burn, ladies and gentlemen. Slash and drain. Slash and drain. Slash and drain. Dragon, Slash and drain. Dragon, Slash and drain. Yeah, I'm the sleepy time tea bear. Cheers.

Hey! Yeah. Oh, I didn't know we had a pair. There is no character You should be playing more I know Than this bear in a night shirt Wow And if you really wanted to go full tilt

Just sleep through the rest of the show Well look The head's coming back off In a few minutes Or else I'm going to pass out from my eat or it's just going to lull me to sleep. A lot of these costumes might need to be bailed on for various reasons.

You'll learn mine soon. But first, Jason, can you just, can you ask me what I am? Yeah, because I am wondering. Scott, what are you? I'm Nimgaloo! I'm Nimgaloo!

Oh, now I see it. Yes! My dream came true. I'm Nimgaloo. Oh, now I see it. Yes! Yes! My dream came true. I'm Nimgaloo. Oh, if this is a foreign language to anyone, I've had an ongoing obsession with a character from a film that I will assuredly never see called Epic, but I know in my heart that

Nim Galoo is a wise caterpillar or something, and he's played by Steven Tyler, the great voice actor Steven Tyler. Get well soon, Steven. And now

I'm him, Murray! Potential for injury very high. Also, I don't know if the listeners can hear this as this becomes a podcast episode, but there is a big fan that is powering this, and that is not conducive to live show recording. And I think I learned how to shut it off. So I think what we'll do is just kind of slowly deflate.

And then I'll be able to sit. It's still going to be puffy, don't worry. But then I'll be able to sit, you know, in probably like eight minutes or so. So we'll let this linger while we... Take your time, yeah. Question Michael Carlson. Look at us.

We got a bear. We got a wise worm. What happened to you? Well, I wanted to sort of... You know how Benihana, they prepare the meal while you're at the table? Mm. Yeah.

So that's what I'm planning on doing with my costume. It's something that's been come up. There's a phrase that maybe I invented, maybe I didn't. That's been recently talked about on the show. The phrase I'm talking about is, of course, plush pile. So, folks, I,

for my costume, I'm going to be a plush pile of some of the plushes that I own. This is Casey at the Bat. He was wanted at California Adventure many years ago by a friend of mine.

They make a Casey at the Bat in this century? They did before the Pixar Pier renovation. This is Raphael that I had when I was a six-year-old. Wow. Nice.

This I won when I was 18 at Islands of Adventure. Oh, cool. Jason, it's Magneto. The sacred text. I still have the tag on him, too. It says plush toy. Well, he fits right in. I have my original Winnie the Pooh.

Whoa. I have Stimpy. And then two legendary plushes from my life. This is Pino. My first plush ever. I didn't realize I was going to make tugging on the audience's heartstrings tonight. this is Pino, my first plush ever. I didn't realize I was going to be tugging on the audience's heartstrings tonight. And then, the much-discussed

Ernie doll. Oh, cool! Oh, interesting. That has a ripped-open crotch and looks a bit haunted. No, don't point it at the live stream. Don't get computer viruses. You've cursed us all.

Okay, Robert the doll rules apply. You have to ask Ernie if you would take a picture. And if you take one with that, it's shown disrespect. Ooh, you're in for trouble. You have to, yes. Don't take you're in for trouble. You have to. Yes, don't take a photo unless you ask. Oh, my God.

Let me see. Oh, I didn't realize. I turned to look at it, and it was like I was getting kissed in the face by crotch puff. Wow, that is torn wide open. Oh, no. An unfortunate seat accident.

This doll is like 37 years old. Wow. This is what almost happened to you on the Riddler's Revenge one time. It's very true. Multiple coasters at Six Flags almost destroyed my genitals. So, yes. But anyway, I am a plush pile tonight. Wow, wow. I'll try to keep this up and we'll see if it's

possible. Yeah, we'll see what happens here. Well, yeah, this is great. I mean, I'll have a seat when I can. We'll see. It'll just distribute weight weirdly. Let's try it. Here we go. It's gonna happen, folks. Hey, well, I'll puff it up at the end

if I can. But look at this. I feel like Halloween is bringing out the kid in us. We got so much coziness here. I'm living my dreams of being them glue. Beloved childhood toys. And it's just so great to like,

I feel like the Halloween season is really doing it for us. Getting to do a couple... What? What the hell was that? What was that? Wait, get up here. What was that? Oh my god! What is that thing? There's a Minotaur loose? It's a Minotaur, folks! It's the Minotaur!

Hide! Oh no! No, no, no, no, no. The Minotaur came here to... No! If you know Minotaur, you might as well grab that mic if you want If you're going to be up here Oh my god The Minotaur found Michael Carlson Oh no This is a big surprise

Nice to meet you Michael Carlson though We have some Unfinished business That's true we do This doesn't concern me so I'm just going to chill Michael Carlson, though. What? We have some unfinished business. That's true, we do. Oh, this doesn't concern me, so I'm just going to chill. Yeah, yeah. No, we're fine.

This has nothing to do with us. Can I, I mean, I know why you're here, but let me explain for any listeners who don't remember. We're talking, oh my God, geez, this guy. You are quite formidable, sir. Can I? Yes. You look a lot scarier than the version I saw after the lights were on when I didn't do the escape room two years ago.

Hey! Ah! Let Scott set this up! Okay, sorry. Thank you. Thank you. I need to give some context to the audience. If you don't remember, last year in our Hauntcast season,

Mike had to tap out of an escape room called Project Minotaur. It was two years ago. And you explained it pretty fully. I mean, I think with the problem you were having, just given the tight, the facial restrictions and everything, the problem you were having is that you were scared shitless of a Minotaur. That's completely what it was. And now he's come here to enact his revenge!

Yeah! Oh my god! That's right, Michael. Last Halloween, you chickened out. So I know you're a man of fear. Not the man of no fear, the daredevil. Oh, yeah, that's daredevil. Yeah, that's not Michael.

That's not Michael. Okay. So tonight, in front of me, your pals, and this whole audience, you must face your ultimate fear! Oh my God. Whoa, what is that? What does that mean? Is his fear of you the Minotaur?

No! His fear of missing out on something. Oh. That's right. Okay. Michael, pull out your phone. Where is it? Do you have your phone with you? Yeah, I have it, I have it, I have it. Okay, I'm glad the plush pile went away. Okay. Michael, pull out your phone. Where is it? Do you have your phone with you? Yeah, I have it.

I have it. I have it. Okay, I'm glad the plush pile went away. Okay. Do what he says, Mike. I'm doing it. He sends a reminder for everything, whether it be a Taco Bell coupon, a new episode of Club Random.

Yeah. Or a toy that you want, a Ninja Turtle. Yeah. Oh, the notifications. You got to delete one of your notifications, and I am really watching you to? Yeah. Oh, the notifications. You gotta delete one of your notifications and I am really watching you to do it. Oh my God. You have to do it for real.

For real. The Minotaur's watching you, Mike. But Minotaur, do you know what you're asking? If he gets rid of one of these, Mike will only have hundreds of notifications left. That's the risk he's gonna have to take. Here's what I'll do. You just got to go to settings

and then notifications. Wait, okay, no, no, this is good. He's got something. He's got an idea here. What are you doing? Okay, I've been getting a lot of notifications from an ex-user named Deal Vibes. Okay.

Okay. But you have to promise to delete it if Deal Vibes is on threads too. Oh, wow. You can't follow Deal Vibes on anything else. You can't get an invite delete it if Deal Vibes is on threads, too. Oh, wow. You can't follow Deal Vibes on anything else. You can't get an invite code to follow Deal Vibes anywhere. Oh, okay. All right, I'm watching.

Go ahead and delete it. It says account notifications. I have it on all posts. Oh, no. It's got to go away, big dog. None. And I've unfollowed it. Unfollowed!

He did it! He did it! Mike, that is so brave of you! I just sent Jason a Deal Vibes tweet about ham two days ago. And that followed the two or three pounds of frozen meatballs you sent me?

Deal Vibes was telling us about a discount on frozen meatballs. So I guess that's out the window. It's out of stock by the time I looked. Jason will be fine without the meatball deals. I just want to say, I'm going to give you an intimate moment of paternal pride. Wow. Mike likes thosenal pride. Come here. Wow. Mike likes those.

Whoa. Come here. Okay. Michael Carlson. Yeah. Your bravery has made me a proud, proud papa. Oh, my God. Your bravery will save the Autobots.

I mean, the Minotaurs. Whoa. Whoa. Cool. Thank you so much. You are a brave little boy. Thank you. will save the Autobots. I mean, the Minotaurs. Whoa! Whoa, cool! Thank you so much. You are a brave little boy. Thank you. The bravest little boy. Thank you.

Go ahead and say that to the audience. I'm the bravest little boy. He's the bravest little boy. Mike! He did it! He faced the Minotaur! Hug him, give him a hug! Hug it out!

Minotaur! Thank you. Thank you, Minotaur. Thank you for making this right here tonight. Really appreciate it, sir. It's literally the least I could do. Minotaurs, roll out. Give it up for the Minotaur. Here, this way, this way.

Go hang backstage. We'll pound some later. Thank you so much, Minotaur. That way, that way, that way. He's never been to the theater. Careful on the steps. Bye, guys. Happy Halloween.

Oh, yeah, leave that, I guess. Oh, jeez. The Minotaur really cares about property. And I like... Yes. Look, he has rules. Has he found his way out yet? Well, this is what happens when you get true surprises.

That was a big surprise. I did not know that was coming. Mike did not know that was coming. It was less of a surprise to me, I would say, and to the minotaur himself. But wow, incredible bravery to start us off. And I think that's a great place to start because we're in the haunt season. This is the bravest season for you. And I think you've shown a little bit of bravery

out there in the world, in the world of haunts, right? Thank you. Yeah, no, I've done my best as far as being brave, being a brave little boy. But I want to... What are you doing there? Oh, that's the mic. Putting the mic back.

Okay, sorry. I thought there were... Now I'm on edge. You never know. Now I think there's like shit happening everywhere. The audience should be too. There could be minotaurs behind each and every one of you. Yeah.

So, you know, Haunt... Haunt has become my season, I think, in a lot of ways. And I remember there was an episode a couple years ago where Jason said Christmas was going to be his season. He was going to be a little jingle bell boy or something. Sounds like him. But haunt season is mine. I continue to live my truth.

But there is, hold on one second. There's a guest here that we've talked about for many months. We need to have him on the show more. And he has agreed to come. And I would like to bring him out here before we talk about anything else. Ladies and gentlemen, does he need anything else other than just to say his name?

Anthony Gio is here. Anthony Gio. Wow! Yay! Yay! Here he is. Thank you. Mike, deal vibes just dropped a big one.

What? No. You can't. You had to. It's what had to be done. Was it a meatball-based deal? It was meatball-based. You could get it with Kohl's cash.

I can't believe deal vibesibes was like a, it's a thing with ham? I thought it was going to be, I mean, it sounds like a vape store or something. Well, it's a frozen 10 pound ham, you see. Deal Vibes does, like you can get a sound bar. They know the newest video games.

And also they can give you you a pound of meat. It's so versatile. You did send me a deal that I bought recently, which was for $4.97 on sale, the replica vintage Ghostbusters toy, Fearsome Flush, which is a haunted toilet. I used to see it for years at collectible shops. I was always like, I gotta get

it. Then they all ate shit by the late 90s. Jason's the short collectible shops. Jason owns a little toy toilet now. Yep, that's right. Deal vibes also kind of sounds like Jason's Spidey sense.

My deal vibes. My deal vibes. Vibes. My deal vibes. Yeah, so anyway, we were talking about haunts. And, you know, there was a lot of discussion about what this episode should be about. And, you know, Gio and I spent weeks discussing it. Just there's famous haunts, you know, and there's all these different Halloween characters that have appeared at these haunts. And I was saying, yeah, let's just sort of dig into

the lore of something. And then J.O. said no. He said, we need to do something important. We need to go back. Whoa. Back?

He said, we need to go back. He said, we gotta go back. Whoa. Back? He said, we need to go back. I said, we gotta go back. And I said, what do you mean, go back? What is that? And he said, no, we need to go back. Way back. Way back. 2019.

We need to go to 2019. It's pretty far back in a lot of ways. Okay, I don't remember that, but okay. And he said, we need to go back To Valencia Wow Damn Ladies and gentlemen

We went back to Fright Fest Wow You are in Six Fl to Fright Fest. Wow! You are in Six Flags Fright Fest 2. This is Six Flags Fright Fest 2. Oh my god. Wow. This is the Empire Strikes Back of Fright Fest episodes. Or the Jaws 2.

This is Jaws 2 of Fright Fest. Careful with that sequel thing. A lot of real sequels out there. This is Attack of Jaws 2 of Fright Fest. Careful with that sequel thing. A lot of real sequels out there. This is Attack of the Clones of Fright Fest. This is the last Jedi of Fright Fest. I know, I know. So we did it. We went back.

We went back. We went back. And not much has changed. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. And not much has changed. Oh, hell yeah. So what's interesting is you go back and listen to old episodes because I want to make sure we weren't recovering things we've said before or whatever. And the number one thing I learned today when I was re-listening to this episode we've done, which Gio and I went in 2019 to Fright Fest,

is that Jason said in 2019 that he wishes a roller coaster would crush his genitals because it would make his life easier. I think he said destroy my genitals. I had forgotten that.

That might be the funniest thing I'd ever heard. But he said it. That's okay. In the earlier show tonight, I was begging the bride from the Haunted Mansion to cut my head off. So some things never change.

Jason is the kinkiest member of Podcast Bride. Yeah, you'll drop these. There's these phrases that feel researched. Jason, and I say this word in a good way, is the freak of Podcast Arrive. Ain't nothing wrong with being a little freak. I went, real quick, I did go to the sphere. I'm not going to talk about it it but we'll talk about it later and they did not do

Freak Like Me they didn't do their first ever full band rendition no well did they do Boy Frauls from the Sky

no no they didn't anyway so we went back to Fright Fest and

I should explain that's why I'm dressed this way oh yeah please so my costume No, they didn't. Anyway, so we went back to Fright Fest and... I should explain. That's why I'm dressed this way. Oh, yeah, please, please. So my costume is... I'm wearing a Taz and Bugs shirt that says, Kicking it old school.

They're wearing backwards jeans. They're kind of dressed like crisscross. This is not licensed. There's no way this is licensed. And then I'm wearing some pajama pants. And I'll say, this is essentially the official uniform of anyone at Six Flags. Employee or guest, right? Yeah.

There are so many people walking around in pajama pants. So I just thought I'd say that for the listener. So he's in the mood. He's in the festive mood of Six Flags. How to start the stories that we experience.

Let me just say this first. I lost my driver's license and debit card at Six Flags. Hang on, hang on. You lost your driver's license, debit card, and insurance card. That is all true. I kept saying to

Gio, it feels like I did this on purpose, but I did not. This is a pain in the ass. No, no. We'll get to it. We'll get to it, but I wanted to start with maybe the hottest topic is that we were enjoying a very tall alien at Fright Fest, and then I go to

Gio, I go, my driver's license is missing. My debit card... You saw the alien, and you were scared, and I was like, oh, he's scared. I'm scared of the alien, too. And then I said, and this is, we'll get to it,

but I said, it smells like there's gas leaking. Because in the area where the alien was, near the DJ, there was a gas leak. What if that's just what the tall alien smells like? That's a nice smell on his planet. So here's the tall alien. Yes.

By the way, this guy rules. Awesome. And he was on stilts. First of all, there were so many people on stilts at Fright Fest, I thought, you know, maybe being on stilts is actually easy. Because there's just so many people that do it. And not concerned when children were around. Right. I used to think that must

be so hard to learn. And then I was like, you know what? I could be on stilts. I could probably do it. I think I could be on stilts. Yeah. Yeah. But they were fantastic. I mean, we'll get to it. But yes, yeah. Mike lost his social security card.

His birth certificate. So, what if this isn't Mike? This is a stolen identity sitting here. It's possible. Mike, can you bring up

that picture I sent you? So, this alien, I'm assuming, was in the entertainment area called Invasion. Oh, I should have made it bigger.

It was like an alien-themed area. Can I ask, did any of the Six Flags aliens say, take me to your dealer? Like the classic weed-smoking green alien, I mean. Some of the dads did, for sure. I do think we smelled weed quite a bit Oh yeah I'm so sorry If you weren't smelling natural gas

You were smelling weed Oh okay So you wanted to maybe start We can go back We won't get to that point Because that was kind of a turning point Yeah that was sort of a turning point. Yeah, that was sort of mid-trip.

I've got everything back, but it was a real pain. You've got to go to the DMV. It's a hole. First you've got to go to the Six Flags, lost and found. Well, we did. We'll go there. A reliable place, surely. Very little found.

So, okay. This is like a great teaser, you know, where you start in the middle and then you go back. So, yeah, we made the journey up to Valencia. And it was weird because there were no storms in the forecast, but the clouds were just ominous sort of going up like, oh, oh yeah.

So that was on our way out of Burbank toward Valencia. And I was like, what's going on in Valencia? And then I checked the weather and the weather was clear. It was like God was like, turn back now. There was something biblical

about it. It was pooled alien gas. And then like this, I turn and I go, is that one of the roller coasters? I mean, we were like 10 miles from it, but still.

It might as well be. You just fall off the end. Yeah. Into a hole. So I should say, very nice of them to invite us. That's right. They didn't listen to the first one. I don't know.

Oh, my God. We shouldn't be allowed. We shouldn't be invited. I mean, I do love the place. I do, too. We had a better time than the first time. Oh, yeah. It was smooth.

Well, no, Mike did lose a lot, but... You had a better time, but you lost all of your ID. Wow. I don't know how well you remember an old, many year ago episode. I still have my same plug-in car. I got an electric car right before doing the Six Flags trip. And before they directed me to plug it in near

what was basically like It was a fucking shack. It was an in-ground trip. It was like when your school was doing construction growing up and they bought some in-ground trailers. Yes. To do music class in.

Yeah. Yes. Yes. So that would be like an auxiliary building off the school. And so I'm like, I wonder what's going to happen this time. I wonder if they've upgraded the EV charging. And we got to the booth and I excitedly asked,

do you have EV charging? And they said, yes. We have four spaces for you to charge in. I was like, we were elated. We were like, boy, they're up. Maybe this is going to be a whole different situation. We're going to take all four.

I'm going to park vertically and then I'll plug one here, plug one in the tailpipe, plug one in another part of a car because I don't quite know how cars work. Put one in your mouth. And I'll just

drink the electricity. Like it was fog juice. So we did not have to park by the shack. It was nearly impossible to get to the actual charging stations because

there were so many cones blocking the one parking lot that had it. Well, also, there were four trucks parked in the spots that weren't electric. We looped around the parking lot three times. Yes. The full circumference of the parking lot before...

Which is roughly 10 square miles. We're running late for the media event, and I'm like, we've got to get to the full throttle bar. Yeah. Because the full throttle bar, again, is where the media event takes place. Mike was like, I have to get to the full throttle bar. Because the full throttle bar, again, is where the media event takes place. Mike was like, I have to get to that. I don't know if I was.

I do think it's fair to say that there was no time where Gio ever uttered, I need to get to the full throttle bar. So that's true. But then we found an employee, and this would kind of set the bar, because if you remember last time, it was fully staffed with teens. Yes.

And almost none of the teens knew anything. No. I will say we found many adults who were helpful. So, I mean, this is like breaking news, right? Six Flags employs adults now. And it immediately was different because when you talk to an adult, they understand why. Why?

And so we asked, we asked her, she was in the parking lot, one of the attendants, you know, where's the electric parking? And she said, oh, well,

it's over there. And she goes, there's four spots. And then she, she leaned in, she goes, one's broken. So there's only,

there's only three, technically only three. Yeah. And then, and then she goes, and we go, oh, okay. And then we go, do we have to go back around? She goes, nah, just go and find a spot. So adult, but very teen-like energy.

Yeah. But helpful teen energy. Yes. Here's my little message of hope. What if the helpful adults were the teens from four years ago. And they've grown up and they've learned. Wow.

That's our show. Beautiful. That is beautiful. And I'd like to think that is true. They learned the hard-fought lessons. Not that the pandemic taught everyone that, oh, shit, Six Flags caught the you-can-eat-food-here-everyday pass. Oh, yes. So now we've got a hardscrabble world out there.

Right. I just got a daily vibes that says you can do that again. What? I'm missing everything. You can take up says you can do that again. What? I'm missing everything. You can take up residence at Six Flags again. If you can fit in a locker, you can spend the night. Okay, so she was very helpful. Very helpful, yeah.

She said, yeah, go ahead. And she kind of just was like, yeah, whatever. She's like, because people are leaving right now. Yes. Go ahead and take a spot. But then she did kind of point us toward the open spots. But they were all one way. So we were kind of going head on.

We were pissing people off. Like, people weren't happy we were going the wrong way. She told us to break the rules. She did. She did, yeah. We would never have done it without her. But it honestly saved us because the place they wanted us to park was

the farthest parking lot in the gravel way past all the different deer blinds that they have sitting in those parking lots. Do you have a photo of the... I don't have a photo of the deer. Jason, in the first episode, named them deer blinds.

But they're almost like sniper towers. Sniper towers that sit every 50 yards in this massive lot. And there are just sleepy teens in them. And I can't imagine, even if they saw something that they needed to do something about, what do they do? Do they like light a lantern? And then like another one lights a lantern. And then another one does. And eventually that reaches the CEO of Six Flags.

And he calls the cops. Or he has like a fog horn or he like rings the bell in like a bell tower. Or a big horn. Yes. Right. And then the strongest team comes out. Well, the fog horn alerts foghorn leghorn.

I say I'll take care of this one. And he doesn't have to do a lot of heavy lifting. He can intimidate people just by looks because he is falling apart. Rotting foghorn Leghorn. So you're saying he's like a statue at a Six Flags version of Foghorn Leghorn. Yeah, it's a costume. It's a fur

costume. But it was made when Clinton was in office. You know, it's funny you say that. You're not wrong. There are no walk-around characters. And then even the stuffed plushies? You could call them plushies if you want. You know, you're a little stuffed animal.

They have more Super Mario stuff than they do Bugs Bunny. Oh, okay. That's funny. So Gio brings this up. We're looking at one of these claw machine things, stuff than they do like Bugs Bunny. That's funny. Gio brings this up. We're looking at one of these claw machine things and it's all Mario and Luigi and he says, man, I don't know. He goes, I don't know. Why isn't this

just filled with bugs? And I thought he meant literal bugs. And I answered in the most nonchalant way, yeah, I don't know. And then... To Mike's credit, his identity had been stolen at this point.

So he was just sort of... The gas leak was getting to him. Yeah. SoCal gas was like monitoring our symptoms. Okay, so we should, we're in the, we parked. This is going to take four fucking hours.

Buckle up. So I am so, I'm like the full throttle part of the media event, the full throttle bar, it's going to be over in 20 minutes. I gotta get there. I gotta get there. So I'm like, the full throttle part of the media event, the full throttle bar, it's going to be over in 20 minutes. I got to get there. I got to get there. So I'm being probably embarrassing.

I don't know. You can tell me what I was doing. No, no, no, no. It was the fastest I've ever seen you. All right. Yeah, it was going full throttle. Oh, yeah. You were hauling ass.

Because there was a point where we were sort of doing the run walk. And then you took off. I was like, damn, Mike's pretty quick. Let me say this. And I don't want to. I'm thrilled you're on the show. But you went back to the car twice. I did.

I did. I had to go back. Because I forgot a couple of things. I don't remember even why. I was just seeing red. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like,

we are going to miss the whole full throttle experience. Yes. I can't remember why I went back twice. Probably to make sure it was locked.

Well, I guess I appreciate that. I can't remember. Yeah, yeah. I can't wait to now learn what is in the full throttle bar.

Oh, well. Well, soon you will find out. Mike's kitchen now has a third glass. So the first time we did this Yeah, this lounge They gave you a free A plastic skull glass

That was filled with like a dreamsicle milkshake Let's just say the budget has been cut a little bit From the media event Which is fine I'm not Whatever But it's not quite the spread it used to be. So we run into the park.

I find an employee, and I incorrectly say the name of the place we're going. I say, where's the full-throttle lounge? And the guy looks at me completely befuddled. And he goes, well, there's a... He had no idea. He's looking around. He goes, there's a full I had no idea. It's like looking around. He goes,

there's a full-throttle bar over there. Ha! Ha! Alright, thank you. Probably. And I go, I think it's the same one. Yeah. I don't think there's a bar and a lounge. Yeah.

So luckily it was, in case you don't know, the Full Throat Bar is close to the entrance of Six Flags. So we made it over there pretty quick. Pretty quick. And we did get slowed down a little, the metal detectors. We did, yes. So there are metal detectors you go through and whatnot and then mike's metal detector went off and the teen said walk through again and then it didn't go off and he goes all right you're good and mike like almost was like, are you sure? And he was like, yeah.

Yeah, but I was so... Normally, I would have tried to clarify, but we were in a rush, so... Between the passes, is that when your wallet was pickpocketed? I don't think so. Because I think I had to show my... No, I didn't have to show my ID anywhere. To get into Six Flags?

Papers. Papers, please. I think I know where I lost it. I think it was by the tall alien. It was by the gas. It was by the gas. And by the gas, yeah. It's one of those no good stilt walkers.

You think they're cool, and then they're grabbing all your shit. That's true. Well, there's another person under them. Oh! And that's like opening up their little alien trench coat. What you think is a knee is a hand. Yeah, so if you're not familiar with the geography of Six Flags, this is the full-throttle bar, sports bar.

FT. No need to have the full name there. You know, shorthand. Some might say you might want to reprint the sign. Center the poster and the text on it, but fix the warping wood that surrounds it. That HP

inkjet ran out of ink a long time ago. During the print, I think. That's not a cockroach in the bottom left, is it? Yes, it is. I think That's not a cockroach in the bottom left, is it? Yes, it is. It is a bug. I think it is a bug.

Yeah, I think that is. I do think it's a bug. You got your wish. It is full of bugs. How did it get out of the claw game? Oh, my God. Okay, so, Mike, you went in. So, we kind of have a diversion here. Yes. Oh my god Okay so Mike You went in

So we We kind of have a diversion here Yes Where you go in Why don't you tell What happened when you were in there And I'll say what happened So okay

Yeah Previously Like a couple years ago When we did it There was like many tables And there were a lot of Different items you could get And this year

It was a little pared down. You could get Scarraccia wings. Okay. And this is what the table looked like when I was there. It was like one plate with two wings on it. Now look, was this the most opportunistic photo of all time as far as in between periods

where no one had loaded more wings onto this table? Probably. But the rest of the table is just black. There's no other. It's just tablecloth and crumbs. There's nothing on the red. Whatever the sign is on the right, there is no food that aligns with the sign.

I think you sent me this photo with no context in it. Jason, when I sent you this photo, did your tummy get a little rumbly? I mean, I got a little scared, but then my tummy got rumbly. So yeah, they had a couple wings to eat. They had these dirt cups, graveyard pudding. Buzz buzz. And then they had a couple drinks. They had a couple cocktails, devil's punch and demon lure.

And I had a devil's punch, which was basically like a sugar drink, which I liked. Graveyard pudding, by the way, is probably the worst thing I've ever heard called... I mean, worms in dirt, like, yeah, it doesn't sound great, but I know it from being a kid, but graveyard pudding feels like you want to do

another draft on that one. It's like our cemetery's on a flood plain. We got... The old groundskeeper is like, we got the graveyard pudding. It's loose. Get the snowshoe.

We got to wait for the winter season for a graveyard pudding to shore up. We just put it all in the river because at that point you can't tell who's who. There were some sandbags around it. So I was in there and I was like, I got to get Gio some graveyard pudding.

And I brought two graveyard puddings out. He came out. I wasn't looking at him. He goes, Gio. And I said, no. He would not eat the graveyard pudding. And I didn't know its name at the time. It was, the graveyard pudding was like chocolate pudding with stale Oreos on top.

And worms. And there were some worms involved. One or two. One or two. So I ended up just eating the stale Oreos off both graveyard puddings and then throwing. With your tongue? Yeah.

I tongued the Oreos. Tongue and stale Oreo. Yeah. Okay. So Mike goes inside and he's doing the, he's at the table and whatnot. And I'm kind of just hovering outside.

I was like, well, I'm going to do a lap because there's a little bit of time and stuff. So I do a lap around full throttle. Do you have a picture of the drain by Jim? I do, yes. Okay. Okay, so this is not... Someone did not throw up, so that's not a throw up, but this is... I think this is not... Someone did not throw up,

so that's not a throw up, but this is... I think this is devil's blood. The devil's punch. Devil's punch. The devil's punch because someone came out of full throttle while you were in there

and I was standing outside, took a sip and said, oh, this tastes like shit. And then threw it into the drain boosh touchdown that is such an aggressive spill he really spiked it down. He threw it down.

Did he get high-fived by anyone after? Well, he may have been inspired to spike because inside the full throttle bar. Bar, bar, bar. Bar, bar, bar. There was a plaque of the Raiders, which we love because the Raiders have not been in Los Angeles for decades. And this is one of the only things on the wall.

The Oakland, every theme park in Southern California still has a lot of Oakland Raiders merch. Yes. Which I've been told is not the way to say. Like a jersey. In case, the City Walk Saga theme says Oakland Raiders merch. Okay. That's not what sports people call.

What do they call it? Paraphernalia? Odds and ends? I don't remember, actually. Oh, okay. Who pointed this out to you? And also, this is the most micro-canceling I've ever heard. I was listening to the theme song of your 19-part mall thing.

I don't remember, but somebody thought that was really funny that we referred to it as merch. Anyway. Gotcha. There is just, Oakland Raiders are everywhere. Yes, yes, yes. So I do my lap. And my lap is around the Full Throttle Bar.

And I get to the back of the bar. And this is around the place where last time I saw the dad tell his son to watch your brother have to take a shit. That was in 2019. Okay, things are different now. You can't just say that. It's a different time. You bring your kids into the bathroom and say,

I have to shit weight here. And so I make my way around and I see, I made a little note of this. There's an audio, I should say there's an audio loop happening as I'm walking and it says,

warning, the park is about to be infested with demons, ghouls and ghosts it's like giving this like five minutes on a loop and then running into that same audio cue is if you want to smoke please go to the designated smoking

areas and as I do my loop I see one of the designated smoking areas which I thought as I was turning the corner, oh, the fog machines are on now. No. No.

People are, like, cigarettes are alive and well. People are letting it rip, and it's, like, just, it's basically just, like, a little concrete semicircle like this where you've, like, that's where you have to like sit and there's a little there's like a little line that you can't cross so I walked past them uh and I I got a little sad I'll be I got a little sad as I walk past them and then I make my way back around the other side of the full throttle bar and I'm now in what I'll describe as just like a children's Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes land. Yes.

Right? There's like Bugs House and I think that's it. But that's what's happening. And I'm coming up and as I'm walking up, there's a teen with his back to me and he's kind of guarding the area, like guarding Bugs' area. And a guy is walking towards him. So now I'm walking past his back,

a guy's walking towards him. And the teen says to the guy trying to walk into Bugs' area, hey, sorry, you can't, this area is restricted. And the guy goes, well, how did he get back here? And points at me, and I've simply just walked around the building. And the teen looks at me,

looks back at the guy and goes, damn, I don't know. So the op sec doesn't seem great at Six Flags. Between the damn I don't know and the like, oh, you can come through the metal detector. Yeah, yeah. That's fine. He didn't yell at you to leave, though.

No, he didn't. I just kept walking. He didn't even ask, like, sir, sir, any, there was no attempt. And then the guy was not allowed back to... Smoke, I guess I guess I could have been like hey you can just walk around the other side but at that point I was seeing a man

dump the the drink into the so let's jump around a little bit what's interesting about the Looney Tunes area, which is the kid area of Six Flags, and it's like Knott's has a kid area, and it's all kid rides, and it's very Looney Tunes heavy.

And at Knott's, you walk kind of through the Snoopy area, but it's not, they don't use it for the haunt. I see. Just kind of darkened, yeah. Yeah. So you really can't, you probably might not even be able to tell. At Six Flags they do a weird thing where they just throw like a harsh red light

on everything. So this is what he was guarding. He was like guarding the prep of the red lights. For on Looney Tunes Lodge. So it's like... But for the listener, that was like all smiling characters

but just lit red. Basically, since the rides aren't running, the Looney Tunes aren't around, it really feels like they died. Like it feels like something bad happened to the Looney Tunes because it's like lit. If the signs weren't lit at all, I guess you'd go, okay, well, yeah, if you really squint, you can see.

But it's like there's such a sinister vibe in this area because you're getting scares from like, it was like, this is a clown area or something. Yeah, that's me in the picture. I do look startled. Now, what's interesting, we've talked about this before on the show, is that in the daytime, you can go into Bugs Bunny's house. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. It's this odd little creepy, like the rooms where priests live. Yeah.

Yes. Somebody who's taken a vow of celibacy lives in this room. It's like the unfinished big short houses where Steve Carell is just like, what's going on? What's here? And we happened upon a group of teens. So this is what it looks like.

Yeah. This is where Bugs goes to self-flagellate. Oh, cool. They got the Texas Chainsaw Massacre license this year. Oh, my God. I had like a blurry photo, but I don't have it on here. So we ran in. So we come up, and all of a sudden,

we see teens that don't work there in Bugs' house. And they're being bad. Swearing? Oh, yeah. Discussing PG-13 homosexuality? They're climbing on top of Bugs' fridge. Two teen boys are sitting on top of Bugs' fridge and Two teen boys are sitting on top of Bugs' fridge and some

girl is taking a photo of them. And as soon as we walk by, I don't think because of us they left, but it felt like maybe that's why. Because they take the photo of Bugs' fridge and they jump down and they leave.

They got a deal vibe of like, these nerds are here. These older men. Do you remember what they were doing in the photo? It was pretty naughty, Mike. What were they doing? They were doing double middle fingers on top of Bugs' fridge. No.

Yes. No. Yes. It framed the whole of an American icon. Not on my watch. That's true, yeah. They were four and a half feet in the air doing double deuces?

I don't know about that. Do you call giving the middle finger a deuce? Isn't that one of the things it's called? I don't know. It's past my bedtime. It really is that I get to keep looking over and every time I look at you, I forget

that you are the sleepy time bear and I have like the point of view from the tea box. Like, wow. Wow. Starstruck. I'm starstruck. I'll tell you this,

this is a lot better than the last 10 p.m. show we did where I was eating the carcinogen candy. It just shamed me weeks off my life every time I completed a loop. Oh, yes. Just sadly gnawing on a candy thong.

Yeah. Mashing it like a horse. Wow. So, yeah, these teens were being bad. But I did think it was an interesting choice to keep Bugs' house lit up like this. Yeah. Because everything else is red, and then Bugs' house is lit like a normal night.

Well, I will say this is still very scary. Yeah. Maybe the scariest. I wasn't there. It might be the scariest thing I've seen so far well like what is what on his wall are those roots

coming into the house yeah but isn't it above ground there's no trees yeah he's a remedy bro it's underground thank you

oh okay so like you enter a underground world essentially okay I mean the fridge almost looks like Flintstones-ish

is the house though what does it look like on the outside uh essentially. The fridge almost looks like Flintstones-ish. Is the house, though, what does it look like on the outside? It's not a big carrot, is it? Oh, shit, he might live in a big carrot. It might be a big carrot, yeah. That's what I'm questioning. Where do the roots come from if it's a big carrot? Someone new up here.

Yeah, Mr. Smarty Pants. We're all lost now. What did we put on the spot tonight? Yeah, so yeah, that's either a root or a fucking fossil or something. But okay, so yes, that was that kind of children's area that they just threw a red light on. Yeah. That was the red light district of Six Flags. Oh, no.

Okay, Mike. So I'm sure you want to go in it. Whatever you got is good. So I heard the audio loop the night I met you, and you said you got me a pudding cup, and I said no. You refused to eat it, yeah. Yes.

And then I started to know. So it was getting towards the time of, so I had mentioned they're doing this countdown. Attention, park goers, demons. They're kind of getting up towards the Fright Fest boundary. And I'm like, oh, it's getting later. It's getting dark. And there are still a lot of little kids here.

Yeah, yeah. And so at that point, I said, i said mike i'm gonna start an infant count because i remember yes curious how many kids were gonna stay for this and young kids okay so when i say little kids they are not they are in a stroller or one of these wagons you can rent. They can't walk far on their own. Well, look, the under three crowd, they love the Conjuring universe. They like Bluey. They like Annabelle the Haunted Doll. They were very sad to hear about the houses that weren't open on opening night.

So there were a lot of infants. And so I'll just say my infant count total by the... So I started like around, what, 7.30? I saw my last infant at 11.30. My total count was 18. Yes. The one at 11.30 was going into the park as we were leaving. Because I go, I said 17,

and then I go, oh, no, 18. Yeah. As we were walking out. Okay, so then we head towards the opening ceremony. Yes. And they do sort of, all the haunts do like sort of a, you know, an opening of the haunt,

which is a fun thing. And this one, similar to the one I think a couple years ago where it was just, they like do a big countdown and it feels like a warning and then they unleash all the monsters,

people on stilts. So this is in the DC area where they do this. And there's a lot of, would you say generic clowns? Yeah, I kept saying, is that Joker's son? Because I don't know much about, like these guys know like this stuff. And I'm like, is that Joker? And Mike's like, that's not Joker.

I was like, they have the license to Joker. Why didn't they just make it Joker? Like, this is, they use this image a lot around the park. And there are a lot of the scare actors that do look like this. This looks like the Joker. It's kind of the Joker. It's like Jay Leno the Joker. You know what it looks?

It looks a little more like Flabber from Big Bad Beetleborgs. And written on his hair, it says ha ha, which is what you say when you watch Jay Leno. Yeah. That's true. We all say you uh you hear about this gas leak um so yeah a lot of the scare actors are clowns which makes sense obviously every

haunt has evil clowns but they're very much to us i think suggesting that they're related to joker and dc Universe without saying it. Yes. Because I suspect they don't have full license to make... It has to be. It has to be. Because it's right by their Batmobile for the Batman coaster. Yes.

Where, like, there's all these clowns up to mischief. But then there's pictures of Harley Quinn nearby to suggest in the park goer's mind. I heard some guy say Joker. Can I have a picture? I think it's kind of working. I think it does work, yes, because of how Joker-ish these performers are. But I think in the eyes of David Zaslav,

they are unrelated. Yeah. No, but in Halloween season, we celebrate the monsters. Cheers, Zaslav, this month. Yeah. That's who gets the final lantern of the... Of the six flags.

And then he gets it, and then he's like, he takes a piece of IP and throws it in his fireplace. Here's a photo of us with... Damn. Yes, that's a great... Ooh, that's a really gross photo. Yeah. So in that photo, you see the logo,

and so you see this all over the park, and it says Snickers Presents. And this really bugged me the entire night because there are no Snickers available. You would think if Snickers is the main sponsor, you could buy a Snicker, or you could get a frozen Snicker from a cart. There are no... We had to look so hard to find a Snickers. The Snickers were buried under other candy bars in a little shop. There was one candy shop we found, and then we were scouring them to find it. And then by the very right, there was a couple Snickers bars.

But you would think, yeah, they would be plentiful. You put a fun-sized one in graveyard pudding. Yes. Done and done. Yes.

That's the body that's buried. It's a little Snicker corpse. But, yeah, Snickers seemingly has been around with Six Flags forever.

They must have signed a deal decades ago. I can't... They took $5,000 a year or something. Yeah, they forgot. It's not big enough to show up on a spreadsheet. Not their concern. There's a direct deposit from Snickers. And no one is noticing.

That's still on auto pay? Oh, my God. I'm not going to say anything. Yeah, so we were, yeah, we were, there's so much Snickers everywhere and barely any actual bars. No available Snickers, yeah. Okay, I think here's the time, and this, it's going to sound like I'm being ungrateful, and I'm not, but part of getting, you know, a pass to go is that

generally, like, you get to skip a line so you get to experience everything. This was not the case for Press Day. There were two mazes we were allowed to skip the line for. The other mazes we were allowed to be in a different line that was faster than the regular line other mazes we were allowed to be in a different line that was faster

than the regular line. And then we were not allowed to skip the lines on any of the roller coasters. And the park was packed. So we didn't get to do any roller coasters the whole time because of how much we had to get to the mazes. I'll also say most

of the roller coasters were broken. They were not working. So it was creating, there was nowhere for people to go but the mazes. Missing track, car just dang it off, it broke. Well, we did see a breakdown in front of us. One of the roller coasters, I saw a roller coaster, was it when you were in Willoughby's? I think so. So a coaster broke down going up the lift.

Oh, yeah, I saw it too, yeah. You did see it, okay. And a teen climbed the tiny staircase that runs parallel to the roller coaster track, and there's people locked in, looking up, and a few of them are going, I want off, I want off. I want off. And the teen's not acknowledging them.

And the teen kind of comes down to the front of the car and kind of looks at it and kind of gives it a little. I'm not making this. Gives it a little kick and stuff. And something does something, but nothing. It was sort of on a lift hill. It was on a lift hill off of the little staircase. Right.

And then gives a thumbs up down to the control center. And the thing started back up again. And you know how when you're in a park and like people are going up and they're like excited and there's like a little bit of giddiness and it's like, I've never heard a more quiet roller coaster as they like ascended and went. They're just quietly saying the Hail Mary.

And then I said to you, I go, I don't care what's running today. I'm not getting on a roller coaster. You really did not want to go on a roller coaster. I just watched someone kickstart a fucking car. Because when we went the first time, we went on Twisted Colossus. And it crushed my genitals. And it made us feel like we were going to die. And I did want to go on it, but we would go over to the coaster,

and it was like an hour wait. So it was literally like we can either do the mazes, which is what this event is for, or go. So I'll say this right now. I do propose that we have to go back and do the coasters on a different episode. I would like Fright Fest as far as, this is a franchise now, obviously, Fright Fest, but it's going to have to, you know.

Snickers presents. It's going to have, Snickers presents Fright Fest. It's going to have to split off into its own sort of sub-episode. Right, right. Well, also, you know what I'm always saying? You've got to experience the queue. You can't skip the queue. Well, for Justice League, that's true.

So we did not do any coasters. I wanted to do Batman or Riddler's Revenge, but we just literally didn't have time. Right, right. Okay, so the ceremony opened. So the opening ceremony was beautiful. It was great. I mean, it's really...

They did a great job Like I'll say Like they really They like They're Everyone's trying Really hard Like they're like

Putting a lot of effort in We love the effort It's like Six Flags Is holding These people back In a way The Six Flags Yes I agree

The Six Flags The performers are really Corporation itself Is the issue. It's not the performers. And again, thank you for the tickets, but that's it. Well, I Googled as we were sitting here because I was trying to find the quote that the newer CEO said,

like, we want to change your image. We don't want to just be like a babysitter park where people drop off their kids. And I couldn't find that, but the second result immediately I found was firing a 26-leg CEO change.org petition. Whoa, how many people have signed on? 1,434.

That's not very many. They're trying to get to 1,500. So they haven't gotten there yet. What does it say on there? What's the reasoning for them wanting the CEO fired? Given the current state of the Six Flags chain, as opposed to the radically different state five years ago. In regards to his comments

on the recent earnings call where he stated the guests were of the, quote, Kmart and Walmart category. Well, yeah. Let's fire him then. Let's sign the petition. We're looking for the big

lots and target crowd Put our names on that petition Wow Jason pass that around so we can sign it And Zasloff Cackled as he said He loved it Putting down his customers

Very rude But like all the photos that we've looked at Like Walmarts and Kmarts are cleaner. Yeah. Yeah. They're like full on grocery stores. Yeah. Yes.

That's what's true. You can find a Snickers at a Walmart. I would hope. There's like two Kmarts left and they look, you know, like they're functioning better. Yeah. Yes. The Snickerless zone presented by Snickers. The scariest concept of all.

What if all the Snickers disappeared? We're going to get to the mazes, but this brings up... This brings up... Okay, I joined a couple Facebook groups that are devoted to Six Flags Magic Mountain. It's interesting because there's a lot of factions involved in these groups. Some are very

goofing on Six Flags and some are very defensive of it. Trying to say, oh, there's great scare actors and the makeup people are great and that's probably all very valid and true. And then, you will get sort of a peek into controversies that are happening in the annual pass holder community and the big one that i noticed was there's an issue with the vip lounge apparently there is a tier of annual pass at Six Flags

that on the website promised you access to a VIP lounge. The Coca-Cola VIP lounge. The Coca-Cola VIP lounge. And all of a sudden, in the last couple weeks, Six Flags changed their policy, and now you have to pay $11 to get in the VIP lounge. And people are fucking furious. Which I understand.

It makes a lot of sense. So we had to check out what the VIP lounge was. Yes. Okay, so this is outside. Yeah. Well, we got a lot of amenities here. Wait, the first one? The first one, in and out access.

So not only can you go in, you can leave as well. Door functionality. You're allowed to leave. I know a lot of you thought you'd be able to go in and not come out. I know people on the Facebook group are saying this is hell. Don't worry, everyone. Hotel California rules do not apply here. Okay, so it reads, you know, for the listener,

comfortable seating areas, massage chairs, charging ports, video games, food, ball table, free drinks and snacks. Okay. Free, they say. However, not anymore. So not anymore. You have to pay $11 to get in. First thing we noticed looking in, because Mike was like, maybe I'll do it. I was like, well, let's just peek inside

first. And we peeked inside. Do we have a photo of that? Yes. It It it it it's rough scratched up window it's got it's got like a

boys and girls club rec room energy to it yes a lot of stray wires yes it really looks like those memes of rec room energy to it. Yes. A lot of stray wires. Yes. It really looks like those memes of a picture of a nearly empty apartment and there's a flat screen TV

and a dirty recliner and it says, when men live alone. Yes. 100%. So that's the... That's the gaming house. Gaming house.

Okay. So the first thing you'll notice in this picture, and I'll describe it. So this is the gaming house. We're taking this from the outside in. We didn't know if you could go in, you'd come out at this point. And so...

And there are one TV and I I watched this happen because there were a couple teens in there one of them left their backpack which is sitting

on the ground there their mom was not happy about that there were a lot of teens lingering here yes and it was the most

teen presence I felt the whole night heavy teen energy in this area and so so the TV on the left definitely didn't work because area. And so, the TV on the left definitely didn't work because the kids said so.

And the TV on the right, the Xbox, was busted. It was just on a loop trying to connect. And nothing's on. Yeah, no, nothing's on.

Also, the sign said there was a foosball table. There was no foosball table. We looked up and down for the foosball table. That's up and down for the foosball table. That's a type of game they had. Yes.

If you could turn the Xbox on. You could play foosball. Foosball table, the video game, which is not available today. I will say this. They did, I don't have a good photo of it, but they did have cookies and Sprite. Nice. So you could get cookies and Sprite in there.

You put those together. Sleepy Tom Bear is awake. He's out of hibernation. So I go up to the person working the lounge, and I said, oh, how much is it to get in? And they said, well, it's $11 if you have the annual pass, or if you don't well it's $11 if you have the annual pass or if you don't it's $22 and I was like no thanks

thank you so we did not go in I guess we should have to get the free Sprite and cookie but it would be the most expensive Sprite ever procured yeah in hindsight I think we should I should have at least done it. Next time,

I will spend the $22 to see. Like, could you just clear out the Sprite in a garbage bag? Like, they call it the Jason Sheridan. Load up. Bring a Force Flex glad bag with you.

Yeah, you got to get a sturdy... Oh, you got to get a Force Flex Glad Bag with you. Yeah, you got to get a sturdy... Oh, you got to get a Force Flex. Jason's preferred type of garbage bag. Yeah. So... Yeah, maybe... I think maybe, yeah, if you had like a ton of kids to feed

and maybe you do it... Maybe that's the new hack. That could be. Because it used to be you get the annual pass with the food plan and you could eat every meal there. And now you just go into the VIP lounge, get a sack of cans. Maybe that's where Bugs is living now.

Okay, so we went past that. You know what? I have something to say. Once in a while you've said, and then we'll get to the mazes. I do not remotely care if you get to the mazes. I hope there's like five more lounges to discuss. I'm all about lounges.

I want to hear a little about the mazes. There's some questions I have. From the Facebook group, I cropped out people's names here. This is really funny. Somebody said, Hurricane Harbor is having a staffing issue and none of the slides are open today. Only the Lazy River and the wave pool. So they can keep letting people in and taking their money

instead of just, I'm so sick of this. They will never see another annual passports from me. They will never see another single red coin from me. I'm done with what at one time was a great place to be. And then the person comments, many of their employees are minors. They have school today. It's probably busier today

since LAUSD is off. So, maybe all the teens are now staffed at Hurricane Harbor, which is the park right next to Six Flags. So, if you join the Six Flags group on Facebook, that's sort of like the type of information you'll get. Also, Mike, your Facebook

photo is Howard the Duck. Yeah, he's playing a guitar. Yeah, sweet. Call him Howard the Duck. I can't feel it. I love this song. So, I had to eat a meal.

We talked about this last time. I kept misremembering where things were from last time. It's a very convoluted part. It's hard. Yes. It feels like it's changing around. Like if you were to go in one building and come out,

it's like changing geography. And like you go, okay, so last time, four years ago, the app was not even working at all? It wasn't working this time. Well, it was working technically better, but you would go in and you would click on something and it would say, no ride found for this ride LD.

So you would continually get error messages when you would click out. Because we were trying to figure out where mazes were. And it would just be... And then this one was like, illegal input com.sixflags.kmp.cor. Wide thrill level API model does not contain element with name Uncone.

Unknown is misspelled. Dollar sign thrill level. And Mike's like, why aren't we riding the coasters tonight? So I ate at... So I ate at Johnny Rockets. And we forgot... I almost... I forgot that you have to, like...

If you want to drink a beer, you have to drink a beer in a pen. They put you in a little pig pen. And there are, like, two pig pens you're allowed to drink in. Yes. One is by the Johnny Rockets, and one is by...

I know it's not a different Johnny Rockets, but it feels right to say that. But there's a separate Johnny Rockets where you drink. Right, right. So I did that. The meal was insane. It was like $50. Are you serious? I think I have...

Well, I bought a beer and then I bought us two... I bought a hamburger and fries. I bought a beer and I bought two waters. And it was $45. Oh, my God. $43. With a little member benefits discount even. For the listener, Jason just fainted.

Oh, that's the sleeping cap. It's kicking in. A beer is like way more expensive than like California Adventure. Like beer is like what, $13, California Adventure like beer is like what $13 $14 it's all it's climbing everywhere I'm not saying it's good I'm just saying I was like shocked so yeah you get to so I was like $45

and I felt yeah I felt like I became Jason Sheridan at that moment like I embodied him but also this is what like now having done Shacktoberfest that I finally did a haunt thing, I'm just like, I think rule of thumb, don't ever eat

at any of these things. For food, for cost, for shadiness. Sure. For life. Yeah. To live. To keep living my life. You either eat there every day or not at all. You know, those are the rules, folks.

Those are the rules. Train your stomach. Okay, I think we now, we start to head towards the haunts, right? I'll say this. I want to show a video that you took real quick of the DJ that was playing. Oh, yeah. I'll say this. I want to show a video that you took real quick of the DJ that was playing.

I really like the juxtaposition of that. There was a rapid fire zoom in and out of a Dippin' Dots cart. That's what you should have had for dinner. Yeah. Only 28 bucks. Per dot. Okay, so I had one small thing before we get to the haunts, which we had to double back,

and what we didn't notice when we first walked in were the six flags. And we didn't notice them because they think they were lit up because we were arriving during daytime. At night, they were lit up. And I said, daytime. At night they were lit up. And I said, Mike, look at the six flags.

They're flying at half mast. Six flags was flying at half mast for Dianne Feinstein. All six All six What do we think Yes Of course

All six Are you a monster And find out where Bugs is Fuck six, what do we think? Yes! Of course, all six! You're the monster! And find out where Bugs is? Fuck! More flags, more fun. But today, a little less fun. It's somber remembrance. So they were all flying at half-mast.

For Diane. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I put a little bit of a damper on the giving. Can I show one? You know,

Mr. Six worked in her office in 1943. Do you think Do you think Newsom appoints Mr. Six as the new senator?

The spry energy. That's right. He's as old as Biden, but he's got more energy. Yeah, it's true. I just want to show a quick photo of an exterior. Live life gear. A building just says live life gear. Live life gear. A building just says live life gear. Live life gear.

I'm not sure really what it means. Anyway. So I guess we could talk about it. I'm going to try to talk about the venue narc. We shouldn't do too much more, which is horrible to say. Because I could do this for three hours longer. But just to be aware of that. Yeah, no, I hear you.

This is, what a... Unless we could just, we could keep it open until 5 a.m., right? Yeah. It's a sleepover now. So I'll say something positive that I noticed from a distance, okay? Six Flags had a saw maze

and a conjuring maze. Yes. So that's licensed the movies people know we did both of those here's the thing Fright Fest we went on the 30th of September Fright Fest opened two weeks prior without the conjuring maze open

or the saw maze open so people were going to Fright Fest without the two sort of headliner mazes open and people in the Facebook group were like tracking it like any action at the saw maze yet so people they knew that's where saw was but it wasn't open yet people were like school started be patient

well hey I saw that little jigsaw on a tricycle so he might have had class yeah we should say honestly here's the thing like saw on a tricycle, so he might have had class. Yeah, we should say, honestly, here's the thing. We had a great time. Both Saw Maze and Conjuring Maze were really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We went to Saw first. Is that right, Mike? We went to Saw first,

and this happens on some mazes where a lot of times the scares come from an actor, a clown, a crazy chainsaw man jumping out at you or something. The saw maze is different. It's just people crying for help. It is just sad people being hurt badly,

irreparably hurt, begging for you to help them. And you can't do anything. You want to. So what you're saying is it was a six flags. Got it. They were so committed. They were great.

All the performers were great. And I don't have the one photo here that I sent you last night. Possibly the most disturbing scene from Maze, of all the haunts I've gone to this year, is in the Saw Maze. And it is a woman who is just in a pile of syringes. Oh, right. And there's syringes. Oh, right. And there's like syringes

like sticking out of her arm. And boy, that sticks with you. It's an image. I didn't like that you sent it to me again. Yes. It was in this at one point. I feel like someone deleted, like some entity deleted it

because it's so disturbing. Right, yeah. But it was, I said it was great. I didn't like it like i did like but they were really committed that's like your type of thing that i think you would probably like uh enjoy it uh but i i'll say that um i liked and i this is my this is my preference of all these mazes when the um when like the scare actors like, the scare actor is kind of, like, it feels like they're going off script a little. They're having a little fun with it.

So, like, a lot of the rooms we go past, they're, like, the person in the syringes, or there's someone, like, you know, his legs cut off, or they're, like, tied up to something, and they're, like, help me, help me, help me. And then one person, I think you heard this, Mike, was someone, was, like, a teenager, and he goes, please, I think you heard this, Mike, was like a teenager, and he goes, please, I have a family. Which I really liked. Everyone was great in there.

I'm someone's son. I'm someone's son. I work at the water park Yeah So that one was a little bit of a change up The Conjuring I guess Was my favorite I think Of everything

God I know we have so much We're not going to get to It's a sequel I think Yeah we'll do a sequel. On the way up to the Conjuring, there's a place that just sells glassware. There's just a big booth that sells glassware. It's like a big mall kiosk.

It's like a place at a mall or something. And you can get your name engraved on a piece of glass. It's crazy. And then we saw this. Oh! We came so close. It's the Jason mug with your favorite thing, soccer.

Soccer! Football! But yeah, the Conjuring maze was really good. And they do crazy stuff at Six Flags. Like, they change the elevation you're walking at sometimes, which is like, that's not, they don't do that at Horror Nights. You don't walk downstairs in a maze. That's just how the ground is there.

They had no choice. Yeah. There was a performer there you liked a lot that was the guy who kind of ushered us in. You go into the Conjuring house. The whole bit is it's the family's house. I don't know much about the Conjuring, but I think it's like they collect the shit.

Yeah, they're investigators. Paranormal investigators. And everything's haunted in the room. And then they, for some reason, keep the thing afterwards. They don't learn their lesson. And so we go in, and there's a scarecrow immediately.

And he goes, wait, wait wait what are you doing in here and I'm like this guy's great he was really selling it and he goes don't you know what happens at this time of night and he gives us this spiel of like this is not a house you want to be in get out of here get out of here and then lightning crashes like there's an effect

and he goes oh it's too late he goes to the basement my friends and so we all run to the well like you know head to the basement but there's just that natural lull that happens where like people are like walking into the next scare and i just tend to be like the last person to go in i'm not like that is excited i want those people to have that. And so, I kind of get stuck in the opening room

with him for a second because like, there's a lull. And I look back at him and he goes, yeah, to the basement. Yeah, yeah,

to the basement, to the basement. As if I was going to like, run out the front door. Yeah, you can do it. Go ahead. You got this. To the basement, to the basement. As if I was going to run out the front door. Yeah, you can do it. Go ahead. You got this. To the basement, my friend.

That was your favorite guy the whole night. I love that guy. You kept talking about him. Yes, I did like him. He was great. He had a great energy. Kind of like an Orson Welles. Like a young Orson Welles.

Yeah, a 22-year-old. A teen Orson Welles. A teen Orson Welles. Orson Welles that worked, a 22-year-old. A teen Orson Welles. A teen Orson Welles. Orson Welles that worked at a water park. Right. I work the wave pool, my friend. I guess we can close that. Let's just talk real quick about Sewer of Souls.

Okay. Yeah, all right. Give us a second, by the end of it. Sewer of Souls is a returning maze, of course, and it is a maze where you wear 3D glasses. Which I brought. And Gio maze where you wear 3D glasses. Which I brought. And Gio remembered to bring his 3D glasses. And it is very much the same. But I'll say this.

We kind of trashed Sewer of Souls in a way a couple years ago. And I think both of us left Sewer of Souls this year realizing we made a big mistake. Yeah. We kind of loved Sewer of Souls this time. Yes. Especially when you're not wearing the glasses.

The glasses are... They say on them, only for viewing of chroma depth 3D images. That's not what's in Sewer of Souls. No. Sewer of Souls is just props and black lights and stuff. A bunch of poop?

Yes. A big pile of shit where a woman's standing next to it. And she says, do you want some? That's the first scene in Sewer of Souls. You want some? And it's a big pile of shit. $11 for annual pass holders. $22 for general audience.

The Coca-Cola Super Souls. Sorry, our Xbox Series S is down. There's one part of Super Souls where I believe you're getting shit out of a big anus. Because there's a big inflatable, like Scott's suit,

on both sides, and you're kind of pushing through it. And Dion and I are like, wait a minute, did we not notice this last time that you're going through an anus? It's like the implication is like, you are now the shit. You are the shit. You become, be the shit.

Yes. So please enjoy, as you're exiting tonight. We've set up some inflatable anuses as you. Happy squeezing. I know we're in the home stretch here. I just wanted to make a note. Mike, you were offered the shit, the big pile. And she said, do you want some?

And then you go, what? And she goes, we've got plenty. Which made me laugh. That was good. She was really fun. She was good. She really was good. I mean that sincerely.

Yes, yeah. That was really good. And we both left Sewer of Souls going, Sewer of Souls is good. It was good. We like Sewer of Souls. We were too hard on it. And there were things you didn't even remember. And you go, that must be new.

And I was like, it's not. I looked it up. I think it's because I didn't wear the glasses. Maybe. I feel like they would pass these around like a D.A.R.E. officer and be like, this is what drinking's like. Yeah, it's just making you disoriented.

They're horrible. If you want to put them on for a moment. You can migraine. They also gave us kind of 3D glasses like that when we went to the Christmas drive-thru and it made it look like every light was like snowflakes or snowmen or stuff. You drove with these? No, but that's what I was about to say.

They handed us these. They went, here's your pound and a half of fudge and here's your Christmas glasses. And I'm like, I have to drive. I am not going to put these on. All right, I guess I'll just park, finish the fudge, then get on the road. Well, how do we go out here?

I'm sorry, this is the case. It's hard, I know. There's so much stuff, and obviously, it's going to have to have a sequel. I mean, also, here's the thing. Hey, that's great. Here's the thing. To do a Fright Fest 3, we need to add some people to the team.

Okay? So it can't just be Gio and I going to Fright Fest every year. Now, Scott has leveled up his haunt game. That's true. Yes, with the help of Shaq. But I'm going to need a pledge from two other guys that they're going to Fright Fest with us next time. You know what?

I honestly, I kind of wanted to this time around, but I had a wedding to attend. So I was at a wedding that night. But let me say, let me get oddly heartfelt for an episode that was just about a bunch of shit and a big anus. That I like... oddly heartfelt for an episode that was just about a bunch of shit and a big anus. I'm at this wedding. I've had a drink or two. And I see a picture of the boys back at it.

And I texted you this, Mike. I was genuinely like, wow, Mike and Gio are there again. I've never felt more like a nerd for my own podcast. I'm so happy the dynamic duo made it back. I would love to join next time around. Okay, all right, all right. And before we can let you go, I think we have to give you a really big,

we can't let a Fright Fest episode end without, this is a big old say the line, Bart situation. Do you know what line we're referring to? I think it'll help if I put this image up. There's Mrs. Taz. There he is with her. She's wearing the

clockwork orange glasses to pry her eyes open. She's wearing the clockwork orange glasses to pry her eyes open. That's right. That's right. A fresh coat of paint, we thought. They do look good. They look good. Yeah, yeah.

They look good. Does it make you think anything? Yeah. I mean, Six Flags sucks, and I love it. Yay! Yes! He did it! He did it! He did it!

Anthony Geo, you survived Podcast The Fright. You know, I know you gotta get out of here. You have a prior engagement so we'll let you go and we'll do the wrap up

without you. But give it up for Anthony Geo, ladies and gentlemen. So happy to have you back. Incredible. Hey, Andy. Enjoy your screening of Killers of the the flower moon it starts at midnight it'll be out by four yeah you'll be fine so yeah yeah all right that's anthony geo folks that's anthony g hey uh as for us you survived tonkast the fright live

uh uh really happy to have you here. And Boys! Boys! Oh! Whoa! Whoa! That's so odd. Right as there's an exit, there is also an entrance. What the fuck is that?

Don't you remember? It's been so long. It's the Sector Keeper Wow We haven't talked to the Sector Keeper in years Sector Keeper What's going on, buddy? I'm flying high and I'm feeling fine Oh, wow

Jeez, hell yeah, brother. Boys, boys, all your talk of Halloween haunts has awoken my ghostly spirit. And now I have an important mission for you. Oh, my God. Well, look, the clock is ticking. We do not have time to get into the mission. Is there some way that you could just, like, give us the gist of it? Yeah, yeah, let's just get to the gist of it.

So, yes, I'll tell you more very very soon but for now there's only one place this mission can be achieved beautiful sunny orlando oh okay uh well i guess we're uh, I mean, I would say yes But we don't have any choice in this, do we? No I don't want to get haunted So, hey, thank you so much For popping in, Sector Keeper, we'll talk about it soon We'll see you soon, boys I will inflate here

Wow, what a Great guest array And you survived, I'm going to try to inflate right at the very end. Hey Minotaur, if you're back there, come say goodnight. But you survived Hauntcast the Fright. Thank you so much for coming. Thanks to Anthony Geo.

Thanks to the Sector Keeper. Thanks to Scary Ernie. Thanks to the Minotaur! No! Matt Mazzani, a good pal. Thank you so much, Matt, and thank you all for coming. Thanks for dressing up.

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