Podcast: The Ride - Haunted Mansion 6 LIVE

Episode Date: October 27, 2023

The annual tradition continues as we make our way through the Haunted Mansion! But this time we're dressed like The Munsters and there's a live audience! Recorded live at Dynasty Typewriter, October 20, 2023 Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart's Halloween Costumes 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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Is this haunted intro actually stretching, or is it time to start the show? There's no turning back now. It's Hot Cast the Fright Live! Ah, how do you do? Hello, hello, and welcome to the first ever Hauntcast the Fright Live. Oh yes, it's the only, it's a show that does not just make out-of-date 1960s pop culture references. Tonight, we also dress like them. That's right. For anyone just listening, you may not be aware.

Nothing, nothing. Oh, that was fast. Well, first of all, you may not be aware Mike was wearing bolts. He is now wearing half a bolt, and not for long. Darn, darn, darn, darn, darn. Carmen! Herman! May perhaps that all implies to the listener that we have finally assumed our ultimate true form. We are at last dressed as the Munsters.

Here, let's go down the line. Who do we got over here? Herman. He sure is. And I'm old grandpa Gardner come visit my restaurant you'll find me reading a newspaper in the lobby and I won't acknowledge you and over here and I'm little Eddie and I don't remember any of his little things. Although we did have multiple conversations on whether I would

be Eddie or Grandpa. I know. Well, look, it felt like a default. I mean, ultimately height order had to be taken into consideration. I had to be honored. Height order,

costumes, all the best parts of podcasting of an audio medium. Enjoy it, listener. But also enjoy it, people here in person. Thank you for coming. Enjoy it, people live streaming. Thanks to Dynasty Typewriter.

Hello, live streamers. Hello, live screamers. We're so excited. Let's take a seat. No reason not to take a seat. Well, Herman, if you want to do it in sort of long-legged, stiff-legged fashion, feel free. Not to put you on the physical comedy spot. Yeah, fuck up that chair we don't own. The bit was he would break things when he sat in them.

Oh, see, again, I think we're discovering we don't really know the monsters, we just like dressing like them. That's good, yep. Great. Okay. Wonderful. And nothing is broken. Oh, wait, Jason, don't sit on your little guy. You got a little guy

with you, too. Oh, I got the little guy. We did know that about Eddie. Eddie has his little wolf here. You got a little guy with you too. I got the little guy. We did know that about Eddie. Eddie has his little wolf here. Jane found a little wolf man. It's a dog toy wolf man because all of the others were, the movie appropriate ones were $40 to $50.

This one was significantly less and we can give it to the dog later tonight. He can have a good time. It's a thrill. It's a thrill. It's a thrill to be here, but it's especially a thrill to assume this Munster form. And for me personally, even being kind of like a cheap version of Grandpa Munster feels really great.

Just given the pedigree of who has played this part in the past. Of course, you've got Al Lewis, obviously. Al Lewis is the primary and the originator, and he's great, and his restaurant was great. But last year, in a new iteration of the Munsters, somebody else joined the proud lineup of grandpa portrayers and that is an

actor named Daniel Roebuck give it up for Daniel Roebuck Daniel Roebuck comes up a lot on the show because he also played another role that is very important to us the role of Jay Leno in the HBO TV movie The Late Shift which we covered in one of our longest

episodes ever the less theme park the longer we go TV movie, The Late Shift, which we covered in one of our longest episodes ever. The less theme park, the longer we go. And I bring all this up for a reason because, are we up to it? Are our stills up? Mike, can you bring up the picture I have kept secret from you?

Look at that! My bolts fell off. I'm in such shock. Roebuck! Listeners, I met Daniel Roebuck and I've kept it secret from my host for weeks. This happened on October 1st and I wanted to tell you as soon as it happened.

What? And then we keep doing episodes and I'm like, is now the time? Is now the time? No, no, no. And then eventually it just became, I'm going to be dressed as Grandpa. I'm going to show everybody that I met

a Grandpa. I met a Grandpa! Wow. Look at that! And that is, I know that background, that is the historic Tam O'Shanter Lobby. That is it. Tam O'Shanter. I met Daniel Roebuck

in the lobby of Walt Disney's favorite restaurant. Now I feel like doing it on stage is usurping the... I've been wanting to see your guys' faces. I'm shocked. I've been wanting to announce this news for so long. I'm also shocked that you could keep a secret

from us that long. I told as many other people as I could to get the Jones out. But I knew ultimately I had to tell you on mic and then eventually on stage. History, I couldn't believe it. What did the average person say

when you said the sentences to indicate what happened here? Well, you are assuming that I texted any average people. Fair enough, fair enough. Griffin Newman knew right

away. My wife, Erin, knew right away. A gasp in a text message form. And this photo was taken by a friend of the show, Buzz Buzz, and he Yeah, well, thanks for the woos for that. It's crazy because on his very phone the day before, he had texted a photo of this man,

but due to his role in a Star Wars cartoon... Here's a real test of the audience. Does anyone know who Daniel Roebuck plays in Star Wars? Grease. Wait, Grease was the name? Wow, thank you. Got some Grease heads here tonight. Grease heads Wow. Thank you. Got some grease heads here tonight. Grease heads here.

Grease. This is also, it's really it's just like, it's an audience that has your back. I knew I could throw that out. And I'd be mad. Thank you so much for that. Anyway, incredible. He was super nice. I said, I have a toy of you.

My co-host on my podcast gave me a toy of you. He said, oh, a toy of you. My co-host on my podcast gave me a toy of you. He said, oh, you have a podcast. We talked for a little bit, and guess what? I got them digits. So... Wow.

So... Holy shit. Nothing's officially... You believe me? You are not prepared for this on stage. Should we pull the Munsters episode down?

We'd like to, but... Not about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, possibly. It's behind a paywall, I think. That'll do. Okay. You've all heard it, though.

So we can pull it. Unhear it. Audio deneuralizer, whatever the Men in Black thing is. Okay. So anyway, possibility of Roebuck content to come, but I had to do some live Roebuck content here for you now. Oh, I need a lot. I just need a second. Yeah, I know. Take it. Yeah, me content here for you now. Oh, I need a second.

Yeah, I know. Yeah, me too. I'm trying to think, other than just, if it was you and Eisner in the TAM, and you got his phone number, that's maybe the only other thing I would have been more excited about. I also, I wanted to be really careful about how I did that little introduction, because I didn't want you to start thinking,

and ladies and gentlemen, here he is. And then you get disappointed. I hope the photo was enough, is enough. It can remain up as long as anyone wants. Thank you, Daniel. You were so nice to me. Hopefully we can talk again. That's amazing. Yeah, how about that? Oh, I know.

We gotta calm down now, I think, for this. Well, maybe the thing to do is to put the spotlight away from us and away from Mr. Roebuck and say, like, okay, it's pretty. I was hoping that I could check out costumes a little bit, but it's pretty blinding light, so I can't really tell. But we stepped up our costume game, and I am curious.

It was a little light. If any. Oh, thank you. Thanks for giving us something. Okay, I see some stuff. I see some stuff. I see some stuff, but still people would have to call it out I guess the question is

does anybody feel like they are wearing a costume that is especially theme park oriented and oh my god well we've got a really good you know what, here guys, come on up if it's not so insane to come on up I think you may have won already wow, we have I can see enough have won already. Wow. Oh, my. We have...

I can see enough that this is a... Oh, my God. Wow. We got an awe from the audience because that is a Winnie the Pooh and a hopping Tigger. Oh, my God. Wow.

Oh, jeez. Come on up. Wow, wow. Oh, thanks for coming. I'm careful, yeah. Wait, I'm like... Oh, wait. The hand? Whoa. The hand?

The hand goes? This was my childhood beloved toy was to squeeze the hand. Can I give you a hug? Is that okay? I won't leave you out, Tigger. Thank you. What are you guys' names?

Holly. Will. Holly and Will. Great to meet you. And I think Mike's got something for you. You know what? I have two little treats over here for two people that dressed up. And of course, I have little toys.

Save the hopping. Save the hopping. Let's all say your favorite Disney character at once. 1, 2, 3. Dr. Lily Houghton. Wow. From Disney's Jungle Cruise. So I have two Lily Houghtons.

Wow. Thank you for dressing up. Wait, Holly and Will, is that correct? Alright, awesome. Thank you for Holly and Will. Winning the Pooh and Tigger. Four listeners. Incredible costumes. I felt like I needed the hug

because it felt so theme park quality. God, that's fantastic. Was it better or worse than hugging Minnie? Well, you know the answer. Oh, you're right Yes Well yes Because I went in for the hug

As opposed to You all felt like it was a misread of a signal The Disneyland mini did not want to hug me And I stand by that All the Orlando minis wanted to hug me It was about Eight minutes to park closing And there was a line behind us

with actual children. You think that's... Yeah, and I got in the line before them, so I got a hug before them. That's how it works. That's how lines work. He did call firsties. Orlando Minis wanting to hug you feels like we're

somewhere close to like a Lou Bega kind of song premise should i write a song called orlando minis absolutely and i don't mean to dictate a genre but it also it kind of feels in the vicinity of pitbull yeah i couldn't i couldn't love the sound of that more. You've been looking for a reason to get those short leather gloves to wear while you podcast to perform. I guess the question is does Pitbull wear...

Little leather gloves. Right? I can picture it. I'm not sure if that's the kind of thing you can ask them about. I don't know. Grizz or whatever. Sure.

I feel like I saw another hand go up on this side, though. Okay, everybody's pointing at somebody. Oh, I see it. Okay, you want to come up here? We have... Oh, I don't have more. We don't, but I have a...

I have kind of a, like... Oh, yes. Cool, go ahead. Not a physical present, but something... Oh, do you have a Dr. Lily hotness? Look at this. Wow.

Wow. Here, Mike, do you want to.... Lily hot? Look at this. Wow. Wow. Here, Mike, do you want to? Oh, my gosh. I think I know what we're dealing with here. Wow. Wow. What's your name? I'm Crystal.

Crystal. Thank you so much. Wow. Thank you for dressing up. Would you like to announce anything specific about what your dress is? I'm Beulah from Country Bear Jamboree. Nice. One of the Sunbonnet trio.

That's what I was scared. I was like, you must know the name. And you clearly know the name. Yeah, I think my two other friends already decided which ones we were. Great. I'm glad you sorted that out. You have to. Let me, here is the, that is an amazing costume.

Much appreciated. And here is your present. It's not something that you can take home, but if you're up for it, would you like to do the honors of introducing tonight's topic? Okay. Here you go. And I'll use my

microphone. Here is the topic reveal, courtesy of... Wait, sorry, what's your name again? Crystal. Okay. Alright, here you go, and I'll give you the microphone. Foolish good boys. Please discuss The Haunted Mansion. Yeah!

Thank you so much. Take that if you want. Take a dirty bolt on the ground if you want to. You worked on one of the dirty bolts? No. No. No're done. Want the dirty bowl? No. No. No, please.

Give it up for Crystal, everybody. Incredible costume. Wow, wow. And that takes us to this. We have now revealed this, tonight's topic, the Haunted Mansion. Yes.

Haunted Mansion 6, baby. Haunted Mansion 6. The first live one well yes never been done live before but it felt like the thing to do

the big ticket item in the Halloween season now let me ask this question are people here generally familiar with how we have dealt with the

Haunted Mansion in the past great great just to recap just in case in case anyone is wondering we have dealt with the Haunted Mansion in the past. Great, great. Just to recap, just in case, in case anyone's wondering why Haunted Mansion 6. Because the way that we have done this is every year, Halloween week,

we cover the Haunted Mansion. This was a decision that I made a long time ago. And it's a decision that I have reconsidered and had sleepless nights about since. However, I think it's been fun. It's let us cover a lot of ground. But I would say that the only underlying thing with the Haunted Mansion is that

my co-hosts and I will sometimes have disagreements about the speed at which we proceed through this classic attraction. Now, of course, it makes sense to do many, many years of it. There's so much culture there, so much to discuss. However, we're not always

completely aligned. I think that I maybe hit a bit of a wall in year two. Yeah think that I maybe hit a bit of a wall in year two. Yeah, that was fast. In year two, I thought that it might be good to discuss a little bit of the ride in the podcast series about the ride. And you said, and we discovered our disagreements together um i was told to slow my roll and that it was more important to discuss the uh full history of american foyers and we're all looking at a particular host well look there's a lot of woodworking when you start the ride there's a lot of wallpaper history was you start the ride. There's a lot of wallpaper history.

Was that the year that I said we should talk about the chair and you lost it on us? That's a pretty notable chair. Or has that happened every year? I assume, again, we've talked about things that I immediately erase. The pencil is followed right by the eraser. There's probably a chair in every one of these rooms that gets discussed. That's true. That I end up.

But no, I think that's a year three thing. I suggested moving through a room. And then it was a lot of, no, no, no, no, no. Where is a chair that needs to be discussed? Now, these are the early days. Because this is year six of this somehow. Right. Incredible.

And I, I feel like we are a little more aligned. This is what's happened. Yes. As the years have gone on, we've like gotten a little more in sync. And just to illustrate this, Mike,

if you could bring up that little map, that diagram. So there we go. This is what you're looking at right now, this is an overhead of the Haunted Mansion, like a schematic, and the yellow line is where we were after year four. Now, if you could show us where we ended up after year five.

We're still making progress. Yes. We didn't go backwards. Yeah. The hat box ghost got re-added as part of the diamond celebration. Oh, that is one of my triggers. Scott hates when we say diamond celebration Diamond celebration The assumption that I know Is that diamond celebration

Well because the Mad Tea Party They had a special diamond celebration playlist Where they would play Like a different Blink-182 song Yeah they had two pitbull songs On that playlist And hey look It's our sixth year

Which they call the Little Diamond Celebration. We all know that. Is that true? No, it's not at all. Okay, well maybe. I'm lying for comedic effect. That's how few diamonds I've

bought, little or big. But so, you know, for the listener, that little jump in the yellow line, that was, you know for the listener that little jump in the yellow line that was you know that probably represents about six feet in attraction ride track and that is because last year was entirely about the

hatbox ghost and there definitely was a ton about the hatbox ghost and I agree we all signed off on this and I think it's become friendlier more this and I think it's become a friendlier more empathetic yeah we've really I think that I think brotherhood is formed between us says this has gone on that said I think tonight there is an opportunity to make a little bit of headway

wouldn't you say there's an opportunity there's some dramatic tension certainly cause I don't want to get too far past that caretaker but I'm an entertainer at heart and I want the people to feel like they got their money's worth but I got a lot to say about that fall

the fall? you mean like going backwards down the hill? I got a lot to say about that fall. The fall? The fall. You mean like going backwards down the hill? Well, I learned some stuff about the fall this year that we need to discuss. Okay. Well, and we will. Look, I'm excited. I'm excited for all this.

Yes. This will be great. We'll see where we land. Listeners, get a guess ready in your mind. You've got the map there. Just physically, just mark it off mentally. I know where I'd like to be. And it's not the exit.

Okay? It isn't. Not the exit of the ride or the exit of the building. I'm excited for this. So, that said, there is some business that needs to be attended to before we can even get to this fall. Right.

We need to discuss how Mike said he wants the Hatbox Ghost that's going into Florida to look like Jared Leto. I wanted it to be different. And I'm just trying to help. I mean, that's a whole And I'm just trying to help. I mean, that's a whole...

I could talk about the Havox because where they're putting it in Florida. Okay, yep, that's fine. Oh, whoa. Say that for a few years from now. Well, I'll allow it. It's, you know, that's the other thing. Because there is so much Haunted Mansion news

and there's a few of them around the world, you do end up with, like, every one of these years, the need to do like Haunted Mansion news and views. Yeah, that's true. Things do happen every year. They do happen. But I'm like whatever you were talking about. I feel free. Next month it is going

in Disney World. I believe. Right after Halloween. Always time this stuff perfectly. And you don't like where they are putting it? No one likes where they're putting it. No.

No. Oh, you like it? No, I don't like it. No, it's at the hallway, right? Yeah, it's at the hallway. And it's too busy. It's too busy. Before Leota summons the ghosts.

Yeah. He's coming in the doorway down the hall, way before the ghosts materialize. This is getting this interesting reaction from the audience. It's always like, oh! Some people didn't know!

Some people may need a minute to process this! Sorry, I'm hearing about this for the first time. If you need to excuse yourself and go to the lobby and make a few calls, now that you know, feel free. Because I understand that's heavy news to hear. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. It's weird.

People are arguing about why the electrical isn't right to put it in the attic, like right after the attic. What is there? An electrical issue? There's not an outlet near. isn't right to put it in the attic like right after the attic but what is their electrical issue? There's not an outlet near They're missing an outlet and if they ran an extension cord it would look ugly. Oh he's got to be grounded. He's got to be plugged right in the wall. He can't use an extension cord.

Oh you're right. Too much power. Too much power. It's got to be a connection. Well, they should have thought of that years ago. Anyway, here's what we need to address, is that we've already broken from tradition by having other people around for this

and by not doing a cold open. Because typically, as we've done this series, the fact that there's that year gap between all of the episodes, and I think it'll be interesting to listen back in like, wow, an entire decade? How many do we think it's going to be at this point? That you'll be able to listen to all that in a row and hopefully in a seamless fashion. Some of that run where it's on Zoom, so there's a lot of delays and a lot of sad sackery about how we're on Zoom.

But besides that, hopefully it all kind of flows together. And part of the seamless stitching of these episodes is that we've done these little assignments. Next year, the episode will start and we'll all do this and we'll all say something. I don't know if that's a character's name. I think last time it was the amount of weeks

until Avatar Way of Water came out. James made it. Six weeks later we all fell in love with everybody, the Metcaina. Yeah, that's right. Yes. Agreed with applause.

But what started happening was my co-hosts were not doing the assignment. All you had to do was go back and listen to what are we going to yell at the top of next year. A pretty small assignment. And that broke down some of the trust that I think is built up during this somewhat combative series. So the assignment for next year became something that was a little more complicated

and that had a little more stakes. I don't know if I should say the assignment or if I should say the, I mean, I won't say the assignment. I will say that if you guys didn't achieve what I, we agreed on the, that you would achieve that we would never talk about the hitchhiking ghosts. The hitchhiking ghosts are pulled if you don't do the little assignment.

And so I ask you now. Gentlemen, can I see, first of all, your stickers? Step one was a sticker. Was it technically a sticker? It had to be a sticker? I Step one was a sticker. Was it technically a sticker? It had to be a sticker? I don't remember a sticker. Maybe not a sticker. I think what it had to be was a hoodie, and I'll cut some slack

because we're dressed like the Munsters. I'll cut some slack on this. We didn't plan to dress like the Munsters last year. Yes, that was not part of the plan last year. So I will say, here's what I will agree to. Any amount of any of the plan being done by either of you puts the H being done by either of you puts the Hitchhiking Ghosts back on the table.

All right. But I notice, Mike, that you're wearing something. There's a hoodie under. Oh, my God. Whoa! Oh, my God! It says Piacon. Piacon!

The mighty Piacon! Leader of the great Tulcun! Not the leader, the wisest, I think. I think he was the deepest of the Tulcun. That's right. And you snuck it in there. Here you are getting dressed like Herman Munster

and I didn't even notice. I hid this from them so I'm not you're not the only one with secrets I've got a few Jason I turn to you

gosh I've just been so busy lately with the move and I don't wanna I don't wanna let everyone down you know

I love our listeners and they mean so much to me so that it's good I followed the fucking assignment what does that say? also Piacon? Piacon! Piacon!

a double Piacon it's a Feliz Navidad miracle oh my gosh Wow, wow you guys I'm so impressed I've been wondering Is the whole thing here going to be the gear up

To where then it does it Because it got lost in the shuffle Got lost in putting the live show together And I forgot, part of the assignment was It was a reveal of your favorite character From Avatar Way of Water in blue ink. And sure enough, blue from both of you. Great job.

Yeah. However, second part of the assignment. And I do notice, Jason, there is a box already on the stage. I get to open it even. Wow. What's in the box? What's in the fucking Wow. What's in the box? What's in the fucking box? What's in the fucking box?

Wow. The assignment was, in honor of the hat box ghost, to get a box of any kind and to put a hat in it that would surprise me. I did say that a Phillies hat wouldn't count because I know you have those. They're playing right now. Do you need to check a score? Five to three.

What is it? Five to three. Phillies. Thank you. Five to three. Yay, Phillies. Go Phillies. And let's keep that support for Jason's team and for Jason, because he has brought me, and I'm very surprised to see, a propeller beanie!

Wow. This does feel like Christmas to me. You're unwrapping presents. I'm so happy. Guess what? I just thought of a new rule,. You need to put it on Eddie Munster. I'm gonna do the best I can cause I've already tried it on and I have too big of a head. Usually I'm up for adults.

Wow! Oh my gosh. Spin it around. Oh yeah, spin it. Can you help? Yay! We got it! He got it! This has turned into what I was like, I just need to be ready in case it's the greatest disappointment

and it needs the most anger from me. And then what if the audience is mad and boos me? But instead, it's such a victory. Unless, Mike, you have not achieved the final step of the plan. Well, it doesn't seem like I have a box anywhere around here. No, not on a table like Jason has. Does it? Does it? Does it seem like that?

Are you going to propose to me? Then it would be the perfect night. I don't have a hat, but I am going to propose. I'll let you do the honors. It is the tiniest little chest. And the three people who were like, oh, so they're going to talk about the Haunted Mansion. They're like, why are they over that little chest?

The hell is this show? And inside is the tiniest little hat. I'm so glad we did this. It is a little cloth-ish hat that says weird on it. To what does that refer? that says weird on it? To what does that refer? That is a hat for my little ninja turtles. In that, please,

do not let me pocket this. Do not let me accidentally throw it in the audience. I know how much these are important to you. This hat is, Michelangelo has been wearing this hat for about a year.

In the current set up I have, he's having a little house party with Mondo Gecko in the sewer. And Mondo Gecko is break dancing and Michelangelo is holding like a boom box. With this hat on. Wow. That's what's happening.

Encouraging weirdness. Wait, actually, I know it's going to come right off, but can you put the hat on as well? Wow. Yeah. Right on that Herman flat top. That's perfect. Oh my gosh. You guys, delightful.

I'm so glad. I do have to give credit. Gene helped me out and got this hat because the hat I ordered kept getting pushed back and pushed back, and it was a bucket hat with a propeller on it. I know, I know. I'm disappointed, too. Wow, wow.

Not a bucket head like the guitar player Bucket Head. Yeah, yeah. That would have surprised me too So this is a Burbank Halloween store Not returnable purchase Now live in our new apartment I've discovered that over the course Of getting us all Munster's costumes

And various things Yeah not a lot of return policies out there Nor would they want anything We're all going to be sweating into these implements. Is everything, are we like, are we dripping paint at this point?

Yeah, it's disgusting. I, please just scream if you're too alarmed by our appearance at some point. Guys, that was so great.

Can I tell you what I would have done had you not done this? The planet. Spanked our little bottoms? Yeah, Scott, was it spank our little bottoms? No, I would never want to spank your little bottoms.

That's not the kind of thing I'd like to do. These guys are crazy. Spin that propeller again, Jason. Just the kind of thing I'd like to do. These guys are crazy. Spin that propeller again, Jason. Just the thought of it. He's so annoyed. I'm not used to it. Who would be?

Who wears one on a daily basis? My plan was, I don't want to lose the hitchhiking ghosts either. And I was going to make a little sacrifice. And if Jason didn't fulfill the plan, I was going to say, guess what? We're making a trade. Brian Setzer will no longer be mentioned on the show. Oh, we dodged him. Yeah, that would have caused a boo.

Again, not happening. And Mike, I didn't think it would come to this, but I had to bring out the big guns. If you had not succeeded in the plan, Green Day, gone. Yes. Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins just announced an arena tour for next year. Stadium tour, stadium tour, you're right.

Not a sphere tour? Not yet. In which case, I know you'd be there. All right, well, that is the end of what typically is supposed to have been a minute and a half intro of these episodes. So

what has happened now, I would say, we've eaten into enough of the time. Now we're looking at about an hour left. We've basically guaranteed that we will not get anywhere with all of that nonsense. This surely will be the least productive

of the Haunted Mansion. I'm not sure. I'm glad they're here. I'm just saying, who knows what could happen? Maybe we just speed through it and we end the ride tonight. That's right.

We don't want that. Is there anyone who'd like to vocalize wanting it? Yeah. Yay, thank you. All right. And it's spread. Easy, killer. Easy, killer.

Thanks for your horse. So now this having been dealt with, let's talk about the ride. We're in the ride. Let's get into the ride. Yes. Because this is an exciting part because when you get away from the Hatbox Ghost,

the very first thing when you turn is that you enter the sequence, the graveyard. We are in the graveyard, the big finale, the most complicated, full of different characters and scenes and gags part. There's so much to talk about here. So we've got a lot to deal with tonight. That said, Jason, I almost feel like you should be deputized

to set the pace, to be the pace car. And I also feel like you maybe have some thoughts you were saying about the very first thing. So we've kind of, we've turned, right? We've gotten a view of that graveyard. And we're up on the second level. This is like a, this visual to talk about for a minute. This is like the, maybe only beaten by the Mara room

in Indiana Jones in terms of it's multi-layered and it seems to go on forever and it's a big dramatic beat where you're like wow we're gonna be there for a while i can't wait let's get into it yeah sure uh just one thing um before that i well yeah before that uh little epilogue on the hatbox goes i i got a hold of the jasonrell coffee table book about Haunted Mansion. I finally broke down and bought it. After years of taking out the Burbank Library's coffee.

You never bought the book? In all the years of basically reading it on a podcast. You never gave the man some money? I did. I bought it now. And I said... Wait, can I...

Did you buy it because the book was checked out? No, no, the book is still available. The book is still available. Head there after this. You have to break in at this hour, but... Worth it. Yeah, worth it. So that was in 2004 printing.

And we talked about how the Hatbox Ghost Ghost only had one page in that edition. And I got a hold of the newest edition, which is dated 2015. And now the Hatbox Ghost has one page dedicated to him still. Is there any new information? Yeah, not really. There's a picture of that guy, Ray Spencer. Is that his name that we talked about last year?

Remember? He's a circus man. He's in the toy store at California Adventure. Oh, yes. There's a picture of him in there. Is he in a fun hat in that, too? Oh, no, just slacks and a button-up. All right, so the book is unchanged, is what you're telling us.

Pretty much. There's little bits and pieces here and there, it seems like. But not much more about the hat box ghost. Thank God, boy, hey, it keeps working out tonight. Things keep coming up, Grandpa. Hey! Hey, it keeps working out tonight. Things keep coming up, Grandpa. Hey. Okay, so that means we get to... Let's talk about going in reverse, right?

You tell me. We spin in reverse, and we go down the hill into the graveyard. You are essentially falling out of the attic. This is what I didn't know until recently. Yeah, I kind of didn't either. I guess really what you, because it's like you're being killed and you're falling backwards into the graveyard. That's some interpretations, yes. Or you could be falling, you're saying you could be alive falling backwards out a window and maybe upon impact you die.

Oh, and it goes so slowly because everything's flashing before you. What in reality would be just one or two seconds of horror is stretched out to ten seconds or so. Right, what's interesting about it is I find that part of the ride so relaxing. It's kind of like a reset. Gives you a break from all the activity and lights and stuff.

Well, and it's like you're in a hospital bed, and it starts going down. Famously comfortable. Yeah, pretty good. But now that I'm hearing what it might be simulating, it's kind of, I don't know, it's weird. I feel like it should be, here's what I'm saying. It should be a jerky, violent motion when you're falling out the window. The thing should whip around,

and then you'd do a drop like pirates, but you're backwards in the Omnimover. I'm just saying they fucked up. Huh? It's an unclear death. The exact one. It's supposed to be dead. Well, there was something apparently

that would have spelled this moment out a little more clearly although this is very speculative and this is from doombuggies.com I now will read in front of an audience part of a website it's a printed out part of a website here we go, that's what you came here and paid for and then Grandpa Munster read me a website. It's a printed out part of a website. Here we go. That's what you came here and paid for.

And then Grandpa Munster read me a website. It's my favorite show. And six years of this, you're saying? And Daniel Roebuck was at the Tam O'Shanter. Yeah, and we all got excited about it. Very nice. Very good. Lock them up.

Put them away. We're sorry. Okay, so. All right. It's the idea of that that part is supposed to be dying has been maybe written off as revisionist history. Maybe not the Imagineers' intention. But a Haunted Mansion enthusiast named Hunter Adamson

shared a story with Doom Buggies. He swears this from a reliable source. I once heard from an old Disney manager that part of the original plan for the Haunted Mansion was that as you leaned backwards to descend to the graveyard, there would have been a Pepper's Ghost-type figure shoveling dirt as if to be burying

the occupants of the Doom Buggy in the cemetery alive. So that would be like in the ceiling, essentially? Jason has a big smile on his face. I'm just imagining someone hosing a thing of caramel cord and then going on this ride. And it's like, oh, wow, we're getting buried alive. It's that famous Disney touch. Walt, like, introducing the ride on, or not ABC, whatever channel it was on.

And then... NBC. NBC. And then you'll go and you'll be buried alive. It's very strange it does open up like what else you could do there that if they're gonna make it like we're so personal and so much your death like if there were if the next step of that was more peppers ghosts but not too many because the idea could be that there's just like one groundskeeper and nobody else there because you are having a sparsely attended funeral.

Or, well, yeah, or it's like, if you're actually dying, everybody's really happy about it. They're having a big, you're about to go to a big party. Oh, sure. Which on one hand, I guess is like it's a nice, it's comforting in a way because you go like, oh, there'll be an afterlife

or a party in the afterlife. Or everyone's thrilled that I'm dead. Well, it'd be great if there were a bunch of revelers all celebrating above your grave, and then you wonder aloud, is this because they're celebrating my life? And one of them says, no, we're happy you're dead. You're going to hell.

You know what? They should have kept then, you should be on your back for that whole section. They should have kept you that way, and then you go the whole ride like this. Wow. Like looking to your side, and you're like, oh, shit.

And then you have to figure out how to get out, like, on your back. Oh, yeah. Okay, so then they have to figure out how to get out Like on your back Oh yeah Okay so then they have to build a door on it And it has to close on you And you have to bang your way out At the end So coffin challenge

We've just reinvented the coffin challenge Yeah Always my problem with doom buggies. No lid. That Bob Gurr didn't know what he was doing. So I'm very interested. The Pepper's Ghost was going to be had to be in the ceiling then or I guess

maybe to one of the sides because it couldn't be on the left when you're going down to Disneyland. Well it kind of the scrim you can see the scrim when you're on top of all the ghosts flying upwards so in the distance you can see all the ghosts flying but you couldn't put the Pepper's Ghost

I don't know I'm interested in the geography of this I was there with my family recently and through trying to get on Doom Buggies it ended up where I was in one with my brother and Jane and my dad were in one. And so, of course, me and my brother

were totally silent the whole time. And I think I leaned over at one point and went like, that one's name is Bigwick. Because, of course course I did but Jane and my dad were so excited when they got off they're like that part when you go backwards you see the side of the house I never noticed that before

and honestly I had to go back and look it up I hadn't really noticed either that you can see the side of the actual mansion but did either of them talk about Pickwick uh no I can't imagine side of the actual mansion. But did either of them talk about Pickwick? No, I can't imagine. Well, that's the only way to

ride. Next time, everybody start whispering stuff to each other. Whoever you're with. Next time we go. Well, there you go. So we didn't get to actually be buried alive. You don't go on your back. You comfortably sit for the rest of it. You get an appearance from the raven. One of the many raven appearances.

And this is really good. Yeah. The raven. I really, the raven, I forget the raven's there almost every time. So it gets you? I'm not scared. I just go, yeah. The raven's there.

That's nice. You do the move when like an Everclear song is on at a restaurant. Listeners don't get to see it, usually. Okay. My next Merkle point. Oh, yeah. Wow, it's like you're in the lobby of a courtyard by Marriott with Mike. Everclear's cover of Brown Eyed Girl

They wrote a new intro for it The other thing when you're going backwards Next to the raven Scary Trees, your favorite Scott Big shout out for Scary Trees Yeah Hang on now. Let's not support them too much.

They don't bother me too much because they don't talk. We're not in that Wizard of Oz, you know. If they, if they, no dialogue for that. As long as they never, that's a plus up I don't ever want. Is for them to talk? Yeah, yeah. No, keep them silent. What if they did the E.T. effect?

And you kind of give your name at the start of the ride. And then the trees are like, Scat. Scat. Friend. Friend. Person. Person.

The afterlife is just me and you I'm gonna be there throwing apples at ya yeah you should see cause yeah if you were going to the afterlife it shouldn't be trees it should be like little devils on the right or little angels I guess

depending I guess you could yeah that would be a plus-up where you would flip them out sometimes. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes on a mansion you get little devils, sometimes you get little angels. Wow. It decides for you? Yeah, it's random.

It's like the end of Radiator Springs Racers. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you get the one you didn't want. Would you prefer if they replaced the trees with Little Devils or Little Angels? Maybe for the oddity of it, sure. But then, you know, maybe not because at some point in the nearish future, I'll be taking my son on there and i don't know if i want oh i think i want the motive like you we've chosen hell for you

yeah that's a little intense i guess okay but next car is heaven next car is a better kid he gets heaven what if the little devils are hot stuff of old devil and the angel is the biblically accurate angel which is like the floating eye and the tentacles and it says be not afraid

because then it's then it's like a good it's a lesson it's historically accurate I mean the angel part I guess hot stuff hot stuff's just fun it's historically accurate I mean the angel part I guess Hot Stuff Hot Stuff's just fun

it's just fun to see him yeah well they got a branding deal to work out I guess I don't know who owns Hot Stuff that's amazing is that something

I can ask the audience who owns Hot Stuff who owns Hot Stuff Double yeah who owns Harvey Comics at this point that's a good question they got Hot Stuff they got Baby Huey.

Casper. Richie. Dreamworks. Dreamworks owns Harvey, huh? That's right. They did all those cartoons that we all remember. Also, what's on your shoulders? I got a Ghost Mickey from Tokyo Disneyland.

Whoa. Oh, nice. And a Gelatoni as a pumpkin from Hong Kong Disneyland. Wow. A Gelatoni and a Ghost Mickey on Tokyo Disneyland. Whoa. Oh, nice. And Jelatoni as a pumpkin from Hong Kong Disneyland. Wow. Jelatoni and a Ghost Mickey on his shoulders. Great job. Glad we could shout out another costume. Yeah.

Let's do it. Wow. Big round of applause. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Oh, everybody's nervous. We didn't know Jelatoni was in the building.

Fellas, hide the ladies. Gelatoni's here. By that, you mean Dr. Lily Houghton? Is that her name? That was her name, yeah. Oh, okay, great. Gelatoni's going to go find those Lily Houghton dolls. Keep them in the packages.

Do we move on? Are we off of the downhill? This is the first time. I don't know. Trees, I mean, okay, yeah. Let's go over it. Trees we talk about.

We talk about going on your back. Being generally, being backwards, yes. How do you feel about being backwards? It's cool. It's nice that the ride can do it for me.

Because this is, I really think this is, we've taken this for granted after all these years. I bet this blew people's mind when they went on this first, that this vehicle could do things. Because in the same way, oh my God, the trackless rides, there's just, oh wow, look what this can do. I'm sure people were like, holy shit.

This thing turns around and flips you right back. Going backwards with elevation. Yes. With an incline. Two things. Two. It does two things. And it has a decent amount of wraparound

so you can do some awkward team making out. Well, this is... That came up in the first year. This is the most romantic part of the ride. The downhill? Oh, yeah, because it kind of, like, clunks you back. Oh, that's true. This is, like, romantic comedy

city here. If you are not... Like, you better be prepared when you do this if you know what's happening. Like you better not go on with your crush if you're not prepared. Okay? Yeah.

You better not go on with your brother or your boyfriend's dad. You gotta be you gotta know what's coming. Will that new movie, will Sidney Sweeney and Glenn Powell,

the guy I know, will they go on this ride? Well, you think they're a couple, but watch out. So they're gonna go on the Haunted Mansion? They're gonna go on the Haunted Mansion

and maybe they'll get stuck on the decline. Oh, getting stuck on the decline. Oh, getting stuck on the decline with your crush? Get out of here. Oh, my God. He's so stressful. Wait, I thought you were saying it was a good thing. Oh, no, I would...

Not good at all. Then you're going to kiss? Ew. No, thank you. Let's use this time wisely and figure out our itinerary for the rest of the day. Oh, I think my Disneyland app still works. Let me get it out, see if those dining reservations are available. Oh, not yet.

I better check over and over again. Until the ride works. Turning the other way as far as I can. Can I pull this bar off me entirely? Can I sneak up into the tree break? Did they say the ride's starting? Oh no, I must have misheard. I'll ask this gravedigger for help.

Excuse me, good sir. Yeah, so is there a more romantic motion on a ride vehicle in the history of rides than this? Just gently moving, maybe? Clunk. I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm just saying, of all the ride systems, is there one that sort of like forces you sort of in a position I think that's a good number two The old Matterhorn. Lapstradler. Yeah, there you go.

Wait, let's demonstrate in case they don't know. Here, let's do it. Oh. We should ride separate, I think. Party of one, please. Party of one, yeah. You'll enjoy the ride better. So yeah, okay, Matterhorn, but Matterhorn... Matterhorn is more like erotic. And not... Hold on. Hold on. Explain eroticism to us.

Hold on. That's a... Okay. The Matterhorn, it's all about vibration and aggressiveness. And it's like... That's like just having aggressive sexual intercourse. Fun in Mansion is it swings you around, you lower. That's romantic.

This is aggressive. It really seems like you're trying to get us to recognize you as a sexual being right now. Thank you for recognizing me as a sexual being. In terms of romantic, there's literally a Little Mermaid ride where you very

slowly go by the kiss the girl scene. How romantic. That's a pretty romantic song. It's the same ride vehicle, and there are similar moves in it, but I just... It doesn't do it

for me. There is a Caribbean crab singing at a teenager. Yeah. Keep in mind that part. You know what it is? There's too many robots around there. Haunted Mansion, you're just seeing that raven.

Oh, there's some privacy. It's more chaste. And it's dark. It's dark in there, too. The kiss a girl scene is very well lit. So you're not getting that mood. People can see. The little turtles can see. They'll see.

That might be for someone a little bolder. But for my preference, I prefer the backwards. I want to mention this for a romantic movement. Okay, so most of sweeping movements, most romantic ride

there is, part of a ride that there is, except that in the dead center of it, there's a car that there is, except that in the dead center of it there's a CAR! If you can ignore that, pure romance. He's just cheering me on. It's not true, look at me! You're a sexual being! Car!

Car! Car! Car! Car! Okay, okay. You're a sexual being. Okay, okay. I think we're moving on, but just to like... Can you say something? I just can't. The romance is just too much. I'm getting flustered.

I want to, just before we move to another part of the ride, there's one more bit of business. I wanted to talk about some ride before we backtrack into this, because there is something else that was a lingering thing from last year's episode. Because between last year's episode and this year,

a big something happened in Haunted Mansion world. Haunted Mansion the movie came out. Yeah. How about everyone cheer as much as you liked it? Yay! Okay, huh? Mixed. Interesting mix. Well, another thing that was mixed

were our guesses as to how many skulls out of ten we would give this film. We didn't. It was just a guess, just based on rumors. We hadn't even seen a poster. There was no real way to know, but we were like, let's guess for next year. Here were our

guesses. Mike thought he would like the movie 6.5 skulls out of 10. I guessed 3.5. My rationale being it is a product being released in this year by the Walt Disney Company. Jason, 8 skulls out of 10. 8 skulls. Jason

8 skulls out of 10 8 skulls would we all like to say what we officially give the movie out of 10 skulls yeah I'll go first I haven't gotten around to it yet

I don't know also no Mike I'm after Yellowstone I will watch it there's a lot going on it's just that you have all that literally anything else to do yeah it's true as well I had a little evening nap

after the Phillies lost last night hold on isn't that just going to bed no I woke up for a couple hours what time were we talking well it was a 2.05 game local time couple hours, then we went for a few hours. What time were we talking? Well, it was a 2.05 game local time, so it was probably about, I think I

slept from like 5 to 8. Or 5 to 8.30. Wow. That's a long, God. My kid's not even taking naps anymore. I would kill him for that long of a nap. And my 3-year-old who lives in my house.

Yeah. And I just found out through my watch that they lost again tonight. So, I know. They got more chances. They got more chances. It's okay. Oh, boy.

You're going to make it through the rest of this one? You're going to be okay? Yeah, we'll see. At least we don't have a second show or anything. Let me, here's, uh, I know I lied a little bit. I've seen some of the movie. I've seen the first three

seconds of the movie, and I saw it, uh, because someone alerted me that at the beginning of the movie, there's Disney, Disney Plus has the warnings, and it's PG-13, and this scene may contain such and such. This movie has so much product placement

that literally there's a warning on Disney Plus that is warning, this film contains product placement. Wow. That is unheard of in the history of movies. I have never heard of that.

Well, keep in mind, they had to go through the governing body of themselves, Disney. Like, this didn't pass through some FDA outside body. They were just like, God, even for us, this is a lot. Oh, that's the type of warning you get printed on a sign at Staples Copy and Print Center. Literal dialogue from the film. This is, if I could just really quick, and I credit Screen Rant for this information, if you wouldn't mind me reading to you some of the product placements that occur in Haunted Mansion. Oh, yeah.

2023. Most of them I don't have in context. I just have the products themselves. Here we go. U-Haul, BMW, Dell, Pentax Camera, Fujifilm, Tito's Vodka, Budweiser, Jose Cuervo, Fritos those ones we know are all real because that's who has the liquor licenses in the Disney parks. It's a general partnership there. Crocs, Zillow, Yelp, Benihana, Chevrolet, Apple Watch, Black Panther the movie, Marvel Comics

collector's edition Monopoly, Costco Cannon Burger King, Zatarain's New Orleans-style Creole seasoning. Zatarain's. Zatarain's, thank you. I had a feeling. Should've looked it up. Yankee Candle, which is purchased via subscription on Amazon.

There's a part where Tiffany Haddish wants a ghost to write a message, Yankee Candle, which is purchased via subscription on Amazon. There's a part where Tiffany Haddish wants a ghost to write a message, quote, using this pen and pad I bought from CVS. And finally, the emotional crux of the film occurs during a dramatic monologue about how Lakeith Stanfield's wife died on the way to Baskin-Robbins. I think maybe all of us guessed many too many skulls. Wow. I mean, I've read that list a few times

and every time just makes me want to watch it more. It also makes me go like, oh, that company is still around. Okay. Dell computers hanging in there. All right. Well, beware if you try to watch it because it's dark.

It's a dark film. And I don't mean like the themes. I mean, it is so hard to see. What's happened, Disney? All just color, all our iPhones have it. We'll do it for you. and I don't mean like the themes I mean it is so hard to see what's happening Disney all just color all our eye photos have it we'll do it for you give me a couple bucks I'll brighten the movie it's so weird

anyway that's my weird I wanted to get a little of that out because the Hauntcast season will not be going too much longer we got a couple more episodes on the pod but we aren't doing an episode about the movie because we don't want to be sad. And we all know

it is, everyone agrees it is much more important to talk about Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart's Halloween costumes. Yes. Great. Everyone agrees. The Reddit agrees. Our Reddit can't wait for it. They are every minute closer to it we get.

Good news, foolish mortals. It's already in the can. Okay, back to the ride. To the caretaker. Can we see it still in the caretaker mic? Let's see our pal. He is the shaky knee guy. He is holding

a lantern. He's got a trusty dog and a trusty shovel. He's great. It's a moment, Mike, of intimacy. You get so close to this character. You sense emotion emotion this is no

cold distance not like all those presidents you sit really far away from and all the presidents who aren't feeling anything in particular this guy's scared and you can tell yeah he's scared because he just discovered that you were in the middle of intimacy look at that face that's the middle of intimacy.

Look at that face. That's the face you would make. This guy is great. I feel like in some ways he's sort of like not as celebrated as some of the other characters in the ride because he's not a ghost. But he's iconic.

Let's celebrate a ghost. Yeah. But he's iconic. Yeah. Let's celebrate a non-ghost. Celebrate that. We can do it. Everyone here, a round of applause for this robot. Lit by regular light as opposed to black light.

A lot of the others lit differently. One of the few living things in the mansion. That's true. He's organic matter. Can't see through him. Not at all.

The dog is malnourished and I don't care for that. Yeah, I gotta feed the dog more. That has nothing to do with anything. He doesn't look like that because he's scared. Something happened. So you can at least surmise from the picture here that he's scared. Something happened. So you can at least, you can surmise from just the picture here that he's a bad owner.

Unless, what if they're meeting for the first time right now? No, no. That's his dog. That's what I've always felt. But since I like this guy, I don't want to go throwing accusations at him. I don't want to take him to PETA.

Jason, do you think that's his dog? I think it's his dog. They seem acquainted. He's already a bad owner then. Two out of three say. Yeah, because he's not looking at the dog. So if the dog was just a random dog, he would be looking down like, ah, he'd be scared. And he would be saying the same thing I.

He would be like, where's your owner? They're taking such bad care of you. I mean, I feel like he's a little distracted by the graveyard jamboree. Yeah, that would probably take my attention over. Yeah, but he's not looking toward the graveyard jamboree. He's looking toward you.

He's not noticing the graveyard jamboree. He's not. I've always taken this as, at least's seen so i i take that face as he is looking at a thousand ghosts at once yeah i feel like his jaw is like jabbering like it's scared like what was that what was that he's either just seeing the ghost for the first time, or it's just like, he looks a little rough, right? He looks a little like shit. So maybe he sees the ghost every night, and he's still not used to it.

Yeah, I think he's seeing you as a ghost. That's what I think. But he's not looking toward the big party. I think he's like, oh my God, who goes there? It's a ghost, people. And they're necking. And my dog needs food, but I keep forgetting. That's not her Letterman jacket.

It must be his. She must have put it on. You think it's at you? Like, that you were so horrifying as a ghost? I believe, I think so. Because why wouldn't he be pointing the other way? He's blocked off from seeing the actual graveyard.

But I think, this to me ties into your kind of paranoid, everyone's looking at me, runner, everybody's, everyone at CityWalk will notice me throwing the mini monster away. I'm in a haunted mansion and there's many ghosts around but you are the scariest

one of all. Well, they say there's room for one more. And yeah, everywhere I go, I'm a star. These want to hug me especially Orlando I know many be wanting to hug me in Mike's defense there's a lot bigger security corridor now so they might be checking him out wait what what does that mean like there's a lot more fences and presumably cameras and metal detectors

at Disneyland. At CityWalk. At CityWalk Hollywood. We went back to CityWalk. They might be like, what is that guy being weird with the Drake? Should we keep an eye on him? Where are there more security fences?

The metal detectors are for going into the park. Yeah, I'm just saying there's more of a presence Where are there more security fences? The metal detectors are for going into the park. Yeah. I'm just saying there's more of a presence than I feel like when we did that CityWalk saga. We need to... We've gotten reports of people throwing mini monsters away. We need to put three milkshake detectors outside the store.

We gotta pat these people down, force them to finish it in the store, choke those bobas down. We need to train ten milkshake-sniffing dogs. And they need to be patrolling at all points. The dogs need to know that you can buy glass at CityWalk, but you cannot carry it 20 feet into the theme park you're probably going to.

Teach them to bark that. Let me say something else about this guy, Caretaker. He, I mean, I feel like always iconic and probably like lived as his toys or in artwork, but I think he really,

his iconic status really got sealed. I want to say it was last year that Lowe's made him available in a take-home version. Do we have a still of that? There we go. Lowe's or Wish.com?

Can we see the next still, Mike? What is this one looking at? Presumably he's going to be on your front lawn. He's looking at local teens drag racing. Oh yeah. Jay Walkers. He's aghast. Jay Walkers. Jay Walkers. He's really upset

because he's aghast at Jay Walkers. He's sort of like a nosy neighbor at this point. He's just sort of like he knows everyone's business in the neighborhood.

He's mad about the 15 year olds who are not even in costume and it's 8.30. Come on. It's too late for this. You should just put him

in like a window in your house with like the like too late for this. You should just put him in like a window in your house. With like drapes like this. So people will be, no matter what they're doing on the street, if they catch a view of him, they will be like, ah! There's a peeping Tom. He could always be watching your moments of intimacy. That's true.

Bring him home. You could do a lot with him, just not even in Halloween. You could maybe put him in a Hawaiian shirt and his glasses, put him on the beach and his glasses tip down his nose. And as people walk by, he sort of like checking them out and he can't believe what he's seeing how hot everyone is you could it's very it's it's bug eyes and white hair and I think that in non Halloween season you could easily restyle this guy to be Rodney Dangerfield put him in a Hawaiian shirt yeah and you know you put him in your yard and people ask what it

is it's right it's Rodney Dangerfield for back-to-school season oh yeah there's so many I wonder if the hat comes off. It'd be nice. Or everything, like, could you switch clothes with him? Um, I mean, presumably it's removable. Somehow. Yeah, let's see the full wardrobe. We got a brown jacket and a green

scarf and khakis. Yeah, the jacket's a little long, but I like the jacket. This guy's gonna be a little, he's not quite the size of the real one, the jacket's a little long, but I like the jacket. This guy's going to be a little, he's not quite the size of the real one, so he's going to be a little smaller than you. It's going to be a squeeze for you, Mike. Okay. He's got big pants on, though. He hasn't been to the tailor.

He does not come with a dog figure. Louis is not selling a sickly-looking dog option. That's a clue that it's his dog But you could put a minion next to him No it is, it's a clue What is a clue?

It's a clue they're not selling the dog with him Because it would not be his dog It would be a separate dog Oh, so you're saying Lowe's is really concerned about canon Well I'm saying that Lowe's knows that he's doing a bad job, so they just want to sweep it under the rug. They're not going to want the dog, right? No, of course not.

No, we're not going to sell any of these. The president of Lowe's had a meeting about this. We're not selling a groundskeeper that treats his dog poorly, so either we don't sell it, or remove the dog. And that's why you got CEO of the Year that's right stands up for his beliefs you go back to the ride picture which one the real I guess the question I have that I I'm sure we've all been wondering though is is the caretaker daddy because I mean I don't know he seems not threatening he could be nice but he seems

confident in his job well daddy seems to say you're you're attracted to the the groundskeeper whatever is that is that when you say daddy, that's what I, yeah, no, I wasn't saying he was a father. Can he get it, is what you're asking? Can the groundskeeper get it? It's hard to tell. He's so covered up. I gotta see that bod.

He dresses... I gotta switch clothes with him. I think, like, literally, like, maybe the pants, like, maybe if he just went to a tailor and got them a little bit hemmed. I do think, like, this is an outfit I would wear. So he is dressed pretty well. Like, you would think, like, he'd be all, like, much more, like, ragged and, like, his clothes would be torn asunder.

Because he's just, he's out there and he just takes care of himself. But he looks pretty good. I will give you that. I don't know that he's my, he's out there and he just takes care of himself. But he looks pretty good. I will give you that. I don't know that he's my type of guy. Let's poll the audience. Who thinks that the caretaker is daddy? Okay.

That's not nothing. Is, well, is Pickwick daddy? Yeah. Pickwick brings the party with him, doesn't he? Which character on The Haunted Mansion

is everyone most attracted to? I mean, the organist can play an instrument. That is always attractive, yes. That's pretty cool. That is always attractive. That's a good question. I mean, Hatbox has the charisma.

I know that's a little bit. That's like... Those dual guys are pretty dashing. Yeah. That's true. Constance might chop my head off. You know know fingers crossed if you're into a certain thing

Constance is probably the answer if you're ultimate fin doming murdering your husband alright All right, well I think that's my time for the evening. I should be getting to bed. Let's take to a three-hour nap with you. This liquid death makes me crazy. It's canned water. Let's put some other... What did he say about canned water?

It made him crazy. Let's throw some other characters into the possibility mill of who is daddy, I guess. Which is the weird little band. Can we see the weird little band?

Give it up for the weird little band. Can we see the weird little band? Give it up for the weird little band. Our next... And I say that because I've seen this referred to as the Phantom Five, but I've also seen the singing busts referred to as the Phantom

Five. And it's not even... It's like half and half. No one can decide which is which. So, I don't know. As with a lot of this lore, it's not even it's like half and half no one can decide which is which so I don't know as with a lot of this lore it's like good lore but it's also like pretty fuzzy right

yeah like you know nobody quite knows what they're called I don't know but we know well you know and I'm scanning them

pretty fast I don't think we got any daddies in this bunch unfortunately that's why they took up music. They had to offer something else to the world. If I can take a step back, because you brought up confusing

lore. Did you guys see all the names for the caretaker? Sure. Yes. Let's backtrack. Fine. Let's go back. Rewind. Get back on your back. Rewind. I already, on your back. Rewind.

I already, it's fine. I will tell you, where I was thinking maybe, optimistically we get is Singing Bus. I'm watching that dream dissipate. It is floating away. So, names,

names. Silas Crump? This is another one. It's everybody's Crump. Everyone on this rideas Crump this is another one everybody's Crump everyone on this ride is Crump Alistair Crump and these guys this little band

they're all named Crump everyone in this thing is Crump who are the two guys shooting at each other it's Aloysius Crump and Foggin' Bottom Crump I don't think

I like the lore this is what I've learned after six years Crump Crump Crump Christmas Christmas with the Crumps I don't think I like the lore. This is what I've learned after six years. Crump, crump, crump. Christmas with the crumps. It would have... That's what I'm saying. It would have made the Eddie Murphy movie

a little more dynamic if the crumps showed up. I think I had trouble being dynamic. They all farted each other. They all make up fun of. What's more dynamic than that? Okay. Also, there's some special where Phyllis Diller calls him

Clyde. Ken, we're all over the map. There's a model from, I believe, the 70s where he is referred to as a grave robber. Oh, that adds something to it, doesn't it? Oh, I didn't see that. Well, let's, I guess, yeah, he's got the shovel.

So he's obviously digging. It's either, is he doing it virtuously or is he doing it for his own nefarious deeds? I think it's virtuously because he doesn't have a sack. If he was going to grave rob, you would need a sack to take the stuff, you know? Not if he's going to dig them up and then do something with them. No, no, no, no, no. And then put them back. There's no need to be bawdy. Jason said grave robber, not grave fucker.

Yeah. Grave robber's fun. The other one, no. There's a number of comic book short stories with conflicting like they hire a younger caretaker and then he gets his old job back.

I can't believe I thought we were out of this. I was like there was no pushback. There were no comic stories. I thought we were out of this. I was like, there was no pushback. There were no comic stories. I thought we were out. What was I thinking? That's why this guy's the best in the biz. Hey. Spin it. Spin it. Spin it.

It's so much higher than you think it is. Guys, we've got to talk about something. We have to. We have time to talk about the Phantom 5. We do. And you know what else I think we have time to do is to play my favorite little part of Gurning Ghosts. There's a little video,

and I think to the extent that anyone wants to. Well, at one point in in time they had 30 tracks And they recorded 42 So you're gonna have to go through all of those Yes definitely I'm just saying it's my favorite part And I feel like maybe the Munsters should dance to this song Can you put on the song?

Oh we're gonna do a little dance? Yeah we're gonna do a little granddad dance Hold on Oh my god it's not working. Yeah, there we go. You can just spin the propeller around. Oh yeah, that's it. I just wanted a quick hit of that.

Great. Oh, the leader does stuff, that's it. I just wanted a quick hit of that. Great. Oh, the leader does stuff. Wow. Hey. I'll just go bold. Thank you for that. That's my favorite iteration of Grim Grinning Ghost. Oh, yeah.

I have notes about Grim Grinning Ghost. These are also clearly going out the door. That's how much these things expand. Well, it's a fine place to start up next year. But we're not done. We're not done yet. Go back to the Phantom Five. Let's talk about them.

I mean, my question about them is, were they musicians in our world? Or were they a band first, and they died all together in a bus accident or something. Did they die? Was this the day the music died? Yeah, it's the day

that the music died. Oh, musicians. They were all on one plane. I think, yeah. They were on an airplane getting ready for their lute, bagpipe, and oboe show.

Big tour. Yeah, theyoe show. Big tour. Yeah, they were doing a big tour. And, yeah, I mean, I guess it brings up the question that can ghosts learn? And that's why he's the best. It's pretty heavy. Oh, no. It's pretty heavy.

We can all sit and think about it. You think when the moon rises, when the clock strikes midnight, they, like, get memento disease and forget everything? Every day? Or they forget the afterlife? And then they...

Learning is so vague. You learn little things all day, every day. I hope you learn in the afterlife. Can you learn a skill if you're a ghost? Or is it like Groundhog Day? Or sort of... Although he learns. That's exactly, yes. He does learn.

He becomes an incredible musician. He remembers. Yeah, I think it's that. I think you get to Groundhog Day. It's a Groundhog Day that you have no hope of escaping. There's no rom-com ending for your Groundhog Day. So you better learn every instrument. Because ghosts, yeah, ghosts

seem tortured. Because they're stuck there. They have unfinished business. But if you could occupy your time learning new skills... I have so much stuff. You can watch Yellowstone season one through whatever it is. Five? Six?

So you're saying the afterlife is good because you get to get caught up on your shows. Yeah. Knock out the curriculum of ITT Tech. The world is your oyster at that point. Yeah. The world is your community college. The afterworld is your community college.

Care conditioning, repair, and private investigator. There's time for it all. These guys are proof. I don't know. It's possible they couldn't play a lick. And all it took was 900 years. And now they can play one song over and over again. I like that long horn.

Yeah, yes. That's funny looking. Yeah, I think there's the specific here that a lot of the music was played backwards. That's a way that it's weird and ghostly. They transcribed it and ran it backwards. It's got this weird little sucking effect to a lot of the melodies. I think it's not a bagpipe. It's an oboe in reverse.

Because I guess bagpipes are tough to play. I think even finding a session bagpipe player is a very tough thing. In the 60s, let alone now. I don't know the market today. Some of the stuff is played out of tune on purpose. Oh, there you go. Unsettling, sure. Proper tune age. tune on purpose. Oh, there you go. Unsettling, sure. Oh, wrong.

Proper tune age, that's the land of the living musicians. It's all creaky around here. You also, I think maybe my favorite musical little thing or section in any of the Grim Grinning Ghosts

versions in the ride is probably when a little trumpet comes in. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that's fun. Thank you. I'll learn it better in the afterlife. But I learned

who played the music on the thing. A lot of the musicians you're hearing are all these Benny Goodman kind of guys. But the guy who plays that little trumpet part, his name is Cappy Lewis, and he made an album called Get Happy with Cappy. Cappy!

I definitely got happy looking at Cappy. Look at that watch he's wearing. Wow. You don't get a watch like this being a mediocre trumpet player. I'll tell you that. This is great.

I love he's wearing almost like a bowling shirt. Like a red bowling shirt. This feels very Jason-esque, too. I feel like. I mean, look, we'll start next year with an hour on Cappy and his various endeavors. I mean, we can go back to simple assignments.

Next year, we can, as much as I loved the boxes and what you're wearing, maybe next year we go back to a simple shout-out of Cappy. Yeah. We come up with our favorite song of his, and then we learn that he was nicknamed

Cappy the Killer after bodies were found in his yard. If you were a musician, a male musician in the 60s, chances are you were a murderer. It's just how

it is. Well, I don't know exactly what else we have time for. I don't know. I mean, look, there was the whole, like, they announced, like, changes to the Haunted Mansion queue. Mm-hmm. There's a, like, there's a. I wasn't sure if you pulled something up or not, and then the audience response was like.

People seem upset by that. There's a gift shop coming next year, too. Mm-hmm. People seem upset by that. There's a gift shop coming next year, too. The gift shop, of course, is outside of the confines of the ride. Literally, we're looking at the exit of the ride. So that is not something we will need to discuss. Well, eventually. Just let me try.

Let me try, please. So I kind of wanted to propose next year we take a break from the graveyard and we go right to the new queue and the gift shop. Because it's going to be so fresh. Thinking outside the box. It's going to be fun to sort of take a quick break from the whole way we've been doing it. Who knows what new feature on the Disney Play app will be integrated in this gift shop.

It'll overeat your phone in all sorts of new ways. What kind of spirit jerseys will they sell? Can I hide in a cape for a year? Oh, trust me, I've tried. Well, okay, look, you guys, you know, you filled the assignment. I was delighted by your fulfilling of the assignment, so I guess whatever we want to do next year but I let me let me just say this um and this is like

you know I'm looking at a clock that's that's winding down I know we're ticking down here and we got another show to do so I and I had no fantasy that tonight would be the end of the entire thing of course not I know that I'm no fool. But I, you know, just imagine for a second while we have an audience here, just hypothetical, imagine if we could all be together for the moment where we finally finished

this series. Wouldn't that be cool? To like, shall share that together? Sure, yeah. Yes! We can totally agree on that. But I, you know, that's just a thing to imagine. That's just kind of a thing to like brainstorm because like we're ticking down, right? And you know, it's not like you could possibly

finish the rest of the ride in just, I don't know, exactly 26 seconds, right? Unless. No. Mike, could you play that video? What? Just click on the video, see what's there. Scott sent me a video and said, don't watch it.

Yeah, just watch it now. Here we go. Okay, alright. Oh, it's one of his missed videos. Five singing busts from the iconic song Grim Grinning Ghost. No. This doesn't count. I can't even understand what he's saying. involving many spirits set behind a number of scrims. There's a tea party, a beheaded guy, a Viking lady, all kinds of shit. The ghost host returns to warn us of hitchhiking ghosts. So we soon meet Ezra Bean, Professor Thingis' son,

and Gus, what funny names. In a series of mirrors, the ghost appears to follow us home. We climb off our dune bunnies and step onto a moving ramp where we see a small ghostly bride who tells us to hurry back. The ramp leads to the exit, and that's the haunted mansion. Thank you. Wow. I knew we could. I knew we could.

The guy from the Oscars held up the Hauntville open and said Haunted Mansion is done. That means it's official. We got to do it together, guys. Nice try, champ. That video didn't even include the phrase Ned Nubber Uncle Theodore. You know what? That video was very nice.

Yeah, I thought so. I liked the effort. Went over pretty well, yeah. And it's official and binding. And what I think is nice about it is actually it sets perfectly up next time for us to talk about the new gift shop. And the new queue. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're saying that by exiting, I have actually reset it, which makes it more justified to go back?

Yeah. So what we'll just do is we'll do the gift shop, then we'll go to the queue, and then, yeah, we'll go through and see what we missed. Yeah, because we barely touched on the various types of audio recording and playback, analog and digital. So, yeah. So this is perfect. Thank you for that nice little video. Thank you so much. Let's have a round of applause for the nice little video.

That's perfect. That's perfect. Okay. Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, it was nice. That's why you guys are the worst. All right. That's perfect. Okay. Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, it was nice. That's why you guys are the worst. All right, that's our show. You survived OnCast The Fright, ladies and gentlemen.

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