Podcast: The Ride - Hungry Bear Bathrooms

Episode Date: December 16, 2021

We discuss a VERY necessary topic: the bathrooms underneath Disneyland's Hungry Bear Restaurant. One of the last places you can see the Country Bears in Disneyland. Jamborweek shirts now on sale at the PTR Giftshop:  https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride?ref_id=7251 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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Forever! Dog! Well, back for more, are ya? Well, you're in luck, cause today's topic is... Sorry, what now? Well, no, that's gotta be some kind of typographical error. Okay, apparently not. So today's episode is about the Hungry Bear Bathrooms. Okay, have fun. It's Pudgy Bear Jaber Week and I'm fucking around. welcome back to podcast the ride country bear jamber week day four i'm swinging scotty gairdner joined by big car owl son howdy there and jughead jay son bonnet sheridan aka Old Slewfoot himself what's going on? That's right thanks for coming back y'all

we're gathering speed we're gathering names and we are fresh from our cinematic journey back to 2002 and back here on the main feed to address the

primary way that the country bears characters live on in disneyland today which is of course the hungry bear bathrooms yes um there was no way we could do country bear jamber week without this crucial dissection yeah um. And so you're welcome. Here we are. It's happening. Yes. The toilets at the hungry bear restaurant, quick service restaurant in Disneyland are some of the strongest places you

will get to see the characters and see their names more, more importantly, I even think. They have taken approximately 24 animatronic characters and willed it down to uh i think six in total we're down to say just the best six and it happens to be the six best characters yes in the show i would i never would have picked different ones and uh there they are welcoming you to the men's room and the women's room and the family room. Now, some representation at the restaurant.

There's like one picture. There's a lot of generic bear stuff at the restaurant. Although the real heads know, you know, that restaurant has been the same since they got rid of the fried. Jason, you, of course, are taking the words right out of my mouth. People are going to say, why aren't you just going to review the whole restaurant? And I think we don't review this restaurant until they bring back this beloved sandwich. I completely agree with what you're getting at here.

Yeah, this loaded fries is not doing it. It's not doing it for anyone. Oh, yeah. I've seen so many pictures of just bad little squirts on buns. Yeah, bad little squirts. I'm disappointed with the bad little squirts disappointed with the bad little squirts can we get a whole twitter account called bad little squirts about the just embarrassing like ketchup squirts or different uh i think probably honestly well like if yeah you know what just respond to our tweet about this

episode to start it if you've been to disneyland or any theme park and opened up a burger to see what a bad little squirt you got. Because I'm sure we all have memories of this. This is a lot of what made me mad being in Disneyland Paris. It was just like, oh my God, I was just having the greatest food of my life two days ago. And now I'm looking at bad little squirts. Bad little squirt. Yeah. No, I hear that.

And especially because if you're at the quick service like spot at disney or disney world or disneyland the meat isn't good or whatever you have on the sandwich is not of a high quality so you need a good quality squirt to balance out the maybe like subpar taste yes of what you're eating some chipotle mayo or cilantro mayo or something like that i although i had um uh like a halloween food from the that tomorrowland uh window that i always say like it's like dog food and uh i was i gave it another chance recently when it was very crowded and it was like pulled pork on top of waffle fries and i don't know how they you know uh stumbled that hard but it was like i was so sad eating i was like why'd you go to the place because it was like the only thing that still had like mobile winter

times available like in that hour and we were starving and it was like well let's just i mean how bad and and did like jane really she had like a fresh veggie wrap and then i was like well i'll try something like some junk food and i was like oh this is miserable had like a fresh veggie wrap. And then I was like, well, I'll try something like some junk food. And I was like, oh, this is miserable. I like to think it's like Lucy in the football with you where every time you go, maybe now it'll be good. Maybe now. I don't do that that much. I know.

I thought I'd like to think it's like that, but it's not. Yeah. I thought I'd give it another chance. I thought I'd try something different because I figured like a fried chicken sand, like I was another place to get our chicken. Right. You know? Um, but yes,

all this to say that we will do a full review of the hungry bear restaurant when this sandwich comes back. When? Yes. Great. Because as of now, it is just, we basically are,

are talking about the basement of a building that is otherwise engulfed in bad little squirts. Bad little squirts, for sure. Maybe the bathrooms are where you end up if you end up with your own bad little squirts because of the bad little squirts upstairs. Exactly. And that's what we're going to talk about. Because, yeah, we have thoughts about the dining area, the views you have when you sit in these either the the bottom floor or the top floor sure uh history the history changed at some point but that's not what we're that's not what we care about today no that's not country bear jamber week and this is just about the toilets um yeah although not even really what

it's about is that it's it'steriors. I guess you're probably right. But I have information on the actual interior. I went there. I went down last week to do some reconnaissance. I just wanted to make sure we knew exactly how many. I couldn't go in the female bathroom, but I went in the male bathroom and I counted the stalls.

I counted the urinals. Oh, thank God. So we have that type of stuff. Technical information. Great. And this is good also because obviously we're mainly here because of the Country Bearer. dolls that counted the urinals oh thank god so we have that type of stuff information yeah great good great and this is good also because obviously we're mainly here because of the country bearer discussion but like bathrooms have gone woefully unaddressed uh you know they've come up here and there but we know we hear the swells of anger about why have you not if you know you're going to cover these properties and yet there's so there's many many rooms that we've never discussed no we're wasting our time on what

on you know the the ride with a guy in a boulder that's right whatever the space trip is who gives a shit who cares some still have like the crazy 60s interiors. Like there's one on Main Street, the secret Tiki room. Some seemingly have not changed in decades and are kind of interesting interior design wise. This seems to have been kept up. It used to be, I find it a rock solid restroom option at Disneyland. Yeah, this is a solid. I recently had a, I talked on the show about getting sunscreen in my eye and it was a

ordeal it was a multi-hour ordeal it felt like it might have only been an hour but i definitely like a bad little squirt now that is a bad little squirt for sure i mean that's actually a kind of a bad little drip oh you're more of a bad it wasn't that you were like looking in the bottle why ain't this thing going? Yeah. No. Straight into your eye. Not like that.

But yeah, it was a bad little drip for sure that dripped into my eye. And then, yeah, I had to go. Hungry Bear bathrooms were one of the main stops I had where I, before going to see the Disney doctor, where I went in and just tried to like douse my head in water. And also was like trying to go in and out. Cause like there were too many people there and I was embarrassed cause I was just soaking my whole body in water.

Cause it was a panic move. Cause I was frantically trying to alleviate the pain. So you thought you could return to theme parks without incident. If no, if you didn't hear this episode, this was the, this was his first time there in 15 months post pandemic and that's what happened uh-huh yeah so so i i spent a lot of time in a panic state in this bathroom not long ago um but yeah so was it tough to go back it was well

i had my journalist hat on this time so it wasn't actually i'm such a professional that there was no problem i also i was there last week as well and i did a little reconnaissance i was there with my friends raja and jane and they um there was the moment of the that we're walking to galaxy's edge and we'll get a late night snack and i'm like can we just uh one sec can i just i gotta go uh do uh you gotta go to the bathroom i do but not for it's too uh it's research about the bathroom but you know i'll expect it's a week it's a thing that we're uh i think i've never seen so crazy uh-huh requiring a theme park well it's a long story that's why you do what i did and you go to disneyland alone that's right that's what i did i made go to disneyland alone that's right that's what i

did i made having an audience that's right is a notable development of these bands it used to be like right at the one of the parks a few dead ends but now it's like a a stop on the way to like the one entrance through the woods of galaxy's edge or if you're exiting through that it's it can be like oh thank god there's a restroom coming up you know gateway to the cosmos is what it is yeah yeah it's a great way to put it yeah um so it's it's a important like boy the prominence went up that's like some little you know it's like the the uh the the house from up suddenly is surrounded by high profile construction that's true the neighborhood's changing and luckily it didn't the the nobody took the bathrooms away on a bunch of balloons they stayed and they're they're serving a purpose um and let's let's talk about the main

why they're coming up here because these bathrooms are a remnant of a time where uh much more of the area was devoted to the country bears it's not the the building that the country bear jamboree was in but it's nearby and thus they are themed to the characters so let's talk about character representation on these bathroom doors right um the one we can speak to the most the men's room is uh of course gomer's gentleman's lair of course what do we have to say about this it's a very it's a very main street a very uh turn of the century kind of font um i the choice of gomer what do we you know of all the gentlemen in the show to choose from, are we disappointed that somebody else isn't? Well, yeah, Gomer is a less flashy choice.

That would make sense more maybe like, you know, Henry or Big Al or something like it does seem like that would be the character you would go to. So Gomer is kind of a low key choice. Now, you might say that's you know that's smart to get gomer out there a little bit more since he's not so um prompt people don't think of him maybe as one of the main bears but i would say to you they use tricksy i mean there's only a few female bears now that i think about it but like tricksy's a much more she's very pop singing role of the yeah very visible bear right so you would think they would try to match the star power of trixie on the on the men's bathroom sign i think um you know i was very complimentary of

gomer several days ago in the first episode i was saying i think that gomer can get it i think he's oh yeah sure thinker and a tinkerer um and yes there's louder country bears but maybe you want to aspire to be like gomer in the way that you use a restroom facility you want to just quietly sure do your business not make a bunch of noise right just get in and out of there with a plan because a wilder character like a wendell wendell would go in there you know tear it up make a mess be hooting and hollering make a mess be hooting and hollering he would do be hooting and hollering too much i you know you're right so it makes sense and trixie seems like she would be very respectful in the ladies parlor uh or whatever excuse me at

the the powder room yes is when she's on the sign she's very like um coy i would say yeah her eyes are closed um she i mean look closing your eyes is a like it makes sense as a facial uh pose you know mid uh bathroom bathroom experience yeah yeah so that makes sense so i i guess they are picture this is a picture of trixie going to the bathroom a picture of trixie's head while she's going to the bathroom yes her head though folks yes not nothing don't start nothing portrayed something untoward right um this probably surprises no one uh powder room is what we call the downstairs bathroom my house growing up like i think what you call a half bath now we always said oh that you know like oh the

powder room is out of toilet paper like we need you know and you okay so the powder room implying that um it's just a quick powder is kind of a quick thing on a film shoot or something let me just give the guy a quick powder. Okay, great. It's a quick stop by more than it is a full bathroom experience as with a shower or a bathtub. Well, yeah. I think back in the day, ladies would go in and powder their noses is where I'm assuming the name came from. But yeah, I think you call it a half bath now. Just basically like a toilet and a sink without a shower yeah but powder

that was uh you know in a classier time when you wouldn't you didn't want to say oh i have to go to the bathroom because that would conjure up images of you urinating or something no you'd say powder room or water closet or wc so you could you could mask people from having to put that image in their head of you going to the bathroom yeah it was a simpler and classier time presumably it came from you know my parents learned it from one of their parents because we also i think like in an improv practice or class or something i refer to something as a hasik once instead of an ottoman they mean the same thing a footrest but yeah i think it's just an older term for the footrest that goes with a chair i was thinking how because um you were saying upstairs uh sorry to leave the bathrooms for a

second but upstairs at the hungry bear which is not otherwise country bear themed there is a big picture of the five bear rugs yes and right once you get up to the counter and the sign there i might not have it in front of me but it refers to oh no i do have it thanks for buzzing by enjoy your vittles and vittles is this kind of old westy term but it occurred to me as one of those things where jason might say vittles no vittle you didn't say vittles you didn't go to get your vittles i think we okay we didn't say so we didn't say vittles regular i think we saw it in like an old movie or an old tv and every now and then we go like what vittles are we had like we would so you did say vittles he would say vittles as a child in the family i forget the initial content but i definitely

remember maybe it was in the boy scouts or something but like vittles i know i knew the term vittles from very young you picked it up from one of the other little rascals i yeah yeah when we were like someone mentioned it like hey let's go get some vittles after we look into this tailpipe yeah of course we'd have to wash our faces off from the soot of course you would come home with so much soot yeah mischief night you were covered yeah i even what how do you define vittles it's like sort of cowboy you know food yeah um so right well i i guessed right there um where were we? Oh, just, well, let's make sure we don't leave the signs behind. That's really what we're doing. Yeah, the signs, yeah.

Gomer, I think, is like just pretty thoughtful and just kind of pensive. Yeah, he's not happy. He's not grinning, but he's like, huh. He looks like this is a picture of him in the moment of realizing that he has to go to the bathroom. Yeah, he's in a conversation with someone and he's like, oh, uh-oh. Maybe it's not a dire situation, but it's definitely like a serious one. It's like, I got to get there pretty quickly. Like, Tennessee is...

People underrate Tennessee as a musician. He's actually... Like, people think he's a joke, but i've played with a lot of guys in my time and i'll say oh um excuse me i need to go to the gentleman's lair my gentleman my gentleman's lair you mind if i go to my gentleman's lair um yes i think that's correct it now that brings up another question of like in the bear canon did these bathrooms get named does like is that gomer's place like is that like he takes care of it or he designed it or it was his decision to create this bathroom you know what i mean like is it is it just oh it's a fun name for

them or do the in in canon do the bears have something to do with the upkeep or creation of these bathrooms so you're like i mean what i'm picturing is sort of the you know there's a plot on curb currently of larry getting to pick uh what is in his mini fridge like he's a mini bar mini bar yeah in a hotel so it implies that sort of scenario where like did they give trixie and gomer the opportunity to provide not the edible vittles, but you know, toiletry vittles, um,

sure. Toiletles, uh, that might be available. Like, like was there maybe a time where you could get, um, you know,

mints or different types of washes, cloths or whatever. They certainly don't have those things now. Obviously. What's that? Individual cigarettes. Oh yeah. individual cigarettes oh yeah quarter for a cigarette yes uh yeah so i can see we've all yeah there yeah was there ever a time in the in canon i don't think in disneyland but there was a bathroom attendant in a bare bathroom attendant who would you know spray you down with cologne or you know you'd tip them they have candy bars i'm describing i'm describing

i'm describing like the one time i went to a strip club i think where there's like candy bars and you're like what what is this set up even some venues in la like i don't know if that's come back you know his concerts have come back well yes but like the echo you know they would have mints and gum and it's so yeah yeah no other places do for sure yeah cigarettes and stuff yeah the bathroom attendant isn't that uncommon this is like we probably don't have time to get into this but that you've been to a strip club and i have not is that true yeah i've never been to strip club really yeah yeah huh jason uh i was with him yeah it was yesterday. Yeah. It was last night. It's Tuesday now, and Mondays are... Mondays are free wing night.

Yeah. I know as we record this, I haven't gotten the boost yet, but that's... I feel like you're using it as an excuse to not invite me to stuff. Well, we just know you didn't know the landscape really well, so we don't want you to embarrass us, because we're very good at going. I'll learn. I'll catch up, guys. I don't know. I can be rowdy and bawdy. I don't even embarrass us because we're very good at going i'll learn i'll catch up guys no i can be rowdy and bawdy i don't know what's where we're why vegas we're at a party okay yeah yeah fine okay great yeah very great okay good i'm just making sure it was like in

the past and not i was making sure you were kidding about the yesterday part because like i know that was a joke. I'm not doing a lot at night. So I was just sitting around. You know, I'm always around. What if off air, all of a sudden you got a text,

like, you know, that thing we were joking about today. It's real. Jason's we're pulling up in front of your house. Get in. Sounds like fun to me. No, we, it was a bachelor party party is it like eight years ago at this point seven years something seven or eight years ago we all go to the bouncer and say like and show them

a picture of tricksy and say is there do you guys have any like bears lady bears this is weird like like is it all humans here what's the deal with the yeah yeah i said uh just just checking it's okay if it is well we had a rat the other day but that's just a that's a separate issue no but anthropomorphized at all it's a little human would they put on a bow and like take off the bow but not other clothes yeah if so that sounds apparently i have a burn cd it's just too much as i have a burn cd and do you take requests and also provided media do you think the other guy you guys play honky-tonk here sometimes right is there a fiddle lying around i'm happy to i'm no professional but i'll try but i'll try to do

it myself um from strip club discussion to the the family den the son bonnet's family den they get i don't think i knew now i'm glad i didn't know this recon i didn't know this either so that i could discover this i thought here i thought it was just yeah men's and women's but in fact um that's good information for me in the future should i need the family den if i go with my family but all three sun bonnets are are pictured uh-note, seemingly. So now we know that these three girl bears who get turned down on dates, that they also

all go to the bathroom in the same room. Well, that is not that uncommon. It's not? Will women go to the bathroom together? But in the same one? Well, I know. You're saying they'll get up together to go to the bathroom at the same time. But I don't think then they go to the same room.

Sometimes. In like toilets across from each other? I think some people do. I don't know how common it is. That also might be a young person's thing. We're going to the bathroom together in the same... Well, you keep up a conversation. You're a gentleman.

I feel like guys do it too, yeah. I realize we've never all been to a strip club together. Now I realize we haven't all been done it? Keep up the conversation. You've been doing Gentleman's Nest a long time. I feel like guys do it too, yeah. I realize we've never all been to a strip club together. Now I realize we haven't all been to the bathroom together. Well, we mostly hang out at restaurants where, like, when we're going in the bathroom, each urinal has its own tiny TV playing the game. So we're focused on the game. The big game.

The big game. But if we found out about a place that has a big TV, bigger than what's in the bar and we could all that we could all watch it from one stall that has three toilets maybe have a little sidebar of like hey you know i want to have a little more privacy than the big table watching the big game right big table watching the big game that's right home team versus away we invite out like we're gonna you want to go out we invite our significant others we're all gonna go out to a bar and then we all disappear for 90 minutes leaving them like um so do we need to go check what's uh do we does this wood ranch barbecue

have that many that's the sports bar does bj's have that many options does wood ranch show games wood ranch is a big like watch things on tv i think in the bar there's one television okay yeah bj's a little more yeah bj's more buffalo wild wings they're showing all day yeah yeah yeah so well they're showing the game if people don't request to watch the old footage of jamborees yeah past right yeah but again you gotta bring that separate recorded media hey man could you put on that um that uh youtube of uh some live eight performances i think the i think the restaurant will get a kick out of it. I agree.

Yeah. So the sun by, if the sun bonnets need to adjust their bonnets, make sure they're all straight. Make sure the bows line up right at the bottom of the chin. They can all go do that. Yep. And again,

just nice to like, I'm just glad everybody's still around because otherwise, you know, we can't be flying to florida and tokyo all the time right only a lot of the time right so you get a little bit yeah and if we want to go see our friends above a door we can right and there's this is so low impact right now that there's no reason for them to take the signs down which is nice you know so there's like why would they even just like they don't need to put poo bear characters and change everything around like that's who cares yeah yeah they don't it doesn't need to be kangas room right they can like she doesn't need that

we know kanga yeah it's already in merch um she's like she's covered the sun bonnets need this trixie needs trixie really needs this trixie is sad yes very sad yes often upset so this this sign is all she's got right so hopefully it'll be there forever um you know what i was gonna say about gomer maybe maybe uh a more not restrained but like uh uh comics comic musicians musicians it's like if someone you have someone who's of crosby stills nash and young who's your favorite member and surely there are people who go like oh well graham nash you know so he's not henry he's not big al but it's like oh gomer oh interesting interesting choice it's not solo work but it's like a choir like a le interesting choice it's not solo work but it's

like a choir like a leon russell or something do you think graham graham nash is the least one popular one is it well crosby did a lot of solo work right i see what it would be steve it would be stills or nash i guess i actually don't i'm not even trying to lead you into like i think you're wrong i'm just thinking i feel like stills is the least popular could be stupid didn't even he had that stop look what's that sound that's kind of that's true too yeah i guess you're right i guess this is nash there's not a lot of solo nash but there's some solo nash though i guess yeah but no you know i work with the hollies too yeah right so if you like the holly but um i don't know i don't think that's so crazy no i don't think so either i was just i was thinking

about it in terms of like prominence and significance of musical body of work crosby stills nash and young country bear band oh yeah five bear rugs um the uh we didn't talk about the five bear rugs are sort of like a that's that's like the band a little bit within like yeah right they're a backing band but they that's like the band a little bit within like, yeah, right. They're a backing band, but they, they're,

they're their own entity. They like, uh, you know, they're separate stars. It's, it's a little bit like how the Eagles started backing up Linda Ronstadt and became their own thing.

Um, it's, they, they may, it just, it makes a lot, like a lot of me, great musical dynamics are represented in

the show i think god accurate ones um so yeah so the uh the other now i didn't even realize that this was a a reference for a long time and it took the jamber week to alert me to who this character was and i could be wrong but there's the the main restroom sign uh in which a skunk's tail also serves as an arrow to point you to the restrooms uh i just thought this was a generic skunk or maybe from like a more of a fairy tale disney movie and i forgot that this is in fact randy the skunk we know randy now from talking about the vacation oh right yes i pulled that same picture yeah i also was like just kind of walked right by that and now nobody ever will again next time you're in disneyland and if people are rushing you over to rise of the resistance

take a moment take a breather stop tell him stop walking look up that skunk is not a generic skunk that's randy the skunk that's randy hold on we gotta make one pit stop and i'm not talking about the bathrooms i talk about the sign for the bathrooms no don't get a snack don't get a snack don't waste your don't waste your goddamn money not here i want to hear you say it say hi randy hi randy all right okay now we can go on rise if you're if you're in the park while listening I want to hear you say it. Say hi, Randy. Hi, Randy. Hi, Randy. All right. Okay. Now we can go on rise.

If you're in the park while listening to this, make a video of yourself saying hi, Randy under the sun. Hi, Randy. Show us pictures of your little squirts and videos of you saying hi, Randy. That's your two homework assignments today. Do not make any videos closer to the rest we are not response like we are not encouraging that no no no not there not at disneyland this is hallowed ground um so uh that's that covers all of the character uh representation it's so nice

to see these friends who don't get to play their music in disneyland anymore but they do get to encourage people to keep their bowels flowing exactly um that said now we've said the character stuff what else about the restrooms themselves all right well there are six stalls there are four tall urinals or uh one small urinal uh three regular heights that's what Oscar would use, the little bear Oscar. Right. And then one small, like a lower height sink. And I think that's a good mix. Seems like those are never too crowded. Anytime I've ever been there, that's a nice amount, I think. Sometimes there's a few that they're full, but it's never one where like you're waiting in a long line.

I don't know if you guys would disagree. No, I don't. I never think it's too crowded, even though that restaurant is pretty busy usually a lot of tons of seating tons of seating and then you know a lot of people coming off of splash mountain uh trying to dry off or change um and then and now you get people leaving or going to galaxy's edge right now this is this is another thing to bring up about this place this is a place that you have avoided in your efforts to change your little socks in the uh in the splash mat log you've because those we pointed out that those bathrooms are right there and you could easily go into one of the

six stalls oh is it six urinals or how many stalls i'm sorry stalls hold on a second how would that work he would sit on the toilet and change his socks i would pull my pants down sit down on the toilet sit down i don't know you don't have to do that well we do this with this all came out this was in the episode of mary holland a long time yeah yeah um if you what we said was what you could do is just sit on any bench and make this change and nobody would be alarmed but if you wanted some privacy in doing this yes you could go put the lid down like the bathrooms are for doing private business that doesn't have to be taking a dump you could go in there then change i could stand up and do it

i could stand up and do it yeah you could absolutely do it standing i could also go to the bathroom and while i'm going to the bathroom i could change my socks you got yes i mean you might get a little like i know i was picturing standing that you're talking more sitting going to the bathroom yeah i'm talking about sitting you know okay yeah because i think standing that would be hard while urinating also lifting your legs up and changing your shoes yes uh might not work i also think i like how you said my changing my little socks changing your little socks in the little log uh yeah uh yes that's true i bigger log than other i had decided to yeah to do it quickly that way i mean it is look the log position is the perfect way a perfect place like you have so much access to your feet uh it's private relatively private but you have

so much access you have i would say more access to your feet in any other if anything that's walls restricting you that's plenty of access i mean you're right you're right but you're there's no position log like sitting down position in the bathroom that would look right you couldn't get in that position log you need why do you need to be in a log position because of your feet are so close to your arms and there's barely any reaching that has to be done oh i see it's like it's more like being in like a lawn chair like something lower exactly the chairs we're in right now are more similar to toilet height maybe a little higher right but they're not log like in the sense that it would like half this half the height on these chairs and they're a little more like the log i see oh you know that

actually helps me understand it a little better that you're lower thus your feet are closer it's like right there that's why that's why i even i think i've done this honestly only twice but this is why i had the thought because i was like my hands are right here because i panicked because i forgot the first like when i went oh last time my socks got soaked i went you know what i could do i could quickly take them off right now which i know it sounds weird but that was just because it was literally like my hands were like right there and i was like well it's something i can slip my shoe on. I do. I see what you're saying.

You're lower. You're lower to the ground. It's a very easy way to do. Yeah. But now that we've realized that these are the main ways that some of your favorite characters live on. Don't you think that it's a slight to go? I owe them. Go change your little socks. In Gomer's Gentleman's Lair. I owe the them go change your little socks in gomer's i owe the bears that to guess

to change my little socks which i now i'm picturing like little like booties or something that i'm wearing uh yes in the in the gentleman's lair but yes it would have to be in a stall because i would get some weird looks if it was anywhere else well you wouldn't want to do it just in the on the general bathroom floor between the urinals and the sinks. No. That's a no-no for sure. Yeah. I mean, this is the look.

People definitely I've been called out for the log stuff, but changing socks is kind of weird to do in public. It is kind of weird. Not if you're at the mall, maybe. But if you are next to the exit of a water ride well the exit of water rides i guess okay maybe it's the exit maybe it's the exit area because people are soaked there so you can just blend in to all the other people yeah there's a lot of like landscape like stone walls you know that like you can sit on and you know i just need to be more prepared in general i just need to have a better plan and then maybe it's in gomers i think that's if you're after privacy

there's so much more privacy than you're on a ride where there's security cameras watching you at all times maybe the people in the log can't see it but the employees who are standing and you're well below them they can see you there's there's a number of people there's eyes in the log can't see it but the employees who are standing and you're well below them they can see you there's there's a number of people there's eyes in the sky watching you change i don't know would i be arrested for for doing it though would that would disney security come over to me no absolutely nothing is going to happen to you but if you're just saying the eye you're saying the eye yeah yeah the eye of right yeah yeah only you can answer this because it's a problem in your mind. I see.

And I shouldn't tear it apart. You've already invented what you think is the perfect system for you. It is. Look, I probably will never do it again, but it is a great system that works very well, actually. I do think. But I probably will never do it again. Don't you think, though, that maybe if you were,

because sometimes we run into listeners in the park, which is nice, and if you were like, if we're in the line, though, that maybe if you were, because sometimes we run into listeners in the park, which is nice. And if you were like, if we're in the line, right, and then somebody, you're paired up with another group who start to murmur, like, that's Mike from Podcasts to Write. And we're about to get in the log with him. He's got to do it, right? I wonder if he's going to do it. Say the line, Bart. Yes. Yeah.

Well, then I guess it would be. Shave your socks, Mike. I would honestly have to charge them money for this fan experience i would have to they would be thrilled you would lay it on so you would start doing like a silent movie actor like yeah yeah yeah yeah like looking inside the song it would be a whole wing into it yeah making a little pu yeah no it would be i would make a lot of uh a big meal out of it basically um because it's something to consider i think maybe in a again if privacy is the issue i should not put you in this position but you sitting down and doing a

full the full charlie chaplin version of this at a live show it wouldn't play for the podcast right but that's a little special treat for if you come in person. You get to see like a five-minute rendition of Mike changes his socks. Because I imagine here. I imagine, okay, this is what you're picturing. You're picturing like this, foot off, me like putting my foot in the air. And then I make like, I go like, la, la, la, la. And then I like kind of pull the sock off and i'm

like examining it under the thing when it's much more like um like i lifted this you know we just gotta kind of take it off like this and it's gone like that's it it's such a quick motion very discreet this is i mean if douglas fairbanks and mary pickford were doing this this would be like a box office hit. This is a few years after the train coming right at the screen, but America was like, yes, yeah. Sock boy or sock man. America is in love with sock boy.

Number one on the box office this weekend, the sock boy. We're going on at number two. Woman sets a dinner table. Now, I am filming this for potential use on the okay sure like a physical comedy version of this that you might want to is oh you want me to do a full not a full but just do one little what's like something if you take it off and then like the entertainer is part of the show. So it's like... Great. That's good.

And now to do the the test like i tap the purse i go excuse me do you mind just gesture to your sock oh yes i know what you're saying and i kind of pry the sock off oh it almost flails you back you're gonna fly out of the log whoa whoa i grab like a lady's hat and it flies off. The hat flies off and I have to catch that as well. And then Jason looks harumphy like what is happening on this ride?

Tsk, tsk. This is a hit. Our fighting boys and all ships at sea resoundingly applaud the USO gags sock boy. Wow. World War I is won because of the morale

boost that... The Kaiser cowardly waves a white flag as sock boy triumphantly changes his knickerbockers. We rely on comics to poke fun at the human experience. There's nothing we can all relate

to more than needing to change your sock on a log ride thank you sock boy sock boy makes this okay because be yourself um so yeah well um i mean i don't know what else to say from that. I mean, that's like, you know, we got a physical comedy routine. And I don't know. It's part of the it's an important part of the sector of the park, I suppose. Right. Is it, you know, without with these bathrooms not there, certainly there'd be no choice but to just do it in the log. Exactly. Well, I just have a

throwback picture of course in bear country before this all flipped to critter country baths had their own little building labeled baths and uh i mean this is archived on yesterland you can kind of see there's little signs and uh they look pretty similar to the ones at the hungry bear restaurants hard to tell if they're the exact same size yeah but this you would see like right as you're coming into the land i do wish it was like a full bath hat like it'd be great to full bath house like you could take a full bath at disneyland that would have been a real thrill was there ever a time where you could take a full bath at disneyland no but at seaside resorts there would be uh there's

still like um you know uh uh public bath houses and stuff change is like the jersey bath houses you mean literal bath house like you rent a shower and stuff right jason and i have never been to a bath house together i promise you scott we've never that's for jason alone jason goes to that alone and i'm not being on tour. If you go to some national parks, too, or like Joshua Tree, like some of the general stores on the outskirts of the park. You can take a bath in a general store? No, they have baths in an adjacent building.

Got it. And you can rent, you know. Well, I guess at truck stops and stuff, you can take a shower. There are those places, too. You'd really want this at disneyland yes he is you heard the man a big old-timey tub he could get in with a big wash resort experience yeah with the big scrub brush and he gets in like he either gets nude or gets in the screw duck bathing suit and he goes the scratchiest brush yeah the most bitter thistles you know

if they want frontier land to be more like a frontier mining town more like deadwood you gotta offer some path the way to get it into west world territory yep yeah you take a bath there um okay well that's our request i guess that's hungry bear bathrooms but not hungry bear bath houses right and were this to exist yeah and again i'm not talking about anything untoward i'm simply talking about cleaning the filth off your body this feels a little untoward it feels untoward okay i guess if you say it like maybe that was too literal and that's the new phrase of the show also is untoward untoward battle room untoward hasik vittles you know country bear jammer week vocabulary guide um and but the main vocabulary to remember is hi randy go say hi to randy hi

randy next time you're passing by um and i guess that'll that'll do it that's this episode yeah and we're heading to unless we decide to add any more, I think now we're heading to the end of Podcast the Rides Country Bear Jamber Week. So we're on our way to the finale. We'll see what surprises are in store. But for now, you survived this episode about bathrooms. I hope it didn't fog your glasses too much. Country Bear Jamber Week theme, courtesy of Mike Carlson. Country Bear Jamber Week theme Courtesy of Mike Carlson

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