Podcast: The Ride - Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park with Ronnie Adrian

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

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weird flags, a well-dressed goose, and a trek to Japan's Eco Masanjo amusement park with Ronnie Adrian. Wow, all that? Yes, on today's podcast, the ride. Welcome to Podcast the Ride, a theme park podcast hosted by three men who believe that the big trench coat they put on Jessica Rabbit at Disneyland isn't big enough. My name is Mike Carlson.

Joining me as always, Scott Gardner. Yeah, I see some face. I see some kissable lips that are painted with the colors of the women of the night. That's right. Let me make it clear. I am anti-lipstick. Yeah. It's tawdry.

Anytime I go on Roger Rabbit, I do have the urge to jump out of the car and kiss Jessica Rabbit. So I do wish. It was just a bigger coat. Lap bars. Bigger, what do you call? The collar? Like a bigger collar maybe would help. And a front collar is what she means.

needs. It's got to go all the way around. Let's cover that hair, too. That's, that's, that hair is far too appealing. I did realize as I said this. I'm like, do people still know, do people know what I'm talking about? I was thinking, yeah, is that a three-year-old. Our listener should know this, that they put a trench coat. Let me, our guest, we should say, Jason Sheridan's out sick. He would obviously agree with us, as he always does on every topic. Yeah, yeah. So anything we say today, he agrees with. Let's just say that out. Yes, everything, yeah, imagine his signature after any statement that is said in this episode. Yeah, which is again, I should reiterate something from a recent episode, which is, we discovered Jason's similarity in so many ways to Chuck Berry. And in his absence, I want to reiterate that Jason is the Chuck Barry of podcasting. And he signs off on that as he signs off on everything we always say. We pay him in cash before the gig and a big bag. But let's bring our guest in here. He's an actor. He's an improviser.

He's returning to podcast the right because we do, we should see if he knows what we're talking about. We're talking about Ronnie Adrian. and Ronnie, do you know, hi. Hello. That was a funny way to, we should see if we knows what we're talking about. We're talking about Ronnie Adrian. Yes. I think you do know about that.

Yeah, I know myself for sure. Yeah, you do know, or do I? You know, sometimes you wake up and you're like, what? Who am I? I agree, yeah. Sometimes it's like confusing in the sense of like you don't remember literally. That's happened to me. It feels like a good two seconds of like, oh, wait, who am I?

Oh, okay, yeah. And like I read download all of it. Like at the beginning of the day, you have to remind your stuff? You know what I'm talking about? To re-download, like, my life. I've woken up and been like, what, what has happening? Where am I at? Like, what's going on, like, what day is it?

Like, what is, where am I at in my life to what I'm doing, right, in those places? But I've never been like, who am I? What is my name? What is I'm looking at my arm, me mental style? Like, what is my, tell me about myself. Okay, so I'm not a little baby. That's what my hands have taught me. These are big, these are grown-up hands for sure.

Sure. All right. I haven't gotten that far. You're not full memento. Mom? Okay, no response. So I don't live with my parents. I am grown.

One of the number, okay, one of the number of things I wake up and I go, is there's something to be worried about? And then sometimes there is and sometimes there isn't. I feel like for you, the answer is always there is. 90% of the time there is. Yeah. Sure. What did I put off?

What haven't I responded to? What haven't I checked? out. It's a bunch of different things. I do a lot of waking up and like, like, do I have a current tragedy in my life I have to be upset about, especially if you dream something that was bad or like a loved one is dead or something. Like, oh, good. No, that. Oh, it was a dream. Okay, I'm set. I can start the day and I'm all good. That is the nice feeling. That is the best feeling when you go like, oh, no, it's a, it's a dream. And as of right now, my life is fine. Yeah. In this moment,

it's fine, because that's as good as you're going to get. Yeah, the nightmare was fake. What a great feeling to start the day. Oh, the nightmare was fake. In this real life, even though it's kind of its own nightmare, it's not as bad as the dream. So, hey, baby, we're living. The dream put things in perspective. Yeah.

So, yeah, that's, maybe people don't, I think most people do wake up like that, I feel like. Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels like that. Do we need to close the loop on Roger Ratt? Yeah, exactly. You do, yeah. So on the Roger Rabbit right at Disneyland, for some reason, they just put a big coat over Jessica Rabbit. Huh. So you can't see her, like, dress in her body.

I didn't know that. Yeah. Okay, so maybe the joke. I'm going to have to go back and edit the joke then. No, no, no, it's fine. I didn't know that, but I'm probably not as well versus a lot of your listeners. They probably knew that immediately. Like, yeah, we're also upset about this.

Right. For the reason you all are. Which is, you know, because it doesn't look like the movie. That's why I'm upset. There's nothing to do with honesty. You know, I would say that, speaking of Jessica Rabbit, uh, well, obviously, I don't know what time. I don't know when you're listening to this, whoever, whoever you are, uh, but

Halloween was not too long ago, uh, during the course of this taping. I don't know when they're going to put this out. They might put this out in February of next year. I think it is, I think it might be in a few days. Yeah. I think we're actually, we're fine to reference Halloween. Okay. Yeah.

Um, and somehow I was on something and they were talking about Heidi Klum and how Heidi Klum has these big Halloween parties and she's having it for like the last I don't know 15 years or something like that I don't know Does she do insane transformative costumes? Yeah she does like really these costumes So I was looking at this thing and it showed A bunch of her like past costumes

And one of them was Jessica Rabbit So it was like da da da Jessica Rabbit So I was like oh so I was scrolling to look at the Because like there's these costumes that are like You know Medusa or I'm this And they're like so transformative or whatever and then I was like oh well what's the Heidi what's the uh the Jessica Rabbit one gonna be it's gonna be how beautiful that I whatever and she the costume was so I'm sorry yeah it was so

an unsexy version of Jessica Rabbit it was like she really accentuated the idea of being like look how cartoony and like really big like it's in a way that I was surprised I mean I guess it's like I do these really morphed kind of versions of these things like I really bring to life this thing. So it's like, if Jessica Rabbit was real, this is what she would look like. Right. But I was like, no, I want her to look like the cartoon.

Like, the cartoon is like, I don't know, you know, I'm not going to say sexy or attractive because I'm not in the cartoons like that. I don't want you to think of something cartoon loving sex freak. But you know, but y'all know what Jessica Rabbit looked like when you was a kid. Y'all know what y'all thought about Jessica Rabbit.

Y'all know y'all was like, how did Roger Rabbit get her? Yeah, yeah. When it gave us, maybe it planted the seed with a lot of us of like, ah, so get into comedy like Roger Rabbit. And then maybe I've got my chance with the babes. Wow, you're right. But I see what you're saying because she went, like, it's not like what if Jessica Rabbit was real and had human proportions and was in a similar dress and makeup and hairstyle. It is like her, she made her eyeballs huge. Right.

This is a little disturbing, right, Mike? Yeah. Like, how do you describe it? She made the eyelids take over half of her forehead. It's, I mean, it's very clever and well done, but it's also extremely creepy. It looks like, I don't know, does it look like Brazil, or does it look like the movie Brazil? Or does it look like she's like a Duracel person from the old commercials? Yeah.

It's a little Duracillie. Yeah, that's not. That's a Duriselle look for sure. I don't remember what the Duriselle mom looked like. I'm sure there's people out there that were very attracted to the Duracel people. That might have said. find an extremely specific fetish or interest. I mean, if Jason weren't here, I'd definitely pinned on him that he was attracted to the Duracel family.

But he's not here. So we can just say it for it. He would agree. That's true I am. He was attracted to. Yeah. I think I'd remember a conversation that we had offhandily where he mentioned that. Oh, okay.

Good. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, it's stuck in your head. Like, you're backstage at some show 12 years ago. Yeah. I just need someone to get this off my chest, too.

I really like the Duracill mom. And then they were like, and I woke to the stage improvises, and I'm just standing there like, what the fuck did you just say? You're just dumb fat. You didn't speak for 10 minutes. Yeah, I was on stage. They were like, yeah, I didn't do any walk-ons for a while. Stand to recover. Yeah.

You couldn't play game for like 24 hours. It threw me for a loop. I forgot how it worked. So anyway, yes, that's still at Disneyland. There's other things they need to change at Disneyland, but they for some reason got to that first. No, it's fast. I guess it's fast. One figure.

It's got to go to the Burlington Coat factory. I mean, who made that much of a stink to where it's like, well, after X amount of years, we're finally got to put a jagging on her? That one, no, I don't think anybody did. There's other ones that people are like, you should change that because it's old or it's culturally incensed. But that one, I don't, I didn't see the petitions. So it's still a confusing decision. I don't know how that climbed the priority list. Right.

But anyway, enough of that. we're going to talk We're sure we can We can talk about this For at least another 40 minutes I know we could We could You're right

We can make 40 minutes Out of this easy We just bail on the Yeah Well if you want We're a challenge for ourselves You brought it to topic But if you want to call an audible

We'll go with you Or just debate Did Heidi Kloom Or Alessandra Ambrosio Do Jessica Rabbit Best That's another thing That's another thing that I've discovered Because she did like

A human sexy version Not a bizarre plastic makeup version, which is probably what we would prefer. The traditionalists would want as far as that. Oh, and that was at an event for Casamigos Tequila. Oh, I've heard of it. Yeah, yeah. You like to mention.

I'm looking at an article from 2016. So we're covering all the best gossip and Halloween costumes from almost 10 years ago. You were making sure, like, is Halloween too out of date? No, I think you're okay. reading things from Halloween 2016. Okay. Well, this is going to be time. These are all timeless.

So people are going to be listening to podcasts to ride in 50 years, 100 years. For sure. They're going to be having the, these are going to be in the library of Congress. They're going to save these. So obviously it's going to be around. We're going to sell our catalog like Neil Young has and Bob Dylan has. And a big company is going to monetize it for a while. We're going to get a huge fight about it like Holland Oates and never speak again.

Right. I can't wait to hear your podcast in commercials. Yeah, that's true. Because we're against that now, but once we sell, they'll have the power. The right amount of coin, chiching, chiching. It's like a car commercial, and then the car commercial, they just get in their car. Like, man, check out this new Subaru. They turn it on and just like you guys talking on the radio.

All right. So let's dig it. I think the big thunder line gets a little too hot. Yeah, I agree. Jason's like, do you have the pop-clines? Subaru, the smoothest ride you'll ever have or whatever. I don't know what their slogan is. Right.

But it did it. It would help sell the Subaru's, I think. Wow, the thick base in the voices of those nerds complaining about something that doesn't matter. The $500 million we collect when we're $75 will be worth it for the company to spend. You know what will be in the catalog once it's available and, you know, on the shelves of history is the last time you were on where we talked about K-1 speed, the go-kart. place, which I have to thank you for because that became like a big part of my life with my son. After that, that was the first that I went, and realizing that there was like an arcade so close to us at the end of a bike path that we like to get on, we started, we were there almost every week for a while. You really like left an indelible impact on my activities with my oldest boy.

Well, I'm just happy that I was able to sort of mend previously contention. father-son relationship. Yeah, it was rough. So honestly, that's what I love about this. It's like, so I'm just glad that I was able to sort of, you know, create memories for you all to sort of like start anew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was like, oh, my God, I lost him already.

He's three. And we're like, we've got irreparable. Like, I figured it's, I figured when he was a teen, maybe we'd start getting each other's throats. But I've lost them already. My God. but with enough Nerf zombie

shooting game that's something that they had we played that so many times and it's really generous with the points and I feel like I've got a not insignificant amount of K1 bucks now I think I've got like hundreds of dollars worth of because their prizes are shit

their prizes are horrible yeah it's not yeah it's not yeah they don't have a it's not a it's not a lot of choice yeah yeah it's there's one vending machine that's a bunch of easter eggs and the easter eggs contain like little charms that a baby could swallow or like a or a foam cupcake that also would be bad for a baby and i have a baby now you can't have any of this crap so we don't like it's surprise is so bad even a kid doesn't want them so they're just accruing and accruing and i think i might be near getting to i might be

able to cash it in for like bow's headphones i might be able to go for the biggest Prize there is. Can I, I hate to get, I have a similar situation at the arcade in the Burbank Mall. I have so many points because my three-year-old loves to bowl. She loves to play this bowling game. We've been at that bowling game a lot. We didn't have talked about that? And then the Monopoly game where you, there's a big, like, die.

You, like, roll the big die. That pays out good. I didn't know that. I've got a couple thousand from that. So I'm like saving up. She doesn't know how the, my daughter doesn't know how the points work. So dad could cash in a big, she, all she cares. about like a little spider or some goo ball or some shit dad dad sees the bigger prizes on the

back wall she picked a goo ball the other day and it broke it like two days after we got it it was all over the couch no way you don't tell me that a mall prize broke yeah believe it or not the casing on the goo ball was not super secure okay but a kid that must be a defective one for sure that's an anomaly the rest no that's exception to the rule there was a kid there though they have lububoos behind the counter. And there was a kid there that was so excited. He was telling me he only needed a certain amount of points and he was going to get the lububu.

He got the points. He runs over. And then he proceeded to put the guy behind the counter through like the third degree because he didn't want to counterfeit laboooooooo. So he kept going. So these are real? Are these real? Is like an eight year old.

Are these? He goes, the guy's laughing. He's like, yeah, yeah, they're real. We ordered them from the Pop Mart website or whatever. He goes, are you sure? Can I see the box? Can I look at the back to make sure? And he's like, he's like checking, I don't know, he's checking his phone.

But he's like, he's listing how he knows what a counterfeit is. And he's checking it against the box. And the guy's laughing. This process took like five minutes for this kid to believe this Laboooo was legitimate. Now let me ask. Do you think it was a legitimate Laboooooo? I mean, I didn't look at the box. You don't know the criteria as well as the same old boy.

But I was, I was like, I wonder, hmm, because I guess they're out there. I mean, if you show up to school with the counterfeit Lubbubu, Oh, you're going to have to change schools if the other kids find out. That's true. I think legitimately, yeah, I think that might be like the year is toast. That is all, like, that'll hold through May. They will be making fun of it in May, for sure. Remember when so-and-so showed up to school with that counterfeit Lubbubu?

Oh, still laughing about it. There's like a kid with like the jewelers loop at school. It's checking the tag. What the heck? At lunchtime is like this line and this guy is just at this. at the lunch table, like, bring the next, the next, next lobooboo please. It's an appraiser, a nine-year-old appraiser of loboos. I will dispose of it for you.

This goes straight to the trash where it belongs. Next. So anyway, I got to take a look at the prize over there. They sound worse than the ones. They're really bad, and it's, like, I realize, like, we spent so much time there and had so much fun, and then I realized everything I have to say about it is negative. Bad prize is dirty arcade, filthy bathroom. But it really, I don't, who cares?

Sometimes who cares? You can have fun regardless. Yeah, but priceless a relationship with your son. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Memories are worth all a zillion points. Does he want to drive the car yet? No, the car has never come into play.

He's never even mentioned it. Yes, the go-kart place. Well, we watch the cars go by sometimes and we make flags out of napkins and wave them. That's fun. Yeah. Like, do you think that he, doesn't even think that he can drive him. Yeah,

it might be like a level of kid or grown up that he can't conceive of. And he's a little bit of a Freddy cat at this point in time. Interesting. I don't think we're even dreaming of go-karts at this point. But neither. Also, I believe maybe I had never done a go-kart

before we did that episode. I think that was my first go-kart. I don't think I had. Yeah, wow. Wow. So we're, what, 39 doing our very first go-kart? Let me ask, I mean, you two, and I guess I can even include myself in this. It's like, you, we all strike each other as sort of people who delve with life on the safer side. Can we say that? Sure. I think that's fair to say. If you're willing to put yourself

in this, you know, like, if I'm going to throw myself in there where it's like, cool, we're not the most like, I'm not going to, if somebody the other day was going to be like, hey, you want to come jump out is playing with me like I'm not the type of person that's like I wouldn't even think about it I'm like no fucking way right so the question is as people who do that as you're raising children because you just say it's kind of a frady cat or whatever do you kind of in your mind are you sort of like doing like being like we got to do we got to be safe or do you recognize that in yourself and then say I don't know do things to be like be a little bit adventure or whatever like how do you what's that balance between a parent like yourself as a parent and

just trying to kind of raise brave children, let's say? What do you think about that? I'm very curious about Mike's answer here because I think I'm trying to push. I'm trying to not create another me. But Mike, it seems like you're a little bit stressed out about the boldness of... Yeah, I have a different type of three-year-old, though. My three-year-old, I mean, she's getting more scared of things now, just naturally, I think. Thank God.

But I don't think it's because there's regular stuff now. she's like starting to get a little scared about which she wasn't before but like she just naturally was just like hurling herself around the playground and stuff and trying to get to the absolute top of the slide which is like you can only access via a ladder and then I can't have access to her at all like we can't get up there it's only for children it's three stories tall at this crazy park in Santa Clarita and I'm just like I don't think you're two at this point I don't think you should go up there and she melts down on me So you're saving her from herself.

That does sound crazy. There's a couple of these things where like, and I don't know that she would do it today, which probably would. But so it's like right now I'm just trying to, I'm not trying to make her afraid of everything. I'm just trying to keep her from falling. This is less of like, this is less of like a fear or an act because I'm quote unquote, I'm afraid. It's more being like, I'm just trying to be a good parent. Yeah, well, these are good parent decisions, not necessarily like. The real test, I think, is going to come when she's invited to place it.

Like, that's really going to be the test of, like, what do I do? Because that was the thing for me where it was like, oh, your friend invited you to a water park and you're 10. You're not going. No. You're not going to the water park. So, like, that's going to start to be the real test of what do I do. And I don't have a good answer yet for some of it. This is an off-told Puggestrade story, but you should tell Ronnie the what is up with the,

Why, you had to make up a reason to not go to the water park. So my friend, a couple years in a row, would have a birthday at the water park. Okay. And my mom did want me to go because, well, I mean, water parks are a little crazy, but I wasn't five. I was 10 or 11 or something. So it was this family every year. So every year we pretended that we were like going out because it was my parents' anniversary. We had like, oh, no, it always, oh, the date falls on our anniversary again.

we have to go celebrate our anniversary with the kids so you can't go to the part so i'd have to like say this multiple years in a row which sounds like complete horseshit oh for sure about it yeah yes i mean you know you know we celebrate anniversaries as as part of a merry and you you must have your children there right that's the thing you want the most is yes in my mind yeah as an anniversary it's like you would love the the chance to be like yeah take my kids while we go celebrate our anniversary like yeah yeah that makes more sense than we can't come the difference my mother is my mother never said take my kids i take my kids they stay here and then so then and then that would just result in you not go i never want sit around the house and they wouldn't take you to a nice

fake anniversary dinner i don't think so i don't think so we just have a regular day we just either water park nor nice fake anniversary i don't think so yeah you didn't put your foot down you didn't say hey if you don't maybe tell this lie, then you at least have to then celebrate this day with me as if it was your anniversary. Yeah, that's the rule. That's got to be the rule. Look, if I had a time machine. That's what you go back and tell yourself, hey, you got to put your foot down, man. Look, it's the art of the deal. Okay. You've got leverage here. Here's a book. They can read about it. This is a great book. And don't worry, as somebody in the future, don't worry about the ramifications of this book. Younger's other being like, is this the most

important information you want to tell me or that you need to tell me? It's all you need to know. You can get like a dinner out of it. You can get like an extra McDonald's tonight because of this. Then it's just McDonald's. Right.

I was very into McDonald's and still am. I'm very pro-McDondon. Yeah, I know. You're in the throes of, uh, Monopoly. I'm trying to get rid of all these monopoly rewards, Ronnie. I have like 40 rewards I got to get rid of by like the 23rd of November. You have to? I have to, yeah.

So you've taken time out of your life to go. to a McDonald's then drive to a different McDonald's 15 minutes later and get another thing in order to have points that you don't want and don't want to spend for food that you don't want to eat. This has been such a giant part of your life for the last few weeks. Some of the food I want to eat. I think I went to a McDonald's when I was in Vegas recently and I got a thing and I ripped it off the monopoly ticket and it said I got like a free thing so then I put it away and so I'm glad you reminded me because it's It's sort of that thing where you get it, but it's never as easy to be like, and just give it to them and they'll give you the sandwich.

It's always like some caveat involved that's like, do I feel like doing this caveat to get this free thing, whatever that is, where it's being like, buy a fry or I don't know. And so I just genuinely have to be in the headspace to be like, do I want to spend whatever this is to get whatever this free thing is? Sometimes I feel like that. I have to look at this because I think it's like a good sandwich or maybe it's like, buy a dollar and it's a good sandwich. So who knows? I think Mike always feels like. I think Mike is the king of caveats. You will accept every caveat as many as it takes.

I get excited. Craves caveats. Some people get excited about Jessica Rabbit. I get excited at caveats. People get excited about caviar. Caviar caviots, whatever you pronounce it. Let me make this promise. If you're at a McDonald's in the next few weeks, I say this to you because I don't think Scott goes.

If you're there, tell me I will use one of my free words. rewards. Tell me which McDonald's it is. I'll send it and I'll give you the confirmation number and you will get it. You can do that? Oh yeah. You can send somebody a that's a pretty good guest reward. I could do it right. Any time in the next few weeks. I have so many rewards. You just want a free fry if you want an apple pie if you want a free double cheeseburger. Oh. That's obviously one of the best rewards. That is. Yeah. Wow, that's crazy. Text me and if I'm available. This is a very nice offer. I would tell you right now, don't be shocked when I take you up on this.

It might be soon. I would be thrilled. I would be thrilled. Now, will I order for you as far as adding condiments and stuff to it? Yes, I will. You'll do? No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Take it back. Excuse me, this is littered with mustard. There's a mustard that equals the size of the patty. That's like a solid millimeter. Mustard. I put in. times 10 in the comments. I had to call ahead and tell them,

hey, that sandwich with NXQZ extra, extra, extra mustard. Like the type of mustard wears bursting out the same. Let me speak to the manager. You need a manager, you need a key to be turned to get that much mustard. You can't get it. I'm serious, tell me, tell me.

All right. That's amazing. Wow, wow. How was Vegas? We always like Vegas talk. Oh, yeah. On the show. Uh, uh, I don't know.

Vegas is Vegas. I'm not the type of person that's big on gambling or anything. So I was there for basically work. So then it's like, all right, but I'm here. And it's, you know, it's vibrant. You walk around, you do stuff. And if you're not a, if you're not a gambler like me, then that cuts out kind of the biggest draw of Vegas. You know, most value it spend your day. Yeah. So you're kind of just there. And other people are there that you're with are gambling. You're kind of just like standing around. Like, oh, yeah. Do it. You know, not really understanding what's going on. or like or just wishing that all right I'd be willing to part with this but it's not like the old days where it's like great and I'll just 25 cents a machine for like an hour of tugging the thing down or they'll be like they do have those but then you have to find a very specific casino where they still have these things or whatever and it's like I don't this isn't a treasure hunt I'm okay like old Vegas you can find yeah like a penny real penny slot yeah well that's to Jason a while back was talking about like because it's it's a problem for me like I could

end up getting a problem I believe he said I can end up drop I can lose a lot of and then we discovered what he was talking about was like a it was a penny slot for like what was the movie shit it was funny what was like what what are you talking about it was like yeah it was like well it won't get a penny slots you're like oh my god I can like I can sit down and seriously lose you know $18, $19. I mean, that's gone. I never see that again. I think he was dead serious

in that whole conversation, too, because I don't sound like it's that bad. I have a problem. You know, there's the phone number that you can call. I think about dialing that phone number. Whatever I... What penny slots are they? I remember it happening, too, in your house, we recorded.

It's a memory of him, like, being like stern. Like, it's a... Well, Michael. It's the, it's the... Shit! Whatever, we'll go back and figure it out. That's so... God, so funny.

Anyway, let's talk about the topic today. Speaking of your travels, this is very exotic travels. And anytime somebody goes to Japan, it's like very exciting because we went to Japan a couple years ago. The show? No, well, separately. Just us separately. Pre-children. And that's the thing I'm the most jealous of of people without children is the ability to go to Japan.

I feel like that's what, like, that's the alternate path. It's like, okay, no kids, I'll just be in Japan as much as I can. And you got to do it I can tell you right now And obviously This comes from somebody Who doesn't have kids At the moment

I don't know When you're listening To this Um By the end of the week You might But you can still Go to Japan with children

No this is true Yeah It's probably extremely tough And not as fun And you're probably Not as interested in that Excursion

But you can do it Sure Just on principle Like you can do it You're right That's true I would like to, whenever we feel like they're old enough and ready for it, we will try to do it. Because it also would be a crazy, cool place to take kids, for sure.

But, yeah, what are the specifics of this? And where did you? Because you obviously ended up in, well, I guess I'm not sure in Osaka or that. Like, I guess, why did you go to Japan? Oh, yeah. It was purely a pleasure trip. Me, yeah, it was, yeah, me and my girlfriend, we went to Japan because we wanted to go to Japan. And we went and we were in Tokyo, we were in Osaka, and we were in Kyoto, and we were in Kyoto.

That's a good, that's a guy, I didn't do Osaka, but I did the other two. Yeah, I mean, and even still, like, well, and, and, you know, it was, it was, it was cool. It's one of those things where, you know, the first time you. go anywhere or out of the country it is like all right great we're going to do all the tent poles hit the stuff or whatever and honestly for japan i truly was like i don't know what those are you know like if you go like the france or whatever it's like yeah you're going to see the ipal tower right sure sure sure sure it's like we're going to see these things and in japan i really had to do research and i say i we and when i say we mostly my girlfriend had the two yeah yeah

Yeah, they'd be like, where's the places? What do you go here? Right. And so we, you know, so you would do that. And then once that's almost, you're done and something like, great, we did all the stuff. Trips about winding down is cool. And then you would go, then we were to come here again. That's when you would kind of go, now we're just here at the place we're in.

Like, we're just exploring more. It's less about the sort of touristy aspect of it. And now we would just do that stuff. but still we took the time to sort of like visit places being like this would be interesting like or this this seems sort of like a interesting place or an interesting little off-the-beat path or like even somebody would be like hey this hey if you're going to Japan because one people find out that you're going to Japan if they've been they're like I was Japan and we stumbled across this little glass shop wheel whatever and they want to tell

you like you should go here And you're like, it permits, that sounds interesting. So you went to a couple places like that, like a monkey park or whatever, all these type of people would be like, these places. But this place that we went to, specifically, it was we were going to go to some other amusement park. Because my girlfriend was like, I don't know if I explained this on the last time. I've go to amusement parks, but I never went to many amusement parks as I have. since being with my girlfriend

because she likes them so I go sure because the music parks after a few rides I'm like I don't know if I still want to be here but I'm like you like it so let's go so

and so for this one we were going to go to another music park but it had rained the day that we were going to go and so it was like we can't go to this music park and it was raining and so it was maybe like the second to last day that We were there, and it was just like, oh, well, this place also has an amusement park.

Do you want to just see what this is about or whatever? And we were like, yeah, let's go. And it was an insane experience. Ooh, great, great, great. It seems like weird and funny and funky. I mean, I liked every picture and video I saw. Yeah, I mean, this seems like a very cool off the beat, It's something you could miss very easily because it's on top of a mountain.

It's on top of, not just on top of a mountain. It's on top of seemingly the steepest mountain that you could put anything on. Wow. Wow. And it's too, it's like you get on the train to go to the place, but then you have to get on another specific train to even get up to the amusement park. And those specific trains, it's two trains. And it's either one that is a dog. Yeah, a big, like, bulldog face.

Yeah, like big bulldog face with glasses. It kind of looks like a cop to me, like a cop dog. Yeah, yeah. And then the other. Yeah, he's got like a little hat. Right. And I don't know what that is, but to me, I look at that. I go like, is that supposed to be a cop?

And I think it's not, but it looks like it is to me. It could be a conductor. I think it. Oh, maybe. Yeah, yeah, sure. Let's call him a conductor. It's a conductor. It's a conductor.

It's a conductor. I think it's a cop. It might be undercover. You ain't fooling me, undercover conductor cop dog. It's a little edgy walking in, walking on, going inside a giant cop. Right, right. What are you doing here? What?

Just going up the mountain. Yeah. It is like the, the, these are trains that are run by the city, technically, that look like magical tootero creatures. Right. That's pretty insane. This is, this is some good Japan shit. that it is just like you just buy a ticket out of a little

machine and then you climb inside a giant dog or cat this is like what I think you wants all of Japan to be like right yeah and then the other one is like yeah some sort of like I don't know cat with glasses

but I would go like psychedelic cat because it's what it looks like to me it looks like that's what a cat looks like when you're like is incense and peppermints you know what I think the cat's got is like looking through binoculars? Oh, maybe.

Is that the paws on the side of the head? That's what I think, yeah. But I know, or as you're saying, the cat's like freaking out because it's tripping. Right, yeah. It's holding the sides of its head. Right, exactly. Its eyes are all big.

It's like crazy. And it goes without saying, I don't know if you ever been to Japan, but everything is very small. So the seats are very tiny. Oh, really. You would sit in it. I had to, if I were sitting down,

I would have to sit out because if I tried to sit straight ahead, your legs are broken. Yeah, you're a tall man. Right. But then you would look around and people would be sitting in it regularly and be like, okay. Because you get to the thing and you're like, oh, well, it's kind of, I think it might be like a kid's party. This is for, and then you would look and be like, nope, these are adults sitting in these seats as well. So I guess I'm just too tall for this trolley. Yeah.

This trolley, they didn't think of me when they were like, this trolley. We're going to make this trolley for this guy. that is wild but everything is built to proportions that like sort of not entirely rule out but make you two have to duck slightly everywhere

and tuck those legs in that Indiana Jones ride where they ran up to me like in a mild panic because they weren't sure if I was too tall to ride it and then they were like measuring me and like talking to each other

to figure it out and then they agreed yeah he can go on and then I'm like are you sure I don't have to go on this seems like a lot of stuff to do that makes me feel like maybe I shouldn't go on this yeah I was I don't have this isn't supposed to be that good of a riot

yeah yeah yeah they pull a big book book out they like the manual they think clunk it turns to page 350 right what to do if lightly tall man climbs on board they like like medical gloves prepared if my head popped off like what to do to dispose of me let's get it on ice quickly They're telling you always, always watch what's going on in the ride. Never take your eyes off the ride. Be vigilant. Be vigilant.

I see, somewhere I found that the cat's name is Miquet. I mean, it could be. Oh, yeah, I saw the names of all of the, yeah, Miquet is the cat car. Bull is the bull dog. A little less clever, but at least it's a story. You know what you're getting. But then you transfer, yeah, watch the whole process. You go up one stop.

That only goes up one style. Then you've got to get on a different magical train to take you all the way to the top to the amusement park. And those cars are themed after music and cakes. Doree me is the music car and sweet is the cake car. I'm just delighted that city cars have names and themes of this. This is like, can you imagine if L.A. Metro, if you get like, this is Francis. He's a, he's a giant pig. They're doing, like, the superhero statues in Burbank.

What if it was just, like, Superman train or something that took you from down to Union Station? Like, we want more nonsense. Yeah, I mean, but in fairness to L.A., they're probably like, yeah, so people could vandalize our trains. Because they don't do that in Japan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These planes are untouched, unvandalized, unpissed in, like, very. Boy, that does show you the cultural. Yeah, yeah.

That would be, like, giant cat. would be catnip for vandals. People would If retired graffiti artists would come out of retirement to be like, we have to tag this.

I got to put a big dick next to this guy's now. If Superman's face was on the front of a train, everybody would pee in its mouth. Video is the Superman peeing challenge. Cryptonite, protect you from this. If it was like sculpted so it was like lip popped out a little bit, that pee would stay in his mouth.

Oh, you got to be to stay! Oh, man. A thousand points in whatever this hypothetical scenario is. Yeah, I guess we can't have that. Is this, we're saying the names of things. I think we've gone as long as we've probably ever gone. Without trying to say the name of the park? In an episode.

I mean, I bet in the intro we've said it. We have, yeah. That was a long time ago. So now I think we got to give it a shot. I think we're all afraid of getting the name of the park wrong. Okay. Who want to all say it together? Yeah.

Okay. Here we go. One on three. one, two, three Ecoma Sanjo Yep, yeah I think you got a little more of an E That's what, yeah

I mean, I don't know if this I mean, I think that's how we say it But I mean, I couldn't tell you what they would say What they said to me Yeah, and they also didn't go Welcome to whatever this park is Right, so the reason I was having Because I was like, all right, I just want to make sure

I pronounce it correctly Is there was a video of somebody going there And I was so confused because the first two or three minutes of this video, there's a song about the park and the process to get to the park. And the name of the park gets used in the rhyme. I got to play this for you. I don't know if it's going to be too long, but I almost feel like I have to play two minutes and then we can cut it later. Because I was just like, some of this might just be for us. Some of this might just be for

you, but you tell you tell me. So I was just dumbfounded. I didn't know what was going to. I didn't know what was going on. Do you think the song was made by the park or was the song made by the person? I'm pretty sure it was made by the little tourism video. The person, because he has other songs. He has a song about COVID from a couple years prior about how you have to protect,

you have to like separate so you don't get someone sick. But I just, I don't know, this has been stuck in my head now for like 24 hours. Let me play it. Okay. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go

Ikoma Sancho There's that E Comas Go Ecomas Amuse with parks

So let me take you to the start You need to get to Kintetsu Ikoma Station When you get

off You walk and see what is waiting for in my station That's where it starts You need to

buy your tickets here by no credit cards It's only cash I'm sold It gets better too I didn't I didn't expect such

So now you know Just where to go Follow the flow To Icoma sanjo I'm gonna show You want to know If you really want to Ender

Only if you really want to go Only if you really want to go To move The next station Oh, Zanji, because there's a different transportation. We need to transfer here and follow the signs to the neck car. Eco-Bob, cable sound jol line. You take this car to the very top.

It makes me scared to do it now with a song, this moody. In 1980, at the very start. In 1980, now, it's the oldest cable car. place was shoes all throughout the fight what was that part? Oh Mm-hmm I'm gonna ask for a pause

and kept up right the military kept it so they could go use amusement part at its highest plateau that's what I know as the story goes that's the history of ecola

I'm gonna ask for a pause here I think we're talking about this I'm amazed I was like, there's no way we're going to play the little song and now I see totally what you're saying. Okay, because, yeah. There's so many turns.

I mean, like new elements to the beat, but then now a whole, so we just learned that like an arrangement was made to keep it open during the war. Yeah. I didn't just come across that naturally that this place survived the war. And they kept it open for fun and for kids.

Because it was, it's open, I think it's in like 1922 or something. Yeah, it was 20s. But they took some of the rides and used the metal apparently, but then some of the rides they kept and then they also were using because it was the tallest mountain.

Yeah, like the only thing I really know about this because of it is they have the one ride that's like the plane ride that you get on and then that spins around and when you're standing in line and when I say line, trust me, when we were there and it was a ghost town. It's a big effort.

It's on top of a mountain. But they do for that ride, they do kind of have an explanation for that. Oh, they have that. Like, this is kind of why this exists. Like, this is here because of blank, da, da, da, da. So, like,

so you learn a little bit about the history of that particular, uh, that, that, that ride specifically and how it's like, this has been here since 1929. Yeah. So like that thing. Now you look at it, you kind of go, I, and I, so when I saw that, I went 1929.

So I looked at the, the picture on the, uh, a plaque, and then I looked up at the ride and saw that the ride looked updated. Because I was like, if I look up and this ride still looks like this, I'm not getting on it. So they definitely updated it for sure. Yeah, yeah. Don't worry, they enhanced the tracks.

In 1987, those are the facts. It almost feels like the voice is like the real McCoy voice. Oh, yeah, yeah. I had just another nine. Right. Some rhythm and love. Right. There's like a 90s.

This guy would have cleaned up as that guy and the, the deep voiced male talker in a, I'm not even going to say a rapper. I don't know if that's right. I don't think that's technical. It's more talking then. Getting into a flow. That's basically, though.

This guy hasn't made a video in a year. I hope he's all right. But 808 East Network is his YouTube. And he's got like 20 videos and there's other songs. And like it's him and it's him and his kids and some of them have songs that he made

and then some of them are just him like trying new shrimp so it's all that's an inspiring I have to ask is this guy Japanese?

Um he lives in Hawaii but he, so he might be, I'm actually not sure but it says he lives in Hawaii and goes to Japan once a year.

Oh, okay. So he's gonna be a big fan. He calls himself Dada, D-A-D-A. So I like that. And his work is so interesting as yeah,

yeah, Jada has. So I've had that in my head And it's like It's been messing with like the way I was thinking of it Wow That's a that's one of the most specific pieces of material We've ever come across

If anybody's listening and you're like That's not how you pronounce it Know that we're pronouncing it The way that we heard it in the song that we played Or maybe didn't play for you Depending on record it or not I don't know I think that's all going on

There's no other moves left in the song Like well I think they don't get into like how the 90s and 2000s treated Ecoma Sondro What you need to know when you really want to go to Ikobasancho? This is not even about the park. It's about getting to the park. There's no song about the park. It's just about getting there.

Wow. It's about getting there. a little bit of history about it. Right. Yeah, yeah. Decoe Sando Amusement Park. First opened in 1929. Then it's just like generic, nice music, and it's a regular travel-off kind of a thing. Wow.

Okay, so this must have blown your hair back. All right, I'll watch a video about this place. Whoa. Oh, my God. Yeah, I got so excited. This must have blown your hair back. It was a blown your hair back. For our type of guy, Ronnie, that is what would blow up.

You know, when I hear that back. That song was to blown your dang hair back. Yeah. yeah it did he's got the right not up but back yeah you didn't get height on it it just went all the way no like what's the name like you remember that emblem or whatever it's like the guy sitting in the chair

and his hair is being blown back oh that's like RCA yeah okay that's showing you the power of the speakers yeah uh huh uh huh yeah that all right yeah so picture that happened to Mike with this song playing on his phone yeah and I'm like in bed right before I go to sleep

but that's also what happens to you when you look at your phone and you realize you can get free small fries my hair gets blown back I have 15 free small fries that I have to redeem so many fries offers I have to give them away to friends

and podcasts guests that's right that's the new gift bag I probably offer it to a listener I think a listener would be if there was a way to arrange it or some listener content to get, can you do this across the country or even the world? I bet I could.

Or does it have to be somebody in the Los Angeles area? I bet I could do that. I think you can probably order. I think we could all on our phones order like as much food as we want to any McDonald's in the country as long as we pay for it. And then you say you're there and your phone will be like, it doesn't look like you're there. And you go, no, no, I'm there. And you hit the button and they'll make it. And then they'll come out and nobody will be there.

I don't want to give you work to do. But I also feel like you might enjoy giving away a McDonald's office. offer to a loyal listener of the show, but is there, how do we determine who is, is, do we just do a post and if you're first, then you get it or does it have to be more complicated than that? Yeah, we have to make it challenging, like getting to a theme park on top of a mountain. Okay. They got to put in a little effort.

Good question, yeah. Should they, I mean, the first person who listens to this DMs me, maybe, or do you really want to make like a post or something? Yeah. I like We call Mike the taste maker on the show Maybe there's some maybe if somebody The first person to DM

Make me a taste The text is that or DMs me that Yeah yeah Make me a taste Make me a taste taste Tast maker And it doesn't You don't have to be in the McDonald's I guess

But Because if it's if they're listening late When this comes out at midnight On the West Coast time so But now I can Yeah wait I don't think we can coordinate it Where the person's in a McDonald's

Don't go to a McDonald's and wait for Mike to buy you something. You're going to end up wasting a lot of time. It's going to be a pain in the ass because somebody's going to win. And then they're going to be like, I'm going to go to McDonald's at 3 p.m. Central time. And I go, well, wait a minute. I'm taking care of the kid. I don't know.

It seems pretty simple to me. Like, this is like a pretty simple undertaking. Here are the rules to Mike. McDonald's arrangement. You should do this. And it's like, it figured out. All right. I'm going to bed now.

Like, the first to DM gets the prize, you know. I just like that I'm finding out all the, like, everybody's place on the show. Mike's the tastemaker. The Chuck Barry, Jason's the Chuck Barry. I just can't wait to naturally find out Scott what's got. I try to be nebulous and avoid having too much that is pinned to me. I think I've done a good job of that over the years. Like sometimes it feels like all you got is that I like Chardonnay a little bit.

I'm doing a good job of staying away from things to needle me about that's right and when you find one you got to pounce and mall and rip me apart you I think I am owed that after years of giving it back well I'm biting my time that's the thing you know getting those claws nice and sharp that's right that's right we'll get there just keep them in shape so I don't know I mean, you can DM me. Or we can forget this ever happen. I don't know. Listener, just DM might.

Just DM make me a taste and see if anything ever happens. No guarantees. This has to be like the McDonald's game. We're like, okay, now imagine like all the hidden rules. Just like paragraph after paragraph of not guaranteed offer may be rescinded due to it being too complicated to do. Here's a question. We thought about it for two seconds. DM me when you're into McDonald's.

You're going to give them that? That seems like the toughest part. Because, but here's the thing. DM me if you're in McDonald's and if I'm at my phone and like I see it immediately, then we'll get to it. Because once we do the like win it and you coordinate, that seems like a nightmare. If I happen to see it when you're right in the McDonald's, I'll do it for one person, maybe two.

You're offering a second? No guarantees. If the first one goes easy, maybe I'll, get cocky and then I want to do it again because it does feel powerful I feel powerful. You know, I'm Mr. Free Food like this is what I'm doing. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is a hell of the, I don't know,

you know, for people who sort of like imagine a friendship with the hosts of the show and then there's no reciprocation. Mostly, but in 99% of podcasts, you don't get anything back, but here, you're like, I for you am offering something pretty huge. Right. So if

it works out, but don't wait in McDonald's for an hour and tell me you were like waiting for my message because I can't guarantee that right do you want to give a time limit five minutes five minutes if you DM me and five minutes go by leave or just order yourself and pay yourself don't leave get food for like if you're there and you're just like hanging out with friends for a while you know you could keep it up like if you message mic give them five minutes but you're still at the McDonald's hanging you know unconnected to that that's a good way you're like hey by the way I'm still here just in case if you see this yeah and then you're just we're probably going to leave in like

10 minutes just in case, like, you know, keep hitting mic up, keep DMM, like, really keep needing them, just so he knows, like, hey, you still have a chance to sort of come through on this thing that you promised. And if you're with a group of McDonald's, then you're able to go, like, well, hey, want to see a cool trick? So, I'm going to write the host of this podcast I listen to. Really, what's the podcast? Like, don't worry about it.

It takes too long to explain. Oh, it's dough voice. It's about fast food, right? No, no, no, no. It's about theme parks. So really what rides is they're talking about? almost none it's about a bunch of other bullshit but here so and the current bullshit is the McDonald's Monopoly games so wait in a matter of five minutes I may be able to get a free

vanilla cone if the host is at his phone at this exact time I mean and you think who's never at their phone like he's probably at his phone but then it's like well but is he looking at his DMs right now right yeah yeah yeah his request his message request and Mike is always Mike the easy things that you are on your phone a lot the tough thing is you are looking at 100 possible paths of things to do on your phone. Well, that's true, yeah. There's so many different notifications. He gets a lot of alerts about, like, toy, you know, like deals and on sale things.

You know, it's like a toy he doesn't want is only $30. Oh, okay. That'll often happen. Yeah, like right now, let's see. IGN deals, Lego icons back to the future, Delorean set on sale at Target for an early Black Friday deal for $170.99. I don't want that. Oh, okay.

But it's only $170. Yeah, but is that a good deal? on that particular item? It might be. It might be. Twin Peaks, Firewalk with me, the Criterion Collection,

4K, UHD. This is on my home screen, too. These are notifications. Yeah, I saw it, and it's a lot. There are a lot of different, it's crazy. This is where this started

is he would have his phone out in front of, or like, just out while recording. Or if it's ever like, here, take a picture. I'm like, okay. And then when I see his phone, I'm like, dear God,

this is the densest forest. This is how you live? you have this much on your phone on the home screen at all times. Yeah. No, I would feel naked without them. Yes. So, all right.

Anyway, so if Mike does that, the only thing that I asked as the guest is that you let everybody else know that he did it. Like, I always wonder, you ever see those things where it's like, hey, give us, rate this or do this thing

and we'll enter you into a contest to win like a car or something for these things. And I'm always like, well, I entered the contest, but did anybody actually win? Oh, right, right. Did anybody actually win? Because they never go like, so-and-so won.

It's always like, well, we don't know if anybody won or not. Yeah, things can disappear 100%. I always appreciated that about, something we've talked about a tiny bit lately, which is the Nickelodeon toy run, where you can go through the Toys R.S or KB or whatever. You would see the results of that. You'd be violently jealous at the kid who got to do it,

who wasn't you, but at least you knew. there was a conclusion to this. But you're right. A lot of things, you never, there's no results. You could guys just say that just to get a survey done or something and then just bank on people being like, well, I guess it just wasn't me, but somebody had to win and like that be over with. But I'm like, no, somebody has to win.

Yeah, to prove that it's real. They aren't just like collecting information. Now, mind you, these big corporations, they could just cheat and kind of just give it to somebody adjacent with it. You know, they can give it to somebody that's like, yeah, because this is the nephew of the maker or whatever. But at least somebody won it. Right.

Feels more real. Yes. Even if it is a NEPO winner. Right, exactly. Like, even if it's like, sure, like, hey, I won the car? I just did the survey as the person who made the survey. What? Me?

Like, what are the odds? Look, if my nephew wins the free McDonald's item from me, we will say it. It just happens to be my nephew. It's your phone number. When I do it, when I do it, it might give it to me and it's like, wait, I won? That doesn't count. That was a separate offer to Ronnie. He can't also win the contest.

This is what offered or Ronnie. That's one. Listener two, maybe a different listener three. If he's feeling like a McDonald's God, then the second person might get one. I think you can't deny wanting to be a McDonald's God. I think that's something you really want. It is something I really want, and I am close, I think. Mike the McDonald's God.

I am pretty close, yeah. Do boys, please. New rap name and chief. Those guys don't know McDonald's. Those guys don't give out free food like that, do they? I don't know. No, probably not. Yeah, not like Mike.

They don't do the apps. Not like Mike the McDonald's God. They don't do the apps. I guess we should get to the top of the hill. I think it's insane how much I can picture this process. You just did one day like, oh, we got to get on a train and then change cars and then go to, and not only, now I knew it because I watched one video about it. And now I've heard a rap.

about it. Right. If I go there, I'm set. This, by the way, is like, it's a sort of equidistant to Osaka and Nara. It's like kind of in the between. Yeah. It's like, yeah. It's like in the middle and that sort of, it's like, oh, because what happens is it was we

were all the way here, wherever here is. And then it's like, all right. And then our thing, our hotel and stuff is here, wherever here is. and then from here, the past here, to the hotel current here, it's in the middle of that. So it's like, if it's like, this takes 50 minutes, we go here, that's a 25-minute ride, and then after we leave the park, it's 25 minutes to get. So it felt like that. It was between destinations, yeah, yeah.

Did you go to Nara? That's like a deer. Yeah, we were in a deer park. Yeah. How was that? It was, the deer are like dogs. It's interesting because, I mean, I can't pretend to have had many run-ins with dears just like face-to-face in that way. But it's like because they know what the deal is.

They're just standing there. They don't want it. They're just like standing there. And you know, and you can buy like little snacks for them to like, little wafer things to like give them. And they know. And so if they see that you have them, they own your ass. They like, hey, what's up? And they, and they've taught them how to bow.

So if you bow, they'll bow back to you and you'll get it. Now, like dogs, you realize that, like, some, some you can do it in a way where you bow and they bow and it feels like, whoa. And others, it's just, they're just ducking their head like, because they know it's like, I do this. And I get to, but just like duck in their head and you're like, you're not making it seem cool, dog. Like, you're making, like, you're exposing the lie. Yeah, yeah.

Right. So, um, and then, but what I thought was really interesting about it was how they could also recognize that you didn't have anything. So like if you went like, oh, you have a thing. But then if you put your hands up like, hey, like, you know, like, freeze don't shoot that sort of motion where it's like, hey, and you show your hands. And they're like, oh, there's nothing in there. They're like, oh, yeah, okay, whatever.

Oh, they move on. Yeah, like they know, yeah. But it was really interesting because, you know, got some pictures with them. Like, they're really chill. Yeah, yeah. And then there is something that when you came up to them, like especially the younger ones who haven't been in doctrine to the lifestyle yet.

So like when you're walking to me, like, hey, you want to wait for that? Like, what's going on? They're like, oh, you don't know yet. You know, like, you still have your dear dignity. You're like, I'm not here begging. And they're like, what's going on? What are you trying to give me? You have whatever, and they're kind of like go away.

You haven't been broken. Yeah, exactly. Turn into a bowel machine. Exactly. I feel bad now. Yeah. But it's actually really cool. It's a lot of deer.

And you're just kind of just like, you know, and while you're, yeah, it was really interesting in a way that it's like, oh, okay. Like now if I see a deer in the wild and they're like, wait, why are they running? What's going on? Why are you that bowing? I've seen so many deer that was just like yeah that's what y'all do like we just walk around y'all like it's nothing to us we'll trail y'all like give us food like and we'll just hanging around also watch out for my shit you know it's like like that okay well I feel like we should talk about the the actual place I mean you refer to this this airplane ride that you were happy to hear was not ancient but yeah once you once you go through this process and get up there and and encounter this funny ghost town. I don't know what you think.

Like the thing I would say about this too, because, you know, when we were up there, it was truly like, we got off and you could have counted on one hand how many people were there. If you're not counting the people

who were actually working at the park. And it felt like what is going. And we were there, like the park, I think during the week, it closes like five. And we might have got there sometime after three, three, three, three,

30 somewhere. So we're there. And we're just like, does anybody, it feels like a movie where somebody rents out a park or something. It's like, I don't know if blank check is like, yeah. And I paid for my own park experience. Like it felt like that. It felt like the park was our oyster. Yeah.

We never had to wait. We were doing the thing. It was built for you. Right. And other people were kept away. Right. But it also felt in a way very spooky. Yeah.

And I don't want to disparate. this park because we've long found that people do go to that park there's stuff where like I think on the weekends they close at seven you know so like when it gets darker or whatever there's like views that you can look at and like skylines and there's like stuff online where you clearly see there's a lot of people at the park so when we went to a day where it's like this ain't the day that people come uh-huh so a lot of other a lot of people who went up there and posted a little YouTube video about it I think had your experience okay like felt like more employees than customers Well, it definitely was that.

And I just want to make sure to be like, hey, I don't want to discourage you from going to this park if you're in Japan. You should definitely go. It is definitely like something that you will not forget. Yeah, this seems so weird and janky and fun. I mean, this is the, if I had encountered it the way you did where I have almost no information about it and like, I don't know, let's just go. Let's just see. I feel like we'd be like cackling by the end of it. Oh, it was.

And with the thing that was, the extra thing that was funny about it was, so the park, it's big, too, in a way where you're, like, walking around. You're like, oh, there's still a park back here. Like, there's park back here? So, like, you're walking back, you know, like, in the further depths of this park. Because truly, like, there's nobody around. You feel like you're snooping around. Like, am I?

You know, so, and then you'd be like, oh, this ride seems cool. And it was like, yeah, that ride's over with it. That season's over with. Like, there was at least like two or three rides where it would be like, well, we would love to ride this ride. And it's like, not anymore, dog. This ride's gone. And you look back there and it's like construction and stuff going on.

And it's like, well, these are the only the coolest rides. Because every other ride, you know, and in fairness to this park, it's probably more of a kids park or just a park that this, we're trying to be low-key. Like, you're having a low-key amusement park time. Yeah. right like so um so you would be and you knew that because even when you go into uh um the boots to like pay because there's like there's there's there's regular there was i was like this you walk

to the park there is machines and stuff where you could pay for things and whatnot but you don't really understand what it is you're like what's going on like what is like you just see all the you just see all the yen or whatever and it's like for this stuff and you're like but how do we do it like what is going on and then so then I was like we have to find a person like so and then we walk around so I asked the I asked the one of the people who are working there and he pointed and so I go to the booth and the thing that I you know they tell you a lot about like cash and all this type of stuff but now they basically everything with Swaka so it's essentially like Apple pay like it's like you pay

with your phone. Right. So there's so much of that. But beforehand, I didn't see that because they're telling you like, cash, cash, cash, cash. And then so you get there, and it's like you have just enough cash and you're like here. And then we had just enough cash to pay for the book that had, you get 12 rides or whatever. So you spend, you give us this much money, you have 12 rides. You can ride any ride, just give them the thing, so and so forth.

Right. but then when we realized that you could have also just paid from your phone we were like little shit you're like um we would have just did you know did the thing and had more because she wanted my girlfriend wanted to write everything and I was like I'm only one around like three or four things like I'm looking around being like yeah there's only like three or four hitters that I'm like I'll try this so um but anyway so you go to the thing but you could tell it's kind of like a part where they know like because even pointed out it's that you go through the booklet and they're showing you this like laminated book that's like here is like

the thing or whatever here's the prices or whatever and then she even they pointed to the person in the booth was like this and they pointed to it was like no refunds so it's almost being like hey before you buy this no we're not giving you your money back if you don't like this experience oh yeah like we're looking at you you are a grown adult when you might not like this place but we're not giving you hey look at this before you pay or if you don't find 12 things to There might not be 12 open things to do. Right. You're going to have to do some repeat.

So you do the things like, all right, cool, whatever. And then you just start kind of choosing rides. And it's like, listen, like I said, on regular roller coaster rides and stuff, I can do right around a three roller coasters. I'm like, I need to sit down. My head's starting to hurt, all this type of stuff. I mean, I could have did these all day. These were not.

These were not taxing at all. Like, they were not... It looks very, all very gentle. Very gentle. I wrote down, like, one seems to involve pandas holding balloons on a very precarious track. Like, it's just a, like, a little, it's a really thin monorail, and you just kind of, like, tut around on a panda. So they have one of these things, like, on a, like, a little monorail, like you go around, and you basically get into, you, basically get on to what it's kind of like a bike you basically like you basically get on something

that's kind of like a tandem bike and you just pedal around this on this thin track like the track feels as if like hey we might could fall off like this thing could might tip over and and then when we tip over you look down and it's like yeah and then we fall down this mountain because it's like it's like you're on you're on this elevated little track and and you're like peddling around this thing and he's like this little track and the thing that the and the thing that the

ride that you're peddling is on is even thinner which is like that's the thing but it's just it felt like they were like how can we make the skinniest track ever built? We're going for a record. So you're doing it and you're like

pedaling around this thing and the ride itself is all of what like 40 seconds. Maybe that's a lot. 20 seconds. It's like you go around the thing like you give them the ticket and you're like, great. And you pedal around this thing. You do a workout. You do a workout.

Like you're like peddle around for yourself for like 20 seconds on this like rickety ride. And then you're getting like, oh, that was done. But it's not, I want to stress this because it wasn't as if it was like a easy, breezy pedal. Like you were like, I was like with my being like, yeah, like, okay. Like I was really working the glutes. Like really like. It sounds like I did a swan boat a couple months ago. Was it a, yeah, I guess it was a swan with my son. This will be fun, right? And then I was, yeah, I was like exhausted by the end, especially because he ain't

helping. Right. Can we reach his pills? That's all on me. So I'm fighting current and like, wait, I can't even go right. I have to go all the way back around and then hopefully some of it is drift. And yeah, yeah. So it sounds as rough as that.

Yeah, so they were definitely, they definitely didn't, they definitely didn't add any motorized elements to this, to this go around, right? like so you're just doing this thing you do it for like 20 seconds and you're like okay like by the time you kind of realize like hey you know what this actually is kind of oh we're stop we're done yeah okay because you spend the first 10 seconds just kind of like getting the like getting the fucking rhythm down yeah like all right we finally got it down here we go we got it all right hey this might actually be oh okay all right we're back in we're this is it we're back in come in all right come in yeah so it's like you just did training right

exactly so you do that one and i will say that's probably the most fun one uh what that's the most fun i mean and if you look online that's probably the one that you see the most where it's like here's us looking over the sunset or the thing while we do this pedal thing whatever but it's not as romantic as the videos you would see like once you get on it it feels very much like wait this is it like what was the movie magic that i saw on this youtube channel like there's one clip is this what you're talking about there's one where like the sky was orange you know it was just like beautiful sunset and it does almost look fake. I don't know if it was fake.

Maybe it was just a nice night. I mean, that probably was real, but the experience on it is different. It's like that when you're on it, especially in the broad daylight with sun beaming down on you. You're like sweating and like it's, it doesn't feel as romantic in that way.

It feels like, okay. Like, yeah. So you do that thing. And I think this right is called puka puka panda. I believe it is. Yeah, I see that here. All right, I got it.

Okay, the ride has been named. P-U-K-A-U-K-A, or wait a minute. No. No, that's a gondola ride. Oh, that's like there's a track on top and you're under, that's more like a sky bucket. Different one, yeah. Oh, then I don't know what this ride is called. I wonder if I can figure it out.

I don't know if Dada told me in his YouTube video. He had too many directions to do. He did it, though, but I don't know why I don't have it in there. Did you do the panda gondola? Oh, that's the one with balloons. No, yeah, all right. I'm entirely mixed up. Yeah.

I mean, it doesn't matter. Look, sometimes, we've done a lot of years of naming rides. God knows we've done that. Sometimes we don't have all the names of all the rides. I can find it, but yeah, anyway, I have the map. You have the actual park map. Oh, yeah. You have a physical map with you here.

Oh, I do, yes. With sponsorship by Mitsubishi Electric. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I mean, in the physical map, everything is in Japanese, of course, so they can't tell you anything, but you can see pictures that you see. And so they'll tell. you what the things are and where they are on the map and then you could look at that and if you

could read Japanese you would know exactly what it is. I see. I have an English version. I think it's maybe called cycle monorail. I mean, that would very much be what it is. Yeah. So it's not as fun as the panda name. Cycle monorail. Cycle monorail. Did you go on, I wrote down a few names. Well, I'm going to get this wrong. I'm going to say it wrong. Like Don Don, Dong Gris, I think, is the name of something that's a little chipmunk train. Maybe you didn't go on that because I think that's what gets you to the parking lot. The thing is, it looks fun or it looks like, oh, that looks like something because we saw people were coming off of it.

And we, and so I was like, all right, I'm going to use one. I'm going to use like my last ticket. We're going to go on this one. So we walked to this thing and we're walking to it about to hand the guy the ticket. And he looks at us and he goes, to parking lot. And we went, what? And it was like, down to parking lot. And then we went, oh, okay, sorry.

And we had to walk away. We were going to ride that. But it was like, he's telling us, this takes you to the parking lot. It takes you to and from the parking lot. You could ride it technically, but do you want to just go to the parking lot or back? It looks for, aesthetically, this is one of the best looking things they have. It was, that's exactly why we were like, let's try this one. And then it was like, no, this is not a right.

The, I will say this, when you sent me the website, my first thought was, oh, wow, this looks cool. This is maybe like a hidden gem. I had not heard of this park before. It is a hidden gym for sure. And then, well, then I looked at the YouTube video and I went, they make that look a lot better on the website than the videos. Yes. Yes. It's one of those places.

It's like, it's a place that I would imagine if I was like 15 years old and me like, like, you guys want to go to. Icoma Sanjo Park Just hang around for a little bit It's like yeah It's like it's like the mall or something But if you're like Hey you guys want to have a thrill ride experience That ain't it ain't there

It's not there Yeah there's nothing that was a like I mean there's it looks like there's like a tower Where you swing around Yeah I mean that that plain thing But that's the that's the World War II plane thing Whatever you go around that And even still you just kind of like spin around

And they just you know They just fly you It goes like this you go around and then it goes higher and higher and you're just kind of going around and then it just goes lower than it's over with it like everything is just like oh yeah like they don't do any sort of like i mean i honestly probably the uh the one the experience i remember the most distinctly is so they have uh uh a fun house quote unquote and it's the white house this thing is yeah this is the thing I think, Scott and I, we haven't talked about this.

We haven't. We don't vocalize it. Our hair was blown back. I'm sure when we saw the White House. I'm so, I was almost worried that somehow you didn't do the White House. The White House, I got so, I, I had so away outside of White House. I knew I was using one of my tickets for the White House. My girlfriend didn't go inside.

I was like, I'm going inside the White House. Solo White House. And can I say that in poking around, if other people noticed how strange the White House is, I found a blog or a headlo line or something, I just copy-pasted the phrase somebody wrote online, I lost my mind at the strangest amusement park in Japan, the White House. So the White House

is, it's a pretty, like, plain-looking building that is only not plain because it has a couple of, like, big, fake marble pillars on it. Yes. And it does indeed look like a little miniaturized Washington, D.C. White House. Barely.

Yeah, yeah. Like, they're doing, like, it's a bare minimum of, like, Yeah, I guess this could be the White House. Like, it's like... Yeah, there's pillars, and I know that's vaguely what the White House has. Yeah, and it's a white house amongst everything else that's just not bad. But it's also a very kind of like rust-stained building. Right.

It says the Ecoma White House, and White House is all one word. And it looks, it does just look like a shack. Right. It's really, it's an unset. Just the exterior is funny enough before he's in the inside. there's a bird like a goose with a gold top hat outside well i missed that and it's got a big i guess a big bow tie that's what that is damn you were there right you saw it yeah this is uh yeah honestly don't even remember that wow too much going on right this fancy goose there's a fancy goose

which is not not a bald eagle it's a goose with a gold top hat not a bald eagle just saying I mean, yeah, they were definitely, like, they were definitely taking some liberties there. We walked past the White House at first, and the older Japanese man who was the attendant of it, he was just standing outside because I don't think anybody was going to the White House. And obviously, once again, us being one of very few people there, it's like, hey, like, coming to the White House. And we were like, uh, I was maybe doing so forth. and we're walking by

and he's like his only Japanese man and he's like the White House yeah he goes I Trump I Trump and then he like flexes like his muscles like this

Whoa and and I start laughing and I go and I kind of like I kind of too him but also just low in a way because I'm like

you don't get this but I was like all right I don't that might not be the person you want to be like he's like I ain't Trump I Trump and he's like flexing his muscles and stuff.

And so we were like, cool, whatever. But in my mom was like, I'm definitely going back. Was this also, did you do this during, with Trump as the president? Or was this during the,

the exile period? This is this year. Oh, you just did it. Okay. We went this year in July. Oh, wow. So whenever you're listening,

it's 20, July of 2025, we went. Okay. So that is, Trump is president. Trump himself is going, I,

Trump. Yeah, he's, he said it with no, he said with no satire in his voice he was like this would get you in here right i'm trump like whatever oh man you got a fancy goose and a guy saying i trump and we haven't even gotten inside so all right cool so you go inside and immediately you uh there is a place where you can uh where you sit down at a table and you could take pictures so it's almost like you're at a table where you're at a table if you're trying to sign the

one of the Declaration of Independence. The order to make sure nobody gets snap benefits. So you're like sitting there and you're in this thing that's like, all right, cool. And it looks kind of like, I guess what an old room would look like. There's a couple pictures of like old presidents on the wall.

There's like a Lincoln and like, is it Ulysses as Grant? Yes, it's Grant. The two presidents you think of, Lincoln and Ulysses is great. Why is it Grant? Only two. And it doesn't look, it looks like the sort of thing, like nothing looks official in any way. It all just looks like, hey, we're just doing just enough to give you the impression of this could be the White House.

But it really is just like a wallpapered corner and a flag and a table in four chairs. Right. Here you are in the White House. Here you are in this room. And not to spoil things too much, but given what happens in the rest of the White House, this is the most realistic part of the White House experience. Yes. it says the Ikama White House since 1986 on the wall on the crest

with like that is an eagle I guess I Reagan yeah and then there's yeah there's an American flag just like is it leaned against the wall yeah it's like backwards it's backwards and just kind of like strewn yeah some of it isn't it hanging I mean it is on a pole there's four chairs the pole is also just leaning into the corner

not effectively I just think we should if you're an American can listen to this, you should just feel honored that they thought of your, they thought of your government system as the one the champion. Out of every country they could have done. Honestly, we don't deserve even this level of creation in Japan. So you walk in, it's like, all right, cool, whatever. And then you go through, and like, so imagine sort of like a fun house conceit. So you're like walking through this thing and immediately it changes and it's like dark because you know you're walking to the white house and i'm thinking

okay i'm about to just kind of like walk through their version of like the white house like oh okay this room or here so on and so forth but it immediately changes and it's like you're on a train like it really fess well that's to correct you but there is a brief room that where like okay so i'm in the white house got it then you're in a room where there's like a shelf that's crooked or that looks straight but it is crooked yes so you're right yes so you can can take, like, if you've ever been in one of these rooms where, like, one corner is, I don't even describe it, like an optical illusion.

Like the Willy Wonka room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, now it looks like I'm going all the way of the ceiling, but then I walk just over here, and now it looks like I'm incredibly tall or incredibly short. And then there's this, this too. There's a little staircase to climb, and then back, yeah, and there's a ladder to nowhere. Right. It's, it's true.

It's, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's me trying to, you know, my own phone where it's like, because I remember I was walking through and I had video going the whole time. I was like, I have to like, because it's such an experience because I was like, yeah, so you're like walking through so yeah, here we go. So you're walking

through and it's still like, okay, this is White House, old photos hanging in a thing like you know, like in a frame. You're going through wallpaper still looks old and like White House-esque and then you get to a point where it's on

the wall. Then you get to it where you come to a poster on the wall where it's all the presidents. It's like a little poster where all the presidents up to Joe Biden. Which is like interesting. I'm like, oh, okay. So Trump, Joe Biden, so they don't have.

They haven't updated. So they haven't updated to this thing. But they have a picture of every little president on his little poster. So it's like, all right, cool. There's still the White House. You got it. And then, like, you're like,

you go to the stairs and you're like walking down and then it's like all right I don't know what's going on like you're just still in a room it's still just like old photos it's like it's the layout is still this is old wallpaper

this could be anything like you don't know it truly it's it's it's like you walk and go like why is this the White House like why do y'all think this is the White House? Yeah this the poster you described of all the presidents is the end of any representation of politics or Washington

in this experience. At all. At all. It's done. So you're doing this thing. You're walking. And then it gets spooky. Like, because then to that point, it's like, oh, cool.

It's light. It's still like you're walking around. And then it gets like dark and moody. And like now you're sort of like walking on, you're like, you walk past this bridge. You're on a scary. you're on like this scary like bridge with like rope holding the bridge up or whatever and you're walking to into sort of this backdrop that feels like kind of frontier-esque right and then you're walking to this backdrop like the backdrop is that and then you walk past that and then that's when

you walk down into a thing and and then so now you're looking at a wall that kind of has like a mural es thing aspect and the mural s aspect is like train stuff it's like somebody sitting on standing on the train like a conductor like holding out the train of like this thing so it's meant to give you a time of remember this time this is the time like this is where you are now the train we're in the train world we're in the train world so and then it's like a bunch of like railroad there's like there's like a poster thing on the wall I'm looking at it right now so it's like railroad and there's pictures of people like in rail cars and things like that is sort of the wharf and so now you're if it's like you're on the uh what you call it uh the

the dock what do you call it where you're standing when you're standing on the train before the train station yeah you're like at the train station but you're like standing on the train station waiting for like the train like that is what the vibe of the place is so then now you're like great here is uh the uh here is the train so they have a uh a couple of handles that the train what happened when you're about to walk onto the train where it's like oh great you grab the handles like there's like a railroad crossing thing now mind you none of this is good it's like all this

stuff is like to a wall taped on a wall put on a wall like you're not actually walking on a train it's like this is just it's all on a wall that's like it looks like a train right so you walk through that and then another American flag but not

even one that you're used to like it's like experimental flag Like, I'll show you, it's like, it looks like this. It's a square. It's like a square flag. A squished flag. What?

With a diagonal, where the blue square is now a diagonal. It's a triangle now. That feels like some secret Confederate flag I'm not familiar with. Exactly. It looks kind of like, think about the Puerto Rican flag or whatever, but just now take the, what our flag looks like, and the flags are going down. I don't even know how many flags that is. It's definitely not 50.

Let me start. But it's definitely not 50. It's not room for 50. It's more than 13, but it's definitely not 50. And so you're like, okay, great. What's the vibe? Is it cold in here? Does it smell weird?

Is there anything? I want to say it smells weird. And if it's not cold, it has the vibe that it would be cold. It looks good. It feels haunted. Yeah, it does. And so mind you, you're going through this thing. Like I said, because it's dark, and you're sort of like being inundated with different sounds and, um, uh, and just like moods.

Because you're like, what's going to like, like, because the light is very, uh, black light. It's like black light. Yeah, it's very much like rave-esque atmosphere and once you get to this thing, right? So, yeah, you're in a train rave. Right, you're in a white house. A train rave fun house with a historical bent. Right, yes, right. But the fun house, like, history was done in room two.

Optical illusions were done before that. Right. That's not what this is. It's a White House that is a fun house except not for the entire back half. Right. So then you're like, so then you're like walking around. Good. And it's, and you're trying to get a hold of being like, what is this place?

Like, because it truly, it makes no sense. Like, it's the White House, but nothing outside. side of like the first two rooms maybe, St. Whitehouse, everything else just feels like. The cell on it was I-Trump and now you're in a train. Now it's like all right, so maybe it's sort of like

a journey through American history, like you know, like a very loose journey. Right. That's a generous guess. Right. So that's me sort of kind of come into terms with what I'm seeing. Yeah, yeah. You walk through can I

point out that it says on one the train drawings it says for San Francisco and San Francisco is spelled wrong? For San Francisco and it's all it's too many S's. Too many S's in San Francisco and I guess it doesn't mean two San Francisco

For San Francisco This train is four departing four It's almost there It's almost close. I also by the way Inside the train I watched a video of somebody going through the train

and I shit you not The person's description was this feels like infinity train. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. This like Japanese speaker said, wow, it's like I'm in infinity train. Wow, that's funny.

Yeah, so that's cool. Also, is it? Yeah, I don't know. Because my recollection is the, they would go into big crazy worlds in every train car and not just like a weird train car with no seats whatsoever. The effects in the window, like it makes it look like you're in a speeding train. I thought that was a little neat. Because there was, yeah, because at a certain point,

You're in a space, like, in a train thing, and it's moving. So you are in a thing, and it's like rocking back and forth in a way where you're like, oh, okay, not in a way where you're like stumbling around, but you're like, oh, I'm on a rocky train. Is what if it feels like, oh, okay, like, all right, whatever. And then, so once you get off the train, you're like now walking through this room that there's a mirror in there. Like a bent fun mirror one, right? Yes. Yeah. So you're in the room.

So you're like, Oh, it is? That looks barely, though, like a fun house mirror. So you're like in a bit front mirror. You're like in that room. And it kind of looks like, yes, here I'm in this room. There's one mirror on the wall.

Then they got a bunch of like glow stars on the wall for the reason. And now you're just like, what is this room? Because it looks like, because how the construction wise, when you walk in, it looks like, oh, this was like the room that they kind of take the bodies that they kill. And they don't want, like, and, and, and, And because the floor feels like, it's like, yeah, like, and the floor feels like laminated or something. So it's like, yeah, easy cleanup. Like, it has that vibe of a room.

American Psycho, like, plastic floor. Like, I don't know what this room is for. I don't know what this room is for. But I know you're getting, you're getting close to the end. And the thing that's funny about this room, because, and trust me, it's, it's, so I went through this thing. and before because you're getting this is like the last bit of the fun house right and so

or the White House however you want to so I realized that certain things trigger certain things trigger certain moments that you're going to walk into so once I realized this because I was like oh because I had stopped filming at this point I'm like

all right this I don't know what I've been filming I don't even this is weird and but I walked through and once this happened I said oh no no no I got to get video it is we got to go back and so I had to go back to trigger some stuff and it wasn't working so I had to go back further right there like I had to go I had to walk back and luckily I think that was like maybe one other person in there but I was able to sort of so I walked back further and because what happens is in this whole Frontier experience

they you walk through the thing and what you trigger is you go to like it's you walk to the thing you trigger it and then at the end a Native American they have

and I'm talking about the most the classic generic style Tomahawk face paint like cartoon Like we were talking about, you know, like there's other things that they took away instead of Jessica Rabbit. This is the kind of portrayal that is the sort of thing that should be taken out. Oh, it's Disneyland. Yeah, that's still the situation where we were like, well, yeah, you could change that.

They did it in Florida, I think, but yeah. Right. And they, uh... But it's a little like pop out. There's not anything like this in the rest of the White House. And it doesn't, yeah, exactly. And it doesn't really pop up. And it's kind of like a cartoon image that just kind of comes.

to the thing and it's like it's staring at you and it's this thing and it makes the most stereotypical war yell

in a way that I was like I have to get this on film because it's so funny it comes out there's not anything else

like this in the experience it's nothing like this what do you mean this is the finale it truly it's like they said

White House so you got the White House Frontier so that's train stuff and then an inexplicable sort of space room

sort of like yeah and native this this makes up American culture so it's like a

galloping going on oh oh yes it is so so mind you like so stuff is happening

is not I'm not I'm kidding is that is that is that oh boy

oh boy right and then they so for those of you can't hear it what happens is it's like a galloping sound so it's like kak kaggak because there's a noise going on some people it's like a galloping sound kak kakka kakka kakka and then the uh and then it's like a picture of uh of a classic sort of uh native american image tomahawk up uh thing on it like ah and then it's like uh la la la la la and then it's like Please forgive me, if this offends you. I'm just describing and doing what the thing was, the experience. And then at the end, it becomes like the sound of an 80s rapper when they're done with their rap. And it's like, uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, rah.

What? Like, it does like, it does that. It goes, rrah. Like, and, and, but it truly is just like, but every room. It is a shock because you're just thinking, how did I end up here? You went from the White House. You went on two different trains. One was a dog and one was a cake.

And now I'm on the top of a mountain of Osaka. And then a building said, an Ikamo White House and a guy said, I Trump. And now I have heard a Native American trying to attack me go, row. You're right. It's just so, it's, it's, everything is jarring in a way. And it's only drawing because it's so confusing. Like, because it's like, you can't tell. It's a funny thing to be like, oh, this goes into this or this is this.

But it's just like, I just want to ask whoever made this, like, what went into choosing what the things were? Let's see. Yeah. You got to have a train room. This, we know. Right. Was it added to? Because there's not a lot of information about it.

It was like added to over the years. Did things ever change? Yes. Is it disjointed? because it just like, I don't know, we're doing this room now, we're doing this room now, and they happen decades apart, or is this the original vision of White House from 1986? Yeah, right, 1986, so obviously that's almost 40 years old at this point. So did it, is it change, or is it, that was the vision from day one?

Right. Like, yeah, because if it was, that guy was on a lot of macha, that guy was on that psychedelic macha, baby. To even have the brain to conceive of all this. these twist in turns was nuts. This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Yeah. This is so, like, listener, please watch a, look up a video of this.

You know, we're not, we're not insane. And it's like, and it's like subtly weird. It's like the thinking man's weird. Because it's not like you're just like, it's not like you're like, what the, whoa, what the, you're just being just like walking through calmly like, what is this? What is this? What is this? Yeah. Am I shaking now?

Okay. I guess I'm on the train. How did I get on the train from? the white house okay you know what this is like you know what if you were in a haunted house you might start going oh you know what i bet is going to happen is a skeleton is going to pop out or like frankenstein's going to try to grab like i can guess something you would never from room one of the white house okay guess what's going to happen to you and all the rest of the rooms you would never get it right never guess i wouldn't you can give me a thousand guesses i would fail

every time i would i kept going back and forth being like i wonder if this is some sort of like subtle commentary about America and then I go wait no this just seems like nonsense and then I would swing back and I'm like okay maybe the Native American in the end is some sort of critique and but I go wait a minute no wait a minute I don't I can't I was really trying to give it some meaning it's him going like this is what you turn my land into you made it right a crazy fun house but then it's not it's not critical otherwise it's just America has trains and has been to space there's otherwise nothing negative right And then I started going like, okay, a White House haunted maze would be awesome.

That's neat. Yeah, yeah. And you could, if you really wanted to get political with you, they absolutely could. That might be interesting. Or just a White House fun house. And then it's like has nothing political at all. And it's like wigs popping off of guys' heads and stuff. Like that would be fun too, I suppose.

Either way. Yeah. Either way. But it doesn't deliver on that. But it doesn't deliver on anything. It doesn't feel like the White House. None of that. It truly, it's just, it's really, this park was everything about this park was interesting.

and it's like you this is the best I do I am really jealous because there was there was like going to Japan and stuff and going to like some of like Tokyo Dome City and other places and you would sort of happen upon things so I am very jealous that you happened upon this bizarre thing

because that's one of our favorite things to do is like find something that is so baffling yeah I'd love to go but now it won't be a stumble upon. I'll know everything in there. As opposed to like the shitty dark ride I went on at Tokyo Dome City where something called Jaws Tetra jumped out at me. It was a shooting ride and then it's like, make sure you watch out for Jaws Tentra.

Yeah, I did that hell is Jaws Tetra. Right. Just some little gremlin guy. I love that I got to just happen into Jaws Tetra. But this is like, yeah, I'm very jealous of this. I should also say, because now that I'm looking at these photos from this trip, a slight correction I went in September

it wasn't July oh you were just there September oh my gosh difference yeah like so just so everyone's there because you really changed me like oh September he went when the hot it's like no it was still very hot

there for sure but I was in September not July it's like a couple days ago you got back almost yeah almost so but yeah like that whole experience afterwards I walked out and

How'd you describe this to your girlfriend because I was like I would have to show this so then I walked out and she was standing there and I was like well we got to get a picture

at the table so I took a picture and then I was like can I bring my girlfriend to take a picture because he was we brought her in he's like I take the picture

and he took my phone and then he took a couple pictures where his thumbs all in the picture and then he got fun and was like now this and he started like handling us the glasses and stuff

and I was like I guess he's got to put the glasses on because he's like handing us like the glasses. Oh, is it American flag? Like with American, like it's like No, no, no, no. It's not even American flag. Oh, really?

The glasses are like, they're almost like flower shaped glasses. It's just like fun. It's like if you look at any Booty Collins album. Like whatever glass you see Booty Collins in, it's like glass is like that. That is cool. And like, uh, it's a,

in the White House. In the White House. Next to Ulysses as Grant. Put on these Bootsie glasses. So he's doing that. So it's truly like the thing about this park, it's just so, I don't know, you're just like walking around. And it truly, I don't know, it's, it truly is, just the vibes of it alone is just so, such a vibe. It's so.

Jeez. It's so strange. It's incredible. I'm so glad I know about it now. And I also just want to say, you know, with the, like, White House. demolition stuff going on. If he wants to make the East Wing exactly like this White House, I sign off 100%. Right.

I wasn't on board. When you said that. Fuck that movie theater. Get that out of here. Put a train in there. Put a space in there. Put a couple fun house mirrors. Put one mirror and one optical illusion shelf and one ladder and that's it.

Right. That's way cheaper in this fucking ballroom. Way cheaper. You want to make an impact as a president? You want to change the White House forever? Do it with this. It needs to be its own walk-through experience. You can get this done.

I think we could build this White House by the end of today. Oh, yeah, 100% we could. That's how it feels is like as if they had to like, you know, like, are you really a theme park? Prove it. We'll be up the mountain in four hours time. Show me that you actually have a fun house. Shit. Okay, what are we got?

One black light. Okay. Put that out of there. Great. I mean, it's interesting because obviously, and. you know, I mean, I'm going to give them the saying of, you know, there's cultural aspects to some of this stuff, obviously, because it's like, you go there and you're having to kind of realize like, yeah, like to them, this is, this is, it's like, this is like, this is, it's like, this is not some sort of commentary. This is not a sort of going like, this is what we think of you. It's generally just like, and I might just like this. Because there was this one game that when you went, it was called Super Basket Shot. And it was like a shooting, like a basketball shooting game, right?

Now, mind you, the basketballs they had in this thing probably haven't been changed since 1990. They were like, no thing, the balls are bad. Like everything was. The filthiest basketballs. They're so far from orange. Right. They haven't been orange for decades. It was, but it's funny because you look at the.

but on it it's like super basket shot and it's like an image and the image is it's sort of a thing where you can kind of go like well if that was a Japanese person there's definitely a Japanese person with some

some doctor DNA and I talk about a girlfriend I go like that's definitely a black person and it's kind of and to me it's like it's not even me it's not even me looking at that and being like offended by it or whatever because I truly wasn't but it is sort of the notion as being like

yeah they just this to them it's like this who plays basketball so you see the thing and it's like yeah but it's like so many it's like things like that out there where and this can be for any and this could be for any culture

and it's so it's so interesting when you go to countries where it's like hey whatever hang up whatever American hangups that you have about like race or like representation of such or whatever. Know that this isn't us sort of being like, this, you see you

and we see like these big-lipped sort of whatever, da-da-da-da, whatever. It's like, it truly is just like, this is the thing. And we have no thing, we have no thing around it, so to speak. It's just like, this is just our plain representation of that thing. Just like, it would be like, this is our plain registration of a Swedish person. So you're just

sitting there kind of being like, oh, you get in doctrine real quick to notion being like, hey, this is, this doesn't, this isn't about me. You're like, whatever's going on, it's like, yes, it is me, but it isn't really about me. Like, it's just, it's, it's, it's the culture, it's the culture, that's good. That's kind of you to not read into it further. This is fine, except this.

So, yeah, I play super basket shot. I wasn't really, I don't know, my shot was a little off. But those balls also were in great. Not regulation. Yeah. So there's an arcade there then. Yeah, that's a little bit of an arcade game. And a little bit of an arcade section, which once again, we had a full run of because nobody was there.

Right. And yeah, and they got like a little store that had like things in it. The funniest thing they had that I saw was like they had this Harry Potter thing. And it was only funny because the Harry Potter looked so off. I was like, huh? Like it looked, it was like just enough off to be like, if you told me that was Harry Potter, I would go, yes, but I'm looking at it and I go, but it's not Harry Potter.

It was just off enough to be like weird. Like, it wasn't off enough to be like, what the Harry Potter? It's often to be like, I'm confused by this. Because it's like Harry Potter, but it's not. Are they avoiding a copyright? Right.

Do they just not know better? Like, you know, and just in the same way with some of these other places, you go in and be like, none of these gifts are appealing. Like nothing here is. It's like, I want this or whatever. Yeah.

It's just like walking around in this sort of like mid area. Yeah. And all the rides were some version of, here on this track, we're hanging now on this thing. You just kind of like go around the park and you're looking around. Like one is like you're just in a steel box. And you're just kind of like, you're just go around in a circle of the park. You're like, all right, this is what everything looks like up top. Like, it doesn't it's not.

Got that, yeah. Yeah. It's more like a sightseeing tour of the park, which is simple because the park, wow, kind of bigger than you think, still not that big. You know what I mean? So you're just like, oh, okay. No, that's the ground where I was. Right, yeah. Interesting.

It's right there. There's a stain I didn't see before. Yeah. And I saw it from here. Every ride is like, and done. You know what I'm like? So it's very, it's very, just a very low-key experience for sure. Wow. I mean, it sounds super funny.

It also feels like if I'm not incorrect, I think this seems like a kind of a cheap experience. You're not breaking the bank to go to this weird place where you get stories and memories for days. I don't remember how much, well, because the thing is it's free. You get into the park, you get into the park for free. Yeah, you pay for the rides itself. And so like I said, so if maybe we spent like $4,000, whatever, however much that is. I forget the conversion exactly, but, like, I kind of, I believe that White House is roughly two American dollars. Right, yeah.

You spent that and got an incredible return. That's some of the best $2 ever spent, I think. It looks like sometimes they have different, because I watched a couple of videos of White House, sometimes they have different, like, setups in that first room. This is like a weird, like, bunny sitting in a chair and a weird, like, creepy little baby doll. Oh, a scary doll wearing kind of like the hat that Tarzan's girlfriend, Jane, in the animated movie who wears? Well, you're getting generous to that hat. That more looks like like a Skoban's bucket hat.

Oh, you're right. No, no, no, you were wrong. No, that looks like Gilligan. I was way off on the Jane comparison. And then there's a little poo bear on the table. It's a little Winnie the Pooh next to his one. And they changed out the old real American flag for that weird one in the lobby. Oh, there it is.

Whoa, weird square flag So, but but don't worry Lincoln and Grant are still on the wall Okay, let's represent The two best I look, I had to look at every one of those beard Presidents to figure out who it was Okay, not Harrison, not Hayes,

not Garfield. I'm lucky, I don't, I'm not very good at history, but I definitely was like, that's Grant I for some reason knew it was Grant. I don't know if it's his severe eyebrows They do like insane there Wow. Peter Gallagher.

I was going to say he has a Peter Gallagher type thing going on. I don't know history very well, but I do know Peter Gallagher as the guy with severe eyebrows. President Peter Gallagher and Bert from Sesame Street. The harshest eyebrows. Very harsh eyebrows. I mean, I will say this about the park. It may be as different when there's a lot of people there, but bathrooms, pretty great. Hey, well, that's Japan.

That's a thing in Japan. All across the, wow, wow. Like, there was a regular one, but then. in the further back part of the park there was one where regular but just in a sense of

but in this stall because the other one was like oh cool stall with toilet and this stall this one even has a bidet right so you don't even have a bidet in this one at the park

because at first you're like oh okay they're not going to have a bidet one at the music park and then you go to another bathroom it's like in this bathroom we do and you're like oh should you do wow wow

it doesn't occur to me all the time but at least I'd say once a year, something will make me think I miss those Japanese Bidase. Every once in a while,

you're having like, I don't want to go into detail. You're having an uncomfortable experience and you go like, well, wouldn't happen in Japan. Maybe you cashed in too many McDonald's rewards food items. A bad combination.

A bad combination of reward items. I need a lot of time on a Japanese toilet to take care of this. Wouldn't be me, but someone else, if they can't handle the free items, Like I can. Oh, I see.

Because you're fortified, but an untested person. Well, there you found your attack angle on me. This guy couldn't even handle a Monopoly's game worth of. I have said that before. Yes, you have. Yeah, yeah. That is your rap. But this guy can't even handle McDonald's.

You have a weak stomach because you can't handle fast food like I can. I'm not citywalk fortified like you. I'll take that. Is that the best you got? I'll take it. I'm proud that I can't handle. Jason can't take any of it, even though he eats fast food a lot. Yeah, he does do it a lot, but still.

well this is look I'm just so glad I know about this place I'll like I'll know that I've really like gotten out and explored the world and gotten to have my fun like that I raised my kids and then years and now they're grown and I can take them up the true the magic train to white house you can I hope that it's so it's so honestly if we're back to Japan as much of stuff that as much stuff that we did that would be like I never do this again like it was a cool experience but I don't have to do it again. That is one of the places where I'm going to like, we have to make an effort to get back here. The next time we go, we would have

to go back here again. Jeez. Yeah. Okay, great. Well, that's, that's so great. Thank you for exposing you to this place to us. Listeners, if you ever make it up to the top of the Magic Hill, please let us know. I'll be delighted to see that a listener made it to the Magicill where White House lives. There will be one within the next few

years of somebody like sending us a picture of like, I'm in the White House. Yeah. And you owe that guy, Free McDonald's too. Whoever makes, either. There's two ways to do it. If you're in McDonald's, let us know, or if you make it up the hill, the White House, Mikeosu. I cannot, I think, I don't think I can order in Japan, though. That's too, that's a separate. In the McDonald's.

I think it's a separate app. Okay, okay. And actually, no, it's not. Is it not? No, I use my app. I used my app when I was in Japan. I'm thinking of something else then. To use it.

And I will just say this on the subject. Obviously, when you go out the country, you're like, I want to try that food. like it feels like I can't just eat the same food that I have at home you know like we have McDonald's at home but they do have different things oh it's so exciting to me and so I will say this one night I was like screw it I got to go to McDonald's and I got like a terriaki burger and they had like another they had like another thing going on because at that time it was some sort of like sun moon sort of

thing that was going on in the culture where it's like here's the thing of this. So because of it their sandwiches and a lot of restaurants had this is our version of this sandwich now to celebrate this time of the year or whatever. And so and they had this other burger and I would say this. The teriyaki burger was good

but the burgers was also standing in a weird way. It also this thing and then they had like chicken sandwich kind of thing that I had that was sort of like Japan specific that maybe I didn't love as much but it was definitely like it was interesting to have their burgers because their burgers didn't like those burgers specifically didn't really taste like burgers even they're like these are burgers sure but like uh I'm not looking at anything that looks that great to me just in Googling Japanese McDonald's but they also I'm sure there is they also have a lot of just egg on stuff yeah so like even some of their burgers being like and here's here's this

with the with the kind of over easy but whatever you call an egg where it's like folded? It's not fold it's like it's like the white

with the yolk inside but it's cooked like kind of an egg patty yeah I'm noticing that this looks gross to me where it's a burger that has an egg patty and then there's some other

like ham type slab and then whatever sauce we're looking at that yellow sauce this is not appealing to me but if you're a McDonald's fan and you're like like tired of the regular stuff if that ever happens. I'm just not a fan of just like

egg like that. So there were some burgers that were like that and I just don't want it because I just don't want to have like a runny. If it's a too runny egg, I don't want it. It'll ruin my sandwich. Oh, I ran into some bad, like really gross runny egg stuff in Japan. I love a running egg. I swear, the worst thing I had, there's no way

you would have liked that running egg. I love her. Turn the lights off. You're too close to the mic. Leave me alone in here. back up from that thing I love a runny egg I'm getting Harrison Ford in my I love I'm running

anyway thank you for taking us on this journey thanks for taking us up the hill this is a delight Ronnie Adrian you survived podcast the ride

let's exit through the gift shop is anything you like to plug uh bones Adrian on social media if you wanted to see whatever I got going on

at some point I'm sure I'll have something going on at some point When that day comes When that day comes Best believe Even if you want to just find out Did I ever get that thing

My McDonald's from Mike Just you know Hopefully that's a post in the near future Yeah yeah that's that's ancillary content Related to the show That'll come to your Instagram Exclusively 38 free items still to redeem

By November 23rd Three items Whoa 38 That's look we're recording this on November 11th So that's not, how many days are you got? Not many. That's ticking down.

Wait, by, you have to even about Wayne? Like, less than two weeks. Okay. You have to give these out to listeners. That's the only way. Otherwise, these will be wasted. I know, I know, I know. Unless, how many of those are, do you think you can personally get through, though?

In two weeks' time. I know what's the end of the episode, but it depends how shameless I feel because they have a 15-minute window if you order on the app. Is this true? They don't want you to do it. But if you go in to, McDonald's and you go to the kiosk and you make separate orders, there's no 15 minute waiting period. So if you're shameless and you go in there and make like 10, I could do them all right now

with 38 separate receipts. You could spend. I could do that. It just has to be separate transactions. That's the only thing's not. Now they know what I'm doing. They know what I'm up to if I do that. So I have to be willing to do it. So really only I've overdone like two different transactions. This is your Adam Sandler and Punch Drunk Love with all the pudding. Oh, right. Yeah. But you don't even get something as cool as a flight to Hawaii.

No. This is just more McDonald's. If, like, so here's a hack I figured out. If I go to McDonald's 58 times that I've found a way to end up getting 88 things instead of 58 things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not good. It's not as good.

You're right. As long as I spend most of my life at McDonald's, I get more McDonald's. There's a couple friends of ours. Mike's Collins I'll call him out I don't think he has anything to be ashamed of No

We're very We're both We're constantly in contact About the McDonald's game So I'll send him like I got a snap I send him a photo Of my snack wrap

And my ice tea I'll be like Look at I like This is it free To a piece of food Right So there's there's There's still some excitement

Surrounding But I don't know if I'll I don't know if I'll be able To get to all of it Unfortunately What's the biggest What's the most exciting item, you think? Well, the best, the best things were that either it's a free double cheeseburger or a chicken sandwich,

a free breakfast sandwich, which I've ripped, those are done. I'm out of those because that's my favorite thing. Okay. Bacon, egg and cheese. Okay. Done. I don't have any more. Don't ask.

Okay. Okay. Are you, how's your heart? Are you okay? Hey, looking at you visually, looks fit as a fiddle. I know, I am shocked that you're not like. But I've also said, I'd be able to cede. just on your person.

But I've also, I've explained I'm not eating full supersized meals. Yeah, we're going out of our listener, by the way, here, you know, let me do my plugs and say like, If you want to go to podcast at the dark with the, if you want to join us on Podcast the Ride the second gate or get one more bonus episode in our VIP tier, club three, you'll find that a picture on.com slash podcast the ride where in our weird out of order release schedule, I have grilled Mike about this separately. So we'll be bouncing around McDonald's Monopoly content. there's more to come on the second gate.

So, yeah, we'll go out of order in our McDonald's journey. For sure. And look, we have. It might stretch outside of the, it definitely will. There's only two more weeks in the game. Right. I do you, yeah, you called it a low, like a, I forget, something low stakes super sized me that I'm doing in a future episode. Or the episode just came out, I forget.

It's like a very, because I explained I'm getting like one or two small items a day. I'm not getting full meals. so that I'm not. But is there any cap on what you're offering, can Ronnie get one of the most exciting prizes that there is? Well, the most to me, what's left is. Are you eyeing anything when you've heard this list? I think double cheeseburger is certainly the prize.

It's the bell of the ball when it comes to these free things. And I have a couple of those, so I'm happy to give those out. Snack wraps, not a bad quick 400 calorie lunch. You know, and you can take the cheese off if you want. It's a pretty decent size. Snack wrap's not bad. And then I do have some treat. I have some cookie.

There's cookie or Sunday. I understand the calorie thing. But if the cal, if what it's made of is a bunch of fucking crap. And who cares about the. Well, but like, we're really a longer debate about what nutrition and health is,

I suppose. I'm sure that the long debate would lead us back to that McDonald's wins the nutrition. But I don't know that a snack wrap. I think if we talk it out of the course of two hours, we'll land at McDonald's as the best nutrition for you. I, say that. I would not never. I'm not that out of it. But a snack wrap, a snack wrap McDonald's

probably like equivalent to some sort of like frozen chicken you've got in your fridge that comes from like whatever chicken tenders or some like it's equivalent to the chicken tenders that I'm having for dinner each night. Well, I assume you might be eating chicken tenders at home as I'm always doing. You might as well go to McDonald's. Now none of them have grilled chicken except sadly for Chick-fil-A, which I don't like frequent. But I wish, I wish there was... What a fancy pronunciation right here at the end. I had to think about what is he saying?

Yeah, for a say, I had to register the word. Oh, you don't speak like that? We just aren't as... We aren't as fancy as Mike. Yeah, yeah. Well, okay. Sorry I confused everyone, but that's just the way I talk. If you want to frequent podcast The Ride, then you'll join us on the second gate.

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