Podcast: The Ride - Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run with Bobby Moynihan

Episode Date: November 5, 2021

Bobby Moynihan (SNL, DuckTales) joins us to discuss the Millennium Falcon attraction, his peak behind the scenes, and being a part of Galaxy's Edge.  Fear Factor Live episode up at The Second Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forever Dog Warning, the following podcast references interstellar food trucks, minor characters getting in personal arguments, a special hallway for necking, and massive shoulder strain. Bobby Moynihan gets in the cockpit with us to talk Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run on today's podcast, The Ride. Welcome to Podcast The Ride, a podcast about theme parks that we're thinking about renaming Crazy for Coaxium. I'm Scott Gairdner, joined by Mike Carlson. Yes, I'm here. We all have a love affair with the... It's just edging out on Obtainium, as far as fake elements in a movie. So we love coaxium on this show uh that is a fact

the strongest most desired fake elements the fake element final four if we were ever to do that we should do we should figure out which fake elements are the best we'll have to determine if there's more jason sheridan feelings about coaxium uh i you know what i think now now that they're stacked together i think i just like, I have to agree. Yeah, I love the E.M. MacGuffins in the movie, like the driving force MacGuffins. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We love our E.M.s.

There's so much to talk about, even besides the E.M.s with today's attraction. Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run. I was too excited to get to the smuggler part. We've never done a deep dive into this, and we're so excited to talk about it, and we have a great guest to do it with. Oh, my God.

We're so happy to be joined by, from Saturday Night Live, from Mr. Mayor and from Celebrity Sighting with Jonathan Biting, the new podcast available on Stitcher Premium. It's Bobby Moynihan. Hi. Hi, how are you? Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. Thanks for being here. Oh, nice. A nice little Perrier. Oh, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Gotta stay refreshed. Sponsored.

This is a podcast for fancy boys. Regular water. That's why I'm here. Yeah, yeah. It's the coaxium of water it truly is it truly is um we're so excited to talk about about this ride and with you bobby especially because i was thinking about how um the whole thing with galaxy's edge when it opened is a chance for you to get up close and personal and live your star wars story that seemed

to be like copy they were they were saying a lot i feel like you have lived your star wars story more than most people you've gotten like so involved in terms of voice and characters and meeting people and i guess is there like are there are there things that are particularly high on your list of highlights of your Star Wars story? I mean, it's funny you said that and my head starts spinning. It's bonkers. Yeah, I feel like the luckiest boy in the world. I was just a fan. And then that led to so many um absolutely insane and amazing uh moments uh um

getting to meet carrie fisher easily the the best one backstage at like that at comic-con uh jj abrams was super uh nice he had done something for snl and invited me to comic-con and i got it was when force awakens happened so i got to be there for that panel where they brought all the stormtroopers out and uh had everybody walk to the band shell two blocks away at the end and oh that one right right with the secret john william John Williams. John Williams played the score. So, yeah, I was there for that. That was a tremendously special evening. Just getting to talk to Carrie and having that for the rest of my life will be the greatest.

Matt, the radar technician. Yeah, so many crazy uh star wars things i seeing i just saw a picture of like a hundred people dressed as matt at some sort of comic-con while giving thumbs up on an escalator and i was just like yeah that's that's so dope that's the coolest you invented a costume yeah that's the craziest thing like yeah like you like you would have been a person dressing as star wars characters and now you made one up essentially yeah i i would have been a person dressing as Star Wars characters and now you made one up, essentially. Yeah, I would have been a person hanging out with the people. I don't know if I would have dressed.

I haven't gotten there yet. I've only dressed up as Star Wars characters for like television. Yes, I made an assumption, I guess, based on your professional work. Yeah, not that I think that that's a bad thing at all. I love it i just worry that people think my nerd credits are are thicker and heavier than they are so you can't point to the con i know there's people who know more that's why i try to respect them and you haven't done full darth maul face paint you couldn't lead a tutorial on how to be i want

to i want to but i have not no uh i would i would i told you right right um within that i mean like it's it's crazy to talk to you about galaxy's edge stuff because you're you have a galaxy's edge character as well like that's about as deep as you can go into this new this new disney theme park star wars crossover you have a guy yeah i was yeah recently um i think it comes out this month i shot something for uh disney plus like talking about uh the making of this game uh uh it's called tales of galaxy's Edge for Oculus Quest. And I play Cecil Slack, the cantina bartender. And we were shooting there late at night, super late at night.

The park is closed and I'm in Galaxy's Edge standing next to the thing. And they're like, that's where you're and they point and they're like, that's where your cantina is. And I was just like, what? What? What are you talking about? I hear that they're going to start sprinkling in things at the park about the game and stuff. And I just go like, yeah, to be part of that universe is insane. The crazier one, because I didn't know about it whatsoever that happened recently was uh just as a fan i got one of those um like star wars a to z like all the

characters like you know kind of character dictionary or whatever you would call it a encyclopedia of all the characters from star wars and i was like oh i wonder if one of my star wars characters is in there and it was the one from clone wars it was all about clone wars and uh i looked it up and the species of that character was uh moin m-o-y-n like the first couple letters of my last name like Like that was the character now. And then I looked up like a different character and it said like, oh, the species is Moira. And I was like, dude, they named a species? Like what?

It just keeps getting more bonkers. As a fan, you just go like, it's the coolest. But that's what it's about is inclusion. And like, I like this nerdy thing and the minutia of it and to be involved in that and it's the dumbest thing in the world but like the beginning part of my last name is printed in a star wars book that some nerd will read someday and i go that's that's pretty sweet it's not lost on me i i it's awesome yeah that's amazing all right's amazing. What are the basics of a moin? Like if you were to see a moin in the wild.

It looks like a butthole with eyes. Beautiful. It was one of Ralph McQuarrie's original concepts for a creature that didn't get used. It kind of looks like binoculars, almost like for a creature that didn't get used. It kind of looked like binoculars, almost like a fur face. It was an alien design. That sounds kind of like Maz Kanata. She had the sunken eyes

that were sort of... Maybe I'm not... She's not a moin. No, no, no. She predated moins. She predates moines, yeah. Oh, gosh. Now I'm holding up your podcast as I look for a picture of it.

That's okay. We're always looking up stuff. Take seconds. How are you otherwise? Oh, good. We're good. Got it. Found it.

Let me see. Wait here. Say something so the camera cuts to you. Oh, hello. Hello. Hello. Oh, there he is. Okay.

Okay. Pintu Sonel. Is that the one you voice or a different moin? That's the one I voice. Okay. Okay. It's on Clone Wars. Oh, so's i not i'm saying it's the opposite of a maz kanata i was mischaracterized it's because the eyes extrude yeah those are the

original ralph mccorry concepts that they based it on geez yeah that's very cool one that you own like you they put your name in a like a rigid like this is like as authentic this goes i guess i guess moines do predate muskinata is what i figured out i'm all over the place weird to hear like that like like as a star wars fan now to hear it like you like i just go like that's so stupid so weird so crazy is there a chance like you know william shatner started writing his own star star trek novels that you could just write novel after novel about moines uh that's yes i and i will and i have i have something coming out soon like sort of like in the star warsy nerdy universe that i'm super excited about where i go like i finally got to create like the thing that I love which is just those

small weird universes filled with lots of dumb characters but yeah I love that kind of stuff yeah you're like I mean you're like involved in like so many like I'm I'm jealous like you're in DuckTales you're like it's so many different things that we loved as kids um you've gotten to be a part of it's it's it's funny yeah i i i feel like i i just got to be a fan i've got lucky as far as being a fan of a lot of things and getting to be getting to be involved in a lot of those uh fandoms can i ask have you gotten like the secret imagineering tour that you're not allowed to talk about uh i'm i mean if there's one that i'm not allowed to talk about no but i i've gotten like a pretty cool like i've definitely gotten to see a lot of cool

stuff at disney as far as like i got to go to walt like that walt's apartment once which is pretty special like uh seeing that whole thing and just realizing like you're in this place that he'd been like, it's just crazy how pristine it is and how well kept it is. And, and all that stuff. I I've, I've tried to get in to see the basketball hoop at the Matterhorn. I have not been successful yet.

Yeah. I'm trying to think of like other cool, Club 33, I've been to a bunch like that. It's like, that's super fun. And yeah, like a couple of weird places.

For me, it's more like when we got to do the DuckTales parade and like, I got to go like literally behind the scenes and just go walk around back there and see, see them like at that time building stuff and it was just nuts and uh then recently doing that shoot at night like seeing disney when it's closed and walking around when it's closed and being there for the moment at sunrise when they turn the speakers on and all the ambient sounds so all of a sudden it's silent and then five seconds later there's birds people laughing and like x-wings flying by it was it was like hearing

the ambient sound kick in and realizing like oh my gosh like i had no idea that like they're pumping in the sound of fun i don't think i realized that. Like, people, like, there's, like, Walla, essentially. Like, people laughing. Like, you know, it's like there's a little bit of, like, tone to it a little. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, that basketball court. I think that basketball court is really off limits from what I understand.

Yeah. Yeah. I keep trying. I've come close, but somehow. if you take like a cell like put it on the internet please i will tear it down i will tear it down yeah yeah this was for podcast the ride thank you thank you yes sign it we'll show you our signatures the parade is pretty amazing too like you've got to feel like disney royalty getting what were the circuits like what were you in what was the parade we were on a double-decker bus the whole cast of ducktales and goofy it was and it was nuts um donald and

scrooge were on another one um it was crazy it was it was really really fun and wonderful why was goofy on yours and not scrooge uh scrooge was sort of leading the parade down uh walking and then i don't know why donald wasn't on ours or i don't know but i was fine with goofy he was great you didn't put up a big fight about it i i did not make eye contact with goofy okay i would not look at him share space with no he was he was actually wonderful you do hear those stories about him like don't hand him a diet coke without a napkin wrapped around he does not want to get his hands wet he only has four fingers yeah i mean giant giant gloves too yeah yeah you'd want to take those off before consuming

so sticky um well yeah that's all i mean yeah what a like stacked line of stuff let alone like now this is this you mentioned something i had a question about with the virtual reality experience that, like, because I think I looked up a little bit of stuff and I saw the view from your cantina, Cecil Slack's cantina, which does overlook the Millennium Falcon. So it's, like, part of the complex of the ride that we're talking about. But then, like, where? That's what I can't picture is like, are there buildings over there? And it's like up high. Well,

that's the thing is like his, it's a ship. His bar is a ship. So it moves and like that it lands. Yeah. It lands on top of like the, like right behind the other cantina. If you stand at the Millennium Falcon,

it's like where the like just to the right of the blast doors is where it should be like if it was really there but it's just it's just i don't think it'll ever be there but like i wish someday presumably like in a place you can't see from that vantage point like behind some like like something jutting out of the building from where those windows are. It would be right there. Wow. Wow. Which that's a whole. OK, so there's Oga's Cantina, which is a physical place in the park.

And then there's Cecil Slack's Cantina, which I'm sorry, floated down and landed essentially on top of the existing... The way it was explained to me is it's like a food truck. Ah, okay. Sure, sure, sure. Or one of those pedal bars in Nashville. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There should be more pedal bars in Star Wars. I mean, if they make me a costume,

I will pedal bar every day. Every day when I'm not working, I will go there and pedal around for free. All right. You put it out there. I did. I'll do it. I'm just happy that Oga... Jotting down style.

They won't be able to get me to stop. He's got to go at some point. Jeez. Look, I'm just happy that Oga's not getting undercut that was kind of my concern like as if i was a business owner and then a similar almost just identically named business landed on top of my business and landed on top it was a rude move it was a rude move um well uh so anyway and i guess in one connection point between that the oculus experience it's made by the same company they're the same wing of ilm that does the graphics for smugglers run which is like this unprecedented like they've never had to do anything at this level before the like level of, uh,

you know, Insta response time on such a massive scale. It's a hell of a, it's a hell of a wing. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Job ILMX lab. Um,

but so, but so this, this attraction, uh, yeah, you want to talk about, about smugglers run? Uh,

I, I mean, uh, well, first of all, you like, you got to do it pretty early on in its existence uh correct like you were a guy pretty quick or even before it opened yeah i got to go i got to go uh two or three weeks before it opened and like walk around and

it was insane because like i remember i remember going like there's no way this is going to be done in three weeks like being like what like like how how are you opening the doors to this place in three weeks like kind of feeling that way a little bit just because there was so much that they had to do and but i i yeah i was like i think maybe one of the first people i mean like in the couple days like that got to ride it before it opened uh i did it with donald fazon um we went for resistance they actually like they brought us there to shoot, like, they wanted to shoot us coming around the corner and seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time and then doing

the ride. And they literally just never pressed record, so we had to do it again. Like, we came around the corner, we freaked out, and they just act like that dumb thing that never, ever happens if they weren't recording. Or they just act like that dumb thing that never ever happens if they

weren't recording uh or they just didn't get the shot of us um so we had to do it again and like i don't think it was very real the second time so they ended up not using it but uh but we got to do the ride and it was like it was amazing and now i've been on it 50 times and to go back there again uh afterwards and to see the place like finished so quickly like it was like what they did was insane and now having gone back a couple times um since then it just keeps getting it just keeps seems like they just keep adding to it and making it better and making certain pieces different. And it's a real fun, beautiful place to walk around. But that,

that ride itself is my, I just took my four-year-old daughter on it and she was not a fan. Oh, interesting. Well, how did the, how did this play out? I wouldn't say that.

I wouldn't say she was not a fan. I would, I would say she much, she like, it was over and she was like, cool, we did it like okay not like mind blown forever change i think she was a little bit like that was insane i think

i was in a real spaceship and if that was true it rocked way too much like for her but it was like too much in information almost yeah i think uh it's also, I forget that there's an age where you're like, so wait a minute, I just went into space? Yeah. Like, it was very real. Like, that's a very real thing. Right. Oh, yeah. How are the, like, what are the lines in general?

Like, meeting characters? Is that like, I met the character? Like, how much did she die into? At four, yeah, fully Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a man nice man yeah he's sure yeah there's no like yeah no she she if she believes she just wants it to be real too she's very fun and imaginative i think if i told her there was somebody inside chewbacca i know i know i know just let's pretend that sounds like it's a better place to be like why

did we i don't want it right i wish i bought it all when i went in can i reset my memory and just like believe that it's mickey mouse again that's where i live that's the the space i inhabit is that as close as you can let's just all pretend it's real yeah the rest of the we're not going to talk about imagineers and all that let's pretend we never heard that word i mean if that was that's i i would do that if uh if if i didn't know any better and i was a kid i would tell i could go back in time i'd go maybe go imagineer this time you got another chance around that might be fun sure oh true yeah yeah absolutely we believe in this podcast it's not too late for us to do it oh dear i just realized that like that that's another thing like that star wars did holy

crap like i i went to uh the opening day of galaxy's edge and i just happened to be there the same day as jet lucas uh george lucas's son who i had met recently at i had met briefly at uh star wars celebration um and he came up to me and he was like uh you played my dad on snl and i was like oh no like he's gonna be angry but he was actually really cool and really nice about it um but i ended up spending the day with jet lucas and like the guys he was with um at disney and this older guy with a mustache and like another friend and they were we were hanging out all day we did the rides we did smugglers run and we did it twice and then like i started driving and I was having way too much fun. And the guy, the older guy with the mustache got a little like, hey, man, I don't think we should take this more seriously. He was very concerned about my bike, but I wasn't taking the ride as seriously as I should have.

Can I say I have a guess who this is, but I think we all have a guess who you're talking about, but keep going. And I was like, wow, okay. But he was very nice. We had fun all day. I asked him a bunch of questions. No idea that this man was who he was. And then we finally, towards the end of the day, went on the Indiana Jones ride and he was talking about point and stuff.

And he's like, and when I built this and I was just like what do you mean you built this and he was it was tony baxter um the guy like and i was just like what and like then i thought about the all the other questions i could have been asking all day i love that he wanted to take the ride seriously yeah yeah what does that mean? He was like, can you not be the pilot? Ben was a much better pilot. I was with Ben Schwartz, too. And he was like, Ben is a much better pilot. Let's let Ben drive.

We're trying to get two coaxiums here. We got two the first time. He was very angry with how many coaxiums I got as a pilot. I love that. I do, too. I'm trying to be funny. He love that. I do too. I'm trying to be funny. It was, it was,

he was wonderful. He was wonderful. Whole accidental day with, with Tony Best. I think that we would like pay, you know, like too much, like,

like $20,000 at a, at an auction for. Same, same. It's not, it's like I said earlier, it's not lost on me. I, I, I i i realize how insane

that was i've been lucky enough to have a lot of insane days like that yeah sure yeah that's bonkers uh i'm still just trying to get over that george lucas named his son jet that's like a cool name like yeah it's pretty dope yeah yeah famous jackson and him i think those are the only jets out there one's fictional yeah um well that yeah that's amazing god what a day um so so all right so you've done this you've done this ride a bunch do you feel like you have gained any wisdom on how to i mean it seems like opening day you were already like you maybe knew the difference between one and two coaxiums like do you have you gotten any better at this attraction yes wow the first time i tried it we only got to i think we only got to do it once or

twice and no one kind of like it was a very weird experience because it wasn't like you're going to Disneyland and somebody's walking you through the whole thing and you get the whole experience and you're waiting and you get excited and then you get on the ride and somebody tells you what to do. It was very much like wait in this all purpose room. And then they just brought me into the thing and they were like all right we're gonna start shooting and like no one explained how to do it so it just turned on and we were like what and like we just crashed the whole time the first time that they did it and laughed and then the second time we kind of did it but now weirdly like it's crazy to say but like i've gotten to do it alone a bunch like like a couple times where like it was just me literally holding both controls of the pilot thing and just flying that like i've gotten to do that like five or six times and like that uh is super fun

even the characters in the movies didn't get to do that so it's always tawny and chewy to like take your time and try and do it and not have a different family that's not yours begging you to not crash and like it's it's, it's, it was, it was fun. It's, it's, it's amazing. And then when you realize like, and then you do it a couple of times and like, you get like,

Oh, it's just, that's all it is. It's like a big TV. And like, it's, it's amazing what, how much it just transports,

transports you instantly into that world. Right. Yeah. I'm going to insist on doing that next time when I'm full. Oh, there's a cockpit full of people. I control both. Honestly, easier. I think it's much easier to control both.

And you feel like you're driving the Millennium Falcon. And it's crazy. And it looks like it. It's a real fun time for adults to be children. Of the three positions, pilot, gunner, engineer, do you have a preference? Pilot, I mean...

Yeah. Yeah, I feel like if you're a gunner or an engineer, you're enjoying the pilot having a good time while you do like that. Yeah. It's still pretty great. It're still pretty great still pretty great hit the buttons all the switches and but they say there's like over 200

buttons and switches that are functional like that you can press in that car oh wow but i did not know that they all do something it's hard to tell what exactly it's like you have three prime if you're in the game for button pressing engineer is really if you just want I know that. They all do something. It's hard to tell what exactly. It's like you have three primaries. If you're in the game for button pressing, engineer is really, if you just want to do as many as possible, even if you don't know what the hell they're doing, then engineers the spot for you.

When I, when I was at SNL, I wrote a sketch about when force awakens came out. It was like a trailer and they built the millennium Falcon cockpit for us to shoot in. And like and like i i was like can i take this home like it was it wouldn't have fit in here like well it would have been here but like i went like i really want to take this home and sit in it and keep it but uh that that did not happen i took the r2d2 though oh that's cool wow wow wait is that like a like a full that's like

it was supposed to be the real r2 in the yeah i have it downstairs in my garage i'll show it to you later wow wow that's um i uh okay so in terms of like because yeah i i have to admit that i don't feel like i've i don't think i have any more like perspective anytime I go on as to like how to improve my performance. I think, you know, if you're doing multiple doing different positions every time, it can be it can get confusing, like how to, you know, advance your skills or whatever. But do you have any do you know any like specific tips you could say of how to is it just about positive mental attitude and I stay in college how just positivity in life meditating and staying lifestyle and yeah taking care of others and just like in general the better you are as a human the better you'll be at smugglers run run i know there's like a like a chewy like there's like a

if you press a certain set of buttons before the ride starts chewbacca it chewbacca makes sounds the whole time in the ride like you're like he's your he's there with you as your co-pilot there's learned about this i didn't know about this before chewy mode you know chewy mode jason uh yeah if you um you you need like a full cockpit to do it because like you have to it's like the old konami mode where you have to like um like do everything like press these buttons before you hit this but like wait for them to tell don't hit it when they tell you to hit some other stuff and then steer it all the way to different sides and then basically you can do the whole ride with just chewy screaming at you and i'm going with family for the first time soon who haven't been

on this and i am tempted like guys we gotta do chewy mode that was their first experience it's just no instructions just a wookie screaming at you the whole time might be easier that way i mean yeah yeah maybe you're gonna have to run jason you're gonna have to run drills beforehand to make sure they know how to do it oh my family already loves my bullshit when theme park planning lots of instruction we have to do a cheat code for this ride i'm pretty sure i would get run out of town sure oh but the whole ride is getting barked instructions anyway so just you know you do some extra barking at the top that's true but i mean i don't want to rob them of jim cummings great uh performance as Hondo Anaka.

This is very funny in the pre-show and in the ride. He has some great lines. That's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If we step out of the cockpit for a second, I mean, this is one of the great things about this ride is Hondo Anaka. Is it the, we've said this before, I want to say it is maybe the second most advanced animatronic in all the Disney parks parks with maybe the navi shaman of

song being number one does anyone know if i'm right or wrong on this i came across that yeah i think that's i think you're close what about the flipping spider-man oh wait oh is that it now oh maybe that's it now you're right that's pretty advanced is that technically the same category it's like a stunt tronic yeah it's a different category is it a difference best supporting animatronic yeah uh yeah i'm on the secret life of pets ride at universal like my voice and like those animatronics are insane i just did it for the first time like two weeks ago and it's first of all it's bonkers to know that there's a room a couple miles

away from my house that I'm Mel the pug dog in it and like in the very beginning of the ride use I'm talking and you hear me run like seeing me on my character on a screen but then there's like these animatronics of the dogs like popping up so there's just like a lot of panting and like weird dog sounds but then there's one where I'm just on like a spin wheel like a like a fireworks wheel and I'm going whoa just like screaming oh yeah yeah and and I realized that like there's just a room a couple miles away where I'm just my voice. I'm just screaming all day long. And it's like that.

It's terrifying. It's like Black Mirror in a way. It's like that's so bizarre. But it's also wonderful and crazy. You're like, I have to drive to my screaming room now. Well, no, I was like, I was like, I was like, I can't wait to bring my daughter on this ride. And we were doing it. And she kind of heard the voice and went like what like what's happening here and and then i realized like yeah this is playing 24 hours a day isn't that bizarre geez this this is something

i've always wondered the perspective of somebody who has achieved this dream of like yeah there's this place all day and which is awesome to talk to somebody who's like clearly thinks it's thinks it's insane because i feel like there are people who like what do i have to do now they phone it in they don't like i never went i don't care it's cool that you're like thinking about the oddity of that it's it's crazy like i remember recording it and being like this is this is not yeah it's it's all it's all insane the permanence to it like presumably people are pulling up you know the the movie or things you've been in all the time but you don't think about it it's like you know that feels like scattershot or so as opposed to like this is a committed

this is a robot that only exists to yell in my voice it's it struck me as as an odd thing to have to deal with it's like to just go like, this is so cool. I couldn't wait to do this thing. And then the inevitable existentialism. I'm just the, when I'm just sitting there looking at this thing spinning and going, oh, poor guy, all day, huh?

It's like a sad, like you cloned yourself. And it's like you, but it's not. That's's like it's like you but it's not that's a very black mirror like you're kind of me but you don't have my humanity and experiences poor guy yeah like i definitely i should talk to my therapist about that like the fact that like i get upset when i hear uh like the spanish version where like somebody else is doing the voice. I'm like, that's my dog. Why are you tall? Why do you sound like,

I get mad when other people in other countries start voicing my cartoon characters. I go like, oh no, I'll learn the language if I have to. I will phonetically step through. I will butcher this language. That's what it takes. I will, I will hurt your people just to prove a point. In terms of voicing things, here's a question that maybe we should have asked right at the top. Are you in Smuggler's Run?

No. You are not. Okay. I started thinking about this because, first of all, there is a website that says that you were on it. And I was like, this doesn't seem like particularly vetted. And I, and I,

that is a, I think what they're talking about is the, the, in the queue when there's like the workers who are messing up the vehicles and, you know, like having problems in what is it? Oh,

not good transport solutions. And I have wondered if the aforementioned Ben Schwartz is a voice in this. Do you know if he is in it? No, I don't believe he is. Wow, wow. We were on it with our friend Griffin Newman. He thought he spotted Ben. Oh, yes, you know Griffin. Yeah, yeah.

He thought maybe he spotted Ben in it. And then I saw it reported as fact on some website, but it was like not the most vetted website. so I'm glad we've gotten down to the nitty gritty here I apologize that you're not on it I played Darth Vader on it

oh that's okay I haven't figured out that cheat code yet up up down down left right left right and then you have to put $6,000 in cash in a shoebox and just leave it there. That's still less than the hotel room.

That's a steal in terms of Disney. Okay, so other stuff, but we covered that you're not, it's not you, got to do business on that. Oh, scores. Here's, but we covered that you're not, it's not you. Got to do business on that. Oh, scores. Here's, this is something that I wanted. Because it's a string club.

Scores from New York in the 80s? Yes, yeah, yeah. Let's get to that. Yeah. Any experience there as a child? New York in the 80s was a wild place, baby. We got to get back to those days. My New Year, Giuliani missed it all oh giuliani

um i think part of the reason i've had trouble telling if i am doing a good job on this attraction or not is like as that as opposed to a buzz lightyear uh type ride they tell you there's a list they tell you what score you got and what that means and i don't really know what is a good score now i realize this how many coaxium you get is part of it i guess like so two is a good you can get up to three i've heard i've only seen two i've only gotten two once and that was with tony baxter and he was very impressed that we got to like it felt like it felt like an achievement he was super psyched about wow um do you know josh shipley as well that name sounds familiar yeah he was there too he was they're wonderful guys they were i've

kept in touch with josh a lot they're fantastic um uh but yeah it does seem that there's a lot of graphs and a lot of information to to if you don't know ahead of time it's a lot of information to take in on the score i feel like it's always like 70 no matter what you do or 20 accuracy no matter what you do or at least for me yeah that's kind of our feeling yes that like you're you're sort of damned if you do damned if you don't and like no matter what hondo's taking your money which i guess is part of look that's just that's how hondo plays it um but also like if you just went like this like if you just put your hands up and never everybody did that no matter you'd get 30 every time yeah yeah there's videos of that on youtube like you can watch videos of

our group didn't touch anything and here's what happened like because they sort of i guess this thing is kind of like um uh bowling if you put the bumpers up like it's like sort of there's a thing it's gonna do and there's variance within that but you can't like uh get an f really you can't like completely bomb out outside of the stores that you would put a quarter in and like go like it's the most expensive one of those like little rocking machine yeah it's like they're trying to do i mean this is a whole thing they're trying to make it like realistic quote unquote so it's they're not going to say like here completely grade you in a way a video game would so they're trying to have it a little bit both ways it's it's

and being able to do it a bunch of times i would say if you're able to get to do it more than once don't worry about the game just enjoy how cool it looks yeah because that really is kind of part of how like all the stuff is there for you and you have to do it at certain times but just like looking around at just how being in it I really enjoy the stress I feel like can take out some of the fun for people because some people find everything very stressful in there especially if you're like shoulders locking up while you're hitting the guns or something it also happens super quick

they get you in and get you out of there so yeah that is true there's something about that that you can't like I mean maybe you got it the first time you went because they were filming you but like that you it's tough to have a minute of like wow I'm in the cockpit because it's like okay sit down press the button start doing a thing you don't get to enjoy yourself to to to to sit there and go wow which is what it really is for

and is the best part about it yeah and then if you don't know the rules it's hard yeah you end up with like uh an extra minute or two in the hold, in, like, the lounge area. That I thought was smart, like, holding. Like, they assign you your party. Everyone gets a, you know, card with their group color and what your role is. And you can always, like, trade it if it's, you know,

you know everyone or you want to talk to strangers. But you can sit at the hol chess uh board and take a picture usually have enough time to linger there i would argue though that's like the highlight of the whole thing and i'm not even trying to put the ride down that's like the whole i wish you had like 10 more minutes i want to i literally want to touch everything every time i go in it yeah i think i've gotten to spend like without exaggerating like a few hours in that room in total and it really is that like just like when you sit there and now you go like like now when i go there with friends or family i go come here like look at this like because like just like these they have these little sections or like

little things that easter and whatnot, or little, it's just so well, the people who built it loved it. And you can tell. Yeah. That's, I honestly, this is going to sound controversial,

but the best ride in galaxy's edge is the waiting area for the millennium Falcon. I mean, I don't, I don't, that's what you saw all over Instagram and Twitter. Like, I mean,

that was like that first month or so now you sort of accept it as part of the fabric of the park which is what happens to these attractions but like it felt like the cool like it's cooler than any concert that was going on at the time like yes and when you and you check instagram oh they got to go and they got to go and this famous person got to go my friend got to go and uh it was just like it was really in the air that room i got to touch han's blankets that are sitting on a shelf and they're hard for some reason i guess they don't want to get it like soiled but we also i i had the very odd experience that the three of us i was the

first one to go on it because we we were there opening day as well and we got into ogres pretty early and uh i had already guzzled a blue milk from the stand and then i drank the one they had in the bar and i was like i have to use the refresher i have to use the restroom and they had not they were still figuring out like the get back into ogres but they were at the like and they were they were like hey it's opening day if you leave you can't come back in and i'm like i have accepted that i got 30 minutes in here i have to go so while i was waiting for mike and scott and everyone else to like finish i just walked on to the single rider on the millennium falcon and then when they came out what did you do they're like what did you do and i was like oh i went on the ride before anyone else

i was engineer uh i used the restrooms i walked around a little so and we were so mad that's a bold move yeah um what are you you sold out your bros unbelievable i mean we went and did it but like i mean i had to do something but thanks to the revolutionary like turntable system this ride really really you know the wait times are never too bad because they have so many cockpits running at one given time yeah sure that's a good thing about it for sure yeah those lines are not crazy that single rider is really fast i got to walk uh the whole rise of resistance before it was open but i have never been on it never been on wow oh really wow wow but you saw okay so what state is it at is there any video or is it just

like they're still they're like finishing and lighting sets how say that again oh just like walk through it yeah yeah what state was it in um shambles uh well it was it was you know they didn't open for a year after that it was it was they had like i think it was like the week they realized that it was not going to be open and that it was going to be a very very long time before it was going to be open so yeah it was like not built right right so are you looking at like skeleton frame of adad and that kind of stuff like this is like a little but not a lot yeah that and like what i definitely remember was the uh because i've seen it online now the section where is it akbar admiral akbar that's in like that ship well it's a different it's not it's not yeah it's not akbar but it's

a mon columnar yes uh that section like standing there and going like whoa this is gonna look cool when it's done and then seeing it and going like whoa like i didn't see that at all wow wow but you just walked hallways that's that's pretty nuts it was fun yeah like hard hat like people still doing construction like people literally going like give me a nail because he died we're opening soon like it was it was nuts wow it was Wow. The tone definitely from the construction guys definitely felt like what we don't want is a bunch of actors in the way right now. What we don't need is that because we're trying to get this thing built. Yeah, yeah, cute. Take your pictures and get out of here. Yeah, I get you.

It's your spaceship. That's like being almost, that's as close as you're going to get to being like on the death star as it's being built this is like episode three yeah you were you were in a prequel basically uh being in um oh gosh what's the name of it um doc on doors uh before it was open like that was oh yeah when they were still like they still had like a cart with all the stuff like that they were putting up on the walls like they were deciding what was going to go where like seeing that was was pretty cool especially now going in there now and seeing it all done and going like whoa so they had like all this like all of his like collectibles essentially like on the ground and they were like when i got there they

were deciding what was going where and putting stuff up wow wow which it's like exactly the same in florida so that do they have to have them on conference skull probably you know we're putting it on the right wall is that okay i'm sure they have plans and like it's all mapped out for them but i remember them saying that helmet and that gun is going to be in a new disney plus series and i was like i don't care and it was the mandalorian helmet and the gun and i was like i don't know i don't know what that is and i don't care like you kick the helmet yeah across the room stupid no one's gonna like this garbage uh i was just listening to let me let me bring up uh

griffin newman's name again i was i was really listening to an episode his podcast blank check where they were talking about solo and i'll explain why in a second but on that episode he was like he there was sort of a like tossed off like oh yeah john favre is doing a show for disney plus and i remember how like oh yeah that's weird that like nobody really thought much of that just like sure that'll be fine and then it's the hugest thing i remember thinking about it and not wanting to think because i was like live action star wars on tv has like you know you either have to be the mandalorian or it's not going to work. Right, yeah, yeah.

Done, like, at the top quality. And that hadn't been done yet, so it was like, I remember being like, well, we'll see, we'll see. It was like almost not wanting to talk about it for fear that it wouldn't be everything I hoped it was, and it turned out that's what it was. Well, and they, George Lucas talked about, like, Star Wars TV show, show star wars for years

right like yeah yeah they came close a couple times yeah yeah they had like 60 scripts written or something crazy like 50 i think that's i think i'm right like 15 years ago yeah they had like but it was like the budget was like so high for each episode they were like oh we can't do this yeah you're doing it now and he's back now which is great george is well he's back yeah so he's always around like i like the idea that he's hanging around and at least influencing in some capacity i mean i like seeing him with like the baby grogu and stuff on that's cute i like that uh yeah i say i say give him his own give him his own series let him do what he wants again. I completely agree.

I think George should do, yeah, I think George should have like three series now. He should be more busy. Like he's trying to get away from doing it, but I think you should just make him, like punish him with more work. I want to make him hate it again. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly what I'm saying. Let me bring up why I was re-listening to Blank Chat, because Griffin filled in a big hole for me about this attraction, because we took him on when we went a couple months ago. And I was saying how I'm a little vexed by the coaxium. Like, why is so much hinging on the coaxium? And he said, oh, here's what you aren't realizing. This is a solo thing.

Coaxium is big in Solo. And admittedly, I had not seen the film Solo. And now I have flipped through the parts of Solo that apply to coaxium. I've learned so much more about coaxium, such as that you have to store it cold or it'll blow your whole ship up so now i think i've gotten the coaxium education that i needed and i appreciate coaxium now i look forward to pursuing coaxium the next time i go on yes i also think and this is i don't think i'm talking out of school i think this is something that's known but like it's i think disney like galaxy's engine of itself is like the disney version of star wars like you don't see leia

you don't see luke you don't see han you don't see all those guys and like the reason why there's hondo and coaxium and that version of chewbacca and it's because it's all from the new disney-owned stuff like it's like so that's why they had to mine all the stuff from like solo and like there's no george lucas star wars to galaxy's edge it's almost all disney star wars yeah little references yeah but it's like the main characters are people they could legally or less expensively less yeah oh sure using licensing uh it's coax coax they own coaxium not kyber crystals maybe i don't know or like i don't know i think they're selling kyber crystals though well i think maybe that was because of rogue one like they were allowed to use like the kyber crystals like name or something but it had something to do with like a lot of the main characters and stuff was chosen

because they already owned it so it was less expensive too yeah oh that makes sense yeah and they could like maybe start that's why there's deals fresh yeah no no none of these legend characters like legacy characters kind of like they're there but you know you don't see them walking around that's why we get kylo and ray and of that lot now we're of the kind of stupid opinion of that that is now i i respect the you know like the story in the world that they've weaved but i think we feel well i don't know why don't you just throw them all in though all right all right so you had your first couple years where like all right now yeah looks around i'm a doll is around i mean like i feel like it'll get there

it'll get there at some point sure like all talking all of it. I'm talking the breakfast cereals, the holiday special, the video games. Dexter, the diner owner. Yeah. You win for best back wall. That's my entire office downstairs. Oh, the toys?

That's everything you've done. That's good. It's a mess. Yeah, mine is too in here uh yeah can we speaking of classic characters can we talk about something that i always like when it happens now on millennium falcon smugglers run there are many different ways you can go into the cockpit which i appreciate that they kind of hide it so you never feel like you're not going into the real one or there's too many, which is a real smart thing.

They did. One of them of course is special because it's the hallway where Han and Leia kiss. Yeah. And I always like, I've never kissed in the hallway, but I kind of, I would like to one day kiss in the Millennium Falcon Smugglers run

hallway. Me too. Sure. I mean, I'm that big of a Star Wars fan. Yeah. So yeah, I get it. kiss in the Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run hallway. Me and you? Sure. I'm that big of a Star Wars fan. I get it. Kiss anyone who's there. I'll kiss anyone who's there. It's mistletoe. You gotta do it.

I think people should do it going forward. Pay a very thin man to show up and interrupt us in a C-3PO suit. A very fussy British man. very thin man to show up and interrupt us in a C-3PO suit. Yes. A very fussy British man. You know,

I take back... Have you read his book? Anthony Daniels? It's my favorite joke in the world. It's just... It is 120 pages of a man complaining about sand in his costume. And that's all it is. It's hilarious.

But all he does is say that it's just him reiterating 120 pages that the suit was extremely uncomfortable. High VWD, an actor's life for me, you know? That's amazing. He still insists on doing it too. bless him as he should yeah i get that i would

be mad if somebody else did it yeah so he's gonna be doing it until like his 90s or something i hope i hope that like there's still opportunities for him to keep doing it forever until he does it until he yeah until he's in a different galaxy sure um that's the nicest way to put it wow that's beautiful the uh uh backing up to the the actual q area of millennium falcon i very much appreciate that when you're stepping into the millennium falcon it feels like you're on an actual like you're about to get on an airplane because there doesn't feel like there's anything under you they did that on purpose i remember them saying that that they built it like a flight deck like they tried to make it feel like even just walking in like it was rickety and old and super cool that is yeah that is like a weird just something you don't even think about getting on a plane necessarily.

But then when you're doing it, when you're walking through, you're like, oh yeah, I am getting on a plane. That's what's happening. That back section too, where you walk around like the back long thruster when you're still outside kind of, that's really special. When you're right behind the Millennium Falcon. Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah it's yeah it's nice to like yeah get the geography of it and like stare at it and understand how it works

i tried to get in there i tried to get in the cockpit on the outside one and uh i came close but then they were like we can't but like evidently only a couple people have been in there oh man they did it the opening ceremony like chewbacca was inside so they probably had to preserve it make sure like it's evidently it's just extreme the reality is it's just extremely small and hard to get into yeah it's like cracked off entirely the day before the opening ceremony sure the inside of that thing isn't as beautiful as the outside uh i remember we were in the line i'm not making this up we were in the line one of these times going by that section you're talking about looking at the back of it and i remember going there should be a bar here this is where the bar should be and it should out

overlook the whole thing and now you're telling us that there is a hypothetical bar or a pedal whatever card i'm trying to get them to let it, yeah, to build it and have it show up. I'm trying. Maybe they should, maybe they should just let us drink in that line. I think so.

Yeah. At least just give us that. When the steam comes out of the, you know, when they fire the steam out of the Falcon, that should just be alcohol. Yeah. Yeah.

Dripping like it's fuel. It's in drink. Falcon fuel. Everyone's got their tongue in the air starship uh fuels tastes a lot like miller highlight hey that's a thing to say just like as we meander like as we're outside i mean is there like a better like you have to include this exterior as part of this i mean is there like a better like you have to include this exterior as part of this attraction and is is there like a is there a grander exterior of a disney attraction you could this this could be it's the most photographable maybe harry potter like

if i think it depends if what what you're a fan of but that harry potter world like i'm not a huge harry potter guy and i walk around that place and i go damn people must go insane like if you're a diehard fan you must go like insane over there like but it's the same thing for galaxy's edge like it's it's just what you're more of a fan of maybe sure yeah um is there anything that you're a big fan of that has not been rendered in in theme park world that you would love does the galaxy's edge level commitment lost i would go to the lost island yeah right you know there was a rumor of like i don't know if this was ever like really on the table but the tom sawyer island becomes a lost experience they were talking about it but yeah and then it went away i remember being heavily into that trying to figure that out right i wanted that badly like what is that like it is weird to

think about because you're in like like frontier land and ding ding ding ding ding ding and then you get on then you go to a like scary like plane crash monster like that it would have been like the plane probably and like hatches and yeah smoke monster yeah smoke monster somehow on a digital screen scrim yeah like i mean if that was like if that was there as opposed to like you know the playgrounds that did people go to like i guess if you i guess people take their kids to Tom Sawyer Island, maybe? Oh, yeah. I don't know, yeah. I think it's still pretty popular for, like, kids to run around on and burn some steam off.

There was a rumor for a little while, again, God knows how far along this ever got, but the Discovery Island, the former nature exploration area area in florida uh at disney world um that an island in between like the sort of wilderness lodge and the magic kingdom um they were going to turn that into lost after they shut it down as like you know meet the animals uh and that never came to be and now it's just a place that uh urban explorers like to go and get arrested. Sneaking. I live there. Used to live there for a while.

I've lost many hours on YouTube going, watching those videos. Yeah. Oh, sure. Yeah. What's on discovery Island? Backpack people going through.

Yeah. Are you a, Bobby, are you a Disney world fan as well? Or are you mainly, or mainly Disneyland? I've only uh fan as well are you mainly or mainly disneyland i've only i don't think i've ever been to disney world um i've only i went very late in life disneyland and disney world i think only like in when i was in my 30s late 30s or 40s like i didn't go till much later in life um i'm i'm in a ride at Disney World, and I have never been.

I don't know if it's open yet. I don't think it's open yet. The old Phineas and Ferb ride is now DuckTales themed. This is now, we just had to get you, like, this is the second time within the month that we've had somebody on who's part of this thing which apparently is like is it announced or not i don't know yeah but there's this ducktales it's been going on for years and it's yeah i don't know i don't know what's happening with it huh huh um this is this is this is like the scoop of the month is this ducktales uh we we spoke to the person who is the don cheetle sound alike uh like we had a guest who we did not realize was a perfect Don Cheadle double

for his appearance as Donald Duck, which he sounded pretty. It was like, right. It's such a good impression. Yeah. So that's come, but you did that like long ago. And then you don't know what's. We recorded. Yeah.

Yeah. We recorded a bunch of stuff. It was supposed to be like the Phineas and Ferb thing was like an app. It was like a game, sort of like a treasure hunt. And they were going to, I believe, expand it park-wide. It was going to be different.

It was going to be all over. There was animatronics in different parts of the park and you would have to go find it through an app. It wasn't just... The Phineas and Ferb thing was like a game that you played on your phone at the thing but this was something that like you could do all around the park and there was hidden things in places and stuff but yeah sounds cool uh i asked about disney world partially because are you are you familiar

with like the old epcot characters uh figment and dream finder i i often try and inject into interviews that if they ever bring back figment that i want to be the voice of figment very badly oh there you go see i was gonna bring up another thing because we uh or the guy with the beard is helper the guy that's what we were gonna see a guest of the show jenny nicholson i think long ago in an episode on our show brought up that i think there was the question posed if there was a live action figment and dream finder who would be dream finder and she brought up your name so you're you're down on either side you would have a billion percent yeah

which that's a costume to you know like how great how great would you feel in a purple top hat? I may have it already waiting to go. Oh, it's in the dusty rubber made from old UCB shows, right? Exactly. We all have one of those sitting around. It was a Willy Wonka sketch initially, but you can repurpose. I got into a car accident coming home from a ucb sketch show my car got totaled and the cop was like your car is totaled man if you've gotten anything in your

car why don't you throw it in my car and i'll take you home and i was like oh no i proceeded to take out of my car a giant cardboard cutout of angelina Jolie with Zach Woods' face on it. An African American Santa Claus animatronic. Like, a box full of dildos. Like, it was just like all props from our sketch show

and the cop was just like, what the fuck is happening? Did it all fit in his car? yeah it did and then he drove me home my poor saturn didn't make it oh too bad oh yeah we've all been there a hunk of junk much like the falcons it did me well it did me well. It did me well. I enjoyed it. I like, if we're winding down here, like what else can we shout out about this, about this attraction? I guess, okay, well, let me say this. Just to like represent that.

I think we've like, we've like made fun of this attraction a little bit in the past. And just like, I think maybe we wonder like, is there, like with the coaxium thing, I like, I think we we wonder if is there like other stuff that they could do or program? Like, are there other sequences that they might consider putting into this trip? Because it seems like the most ready to go, like that there's other worlds and other levels, essentially, in the star tours uh tradition um and that that's a question i guess is like what stuff we would want to do with the falcon uh if they ever were to do that i mean like i think we gotta fly into that worm's mouth maybe fly into that thing um yeah we gotta get in that worm's mouth i agree i totally agree not being funny either that is i mean it's a thing that's missing is how many

rides have taken us inside a mouth like like a great giant mouth and maybe that is sort of a seems like a place also that the gunner would be come incredibly in hand to like fire your way moments from the movies like when it crashes and rise of the resistance like in the snow like or yeah the trench run like helping luke in the trench run yeah the castle the castle run itself yeah um which they showed in solo uh which he cheats at that's sort of because they they did that like fix because parsec is a unit of measurement not a time which is just an error they do there's a lot of that where they're like this is an error and we're gonna make it a like a real plot point yeah

it's because they're trying to help nerds but the nerds are the ones that made it wrong and the first it's hard it's a hard line to walk yeah it's also funnier it's also funnier if han solo i think is stupid and just said it wrong yeah or he's lying yeah yeah yeah he's just trying being an asshole yeah because he is yeah that's what people like he spends a good portion of the first three movies just kind of being a jerk. Very charming jerk. It's crazy how we love this terrible father,

this drug-dealing, terrible father. It really is amazing. The son didn't turn out. The son turned out pretty bad, didn't he? That's about as bad of a kid as he could have been. The movie should be called Leia Doesn't Get the Credit She Deserves. Very good point.

We're filling in gaps also. Just like a serious... You couldn't do it with her, but let's just see. What was Kylo's upbringing? And it's just a serious, there's very little sci-fi and fun in it. This new Star Wars is very squid in the whale. The young family kind of coming apart.

You're just watching a child become corrupted through the windshield of the Millennium Falcon. We're just sitting there awkwardly like, are we going to get out of here? No, we're not. We're in it now. Yeah, again, I'm not trying to be... Getting into a creature's mouth is what happens on Star Tours. I've said this before.

Star Tours has so like moments that you really remember specifically that I feel like are missing from the money and Falcon ride. I agree. It's chaos. Yeah, sure. Yeah. And I think what you said,

Bobby about like, just didn't kind of enjoy the chaos. Don't focus on the gamification too much. Like if they were to add new levels, like a little more just like all right now just hit one button and just sit back and enjoy yeah the experience is the room itself it feels like more than like right the point and everything gets confuses the experience yeah i i would love it honestly if

they uh you know if they tweaked a version of it where it's like okay pilots you do it for the first half and you do it for the second half and you do up and down and left and right at the same time like that would be uh easier maybe yeah well my fix my fix has always been it should just be one person controlling it there should be a gunner next to them with a joystick, and then the other four should be engineer. Call it a different... Call it, you know... Call it, like, overheater check...

Overheat checker or something. I don't know. That's really bad. Or put a screen, like, something else so that you can just... They have their own little thing. Or also, like, if you you're gonna be the gunner put me in that seat put me in that bottom swivel seat yes yes that's preaching to the choir yeah

that's where's our single rider just that that's all you gotta do is you're alone in that thing like that should be like the new lightning lane you pay 25 to get in that seat because i would that's that would be worth it because that looks like fun as hell that's as a kid especially you're like i want to be i want to wear that little thing like that little like headset which just looks fun which i guess is just like a old-time like operator and like andy griffith or something and then you're firing a big gun and a rotating thing like it seems so awesome mike that brings up i gotta give them credit all the old looking like cathode ray tube uh screens all the old kind of like staticky screens that hondo talks to you or chewy oh sure

that is great in the ride making everything look like dirty but not dirty is a real skill yes and they do it very well and the screens look kind of old even though they're not if you like Making everything look like dirty but not dirty is a real skill. Yes. And they do it very well. And the screens look kind of old, even though they're not. If you look, you're like, oh, that's a higher definition than it may appear. But it kind of tricks you, which is nice. So yeah, I guess, Jason, would you want it to be dirtier? Oh, yeah.

Oh, sure. Always. You would like worse? Dirty or messy? Should there be like shit everywhere? Should there be like paper? No, I want to be tricked. I don't want actual mess.

That's fair. Theater. The theater of dirt. The theater of dirt. i don't want the actual hard hat experience that bobby had going through yeah the hyper uh hyper heightened version of like showing up at like community theater layman productions when it's like the carpenter down the street is writing this all fun is taxes please don't rehearse kids please don't rehearse this is dangerous i uh i they really they should i think they try to shy away especially galaxy's edge from

like cheap stuff like in the millennium falcon like we should cruise through Coruscant and see like Padme and Anakin like arguing or something. Like in Soarin' when you see Jack Sparrow and them on the beach. Like those little like Easter egg thing. Yeah. Or like Michael Eisner is in, he golfs in the original Soarin'. No, really? in the original soren no really yeah the guy who hits a golf ball at that flies at you is a pair in palm springs is michael eisner wow yeah so i more cheap shit is honestly what i want i want like little references less clever less like yeah like that dumber stuff gungan low-hanging fruit just a bunch of low-hanging boss nass waving at you like for a

while for a long time and i'm serious like that's fun people like those characters you know and and the darker side of the star the noah bomb back uh side of the star wars universe yeah characters universe characters arguing yeah i guess i want more characters arguing in general i like that conflict that drama minor characters fighting minor characters five lines or less the more less lines the better that john cassavetes flavor in the star wars universe yeah that's what i'm looking for but well why don't look i mean if we if we're gonna keep it consistent with galaxy's edge like maybe if you know if we're stick if we have to stick to the dexter is not around we do have ceasel slack and it seems like you'd be willing to do more sleaze i think if the location is right there like you have to imagine that the falcon would have a

little bit of trouble landing sometimes and maybe crash right into ceaseless slacks floating cantina yeah maybe is like chewing out a fry cooker or something as long as he's arguing with someone and having a heated conflict and then we get to sit there for a few minutes and enjoy and if people start to like them and they become beloved characters, no more. We need minor characters only. Minor characters only. No show people. No people that are on the show. We're talking Rancor Keepers.

Oh, yes. Yes. Or just let's see him really processing the death of the Rancor. I tried to write a sketch yeah at snl where it was when broke one came out where it was a star wars story it was just all these other spin-offs and it was like porkins and like a rancor keeper and lauren michaels had no clue what i was talking about what I don't believe it. To be fair, he's right.

Yeah. Bobby, I don't know what a pork and juice is. Oh, man. That would be great. Okay. Well, this has been a blast. I mean, any closing thoughts on Millennium Falcon? Any tips to do the next time you go? Stuff that we want to see happen?

I love it there. There's a little hidden Mickey in Galaxy's Edge. When you get off of Smuggler's Run and you go right, there's like a ramp. There's like a ramp that goes up uh like snakes around into the food court uh thing docking bay yeah yeah yeah you know what you mean

yeah and there's a little hidden mickey on the wall there there's like three like bullet holes that are in the shape of a mickey mouse on that ramp oh that's scary which yeah i like that yeah that's like somebody wanted to kill mickey yeah uh howdy hunter after somebody so he's a talking mouse he's three feet tall yeah i like that mickey's been in galaxy's edge that's canon though yeah that's another yeah that's another dumb thing just have yeah mickey's mickey should be in galaxy's edge i please uh i love the whole et crossover the fact that in the movie et well in the star wars movies in the prequels there's the senate scene where all the ets have their own box yeah we're talking about yeah i want to say the name of the character i think right now i don't want to i'm going to bungle it i don't know how to say it out loud you got to do it

grebley senator grebley i believe is the name because it's spielberg backwards is the name of the set oh my goodness yeah do you know that one that's that is the moining naming system in action that is that spielberg backwards equals moin lauren doesn't know that either i bet no he does not um but he was best man at carrie fisher's wedding is that right yeah to paul simon right yeah wow wow oh that's wild yeah um that's a good nerd okay saying sorry greeblap center greeblap I don't know what I was saying. Sorry. Grieblaps, Senator Grieblaps. Oh, yeah. The E.T. Senators. Yeah, that whole idea that in E.T.

when he's dressed up and he sees Yoda and he's like home and it's because now they've connected the two movies. Like, that's why he recognized

Yoda in E.T. because he's in the Star Wars universe. That's so good. I truly enjoy that. When he points at the oh, in the, oh, wow.

And then there's the point where elliot starts going this is boba fett and starts showing him the action figures and it's like he's like yeah whatever i know like i know those guys i love i love i want i want et to show up in the star wars universe with a lightsaber i've he's like i've served in the senate with these these people i'm a senator i know you you you have them as toys here these are this man was a murderer like um that that's my like favorite thing that i want to see that theory and uh the theory i want most to be true is that the little girl the little blonde girl with the curls and the white headband from the elok adventures yes is uh young captain phasma oh i haven't heard that i like that i like that that's gonna be i'm gonna be thinking about that all day

yes i i i enjoy i wish that was true because i mean the start of that second movie uh really gives her an incredibly tragic backstory yeah um geez well all right incredible connections uh uh great ideas for future expansions i think full etc full greeblips senate hearing is what I think we'd all like to see. But thanks for thank you for coming and sharing your thoughts and tips and ideas for the future. Bobby Moynihan, you survived podcast the ride. Thank you so much for being here. And hey, let's exit through the gift shop.

Is there anything you would like to plug? Oh, yeah. Please check out a new podcast on stitcher premium uh it's called celebrity sighting with jonathan biting uh it's a fully improvised uh fake interview show i play jonathan biting um i'm a hundred year old man who has been citing celebrities his entire life um and uh is recently out of jail uh he went to jail for biting kathy bates and now i'm out of jail and starting a podcast gee that's great all right well if that isn't intriguing i don't know

first episode's out now and taryn killam plays brad pitt on it oh fantastic okay great what a great impression uh um all right and as for us uh you can find us on all the socials at podcast the ride merch is available in our t public store and for three bonus episodes every month check out podcast the ride of the second gate at patreon.com slash podcast the ride now what's echoing in my head just one more thing is that like i we're recording this will come out a little later we're recording it before halloween and i'm like there's still time for me to get an ET mask, go somewhere. And people say,

Oh, you're ET. And then me say, no, I'm Senator greeblips. So anybody else who wants to go in on that with me or next Halloween, I'll do it. Who knows what's in this book of Boba Fett?

That's true. But we want a book of, we want a book of ga Fett that's coming. That's true. We want a book of Grebleeps. A West Wing, like a West Wing with Grebleeps. They could have just gone Senator Jaws. It could have been a lot easier. Sure. It would have been a little easier.

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