Podcast: The Ride - Mission: STAY IN! Covid News & Post Office

Episode Date: March 20, 2020

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Forever. Dog. Warning. The following podcast will be light on funny warnings because we're all up to our necks in actual scary warnings. We're going to talk about this fucking virus and try to have some fun on Podcast the Ride, a podcast about places you can't go. I'm Scott Gairdner, and usually we say joining me as always,

but this certainly is not as it always happens. Via social distance satellite is Mike Carlson. Yes, I am here. I'm what? Like what? Ten miles from not ten miles, five miles from you. No one is that far away from each other. That's what's funny.

I recently the other day I Skyped into a meeting that was like up the block. It was like within like a ten minute walk. And I just like, nope, not risking it. Also not risking it, Jason Sheridan. Yes, I'm here. Scott is close enough that I almost texted him to like, hey, could you drive by and just throw an SD card out the window or something? Yeah. Oh, go ahead.

I was going to say Jason drove by because i had to give him a zoom uh to record and i just dropped it in his trunk we spoke through a little crack in his window but we're not like did you really crazy it's crazy what's happening you're doing drops yes oh my god we did a we did a bug out bag drop what is that a bug out bag like a go bag oh okay i know go bag i didn't know bug out bag i think go bags are more for spies and bug out bags are more for like uh survivalists who are really getting the last laugh right now scott have you ever heard of bug out bag i've not heard of bug out bag but it seems like something crucial if these are these are certainly bug out times i'll say that um you know

in case this is being listened to later as in an archive sense we're recording this tuesday march 17th around 4 15 p.m just for historical sake because like the the situation is changing what's happening right now there's an outbreak of coronavirus and who knows by the time this comes out what the situation is so i just want everyone to know it's tuesday march 17th when we're recording this so any uh relatives uh listen any ancestors listening to this later just know that we tried our best we fought we fought to survive and we gave we did the best damn theme park podcast we could yes um and also just like who knows yeah i don't we could be uh i could be living i can move back home in a couple days.

Who knows? Who knows what happens? Is that on the table? Are you driving? I would, I guess I would have to drive, yeah. Well, the flight, the deals on flights are great right now. Yeah, so I have seen a lot of these. So right now, obviously, everyone is being recommended in the world to stay in their homes, not do much traveling only by necessity, only for groceries.

But the airlines are still at this moment operating. So I have a Twitter alert that's set up when you get deals for different airlines. And they are going constantly. And's like go to jamaica for fifty dollars so your dream you're like you're checking and your points in a very grim way it is now come to pat like like the best deals in in uh since the beginning of flight are now possible yes basically right there but i cannot take them um if i want to be like a conscious a conscious citizen of the world if you want to be alive yeah it's probably best also that yeah i you know it's it's also strange how quickly this is all unfolded because we so we recorded an episode, what, like a week ago?

And we were saying like, like in the episode, you'll hear it. It's like a Patreon episode. And we should give the warning, like we're not being flippant about it, but certainly it was recorded in the before times, that being several days ago. And well, like before we recorded, we were like, is this going to turn into us like podcasting separately from each other's apartments to quest? And then how quickly that became. Yes, that's exactly it. That's what has to happen. That's the only morally justifiable thing to happen.

So after we finished recording, I went to a Trader Joe's and was like, well, this is really crowded. People stocking up huh uh-huh little too little did you know that very soon this would it would just be war zone um like if seeing a product that a trader shows would be an achievement yeah i i was too i had like tuesday night i had like that anxiety and i started like getting things but yeah wednesday is really when I think collectively everyone realized what was happening because the NBA was canceled and Tom Hanks got it. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson got the coronavirus. And I think that was sort of like our moment when everyone went, oh, shit. Yeah. Well, and in the midst of all that to bring it to our uh topics theme parks none of

which are available to go to uh everything everything we've ever talked about on the show is uh cannot be gone to that's a yes staggering fact you can still listen hold on a second hold on a second oh wait jason's yet is are some of the businesses at CityWalk Hollywood still open, though? Jesus, I don't know. I think that you are right. I think that Downtown Disney and Universal-run businesses and left it up to the other tenants whether they wanted to stay open or not.

Mm, right. So maybe the Donut Bath Bomb place is still open. And I don't mean to discount that because soap and cleanliness are extremely important. Yes, that's right. The movie theaters are closed. Most movie theaters across the country are closed.

Yes. And I found out you can get a refund for your AMC Stubs A-list and pause the account while the movie theaters are closed. So don't let that billing go if anyone has that program.

Don't let that billing go. I mean, the theme parks closing yes was like it was an intensely dramatic thing to while so for future posterity yes in this bizarre just watching them all go down probably disneyland kind of the leader in it after sort of a false start where i guess all right well there was an issue a warning against mass gatherings but disneyland's gonna stay open and then it was only a couple hours before all right, well, there was a warning against mass gatherings, but Disneyland's going to stay open. And then it was only a couple hours before, all right, never mind. And then I think one by one, everything else, all other parks in the country started going.

That was the canary in the coal mine. That was a canary in the coal mine for how insane companies would start to behave. When Gavin Newsom said, well, I had a call with Bob Iger last night and we decided Disneyland could stay open. Yeah, that's, yeah. Because look, I think we've all slowly sort of realized what was happening. I mean, like I think in the history,

at least as long as I've been alive, you'll hear about stuff and like swine flu and SARS and that stuff's all deadly and bad. But ultimately you would hear about in the news and then it wouldn't affect you for the most part. Like we wouldn't have to change behavior. So we heard about this and like, I think it was last Saturday,

it was two Saturdays ago where I was talking to Lindsay and I'm like, does it feel like maybe they should shut everything down right now and we were like yeah I guess so all right let's go to my birthday where there's gonna be like 30 people talking to each other and touching each other that will not that will be forever known as the last party it was though yes it was the last party and i i chalk up some of this slow moving action to just our brains not being able to contemplate have it's uh changing like our way of life essentially so like it's our very american brains like other parts of the world to do that like many times either from disease or war sectarian violence that sort of thing but in America our privilege our privileged selfish lives that we get to lead it was like

we're gonna have to do what we can't do what so I chalk some of it up to that I of course chalk the rest up to like money and big business sure i yeah i i was i think wondering for a while is is it hysteria is it everybody overthinking everything and like i think even a dumb part of my brain was like we're shutting the parks that's gonna make everybody freak out and i don't think i was syncing up with oh this needs to be done this absolutely is the only way we can move yeah i yes i think that i mean other people i've talked to like who had gone out a couple days after like wednesday and i'd be like what what are you doing because like i think yes once you realize like okay the reason we're inside is like to just not spread

a disease because you could have you could have it and spread it but not even know you have it and it's very dangerous for older folks for the yeah in general that's a pretty fun thing about it um you know so how do you know if you have it well um almost anything and no symptoms could be as that could be the ultimate symptom is no symptom yes that is very possible that you do you're asymptomatic uh so yes it has been a slow uh turning essentially turning off our economy and turning off of all of our just behavior that we take for granted and our ability to move has been obviously uh psychologically uh tough for people and again like we're not even roughing it that bad well lindsey and i were in the apartment i'm drinking the same kombucha i

drink i mean i'm not really i'm not suffering right now you didn't fill a bedroom you filled a spare bedroom with that kombucha just so you would have it on hand well there was an amazon prime now deal I think for like two dollars a bottle so I do have a large stockpile of it so I am you know I'm fine I and I and like people are being affected like people listening to this might be affected and and our hearts go out to you i mean it's it's like real this is a real thing um yeah that's the thing i think like yeah there is no one listening to this who hasn't been affected adversely in some way and boy i just hope it's not uh bad or, or, or not recoupable in some regard. And if it is, yeah, God, we, we feel terrible and all we can try to do is, uh, you know,

do our dumb usual thing and try to make you smile, which we will do. We're just processing some of the, uh, some of the garbage. We certainly are not just going to, uh, be, be grim the entire time. I think we're doing okay. This is like a pretty positive conversation considering the mood of things. I think so, yeah. And I think the episode we recorded a week ago,

I am not concerned anymore about the stuff being flippant. I'm more concerned with it being pat, being like, oh, these jokes have already been made 20 times. Oh, well, what are you gonna do yeah no it's it's fine it's just it's so clearly we're saying are we like like yeah will things be radically different by the time this comes out yes extremely uh completely very different um yeah and to that end um that's part of needing to jump in and do an episode is partially to explain what the hell we're doing because we've been banking episodes for a while.

We've we've had like we've almost never had such a strong reserve of episodes. There's so many, including the one we just put something out soon where we explain that you may be hearing some episodes where we are not in any way addressing the largest elephant that's ever been in any room. So just know it's not because we're not thinking about it. It's because the episodes are from the before times. They're from, you know, early march when we could scarcely imagine what was gonna happen yeah so if it's like we're like like oh wow i went to this restaurant yesterday and it was crowded and i you know it was crazy someone dared me to uh lick the table and i did it like that's because it was a maybe a month ago If we're describing our vigorous love of touching doorknobs and just really laying our hands on them for minutes at a time.

That's a very specific. I really enjoyed the doorknob run, and I'm glad to know you all like doorknob touching as much as I do. But it might be viewed as insensitive at this point. Yes, that's a future. That will be one of the future sort of inside jokes on Podcast The Ride is our love of doorknob touching. Yes, and there is an episode coming up where I say I'm just back from Las Vegas. I was in Las Vegas again in the before time, so I was not there doing doorknob touching. Citizens of Nevada, calm your restless minds.

Yeah, right. So there's going to be so many of those things. This is going to be like stand-up sets where you say, like, you know, I was at a restaurant earlier, and that's not true. That happened three years ago. We're going to be,

we're going to sound like liars for a lot of episodes in the future. Yeah. What's crazy about this whole thing, too, is that we could have already had this thing, this virus. Like, who knows? So, like, people had it in Vegas when you were there.

Who knows what happened? Man, what are we doing to Jason? Let's not put that in Jason's head. He knows. He can handle it. I do have to ask, how many times did you guys convince yourself uh this past weekend you had it oh oh because i i uh on and off had a tightness in my

chest and i was like well here it is and uh slowly realized oh i've just been having a rolling panic attack i've calmed down now um the other thing was uh oh well having to go to the grocery stores to stock up the like don't go out a lot kind of defeat it when one grocery store is out of something vital and you need to go to a second or third and then you finally find it but the second or third one has clearly been there for 50 years and has very very narrow aisles and uh everyone put on cologne and perfume that day so i was like oh i'm not having corvid 19 i am having an allergy attack from the very potent scents in the very close quarters i have been in maybe though it's good for people to mark themselves so that you know that you've breathed the air that they've been around and you know that

if they have it you now have it everyone should just just mark themselves however they can't just you know just to get out in front of it yeah i i i've left to do a couple grocery runs and to mail something and then i quickly was like i think we're gonna need to do a lot of stuff remotely from now on so i bought what's called a capture card and the only they had one at best buy and i said well maybe i'll just pick it up at best buy but this is too, so I'm still not quite sure. Because you see all these different articles about what's safe, what's not safe. And I was like, okay, I'm going to run into Best Buy to get this.

I've pre-ordered it. They'll have it waiting for me. I ran in there. They said, oh, here we go. Oh, wait a minute. And then they took 15 minutes to find the item for me. While I nervously stressed out, paste the refrigerator section at Best Buy away from any person.

I saw a guy cough into his arm like 30 feet away and I could feel like a chill run up my spine. And just a few weeks ago, being in an electronics store with very few products is what we did for fun. Yeah. We made a whole event of it at the now closed Fry's Anaheim, which, you know, I was really happy a number of fans came out. But I think it technically was it was under 50, I have to admit. So that that event, while not advisable is technically like allowed by the law today yes it depends though yeah it depends on the municipality i think at this point some places are saying 10 or less oh my god so it would it would have been

against that uh uh suggestion in some places. Sure, sure. And I'm not saying I'm going to do it. It's just, you know, what a different world. What a contrast. And I'm just glad we got to see everybody. I'm glad, you know, hey, we probably won't be seeing fans anytime soon. Probably not a live show for a for a minute unfortunately no i yeah

it's gonna be i don't know you hear a lot of different numbers um but i would i would not expect a lot of big things to reopen for a while though that two weeks that disney says it's going to be closed i would bet a lot of money that's going to be more than two weeks yeah and even if it becomes like allowed like okay the parks are back open how willing is anybody to go nice try nice try suckers i mean here's the thing though we saw some clips of people like on a Sunday night still in the park. I think people will be willing to go. And yeah, you're thinking if you're thinking about it, I would suggest don't go.

I'd say probably don't go. You know what? I think our audience inside of theme park fandom gets it and understand from what i can tell there's another side the sort of other end of like online theme park media i've done like because you guys have seen my my favorite genre of what we've seen in the last couple days is the characters saying goodbye because the parks are not going to be open for a little bit. So all of your favorites are going to gather on top of the train station, blocking the exits and making everyone gather in a, the, one of the smaller hubs available in a magic kingdom park. And they're all going to wave goodbye to you. And there's one.

Suck shit. What were you thinking? Why would you do this? I don't know. I don't know. On any end, why are they doing it? Why are there people filming it for me to see? And my favorite one is one that I saw from Disney World, where, you know, it is, I will say this, it's a fun gathering of characters that they assembled. Why, even some country bears are getting in the mix and we like them but uh thing i don't like is um a further outbreak of an infectious disease so the people gathered and who are where it really lost me the video i was watching is that it's you

know you're seeing who's up there and people are starting to yell the names of the characters. Goofy! Goofy! Cinderella! Cinderella! What? This is a type of fandom I don't understand. There is like a virus in the air. It's anywhere. And you are so excited to see the obscure,

never, rarely seen character Cinderella. You're going to shout her name. I just don't i can't get in the head of well those people had the uh madness virus from 28 days later they had the uh that helps that's important context i will chalk up that to again what i'm saying slow processing those people were on vacation. Maybe they didn't get they haven't been looking at Twitter. They haven't been looking at the news. It's still strange to see it, of course, when we're quarantined. But I blame the company a little bit more than I blame the folks.

Sure. I'll say this, though. I don't I'm not as much as we do this podcast and talk about theme parks all the time. I guess still if I had to the voice that I heard, it seemed to me like a, you know, let's say north of 40 year old man. And I think screaming Cinderella disease or no disease is a tad confusing to me. But this is me who when we talked about the Star Wars dance-a-thon or whatever the fuck that was, I didn't understand why everyone was so excited that Mickey came out in Disney World. But it's not surprising.

But it was a Star Wars show. You didn't know it was. You didn't think a Disney character was going to come. It was unexpected. But it's in Star Wars show. You didn't know it was, you didn't think a Disney character was going to come. It was unexpected. But it's in Walt Disney World. You're not going to win this argument. It was shocking to me that Mickey came out at the end of the Star Wars. I am shocked.

Shocked. In a shocking development. 14 in a row, and it's all Star Wars characters. Scott, let me put it in terms you would understand. Imagine if those doors had opened and peter satara walked out all right well that was involuntary it just came out so but again we're not in satara land so peter satara is not seen anywhere else in disney world he's not in like all the iconography it's not a big planter of satara yet that you walk in and see when you go into a disney park right yeah i don't know that's maybe

not the best i'm trying to think of another comparison here uh like if if we were watching the aladdin disney's california adventure, which they used to be there, and then like, say, Spider-Man came on stage. I think that would be exciting because you wouldn't expect it. They're not the same universe. I suppose so. I don't think I would gasp as if it was the most shocking thing that had ever occurred. But that's fair. I mean, I'm trying to think, think look we're not like so far away from

being 40 and i'm trying to think of the time the last few times i've yelled we went to see we went to the 80s night at disney a couple months ago and we saw totally mini there's a little dance party that's based on the 80s uh mini i guess it was a was it a series or was it a special it was like a it's like a video yeah i think it was a prime time a series or was it a special it was like a it was like a video yeah i think it was a prime times but this is the thing with elton john yeah so when mini came out we lost our minds because she was dressed as 80s totally mini and we dance like we we danced with her and we are old we are old folks well you should have danced with that now that is correct and that's that's uh nothing that I object to.

If it was more of a specific Cinderella, like Cinderella from Cinderella 3, whatever that one was. Search for Curly's Gold. That was Search for Curly's Gold. Would that be acceptable? I suppose so. Yes. Some more alternate uh cinderella um or if uh spinderella um salt and peppa's dj had come out that would have been a lot more surprising to me that would be amazing

but still not excusable here in these in these quarantine times sure that's fair i didn't get behind that um i'm i'm uh um i'm trying to think of potential bright sides or anything fun that can happen in this way that we're recording. Oh, no, wait, another thing we should say at the top also. So you're in the episodes that come out week to week and you'll get it as soon as you hear them. Certain ones. So if you don't hear us talking about an extremely frightening virus all the time, then that means that's one that we recorded a while ago. If we say at the beginning that this is a sequestisode, then you'll know that that's what's going on. You might even hear a sequestisode the long time out from, you know, I want to say when we're not sequestered.

And hopefully it's not that long. But if it doesn't line up with current events, just know, uh, Hey, we're, we're trying our best. We're trying to, trying to plow ahead.

It's going to be a confusing timeline. Yeah. It's confusing as a Cinderella, a twist in time. What's that? Did you just look that up? Did you know? I'm not sure that that's Cinderella three.

I know that there is a Cinderella called a twist in time where they go into the first movie a la back to the future too oh wow we gotta watch that i mean we will watch all things now we have time to we're gonna we're gonna burn through everything on that disney plus us up idea that we're we're gonna be out soon yeah we gotta watch all that garbage now yeah Yeah. I mean, things I am planning. I am planning to be in here for like two to three months minimum. That's my psychologically what I'm thinking is going to happen. It could be longer, but that's the minimum. So we are going to miss out on things like Knott's Berry Farms Boysenberry Festival.

Oh, yeah. All right. I was very. R.I.P. I was very excited to go to this year. We were going to cover all the different boysenberry treats and that's not going to happen. We're going to miss. Yeah, we're going to miss out on

some. I assume Marvel will be delayed now because they have to stop construction. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's another fun thing. Yes. All the riots are going to happen for a while those bastards those those pets keep their secret keep their secret live secret for a little longer

this is just what they wanted i think they made it in a lab you might be onto something there um but that we had that right a universal was gonna open in a couple maybe a week or two and that will wait. So, yes, Disney Plus is where it's at. I hear, let me throw this out to you. Maybe this will coincide. I don't want to, we don't want to say exactly what's going to happen because maybe we don't know. But I mentioned buying a capture card.

And I think maybe this is coming out on a Friday, maybe this Sunday. There might be some podcast, the right activity on Twitch. Yes. Yeah, I think maybe as well. So stay tuned to our social media. And because, yeah, in the in the lack of being able to do live shows. Yeah, let's let's have some fun let's get into a uh a new medium and try to uh the one that's like not the most embarrassing for nearly 40 year old people to be doing yes talk we should probably uh you know keep at least six feet away from but twitch i think we could have some fun on twitch yes i have a pitch i'll give you guys a hint and let's see if you can

you could don't have to say it out loud because i don't know if we're gonna do this sunday but eventually i have a dvd that's been sitting on my shelf for a while and all i'll give you as a hint is uh christmas with the cranks so maybe we watch that on twitch with uh with the listeners. Now's the time. Now's the time. It's not the movie Christmas with the Cranks, by the way. No, I know. I know what it is. I know what it is. I got it.

I got it. Yeah, yeah. I think it is time. I think this is probably time also to finally do the long, if not awaited, then tolerated. We've long tolerated the notion of doing an episode where we watch all of father of the pride oh yeah if they're we finally found a scenario with this quarantine where that would be a less tedious thing to do than day-to-day life

so i have the dvd within arm's reach as we speak boy uh well then we're gonna have to figure out there will have to be some drop scenarios but then um beyond that well uh once we figure out some logistics yeah i think i think it's time this is gonna be we're gonna clear out the attic of all the ideas we've ever been talking about it's time and in fact actually we should throw it to the audience because we're going to get to some listener questions in a little bit here. But that's probably a thing to ask.

What do you want to do with us on Twitch? We're all hanging out. We're all hanging out in disparate bedrooms and offices. So, yeah, what do you want to see us do? Let's have some fun. Yeah, I am also Twitching a lot, like on my, not private, I was going to say private account,

on my account, Fat Carlson on Twitch, and I've just been playing video games with Evan Susser. So I'm entering this new streaming world, and, you know, we're trying a lot of stuff out. Maybe we could play a game as well. Well, yeah, there certainly are video games to play. There's that

Magic Kingdom NES game. There's, once again, the Universal Studios GameCube game, which finally, again, in sequester light, feels like an actual finally okay way to pass the time.

If you don't know that game, it involves running around a theme park and picking up garbage. My GameCube is the only Nintendo system I have that is broken. Oh. Which I guess I can find a used one. I'm sure it's not a hundred, like a thousand bucks or whatever.

Do we all want to get, like start a roller coaster tycoon park again? Well, I play that every now and then on my phone. Yeah. I look, there's no way to stream games off of your phone, unfortunately. But I could see if I could download it. You mean build a park together or build competing parks? Oh, that's interesting.

Maybe competing parks? Hmm. I don't know. We'll talk about it off air. Yeah. Yeah. Some of these logistics we'll figure out on our own. But yeah.

Hey, tell us what you want. Give us ideas. Do our work for us. And we'll figure out some fun we can have uh we can we can make this just like a uh a three month long or longer snow day yes that's yeah we'll do our best watching the movie snow day might be fun i don't know it's not necessarily applicable but again very few things are there we're gonna have to loosen the definition of what it is we do. I have been so bored. I put on the movie Memoirs of an Invisible Man with Chevy Chase.

It was also in Snow Day. Maybe this is finally my chance to make it through the full Chevy Chase filmography. Yes, I think that's a very good idea. I just, you know, speaking of Chevy chase, there's a new film coming out. That's, uh, it's like a Curb Your Enthusiasm with Paul Hogan from Crocodile Dundee. What the fuck?

Yeah. It's the premise is that Paul Hogan like comes back to Hollywood and Chevy chase is in it. And it's like, uh, it's like, I really just Curb Your Enthusiasm with Paul Hogan. And we should watch that if it's

video on demand as well oh man i bet we're gonna make it to that lance burton movie finally oh my god billy top it the lance burton movie that was direct to dvd my brain will not retain the words billy top it i think you've said them to me six or seven times and it my brain just swats it away like a ping pong paddle every bad idea i've ever said is like 50 better now because we're in the house we're in the apartment um is this where are we gonna get so bored that we just we just do the harbor hoedown i don't know what this boredom you're talking about is i live for this shit i hate leaving my house i was born for this so yeah jason let's like let's catch up what is your routine like now for the last couple days

food wise what are you keeping in the apartment or house uh you know i had been watching my girlfriend and i had been watching a lot of um of light like 90s romantic comedies most of a ton of which i had not seen or had only ever seen like half of like 10 things i hate about you very good yeah i really like that never been kissed uh also pretty good pretty good weird i mean like, oh, John C. Reilly's first film role. Interesting. Yeah, there was like a base level of quality if something was in a movie theater in the 1990s. It wasn't just like wretched.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, there's a lot of movies around then that are like really good, like three-star movies. Went backwards, went in a little more in my wheelhouse, watched the 1944 version of Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland. On a weird app in the Roku store that has all these classic movies but just feeds you an unseemly number of ads like every eight minutes so the movies are free and a pretty good quality but like then you will see the same ad for like uh online online schooling for children like you'll see it five times in a row it's clearly some sort of ponzi scheme uh algorithm nonsense but some great songs and meet me in st louis you're gonna give us a taste oh yeah what what should i i mean the whole time

because i meet me in st louis if you haven't seen it, is about a family, a large family, who are very excited for the World's Fair coming to St. Louis, the 1904 World's Fair, which celebrates the Louisiana Purchase. And so the whole time, everyone is singing, Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair. Don't tell me the lights are shiny anywhere but there and so like just constantly singing that which is a song that was nice thank you that's really nice thank you uh yeah the movie's kind of split between songs from uh

that were popular in the time period and some songs written in the forties for the movie. And it's a big MGM. Like it's a big, it's like split up into chunks, like big set pieces. And it's a big MGM movie, uh,

movie musical, which I think are like, if people don't like musicals are the most like interesting or fun, like kind, because they're just like, so everything had to be done with a million uh background members and chorus members it's lavish yeah it's very lavish these are these are films that would be deeply illegal or troubling in the current climate yeah no yeah

they would have to be cgi someone would have to do something called crunch to get it done, to have one person tap dancing. Sure. Back then, Busby Berkeley would just have 50 women making a giant cake. They turn to their left, and suddenly they're no longer a line of women. They are a giant multi-tiered cake. That's what movies were

i think maybe like i think we'll also be stretching the confines such to where maybe like we keep doing you know and we do have like a final four thing coming up but maybe there's like a can we do the brackets for the best busby berkeley musical number oh of course oh yeah uh i mean that was a good uh most problematic one too because there's some really like again like incredibly giant set pieces and like footlight parade the one that that was like mentioned a lot in the great movie ride um some very poor racial stereotypes that i don't think aged well back then, let alone now. Well, I think that puts them at risk of

not making it all the way through the final four. Yeah. Dock some points for racism. They will lose in the first round if they're racist. Let's make that. We don't want to make it too predictable, but yeah, we will all be shocked if a racist one makes it the best round one.

Sorry, Shanghai Lil it was very cordial of you to apologize and of course the title character of that song played by Rosie is it Rosie Keeler I think was the name or Ruby Keeler

the very very pale woman who starred started all those Yeah, okay my but James Cagney tap dances out of nowhere in a sailor suit Okay, yes, you know you advance Jason, all right, this is the important question treats in the house What are you keeping? Uh, okay Are you hoarding? Are you stockpiling? How's it going?

You know, I always heard during times of stress Or trouble or economic recession People went kind of like Went immediately towards comfort like that But I didn't really find any shortage Of treats. Uh, what am I looking at Right now? I got a half full bag of Goofy sour balls comfort like that but i didn't really find any shortage of treats uh what am i looking at right now i got a half full bag of goofy sour balls i've got a bowl of um cadbury robin's eggs uh

a bowl yeah well like i i opened the bag and dumped them in a bowl oh okay um let's see cadbury robin's eggs yeah that's what I always heard them called. The like sort of big oblong Easter. Easter candy is still in stock. Yes, that is true. I was just at CVS. Yeah.

Tons of Easter. This has not affected the Easter candy market. Take comfort in Reese's eggs, which I think are the best shape of Reese's. I've got some Kit Kat ice cream in the freezer that I have like miraculously not really cracked into yet. I've got a couple

boxes of cookies. This is a lot by the way. This is pretty good. You're ready. But this isn't even due to Corona. This is just kind of what you got. Well, it ticks up around Easter season to begin with, you know.

You don't have Christmas Robins. You don't have Halloween Robins. I don't have Christmas. I might have like one or two wrapped like stocking stuff for candies somewhere still. I try not to keep sweets in the apartment unless people are coming over or there's some sort of special occasion. But I will say I have, for the first time in a couple of years, a package of EL fudges. Nice. Nice.

Oh, that's some comfort. Oh, just see it physically, visually, seeing our old pal EL. It's really comforting. EL. What is EL? It's Ernie Keebler. visually seeing our old pal el it's really comforting el well is wait what is el eric is ernie kiebler is that i don't know this mythology very well i'm trying to remember what does the el stand for is it is it ernie luther kiebler were they like very proud protestants the kiebler elves were all Protestants.

I didn't really. Yeah, that's right. They did not. They did not like the papists. Um, uh, it's,

it seems like you could either think of it as that. E L F E L Fudge. E L F just stands for elf. Uh, then that's what it is. But also I'm also seeing that E L stands for elf. Right. Then that's what it is. But also I'm also seeing that EL stands for everybody loves. Everybody loves fudge. How about electric light fudge?

ELF. I would also accept that. Yes. Okay. What is that? So there's the character. Is that little elf guy? He's not el

fudge well that's ernie kiebler i know i would bet my life savings on his name being ernie kiebler yeah that's that's correct yeah yeah uh and he's on i guess it doesn't mean his name i guess what you're saying it stands for elf or it stands for everybody loves love ernie love um you better believe i'll know i'll find out who all of these uh characters are uh fryer tuck spelled like because he fries or ernie's nephews of course are zoot and jj oh my god i love zoot and jj do you know we're gonna do a whole oh patreon on the on the keebler the keebler family tree the lineage yeah yes i'm super down elwood leonardo elwood fast eddie oh eddie no i love a fast eddie let's abandon the rest of this episode and just do the keebler elves this becomes it is crucial in a trying time that we learn the names of all the Keebler elves.

Wow. I never even thought about the Keebler elves. I would love to do. All right. So while this one, we'll turn this one around fast. Yeah. They've been around since the sixties. There's a long,

there's plenty of meat on this bone. All right. Keebler elves coming. Um, I mean, we should probably switch over to audience questions. Cause we asked for, for some of those. But what have we not hit here, to be said, at this momentous, tedious occasion?

Well, I wrote down, I mean, I had some stuff. Our Facebook group, our new group of moderators has been kind of putting all of the press releases or emails of the park closings and dates and stuff in one like long thread. And that was very helpful to look at in one spot. So, yeah, I mean, do you guys have anything on on the park closings uh no just that i'm sort of like you know expecting it to be a while uh in case you haven't heard our our annual passes obviously this is one of the less pressing uh matters going on in the world right now but our annual passes will be extended uh as long as the parks are closed yeah that is interesting i'm curious how long that's that's gonna be and i i like that they did get that announcement out fairly quickly yeah i agree um who who knows exactly but

it's not gonna be i i don't think any I don't think anything goes back to a hundred percent the way it was before. And at least like 18 months, like there may be a world where six months from now, you have to take your temperature to get into Disney. I didn't know what you're saying. Yeah. There's going to be something like that. Cause I've seen this compared to the,

you know, it's like shoes at the airport. This will be some, it's going to be different like that. Cause I've seen this compared to the, you know, it's like shoes at the airport. This'll be some, it's going to be different. People have said no, like don't expect a vaccine until the minimum 18 months. Jesus. Yeah.

So anything can happen, but I mean, I think stuff will change and open again, but I think that, yeah, prepare for things to be different for a while. That's what I'm reading. I had a couple of little oddballs in the way. I mean, after the first couple of days

of every company you've ever had any interaction with emailing you yes uh that with their coronavirus um procedures um then stuff started to turn ugly i mean a lot of places laying people off and there's arguments there of like well they have to lay them off and then rehire them to get unemployment that's a big leap to trust some of these uh flat-out vultures that they are going to rehire everyone some very odd little moments um i was saying disney springs and city walk hollywood were first closing the universal and disney owned businesses there there was a news story at an nbc affiliate which just used the phrase about disney springs um people will still be able to go and walk around.

And I'm like, oh, please don't do that. Don't, don't, no. And then the strangest thing, which someone I posted and then someone told me they have kind of walked back, but Universal Orlando seems like they did not quite get their shit together messaging wise because they told

everyone to go home and they'd be paid for two weeks and then friday afternoon turned around and said uh okay everyone's coming in and you're gonna either sit in your break rooms or you're gonna clean which is insane and then it seems like they've scaled that back uh for the record while some of universal's staff can work from home universal orlando employs 27 000 people so kind of a big group if you look at it in aggregate a bit of a mass gathering yes you might say a mass gathering um getting i'm sure it's going to be uh weird from what i've heard some of these parks like use like these people are employees and these people are contractors and that's going to be gnarly to see how that plays out um disney also like was ending the the rock band in the uk pavilion and

the drummers in the japanese pavilion at epcot i don't know if that was just when the contract was up but that looked pretty shitty that those poor guys were announcing it you know sunday as everything is shutting down announcing it with like and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you miss extremely dramatic moment the end of the the revolution or whatever yeah very dig yeah a pretty dignified uh exit unlike the people um showing them the exit so uh yeah so yeah it's who i'm hoping by the time this comes out there's some sort of like national plan for people to get compensated that's what certain people are talking about in the government so again things are changing so i'm hopeful that people are going to get taken care of

um who knows i think the um i mean it was kind of before all this but do you think is there any possibility of the sector keeper being allowed back into cricket wireless that's a good question uh i think that maybe when they try to pass the this uh whatever this uh coronavirus stimulus for people is in the senate that maybe uh somebody can sneak in uh the severance for the sector keeper into oh just put it in the fine print. Absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. Do we think we have a member of Congress that listens to Podcast the Right?

Do we think there's one in the House or the Senate? I mean, we can burrow down. We can look at the analytics and see what the numbers in, like, D.C. and Virginia are like. At least some aids maybe so yeah maybe yes if you're at least an aid of a senator or a congressman please let us know so we can get the sector keepers severance from cricket wireless uh put into a bill at the 11th hour and they're doing great the the congress is doing great on those bills right now. You know, they're undercutting each other and that's all going very well. Primaries in multiple states in the country right now.

Yeah, that's nothing I couldn't yell about for another hour, but we should answer listeners's questions. That seems like a more fun thing to do. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back and we'll answer some of your questions. Because we listen to our constituents, not like Congress. Nice. Yeah. Hey, and we're back to take some of your questions. Thank you for filling up this episode and giving us some things to talk about. Before we get to listener questions, I have sort of a, uh, a topically relevant question for you guys, uh, which is this, um,

what, who is your favorite, uh, sequestered or socially distanced Disney character? Cause I was thinking about this and there's certainly more than more than one. Uh, uh, I think, um, Rapunzel, you would have to say entangled. Um,

I, I, I, wait, I'm forgetting a big one. If, if you count them as Disney, uh,

the Han Solo in the carbonite is technically, um, so he couldn't get anybody sick down there. True. Didn't really choose it, but you know kind of forcibly so um i i i'm forgetting about geppetto i think geppetto in the in the belly of the whale is so right it is is contributing to diminishing the curb the curb genie genie in

the lamp that's what i yes yes the genie that's a very long hopefully ours is not as long as the genies uh did you say beast in the castle oh absolutely yes yeah true really all of the enchanted objects in their own way they don't quite keep distance from each other but you know we're still talking to significant others and such so we should pick a favorite of these or oh yeah or just uh you know i'm just trying to make a list i think i feel uh if you have a favorite certainly go for it um but you know i think if i feel less alone knowing that some of my many of my favorite characters have been uh sequestered at various times yeah i get that um is are there any park specific characters that are more like sequestered

oh that's a good point yeah do you um mean uh the the yeti in everest i might say yes and that's a pretty that's his choice he doesn't want you bothering him right um that's good And that's a pretty, that's his choice. He doesn't want you bothering him. Right. That's good. Yeah, that's good. Because I'm trying, obviously all robots are stuck there, but we're saying in the universe of these rides. In the story, yes. Who like doesn't want to be bothered. Okay.

On the people mover in Florida, the woman getting her hair done by a robot. True. That's yes. that's safe. She's not harming the well-being of a human barber. OK, I'll allow that one. Yeah, I think that counts. Yeah, I'm flashing. I'm picking universal.

I mean, any character you're disturbing, like the Abominable snowman um i guess really the the inciting incident of guardians mission breakout is uh is is tyvon allowing you to come see his opening his collection of the public he i think was sequestered until now well he's forcing all those monsters and aliens and the guardians of the galaxy to be sequestered as well. Yes, that's the entire thing is Rocket breaking them out of being sequestered. So we're actually hurting the public good by going and rescuing them. Yes, exactly. Yeah, Tavon seems more like he has like Howard Hughes kind of top floor office. So he's self sequestered and everyone else is quarantined in a group yeah would you rather be sequestered in your apartment or in

the tavan collection well there's i don't know i i think there's living things in there you know figment and i like that's where i'd be worried about any germs that any of them have that figment or groot has yeah god knows where howard the duck has been not good he's very sexually active so yeah yeah it was the 70s when he was created so he's very horny that is a film i will not be revisiting during my sequester. I mean, I say that now, but it's going to be like in a month. It's sounding pretty good right about now. Yeah. So, yeah, that's that's a lot. That's a that's a good lineup.

And I guess I'd pose that back to the listener. Your favorites sequestered or quarantined. And they are different things. Thanks for bringing that that color on the spectrum to that jason yeah um well um your questions though that's that's what we're here for does anybody have one uh have one ready to go uh i have the one i saw first really wasn't a good theme park question but i did want to answer it uh it says during this time uh sorry sorry that's not it uh they basically they're just asking uh if jason and i had our dream x-men lineups which i think we talked about doing and we never did uh matthew hurtle asked that question and i i have my answer real quick for everybody it's's Beast, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Storm, Maggot, and Dazzler.

So there you go. Pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah. You want to come back to it? Write it down while we're doing this, and then you'll say it at the end. No, I'm not going to. I already have so many things jerry-rigged, I'm not going to be able to focus.

Fair enough. I'll give a many things jerry-rigged. I'm not going to be able to focus. All right, fair enough. I'll give like a chaos one off the dome. Sure. So Jean Grey Cyclops Wolverine, Cable Gambit, Shadow Cat, Dr. Celia Rise. Oh, pretty good. Pretty good 90s. And Longshot. Oh, yeah, Longshot's pretty good.

He just says good luck. Scott, do you have an answer for this? If you just like of the X-Men you know? Mine would be Ernie, Friar Tuck, Zoot, not JJ, sorry. Fast Eddie, Edison, and Art. Solid lineup.

Very good. A lot of the non-mutant ones but you know long shot with not technically a mutant uh came from another uh dimension arcade world or whatever mojo world mojo world i really i know i know i'm throwing a lot of shade by leaving them off at buckets um who you know now that i think you know buckets being the one who throws the fudge onto the cookies i probably should have included him. But, you know, we're coming up with these just off the top of the dome. That's Jason's favorite character in fiction. I mean, I think you need I think your story possibilities really open up if you have Fast Eddie and Buckets,

because, you know, the kind of antagonistic relationship they have is really something. Yeah. Yeah. Well, a Fast Eddie wraps the products. kind of antagonistic relationship they have is really something yeah yeah well a fast eddie wraps the products so an overage of fudge on the cookies makes fast eddie's job harder so it's tough for them to find a work balance yeah that makes sense uh does anybody do you have one uh i've got one about my bullshit. Yeah, go ahead. Sure. From the Facebook page, Emily Scherer is asking vertical or horizontally sliced hot dog buns.

And I believe what that means is if you were holding the bun in your hand, would you slice the side or would you slice the top and i have to say i mostly associate top sliced hot dog buns with like the northeast uh with new england kind of especially like lobster rolls kind of if you can picture one of those um so i'd have to go horizontal because that's my i respect the top slice but um horizontal is probably my go-to choice. Interesting. I think I'm a top-slice guy. I know I wasn't asked, but... I think it's very novel, and I am enchanted by it when I see it, I think because it's so rare to me. You're enchanted by it.

Enchanted. Enchanted, sure. Enchanted is such a good word, such a flowery word when you spy a hot dog bun. Well, you know what? I also, you know, a lot of those top slice, you know, get a little toasted or a little buttered, you know. So there might be a little extra surprise in there. You never know.

I'm going to direct one to my I feel bad saying Mike's bullshit. This is not it is a Mike directed. It's insulting to a certain someone to say bullshit. This is from Tyler FG. If he could go to a theme park, what do you think Edwin, your dog's favorite attraction would be? That's a good question. I guess the bread tour at California Adventure because he would like the smells. Although I guess, you know, any ride that Edwin could do a little smelling, he would like the smells. Although I guess, you know,

any ride that Edwin could do a little smelling, he would be happy with. I don't think he doesn't like a car ride. He gets very upset. He whimpers when he drives like anywhere. He doesn't drive. We drive him. So I think anything with a,

anything that doesn't move and has a smell. So I mean, that's why I'm going to say bread tour at California adventure. Speaking of Edwin, someone is asking for the picture of Edwin in a sandal. Um, Oh yeah. We post that.

I think Scott has got it. I might have that. That's a good, yeah, that's, that's an important pick me up. I'd also like to say maybe one of the only positive things about us recording in different places is that finally there are more pets in the

show pet lineup. There is a possibility anytime that we're recording one of these sequest episodes that we'll get an appearance from my cats who I haven't talked about that much. Certainly said that I have them, but it's probably time. They aren't in here right now, but they could come in at any time and that they really hate when the door is closed slightly. I'm amazed they haven't come in yet, but it's probably we're all bored.

And it's probably time for you to meet my my cats. There's Brenda, who has jet black hair. And she's named after Brenda from 90210. And she's kind of, you know, you know, like skinny and feisty. So what I would say scratches me a lot. And and then there's Bunny, who is the one with the seat. I've definitely referred to one of my cats having a a thick seat. And that would be that would be Bunny. So if you get an appearance or you just get a picture. And she's more like Bunny colored, like gray and white. So if you if you hear me referring to him now you know uh new show pets bunny and brenda that's great i i got confused i thought brenda had the seat but it's bunny got it it is bunny

yes because she bunny is more rabbit-esque in in general and i think the seat is part of that that's it she feels uh more anatomicallyically like a bunny. And Brenda, you know, she loves to climb. She's kind of like a little mini King Kong. When I see the City Walk King Kong, it kind of reminds me of Brenda. That's nice. So now you know the expanded lineup

of the show pets. I'll tell you if they come in. Let's go. You know what? Let's do an order. I'll go next, then Jason, then... Because usually when we do this, we can point at each other. Now we don't have that ability. So we'll just go around Robin. How about we do that? That's a good call. That brings it to you? Yeah, it brings it to me. This is from Kevin Tully on Facebook. What are each of your favorite theme park rumors that didn't and probably will never come true you can also include things that were announced and never built i'm going to stick to the first part i'm

going to say rumors uh i'm going to go with wicked taking over marvel island to california islands of adventure that's my favorite weirdest rumor we've talked about it a lot uh i do want it to happen because it means then that disney can use marvel in florida we have a we now have a drop that would require a drop ride a high speed roller coaster and an immersive extremely expensive screen ride to all be different shades of the mythology of wicked. Yes. This is if in case you're just joining us for the first time, a theme park podcaster,

Jim Hill has been talking about this for a few years, that this has been a possibility. It has not come to fruition yet, but yes, that would mean that all of that stuff would have to be themed to specifically wicked. So that's, that is the one I want to happen. He says this because Universal owns Wicked.

There's been like a talk of a Wicked movie. It hasn't happened, right? No. I'm so confused about what's – there's not been such a film. Much like Cats, the Wicked movie, which is supposedly moving through the pipeline, will happen much later after the Wicked zeitgeist has died down. Make sure everybody really forgets what the thing was.

I mean, it's still running. It's still very successful on Broadway and the books that it's based running it's still very successful on on broadway and the books that it's based on i believe successful but uh yeah i don't i don't know i mean it's clearly jim hill's life work is trying to get this wicked thing he's pushing it because it's what he wants well mine is also a jim hill i've never stopped thinking about the idea that the jimmy fallon ride was going to be him interrupting twister oh yeah going live every single day from the tonight show studio which would be a challenge right now as it is he's production and and him in jim's words threatening to throw a cow at at people that's what the jimmy fallon ride was going to be was him. And he like crudely taped a sign over the wall that says Jimmy Fallon's ride,

but that it's otherwise still the iconic twister ride it out. I think that's a new visitor to universal studios from China. I think would completely understand. Oh yes. The attraction based on the 1996 movie has been taken over by the talk show host yeah that's good um i i think mine well mike and i always talk about there were those plans uh plans for a giant like massive marvel rise uh in the middle east um but that i mean that was a little far along so not really a rumor but i think the um original star wars land uh plans at disneyland were very interesting of like the millennium falcon sitting above you right in the center where that sort of metal sculpture is and then the

indoor speeder bike run kind of taking over the land occupied by Autopia and the subs Mike there was more right am I what am I forgetting those are the two big ones the idea I think like kind of where the uh um is it where the people mover used to load is that the thing that's been sitting up there like unused oh yeah yeah like that would have been the millennium falcon and it would have just been a walkthrough where you would have met chewbacca and then they would have demolished uh america sings building interventions building and yeah it would have been a speeder bike ride i think they were going to take out autopia and the subs maybe so you would have like started inside I believe that's right yeah and then you would have gone through like the forests of Endor um and I guess yeah I guess

Star Tours would have stayed the same maybe uh Space Mountain would have stayed so right in the in the middle of this would have just been Space Mountain but maybe I think people were thinking that space forever like I think people were thinking that space forever like i think people were thinking that the hyperspace was sort of a holdover from that idea oh maybe so it was like a cheaper version of what they were thinking they would change if they had had star wars take over tomorrowland uh i'm glad that didn't happen though but it still might be a now especially years away from tomorrowland being different hey forgive me for being quiet during all that but speak of the devil bunny came in i got some good pics of bunny right at the microphone she didn't uh she didn't talk or

anything but she's wandering around my uh the big contemporary uh hotel model that is on my desk. So, hey, check out our Twitter for some of that Sweet Cat content. Yeah. Who's next? Scott, is that, or Jason next? Jason, I think. I've got a very good one from Liz Blackerby.

Which of the Duffy gang would you most want to be stuck in quarantine with? That's a good question. I think I'm going to answer first. I think it's, and I'm going to say his old name, but I know he has a new name and we haven't talked about it yet. Olu the turtle.

Have we all seen though that Olu's name is not Olu anymore? What is it? Hold on. I'm trying to find out., that Olu's name is not Olu anymore? What is it? Hold on. I'm trying to find. It is Olu Mel. Oh, so much like Cookie became Cookie Ann, Olu is becoming Olu Mel. Olu Mel. Yes.

It's not just Olu anymore. And he's a turtle and he's chilled out because he's from Alani. So he's probably a really good roommate like gelatoni is the of course the italian painter cat and he would just be a lot like he'd always want to go party he would be like if you were stuck with him i think you maybe would get on your nerves so that's why i pick olu mel maybe i gotta go cookie ann because she's gonna be making treats this whole time i'm i'm stuck that's good that's a good pick yeah just practical more than anything yeah jason what do you think um i feel like has no one said duffy yet i mean I think it gotta give it up to the big guy.

I think he, I just find him very rock solid. I feel like he'd be a comforting presence. I think the number of outfits that he has would probably be you know,

fun. He'd do little fashion shows, that sort of thing and so you yeah so and he he takes on all those skills right like when he when he wears the uh pit crew outfit he he is a handyman right i don't think that's i don't i think he's just playing dress up i don't think he actually, he's not someone who actually can like do everything. I think he's just playing fun dress up. You think he's doing stolen valor for any number of occupations? Okay.

Stolen pit crew valor. Sure. I'm not saying that's not fun. Cause yes, I guess, I guess if you were in an apartment having a big teddy bear go in and do like a pretty woman scenario, like where you were sitting watching him try on outfits would be entertaining. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, he's he's like, are we saying is it different than we don't think it's like Barbie? We're like Barbie's in different outfits, but I think Barbie does the jobs.

We don't think she does. He's doing the jobs. I don't think I think Barbie does the jobs we don't think she's doing the jobs I don't think Duffy is doing the jobs I don't know if this is actually written down anywhere but that's my reading of it that's a stressor yeah for the most part it's just like he's wearing you know a polo

shirt and khaki pants yeah I don't know if somebody has an objection to this please let it be known but that's my take on duffy um well good picks it would be nice to be i mean i mean like mike you are quarantined with some of the duffy gang oh yeah they're right here i'm looking at them right now and i hopefully

it doesn't come to this hopefully you don't have to eat them uh i would start with Tippy Blue. Good. The bird mailman. Good. The least going on. I'm the least emotionally connected to Tippy Blue. That's why.

I don't want to be so cruel. But if that came to that. It's good to have the order in your head. Really in any group of people you're in. Even before all this, I think, and after this, I think just whenever you get in an elevator, just kind of like do the math of what order you would eat people in. It's just helpful, practical.

Yeah, and listeners, please send us the order in which you would eat the three of us. If you were in a situation where we were the only food, who would you eat first? And somebody is like, all right, I've thought a lot about this. So

I've drawn 25 page. Yeah. No fan. I don't, we don't want fan art of that. That's one of the times I will say no fan art of listeners eating us for food and sustenance yeah none of that please i forbid you absolutely do a non-cooper fan art um yeah uh here's here's a fun one this is from uh parker a mama uh mooma uh what is blue 32 doing with all this time away from performing um that he brings up a good

point that there was a specific as we've had the moments of everything getting closed and sometimes in an email form david copperfield did make an official announcement about this that he will not be doing the doing the production uh with his alien blue 32 for a little while um i wonder if i i have that somewhere in a text let me see if i can find it um especially in times like these magic is important it reminds us to dream and believe our own ability to achieve the impossible nothing is more important than the health and safety of my audience, my team, and my family. So we're pausing shows today to assess the situation.

Powerful stuff from David. And his love for us is extremely evident in that message. What's Blue up to? If he's not in the show... I like to think that when Davidid is performing he takes blue

with him so they can be sequestered together that's that's not a that that's not a shit that they don't need social distance no i mean yeah is it more likely that blue is just like stuck in a box in the back of the mgm grand yes but i like to think not in the world of the MGM Grand, yes. But I like to think... Not in the world of the show. Yeah, that is weird that Blue is just sitting somewhere. Yes. Unmoving. So it's possible that David takes Blue with him. Like, I assume David gets driven around because he's so famous,

but I'd like to imagine, like, David with a top-down on a convertible has Blue next to him in the car and that they're just like letting the air flow, like flow through their hair and their antenna. And they're just like two cool buds driving around Las Vegas together. It's it's all their blast and rat pack they're uh yes they're ignoring the quarantine because they have magic on their side so it doesn't it doesn't apply to them if they get infected they just wish it away yes i think that there's no yeah i think that like david probably has sort of a sixth sense for everything he has a spider sense so i think david yeah he knows when something's contaminated and he just says a couple magic words and it goes away

and then of course blue is able to uh as if you've listened to our patreon episode david's blue alien friend is able to uh pick out an audience member that's hot. Right. So he is a power too. So he so maybe he's like if he's stuck in a room somewhere he's probably like flipping through Tinder. That's what he's doing. He doesn't know when

he's going to be out and on the prowl again but he's like getting his cue ready to go. She's hot. She's not. Left. Right. Right. Right. getting his cue ready to go she's hot she's not left right right right no left i don't remember which is i don't know which one's which i've never done it jason's the only one who's done it uh i don't quite i mean left left is when you want no right is when you want yes okay but i had to remember because you're you're yeah i guess you're making the same motion um uh i it people that would be a punch line for jokes i feel like for a while

like and i would forget which was left and what like i would forget like wait which is good and which is bad so just saying like yeah yeah i'm gonna have to swipe left on that one you're like does that mean cool man everyone else in audience laughing uproariously you're just like slow clapping to like no i get it i totally get it um uh let me go here uh this is from doc chapa at. Who should the next R3X be? An old retired character who should return to the park in a big way. Oh, that's good. Very good question.

Thank you for that question. Not that it has to be this way, but I'm certainly thinking in part of a big new development, like the Marvel area of, uh, of California adventure might be good. Like it's like an, an old character. That's a little anachronistic. And how do we like fit it into a new, I mean,

that makes me think Mar, uh, Marvel McFay in, in, in, in the, in the Marvel. Oh,

interesting. Yeah. It says, you know, his name is Marvel. So, uh, so he fits,

he's allowed um yeah what did he do i mean i want to obviously see him come back what were you saying sorry um what what did he do what was kind of his uh his function on this earth uh spreading good sheer i think great great it seemed like yeah he was just sort of like call for a good time call marvel mcfay not in maybe a sexual way but just you know to party to have fun for lewds call him for lewds for lewds as you say yeah it was yeah that was the old days all right so he's dealing drugs to iron man great okay yeah that's bad iron man has a problem but i mean look that's it opens up a lot of storyline possibilities certainly yeah i also think people are going to be so like wiped out and emotional after all this Corona stuff that I think Disney

too bright and mood should just be selling drugs in the park. Like why not just give everybody everything they want. Like I think at Marvel, Marvel McFay walking around with baggies of psychedelics, uh, let's just, let's just make everyone real at where we're all going to need it come, uh,

October or whatever it is. I think, I'll say this. Yeah, go ahead. The funny T-shirts, like the funny Disney T-shirts with Donald having corona are just going to be awful. Oh, my God. No, I don't want to see those. We made a bunch of bad drinking Disney shirts, but we will not make those.

I can guarantee that. Any old characters we'd like to see back? Yeah, I think Sam Eagle from America Sings. We've talked about him before, but he's got to come back. We got a context? Where

do we put him? He could be in the you know if people aren't happy and apparently there's some people who are extremely unhappy about the eagle the Sam Eagle barbecue in Epcot so put him in there he's a Disney character he's Disney it's not an

outside IP and he's you know he's cooking up ribs and tapping kegs sure yeah walk around sam eagle to tap the keg like literally yeah he has to actually run it it was the kind of thing they're gonna have to do with budget cuts is make the suited characters also serve the food yes yes which honestly was always my dream as a kid i thought oh they're working there i thought that would be fun but of course the reality is that would be very strange you wanted to be you wanted it to be that

like goofy is bringing you food and it really is his job and if he doesn't do it he doesn't get money yeah and he like he trips and like a bowl of pudding falls on my dad's head but what we don't see is like are the osha complaints after the fact oh my god a lot of paperwork how unsafe would that kitchen be just like they're not like goofy would like he would be he wouldn't knock knives over and it would like barely not stab him to death yeah it would it would like pin his... It would like pin his knives and it would like perfectly form the shape of his body around him against the wall. And that'd be funny for us to see,

but less funny for the endangered chefs. Oh my gosh. I can't even imagine. Yeah, dude, keep Goofy out of the kitchen. For gosh sake. For gosh sake.

Goofy, go home. Yeah. You're only going to spread this virus further or comical bumbling will hurt someone at some point yes uh jason what do you think characters um what sorry i've gotten my birds confused mike which was yours again uh sam eel from america sings the top hat he's got like a top hat.

Was that your choice? Yeah, that was who I was thinking of. I just couldn't remember. No, I forgot that all eagles are named Sam. That's right. Yes, yeah, as we proved definitively. I mean, Horizon's Robot Butler. I mean, if they're going to do Epcot, like vintage Epcot,

Horizon's Robot Butler or Smart One from Communicore, like, you know, they got to be somewhere. I think there's no changes to Smart One. He's just walking around. They don't update it. They don't do anything. He's just rolling around the park again. Everybody freaks out. It's a huge Instagram thing. why are they just get him out there yeah that reminds me did scott did you see the like um there was an old old epcot show

that like the video a video of it just went up for the first time called like mr something's computer review that i think like would happen by smart one oh interesting uh no i haven't seen that i'll check that out i gotta dig this up yeah great wait mike you had something uh i've honestly i forgot i forgot what i was about to say i was trying to get my next question prep oh yeah yeah you know that that's the the dexterity of having to do these mailbag episodes yes i actually do remember what i was gonna say i was gonna say my pitch is just for smart one to move in with jason oh that'd be great just like two pals would smart one help me no or oh it's more no okay no no he'd be more of a burden. Oh, great.

So what is the worst roommate quality smart one would have? Leaking oil everywhere. Motor oil. Oh, yeah, that sucks. I'm sorry, Jason. That's no good at all. Clean up after me. My arms do not reach the rag and the floor.

I will spark. I can have oil in me, but not outside me. Light up my cigarette, too, please. Wipe the oil before we light my cigarette. Smart one, we're going to lose the security deposit if you keep smoking indoors. Our landlord can get bent. Okay.

He sucks. That's not very productive, smart one. I'm smarter than him. Tell him that. Instead of next rent check rate, I'm smart. The smart one is smarter than you. Care of fuck you.

I broke the toilet again. I weigh 300 pounds. With what? My again. I weigh 300 pounds. With what? My body. What? My butt. Why were you anywhere near it? I was trying to leak my oil in the toilet as you suggested.

That's not really flushable. Oh, well, you should have said something to me about it before. I said it sarcastically. Oh, by the way, did you know that my full name is Smartass1? No, come on. It's about my wicked attitude, my wicked-tude. Well, I don't care for it. Sorry, you've got to live with it, pal.

The S's in ass are smelled with fives I like this new character this is great there's more questions but that's hard to that's hard to top that was a lot of fun is there anything else we want to jam in I've got a good

one and I think this might be a good one and i i think this might be a good wrap up um i mean we're not going to get better than um piece of shit smart one smart ass one yeah uh but this this might be helpful if people are looking for entertainment um during the quarantine uh david agua Bubblegum on Twitter is asking, what are your guys' favorite Podcast the Rise episode? Hmm. Hmm. How can you pick?

They're like our children. They're like our children. We did do the AV Club had us talk about some of our favorites. Well, obviously, it's this one in quarantine. I mean, it doesn't get better than this don't have to deal with any of those fucking guests i've hated every one of those guys there's an extra start to crack when you say something funny there's an extra half second to go like oh did what i say was was it not funny and then you maybe hear a laugh on the other side

of this like that's that's really good i really like that yeah nuts yeah i think i just i think some of my audio that i'm recording on my end just dropped out so yeah yeah stuff like that jason leaving all the time i it's you know uh having problems to deal with test your rigors as a podcaster and that's why this current one is easily my favorite. You know, the word hero is thrown around a lot. If I had to pick a second favorite, it's probably McGruff. Yeah. The McGruff music episode. Yeah, and McGruff 2.

I mean, now is the time to really get down and digitize and do all the research to figure out McGruff 2 I will tease this I have to keep it vague I hope I will finish it by I will tease something extra that I've thought of for McGruff 2 oh that

is gonna I think it'll I think it'll turn out well that's all I'll say neat neat but there's I mean we promised a lot I'm still trying to hunt I think it'll, I think it'll turn out well. That's all I'll say. Neat, neat. But there's, I mean, we promised a lot.

I'm still trying to hunt down the person who wrote the songs. I'm still, we're in the process of digitizing the new McGruff or the old McGruff music that we found. We found an additional McGruff album. We didn't know existed. And there is something else I've got in the works. My God.

This might be McGruff 2, 3, 4. This might be a separate McGruff spinoff podcast. It'll be like Avatar where we announce four different McGruffs with different subtitles. It's an incredibly ambitious array of future McGruffs that will come out in 2032 when we're allowed outside again. Yes. I don't know if this is like the best episode to listen to, and I can't speak to that because I don't listen to all of them back. Sometimes I do.

But I've never had more fun doing Podcast the Ride than the hundredth episode live show with the sector keeper and bugsy. That's certainly the, but when I think of like, when I've, when have I had just the most delirious fun doing anything podcast or I related it is probably that one. So if they, it's my favorite in that I'm the most fond of having done it. But that's me.

Sure. The hardest I've laughed, I think, were the two-part failed parks with Jason Willner on the Hard Rock Park. And what are those guys called? The weirdos? Sid and Marty Croft. Sid and Marty Croft. so funny the two hippie weirdos um where is the lie uh but especially the the end of part one whenever whenever we ended up doing it i had to run out so uh listening to the wrap-up of the first part uh was i started laughing all over again because i didn't know what it was and uh you two did a great job on that

thank you hey oh you mean the the at the beginning of the episode or the like this sudden like guess what we're rocking harder next week yes yeah yeah yeah yeah um yeah let's say that's that's up i think that one was just this just hasn't been so much surprise for us in in recording one i hate so and then now we are a little we feel a little more loaded to bear like we think oh now here's a good one and then we almost like put too much pressure that one was just snuck up on us so much how fun how funny all that got that we had no idea it was going to be over three hours that was uh that was a ton of fun um i thought similarly it was two episodes but we did them back to back the most recent run with

eva anderson in the downtown disney ordeal that like felt like a mega episode because we did them back to back but the speed round of all the stores that's that's another one of the most fun i've had recently yeah so the lesson is the law the longer we record if it's under three hours we're probably it's the quality is going to be low yeah so over three so yeah over three hours means good yes yeah yeah we gotta start doing these way longer um so yeah i mean that's it for now uh i think so i think you survived podcast the ride should we retire the term you survived in this uh scary period that is actually really grim now that you say it.

Yeah, let's put that away for maybe a little while. We need a new catchphrase. You listened to podcasts. That doesn't seem like it has as much fun in it, but it is true. No, you endured podcasts. You put up with podcast the ride you put up with a podcast you put up with podcast the ride a sequester sode um and thank you for for putting up with us uh um you know it's gonna be you know it's good it's gonna be different as a mr show quote it's gonna be different from now on you know will the show be worse yes yes it'll be worse but sadly it will be worse keep in mind all shows will be worse and in some cases not happening at all so um so is it better than a show that isn't happening? I think so. I agree.

I, for one, am looking forward to the podcast Final Four Final Four when everyone does a bracket of all of the different podcast Final Fours against each other. Yes, because this conceit that we do is also something that all the other podcasts and podcasts we're friends with, like Doughboys and Blank Check. Yeah, because there are, yes, because this, this conceit that we do is also something that all the other podcasts and podcasts we're friends with, like Doughboys and Blank Check. Yeah, I think it's time

for all of the final fours to compete. And again, then there is no, you're going to listen to that episode, our final four in a world where there

is no real final four. So forgive us when we aren't mentioning constantly that this is a parody of something that doesn't exist. Yes. in a world where there is no real final four so forgive us when we aren't mentioning constantly that this is a parody of something that doesn't exist yes yes uh cut us some slack there will be again we said there'll be episodes where everything seems fine uh and those are old but still we didn't know we had no idea that they were time capsules. It was just a slice of life of what it was like in, you know, circa February 12th. Yeah.

So, yeah, there's going to be some whiplash. But, you know, you're all used to it from going on all these rides. Yeah. Whiplash. That's what I mean. Yeah. They're used to getting their necks hurt. Yes. That's my point so thrill

we won't get for a little while um so just listen instead listen to this podcast and shake your head around a ton really wayne's world it uh because that's how much this podcast rocks um i i hey i had fun this is i i uh i'm gonna say this is some of the most fun i've had during the quarantine but the bar is extremely low yes uh i think it's like this and like making jokes on twitch oh yeah and remember sunday to pay attention there's gonna be some twitch activity so check our Twitter. Probably in the evening, in a type of evening that works for West Coast and East Coast, both of America.

Yeah, we'll do something. Yeah. Yeah. Live something on Twitch. And for other stuff, check us out on, on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. And, uh,

you know, Hey, none of these places are very fun right now. We promise you there will be some nonsense. There will be Edwin in a sandal. We'll make sure that whoever of us has that. And, uh,

uh, and my cat at the, at the microphone. Um, what else? Oh, and Hey, and podcast, the ride, the second gate at patr else oh and hey and podcast the ride the second gate at

patreon.com slash podcast the ride i was gonna do here here i'm gonna do a quick callback to end the show uh jason i ate all your robin's cadbury eggs in the bowl again smart one i've had about a dozen technical difficulties during this 90 minutes uh and before this but your bad attitude is the worst technical difficulty of them all i ate the eggs just to annoy you i can't even taste them well great it's working now the chocolate has gummed up my mouth gears. Oh, smart one. I broke the toilet again. Man, come on. All right, that's the end of my callback.

We'll see you next week. Yeah, maybe the Twitch thing is that live maybe we with a cardboard cut out of smart one we do this we'll do a full play of that or at least a 21 minute sitcom episode yeah great all right jason get to work making that great so i'll get it right oh man yeah me the the crafty one the one who's good at drawing your markers oh boy hey all right stay safe everybody uh yeah take care that's it yep all right bye forever dog this has been a forever dog production executive produced by mike carlson jason sheridan, Scott Gairdner, Brett Boehm, Joe Cilio, and Alex Ramsey. For more original podcasts, please visit foreverdogpodcasts.com and subscribe to our shows on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Keep up with the latest Forever Dog news by following us on Twitter and Instagram,

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