Podcast: The Ride - Papa Scott

Episode Date: May 1, 2020

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Forever! Dog! Warning! The following podcast contains some big news from me and some big questions from you. Papa Scott welcomes you to Podcast the Ride, a podcast about theme parks hosted by three childless men in their 30s. No longer. I am childed man in his 30s. Scott Gairdner, joined by Uncle Mike and Uncle Jason. How are you guys?

What if that was the way you told us, too? That would have been something, yeah. Wait, I mean, I was trying to surprise the listener, but this whole time I could have surprised the host, too. I actually don't know what the fuck you're talking about so uh was a oh crap uh i thought i saw you on there do uh okay well you know i got to tell you you know i got a new phone you know i switched to android i got a new phone number and really messed up my entire life uh i hate i also i thought you were just like trying to be

polite to Aaron and not bring it up. I guess clearly you haven't been paying, you were paying a lot of visual attention for a little while there. Well, she kept standing behind pillars, holding boxes, you know, like a Veronica's Closet actor, you know. Conveniently passing donkeys and camels a lot of the time yeah uh so yes it's true

the news is true yeah i'm uh i'm a dad everybody um i'm uh i'm papa scott now i uh let's make that permanent i'm going by papa scott uh which which sounds uh i mean it is good but it sounds a little it does sound a little similar to pop a squad so i'm not i'm not thrilled about it in that regard but uh i am thrilled because i just uh i just had a baby my wife erin i just had a baby and just to be very clear this is not some extended uh bits and we're talking about Rex or something, though we do respect him as number one. We have had a second child. And let's do the gender reveal as well. It's a good boy.

Whoa. Wow. He's a very good boy, everybody. He really is, too. I mean, I was going to say that regardless, but I certainly would characterize him having met him now as a good boy. Yes. Do you I mean, are you already like are you already gauging like how good he's going to be with certain drop rides or launches? Yeah, I'm doing like a conversion scale kind of on my body. Like if I lift him up this high at his size, how many feet is that equivalent to a Tower of Terror or to a lesser one? Just like a Camp Snoopy kind of thing.

I, you know, Tower of Terror, well, I guess if I got up like on a high flight of stairs and I jumped down and he was in my arms, then that might be like a Tower of Terror height. But I probably couldn't like jump way back up to that. It's hard to do a launch. Right, yes, I see what you're saying. Well, it's interesting you say that because now that launch right yes i see what you're saying well yeah you you say that because i now that reminds me of when joe rody was describing what his philosophy was

when he re uh when he uh re-skinned the tower of terror into guardians of galaxy mission breakout is that he wanted the car to simulate the fun of getting tossed in the air like you're a baby oh you better believe i've thought about that uh when i when i've held him like any like just kind of sudden i'm not actually jumping around with him just to be clear there's no michael jackson hijinks yes yeah yeah i think even if you did even just like a slight elevation he doesn't even uh respond to yet he's very he's very new by the way we're recording this he's uh not even two weeks old as we record this. So, but yeah, when he, I'm certainly not giving him a throw anytime,

but with that roadie explanation, I'm excited to do that. I'm excited to give him little rides. You know, I'm thinking about the theme park angle of all this. I was trying to theme the room, like creating, imagineering a themed environment for my son. It's wonderful.

Yeah. Would you like to tell the listeners how and where you told us? Because it's very clear in my mind. Yeah. I love that I can say that. Yeah. For the longtime listeners of the show that uh i i uh aaron and i told mike and lindsey and and jason uh in epcot center we were in world showcase i think we had

just left the mexico pavilion and uh i i and knowing that yeah so we knew right before we did our orlando trip back in oct And I, I definitely was in, in the effort to, uh, you know, imagine here, a fun little breaking the news moment. It was crazy knowing like,

Oh, I can think, I think we get to tell the guys, uh, in Disney world. That's going to be nuts. Yeah. What a,

what a perfect on a Disney world trip. So crazy. What a, what a way to heighten it. It was so bonkers. And we were like, we were trying to find the right moment too because I knew it was going to be,

it was going to end up being a problem because there were going to be rides that Aaron could not go on. Yes. And we ended up, there just wasn't the right moment to say it on the first day when we were in Disney Hollywood Studios

so I'm just going on Tower of Terror and Rock and Roller Coaster without her it was all such a bummer she specifically was really dreaming and hankering to go on the original Tower of Terror so that was a bummer

and we all got to go on the new Hagrid's coaster. We got to like you know with our crazy connections jump on that thing and she just had to sit back and hold our bags. Which we made a point not to pull the can you

hold my bag very often. But the Hagrid's thing was kind of last minute. So we didn't know where to put anything. Kind of quickly. Yeah. So it's chaos around there. And it really, to use a Simpsons analogy, it was a lot like Lisa coming back from the Itchy and Scratchy movie.

And like, so how was it? It was okay. And I'll be honest. how was it? Eh, it was okay. And I'll be honest, it was the greatest thing I've ever seen! Exactly. I mean, it was hard to suppress the excitement over that ride and several other rides. So, Aaron, I just want to say,

I'm sorry. We'll get you on all of those things. I owe you a lot of bags held. And I guess so do you guys too uh yeah yeah that's true yeah that's true um we didn't like you know she was sitting we didn't like you know just keep comically handing her bags that weighed her down uh slowly and then you know blocked her face in the end like it was yeah right she was comfortable well well look if these parks open Within the next year or two

We'll go I'll hold the bags Jason will hold the baby Hey alright Give him a little Drop ride Yeah I'm the au pair You guys can bond over having Extremely persnickety stomachs.

Scott, I do have to tell you, I don't think I've ever told you this story, but the night before you told us, Mike and I were at a bar and I actively said the phrase, hey, did you notice we've been out of town for three days and Aaron hasn't had a drink once? You did notice. Yes.

We were definitely, because yes, it's a tell. It's definitely a tell. I think I said, yes, I did notice that. We were wondering, and we thought about telling you guys at the, what's the place, Bahama Breeze? You're thinking of the Schaumburg, Illinois, Bahama Breeze. On Gulf Road, there's a restaurant. It's a chain called Bahama Breeze that we went to after Woodfield Mall to, you know, just get a nightcap as you do in Schaumburg.

What did we order? We ordered that. It was like a flight, right? I had a flight. You had a rum flight. Yeah. Yeah. So in comparison, you must have.

Yeah. Yeah, so in comparison, you must have been a little fishy that I had a flight, which I didn't finish, and that Aaron next to me did not touch the flight. Yeah, that's all a little insane. Oh man, that's so funny you guys noticed. wondering um especially because we kept there were other people who we told just because we had this twice where um we went to a restaurant a drink order was placed and erin said uh just a uh just a sparkling water for me and um especially this what her dad was one of these scenarios her dad gave her the biggest raised eyebrow glare i've ever seen and she just like ah fine i'm pregnant they could not hold it on hold it in i'm just saying you guys have a reputation you uphold uh hell yes uh yeah it's um it's pretty crazy and and that's that's the main thing look uh uh if if aaron's if aaron's

listening back to this um obviously i am so impressed by your strength getting through the pregnancy and through the delivery and everything. But the drinking thing primarily, and especially because we were in Epcot Center during the Food and Wine Festival, and you did not have a single drop. And oh my God, the fortitude. If that doesn't show that she could be an incredible mom, then I don't know what does. Yes, kudos to Aaron. That's a very hard scenario all around Florida.

We couldn't do an abracadabra. There was so much we couldn't get done. Couldn't do an alcoholic Star Wars milk. Right. Yeah. All that combined with the, you know, incredible heat. And, you know, it wasn't as fun of a trip for Aaron.

We ended up having a good time. Sure. Oh, my God. It was such a bummer to realize what was happening and go, oh, my God, Disney World. Oh, God. Yeah. I realize also it's possible that at some point in time,

because this is kind of a little verbal record of the birth of my son, it's possible he could be hearing this someday. So maybe I should cool it on the swears for a little bit. Hmm. Yeah, what age would you anticipate he starts going into the back catalog of your paywalled podcast? Wait, is this a paywall episode is it a wall i thought it was a main feed i think it's okay this is the second time during quarantine that i've been incorrect about where the episode we're currently recording

is going well you know we don't know what day it is yeah i know literally the main thing i have had besides a couple like zoom things is is recording that's the only thing on my calendar is recording and like uh i'm sorry i took it off your calendar for a little bit our boy took it off your calendar oh that's okay i mean that's the other thing thing. We've been going, we've been working hard for a while now to get a backlog, to get like a buffer. Yes. And which, thank you guys. I think Mike and Jason, thanks so much for that, for building up the catalog that could exist if I need to do a paternity leave. I don't know that I super will because he is pretty mellow at the moment.

But you just, you know, just in case some crazy thing was going wrong, it's nice to have the cushion. But so, yeah, for our listeners with that, I don't think you'll hear, you won't get a break from me. If you wanted a break from me, sorry, I don't think you're going to get it, even with the birth of my son because we've been, yeah, we've recorded, I think we have like 13 in the bank right now. It's like a crazy number.

And none of those reference that you have a child. None of them reference that I have a child, and none of them reference the coronavirus. I mean, no, some of them, I guess they start to at a point. But we, like, yeah, that became the issue. Like, that's part, we were doing the backlog. And then, oh, God, this breaks out. And now, yeah, so it's like,

a lot is going to be missing. And I guess, well, that leads me to another point, which is that we had to do this during the virus. And I say, I don't have like a real,

any like jokey material here. It was just, you know, we were very nervous. It was very crazy. And it sort of impacted the way we rolled out this news. Actually, if I could go way back, the plan for a while was we were going to do an episode with Erin.

Erin was on the show back in the CityWalk saga. It hasn't been on in a while. We were going to have her come on and introduce the news, like, you know, say she was pregnant. And that could be fun, right? Then, the day before we were going to record her episode, it became clear that Fry's Electronics was installing my video and closing, so, bump Aaron, that's not happening, sorry, we got to go down to Fry's. All right, so we'll reschedule it for a couple weeks from now, and should be good. Then, the virus

defining event of our lifetimes happened. And I'm like, I don't want to tell the audience we're having a baby now. They're going to be so worried. Yeah. That's not a fun way to break that news. So, what I'm happy to say is that you don't have to worry.

You didn't have to worry. We didn't have to worry. You know, he's fine. Everybody's fine. The delivery't have to worry. We didn't have to worry. Um, you know, he, he's fine. Everybody's fine. The delivery was kept so separate as a separate wing of the hospital. Um, if you are pregnant right now,

or if you have someone in your life, you care about who's pregnant. I can't guarantee anything about the scenario in which the baby will be born, but we at least are a case of, uh, you know, you can, you can have a baby in coronavirus times and it can be safe and not insane and still just as wonderful and magical as it's supposed to be.

Yes, that's good. I mean, that's yes. Having baby is stressful enough, I would imagine. So it's good. It's good because I think you guys had a nice timing where, and not the nicest timing, but like nice timing where it was like they had a few weeks to figure out exactly what was good. It wasn't like the day after it hit. Yes. Yeah. Because there was so much I didn't know. Like when the state went on lockdown, I didn't know what that meant.

And then you hear, I think some news story was going around about like in France, they aren't allowing the partners in the delivery. And I was there. Let me be clear. If I'd used the virus, it's like, yeah, I'd just rather not. I don't feel safe. I mean, I know it's not a law or anything. You made them quarantine in a hotel for two weeks, too, before they came back. Sorry, guys. Enjoy the Radisson. I think it was happening a little in New York. I don't know.

I don't want to say all this and then have somebody not be able to be with their partner during delivery. I think there were places. Yeah, I just don't remember where. I don't think it was widespread, but I think the news story was going around enough that I started getting a certain kind of text. It was like, hey, just thinking about you and just really want to make sure. I don't doubt that's

people who care, but I just started feeling a lot of dread from people. I was like, our hospital's never said anything. I think it's going to be okay. It was okay. We just had to have masks on for a lot of it. And, you know, grandparents couldn't be there. But I don't know. Besides that, but you're also so tired. I'm like, as much as it would have been nice to see everybody and have

that moment, but you're like, I don't know. I'm not in a state to socialize. I haven't slept in days. So it all, it's working out it's it all worked out i'm happy to say great great yeah yeah um what was what else was on my oh sorry go ahead jason oh well i was just gonna say uh now that you are you know uh essentially spending a lot of time with a small cantankerous creature who loves to sleep 18 hours a day i just wanted to say you're welcome you're welcome for the prep work you're welcome dealing with me for three years has prepared you what's this voice what's this voice coming out of you yeah well i don't know you're welcome a little more grandmother harvey firesteinstein over here. It is Harvey Fierstein.

I did... Harvey Fierstein was not on. I just watched the Stephen Sondheim 90th birthday celebration last night. Harvey Fierstein not on, but the version of Ladies Who Lunch was done by Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep, and Audra McDonald. So still, star-studded, but I beat them by a week. Oh, because you did, yeah, and this is archived on Twitch. You did a stirring rendition of Ladies Who Lunch.

We did a little, in case you didn't see it, there was a Disney sing-along telethon. Not a telethon. Well, yeah, I guess they were raising money. Kind of. But, yeah, a lot of people sang Disney songs from home, and we decided to do a little one ourselves right after it was over. Yeah, Jason, I loved your Sondheim.

Mike played keyboards and did a little medley of goofy movie eye-to-eye and the City Walk Saga theme. I kicked it off with I'll Make a Man Out of You with the Donny Husband super pronounced song from Mulan. Yeah, that was a blast. Let me say this. That also leads me into sort of the next little step of the delivery story um because that was uh that was like it was right before like it was really close to when we uh went into labor uh uh like not the night but it came soon after um and we've been having fun with these little things on twitch

um and i did a thing where uh i made a carthay manhattan at home and i did a little dj set with with rex uh my first son and uh i won't i won't neglect him rex if you're listening i love you just as much as uh before a couple weeks ago um so anyway that was a little fun thing we did so so just with that in mind uh let me paint the picture of the the delivery. I don't think you guys have heard this full thing necessarily either. Basically, I think the day that we did that little, our little sing-along thing, we had an ultrasound that from the doctor's point of view was very like, all right, so he's doing good, and, you know, I think he's still got some time, and, you know, he's not getting too deep there, and you should be good.

So we felt like, okay, so we have a little more time to prep, and everything's fine. I had a glass of wine that night. And then, like, you know, a little bit later, a couple nights later, we're thinking about that ultrasound, and, like, all right, he's not due for a couple more weeks. I think we're fine. You know, chilling out with a little drink or something sounds nice um so i we decided to go treat ourselves to take out and go to a place that we miss very much in quarantine uh the tam o'shanter uh walt disney's favorite restaurant and perhaps my favorite restaurant as well um so we ordered take out from there and on the phone they kind of upsold me

said you know we have cocktails to go. And I haven't done that in these quarantine times. And I was like, well, yeah, we're chilling out. This might be one of our last nights to chill out. I will do that. I will get a maple old-fashioned. And my – how do I want to illustrate? Okay, so we get a maple old-fashioned.

We drive out there. We're chilling out uh playing a game of trivial pursuit um and in fact i went and found the the card i went and found the question that was right before uh things started happening and i i'll actually i'll ask you guys the question i'm curious if you guys know um okay what reveals the pirates' skeletal shapes in Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl? Oh, that's a good... So, yeah, because they're dead. I remember this.

They're dead in the movie, and something reveals that they're dead by showing you their skeleton. I understand the question correctly? I think so. I mean, I haven't seen that scene, so I don't know this moment very well. Is it some sort of... Jason, go ahead. I think I know it. Is it the moon? Is it the light of the moon? It is moonlight.

Correct. Wow. Great, Jason. You nailed it. And that's the toughest one. That's if you're a little six. That'd be your question. Much easier than who was Johnny Depp's inspiration for Jack Sparrow. Right, of course, which is Joe Perry from Aerosmith. Yes, as we all know.

Absolutely, famously. So anyway, you got the right answer. Aaron, I asked that question and her water broke. Whoa. The moon controls the tides, boy. I feel there was a question about moonlight. Davy Jones is locker. Yeah.

Now, let me say this about that. We took a delivery class that sort of underlined something for me that I didn't realize. They said, you know what? It's not like it is in the movies. It's not, you know, that you're doing something, then all of a sudden, oh my god, my water broke. It can be a really tedious process, and it's preceded by contractions, and maybe you don't even feel them, and you don't know what they are. And then, you know, your water breaking might not be till deep, deep into the process. Cut to us, exactly like it

is in the movies. Like, completely unexpected. No question that's what it is. And as I said, weeks to go from when it was supposed to be. Don't worry about, you know, he's super healthy and it's all fine, just to say that. But it totally blindsided us. We put the Trivial Pursuit down, and I am at this point about halfway through

my maple old-fashioned from the Tam O'Shanter. A thought occurs to me. I had been seriously thinking about, had they not suggested a maple old-fashioned to me, I had been thinking about bringing the food home and making a Carthay Manhattan. And these are strong drinks. I even thought about doing one of those little Twitch things. I was like, oh, that'd be fun to do. Maybe I'll do one more of these little DJ sets and I'll entertain

some of our audience over this wonderful very strong drink. This maple old-fashioned, I think, saved my life, saved my baby's life, or at least the experience. Thank God for this Tam O'Shanter less strong drink

because it was totally fine. I was not driving intoxicated. I oddly was going slow for me. I didn't guzzle the thing. But that would have been just a cursed Carthay Manhattan. The Pirates of the Caribbean, the curse of the Carthay Manhattan. What do you mean?

You guys aren't taking a lot of lifts right now? I guess, yeah, worst case scenario. Yeah, there's like one stray one 50 minutes away. He's in Sylmar. Hurry up, hurry up. That preserves the Carthay Manhattan, luckily. Yeah. That preserves it in your brain and

like you'll be free to sip i mean it's maybe tonight you could have one like there's no association with it i would love to drink that i also again uncharacteristically this this every step of the pregnancy is push the drinking because i i can't imagine like the energy we're doing shifts and i gotta stay up pretty late and i can't admit the energy. We're doing shifts, and I've got to stay up pretty late. You combine that with drinking, and oh, my God. So, yeah. God, who am I? That's what's happening. What an identity crisis.

I'm not drinking. Erin and I went to Disney World, and she didn't drink for days. Months, really. And on top of all this, I think we have to talk about this, the original tagline of the show. No longer applies. It's just not factual anymore. I know.

I've been thinking about this since you said it. That's the first thing I thought of before anything. Like, oh, that's great. They're having a child. I thought, oh, no, this ruins the tagline of our podcast. Yeah. I think that's the first thing my parents said is it right is it really i think i think i said oh scott and erin are having a baby and they're like oh you gotta change the tagline of your podcast multiple friends and the guests of the

show have brought this up yeah this was this was kind of the branding um and and not only that i mean like it's been a whole thing too because the i think the idea was that that's something that we say at the top of every episode because i really like that joke it was an undeniably funny joke jason maybe you thought of that i don't recall um but the uh i like i the reason we changed the jokes at the beginning is kind of because as much as I like that joke, I did not necessarily want to my personal brand to be Childless Man in his 30s. Sure. I didn't know. I really didn't know. And I'd be lying if I said that that the tagline and the joke wasn't in my head a little bit in making this decision.

I think maybe there's a way you could view this where this baby that's in the other room is here because of the joke. Wow. It's like you're approving to the joke that you were going to have a child and not be a theme park guy.

I'll show you. It's a 30-something theme park guy. I will invalidate this joke i will have a child and uh hopefully there will be a world with no theme parks i you know i that's funny you say that i feel like maybe i only said this into my own head to my own head i remember thinking you know if kids come into play anywhere at this at during the course of this podcast. I'm also seeing this podcast as a little bit of an insurance policy for us to still have to go to them with some frequency. Oh, yes.

That is a very good point. I don't know who I said it to. It would kind of be justified for me to leave uh and go to a theme but it is work at this point you would should look like boy let's flash to when you thought of that joke before all this and we were just getting all this together that now like this is this is a where is like a technically a job that i have that helps my son um and that that factors in and that if i go to disneyland without him it's still in his best interests yes it is he yes it's not something some weird thing that his adult father does that's just

bizarre it is just pure work it's just purely for his benefit yeah you know you guys can all go in on that at this at this point in time. You're doing it for him. Yes, we're all doing it for him. You can all print out that Simpsons moment, all the pictures of Maggie, do it for pictures of my son, and mixed with pictures of the theme parks that obviously we don't really like to go to that much. Right.

We got it. So, you know so we're talking about the joke and when we were just i like the joke is funny but i did that i was always built in in my mind and i didn't know who was getting to it first uh who was getting to baby first but i was always in my mind and that joke probably will have to change but this will be a perfect this podcast will be a perfect reason for us to not change our behavior at all absolutely and and and yeah i mean i should amend what i said earlier that if i go to disneyland it's in his best interest that is a statement that will apply in 2022 right yeah yeah even if the park opens before the end of the year

uh not for me i'm not passing i'm not passing anything to that kid yeah no you're like one of these drugs has to be like a mirror like one of these clinical trials has to just be an incredible success for i think even me to go that you know what i call i don't want to say i literally this morning or a few hours ago was like i i made the claim like the first day the parks are open i if one of us has to be there it's going to be me because i'm like oh there's no way the other two would go but i have like i want to see this but what's this jason what is the scenario and i don't want to get too off off of baby talk but what is the scenario it all depends on the scenario if we've had widespread antibody testing and we know some sort of percentage of people who've had it. And there's a variety of ways maybe I do think about going.

But if it's like they open next week and you just got to stay away from everybody, are you going? I don't think in that scenario. I have spent a lot of this quarantine reading the speculation and the industry watchers and I think Disney being as cautious a company as they are I think I don't think they would open until like the I's were dotted and T's were crossed what do you mean like like stuff was not

super secure. Even just the way, like, China has only reopened, Shanghai Disney has only reopened the shopping district and one hotel. Right. But they're gearing up, supposedly. They're gearing up, but, like, I don't know. We'll talk about this in a little. I have more on this. But you are, yeah, Jason, we'll talk about it.

But Jason, I guess, yes, Jason, I guess, will be the cub reporter, chances are. Like, I just also, like, just as someone who's always been interested and fascinated by these places and this industry, like, I'm just curious to see what it's going to feel like, you know, personally as a fan and then just, like, as someone who covers it. I want to see how people behave i want to see how

the parks behave i just want to see what it is i look i obviously share your fascination i am worried about your lungs though i will say that well i think i have i think i'm in pretty good health shockingly i know the portrait i portray on show, but I really don't have a lot of ailments. My last physical was fine. You have a deep cough sometimes, though. That is, has not, I think that is the Southern California air,

Michael, because I have really not had it very much lately. The air is so great. The air is so clean. I really, it's actually been with like having a having a son and like it's you know made me think about childhood obviously and i'm like i'm like unlocking old memories and stuff but but part of that has been i keep walking around and thinking it feels like 1994 to me this feels like a type because i grew up here this feels like a type of

weather i haven't experienced in la since i was a child wow that's not weather but air quality air quality right yes then oh there you can notice it i think i would probably notice it more if i was living in hollywood but it's definitely it's surely different yeah yeah you can feel the difference so as long as jason doesn't have a banana in the morning that weakens the entire immune system not afraid of covid19 but not afraid of an early morning banana early morning coffee before coffee before 7 a.m or an early banana i'm extremely curious obviously it is no solid foods yet and there won't be for a little bit, but I will be very curious. I will definitely take a picture of the first time my boy successfully consumes an AM banana.

All right, well. Oh, no. Now your Monday-esque rivalry with my son will kick into gear. We will. Oh, we got to have a contest to see Jason and your son eats the same thing and see who deals with it better. But there'll be there'll be those things that are like, I love mash peas. I've always been a big mash pea guy. Let's let's. OK, we probably I don't know if we're going to come

upon a new tagline for the show but let's talk let's talk when is when is he getting involved in the show when is when is because because first of all we appreciate like this is a great storyline in year three you know this is a great hey just like i love lucy we have a little ricky we got a little scotty exactly so that's good so but when you know that's what's going to be good is like when you get to go on all this stuff with him yeah yeah i mean also you know because it's like going to be very emotional and moving but also for content he is content he this is the we're witnessing the first moment right now with him being kind if you're listening to this uh son you are content uh also context if you're

listening this way in the future everyone in the era your dad was growing up and we had to be just voracious makers of content at all times or they would uh everything would fall apart and they'd starve and die um so hopefully it's different in your time um i don't know when he's hearing this um but yeah i don't know i mean it's gonna be nice kind i mean it's gonna unlock episodes that we can do we can review changing tables we can do a changing table yes uh final four maybe you can join us for that um i yeah what else is is on the table here um i uh you can do oh you know well you know you know one thing i will say uh just with things that our audience knows about we we already know the um the first halloween costume because halloween is a big deal

oh yeah that's a major thing we've been looking forward to, but having a baby. He's going to be Truffles the Bear from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. We can't wait for that. Great choice. That's better than Christmas, I think. Now you will be able to, and I forget, what is the pirate or pirate equivalent of the Bibbidi-Bobbidi Boutique? Oh, yeah um i don't recall there will be some whatever that is whatever like the equivalent um for for little boys is now you will be able to do some you will be able to firsthand review experiences

that were at off limits to us as men in our 30s. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. There's all these things that I'm not a creep if I go to now. Legoland, that opens that up. Oh, perfect. Yeah, we all can go to Legoland because there's a child with us. Everybody can go, yes. We're going to be a lot less judged for going into a Chuck E. Cheese now. Oh, I didn't even think about that.

Yep, yep. Although I would say I'm more worried about going into a Well Times Chuck E. Cheese than I am about anything in the COVID era. Oh, I saw, I don't know if this is true. This is a little bit of a tangent, but I saw a headline and I really, I need to read the article that in order to boost sales for Chuck E. Cheese

during COVID that people, they were renaming Chuck E. Cheese on the Grubhub and stuff app, on the delivery apps. Yes. So somebody ordered from Pasquale's Pizza and Wings and realized it was Chuck E. Cheese, which I love. It was, I think that was in or near Philadelphia. And there is a Pasquale's.

There are Pasquale's pizza unrelated, so they're like, oh, I wonder if it was that place. And then it was just like, nope, it was Chuck E. Cheese in disguise. Oh, my God. Because there's been this syndrome of, you know, and I think the famous one in LA is it's Steve Aoki has a pizza place, and it operates as five different kitchens on various food delivery apps.

And so for, yeah, what I, and, you know, they, they owned it. Chuck E.

Cheese released a statement and said, yeah, we're trying new things. We're trying a new business model to kind of, you know, try to find a new audience for our delicious pizza and wings. And like, you're,

so you're pulling the Aoki scam. That's kind of a weird little scummy thing to be doing uh hey if people if it keeps people employed whatever but i don't pasquale's pizza and wings they should have it should be howlin it should be howlin or munch that's what i think you know what's funny it sounds too real it would have um like that's they are going for an audience entirely of people who don't get that reference like if it was us making that order we would have had them in a second that's a good point yes i think i guess for whatever reason your average american doesn't know the name of the pizza chef

that was discovered by chucky cheese in the kitchen playing on the pie plates. His full name being? Pasquale P. Pie Plate. That's right. And again, if I could, you know, allude to a world where my son is listening to this. Hey, bud, your old man spent a lot of time thinking about the various robots and the Chuck E. Cheeses. We know the full names. You know, we love that it's Charles Entertainment Cheese. I spent a lot of my life thinking about that fact,

and that's the kind of info I'm so excited to pass on to you, pal. He's going to be such a tough guy that hates robots and loves sports. Very, very possibly, yes. If things do go in an opposites manner, that could be the case. I don't know. I hope he's not an opposite i've told you guys i am like keeping kind of a loose grip on the theme park thing i'm not going to just pounce on him and just throw info at him and and then in 84 they added something called horizons and that was a neat that was where you could sort of like a pick different paths to the

future and you sound like a robot butler and i'm not gonna like i'm gonna cool it i'm gonna ease him into the waters on disney stuff there's posters in his room already so he'll have like fond memories hopefully buzzing around his baby brain as we talk about of course uh we have a baby brain scenario here and i'm excited about that um i don't know i'm not gonna force it but of course i would love him to be a theme park buddy don't you don? Don't you? Are you playing, though, like just at a low volume during the day, like an ambient Tomorrowland loop? Oh, I haven't yet. But that's really chill. That's actually very chill.

But also, you know, you're getting you're planting the seed like these are important times for a brain to develop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And if he can, you know, have deep lodged memories of the barely futuristic smooth jazz of Larry Carlton, I mean, I'll be happy for many reasons, but, uh, yeah, I, I mean, you know, you gotta give me, all you can do is try to, uh, be a, be a nice guy and raise a kid who's a nice guy too. And, uh, you know, I'm not planning any weird, I'm not going to make him hate. I'm not going to plant some weird cult thing in his brain where I say some key word years later

and now he's part of a kid army. All I'm trying to do is implant the Tomorrowland music loop and hope it gives him some nice feedback. Yeah. Also, you got to get us into that mom's panel. You got to get us onto that panel. Oh, hell yeah. I know that's where the real dirt is, the raw intelligence.

I will say. I'm going to blow the lid off that thing. What I, well, this I will say, this is going to be, Scott is not going to be happy that I'm going to re-bring this up, but I think Jason will be happy. This gets us closer to an idea i had about a year and a half ago yeah yeah have we talked about this on the show does the audience know this i don't think the audience has heard this yet this is an idea i had a while ago it was more of a bit at the time but now it's getting closer to reality yeah yeah we're one thirds closer

because here's here's the genesis of it i think it was we went to knott's berry farm with doug barnes of season pass we were talking about how a lot of the what they call mommy blogs and get to go to all the disney events so i was trying to think of a way that would actually get us on disney's radar because doing a reverent podcast with swears is not going to work so i said well, well, what if we had alter egos? What if we started a podcast called the Disney Daddies with a Z, with the Disney Daddies? And I think my idea for at least the bit

was that we were three single dads with three sons each. And they were all a handful. And they were all a handful. And we love them, but they're all a handful and we love them but they're a handful and we love them and that phrase maybe one of the hardest time the hardest laughs i've ever had jason and i uh met doug and robert at portillo's we hadn't met them before we talked and then i think we drove over to knots and i think i said that phrase to you and i do think you were like crying laughing i guess i'm tooting my own horn but yes i think that said that phrase to you and I do think you were like crying laughing. I guess I'm tooting my own horn.

But yes, I think that my memory was like you couldn't catch your breath. Your lungs couldn't handle. Three single dads with three kids each. Three sons. Three sons each. That is important. All boys.

So nine boys. It gets worse the more sons you add. Yes. It gets more of a handful the more sons you add oh of course i would imagine i was wrong i said we were a third there we're only a ninth there so we're yeah we're a ninth there we're a ninth there as far as the bid is concerned now will the disney daddies rear their head at a certain other point before we've completed the prophecy were we we're all single yeah scott sorry scott in this prophecy you're divorced

yeah i know wait i have to i'm gonna break up with aaron for this looks like a bad time but if it if it gets us into an extra panel it'll get us into an extra panel and the joke i made a year and a half ago will come true which is all that matters um but yes we're one ninth of the way to actually be one ninth and three divorces away or i guess honestly one you could you could be the only divorce and then we just never marry we just have three kids yeah yeah we're marrying you know yeah that's it doesn't matter how you get there it's about that it's about the destination not the journey about the bit of the disney daddies um i approve this plan however uh you know like hey my my son cannot communicate barely anything i he does not give his permission to be part of this i will only do this with still a fraudulent

child all right all right the real child is not any part of the three. So we still got three to go. Statistically, like just the chances of us, say we each have three kids, which that seems hard enough. I love this one, but oh my God. Yeah, I'm not dying up the numbers to three just yet. Yeah, I think I suggested Jason get a dog and he almost passed out once. So I don't know. We'll see. But even the chances of just all of them being sons. So it's going to be probably pretty impossible to completely fulfill the prophecy of the Disney daddy.

So it did happen. If we somehow actually as much as. Yeah, there's the fake way we could do it and just start. We could just buy a GeoCities and start to get this website off the ground. But also what if we that would be bizarre if we look back and like oh my god we all had three sons it's like the what if yeah like better it's like the better call saul like pre it's like the origin story of the disney daddies is what podcast the ride is we're watching it form we also boy if we were if we could all say that we all, if we could also legitimately say the phrase,

my three sons, that makes sense because we're all such big fans of William Frawley. We're all big fans of, of I love Lucy. And later my three sons are going to force William Frawley on your child. Oh, absolutely. The stand,

you know, it's important. They learned the standards early on, you know, the good stuff. Rather than Santa, I'm going to do William Frawley. That's who brings presents every year and also, like, tries to shove a bottle of whiskey in his mouth. Hey, I put some air on you. All right. I think that's a great Christmas tradition in general.

Yeah. So I think, yeah, the podcast, we'll look back 10 years from now, will all be not funny anymore. There will be no comedy. It'll just be a blog, a GeoCities blog, and we'll go and get free things from Disney, which is Apple at that time, owned by Apple. We're just mad there wasn't enough Mountain Dew at the

Caribbean Beach silly string battle. It just wasn't. They really skimped on refreshments this year. I'm like, hello, you're the most successful company in the world. Can we get some Mountain Dew? There's no hint of irony anymore.

There's no self-awareness. It's just like, I counted the fries at the Hungry Bear. I counted the fries that you get with the cheeseburger at the Hungry Bear, and you used to get 35 fries, and now they're only giving you 27 or lower. And I think this is shameful coming from the Disney company. You call this guacamole. I call it melted avocados. The hand soap used to be pink, and now it is dark blue.

I disagree with this. It smells bad, too. I really don't like it. The Disney swan is disgusting. It's shameful that it's next to the Disney dolphin. They're not keeping these up equivalently. I'm one of the three goddamn Disney daddies. Do you know who I am?

I'm on the list to get into this opening night PR event for Legoland. I'm one of the goddamn Disney daddies. Well, I don't see your three sons anywhere. Oh, no, they don't come. They don't come to the things. They're a handful. They hate me. They hate Disney and they hate me.

Doesn't make me any less a Disney daddy. I don't know why I'm New York now, too, if I'm a Disney daddy. Well, because we're persnickety. In all these years, we got a lot more persnickety. Right. Partially because of the handful and partially because the food lately on resort has not been up to snuff. This is going to

be a fascinating character study over the course of 10, 20 years, this podcast. Yeah, yeah. The decay, the mental decay. I mean, it's very funny. It's lining up with the decay of all media. Like the rise of this the rise of

podcasting who knew the rest of media is just disappearing it's been referenced on the show before but there will be an episode that will be the walter white in the crawl space breaking bad moment when there was no going back uh did it just happen the in terms of our sanity with the father of the pride? Well, that was, you know, that was, that was a put, that was a push. That was, you know, Walt, I'm trying to think what, when he did like, well, that was maybe when he throws the explosion in the room with Tuco. That was an early change. We gotta get worse than that.

Yeah. That was an early one that Blake was slightly breaking up, but breaking us, but also, you know, it put us on the dark path, but it wasn't no return yet. I don't think I'm kidding when I say this, that I had a worse day doing the Father of the Pride marathon than I did during childbirth. That is not hard to believe. I genuinely, there were highlights or good things that happened. I'm not hard to believe. I genuinely, there was, yeah, there were highlights or good things that happened. I'm not sure Erin would agree. It's probably a different perspective for her.

But I would, like, I'm like, which day would I rather recall? Absolutely. Yeah. Even taking the, you know, the Polaroid moments not into account. It was Father of the pride way way more tedious we yes in case you don't know what we're talking about last week uh we put out a patreon uh that

was us watching all 13 episodes of his siegfried and roy cartoon called father of the pride uh and we did it in about what 10 hours 10 compact hours Eight? I don't know. It felt like ten. I feel like, yeah. That's about how long labor was, actually. It was like equivalent times. Yeah, I believe that. Again, were my son to be listening

to this. If you bailed, I understand. If you're asking why I do this or have done any of this, I don't know. i couldn't tell you um you'll be you'll be unsolving the mystery uh of your dad uh or solving the mystery of your dad for for a long time it's in your hands now i picture him like at 17 listening to this and he's dressed like mutt williams from indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull like he's a cool guy yeah well heading towards the towards the 2050s,

yeah, greasers are going to make a big comeback. Loop back around. Yeah. A hundred year-ish. Yeah, like Streets of Fire, like that future greaser, like Willem Dafoe, if you know what I'm talking about.

This movie, Streets of Fire. I forget who directed it. Somebody's going to be yelling. He'll throw his iPod in the, not iPod, whatever device Somebody's going to be yelling. He'll throw his iPod in the... Not iPod. Whatever device he's listening to this on, he'll throw it in the trash before he goes out and wins state.

Yeah. He took his football team all the way to state. Right, son? Is that the kind of thing you do? Dad, I play basketball, you idiot. You don't even know what sport I play. Oh, my dad, yeah, he talks about robots or something.

I don't know. I don't like to talk about him, honestly. And I'm right there. My dad bought an old Smart One animatronic from the auction down the street, and he's been trying to restore it for the last six months. I could barely get him to talk to me. I don't want to talk

to him, but I could barely get him to. He made me learn that name. He ran flashcards of all the robots and didn't teach me multiplication tables. He said, if you can't learn math from a ride, it's not worth learning.

He did tell me something about thanking the Phoenicians, though. I guess I'm thankful for that. And he laughed. He laughed a really quiet chuckle to himself when he said it. I don't know. Dude's weird. What can I say? Let's get high. Let's get high with some future weed.

I probably am at the point where I should peace out. This is all a lot of fun. I'm glad we did, but I am going to part ways. I am going to do baby stuff. I've made it about me and about my son for a while.

Now Mike and Jason are going to make it about you and your questions. Thanks for sending sending them in uh and i'm sorry i'm peacing out but um but uh you survived uh i guess the ride story of my child's birth edition um uh in all honesty uh this has all been uh really wonderful i am like more psyched about this at this juncture than I imagined that I could possibly be. He's the best. You guys are the best. Aaron, you're the best. The audience, you're the best. I'm full of love and joy.

And Mike, as you were saying, the irony is dripping away. This is where it starts. It's all earnestness from here. We can be earnest. I think the listeners would share. We would just say congratulations, Scott and Aaron yeah very excited about the new edition uh you know in a non-ironic way we don't have to make jokes be nice yeah true this could be a sincere moment oh maybe this is the walter white moment when there's no going back and we're not we're not ironic anymore oh my god oh i don't

know about that oh jason as scott and aaron were dealing with giving birth i won an auction on ebay for an islands of adventure watch from 20 years ago no but that's not there we go oh i guess yeah it's got you're kind of right yeah it's not it's not ironic. None of it is. I love it. Jason, that's your favorite place on the planet Earth. Yes. And look, you don't find port of entry based merchandise a lot. So I thought it was interesting. None of it's ironic. This is all stuff that we love.

And you know what? I think like that childless man, the childless man in your 30s, I think that it's not a literal fact as much as it is a state of mind. I still feel like a childless man in my 30s, even with a child, because I think, well, you know, that joke implies like a sad person maybe who's obsessed with all these things that nobody cares about. But how much joy have we gotten out of all of these things? And how much joy did it bring me in the lead up to having it before there was this baby giving me joy? It's all fun and wonderful. And maybe I won't be talking in this particular way if I stop, if the sleep gets tougher.

Well, you know, who knows what's around the corner uh but you know why don't why don't we let's is it three child like men in their 30s oh you know what i mean three peter three peter pan three peter no no no no that is one i am scrubbing that i've said this to you guys already. My son will not know of Pan. If you're listening to this, don't worry about it. I'm not talking about anything. I don't want to hear anything about I don't want to grow up. You're growing up.

You're doing it. You're not a little boy forever. Don't be ridiculous. Your son's in the big top hat with the glasses. He's best friends with Pan. I like those guys. They're fine. But you know what? S's. He's best friends with me. I like those guys. They're fine. But you know what?

Maybe if we decide to tweak that as time goes on, but I think first of all that's the least amount of letters that we could possibly have to change. That's only three. And you could actually delete it such that the E just goes backwards two notches and you add the S's on the end.

So I like it for clarity and brevity. But I also I like the ring of it, too. Yes. I mean, we could really take the word out. Three men in their 30s, also pretty funny. Yes, I know. Me having a kid doesn't excuse any of this. Also, I will say once we're all what do you consider late 30s is it 37 and on

what do people think i think 37 and on yeah because i think mid would be uh 34 we could say for now we could say uh three uh men in their mid 30s mid funny, and then late 30s is even funnier. So we can adapt it there as well, just to add a little bit of an extra, like, mid-30s is a funny, more specific thing, but late 30s, I think, is good. We could all try this together with a screen share. We could all kind of workshop it and just make sure we all feel good about the words forming

as we adjust to the very important twitter bio yeah so yeah we're gonna do a lot a lot of work on this but these are just some early ideas yeah yeah um well yeah for now from some childlike men in their mid-30s um one of which has a son in his less than two weeks who is absolutely wonderful i love him very much uh i for now i'm signing off you guys do whatever you want to do thanks for bearing with me and uh audience amazingly because we've been recording so much uh i'll i'll talk to you next week it'll be like scott scott's not doing anything Yeah. It's like none of this ever happened. It's like, well, time travel to late March. Awesome. Hey, thanks, fellas.

This was nice. Nice to talk to everybody. Welcome back. Jason and Mike are here. How are you doing, Mike? We're back. How am I? Yeah, fine.

I was fine an hour ago. I feel like, you know, how do we top, you know, a baby announcement? We really can't, honestly. We really should have just done an hour and not. You know what? I don't even want to do the mailbag. I think we shouldn't do it. This is a big turn.

Yeah, I think we should just stop. I think we can't top it. I'm just kidding. We're going gonna do the mail bag we asked for questions you had some things you wanted to talk about uh well i can chat all i have to do is watch uh better call saul season finale tonight so i'm here i'm ready to go uh yeah well i don't know i had been spending some of the quarantine reading, you know, the theme park blogs, the theme park trades. And, you know, in between people, you know, reaching for content, I feel like there has slowly been an uptick in, like, actual, like, I guess two categories.

One is, like, people trying to estimate when stuff's going to open back up. Well, that's a guess. The guessing game of, if you go on any of the, you know, mouse info Facebook page, that's not the real, like if you go there, it's just endless speculating,

people just throwing out months that they think is the day that these parks reopen it's it's yes it's endless it's endless when you're talking about people guessing yeah i mean i i was reading blue loop a lot and like they had you know some long time theme park industry journalists and watchers like speculating of what's going to happen and like it the these seemingly agreed upon thing is that like well they're gonna you know kind of discourage cues for a while like tight cues probably wear masks you know probably make people stand six feet apart

um that sort of thing seems to be a given, if only because Shanghai Disney has slowly started to reopen. Well, yeah, they have not opened the park as of this. I mean, unless they surprisingly open it up and we're recording this like a week and a half before this comes out. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. I don't know.

Still the problem with this is that we're so early into this pandemic that I don't know the still the problem with this is that we're so early into this uh pandemic that I don't know like yeah like Shanghai could have opened and there could be a big resurgence in the disease and close before American parks even go so I don't know the whole thing is chaos I don't I truly I'm sure Disney and Universal are having discussions because we've heard for sure that there was a survey sent out asking Universal people if they would be willing to do a covid test before going into the park. restrictions so obviously internally they're all gauging it but i i at a certain point i was thinking you know maybe uh it'll be ready for haunt season so i can you know i'm a guy who loves haunts maybe we'll be ready for haunt season and i don't i don't know that that's gonna be i don't know that's gonna happen i really don't i'm doubtful i think, I feel like I saw the shift in real time,

like within a week of like, will it be ready for Haunt season two early 2021? These places? Well, especially because California is basically saying they don't think there should be any gatherings, large gatherings, sporting events, et cetera, concerts until 2021 at the earliest so yes and this couldn't this couldn't be more depressing after the joy of childbirth

the miracle of life true uh that's true you know we'll get to the questions we'll get to the we'll get to the questions the other category of stuff that you and i have texted about a bit is that universal construction still going full steam ahead yes because it is okay so disney stopped doing construction and now construction everywhere has stayed working in places even like in california and certain certain things that you wouldn't think are maybe essential there's still construction going on they're going to blow up the bridge over here by my apartment

or they have already that's a whole thing and I think that is not slowed down at all but yes Disney just today laid off a lot of their construction workers that they have on the payroll I read yeah and I think Mice chat just posted a big rundown of aerial photography of just jason i saw all the mice chat photos today do you think i didn't wake

up and first thing check mice chat.com of course i did they had an aerial photo of a quinjet in the marvel land yeah it was like covered with like a blanket i guess not a blanket i guess like a tarp uh i don't know it's unclear if maybe there are a few people still doing stuff at disney but as far as like massive construction it appears that all the parks have ceased to ceased uh working not the case with universal i i heard this i think i was in a twitch stream a lot of my anecdotes now are about well i was in a twitch stream and a nice uh a nice viewer of the stream let me know that universal was still building um and then we have a friend who lives right off of lancashire right by hollywood universal and he was like oh yeah universal is working

around the clock because you can see nintendo land you can see mario kart from lancashire this giant building and apparently he goes yeah i stand out when i take the dog out every night and watch the construction uh so it is very interesting my speculation is that universal is you know owned by a telecom it's's Comcast Universal. They have a lot more money coming in than Disney does. I kind of feel like Universal's like, now is the time to

strike. Now is the time. We're going to get one up on Disney because they don't want to just keep building and we can just keep construction going. I guess we can expect Nintendo to land on the same timetable from whatever it was going to be. Yeah, they're going to open up with brand new stuff.

It'll be two years out of a pandemic, and it's like Universal has new rides in every park. Yeah, because I think that's the only way. That will certainly help boost attendance. Because that survey they were sending out were like, how would you feel if half the park was closed? And I was just at a laugh reading that. Because it's like, are you still going to charge 100% of admission

with half the park closed? Because the place is not really famous with doing like discount sales or slashing prices, you know? How would you feel if you had a bad time at the park? Yeah, my family. How would you feel if we let you down? My family was looking towards like a trip to Florida when it was decorated for Christmas this year. And then I think we just kind of called it because like, well, at best it would be weird.

Like it would be a little too weird for a little while or a little too many hoops to jump through. There's just no way. There's just no true way to prevent the spread of an infectious disease when you're talking about a bunch of people cycling through buildings all day. There's just no way unless it was like uh unless like space mountain was like one person goes down the aisle and then a team member comes in and sprays disinfectant down the hall then the next person comes in like there's no real way to do it i don't know who knows the

answer is i don't know haunt season there's that there's a look if I think I've been saying that they could just turn Mickey and friends into a COVID-19 testing site they just throw up booths in front of the ticket booth in the Mickey and friends parking garage and they literally just do the crazy swab

that might be the only way I like feel kind of secure about that and even then it's like who knows that that's even that good of a way to gauge? Who knows? Sure. So we don't have any answers. You turn to us not for answers, I hope. We're just a couple of idiots.

We're just a couple of idiots. But if you're looking for a deep dive uh start searching universal patents because they're out there oh yeah there's universal patents yes there's a crazy ride that looks like it goes in water and then it flies uh that's very exciting all that stuff yeah you know like look you come to us for message board speculation and reviews of aerial photos of Disneyland posted on micechat.com. Yeah. That is what we're here for. And believe me, there was a helicopter video of somebody flying over Disneyland the other day.

I watched the shit out of that. Sure. And I was like, oh, yeah, that's what the guy was very amused by the Splash Mountain show building and how it looks so different from above. And you know what? He's 100% right. I zoomed back on that three times and went, wow, he, whoa, it looks so different from above. So that's what I've been doing with my time while Scott's off having a baby.

Scott's off. Yeah. Do you think he's still like you know while he's rocking the baby back to sleep is he checking those mice chat aerial photos well he yeah i i haven't been texting him mice chat aerial photos i don't know because i feel like sometimes uh on the show we'll be like hey did you see this and he'll be like oh what is it what did i have to see but then like then he's listening and watching all the same stuff we are so that's

true i think there's a good chance he's he's seen that quinjet with a blanket over it i sent a very odd special of like circus acts in world showcase and uh i was like you guys seen this one he was like yeah we watched it last week and i'm like okay we're all doing we're all doing this i'd also like to say that i found the disney daddy's logo i made a year and a half ago yeah and it's great we'll be posting that and all i can say is rainbow comic sans it's yeah it's Comic Sans, as if I'm Karnak and I was about to do a joke. So, yeah, Disney Daddies. You will see that on the Twitter and eventually whatever we use. The IP, Disney Daddies.

I really should copyright it as well. Yeah. Because I don't want that falling into the wrong hands. Print it out, put it in an envelope mail it to yourself poor poor man's poor man's copyright copyright yeah is that right yeah so that just means you don't have to pay a fee it's just like does that really work though i don't i feel like it worked back in the day where everything was mail-based you know where you just everyone had a ton of catalogs for anything specific i feel like i feel like poor man's copyright should be called

lazy man's copyright uh yeah i think that's right lazy dude's copyright that's let's from now on we're calling poor man's copyright lazy dude's copyright let's do it uh okay so what are we doing mailbag what are you unless you want a bag yeah other. Do you have any announcements? Are you having a baby or anything? No. I have lost... I lost my eBay bid for the Incredible Hulk coaster in cast member uniforms. Okay.

Which, yeah, I don't know that they... I do wonder how they got a hold of it to resell. I got a notification from eBay today that the seller of one of the Michael Eisner signed 8x10s will give me a 15% off discount, bringing the total to, I believe, $38.99. I believe... They could do better.

I could make another offer. I could see if we could get off uh but you know let's see maybe we will get to talk to the man himself maybe he has you know a picture of himself on an eight by ten wearing a winnie the pooh sweatshirt yeah michael that would be the that'll be the last thing we'll ask him on the interview do you you have any 8x10s of you, preferably in the age range of 38 to 51, wearing sweatshirts with characters we like? Yeah, that is a thing I find endearing about him, that he looked like he would dress like a person going to the park.

Yes, Eisner needs to look more like a dad like a dad look like he needs more sweatshirts he needs more like back like backward baseball caps leiger yeah iger yeah iger busy he's busy right now but i want to see like i want to see like war room iger you know yeah get him in a spirit jersey spirit jersey yes you know what Yeah, get him in a spirit jersey. Spirit jersey, yes. You know what would be good? Yes, anything that didn't sell at the theme parks, he should be wearing.

Like, really, we're cutting the budgets here. Let's show in the company that he is participating as well. Swing by the Disney character outlet. Like, if the I'm So Fly Peter Pan shirts weren't selling, he should be in like an XXL I'm So Fly shirt in a picture of him in like a war room meeting with JPEG and the board. That's great, because then all the business, like all the like wannabe CEOs out there

will be like, oh, wow, I gotta get one of... I gotta get like that Timonin, that XXL Timonin Pumbaa sweatshirt that said grub time on it. Yes, he should, he should have, he should be wearing athletic pants that say nutcracker in the four realms on the butt.

He should be any sort of merch that and clothing that is left over he should be showing us what he's doing and improving it by wearing that and then also fulfilling um michael eisner's legacy of dressing more like a dad more like a regular joe yeah because they're not going to move those pallets of artemis foul baseball caps i don't think those are going to go fast. I was just going to say, Eisner, now that I think about it, he owns this company that makes BoJack Horseman and made Tuca and Birdie. There's a picture of him wearing a BoJack Horseman hat and wearing a John Cena shirt. And this is from the last few years. So he is still doing it.

He's an everyman. He's the everyman. Iger's trying to be too cool for school. He's trying to be James Bond. We don't want that, especially right now during a crisis. We want Artemis Fowl, Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Lone Ranger. If he could wear Lone Ranger shoes shoes lone ranger boots toms oh okay

toms that look like promotional toms that look like boots yeah toms that have spurs on the bottom if there's spur toms that uh eiger could be wearing i think that would if the whole board honestly chapek kind of dresses you know like an office guy i think chapek could be helping out too um and yeah any of these movies and dig back yeah dig back into the archives mr boogity shirt for bob chapek uh herbie goes to monte carlo sunglasses anything any of that stuff works pretty well, I think. Absolutely. Okay.

We're way over now on this episode. Let's just get to some questions. Yeah, let's get to some questions. All right. You got one queued up? Hold on. Do you have one? I mean, I sure. Yeah.

Okay. Go ahead. Jen DeMaria. I'm sorry. I've butchered your name already. Mastronardi, she asked if I'm allergic to bananas. And I don't think I am, but I will say this. I was told by someone via DMs that what I think is a banana allergy might actually be something in disguise. It might be uh an oral

allergy that i have to ragweed oh yeah i don't know if that's true or not but but apparently that is uh sometimes if you eat a banana i can i'll just read what she said she said the proteins of the banana are similar enough to those of ragweed pollen that it causes your oral mucosa to have a minor allergic reaction. It will likely happen with cantaloupe and honeydew and maybe chamomile tea. So I should try that and see if it's the same thing. So that actually sheds more light on what happened in the recent episode from confrontation. I was discussing how I like cough a little bit eating a banana. And we tried to see if I was allergic by rubbing a banana on my hand,

which is probably not the best way to do it, but nothing happened. I did not have any sort of skin reaction. Anyway, you were saying something? I was going to say, how do you fare come pollen season? Because I feel like Lindsay and I are usually calling out like, oh, this is a bad year. I thrive during pollen season. Oh, you thrive? Okay, great. I thrive, so I thrive during pollen season. Oh, you thrive.

Okay, great. I thrive, so I'm fine during then. What do you got? Okay, I actually just came in through our email. This is from AJ Curry. Assuming no park hoppers, what's the ideal order to do the four parks on a Disney World trip?

They say they're partial to Magic Kingdom, then Animal Kingdom, then Hollywood Studios ending in Epcot. I think that's a pretty good order. I think it kind of depends on where you're staying. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of variables to this question. Yeah.

I mean, as a kid, you you go the family you know you usually hit up magic kingdom first although when we got a little earlier a little older um we would usually get down into orlando around lunchtime so then by the time we dropped our bags at the hotel had some lunch i think we would usually do like a half day at Epcot because that's an easy park to like kind of just ease into, you know? Yes. I mean, Epcot is like I kind of consider Epcot the your safe house, your chill out house for the parks. So it's like maybe you did have an intense day at Magic Kingdom trying to do a lot of rides. You go to Epcot and you chill out.

There's the most chill out zones at epcot that's what i like so my real i mean i would say like you know do magic kingdom go to epcot do hollywood studios go to epcot do animal kingdom and then you guessed it go back to epcot sure it's like i like that now i guess if the question is you have one day per park, if you don't do the park hopper, if that's what the exercise, the mental exercise we're doing here. I think, honestly, for me personally, what I would do is I would do Magic Kingdom first because it's similar to Disneyland, but I like Disneyland better. So it's sort of my not as much of a priority.

Then next, I'm probably going Hollywood Studios, even though Hollywood Studios has gotten more stuff over the years. Then I'm doing Animal Kingdom. And then I am probably ending on Epcot to just send the trip off on a nice, relaxed note. Yeah, I think that's right sure i think their order makes sense too of like magic kingdom and animal king like knock out that part of the property and then shift over to the other part of the property right but i mean i understand cost is always an issue i think park hopping in florida is such a joy yeah that's sort of one of my favorite things is to have the flexibility there to do that.

It's to be like, oh, wow, we realize Epcot is open two hours later. We should do, yeah, let's do like, there's a fun discovery there. So anyway, that's my feeling on that topic. I have a question here from Thomas Lipscomb. What other animatronics would you like to see turn into DJs? Now, we've talked a little bit, I think was on the anniversary show from Dynasty Typewriter, about, you know, like an Eisner DJ, but he doesn't have an animatronic. So we really haven't fully gotten into animatronic DJ talk.

Now, my answer is, the problem with my answer is it's mostly like all of them. Yeah. I can't think of a single animatronic I wouldn't want to be a DJ. But let's, maybe that's actually better unless you have a good answer let's figure out animatronics we do not want to be djs i think easily trump i don't want the animatronic of trump to be a dj yeah i think anything anything too scary maybe like i don't know if i want to be constantly looking at the alien encounter alien oh wait a minute now that's interesting you're saying the terrifying not

the uh what's his name and i can't think of the alien before the cute alien that they fry skippy not skippy you're saying it's truly like xenomorph esque alien DJing. Yeah. No, I think I would want like Skippy and a hat and like a lot of wristbands. Let me throw this scenario out at you. It's Alien Encounter. It's the same room, but you can have a

drink with you and that alien is in the tube, but he's DJing. Oh, okay. And he's DJing all the hottest hits of the day if he's being cool okay maybe maybe if he's being cool i think he's being cool i think he's playing uh the newest hits from uh travis scott uh i'm trying to think of other hip artists that i could reference here uh hmm uh leepo do yes charlie x i is that right charlie xcx xcs sorry x i x x c x i yeah charlie X-C-A-X-I. Yeah, Charlie, I love it. Sia? I know. She's been around for a long time. Still hanging around.

Yeah. She's great. She covers her face. I know her. So he's DJing. You have a fun cocktail because it's Magic Kingdom in Florida and you can drink there. So that's good. And then it's sort of like an enjoyable show. But I will say probably once every few hours,

the alien does break out and try to kill everyone in the middle of the DJ set. So you're listening to a Travis Scott song, and then the lights go out, and then the alien attacks you while that song is playing. I actually think it sounds less scary. Yeah, yeah. Wait, no.

So you're saying he does attack you occasionally i'm saying he has to occasionally attack maybe not every show i think it should go through okay maybe if it goes through the motions like he's gonna attack and then he just his like little arm claw thing just stretches out and it's got an air horn or like a t-shirt gun or something like it's like yeah like he fools you yeah it's actually a reggaeton horn that's good so yeah and then like when you hear him like that's when the beat drops it seems like he's gonna attack and then the beat drops. It seems like he's going to attack and then the beat drops. Oh, yeah, that's good. And then you hear him scratching next to you?

Yes. You hear him scratching a record for the DJ set? Yeah. Yeah, that's good. I'm trying to think. I think that I was going to say the Yeti should be a DJ, but he doesn't have much movement. So I guess he's out. I will say I don't want the Yeti to be a DJ on Expedition Everest.

Right. Just because he doesn't have the range of movement. But I do want the Abominable Snowman on the Matterhorn to be a DJ. Okay. Yeah. He moves around a lot moves around a lot the energy up he can keep the energy up and again i'd love i would love to go on the matterhorn while they're blasting one of my favorite modern artists like travis scott yeah um yeah let's see

i'm trying to think of any other animatronics I don't want to be DJs. It's tough. All the other presidents, yes. They should all be DJs. Maybe not George W. Bush. I'm still hung up on scary. So like any of the Harry Potter, like the Death Eaters or the Big Spider. I think a Death Eater DJ would be awesome you don't want you just don't

like scary you don't like scary djs is what we're getting i think he's got a if he has a flat brim hat on i think it humanizes him are you take some cute are you scared of dead mouse oh dead mouse is a little because he's just the head he has it but it's not yeah but i'm saying you can't see his face so you do find him scary do you find daft punk scary um i don't think i find daft punk scary dead mouse has the x's over the eyes usually right yeah so he's dead because he's dead yeah because he's dead yeah yeah. Because he's dead, yeah. Yeah. What if you put Deadmau5 on Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, or whatever the ride is called? That would certainly make it, yeah, more foreboding for my taste.

I think that Death Eater part of the ride, though, would be cool if that was a big DJ room and there was a strobe going, because that part of the ride freaks me out. Okay, yeah. Yeah, it freaks me out okay yeah it yeah it freaks me out too that could be a cool horror nights flip if she would loosen up a little yeah come on jk and make it a party jk won't have any fun and let us have a party in harry potter land which is what we're all dying for. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Party. It's like they have to have, it's like she's mom and we have to have it secretly there while she's not home.

And then we can have, yeah, we can have all the fun. You can project, you can play modern songs in Hogsworth. I was play modern songs in Hogsworth. I was about to call it Hogsworth. Hogsmeade. I know what it's called.

Sure. Is Hogsworth a character or did I just create a character? I think you just created some sort of pig based character. I just created a character called Hogsworth and he's got a monocle. He's got a top hat. He's a ruthless businessman. Oh, he's a ruthless businessman oh he's a tyrant he's a tyrant dictator he's a dictator yeah um and he is on let's say he's a mascot of a candy bar that i just created called hogsworth hogsworth's it's a little smoky it's it's almost like you it tricks you into thinking there's pig

in that chocolate bar which is something you've been saying for a long time that you wanted a chocolate bar that made you uh fooled you into thinking you were eating pig fooled me into thinking i was eating yeah pork product in my chocolate bar the commercial is like you'll think you're eating pig. I am very, you know, I am sure, you know, people say, oh, he's a treat guy and he likes pork. I'm very conflicted about a lot of that, like chocolate covered bacon or maple bacon donuts. I feel like I've had good executions of it, but I feel like it's a thing that you can't skimp on. Like it can't be a thing.

I'll be honest. I don't go wild for it. It's not my go-to. I'm not that into it. I'm kind of a sucker for birthday cake flavored stuff. Well, now you know who you're talking to here. Well, yeah. I know you would agree on that. I think we were at Comic-Con and they were passing around trays of maple bacon donuts, and those were pretty good.

Sure. Look, if we're at a party at Comic-Con, and there's a tray of bacon-based something, I will have it. I will try it. But it's never my top order, because getting it wrong, it's extra bad. Yeah. A bad birthday cake thing is like whatever. You can stomach it, but it doesn't matter. All right.

Do you have a question? I do. There's another email. This is from Justin. Justin says he lives in New Jersey and recently moved for work next to the Atlantic City Airport. He bought an annual pass to Disney World right before everything got nuts, and his plan was to fly down for weekly Saturday

day trips. Justin was wondering do we know anyone in the PTR community that is as crazy as he is? I don't think that's that crazy. The flight from Atlantic City is very quick to Orlando. i think it's very

ambitious and justin i think you might have the worst timing uh imaginable on that purchase i think i think most of the podcast the right listeners are just the resources away from being just as crazy i don't think i don't know what your situation is, the flexibility in your life to be able to do that. I think with the right amount of money and the right flexibility, I think all of us would be like, nah, we fly down to Florida once a month.

The only thing to me that might be slightly crazy on that angle is that the only, I believe the current domestic airline that it only serves, the only one that serves the Atlantic City Airport is Spirit. So I think the craziness might more come from, like, do you really want to fly Spirit Airlines that much that often? The other things that fly in there are, like, New Jersey's Air National Air National Guard and like charter flights from Caesars. Also, Justin is asking us this question. You got to know who you're talking to here. He has to bring something a lot crazier to the party than that.

If he's thinking he's going to like out crazy us. Like, have I like multiple times driven an hour and a half down to anaheim and gone to like work on my laptop for no reason yes i understand that's not a big as a big of a commitment but he's got to bring up something like you know i i put out a put a third mortgage on my house in order to fund an annual pass uh he's got to say like you know i i'm driving to florida every time i'm staying up 48 hours going to the park for 12 and driving back with no sleep that's crazy that i would say is crazy but once a month taking a nice little flight and going to a theme park you're a very normal person sir when it when he compares to people that listen to this show and the people who perform this show yeah so i'm saying i'm saying justin you're gonna have to bring it brother

you're gonna have to really bring it if you want to uh be the crazy one in this hen house if you want to be the fox in this hen house yeah i mean we sometimes we have gone down we've made the mistake or had to go down friday late afternoon early evening and that drive i will tell you the drive from the phil the drive to anaheim from los angeles can be twice as long as that flight from the Philadelphia, New Jersey area. Yeah. Yes, I agree with what you're saying. So yeah, Justin, try harder next time.

That's what I'm saying. That's the summing up. Let's see here. I have a question from Dave Lindquist. If you had a time machine and could use it only once to visit a theme park at any point in the past what park and year would you pick i mean you gotta go opening day disneyland right you gotta you gotta do that i know that's a that's a trite that's an easy answer but you gotta see the heels in the cement you gotta see to see the people being like paying a nickel to use a ladder to climb the wall.

You got to see Walt walking around with art link letter. You know, you. But don't you think there is like like there's got to be a day back in the 90s, back when everything we like that's now closed is like open simultaneously well look of course there are a million answers to this question yeah i would also say there's there's opening day of indiana jones to hopefully get hit with the ice effect that's true yeah and in case no one knows what i'm talking about the supposedly according to the man who made the ride tony baxter for the first what a month or two there was an effect on the indiana jones ride where they would drop ice on you just as you were entering

the temple and seeing mara or maybe after it i'm not sure i think it might be right after it. I'm not sure. I think it might be right after it. It's around there. But the effect was essentially there was a, like a, I guess an industrial freezer in the ceiling that would create ice and then drop it on the front of your car to make it feel like the whole place was coming down. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wasn't it where you see the large boulder? Wasn't it at that point? And Indy's hanging from the rope? I believe it's earlier.

I could totally be wrong. You can Google it while I'm talking if you want, but I believe it was at least before or after Mara. I think, I think. But what happened was, it's an incredible strain to put on that freezer and they just couldn't get it working consistently. So it's in there apparently. It's still in the ceiling. It's just the't get it working consistently. So it's,

it's in there. Apparently it's still in the ceiling. It's just the effect doesn't work anymore, but man, I am obsessed with this effect. I'm obsessed with the idea that there would actual physical stuff would drop onto the car, uh,

at a certain point. Um, so I, that like that, that is definitely on my top, uh, a hundred theme park history days that I would want to visit. I feel like they wouldn't even get anywhere near that level of liability now.

Yeah, you would think. I wonder what fail safes they had in practice then to make sure no piece of ice hit a kid in the front row of the car. Because you would think that would be very possible um yeah i would want i would want to go to disney land to see the opening of star tours where george lucas was there with c3po and r2d2 that's like stuff like that for sure yeah and and the face character um luke and leia and han right oh uh was that the same i think that's the same day yeah i think so yeah um so stuff like that is a big deal i would love to see like i would love to go visit knots before it was knots berry farm like when it was a berry farm. When it was just a roadside

chicken pie restaurant. I think we could both agree that we would both visit the roadside chicken pie stand. I guess she always made fried chicken. I guess she wasn't really a chicken pie place.

Every time we go to Knott's, you put a comment card in the box that says, could you shut down the theme park and just focus on chicken pies, please? Could you just, yeah, can you just make it a point to be a dirty roadside car hop? Focus on chicken pies and jam, please. So focus on chicken pie. This is distracting from your core mission to feed weary travelers going between LA and San Diego. Your first Bluegrass album is called Chicken Pies and Jam, as far as I'm concerned,

when I finally force you to put out an album. That's after you sing the old ones. Yeah. Like Bill Frawley, which will, I guess, that episode hasn't come out yet. There'll be some fun singing of the old ones in a few weeks. That's all I will say as a tease. You know, we got to wait for the recording booth to open back up. We got to wait for Barry Gordy to have some availability. You will only work with Barry Gordy.

I will. He's still kicking, right? I believe he is. Oh, is he? Yeah, I believe he's alive. Oh, I was trying to make it. I thought he died years ago. I'll look it up, but I believe he's alive.

And I'll cut this out if he's not. He is 90 years old, my friend. Wow. Barry Gordy. And maybe he's not working but we'll we'll pull him out of retirement yeah we'll pull him out when he hears when he hears that jason sheridan from podcast the ride wants to start a recording career he will uh he will he will get into action he'll spring into action i thought this day would never come. I love the ironic theme park podcast.

I was going to say the last one I have is, of course, opening day of Hard Rock Park. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, that's great. Can you imagine? Can you imagine walking around and seeing Winston the Punk Rock Dog? I don't think you'd have to tear me away from Nights in White Satin. What is also great is that if we were there opening day, we would be one of about 200 people that visited, and we would be able to get on all the rides a lot. Oh, yeah.

So we would not be fighting crowds opening day of hard rock park um yeah so i don't know those honest to god if the time machine was giving me one date it's probably opening disneyland but look if i have the time machine for a couple weeks you know i'm going all these places sure uh all right i got two quick ones to wrap it up first one Alice Carpenter asks all of these older Universal episodes have me searching eBay for some old Universal merchandise what are some of the crazy merchandise for Universal that you stumbled upon well I teased this earlier I bought I paid $20 for a watch a rectangular watch, an odd shaped watch that has the Islands of Adventure

lighthouse on it. And so I'm waiting for that to arrive. I lost out on an auction for a red baseball cap that had Nancy and Sluggo on it, on the front. Yes, and on the back it said

Islands of Adventure. it must have been an opening around opening piece of merchandise oh my god i really tried was it it ended up going for i think maybe i just waited too long it didn't go for a lot like 15 or 20 bucks and you lost it i know i know this is great there is I mean, look, we have a lot of fun on this show. I made a lot of offers. I made a lot of offers on that one. And then I think I just made too many. We talk about, you know, we've compared you to different cartoon characters.

But I think my favorite one to compare you to is Sluggo. I mean, look, back in the spotlight the modern the current nancy comic i am i am he's wonderful i am desperately searching for this right now it's islands of adventure nancy and sluggo baseball hat yeah it's gone this was ages ago this is a while ago oh my god i am this is i've never been more panicked to try to find something i know I know right It's not on e there's not a new one on ebay Oh my god we have to find this

We have to all have one too Oh that'd be great Yeah that'd be really good Oh my god okay I guess I'm gonna have to get back to this I guess we'll start yeah we'll start the hunt You win because I don't have anything nearly as good universal we've talked about before doesn't is a little bit lacking in the crazy merch arena yeah we just pay i mean we were there for the 20th anniversary of islands of adventure and there was no anniversary stuff i was shocked yeah they didn't at least have a t-shirt there's um i see a dudley do-right baseball hat

with uh like ranger character or no no no it is dudley himself sorry it's dudley yeah he looks weird on the hat though i didn't i would know dudley do-right is weird printing on this hat these weren't the best nancy and slugos which might have made it only the more valuable i was gonna say that makes it better i don't think it had a buy it more buy it now option or else obviously i would have just done that but because like even just going through the hats for universal i'm not seeing anything that like blows me away with its like kitschiness or its weirdness yeah it's a little i mean i kind of i like a lot of the merch that you find on ebay because it's so like square like it is there's a lot of like they really tried the year t-shirts for a while but um yeah i found an annie hat though that's pretty good yeah islands of adventure

orphan annie white youth hat which sounds like it's a racist thing, but no, it's just the color of the hat is white and it's for a child. It sounds sus some way. It definitely sounds odd. White youth. White youth. Saying white youth is really,

you can't say white youth. You can't say white youth these days, folks. Folks, we're bringing it back. We're bringing back the phrase. We're bringing it back. The hat measurement and the say white youth these days folks folks we're bringing it back we're bringing back the phrase we're bringing it back the hat measurement and the color white youth and we're going to make it happen uh so this is a this hat looks like pretty pristine i wonder if this is actually a newer item um there's like the yeah there's some Cat in the Hat stuff. But Universal really feels like, whereas Disney will carve out 10% or 20% for retro and to cater to nerds like us, it feels like Universal is shooting for mainstream purchasing, you know, 99% of the time.

They're shooting for, like, grandma who likes Cat in the Hat, but she's not looking for some sort of vintage shirt to represent the Blues Brothers show that happened 20 years ago in the streets. I know it's also happening now, but... Yeah, and maybe that's part of it. It's like licensing on some of those movies gets very weird, but you would think it would be a given to have a faded,

like the neon Universal Studios Florida sign, like the neon, like just Universal Studios logo that you can still see the statue of at Hollywood. You would think that would be a given. Like Disney has like very, a long time ago figured out like, oh, let's sell some Heather Gray beat up Mickey shirts. Like that's like an easy go-to purchase yes it fools my idiot brain i go oh that that's cool and it looks cool and it makes me seem cool

yeah i i i went down a rabbit hole trying to find like there they did have a little bit of older merch that you can find on ebay with the universal escape universal uh short-lived marketing uh logo which i i don't want to give i i i'll wait for her to be back back from maternity leave before i start giving uh eric gerdner t-shirt design suggestions but a ptr t-shirt with the in the Universal Escape style. Maybe we just sell one of those and it's just to me, but that tickles my fancy. Yeah, is she two weeks out of childbirth?

Yes. I think text her after we're done, though, with a couple exclamation points. Hey, I've got some ideas for new t-shirt designs. I think she needs to get on this now. I think you really should start now. Well, it's like Scott said, for their son. For their son. Yes, that's what it's for.

That's what we're doing it for now. I just found Rare Universal Studios Islands of Adventure Toon Lagoon Popeye Coin Medallion. This is interesting. $63.75 it was purchased for. So that's pretty weird. Is that in like a little booklet? Yes, a little box.

Yeah, I've come across stuff like that. Yeah, they did have collectible coins for like odd collectors going after like the Franklin Mint enthusiasts. Right. The souvenir spoon enthusiasts. Hey, let's bring back tiny souvenir spoons maybe that's something we need the spoon collecting market spoon collecting because yeah pins i don't know are pins is popular they tried i mean they they have a lot of pins they tried doing a little pin

thing for a while right but i think spoons spoons is the way forward i mean there's fan blog there's blogs and podcasts just about universal i like the i think the market is there for a little bit of weird stuff yes um i mean we've met the some of the merchandise people from knots and they're all in on the company's history on like obscure stuff and i i am very impressed with what they do with the smaller yeah you know staff and stuff they have they can't go hardcore though because like we want like circle cloud nine and circle k shirts which i think they may have done a little bit a while ago but those aren't always in circulation and also we want the music of knots which doesn't seem to be anything that they'll do

soon no because like not says like there's an original song there's a lot of original music but there's an original song on the hall halloween overlay of the log flume ride of the uh i'm blanking on the name of it because i'm in a hot room and i can't remember anything timber mountain log right thank you timber mountain log ride there's an original song that that animal band is playing and i want it i want to listen to i want to listen to i want to make a playlist of that a travis scott song all my favorites it's just those two and they loop yes the travis scott song i like and the timber mountain hog halloween overlay music halloween overlay all right what else was your last what we have last the last one it feels fitting because the Timber Mountain Log Halloween overlay music. Halloween overlay.

All right. What else? What's your last? What do we have last to wrap this up? This is the last one. It feels fitting because I know you said you wanted to go watch Better Call Saul. This is from user Drakingbad. Drakingbad. Nice.

What's your favorite Disney resort hotel that you've never stayed in? This is a funny. You just picked like a very dry clinical question to end here i figured it would inspire some conversation it'd be a nice note to end on it sure sure it would but it wasn't like you know which uh which character would be oh no if you have one of those we can end on one of those no i don't think i have one uh i'll give you my answer i think uh and it was disney specific is that right they said disney yeah um yeah uh i think i have stayed i am very lucky i have stayed at all the big three i have stayed at the three uh contemporary

grand floridian and polynesian um so I think that Animal Kingdom Lodge looks cool and I would like to stay there because it reminds me of Grand Californian. Very lucky I've stayed there as well. But I like, I'm very fascinated by it. I haven't even actually been over there to that hotel. Oh, I ate a Boma once. Yeah, it's really neat. So so yeah i think it's that i think

that's my answer but there you know there's new ones opening up if if things open up what's the new one called that's opening or opened reflections reflections yeah disney resort i mean that looks interesting yeah um but yeah i don't know i don't would you have a big one well i uh yeah for a practical reason i and we my family had talked about doing this next time we go down uh i've never stayed at the yacht or beach club um and that is the only way to get to their crazy pool nowadays like you used to just be able to, we would, I mean, we would stay on site and we would like pool hop all the time. And if you stayed at a Disney hotel, that was kosher. And if you were cool about it, it was always kosher.

Uh, and then it was just vacation clubs. Members could pool hop. So we got that perk for a few years and then uh now i think they've even limited that pool specifically to like yeah vacation club members can still do some pool hopping they cannot go to um god i'm blanking on the name it's like it's a big selling point for the resort hmm i don't know uh i i what's funny about it is i didn't even think about yacht and beach club or boardwalk because i hang out over there so much in my brain i felt like i have been there but i have not stayed or yeah i have not stayed at either place and i would love to do

that too because that's what i did the boardwalk a couple times and uh yeah it's great that combined with epcot center like that combined with world showcase i don't should i is that the best plot of land on the disney world resort is that the best coolest section is especially as our adult as adults as adults i think yeah it being able to walk to epcot and hollywood studios and having that many bars and restaurants and nice hotels it is pretty yeah it is pretty hard to beat uh that as far as ambience at night is hanging out on the boardwalk or hanging out at yacht and beach club walking into world showcase leaving i think I said this on the episode when we, on our recap of when we took our trip, is that I was really wound up the day,

first day we got there, just because I hadn't slept a lot, trying to coordinate everybody getting into the park at the same time, blah, blah, blah. And I went over, I sat at World Showcase. I had a drink while I watched the Baja Men. And I remember going, like having a sigh and i went ah yes and then i walked world showcase so we met up with you gave you a piece of bread that i had bought and then we walked over a yacht and beach club boardwalk area and i was like this

is the greatest yeah the greatest place um so i guess yacht beach club actually might be my answer too storm along bay is the uh with the place i was trying to think of that's the big like themed pool area uh and you got the cape may seafood buffet you got beaches and cream uh you got all those restaurants uh i've also never stayed at like right in the middle of the main building in Contemporary. I stayed at Bay Lake Tower once, but I haven't seen... You know what? That's a good... You're making a good point. I have maybe not stayed in that main building ever. I gotta ask my mom.

There used to be two wings, and they demolished the one to build bay lake tower and the other is still there that's you know what you're bringing up a very good point that i maybe when i was a kid we didn't stay in that main building and that still needs to be done at a certain point in my vacationing yeah i mean you're right i like those main those main lodge design the wilderness lodge in grand california that main sort of like you come out into, I don't know how much sound travels into those rooms, you know, overlooking a giant concourse like that. Right. All right. So that's, those are the answers.

There's a few of them. And now the real final question, which animatronic would you not want as your surgeon oh as my sir is that real are you serious no i just made that up oh okay you can answer though um uncle orville seems like he has doesn't have the right temperament for a surgeon too cantankerous so right i'd probably get along with him personally, but I don't know if I want him slicing me open. Yeah. I would like, you know what,

my answer for this is who I do want is the probe droid on Rise of the Resistance. Oh, yeah, he's ready to go. He's ready to go. He knows how to probe. You can easily program him to uh to open heart surgery or something i assume that's my understanding um anyway uh we are over two hours here how about that oh how about that great so uh i guess i guess we'll i guess we'll call it

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No, no. Okay. Well, then I think we can say goodbye. Yeah. Have a good night everyone or day either one it's dark here now it is dark here

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