Podcast: The Ride - P:TR Post Office and Scott Returns to Splash Mountain

Episode Date: September 7, 2018

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FOREVER! DOG! The Podcast the Ride post office is open! Welcome to Podcast the Ride, the theme park podcast hosted by three guys who just had a rip-roaring pre-show argument about who is which country bear. Joining us, well, I'm Scott Gairdner and Jason Sheridan's here. Mike Carlson is here. That wasn't going to be the line, but I figure we might as well acknowledge it. It's real. You've just the episode that you've just started is a podcast, the ride post office.

And hopefully somewhere on our Instagram or Twitter, you've seen a logo in which we're depicted in a small world form. And we started talking about, well, if we were depicted as other theme park characters right who would we be and we were uh we couldn't figure out country bears exactly but some some strong opinions were had yeah i mean we've on the podcast talked about what we would name our children if they were all country bears but we have yet to talk about who we are as country bears so it was we'd be rendered in a in a t-shirt or a yeah uh just art on the on the twitter i mean the audience now is of course yelling names of

country bears that they think we are so we'll just say what like i was saying scott should probably be wendell uh i was saying i could probably be henry or liverlips um and then jason wants to be big l it feels like but i said, he should not be big L. He should be the little bear, which I can't think of his name. The little bear represents my like vibe and mental state much more. Sure. Oh, sure. Yeah.

Like desperately grasping a teddy bear. Yeah. You're not a big L type in real life. I would never say you're a big L type. No. I mean, I'm slovenly. Well,

that's fair. Yes. But a very clean, I pride myself on being well how clear are their types in general well i think that you for sure get a sense of their character via the song they choose and the way they perform so like henry is of course like a very kind of like oh he's a little stuffy and he wants to make sure the the show goes right henry is the i don't know the the country fairs that well. Henry is the host. Henry is the host, yeah. He's got the raccoon in his hat.

Yes. His raccoon tag. And he kind of like chuckles like nervously when something goes off the rails or when something's a little blue. Is that you? I guess. Do I chuckle when we go a little blue? As you chuckle nervously as you ask that question?

Yeah, I guess I'm like Henry, so there you go. There's the proof. What do we know about Wendell's personality? Wendell is like it seems like a madman to me oh that's which i guess big time yeah i could maybe we're all henry really we're all i mean i'm a nervous laugher that's for sure okay so i feel like a henry maybe you're that maybe i'm henry i sort of i don't know i'm not like the host i guess but i try to be the guy who explains things such as if i try to talk to the people in the audience who don't know every right bear uh by heart well henry's trying to keep the show on the rails so i guess there is some truth to that that would make sense to me um i'm trying to think other the uh the sun bonnet trio well we all secretly want to

be the sun bonnet tree what and that makes sense because there's a there's a it's a trio obviously and there's three of us and uh really the sun bonnet trio i'll be very honest their game is that they're all horny they're all looking for a man um we all have low t though so that's not us oh i don't agree with that jason is jason honestly has bragged to me about having high t before he thinks he has high testosterone i'm talking about i am all three of the horny bears so maybe you're more sunbonnet or you have as much testosterone as the three horny girl bears. That's what you're saying? I was just trying to gauge horny levels. Oh, don't back off of it.

That's what you were saying. It was horniness, not testosterone. Yes. Okay. All right. It is getting confusing. I am glad you did use that joke, though, because that feels very fitting for the mailbag, the first post office episode. Because it's like a rush overnight letter.

We had that conversation and seconds or a minute later. Sure. It became audio content for everyone to enjoy. For people's ears. Yes, it feels good to be doing material as fast as the post office can turn it out. No better speed metaphor. I do like that

sometimes we end up having episodes in the bank for a long time and it is nice to be able to do stuff a little bit quicker with hot off the wire theme park news. Sure. As well as news for us and in our uh in our personal way in our within the world of the show which to that end we have an announcement yeah

this is the very first episode that is being released on our new podcast network yeah we did it guys we have a podcast network again uh it's forever dog forever dog we're on forever dog it feels like a weird announcement to make because we're it's not as if we're surrounded by forever dog people no yeah right now we're not recording it in a new place we're still in the living room so it's it feels hypothetical however we we are very excited about this and i think uh i think it's going to be a great arrangement they are very excited about this, and I think it's going to be a great arrangement. They seem very excited about having us on board, and I think they are going to help take care of some logistical things that will let us focus on delivering pure, raw, great theme park rambles yeah week after week that five minutes about which of country bear are we is they're gonna it's gonna be even better yeah we're on forever dog because we're gonna be able to

focus we're really gonna be able to pinpoint which country bear each of us are exactly what jason's testosterone level is and does it compare to any of the other country bears we're gonna be able to do so much better for you guys on forever dogs we're very excited forever dogs forever dog uh also it features podcasts such as teen creeps uh which your girlfriend lindsey does that's true yes very good podcast and uh and las culturistas with past guest matt rogers who was a lot of fun so we're we're in the company of some some great fun podcasts yeah yeah yeah we're excited to see what happens uh for for young jason's sake if you had told me when i was a kid like oh you will be on a podcast network uh with one of the kids in the hall kevin mcdonald has a show on forever dog my favorite

kid in the hall i love being kevin fan um yeah i remember like an acting class where uh we had to like i was when i was a freshman in high school, and they're like, all right, everyone find a monologue to bring in next week and going to, I believe it's kithfan.org. Oh, yeah, they had transcripts. They had transcripts of Kids of the Hall monologues. And I think we had to do it and then do it again like later. So I think I started with the Kevin McDonald monologue

where he talks about hitting his head, falling over his bin, trying to get a bunch of mail and then hitting his head. But it has so many cutaways, it didn't make sense. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, but you tried to do that. I tried to do it on stage, just me.

And then I ended up changing to a letter to the guy I clotheslined as he rode by on his bicycle. Oh, okay. They fully monologue. Okay, okay. Wow, wow. Which I then did in front of like hundreds of people at a Boy Scout jamboree for like the talent show. You're trying to be all subversive and prove your cool taste. Well, also, we didn't realize we had to have something.

And I was like, well, I did this for an acting class a few weeks ago. I still remember it. So your talent was a Kids in the Hall monologue? Mm-hmm. That's pretty fun. Hey, let's tie it together. Can we name the Kids in the Hall theme park appearances? Because there's a few.

A couple of them. Oh, well, Dave foley on tough to be a bug right on um and some other i think yeah somewhere else in the soon to be departed uh bugs at california adventure but the other one yeah what is the other one oh kevin mcdonald in stitch stitches great escape that's right I assume there was original dialogue done for that. His does sound like, his character in the ride does sound like him.

Yeah, I think he did new stuff for that. So yeah, kids and all representing in the finest theme park attraction. But wait, now I'm thinking about the other is there i'm thinking about mr show and isn't there a john ennis appearance oh yeah john ennis is in

i think we maybe talked about this in the show john ennis i think is in something in disney quest oh i that sounds familiar yeah yeah hold on what yeah yeah and obviously tom kenny the voice of spongebob in all of those odd regional spongebob there's i i think there's like 19 spongebob theme park attractions all spring yeah they licensed the hell out of that yeah yeah i'm looking up john ennis disney quest and nothing pops up we'll have to save it for the disney quest i feel like this came up though again great forever dog is going to help us create more certainty to all of these questions that we bring up and then don't answer right you're gonna this is never going to happen again and it's thanks to forever dog we've exchanged a number of uh a lot of emails with them, and they've all been very prompt responses and very professional.

Yes, as opposed to past podcast network experiences. And other podcast networks we haven't been on and have only heard stories about. So, so far, email promptness. Email promptness. We're very excited about it. And I hope you guys are excited about that, too. Polite in person. Great. uh no i am i think this is going to be great and also um you know we're coming off of our first uh live show hopefully some people listening got to go if

you didn't get to go up you enjoyed listening to the episode but i think with forever dog we're going to try to do that more often perhaps we. Perhaps we won't always be meeting childhood heroes live on stage, but we got some fun live show ideas, and Forever Dog's going to help with that. So, yeah, we're going to keep this show on the road. Very cool. Yeah. And also, big news in Podcast the Ride world,

under the Forever Dog banner, next week we will finally be releasing long-awaited podcast the ride event the city walk saga the saga begins the saga begins we teased it in may whatever date that is yeah what day are we doing it is it the 14th i believe it's it's yeah the 14th okay september 14th next week oh boy here September 14th. Oh, boy. Here we go. At last. I mean, we can tease a little bit, but we got to save it mostly for listening. Yeah, yeah.

All I can say, there's a lot of surprises, a lot of fun guests, a lot of old favorites and people venturing into the podcast, The Ride Waters, for the first time. Right. podcast the ride waters for the first time right um and uh you know some very complex storytelling awaits in the city walk saga um this is a this is a 19 part series yes no joke to begin yes that actually people laugh when i i've told them about it and they go haha and then i go no we it's 19 there's 19 of them well you're the original when when you first pitched it it was if we did an episode about city walk and we said part 1 of 19 yes and then that was obviously not going to be true and then it slowly just became true yeah just let it wash over us and it is true and now uh i'm i'm very exhausted uh uh but but happily so i mean i don't want to get into that we're not done doing the word no no no no yeah we've done a lot and uh it was

essentially our summer vacation this is just may as well be called city walk saga our summer vacation how i spent my summer vacation at the end of the day we will have done more hours on city walk than like the best rides at any of these theme parks yeah when you and because there is there are very few themed attractions yo very almost nothing you would quantify as an attraction would you count Zone, the aqua massages? That's somehow closer to a ride to me. Yeah, if you were to theme Zen Zone to an IP, maybe I could see it being an attraction. But other than that, it's just sort of, I guess, a service.

If it was themed to... It seems like a water world. It seems like a missed opportunity for water world or to me for whatever reason i first think of when they load uh mr spock's corpse into a photon torpedo at the end of star trek wrath of khan oh or you could pretend you're in the you're one of the superman villains trapped oh that's good uh the phantom zone the phantom zone right or you could be uh young kal-el in the rocket on the way to earth yeah um for whatever and then you can you have to explain away why you're getting massaged by water but whatever there's got to be some sort

of imaginary ways to justify pods universal release the eat pray love movie you could also go that angle what do you like what do you mean oh refreshing it like oh i see like you're just having a nice weekend new well starting a new you're getting your page in your life you're getting your groove back and you're relaxing and i see yeah you could do it more on on the nose is like is like it could be like a stella got her groove back yeah themed extra traction would people on the internet be upset with the anti-ip crowd be furious to see the original story of zen zone yeah co-opted by the the monsters behind the love franchise petitions to get rid of uh the e-pray love overlay return it to its former glory of the zen zone it's just a cheap quick they just you know they slapped a coat of paint on it and

they expect me to pay more now um the purity of the zen zone experience destroyed um anyway if you liked that there's a lot more stuff like that coming up. And I wonder what's the response of the audience who are not in Hollywood or L.A., who have not been to L.A., who now get to hear 19 episodes about every excruciating detail. I'd like to think that we brought city walk to life in an audio fashion and there's gonna be a glut of uh twitter ancillary content during this time and that'll help you know make it a multi-dimensional experience right but i don't know does this shut out the people not lucky enough to be within the zone of city walk hollywood oh i don't think so yeah i

think we're bringing it to them you're right we're providing a service yeah we're shoving 65 stores and restaurants straight into their ears yeah our listeners like if they're not in california or florida they are aware of city walk they know what downtown disney is they know what a weird mall is outside these theme parks maybe they don't have as much they probably don't because they don't live around here in florida they don't have as much time to just waste over at a weird mall that's right out that's hard to get to and it's expensive to park like horrible parking situation yes we'll get into yes so yeah but we know we have a lot of time to waste we know a lot of people who have created who who don't have time to this people with children and children on the way who

have taken important valuable time to sit around hours of time hours and hours of time with us but the bonus like to all this like you know you know if you have amazon prime you get all this bonus crap with you know you get like uh you get all the streaming stuff and you get the the free lending books the ebooks and all that crap i don't know anything about that continue so but the bonus with the city walk is you get to listen to three men in their 30s stare into the gaping mall of madness and will they come out the other side like changed and broken or will they just come out like a few hundred dollars poorer each i mean that's probably for sure true. Yeah, I think both to some extent. No spoilers, but yes, that. Yeah.

But also maybe just with a better, stronger appreciation for this wonderful place. Yeah. Yeah. That's really what I'm thinking. And a desire to eat better and treat yourself better and not jam the buca di beppo, and maybe what I've taken out of it so far is I need a diet with less fried calamari in it. And I'm gonna try

to get to that as soon as we're done. That's tread lightly, because the official flag of City Walk is just a chunk of fried calamari. Tentacles flapping in the wind. Yeah. It's also the city bird, or bird, city fish.

Jesus Christ. Losing my mind already. The official bird and fish is both fried calamari, which Ludo is still furious about. Oh, yeah. Ludo of Ludo bird fame is still furious.

Come on. It's not even a bird. Why can it not be my bird? It's a heavy French accent oh is that okay yeah it's heavy that's so heavy i couldn't even tell what it was very heavy yeah you need to try to we'll put subtitles on that part of the podcast somehow um well so that that's that's news going on in our world but before we start getting into some some letters that uh that y'all have sent uh there's very important news and theme park world to report and jason i'll throw it to you sure yeah uh you know uh you guys know me i i'm probably the biggest uh

as matt rogers had called himself and i i would call myself the same the biggest universal stan among the three of us and what's stan about what's uh stay like big fans or something what does it come from what is it oh it comes from the eminem song stan oh it does yeah that is the original version of it but it now just means like super like years about stans on the internet yeah so dear stan and and stan is an obsessive fan who you don't want to be a stan yeah stan kills that's the original etymology but now it just means more like people who are really into like i still don't care for it hearthstone or ariana grande and stuff anyway this is a big

tangent already no thank you i did not know what it meant what nice news for ariana grande she's got a lot of stands waiting around yeah yeah uh actually davidson looks like stan with the dyed blonde hair is does look like stan he looks exactly like stan he's gonna kill her and call her him the biggest ariana grande stan i'm i'm the biggest or at least once he gets the tattoo um uh yeah so uh some big news out of universal this summer a lot of media coverage you know a lot of people were down there for this i think we all know what i'm talking about folks the wimpy's hamburger stand at islands of adventure reopened this summer for the first time in years wow so now you're probably you were probably

expecting a long time yeah i'm sure listeners were probably like oh he's talking about the aventura hotel uh universal's latest move in an attempt to uh slowly turn all of orlando into uh hotels mid-range hotels sure i don't think anyone was thinking about the Aventura Hotel. I was not. I, the host of the theme park podcast show, have no thoughts about Aventura. Well, that's the only other news out of Universal this summer. Well, there is news that they're possibly starting to build a fourth park. Yeah, that's true.

Let's not get sidetracked by that. Let's not get sidetracked. They filed some permits to expand a road it's called fantastic worlds but whatever doesn't doesn't matter let's focus on the here and now focus on this character that wimpy's i mean everyone knows wimpy from popeye oh everyone knows everyone knows him and i'll gladly pay you t for a hamburger today. And this is one of the seven different old-timey cartoon characters we've compared you to on the episode of Islands of Adventure.

Yes. A dear friend that I admire. And this hamburger stand, it's very charming. It's not super themed. It's just a little cute little walk-up window. How long was it closed? When did they close it uh uh i am honestly not sure and i am not sure if it was ever open i believe it uh you know it

would have been open right when it first opened and then i'm gonna do some may have went seasonal but it has so it's like it's its origins are in question and it's been dark for a long time it's almost like this the wimpy's hamburger stand is the hatbox ghost of Islands of Adventure. Yes. Long rumored, long dreamed about by fans, copious fan art, but only now do we finally get to experience it. Or like a sizable chunk of Future World at Epcot.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Remember when that had rides and stuff in it? Yeah, Body World, sorry, Wonders of Life chunk of future world at epcot oh yeah yeah remember when i had rides and stuff in it yeah body world uh sorry wonders of life and um the the restaurant uh right at the edge of future world oh the odyssey so winby's hamburger stand reopened for this summer uh uh and honestly i was having trouble seeing if it was even still open because we're we're into as we record this we've hit the slow a slower season for theme parks until the halloween season kicks into full gear um so and i the thing i thought was interesting about this is just how uh if i'm being nice i'll say unique if i'm being a little more critical, how odd this menu was. That's as mean as you get when you're talking about Wimpy's hamburger stand.

Yeah, because I don't want to hurt his feelings. Brother through time. What are you looking at? Of course, you're looking at hamburgers. You got your bacon cheeseburger. You got your specialty burger, which is spinach, special sauce topped with a sunny side up egg which is a very odd wait repeat that again spinach special sauce so probably thousand island topped with a sunny side up egg do you mean that just seems excessive no it's just a lot of disparate elements because

the spinach would be weird spinach and thousand Island and the sunny side up egg. I mean, I guess the spinach, Popeye, you know. Oh, oh, oh. So then it makes perfect sense. It makes sense. I'm just thinking about eating that. It seems like a lot going on. And then, of course, you got a footlong hot dog, onion, sauerkraut, jalapenos.

That is an interesting combination of hot dog toppings. And then, what do you want for the vegetarians? Of course, a grilled fish pita, blackened cod, lettuce, caramelized onions, pineapple salsa. With a vegetarian. And citrus menu. Yeah, pescatarians. Pescaterio.

There's not a vegetarian option at Wimpy's. That would be insane. Well, there is a caprese salad and a fruit plate. Oh, okay. And then all of the combos are served with fries and a milkshake. So, like, you got a milkshake coming in. Oh, so everything in Wimpy's has a milkshake? It comes with a milkshake.

I'm sure there is a non-milkshake suggested option. It's crammed. There's milkshake injected into the bun. This is a new menu? Yes. So, this is the spinach egg thing new do you know yeah i mean that that i think is like new a egg on a burger uh while a popular regional delicacy in upstate and central new york uh you've never there's a plenty of burgers with eggs on

them out here yeah but yeah there is now but i feel like you see that until a few years that that is like a food trend now you put an egg i feel like i feel like it's been around for over five oh i don't know if they did one of those like i feel like it's it's hitting critical mass like sriracha or you know cronuts that sort of right um is it like now new i don't know what you're like maybe a decade ago of the egg was having i do think the egg is not as recent as you think it is i guess so but that's like in los angeles like i feel like i've got an egg on a burger at a pub like eight years ago on ventura somewhere yeah again but this is a major metropolitan center if you went to the middle of the country would you see that i bet there's like diners more likely to see it because

it's like a big rich thing uh i think you're more likely to see it at a boot at an la bougie hamburger place it's not like it's kale even though kale's still like a joke thing like for like the midwest oh cool you're gonna put kale on it or something and like my dad will still be like okay or hummus like that's to me a little bit more even hummus yeah we're talking this is dad stuff i guess my dad understands a big fried egg on a big piece of beef he gets that that makes sense to him i don't know if he'd have it but i don't think he's gonna go oh yuck but if i eat like pita chips with hummus what are you talking about what is this my dad doesn't i took him to a thai restaurant one time and ever since then it's been like you know if we want to go out to dinner like well let's go get you know let's get some to get some real food not uh no uh rat tail

stew or uh you know my dad pigeon eye pie let's uh not do uh i like that they're all like witch like witches foods he thinks that all thai chefs are witches they've achieved this food through voodoo yeah food you would put in a big cauldron uh my yeah my dad does not like the joke when i go yeah let's just go somewhere so dad can get a grilled cheese sandwich. He gets very cranky about that joke. I think if I could kind of interpret in a therapist manner and think one step ahead for you, I think maybe what you're reacting to with these menu items is that if you're taking Wimpy's ideal of the perfect burger, what it should be is plain, no cheese, no sauce, no lettuce, the meat and the bun. And there should be three steam lines coming out of it. And it should be unadorned otherwise.

Traditionally, yeah, there'd probably be some horse meat in there, too, if we're talking real Wimpy Depression era burgers. Yeah, the 30s. Okay, great. to if we're talking real wimpy depression era burgers yeah the 30s okay great but i actually think wimpy now a more progressive modern wimpy would probably be open to experimental hamburgs my larger point if they brought wimpy into the 21st century isn't he stuck sort of in his time there's been no like modern wimpy yeah that's like that's like make that's like a 2018 austin powers there's no such thing he's just a 60s guy. I think he would be interesting. If we brought Wimpy to the modern day and took him to like Umami Burger or something,

he'd be like, oh, what interesting hamburger developments. I think that's exactly what you said when we went to Umami for the first time. I think that's right. So I think we're sitting here talking to the 2018 Wimpy. I would also like, if any of our wonderful uh artist listeners uh which are all 2018 well wimpy dabbing that would be terrific choked on my drink yeah I'd be curious how wimpy's clothing has changed does he just still dress the same or is it kind of maybe it's like skinny tie or I think yeah I don't think wimpy's spending a lot on clothing.

Yeah, but he could be like a kind of a thrift store guy who can put a nice outfit together with cheap clothes. Oh, I think that, yeah, that's probably accurate. Because like Jughead, like Wimpy to me was always like an older Jughead. It was a very similar character, like just obsessed with food, pretty asexual. But the CW, they took Jughead and Jughead. It was a very similar character, like, oh, just obsessed with food, pretty asexual. But the CW, they took Jughead and Jughead is sexy now. And brooding. And brooding. So.

Oh, so maybe what we want to see is a Riverdale-ified. Popeye universe. Ooh. Just in general. Oh, man. I mean, I don't want to make this assignment so big that people put it off

and don't get it done. Let's just, you know, start with a wimpy and see where your brain goes. Yeah, that sounds smart. Before we move on to Poop Deck Pappy. Poop Deck Pappy. Sweet Pea. Popeye's father, Poop Deck Pappy? Yeah.

Yeah, that's his name. Jason's favorite character in fiction, Poop Deck Pappy. Yeah. his name um jason character favorite character in fiction poop deck pappy yeah uh but big picture view i think uh uh when i was in universal last summer there was like a standover in lost continent uh and the the combination there are combos one of the oddest things but i liked it that i i had ever had uh you got a euro you got a lamb and beef euro you got a side of hummus and carrots and then you got a slice of apple pie so kind of strange or or a brookie that was the one thing i noticed at universal last summer half uh cookie half brownie oh they were pushing that everywhere at universal like last year uh last time it was there so my bigger picture is i'm thinking ahead to this new

universal park i think they need to ramp up their food offerings okay like the thing i like about this menu is like there is some variety in it more than just like basic hamburger basic hot dog veggie burger like just throw it at you it tends to be the case at the florida parks more than the california parks although up until recently universal hollywood's food offerings were pretty rough yes so uh my my assignment to any universal creatives listening get amp on this food program it's not for you but it's not universal creatives problem because we've talked about this before what's gonna happen is they're gonna come up with some amazing dishes some amazing cool stuff it's gonna be open for three weeks and none of it's gonna sell dads are

gonna go what is this hummus or what is this a rat-tailed stew here like what is it and then they're gonna go it's not selling we got to just throw a chicken sandwich on there right you say that but the harry potter menus are pretty much unchanged they swap stuff in and out every now and then the avatar menus the avatar is the anomaly the avatar you're right the avatar is the anomaly the new areas you know maybe give you license to it's like part of the worlds to do something a little more unusual what's um i mean presumably it seems like the rumor is that mario is going to be saved for the new universal park super nintendo what do we get in what does mario eat does he mushrooms of course certainly mushrooms um so you got some i mean obviously some like portobello mushroom burgers but then we want to i want to see those bright and bold i want to see them red with white spots i think they should have like they have

giant turkey legs giant mushrooms that you can eat so they have whatever antibiotics not or whatever growth hormone they put into the turkey leg put into the mushroom fields and let's get some giant mushrooms going you order it just at a counter but then to retrieve it you have to jump up hit a box with your head and then catch it as it slides over to the right yeah they grease the bottom of the mushroom up so it slides very easily uh-huh so it's like slippery out of your hand so it takes a little while to grab it don't catch it you don't eat doesn't matter that doesn't matter for it yeah yeah that's your responsibility that's fun mm-hmm yeah so there's an idea get the figure out those those launching boxes star trek what do star trek people eat oh my god whatever they want they have a replicator that can

replicate any dish uh that was ever made they just tell the computer obviously there's you're gonna have to get if if this is a rumor of course mar i think nintendo land for sure is going in that third park okay star trek is a rumor going in this i hadn't heard that third park i don't know if that would be the case you'll have to be able to get picard's tea order earl gray hot oh perfect earl gray hot is what picard famously would always drink sure um so you'll be able to go up to a machine and get a hot tea in the middle of the summer. You know what I saw at the boardwalk in Jersey this summer? A lot of stands selling like...

Stands? Stands? Oh, no. Stay away. Stands. Selling stuff with dry ice in it, like drinks kind of bubbling with dry ice. Didn't the Star Trek bar? Quark's Bar. Quark's Bar had some dry ice drinks., like drinks kind of bubbling with dry ice. Didn't the Star Trek bar? Quark's Bar had some dry ice drinks.

They had it in Vegas, the Quark's Bar. So yes, you could do, they could make like a Romulan ale or something, which is like the illegal alcohol drink in the universe. It's so potent, I guess, is why Romulan ale was illegal. But other than that, you know, they all

can eat what they want from any time in the past because it's the 23rd or 24th century, depending on what show you're talking about. You think the new park will have an area devoted to Eminem and all of the characters in his songs in the musical world? You could visit the Purple Hills. Oh, yeah. From the d12 song get a picture with stan get it all his alter egos the slim shady unit be present um that's

are they part of yeah i guess yeah they're related 50 cent is sort of oh i'm sorry i'm yeah i'm mixing it up he's the part of the expanded lineup like the disneyland big five or is that right it's big five they wouldn't be part of but on like bigger photo opportunity days yeah you'd probably get you unit around big plush headed eminem d12 right i guess dr dre yeah you have to because he's like the walt disney of eminem Walt Disney of Eminem and all those characters. Does that make Eminem Mickey? No. Well, wait, what do you mean? Yeah, he's Mickey. Well, in this universe

I'm thinking about though in Dr. Dre's career the first person he produced. Are you thinking about opening it up to where it's a Dre land? Well, that's what now yes, that's why I bristled at it initially. And then the walt partner's statue is dr dre and jimmy ivan of course jimmy ivan is absolutely on the statue

yeah but i mean like there's some ride where you get to go around in giant beats headphones and yeah well yeah everything's beats stamped upon everything even Even though they sold to Apple, though. Yeah. So I guess Apple has to have a presence, too. Oh, maybe this will give Eminem a chance to finally have... He could turn it into a themed attraction. He was supposed to start a remake of Have Gun, Will Travel. Is that true? He was?

Yeah. He was attached to that. I forget whether it was a TV show or a movie and it just never happens it's too bad classic western have gun will travel so eminem's so eminem's going into the fourth park fantastic world yep all right mario star trek eminem the world of eminem the world of eminem you'll get to see eminem's face in a planter like mickey yes uh flowers forming eminem's head and there'll be uh like a phantasmic style show called the eminem show oh yeah yeah the eminem show yes yeah uh triumph the insult comic dog famous eminem character will be bruno will be there gotta

be there oh well that's the the the phantasantasmic is Eminem doing battle against all his enemies. Oh, yeah. Such as Bruno. His mom. Yeah. And, of course, Stan. Stan grows giant like the. The Maleficent dragon.

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and that cues us up. We know what the food offering is at the Eminem part of the park. Sure, I get it. Just say it. Mom's spaghetti. Oh, yes. Oh, I can't believe I forgot.

That's the merch, too. You buy a t-shirt and it's got a little Mom's spaghetti on it. Purposeful stains all over it. Purposeful stains on it. Wow. All right. So, as we said, big news coming out of Universal, M&M land. Wimpy's is the opening shot of the next generation of Universal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. J.K. Rowling and the visionaries like J.K. Rowling and M&M will take Universal into the next entry. Take a seat. Take a breath. Stop tweeting for a little while. Does he tweet a lot? No, J.K. Rowling.

J.K. Rowling. Sure, sure, sure. Okay, well, one more bit of news before we get into your question. Let's continue to make this about us before we make it about the audience. The trick is that this has always been about us, this podcast. Oh, no, no, no. Certainly. But what podcast is this?

Yeah, exactly. It's your prerogative. But, hey, when it comes to the world of me, something pretty big happened. And if you follow us on Twitter, then you know about it already. But in the wake of the Tony Baxter live show interview and all of his encouragement, I didn't want to let him down. I wanted to make good on the promise. And I have now been on splash mountain wow congratulations that's big and i did it uh um now i'm in 18 years yeah or 17 18

something like that yeah yeah i think i went in high school one time i think didn't enjoy the experience and uh uh so i i gave it a go now i knew like i thought there's a couple ways to do this either i could make this podcast content and then i'd be knee deep into scott goes to splash mountain episode five right which is what we wanted oh yeah yeah and i and i i knew if i cut i could cut that off at the pass with by because i here's the genuinely i was freaked out enough to where i don't think it would have been funny to record unless i'm just not aware i think i was just like weird and sullen kind of like in the couple hours leading up to it. Did you know?

Was it a day like you were like knew you were going to do it or was it the day of you were like, I'm going to do it. And then you kind of got freaked out. I had a feeling before I went down and then we had a look. We were down at the Aaron. I were down at the 94 seven. The wave Sunday jazz brunch at Spini Bar and Grill in Seal Beach. We'd spent the night in Orange County in order to catch some great live jazz and eat a great seafood buffet.

And we had a great time. So I was riding high on mimosas, went to Disneyland, renewed the pass. I haven't been in six months. So I was riding high having a nice little little morning buzz and it was you know easier to say then than when it wears off and it because we got the max pass for the the end of the day um so as those hours are ticking up you know it the dread was forming for sure right to where like i was enthusiastic about it at two but by seven rolling around like oh am i actually and aaron keeps trying to give me the out you know

you don't you don't have to you don't owe these people anything it's like no but i do this has to happen it just it it felt like uh like that had to be the time. Post-Tony. Right. But I will say, there was more nervous bathroom time spent than probably in a decade of me. So more than going out to perform a live show more than any

of that ever more than an audition of some kind yes that's what i'm saying my like i feel very lucky i feel like my nerves kind of got worked out of me in terms of like really being wrecked by stuff uh you know in the somewhere between 2010 and 2012 uh and truly i have not had this much like nervous body activity in i wasn't that nervous to to meet tony himself and to talk to him i was not like freaking out or nervous stomach but to go on the fucking ride which i've been i've done it and it's not that bad. Right. But seriously, I've just built it up. I think just now so much time has passed, and I do think something, as we unlocked on our episode about it, I think Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain is really responsible. Yeah.

It made it more mentally terrifying. Would you say you were as nervous as, say, a freestyle rapper in detroit about to take the stage your arms are heavy palms sweaty arms are sweaty potentially it sounds like yes exactly right absolutely mom you were the white rabbit uh-huh rabbit rabbit his name was rabbit oh his name was just right yeah the white rabbit his name was rabbit right yeah is he called quite the white i mean he is white he's a white man yeah i'm assuming there that came from that nickname yeah uh you ever have just one moment to go on a log flume ride to keep your

arms and legs in the vehicle sir please hurry please hurry up. A line is forming. You better flume yourself. A little girl is clowning on your ass. I'm seeing B-Rabbit. Rapper B-Rabbit. Eminem in 8 Mile. Okay. Anyway, yeah, this was my lose yourself moment. Absolutely.

I mean, getting into the line was one thing to actually all right i'm stepping in and doing it uh-huh and then get at like being in the getting into the vehicle and it taking off aaron was very much like you did it you're in you're even just getting in was it was a big deal and and i seriously do blame earnest because i when i when you round a corner and you see that uh uh that that loading zone i i had all these like these flashbacks was that the most stressful part of it was like right before you got on or was it right before the drop um no you know what by that because by then there was no choice right obviously it's it's gonna happen you've been dropped and i had fun you know what i was worried about is that if if the first

one what like affected me bad if if i was scared of the first little drop then i knew i was screwed but i but that's that was a ton of fun the second one's a ton of fun and i remembered that going on that whenever i went on it before the first one was a little much oh really weak little 15 year old me so i knew that i figured that the last one would be fine but getting in the log was one big thing getting in in the actually entering the line was one thing it was so you you went in easily it wasn't like trying to put like a cat in a bathtub to wash them. Like you were like your feet were on the sides and they were trying to like two workers were pushing you down, forcing you into this log flume. Oh, boy.

Yeah. That's too close to home for me. And Aaron has a scar from that very situation. Bathing Edwin, the podcast ride Ride Show Dog is very tough for me. He doesn't have the legs to do that on the tub. I do the same when you bathe me. That's just a joke.

You know when I bathe you, you go in very peacefully and you like it. Yeah, I slowly lie down. You actually have to get my head out of the water because I'm lying down like i was like in a coffin i just put your dish next to the tub and you have some water and then you're fine for it every time logically i know it's a trick but yeah you have enjoy a relaxing three and a

half hour tub nap um no that it was all fine although you know this this also another part of the reason i haven't been on in a long time is that Erin had not been on it in a decade either. Right. Because she's fine with the drops, but she is not fine with theme park water. Dirty theme park water. She does not go to water parks. She's never been on Grizzly river rapids she is uh and and she tries to avoid splash man although she likes the ride a lot but she considers all these things uh giant petri dishes sure and whereas i had

a fun experience and realized oh this is a great ride and i should have conquered my fears long ago and made this part of my regular ride vernacular i don't think aaron learned anything i don't think going on the ride made her any more comfortable with being splashed by dirty water uh so you know i don't know that i'm gonna be uh constantly going on it but anyway it was it was tense for both both of us were kind of grumbly right about it because she knew what was and the first drop she got splashed so i just absolutely so and that's an evil jason that was a real evil oh okay um which i did because we talked about it on the podcast i didn't get tricked by that bear butt because that's kind of that's the idea is that you're looking up at that and laughing

going hey like jason and then you look at that butt caught off guard um but uh no by the time and the actual the the drop was great it's fun it's fun as hell i was determined that i'm gonna like because i i was like laughing and enjoying it on the way down i went to my laughing place and i thought well the photo will reflect that but the photo if you saw it on our twitter i look terrified as shit uh it's like me on dinosaur where i thought i was like i'm doing good and then i took a look at it and i was like cowering in fear i it's so funny what's what can be in your head versus physical reality but i did i did enjoy it a lot and i uh and the the feeling of euphoria after i was truly deeply excited and to get you had made a major step you had done a thing yeah that one that one loomed

large and it makes me think maybe there is some more room for me to try some other stuff and to start going on rides that i did go on years ago but that uh uh you know i haven't been on in a long time because of because my my wife is nice and doesn't make me sure but you know that's what's so funny about all this is like you know i i should do in credit coaster i'll do in credit coaster you've done screaming uh yeah i did you did i did it twice in the day oh yeah that i did when you were 15 uh whenever my college girlfriend jenna was you know held the bar higher was a little more demanding sure so thus i did in that day the first time i ever went to california adventure i did do tower terror i did malibu and i, wow. And I did the California Scream in twice. Malibumer. Yeah. I never did Malibumer. That was horrible. That I would

never. I think I would, yeah. Same as Dr. Dune's Fearful. Same account. See, I'm not doing an ad. What? Never done Dr. Dune's Fearful. So you don't know the story about Dr. Dune needing your fear juice to fight the Fantastic Four? I know Dr. Dune's fear juice story. What a story. You're right.

Look, now that I'm a theme park journalist, maybe I got to go on these. And you got to do Stan, because that is, I mean, that's a whole nother episode of Universal needing to, you know, when they build this new park, the express lines, you got to make sure to get the story in there,

because they kind of cut off some of the story. Well, that's the problem with Disney, though, too. A little better. A little better, but not much. With Atari, you lose a lot of the story too did a little better a little better but not avatar you lose a lot of the fun stuff if you go fast pass so so yes well look i you know i'm not i'm not gonna start declaring that i'm going on everything but i feel more open i feel i've i have not disproven no launch queen no no i've but my own mental no splash queen i i feel over i am over it and next time what what i what i guess what i am right now still if you're quantifying things in queendom

i still am a no look queen because i i did close my eyes the other time next time i will look i will okay i will have a less embarrassing photograph right and i will go next time we're all there together i will do all right all right i'll be excited to to do it can i and this might be putting the cart before the horse if you had a next ride to conquer we're gonna tease the audience a little bit about that what do you think of all the rides you go well that one less severe than the next one i'm thinking about doing a tower i'm thinking about doing california screaming or i'm still not i don't know well tower's tough towers do you think tower is the biggest maybe could one maybe that's the one to keep building although i did it i did it one time but it was like i did i derived no pleasure from that which

is uh but you know part of the having splashed mountain be off limits for so long was stupid because the rest of it is is such a blast if you can get over the one it's exactly what tony said it's you're you're scared for 10 minutes but then you get three minutes of pure pleasure and let me tell you he was right on i lived it that yeah i enjoyed that showboat sequence more than any note with all of the build-up now and that the man himself uh blessed this journey and he was right it was great but tower of terror i don't know i guess i do want to experience guardians well because they did do at least they added like old pop songs. Yeah, sure. So like they're trying to lure you a little bit. They're like, hey, we got some old

songs on here. We got Benatar. If you want to hear some Benatar in a way besides on Jack FM, there is a way. Well, they play what they want. They might not even hear it. And Guardians drops you how they want.

When we want, how we want they i mean truly the universe was like we'll add some pop songs and a robot there wasn't a robot before either in the pre-show i would like to see that guy you gotta see that robot yeah i don't know maybe we get to tower oh boy but i'm just look we reset it no i know i'm just saying in the future is it or is it rock and roller coaster is that the next oh i you know i think i could do rock and roll because you think that might be the easiest next step yeah is that launch as opposed to screaming you know really this is a question for the next florida visit sure yeah fair enough because i because there will be a a lot I should try to get more on the table. What else? You know what?

I've never done Expedition Everest. Oh, fantastic. That's great. That does not seem How are the drops on that thing? Pretty, I would, like a slightly heightened Big Thunder Mountain. Yeah, I mean, there's one you go backwards. Okay, yeah.

And it's like you get a little in your stomach but it's not that bad and you really can't tell it's backwards because it's all in the dark i though have never been i have not been in uh animal kingdom while that's been open right so i i'm not avoiding i swear i'm not avoiding expedition uh um well i'll hit that but um i don't know i I think whenever a Florida trip occurs. Yeah. Yeah, let's try to. Rock and Rollers is maybe a good one. Yeah.

Because I need to see Steven Tyler's new hand, first of all. His new hand. His new non-lewd hand. And as the radio DJ says, check out his new hat. Check out Steven Tyler's new hat. I do got to see the hat. And if enduring a roller coaster is what it takes then i will do it and that has many different aerosmith songs you can hear too so oh boy well now we are in xanadu weren't but no jaded the best aerosmith song we have established

bummer uh on that i think maybe playing in the gift shop but yeah okay thank god but not you know you know what's my bigger thing you're i you know i don't think we've we haven't recorded a ton since the live show with tony and he talks about that 12 year old self thing keeping your 12 year old self alive and yes i what i what is funny to me is that i felt like with this experience i did flash right back to 12 year old self i am as scared as a 12 year old like uh uh how often in your 30s do you get to be like like genuinely freaked by an experience how often you get to go i did it wow i crowbarred off layers and layers of irony built up like sediment to reveal this 12 year old that's how it felt if if it was on my instagram but i don't think i i donold. That's how it felt. It was on my Instagram,

but I don't know if I put it on the Twitter, but I'll post along with this, the photo of me right after. And it looks like me. I'm in the same pose that I was in pictures of me at 10 years old in an Indiana Jones Halloween costume. There is zero irony in how I looked having conquered Splash Mountain.

It felt great. And you know what? I was doing way better than Ernest was. Sure. He was acting like it wasn't a big deal on the way up. He was kicking back. He said, wish I'd read a book. But then after the thing, he was freaked and he fell backwards into the log.

Not me. I did it with flying colors. Man. So I'm way better than Ernest. I was not scared stupid. Scott G I'm way better than Ernest. I was not scared stupid. Scott Garner is hashtag better than Ernest. Better than Ernest. Better than Ernest. Yeah, let's get that no launch queen out of here

and get a much cooler hashtag going for me. It can be both. Yeah, it can be both. It can be both. But I also, tying it all together, I need now to do the launch coaster with the voice of Ernest. Oh, yeah.

I guess it's not what he does. His voice is not on it, but he originated Slinky Dog. So that'll really be the test of if I'm better than Ernest or not. Maybe that is the first one you do. The coaster for children, you mean? Slinky Dog Dash. The ultimate test will be this coaster that looks like a child's toy. All right.

Well, congratulations. Thank you. I feel great. And now that we've talked for an hour or so. All right. Let's get to some of your questions if we have to. Hey, the podcast, The Ride Post Office is open. Is open.

All right. Well, let's start it off with a letter uh uh from it was a letter huh was it a letter digital oh i see god damn it it's already a mess uh uh friend of the show kia burton writes in oh hey i'm an la local and i go to disneyland and universal studios hollywood a lot right now i am planning my first ever trip to Orlando scheduled for early February. I have six full days there total. And I'm thinking in general, that means one day for each Disney park and one day for each Universal park, excluding the water parks.

I know this is not enough time. Scott is wrong. But it's the most time I can get away from work. Please help me figure out how to best allocate my limited time which ride should i structure my day around which rides are potentially skippable during a short trip should i still buy uh or should i still buy park hopper tickets for disney should i go back and forth within a day which parks should i go to on the weekdays versus uh which parks are most manageable yeah one question

wow this is insane first of all jace you had to prep us for this because this is a project for me i know yeah we're gonna go research on it because no no i i i look i still have advice uh restaurants that are essential should i stay on property basic stuff i know we weren't going to hit all of this but other listeners have also written in with itineraries. I thought some basic suggestions about marquee rides at each park, maybe a restaurant at each park. Sure, sure. Well, here's what.

Okay, so she has six days, six and a half? Six days, yeah. And she's thinking hit them four main parks and the two universal parks. And the two universal parks. So I'm going to start off by saying i think park hoppers would be a wise investment do you oh i completely agree park hopping is the way to do it that's one of my favorite things to do you go somewhere at night you go somewhere in the morning yeah um don't go nuts with it and go to like all four parks in a day because then you're wasting so much travel time it's transit

transit wise but yeah like what i will say but what's good about park hopper and if you're staying i don't know if she's staying on site at disney the thing to do is check the extra magic hours of course yeah because sometimes they have the park open if you're staying on site an hour or two early hour too late so you figure out that's how i would that's my first recommendation if you're doing that structure your day versus like if epcot is now open like two extra hours just for people that are at the hotels you do epcot that night or and then you do if there was a in the morning magic kingdom was opening up you do it then so like that's how i think you first start structuring your day is it's just looking at the basic hours for the park and then in addition seeing what the extra

magic hours are let's do i i want to get into some, like, into some Sophie's choices here. Yes, yeah. With that limited time frame, you try to hit all of the parks, and I think you can. Yeah. But what do you condense? What doesn't get the full day in order to give time to other things? I think at this point, Hollywood Studios, you could probably hit the marquee events and have a decent meal there and then go to... Marquee rides, you mean?

Yeah, marquee rides. And then... What do you eat at... What do you mean decent meal at MGM? Well, they got the cafe that's okay. Well... Hold on, hold on. Because because there are a lot of the restaurants have not closed at hollywood studios so like uh mom melrose is like wood fired italian

my family always liked that but also like for themed stuff you had the 50s primetime diner you got the sci-fi dining i like that you got the brown derby so there's a lot of that but i think a lot of adults really enjoy epcot so i would give epcot a little extra time that's why i'm saying try to do hollywood studios in half a day because right down the way kia a good friend of uh of my wife and i yeah she's she's got to do as much epcot as possum no one knowing her yeah it's gotta be a lot of it's here my honestly my recommendation you spend a lot of time in epcot you spend a lot of time in animal kingdom i think animal kingdom is great as an adult i was really like this place is cool it's very themed it's like it's like two or three rides away from being like killer but it's great it's fantastic and now avatar

land is very cool and those rides are great so yeah i think your your focus is epcot and animal kingdom do you crunch uh magic kingdom a little bit because it's a lot of stuff you know that's yes that's sort of that's a great point you go on you go and see go on the old rickety space mountain you go on pirate or no well yeah pirates you can but it's sort of better here you go on jungle cruise for sure because jungle cruise is better in florida than it is out here there's an extra little scene and there's i i like it so much more you're missing the big two carousel of progress and people mover you don't have those if we're talking big two country bears has to be in that the country bears is the greatest show in theme park history you gotta see country bear i love the gd you gotta say you saw it and that's not ironic at

all um it's fantastic especially the self-censorship was not ironic at all no because i wasn't wanting to be so pure when i was making that comment so so magic kingdom yeah there's a lot of stuff that is out here very similar yeah but you know you skip for sure you're like you know you're you're you're astro blasters yeah all that don't do even out of you know morbid curiosity i'd say don't do uh stitch's great escape i would say the train don't do the autopia but you gotta yeah carousel of progress people move for country bears the stuff we don't have anywhere yeah and you gotta see our president at the hall of presidents oh for sure that's very and there's a great muppet show a live muppet show they do every hour ish outside of that that i really think oh yeah

people speak very highly of 10 minutes and you get to see real puppets and it's great uh yeah i would say i would say do you need to eat at magic kingdom do you need to i mean if you're gonna eat a fast a crappy fast service, go to Sunny Eclipse. Go to Cosmic Rays. Oh, yeah. That's true. You got to at least walk in and see Sunny and see a song or two. Oh, you definitely do. But that way.

Can we really quickly explain? Not everybody. She might not know Sunny Eclipse. Sunny Eclipse is a piano playing lounge lizard space creature who plays in this Tomorrowland restaurant. The restaurant isn't Cosmic Rays. Is it Cosmic Rays Starlight Cafe? It's Cosmic Rays Starlight Cafe. Okay.

Sunny Eclipse is the act that night. He's the man, yeah. Yeah, just do a quick meal there and catch the Sunny Eclipse show. You got to. Yeah, or get a drink and just walk in and sit down in front because generally the place is not packed

like I feel it should be. Anytime I've been in there in the last couple years. Well, they just expanded. It's a huge restaurant. Yes, it is. So anyway, I'm saying you can get a front row seat to see Sonny do his stuff. Yeah.

Do you skip Fantasyland? Do you skip it? If you've never seen PhilharMagic, that's kind of fun, but the screen is real blurry and dark now. But it is a fun show. I think these hours count. Seven Dwarfs.

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is great. And of course, if you're going to eat a nice meal, try Be Our Guest if you can get it. Or Liberty Tree Tavern to do the Olympic food conquest. Do what I did and eat the all-you-can-eat meal at Liberty Tree Tavern, which is good. A real solid Thanksgiving-style meal. So we can talk about this forever i mean yeah but that may also be a day to investigate either a meal at the polynesian or the contemporary if you want a whole thing well that's so you get there needs to be a little bit of hotel a little bit of hotel which to which

with six days you don't got a lot of time for that but i but i think doing doing the the path of grand floridian polynesian for sure contemporary walking around for six days that's the that's easily the one you got to do because it's by magic kingdom it's on the route you know you stop in at least trader sam's at polynesian and you have a drink either outside or inside stopping contemporary do something similar i would recommend since it's i mean this doesn't sound like a relaxing vacation like you're gonna be no you're gonna be running and gunning but that's okay so i would say stay on site but like you know uh i um you probably do well at a mid-rate at your your port orleans riverside maybe look this is a thing check out hotwire

two weeks before as long as you got your flight booked you can stay fairly cheaply if you know where to look on hotwire tweet at me i will go into detail about this if you want to know although also let me introduce let me bring uh my wife and i's wine oriented uh philosophy into this why must it be this way? Why must it be a war? I think that you can, like, if you're willing to skip, you know, if you don't see a robot show, you can have a little more. She's never been.

Oh, yeah? She's been drinking plenty of wine. I'm thinking of her husband. I'm trying to give him a little, I don't want him to be exhausted and battered and now this, now this, now this. I'm all for that. It's just that she said six days, six parks. It's inevitable.

I'm not saying you certainly have that Trader Sam's drink. Certainly stop in Epcot and drink around the world for sure. But it's going to be a lot of running and gunning. Let's be honest. It's going to have to pack a lot in. Yeah. now the other question is like do you just not do you just not do how about this what if you were to skip one of these

parks uh make that universal choice don't back out do it all six what do you skip uh you don't you she already said don't back she already said you're wrong. She's already said you're wrong. Jason has decided that he's going to beat the Kobayashi Maru test by just ignoring your question and not acknowledging the rules of the game. I don't know that you can. I mean, it seems like she's angling for like a blitz kind of trip. I think because we poisoned her mind, and now she might have gone and had a relaxing

time. It's seen a couple things but now this will be all out war. Well, she's been micro dosing arsenic by listening to the show and once you walk off the plane at MCO that's when you drink the full thimble of it. I don't even know what to say to that. I will answer your question

and I think the answer is I don't even know what to say to that. I will answer your question. And I think the answer is Universal Studios. I think it is too. Because they have Harry Potter out here and the new coaster is not open yet. Are you saying Islands of Adventure or Main Universal? Oh, shoot. You forgot about Diagon Alley. Shit.

God, shit. I mean, a normal person would probably say islands of adventure it's it's probably yeah but spider-man is there but spider-man is there the incredible holt coaster i guess it's i'll i guess it's islands of adventure because daigon is so good yeah if you had to yeah skip islands Adventure, even though it's a superior park to Universal. But Diagon is so good, that's the thing you gotta go to. You gotta see E.T. while E.T. is still around. That being said, it sounds like

she's doing everything. I would say, okay, how about this? You condense Universal into one day. You rope drop Universal. You could do that. At the original park, you just see E and diagod this is right the train and then you do all the best thing you've ever said on this podcast i totally agree with you if you i'm total agreement with you if that day will be truly a run and gun day

because even your epcot day there's a few things to do in future world and then you can have a nice leisurely stroll through world showcase got bycot by its nature is leisurely. Very. Yes. There's not a lot to do. So just structure your day so that you have a leisurely day. Stop drinking around like seven or eight. Don't go nuts.

And then go, well, we're getting up early. We're doing universal. We're doing all of it. Because you're right. You can do ET. Don't even worry about Fast and the Furious. Don't worry about the Rip Ride Rocket unless it's a very short wait. And do Diagon and you can do all of it. Because you're right. You can do E.T. Don't even worry about Fast and the Furious. Don't worry about the Rip Ride Rocket unless it's a very short wait. And do Diagon and you can do all of it.

Are you saying don't worry about a race through New York with Jimmy Fallon? I didn't. When do you get the opportunity to smell pizza? That's true. The pizza smells are very realistic. All right. And I'm not saying skip it. If you have time.

Skip eating. Don't eat a pizza. Smell'm not saying skip it. If you have time. Skip eating. Don't eat a pizza. Smell the fake pizza. Here's how you do that. When the park closes, you go eat at Margaritaville. Well, of course. And enjoy the ambiance. We were assuming.

CityWalk down there is open till like 2 a.m. It's open very late. 365 days a year. And you get to see Jimmy Buffett's plane. You get to see it. The Hemisphere Dancer, which was, of course course famously shot at by the Jamaican government, which is why he wrote the song Jamaica Mistake. He was not aboard the plane at the time.

I believe Bono was with some other people, probably some horrible capitalist man. I think Clinton had been on the plane at the time. Clinton's been on the Hemisphere Dancer? Are you thinking of Jeffrey Epstein's plane? Or maybe I'm thinking of Bono. I think it was Bono. Sorryffrey epstein's plane also on

we don't know that it's not a co-ownership we don't know that's true that the buffett's plane is not also the true the epstein point so uh okay so we yeah so i think we got it i would say build in whatever in for scott's, build a swing day halfway through the six days. Yeah, just pace yourself is a good thing to do. So that way if you crash, you can sleep in a little and then still hit stuff. I would say have one meal

reservation a day at a decent restaurant. Sure. That'll help you slow down a little. And structure the day as well. Yeah yeah structure the day uh use the max book your fast passes ahead of time i wouldn't concern yourself too much with like weekdays versus weekends because there's in february is this what's left of slower seasons in florida i don't know how much slower seasons there are i don't think it's particularly busy no um so i uh

in the food area uh kia is a big cheese aficionado uh runs the store at cheesemongers of sherman oaks uh go check that out if you're in the la area tell them podcast the ride sent you uh um where do you think you're getting some quality cheese plates oh any at any of these properties i would say not universal no for sure not uh les celliers in canada although i heard world showcase is probably the closest you'll get um had some great like canadian cheddar cheese stuff and the appetizers and on top of a steak very delicious delicious. You had cheddar cheese on a steak? I think it was just a little. There's that cheese soup, the Canadian cheese soup.

It's wonderful. That sounds good. In France, of course, in the French pavilion, there's going to be cheese. There's got to be cheese. Probably. California Grill, you think you got a decent plate up there? Oh, interesting. Oh, I like that.

Well, that you can watch. They stop dinner service pretty much and let people out on the balcony to watch the fireworks. Then you can return to your table. Sure. So that's a nice experience. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to vouch for the California Grill atop the contemporary.

Yeah. In general. There's too much to talk about. There is a lot. But I thought this would be a fun question to talk about on the show that we could blitz through just like she's going to blitz through Orlando. Kia, feel free to email us follow-up questions. Yeah, true. Clarification.

But just, you know, remember to breathe. It's a vacation. Remember to breathe. It should be fun. It should be fun and it will be fun. Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be so fun. You might need a day or so to recover. It'll be relentless, it will be fun. Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be so fun. You might need a day or so to recover.

It'll be relentless though. All right. Well, that was a lot for that one. Yeah, what else we got? Okay. We'll get the two emails. Jeremiah McGuire writes, specific to Disneyland, what attraction that has been reduced or eliminated do you miss the most or was the most poorly done?

That's kind of a couple of questions. Or what current attraction do you think most deserves to be eliminated? Everyone said multiple questions. All right, well, let's pick one of these questions so we can get through a couple more emails. What was the first one? What attraction has been either reduced or eliminated that you miss the most? It's Country Bears in Disneyland. It's crazy. I want that show. has been either reduced or eliminated that you miss the most uh it's country bears and disneyland

it's crazy i want that show it would be perfect over there in critter country the poo ride i go on once in a while and i've you know going to tokyo and it's gonna we're gonna see the better version of it and i'm gonna be jealous of that but country bears over there critter country i can imagine now us going so often and just that being such a great little thing to sit down in the middle of the day after you eat at Hungry Bear or something. That being like, because Splash Mountain is really, you have to be in the mood for it. It has to be the right temperature.

So we don't often go over to Critter Country unless we're sort of feeling that. But if Country Bears was over there, we'd be over there constantly and it would be a really nice air condition, as we often talk about these shows a great place to be and i'm very sad that it's gone people mover yeah um because not that well i don't know i did i i did like the ride and with all of the uh 70s 80s smooth jazz that i listened to really i am chasing the kind of music that you would hear if you were on the people

mover it's just this kind of like you know chill jet age you know zipping around a nice relaxing mod future so i did like the the people mover as a ride i liked the way that you could uh you know get little tastes of the other rides going into other rides is a thing that's kind of disappearing, and it let a scaredy cat like me get a little taste of Splash Mountain when you go through it on the train. You take a little quick trip into Space Mountain and Star Tours before you're ready on the people mover uh um and also just pure well a kinetic energy that there used to be a time where you in your same plane of view the the submarines a monorail

might go by and the skyway and the people mover and the autopia cars you could get all of and a train potentially all of these different types, very different types of transportation, all running and in your same field of view. So it added to the, made it this exciting, hopeful future. And it was full of life. And what's my other, oh, also just pure capacity.

The people mover would eat up uh you know i think internally they call it the people eater because people are you know out on that thing for 20 minutes which reduces the bottleneck of how many people are in tomorrowland because tomorrowland is just stroller central now it is so awful getting in and out of there so uh um yeah i really miss that people mover and and just and anything on that track uh would be so wonderful to get back the one in orlando i was riding and i wrote it during the fireworks and i was like man that's great this why i was i was sad about that too and you can just usually just walk right on oh yeah although the lines are getting worse the lines are getting just line and j Jim just talked about how there's now a line for it.

Yeah. For the first time in many years now, there's regularly a line. It's not crazy, but it's a line. What were you going to say, Jason? Oh, so I was going to say, I'll answer the current attractions you think most deserves to be eliminated. And I don't hate this hate. No, no, this is pretty tame but uh i think the monster

zinc ride in all sure in california adventure like i it will be we know it will be it will be but it's still go every every time we say oh it's gone it's gone like that is such a huge footprint that ride and the sound stages around it and it's just like it's fine but there's a reason they keep using that area for like temporary pop-up stuff yeah you're saying you just want it to go away so we can get our marvel rides yeah get get something because also too it's like a redress of like um superstar limo like oh yeah i think it was only recently I learned, like, oh, all the scenes are the same. They just redid everything. They just put a hazmat suit on Drew Carey or whatever.

Yep. It's so funny. It is funny, though, that it's there. I do like that about it. It's funny that it's there. I don't disagree with what you're saying, but it is funny that that's what it is, that they just were like,

let's put stuff over the bad ride. Yeah. Let's just put clothes over the bad ride. we'll dive into it big time for sure but i don't think that it's not egregious to me because it creates this corner that you just don't go to like you said sometimes happens with you and uh critter country if you're in the mood for splash mountain which i now uh always yeah of course i uh now lighter day i'm not scared of it at all uh but anyway candy store back there um oh yeah sure yeah sure skip that but but i think in terms of egregious get it out of here interventions have the the amount of and in the history launch bay

is it open again start launch bay yeah it's a little they closed it for a while no no still open but that's just that whole place thing thing has just been junk for so long. It's fun to meet Chewbacca. But it doesn't. But it doesn't need that space. You could build a little shed. Build a little. Chewbacca's house.

When your school needed an extra classroom, they would have one of those temporary trailers. Yeah. Wait. You could have one of those temporary trailers yeah wait you could have one of those for chewbacca a little bungalow a little bungalow yeah a little temporary you'll meet him in star wars and the falcon or something in the future so no you're right of course that don't they don't need the entire entirety of interventions to meet chewbacca i just when i i think in terms of like wasted space it's brutal's brutal. And that's kind of all of Tomorrowland. But it's also, you're not wrong, it's not bad to have,

or I don't like that there is this giant corner of what is increasingly one of the best theme parks in the world that is kind of nothing, but I think it's going to get solved. Yeah. Hopefully soon, yes. Spider-Man soon, hopefully. Okay, one last question. This is a little long, but I think it's very funny.

All right. Okay, Sean Urie writes, Hey guys, I'm a fellow childless adult male who loves them, who loves theming, but hates big drops. Hashtag no launch queen. No good. I was just recently watching a Goofy movie,

and at two points during the movie, they are playing 20 questions. Both times, the subject is man, and the answer, after only one guess, is Walt Disney. This kind of metaphorth wall break got me thinking about the internal logic of a Goofy movie. Who is Walt Disney to Goofy and Max? Do you think they recognize him as their god and creator? He must be very important to these characters if he is the first thing that they think of every time in a game of 20 questions. In one scene, you see that Goofy's keychain is the Disney D logo.

Could this be an analog for a crucifix or something of that nature? It seems in the universe, we only see different animal characters and not any human characters, which further points to Walt as being some sort of entity that is outside of their known world. My girlfriend thinks I am insane,

but I am curious what your thoughts are on this theory. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your question sean yeah i love this uh i i just watched the goofy movie partially because we had nick mundy here and we were talking about all over doesn't hold up and i might veer on the side of crapping on it i haven't seen in a long time i don't i found it to be a little rough and that was one of the things that jumped out at me is the is the walt disney and also um similarly i think maybe max hits a a mickey mouse alarm clock oh yeah that's familiar that's his

that's his dad's friend he's probably like his godfather or something you would yeah i if goofy paid the proper respect um and but here here I just walked into Godfather. Is Mickey like a godfather, but God in this case being Walt Disney? And are the characters baptized? Do they all have to enter and commit to the faith? Which I think it's easier for them uh to do so you know i think it was easier for for people to believe in god you know closer to the age of christ and if christ was a

real man then there's only several generations of people telling the story and i bet it's easier for disney characters to believe in the almighty walt because some of them knew him. Mickey walked with him. Oh, yeah. And when there was only one set of footprints, that's when Walt carried him. And then put him down so they could pose for the partner statue.

I think he's correct. Yeah, I think he's only the something here. I think Sean is correct and I think it's correct. Yeah, I think he's only just stopping here. With Sean, is that right? Yeah. I think Sean is correct. And I think it's the only way to make heads or tails of that moment. D being the crucifix.

I think it's a pretty brilliant theory. But there's a whole other thing that this opens up to, which is, was this a question we got? Or did I see people talking about this on Twitter once? Like, what island to the characters because there was matt mazzani talking about this like the that in some like in a goofy movie goofy lives in suburbia with his son but in other planes of reality goofy lives at dis Disneyland. So is it that, um, is it,

and it's, is it that thing that Looney Tunes gets into sometimes as well, where are the, are these actors playing parts, but really they live really Disneyland is their Bel Air. And goofy's acting in a movie where he lives in suburbia with his son. No, I see the looney tunes it makes more sense that they're actors because like then wiley coyote coyote would talk in a very like professorial

way and then in his in his shorts he would be like not talking at all and uh-huh um i feel like it's you in different universes with the disney i feel like goofy movie and goof troop take place in a different universe one where goofy and max are not part of this disney family because mickey is in the is the alarm clock because that doesn't make any sense i don't have a an alarm clock of my dad's friend that would be insane that is my dad's friend kent i don't have that good morning his big arms that'd be bizarre and like but i will say you, when there's different universes, people have theories about how there's an infinite number of different universes. Stuff starts to bleed over and kind of infect other universes,

and it's all repurposed in different ways. So maybe Disneyland just exists in the Goofy Movie universe, and Walt Disney exists, but they weren't created by him. repurposed in different ways so maybe disneyland just exists in the goofy movie universe and while disney exists but they weren't created by him they're just people that enjoy his products like anyone but in the context of disneyland it's a different universe and yes walt disney's there and they're all living in sort of the magic kingdom and it's a totally different universe i think it's different universes it's a multiverseiverse, essentially, of Disney. That's what I'm saying. I think, yeah, in comic book terms, like, Goofy Movie is like an Elseworlds or a What If story.

Yes. It's like off the track of the main continuity. But then sometimes that reality will bleed into, in Marvel speak, the 616 Earth. Yeah, 616 is a marvel universe that's proper the main one oh there's many different ones dc has a much even more expansive multiverse yeah okay well this is and this has its precedent and things like mickey's christmas carol yes or the prince and the pauper yeah the characters are do different yeah yeah uh uh and you know obviously mickey doesn't all unless that is the one true world is that mickey is bob cratchit that's the 616 of the disney universe really is

that mickey is truly bob cratchit yeah i mean the real wild card in this is who framed roger rabbit which combines all which is our combines the warner brothers, the Disney universe, and our reality in theory. In 40s Los Angeles and whatever the hell Droopy is from. The Droopy-verse. Yeah, who owns... Is Droopy a Harvey? Droopy feels like Harvey to me, but

let me look it up. Where's Wimpy in all this? Well, Wimpy would be the E.C. Seeger. The Seeger-verse. Yeah, the Seeger would be the E.C. Seeger. The Seegerverse. Yeah, the Seegerverse. I don't know this one. E.C. Seeger was creator of Popeye. Popeye, years and years, a popular comic

strip, even well before the cartoons. And so it's a very vast mythology. If you're not willing to declare that Disney is Mickey's God, will you declare that E.C. Seeger is Wimpy's God? 100%. Great.

That one is unquestioned. Yes, and hamburgers are his son. Hamburgers are the sacrament, the body of E.C. Seeger's son. And that's why they're so important right wimpy is it is him receiving the body of ec seager yes and that's why ec seager uh is wimpy would be a prophet but then that means everyone who like are trying to charge him for hamburgers then are sinners like if they're pushing the i need the money now for the hamburger. And then it's him. So he's being defiant by saying I will gladly pay you Tuesday.

Right. Yeah. And by Tuesday he means like the future. He means the afterlife. Tuesday is I will pay you when we are off of this plane. Potentially. Because we should not bestow worth on these burgers. when we are off of this plane. Potentially. Because we should not bestow worth on these burgers.

They are the body of BC Seeger. Yeah, Wimpy is constantly, and the fellowed people who have been saved are the people who give him the hammer and say, you know what, don't worry about it. But often Wimpy's overturning the counters, like Jesus turning over the tables of the moneylenders. Over the shopkeepers. Right, of course.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. My temptation of Christ, of course. Because we will all meet our reward, and all of the hamburger money will be paid back when we are in Seeger's heaven, when we are seated at the right hand of Seeger. Seeger's heaven. Seeger.

So that one's wrapped up. Disney, I'm not sure. um i mean that's my theory because there's no way to know for sure i will i we do know droopy is actually hannah barbara texas every oh droopy dog yeah how about that um and yet i've never had a weird general meeting where somebody's tried to say you know you, what's on the table is Droopy. Droopy reboot. We're trying to reboot Droopy. Oh, man, that's a dream meeting for Jason, too.

Droopy reboot. Droopy, Baby Huey. Oh, Baby Huey. Well, that's Harvey. Any of them. I mean, we're due for a Harvey resurgence. Well, the whole Harvey universe, that's another podcast. I mean richie rich hot stuff the little devil yeah little dot there's no little audrey is a harvey character yeah there's a little lotta as a character as well i don't like i don't

like these characters names if i don't like the names, I know I'm not going to like the cartoons. These all feel like competition for Lil Lulu, right? Yeah, I mean, there were a lot of little characters in the old days. So, well, I don't know. We solved it, didn't we? We solved it. I could keep naming other Harvey characters like Jackie Jokers or Spyman or B-Man or the Ghostly Trio or Spooky the Tough Little Ghost or Wendy the Good Little Witch. But I don't need to do that.

We've said it all today, I think. Well, I mean, the answer, I think what I'm saying is that the Disney situation is so much more complicated because it's such a vast and complex universe. But Seeger is really clear yeah and that is the precedent the other there might be something there yes thank you sean uh and thank you in general for sending your your questions in we've just been getting we'll do more wonderful emails like this uh regardless of saying we're going to do post office segments but i think we'll we'll keep doing this so email us at podcast the ride at gmail.com and we may give a little bit of time to your letters after talking about our bullshit for a while yeah and with that being said you've survived podcast the ride the post office edition uh you know i think also I think you could ask us questions on Twitter

and that would work too. And check out our Twitter in general. Yeah, I think one of the things I pulled from a DM. And, you know, Podcast the Riot at Twitter and Instagram. And now is the time to start checking the socials because with the City Walk saga on the horizon, there is going to be so much crucial ancillary content you don't want to miss out you're going to want to set your twitter to send direct alerts

every time we tweet so there's that little bell icon on twitter for a podcast ride when we start this click direct notifications yeah you guys need to as soon we post, you need to be alerted to it. So do that. Leave whatever meeting you're in. Pull to the side of the road because when you see all three of us holding miniature Dodgers bats, you're going to want to get in the game.

Comment. Say who looks the coolest holding them up. And meanwhile, we'll be playing the game called Who Had That? Whose Phone Was That? Who Took That Picture picture yes wait where is what's what what do we need how do we possibly begin to organize 19 episodes worth of uh photos ancillary content but that's a for us files

yeah we can't burden the listeners you don't't burden them with that. All they got to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy, except not really keep up the pace of an intense Disney World vacation and be checking our socials as much as you possibly can. Yeah, because this is just the beginning. I mean, we're coming up on our one-year anniversary on top of all this. Oh, my gosh. Between Forever Dog and City Walk. A lot going on.

We're just getting started. A lot going on in the universe. Yeah. Well, so I guess now we can say the first time, thanks for listening to Podcast The Ride, a Forever Dog production, and a lot more to come down the pike. Goodbye. Check us next week, CityWalk. Bye.

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