Podcast: The Ride - P:TR’s Orlando Odyssey 2023- Trip Report & News

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

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FOREVER! DOG! Warning! The following podcast may include Unpunctual Robotic Housekeepers, Masturbatory Drop Rides, and a special appearance by The Huffs. Then we're gonna level with ya. There's something to talk about that is actually kinda serious.

But don't worry, it'll be hopeful and we'll get through it together. Let's dive in. It's an Orlando trip report on Podcast The Ride, where we're back from Florida and can finally produce a long-awaited episode about a major attraction, the Orlando Airport Trams. I'm Scott Gairdner, joined by Mike Carlson. I got an ooh out of you. So excited because I text people I know that i'm on the tram at the airport oh that's when i did it i texted like three different people i made it i landed i texted three different people some people did not know what i was showing them i will say that wait so you only sent just picture or video and you're waiting for a like, hmm? Yes. Like, what is, I got one, what is this? I was like, I'm on the tram at MCO.

I'm at MCO. Don't you understand? This is a cousin to when you were going into Barenaked Ladies, shtick, to Nate, to Mr. Morrow. Yes. And just diving in with like, now you're going to have to help me. I don't remember the drummer's name,

but you just go like, you know, and I've met Jim. silence like i don't know if jim was the bass player so yeah okay okay wait who's the drummer uh tyler and bare naked ladies oh then i was okay jim is the one i remember hearing jim cregan is the bass player i have met him and you know and while we're naming names jason sheridan i don't mean to like box you out due to intro man not at all not at all i mike do you do the point uh when orlando mayor buddy dwyer starts welcoming you now we know that's the meat of the episode when we do which i actually think is a good episode but but clearly we're gonna have to explain it from the ground up because some fools out there don't know the orlando airport tram on site i mean this is an yeah the orlando airport tram is definitely it's the first ride first and last ride of your trip yeah you get you get

greeted with a ride right when you get there yeah i got to you know we're sort of like this this will be kind of a grab bag and we'll talk about a lot of uh orlando stuff and while we're doing that um just the way things worked out um and and the age that my son is at uh this was the first trip where i've been away like basically phone conversations work and i told you guys about that while i was there which was and i'd have to slip away and then get to talk to him on the phone and he understands and it's like a good tight little conversation and we actually like understand each other and i get some really sweet i love you daddy and that's and i it was really wonderful but that was i was also sending little videos and i sent a video from the orlando and i'm explaining like i'm taking a train to go

to a plane and and and he saw that and like whoa cool he's very transportation minded right now so it read to him um yeah he got it the three-year-old yeah yeah mc oh wow mayor buddy dwyer did you get off at terminal b or a or the brand new c c that doesn't i didn't i didn't end up taking uh the monorail to c i don't even know if it goes there necessarily they're not do you not get a ride if you're well i took a lift right up to terminal c so maybe it does actually but oh but you get to go right up to the terminal yes exactly so i i was actually surprised with that but yeah okay um yeah well i'm setting up a good you know a a orlando hyperspecific transportation-minded kid.

I'm already on the way, and one of the toys I got on the way out the door was a really good toy, I would say, of the Disney World parking lot trams, a vehicle that I'm unfamiliar with because I never parked there. So it's not iconic to me, but nonetheless, I see that and I'm like,

oh, well well that's a toy you can only get here love that do they look like the ones at disneyland um similar that um it's white it's a little it's very 90s it's very like because i feel like i remember at that time a lot of like just the big word disney in like purple or green kind of a 90s purple and green splashed diagonally across the tram uh and kind of like too big where it's getting like cropped a little bit but that's the fun it's you know big text i have learned a little about the purple and green signs recently i was reading about them because they've been taking they've been replacing a lot of them okay and you does that mean the road signs the road signs specifically

i'm talking which i definitely like uh those are those are some of those things that take me not just to disney world but to childhood disney absolutely i love to see it but they're going away a little bit they're slowly going away as i think um partially an aesthetic change and partially like well these have been up for 30 years and they're starting to fall apart yeah yeah yeah okay okay well you can't fight you know that's that's a kind of retro that i i don't like it's a yeah it get hit by enough hurricanes starts to wear down yeah they get they get battered there for sure um well okay so we're you know we're going to talk about some some orlando stuff and i think and and some other stuff going on with us.

It's been kind of a hectic time, I would say, and a lot going on, especially with these live shows we've been doing. As we record this, we're not that far out, not just from the Orlando shows, but the L.A. shows for Hauntcast, The Fright, Dynasty Typewriter. And here's why I'm going backwards to that, because I think we left a thread loose in those. And understandably, because Fright Fest with Gio was a jam-packed episode. That is one that would have been an hour longer if we didn't have to worry about the staff of a theater. And so regrettably, a couple of things fell by the wayside. And I feel like I've picked up on listeners

maybe noticing that something, one thread was dropped and I don't want them to be worried about you, Mike so I ask you now as set up in the show what happened to your wallet and identification which were lost during the evening at Fright Fest

Yeah, that's a good question because we set it up early and then we ran out of time. So I think what happened was Gio and I went over by the fire where we could smell gas, which is where the very tall stilt alien was hanging out. And we were getting so excited

about the stilt alien because I took a big photo with a couple of photos, really. And then we're sort of roaming around trying to figure out what to do next and then we see that there is a like cash registerless amazon store in six flags excuse me selling what uh not not not evening snickers yeah like soda just it's like sodas. Brand of the evening, Snickers. Yeah, like soda. It's like a convenience store in the Six Flags.

One of those, like, grab what you, like, scan your phone on the way in, grab what you want and leave, and that's it, and it charges you. This is absolutely one of these set up by corporations that it just needs to check a box and they don't actually care if anyone's using it. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. They made a deal with six flags to test or like i'm not exactly sure why it was here yeah but we're proud to announce this do you care if any no any human being goes in there no that's not what it's about you had to be proud to announce something right

there was no one in there i don't think it was pretty small but there was no one in there i think people were confused by it and i said okay i have to try this i have i've never done one of these before not that it's that amazing but so i went in there and i opened up my phone i've recently gotten a new uh phone case that claims to block the emf signals the electromagnetic frequencies that a phone gives out so i said oh i need that i need to be blah i need the energy is that the kind of thing you worry about mike uh to some degree i do yes okay i guess that scans it's not a it's not necessarily uh michael mckeon on breaking bad situation yet for me but maybe it gets there i don't know uh uh so i That's you with checking.

Yeah, that's a different condition. Yeah, you retrofit your house and kick everybody out of it so you can just be a full-time checker. There's like 10. I have like 20 phones, and I'm just kind of doing it all in a row. You have like poles attached to each finger. Oh, yeah, yeah. So they all are touching the same thing.

With like skin on them. So they're kind of like fingerprints. Oh, yeah, yeah. So they all are touching the same thing. With like skin on them. So they're kind of like, they are kind of like fingerprints. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So every single finger can be checking. And there's a head on each one too to unlock the phone that way if I need to. So my face is perfectly recreated so that the face ID will open the phone as well. We're some dummy companies. You were too prepared for this scenario.

You've thought about this before yeah i know oh i've planned my checking house yeah yeah yeah uh uh so i open it and i'm realizing i'm looking in it and and the way it holds like cards is shitty it's great at blocking radiation it's so good look the thing you buy it for, great, but holding items is lacking. But holding items is terrible. And I look and I go, holy shit, my cards are gone. Everything in here is gone except for maybe one thing, and I forget even what it was. And I come outside and I go, Gio,

this is going to sound like I did this on purpose. I lost my driver's license and my debit card, and I think I had one credit card left. And I was like, there's another card in here i remember what i had and he's like what i go yeah i think i he goes well did you take it out i go what i don't i didn't show my id at like a hot like a house or anything and then i paid mobile i mobile ordered the johnny rockets so i go i don't small miracles rockets was a mobile so it wasn't that so i didn't use my debit for rockets when i was taking the photo with the tall alien i think my cards must have fallen out i just didn't notice were you like was there something about

that you were looking up high you're craning your head and perhaps the rest of your body and it just caused kind of a big lean of all of you and all of your items. Yes. It's possible that I craned so much that the cards fell out. The angle was so great. It's such a steep angle that the cards fell right out. I didn't notice. I was so taken by this alien performer that I just didn't hear the sound of the cards falling on the ground.

Or there was some sort of explosion by the fire machine the fire machine whatever it was and i just got distracted so we this is six flag scheme are they like we need stilt walkers out there so people drop their wallets i thought we can use their debit cards to fund the purchase of cedar fair i thought you've been really scrounging for pennies and i did think like maybe there were like roving gangs of like uh oliver twists roaming six flags i have to say i've been wrongfully assuming this whole time since this was left open that you were picked but i've been blaming valencia teens or street urchins i don't when here it was just a horrible phone case i think it was a poor design poorly designed i've actually just changed i still have the case um but i've moved all the cards into this

like thing here but it used to be here and these things just slip out if you pull it out and you're upside down i think they just slip out god it's really badly but again those things you are you've you've put by avoiding the signals or right what is it the waves emf yeah electromagnetic frequency okay so you've added you know uh four hours to your life by avoiding the frequencies right but i yeah but i had to cancel the card uh the debit card immediately i went to lost and found very nice person there and she's like i go i lost my driver's license and deborah's like oh like she was like oh man you fucking idiot uh but she goes well let me take a look what's your name and then she came back and she had my like medical id like my medical

insurance card so that was in there so somebody obviously found it maybe i lost it much earlier i don't know because this was probably like 30 minutes after the alien photo so somebody had returned my insurance card to lost and found but not my debit card license so teens made off with those they couldn't make heads or tails of that yeah so group number what the hell is it can we can we use this to steal anything i don't think so they could have picked up some free covid tests maybe from kaiser but that would be about it i think but i don't know so so yeah i wanted to know if it was like somebody took the driver's license debit card and then just left that and

then somebody else grabbed it and brought it to last one or somebody was like well i'll take these two but i'm going to return this card for him uh so i went there and then i checked at the end of the night no no luck i called a day or two later and it went it literally went to like someone's answering machine the official six flags phone number this is daffy duck it was not that you've lost any item it was not that fun but it was like i went to like on the menu i was like going you know press three for this press four like beep beep beep and then it took me right to like some an old school sounding answering machine of somebody it's like hey this is barbara uh if you've got a question leave the leave the message

here and i'll try to get back to you when I was like, I'm not seeing these again. So I went to the DMV and I paid. You have to pay like $40 or something. Yeah. Sat and waited and did it. I never got them back. Somebody in Valencia though has them and I hope they're using them well.

You haven't sensed any activity. You haven't caught anything. I haven't seen anything. It's possible my identity could be stolen, though. This might be a point of pride. This is a cool thing. Maybe you've helped some Valencia teens buy some beers. Yeah, buy John Taffer's brown butter.

You think that's what they're buying? Yeah. Yeah, they love it. They love celebrity alcohol. Oh, okay. That's a Valencia teen thing. It's a Valencia teens. Love it. Well, you're the one who's. That's a Valencia teen thing. It's Valencia teens. Love it.

Well, you're the one who's always on TikTok, so maybe you were seeing like, hey, we're in Valencia. We're drinking John Taffer's brown butter bourbon or whatever the hell this is. I have restrained myself from getting a TikTok account because I know I would just get sucked in. But you always seem to know the terms, so that's why. I know. I know the terms.

You're going to pick up so many young person terms. I see the instagram you know people upload stuff to instagram reels they'll make the important terms will make their way yeah the turns will make their way yeah you know um so i i hope i helped yeah yeah yes you've you've you've helped so many needy teens get uh the brown butter bourbon valencia has given me so much and given this show so much. I'm glad to give back. That's what I feel.

You've always, you give yourself to the show and now you've literally given yourself to some 14 year old. Some 14 year old handing over my license. And then like the shopkeeper

is like, so he holds it. He's like, so what's your name? Michael. Michael Carlson. Just the talkies and the digits, bourbon, please. This is your 6'3".

Yeah, he straightens up immediately. That's right. Oh, hey, look over there. He knocks some cans over, stands on top of the cans. Okay, yeah, you are taller. I didn't see it. My eye is too long of a day let's see well okay um hmm you look young and so does the person in this photo who definitely looks like somebody

who likes young people's music like let's say olivia rodrigo's guts at least half of it all right your story checks out yeah hey what ninja turtle photo what ninja turtle uh toy are you holding in the photo answer that question okay story checks out you always sneak that's your driver's license move sneak just like right before they take the picture get to get at least the eyes up there yeah rayful what's the character ray filet is ray filet you might know him as man ray because he's had different names in different media like a stingray yes Ray Filet is in the new Turtles

but the name of the toy was Ray Filet but they called him Man Ray in the comics and other media but yeah you've seen him I think you've seen him he sounds kind of familiar Post Malone does his voice in the new movie and that's cool that's a young person

person to like that's right um okay well i wanted to uh to get through that let's just as we clear things out in order here um and now we move to orlando where i think we we've got enough kind of stray bits to to talk about and to do a little bit of a trip report now not to be redundant because obviously listeners you will be hearing a lot of orlando trip reporting uh a lot of the adventures that we went on in the uh event that you now know is coming the city walk orlando saga multiverse of madness coming q1 2024 uh just want to keep that excitement level up about it yeah uh you know because we've already you know we're already a little bit out from the trip uh um, um, and I, you know, it's up to us to keep the city walk magic in our hearts and in our, uh, in our stomachs, in our intestinal lining. I'll never forget. Yeah. I

think we did a good job of making sure that it stuck with us. It, um, you know, city walk was the main reason to go, which was, uh, an insane, an abomination in the eyes of the Lord to spend that much time at CityWalk. But of course, we made time for other things because I think the degree of depression we would have had if we didn't slip away for some other stuff. So we had a great time at Food and wine and at epcot in general and okay to step all the way back if you see if you see if you guys agree with this statement i was just thinking how i don't think it ever feels better to be the host of this show to be hosting a theme park podcast than when we are in or. I mean, how great was, just like everybody we get to run into,

like just the kindness of people, the spirit of everybody, the audience at these shows, and people who we're meeting who feel like we've been friends with them for years, even though we're just meeting them for the first time. I got so much joy and positivity out of uh going there i hope you guys did too yeah yeah it is it is like the cheers of states or cities i suppose the cheers of states not no not if we walked in the governor's mansion or something but orlando specifically

yeah it's true there's a lot of probably a lot of of parts of Florida where we would not find ourselves as welcome. But Orlando specifically, oh my God. From the welcome of Mayor Buddy Dwyer as soon as we arrived. Jason got the key to the city from Buddy Dwyer upon landing. On the tram. Yeah, he was waiting for me.

But it's happened to you so many times. You're like, throw it on the pile. I got so many keys to the city. Throw it on the pile. Your big key ring that you have every day now but yes it's uh it's it's very it feels very warm it feels very nice uh no kidding there's i look there are a couple times you go maybe we should just move down here yeah who are we fooling here you know maybe this is where we belong uh yeah yeah i know um it's uh it's fun although there's also

there's an aspect to i mean what i would city walk almost in some ways was a taste of that of like well let's let's take our time let's go to these establishments that we usually just just rush past in the you know in the mad dash to get on a ride or something but to be able to stop and take in a take in a film take in some fine dining of course yes let us it showed us what it's like to be a local now that's probably incorrect and probably orlando locals who uh we met or were at our show were thinking i don't ever step foot in that place yeah but you guys are the only freaks who go to city walk all the time living in hollywood slash los angeles a fair amount of people either work in the parks or tangentially for the companies and they're like yeah i'm just here you know you get the employee

discounts or you get you know passes or whatever and especially universal there's residential neighbor like jane's like that's dr phillips high school as we're like pulling on the strip i've thought about that how there is a high school like that's across the street from jurassic park the ride yes yeah yeah that's pretty fun yeah they must be very distracted over there i know i would be yeah you mean like they're imagining like oh we could be on the ride right now if you if you're in a classroom with a view of that building i imagine you're if you were me i would be thinking about it full time not to jump around too much although maybe this will be a jump around kind of conversation um i've never been until this trip i'd never been on jurassic park the ride there oh really

or what jurassic there it's called jurassic park river adventure right right because. Because it's new-ish that I've gotten a little braver. Oh, right, right, of course. With these things. I think, you know, I'd only done the original in Hollywood one time. So it was kind of fun to do that now that we have Jurassic World here with our pals from the ride. Why am I forgetting their names all of a sudden? Claire and...

Claire Dearing? Yeah, Claire and I'm so... Apologies to Claire. Owen Dennis? Claire Dearing? It was... It's not Owen Dennis, is it? Owen Grady?

Owen Grady? What's Owen Dennis? Claire Dearing. Owen is the creator of Infinity Trap. Oh, that's right. I knew that was a name floating around our world. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay.

But anyway, fun to do that to go to kind of the you know there's just a little bit of a 90s of a little bit of a throwback to it much like the signs like the colors are a little bit like uh you feel the 90s of it and i like the bright yellow of the vehicle and you know what's the thing again i didn't have it memorized at all and i didn't know that there was this gag with dropping the crate on you right before the lift hill. Oh, oh. Because I didn't go on it this time. I have been on it, though.

You're saying right before you go, like, where the car was in Hollywood? Yeah, yeah. Was there never a car in Florida? I actually don't know the answer to that. I'm not sure. Was that gag in Hollywood ever? That there's a big... Does this even say... Because I didn't know the answer to that i'm not sure so they was that gag in hollywood ever that there's a big does this even say because i didn't know this at all that just like i think there's a there's a

raptor or something in it and it's a really heavy looking crate and it doesn't drop until you're right under it and it drops a distressing degree it actually does freak you out a little oh yeah i know what you're talking yeah yeah i think it's, yeah, supposed to be a raptor cage. Okay. Well, if they ever had it in Hollywood, they shouldn't have taken it out. Maybe it was a replacement for the Jeep dropping, which never worked great. Yeah. I mean, I've seen the Jeep drop many times, but I think toward the end, it was not always

functioning. They certainly don't have it in Orlando now. That's my question now is if they ever did. Apologies. I'm just uh flying into this conversation without having done the research we kind of do another full episode on the old ride i guess so it's got a different crate there's a crate there's a new crate we don't uh have memorized anyway that's that's a straight bit let me kick it to you guys um

any big like stories revelations uh highlights of your time in Orlando? Well, I want to give a big shout out. I didn't expect it to like this much. I thought it was more utilitarian. But Sapphire Falls, the hotel, we had a great time. Great. It's a really nice hotel. That's a universal hotel.

Yeah. It's one of the boat connected ones it's one of the boat connected ones but it doesn't automatically come with express like hard rock or portofino bay or royal pacific so you there's an upcharge there for maybe a few reasons but one being that you can skip lines yeah yeah automatically it was so but this was uh it great. The food was all great. The boats, I don't think we waited more than five minutes ever for a boat. Yeah. And the thing about the boat hotels is you do security there,

so you don't have to do it at CityWalk. Yeah. I was unfamiliar with the boat system until now. I've been saying for a long time, I've kind of only done disney world hotels or even like peripheral like lake point of vista right um or a very memorable time at a radisson just outside property uh where i was would not go back probably again um but i've been saying for a while and especially with city walk as our the main thing we were doing i was very excited to do universal as the base and let me tell you i think this is the move forever i loved universal

as the base yeah loved the boat i wasn't at a boat connected one but i was at aventura which is just a quick walk through sapphire falls yeah you might as well be on the boat line um and it's like it was the aventura is a really good um i don't know if it's where i'd stay with uh with my family i don't know if i'd take my son but as a you know as a person there as a business traveler as someone there for work you know to right check out all the establishments at city walk orlando for for like a room that you're not really going to be in uh and what you pay for it and that it's a little like quieter and away from the, you know,

like the noise and theme parkiness a little bit. Yeah. I loved it. I don't, Mike, how do you feel? You were also at a Universal Hotel, but a little bit further. Endless Summer, which is on the bus. There was no boat.

I couldn't take a boat, but it still was a really quick bus ride to city walk um i think i think when it comes like the thing that i'm really still excited about with disney world is just like hanging out on the boardwalk or going to the contemporary or the polynesian that's the only i would i've never done well no i did it as a kid but i've i've never as an adult done i mean look i let me not beat around the bush i know where i want to stay i want to stay at the swan and dolphin well never done it uh i'm being able to like yeah that has its own appeal i guess but all of these hotels now have tripled quadrupled in price yep from eight years ago five years ago so it's like if we're gonna try to just do a regular trip that is not going to be a

million dollars universal is the way to go yeah because it's not too far if you rent a car i rented a car this time like not too far of a drive to go to disney um yes the only scenario where i think i want to stay at disney is if um like a great aunt leaves me millions of dollars and I'm going to spend like $1,000 a night to stay at a Polynesian or something. Sure. So yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense because I like the all-star resorts fine and there's some perks to being there,

but I don't know, there's an energy at Universal now. It feels like maybe the energy has moved around a little bit. Yeah, the vibes are just better at Universal. It more relaxing i mean my family discovered this years ago of like oh it's really nice to stay here it's so much more manageable and everything you walk to or take a boat to yeah as opposed to look like disney world no matter where you are there's going to be a bunch of transportation hassle yeah it's just gonna like being at boardwalk or whatever doesn't really help you when you're going like to the outs if you're if you're going to animal kingdom or animal kingdom lot like you're still possibly getting

really lengthy bus rides yeah a really lengthy lifts or whatever so i'm kind of like well if we're gonna be lifting just let me just lift over to there in general right and then like live like stay make my base at the parks where like per capita the amount of amazing rides you're gonna get within walking distance of each other is really really high yeah i'm just getting like i don't know well i'm getting more and more universal centric We went to Epcot Food and Wine the one day. Another day, we all went to Disney World, but we're kind of doing our own thing. It's split up.

And I ended up at Animal Kingdom and then Magic Kingdom with some friends of Jane's who live down there. And they were so packed, the gills. And simultaneously, I'm like, I bet if they ran everything at full capacity like all restaurants uh all live shows parks open late these crowds would abate a little like it would die down a little but then also one of one of the her friends was like there are radio ads playing down here saying disney certain parts of disney uh are like now hiring 700 signing boat so it's like they're having trouble getting people but it's like the parks are a little out of control everything felt

very busy and it's like the parks just, there's a vibe. Here's, this is, maybe people are going to be very upset with me after I say this, but in some ways, even though there's new great stuff at Epcot, and I'll always love Epcot, in some ways, like being in Toon Lagoon feels more vibrant and alive than being in parts of Epcot. Well, you mean, so you don't like the parts that are still construction walls and have been for years years of construction walls just like it feels like future world still kind of decaying obviously figment is decaying like i was in tomb lagoon and i'm like tomb lagoon doesn't feel tired to me i don't know like they're

keeping it up i know that but like i don't know, like they're keeping it up. I know that, but like, I don't know what it is. Is it me? Is it, is it the actual space? Is it just vibes? Is the,

are the vibes of Toon Lagoon so fresh? Well, the vibes, and also there were construction walls in Toon Lagoon and Marvel Super Hero Island, but it's just upkeep. They're painting,

they're repairing stuff. And it's like,keep. They're painting. They're repairing stuff. And it's like, I'm all for that. Like, yeah, put a fresh coat of paint on something. People are going to come at me for this, I think. But whatever. I'm ready. If you go there, you go to these parks, and you're honest with yourself,

I think it's just... Look, I grew up... I was much more of a disney kid than universal kid but you gotta yeah i don't know you have to uh uh think about where the energy is where is the energy absolutely and i think it's i think the universal parks are feeling closer to disneyland california adventure out here where there's only like a small strip of land separating well yeah both are just like nice jam-packed with stuff and you don't have like the vast swaths of parks that haven't been touched in a significant way in 30 years yeah yeah yeah so that's true i mean i look i'll say this and i know that if you're not a club three

subscriber maybe you don't know about the controversy another controversy i weighted myself into when i said uh i never thought i never gave a shit about port of entry uh people very upset i will say i spent some time in port of entry i sat i ate uh some sort of a breakfast sandwich there i saw tall lady pirates on stilts to talk more about stilts oh a lot of performers out i feel like maybe i've never noticed before but there were a lot of performers a lot of original characters one of those pirates i met at our live show as a listener one of the pirates was in the live pirates yeah the tall pirate not the tall pirate okay because there were molt there were two ladies that were tall like extra tall pirates

i don't recall anyone on stilts at the live anyone on stilts at the live show was anyone on stilts at the live show no I know I think we would have addressed the person on stilts but you know you never know at Icon Park that's what it's called right where we were for whatever somehow I thought I did not realize the venue was in the middle of Icon

Park yeah that was crazy I wish we'd gotten more Icon Park time and actually now is a good time to address what i saw when the lift dropped me off which is two big tanks and then a qr code that you could scan to join the army oh wow really all that under a ferris wheel huh so wild could you get in the tanks to take a photo i didn't presume we had yeah yeah we had too much i just real quick want to say though that i do appreciate port of entry more now just having really taken the time because i think in the past i've been just so marvel brained i want to go right to superhero island and no i did port of entry um you know what i also it was kind of uh forced it was kind of because uh

here i will i will say this complaint about staying at universal well there is the perk of an hour of early entrance at island of islands of adventure yeah and then i got in there and like could not get to anything that i wanted to do right um it was an unbelievable line to get in there and then once in there hagrid's already says a two-hour wait somehow. And then half the park is closed. And what I really wanted to do was Spider-Man. So I did at least get to, I was like in prime position to just go straight to Spider-Man. But I was forced to take in the port of entry sights and sounds to chill out with a coffee for a minute.

And hey, you know what not so bad not so bad to sit and reflect and imagine where this where this port could take you i mean look we were hanging out there a couple times we watched the sunset i sense that you were having like romance i sense that you were am i am i correct that you caked in times. This is the night. It's a beautiful night. We weren't expecting it. Look, I got off the plane and a few hours later I was at Port of Entry on Marvel's Superhero Island. Yes. Did we say

Port of Entry is the entrance to Islands of Adventure? Islands of Adventure. I think I forgot to say that for maybe a listener who didn't know what Port of Entry was. How could there be such a person? You didn't recognize the tram. You don't know what Port of Entry is. And you didn't know that the name of it is fanos lighthouse pharaoh's lighthouse pharaoh's lighthouse like the eighth one of the eight wonders of the ancient world uh yeah um so i yeah we were having room we watched sunset we shared a cigarette or two

oh yeah you got big long cigarettes. That was your Orlando treat was long cigarettes. Jane, I said like, oh, it'd be funny to take a picture of Port Adventure with a Starbucks and a sleeve of Cinnabons, which the sleeve of Cinnabons were delicious. A sleeve of many Cinnabons.

Simple man, just like a coffee, a long cigarette and a sleeve of Cinnabons. Did you get the sleeve a coffee, a long cigarette, and a sleeve of Cinnabons. Did you get the sleeve at In Islands of Adventure or was it at CityWalk? At Islands. Okay, thank God. Because if it was CityWalk, I would say we've got to edit this part out. Yeah, save it.

Okay, cute. I mobile ordered at the man who looked like Napoleon Dynamite. I was kind of watching the window and I was like, there is no one else here. How is this not ready yet? And then we went to the smoking area,

which is a beautiful outcropping of fake rocks. And we saw the lights coming on because Islands of Adventure is great colored lighting. And there was already Christmas decorations up. Oh yeah, we had to see the Christmas transition in a lot of places. That was very nice. At the hotel when we checked in,

first we got the hotel at like 6.45 in the morning because we flew in on a red eye. This is this mood. I don't understand this mood and that you want want to like then get to a hotel and sleep as soon as you get in well because i had done this before at universal and it worked um i got there and they're like we have a bunch of rooms ready do you want to pick where you're staying and and so we went and did the just open breakfast buffet uh shout out to patty our waitress at amatista cookhouse

we saw her like every day and she was so nice when we were passing to get to the boat talk she always come out and say hi to us um uh so we ate the breakfast buffet and then we no buffet today i'm getting a sleeve uh we got the buffet and then we went up to the room and slept for a few hours. It was great. And then we went to Port Adventury on Marvel Superhero Island. I guess it does sound, I don't know. I'm not a red-eye guy. I'm amazed that you do the red eyes.

Jason can fall asleep on a plane. I can sleep on the red eyes. That's an issue. I cannot at all. I can't either. No, no, no. Yeah, Jane is kind of a crapshoothoot whether it's a morning flight or red eyes so she's like i don't really care just throw me in whatever yeah i can half sleep or whatever right

so um yeah uh and i was talking to the front desk guy and i was like how's it going it's busy this time of year and this sort of thing he got a look on his face said he had just gotten back from a war it's like i'm just glad Horror Nights is over. Oh, boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, well, Christmas is coming up. And he's like, Christmas last year was a breeze compared to Horror Nights. And every team member I talked to was like, I'm just glad Horror Nights done. I think it's such a, it might be one of their busiest times.

I mean, it's definitely one of their busiest times. And it might be the busiest time there. And it's also just like extended hours, and it's like a whole other chunk of time or staff. Sure. It's crazy in general. If Horror Nights runs to one or two, then the boats run until three or so.

Sure. At least. Yeah. Boy. Yeah. Well, I think we picked the right time to go and weather was pretty good in that pocket it's not to say that there weren't little curses throughout um mike missed his flight that was a full miss of a flight we're supposed to be on the same one a flight in

my life and i missed the flight which is surprising because you've cut it pretty close i've said you're that kind of like to cut it close. I don't like to fly. Yeah. Psychologically, I think part of me is just like, I want to go from security right onto the plane, not think about it. I don't want to sit.

I'm so confused by this because you're also the most anxiety-ridden. You've got your pocket full of ray blockers. What you would say about an anxious person though on some level is they like it you would say that i'm actually looking for the anxiety in a lot of ways which is something you have to check keep in check so in some ways keep checking yeah right checking is sort of anxiety which my brain likes on some level and that's the phone alerts is like to have just an endless noise yeah yeah uh-huh so your brain likes it because it's familiar and then it's a little bit comfortable even though it's uncomfortable right but then how are you not like

i'm losing time i'm losing time fuck fuck fuck like i was okay yeah yeah no no i was because my anxiety is i need to be at the airport two and a half to two hours early. I'm closer to that. Yeah. Yeah. I got out of the, it was a heartbreak. I don't know the big thunder line very well in Florida. And there was, so I didn't know where I was.

So I rounded, I was like, if I round this corner and I don't see the trains, I have to leave to make sure that I get back to my family in time. And I rounded the corner and I saw no train. And, oh, well, that'll do it. I put in that time for nothing. It's pretty long and you're at the very back end of the park. Yeah, you're right. A dead end corner.

Yep, yep, yep. I hear there's a lot of land back there and there's a lot of wishes and dreams that could be put back there. We've been letting our imagination, we've been starting to think about what else could be over there anyway moving on it was two years ago already right yeah geez yeah they think yeah they keep announcing they keep announcing nothing for that end of the park anyway thinking about it oh no i just yeah i missed the flight by a couple minutes uh basically i made like three bad errors too baby car seat was in my car i had to take it out uh i forget the second one and then the third was like i was trying to figure out where i had paid to park in this parking garage and i like second guessed myself and unparked and

went somewhere else big big mistake and oh no the the third one which is the most crucial is that there's two american airlines terminals at lax and i got off at the first one and i went through security and they're like yeah you can get to the other one you have to walk through a big tunnel so i like ran through a tunnel from like four to five and i was like there's no i'm sure i would have if i had just gotten dropped off at five i would have been fine uh four and five also connect right behind security you didn't have to get through the tunnel no i think well somebody told me't have to go through the tunnel. No, I think, well, somebody told me I had to go through the tunnel.

Or maybe I'm thinking of the different, was it five and six or something? Well, when I flew in the summer, they were like, oh, the tunnel's closed. Six and seven for sure are quicker because I had to walk all the, I didn't go back through security. I then switched my flight to United, which is seven. And then I had to walk through another terminal from five to six. But then six my flight to United, which is seven. And then I had to walk to another terminal from five to six, but then six to seven was a quick walk. Now, how many of these terminals have rides at LAX? None.

Well, there is a people mover coming. There is something in LAX sometimes where you have to go outside and take a little car to a little auxiliary place. On the runways? That sucks. That's like going to a little bus depot. Yeah, yeah.

That's terrible. Also, LAX constantly under construction, so American was flying domestic flights out of the international terminal occasionally. Oh, okay. So, no, that was not great. That was not a great start, but it was fair. Then I was, because I was on the flight

you were supposed to be on, and they said, like, all right, well, we're going to be pushing out here. We thought we were going to have to delay it due to a rocket launch, but apparently it's not going to be a problem. We sorted it out. So we were going to be, we were going to have to delay things just a few minutes, but now we're not.

It was like the rocket almost delayed it exactly the amount of time it would have taken you that you needed to get on the plane. Was that a space set? I think so. Well, the rocket has has exploded so we're able to go the rocket instead chose to write a bunch of hateful statements on x so the rocket has been canceled all right the best is he randos on the internet going like aha actually the rocket was supposed to explode so they could collect data. And don't you feel foolish now? That is the explosion is what Elon wanted, actually.

Yeah. I also, I had my troubles too, which is like, I made it out the door really early. I was right on time. And then just a glass slipped from my hand in the fridge on the way out the door and fell right onto my bare foot, leaving a black welt that weeks later is still on my toe. And I never really got a chance to look at it,

what with the busyness of flying and then needing to go, obviously needing to go straight to CityWalk to start covering sectors. So I didn't really see it till the very end of the day when I took my socks off and saw the darkest of purples when i saw a shade that i've never seen on my own body and i was like well hmm hospital no let's see how things are in the morning in the morning worse felt worse but stuff to do we had this pack to the gills city walk day i'm like well can i uh manage this anyway then towards the end of that day uh mike you and i and griffin ended up at the lone palm airport home of the hemisphere dancer

which i'm told there is some story about and i felt very relaxed there looking at the uh you know looking looking at the lake and looking off at hard rock live at the beautiful Coliseum. And I was like, you know, there's some sand here. I'm gonna take my shoes off. Let me feel this sand. It's there for a reason. I'm going to do it.

So I took my shoes off and I saw a change in the color on my foot. It went from dark, dark purple to dark, dark red. And, and to me, well, okay.

So I just, I look like, Oh like oh look at that and you look at my foot and say oh my god it's bad and i say are you kidding that's better it was dark purple before i'm relieved by this darkest of dark red yeah on my toe and it did only get better from there and i wasn't a i wasn't a fool who ignored a hospital visit that i did but this certainly did it was like fine i'm sure it'll come up in one of the sectors just the that on top of all of this that also my toe was in really bad shape as we were doing the most unpleasant things of our trip uh i'll say this list for listeners too especially if you find yourself in orlando and have an injury or a sickness,

go to the hotel front desk or if there's a concierge, talk to the concierge. They are prepared for this inevitabilities. Okay. My dad once had a tooth going like dying or something was going on. Oh, my God. The tooth was dying. And he went to the concierge and they got him,

like they connected him with emergency dentist and he went and they gave him antibiotics. They got him an ice skate and a big rock to knock it out of his mouth castaway style. Yeah, yeah. There was an Old West dentist barber, you know, and they gave him a bottle of whiskey and a strap of leather to bite and scream into.

No, but there's a million urgent cares there. There's a million. I feel like there's even services, like old school services, where the doctor will come to your hotel room. Wow. You should have done that. Yeah, geez.

Just for the episode. Well, you know what I should have done? You know who I think could have taken care of me is Relay. You guys ever heard of Relay before? No. Well, I should have tested if Relay could have helped out. So Kevin from Telethon, who we met and hung out with down there, when I told him I was staying at Aventura,

he said, oh, you know who you got to check out is Relay. Oh, it was Relay. Or maybe he didn't know the name, but I found out the name is Relay. Relay is a robot who lives in Aventura. A robot who can fetch you things, who can bring you towels and toothpaste. Right, because that was Aventura's big thing when they opened.

They're like, oh, it's kind of a modernist, like Hyatt sort of setup, but there's a lot of technology. Like it controls a lot of the room with a tablet. Yes, which is uh uh annoying and not uh how you expect a room to work i didn't say the lights and the remote are all in one all you have to do is turn on this tablet in the dark i i just said the marketing i didn't say it worked okay yeah yeah it's also been a few years and I don't know that the tablets have been necessarily updated. Yeah, yeah, yes.

The future of tablets from 2016. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I thought that was dumb. But a robot, a robot will come up to your room. And one of those days that was especially tiring, the day that broke us, the day where most of the park was broken, I was texting Kevin. He said, you know what? You owe yourself some self-care. Is there anything you need in your room? Do you need extra towels or something? I say,

get Relay to bring you something you need. And I thought, and there's nothing really I need, but I do want a robot to come to my door. So I sent a text message to maybe a different bot. Maybe that was a human being who works in the hotel. And I asked if a robot could bring me a bar of soap. And they said, absolutely coming right up. And then an hour passed and I needed to move on with my day. And I said, I would no longer like relay to bring me a bar of soap. Yes, of course, sir. Sorry for the delay.

So I never got relay. And I don't know if, uh, if this boxy robot could have, uh, uh, checked if my toe was broken or not. Yeah. Once you, once you got relay you got Relay in the room, you should not have let Relay out. Oh, yes. Then you're like, Relay, you're mine now.

Let's see how smart you are. Can you escape from this room? Reprogrammed Relay while it was in there. What are you going to do? Flush yourself down the toilet to get out of here? You'll break. See, I asked for toothpaste at the front desk and they're like, oh, I'm so sorry we're out here,

but I'll have someone send some up to your room. And they were there in like 10, 15 minutes. So you're saying a human being is better than texting a person who calls a robot? Yeah, yeah. The humans, the housekeeping was always on it, you know. So humans may be still the way to go. Huh, maybe the AI isn't the way of the future.

Interesting. I don't know. Here's something that I have to fit in. I can't list. Well, let me describe a little bit my morning after the live shows, which again, everybody who came everybody hung out after uh people who wore great stuff food the lineup of people all wearing different planet

hollywood bomber jackets there's too many to shout out i loved everybody i met uh and i and i'd like to tin roof and i love that we could actually we could like chat with everybody with drinks and like it was like an after party a little bit uh instead of you know being out on a weird street which is usually how we're meeting people um so that was great but i made a joke at the beginning of the live show and the joke was uh about how you know we're excited to be here but also we need to wrap this up to get the tron virtual queue that was legitimately true yeah we did there was a a 7 a.m need to wake wake up, and I got out of the venue at 2 a.m., I believe. So that was one of the worst sleeps I've ever had and wired from the show. But, of course, wanted to do Tron, needed to do Tron.

You pulled a group that was too good, Mike. I pulled an amazing – I pulled eight. I pulled – Eight. I was like, please, can it be like a 1 p.m. kind of. Yes, because Guardians was middle afternoon. And it was like, ah, we can all go back to sleep. Leisurely, yes.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, in this case. No, not this, no. And we could have ignored that. But I'm like, ah, God. And you know, and actually, you guys didn't do the mad dash so much. I was like, I'm up. I'm just going to gonna do it i'll sleep

uh someday and uh it all lined up lift took me perfect ticket to transportation center wait that's gonna be a hassle right no got right on the ferry ferry got me right i was there just five minutes later than the time tron great we'll talk about tron down the road we'll talk about a lot of the rides obviously we'll go yeah a lot of episodes uh to come uh but tron great then uh because i kind of missed breakfast i was like i should just grab a time to have a sit down lunch what's skipper canteen oh yeah i was not of course we've talked about it i'm vaguely aware of skipper canteen god damn it skipper canteen was great have you guys done it yeah i haven't done it yet. You've done it.

Yeah, last trip, yeah. Oh my God. It's great. Food legitimately great. If you don't know the restaurant, it's kind of like an outgrowth of Jungle Cruise. So it's the theming of Jungle Cruise and they make,

I didn't know that the servers make Jungle Cruise style jokes. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's fun. Such good, so everybody working the restaurant, great. Decor, great.

Sea stuff. The sea mythology is part of it. Great, like, bathroot. Just like one of these great little plus-up imaginary experiences. They don't need to have this, but I'm so glad they have it. It's 11 a.m. I slept horrible, but they have wine. God damn it, I'll get some wine.

It was great, but it made me so loopy i felt so insane but in a good way i find and my my voice is shot you might have heard that in the show my voice was going in and out this entire time so i felt in like such a loopy way when i went to meet you mike and your friend dave dave and i asked where you guys uh were and you said well we are watching the taping of a disney holiday special uh in the hub and i went yes and i texted you are those boring dancers there who host everything and you said do you mean julianne huff why yes that's exactly who's here whoa great run up i feel so bonkers no voice so you're drunk at 11 a.m on no sleep wow and then and and then to see all these bright lights and to see a holiday performance by somebody who i've never seen before in my life yeah i don't know who you know who that

was yet um but then we're watching we get to see an intro of a julianne huff like a throw to essentially yeah this excited me so much more than i anticipated what i don't think i've ever been there for a taping i've watched a disney holiday special since i was the youngest of child uh i i was so excited i kept yelling huff you were yelling at her and she was probably like i don't know 50 feet away 75 like really close i know you were heckling i also now i refer i didn't mean it as heckling i i was trying to be in the in the spirit yeah show my appreciation i also i referred to them as the boring dancers who host everything but what what i was not ready for was that in person julianne huff is the beautiful woman oh my god stunning and then she turned around i got a look in the eye and a

wave i saw this happen scott got a direct eye contact from julianne and a wave and it melted his icy heart i think he now loves the huffs i I think I love the Huffs now. We love the Huffs. We love them. Yeah, because she was so close and like she's waiting to go on and she was like doing some like banter with the audience, like the very close audience

who are like behind her. Oh yeah, she was just like listing rides. Like the one I wrote down, she was just saying like, what are we doing so far? Guardians, Tron, Avatar, love. Love. Yeah, she goes love.

Avatar, love. That must have melted my eyes. Avatar is a movie all about love. Yeah. Do you remember the weird guy in front of us? No. So I don't remember how it was. It was Dave, you and me and uh you were

saying something about like getting maybe on camera or something like we were joking around about it or something we could not have been because you had to be vetted you had to be wearing red or green this audio i mean you're shot up you're shot up with some sort of like stimulant to like the the audience they get. They give you the Biden injections. Everybody gets the Biden goo. Whatever they gave him before that Bernie debate where he was much more awake. The important one that he had to win.

They shoot the audience up. They're all dressed for Christmas. And they're in that fervor. We love dressing and we love music perfect red and green but no logos to the audience and you're like these people are about to like go like start eating each other if they're given the command uh that's the way they shoot these things now uh but we were saying something about getting on camera whatever this guy is just watching and like taking a video he goes he turns around he takes a video of us and then he takes a and like taking a video he goes he turns around he takes a video of us and then he takes a video of julian and he goes see now you guys are in the video with

her and we were like okay uh yeah and it wasn't like he was like i'll send you the video no he just did that okay that's fine y' all just looked at each other like, what? Well, he thought we were really cool and full of early Christmas cheer, which was true. See, we were, Jane and I were at Magic Kingdom at some point later in the day that day. And we were in Tomorrowland and fireworks started going off. And I'm like, it's 7.15 and that was five minutes of fireworks so it was clearly TV taping fireworks we saw the roped off areas

and the cherry picker when we were down there a few years ago they were taping something and we're like who is waiting walking through the stream by the castle and we're like oh that's Darren Criss and there's a cameraman

it's like oh okay we did not see darren chris we didn't see hop the disney types of celebrities we did not see uh dj collin like griffin did yes griffin and i believe uh malia saw uh uh dj saw DJ Khaled doing a bunch of, doing rapid fire intros, seemingly not, I don't know if, well I wasn't there, but it felt like for social media essentially. And then the video came out, what it was, which I think we

retweeted, re-x'd. I'm dying inside. Reposted. Ugh. Yeah, oh, much more. oh much more much better proprietary you remember that reposted who tweet who could remember that um all right but he was just like running through he was like catching a toy over and over yes which and the toy was being passed to all the celebrities on the special which included billy corgan i'm so upset that we didn't get to see the smashing pumpkins perform in front of the castle pumpkins yes eha was there wow was there uh the other guys

that aren't darcy were there yes and and billy is in the video catching a stuffed animal as well boy just to cement his disneyland weirdo status, geez, that does, wow. That's a very funny, Smashing Pumpkins being a Disney special band. I don't think I could have seen that coming years and years ago. I don't think I knew that DJ Khaled and Billy Corian had hit the level of ubiquitous

that they were able to slide into the, like, in the way that Sting and Shaggy a few years ago did. You didn't realize that Khal that sting and shaggy you know a few years ago you didn't realize that khaled was a shaggy i didn't realize no i didn't realize if anything i'm like isn't he too like relevant of a celebrity in a way to be like because the disney holiday special people are kind of like a little like out of it or just like they're like kind of their own little universe right it's like your parents listening to something like yeah sometimes but

then sometimes it's like i've never heard of this person yeah it's like on the label that disney owns yeah and like it's something like that yeah yeah uh it's interesting uh with dj collard because that's i'm trying to think of this yeah more like well they get to they got to keep it was just him running through the catchphrases it's and another one right right and not knowing like to be griffin and to i believe who added an extra day to his trip oh yeah and didn't like i know some magic is waiting for me if i stay longer and the magic was this it was dj khaled um that would have been a thrill yeah i know i wish the thing i thought was odd though was there was a video that they sent us where he because he was in Toy Story Land and when he

marched up to Mrs. Potato Head and said I will not go down on you I thought that was really weird it was weird they're not going to use that that's filthy maybe he just that was just something he needed to say but also she's married and who asked her like she didn't she's not

she doesn't want to know either way any part of that he's getting you know he's trying to get too much of his stuff in yeah his catchphrases and another one i don't go down on ladies yeah yeah no he's he's playing the hits yeah yeah so i get that but maybe it'll be on like a you know disney plus is going to do some more mature content soon i think so i don't know maybe there'll be a different like cut oh internationally i think they already are maybe they'll use that clip right overseas so sure yeah where they're a little looser with these things yeah yeah they can handle somebody saying that he won't do a sexual yeah exactly um anything else before we wind down trip shout to Griffin Having Griffin around all week

Was fantastic So glad you came The only other thing that comes to mind Is that I did Doctor Doom's Fearfall With the legs dangling Which I say I don't like Which I don't like And I will say this

I walked right on it I really forced myself to do it I felt like that was the it. I really like pushed. I felt like that was the biggest accomplishment I accomplished on the trip because I really forced myself in there. It was so easy. There was no line, especially up the single rider. You're like hoping for a little more line. Exactly.

I was like a little bit of like more of it. I was like, no, you're going on it. And I think I truly not as a bit. I turned around and left and then turned around again to go on it. Because this is the one where your leg, it's a giant drop, but your legs are dangling, which I don't like. So I walked right on the ride. I missed some of the cool cue because of it being single rider. I'm seated next to like a 10-year-old, which is always the sort of check where you go, okay.

If there's a 10-year-old doing this. There's a 10-year-old doing this. There's a 10-year-old on this. This ain't going to be, like, even Velocicoaster, which I was not so worried about. I'm like, there's a 10-year-old. Like, okay, everything's fine. Oh, yeah, we got Velocicoaster to talk about. There's a lot of episodes we get to do now.

I dream of Velocicoaster. Yeah. Jason did it, too. It's something else, yeah. So we get on it, and Dr. Dumas is narration, and whoever's doing the voice and i don't know if it was from the 90s cart i don't know if it was the same actor i don't know who it was from yeah like the fantastic four cartoon he's screaming at me your fear whatever is why

i'm like oh this is good i like this a lot yeah and then it shoots me up and i am for a moment kind of panicked i like kind of grab i'm like what am i grabbing what am i doing yeah yeah what is what is this really going to save me uh and i shoot up in the air and as soon as we're up at the top it's amazing the view is amazing you can see all of the beautiful orlando no matter what side you're on yeah and then i was sort of expecting like a very aggressive ride that is not what dr doom does to you dr doom gently rocks you down bounces you back down he bounces you and and i hate to be so dirty in like a a gentle like hand job motion of like like it just like pump like there's these like gentle pumps can i hear can i hear that again

is what dr doom so i was expecting like oh my god dr doom wants my fear juice because he's gonna really scare me so badly and really all he does is he shoots you up and then he kind of just like gently pumps you back down fact the human body produces the most fear juice out of the scrotum i know where i could get the most fear juice so i don't know why i was thinking sexual i apologize for the sexual thoughts, but that's like, I was like, this is the,

the heat just rocks you down in such a nice way. This was not something I should have been that afraid of at all. And I was fine. And then he says, did you like that? Did you like that?

Listen, come back anytime, okay? Whatever. Whenever you're feeling stressed. Thank you, um. Listen, come back anytime, okay? Whatever. Whenever you're feeling stressed. The, um. Thank you, Victor. Yeah. The audio that plays before the round, because I did it the one day. Yeah.

And I, it had been a few years, so I was not, I was a little unprepared for the launch, because I went, like, a foot and a half off the seat like i went all the because i'm a little guy and i had the road to myself so i was just screaming and laughing but um but you know what i'm saying it's not tower of terror is way more aggressive as far as dropping you and throwing you are aggressive um this was a pleasant time the the team member did kind of like shatter an illusion for me because the door's closed and it's got Doom's face on it. Which is awesome.

Which is awesome, but she stuck her hand between and it detected it and then opened back up again. I was like, see that? I thought it shut and you were trapped because then he does the whole like, Doom bots, ignore security precautions. Yes, which is so, we talked about that on the show and I forgot about it. And he goes, Doom bots, ignore security precautions which is so we talked about awesome we talked about that on the show and i forgot about it and he goes doom bots ignore security precautions yeah i'm like oh that's fun on a ride because you really can't say that so just to hear the

great victor von doom's voice doom bots let's let's really get this guy off let's jerk this guy off let's see how high that beer juice can shoot. For some reason, he's thinking sexual thoughts to calm himself on this ride that he's afraid of. Amen, brother. He's very repressed. Marvel Comics is where his sexuality was blossomed. So that's, I guess, why he was having a

weird pervert. One weird mush for this guy. If you get a big nut right at the top, that's the best you'll ever have. Make nut at the top of my private rental.

You need to make sure no one's around, you freak, you pervert. Dr. Doom's Fearfall provides the perfect nut. Skittle, skittle. So I will do it again

now that it's tied to sexuality I suppose I didn't go on Storm I almost did but the line was a while and there was a really good employee working that was just like couldn't have been delivering the dialogue

even like in a more funny lazy way alright everybody find your cars we have to defeat Magneto we have to use magneto everyone get we have to use storm's powers to circle and get magneto and then like it happens and then the noise whatever and then he gets it goes all right we did it we defeated magneto and i was like oh that's great but i gotta this is too long this line's too long for this ride you got the best part of yes yeah

that's kind of what I meant yeah I gotta hear this kid doing this dialogue which is really great I don't think the ride would have been any better than that I don't think so either

that's great well should we step it down for a sec sure yeah we'll be right back with more Podcast the Ride yeah and now it's time

for a very special episode of Podcast the Ride I have that thought I know I have that joke And now it's time for a very special episode of Podcaster. I had that thought. I know. I've had that joke in my head for weeks now. Yeah, something we've not expected to have to do and that I don't feel equipped to do. I don't know how much you do.

This is untread territory for everybody. This is untread territory. Okay, so look, I am not not dying please do not be alarmed but uh start though i i have some con i i you know i have sat out some stuff recently i sat out a recording recently um uh uh because i i have been dealing with some health stuff last few years i've been dealing with leg stiffness on and off for a few years now and uh i've seen a lot of doctors uh doctors and physical therapists and stuff and thankfully my current uh doctor's office was a little more like on the ball of like i don't't know what this is, but it shouldn't still be happening.

And so I saw a neurologist in the last few months and got an MRI done on the various stuff. And what it led to was that I have the, how do I put it? That doesn't sound so dire. My spine is fine, but I have lesions on my brain consistent with multiple sclerosis. So that is my diagnosis. So what that means for the podcast, who knows?

It doesn't. Sorry, I don't mean to misspeak. It doesn't really i don't mean to misspeak uh it doesn't really mean anything it's just uh i got the diagnosis about 10 days before we left for florida yeah between the yes we've done talking about the hecticness of these shows we've done the dynasty shows heading to orlando heading to a vacation in these things and then in the middle this bomb drops which numerous medical professionals who are like we'll go to florida do not sit around you will just get depressed and it'll make everything worse and they don't even know you have the podcast yeah they don't even know about the pod they don't

even know the history of it's literally the place that gives you superpowers yes and it's where you're scheduled to go so that that actually oddly that timing was was pretty good yeah yeah i and and the thing that kind of got them to like got get on the ball and and get me into the neurologist was like the leg stiffness you know i'd seen a wonderful physical therapist lately and then i started to break even kind of uh where it's like i don't know if this is helping anymore. It feels like the root is not going on. But all summer I'd been dealing with on and off equilibrium issues and balance issues. And I had a bad sinus infection at the start of the summer.

And so like, oh yeah, it's probably an ear thing. So even when doctors are on the ball, they have to knock out, like, is this anxiety? Is this inner ear infection? Is this sinus stuff? Because all of that's connected up there. Yeah, sure. And you never want someone to go, like, maybe it's multiple sclerosis. Had that been suggested at all?

You heard that phrase before you heard the phrase. I had heard the phrase multiple sclerosis or MS. I just mean, did anyone ever suggest to you this might be your- No one ever suggested it, which I think was good because then immediately you're like, well, what is this? What does this mean? Sure, sure. And I started doing research. I'm going back soon for further treatment. then immediately you're like well what is this what does this mean sure and like i i've started

doing research i'm going back soon for like further treatment i've done a few different rounds of steroids uh in fact the week before uh we went to florida i was getting uh a few days of iv steroids and the one day it was literally lest anyone doubt my commitment to the podcast i was literally getting iv steroids in one arm and the other arm was holding my phone going like what do you mean cedar fair and six flags are merging how are they doing this stock cash merger of equals okay once at once a cub reporter always a cub reporter yeah the nurse was like oh your blood pressure is going off the charts here. Whatever you're doing, you need to settle down.

He's rambling about Snoopy and Looney Tunes. All I did was imagine the phrase, six flags, Knott's Berry Farm, and I flew off the handle. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's, you know, yeah, I'm sure this is like jarring information for the listeners to get as it was for us to hear and hopefully i'm not doing um you know like a glass half full that's not merited but having watched everything that happened to you throughout the summer and the confusion of how does a leg thing become also because that's all it was to us was like i don't know it's a leg

thing you put quotes around yeah i don't know nobody it's it's so foggy uh and then these other things are happening it's like okay this is beyond a leg thing crazy to watch go down to to have that go from of course of course the diagnosis is crazy for you to hear and for everybody to hear but that immediately you're getting help and getting treatment that there's a a roadmap it was like uh you know it was moving for me to see with just knowing that you like how much this had compounded into like well now it's these 10 things happening and i and you don't know how to get help and And that the help flew in like special ops immediately was so great to see. Yeah, absolutely.

And then the solidarity and community from people I knew and people I've talked to now. It's been very helpful to talk to other people in any number of fields who deal with MS and stuff. And then one friend pointed out, like you will realize how many people you know deal with some chronic issue. Yeah, for sure that's happened. I bet every conversation you've had since this has been like, well, here's somebody I know with MS who's triumphing over it or is what they did,

or it's something like, you know, one step removed. And yeah, I know there's so many people. over it or is what they did or it's something like you know one step removed and yeah it's no there's so many people yeah and and and big like actors and stuff like christina applegate and selma blair both have ms so that's two-thirds of the sweetest thing um but it was it's how i always think of them i selma blair had a very inspiring, like crazy path through. And then Christine Applegate diagnosed more recently and it was very cathartic to read her, like a Vanity Fair interview,

go like, yeah, it fucking sucks. And it's like, oh, thanks, Christine Applegate. That makes me feel better. Cause yeah, it does. Yeah, yeah. Sure. Of course. Yes.

So I- It's still somebody who's... Oh, you go ahead. Oh, I was going to say, I took it a little easier in Florida. I rented a scooter because walking for long periods of time is a little miserable. you don't realize how ingrained the Protestant work ethic or capitalism poisoning is just like push through, push through until it's just like, oh, okay, I am dizzy and very tired and my leg hurts. And so the scooter, that was very interesting to see that angle from the parks

because the cast members and team members were wonderful about it like they i had read that like theme parks are very you know accessible places you didn't go to a counter and they said push through push through push through no is this scooter rentals yes but that's fake we don't even do it push through i i had fortunately learned from my reading that there are 30 party companies companies in Orlando, and they operate in a number of cities. But they will drop a scooter off at luggage services,

and you pick it up there and then just drop it off when you check out. It was dropped off at the hotel? At the hotel. Oh, that's easy. Wow. And it was very easy, and the scooter was surprisingly intuitive and easy to use uh i will say though i learned quickly that guests have no idea what is going on around them and like i don't want people to get out of the way from but like don't run into me did you have a horn on that thing uh there was a horn uh i passed by someone once who like

stepped aside or like we both kind of went around each other and they were like use the horn use and i'm like no i do not like the war yeah yeah kids kids were very cognizant of the scooter right because they were like it's bigger than them so they get out of the way but like adults were just like in their own little world having to navigate yeah like theme park traffic where sometimes people just like stop in the middle it's like such a thoroughfare but like i don't know you want to how about this group of 10 stops right here to talk about to talk the next play and then like with a scooter yes you're like double the width you would normally be. Or take picture. Like, my trip aboard Moana the way water was beautiful and very well done, but it was like a panic attack in a very small area.

Yeah. They're still figuring that out. I was just glad, like, you just pulled the one side of the handle to go forward and the one to go back. I'm glad there wasn't a backing up beep, beep, beep. That's more attention than you want. They were on the phone.

It was so funny because it did show this on the scooter. And I guess it's a universal metaphor, but they're like, and just so you know, you can adjust this scooter from tortoise to hair and that was the speed like setting yes that discovery that that is the control there is a little tortoise and a little hair that's cute that's cute it was cute it was it was original orlando ip yeah the tortoise in the air and it was very cute. Original Orlando IP. Yeah. The tortoise and the hare. And it was very easy to do the boats at Univer, from the hotel to the parks.

They just like pull up a ramp and you just ride next to the captain. Wow. Oh, and then you get the best seat in the house. You get the best view. Yeah. You should have gotten that, like the certificate,

like the Mark Twain too, if he could have done a little captaining. Oh, yeah. A little piloting, but I guess they don't probably do that. There's just so many back and forth. They don't have time to print a certificate every time. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. But they should have for Jason. Well, we should make a certificate. Yeah, we will. Captain of the, do we remember the names of any of the boats? I have them all written down. Oh, yeah. But that'll be for CityWalk.

We took a lot of pictures. I sat and waited for all the boats to come around so I could write down what they are. Yeah, a shocking number of boats. Yeah, I may not have gotten all of them either because i didn't have six hours but yeah yeah so um but yeah because my my original plan was like i am going to suffer at city i am going to force myself to so much as say walk and pretty quickly before the trip i was like hey guys i'm gonna dial back on the suffering and I'm going to skip some of the blitzing. Yeah,

you didn't tell the doctor. If the doctors knew what you were going to do, they would have said, don't go, I think. Don't go. See you in Orlando,

yes approved. Trip, that sounds fun. Daily podcast series. You're going where? To what? BK Whopper Bar centric. Yeah.

No, I'll put you on the no fly list. I'm going to get you barred from a plane um i'm still learning a lot about it you know they suggest you know regular diet and exercise exercise especially when you're feeling better but uh i don't know that anyone should eat that much cinnabon and cold stone yeah yes a mixed bag what you were going there to do but i mean look give i think there's a again bizarre timing but i think there's a version where you're there and you don't have this diagnosis and it's just like all these problems that you don't have your head around and that

you don't understand and get in the way of orlando being as fun as it could be. I feel like the hope that came from the diagnosis and having a roadmap, getting to see you there and having some fun in Orlando after all the garbage you've had to deal with all year, it was heartwarming for me, and I hope it was to experience, too. Oh, we had a very nice time. I mean, Jane's been an angel.

She's been a real trooper through all this and we definitely had some fun uh we had the very fun uh then when we got to the hotel we saw them wheeling in chunks of the christmas tree and then at the end of the night we're taking the boat back and it had been assembled and all the lights were on in a picture window that we could see from the water as we're pulling in. So we saw every stage of the Christmas. It was like on carts and then it was half up and then fully up and lit. Yeah.

That's right. Wow. That's real nice. So Christmas assembled in your favorite place. We had, yeah. And it was, yeah, I mean, some some unique to take the scooter on a disney bus and then they strap you in like six ways to sunday oh is that i guess i see those straps i don't think about what's going on with those straps yeah yeah because i got the transportable scooter which

i don't know this best way to do it but anytime we took a lift or jane's friends picked us up and stuff we watched a youtube video and it's like you can disassemble it to three or four pieces and throw it in a trunk and and so that was very interesting to do an experiment and then like when we were at animal kingdom we were, all right, Eric's going to drive the car over to ticket and transportation. Why don't you guys take the bus so you can get to the park faster? You know what's cool is that if you're in the scooter and you want to go on Velocicoaster, they just pick you up, put that thing right on the tracks and off you go. You don't even have to change vehicles. That was what – so the reality of that a number of universal

rides you train you go from the scooter to a regular wheelchair to go through the line uh and i was like oh this is is this okay for my brain to do i'm like i came all this way the one thing i wanted i had to do was velocico like is it okay anyone's brain i i'm like well i don't think this is what caused this many rides on the incredible hulk in my early 20s i don't think cause this i don't think so otherwise the entirety of ace would also uh have this condition oh right the entirety of the coaster american coaster enthusiasts would have this good point this is people going to have these concerns. And these are some questions that I asked and that I feel like just given your role on the show, I'm just going to ask, what do you know about MS plus this?

In general, actually, MS plus rides. People want you to keep going on. You want to keep going on rides. Yeah, I want to keep going on you want to keep going on right yeah i want to keep going on right um i you know it's interesting because it's one of those things where it's like from what i've read and talked to other people there's been a lot of medical advances in the last 20 years simultaneously uh there is a lot about this condition they do not know like which and i guess listeners if you don't know i mean one of

those things is a cure correct and this right for you this is going to be more about like managing and managing and and pushing it down yeah dealing dealing with uh flare-ups is the term that's used a lot so and then learning what treatment to do, which there are now dozens. So it's like, oh, that's fun to comb through. But yeah, I mean, between my medical people and like other people giving recommendations of like, I deal with it, I have this,

this is what I do every six months or whatever. Do we need to do this like letterman do we need to have all your doctors on the show talk to them about their favorite rides i feel like a lot of them would not necessarily be into that are they what are they too busy with something to come on a theme park podcast i seem quite busy um yeah i don't know i mean there's it's one of the things where it's like well no one has told me not to do it's like slow down like

I am probably going to go take a nap after this like recording and this is this is the different kind of like oh I need to like Jason's a sleepy bear this is a different kind of sleep yeah

yeah you two have been very supportive and very helpful and very understanding and stuff well sure I mean our hearts go out we love you Jason thank you you know we're here for you the list I speak for the listeners I assume they love you too

I have to assume we met so many nice ones. You're the heart and soul of the podcast. Yeah. Oh, thank you. Well, that you said that. That was your words. Well, now you have said it, so that's two.

Yeah, yeah. So that part, I was just repeating what you said. You'll break eventually, Scott. Oh, fine. All right. You're the heart and soul of the podcast, Jason. Yeah, yeah. How can I not now?

Yeah, yeah. That's right. I can pull this card i have a card from a doctor that says that i'm bad i would have said that in a different scenario too you know i i didn't need to be backed into a corner for that to be said to say any real emotional thing no uh my emotions that are so out there all the yes we've we're all we're all completely primed to be able to deal with one of our co-hosts yeah but one of the three of us having uh an immense personal issue it's really weird it's it's definitely weird but yes let me echo mike and say i mean like i you're you're

such a good guy and i've we've had i've had so much fun on this show with you uh for so many years oh of course i i don't i you know it made me all weird and shaky to to get this news obviously and that's upsetting but then at the core of it is that like i wouldn't feel that way if i didn't care about you a lot oh the feeling of course is mutual and no everyone's been so great and it's certainly cathartic for me to talk about, but I, I definitely want it to, there's been a number of times on this show where, uh,

recently where it's almost slipped out. And I was like, I need to talk about this sooner or later than later. Oh, we've barely recorded since it's happened. Uh, um, just the one,

you know, we were the, it was the one with Eva, the haunted car wash, which was like, again, I was like, you know we the it was the one with eva the haunted car wash which was like again i was like understand you know like mike and i both but this is crazy to to hear and i think i i think i felt kind of odd and jittery about it until we were it was the three of us and and eva who's who's the the best and a good friend and like the normalcy of that to just be doing what we always do in the face of this yeah felt so great and it was it was nice to just like

hey this is the same and it does no reason it can't be the same absolutely yeah i mean i i told even griffin pretty quickly because it's like oh eve it's going to be in an episode and griffin's going to be in florida with us and you know how you hate wandering into a conversation when people are talking about a movie you haven't seen like imagine that times a thousand it's like kind of heavy what up uh yeah i have ms um uh yeah but no i i was saying it's been cathartic for me but also i want it for the uh listening uh folks listening public you know if you are dealing with a chronic condition you are not alone yeah you know the the people who show up in your ears uh once a week you also have to deal with their health thing you know well and by all

means you know like uh you know address it whenever you need please let the show be a an outlet for oh of course as much as you as you want or don't want and you know in terms of uh going forward and as you're you're coming with us but i think it's it's great that you're being open about it and wanted to talk about it and let yeah let all the cliffords in you know absolutely you tell your yeah tell family tell friends you tell the cliff that's the order yeah yeah and then you tell dr doom yeah yes this you will have lots of fear for me to heart yeah you are right dr doom yeah no kidding it's got to be one of the more sobering conversations ever to take place after a discussion of dr doom a perfect nutting you full of fear i forgot what we were gonna record i know yes i was kind of teetering on it look what are you gonna do

i pushed it in that direction oh thank you for taking that i don't normalcy yeah normalcy yeah normalcy is is the the big thing that i i have searched for uh because it's just like, there is like the learning, like the first day when we flew in, checked in the hotel, popped into Islands of Adventure for a few hours, and then met up with you, Scott, at CityWalk. I eventually pulled the card of like, I need to go back to the hotel. Because this has been, I have hit my limit of stimulation. Sure. uh i have hit my limit of stimulation like sure and you're gonna have to recalibrate that you're gonna have to figure out where that limit is and by all means yes like uh you know whatever you need from from us oh of course yeah no because i'm learning it real time it's like oh i had breakfast and walked the dog and fed him and then came here to record and

i'm like, well, that's the day today, you know, perfectly understand this. Yeah. This seems like par for the course with them. I,

yeah, it does seem like, like energy is, is so much. Yeah. Energy levels are things that used to be kind of all over the place and appetite and sleep with like, with that much steroids in a person,

you're going to have a side effects. So, um um even though they do rock um you're on very helpful that's great that's great uh um i uh well then let me ask here's in in my series of questions uh where i'm hoping for for hopeful answers um how does this and i can i asked you this in Florida, there was a pre-interview and it's a silly question but a genuine concern.

What does this mean for treat intake? Right, yeah. Diet, I very quickly started reading about and there was one study where it's like, well, processed meats and dairy might contribute to, and I was like,

no, close that tab. Absolutely not. I do not want to see the word hot dogs anywhere in this article. This article doesn't exist to me. Yeah, no. I think it's okay. I'm working on more Food Pyramid, three square meals, because that kind of consistency is important um but i don't i don't

think it it means necessarily a lot for truth treats um uh i learned montel williams uh has ms and a big proponent of uh medical marijuana for treating the aches and pains. And I was like, Montel, I'm way ahead of you. It's come back. I'm back on that train. Big old blunts. Yeah. Big old blunts. Medical professionals and Montel Williams agree.

The best treatment. Yeah. That was, I talked to someone with MS. And they're like, yeah, no, you can have weed. It's fine. So the best treat. Well, I only cut back because i started taking lexapro because i was so stressed out from all these doctors visits you know uh but that got i figured

out the dosage and when to take it during the day so it's like okay that's leveled out so i'm back on the train trying not to get it back to lockdown levels um what's that what's that smoke coming out of the train that That doesn't smell like regular... That's not steam on this train, is it? Sure. That's a little funny smelling of steam. You couldn't smoke a blunt at Port of Entry, though, right? Because you can't smoke weed.

No, no, I had to stick to parlors. DeSantis would have thrown you in jail. Yeah. Putrid or too pungent. Oh, yeah, so stinky. That's language. As stinky as smelling smoke. There's no excuse for stinky weed.

You know, what gave me a lot of hope for Florida is being down there and meeting residents and people who work in the parks and everything. He did not come up a lot, because it's like my big theory for the last few years is like, yeah, people don't get super into politics across the board because people have shit to do. People have lives to lead. And you forget Orlando's blue, you know.

Orange County. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you're not going to find. Yeah, yeah. And DeSantis' political hopes are fucking dead in the water. Slowly dying with his weird shoes and terrible vibes and poor rest stop snack choices of west bar why do they even sell that there so there's that's something to be hopeful about um but yeah true i mean like i don't know anything

else you need to get off your chest here it's like i again i'm glad you're talking about it i i to have the to have the fog clear up and understand what this is and that all of these disparate things affecting you and fucking you up um that to have a have a name on it and something and many things that you can do to help uh has been great yeah i as someone who had a i know who had a relative who deals with it they're like oh i know people call it it's one of those ones that people call like an invisible disease because it's like uh uh how do say that? The symptoms are so random. Right.

And they hit people in such odd ways or unique ways and in different ways and stuff. Like a lot of people have vision problems or like other people have, you know, Christine Applegate had talked about like, oh, we're trying to film a dance sequence and I was having a lot of balance issues. and i've certainly dealt with some balance stuff but it's like when it's so random it's like how do you explain this sort of stuff and at least with a condition you

can put a name to yeah yeah and by the way i am sorry to have made you rehearse the dance number for the Orlando show for so many months prior. Oh, well, I'm a pro, you know. Yeah, I know. It's like, you know. If I had known, I wouldn't have made it so complicated. I wouldn't have hired all those choreographers to make it as advanced as it was. And I think we made the right decision to cut it. Well, you know, I'm a showman.

I love to put on a show. I know. You like razzle dazzle you want to wave a straw hat around cm punk says i always make my towns it's a great time to associate myself with him um that's your guy very chill very chill guy um uh yeah what else um beats back christina you're looking at the notes uh I am looking everyone was really nice

in Florida well and I mean now let me add to the at the beginning of the show just like what what we how awesome it is

for us to go to Orlando and like the the wave of excitement and love and what like rarefied air it feels like

for us to get to go there and do these shows and meet these awesome people. You had no idea you were also providing this great wave of love and excitement to Jason, somebody who's had a hell of a year. And so we can't thank you for that. Of course. Giving us a great night, Jason, a great night, a great trip.

You didn't even know how much all that meant. Yeah. And I, you know, if you saw me in the park with a cane or a scooter i was like oh i'm dealing with some else but i didn't want to like harsh anyone's buzz uh too much i we met so many nice people oh i have to shout out montana who on saturday gave me and jane and her friends a tour of the pizza fari the most surprise i never really thought about it in animal kingdom it is filled with the most beautiful murals and hand-carved animals from mexico wow really and there's so many like joe rody anecdotes or like little odd like oh one artist started painting from there and one artist started painting from there.

And that's why there's an extra toe or like, that's why they, oh, they ran, one of them ran out of paint and the other one had to. There's all these crazy anecdotes. But then a couple of people told me, it's like, oh, the better pizza is the secret kind of stand in animal kingdom that's the better pizza than pizza's pizza uh fari oh um but pizza fari very cool shares a door with uh shares a wall with like um tiffins oh so like i got some operational scoops any any kitchen i i uh well i learned apparently there are 23 000 colors throughout animal kingdom and they have an encyclopedia like really of this

when they have to redo stuff there's all these crazy uh uh stories and stuff so if you are at pizza fari if you find yourself there make sure to ask for montana and she will give you the scoop oh wow uh also we saw i don't think i'd seen this maybe since i was a little kid if ever the festival of the lion King show is wild. It's all like acrobats and singers and former parade, repurposed parade floats. Oh. And it's a theater in the round. It's really awesome. Really?

There are actors in it since it started. Oh, they've been doing it for 25 years or how long? Something like that, yeah. 30 years? Oh or how long something like that yeah 30 years oh god animal king's almost 30 years old right yeah coming up yeah yeah late 90s well that hits hard so that's i mark my age with the the years that animal kingdom has been open that's how i do it but i appreciate you two being the uh bling through the park, sun up to sundown correspondents this trip. Because I was like, no, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not doing that.

Yes, yes. I definitely. Day of show. It's like I'm sleeping in and ordering room service breakfast to rest up for these shows. That's what all of us should have done. We should have played it more like you. Well, I mean, look, cowfish is pretty chill, right? You know, that's where you ended up for lunch.

Well, we'll learn about cowfish down the road. Yeah, that's for another day. But hey, for now, Jason, there's so much more to do. There's so many secret good Animal Kingdom pizzas that you need to eat so keep keep plowing fight through this thing i i feel like you're gonna be able to and and do a great job and everybody's apologies if i said pizza safari at any point as opposed to pizza

fari uh that please don't cover me i'm dealing a lot. I will try not to pull that card too many times. Did they tell you, have you been told if a symptom of it is confusing Beppo with Pepo? There's a certain level of brain fog that occasionally comes up or lack of focus. But I think that was just, that was just the too excited talking too fast

uh that i think is just thank god okay yeah thankfully it doesn't fall in that in that umbrella um i don't you know look uh uh it's gonna be this is all gonna be weird we're gonna like make jokes surrounding this thing because what else do you do what all we know how to do uh but the know that any joke is meant to cheer cheer you up make things normal for you make it all feel the same oh yeah absolutely yeah no i just keep having fun together don't have any worry about that and like uh if i sit one or two things out please do not not be alarmed. Please do not be worried. I just did not want to walk around Shack, what is it called? Shacktoberfest.

Shacktoberfest. I was like, oh, that doesn't seem, that seems a little too much walking for me. You're saying that right now, going to Long Beach, given the current circumstances, going to Long Beach and hopping around a big inflatable floor with children. Didn't seem like the fun thing to do. Yeah, even before the exact diagnosis, I was like, oh, I don't think my legs should be doing that. Well, look, that isn't something anybody needs you to do.

You don't need to hop around while Shaq narrates things. But I do hope that you're able to bounce back which is silly while we're talking about a big bounce floor oh look I do want that I want you to be able to get on a thing like that and bounce up higher than Shaq height but mainly like I yeah this this it has been awful that you've had to like

you know you don't ever want to sit anything you want to be having fun with everybody I know I like to be in the mix I sure hope that everything you know helps you and keeps you in fighting shape. Because we love hanging out with you. We love going to these places with you. The audience loves you. And there's no, I'm not going to do any wrap up or plugs on this episode besides show Jason some love.

Because he deserves it. Absolutely. We're pulling for you. I think it's all going to work out great. And, uh, absolutely. So, uh, we're pulling for you. I think it's all going to work out. Great. Thanks Scott. Uh, absolutely.

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