Podcast: The Ride - Shanghai Disney Report with Foreign Correspondent Jacquis Neal

Episode Date: July 12, 2024

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Forever, dog. Warning, the following special podcast report may include Disney property that resembles the film Children of Men, freakish mashups of fish and waffles, and an emotionally draining bathroom visit. Jaquise Neal regales us with travel tales from Shanghai Disney and so much more on today's podcast, The Ride. welcome to podcast the ride a theme park podcast which is making an extremely wise decision by not attempting an opening joke in chinese i'm scott gerdner i executed that decision and

mike carlson probably agrees thank god yeah can you imagine if because you might think like that'd be a cute thing to do we do a little welcome to but then we translate it and then like knowing how we pronounce things i think in one syllable we are not only mocked but canceled oh yeah that's probably yeah there could be it could be any version of just embarrassment to just we're not allowed to broadcast somehow i mean that doesn't stop other people the air that no body governs whatsoever. It'd be kind of weird because there are other

people that are doing much more offensive things, but somehow, maybe that would happen to us. I don't know. Somehow, we would pronounce things so offensively.

Jason, Jared, and Helen. Look, you do it in Mandarin, the Cantonese speakers are mad. You do it in Cantonese, the Mandarin speakers are mad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And probably both sides are like, which one were they doing? Yeah. It didn't sound like either. Yeah. Well, we're And probably both sides are like, which one were they doing? Didn't sound like either. Yeah. Well, we're going to stay away from that. We will focus on English here.

Smart. Yeah, I believe so. It's the language I know the best and only. So, today, here's what's happening. Since pandemic and babies, since that era, I would say international theme park travel has not been our forte any of us and that is why we lean so heavily on the foreign correspondent program great uh we have guests who are on the beat meet meeting and greeting the world griffin newman started this program and when we're passing the baton today to a great uh returning guest a very well-traveled guest who's here to talk about things we've almost never talked about on the show.

So I'm very excited. From Grand Crew and the live show Comedian Feud here in LA, it's Jaquise Neal. Hello. Hello, everyone. Hello. I am going to answer in Chinese. I'm not. Did you learn it?

No, not at all. I tried to. Well, I went to Japan and I was doing duolingo and then like i stopped doing it for like three or four days and then it started to roast me it was like well i guess you're ignoring me and i was like yeah fuck you i'm gonna ignore you now and then it changed my icon to like the saddest green monster really yes like after on my phone it was the happy duolingo whatever that thing is and then after i didn't go for like a week i like looked at my phone i was like what is it was like so sad it had folds in his face uh it was like it was dying he was like it was dying

you were making him sick like et he's he. I was like, this is not the way to get me to engage in this at all. I don't want to engage with this. Wow, wow. Are you making it sick, or is it like, this is you? You're a sickly loser who's not learning. I think it's both, because it was like, you know what would be great for you today? If you practiced. It would like neg me., like, neg me.

Like, straight up neg me. So, I gave up learning any type of language on my way to Japan, which probably was a mistake because, man, those pronunciations were whooping my ass. It was hard. You just have to start. What I remember from Tokyo is just like, you just kind of like, maybe you talk into a translate program

and then like sadly hold out the phone and play it or just show them what's on the screen or you just kind of like, worst case scenario is you just kind of

put your hands up like help, help me, which they do because everybody's nice and helpful. And a lot of people just speak English,

thank God. A lot of people do speaking when i was in shanghai that was half the case it was less the case um or they were just you know like whatever like leave um which is very much the vibe but was signage helping you out was there at least like english sign okay i mean that's what you need i mean the chinese system you guys know yeah it's fucking great it's great yeah yeah it's crazy a lot of sorry a lot of stuff is in a lot of a lot of things are in english that you it's easy to go i i did not struggle i was there for three and a half weeks and i was like i'm this is fine um they aren, it's not, they aren't, it's not different arrows there. Right. You know, it's not different arrows.

Uh, and then like, they still do use like our, or the alphabet that we use for a lot of things. Like the symbols. I'm like, yeah, that's gone.

That's the most intimidating. That's what you wonder the most is like, if I'm in a, if I'm in a land of all symbols, I'm screwed, but yeah, I can't learn all this for 10 days and then forget it because you know the thing is not even that is hard to like because i don't know what the

other i don't know what the things are using the alphabet are saying either but if i learn it once then i could be like oh i know what that says oh yeah if i see the symbols and somebody like that means this i'm not gonna remember that the next time i see it like it's like harder for me to actually like pick up yeah uh that in as quick as i can pick up like anything that uses the alphabet that we use yeah yeah yeah very anybody learns who successfully learns languages now when they're more of an adult yes yeah yeah yeah when your brain is not the sponge it used to be yes yeah yeah, incredibly impressive. Well, yeah, Jaquese, you have like, I was so excited when we started talking about what to do.

Yeah. It was a matter of narrowing it down because you've done, since you've, and you weren't with us that long ago, but since then you've done like everything. You've been everywhere theme park speaking. It wasn't that long ago, but I'm almost sure it was still before I went to Europe. I think I'm way over two years, actually. Yeah. Was it really?

I think so. I went to Europe in August, September of 2022. Okay. So I'm pretty sure it was before that. I think so, yeah. Were you about to go on a cruise? A Disney cruise? I also went on a Disney cruise.

So that's, and that's probably, that's ancient at this point. Which one would you do? I went on it in December of 22. Okay. That was, I just did the one off of, it was like a five-day cruise. I truly can't even remember where we went because I went on two cruises that month. It was insane. Wow.

But it was beautiful. I loved it. It was great. It was just like going to a couple places in mexico okay which i feel like i mean now i sound like just a couple places in mexico just a little dilly dally in mexico but i think the cruises that leave like los angeles or southern california are all great but like you there there are a lot more like hangout cruises right it's like three days go to to Ensenada, come home,

but it's mostly about just hanging out with your friends and eating and drinking. Destiny, it's not all about the destination. It's not always about the destination. So this Disney cruise was similar to that. It wasn't about the destinations. It was more about just being on the boat. Do you remember the name of the boat?

Because they always name these, this is the biggest area of like, yeah they always name these. Wish or dream. This is the biggest area of like, yeah, it's destiny. I'm almost sure it was inspire. Which is the name of one of the passes. Which is the name of one of the passes. No, no, no. That's a lie.

It was wonder. Wonder. Disney wonder. Yes. Okay. Do you think you could feel the specific theme of wonder as opposed to, I'm sure, the wish is an entirely other situation you know what i did when they made it snow on the boat because it was a holiday cruise oh wow

it was a holiday cruise i was like this is wondrous wow this is wonder holiday it was a holiday wonder santa was there okay santa was there he was all over the boat uh it was great did he like jump in the pool or anything? No, I did that on another cruise, though. It was slightly more sexual, that cruise. It was a version cruise. So I don't think that was the Disney cruise vibe. Wait, did you jump in the pool or Santa did?

No, no. It was a party. Oh, okay. Santa was not on that boat. Santa was on that boat, actually. He did not jump in the pool okay uh not in his santa gear at least not in his santa gear uh it was crazy i can't recommend i i can't conjure the name now to officially recommend it but i found this youtube channel that is dozens and dozens of videos deep that is just that's like the 20 minute video they would send you if you were going to go on the cruise or to convince you to go on the cruise yeah and it's all from

like late 80s early 90s like exactly the pocket I'm looking for these are so great every shot they show you these like incredible atriums with incredible elevators on the boat like original songs there's people who are presented as like cruise ship celebrities we're like you know this you you know who you know uh martin starling is like wow you gotta be deep i guess to know martin starling and my other takeaway from all these videos kathy lee gifford is in a lot of them and i did not realize until watching these how attracted i am to kathy lee gifford it's right never occurred to me here If you watch these, I don't think anyone would disagree with me.

I will say, I've had this thought in the last year. In the last year, you've had Kathy Lee Gifford is attractive. I'm not obsessing about it. No, no, that's fine.

But you watch her in cruise mode, you're like, jeez, there's something about it. But as a kid, you were like, it's like my mom's on TV or something like that. I didn't think of her

in that way at all. You can't like the, yeah, yeah, and Cody and Howard Stern makes fun of her and all that. But you remove her from all that. It's very religious and blah, blah, blah. When you see her in vacation mode,

it's a whole other vibe. It's a whole different vibe. See, I don't, I'm struggling to even remember what she looks like because I haven't seen her face in probably 20 years. I mean, I could look up

Carnival Cruise. I mean, I think she was like, you know, part of an, there was an official one that she was the spokesperson. It could have been Carnival there was an official one that she was the spokesman. It could have been Carnival. But that's, that's, that's there to look up. I'll try to figure out what the channel is.

Cause we were not, there was not a miss. We were putting on one of these a night for a while and not a single one of them let me down. I love it. And this, and this was from the eighties and stuff you said, right? Yeah. Yeah. Did they send you a video?

Did you get like, here's what to expect on the disney cruise yeah no no they it was very it was very much like thank you for your money we'll see you on december 2nd yeah wow wow um that's a lack of what that's the a they're missing wonder they're missing wonder they could have got the wonder going from the very beginning but instead they saved it for the boat. Yeah, no, they didn't send much. They sent like the little luggage tags and stuff like that, but they didn't send much.

So let me ask you this question because I believe Kevin Pergerer from Defunctland was on our show maybe three years ago, and he said that the cruise is the only place that the Disney difference still exists, meaning that's where you actually feel like oh this is a different level of i don't know service or theming or yeah

so do you feel that um maybe i actually just talked about this with somebody about the difference in service between disneyland and world uh and it's all kind of tanking but land is a whole different like level of tanking right now um but like i i would say yes yeah but i is i don't know like i've been on it was definitely i've been on nine cruises oh wow i've been on 10 cruises in my life and it was definitely the a different cruise it was like a it was like this is a disney cruise right where like other cruises have similarities and the only reason that i probably am not as like like enthralled with that like idea is because later that month i went on that virgin cruise yeah which was like 21 and over and it was that was truly like the craziest most different cruise i've ever been on in my life so it was

like okay so like the disney cruise while it was different from like your royal caribbeans your carnivals it still had cruise elements to it whereas that virgin cruise was like nah bruh this is gonna be different should we throw out what we were going to do and just talk about this Virgin Cruise? Let's just talk about the Virgin Cruise. Do we just review that? I mean, listen. Trip report.

Listen, it was crazy. It was crazy. Out of Miami, too. It was crazy. It was a beautiful time. But yes, I did the Disney Cruise. I've also been to Disneyney paris now oh yeah yeah i've been to disney tokyo both of them uh universal japan yeah uh a week before i went to japan

i have been before but i was in universal orlando yeah and it's And it's been, it's been, I went with my partner and she was like, I have not been in this many theme parks in my life,

let alone in a five week period. How'd she, did it wear out? Like, did she wear out? Yeah, yeah. Was it too much?

To a degree. Yeah. To a degree. Like by the time we got to Shanghai, Disney, we went to it, but then we also had like another like day to like chill and she was like i'm i'm staying in like you go do whatever you got to do i'm sleeping uh know your limits we've all been we've all been there yeah

yeah yeah like i like like where the partner has to communicate. You understand, I still like this more than 80% of people, but that doesn't match you. You are in the top 0.05%. Seriously. So do what you got to do. You've offered us so many options. I'm not even sure where to go. I'm interested to hear about your Disneyland tanking thoughts.

But I got to leave it to you. Just like, where do you want to take us? Where are you the most excited to talk about? You know, like, here's the thing. We gotta talk about Shanghai because it was truly one of the most wildest experiences of my life for any park that I've ever been to. I will say this, though.

Like, a lot of people have asked me, because now I only have one left. I only have Disney Hong Kong. Yeah, yeah. Right. So I've been to, and i've been to alani i've been on the cruises i've been to every disney thing that you can fucking do yeah geez and like which is crazy to me but like at this point i'm doing it so i can check i mean i'm doing it because

i love it but i'm also like yeah i gotta check it off now yeah yeah yeah at this point at this point i'm close enough. But people always ask, all right, so what's your favorite Disney park now? And I will say my favorite Disney vacation will always be Disney World. Sure. Best Disney parks were Tokyo. That's a good distinction.

Yeah, yeah. Best Disney parks were Tokyo. My favorite Disney vacation was Disney World. Shanghai. My Lord. Now, let me say this okay it's a great park it's a great park the crowd culture at disney shanghai was the worst crowd culture i have ever experienced out of any park like worse than six flags what's happening they literally have signs around shanghai asking guests to not pee and poop out of the bathroom what and i saw it like i i saw i saw buttaked children pissing in the middle of the goddamn road. On Main Street?

Yes. Wow. Really? Crazy. I mean, all right. So, here's the thing. Like, Disney Shanghai was beautiful. Sure.

It's a beautiful park. Yeah. It's chill. It's only one park. Yeah. Right. So, you know, and we went for one and a half day, essentially. So, you know So we did everything.

Everything was fun. The parades were cute. The fireworks show, best fireworks show out of any Disney park that I've been to. Really? Really. There were great things about the park. Right. Zootopia Land is new.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, you saw that? Oh, you missed that. Yeah, yeah. I did. It just opened last year or this year or something? Recently. Recently. Last few that. Yeah, yeah. I did. It just opened last year or this year or something? Recently. Recently.

Last few months. Last few months. And so it was still like, you know, it was a line to get in the land that can take up to an hour type thing. Yeah, yeah. But the land is very cool. Like super dope. It feels like you're dropped in the middle of like Zootopia.

Does it feel small? That's a question I have about it. Is it like, is there a lot jam have about is it like is there a lot jam-packed or is it sort of a spacious land it is a lot jam-packed but it's not as small as like super nintendo it's not as big as like you know star wars land or cars land sure um it's somewhere like in the middle yeah where it didn't feel it was it was the type of place that you could be like all right you know i could stand in this spot and see 70 of the park or 70 of the land and then if i go over there i'll see the rest like if i'm just you know standing and looking around type thing um which i

guess cars land is kind of like that too but it has you know there's like a corner you turn there's a corner here's a whole other section yeah nothing's gonna be as impressive as like star wars land like as far as like the scope you cannot see it all like yeah it's radically different nothing's gonna be like that but zootopia was dope and it was like it was like really cool because it also makes you feel like you're an animal so like and and it's like a city so they have like news ticker and like you know newscast from like the animals and like people the animals getting off the subway station and like there's a big giraffe working out on the treadmill and stuff like that do they have puppets in the window or

something they have puppets in the window animatronics uh and they have uh yeah like animatronics like in the windows on the on the streets and stuff like that just kind of moving and talking and stuff like did you get any of the food there i did get the food the food there was like the big food there's like a big popsicle in zootopia there's like the big popsicle there's also like their food combinations were a little weird like they had tuna and waffle which i was, I don't need to try that at all. Sounds good to me. I'm okay.

Horrible to me. You would eat that. Yeah, sure. I mean, it's just a tuna sandwich in a slightly different form. I don't know. Mixed with sweet. It was a little rough. I didn't try it.

Neither one of us tried it. All right. Okay. But they had, like, little Paul food. Yeah.ul food you know like food that's in paul shape uh also by that time you know we had just we were in japan for like three and a half weeks um i was a little over trying new shit sure i was like i you know just i just want to eat going to mcdonald's for a taste of home. Not even going to McDonald's. I was just like, I don't need to try anything that I'm like, I may not like this. I just like, just give me food that I want, that I'm hungry.

I want to eat it. And then like, you know, because they had a couple of things there that was like, okay, maybe, you know, a week ago I would have tried this to see how it tastes. But right now I'm like, I'm good. I'm okay i think that zone that like because when tokyo disney opens i think there's the feeling of they want the american experience and they want just like burgers hot dogs pizza if you wanted to go that route is that can you do that in shanghai yeah just basic basics yeah not kind of kind is not isn't is very the one thing i liked about the tokyo disney's uh the

the disney's in asia obviously i haven't gone to hong kong yet as opposed to like disney paris which i've been to was like they very much don't give a shit about americans um like most of the shows are not having no english in them right um there was a couple that did but like every show in disney paris was like it's half english half french right um whereas this one which like was really cool because it's like yeah no you're here like this is ours right there was some where i was like hey you know maybe just play you know never had a friend from robert williams instead of whatever version this is but like other than that

because even like the even the crowd was just like we don't care about this you'd rather be the voice you know and the syllables you know even if it's not your language yeah because they you know a lot of people all over the world know those versions too uh but yeah it was it was uh it was definitely just very un-american which was like refreshing in a way yeah yeah yeah it's just fully theirs yeah are we are you dealing with in that land and in that ride assuming you did the ride utopia ride or i did do this utopia ride which is very fun okay right very fun are you doing is it like jason bateman and people did they do is or is it sound alikes because it's all in other it's all in it's all in uh that one was all in man y'all

about to make me uh whatever language they speak in shanghai mandarin or i'm not sure oh yeah i'm not sure the division of mandarin and cantonese yeah and the breakdown it was not it was not in english so i would assume that it was not like probably not bateman bateman unless he didn't teach him chinese unless he has some hidden skills that we haven't seen yet i don't know well john cena i don't know if you've seen john cena speak mandarin yeah yeah when he had to do it's an amazing video where he had to do an apology for something which he executes in perfect mandarin and it looks like a hostage video it's the scariest thing you've ever seen was that did he use a slightly wrong distinction of taiwan taipei and he wanted to apologize oh yeah i don't remember i

don't even remember what it was about he had to apologize because it was the taiwan is a country issue yeah okay yeah um he i believe if i'm hopefully i'm not getting my john cena in history wrong is that there was an interview where maybe steve austin asked him like what do you do for fun what are you doing for fun he goes well i'm learning chinese so i can help expand the brand the wwe brand over to china and he's like like you could tell he was like a little confused like what what the fun like for fun like well i just you know i just want to help the wwe uh grow more and more and you're like oh okay i was not seeing this whole thing he just announced his retirement yesterday yes he did yeah yeah next year next year's last year Doing anything Wrestling at least

Or he Comes back in two years And You know Like they all do They all do They all do yeah You never retire

Never retire But yeah No I didn't I didn't I forgot what the I know what we were talking about I was asking about Voices in the ride

Voices in the ride Yeah But the ride itself The ride itself was great Looks cool Yeah the ride itself was great It's very similar to It's trackless

Uh huh You know like With like Some of the same tricks Where like Now I don't remember The names of the That hasn't been on

In my house in a while The fox and the rabbit That they pull up In a car Oh yes And they're almost The same way as Judy and Minnie Yeah yeah Yeah It's very similar to that uh it's way better than like

people get mad at me when i say this but like the mario car shit is so trashed that's been the take that's what we feel it's so trash yeah we talked around it for a while and ultimately let no i think there's no other way to land then this is pretty bad yeah it makes it so sad it is to be very fun yeah yeah it's like the most the ultimate slam dunk of a ride and yet they figured out they just biffed it yeah uh but zootopia was fun like it was a fun ride it was cool it was dope yeah do you end up like uh i should know this i should watch the ride through but like do they in the land in general do they take advantage of that like now

we're in a small world and now we're in a big world like yeah big size difference yeah so like it's like half screen half like actual uh sets sets and stuff like that but they also do like uh take advantage of like if you're in a place where it's windy you feel like there's a place where it's supposed to be cold and it got like super cold and hot and stuff like that so they take advantage of like all the the feelings around you and stuff like that yeah um but it is it is utilizing like screens but also like animatronics and it was very well done it was like super super cool um you'd be happy if this if this showed up in animal kingdom which is a possibility it feels like it's where it should go right yeah yeah i think people will love it i've not done ratatouille yet i we did we've all done

it now yeah you know what i think i was kind of underrating it i got to do it in paris kind of right when it opened and was maybe like with all the build-up maybe built it up too much and then the way we did it end of the day end of a long day uh a tiring day a wine filled day it was like a really nice little like ah it was just relaxed yeah yeah if you do any of that like because trackless rides often you build up like they're supposed to be uh you know a thrilling breakneck kind of but if you view that as like a tourism ride like uh soren or something i think it's a pleasant little chance to do i mean it was closed when i went to paris which was very it was the only ride closed when i went to all the things what do they have in that park what do they have if not right to

it was i was very disappointed i was like and it was when i always laugh at people when they come here like to disneyland because we're local so we can go anytime but i always like man i came and this ride was closed i was like hey man them big breaks and then it happened to me and i was like this was bullshit on the other side of the earth the other side of the earth i traveled all the way here and it's closed give Give me my money back. Well, that's what we're, and we'll talk about it soon a little bit, but it's come up before,

but I didn't get to do Pooh's Honey Hunt, which still itches at me. That's very, that's cute. That's a good one, right? In Tokyo. Tokyo, that's right. I did not do it, actually.

Oh, no. I didn't think I did it either. Oh, okay. Oh, just by- I think it was closed. Oh, also closed. Wow, wow. I think it was closed.

We are not. Mike, you're the only one with any luck. It's much better than the ones here. Yeah. It's trackless. First trackless, I believe, right, in Disney? Yeah. That's crazy.

Revelation. When I saw it was closed, I was like, that's okay. Because I was comparing it to the one here. I was like, that's fine. No. It's not fine. Dang. Gotta go back.

Should be upset. Gotta go back. Should be upset. Gotta go back. Did you get something? I don't know if anybody's really been on our show and talked about Beauty and the Beast. Did you get that one? Man. Top three. Wow.

Top three rides. Wow. I've never been on at Disney for sure. That's the Magic Kingdom. It's not called that, but that's the Magic Kingdom park in tokyo yeah that's that's tokyo disneyland yeah um and i didn't know anything about it like i i didn't i i i purposefully because like you know i'm such a disney park person i purposefully like didn't like look and what rides are there you know and stuff like that because i wanted to have some surprise yeah you rarely have that opportunity to just bump into things and i

literally don't know what i'm getting on right now and i don't have that opportunity in many parks even at even at universal japan like you know what spider-man you know yeah you know what the rides are right so i was like i i didn't look too much so uh when we got when we were looking it was like oh this beauty and the beast ride is like you know the wait times are pretty high like it must be popular yeah and we were able to get like the priority pass for it or something like that and we rode it and like this you know the big teacups i'm like this is interesting but i still didn't know what was about to happen and then when you get on it and you're in it and like i'm looking around i'm like this is phenomenal this is fucking phenomenal like it was so

like some of the nicest rooms they've ever made it seems like man i i i got a lot i have a lot to say about shanghai but i will say this about tokyo best technology out of any park i've ever been to yeah like the technology at i mean there was fucking i mean the statues like this little statue this might who's this leather face other face oh yeah we record in the space where another for where the show movies baby happens on Forever Dog. So often, you listeners might not know, we're often recording next to a life-size leather face with a chainsaw that could come on if we plugged it in. It could, which would be dope. Oh, yeah.

You got some. Okay, that's dope. Well, at Tokyo Disney, they would sprinkle a little magic and then it would just come to life. Fully articulated. Bending and moving. It it was really really cool like i loved the technology at tokyo disney so the technology in that room was dope we're jumping all around a little but do you flash to any uh any attractions or just or just buildings or whatever where you're like i know this i know this from the american parks and then you did the tokyo version like oh i don't know that like they did it so much better yeah uh not not so much in tokyo for some of the things

that were the same like there were some differences but i had that experience more actually in paris with haunted manor and oh yeah yeah yeah like i was on that ride and i was like this is kind of terrifying yeah that is a moody ride yes there is a vibe to that yeah it sticks i like feel something in my chest yeah even remembering it and i was not expecting that yeah even though some of the things are the same it's still the busts and it's still like the stretch like so many of the things are the same but it's just the busts and it's still like the stretch. Like so many of the things are the same, but it's just the way it's painted in the score and everything. It just like, it's even the regular stuff scarier.

It is more horror based. It also feels like, wait, cause I've only watched a video of it. It's like you do the cemetery and then you leave through the town, which I assume gives you like just a, there was a final feeling of leaving through the town and seeing the, whatever that guy's name is.

What is it? Phantom? The Phantom. There's a thing that lingers with you that way because the last thing you see is that stuff. Yeah. It was really wild. It's not just a fun party with the ghosts following you. That town, whatever's going on in that town, I don't even remember specifically, but it's a mood.

It's definitely a mood. I was surprised by that. And then Space Mountain in Paris, too. It was pretty much the same, but then all of a sudden i felt myself going upside down and i was like what the fuck is going on oh you didn't know it did i didn't know that this is great you experience it like yeah we've ruined too many things for ourselves i know i didn't ruin journey to the center of the earth that was the one where i was like i don't think it's scary enough that i need to like know that it does. But that was the rare time, I'm going to make myself not know

what the hell this ride is. And I'm so glad I did it that way. It was cool. I really like Journey. Tokyo Disney was great. Did you see any of the Fantasy Springs expansion? I think it was slated to open in June. Okay, so it's open now, I think.

Yeah, it is. I was there late April. So it was pretty, I don't even think I saw where it was. It was like way back too. Yeah, it was pretty well hidden and pretty like. They could close it off entirely. Yeah, nobody come near here. That's not like Vasa Coasters getting built in the middle of the park.

They can fully close that off and still conduct regular business. It's a huge walk from DisneySea's entrance, I think, too. It's a completely opposite side, I think. It's like an opposite, because DisneySea is huge. It is so big. Cannot believe. Yeah, it was truly one of the most. We went for two days, and was truly one of the most and just like we went for two days and

like toward the end of the second day we were still coming up on parts of disney c we were like oh shit we didn't even know this was over here like yeah yeah it was it was so big so yeah no i didn't see any of fantasy springs but i'm sure it would be dope i mean they they're getting ready they were getting ready for it they were passing out stickers yeah um and like when we turned the sticker down because we had already gotten three they were like what they started laughing at us like they don't want a sticker like damn aren't you also like knowing that there's this huge there's this big expansion with like three mini zones and big new rides and you were at tokyo disney c before that it's like it doesn't need that it doesn't i mean it's great that it has it but like of all

it's in so insane that that of all parks gets an expansion while here we wait there's just full dead zones in the disneylanders where they need something to happen i i kind of almost wish like they would start franchising the disney's out here like they do at the ones i i kind of almost wish like they would start franchising the disney's out here like they do at the ones in asia because it's like well just budget yeah budget wise they'll spend the money they spend the money yeah they have so much money for the ones that like i was reading like how much money they have just for those parks and it's in the billions of dollars yeah well shanghai the full shanghai resort there's land to build two more theme parks yeah wow which is wild yeah it's huge and it's kind of too big um right like

to start the day at disney shanghai like because we took a we took a uber a taxi or something from our hotel and to get to the from that to get to the park was almost like a 20 minute walk but like which is you know kind of could be the same here but it was like a 20 minute straightaway walk it was not like yeah going through different you know gotta turn these blocks and go through a town and shit it was like no straight to like the park gate that's harder yeah you can get tricked if there's a you're winding and strolling, but oh my God. But the one, all right. So man, when we got out the car,

I will say this about Walt Disney. He had, he had it right when he was like, I want to move to places where I can regulate who's around my park. Like, because that was needed at Shanghai needed as soon as we got out the car there are hundreds of people trying to sell you bootleg disney stuff oh really yes to the point where like somebody put their hands on me like they are opening your car door they're following you they're in your space and this is on disney's property oh shit it's not like it's not in the town next to disney it is on

you you have passed the gate of disney and like they are there and so and like and it's the whole 20 minute walk oh wow really trying to oh my god in your face selling you stuff this i've not even gotten to i will talk about night time because it's crazy but like the whole 20 minute walk and so i like i just did not expect that like you know you don't expect that have you ever seen that i noticed it in paris and it's not the full but like right outside the train station i was shocked that it's just like people like doing like glowing things that fly up in the air like in regular paris i was so surprised to see that anywhere close to it was it was it was crazy it was truly like the only thing i could equate it to was like when i go to the caribbean and everybody's trying to

sell you times 20 and throw in times square vibes of like aggressiveness yeah yeah um like it was a like it was it was really crazy and and also at this point like i'm at the end of the trip my patience is low and the dude touched me like my, my girlfriend had to like, come on, man. Don't get arrested in China. Really? Because he literally like grabbed me and turned me around. Whoa. And it's nine in the morning.

I'm like, please take your hands off of me. Dial in for a Disney day. You are not expecting to get into a street fight. It was, it was so insane. So by the time we do that, I'm like, all right. Can I ask, what are the T-shirts? T-shirts, ears, stuffed animals, sunscreen, everything. A lot of it is knockoff merchandise that you can find in the

park others are things that you may need for the day right like there is kids selling shit adults it was it was truly and it's not even that it was like i've been around that before right you know like sure yeah not at disney so like that was the jarring part like i was not ready for that in particular yeah and are you you're like on the you're like on like landscaped grounds and like faint it's a small world i can see yeah i can see the castle like i can see the castle dude you never heard this these this is why it was why it was so wild and like we're walking to the park we're like all right like you know by the time when you get a little closer to the park it's it's not as like aggressive um so that was like chill but when we got in the line and this set us up for the whole day like there's

people smoking in line uh and like when i say it set us up for the whole day like there's people smoking in line uh and like when i say it set us up for the whole day you will get people smoking in the lines in the rides in the bathrooms walking through the park whoa like it and it was so crazy and it's just like i get if if you let people get away with this, they will try. But they don't let you get away with this at other Disneys. Right? That was the crazy part. It's technically not supposed to be smoking, right? Yeah, I looked it up as we were starting.

And it is smoking only in certain areas. Oh, okay. No. But they just don't enforce it. No, that's the thing. They don't enforce anything. Wow. Like, they have the sign saying, don't piss on no they don't that's the thing they don't enforce anything wow like they have the sign saying don't piss on the street but they don't enforce it people are actually like

not doing it right wait i think we also plowed past that i knew you said piss and poop percent did you see people being that's what he said i didn't see anybody shitting thankfully okay but i saw two people i saw two people i saw a pre-teen with both children so not adults okay but i saw a pre-teen but their families were with them i saw a pre-teen just pissing in a bush and then i saw this kid was maybe like six seven uh butt naked and his parents were holding a like grocery store bag for him to pee in and it's not like bag to pee in. A bag to pee in seems impractical. Pooping

at least makes more sense. It makes, I guess, the bathroom 30 yards away. That makes the most sense. Regardless of that, I'm just saying pooping in a bag makes more sense. A bag couldn't hold urine. Just pure liquid.

You can scoop up a poop. You can scoop up a poop. You can scoop up the poop once it's on the ground. But pee, you know, it's going to spread. I understand the thought. I'm just saying. It's like a diaper that they aren't wearing. Yeah. A diaper that you hold out.

Like a target. This is, I mean, she won't care if I say this, but me and my partner were like having a disagreement like in this hour. 24, 25 days. I could imagine. 25 days together. Yeah, we were having a disagreement. So we weren't like, you know, we were just like, you know, arguing about something.

I can't even remember what. And like, and we saw this little kid. That was the first one we saw. The kid like butt naked. And it like snapped us out of our argument. We were both just walking. It was like, you saw that, right? Like we were fine after that.

Because it was just so jarring. It's so jarring to see that sure and it's not what was nearby do you remember like what this line this ride or this it was like yeah it was it was like imagine you are walking down the uh road where like indiana jones and like all it was like that it was like food places and and it's not even like seeing the kid pee because kids will do crazy shit the parents were assisting this child that was the crazy part they came with a bed they knew this was their plan this is how they do it huh and i'm like take them to the bathroom like it's it's i mean like the disney's don't not have bathrooms there and they're pretty nice they were clean you know privacy you find to be a good thing it's a good thing for everybody for you and the people around you there's a reason we do this and so you know

after we see this little naked boy we're just like all right we're we're in for uh a day and like but the biggest pet peeve outside of the smoking the peeing and pooping in the park was like you have to stand your ground or people will cut you oh man and not even like like people will just literally like brush past you and be like no we're like you're not here and like and it's weird because it's not confrontational like if you say something they'll be like oh okay like they'll back up and be like oh yeah yeah but like it's almost like you don't exist it's like you don't exist. It's like you don't exist. So there's no gate. Cause like oftentimes in the American parks or a six flags or something, I feel like people will do a trick.

They'll pretend they're on the phone. They'll pretend, excuse me. They'll pretend somebody's ahead. I've seen this a lot. They go, Oh, Hey. And they wave to the person. Then they go by you and you're like, I'm pretty sure they just, yeah, they just cut.

So there's a little game that generally is played. I feel like when I see this, there's no games. They were like, no, we just cut. So there's a little game that generally is played, I feel like, when I see this. There's no games. They were like, no, we don't want to be here. We're going to go to where we want to be. Yeah, sure. So it was almost to a point where like, and it wasn't every ride,

but it was like two or three where you almost have to kind of like stand side by side. Oh, wow. So people don't brush past you. To be your own bodyguards it was it was so wide it was just such all this great and and it is the example and it made me appreciate the disney's here more and it made me appreciate i guess american decorum because it's not even because a lot of the things that people were doing i would say would happen maybe not the peeing and the pooping but like the smoking the cutting

in line a lot of that type of stuff would happen if consequence wasn't a thing right like yeah if somebody if somebody would say like hey you can't do that like i you know people will cut everybody you know people try it even but like it would be more rampant sure but it was just like they did the disney workers didn't care like they did not care like people were smoking in front of cast members like yeah and i don't know if it's just like well we can't do anything about it uh too many people at once doing it like i don't know i don't know dude it would be it would be unenforceable by cast members not making very much money i guess so many people are doing things it would just be they would be spending their whole day it feels okay so if if

somebody was doing like if somebody was smoking it wouldn't be like 12 people smoking in a line it would be like one or two so it was easy enough to be like, you, put your cigarette out. Sure, sure. You can pinpoint who's doing the things. Can I ask this question? Was there, with this as far as the smoking,

was there ever a time when somebody was smoking on a ride where you were like, that's actually cool looking? Never on the rides. It was always in lines and in bathrooms.

Because that's what my dream is to smoke a cigarette on Pirates of the Caribbean. That would be tight. Yeah. That would be tight. Date you and your partner and go buy cigarettes after witnessing the naked child roaming around. We bought crack to smoke. It was like, look, if they're going to let us do it, we might as well go all out.

Sure. We might as well do it all. Sure. Yeah, man. do it we might as well go all out sure yeah we might as well do it all sure uh it was it was yeah man it was i i was just it was it was it was a really weird day it was a really weird day because like in the middle of like all this beautiful stuff and it's still disneyfied in a way you just have like i i can't tell you how many times i got shoulder checked like yeah somebody shoulder checked like my partner which like it's just it was just people were rude and they don't care like that was the crazy part

it was just like there's no and and you know i know i'm saying all this and like if we're talking percentages 98 of the people were fine sure sure but still two percent of like people doing all that is still jarring for a disney park yeah i think you one person does some of this stuff in a regular park day and you remember it and you clock it and it's a story later right it's opposed to you you're lost and it's happening so much you can't even pick them out that because jay we were together when we saw the person vape uh during the barbosa scene on pirates of the caribbean they blew smoke up and i'll never forget it it's all it's stuck with me forever yeah because it's not something you see very often because and because you were jealous and because i wanted to be that was fucking cool

i wish i could do it i wish i could do it which you should look go to shanghai you will you can do it i will say this you i completely forgot about this to your point like from earlier was there any like ride that was just like way pirates oh yeah right shanghai you've done that that's what my question is oh my god nuts that's one that i've watched the video just because i'm like i'll spoil this i don't know when am i gonna get to shanghai that's bonkers it is that that yeah that the beauty and the beast pirates definitely like top like five like any ride i've ever been on yeah like as far as like besides like roller coasters but like that pirates right i because they did the, Disney Plus did the Behind the Attraction. Yeah. And one of the episodes was, I think Shanghai or something.

I can't remember what, but like I did see on the documentary or something, like it was different. So I knew it was different going in, right? Yeah. Even knowing it's different going in, it's still like, this is one of the best things. Yeah. going in is still like this is one of the best things yeah like it you are you are on a boat that is like going through an entire world you're turning you're like i mean like you're going backwards you're doing is does it is it fake you out like you sort of it it resembles the pirates you know and then starts doing things that the real boat never could is there sort of a fake out like there's a couple like there's there's they really utilize the space really

dope not to spoil i mean at this point if you're listening to this yeah probably spoiled a lot of shit but like there's a part where like you're on the right they do really good with like keeping your attention over here while some other shit is happening so like you're looking at some great stuff and it's another thing they use utilize the screens and sets and animatronics and things like that yeah so you're looking at like this animatronic um and the screen and you're on a boat and it's just immersive it's all you can see then all of a sudden your like boat turns to the, and it's a huge boat with a pirate fight going on. Right. That you're just like, where the hell did this come from?

And it's just a lot of that as you're going through it. It was beautiful. These big screens simulate going under the water and then going back up above the water. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was dope. yeah yeah yeah yeah um and this is the one they're like you know there's talk of maybe dep comes out of some of the ones here but not this one depth's part he's he's in it yeah sparrow is the you you can't extract sparrow from that version no he's he is he is in it in it like he

if you were to do it you would have to like change the entire thing we're gonna different theme entirely tron it's drawn now uh yeah well that's the shanghai bedlam is that was you can drink you can piss outside and they're never getting rid of sparrow not even this is the wild culture listen at for that one i don't think i think sparrow would be like a saint for them like they're all emulating they're all emulating like sparrow can i tell you guys the end of the day yeah oh yeah go ahead so we i i am a fan of the disney fireworks yeah i love a fireworks show at disney it's a beautiful thing the fireworks show at tokyo was complete ass uh really it was so bad it was like five minutes or less not a theme to it uh it's like not even over the cat they put it in a place where you can see the firework show from both disney land and disney sea so it's not really over anything it's just kind of randomly in the

middle of the sky yeah music playing it's just like it's it's like a it's like a burbank fourth of july fireworks show and so i was like that was terrible so like i heard the shanghai fireworks show was beautiful like i purchased like a thing where we can get like good seats for it was like 20 so it wasn't that expensive but it was like you're right in the middle it was gorgeous one of the best firework shows i'd ever seen we're riding this beautiful high like it's the end of the day even after all this crazy shit we're like ah that was a disney day like it feels great and we walk out the park and all those people that were there in the beginning of the day are also there at the end of the day. However, also there at the end of the day

were at least 1 to 200 security guards on bullhorns. Oh, my God. Just repeatedly, like at full volume, repeatedly. It's in another language but like just and it's like that non-stop when i tell you it was like i i would you know if you went if you've been to some protests if you were going to those protests in 2020 when the cops were like aggressive toward like the it was like that oh and it was like yes this is a problem like the people selling things because that's what they're doing it to they're doing it to like push all

those people away so they're like so like there would be 20 people like chasing one person selling something to push them out and the bullhorns are basically yelling at them so i'm like is that a problem is it annoying yes but you guys are making it much worse you are it was the most aggressive jeez like it truly i truly felt like i was in like in like a police state like it was crazy oh my god and it was it was like my my partner was like this like i'm stressed i was stressed yeah like it was the craziest i wish i would have got like a video of it but i was just so like what the hell is going on that i didn't even like think to do it right but i was like after this beautiful magical like beautiful, magical end of the day, we walk out to the most aggressive energy that I could possibly. And it's like this on that entire 20-minute walk back to where we need to go.

Jeez, the hell mile. It was the craziest shit I've ever experienced in my life. And that must happen every night. It must. The second day we went, we were only there for a half day, so we left in the middle of the day. as shit i've ever experienced in my life and that must happen every night it must like the the second day we went we were only there for a half day so we left in the middle of the day so it was like it was like a peaceful like exit like like going like was like this is great but like it must be like that every night at least it was like that the night i went yeah and and this is in third

downtown disney disney springs which is called disney town disney town yeah it's called yeah it's in disney town it is in like the way back to like where you know if you took a bus a shuttle parked taxi is on the way back to that stuff as well but it is literally like as soon as you exit the park i'm trying to figure out i just want to see this on street view like what is this route that i want to know like the official name of it this awful the route i don't even know what it's got like you walk over a huge bridge and then like there is you walk through parts before you can like go off to like disney town because there's a huge lake okay yeah there's so much property there that's the crazy thing it's a lot of property there uh you also go up this long escalate this long escalator similar to like a universal escalator

star way yes yeah and yeah man it like it was just a cheesecake factory eating cheesecake you just hear screaming bullhorns outside bro it was it was the wildest shit i've ever experienced in my life and like i grew up on the south side of chicago like i was just like i have been around police officers i've been around gunshots i've been around all types of shit and at the end of this disney day at shanghai i was like this is the most aggressive energy i've ever felt like this is leaving a place in my life this felt like watching disney fall this is like this is the state overtaking it was wild town and it's just like again i know those disneys are franchised so disney itself

doesn't have a say but i'm like if this were to happen at disneyland disney world yeah like the way they stop that is just don't allow those people on the property right you don't bring like a tank disney springs rolling it around like if you don't leave we gonna fuck y'all up like you like they're not doing that like they just don't you just don't get on the property yeah right yes warner please vacate but also come back tomorrow and uh just be nicer tomorrow that's the thing you can you can come back tomorrow, but leave now. We know you'll be back tomorrow, but today you should leave. Leaving Tokyo,

Disney, I was like, man, you know, we just suck in America. And then after Shanghai, I was like, I can't wait to get the fuck back

to like, like some American decorum, man. Yeah, yeah. Some Florida decorum. Yeah. Because now we're out of the bay. Shitum where shit makes sense you know they may not like me

because i'm black but they won't put a bullhorn on my face it's just dirty looks it's just dirty man is trying to sell me a fucked up looking pluto yeah 10 police officers are chasing him dude it was it was it was so funny man it was it was just so crazy it was it was the wildest thing and it was like the last park out of the whole trip so it was just like the final way to go it was the end of the trip oh my god well at least that's what you because i like my wife and i both cried when we left tokyo we're on the plane tearing up because we didn't want to leave this is the opposite you're like i was like yeah we can go i don't have to come back to shanghai noisemakers all right like this is tokyo i'll go back any day not wait to be in lax place with clarity and order and order law and order

i do love like i copied just to remember everywhere you've been i copy pasted your dms Order. And order. Law and order. I do love, like, I copied, just to remember everywhere you've been, I copy pasted your DMs into my notes. And I am looking at the phrase, you know, crowd culture differences. Like, well, you're really underplayed. I didn't think piss bags would be part of that. It was really wild, man. Like, I, because, you know, look, again, I've been to so many parts i've been to every at this point until next year when the new universal opens up i've been to every universal gate i've only not been to one like disney gate i've been to like cedar point i've been to bush gardens

i've been to all the shit here like i've been to so many theme parks i was a teenager at six flags like i've been to parks where like you, you know, people are wild, right? Okay, yeah, yeah. And so, like, you know, I'm 37. It is very rare where you can have experiences where, like, I just truly was not expecting it like that. And I walked out of that, I was like... And the weird part about it is, it would even make a little bit more sense if it was just a full trash day.

If it was just like, that Disney just sucked, everything about it. But it was like, it still had the Disney moment. Right, right, right. Your favorite fireworks. Yeah, it was like the weird thing. My favorite fireworks, my least favorite hellish mile where I was screamed at by bullhorns. It's the juxtaposition that was the problem. It was the whiplash.

It was the whiplash. Yeah. Because if I'm... I hate to keep bringing up a protest, but if I'm at a protest and this shit is happening, I'm like, yeah, this makes sense. Yeah. It's a little stranger next to a giant Lego store. Yeah.

Yeah. You're at a protest, but then you go on a boat ride to like see johnny depp and then it's like the most magical thing it's the most magical thing and then you walk out and you know somebody's pooping in a bush it was crazy man it was crazy it's very unique i had never heard that okay so you know just just spoilers i guess if you if you don't want the parks uh if you go to sh, you don't want a room for you. Zootopia is a trackless ride system. And when you leave, you are accosted and scared.

You are. Yes, you are. You're part of an unwilling haunt experience that is real. That is so real. And look, you know, you can get some Disney ears for maybe half the price if you want. There's probably some deals, though. You can get some you want There's probably some deals though You can get some deals There's some deals You can probably get some deals

Honestly You can probably get some deals A piss bag with Huey on it Get your piss bags here An off model Huey Yeah but he still is Huey He looks like Huey He's kind of

He's Huey He's still Man This is crazy Yeah dude I If If I got to go for free i would go back to disney shanghai uh because the park is fun the park is cool like there was some rides there that were like really

great um i'm almost sure the tron was yeah tron is there yeah did you do the buzz the buzz light your ride looks crazy yeah i did do that. It was fun. It was super fun. Why is it different? What's up with that one? It's just, like, very built up, and there's a lot of animatronics and robots. There's more animatronics. It's kind of like a bigger budget version of it, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. It's still the same type of ride. Sure, sure. As far as, like, what you're doing. But, like, it's just better. Yeah, yeah. In that aspect aspect there's something called there looks like this very pleasant boat ride that kind of goes around the castle and it's

lots of like fairy tale scenes did you do that did you do that does that sound familiar yeah that sounds familiar i can't voyage to the crystal grotto do you remember did you voyage to the crystal grotto did i voyage to the crystal grotto like i'm sure i did i mean it seems like a very like slight ride but like very pleasant and that kind of like uses castle environment in a way you don't always see it seems like a kind of like updated storybook land and like here's just like pastoral grounds and gentle and that's the thing i did we i did so much that like so much stuff blends together. So I did do that, and it kind of lets you off in, like,

Alice in Wonderland or near Alice in Wonderland type, like, land or area or something like that. Okay. But it's right around a castle, and it's really cute. You see, like, what I'm looking at now. There's, like, Beauty and the Beast. Like, they dance for a second And then like Aladdin And the genie on a carpet

And it's all fountains And just looks That's of all the ride throughs I've watched This one seems like It'd be kind of a quiet leaf It was very much like Storybook

Canal Or whatever they call it here Storybook land Or whatever The boat ride But just You know Better

They got more money For their stuff there Which is You know So a lot of the things ride but just you know better they got more money for their stuff there which is you know so a lot of the things are much better yeah as far as like just the experience of the ride or how much money they have yeah the castle is the castle the biggest castle right or did the new hong kong did that make it bigger when they just don't remember they expanded the castle in hong kong it bigger but this is this is the one where the castle is like if you look at it

and if you like divide it into fifths it's kind of like they all nod to the different castles are you talking about the one in Shanghai

yeah yeah like if you're alright that sliver of it is kind of a nod to Cinderella Castle and this part is Sleeping Beauty or is that the Shanghai one

or is that Hong Kong no that's I think that's Hong Kong. I think that's Hong Kong. I'm getting caught. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because now I'm looking to see like what the... So the castle at...

The castle at Shanghai is pretty basic. I think the castle at Disney... Tokyo Disneyland was probably more impressive to me, I think. Oh, really? I think, if I'm remembering.

This is, it is that Shanghai is the biggest one. That Shanghai is the biggest one? Okay, so maybe that's the one. They also have a, on the attraction list, on the English language website, there is, in Disney Town, one attraction just labeled giant donald duck yep there's a big by the lake there is a big inflatable donald duck which is also funny imagining like bullhorns next to big donald duck and it was as bull yeah that's just like that's really not dressed or no it's just in the middle of the water.

And you just walk up to it. And it's cool. It's very big. Yeah, I'm a big fan of that. Does it feel fair to call it an attraction? Or does that feel like overselling? No, it's a photo spot. It's just listed under.

It's definitely a photo spot. But, you know, because, like I said we the second day we left midday and before we went out and it was so peaceful we went to go sit by the water and sit right in front of it because we was like we didn't get this experience last night let's just have a peaceful last 10 minutes as we say goodbye and get the hell out of here this is crazy wow wow do you remember anything else about disney town i have been what'd you brought that up disney town was pretty basic i didn't do it i didn't go to that much it was just a few restaurants yeah uh nothing is nothing is as impressive as disney

springs did you uh have any did you stop anywhere let me switch to universal osaka because you're probably one of the only people who's uh at least walked through city walk japan yeah right uh did you did you do anything did you notice anything is there anything to would it be i guess what i'm asking is would city walk japan have the fuel for a 19 parts or more daily series that a podcast like this might do uh probably not okay i was i would say it's probably a mix between it's probably a mix between uh hollywood and orlando so like the one in orlando is huge um and the one here is very cool like but it's you know it's a lot smaller and the one there is probably a mix between the two so it's not as big but it's you know it's a lot smaller and the one there is probably a mix between the two so it's not as big but it's bigger than the one here okay um that's good and so it's definitely

more space but it has a vibe to the one here as opposed to the one in orlando scott what if i were to tell you city walk osaka because i looked this up last night to compare it to Disney Town. CityWalk Osaka has a TGI Fridays and a Red Lobster. They do. And a Gap Factory store so you can get

some great deals. All right. Well, CityWalk Japan Saga next year then, I guess. There you go. Why next year?

Why not in a couple months? I mean, listen, there's still six months left in this year. Yeah. A lot to go. A lot to go yeah i think we've all got another

saga you know that's right it only takes 13 hours to get over there you know yeah you can find that time in six months jason you ready let's go to japan yeah you you would definitely

have some good times to you can you can get it you can get like a five a five saga a five part saga at least a five okay at least a five well five and five in your numbers equals what uh 25 to us okay that's about it yeah 25 great great 25 yeah 25 osaka japan was cool though uh osaka japan uh universal osaka was was cool i i had a good time time i was only there for one day

uh it was really it was chill it was uh the nintendo world i mean i really want to like nintendo world i'm not i will say this i'm not a huge nintendo i was always the sega genesis oh okay okay so like i i you know nintendo i i play a lot i played a lot as i've you know grown up but um so i didn't i don't have as much so i will say this i don't have as much nostalgia for nintendo as like you know somebody who would uh i hate to tell you this i don't think that's helping anything it does i think i was more of a nintendo kid it doesn't mean uh doesn't mean anything this one not super crowded and irritating so and so like i and like i i went to the one in universal japan because like the one here to me is just bad it's so it's too small it's too crowded and there's nothing to do for how little for how crowded it gets there's just nothing to do in there so i was like all right maybe the one in

japan will be bigger which it is it's two stories you know they have two levels yeah still just as crowded though and still really nothing to do like they got the one ride where like we we got because we went during golden week so it was very busy in japan when we went oh right right and so we got uh express tickets okay and so we were able to get express into the mario kart and whatever the ouija ride or whatever it was so we did the the ouija ride or whatever the yoshi ride the yoshi ride yes uh and see that's how much i'm not a disney or a nintendo uh the yoshi ride and like we're like all right this looks cool it looks cute and we went on it and i was like i i would rather stand in line for an hour and a half to go on that like 30 second harry potter ride that like a little flight of the yeah which is the most annoying thing to stand in line for

you just can't if there's any line if there's any line and it's too much line. And I would rather stand in line for that than go on this Yoshi ride. Wow, really? Wow. It moves three miles an hour. Slower than walking, yes. Nothing to do. You're supposed to press buttons, and you're pressing it, and nothing is happening. I'm like, this is...

And by the end, we were like, oh, okay, maybe the ride is about to pick up now. And it was like, oh, no, it is about to pick up now and it was like oh no it's time to get off oh man see we're looking at it like the key mistake was not doing the yoshi ride which seems so charming and brings so much life to the and you're telling us like no the yoshi ride it was it was bad again you know maybe i don't have the nostalgia uh the nostalgia for mario world i like i can look at a picture of yoshi i don't know yeah yeah yeah i don't want to wait in that line you might see yeah that's that's the part if if it was a 33 second line to get on a ride right by all means but like that line we did express so we got right on but that line was up to like two hours and i was like if

i would have if i would have waited two hours to ride this i would be an international news story flipped my fucking lid like i would have been so mad man melts downught on 100 cell phones. Fake Yoshi eggs smashed. International incident. American diplomat sent to embassy to retrieve. To retrieve man's brain. Diplomatic relations. An American started hopping on tourists' heads as if he is Mario.

Real life Mario incident. Did you go to Universal Beijing? Or just Shanghai? There's a Universal Beijing? This is where we're going to start. You do have more universals to go, I think. Is there also Singapore?

How many universals is it? There's more coming. Sorry. There's the assignments. There's an England way to be coming. You're going to have, with your foreign correspondent duties now on our show, I think you're going to have to go back and report for it. I mean, my plan is to go to Disney Hong Kong in the next like two-ish years.

Okay. Yeah. Which one of those is closest to that? Probably Beijing, I think. Beijing, I think, is probably closest. Yeah, yeah. We'll throw that in. I forget what's special about it.

That's the one that we've discovered has an entire, even though it was built in the last couple of years, they have a new Waterworld land. Yeah, yeah. Not just the show. It's an entire land that is Waterworld. That's fun. The relevant film in 2024. Listen, I love Waterworld.

They have Waterworld in Osaka. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. And I got to be a part of it a little bit Cause I was the only black person there So I stood out And I had on a little Dragon Ball Z shirt And like they were just loving me And like You know they brought me up

They was like hey come here They brought me up to like pour water In one of the people's faces And then my little stick didn't have water in it. And then they just doused me with. Oh, classic bit. Really? The classic bit.

The classic bit. So that was fun. And like after we were leaving, people was like, yeah. So that was super fun. I love the Waterworld show. And like my girlfriend had never seen the one here. So that was her first one I love the Waterworld show. And my girlfriend had never seen the one here. So that was her first one. Oh, yeah.

Which was very funny, too, because the dude who plays the main hero, I think, didn't know any Japanese. So he literally was mute. And I was trying to remember, like, he talks in the show here, right? Mute. Didn't say a single word wow not a single one way to play after what he's seen after what he's seen yeah water worlds yeah yeah after the piss he's yeah the mariner does drink piss at one point in the movie that's so funny i don't think i've ever seen the movie and i don't think i have to i've seen the show the show is more of the thing now You know

That's really the main thing You've got to see Yeah Potentially the plan in Shanghai With those guests By the way Possibly You need a little refresher later

You need a refresher You got your piss bag You got your piss Maybe that's why they do it Maybe that's why Plastic bag Yeah You know

The drinks are expensive there They've got those straws now Like life straws Where if like you're Stranded or something You could potentially I think drink pee With the straw

And it'll filter out The bad stuff Life straws Really I don't know if the life straw Says you should drink pee I think it's more for just like If you're in the middle

Of somewhere and you had It's like water And you're not sure If it's filtered or not Oh But I bet it might work on pee Okay I'm sure it would

But you could just try I have some Using a light You have lifeStraws? Yeah. That was my next question. Have you purchased LifeStraws? I have a few, sure.

I think you have an assignment. To pee in the toilet. Well, I could just... The Mariner Challenge. Should I just put the straw in the toilet? The Mariner Challenge. I just put the straw in the toilet after I go. Don't be disgusting.

Have some decor. Use a coffee mug or something. It's hard to pee in a coffee mug or something coffee mug yes have some american decor okay be in a mug and drink that okay i think if you could do it we all right so we will we are gonna make you drink piss for the show but yeah you go if we have you do it in a trader sam's tiki mug that looks like a robot or something and you can line the rim with sugar, we will let you prepare the best glass possible out of which to drink your own pee. Okay. Which I think might make you enjoy the experience, right?

It might. If there was a sugar rim Yeah. And it's a fun character. Wow. So I have the Hatbox Goes Tiki mug from Trader Sam's and I'll just put sugar on his rim on his hat i'm not ripping the box goes here's a tip put sugar on the rim for a delightful experience

his hat rim folks uh and then i'll pee in it okay wait is it the way a brim is that the is that it is that is a part of how we make it not a rim it's a br way A brim is that the Is that It is That is a part of a hat That's how we make it Not a rim It's a brim Well the brim is here You're pointing like to your eye But you're pointing

Oh but you would have to Drink it out of the top So that it would be a rim Yeah it would have to be at the top More of the rim of a hat Okay A little top of hat Can you

Do you think the life straw Can you put a silly straw On top of a life straw Or does life straw Make a silly version Of their straw That's the way A a life straw? Or does LifeStraw make a silly version of their straw? Why not have fun in a survival situation? Let me Google and see if they have that.

Why not make the water take longer to get to you? Or filter it. While filtering. It's got a long way to go. It lets you psych yourself up. I'm drinking straight out of a sewer. Or I'm drinking my own piss.

You want to see it come. Let me adjust to this while I watch it go like, ooh, it's lighting up. Yeah. All right. I have Googled, can you drink pee with LifeStraw? And it says they don't recommend drinking your own with any LifeStraw product. It's not going to make it not pee. But they didn't say no.

They didn't say. They didn't say they just don't suggest it this okay wait there's an editorial that says a life strut does not make urine remotely safe to drink but that's like they have to say it's like how remember how they used to say like bongs are for tobacco like they had to pretend and play the game they know that people if you're buying a life start you're doing it because you want to drink piss. Yeah. They got to save themselves.

Quote, unquote, caution, don't drink your own piss. Oh, Rhett and Link actually did this, apparently, on YouTube. Oh, they drank pee? Five years ago. Wow. Was Jordan more likely to do that one? It's possible. Did Jordan have to drink his own pee?

Maybe. We should ask him. Wow. They're still kicking. They still got a show. I guess, guess well with innovations like drinking piss out of life straws they need to make a more of a piss based life straw that will actually help filter like filter it and look cosner's out there cosner's never been more around

this is a great thing to put his name on yes make a little extra stuff yeah yeah he could buy he could like close out the dream of owning literally all of Montana. I'm sure there's a couple acres he doesn't have yet. Yeah, but he's got life-strong money. He's sunk all that money into these movies, so I wonder if he's going to be hurting. That's how these happen? He's not making any of it back.

This is a megalopolis situation? I believe so. Yeah, I believe he like millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh, so this is a ride in it like this movie has to make, which it's doing okay, right? Yeah, it's doing okay. Disappointing way now, but it's gonna like.

Mega, Mega, Megalopolis, that's not a Costner. Oh, it's Francis Ford Coppola. No, no, no. It's the same, oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha, gotcha. I was like, Costner did that? Selling his winery, sell, yeah, yeah. Maybe he's doing a Megalopolis 2.

He's also doing a Megalopolis, same titles. What is the, yeah, yeah, what is the costner one called uh it's a place right chapter one and two okay well there could be a megalopolis on the horizon chapter three could be horizon chapter three megalopolis and the franchises merge somebody i have not seen that movie but somebody on twitter said something along the lines of that there's a like a sex scene in this Kevin Costner movie

that could fit into an early 90s Steven Seagal movie. Oh, cool. And I was like, whoa, really? What a wow specific. Yeah, yeah. We have to see this. The sexiest man. The 70-year-old.

We all want to see simulated thrust. 70-year-old Costner. I assume it's Costner. I don't know who else is in the movie. Oh, good point. I assume it is Costner unless I don't know who else is in the movie. Oh, good point. I assume it is too. Yeah. I mean, if I direct it,

I would put myself in the sex scene, yeah. I wouldn't let anybody else have that. Right. You might as well. That's a part of, you get, yeah,

the Tommy Wiseau rule, the room rule. You don't think he's giving it to a co-star of Horizon, Michael Rooker? Because they got Rooker in there. That's an interesting weathered man. Yeah, he could be.

That's a cool sex scene. He's got a crazy beard in it, too. We don't know it's not the two of them, although I have my guesses. It might be. I don't know. No, I haven't seen Horizon. Isn't Rooker's butt in Mallrats? Don't you see him naked?

Rooker's butt is, yeah, he is partially naked at mall rats. Man, he's already done it. He's comfortable. So 30 years ago he was naked. The butt only gets better with age. That's right. Isn't that what they always say? Yeah, that's right. Crack don't crack.

Crack don't crack. Crack don't crack. Crack stay the same. I'm not finding any results for Michael Rooker's butt but maybe i've got a safe search on that i don't that could be possible butt is in mall rats and i thought it was his i haven't seen mall rats in 30 years 20 plus years yeah sure and also similarly hasn't aged a bit. It's perfect. It's still perfect. The Jaws ride is preserved. I think that's, is that the Jaws in Florida?

No, I think it's California. I think it's California. It's California. Yeah, I believe so, but don't quote me on that. Oh, did you do the Jaws ride at Universal? That's the first ride I did. Great. Wow.

Yeah, that would be my first. What a nostalgia blast. That's great. It was fun. it was cool uh definitely uh there's a baskin robbins right next to that oh interesting yeah with no flavors that i was used to besides vanilla tuna and waffle yeah tuna waffle tuna waffle flavor a fish um but yeah that was the first that was the first ride we did was the Jaws ride Osaka yeah the nostalgia ones are sort of good they'd no more t2 now and no more backdraft

now you know okay that was that was always luring me I was on my way to Kyoto and like what if we dropped off our bags bought one more bullet train ticket kept going just hit up a real quick but then kyoto as you went to kyoto is such a lovely place kyoto was my favorite spot i was so at peace like tokyo was great tokyo was great uh osaka i was on i i i'm happy i was only there for like three three four days it was really close but like kyoto i was there for like seven eight days and i was like i couldn't come back here i'm really jealous we could have i wish i'd done i mean we i did we did like a couple like day trips and overnights from kyoto so we weren't there the full time um that was like a base okay we were there for like four full days at least um so jealous of that

geez what a mega travel saw some geishas oh wow which was really cool yeah man Kyoto was great I really loved Kyoto yeah man I anything else you want to shout out that's not like a main theme part

was there anything else like not that it has to be like a silly kitschy thing but I'm sure there's I mean there's plenty of that in Japan

I really loved Akihabara I think that's how you say it what is that it's like the the the electric city they call it uh it was in japan but it was very much like uh just a bunch of like lights and screens and like just it it just felt like uh a video game world uh like jumping into a video game world or an electronic uh world uh which was really cool and that night is beautiful because it's all lit up and stuff like that um there was like multiple like seven

story like arcades oh yeah yeah yeah it was like i didn't make really cool yeah this is not any of the like uh like video game stores like the because i would i went in those stores like where you could buy old video game consoles and stuff yeah and that blew my mind i went to i went to yeah we did walk in a couple i didn't buy anything but like just to like see what it was like so that was that was really really dope i'm like because they like stuff that didn't come out here and different covers for games that you had when you were a little kid yeah i didn't come back with anything either and i like kind of regret it i don't yeah i kind of the same like i was like oh i could have bought something but i would have bought it i would have bought it and it would have just collected dust yeah probably which is fine like that's cool but like but like nintendo

they released a heart like a different drive for the nintendo 64 really 64 dd or whatever it was called and it would put it you would put it on top of it and it was like like hard discs you would put in not even cartridges and they only released it in japan it never came out here and i was obsessed with it and they had it i could have bought it yeah but yeah i'm not gonna be playing it a lot i remember like when i had my playstation and ps2 and stuff like that like um there were a couple i think it was my playstation or x was one of them i can't remember I remember when I had my PlayStation and PS2 and stuff like that. There were a couple. I think it was my PlayStation or Xbox.

One of them. I can't remember. That I sent to Japan to get modded. Oh, yeah. Whoa, whoa. So I could play bootleg games and stuff like that. But yeah, I forgot about that until literally this moment. So yeah, I bet they have a bunch of stuff.

Oh yeah. Over there that never released here. That would have been cool. I can't wait to go back. I will say one of the more fun things I did too. That's not like ride or video game. I did go to like a, a new Japan pro wrestling show. Yeah.

It was dope. Great. Yeah. Was it a Corcoran hall? Yes. Yeah. Corcoran halls. It's really dope.

It's like going back in time yeah well it was it was truly like oh this is must this must be what it feels like when like wrestling was in like territory yeah yeah and then like the the popcorn and the beer are both like stale there yeah but like that's kind of part of it yeah yeah we had standing room we saw a show too there and we saw it was standing room in the back yeah we got but it was dope i it was it was really cool man i what was the main event can i ask um the main event you remember i can't remember but it was a couple people it was one person who's now in the wwe um a part of the bloodline if anybody watches wwe uh so that was cool i can't remember any of their names but um the crowd was like destiny tamatanga and tangaloa yeah yeah uh it was uh the crowd was

into it man like the crowd got into it the the jeff i will say this about uh japan is just so polite just so polite to the point where it's like are you guys bored because it was kind of like but you can get them hot even at disney like there would be like if like never had a friend like me came on here like everybody would be but there was just like i think part of it was like it's not in english even though like i don't know but like there's not in English, even though, like, I don't know. But, like. There's another generalization at some point in time. Maybe this isn't true anymore, but that concerts would, I'd hear about, like, American musicians going to Japan and then finishing a song and, like, nothing happening.

Yeah. Like, what's up with this? Well, no, they're just waiting for it to be fully done. Yeah. They are just taking it in. They're taking it in. Yeah. They're really respectful.

Because it's not, they're not,'re not there's not like a boredom thing but i do think it's just like a very respectful like because like there was like a at the new japan show there was like a uh one of the matches that started with almost a four minute grappling like it was truly one of the most boring things i've ever watched in my life and like the crowd was dead silent for the entire four minutes and then when they finally started i was like yeah i get it this is boring and then when they finally stopped everybody in the crowd started wow wow it was so funny it was like even even if they were bored they still respected what they did.

It's enough to show appreciation, which I thought was really cool. I thought that was really cool. Did you, because Corican Hall is right by Tokyo Dome and Tokyo Dome City. Did you do any of the rides at Tokyo Dome City? I didn't, because it was, we were going to disney the next day and like the show ended at like nine or ten o'clock or something so we were like we gotta go home um yeah but it was dope i i didn't expect to see tokyo down i didn't know it was right next to it so it was really cool it's like his own little city yeah yeah around there with a bubba gump with a bubba gump with the tj fridays

with a shake shack with a taco bell that I ate at And I was very excited about Because you could change the heat level of your meal Oh, the taco Of the meal Yeah, so you could pick like whatever A number seven with two Chalupas And you could say I want it medium spice That's awesome

Wow Yeah Alright, I gotta go back Innovator, it's the future And I got some sort of green soda And I don't remember what it was Was it Can I ask this

Because I don't eat I eat McDonald soda, and I don't remember what it was. Can I ask this? Because I eat McDonald's breakfast, but I haven't had McDonald's lunch menu burger since 2012 until Tokyo. Because everybody was like, oh, man, the international McDonald's, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I guess I got to have a burger. And I ate it, and I was like, yeah, that was still bad. That was still bad You're gonna offend Some people in this room By suggesting That McDonald's

Might be Anything less Than top tier It was like Yeah This tastes Exactly how I remember Are the like

Taco Bells Are they like A little bit Are they better Are they I would say All the fast food Is better

Yeah But we're still In the but we're still in the zone. You're still in the zone. That's true. So it's going to have the similar taste. It's going to be the similar taste. The zone being the best zone, the highest quality of zone there could ever be. Fantastic stuff that I love and that I eat a lot. Did you go to convenience stores?

Oh, yeah. 7-Eleven. Oh, yeah. 7-Eleven, Family Mart. That's true. Yeah. Any 7-Ele-eleven random snack i got some great spaghetti at one of the convenience stores it was like delicious uh it was late at night i was hungry i was on my way back to my hotel and i was like this and my girlfriend's vegan so she wanted something so i got us both something and uh i was like this is delicious this is good again like

it's those little things in japan that where you're like why if we all just decided together as a society yeah to me why do we all decide that this area has to be like bad and shitty it's crazy wise cleanliness what like they all just did they all just together collectively said 7-elevens will be great. I went to a bathroom. I had, you know, I'm a bidet king. I love a bidet. I have bidets on every toilet in my apartment.

And, like, I, you know, so I had some of the best experiences of my life, like, in the public bathrooms in Japan. Yeah. I was like, this makes me want to cry how great this is. And also had one of the worst experiences music all the like these little things just just heated toilet seats nice little lights there was a spray that you press the button and it sprays the toilet so you can disinfect it on like a couple of the public bathrooms i went to i was like this is nice i remember i remember it in my hotel room i remember remember a toilet in Disney Sea that was wonderful. I remember a toilet in the Hello Kitty San Rio Puroland. Oh, shit.

There was just like a full-on lights and music show. Yeah. There was a delightful little thing that you only can do in the bathroom. Right. There's nowhere else on earth I have bathroom memories. The bathrooms at Disney play things so you can have privacy like they have like oh yeah like where if you're taking a monster shit nobody will hear you it'll just sound like oh like it's just like noises

did you encounter any of the toilets in the floor when you were traveling that was the worst experience I've had the worst toilet experience I've ever had

was also Tokyo I went to we were going to the garden the the lab something

where it was like like installments in a park like lights and shit like that i can't remember exactly what it was called um and on the way there like once we got off the train we had like a little 10 minute walk to get to it and on the way there your boy's stomach started hurting and i was like i gots to go um and and like it was it was a bad it was a bad one too and like i'm like finding a bathroom i find a bathroom and i'm like you know what like it was all i gotta do is reach a

bathroom i'll get a bidet i'll sit on a nice seat i'll like you know go to work and like i'll come out and i'll be feeling refreshed take a good 20 minutes in there as much time as you need and i open the door and there's a fucking hole in the ground and like and it was one and it was one of squat yeah and i'm like squatting and it was just and like i i like i think i teared up a couple of times because i was just like this is the worst like i walked out to my i walked out to my girlfriend and just like was like can you give me a hug uh and and the goddamn uh sink didn't have no soap so like i couldn't even so like so i was just like this was the worst 20 minutes of my life what's there let me ask because i learned about this from the youtube channel ordinary adventures yeah who um they they traveled through asia and they were like also some

of the bathrooms don't have toilet paper you have to bring your own thank the lord that was not the case okay but i did have to like like open up the new toilet roll oh yeah because it was almost out and like but luckily it was there god but like it was no bidet it was it was just a hole in the ground would not even like shit that i could hold on to so i'm like and it's nighttime so i've been walking all day i'm like squatting can i guess oh sorry oh it was it was the worst and then no soap and then to make it worse like i found out that if i just went around like the building corner there was a western bathroom and i couldn't get out like and sat on the toilet and but like you you know, at this point... Several steps make a big difference. It does.

You probably didn't have that in you. I did not. Like, you know how your brains work. By the time my brain saw a bathroom door, it was like, it's coming. I'll shell cut you in a hole in the ground if I have to. Oh, that is what I'm doing. That is what I will be doing.

That is exactly correct. Can I ask how big the hole is um it is it is it it's not circular at least the one i used wasn't circular it was more like oblong shaped like because it's is it like hard to get it in there it wasn't easy to get it in it wasn't golf or putting this is this is very. I know people are listening. It was like, this is the worst conversation. But like, I will say, like, I will say this. If it was a normal bathroom experience, it would have been fine.

Yeah. A bathroom experience where like is messy. It got messy. Got it. Because it was not, it wasn't booty shaped. It wasn yeah it wasn't booty shape I see it just seems hot it seems hard for a number of reasons and you know you you know when we were growing up you know we got to we had to learn how to you know you know aim for the Cheerios whatever nobody teaches you how to aim your shit right you don't even think you have yes you don't have

it's general enough that i will never have to worry about never have to worry about this and then my my girlfriend who is uh southeast asian or south south asian um was like yeah you're gonna have a terrible time in india she was like because she was like yeah this is this is nor like she was like yeah that happens and my american ass was like what the fuck is this wow wow if you can i run you through the thought experiment of if as suggested there had been no toilet paper oh my god do you think what what might you have knowing what was had been in that room i'm gonna run you through a survival scenario man if there was no toilet i would have i would have i would have had to go home immediately afterwards yeah

and maybe close just whatever happens to the clothes yeah i kind of i guess so because it was but there was people all out in there so i would have to walk i would have yeah here's the thing this has happened to me before oh no where i was on a hike yeah and like you know nature called and i didn't have no toilet paper and uh you know you use you use your underwear okay yeah that layer goes that layer we are sacrificing that's the first layer you start using underclothes if you have anything

extra on socks oh socks yeah then you just barefoot if you've got some gloves on yeah if you're wearing hiking gloves

you use anything extra and then sleeves you just rip sleeves off this is a sleeveless shirt now and if I would have had to I would have I would have I would have i would just

called an uber and just knew that this is going to be a story for this uber driver he was like i had a person get in my car who smelled like shit but i would have went directly home he said he said take me to the closest combini so I can buy rubbing alcohol yes I was I think you stumped me and Mike yet again yeah what was that konbini

that's a slang term for Japanese convenience stores oh okay konbini did you know that I heard that konbini yeah

I figured that's what you meant I didn't know yeah alright geez good work you've not even been there man it was a

it was a terrible experience uh so yeah but still i had the decorum to do it in the toilet and not great on the side of the road that was good yeah you so you can rank yourself higher than certain six-year-olds at shanghai disney that's something to be proud of. Dodging another international incident. Taking your clothes off to use the floor toilet. And you got away scot-free. Did not have to call the embassy. Those 15, 20 minutes after that experience

were some of the lowest. I felt bad. Body trauma you've been through. Oh my God lowest i felt bad body trauma yeah through oh my god like i felt bad i was like yeah is there is there a culprit can you name like what do you have a do you have a sense it wasn't it wasn't mcdonald's was it it wasn't wait a minute and i mean i think this is tokyo we're talking about but this this would really confirm a lot of my feelings if this had been city walk osaka oh we know there's something in the air something in the air we really confirm a lot of my feelings if this had been CityWalk Osaka. Oh.

Then we know there's something in the air. There's something in the air. We all had a lot of gastrointestinal issues when we were dealing with CityWalk. All the CityWalks. I think it's the thing that binds all of the CityWalks together, no matter where they are. You're going to have some stomach issues. You're going to have the bubbles. I can't remember what I ate. I can't remember what I ate before.

And we had very press time like it was like you have to be here at nine and we got and it was a 10 minute walk and we got off the train at like 8 49 so like we were like kind of like we weren't running but we were briskly walking yeah yeah and like and i and like from sometimes if i play sports like after the game i'll be like all right time to go to the bathroom like just or running like you runners tell you like sometimes like after you run like your stomach is like all right you've jostled us enough like let's let's get this over with this is news to the three of us i'm saying i know hypothetically what he's saying hypothetically yeah yeah and i i and like so

because we were briskly walking i think my stomach was like oh you're moving and like eventually i had to tell that like we need to slow down uh yeah right now yes and so like but again like my brain was still telling me like this is like calm yourself down you know like every adult like we have ibs or something like that so like you learn calm yourself down you know because like i've learned this like when you when that's happening your body goes into fight or flight yeah and so that's what makes it really like i need to go now so it's just like i was talking to myself i'm like you're good you're about to go get a bidet you're about to go like and then that so it was just like a wow least you're generally in the land of that I'm sure I'm sure a bidet at

some point I'll direct a fight oh I took a shower once a full body get to a park with art installations like hey do you have a shower it's really hose i don't know the word for hose i'm so smart i need some butt water um is there let's as we sort of head to the exit here as you've taken us to so many places it's great is there's is there is there some is there a more pleasant note to go out on somewhere from your travels yeah uh yeah yeah do we miss anything because yeah i mean boy you've you've whisked us on an international tour did you buy any merch did you get any character pictures or any of that yeah i got a couple i did go to i'm a fan of chef mickey's okay uh which is at the contemporary at disney world

oh yeah um and i was able they had a chef mickey's i was i stayed at the ambassador hotel at tokyo disney okay and recommended good hotel huh was it was it was great yeah it was really great it was a really great hotel yeah it's not it's one of the uh partner hotels okay yeah uh no that's a lie it's one of the main hotels uh but it's not like the the fanciest end like what's right outside of disney c yeah yeah it's right yeah it's right along the track um and uh shit what was i oh we're chef mickey and i was pleasantly surprised i had the chef mickey's. So that was cool. So I got some character pictures there. I'm not a huge character picture taker anymore. Yeah.

Like the first couple times I went to Disney, I was like, yeah, let's get these. And now I'm like, all right. I got a couple. Is there a character you would be like, oh, I do need to get a photo because they're not always out? There was one.

They had Scrooge McDuckduck oh well that's yeah which was you don't see a lot of scrooge you don't see scrooge mcduck like so that was cool i didn't get a picture of him because he was like walking away uh but like with him i mean i got a picture of him uh so that was cool if i would have saw him again i would have did that yeah uh for sure and who else there was like one more and i was like you rarely see that character like at the parks but i can't it was probably maybe was scrooge mcduck yeah we had like really transcendent moments with the cinderella mice that is my wife's favorite thing is those i forget their names but now but that was a such a dream and when we got our Cinderella mice moment in their nice little plain girls outfits, she just loves them.

And then the Aristocats. I also don't know their name, but Jacques and whatever. We had so much fun with one of those Aristocats. Just really did it up and was flirting with her and making me mad. We had a bunch of business. You don't see those. Yeah, you don't see those too often. Yeah, there was a few.

One thing you mentioned I was curious about, you said your girlfriend is vegan. How did she do eating in Tokyo and Shanghai? Was it reasonable accommodations or reasonable vegetable dishes or yeah she actually so that was her second time in Japan she had gone like nine years previous and when she went that time she was like I basically only had to eat in like convenience stores um this time there is no shortage of vegan restaurants uh all over tokyo uh not so much in shanghai but she most we were in disney and when we weren't at disney she was at the hotel

so it wasn't sure but but in japan um there if if you're listening to this and you're vegan if you ever go there download the happy cow app okay uh the happy cow app is basically an app that lets you know every vegan restaurant uh food stand like snack you can get no matter where you are it's like a google's map type thing yeah uh so that was type uh she ate well like she ate there were some places where we were where we were able to eat together which was really cool and then you know i'm a meat eater so were some places where we were where we were able to eat together which was really cool and then you know i'm a meat eater so in some places where there wasn't much for her to eat uh what we would do is like i would go to a place i would have my like meal uh she would maybe have

like an appetizer or something and then we would find like a place for her to go and then she would have her main meal and i would eat something yeah so like we were able to so that way we wouldn't have to be like you know well i can't go here because you can't eat here we just was like all right this dinner is going to be an hour and a half today or two hours like we're going to go to two places yeah uh which was cool so yeah now at tokyo disney this was my only gripe about tokyo disney it was it was so hard to get them to do anything they weren't supposed to like it was it was almost to like it was almost to a fault where it was like we're not allowed to do that and like where it's like that's very not Disney.

Like, Disney will very much bend over backwards to try to, not always, but like, you know. And it was simple things. Like,

we went to a show and like, there's a whole menu of stuff, some vegan options. But like, the show only gave us two options. And we're like, well,

can we just get this? And it was like, nope, it's not a part of the show it was like but it's actually cheaper than what this costs to like just like no like can we substitute bread nope you can't do that it was just and like we had one moment where she just wanted no mushrooms and something and like two managers had to come over it was like a 20 minute talk the recommendations we got were like well how about you order it and he eats it and it was like no i don't want it either

so that was the hard i it was it was very funny uh but that was the hardest part about being there was just like if it was something that they couldn't do, they would be very nice about it, but they would not do it. So it was a little harder for her to eat in the parks. But they still had some vegan options, but it wasn't as easy. But everywhere else was super easy. Super easy. was super easy right super easy but yeah that that the i was talking to my friend because like i'm a sneaker head and i was about to buy some custom jordans which were only going to be 120 and i don't know if this is crazy to anybody else this is to me but like i wear a size 11

and i was like all right can you give me a size 11 and they went to the back and they finally came out and it was like hey i'm so sorry we don't have a size 11, but we brought you a size nine. And I was like, what the what? I can't fit that. Thank you. But it was more just like they want to. He was saying because he lives there. He was like a lot of it was, you know, even if they can't't do it they don't want the perception to be that

they didn't try i see so like it was very much like that yeah at tokyo where it was like you know we'll bring this person over we'll bring this person over we'll go through the list we'll give you all the options right right right but we can't do what you want the effort was made okay let's compromise she can pick the mushrooms out that was about that yeah that was that that was one option too where we were like yeah but no there's a jordan store in tokyo right i would be able to stand right around the corner from okay yeah yeah yeah it's shibuya. It was really dope. Yeah. I really wish I could fit a size nine.

Yeah. They tried. They tried. They had it. Yeah. They tried. Here's the thing. You can build your own size 11 out of mushrooms.

Would that work for you? Right. You can draw his shape. Draw his shape. In the mushrooms. I will say this, man. If anybody wants to ever, I mean, to end on a happier note with tokyo like because you know for us we get going right and but there there are some people and i'm sure

everybody who listens to this gets going too but we get there are going to be some people's like why would you go all the way over there to like go to disney we have disney here we have disney here a regular person might say and has said to me yeah you get that all the time yeah and uh and truly like unless you just hate theme parks like which is fair if you hate theme parks don't go but if you enjoy a day where a theme park is an option like just take the day you don't even have to do both like take a day go check it out it's like truly the best park it's one of the best park experiences i've had like in a very long time if not ever yeah i think it'd be really strange to get for somebody to just not like disney sea especially

to not be impressed by it find something to like about i think food's good i think it like there's great i don't know it just has it's the full package everything was great for sure yeah it was disney sea was beautiful disney tokyo disneyland tokyo was also great and you know there were some similarities between the all the disneylands right you know it was different enough where i went in kaki i was like this is disneyland i'm gonna know where shit is and i went in like all right let me look at this map real quick it's all rearranged the train doesn't go around the park the train's one little thing over here haunted mansion is in fantasy land yeah what are you talking about yeah yeah it's wild so this really is worth it it was worth it it was the perfect way to end our portion in tokyo yes yeah it was a great end to the trip and then you had

a much worse end of the trip which still was nice too a little bit still nice look it's a story which made it perfect for us and we're so glad you brought all that brought us all of this i really appreciate it jakees nearly survived podcast the ride what a time boy oh Survive Podcast, The Ride. What a time. Boy, oh boy. So glad you could do it. Let's exit through the gift shop. Is there anything you'd like to plug? We brought it up at the beginning. If you're ever in town, Comedian Feud is always a good time.

We're live streaming it now as well. Maybe coming to a town near you at some point. I always have some. It's pretty much just Celebrity Family Feud. That's all it is uh which i was able to do last year which was fun so really they know about the show too my lawyer was like don't bring it up they brought it up to me i was like you want steve to mention it i was like no confusing or something yeah you were on the really? I was on the show last year, yeah.

Whoa, how'd it go? It was, we lost. Okay. I was on the Lauren Lapkus' team. Oh. Did this air? I didn't remember. It aired last summer or last fall or something like that.

I can't remember exactly. Oh, congrats. It was super fun. But yeah, come to that, Comedian Feud. And then, you know, on social media, I post everything else I'm doing that gets announced.

Do you have a, this was a debate on our show a little bit, or a debate we closed off and answered, but I think this was on a Club 3 episode about an old Family Feud episode.

Yeah. Do you have a choice of best Family Feud host besides yourself um is it steve i that's that i still think i still think richard dawson is the best host wow really i still think he is um like just the the classic host i think out of i is this is very good question i think think Richard Dawson is the best host. I think one of my favorite hosts was Ray Combs.

But I can understand how people... But I just thought he was... He reminded me of a Mark Summers. Yeah, yeah. Just like genial, nice... Yeah, he was the first one I ever saw. Yeah. That's probably why I've been watching him.

But out of all the hosts that they've had since richard dawson steve harvey has made it his own the most yeah where like like you know they've had the louis anderson's the john o'hurley's all the motherf all the people that's done it uh corn corn uh like family few will forever be synonymous with richard dawson and steve harvey like those are the two hosts family feud and everybody else in between it's just everybody else in between well because we kind of well we sort of landed on we like harvey the most and we all sort of agreed and then mike scollins wrote us angry he was mad about that opinion well that yeah you're insane that's not a bad opinion thank you for thanks for backing us up yeah i felt not strong enough

about it to not i did not like double down fuck off scollins i didn't feel that way at all i didn't say that but he certainly felt strongly he did feel right i think also on the episode re-watching some old dawson which i am my my brain wants to love an old boozed up actor hosting a game show and i was disappointed yeah because i was like this guy's kind of like tired and like he's actually drunk it's not as fun it's not as fun as i want it to be like i almost like gene rayburn on match game better now because he at least had some energy dawson i'm like the kissing and like that's like a funny thing but it's like kind of gross yeah now like i think harvey takes it like easily if you really just if they're all on equal play like equal footing you're like i think harvey's the best

one of all time i think i think for me like what makes richard dawson good yes he was very very 70s right very suave boozy and all that stuff but like suits are so puffy and crazy yeah but most 70s but he is like out of any game show that i've seen he is like oh this dude created the model for how this show is supposed to be hosted right yes and and like you know because even drew carey changes it up from but like everybody's following that that richard dawson model of just like how to navigate the families and stuff like that like uh he was a boozy one but he was like a host whereas everybody else kind of feels like they're playing host except for ray colm i like ray colm a lot uh and but steve harvey is just steve harvey yeah like when like truly like with it is celebrity

feud so it's 10 celebrities quote unquote like on stage and like when steve walks out he's the biggest star yeah on that stage right yeah right he didn't speak to us before fascinated to see and wow like he talked to you steve harvey talked to i'd be very start struck he he smelled great yeah like just yeah dude it was fucking steve har great. If we had to guess, I'm not so sure Richard Dawson would have smelled great. I'm sure. He would have smelled like cigarettes most. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cigarettes probably.

Or some cologne that by our standards today would be disgusting. Your eyes would just start tearing up smelling cigarettes in the perfect whatever. Cigarettes and a couple seven and sevens, you know. Yeah. He certainly got booze on his breath. For sure. At least that. Yeah sure yeah yeah 100 all right well uh yeah check the show out if you're if you're in town uh and as for us uh extra plug here we brought this up on the second gate but let's tell the main feed we are going to be at comic-con we can't say every detail about this but we are doing a panel that is a collaboration with

mattel that actually with mattel mike can you say the this we're gonna talk about the street sharks we're doing the street sharks panel yeah and we can't say much beyond that and we can't officially say date or anything but just keep our keep your eyes on our social media but i'm not sure maybe okay possible uh but come check out if you're already going to comic-con if you got the badges and everything just look out for us and it's an official panel of uh the during the convention yeah we aren't just taking over a taco bell cantina right talking to potentially no one this is a real thing it's real we are insane uh for three bonus episodes every month check out podcast the ride the second gate or get one more bonus episode on our vip tier club three we talked

about family feud that was a fun one you'll find all of that at patreon.com slash podcast the ride uh good stuff and uh oh what are you oh you're showing us but here it is it's that scene where he's he's like watching tv and he's like looking at TV and he's like trying to pretend he's fighting and his towel falls off and you see his butt. Wow. Okay. You remember? Yeah, I remember.

I was the one who confirmed. Jason, look at this phone. I know the butt. In Jason's face. I wish you could have saw Jason's face. Look. Look. And Jason's like, why are you showing this to me?

Are you looking? It is so close to me. I broke my phone holding it. I want you to see it. If you need to chase that out of your eyes, Cruise Nostalgia is the channel I mentioned forever ago. Look at some nice cruise ship images and hey, Kathy Lee

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