Podcast: The Ride - Special Effects Stages with Carl Tart

Episode Date: April 17, 2020

Carl Tart (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) joins us to discuss the Universal show where a damn werewolf came to life! Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus I Lost My M in Vegas episode up at The Second Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forever. Dog. Today on Podcast The Ride, the podcast about theme parks that's more fun than a live broadcast of Harry and the Hendersons. I'm Scott Gerner, joined by Mike Carlson. Yeah, that's true. It's way better. I often think about going back in time and going to these old tapings, these TV tapings, and they seem super fun, but I think it's just because it's like nostalgia brain. Because I imagine like Elf, going back and seeing a live Elf would be like, like going to see the Rolling Stones in their prime. Potentially, except like Elf, I don't know that Elf did have an audience

because there were so many like difficulties with the puppet. Everyone hated the puppet is my recollection of reading about it. I think so, yeah. And the dad like stormed off on day one. But I think it was so many like special, like wonder didn't have an audience uh right too many special effects even though there's a laugh track right um but that being said uh the idea of seeing elf yes absolutely jason sheridan any show you would like to see taped uh i feel like three cameras sitcom tapings are a nightmare regardless like it's just a play that you just

keep re seeing the same thing again and again with minor changes but what if alf was there i mean if alf was there that'd be cool if he was like talking to everyone and hamming it up and like cursing when he messed up but i don't know that that's how it played out if they could keep it to an hour then yeah it would probably be fun. Hey, and joining us today, a TV veteran himself from Comedy Bang Bang and The Good Place, Carl Tard is here. A TV veteran. One of the Hollywood elite.

That's right. You look completely comfortable saying that. Yes, absolutely. Man, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, yeah. This is fun uh i went when i got the email from jason uh i had to break some important news to him that

is very important to this oh yeah wait what's that what news that i'm very afraid of rides oh right right really yeah interesting definitely afraid you said specifically roller coast roller coasters yes yes okay we're in a similar but also attractions and anything that moves that i can't control it like lines airplanes oh really no just no no i like those things sure i like those things like commercial flight but i don't uh subways yeah i'm fine with that okay except when they go through long tunnels yeah uh-huh i hear that escal Yeah, I'm fine with that. Okay. Except when they go through long tunnels. Yeah. Uh-huh.

I hear that. Escalators? It gets dark. I'm fine with that. Sure, sure, sure. Stuff that goes fast. Adrenaline drops. I don't like drops.

Okay. Yeah. I'm a little... I'm definitely similar. I've gotten better as I feel like I've had to to even get to go on rides to talk about them on this podcast. So it's possible to have growth in this area i can attest uh uh but it's a it's hard it's a journey yeah i understand what is the scariest

ride you've been on uh like have you been on one and it was like that's it no more space mountain okay yeah is that kind of a cap that's like as scary as you can tell. Yeah, that's because I couldn't see anything. And I just didn't know when the drop was coming. I didn't know what was happening. Yeah. And there's also one in, there's this park in the Netherlands called... Efteling? Efteling.

The Efteling. Yeah. And there's a ride there called Fanta Morgana. And it's like Space Mountain, but it's like it's like space mountain but it's like outside it's just a big ass bird and like so you don't know what it's about it's just like this park is like it's like what disneyland was based off of or something like that like yeah disney went there and so like and so that ride they some of my co-workers who we went with forced me to get on it.

It's fine. You're not going to be scared of it. Jim Woods actually forced me to get on it. Oh, yeah. That's not a good idea to listen to anything he says. And I was like, I don't want to get on it. I don't want to get on it. And I was so mad after. I was like, I told you.

I told you I didn't want to get on it. He made me. And they were like, it's not that scary. I'm like, don't tell me. Don't tell me what I'm afraid of and what i'm not afraid of right right yeah i don't i've never appreciated like the pranking or the leaving out information about how scary it is uh or get like getting laughed at that's what i don't want i want like support if i'm gonna get on a roller coaster if i'm gonna overcome fear you want everyone like cheering your name beforehand as opposed to be like you loser get on the ride yeah yeah yeah laughing at my

picture that's the worst i got laughed at after um after what's what's the oh pirate city caribbean because at the end it like goes up and then you're like don't you oh my god don't you drop please don't drop and it just goes straight and i'm sure when they like took the picture i'm like and everybody else is like having a great time i'm so relieved to hear this i was like a little afraid just of the drop on pirates until not that long ago that is like nothing now i realize but oh yeah that's like that's on like a 20 footer that's barely anything yeah yeah and you can see the whole thing essentially and uh uh thank god i'm glad i'm not the only one

jurassic park is probably the next scariest because of that only because of the drop everything else is whack about that ride but it you when that drop is so like heavy it's so forceful yeah it's just like this thing. Ah, it's the worst. It's very industrial. You're in this like, that building is just this cavernous, you're just looking at pipes and everything.

It's like you're reliving like a traumatic memory. That's how it is how I feel. It's steep though. Jurassic Park is very steep. Like that's a really steep drop. Built into a mountain. Yeah. The drop I've gotten a little more used to now that I've gone on it more.

But the dinosaur still does scare me. If I'm in the front row and the dinosaur comes at me, it's too real. It's pretty close. Yeah. It's pretty close. And it's big. It's large. Which is what we talk about.

It's kind of a surprise when this thing's out. I usually look at that dinosaur and go, shut up. We about to drop. Let me focus. I usually look at that dinosaur and go, shut up, we about to drop. Let me focus. I don't care about you. I'll get to you later. You're going to be away from him in three seconds. There's no problem there. So do you go to these places and enjoy yourself at all?

Yeah. Because they have great food. Sure. I really enjoy a good theme park funnel cake yeah sure yeah uh when i was growing up and we'll go to universal and stuff like that i would i would like to do doc brown's chicken oh yeah yes at one point in time that was pretty great i think they may be i think that quality lapsed as time went on i feel like i did it in like 2006 and it was garbage it was bad i

think so but in the 90s i think it was a quality project yeah it was good i enjoyed it they moved it's like the same they use the same fried chicken recipe apparently now in the in the cletus's chicken shack in the simpsons chicken restaurant yeah so apparently it's like the same chicken or at least the 2006 chicken has been moved over to cletus they probably changed it like to just i think they just changed it like tenders at a certain point as opposed to when i first started going there like in the 90s it was it was like you get like a leg in the thigh pieces yes yeah were you at all bothered or distracted by the question of why is doc brown operating a fried chicken stand oh i did not care at all.

I thought it was great. The marketing on that got me as a kid. The first time we ever went, I was like, oh, I got to eat some Doc Brown's chicken. And I never see him make no chicken in those movies. I don't think he cooked anything in the movie. I don't think he eats. I don't think you ever see him eat. Yeah. He has a breakfast machine. That's true. One is for the dog and you don't see you ever See him eat Yeah Yeah He never eats He has a breakfast machine

But That's true Wait no one is for the dog And you don't see him Eat the other one And one's for iced tea Right Yeah

And then it's clearly Not him in the pictures At the restaurant It's like It's obviously Not Christopher Lloyd Yeah It's like an actor

Oh it's the walk around Yeah it's the walk around Christopher Lloyd In like different places Eating chicken Like he's time traveling But like different places eating chicken. Like he's time traveling, but also making and eating chicken. That's pretty historical.

Pretty tight. I gotta say. Shut it. You can't be mad at it. He's a scientist, so he'd probably be able to concoct a good recipe, right? Yeah. I would assume all scientists are good cooks. Every single one. Every scientist.

Like a chemist, specifically. Yeah. good cooks every single every scientist like a chemist specifically yeah i had a chemistry teacher in high school who was like trying to make a point that cooking and chemistry uh uh were very similar and like gave us the chemical gave us ingredients and gave us the chemical component like wouldn't tell us what we were making, but there was like a, a bag of sugar and a pile of peanuts. And it's like, you clearly have us making peanut brittle.

We are all not good enough to know the like chemical name for like sugar and baking soda. So we all just made mismatched peanut, like bad peanut brittle. Cause he was trying to prove a point. But he didn't say what it was until it was done? Well, he said the amounts of each ingredient, but it would be like sodium phosphorylate.

Like a quarter cup of this. And it's like, I don't... This is going to be either the saltiest or sweetest peanut brittle. Have you made peanut brittle since? No. Okay. Barely made it that day. Peanut brittle.

What an old person's candy. Yeah, extremely. I like, is that even going to like be around at the end of the century? Does that last? Well, it lasts. When I was at, when I was home for Christmas, some old family member made pecan brittle almost. Pecan candy was just pecans in melted sugar and butter and hardened. And it was just like the texture of it was like, I can't get through this.

It's too sweet. You're not supposed to be eating a lot of this at all. It's the worst ingredients. And I have a huge sweet tooth. And I was like, I can't even do it. Right, right. Like a butterscotch or a toffee, it's, like, such, like, hardcore concentrated sweetness.

Almost too much. Yeah. There was, this is only tangentially related. You would see, like, on TV, like, I'm trying to think. I think it was Honey Boo Boo or something. They would just be, like, making lemonade, and the lemonade had so much sugar in it. I think it's like you could just get used

to your taste buds, get used to sugar and get desensitized to it at that point to where you have butterscotch. It's too much. Unless you're used to eating an insane amount of sugar, I feel like I can't even do it. And again, I like treats. I like sweets.

Love a good treat. Yeah. Yeah. Or treats and sweets, different things. Let me think. Yes, because I think a treat doesn't have to be food. Uh-huh. It's a little gift you give to yourself.

Yeah. Or you receive from someone else, I suppose. A treat could be like a 15-minute nap. Yeah. Oh, treats can be non-food. That's right. That's I think the distinction. Like a 15-minute nap. Yeah. Oh, treats can be non-food. That's right. That's I think the distinction. Like a dollop of porn.

Watch a little bit of titty swinging. I've done my work for the day. Just a little treat. Just a morsel. I deserve some. Just a little bit. That's enough. It sounds so wholesome, honestly, when you say it's just a little treat. Yeah. It's not dirty. It's not bad. Just a little bit it sounds so wholesome honestly when you say it's just a little treat yeah it's not

dirty it's not bad just a little bit of pornography that's delightful yes uh um i okay so you were like a universal kid primary you like you grew up sort of in the area yeah that was like the the home base park well here's why i became the home base park because my mom was a studio tour guide what whoa i did this job i was a tour you did that job yes indeed probably like 2006 or so i still have the big binder and the universal story uh wait the universal story is that like a tape or it was a videotape with my mom she started in 2002 okay when i was in like seventh grade oh yeah or maybe even earlier than that maybe like 2000 okay and uh yeah i was like fifth grade maybe and and and we me and my friends would go like she's single mom so like on the weekends like to keep me from like not being in the house

all day while she was at work like she would just bring us with her like she'd be like all right grab a friend and i'd take my best friend russell or my best friend jovan and we would just go to universal and she'd have to like sneak us in because you you're not allowed to do that right sure just bring kids all the time yeah yeah we we like go through her it was like really easy to go through her employment entrance like there was like a gate i think it's like definitely closed off now. Sure, sure. But back then, it was just like, oh, you just come through this gate and just go, all right. And we would get there, and she would go, okay, go in.

And we just run off to where it didn't look like she saw us, in case there was a camera looking or something like that. Sure, sure. And we just hang out at Universal all day. Like constantly? Like once a week? Yeah, like on Saturdays. Jeez. Yeah. Sure, sure. And we just hang out at Universal all day. Like constantly? Like once a week? Yeah, like on Saturdays. Jeez. Yeah.

That's awesome. Yeah, and in the summertime, probably a couple more times. Yeah, yeah. Sure. Wow. And you love that every day? You didn't get sick? You didn't run out of stuff?

I got tired of it. Yeah, I got tired. I got to be like, Mom, can I please just stay home? I don't want to go to the theme park every week. No, play. Especially because I don't like, like, I wouldn't get on anything. Yeah, so you're left with, like, you know, you could play Flintstones Carnival Games. Yeah, well, I would do all of the other attractions.

Like, I really enjoyed the studio tour, no matter who was giving it. It didn't have to be my mom. I was embarrassed when my mom did it. I used to try to avoid her tour. But she probably wanted you to do it, right? She wanted me to see it, yeah. Did she involve you ever? She would.

And it would be like, oh, God. Oh, yeah, that's mortifying. It's like that age. It's like when my mom's substitute taught one of my music classes in elementary school. Like, your mom's the teacher now. Oh, yeah, yeah. It feels like it would be the same sort of dynamic. Are you from a small town?

Not that small. Yeah. I mean, no, it's It feels like it would be the same sort of dynamic. Are you from a small town? Not that small. Yeah. I mean, no, it's just like what happened once. She would purposely not take classes that I was, like, she would not sub for a class in general, but she was a music teacher at our school once, so it was inevitable when we had the hour of music. Yeah. Sure, sure, sure. That's dope.

Yeah. That's dope your mom would avoid your class. My mom would be so stoked to teach a class of mine just to embarrass me. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. That I had. Yeah. That's dope your mom would avoid your class. My mom would be so stoked to teach a class of mine just to embarrass me. Yeah, right. And I wasn't like a bad kid. I had behavioral issues, but I talked way too much. Sure. I was a rabble rouser.

Right, right. Yeah. Would she like, what is embarrassing you? Would she like say like, that's will that's my will carl or something or pinch the cheeks or like if it well are you talking about on the ride or anywhere or any what's her nature like kind of like flex nuts like be like get me like be mad at me like i'm the i'm the parent it's like you don't even act like that we don't have this relationship I don't have

that I don't have behavioral issues like that like where you need to like discipline me so hard let everybody know like I'm in charge it was like performative it was very performative I mean she's an actor so it's performative one time

I skipped out on piano. I took piano classes at Recreation Center, like at a park. And all my friends were at the park, too, and they were all playing basketball. And I'm a big basketball player, and I was like, I'm going to keep playing basketball. I'm not going to piano today. I was like 13 or 14. I'm not going. I'm not going.

I'm going late. I used to try to like, because the classes would kind of run late. They were like beginners three to four, intermediate four to five, and advanced like five to seven. We had the longer class. But the classes would run kind of late, and I would always be like, all right, it's five o'clock. I'm in the middle of a game.

They're not going to stop me in the middle of a game. The gym's literally right next door to the multipurpose room. And then my piano teacher would come out and hold his hands like this, and cross his arms and go, and I go, fuck off. I wouldn't say that to him. And then one day my mom just walked in and just snatched me off the court mid-game and tossed me up against the wall just to make all my friends go, ooh.

I'm like you don't even what are you doing you don't do this you don't ask the movies bullshit yeah she just wanted to she was a big fan of like she i think she like thinks that that's what parents should do is like embarrass their kids in front of everybody so they don't get too out of line right full of themselves making an example yeah yeah my mom would not do she would just show up everywhere else for like she would volunteer for every field trip yeah oh yeah and she would just be like i'm around and she wasn't trying to do that but she was doing that which is what my dad would do when he'd watch me play

sports he would just like... Hover. Arms cross and hover. And I'd just be like, God, go away. It's too much pressure. So were you then not good at sports for that reason? Yeah, for that reason. For only that reason. And really what I'm talking about is playing tennis in high school.

That's what I'm saying, sports. His arm pressing really messed up your backswing yeah my sister drove my sister nuts too sure sure yeah uh it's really in my head now did i was she still doing that in 2006 when i uh it was when i started no okay okay she stopped in like oh four okay okay nice yeah uh-huh uh-huh uh how was her how was her tour uh uh it was great she's very she's good she was good at that right honestly like she's good at it we used to watch that i used to help her study the lines with from the binder and it was such a huge binder y'all had to memorize so much yes yeah yeah

and then all these clips you have to you have to memorize the numbers to know what to pull up oh yeah y'all have to do all that manually huh yeah yeah yeah yeah it is so it's, it is so, it's like, it takes up a ton of space in my place still. I don't know why I don't get rid of it, except there's probably some Podcast the Ride function for you at some point. But then there's all this trivia you gotta learn, like, just in case you get stuck for a long time. Yeah. like read a list of who won Oscars for universal movies, which I'm sure the audience would love just going through in, in 1952, uh, on the waterfront.

Uh, everyone's, it was super interesting. Honestly, it was just the history of the film stuff, like from Carl Lamley, like all that stuff on how he started the place and how, how it's operating haunted stage 13 or stage 27.

Yeah. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's 27. Yeah. or stage 27 or which one yeah I think it's 27 the Phantom of the Opera the Phantom of the Opera stage yeah yeah yeah it's haunted uh huh like I almost

memorized the damn thing myself and the Universal story is super interesting like movie I would try I sleep with the TV on but I need something like consistent

so like every night I watch like Family Guy sure because I know it's gonna be funny I'm gonna go to sleep with good energy and just turn that on like my dvr so it plays all the episodes and then the tv will turn off after a certain point oh sure but uh i used to watch that that universal story every night which you got a tape that's like that like helped her

learn the history and study and everything she had to to know this whole. Yeah, it's like Ron Howard, and it's just clips from all those movies. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Is that the one they used to sell as a souvenir? Maybe. The Robert Forsythe? Is that his name? Maybe not. If it's Ron Howard, this could be a different one.

Oh, okay. This is maybe an internal tape. Yeah. Ron Howard will maybe be internal, yeah. Yeah, he's an internal, yeah. It's like the Chuck E. Cheese like how to play the character videos that are online now that were internal videos that you're not supposed like the public's not supposed to see yeah they want you to know

Ron Howard's telling you the secrets oh sure yeah my favorite one of those is one that I found a couple years ago well no when we were in like high school that somebody posted it it was uh hot drinks the hot drinks tutorial yes i'm a huge hot drinks fan i did a bit i did a song like for atlantic city it's such a funny video yeah yeah uh the coffee reaches the line yeah it's an instruction it's a wendy's instructional video about making coffee and hot chocolate and other hot drinks and the song is so much better than it has any

right to be the song is good cha cha cha cha ow it's like Michael Jackson it's really Michael Jackson coffee decaf for tea

and hot chocolate coffee let it sit yeah the stretching of the words to make it rhyme with other words yeah yeah yeah and hot chocolate

chocolate what's the part I like a lot the uh the lemon The stretching of the words to make it rhyme with other words. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And hot chocolate. Chocolate. What's the part I like a lot? The lemon on the top. Like, very nice. Give your guests a juicy slice. Hot drinks really get you going. Blow. He like blows.

Like rhythmically blows the top of the hot drink. He's so like, there's so much attitude in it when he blows and then turns back to you he's like really working that camera um played at your wedding played at my wedding yeah like because it was a big thing at funny or die and it was my dream to have a party where that came on and we like said to the people the funny or die people why won't you play this like at your parties like we'd all love it and they wouldn't listen so like the wedding this is my chance and the dj fought it he's like well you know you might not understand at weddings you know like it's gotta be something grandma can dance to and i'm like trust me hot drinks is gonna blow up this dance floor and it did and he segued it into

erotic city and that was the best moment of the wedding by far the hot drinks erotic city mega mix that's pretty tight it was really good there are other videos in that series right and the is there a chili video there's a cold drink yeah that i don't think is as good where's like the blonde girl and she's like rapping to one okay her song is like is, like, based off of, like, Paula Abdul's, like, Straight Up. Like, that's kind of like, the beat is more,

and she's, like, rapping about something. That might be the chilly one, honestly. There's fingers in the chilly, ain't it? No. I think they do talk about,

like, any crusty bits on the grill, like, put it in the chilly. Oh, no. Or that is is like a wendy's thing little bits of cheese they take things off the grill and throw it in they used to at least huh um i have never ordered a hot drink at a wendy's i gotta be honest me neither if i go to i love my fast food but if i go i'm not like or mcdonald i'll get mcdonald's coffee when they change their coffee it was like yeah that's all right they changed it oh after they burn that lady when they rolled out like the full mc cafe when they were like losing so much money to starbucks they're like okay we need to make

something i mean how can you not get mcdonald's coffee i don't i know how you can't because i don't do it but like when you walk into a mcdonald's at breakfast time it smells so good yeah yeah yeah yeah uh uh i don't i guess hot drinks then didn't work on me if i've never done it do you think is it still the juicy slice policy how have i never tested this i feel like they have their own limit like you you get your own now oh maybe it's like an nasty bucket on the side by the drinks you gotta get a that's a weird area those side lemons i don't trust and i don't trust like when someone pointed out that like you how do we know that they're washed why would you just dip outside peel into your drink you don't

know where that's been yeah that is weird they do that at portillo's where it's like they'll give you a lemon but they just dump a lemon in but they barehanded you know they barehanded it oh yeah yeah did you guys have any friends or did y'all work at fast food places or like any friends that would say like dude do not eat there they do such gross things there's gum in the cheese it's just like stupid shit like that but it's like this has to be a rumor like how's everybody coming in this stuff yeah right right do i have any friends with inside info my friend worked at fuddruckers on gulf road but we just got free food she didn't talk about cum in the food my friend worked at in and out and he was like do not get the pink lemonade people wash

their hands in the pink lemonade and i was like but that seems like a word that seems so sticky yeah that doesn't seem smart opposite of the desired effect exactly jokes on them really i've talked about like kid rumors before i think on the show where like a kid was like yeah uh there's a naked marvel comic that stan lee drew and he signed his name on the show where like a kid was like yeah there's a naked Marvel comic that Stan Lee drew and he signed his name on the boobs and I was like what and I was like does he draw I think he doesn't draw they're like no he

does draw and he drew them naked and I was like that doesn't make sense never found it no ever try to find it I tried yeah at the time I asked around. You've heard about this naked Marvel comic? That Stan Lee drew?

He doesn't draw. That's your next podcast. Trying to figure out where that is. The naked Marvel comic. The naked Marvel comic. Finding. The answer had to be out there. Yeah.

And then lots of podcast music breaks. Yeah. It's like a serial or Finding Richard Simmons or whatever. Well, this was the third comic book store that I was forcibly thrown out of. Stan drew it. He signed the boobs. I swear. I have to move to another state now to finish this podcast series.

Okay, so with that timeline, if you were going all the time in 2002 or so yeah now i'm suspecting that your version of this topic of the special effects stages are probably different it's probably different than the one i saw the most if you had to uh your memory of what this show was as as you saw it as i was your version of it it was the foley uh-huh like doing the foley which was always great yeah harry and the henderson's i believe so it was still harry and the henderson's yeah okay and but then later the motion capture with the big wolf man yeah yeah yeah fluffy yeah yeah that would go off the rails yes yeah yeah and that used to scare me right yeah please don't come to me in the audience and it would always

always come to me we well with oh like the heap that creature ran right up to you get off the yeah yeah when it would get off the thing oh sure and then believe, I want to say later, towards later, the mummy stacking and then the dude gets electrocuted. Yeah. Okay, okay, yeah. Or the person gets electrocuted and they like disappear into the wall or whatever. Yeah, right, right, right. Okay, so that, yeah, because there were a couple versions of this.

My childhood ones were different. But so this was this show where it's three sound stages and you like move down one at a time. So every 15 minutes, you have to get up and maintain where your seat was and walk to the next thing. And this is on the lower lot at Universal

where the Transformers ride is now. But generally, yeah, that was the format. It's like a couple of special effects kind of things and then ending with a sound show. And now there's still a thing like this, but it's up in the Castle Theater. It's on the upper lot now.

It's a lot more polished now. We were talking a little before we started. And in the 2000s one, it was a lot more sticky. It was a lot goofier. There was a lot more topical jabs at like lindsey lohan yeah and now it's in this giant theater on the upper lot and it's much more grand and elaborate about the power of movies but we don't want to talk about that we want to talk about the trash yeah yeah um you want to let's just let's go through it in order so you're saying

like uh i'd love this thing by the way this is like the heart of universal when it was still exciting to learn how movies were made absolutely now it's a little more like i think they don't know what to do anymore because it's all the answer is always uh computers it's computers is how we do it and there's no way to like demonstrate computers in an exciting way but these things were awesome so you're you're probably standing outside and they get some volunteers from the audience kind of a mixed group of there's some kids and uh and some dads to embarrass yeah we always talk about those like the great theme park tradition of embarrassing dad making them wear a costume that we can laugh at him in and the first one yeah for a while was the mummy my version of it was back to the future

when i was doing it as a kid uh but that had the same thing where uh it ends in this big electrocution gag where they're filming the sea in that case it's doc brown trying to connect the the wires i remember that one too right's Doc Brown trying to connect the wires. Yes, I remember that one, too. Right, right. And then this, but the same format as the mummy one, which is the mummy one, like, somebody's trapped, essentially. I believe they're slaves. They are slaves.

Wonderful. Cool. And then, like, what happens? There's, like, a curse? Yeah, it's's they're slaves and one person is stacking bricks like right stacking big bricks to build the pyramids and the other person is chained up to this to said pyramid and then gets struck by lightning and disintegrates yes okay and just turns it and then into Into a skeleton. Yes. Which is, this is, I loved this kind of thing as a kid.

The cleverness of all the lights go out, comes back on, and a turntable's clearly happened. And now it's this charred, not unlike the great movie ride. Yes. It's always like similar gag in that. I'm trying to, okay. Did you guys see the show or were you like, was this before you were out here?

I was at Universal. I don't even know that I knew this existed. I did backdraft down there, but I don't even think I did because it moved in 2010. So I probably went for the first time in like 2009. You saw the later version. Oh, you might've seen the original. So I don't think, I'm just saying, I don't think I saw it down when it was on the lower level.

I saw it a bunch on the lower level like when i was first out here for a semester in college like the very first time i went to universal was like labor day weekend of 2006 it was packed and like this was thankful i mean we got everything done but it was like it was so hot and it was so crowded i worked then if everyone was passing it was so hot and it was so crowded. I worked then. Everyone was passing. There were medical emergencies, a lot of them. I remember that weekend. They had the misters around.

Oh, yeah, they got to. And that Curious George, that Splash Zone. Did you do that? Was that around for your childhood entertainment? The Splash Zone at the bottom of Jurassic Park? We'd stand over there by that. Oh, that's a good way to kill a bunch of time yeah yeah that right to splash yeah yeah for sure um or jerry or like the play area where like the bucket dumps oh yeah i remember that but i was too

big for that still oh sure yeah yeah for little kids that's fair i was too but i did it on the clock when that weekend actually that i remember on labor day you got dumped with the bucket i i like yeah i went and like ran around the curious george area in my uniform which probably was uh not a good thing to do uh and probably weirded out kids are you alone yes really i was on the clock and i had nothing to do and no one was watching me because all the tours had gone out so you frolicked yeah i went for a frolic thanks for framing it that way are you from here scott yeah yeah where'd you go to high school uh chaminade in the valley oh yeah nice i went to hamilton okay cool cool cool um la yeah yeah valley bros um chaminade's a real snobby that's private school right yeah yeah they called it snob and odd in fact and i had very little uh arguments against that it's fairly true like yeah did you

did you call it that when you were there um i might i i might have welcomed i don't think i specifically did but i wouldn't be hurt if i say called it that and as I've maybe said before, also a Chaminade alumni, imagine you're Joe Rohde. Oh, yeah. Yep. From my high school. We're saying, though. Oh, yeah. So the first time I went, like, yeah, it was a heat wave.

This was a welcome reprieve because you're just in air conditioning for, like, half an hour. We also went with a big group. So everyone had to do, like, the photo op in front of the studio tour sign and then do the studio tour the very first thing which i advise people like if you're going to universal hollywood go straight to the lower lot as soon as you get there because if it's early enough you can just do all of that in 30 minutes like you can do all that and then go back up sure but we did that the the wrong way so we were like the only thing down there that was open was panda express so we're like eating panda express in the heat and then we're like oh

there's a special effects show thank god this is inside it's cold uh so your memory is mostly that you were full of panda express and that and then we all were like heat everyone was sunburned that night just watching the Emmys Conan hosted. It was a very funny year where Conan hosted the Emmys. Not the one where all the reality show hosts came out and there was, the plan was that there was no plan. You ever watch that? No.

I do remember that. It was one of the worst things ever to occur. Like all five, it was like tom bergeron and you know probes yeah yeah okay and they just like stood around and were like we didn't prepare anything and that genuinely is what happened that was the bit yeah but then they did and it was like it was horrible that sounds boring this thing that ever happened um but the mid aughts were the aughts were very interesting time for this attraction, from what I could tell. Because there's always been some sort of special effects presentation at Universal.

You speak called Cinemagic, which was for the 90s to 2002 in this space. It was called Cinemagic. And then they turned it into special effects stages and kind of grouped it in with backdraft. What was in Sin of Magic? That was Back to the Future first. Then the middle was an Alfred Hitchcock thing. Yes. And that was the one where you got to fall from the... Okay, so I remember Sin of Magic.

Okay, you did this one too. Yeah, that was the first one, yeah. Yeah, with the big Statue of Liberty torch. And you're like, yes. Yeah. I loved this as a kid so much. Why do you do all these body motions on this podcast?. And you're like, yes. Yeah. I loved this as a kid so much. Why do you do all these body motions on this podcast? And then you're like, silence.

And then you're like, silence. You did very good falling. You did very realistic Phantom of Falling, we should say. You're on the hand of the Statue of Liberty. And you're trying to hang on to the hand of the Statue of Liberty. And then you fall backwards. Yeah. Yeah.

And there's a big practical one, but then it's intercutting with a guy who's just on green screen, like sitting in a chair. Yes. And they like cycle through everything that can be behind you on a green screen and like, okay, now you're Superman and you're flying through space and it gets a huge laugh every time. Green screen was such a novelty. It was so interesting to learn about. And now anybody can just do green screen anywhere all

the time on their phones yeah yeah with apps that you hate whether you that make you mad as soon as it's like you gotta watch an ad for five seconds right uh that thing also had like a psycho recreation essentially. Yes. Yup. And where the guy hosting it comes out as the mother and then kind of takes his wig off and like, just kidding. It was me all day. And that had the info that I

also found really fascinating that it's a that it's chocolate syrup instead of blood. You couldn't tell because it was black. I live for those little morsels of now fairly obvious movie trivia, but man, that stuff. I'd go back

to elementary school and tell everybody all that stuff as if they couldn't just go learn it at the theme park. I'd probably bore a lot of people. I was going to say, do they gather around? Gather around, kid. I'll tell you a tale. I have been to a place where the secrets of movies have been unveiled.

Do you know the movies of the 1940s? You do. Well, the blood was chocolate. Well, you all know Alfred Hitchcock, of course. The master of suspense. Everyone here a Saboteur fan? Topaz is very underrated saboteur is it that's the saboteur is the uh statue of liberty movie which is weird because i think the guy who's dangling at the end is a nazi i think

that's what's happening like oh i've never seen saboteur yeah i haven't either i i always like when i've watched a bunch of the hitchcockcock movies, I was always, like, wondering, where is the universal, where is the Statue of Liberty thing? And it's in Saboteur. Because they would use chunks of that show in Florida for the Alfred Hitchcock show. Yes. Like, they would reuse, they used a lot of this stuff,

and then later on, the Fluffy, the guy, the werewolf who comes to life with emotion is used in the horror there's a horror makeup show at the florida park yeah yeah that's kind of the big ending of that show uh let's talk fluffy that's that's like a later thing that happened yeah where that's supposed to be uh like a kid is led to believe that he's doing motion capture and this big werewolf creature is doing exactly what he does but then there's like a lightning strike as if

you know now the now Fluffy is alive and cursed and he runs around and scares kids like Carl yeah it scared me every time I saw it and I saw it a lot and it scared me every time cause this it. And I saw it a lot. And it scared me every time. Because this is a huge

suit. This is like an eight footer. With the red eyes. And it gets scarier even when you walk by it. When I'm going in and this is the sixth week in a row that I'm at Universal Studios and I'm going in and you walk

past Fluffy and he's just like you know down and you're just like this thing's about to do some crazy about to do something yeah they power him up they power him up yeah turns on was the person in the suit the whole time yes oh yeah has to be right yeah there's no way to get in there yeah yeah just have to watch everybody come by probably looking at people being like i'm about to scare that person i'm about to scare the shit out of that lady yeah yeah because they're eyeing they're knowing they're like they're like figuring out who looks like the best yeah like scare i guess they always pick the smallest kid like who volunteers for like eight year old eight year old kid kid eight or under come do the motion capture or whatever. Yeah. Yeah.

So you didn't, you never wanted to do that. You never wanted to control Fluffy. I did it once. Oh, really? I did it once because I think they kept seeing me every week

and they were just like, you can do it even though you're 12 and also 6'1". You were already taller than Fluffy. Taller than Fluffy. Dunked on Fluffy.

Ran away from him faster than any of the kids did. You childlike man. Manlike child. Did you ever do the others? Did you do like the sound? The flowy. I was mixing Fluffy and Foley. The Foley was always very fun.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, learning about Foley. The Foley was always very fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh! Pow! Yeah. I mean, learning about Foley, that's a fun fact to know. I was called Foley. Yeah, after a guy.

Yeah. What's his name? Is it James Foley? James Foley. Yeah. Yeah. He feels like one of those very tour guide-y, like a gentleman named James Foley.

Now, he's very well known for realizing that you could do the sound after the fact. This show is a perfect mechanism for tour guide voice, for the like saying information so quickly that you're not even meditating on what any of the words mean. And you're a super robot and you have everything memorized. And the David Copperfield-esque. Right. It's just all, I don't even know what I'm saying anymore.

The words mean nothing to me. Yes. Yeah, yeah. It's all rhythm it's just this it's this music like radio dj voice yeah where it's just like it doesn't matter what they're saying as long as the rhythm just this way and saying it at lightning speed just occasionally punching a word like that the there were old i was watching old videos of this though and there were some old like hosts that didn't do it as much they were much more like uh i'm trying to think of the word they would just like throw stuff away

they're much more lazy about it and then it seems especially now it's turned into what you're saying the very slick host voice and there's no personality really you know i auditioned in 2013 this is like 2012 like two years two three years into improv so i'm kind of feeling myself being like oh man i'm about to go i'm about to get this job y'all bullshit i got cut after the first round yeah i made it to the hotel i made it to the beddyland. Beverly Garland? Yes. It was still out? Yeah. I made it to the Beverly Garland. Which that's the improv step. That's where you get up on stage and they give you some topic and you have to go off.

And I made the people laugh. But then at the end, they did not call my number. Jeez. What? And one guy that did get to stay was like, how did this guy get to stay like it was this older black dude who did not have he had a interesting stage presence but it was not one that i would want to see he ended up getting cut like the next round uh-huh but it was like how did he beat me in a round i should at least made it to the third round sure is this for a tour guide yeah for special effects for tour guide okay that's madness to me and then you're yeah

you're like great at ucb immediately after like it but not so good enough for the tour yeah i can't do the tour it seemed like the perfect job because you get off for auditions and stuff like that oh yeah yeah yeah and it's extremely flexible especially because you get the job and then the first summer they like don't use you almost ever. Really? So it's forcibly flexible. Do they still pay you? Yeah, you get paid minimum wage to do the training. Oh, yeah. And then you still might not make it past the training.

So if you made it all the way through, you might have just done three weeks of classes for which you were paid almost nothing. Yeah. And then still, you might have gotten cut. It's cutthroat. It's cutthroat. It's tough. Did you do it once? Or were you... Because UCB it's like uh it's it's it's cutthroat it's tough did you do it once or were you like is it because you know ucb herald team it took me four auditions to get on a herald team and i was like next year next year and were you like this you didn't do it

more than once to try to yeah you were no because it was that process was ridiculous we had to wait outside the city walk for like four hours geez yeah and then finally you get in there and you talk to the person for 20 seconds like and they just like mark on your resume or not and then they'll go okay here's a slip come back to the beverly garden this time i tried it in 2008 and that like literally the month that george bush was like we are in a recession. And the news crews were there because it was like record people showing up for the first round of interviews, which they timed with a bell.

Like you have one minute to sell yourself. Yeah. And like most people didn't even get to the hotel. Yeah. Like because it was so gnarly. Did you get to the hotel? No, I didn't get to the hotel. Oh, jeez.

I mean, I just started. We're making Scott look real good, though, here. Yeah, well, I'm sorry. You guys just didn't have what it took. Yeah, clearly. Again, it's all about saying things as fast as you possibly can. Universal Studios Entertainment Capital. You needed to talk at double speed is what you had to had to do i do wonder the origin of that that speaking yeah me too because it's everything like this and

if you go see a tour type attraction in florida it's this too it's not like it's just like an la thing all theme park headset mic based attractions yeah yeah that thing mac orley was talking about he's fascinated with like where it's like where certain voices start like that's just sort of a voice you assume and it's same with like radio announcer there's just a voice that everybody does where does who starts that voice yeah why who says to me my favorite is like the the black radio show like advertisement for like the club that weekend like it's going down this weekend club wet wet we got thirsty thursdays on obama night we celebrating obama y'all like i love what's the first one you want to know like who started it yeah the pioneer of yeah i dreamed of a different way of speaking. Monster truck shows. Monster truck announcers.

Friday. It's the same since the 80s or whatever those started. But at some point, someone had to invent repeating it. Hey, I have an idea. Call me crazy. What if people, I just want people to remember that it's going to be Saturday. Would it be weird if I said Saturday,

Saturday, Saturday? This sucks. Get him out of I said Saturday, Saturday, Saturday? This sucks. Get him out of here. Wait, wait, wait. Listen to me. This guy might be honest. Let him talk. Three times. The man who invented saying the day of the week three times. This is a statue

we built to him. A pioneer. In front of a monster truck rally and he made and he made no money for doing yeah he's an unsung hero uh where were we though uh we were talking we're gonna talk foley learn about foley i think foley's interesting to it was like fun and cool and tactile to watch as a kid because you're seeing, like, here's a box of leaves. And you're, like, you know, putting. Shoes in them. Yeah, or coconuts or whatever for a horse claw.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, Fluffy comes back at Foley, usually. Oh, you're right. Or at least in a version. Like, someone goes in a sound booth. Oh, yes. Because, like, that's the big conclusion of the show. I was trying to remember, what's the climax of the show and it's someone messes up their foley and then they send them into a sound

booth where you just see a silhouette like it's very clearly a video monitor because i saw one online where it glitches for a second like and then it's the silhouette again but then the silhouette gets ravaged by fluffy fluffy comes back in silhouette for yeah kill fluffy kills fluffy kills this volunteer fluffy also it was implied fluffy killed the first host in the second scene right because then the sticky guy like takes over the show the guy who was screaming who would like every time there'd be an effect he would scream and run away. Oh, he's a co-host who does, like, almost nothing, and then he nervously has to take over

because the other guy died. Yeah, but then I think some shows would end with, like, then the door would swing open of the sound booth, and the first host would come out with their clothes all torn, and, like, thank you for coming. Yeah. Thank you for... But then I saw one video where it was just, like,

the first host just kind of wanders out in their normal clothes and waves goodbye to everyone well you gotta do that all day they have more jobs there now uh like other stuff you dinosaur handler oh yeah yeah right there's a lot of stuff and then like inside there's a giant triceratops that walks and i think there's multiple people in that. At least two. It's like an old horse costume. Like someone's the Triceratops' ass.

I've got to be terrible during the summer. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Jesus. But there's people that have to walk it out. And then there's people inside it, I believe. My summer job is I'm a Triceratops' ass. The person at the top is like, just so so you know i had blimpy for lunch at city walk so have fun oh god why is that ass coughing so much

um in some of my first improv class i met a couple guys who would do the special effects show it's like their day job like they're like yeah it's like doing four or five improv shows a day essentially and you get 150 bucks and yeah it's all right you know a few hours of work like yeah you just scream and say some facts and not much of a recommendation then that's fine that's about i'm still jealous of those people yeah who do the tour guide like i'll i'll be on a tour more successful than you i'm in a good place yeah you may have gotten this but i'm on the good place i mean yes you look yeah i think any of any other job you can get immediately makes you more successful than the two.

Just because I didn't get that job. I'm just bitter. But it does. Yeah. I've always said it ruled for like my first summer doing it was such a dream. It was so awesome. And then immediately summer two was like, oh, God, this again. How many years did you do it?

Like I did it a lot for two summers and then really sporadically after that uh and and often just so i could get free parking at the city walk i stayed on the schedule for a little while didn't work for like i had like other full-time jobs and was still on the schedule just just for the free parking so if i if i got a shift i was like oh god damn it what do i do now i have to go tell my full-time job uh do you so if i if i got a shift i was like oh god damn it what do i do now i have to go tell my full-time job uh do you mind if i go work another job today you would you've said before you would not mind doing this a little bit of course yes still yeah if i if i could do it once a month i'd be psyched um if you got if you were offer only carl on the tram tour would you

if they're like yeah we we you don't have to audition anymore but you can come in a couple times a month um at this point i am intimidated by the training okay like i don't feel like it but what if they said no training we'll give you the notes and i get to make it oh yeah i do that shit okay yeah yeah you don't have to learn any clip numbers or somebody will like sit behind you and do it yeah there'll be like another person there that can be like yeah this is the part where uh they talk about uh the the shark not working oh yeah i've watched universal story enough times right yeah it feels like it's all in there this is day 27 is haunted and uh the whole lot feels out of africa 1985

you know what that big lake is like where the big green screen was rather things like that they use this lake in cocoon statistically you could say that about most things on that property and you might be right like cocoon van helsing uh coach is the one everything this is the coach house i love seeing the coach house that was my favorite thing because i like coach then the theme song will play sure yeah yeah yeah yeah everybody likes southwestern minnesota state baby how's the theme song go what's you know what i'm getting i'm getting it mixed up i can't think of it exactly

my hand i'm getting mixed up with the theme song to Recess right now. Oh. But it's kind of similar to that. I think what's playing in my head is Major Dad. Is Coach kind of like a football fight song? Yeah, it is. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, okay. Got it. I remember a big Coach poster by the special.

Like, if I'm in line for the special effects stage, there's a huge Coach. And they sold uh coach merch also around this area coach made yeah coach people go is this a coach bag technically yes craig t nelson on the side of the bag jerry van dyke was funny as hell on that show Yeah He's an unsung He was always like a side character but he doesn't get enough credit No I was going to say they were trying to bring Coach back

A few years ago But for some reason I guess people's appetite for Coach Wasn't as strong as they hoped I signed the petition Coach Bring it back yeah they were all alive maybe at that point too probably yeah are they now i think jerry van dyke is yeah he's

dead is he yeah really oh he was the older brother right dick's younger right i think he's younger i can let's look i gotta look this up because i don't want to be wrong. I'm worried that he's not dead. I would bet a million dollars that Jerry Van Dyke is dead. Put the pennies on the eyes. We're going to the graveyard. We're going to Hollywood forever right now. I'm going to prove this. Read it and weep, Gairdner.

There it is. Read it. Put it on the podcast. He died in 2018. Okay. January 5th. It was my birthday. Really?

He died on my 29th birthday. Wow, really? He is younger than Dick. Okay. That sucks. Yeah. Dick must have took that hard. Yeah, probably.

Yeah. And I believe the trivia is that jerry van dyke had two options for shows at one point to star it was gilligan's island or my mother the car oh and he went with the show my mother the car who would he have been in gilligan's island gilligan oh my god i believe he would have been gilligan on gilligan Islands. And he went with the show that was about the wife's ghost living inside a car. I mean, to be fair, at that time, like 1966, probably. 65, 66, somewhere in there. That probably was revolutionary.

Yeah. Cars were around for like 30 years at that point, but still kind of like just getting popping. Sure. And the idea that a wife's ghost or a mother's ghost was in the car was probably like this is gonna be hilarious oh yeah the main character is gonna be a car but also endless stories with that trapped on an island how many stories can you possibly do right so he was thinking yeah but that might have been a

thing that may have haunted him. Like a ghost. Until my 29th birthday. One fateful girl's birthday. You'll always know now. You observed his life force for another year. Coach. Every birthday now you will know that this was the day. Let's talk about another weird old show.ry and the hendersons oh yeah because the

finale of this show for a long time a long time was the the you have to do the sound effects for the harry for harry and the hendersons yeah uh this was a syndicated show that ran from like 91 to 93 and in 1999 you could still go on an attraction where the idea is this is a new episode that we're making and at some point in time there's a mistake and all of the sound effects get erased and the voice in the back of the booth says the network called we're going on the air live in one minute so we have to live broadcast the sounds for a syndicate there is no network yeah there was no there is not a network in this scenario that was syndicated it came on every day not no not like that i think it was like a i recall seeing it like saturday afternoons yeah something like that yeah um like after gulliver's travels or something yeah yeah yeah in the xenob zone yeah yeah vip yeah oh yeah pam anderson she spies

relic hunter yeah right before jag what a boring time like a boring day of television like Clint Hatcher in 2020. Relic Hunter. Yeah. Right before JAG. What a boring time. Like, a boring day of television. Like, if all those shows was coming on, I knew that. I was like, man, I don't have anything to do today. I got to go outside. Let me learn how to skateboard. You got to get to Universal.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You, like, failed in your day if all you have to do is watch uh what was there's a weird gene roddenberry like related show and it's like called andromeda or something yeah yeah i would be like what is this yeah star trek ripoff even though it's gene roddenberry a martial arts themed kind of like wwe oh but that was cool yeah that was cool what was that called kung fu masters or something something like that do you know it was like a it was like power ranger a very very of the time of power rangers like it was vr troopers no no it was more of like presenting it as a reality like wwe

oh i don't know it was like ninjas fighting wwe style you like tracked it week to week who's winning yeah there were storylines. So that was the idea. It was like live Mortal Kombat. The time period where every kid was taking karate after school and the Power Rangers are all doing karate. Very weird. Very short

lived. Right. So anyway, back to the syndicated. My favorite Saturday syndicated show was a show called Your Big Break that was hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro. Yes. And did you ever see the show? Hell yeah.

Oh, man. I loved it. Everybody knows this. And it's like a, it's sort of an American Idol type scenario, except the prize is you get to pretend to be a star of your choosing in a big production number. I don't think I've ever seen that. It's so good. You go into a magic door and then there's a bunch of fog and then you walk back out dressed as Elvis or Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston or whatever it is. It's so great. And my very favorite one was that a guy wanted to be Neil Diamond.

And it's regular people. It's like accountants or people who work at call centers or whatever. And he goes in the door and then comes back out Neil Diamond. And then this guy sang Coming to America while a little stage set of an ellis island staircase like coming off of a ship was rolled out and a bunch of like 19 like early 1900s immigrants walked down the stairs like from ireland and france and uh and waved they're coming to amer. This is before, like, this is kind of like the early version of, like, lip sync battle almost. Yeah.

It's like a cousin to lip sync battle. It's exactly that, but with regular people, not celebrities. Do you guys remember Great Pretenders? We were kids. It was hosted by Fergie and her singing group, like, Wild Orchid. Fergie's original. And it came on ABC Family or Fox fox family or they was called back then it's called freeform now yeah but like it was called great pretenders yeah and fergie with

like a lot fergie and like you know midriff leather pants and like too much lip liner yeah fergie looks bizarre welcome back to great pretenders and they would always like sing that part like because there's like hey we're not we're not pretending we really sing we're wild yeah yeah and fucking orchid but these kids are pretending to sing i used to love that show would kids would they lip sync well yeah yeah okay so that's also there's a lip sync one interesting huh so they would but they would dress up they would lip sync and then give them like a stage setup and do like do like a routine like i remember one i remember a group of kids doing the friends theme song but they weren't lip syncing to it they just danced around like a fake fountain with white turtlenecks yeah yeah yeah whoa wow but they did the way they

didn't lip sync no because yeah because the friends don't sing the song. Yeah, they didn't sing. Right. I kind of wish they did, though. Yeah. Seeing kids anytime when I was a kid, seeing kids do anything was just, I was obsessed with it. I don't think there was a bad show where kids, like Wild and Crazy Kids, like that I was obsessed with. But anytime they had kids doing anything, I was so jealous of those kids.

Yeah. I didn't watch that show as a kid, but I would have been so jealous of the kids running around the Friends Fountain. I was way too shy to do anything like that. And yet, I was so jealous of those kids. And that's got to be fun. And you're like, it's their sheer confidence that got them this. And I don't have, and I'll never have. I can't believe I do what I do now.

Because I was the shyest kid. them this yeah I don't have and I'll never have yeah I can't believe I do what I do now because I was the shyest kid oh really you're like like for a long time like through uh through high school and whatever you were um um yeah inward and yeah well not not inward like I was what is it called and uh an extroverted introvert yeah okay yeah yeah like get it get the energy up yeah and like be very shy yes yes absolutely oh sure sure i feel like i was like that and still am like that i think i am too i think a lot of comedy yeah it felt like a fight to get me out it felt like i was fighting myself a lot to like express myself sure sure okay and i used to because i used to do like we would make videos

my sister and she would be the host and i would always just have a puppet yeah and it's like it's clear that like i was a little too scared to be on camera so the puppet was brave the puppet was very brave uh yeah i would i would make like barney talk or something her barney doll but i was too i was too scared to be on camera it's very what weirdos we are yeah yeah it's true um we have we have the confidence now sort of yeah yeah mildly uh um all right so all right so harry and henderson's uh uh i don't know i just love that that bizarre thing and then sometimes in this show harry himself because it would usually culminate in like a very nervous woman uh and often they would give this job to somebody who could not speak english so that they could kind of make fun of the person for their lack

of ability to speak english sure she doesn't understand the instructions something that copperfield still does to this day that's right yes if you go see the copper david copperfield show it's so many jokes about like probably a plant but a woman in the audience who's a plant that can't speak english well and he like haha i can't i don't i can't understand anything you said like he was dead copper david cabrio which magician died i say like that which magician died houdini died uh no which magician in history died lance burton is still alive a new guy like a younger guy that's guy that was doing Vegas who passed away a couple years ago.

Oh, Danny Gans. Danny Gans. He wasn't really a magician. That's what I'm mixing. Oh, Ricky Jay died. I don't know who that is. I was thinking Danny Gans. Yeah.

Okay. How many magicians have died? And have any of them really? Since Houdini. Since Houdini. Speaking of syndicated TV, you remember Magic Secrets Revealed you remember magic secrets revealed oh yeah so guilty watching that like i am not supposed to know like i knew about the secrets uh magicians don't reveal

their secrets and i would be like you were do i want to know these secrets will i still enjoy the tv specials if i know the secrets and then he unmasked and it was just a guy. Like they built it up like it was gonna be a big... You were hoping like it was Lance Burton or Copperfield or something. Yeah. And they were all mad at him. I don't think those are the real ways that they do those tricks though. Sometimes it's like, come on,

we're not that dumb. Uh-huh. Yeah. I can't remember specifically but like I feel like there was... People were supposedly mad. I feel like your David Copperfields were upset about it. I could be wrong about that. Yeah. And then the guy had to give a speech kind of like calming everyone down.

And like, but we're celebrating magic and that's wonderful. And he was like a creep in a ponytail who was, in my head, was named like Touche or something. I really hope that Touche was the man who... He took his mask off. It is I, Touche. Those were kind of the death rattle of magic specials, I feel like. Like that was kind of the end of the run. Besides like David Blaine.

I did feel... The David Blaine ones were built up so much. I was like, he's going to do a stunt. Those did feel like sleazy, I did feel you. The David Blaine ones were built up so much. I was like, he's going to do a stunt. Those did feel like sleazy. I think about it. Like in my little kid brain, I was like, oh, we shouldn't be watching this at all. They all looked like they were filmed in the total eclipse of the heart video with the

doves and the fog. Big warehouses with lights shooting through the windows. It's also around the time of the Jonathan Frakes hosted Beyond Belief Factor Fiction. Similar aesthetic. It would come on after that. It would come on after that. Which would come on after. It looked like they were in the same studio a little bit. Like the camera looked, the quality of the video looked the same.

They just moved everything out. Yeah. Jonathan Frakes walks up. Have you ever dropped an ice cream cone? And they just shit the other show in there. I've said it for years. He should have had like an Adam West something. He's so funny on that.

Yeah. He wasn't trying to be funny on that. But when you go to see the super cuts of it, you've seen those, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The many questions in a row. Have you ever turned on a lamp and the light bulb didn't work? Have you ever tripped down the stairs and hit your head really hard? Nero said like so sincerely it's not like he's not

trying to be like to deliver like he's an airplane or anything but it's so fucking funny have you ever adopted a bigfoot and had him live with you for a long time wake up screaming you ever pick up an ice cream cone you found on the floor and then he has like then he'll like do it or he'll get off like if it's like you've ever ridden a bike angrily and then he'll like have a helmet on he'll take it off like he always has a prop with him they did one for they did one for a football game a couple weeks ago he did recreated one oh really as a goof really for like i for a football game a couple weeks ago. He recreated one. Oh, really?

As a goof. Really? For like, I forget what football game it was. Wow. He's back at it? He's back at it. He's like owning the meme like Rick Astley? Yes.

Jonathan Frakes, back in the game. I had a lunchbox with Captain Picard, Jonathan Frakes, and Data on it. Sure. Not a big fan of Star Trek Next Generation. Scared of it. Another fear of mine. Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi Goldberg terrified me because it's just like the way she was dressed yeah yeah the hat the I was very young she's like a sorceress or something well she's guy and she's lived for a long time she's lived for hundreds of years and her eyes like rolled back into her head one time

that I was like I was very afraid of Whoopi goldberg as a child interesting no matter what yeah in in in other like in ghost in uh theater wrecks a couple i'll give you a couple reasons so in 1990 i'm one but my mother uh is in college at the time and she her college gets to open up college marching band gets to open up for motown 30 like the celebration of motown wow at the pantages theater here in los angeles we're still in mississippi at the time right this was like her trip to la and she was like i'm coming back and we eventually did wow and i ended up growing up here but like this one we're still in mississippi and we would play this tape over and over again to see my mom like marching down Hollywood Boulevard going into the Pantages because she was like the flag girl for the college.

And Whoopi Goldberg hosted. And in the beginning, she did this like Diana Ross bit where she had this long wig on. And then she like turns around, snatches the wig off and puts it under her armpit like as a joke. It was a joke like, if you need me, call me, which is something that Diana Ross would say, and then she'd go, but honey, don't call me before nine, because I don't get up. And then, like, she'd snatch the wig off, and everybody would go, ah, it's Whoopi! She's ugly!

Like, people used to diss, oh, dude, people used to diss Whoopi Goldberg so much. Like, it was, like, a joke. Oh, yeah, this is a really Ian Simpson's joke, I think, about, like, naked pictures of her or something. Yeah, yeah, it's bad. But that was scary. joke like oh yeah this is a really simpsons joke i think about like naked pictures of her or something yeah yeah it's bad but that was scary the cover to the movie telephone that i would always pass by in the video store what's telephone i gotta look this up you gotta look the cover up it looks like she doesn't have eyes but she's just like looking to the side it was it was also it's also her worst movie ever it's a really dumb movie not did you better

than theater rex or worse worse probably okay boy wait you were afraid of the wig thing i was afraid of the wig thing i was afraid of the cover and then her on star trek the next generation which was in syndication by the time i was like conscious enough to like recognize it no it wasn't that one it was like that one oh i was terrified of that oh because they're wait does she have kind of like uh like cat eyes what's going on with the pupils is i think her like her locks are like blocking her eye in a way and it makes it weird she looks a little like demonic i could see how yeah if you were is like this is a different is this the same one as the trippy background yeah it is yeah like trippy

background everything about this picture i'm just like uh whoopee wow i have never heard of the This is a different... Is this the same one as this? The trippy background. Yeah, it is. The trippy background. Everything about this picture, I'm just like, ah, whoopee. Wow. I have never heard of the telephone. Yeah, I've never heard of it either. This is news to me.

It's the rest of your day now. Yeah, probably, yes. Y'all have to watch that. Streaming the telephone. After you watch Harry and the Hendersons, go watch the telephone. Yikes. I was scared of Star Trek Next Generation,

but I was scared because there was one episode where Data got possessed. mean it wasn't as evil it wasn't as evil brother lore it was like there was some weird symbol all of a sudden appeared on his head and he was scary and i watched it in the hospital once my sister was in the hospital and i watched it on a tv and it was like in my memory it's like the poltergeist tv of like i'm just staring at this creepy show oh yeah and then like i think months later i like worked up the courage to start watching it and liked it you associate it with medical issues and yeah um i had to introduce i the summer i started as a tour guide was when

whoopi started hosting it and i just resented these clips. You had to play them. And they said, we might secret shop you. There's this list of things you have to do, and those include the new Whoopi clips, because we don't want her getting on, and then you didn't play them all. She worked hard filming all the things. They were threatening that Whoopi would do just a random tram tour.

But does she live here? Undercover boss? I don't know. Yeah, yeah, she might. She is scared of the plane flight. Is that right? I don't know when she's, yeah, she like,

I think she like now famously doesn't go on an airplane. She travels by bus, I think. There was a rumor when I was in school in Ithaca that Whoopi had a house somewhere on the lake, like somewhere in the town.

A rumor. Because there was like, people would be like, I saw her, I saw her. And the grocery store had a video store like built in, had a big video section, video and DVDs and stuff.

And there was like a mural of stars and Whoopi was the biggest. And they're like, that's a little nod to our local resident. Our neighbor. And I never quite got an answer of like, is this real? Is this just like college kids fucking with each other? Or is like Whoopi actually?

But I was like, well, if she needs a vacation place and she doesn't fly, she could train up from New York or take a car service. Like I was trying to justify. Whoopi lore. How does this balance with what you know? Yeah. Wow. You went to Ithaca too? lore. How does this balance with what you know? Yeah. Wow. You went to Ithaca too?

Yeah. Were you there with the birthday boys? I was a couple of years behind them. Okay. What is all these people going to Ithaca for? I know. That's a college I never even heard of until I met those guys. I think I hadn't either.

Yeah. The birthday boys were a few years older than me and Joe Pera was like three years younger than me. I didn't know that one. What about Ithaca? And Bob Iger went there. Iger went there years before. CEO of Disney.

Andy Seconda and Andy Daly. They were long before. That's wild shit. Two colleges I had never heard of until I started doing improv was Ithaca and Emerson. Neither one of those. Oh, yeah.

Because out here, everybody goes to Cal State Northridge. And if you got better grades, you go to UCLA. Were you one of those? No,'s out here everybody goes to cal state northridge and if you got better grades you go to ucla were you one of those no neither i didn't have i went to a small school in ohio to play basketball oh really okay oh you left and came back yeah interesting um were there any park theme parks out in ohio cedar rapids i went to cedar rapids i went to iowa huh i went to cedar point uh did not get on anything they have a full half court basket that you can do three point shooting contests on and i literally sat on that all day and just won people gifts like wow that's a good story yeah i was like i'm not getting on

anything else just like peter you'd be who you came with or random yeah people who i came with or random like kids if they yeah like if i didn't make enough shots and only got like a little bear but i went home with like three novelty like basketballs like university of florida university of michigan you know like and i like i was just on that all day like you gotta stop like you spent so much money on this i spent like 100 bucks on that that day but i was like i'm not getting on anything else here at this whole place like you're that consistent i'm gonna eat three point shots oh yeah was it like one of those rigged like no no it was just a court it was just a regular thing yeah got it because they have obviously i'm talking about yeah they're like you know like oh the three point but the basket you

have to literally like get it perfectly in and it can't touch anything or else it'll fall out. Yeah, no, this is just a regular basket. Yeah, Cedar Point's a terrifying one. There's like, you can't, it's like, everything's fine. That's only coasters. That's only like, and the scariest one. And the lake, right? There's a big lake.

Lake Erie. Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm glad we're tangenting so much because whatever it's fine what what do we need to say about the uh uh what have we missed well i i just loved like universal didn't have the best run of movies in the aughts like it is very funny how quit like how much van helsing stuff stuck around in some of the special effect van helsing and then um uh the the special effect one special effect thing i watched where they're doing

the foley they had switched it to like all right we're gonna do foley for the scene from evan almighty and it's like oh oh okay 2009 we're still doing the Evan Almighty fully uh there was a uh I'm interested in that because they did I didn't see that one but then I saw one with the clumps with Nutty Professor 2 yeah they did was in there for a while they did that for a while and a video I saw had a part where they got the volunteer from the audience and then the host says uh all right so everybody get ready because Patricia is about to have dinner with the clumps oh yes very exciting oh yeah and you get to be put in like it's like another green screen one right where you yeah yeah yeah yeah that i remember that one i think that was like around the last times that i was going yeah okay okay yeah um i

there was there's not a good No one has kept a good record of the changes to the show. I was trying to find... No one gives a shit. Scorpion King, Shrek... Did you go through the YouTube or did you find a... No, I just found a couple lists

on the studiotour.com, which catalogs Universal Hollywood stuff. A couple months ago, I watched a studio tour from like 1986 just to see what it was see what was different from when i was doing in the early 2000s and yeah and there was like a laser that king kong was still there yeah which i believe it is still there burned down that's the one that burned down yeah so now they have like a 3d kong okay yeah yeah that old king kong was there from like 1976 like from when the movie came out

for a long time yeah yeah made a long time yeah big awesome robot that was one of the best parts of that job yeah it's good to see that all you would yell at uh right you would yell at kong yeah that was your favorite part yes because i'd stand up and really give it a lot of gusto and like make it about make it personal about the people in the tram like like if anyone take me i've lived my life but these children they are young they've done nothing to upset you don't take a rag or out on them did you feel the audience liked it or were you just sort of like like what i was doing yeah they weren't paying attention it was for me that's my question i think they liked that i stood up and like shook my fist and leaned out of the i like really gave it because it's the worst to have the people just

like all right now we're about to see king kong uh it feels man of breath uh heat of the flames that doesn't make any narrative sense why would the person be bored by yeah i like that banana breath now the peter jackson king kong feels like it got put in everywhere in that park so quickly yes so much well that's what when it was coming out while it was out while the dvd was at like this special effects show they just like you know the 2004 kong starring adrian brody and and Naomi Watts. You love it. You all love it. Well, that was the part sold to us.

It's like, this is the, it's the Lord of the Rings guy. And you love this to tie it back to whoopie. The, the, my most hated video on the tram was where she is outside actually of Halford Hitchcock's bungalow.

The bungalows were producers of offices on the lot. And she gets a megaphone out and she has a message for the various producers who are around there. And she says, people of Hollywood, producers, I've got a pitch for you. Less movies with giant monkeys. More movies with me. It plays out at about that speed. No one laughs. Never in several summers summers not one person

ever laughed at this then she repeats it less movies with the giant monkey it's slower this time and i have to play this i have no die is a horrible death every single time i don't blame her as much as whoever wrote it. This was a garbage video. If you ever had to sit through this on the tram, any listeners, I apologize. And trust me, the tour guides did not want to play it. I am sure I saw this. I have no memory of this.

I mean, really, all I do remember is just her getting eaten by scarabs. Yes. Yeah. I remember that. I think that might have been around the last time. I'm trying to figure out when's the last time I went to Universal. I graduated high school in 2007. It had to be around 06 07 probably when you were doing like it had to be around that time yeah like the last absolutely still would have been whoopie

but whoopie's still on it now as i've said before she gets eaten still right yes the rest of it is jimmy fallon but they couldn't figure out how to get her out of the mummy part. So now if you go on the tram, what happens is Whoopi Goldberg suddenly appears and is eaten by bugs immediately. And that's it. You don't know why she showed up. It's totally out of context. She hasn't appeared before. All of a sudden they cut to her.

Which I kind of like. It's bizarre. Whoopi Goldberg. And she is. And then the bugs come. But so much. Yes. So much be over. And she is. And then the bugs come. But so much. Yes. So much King Kong and so much mummy.

Because at one point in time, I was trying to add this up that. Okay. So there's that. There's that part of the tour where the room spins around and that's based on the mummy. That's not there anymore. You could go there at one point. You could go to Universal and go to that. It's part of the tram.

Then there's a maze of the mummy. Then there's the mummy coaster, the ride, of course. And then also the part of this to where the guy gets electrocuted. There were four mummy attractions in a very limited park at one point in time.

The Scorpion King movie and the Brendan Fraser mummies were like huge hits. But big enough to justify four attractions? and getting rid of it's get it's them tying together like the i do love that brand of fraser mummy um uh bring it back reboot it um uh i think it's them also like high on their own supply like you know the mummy we made the classic mummy and now the mummy's back it seems odd though that they would have gotten rid of the Back to the Future thing to put the Mummy in.

Because everyone loves Back to the Future and still loves Back to the Future. And the Mummy has, I would argue, maybe not lasted like Back to the Future has. Well, it's like when they say, like, so Universal's made some of the most memorable moments in movie history. And it's like, yeah, it's Hitchcock stuff and, like, classic movie monsters and then the minions. And, like, it's hitchcock stuff and like classic movie monsters and then the minions and like it's the characters from sing and it's like i don't i don't know even as a society agreed these things are equal yes also i saw a video that had a lot of heroes they had to push oh yeah heroes heroes everywhere yeah yeah cla. Claire Bennett, the cheerleader. As they constantly say, Claire Bennett,

the cheerleader. I think this show, I think this used to be a great show and then it just became like a dumping ground for what do we have to promote that's from recent. One of the newer ones on the upper lot, it's like and now we're going to fully the film Identity Thief starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy.

Yeah. And you're like, what? Yeah, that's a trip. And then they love the guy on fire. And then I watched the family do it and the bit kills still. Oh, yeah. It's still funny. Like she throws something at Bateman's head and like it hits in one of the family like

hits like a pan. Like a cowbell. I think it is. Yeah. That's the thing about this show. It all kills it was all great yeah i think legitimately they always did a good job with it uh and you could you if you have fond memories of it and you went like constantly yeah that's a testament to it it

was always very fun i really enjoyed going i remember i would go in the back draft and i remember saying it's like such a loser-ass kid. Because I would go every week, and so I knew that the pipes were going to fall. And I remember looking at a person, being like, you might not want to stand there. I'm not going to tell you why. She'd be like a little dickhead kid. So late, like ruining the surprise review. I've outsmarted this thing. I know what you mean.

And then still being scared when the pipes fill because you don't know exactly when they're going to fall. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was just going to say, did you watch

the Upper Lot version of the show on YouTube? Yes. We didn't talk about who the new mocap thing is. Oh, yeah. What is it? It's a little bear named Ted.

Oh, yeah. Ted. So Ted is now in the show and you instead of fluffy it's ted and ted doesn't kill anybody or anything but he's uh he says i think he says friggin sweet at a certain point and then like he hits his butt and he goes like this is for the ladies yeah he's like shaking his butt out. He's shaking his butt and slapping his own butt. Yeah. That probably works pretty well. Yeah, it works great. Getting Ted in the park is not the worst idea. It'd be a little outdated if there was a Ted ride now, but maybe they should have had a walker.

Ted is on the tour by the bungalows. There's that big Ted. There's a statue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has a martini. He has a martini, yes. That's that crazy son of a bitch. He's doing it.

Ted 3, eventually? Probably. Or is McFarlane too busy with the Orville? With his Star Trek. With his Star Trek. Yes. I read a rumor that he was going to buy Star Trek the other day. What?

Buy it? I'm not saying that's going to happen. Yeah, she was going to buy it from Viacom. Wow. Strange. How do you guys think money works at that point well money is not real at that point when you're having that discussion it's like oh money isn't real ratings numbers are not real but he's one of those people where

if you ever stop and add up you know all right so he gets money just from like one episode of being a voice actor let alone that he's on every episode of many shows that air all the time let alone that he also wrote the shows let alone he's also in ted let alone that like does he have like seven billion dollars how much money does this guy yeah he's got a lot of money he's got a lot of money probably so he could buy star trek honestly but does he like write a check for two pages of the order of star trek yeah to captain picard yeah he said he buys it from captain picard money's like wired at that point right yeah yeah yeah he is a guy and then that guy does it yeah through something that we don't

even understand yeah it's like a computer but it's not like we it's through a holding corp it's called like giggity giggity inc yes but it's in like a different country and you have to go there to buy star trek well congrats congrats on the purchase so i guess yeah let's confirm the rumor seth mcfarland is buying star. He just got on a flight to Switzerland. What if Orville was suddenly in the Star Trek universe? That'd be pretty crazy. Oh, he just combines them? Yeah, maybe.

Why not? Damn. He is just making Star Trek. So, why not? Yeah. Jonathan Frakes directs Orville episodes. Oh, really? Yes, Jonathan Frakes is a successful television director. Yeah.

In the second half of his career. Wow. All right. So, a successful television director. Yeah. In the second half of his career. Wow. All right. So the ultimate spaceman. And then eventually it'll all buy Star Wars back from Disney. Yeah. Star Trek and Star Wars will combine at a certain point. Star Wars versus Star Trek can finally happen.

What a dream. There was an X-Men versus Star Trek comic I had, and I was obsessed with it. Cool. And the only thing I can remember is that Kirk hits on Jean Grey. It's pretty exciting, huh? Did Stan Lee draw her naked? He drew her naked and signed the boob and then he drew Kirk naked and signed his penis.

The long way. I'm drawing Captain Kirk nude for the first time. Look close. That's not a pube. That's my signature. That's my signature. I'm drawing now. Any other memories of this thing we missed?

There's a guy on fire. A guy gets lit on fire with a new one. That's cool. And the audience just seems horrified by it more than anything. It's a haunting. The image is haunting of a man on fire. Guy's really upset. It's kind of

upsetting. There's a weird preamble to it where they're like dousing them with chemicals to show you how they prevent it. He's got a face mask on. They all just seem miserable. I gotta get lit on fire again today. God damn it. He's like counting down like right i've been lit on fire three times just three more to

go might be lunch soon yeah yeah you're singing that doc brown's chicken oh yeah i can't imagine that job um no probably not because on a movie set maybe you do it like once per shoot like a day there's a day of being lit on fire but all day but all day every day five days a week yeah being lit on fire at universal studios if you're a fire person let us know how it is we'll come talk to us exciting for an audience then learning about how they created all the fairies and hellboy 2, the Golden Army. Another segment that stuck around for a while. Yeah.

Yikes. That's not, yeah. But they still do the fire, right? Somebody gets lit on fire still? Oh, yeah. I believe so. Oh, yeah. In the new show.

In the new show, for sure. All right. So if we don't like as much what they're doing these days and these identity thieves and Hellboys, what are they? We're forgetting to plus it up. How do we make this show great again? How do we take it back to its glory days? Make this special effects show great again.

I like that phrase. Do we bring back maybe Harry and Fluffy fight? Harry and Fluffy fight. Ted, though. Ted falls off the Statue of Liberty. Sure. Like in Saboteoteur What's popular now? What is popular in 2020?

Minions are still popular I don't know what Universal makes right now Jurassic World They made Cats and What's the other big bond? Doolittle Cats and Doolittle are their properties I wish those were hits though Because, because a Cats thing, a special effects Cats show.

Where you mocap move the cats around? Yeah, where you're rum-tum-tugger. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be tight. Yeah. I think it stands. Maybe this is a separate attraction, but like Universal doing a show that is the Jellicle

Ball, you get to go to the Jellicle Ball. You couldn't be mad at that. No. Sure. That would be good. Cat-themed drinks. Mm-hmm. Doolittle.

Doolittle should have been hit. I don't know if you've read about Doolittle at all. Mm-mm. Doolittle is not the greatest movie in the world. It ends with Robert Downey Jr. as Doolittle pulling bagpipes out of a dragon's asshole. Okay, I'm in. So maybe I've sold it now. that's the climax of the movie that's like the last thing he has to do when the movie's over um so something like with a dragon well then okay so clearly what it is and any of you guys feel

free to be the ball the volunteer but let me just air i'll be the host and like and then it's very very very important that when the red button goes then you need to make the sound effect of bagpipes coming out of a dragon's asshole. Okay, so here we go. Look up at the screen and Doolittle's pulling them out and Roar!

Yeah! Oh dear. Alright, and now we just need one more thing because we're about to go live. We're going to go live to theaters with Doolittle. It's broadcasting in one minute. And we need what is the pain sound that the dragon makes. And here we go in three, two, one. Ah!

All right. Now, we need you all to help ADR Doolittle's lines. Because when Robert did the first pass, he couldn't understand his Welsh accent. So we need you all to help ADR Doolittle's lines because when Robert did the first pass, he couldn't understand his Welsh accent. So we need you all to say, it's okay to be scared all at once. Okay. All right. All right. On three.

One, two, three. It's okay to be scared. We all make this. Hey, man. Ed, very good. We saved Doolittle. Oh, we saved Doolittle. Enjoy the rest of say do a little enjoy the rest of your day the box office numbers are like shooting up it's 300 million in a weekend

it's bigger than iron man it's profitable you did it all right uh thanks thanks carl mike scott and jason uh and carl tar you survived podcast the ride. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. You can cut out some of those tangents. Never, never. What do you mean? We'll cut out the regular stuff. We'll cut out the stuff about the topic instead. Hey, let's exit through the gift shop. Is there anything, Carl, that you'd

like to plug? Listen to the flagrant ones. It's a Patreon, so you gotta dig into your Seth McFarlane pants and take out your five dollars splash money around like yourself but uh if you like basketball or if you don't uh it's a basketball podcast hosted by me sean clements and hayes davenport of hollywood handbook if you like that sure and join us uh Will you be going?

Do you have any like, you know, I'd like to get better at rides or is it just... Oh, no, I've settled into... Yeah, I'm not done. What about a horror nights situation? I don't do that type of stuff either. I'll punch somebody. Right. Okay.

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We're recording a second episode after this, Scott, that I think will be one of your dissertation focuses. It's like, I got a lot of work to do. Yeah, I pushed it because I was sick and I didn't feel up to it, but now I think I'm ready, I think. But we'll see. I might collapse during it. But if you want to know what that's all about,

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