Podcast: The Ride - Super Nintendo World

Episode Date: February 17, 2023

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...who one-up each other with takes as hot as fire flowers. They may tell jokes that ba-bomb and provoke a big boo. The boys go into battle mode against cacophonous coin sounds, time-sensitive toy orders, and food guards. Let's-a go to Super Nintendo World on Podcast The Ride, a podcast hosted by three very good boys who think that all that stuff with Yoshi and his big tongue is a little bawdy. We don't like that. We don't go in for that. All that stuff with Yoshi and his big tongue is a little bawdy. We don't like that. We don't go in for that. It's a me, Scotty-o, joined by Mikey-o. Wah, Mikey.

I would like to be referred to. Wah, Mikey. Wah, Mikey, please. Make the adjustment. And yes, I want every parent to make sure to put their little finger out and say to their child, no tongues, please keep those tongues in the mouth. Yeah. Okay.

Because that's where ideas form. Yes. People want to be like their heroes. They start imitate and suddenly, you know, I, you know, universal, I think has platformed somebody who does tongue antics and, and we, we don't, we don't go in on that. Let's ask somebody about tongue antics and uh and we we don't uh we don't go in on that let's ask uh somebody about tongue antics right now well uh i i his let me give him his special mario introduction uh we're of course real life toad jason sharon oh yeah i well i was sitting dead still in a chair and somehow i still

walked right into that uh it's a. Toad is a beloved character. Yeah, I know. I think that's a good thing. Oh, sure. Yeah, I love Toad. He's plucky. Uh-huh. You get a sense of him a little bit

in the land, in the restaurant. I don't think I knew much about his personality or his desire to cook. He loves to cook. Now we've eaten Toad's food. We get to see another side of him, that of line cook. He loves to cook. Now we've eaten Toad's food. We get to see another side of him, that of line cook. We get to see Toad

excerpt from The Bear. Oh, well, isn't that the... What's the thing? It's already been so long. It's Chef. That's the show you want to see is the Toadstool Cafe version. Yeah.

With all that's nothing but Toads you can only tell them apart by what color spots they have um yes chef absolutely chef um so today is uh this is a big one hey look we're doing nonsense over on the second gate it's's still Dick Tracy and whatever. But here on the main feed, we are, it's hit after hit. It's big rides. Yeah. Runaway Railway one week

and now Super Nintendo World long awaited, long in the works. From a glaring slam to a foul ball. Huh, fellas? Oh, wow. Oh, my God.

That's... Super Nintendo Land, you're declaring at the top of the episode a foul ball? I'm going to try to be very fair and even-handed in my God. Super Nintendo Land, you're declaring as a comedy episode a foul ball? I'm going to try to be very fair and even-handed in the episode. But before that, just to start, Super Midrio Brothers. Oh, wow. Oh, my God.

And Mid, you've told me about that. That's a young person's insult. That's a young person's insult. That's one of those young person insults that he used. No, it's not that bad. But it sometimes gets that bad. Well, if Universal is checking just the very top of the podcast to see if we get to still be invited to stuff. Jason really screwed us here.

That's why you wait for 10 minutes in after they have stopped listening. Oh, fuck. I went in until four minutes in. You front load it, Jason. I front load it. You say all the good stuff first. Let's not let Jason record the warning this week, because he'll say, warning, we're talking about something mid today.

Yeah, I don't want to. Something super mid. Gee whiz. Well. Toad wouldn't have done that. I don't know. He's pretty sassy. He is sassy.

Yeah. Hey, so, I mean, it's a big one. This has been building and growing since before the podcast started. I was trying to remember just the arc of the Nintendo Universal Partnership, which they announced in 2015. It's before we were doing this even. It has been up and running in Universal Studios Japan since late 2020, early 2021. I think it's been a hurricane of stops and starts due to COVID. But pretty heavily hyped up there, and people have been liking it there.

It's coming to Singapore. I didn't know that. I don't know a lot about Universal Singapore. And it doesn't feel that likely that we'll make it there so it makes me wonder if we should get in if people want to if we you know we might not go in person but do you want to hear our takes on especially i was wondering because now that this ride is gone i've watched a ride through of this yeah but this is what's gone due to nintendo uh they took out the ride Madagascar, a crate adventure.

Oh, wow. Really? A crate. It's a crate adventure. What kind of a ride was it? Well, I mean, a crate adventure, first off. But besides that, in terms of the vehicle you're on, is I assume a big crate, unless it's the famous Madagascar animals like King Julian

and don't ask me to name any more who are in the big crates. I don't know much about it, but maybe we have to do it. Sure, is that the one with the new... Wait, no, what's the one with the cool Jurassic Park ride? China, I think. Beijing? With the rapids ride? I think it's Beijing.

No, no. It's like kind of a transformer vehicle, but then there's also big animatronics. Like there's a crazy giant T-Rex animatronics like there's a crazy giant t-rex animatronic that chases you yeah on the ride that looks insane yeah that looks great there there's another one that is kind of a river adventure but it's not a shoot to shoot it's a it's a rapids ride right right so sure um so hey we'll look we'll look into that but then of course coming to epic universe as well in 2025 this is uh suddenly a crown jewel of the universal empire beating even water world

beating uh uh the fries electronics cars from nope beating the lucille ball meet and greet yeah yeah um i know where's where's? Where does she go now? She's been outshined by Princess Peach. I haven't seen her in the park. That's why Jason's upset. Well, outshined by Hello Kitty. I mean, I've made my peace with Hello Kitty. She's a lot of fun. She's got lots of outfits. Oh, I like seeing that.

She's got a great attitude. When you walk in, because Hello Kitty's kind of right at the front of the park, so that's one of the first things you see. Yeah, she's got her own area. She's got a nice like wrought iron sign. Wrought iron? It's like wrought iron with like the logo on top of it. I guess it is. I just, it's funny.

It sounds like such an industrial way to describe it. Yeah. She's got a chain link fence surrounding her. Not like an old fashioned kind of fence. I know what you're saying. I'm just, I haven't heard that term. She's in her Sunset Boulevard days. Yeah.

She's aging and paranoid and doesn't know the world, doesn't heard that term. She's in her Sunset Boulevard days. She's aging and paranoid and doesn't know the world, doesn't love her anymore. Sunset Boulevard with Hello Kitty. I mean, that's pretty good. That's pretty funny. An audience of one, like me. You and Donald Trump. Me and Donald, yeah.

World's biggest Sunset Boulevard fan. Oh, yes, yeah. That's documented pretty well. Norma Desmond is no longer hot. He loves it. If he'd liked the sketch, he just wouldn't like the Hello Kitty. But he's never seen Hello Kitty in his life. Yeah.

That's for wimps. Hello Kitty. But it just showed up here. It is newly open. Is it open to the public as people are hearing this? Yeah, today it is. Yeah, today it is officially open. Is it open to the public as people are hearing this? Yeah, today it is. Yeah, today it is officially open, yes. Wow, wow.

So the dance of the cold opens and the technical rehearsals and the annual pass holder previews. You know, I'm a little upset that we're, I wish that we'd gotten the heads up about this, that the big opening ceremony is live streaming. I saw it on an email essentially on the way here. That's at 8 p.m. And we're going to be done by then.

Or we sync right up. We just patch right into it. I don't know. Maybe. But, you know, I love dumb theme park opening ceremonies. Yeah. And we don't get to see this one. I don't know what non-charismatic universal executive is going to speak right i

don't know what stiff fireworks display will have that that weird lag where there's the cue but people can't hear the cue right so the fireworks are seven seconds late uh i hope mario's dad shiguru miyamoto is there that's my like he's such a fun stan lee type personality and that would be just him being there he doesn't have to say anything i don't know that he speaks english i don't think he does but just him being there would be fun at least after a speech of somebody who resembles frank marshall like it doesn't have to be a frank marshall type but somebody who looks like him yeah yeah speaks says something unmemorable and then yeah well this that would be different from the last time there was a frank marshall event where he did not speak right so that would actually be not a little different yeah so he didn't speak at the

premiere of the ride based on the movie he produced but he is going some or someone like him is going someone like that's why i did say someone like him. So, yeah. Great. Marshall-esque. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. Yeah. But it's open. It's up and running. We've been watching the construction,

literally watching the construction for some time because you can see it from the star way. You can't avoid it. You've been descending down into it. Unlike Galaxy's Edge where I forced people to watch the construction of it over many years by going to the top of the Mickey and Friends parking structure.

This you can't avoid as long as you're going down those escalators. Yeah. You're seeing it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh, and you are to go to transformers. The finest trend ever made.

Yeah. I raced to transformers. I slide down the banister the whole way down to get to transformers. Yeah. Well, after many attempts at asking, can you make the starway speed up? Is there any, like this thing, this is snail pace. This is unacceptable. Yeah. Well, after many attempts at asking, can you make the Starway speed up? Is there any, like, this thing, this is snail pace.

This is unacceptable. Yeah. So it's going. They cratered the sound stages in order to make this happen. I was trying to remember the entire procedure. And this is the only hope we have for new universal stuff. Not the only hope, but it's one of the only moves they have I feel is Yeah, keep blowing up soundstage. Oh, yeah, they built some on

On top of what used to be like this superstore store They built some on the other end of the lot. Oh, right. Yeah, no new stages, which I say crater those already Blow them up start expanding the theme park more that way that direction. Yeah. Blow them up. Start expanding the theme park more. That way? That direction? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, the 2028 Olympics are already going to decimate this city in terms of pleasantness and traffic and guests. The Olympics bring chaos and shit wherever they go.

Wait, so you're saying we need more theme park space to make up for that? Oh, I wasn't even saying that. I was just saying. You're saying something different. A lot of their mailers and stuff are like, oh, and we're building extra sound stages for coverage for our media and the world's media for those Olympics that it's still questionable whether going to happen. It feels like there's always another graph news story about like some shady LA weirdo. So you're saying destroy them now.

Yeah. Destroy them now. Stop building those stages. Yeah. Stop building stages. Don't even put anything there. Just stop building. Yeah.

Got it. Film all your TV and movies on green screens in the New York streets. Anyway, like that's the stuff. So keep the New York streets, but demolish. keep the New York streets. Yeah.

Keep these, these warehouses, you know, Oh, keep the New York streets. But yeah, keep these warehouses. You are just the controversy that you're starting on this podcast. I guess so. No Olympics coverage. We don't want you. Get your crews out of here. No jobs no longer available. That's what fuels this podcast, is healthy debate.

Big definitive viewpoints. And strong takes every minute or so. I think sometimes the issue is we'll meander before getting to a tip we should be firing them off yeah we need to get it that's how how we like 10 years in we'll know when there is a a take twice a minute yeah that's what we got to get to sure we're building to it and we renamed the show The Firing Range. There needs to be some podcast about theme parks that's more like cable news. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Aggressive cable news.

The first theme park podcast distributed by Fox Nation. Yeah, finally. Finally. You know, we have video versions now. One is happening currently. You can watch this one on YouTube. And we're in our little windows, and I like that. But what we don't have is the list.

There's not the rundown, which I think would help people. And it would help. These things go for 90 minutes or more. This is the way to get the podcast to seven. Yeah. Just like, next, Olympics. Hate them. Bad.

Mario Land. Mid. Next. Coke Starlight. Perfect. Perfect. No notes. seven yeah just like add next olympics hate them bad mario land mid next uh coke starlight uh perfect perfect no notes haven't tried the new one there's a third one in the line there's a pepsi that has peeps flavor now that i tried i think you were were you drinking that on zoom the other day i was on our episode our dick tracy patreon episode. I knew I was drinking Peeps Pepsi and Jason knew. He had a little smile on his face and I knew he noticed. And I know because we had a lot of Dick Tracy to talk about that he was being polite and didn't say it because it would have derailed the whole thing because we had limited amount of time. But every time I sipped, I tried to sip so the label was off camera on the Zoom.

And I would look down in Jason's little box and I would see like a little smile. Because you were cheating it off camera. He knew what was going on. Sorry. And he knew because of texts or he knew because he recognized the periphery of the Peeps Pepsi logo? Well, you bought it. I sent him a text with me. And then minutes later, clearly texted me to show me the label yeah well i i got the same

day i think it was the day before date oh i had sent you a picture of the bottle and then a day later i think how is it it's not as good as coke starlight but i like it but don't drink the whole split it if you yeah it's a little novelty but so to move it to my scale it's not as good as the thing that is shitty you had had the zero sugar one. We got you the zero ones. You would have liked the other one better. We're zero sugar boys, you know. I don't, but would I have?

I don't know. I mean, I hate the zero. I'm not sure. I hate the diet. It's a good question. I hate to fade this aspartame, whatever. That's true. I'm drinking an iced tea right now, though.

You'd be okay with it. Just a, yes, I have those all the time, but there's, I'm sorry, there's no comical, you didn't grind up any Sour Patch Kids into that? There's no Sour Patch Kids. There's no sprinkles. You can put a bunch of, Starbucks will let you put a bunch of like thick

sugar strawberries in any drink. Have you ever done that? No, I knew it was an option. In a black coffee? I believe you can. Maybe not a black coffee, but almost everything I've seen has the option in a in a black coffee i believe you can maybe not a black coffee but almost everything i've seen has the option to put just a bunch of sweet strawberries as if they're from a sunday or something here's a question are you more likely to get your strawberries mixed up into your black coffee if you order via the app and then it's just like well fill in orders

or do you need to do it in person and make an emotional plea well if it's an op most what mobile ordering has done for me in general with fast food and with like starbucks has uh erase the shame of special ordering things because somebody can't scoff at your request which it might be ridiculous so i would almost never do a ridiculous request in person yeah almost never i would probably do here and there but no i don't think i would ever ask for strawberries and black coffee in person but i will like a coward request it on the app i'm curious i uh i can see if it works listener if you feel like trying it you know what and i think of i know the star system is changing right now we're in flux currently but if you feel like trying it, you know what? And I think I know the star system is changing right now. We're in flux currently.

But if you've got stars, you know, don't spend money on it. But if you want to burn stars on seeing if they'll put a bunch of strawberries in your black coffee, let us know. Tag us. Let us know. Or maybe we discover a great drink that way. Oddly, it's what unlocks the full possibilities of Starbucks coffee. Right, yeah. We will see.

I'm trying it right now. Keep Google, keep Google. Wait, are you going to leave and go to a Starbucks? No, I'm not going to go get it if I can order it. Are you going to get delivery? Yeah, I'll have it delivered.

So just go through some doors and then go through other doors. Ignore the light that says recording right now. You are welcome in. You, the driver with the strawberry that says recording right now. You are welcome in. You, the driver with the strawberry coffee. All right. I'll figure it out.

You can add a lot of stuff, though. A lot of options. Okay. So they've been building this forever. As far as Universal is concerned, it is a massive footprint. They have, like, they're shifting everything. Like, all their sound stages were over you know like they're shifting everything like all their sound stages we're over here now they're over here we're we're changing everything to to make this

to get mario in there um and now it's up and running the i think right away it was i think a concern that we had and i think a little bit um confirmed is it is still a little small. It is still a little small. Yeah. Even though. Well, like what they had to blow up a massive chunk of space for. So, OK, here's what I'll say. And this I'm not I'm not trying to erase this thing of what Jason said.

This is how I feel. Mm hmm. So I think they were going for the like the craziest, best realization of a cartoon world in a theme park. Outside as a land. I think, would you agree that it's by far of any Toontown or the Little Mermaid area of Tokyo DisneySea. There is nothing that beats this as far as taking what's an animated land. And showing it to you on a scope and scale you've never seen before. It looks amazing.

Unbelievable. Standing in it. It looks amazing. Right. Just standing in it, it looks amazing. Right. Until you put some people in there. Well, that's, yes, hold on. That's certainly, we'll get there. But I, like, when they were deciding how to do it, like, Galaxy's Edge is so big. And obviously it has different parts and there's different moods.

But you can't maintain the level of like detail and something like with nintendo in that size i don't think i think the budget would like quadruple if it was a much bigger footprint yeah yeah the energy use alone for like the the uh camera brother or the goomba bouncing back and forth every day uh-huh uh-huh yeah you would get pretty exhausted if there was five times more of that characters everywhere that's a very good point so yeah so it's so yeah as soon as we were there i was like oh this feels like the crazy i've never been in a place that more realized my kid dream of being inside the cartoon or the video game it's never happened like there's never been

a time like maybe if i went to Toontown as a kid. But Toontown, in your mind, has shit. Like, planes are crashing and there's silly stuff going on. And I can't quite realize. That's a good point. Or I never quite realized that. There's no toons running around. Right.

This, like, and if somehow you're listening to this and you haven't seen pictures or video. The main thing. I feel like the main thing about it is just every character every villain going back and forth there's coins spinning yes thwomps thwomping a plus same as far as like giving you even the feeling of immediately you have the feeling of the mario game it's not a specific mario game it's got a lot of elements from different mario games it's kind of got the same sort of when in some of the 3d mario games where you you start a level and you look up and there's some sort of big thing

you sort of have to climb and finish or complete and it looks like a very daunting task but also fun it does all of this is all a plus like there's no better other than maybe diagon alley which i don't have an emotional connection to but think it's an amazing looking place. Sure. Nothing is nothing can beat this view being there in person. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. A huge moment, I think, and a moment I think any listener will have when you go in person, the moment of going through that pipe, which when you enter the pipe, it's just a little like outdoor lobby, right? Well, yes. It says Super Nintendo World and it's still kind of plain and you're still next to like whatever boring restaurant in the Transformers ride. It's a little photo op. Yeah, yeah.

There's a little photo op you can do and there's a dog for there they'll hold your phone you know uh-huh um and then you go through the pipe with like wonderful swirling led lights of every color i love that they had to answer what's in a pipe yeah i know that was something in japan and there i think i think it's different types of that's more like more like white streaks. But here it's a multicolored thing and it looks very cool. And you go through that pipe and then you land looking up at, is it Mount Beanpole? Yes. And just taking in the whole land in general. Yes.

Can I walk you back just for a moment? Because you go in and you basically end up in like Princess's Castle from Mario 64, which if you've played mario 64 when you go into the castle there's these big pictures on the wall which is where you go through to different levels oh okay so when you you end up outside the pipe you end up in like a little that little like foyer area which is basically like the castle there which is the big photos of like the bomb moms and some i forget do they change they change? They change as well. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, you're already like in the game there and then you leave the castle part.

Yes. And see what you're talking about. That's a good point. I skipped past the, yeah, the little castle zone is, is very neat. Um, but just how the,

how great a job they do at funneling that view and hiding as much as they can i know you kind of you see it on the escalator down yeah but being immersed in it that it's pretty much that moment when you step out of the castle and it's huge i think the people like the employees they're just going to see awe at that moment all day every day it's it's i think an instantly great theme park aesthetic moment, a big wow moment that I think will last for first time visitors. Yes. And in terms of like, I would say visual wow has never been the appeal for Universal Studios. Right. In general.

Until Harry Potter. Until Harry Potter. Yeah, yeah. And in Hollywood specifically, where there's a lot of fun things but it's usually like sound stages functional buildings there's not a lot of height you know what i mean like maybe universal wide besides islands of adventure universal is wide not tall yeah in general that's a good way to put it now they're getting tall harry potter tall castle tall right mount beanpole, tall. Yeah.

It's very exciting. Yes. Now to both of your points, once you're there, it is a little bit like being at like one of those bars where they don't have like tables and seats. It's all high, like a high table. And you're all just like, where am I supposed to stand? It's kind of crowded in here.

I just kind of want to stand at the, I want to kind of sit down. Can I sit down? Oh, okay. I'll lean against this table I guess yeah and it's like it's really alright like is this okay am I allowed to be here right it's like almost like you should it's almost like the land should just be this crazy walkthrough attraction

you just walk through now we should also say this is these are the first you know so many days of this being open yeah it's still certainly makes they say more crowded and people aren't used to it and the crowd flow and I think these annual that we went to

we Mike and I went together with Aaron and our friend Andrew Grissom Jason with Jane few days prior I believe yeah and it was these annual pass holder preview events which I think they had a lot of work to do. This isn't this isn't the kind of thing Universal's done a lot.

Disney, I think, has done a lot and they still end up kind of like crowded and annoying. Yeah. I believe the first day of it was so crazy that they like apologized and sent an email to everyone and said, come back. We'd like to offer you another chance to check which to their credit sure good to do yeah but it just shows you like because i we saw uh videos i think julia prescott it seemed like just uh bail holds didn't go in yeah yeah so it seemed crazy they i know when we were there checking in i think they had already added there was like two slots where you could go in the morning or in the afternoon.

And they had added a third slot. So they basically were like shouting it at people like, if you want to go to the third one. Oh, yeah. Oh, it was like being willing to move to a different flight. Yeah, they were doing airport maneuvers. We've overbooked the Mario Land. We will give you, if anyone's willing to go at a later time, we will give you 500 coins if anyone.

Did you guys, let me ask, when you picked up your wristbands for these previews, did you do it in that sort of little park area across from the security entrance or did you do it inside the park? No, it was outside the park. It was the weird unthemed grass next to or that was the saddle ranch and okay that's what was okay i meant to take a picture because

i we looked at we went in the first group of the day and after seeing julia's uh lions footage i was like what time did we gonna get there early and i i thought the park opened at night it actually opened at 10 so we got there at 9 30 and they're already giving them out and letting people in the park which this all worked out for us because they're like well your time's at 11 but the park opens at 10 and the land opens at 10 so you can just go down there okay um but the the picture like the visual picture of walking in to get the wristbands and there was just like dozens and dozens of metal stanchion like dozens and

dozens of like places for like a million wraparound lines totally empty was so weird and haunting like a weird music festival like yeah something or yes they fair yes now we were there early enough.

I didn't have to wait. We walked right up to the tables. Yeah. We didn't have too long of a wait. But it was fun to get on that grass. It was nice to see the grass. We don't get to see that grass very often. It's wonderful.

And what a great addition to a theme park than just an open plot of wonderful, relaxing grass. You should have brought your son for the grass and then taken him back. Maybe you are not good father because you did not take son to see grass. You should have taken a photo. We should go back and take a photo of the grass and then compare it to Disney's grass on Twitter and see what happens. Well, I'd ignite a firestorm. Yeah.

I might not be here. I think the grass that would come to my house and burn my house down i think the grass that we waited on was real grass i think so i think so you gotta give it using fake gotta give it points for that but the landscaping is not quite there i was noting there were just weird like it just turns into dirt pads there were yeah there was for sure dirt yeah is this there why did they get rid of Saddle Ranch? That is my question. Yes, I wonder that too. I was like, why is this just sitting here? I thought that was going to be toothsome. That's what the rumor was for many years.

It was going to be toothsome. There was a rumor too of a Nintendo store. That was a rumor too. There was doodles, concept art. So they must have at a certain point thought that they were going to put something there, but maybe they felt like they're going to need more infrastructure for the whole like entranceway i don't know when you said there was doodles i thought was there an

announcement of like some themed bar called doodles oh man you know we would have been at doodles opening day that reminds me of that clip that goes circulates once in a while where jack nicholson says they used to hang out at a coffee shop named Poopies. You ever seen that? No. You ever seen that? I have seen that. Did you see the excerpt this week? Someone found an old interview with him where

like, you know, he was shooting about Schmidt and rented a house, I think, in Omaha and they're like, um, the media saw you walking around the house naked and he was ma and they're like um the media saw you walking around the house naked and he was like it's it was two in the morning i was just going down for my slice of pie and they're like does this happen often he's like well sometimes sometimes it's sherbet you know and your heart grew two sizes oh yeah for jack i mean look i already won my

affection spilling all that chili on a basketball court. Well, and of course, the famous hoagie shot. The hoagie. Oh, yeah. If you want, just Google Jack Nicholson hoagie. You'll see the greatest photo ever taken. He's in a boat. And we've talked about this with an episode with Marissa Strickland, I think.

It's because once in a while, I'll just text her that photo. Jack in the boat with a hoagie. Isn't the chili fake? I think that's an onion thing. I think this was gone through on double thread on fellow Forever Dog. Yeah, I believe so. I believe chili. Actually, in good company.

Sharpling, I think, thought the same thing. He really beat himself up, I think, over being fooled by it. Feel free to beat yourself up. That's fine. I do that enough. But the hoagie thing is real. Yeah, the hoagie thing is real. I'll bet everything.

What happened with the hoagie? Just Jack Nicholson hoagie. Look it up. We've discussed this before. And there's a great photo, too, in that it's all like paparazzi photos. There's a great one where he's in the water with a cigarette, which is really great right now yep yeah um but anyway he's uh living his best life i would like to see wario doing all the same oh wario should smoke cigarettes that would be a bold

move yes yes bring it back we are so moralist about this disney universe but i don't know if universal is weighed in no it's time look he's not in the land yet that i saw not prominently maybe there's easter eggs my man is not in the land and that is one of my that is one of my gripes yeah that's my guy wario but if you introduce him in in the land with a pack of what you could call them like Koopa Blues, like Camel Blues, you know? Oh, right. Of cigarettes. And then sell them. And then sell cigarettes. And then sell cigarettes.

Look, sell cigarettes, okay? You're trying to get one up on Nintendo? Look, it's all about, you know, we're trying to feed people into these power bands and whatever. You don't even have to check IDs. You punch the ID info into this power band, you know? Yeah. And then all your coins go straight to cigarettes.

That's right. Yep. The picture's awesome. Mm-hmm. I'm not going to do that, but that's cool. Standing out on a sandbar smoking a Parliament, you know? Mm-hmm. I've complained before on the show about the toy,

the Krusty the Clown toy that Disney pulled the cigarette from him. This one I think is an actual five-timer. I think you are approaching... I think I did the five times in like two weeks of the episode. Yeah, there was an intense run where a cigarette... But it's been... I haven't said it in three months. We've had a break, yes.

It's been a nice break. But what I'll say this is that Viacom let my Ninja Turtle Ace Duck have a big cigar, yes it's been a nice break but what i'll say this is that viacom let my ninja turtle ace duck have a big cigar which is great so i but i don't know who was who was asleep at the wheel there because you would think that they had any sort of crack team at viacom is very aware of everything going on in its busy empire there's not a cigarette lawyer at viacom i think that's what we've learned here is that there's not a learned here. There's a Disney watchdog cigarette lawyer

and there's not at Viacom. I'm not sure Viacom has presidents for all their networks. There might be a lot of holes empire-wide. Sumner Redstone was in charge of it, I think. He passed away. I'm in charge of looking

for cigarettes and saying, put more in. Why doesn't the Paw Patrol smoke cigarettes? Put them in diapers, too. He would not know the name of the Paw Patrol. Why don't dumb dogs smoke cigarettes? One of those stupid dogs. Sir, for the last time, the show is not called Dumb Dogs.

It should be. Call it that. Call it Dumb dumb smoking dogs and make them cough oh sumner uh there's a new book that showed up at my i i i've never if i faster ordered a book from the writer of the book disney war really oh wow yep we're hitting viacom we're hitting sumner maybe we all got to read it and we got to do it. Okay, sure. We have to do a full Sumner dive. We have to do a full, yeah. The first chapter.

This is where I knew I was going to click buy, but then I saw the first chapter is about the Electric Barbarellas, the band that he made a reality show with his girlfriend in it. Number one? That's the first chapter? That's where they start. We start with Electric Barbarellas. Oh, we got to do it.

His first reality show that no MTV executive wanted to put on is there any sort of loose theme park framing for the Patreon episode of this or no I don't look I think it is key that we've developed the guy oh yeah good good great and we look and we know he dealt with

discovery zones in his lifetime if I see the word theme park, if I see the word park in it, it turns out to be that he parked his car somewhere and made somebody rub his toes. That counts. Park is enough. We're doing it. We're doing Sumner. OK, so it's it's a heck of a wow. When you go in.

Yeah. Aesthetically, we were saying how, and I think we knew the vibe of it already. I had not spoiled, you would know what the Mario Kart ride was or anything, but I'd seen just pictures of the vibe from Japan and like you were saying, Mike,

an episode a little while back, there's no way to screw up the aesthetic. I mean, there's a way, but they sure, they did not. It is a great like combining. It's like the average of Mario. Yes. It is neither one game nor another more than the other. Right. It's just like perfectly.

Well, that is pretty classic Mario. What they figured out. Yeah. I mean, and then Galaxy's Edge was sort of trying to do that. But obviously the iconography of a Mario game is so much more, I don't know, vibrant, vibrant and bright and not specific but yeah it's it's it's so much easier to sort of do a combination of whatever 30 plus years of mario and put it into something that looks right no matter what your era of mario is looks right and very consistent kind of a protected guarded

intellectual property I feel like after that movie in the 90s yes that was the word it was like they sort of let a lot of different you know people try their hand at making Nintendo properties and then the movie showed up and then Nintendo was like whoa

whoa whoa and that's why it's taken this long to have another mario movie geez is that babe i think they got very protective yeah because it's such a no-brainer such a popular character you would have thought that they would have gotten to it at least before sonic did yeah yeah but yeah i think that that that movie delayed our proper mario movie by decades and got it out of our childhoods. This one that's coming out might be fine, but it's not in our childhood where we would have loved it no matter what.

And because it's not coming out in our childhood, we will probably be judging it no matter what. Oh, I saw the, the first Mario movie opening weekend for sure with my dad and brother and liked it. Okay. It wasn't quite sure why everything dad and brother and liked it okay. We did too, yeah. Wasn't quite sure why everything looked

like RoboCop, but you know, they eventually put the overalls and the colored shirts on and did a little jumping at the end. I didn't. Close enough. They got to it. Barely. I would not have said I didn't like it when I saw the movie,

but I didn't like it. It made me uncomfortable the whole movie. Did you see it in the theater at the time? It is the first movie I ever saw twice in a theater. Oh, wow. I really liked the Marvel. That's the weird thing. And now I recognize that it's insane.

And it doesn't hold up if you believe it. I have it. I bought it for $3 like six months ago. I have not revisited it, truly have not given it much thought over the years. It's so, yeah. Do you know how, are you guys aware of the way that,

and Jason specifically, are you aware that the Super Mario live action movie destroys the Twin Towers in a way that is remarkably similar to 9-11 wow there is a frame of that i meant to look it up maybe it's probably good to not have it yeah don't don't um oh don't there's a and that's not a thing do it either don't not pull this up no it's insane it's like at some point you come back to the real world and there's been havoc wreaked by whatever's going on in the Mushroom Kingdom and the havoc includes

that the Twin Towers are on fire. Those were very much like a landmark like the Eiffel Tower of like oh aliens have attacked a big monster has attacked like that was a like alright we're either going to blow up the Statue of Liberty

or blow up the skyscraper like Empire state building or world trade center it's kind of incredible that independence day was not it yeah yeah and they did i said i've complained about this before they blow chicago up off camera so it was a kid living right near chicago it was like oh we're gonna get to chicago we're gonna see chicago destroyed you assume that the pace of the movie was going to be like, and now the next three. What are the next three biggest cities?

I haven't read Save the Cat yet, okay? I didn't know the three-act structure. I didn't know how to keep the movie going. I didn't know that we needed to see more emotional arcs. So, yes, I thought maybe there's another hour of city destruction. Uh-oh, they're at the St. Louis Arch. I didn't know. Oh, yeah, I thought maybe this is what's going to happen

for the next hour and a half. And I was fine with it. I'm curious if anyone else was jealous that your city was not represented in the Independence Day. The rule I always remember is if you think it, there's at least one to 50 people that also had the same thought. That's sort of just how I sometimes when I'm having weird thoughts, intrusive thoughts, I go, you know what? There's other people thinking the same thought. That's sort of just how I, sometimes when I'm having weird thoughts, intrusive thoughts, I go, you know what? There's other people thinking the same thing and it makes me feel better.

So I believe that this applies to somebody who watched independence day in Chicago when they were my age. And we're jealous, would have been scared to see very scared, destroyed, but also wish they could have experienced that yes yeah and probably there's been another podcaster who has hidden the logo of their

peep pepsi in order to keep the episode on track I okay wait a minute that's not a thought that's an action oh look at that can I don't think that I don't think that counts I didn't have that I have more it was a bottle now actions different than thoughts I don't think that counts. I didn't have that. I have more. It was a bottle.

Now, actions different than thoughts. So what are you arguing? I don't know. You can't. I'm an original. My actions are just me. So my I'm very unique when it comes to hiding the peeps branded Pepsi on a Zoom about Dick Tracy's Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy special to keep the rights. I'm confused why you wanted to have company in being jealous of Chicago not being blown up, but you want to be alone in hiding Peeps Pepsi. You're very forceful about it.

No, no, no. Nobody's ever done it. No one's ever done it. And if anybody ever does it, I guess you got to have things that are yours. Yeah, you got to do. Yes, yes. You do have to do have things that are yours. Yeah, you gotta do, yes, yes. You do have to have things that are yours. Look, sometimes life's a contradiction as well.

You gotta remember that. That makes me feel better as well. I'll be the first to cover up this coconut LaCroix so that it just says nut. Oh, okay. And then you're thinking, what is this? Is he drinking peanut soda? Nut LaCroix.

Is this guy crazy? Walnut LaCroix. Pine nut soda. Walnut? You're thinking I'm weird for drinking Peeps Pepsi while you're drinkingnut LaCroix. Pine nuts. Walnut? You're thinking I'm weird for drinking Peeps Pepsi while you're drinking Walnut LaCroix? Jason, would you drink a nut water? What kind, I guess?

A peanut water. Oh, maybe. Walnut water. Sure, yeah. Cashew water. I don't know why I asked what kind. I like all nuts. Well, I like all nuts too,

but I don't think a water based on nut flavor is necessarily going to be. Maybe there is such a thing, though. The peanut obviously makes the most sense just because it's like a flavor universally loved and put into many different types of food. But I don't know. I'll try it.

Give me a walnut water. But they might have it. Forever Dog has kind of odd flavors, I will say. So it could be in there right now. Sure. We'll check on the way. We'll start recording again if we find walnut LaCroix for real. When we do Zoom episodes, Mike is for sure shirtless like that.

Slamming the Pepsi peeps. Oh, yeah. That's right. Hovering in water. You got your waterproof set up with a bag over it. That's right. So youing in water. You got your waterproof set up with a bag over it. That's right. So you're in Super Nintendo Land, and you're like, wow, this is great.

Is there a place to chill out? The answer is no. The answer is no. No, it is not a particularly chill place. And this presented some challenges just given the state of mind my wife and i have been in it was a nice uh day out it was a nice escape from what's been going on at home which is potty training yeah it's been fine it's had its ups and downs oh it's had some downs but uh uh you know my basically what it's meant is we're at home more often because you can't go out right as much and being at home more often there's less to do so there's a lot of claptrappy shows on like i just complained about the show leo the truck

leo the truck is something i cannot wait to get this kid off of leo your child loves leo yeah leo the truck he can demand these things lifty and scoop um these this song dear god I think it's if I'm inarticulate in episodes ever it's because Leo the truck is rotting my brain do you think a Leo the truck land could be good though? no really maybe that's just the state of me

maybe I'll get a more open frame of mind on Leo the truck when potty training is done with a take like that we'll see if the leo the truck people invite us to anything going forward if there were leo people i might be concerned about that uh anyway it's been just a lot of like claptrappy shows on and we're like oh my god we're out we get to do something else out and then we get into this land which is very packed yeah and a big big thing of the land is that as it should be there's coin boxes there's the coin boxes and if you have the band you can light up the coins and play games with them and collect coins but boy

after the week it had been especially for aaron just like all right now let's go have some fun ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding it was so bonkers i mean there was a there was a vegas thing about it yes in general i would terms of like so much uh stimulus packed into a small place which is cool yeah i just might i might say can we turn the volume down on the coins does it have to because you're like you're everywhere trying to like okay so do we have time to make the restaurant reservations at 1245? Ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding. I think, can we just make it for the people who are collecting the coins?

Because they're the ones who are excited. I don't mean to say I'm not excited for them. They should have all the coins they want. I just don't need to be in on the coin gathering process. I got to say, I'm not excited for them. I was loving it for a second like i was like oh the music the coin that's such a soothing sound and then after you hear it dozens of times in the span of five minutes when you're like oh look there's a little ledge there's a little ledge on that thing we can sit on i found something i found

an area a ledge to seat to be seated collect on. I found something. I found an area to be seated. Collect ourselves and figure out where we're going. And it's very quickly, you're like, where we're going is anywhere else. Like, anywhere. Ding. And the way these Passholder previews have been, and I think it will be this way for a little bit, it's kind of Galaxy's Edge-esque in that you'll have your window of time. It was only two hours that you could experience all of the things,

and then you can't get into the ride or the restaurant or the experiences with your given wristband once the two hours is done. But I would say the two hours was plenty. This might be a place to come and go in the future when it's possible. Right, especially when it's crowded. I will say this when i was alone we'll get to why i was alone in a little bit but when i was alone i remembered that there uh are there's a company i just mentioned super seven they have some toys that have just

come out that are ninja turtle toys that glow in the dark these are hard to get because you pre-order them and i decided i don't think i really want them they came out i got fomo as they say fear of missing out i got jealous and i go you know what i'm gonna be in san diego soon i'm gonna call the store the super seven store in san diego the guy tells me you know what call on saturday and we can pre-order and i go okay great i forgot to do this i did this in super nintendo land oh i call the phone on the phone i explain what's going on you may you did personal business i did personal business in the loudest land and i tried i was going all over trying to find a place that was quiet i was unsuccessful i thought i kind of got in a little nook real quick like that was sort of

a quieter i explained oh yeah i'm the guy maybe was the same person i talked to uh via instagram he goes oh yeah one second and then there was a couple of like beats and he goes hey you playing mario bro is your console breaking what is going on back there and i go uh i'm actually inside mario right. I'm inside the game. I'm in Universal Studios. And he goes, oh, it's kind of loud. And I was like trying to cover that because I was very aware of how loud it was. Now, that's not necessarily the land's fault, but that's just to give you, you know,

that's to illustrate the point of this is a very loud land. And you cannot have the guy who you're calling to pre-order your glow in the dark ninja turtles know that you are in super nintendo world well i tried to prevent it but ultimately look this guy's working a super seven star yeah it's one of the people i'd be the least self-conscious about explaining where i am on a saturday Why did it have to happen in that moment? Because he said call around noon and I was worried that somebody

would buy them all. That's part of FOMO. That's part of the FOMO. I don't know how many they have in store. This is part of being a toy collector. This is the neuroses of being a toy collector. So when he said noon and you've had noon as your scheduled date for... It took me

like an hour. I forgot and I called later. Geez, wow. You forgot. So then you're extra like, I am going to... This is every toy. He's going to say these toys will never be remade again. You lost your chance. Then like a prison gate would have slammed on the phone. That's right.

That's what happens to these toys. You never know. Is this what we're looking at? Look, I have that that but that's not the one i'm talking about i'm talking about the turtle brothers themselves yeah what it what was that that was mutagen man that was a glow-in-the-dark mutagen man okay which you can get on a pretty good discount right now it's super seven toy but you can get that for like 20 something 25 bucks it's great it's fun we'll do it but after everybody hears this they're gonna be gone there's going to be a run on the Mutagen, man. I know. Pretty soon.

Okay, so it's loud. Guys, it's not a place to do business. Not a place to do business. It's a place to collect coins, but not a place to make business calls and collect real world coins. Collect coins. You will not be able to collect yourself.

It's a lot, and especially the more crowded, and the fact that these are not, these power bands aren't the most accurate. Like, for every time you, like, slam the thing or gently tap the thing, I shouldn't say slam. Obviously, it wouldn't be accurate if I was slamming into it, but you're trying to do the Mario, like, punch up. If you do it three times

you'll hit it it'll register once you know I think it's funny that you're doing you did like a like a tsk tsk like a scold jester while holding a bright orange band with a flower on it sometimes oh yeah I it's a daisy band not so good not so good

um and so yeah I also wait do you guys get one of these we did not do the band Not so good. Not so good. And so, yeah. Also, do you guys get one of these? We did not do the bands. And this is a whole here. Let me put some stuff in bounds and not in bounds. Sure. If you're wondering if this pace that we're going, I noticed that they are not barreling to the Mario Kart ride.

Mario Kart, its own episode. We will be doing that as its own thing. The three of us are going back to the land in the near future. And when we do that, we might collect some other things we can talk about at that time. Right.

But so, yeah, Mike and I are not prepared to talk about bands. But you talked about- That makes Jason the band expert for the time being. He has his band with him now. We got one band when we were checking in you were sharing a band we were sharing a band band share passing it back and forth let me ask daisy yeah let me uh ask uh did you pick it or did jane pick it is she a daisy fan or did she

like the colors i she liked the colors then she double checked the character and she's like oh i like her vibe i like her thing so um these are you know when disney rolled out the magic bands they they went to great pains of like oh we spent a lot of money testing these and designing these and stuff um little less money spent on this because it it's a little it's like a snap bracelet with a very heavy middle and it has a tendency as you're like you know throwing your arms around and stuff it tends to like curve like this can i see it yeah and it it doesn't really stay on for a second there you i swear you went into your andy rooney impression just for like a half that was what i thought it was when he was wagging it now i completely thought it's like a snap i mean

at forty dollars ahead you know $40 a band for like. Is it $40? I thought it was less than that. Is it? It was $40. Yeah. Really? Wow.

I will say this. No annual pass holder discounts. Discounts on the food, not on the band. Oh, there is on the food. Yeah. Yeah. I will say I do like, because the Disney World Magic Bands are not snap bracelet, like with a magnet. They're more, right? Am I wrong? Or maybe the new ones are? not snap bracelet like with a magnet.

They're more, right? Am I wrong? Or maybe the new ones are? It's more like a watch band. I do like this in general. It's kind of fun to wear, but maybe it curls up a little bit too much. Oh, it's got little eyes too. Yeah, it's got little eyes.

It's cute. It's just not the most practical. I mean, as an add-on, you does... You can use it as an amiibo, which I only partially understand. Oh, you can? What does that mean? Amiibos are like those little toys that sort of can unlock certain things for different games.

I actually don't have one, although I was thinking about getting this for the new Zelda game that comes out in May. But they can unlock certain things in the game, but they're fun little collectible things. Listener, you're going to want to be watching this on YouTube to watch me punch in and going up and down.

I like that there's a little bit of weight to it. Yeah, a little heft. Jason, were you and Jane wearing it together over two wrists? No, no. Like escaped prisoners, but in a cute way. Yeah, yeah. wearing it together over one two wrists? No. We were passing it back and forth. Like escaped prisoners but in a cute way.

Yeah. Escaped gang members. Look folks that's just what a relationship is. Sometimes you're just escaped prisoners sharing a power up band. Sharing the Daisy power up band. Yeah.

No. But I saw on the the ordinary adventures videos about this too like peter was you know testing it out went flying off his his wrists oh wow so it could hit yeah there's like a vinyl um kind of like a watch band so they were like oh you can buy these vinyl bands on amazon and that'll keep it more securely on your wrist. Interesting. So you have to buy helper bands? Yeah, you have to buy aftermarket parts.

But they're not third party. Third party, yeah. So it's not official Universal. I'm interested in that. This sets it up an interesting thing where I'm going to get the band. I'm going to get a band, and I'm going to try to see how I find. Yeah, we'll do a band next time. So, yeah, we'll check in on next time so well yeah we'll check in on

the mario kart so we will check in with the bands well i'll keep my thoughts to myself no you could you could share well all right i'll say a little band stuff because people are going to want to hear it i mean i there's a leaderboard you can kind of check in on your points and stuff in a few spots there's a lot of m's symbols uh throughout the land that you tap stuff and get uh i think you get you get coins you get power-ups you get stamps what is the reward ultimately of coins uh uh just graphics in the app if this is all within the super nintendo tab on the the universal hollywood app jane could not get it to correctly scan on the Mario cart wheels. So we'll have to see if we can.

Oh, it does something on the wheel and the ride. It adds up your coins on that as well. I believe. Oh, right. We'll get coins on the ride episode, but a lot of it is for like playing what I have seen called mini games,

basically tap games. Basically, tap games, you have to get like three certain coins to do the Bowser Jr. kind of mini game. I believe it is keys. Oh, it's keys. Sorry. Yes. But they look like coins.

They're keys that look like coins. And there's coins that look like keys. Coins are different than keys. Coins are different than keys. Coins are different than keys. Yeah. We did not do that. We were wandering in and out of rooms where you could tap stuff

and make the eighth bits. We went in those rooms. We saw some of those rooms where you could tap. You can hit the POW blocks. That was fun. Yeah. All this stuff. Again, children would be going crazy for all this. Children would be going crazy, but you kind of tell people are getting a little tired, a little overwhelmed with all the crowds

and everyone trying to slap the wall and slap the bricks. Yes. I'm trying to think. If all the kids in there are completely stimulated to go nuts and hit all the blocks, in addition to the noise, in addition to the no ability to sit down, it's like a recipe for just getting tired. Yeah, and I suppose maybe that, for the parents and the adults, maybe the cramp, crampness in the crowds, maybe that is why there is no alcohol for sale in the land. No alcohol, but people brought,

we saw people bring beers from Jurassic Park or whatever that part is. Oh yeah, you can bring a Mai Tai or like a tall boy white claw. So that's maybe already a hack. Maybe we already have an early podcast to ride hack if for mom and dad. You can bring alcohol that is of a different ip right and bring jurassic world alcohol right into you can mix ip yes yeah sometimes there are blue moons in mario world various mario worlds and you can also carry a blue moon into this world. Perfect, yeah.

But I do feel disappointed by the lack of Mario alcohol, certainly, especially because generally, aesthetically, you were like, boy, I could use a drink. Never before have I needed a drink so badly. I mean, we can blue sky what we would want here, which I think is a fun exercise. I mean, are you thinking, obviously there's going to have to be a nonsense cocktail mixed drink. Yeah, yeah. I know that's what you're going for.

Called the rainbow road. You want color. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Yeah. There has to be one where they put literally every different food coloring. Oh, just like Mickey's Fun Wheel. You just layer it.

Yeah. Yes, exactly. Yeah. But you know what? Not enough colors. I want more colors in the fun wheel fair enough double the colors from the fun wheel which already has like five colors wow this is gonna take forever to yes this is gonna be the most laborious five dollars just for labor they have to yeah it takes 15 minutes to make it um i think i i think like a But I think a guaranteed hit drink is like the potion from Mario 2.

The potion that makes a door appear, I think. Then you go into that inverse world. Wouldn't that be great? Just like a big test tube. And then that's a collectible. And that's some bright red. Or it's something like cherry forward. And you can get with your drink, you get a pickled egg. collectible and that's some bright red or something like cherry forward you know and you

can get with your drink you get a pickled egg like burdo's egg from mario 2 as well it should be like a dive bar where you have to reach into yeah to get one of burdo's pickled eggs pickled eggs and burdo's looking like yeah burdo is behind the bar whoa uh burdo's bar burdo's bar bar burdo is good maybe better one of my bit one of my i think my frustration is no burdo yeah because you're a big mario 2 guy is that your favorite from the old ones you think i don't know if i i don't think i would say big but i was thinking before this how like i i was walking around like how is there not more well i know why there's not more Mario 2 it's like it does like doesn't fit you know what it's kind of equivalent to is Temple of Doom

like it's the middle one uh well not the middle one anymore but the middle one that counts and then it's like a little bit off from the ones surrounding it which are more of a piece and more classic yeah but then the weird one is sort of great for being weird. Yes, I think that's a good description. I love frogs and lack of bowsers and turnips. I think mainly what they're there should be they should be engineering freakishly

big turnips. Yeah, I think that's right. They're for eating, not for throwing. You could break a kid's nose throwing a giant turnip don't throw the turnips um yeah mario 2 is great uh uh i guess 3 was probably my favorite but i never had 2 and i was obsessed with 2 mario 2 uh that might be part of i think i didn't have it growing up so then like later i i got to find it right it rediscovered it like an old record

of course i played 2 and 2 a lot i don't think it was still i was older that i knew about the uh I got to find it. Right. I rediscovered it like an old record. Of course. I played 2 and 2 a lot. I don't think it was until I was older that I knew about the... Doki Doki Panic? Oh, based on Doki Doki Panic, you know. Yeah. But I liked that it was a little different, you know? Yeah, sure. Yeah.

So, yeah. Drink-wise, Jason, what do you think? What would you want of an alcoholic beverage in there? Wario would have some sort of beer, I feel like. Something a little robust, a little challenging. Stout, maybe. Dark and thick, yeah.

Would Waluigi have a skinny, purple highball kind of thing? Maybe with some dry ice or something. That's good. If you could drink, if Luigi's Mansion was Okay, yeah. Maybe with some dry ice or something. That's good. Smoky coming out. Yes, yeah, yeah. If you could drink, if like Luigi's Mansion was the bar. Because it's scary, so kids are a little scared. So that's where it's adults only.

Yeah, keep them away. If you could order like some sort of like, I don't know if it's more medicinal or like a Long Island iced tea, but something called Dr. Mario. Yes. Well well then you do like what Scott's idea for the Mr. DNA that I'm obsessed with you put a little pill is like a kind of sugar

like sugar version of one of those Dr. Mario pills something like that yeah I went somewhere in Tokyo that did this that had a Dr. Mario drink that was like a pill that dissolved I thought it was insane and bad. But I sure had an idea neat.

Yeah, idea is good. And a cool little 8-bit Mario kind of bar. And you're a Dr. Mario guy. I know that. Yes. That for a long time was the relaxation. Right. Dr. Mario and smooth jazz from the 70s and 80s.

Game on, on mute, and smoother sounds instead. I'm a big Dr. Mario fan. Those are nice times. Yeah. So we're talking a lot about food. Do you want to talk about the Toadstool Cafe? I would love to talk about the Toadstool Cafe.

This is where a lot of my observations are, given that Mario Kart will be its own thing. You went to Toadstool Cafe? I did, yeah. We tried a bunch of stuff. Yes, yeah, us too. Okay, so basically, if you have this two-hour window,

and I don't know if this will be applicable as a tip, but you basically, you have to be careful, I would say, with time management. I think that there is no way, I don't know how it's going to be when it's open to the public, if you have to grab these reservations,

but it's a big convoluted. You've got to scan a code when you check in. And it takes you to a very non-theme park-y website where you have to rush check, grab a time. And then the time disappears and you've got to grab a less convenient time. And our time was in the dead center of the reservation. So it just became clear to me we cannot do the restaurant and the ride you like it's gonna be tough to do both of them so and you guys uh you and andrew were a little bit behind us so i was like kind of driving it a little like i think we have to go right on this

ride so we can make this reservation that required us to do the single rider line and this made sense to you i think you even suggested it but i i felt when i said we're gonna do the single rider line and this made sense to you i think you even suggested it but i i felt when i said we're gonna do the single rider line i felt a palpable disappointment that you were not going to be able to do the full line i mean maybe initially but since we were going back i wasn't so upset yes sure yeah we will have our chance and the episode will not occur until right until because i would not allow it if this were the. And the episode will not occur until then. Right, because I would not allow it. If this were the first episode about the ride and we didn't go in the full queue, come on. Yeah, what are we doing?

Sure. What kind of shabby organization is this? Jason, did you wait in line? Were you able to do that? We walked on the ride. Wow. In the main, in the regular? Yeah, sure.

And I'll get more into it when we do. But after climbing the four flights of stairs, seemingly, and then a few flights down. Are we supposed to be upset for you? I have a lot of qualms about accessibility in this land. Uh-huh, sure. But do you know there's not, is there a, there could be an elevator.

I didn't see any signs for it, or else I probably would have taken it. So, because I don't have like the worst ailments, but my knee has not been feeling great lately. And it felt worse after the ride, for sure. After the queue or the ride? The queue. No, the ride was fine. The ride was fine. Can't do a lot of damage when you're going one mile an hour.

Uh-oh. Spicy day. it was fine um uh uh can't do a lot of damage when you're going one mile an hour um spicy day so um yeah i we did the full queue and it's really well done sure it's like pretty beautifully done sure um i uh have played plenty of mario kart but it was never like you were saying the attachments i didn't i don't have the attachment to it that a lot of people do i don't think we ever had a copy i think we either borrowed copies or played a friend's houses and they would be like who do you want to play as i was like mario luigi uh who's available like because other people people are fairly oh i'd love to play is birdo a play those eggs Can I play as an egg? Did they ever add Birdo? I forget.

Maybe she is in there? I think Birdo was a player on weird Olympics games or Mario parties or something. I saw a screenshot where it did seem like you could play as Birdo in something. But I don't think a cart. Well, yeah. So, no. Well, we'll get to the Mario Kart stuff next episode

but yes, I was a huge Mario Kart guy. So you guys got on it and got in the cafe. Yes, we did. We did the ride twice. Be a single rider and here's a genuine tip. It's a very effective single rider.

If you need it, if you've got a limited time, I might be going against the... I'm going against the do the Q sensibility, but it's a very effective. It depends. Birdo is in Mario Kart Wii. Whoa.

Yeah. Really? I've played that. I didn't remember. And I even. I think you unlock her. Oh, okay. Maybe I didn't drive good enough.

Yeah. You were too sucked so you didn't get Birdo to play. I wouldn't have unlocked Birdo either. It is hard enough unlocking all those Super Smash Brothers characters. So anyways, if it is a limited time window, be careful with it. But yeah, we had a food reservation smack dab in the middle. We

did make it. It did all work out. But then it's this like, boy, is it this process. Like I say, you scan a code, you check in, then you get there and you wait in an outdoor line. Then you get get there and you wait in an outdoor line and you get checked again you wait in an indoor line and then a different indoor line with a counter and then a line before you can get seated there's a lot going on at the toadstool cafe so okay so universal doesn't have any of the infrastructure to do like well they have some

mobile i don't even know do they have any mobile orders they don't have the of the infrastructure to do like, well, they have some mobile. I don't even know. Do they have any mobile orders? They don't have the, like Disney now, even though a lot of it's annoying, they do have infrastructure in the app, like to get reservations and you know how to do it.

It feels like this is a lot like even uncharted water for universal as far as like how to manage a restaurant. That's going to be pretty popular. Oh, that's guaranteed to come out of the gate. Yeah, because that's a, other than the Harry Potter, again, Harry Potter stuff, that's a first. I don't even think like Moe's had that demand.

We were there pretty early in Moe's life. And I don't think, there was maybe a line to get in, but it wasn't like, oh my God, we need reservations to get in Moe's or something. Yeah, this is wild. They're doing a bad job or anything it's just you're just like i'm sorry this is what needs to be done in order to get the cute instagram yeah that will as soon as you see some photos even like the dressed nice photos of it you were like this is food for children this was not going to be good food.

It's not a high, yeah, it's a quick service food. Are we going to find disagreement from Jason on this? Good question, good question. No, I felt really bad a few hours after eating this food. I felt kind of bad as I was sitting there digesting the food. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I will say, in terms of like, some of this stuff is like the mirror opposite of Avengers Campus, where Avengers Campus is not the most stunning visual thing to stand in the middle of. But I kind of like seeing my friend Spider-Man on the ride.

I like seeing him flip in the air. And I like all the food I've tried at pimp's kitchen yeah i uh if we go into the toadstool cafe i think the best thing you gotta try the soda you gotta try the beverage and you mean you mean there's specifics are you just talking about uh is is that you saying that uh the only thing you're gonna like there is Sprite? No, I'm saying the Superstar Lemon Squash, the exclusive drink. Oh, you had that one. I had that.

None of us did that. Okay. No, I'll try that next time. Boba drink? I mean, we tried the, I had the spaghetti and meatballs. We shared the garlic knots. Okay.

Jane got the salad with a bunch of fruit in it. And then we got the Princess Peach cupcake and the question mark block tiramisu. Okay, yeah. I think we covered a lot of the same things. Did people do anything different? Oh, well, you know what? I mean, I'm standing in this line,

and it's a real quandary. I'm like, what do I want to have? What is not going to kill me here in the middle of the day? Just nothing. Do I really want a bunch of theme park spaghetti right now? And then the determination I made was to go on a little adventure, which is the, wait, oh, yes, the Mario mini burger adventure set. Like, wait a minute.

The other items do not involve an adventure. This looks like the ultimate adventure. Cheeseburger, truffle french fries, corn on the cob, not just sitting on the plate. Boring, standing upright, surrounded by hills of broccoli and a yellow box with a coin cookie

and a little Mario up on the top of it. This is all a delight. I was so, my whole mood changed as soon as I realized this was the move, was to have the children's hamburger. Yes. And it was kind of delightful when it showed up. Look, I can't say that this food, was anyone enthusiastic about anything they ate?

What did you have I had the Mario what was it Mario burger which it's just a burger with bacon mushroom and cheese oh there he is yes yeah yeah well and more on this later there's context to the to this photo

talk about the food and then we'll talk about the experience Mario burger I thought was fine I mean, was fine. I mean, it was fine. I think it was not as bad as a Tomorrowland cheeseburger. Yes. That's my baseline for bad theme park food is that with Tomorrowland. What do they call that place?

Yeah, yeah. There's a bad chicken sandwich there. And I know you like the Sunny Eclipse restaurant for some reason. Well, that's a satisfying burger. I mean mean the toppings bar is part of the you think that burr is better than probably a burger when you load it up with like caramelized onions and mushrooms and stuff you're crazy that also they just have like standard chicken tenders i think that's pretty i think that place and i think and maybe it's changed in the last couple years i think that place in the one in disneyland tomorrowland wise that's the worst quick service food in the park yeah tomorrow the tomorrowland uh what is that window called is tomorrow i mean the terrace right there is pretty

brutal um i well see my expectations for theme park burger and chicken sandwich grilled chicken sandwich especially a rock bottom real low of course that's why i was like oh i'll get spaghetti and meatballs and it was it was all right for like theme park spaghetti and meatballs a little spicy the sauce meatballs are pretty like firm like kind of stick together like like they're not real flaky you know sometimes you get a meatball and they kind of fall apart yeah right so i was eating this and i got it out halfway through and i'm like that's enough like That's enough of that. You didn't clear your plate? Well, no, I didn't know. Well, first off, three meatballs is too many meatballs

to eat on your own. Wait, wait, are you a three meatball? Three meatballs too much for a plate of spaghetti? For a plate of spaghetti? I think that's a two meatball thing. The size of these were pretty substantial. They're not that big though. They're pretty big.

Yeah, you shrunk your hand. Well, I think four, like two meatballs. You shivered. Two meatballs on a plate of spaghetti, four meatballs in a sandwich. I'll tell you what my spaghetti philosophy is. What's that? It has to have three meatballs. I don't even care about the size.

But if it doesn't feel like I got enough meatballs, I'm disappointed. This point is moot because I'm more of a spaghetti and sausage kind of guy. So now we get to the heart of what the problem is. Oh, yeah, now we get to the heart. Yeah, that's heart yeah that's fine you want it and the base on sausage is seven sausages you want seven sausages sticking out i mean it could be any you know you never know if it's going to be a full link is it going to be sliced up is it going to be just you know quarter links scott what how many meatballs do you like on a spaghetti and meatballs i mean more sounds better to me.

That's all I know. I guess two, but I think you're right. These did not seem like baseball size. Well, I mean, I believe, Jace, what he's saying. They're bigger balls. They're bigger than you think. And like I said, we were eating the garlic knots, which weren't great. Yeah, I see that those are big.

I'm looking at a picture right now. There are bigger balls for sure, but I need three of those. I think so. For sure but I need three of those. I think so. For sure, I need three of those. I mean, if you're getting it, because I want to make sure I have a little too much meatball. Like, I want a good even distribution with the pasta and the meatball. So three will give me a little. Like, I want a little too much meatball.

So I for sure am able to get it because the worst thing in the world is running out of meatballs when you're trying to finish your meal. You're trying to clean your plate. That is the worst thing in the world. That's fair. That's fair.

The sauce had mushrooms in it too. So it was like a mushroom marinade. Everything should have mushrooms in it at this point. That's heavier. Wait, I'm seeing your point now. That's a heavier sauce potentially. That is a little heavier. My burger had mushrooms in it at this point. That's heavier. Wait, I'm seeing your point now. That's a heavier sauce potentially. That is a little heavier. My burger had mushrooms on it.

Yeah, there was a lot of mushroom going on. That didn't sound good to me. I like it as a theme. Supposedly, there's soup. I thought this is something Andrew was talking about, and I'm like, you're crazy. There's not mushroom soup. That's the most Japanese.

That must be from the Japan menu. But sure enough i checked apologies tanger they're they're i just don't think they were serving it yet they also have basically they have this this place is like several it's quick service style food but in a sit-down environment yes it's like all the types of restaurants at once right so confusingly the full menu seems to have like a uh like like a short rib demi-glaze kind of like a more it's like a 28 dollar thing they were not serving but then i'm like i mean that sounds good that's the kind of thing i get at places usually but is that is do

i want that in a place with a bunch of pipes on the ceiling and a bunch of projections of i mean look the vibes are very good the The vibes in the cafe were really relaxing. We didn't know that all the crowds had shown up until we left Toadstool Cafe. It seemed like you maybe had a more peaceful experience than we did. Well, let me tell you. So we got in the land like 10.20, 10.30.

We were there early. There really wasn't a lot of people there. We walked on the ride. Then we went right to the cafe. We had like 11 a.m reservation um probably 11 15 11 20 probably the wrong time to be eating a plate of spaghetti and meatballs um oh did you have like a banana before i think i just had like a granola bar or something before that's a heavy lunch what that's a heavy early lunch oh yeah it's heavy early lunch but i wanted to say sure i'm not saying you were wrong i'm just saying like

when in rome certainly but now i'm getting the clearer picture of yeah yeah um i jane was a little went in rome went to rome a rome that has a horrible italian food in the fake fake rome mario had to go to oh. Oh, he went to Rome in one of those weird CD-ROMs, I think. Yeah, I think so. Sounds right. Jane had the Yoshi's favorite fruit and veggie salad. I think she said it was okay.

It was really sweet. There were Yoshi eggs on it that were just basically unflavored croutons. Like dried bread. Yeah, Sarah had this too. It's like spotted like Yoshi eggs, but it's just like a hard bread you're cracking up the idea is you're eating unfertilized yoshis in the salad geez wow yeah you're you're diminishing the yoshi

population by eating this salad they were unfertilized in the same way that you eat eggs from the store yeah you don't really think about it it depends how a yoshi fertilizes an egg that's really what it is we have to figure out how inhumane or humane. Tongue. So one Yoshi deposits the egg, and then some other Yoshi comes and tongues it? Whatever they reproduce with is on the tongue. Yeah, the reproductive organs are in the tongue.

That might make sense. Maybe they fertilize bushes. It's a bird and a bee in a flower situation. And the eggs crack out of... No, wait. They lay eggs, right? Yoshi's lay eggs, yeah. Yeah, you can launch them, right?

Don't you shoot them at people? It depends what it is. It depends what game it is. Because the first appearance of Yoshi is Mario World. And if you collected enough berries... Was that right? Yeah, you would collect enough berries and then Yoshi would poop out an egg

that was a one-up, I think. Yes. I think that's what it was. But then you'd still find a Yoshi egg once in a while. If you killed your Yoshi, you would find a Yoshi egg somewhere and hatch it. But Yoshi would poop out eggs that a one-up would come out of yeah i believe yeah so when two yoshis love each other very much they make it you get another you get a second chance at life then they make

life for you yeah you get the life that's nice um it's yeah it seemed like an odd salad it's all just sitting in the i think like i i might disagree with you jason on like uh atmosphere and relax because it was a it was i mean it was like later in the day certainly but this is like i mean it's a it's a cafeteria it's like it's a high school cafeteria that's immensely themed yeah it looks great and everything but it was not that's why i think it's weird like the sit down dining of it because i'm like how fast and also you know that they are having to turn over people as fast as possible what they are making the staff do and everyone's doing a fine job but oh my god you could just you could feel the stress again we were crazy we were there at 11 15 in the

morning and so um i was happy we didn't have to carry plates of because you you wait in a line that gets you to the lined order and they give you all your drinks and then you go over to someone who takes you to a table so it's kind of happy they were going to bring the stuff to us but it was chill it was more more chill. We're all standing in a big corral holding trays with drinks on them. And everybody just like, there's not a line anymore. How can I be the first to grab the attention of the table keeper? To get to the host stand was getting a little messy and confusing for sure. But then when we got seated, we were sort of in our own little back

like corner maybe it was not like fully going at full speed when we were there and that's what i you know i think we lucked out we went to the first group on a weekday when it opened a little early everything so it was early i think is the is the listener tip for sure um yeah get your spaghetti and meatballs if you can before 10 a.m. That would be our tip. You're not going to hear that tip anywhere else. Spaghetti and meatballs.

And ask for an additional ball and see what they say. Yeah, see if you can add one on. Kind of a limited menu if you're there with a vegetarian. There's two salads and the garlic knots. A lot of the other places

at Universal at this point will like replace the patty on a burger with beyond burger and i don't think they're there yet and obviously the soups haven't shown up yet i'm excited for these soups i'll be honest we someone there told we said like oh is anything vegan they're like not yet but hopefully in the future i think we're getting tomato soup and i'm like oh yeah southern california summer a big big old bowl of tomato soup yeah yeah is it mushroom and tomato just i think they're separate yeah there's the mushroom mushroom one i think comes in like a toadstool comes in right you know i love mushrooms i don't know if i've talked about this on the show before i'm a big mushroom guy

pizza on burgers anywhere they can absolutely put mushrooms i love it wow so there you go that's something new you learned yeah i don't think that's five timers yeah it is not no that's the first timer so listeners bring mike some mushrooms pearl mushrooms at me if we ever do another live show let me ask you i think it's probably the most calories of the thing on the menu but shake shack has a thing that's a mushroom stuffed with cheese have i tried it and deep fried yes i have tried it delicious and you can also get it on a burger if you're like really having it yes you could because because yes that will replace a burger basically there's a big mushroom that's deep fried it's a big mushroom deep fried with cheese in it as well. It's really intense. It is very intense. But if you're a madman, you also will put a beef patty on that.

I've never done that. I've only ever done that. I have done it. It was not a customization. It was on post. Like, it was an option on Postmates. It's a customization, but it's not something off menu. No, it's not off menu.

We all got through lockdown in our own way. You didn't have to call. Like, Scott asked at the top of the show, you didn't have to say it in person to somebody. No, no. It was a prompt that you could click. We're back in person and we're back to shame. That's right.

It's a shame. Oh, yeah. You know me. Always feeling shame. Full of food shame. Full of, yeah. Can I say there is a, I was curious what we're not getting that japan has oh right

wise and the big thing is i mean there's there's differences between these menus actually well there's a few in this restaurant uh or in their equivalent which is the japanese name of a canopio i think is his name there and similar desserts, but I'm pretty jealous of they the here It's a princess peach cupcake, right? It's very rich and super pink and a couple types of frosting but in Japan you have princess peaches cake Which is a multi-layer cake looks? Pretty it might be a multi-person dessert which the the other ones are not really, unless you're just sharing little bites. But like, there's raspberries on top, couple layers, bunch of stars up top.

And then there is a cracker note or a cookie note. Either way, some food stuff where Peach has written a note. And it says as follows, dear friends, I poured my heart into this cake for you i hope you enjoy it yours truly peach intense i think there's a motion in this in a game oh i think that i poured my heart is a is a quote well the cake i think that she makes the cake in one of the games oh geez okay oh so on top of that it that, it's a legendary cake. There it is. Thank you. That's beautiful. I don't, there's not like enough, there's no emotional please in the desserts.

I liked the Mount Beanpole cake, but nobody is telling me like I worked my fingers to the bone. Yeah. I am exhausted. I am physically worse for having made this cake for you. I hope you enjoy it because I'll never enjoy anything again. When can you get an American dessert that tugs at your heartstrings? Boy, I don't know. You guys haven't had one?

Jason? I mean, if they made like an up. No, a hypothetical. Oh, sorry, an actual one. When was the last time a dessert brought you to tears? Oh, that's a great question. Every trip to CVS. You get those $4 off.

I've been eating candy again. I had been doing well with eating healthier and now I've been eating goddamn candy. Did you hit up the leftover Valentine's Day candy? No, but there was a movie theater box. I gotta stop. Your CVS coupon has unlocked something bad.

It's unlocked something. I was eating less sugar. They tricked me this week. They didn't send it until Sunday, so I had a much smaller window to get it. Okay. Well, I have to find- But you see, again, as we said before, it's sliding through the door like Indiana Jones. I made it.

You made it. I have to find spinach that I can buy at CVS or mushrooms. Do they sell mushrooms at CVS? I don't think so. Don't buy I can buy at CVS or mushrooms. Do they sell mushrooms at CVS? Don't buy your own mushrooms at CVS. How bad do you need this deal? They don't have produce at CVS? They might have canned mushrooms. Okay.

Okay. All right. I've been on the show bragging. I got a good price on these canned mushrooms. It's a real deal on these canned mushrooms. So I think I already said we got the tiramisu and the cupcake. I didn't really love either of these things. The cupcake was kind of nasty.

Like I really didn't get much funfetti taste. There wasn't a lot of flavor. Too much going on. Too much going on. Like clashy frostings, I'd say. The tiramisu, I mean the square, the actual square of tiramisu inside the like like the shortbread cookies were kind of flavorless, kind of bland. And the actual tiramisu inside didn't really have a lot of tiramisu flavor.

Like it didn't have the espresso flavor. I know they're not going to dump rum on it or whatever they usually do, but it just kind of was a dry cake. It almost felt like it was just like a regular cupcake dressed up to look like that dessert. Well, you did not have tiramisu because I wanted to get that for the table when I ordered and there was just this very hesitant looking down from the person working at the counter like,

Chef Toad has not prepared the question mark. That is fine. We will do something else. That is fine. Which one did we have? We had Mount Beanpole. It's like a multi-layer thing. That was the winner for me.

You didn't have that, Jason? I didn't have that one. And I regret it because I didn't realize until after the fact. It was a little, it's a little like. That it had a little matcha flavor in it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I didn't know that offhand.

I wouldn't have known how to taste that, but I read it later. I'm like, yeah, it did feel like a more mature flavor or something. Nice multi-layer cake cut into little, very video game looking little blocks. The presentation is so good. Yeah. One big one, one little one. You got looking little blocks. The presentation is so good. Yeah. One big one, one little one. You got a little flag in the top. I'll try to get it when we're back.

I'll try to get that one. I think that's the winner from what I could tell. So what did I miss? You know, you get to meet Toad in the line. We haven't said there's a little video. Oh, right, right. Oh, sure. Toad introduces the premise. The haven't said there's a little video. Oh, right, right. Oh, sure. Toad introduces the premise.

The Toad is making the food. And I had maybe had not heard Toad's voice. And the voice is a tad crazy. If I could attempt to do it, like, how did it? Okay, okay. It's sort of Mickey, but then a little bit of, like, gurgle to it. Like, I cook stuff up for you. This is a place where you can that is so that's what toad has sounded like this entire time a little right he seems like

he's been smoking a little bit it's like a little raspy mickey with cigarettes right a child with cigarettes yeah it's like a child toadstool. Toad is stressed out. It seems like the weight of the kingdom is on toad in general. You're going to kill me for this. It's a hard life. I work for royalty. It's a great, it's a cool little projection, but they really should change it depending on how busy the restaurant is.

It should make him far more stressed out if there's a lot of people in line and if there's not he should just be like taking it easy that's not what they're gonna do but yeah yeah six let me get you all got annual best discounts i'm picking my pocket do you know about the margins of running a restaurant these days? Shut it down. They won't let me sell alcohol. That's where you make your money.

Dude, you can't drink on the job anymore. You're not allowed to run the place. Whose name is on the outside? You call this DRMSO? It's just a cupcake dressed up to look like it! Oh yeah, well fuck you! You come in here!

Fuck me! You tell me how to run my- Whose stool? My stool! This is why you're always being kidnapped! This raspberry- This raspberry sauce on the plate has expired! It tastes horrible!

They come here, they love it, they don't care! They're over the atmosphere! You're a douchebag, you know that? It tastes horrible. They come here, they love it, they don't care. They're over the atmosphere. You're a douchebag, you know that? You're a go-kart racer, not a chef. What are you doing? I'm anything. We all do everything.

I play tennis. I've been in the Olympic Games with them. What's this fuck Sonic? This is why your wife left you. You get out of my stool. This is never going to be Taffer's stool. I'll be back tomorrow if you're lucky. Toad starts crying. Toad vomits.

Adorable pink vomit. Sparkles. Don't tell anyone. This is what the raspberry syrup's made of. My puke syrup, okay? The syrup is my puke. I was a little bummed because I feel like Universal has done a great job

on both coasts of kind of upping their food game. Like, I think the Jurassic World sort of stuff and they really did that restaurant with like a lot of like pulled pork and arepas. Have you had that? Huh? I mean, have you had this? We had it at the opening

and then I had it in the park after the fact. The opening was different. They were both pretty good. I know it was good when I went and got a plate there. You got to check in years later, though. Yeah. We should have checked in when we were on the patio. I was very excited that the additional people that the land is providing

caused the long dormant Panda Express location on the lower lot to open. Oh. The rumor is that Toad's Kitchen shares kitchen space with that Panda Express. I 100% believe that. Yeah. Because some people were wondering why they didn't get rid of the Panda Express because I 100% believe that. Yeah. So the people were wondering why they didn't get rid of the Panda Express because you could get a little more room

but apparently it's kitchen. Oh, so we have a kitchen already. Right. Yeah. So children's hamburgers made in the Panda Express kitchen did not blow us away. Well, there's a takeaway food spot like right next to it. Like, like you know prepared sandwiches

and salads and stuff i i feel like both of those probably just with the people going like walking by the sheer number of foot traffic probably brings in god knows how many tens of thousands of dollars a year for the place right you're saying it would be not be financially well i'm saying like because that's what was one of my things. Why didn't they just demolish those two restaurants and make the land a little more palatable? Sure. Panda Express is what makes them the money. Panda is where it's at.

Yeah, they got a different Panda Express pretty close. And then the one on Ventura Boulevard, pretty close. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's boy. There's a lot of Panda Express within a couple of miles. Yes. I guess nowadays we'll know the the pure joy of like the panda express next to the jurassic park restaurant which was serving uh pizza hut personal pizzas and half the panda express menu really really

yeah was it when i went in 2006 for the first time we're like what's this place you get orange chicken at the jurassic park orange chicken and a personal pizza and then half a block away you could get a larger panda express selection magic magic those were the magic of the movies um uh what really quick uh just before we get to the real experience the uh another thing is that you're you know you might find it to be a relaxing environment although very crowded but then sometimes airships arrive there's airships and they shoot bullet bills yeah towards the toads who are walking around your exterior toad views but then also into the kitchen you know i, I feel bad. You know, I forget about the conditions in these kitchens. Yeah.

And I don't remember that every 20 minutes bullet bills are shooting through. I really should cut them some slack. I hear I am going, I didn't like the truffle oil. Well, they're made under very perverse. Yeah, there's a firebombing of Dresden happening while you get your little boba drink. The lemon squash to boba drink was good.

That was pretty fun. And the bobos, and there was little stars in there. There was little, I think, pieces of mango that were star-shaped were tasty. But the attack. But you have to know when you see the attack. Yeah, I saw the attack, and I thought it was cute, but we were really far away, so it didn't really the attack and i thought it was cute but we were really far away so it didn't really bother i thought it was cute i thought it cute from the distance i thought it

i thought it was a thunderstorm at first and then i looked up exactly what was happening i saw it saving private ryan but with toads that's what it was to me here's what i was hoping and maybe it really what i was looking for was like a resolution to the like a like a very triumphant yeah like and they have pipes in there and i was like oh maybe they'll be like some of the pop through the pipe or like total be like i'm working on it and like our ducking cover like if there was like something like element like that but it really was just like well you're gonna feel like pensive for three minutes. And then without sort of warning, you won't feel pensive anymore. That's kind of the vibe in there. Yeah.

Well, and then also like the window that you're like, we were next to a window, a TV window. It's full of toads milling about at 0.5 miles per hour. Just kind of like walking a dopey walk. And then the bullet bills come and the airships come and then they walk the same pace, but they have mild frowns instead of smiles. Yes, and no one's saying anything. So it really, it was an odd.

Yeah, well, but isn't that calming that if they're, all right, they know what happens all the time. Yeah, that's what I want is for one of them to say it happens. Yeah. Another day in paradise. Yeah. But it's really, we're like,

Oh, cool to show or whatever. And then it starts and then the toads are wandering. Then the pensive music starts and then they're just like still like milling about, but maybe a little bit faster. And then the ship, Oh,

the ships. Okay. I'm looking around like, okay, what's going to happen in here? And then all of a sudden the ships just go away. still like milling about but maybe a little bit yeah faster and then the ship oh the ship's okay i'm looking around like okay what's gonna happen in here and then all of a sudden the ships just go away they leave yeah i don't know what i want i don't know what i wanted just letting everybody know we're there like the chinese spy balloons yeah i don't know we're watching you i guess i wanted like some i guess i wanted like uh we talked about an ice capades segment that had mr belvedere playing king koopa and in it was oh no you go ahead sorry yeah and in it i was just game mario or luigi has basically like a cannon of some kind that he shoots and blows up like a

koopa troopa with sky high kingdom come every villain that comes at him and koopa is murdered he's dead yeah Definitively. I guess it's in Universal's interest to keep these stories going as long as possible and not kill Koopa once in the restaurant. Not give Luigi a handheld mortar so he can just like. But like if Luigi just shot down the airship, that would be cool in the video. That's true. Like at least bring it down somehow and then make us feel good that they're not just still out there lurking. And that'll be the resolution.

I mean, you don't have to have like, oh, help us throw your food at the screen. Like, it doesn't have to be something interactive. Just take the food your parents have bought. Get them back in line and order dessert. Order two of every food item. Want to throw it, Bowser, in at bowser and as much as possible more expensive food is more consistent if you're a pass holder you get the discount but not in the shop but here you get the discount i take your coins if you don't do it you don't want your

coin counts to disappear do you they link your coin to the food and your ability to fight bullet bills with food yeah so i don't know i'm just saying there needed to be some resolution to feel like that show was satisfying in there yeah it is not the soundest story i would say and it should be quicker than like uh like trader sam's where it's just like oh there's the oh the volcano's blowing okay we're fine yeah yeah well the thing is, it turns out the adventure was not with the Mario characters. The adventure was with you. As it is always with me.

Because things in our time there suddenly round a corner. We've been through all the steps of this process through the different lines and the check with the tray concierge. And then we are seated and we're eating. And I, of course, I maybe missed the the lead up that we're waiting for our food. But then I and then I sense the stress rising.

And can you explain your situation? Yeah, look, I don't know what is proper in the age of covid and respiratory diseases when you have a child. So Lindsay and I are being, I would say, cautious. Is it overly cautious? Probably. I don't know. It's frustrating. We're a have a child. So Lindsay and I are being, I would say cautious. Is it overly cautious? Probably. I don't know. It's frustrating.

We're very young child. So we've sort of like, well, let's wait till all the vaccinations have happened. That six month mark, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So I don't know really what I was thinking, but when we went into the toadstool cafe, I was like, I was hoping I was going to eat this outside. And after I saw the reality of the Super Nintendo Land, it was not really a good place to eat anything or do anything or stand anywhere. So I also thought, okay, maybe they'll give you the food

and you can like grab the food and take it or something. Not the case either. They're going to bring you the food. You're going to wait inside. And I don't know how quickly. Well, probably I'm starting to get a sense of the situation. And then we are given silverware. Yes.

And we realize, oh, this is oddly not. Much more formal. Yeah, yeah. This is plates you don't keep. This is a real nice approach. So, I mean, I feel like like with many things i feel very stupid but i'm like i guess i should go eat outside so i don't get sick in the toadstool cafe and get my child's i don't know our mast for every other bit of this you have an n95 fucking pandemic and what uh whatever so i'm just like we got a bunch of food. I ordered the biggest hamburger on the

menu. I should have ordered the Mario Adventure. It's smaller. Although at the same time, it comes in so many parts. I described five. At least this is one piece. But then you have fries. You know what? Actually, fries are as many pieces as you can get.

I'm starting to watch you do this calculus. I think the same thing comes do this calculus. Yes. And I think the same thing comes over both Aaron and I. We realize, oh my God, it's a Mike food stress situation. That is correct. This time we are here to watch it happen. One of the classic tropes of Podcast the Ride.

Yes, one is occurring and it usually does not happen in front of me. This is a Liberty Tree Tavern, the family feast. Oh my God. One oh my god it's a mini monster a mini oh yes a mini monster throwing the bobas away steps away yep i uh um no you know how this felt to me this felt like in get back when you watch mccartney come up with get back when you're watching the moment the guy the guy who's the best at the thing he's doing in the moment of creation. And for you, that is inventing food stress.

That's right. And it's like you're figuring out the baseline right then and there. You saw it happen. And I was there for it. It was not planned. And I'm here for it. Thank you, yeah. Yeah.

It was not planned, but it did develop. It now becomes an escape situation. It is now an escape situation because also this is not a place where oh there's a bunch of exits everywhere in and out no problem like everything about it is stressful because you've ordered other desserts we wanted to try other things in like the the garlic knots and again even if it was like oh casual sort of fit in oh you go you come in like i'll eat blah blah blah come back in and grab a knot or something. No.

There is one exit and there's a guard to make sure no one sneaks in because of the crazy system that's in place because it's opening a few weeks. Now, let me say this. You described this because you went to your you're you're getting progressively more stressed out about the situation. Yes. And then you go and you do a recon pass. And you come back and you say, there's a guard. There's a guard at the door. Later, when we leave the restaurant, we see a bored 20-year-old at a podium. Who could have gotten me in trouble.

And they also might have been really cool. They might have made fun of you. Very true. Well, that's when you're dealing with young people. That is a possibility but again but here's now what i here's where i is is the situation does the situation here's what the situation where you get in trouble it is excuse me sir where do you think you're going with the food that you own yeah the food that you paid for and therefore are rightfully the owner of mike i'm so sorry i wasn't i i couldn't

we couldn't make it work where it was same time because i usually have ziploc bags on me when i go to theme parks is that true you have a bunch of bags every now and then one or two uh wait wait whoa whoa every now and then all the time no how many now and thens how many you got on you right now um i might have one or two from my trip. Can you find eggs? Okay. So theme parks. This was a Sheridan hack we learned a long time ago. And I usually carry a backpack or something.

An old Sheridan tradition. An old Sheridan tradition. This was a lot easier when phones were like tiny clamshells. But you shove your wallet and your phone if you're going on a water ride in a Ziploc bag and they don't get wet. It's a little harder with iPhones. Let me ask you this. If you used your plastic bag for a water ride to put a wallet in, would you throw the bag out afterward or would you use it to put a food? I'd probably throw it out at the end of the day.

Probably? Well, if I was going on a second water ride. For the other water, but you wouldn't use it for food storage. No, I wouldn't use it for food storage. Thank God. Okay, that's good. You check for bags. So Jason always has plastic bags on him, which is something I did not know. Also, another new thing. New fact.

Jason has bags. He's always with... Wow! He's always got your backpack, and your backpack has always had bags. Wow. I would, by the way, your backpack has always had bags. Wow. I've got some pill bottles in the big one. By the way, I would not have used those bags. Use the bag. You don't know where the bag is. This bag is Skittles.

That's different. You can't put a lot of other food in there. It's already got Skittles. You know he's using those wallet bags. I know he says that, but then you get them mixed up. Like, which bag is which? He's cleaning the wallet. He's like, you get some sanitizer.

He runs, yeah. You get in the bathroom, put some soap in there wall i think he's like you get some sanitizer he runs yeah you get in the bathroom put some soap in there and suddenly it's a new bag but not to you and then he's shoving those then he's going right to the toppings bar and throwing tomatoes tomorrow i think i just have one this time sorry one bag well that's pretty good pretty good all right all right now we know from traveling it's like probably some toiletries or something uh-huh uh i want to know what toiletries you have well shampoo you have shampoo in your bag right now not in my bag i think i brought it in case i needed one in case i forgot one okay or something leet we brought it on vacation oh okay oh yeah for christmas like christmas vacation yeah but not it okay universal hollywood let's

get back to this okay so now it becomes so, there is a guard, the scariest guard you could ever imagine. This is where I'm like, you know, when like Rugrats, when you see what the babies see and you see how much scarier everything is. Yes. Once I saw the guard that you described as a guard, I'm like, okay, so Mike's imagination like grew the guy up to eight feet. He suddenly has brawny arms. He has an Arnold voice now.

Yeah, yeah. Where do you think you're going? You're a puny man. Picturing maybe a bomb bomb. Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. A literal ticking time bomb. Yeah.

Uh-huh. And you don't know. You don't want that thing to go off in front. No. So, yeah, you have an enemy. This is very Mario. There's an enemy guarding the gate. What are you going to do?

So now you're trying to figure out ways to smuggle the food that you paid for out of the Mario Cafe. Yes. Erin and I are offering suggestions. Many. She said, well, just we got some napkins here. We'd have to ask for more. And we don't want to make the stressed out wait staff do that but we could uh wrap the wrap the burger in a number of napkins aaron said you could put it in your hood not a bad idea because now it

becomes the food can't be seen they can't know that you have felt like it was wrong to take the food out of this location obviously who cares but for some reason the way it was wrong to take the food out of this location. Obviously, who cares? But for some reason, the way it was set up to me felt like a fortress. Mike, I saw people with to-go boxes. I saw people with take-out boxes. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there because that made me feel better.

You mean like a restaurant would have? Yeah, like a restaurant. Oh, Scott, you got it. You know my man. We'll get there. We'll get there. Because food often has to be transported out of restaurants and this is not a

bank vault yeah and I'm aware of some of this but I don't want to say because again I'm watching the moment of creation happen so I'm trying to think of whatever I believe I had the idea I think that burger would all fit inside your N95 in the mask yeah

I think you open up that baby. You're pretty low on oxygen, so you got to do that. Walk as fast as you can. But you just got burger pressed right up against your face. It's like a feed bag. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which you could go outside and keep using that way. That could be a fun way to eat a burger.

That would have been easier, I think, actually. But then it gets tough with fries because fries are dangling out of the thing um but like but what does not of course i want to encourage the hijinks yeah but how do you not just say i don't i am eating outside for covid purposes doesn't that get you past the guard yeah or just of course it does i didn't say anything i didn't say anything to the guard i have to use the bathroom or like i'm feeling dizzy i need to just get some air and come back in i have a time sensitive issue with the glow-in-the-dark turtles that need to be ordered i have to make a phone call in a place where there is not a bombing a cartoon bombing you have to believe me when i say i actually didn't think i was going to be stopped uh-huh but i did i don't know if it's

really if i analyze what it was was like i don't want to have like an art like a baby size armful of food on the way out in front of the person that that's because maybe they don't want people i don't really know exactly when i analyze what i was thinking it wasn't that i thought i was going to go to universal jail or that it was like so forbidden to eat out there. Are you going to bring some paper plates when we go back to this land? It's a very good question. It's a very, very good question.

I think I kind of know what to do. I guess I got to swing by my house. I just said to take the bag. Maybe bring your own bags. We can also just use the cheat code for Toad. Could I get that actually boxed up to go? That's the cheat.

Do you think you could just tell them? Well, we sort of get there is what happened. Well, you went back and explored. So I went around. There was a couple of booths that were not populated. Like some felt like birthday booth or like the Fuddruckers Tonight Show booth that existed in the Burbank Fuddruckers.

Oh, of course. Yeah. But in the corner of this Toadstool Cafe. Is there like a room? Is there like a private room? Or something like that. It was set back. It was other tables and it didn't feel like it was super special, but there was no one there and I wonder why they weren't seating people there. Because believe me, it was busy.

So it would make sense that you put somebody back there, but I don't know. So, yeah, I walked around. You did a pass. Got the lay of the land. Start formulating the escape. Okay, first things first. We got to get past those guards. Dung, dung, dung, dung, dung.

All right, I'll crawl under the table. I'll use the pipes. I'll hide. Is that running by the fire? That fire, whatever it is. Those long, elongated fire things that come out of the blocks. This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. I've played Mario my whole life, and if I know Mario levels, I can just hit the

ceiling and go one of those secret layers up top, and I can just overshoot this entire thing one of those secret layers of top and I can just overshoot this entire thing. I don't even have to fight the bad guys. And maybe there'll be warp pipes that just take me all the way back up to the upper lot. If I can get a star, I can run through

and no one will even notice me. The guard just flips around. He's dead. You run so fast you end up next to the Indominus. Sure sure in the upper level of the water he's out he's a lakeside country club suddenly he's on hole 14 so yeah those are all all the scenarios are going around in my mind uh and then i sat back down and i said oh you know what they have because i will say this i didn't think they had to go things i don't know why this is fair because it is a restaurant

that is sometimes a formal sit-down restaurant and sometimes seemingly missing the basic yeah functionality so i really i didn't think that was possible i go they probably don't have i'm thinking this i'm like they don't have like to go thing like so what am i gonna so then i go you know what they do have extra cups they have extra cups so I can throw the fries into the extra cup. Hey, by the way, cups and napkins, they do have Super Nintendo World exclusive. They got the logo on the cups and napkins. That's true.

So if you need to jailbreak your fries, you also get a nice souvenir too. So I found somebody who was very nice working there i said excuse me and i was i was speaking hushed i remember uh i go do you have uh like an extra can i just have like an extra cup i'm gonna take some of the food out and i want to put like the fries uh like in there she goes oh well do you just want like a we have a big cupcake like to go i go that would be perfect and i make a big show like oh thank you so much this is great and i truly i was like blown away

that they even have it and i go of course they would have it because sometimes you don't want the dessert that would be unreasonable to force everybody to eat their big desserts in that area if you i when we go together. I will get the dessert to go for you. You can wait outside. You don't have to come. You don't have to relive this horror story. Jason will talk to the guards for you. We are days.

Thank you for doing that. I will get you something. I will get you something to go. Well, we'll discuss it beforehand. We'll figure it out. We'll discuss it beforehand. I will examine the bag that you're going to use well you were talking about the pulled pork

being delicious so maybe maybe I will I could bring the pulled pork from Jurassic Park into Nintendo Land and eat the pulled pork while I walk around listening to the coin noises and I can have a Jurassic beer

a Jurassic beer as well um jordan can you pull up that that uh burger photo that you had a while ago because now you know not that was a bait and switch i don't want to see leo i don't want to hear leo uh uh okay so all right now jack and the cigarette is that's great I'll see that all day. But now we know the context. When you pulled this up before, we think this is just Mike looking at a burger. This is Mike contemplating how to jailbreak this burger. That's right. How do you bust this burger out? And so we're figuring out the plan here. You get the to-go container. So now you got that. That is enough room to put the fries. Did you put the burger in the cup as well? I put a napkin in a helmet in one hand. You held the burger separately.

But then we're thinking, wait a minute. This is no ordinary circumstance where you just walk out with the food. We got all these things that you need to try. People need to know how much you don't like the pink cupcake or are unsatisfied by the garlic knots. I was. Did you try that pink cupcake? I sure did. Eating it, I was like, this seems like a thing that Mike is going to order and I bet

he's not going to like it. Well, you did it. You tried it. But it was kind of a blur. Basically it was, you know, you had done a commendable job fitting fries into that to-go cup. But we're like, wait a minute. You have to talk. This is your job. Your job is to go. Yes. But we're like, wait a minute. You have to talk. This is your job.

Your job is to talk about these desserts and these garlic knots. We got to get them out. You should also say I put the fries in the cupcake to go container and then I dumped all the ketchup on top of them. So that's an important fry. Truffle fries, ketchup. And then, Jordan, can we go to the photo Mike food, too? So we're like, how much can we pack onto this?

So now what you see is a matcha Mount Bee pole. You have pink frosting. We even gave you the crown, the peach crown. Then you have a garlic knot that you did dip in the marinara. And this is all on top of ketchup and fries. And we gave you the flag because, like mario reaching for the top of that flag uh you have overcome you're trying to overcome a major challenge concerned about germs but everyone everyone get in there everyone touch that food a little this is the thing if you were

gonna if there was heavy covet in the toadstool cafe mask or no mask i think you got that covet this is the most crowded i think it's the same outside outside is probably like like well that is it is so packed it is so packed outside of nintendo land it's a fairly good point but i'll say this i'm coming out of this pandemic less worried about service germs and way more worried about airborne germs oh sure yeah so you're fine with eating food that all your friends are piling onto a platter for you. Kind of, yeah. After touching steering wheels and goggles all day.

That's why I say I don't know. I feel crazy. I feel silly sometimes. I don't know what's the right thing to do. But I know that a food pile at the very least is amusing. It was a lot of fun. Well, you did the right thing to do. The KFC famous bowl.

Jordan, can we see Mike Food 3, please? And this is some results. And you opted for holding the burger and not putting it into your mask. But look how much you fit it. This is a meal, not just a burger and fries, but also a sampling of desserts children's toys flags and hats up top he has not unlocked the advanced player ability where you say could

i have a couple boxes he would have to go back to the that's when the guards get suspicious that's when even if he's not talking to the guards the hostess is like maybe the guards should be let in on this hey can we uh get the guards, the hostess is like, maybe the guards should be let in on this. Can we get the guards on the wonky? Hey, pal, what are you trying to pull here? Are you going to eat this food in addition to carrying it out? What's your deal? Eat the food that you paid twenty two dollars for somewhere where we didn't say to eat it several feet away.

This is it really. I'll be. It's impressive. It looks like I could like palm two basketballs. I'm holding so much at once. Thank God nobody got the spaghetti and meatballs. Oh my God. These meatballs would have blown this whole thing up.

It's all a bob on that goes sky high. Those two meatballs that Jason said were this big or so. Oh, I have really small hands. So you're supposed to like in proportion jason maybe wouldn't have been able to pull this oh i wouldn't be able to do any of this but also he wouldn't have gotten himself in this situation this fine mess that he's gotten himself into no yeah so i would have just called it and lied my way through this i would have just just let the everyone else steer the conversation go like like, oh, we didn't really get too crowded. So, yeah.

So I carried all of this past the guard successfully. Idiot. What kind of guard are you? Somebody made it out with food. It might have been happening all day. Food guard. I went outside and I tried to sit right outside the Toadstool Cafe. No, you cannot do that. that's where the line is forming

so i got one bite in and then it was clear that the other people were being loaded right in front of me no not good you go over here actually stand over here okay sounds good ding ding ding ding ding ding all right maybe i'd not like to be here okay you did find a spot i did eventually find a lit the quietest spot i think in super nintendo land which is there was like a big a tall planter i think is where i was i have a picture of it um and it was near it was near some things that kids could sit on if they wanted that were big toadstools um well i gotta find that because i'm practically child size um so i i should yeah unless oh it's a very evocative photo spaghetti meatballs yes and leo the truck leo the truck you know what i'll get a better shot i have some video of the food pile and sort of going walking

through and i'll post that to social media oh yeah i well i did a interview right yes we have an interview too we'll post as well that'll be on the socials at podcast the ride there i just saved myself a plug yeah and so so you'll see all of that in depth that'll really drive a lot of people to go to the social media to see what i think of the different frosting that's been soaked in ketchup how How did the two types of pink frosting that even Jason didn't like, how did they complement ketchup and truffle salt? I think truffle too. If there's truffle on fries,

they often skip the ketchup. Wow. So there you have it. But how was the Jurassic patio? You guys have mentioned that multiple times. My God. Oh, never did I need a Jurassic patio more You guys have mentioned that multiple times. Oh, my God. Oh, never did I need a Jurassic patio more. Never did Erin need a Jurassic.

Oh, she was thrilled. Yeah. And look, you know, she has no bridge to burn with Universal PR. Hey, we're going to compliment another Universal thing. Jurassic patio, that's the king of the kingdom right there. You're talking what are the drinks at the hut and then carry it upstairs? Oh, that's right. Okay, great.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're going to want to take a sip before you get up there because that's a lot to walk with. Real filled, yeah. Especially if you do the big boy, which Aaron did. Again, long days of coins in Leo the truck.

She deserved that big boy. There needs to be. I think a Jurassic patio in this Super Nintendo land would fix all the problems. She deserved that big boy. There needs to be. I think a Jurassic patio in this Super Nintendo land would fix all the problems. There's upstairs space. There should be. In a place with layers,

you know where I felt a lot of peace? Was in that single rider line that kind of takes you out. You kind of veer off to the right. And then we actually got a chance to take a couple photos,

look at the whole land. And if they could carve out a little corner, some little stoop overhang to just kind couple photos, look at the whole land. And if they could carve out a little corner, some little stoop overhang to just kind of sit, people watch, just watch that swamp go over and over. And I think maybe you got it more in Japan. From what I can tell, I think Japan built up and they built down. I think you enter the castle on level two essentially that's right

and then there's terraces that go down and i think that might be where canopio or toad is and uh and there's more going on on those upper levels we've been on the fact that we didn't get the yoshi adventure ride i see how they didn't have room for it but we didn't get our our little um the yoshi snack spot they're in a popcorn place yeah there place. And I think some games that we didn't get. There is a room with a Bob-omb. You know, I understand it's limited space there. But, you know, I still want for more. I don't know.

And now I wonder, now my question is, what do you do if we are to get this Donkey Kong coaster and I want it, where do you go? Jordan, can you pull up the photo demolished stages? Because this is a little bit of pre-Mario action and it kind of shows you the space that you're working with. And yeah, so this is Demolished Sound Stages where Mario is now.

You keep going back. You got sound stages, but now we're moving production out. You go all the way to the right. That's a big heavy duty office building and parking garage. They're never getting rid of that one. You can't get rid of the white building

a few levels back that they refurbished for the Conan Tonight Show and then demolished blew up the entire plan seven months later. You got to keep that. That's television history. Where do you go? Where do we get more? Shoot. I forget the name of the number.

I think I'm sure it's like an Alicia Stella rumor. I'm stealing again where it's maybe i said this already whatever like the voice wherever the voice offices were is the rumor where they're gonna put donkey kong which is around here i just forget which ones they are and now they uh did they demolish the fan of the opera stage the like haunted yes yes that is gone that's been gone for a long time uh uh far too stupid that's that's spooky that's the thing they tell you is haunted it's really film the original phantom of the opera That's been gone for a long time. Far too stupid. That's spooky. Haunted. That's the thing they tell you is haunted. It's where they film the original Phantom of the Opera,

and there was this ornate theater set that was still in there that you can see in the Jason Segel Muppets movie, which I got to go to the set of for Funny or Die. Yes, I met Walter. Hate to brag. Hate to name drop. But I did get to go in there. We joke about that, but i feel like there's a

lot of walter stands out there i mean i liked meeting him and i hadn't even been yeah i hadn't seen the movie yet this is i'm meeting a new puppet and he's talking to me in character it actually was a pretty fantastic but i got i mean for that bit of history it is funny they took that out of all the sound stages it's the one with a ton of history. You know what I found out today? Well, a couple things. You know what was done in that sound stage? All the interiors of the Bates house in Psycho were all in that same stage 28. And any set they built, they'd have to keep that Phantom of the Opera set around, just build around it.

So just other things would use it. And an important scene to me, which is the part of xanadu where the 40s band merges with the new wave you know i love and they're making the same this is like when our minds sync up when the 40s and the 80s meet i yeah i watched xanadu over the summer shortly after olivia newton john passed yeah uh i think i was one of the like i i booted up a bunch of movies when I had COVID and I watched like the Heartbreak Kid and Xanadu and very odd selected very odd

double feature to watch with the novel Coronavirus but yeah Xanadu was so much fun what a delight one of the most crazy weird sequences in it filmed in that soundstage and that is literally where the Mario Kart ride building is.

And I'm upset. Glad we got the ride, but did we have to take out where the got some dancing to do song filmed? That should have been dancing to do.

The government should have put that under like National Park Protection. Yeah, well, it's a, you know, I blame every, which president? I blame Reagan. I blame Bush. I blame everyone up through Trump. Oh, no, it's a you know, I blame every which president. I blame Reagan. I blame Bush.

I blame everyone up through Trump. Oh, no, Obama. I'm sorry. You know what? It went down on Obama's watch. Oh, right. And look, I prefer him to Trump, but he let that Xanadu stage slide and I'll never forgive him. Thanks, Obama.

Thanks, Obama. But anyway, you're you're you're boxed in and's a big ride, and it's a largely outdoor ride. They cannot, if the rumors are true of what the Donkey Kong ride is, they cannot compromise. Even if it's just the ride and no land, cannot compromise because of how cool it sounds. Jordan, can we see the photo of Donkey Kong construction? This kind of shows you the circles here. Are they going to build two roller coasters? If they build that Fast and the Furious thing built into the hill.

They're in different spots. Yeah, different spots. People love coasters. They might have to stagger them. In the photo, there's a big red oval, and that is showing you the entirety of Nintendo World. The yellow oval is the under construction Mario, I'm sorry, Donkey Kong coaster. This is Epic Universe. That's huge. That's like more than half of it.

Yes, it's huge. Dwarfs, the rest. So they need sizable footage. It shows you how great it's going to be in Epic Universe in Japan when they get it. But what do we do? And let me say this i think you got a couple options uh mummy you're out i think you've done your time let's demolish that building i don't know if it would fit but and everything over there what do we got starbucks that's out

it's all out and now that would split the the rides up but i know that's the that's it still feels like universal hollywood it's impossible to just make it a fun, like a unified place. There's still like piecemealing parts. Just throw that out the window. It's not going to happen. So I guess it's not going to happen. Yeah. But if you want them next to each other in blue sky, all options have to be on the table.

Go ahead. We have had a decade of Transformers. Right. Maybe it's time to, I mean, don't you want the cohesion? You were just saying you want the rides to be

right next to you. It wouldn't make sense the other way. And that's Transformers, that's the old Transformers, getting the rise of the, the beasts are rising soon. Well, if you want a beast rise,

you're right. If you want to make a new, if you want to make a new like footage for the ride and put the beast wars characters on the transformers right okay i'm open to that perhaps but i look let's not get crazy here okay universal needs to we're gonna lose the simpson ride at a certain point mummy is of course gonna go transformers is gonna become ret transformers is gonna become the et. of Universal Hollywood. The classic attraction that you take your kids to

and the grandparents still love it. Maybe it's going to take a few decades but we cannot lose. We need a little history as far as Universal Hollywood is concerned. So when E.T. says your name that is equivalent to Optimus Prime giving you the intimate moment yes gonna like take it out it kind of I mean this ride this line isn't in the ride but like ETs I'll be right here

it hasn't has that done its time called it's been a long time I think isn't the new version your bravery save the planet yeah botanic kiss it's like a new generations but well he's on the give me another like even candidate out here. I don't think we have one.

Right? I think unless you're willing to reenact your passing the guard adventure daily, it becomes a new universal stunt show. We don't have our compelling story. Finnegan's? Super Silly Funland? Okay.

The bar where you go to get hammered? Hammered? Maybe. That's good. The railroad apartment bar? The bar that's like a walk-in closet? That's good. But I don't know.

I think we have to keep Transformers. Now, maybe they just move Transformers. Maybe you pick it up and move it. I don't know. You can move a house. You can move a house. You can move a ride. Yeah, with enough gumption, you can. Well, like Jason said, cancel the stages.

We hate the Olympics, so we're canceling the stages and anything else that might ever be filmed there. Plop Transformers over there, and we get everything we want. Fine. It's pretty far. I mean, you're pretty close to Warner Brothers at brothers at that point barn boulevard you know i i also i'll say this in all seriousness putting a donkey kong land that's very connected would at least make it feel less claustrophobic sure i think maybe not maybe if it's just a small warp but i think that there'll be some feeling of like oh we can go over

here and maybe that's a different vibe than here. Isn't there a concept for like a Hyrule thing? Hasn't that always been linked? I don't know if there's an official. I don't think there's an official concept, but I mean, there's that's coming for sure in some form. There's Pikmin. I didn't really get a chance. There's Pikmin around the land. Yes.

Binoculars. Did you do the binoculars? No, we didn't do the binoculars. They're like augmented reality. Yeah, we'll do that. And they add stuff. Pikmin. We didn't really get up to the second floor was pretty crowded by that point look there's never going to be starfox land which is my favorite thing it's not popular enough and there hasn't been a good starfox game in many many years so but uh but uh they're going

to try to keep expanding this and there's going to be more Nintendo. There'll probably end up being Nintendo in Islands of Adventure and Universal proper, I think. It'll probably keep growing once they run out of land at Epic Universe. What have been the new Animal Crossing, Splatoon, Splatoon, Nintendo? Pokemon and Animal Crossing are two major ones. Oh, sure. So those, and then Zelda probably. Okay.

Metroid is still pretty popular. Oh, yeah. But that could be cool. It is. Look, it's very Mario-centric. Right, it's, yeah. Certainly. Could just be Super Mario World.

I'm almost, maybe this is where we can end it. I'm almost upset that they got to Mario Kart this early. Oh. I always think there should they got to Mario Kart this early. Wow. I always think there should maybe have been a proper Mario ride. Dark ride. Yeah, I kind of had the same thought. And this is for the next episode. We'll lead us in.

But Mario Kart almost feels in the same way that in the trailer for the new Mario movie, they're already doing Mario Kart. And I go, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't we want 10 sequels here? Yeah, you ain't racing yet. Don't we want a Mario Kart movie? Whoa, whoa, whoa is what't we want 10 sequels here? Yeah, you ain't racing yet. Don't we want a Mario Kart movie? Whoa, whoa, whoa is what I say. Let's slow down.

So you want a movie that is the equivalent of a queue? Yes. Packed with details. Take your time. Yes. Appreciate every detail. The first movie- Why are we rushing to a ride?

The first movie ends with Mario and Luigi getting to the Mushroom Kingdom. It ends there. It's just the first part where they're like plumbers in Brooklyn. Now we're back to Super Mario Bros. live action, essentially. I guess that's what I really, after all this, that's really what I want. Yeah. All right.

Demolish the land. Make it look like they're weird children's Blade Runner. Now we're in business. Okay. You Survived Podcast, The Ride, the first part of our Super Nintendo deep dive. We will return, not next week, but the week after that. We're going to take a little late President's Day and

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