Podcast: The Ride - The Boys Go To Orlando

Episode Date: December 6, 2019

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Forever Dog. Podcast The Ride. Welcome to Podcast The Ride, the globe-trotting theme park podcast that brings talks of hot dogs and shamans of song across the globe. My name is Mike Carlson. Joining me is always Jason Sheridan. Yes, I'm here. And Scott Gairdner here as well. We sure did. And, you know, I'm glad that we have. I'm glad that we have gone and explored other places and gone to another coast because as people are hearing this, just due to our schedule, we have just, everyone has just survived the

downtown Disney ordeal, which makes me not want to cover anything in Anaheim ever again. So I'm really glad we've got a lot of Orlando to talk about now. Yeah. So yeah, no, we'll talk a little bit about the mall the downtown disney mall which is down to disney springs here but for the most part obviously we've been sent on so we have some marching orders that we have to decide whether or not to engage with um yeah uh but if you're just joining us that you got a recap that's all that's all last month.

That's all, you know. Yeah, and we're leaving it there. Leaving it in our November of sorrow. I didn't think of it as being sad, but now I guess it is sad that we did that. Our October of triumph followed by our November of sorrow. That's life. Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down. Yeah.

But today, yeah, today we're just going to talk about our trip, the trip report. Yeah, yeah. As we're recording this a little more, a little closer to our, to the October of triumph. Yeah. Yeah. Boy, we all went to Disney World together. That's pretty nice. I think we knew it would happen at some point in time and uh the results didn't disappoint that was a blast y'all

yeah we did it very fun um it yeah we we were invited by a wonderful comedy theater uh the sack comedy is it lab that's right for some reason my brain was like worried that that was wrong i was worried it was a theater not a lab but it is a lab it is a lab okay that's where i called the chicago theater the wrong thing in the show but i don't think i did but i'm not gonna try again now oh yeah don't do it now theater works yeah it's theater works and it was just it was chicago podcast festival right yes okay so i said all right and i said all right now they were also fantastic yes did a great relationship we had. Dude, Chicago. I always thought it was Chicago Theater Lab. I thought they were a lab as well. No, no, no.

Orlando is lab. Chicago is worse. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. Either spot. Dr. Ogden, Dr. Augustine. Dr. Ogden, Dr. Augustine.

Which I guess is our Oprah Uma. Yes. Oh, yes. Very good. Hopefully it doesn't derail our future hosting career yeah but that that was the uh you know that was the orlando live show you know so listen go back and listen to that we're gonna give you some some new stuff stuff you haven't heard yet oh yeah we didn't have time to talk about too much of our show we certainly talked about highlights during the show but yes there's

so much more to talk about we covered a lot of ground um here's here's here's what i this is this is a big overall view of uh i i had not done disney world uh in my 30s and i was definitely feeling it i feel how it is different in my 30s i was more tired i was less able to put up with the weather despite having a very good time. A lot of the time. So many nights were like sleep. How about sleep? Maybe that's the plan. Sleep.

On the other hand, Jason Sheridan, I feel like you in Orlando are a new man. I like a pig and shit. Like time of my life. Sun up, sun down. Surging with energy.

No one is sleepier that i know yes uh maybe lindsey but second jason sheridan uh and there's certain times in in our friendship when you've come alive it's maybe two or three times total but one is like del close marathon years ago where you're up to like 6 a.m yeah and i was like what how what did this come from sure like versus like love for dell is the answer well of course love and respect for the good for the purest art form long form improv why do you have to die he was i don't understand did they do an autopsy he was so young what could have gone what could have happened uh yeah you were you were like up you i was like oh my who's this guy yeah and then of course we come back here and it's like years and years of oh

that's jason jason sleepy uh doesn't want to do anything uh can't do stuff because three days from now he's leaving town and he has to pack tonight yeah like that's a thing i think maybe it was two days maybe i'm exaggerating is it two i think i still don't like it i've gotten better at it i still don't like it like like packing packing gives me anxiety but like days before i think you were unavailable because of packing you've got a wig to buy on the weekend so overwhelmed easily need a lot of sleep how much sleep a day how much sleep a day do you get or night excuse me i i no i am down i'm like eight eight or nine i'm much more regimented okay since orlando i've been nine to ten it's still we're like a week out i yeah i'm sleeping so i've been doing so much ketchup i don't think i slept more than six

hours a night in orlando yeah yeah yeah i i i can go pretty hard i think the chicago show we did so we did chicago and that was there for three nights before orlando and i cannot sleep very well in the house and i slept like a baby jason in my childhood bed where mike slept as a baby in my crib jason sleeping in my childhood crib loved it uh so i already was down i was already getting like five six hours of solid sleep a night then to orlando so i was i was slowing down but man you never slowed down it's crazy no i it's like a i crisscrossed that property so many times. You had more steps like twice this amount of steps. We made a joke in the opening about how many steps everybody had and we had everybody

count their steps and yours were like 40% more. Well, I have it by miles too. I mean, the day we went to Universal, I walked 14.4 miles. The day before that, I did 11 at Disney Springs. I think you're also you're so

happy there i think that may have contributed to our little snafu where you told we were at cabana bay and i was going to city walk to mean i fucked that up and i still feel awful i oh i'm not saying it because i'm mad about it i'm just like like, you know, I was doing the walk thing because you, you just said, Oh, Cabana Bay to city walk. That's a quick little, that's a 15 minute John.

Yes. And I did it in 15 minutes because I also knew the pay. Okay. So there's this pathway that connects all the hotels and the theme parks at universal, uh, Orlando and from Cabana Bay, uh,

to city walk. I told scott it was 15 minutes not factoring that you were also wearing long pants and had a laptop bag and also that uh i did it around the same time the neck or two days later when you did i was like oh it is much muggier than it is at 7 a.m it was a lot muggier but i also think you were doing it like skipping because you're going to see all your buddies yes you're going to see botanicus and vin diesel yes and the hulk you were like captain you were like captain america and winter soldier when he keeps lapping the falcon when he's rode they're jogging around the lake in dc when he's just like not he's just a fast man and he's barely winded i'm just saying when i was doing i i would describe it as what you described as a 15 minute jaunt as a half hour slog but i truly think it was because you're

like you just aren't even noticing you're just like no i am so happy i also i find um just by the nature of them i find universal orlando more relaxing to disney world because there are less choices you know it's that tyranny choice choice sort of thing disney world because there are less choices you know it's that tyranny choice sort of thing disney world it's like oh you could have like a year and still there's stuff you might not get done like um universal orlando much more like you know the parks all close at 8 p.m and there's only two of them and you can walk to pretty much everything you know uh i also feel like i is it possible that there are as many rides in the two universal parks as there are in all of disney

world it seems like it but they are right next to each other they are jammed together as opposed to like many many bus rides apart and yes that's the stuff that slows you down well and i think i also too because i feel like you guys had a lot more friction with the transportation. Yes. In, I kind of lucked out most of the time. And then a couple of times I was seeing how far I could push the infrastructure.

Like I got on the last, what? You're banging on monorail uh like girders to see if they collapse like i got on one of the last buses at hollywood studios two half two hours after it closed and i had just gotten off a boat from the boardwalk like i was at the boardwalk do you mean you were just pushing your luck when it comes to timeframes? Things would leave. Yes. Uh, uh,

yeah, it really made it seem like you were like demanding of the bus driver. Like, well, I wanted to see like how, like how his stuff were. I actually found like for the most part overall, like stuff was running pretty well at Disney world and,

and universal in terms of rides, in terms of transportation. Uh, I, after some of the stories you guys told me and you know i waited a little while for some buses and like the skyliner hours were kind of frustrating that was the big vibe i got from other guests but the skyliner okay we we got all down on the skyliner because of the accident before uh right before we left i gotta say now skyliner thumbs way up that's the most efficient system anywhere in disney world easy 12 like from scott and i were both that we can stay at now we do i had we can say it now we can now we can reverse ourselves

we were at pop century i had you were trying to find us how dare you how dare you but you can't do it anymore they had you guys had police outside your doors yes just in case well i almost made a joke about it at like the uh you had material related to pop century but we didn't want to say yeah so yes scott and and i both stayed at pop century and that that is like the start or end of line of the skyliner and that to epcot or hollywood studios is so fast yes like even getting off at caribbean beach to change to which park you're going to so fast it's all extremely pleasant and you hear like wait so i have to get out at the next stop and change how am i gonna understand what that is you do it immediately it's so fast it's so pleasant sometimes you get trapped with like an annoying person maybe but also there's like fun bonding

between sometimes i got off a skyliner car i was like hey good sharing a ride with you yeah and the very first night uh fantastic epcot fireworks the whole way back from the international gateway great place to see fireworks yeah magic it really like creepy and odd at night then i ended up taking just a solo uh skyliner to uh over to disney studios and really weird at night like uh especially if you're in one of the ones with like character overlays because it's all fuzzy you can barely see any shapes or lights around you it's kind of neat yeah and as well as i don't want to get too ahead there was a situation we had with transportation later where we got to see them all shut off in the dark yeah that was weird they just hang there right yeah they just hang they don't like all go into a station go into a station at all they just hang there at night when they're not working i guess i didn't know what else it would be but boy it's weird

yeah it makes you feel like you're in a post-apocalyptic disney world where everything just like drop everything bail we're never saving it run yeah and disney world is in itself shuts down early down to disney springs not as much but like everything does yeah 11 o'clock is everything's like done except for like a few places in hotels for the most part it was fine with me because truly i kept like i kept well yeah like hey how about i have like a okay beer at the bar pedals at pop century watch uh really heartbreaking astros games sorry nick mundy and uh go to bed uh but i'm not here to talk about uh entirely travel issues and sleep uh i like let's what's what's like big stuff that we hadn't

done or that we like are needed to need to revisit or uh i mean for me there was a ton i'd never done before yeah well sky uh yeah i'm just gonna say like i i agree with everything you're saying if you have sort of a low like a little fear of heights like i do uh it is a little anxiety inducing but it is so fast as long as it goes smooth everything's fine i was stopped i was late meeting you guys one day because i was hanging over an access road for about five minutes see that would have i wouldn't have liked it dangles a little and also takeoff gets up to speed takeoff is almost like a launch and landing swings you real close you were ahead i was never on a car with other people where we didn't all yell yeah because it's you are just like screening

towards the skyliner bucket in front of you. It's really like the end of original Star Tours is what it's like. The first time you have it the first ride where you go into the station, I think, we all thought oh, it's going to happen again. It's happening right now. And we all sort of like,

that really bonded us because we all look at each other like, oh, okay, okay. We're on the next one. We're on the next one. We're in the next accident car. Get that toilet out. I wrote it about, I'd estimate like six times. Only once was I ever in it with other people. Most of the time, I got my own.

You asked for your own. One time I asked, but then the other times, I really didn't have to because the crowd was not bad. Really? other times i really didn't have to because the crowd was not bad really now also i got turned away twice at 10 31 at different stations so they were shutting it down hard at 10 30 i watched we wrote it because we went from uh was it epcot to hollywood studios i think we connected somewhere i think we wrote it together once okay i can't remember also if you switch benches that is a very unnerving feeling do not try to do that yeah because you can rock like you could rock it yourself you could rock it the thing is so wobbly um but i

would just i would just like it if it was a little bit more stable if it felt a little bit more like a stable ride but it feels wobbly which is what makes me the fear of heights kick in that's my only but i understand that that's not the technology do you think it would be better or worse if there was like an incline like if you were in a contraption like that going up a mountain what do you mean well this because this is all flat oh i see what you're saying if i was going in a skyway or skyliner bucket but it was up a mountain yeah like uh it might psychologically help me okay it might yeah i see what you're saying because when it goes way up high there's like a couple different levels of height and when it goes up to the highest that's when my anxiety kicks in yeah for whatever reason when it's lower they both be disastrous if they fell yes yeah but

for whatever the higher the higher one is when i like for whatever reason but i don't there's no danger of it falling i know what you're feeling psychologically no i'm not saying what you would in a ferris wheel but like yes but it's what like it shakes a little bit it's a little wobbly and you just psychologically you know nothing's under you that's all i mean that's really what it is i mean i think big big criticism is they've got to expand those hours it seems like they're working on it but like yeah that's a different one of the times i ended up on a boat because the skyliner had closed and there was clearly a lot of irate people on that boat that they could not get on the skyline the captain of the boat was sort of like and folks if you're

upset about the skyliner uh please let disney know that's the only way things change around here so disney employees telling guests like complain to corporate because that's the only way to me a boat man yeah yeah i'm gonna help you to complain to an old boat man because if the park closes at 10 and you're in a line for something and you get off at 10 15 and takes 10 50 minutes to get out of the park and they shut it down hard at 10 30 you gotta find something else sure but i'm assuming it's just maintenance and other things they're making sure i'm sure it'll be up to i think they're gonna add it from what the people are saying they're gonna add a ton of these they're you're gonna be able to go everywhere with these they gotta do it everywhere i want them

between crisscross and between every hotel i'm so pro skyliner yeah i mean easily the fastest thing anywhere if there was one that took you to disney springs that's a game changer that i think that's what they're talking about next maybe you can that'll quarantine uh drunk boomers off the buses because man some of those later buses back from disney springs people were hammered sure so let's yeah um let's talk about just, because we did my trip report a while ago where I was there and Jason's been, but what were your, let's ask you, Scott,

what were your feelings now? You haven't been there for so many years. Now we've been doing this fun little podcast for a while. Was it, was there anything that was surprising? Was the feel of it different? Were you surprised? Like you mentioned the low amount of rides which is i think what i noticed the first time because disneyland and california

venture have packed rides it's they're packed in there there's biggie tickets like in each park yeah and i think when i got to disney world i was like oh yeah there's not like a ton i mean there's a ton of stuff to do but there's not as much yeah yeah well you feel it the most in any park that where it's like things that we have essentially in disneyland too where i yeah because we we had pretty ended up having pretty limited time in magic kingdom so i'm not doing their big thunder there even though there's differences but sure all those rides and they're fun to do i don't think i did their space mountain and uh um big observations though uh i don't well i i also i'll be the tokyo snob and say like i think tokyo is a more pleasant resort to be around to to be in for an extended amount of time yeah due to the ease of that monorail loop and everything's so packed and both of those parks have so i mean

especially more way more so disney sea but like well tokyo is kind of the best of both disneyland and disney world because the resort area itselfo is kind of the best of both disneyland and disney world because the resort area itself and the hotels are there's more obviously hotels and the scenery is much more beautiful because you're by the ocean yeah but general pleasant it's two packed parks and obviously when it's the most beautiful park in the whole galaxy uh but yeah so yeah it's all so clean and um but I also I can't throw it under the bus. And then I mean, I had a great time. Could you you know, one of our early episodes was debating with Mike Mitchell.

What was better, Disneyland or Disney World? Did you have any difference of opinion now after being there and being still Disneyland? Got to go to Disneyland. Yeah, it is still Disneyland. Yeah. Wow. You too. Wow.

I will say, though, let me let me also say in the flip side and this is not a surprising opinion and not an opinion anyone would ever negate universal orlando is 25 times better than universal hollywood oh yeah yeah yeah for sure yeah there's just no competition it's so it's great i mean and part of that uh charm is the way it expanded similar to the way disneyland expanded second park is right next door like i believe this that was like their idea is like well we can't we're kind of in the middle of the city we're buying this piece of property to build universal florida our eyes on expansion we can't expand the way disney world did but we can't expand like the way disneyland is eyeing and and happened 1999 uh california adventure happens 2001 similar like you know shopping district hotels that sort of uh expansion but it does

it's much more manageable it's so nice just like i think just a key difference is that disneyland the versus the magic kingdom it's just there's so much more and even our even disneyland's weird like ghost town tomorrowland is still almost better than their tomorrow than magic is tomorrowland even though i mean tron's gonna change all that tron's gonna be great but we i think we have a better space mountain uh i love that they have the oddities that they have carousel progress yes yes and the people mover um but i still i and and i really enjoyed that it's it made me so happy to be back in 94 buck rogers yeah tomorrowland i love that it hasn't changed very much um but i i don't know it's a big bump for disneyland that we have the better space mountain uh yeah i think just the jam-packed

nature of disneyland versus magic kingdom or the or tokyo disneyland i think just gives everything a bump and these properties can't help that there's like there's a ton to do and all the parts i would also not to go into a tangent here but like uh i'll give haunted mansion um i think haunted mansion uh florida's better i would um agree with that jason yeah i'm trying to think it's got those extra scenes it's got the extra rooms that are that yeah i'm sure the ending now love the escher room absolutely very cool the ending is cool and all that stuff is not plus ups that doesn't obviously like it perfectly fits into the classicness of the haunted mansion

which is very cool uh so yeah i don't disagree with that i'm torn on the house itself the exteriors which which I like better. Yeah, that's a tough one. Yeah. That might be a tie. That might just be a draw. Yeah. Two different kinds of haunted houses.

And they have better audio in the stretching room in Florida. They have that cool new stereo going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A couple years ago, they added it in where it's like it kind of floats around the room, the voice, and it's really cool. Yes, yeah. And they have not done it out here i don't think unless i'm not remembering no why they haven't done it it's a normal thing um i did uh i of course did do one thing that's a little different in disney world the liberty bell riverboat oh we didn't fit that in. Oh, how was that? Okay, so, well, first off, it was inconvenient

because it departs every hour and half an hour. At Disneyland, the Mark Twain just departs whenever it comes back. So it's just continuously running. But the river's bigger there. And so it's a lot more spread out. And I forgot that, like like you see other stuff like the you know the old guy in um pirates of the caribbean and disneyland sitting like uh by the restaurant he's like sitting in his rocking chair he is on the rivers of america in like a weird little shack

interesting the other big takeaway is that the co-pilot of the liberty bell narration is a young man named samuel clemens and he tells you a fact about the riverboat and then he tells you a very pithy quote uh and it is shoehorned in it is they're like banging out mark twain quotes while while going like and and this part of the group, that buoy means this sort of thing. I was born humble, but I've grown out of it. Like, it's just, they're just. Like not related, not attached to the fact. So, such a leap.

In Disneyland, the boat is the Mark Twain. It is the Mark Twain. Why are we hearing Mark Twain on not the Mark Twain? Is that a nod to the other one i think so i say well because he was a riverboat captain so and his name is still tom sawyer island right in disney world so do you so i guess we're doing a lot of comparisons that's i don't really it's not fair i we like them both yeah it's different oh yeah i had a great time also in answering this question i don't know

if i have maybe i still have uh la bias but uh i'm i was uh i wouldn't describe my state ever as as relaxed in uh disney or perhaps at the boathouse we went when you know yeah the boathouse that was wonderful there were or uh oh my god california grill i got a california grill in there we ended up a california grill one night too which is really great oh my god getting fireworks out there and the audio pumped in and the uh i got to have the uh the uh wine that kurt russell made that's named after goldie hawn which i also had at club 33 um i think i think that's high up on my list now i think the nature of our trip we all sort of were in the same spot a lot which i think psychologically at least for me i think that tires me out a little more to sort of be on a schedule yeah a little bit more which is exhausting so i do think that's part of why i

was feeling a little tired as well just because like we we all had to be somewhere to get into the park at the same time for various reasons so like oh yeah and then as we all like splintered off and did our own thing because like i was i was never more relaxed and as i mentioned in the live show seeing the baha man at epcot i was alone i abandoned the group your trip highlight was just you and the baha man i would say maybe highlight but i'd be like i'm just in general i've never been more relaxed than like because i went from like okay fine like i didn't have any sleep we're on the plane we all have to get here at one time we're doing it and then I was like I took the Skyliner I was very stressed the whole time on the Skyliner and then I got to Epcot I was like oh yeah I'm at Epcot I went to like get a drink by the uh American

Pavilion and I just sat down and watched the Baja Man i was like okay everything's the finest band my new favorite band uh and then i was like all right here we go sunday night did i meet up with you after that yeah yeah i had a piece of bread for you too you gave me a piece of cheese bread as and you you did seem much more relaxed i had had a very relaxing solo meal at mama melrose i had of course demolished a full pepperoni pizza myself um uh plates like for one for it wasn't huge um but that that was my described it as demolished i because i was so hungry at that point because like i also would so i might but i have like tips for people but i a lot of mornings just had like a cliff bar and coffee on the run. And that was also like,

that was kind of, uh, that was reliable. And it was also like, Oh, this is saving a little money on a meal. Yeah. And then I can splurge a little more throughout the day.

Uh, you know, yeah, we can show that a lot more once we had cereal and stuff. Yes. Yeah. So I, you know yeah we chilled out a lot more once we had cereal and stuff yes yeah so i i was like one day gonna try to do like a breakfast buffet or like get breakfast somewhere but i just couldn't get up that early i never did a sit down breakfast anyway i you know my tip would be make sure if you

if you want if you want like items and if you want like cereal and bananas and not insanely expensive and water insanely expensive things uh or if you want things cereal and bananas and not insanely expensive and water insanely expensive things uh or if you want things in your room that aren't insanely expensive you have to do it on the way into the property because you end up trapped there's no supermarket there's nowhere to because you'll be guzzling four dollar waters all week if you don't like prep for that so if you're lifting or something from the airport on the way stood the stock got like stopped somewhere or pop out real quick before you head into a park uh also you can get groceries delivered amazon you can do amazon prime now which is what we did um and there's also a number of

orlando specific i think it's green grocer there's a few orlando specific will deliver groceries to your apartment she uh more a little more expensive than publics but certainly cheaper than disney prices yes we got like three giant things of water delivered okay okay well that's a very good tip i've never done any delivery of food from anywhere i must be so in the past i've never i've never done a postmates in life in life never done it you never had a pizza delivered no that but okay but not like those other services not not yeah not i'm not doing a lot of app food delivery okay i've never i don't think i've ever ordered food on an app that's come to my house i mean really yeah uh don't do

postmates i would say uh almost every time I've ever done Postmates, not good. But like if you do whatever, is it E24? Is that gone? And it's Yelp thing now. That might be Yelp. Whatever that is, like that's more official. And like you get your food like packaged, which I like better. Because like Postmates, they'll just literally hand you an open Taco Bell bag.

And you're like, but do you, what? It like feels really like haphazard it seems like it stresses out restaurants a lot oh yeah oh yeah they should not be getting that kind of pressure um i i did the high i brought a metal water bottle i didn't pay for water all week i just kept filling up this water bottle i thought you were about to say i did the high jump no do they call is this a hydro flask it's not the visco girl one it's like the swell kind of one that's a good tip yeah and some of the places did you find that was easy to get fill up your water everywhere well they're starting to add more water bottle fill up stations but there was enough restaurants there was enough restaurants

where i could get water from like yeah a machine or something only once i think that i was that i filled up at a drinking fountain while we're talking about sustaining ourselves i'd like to talk about one one specific memory which is a moment where there was a divide between the group and mike and jason uh insisted on going on Living with the Land. Oh, yeah. And Aaron, Lindsay, and I refused. Not happening. Rather than going on Living with the Land,

we chose to watch Lindsay eat cereal, which I maintain was the correct decision. I don't know. Mike and I, we had a great ride on Living with the Land.

I had a very good time. That was a very good time. You know, they had lots of little, I really like this. They had lots of little signs that said like oh this kind of uh you know herb is used in the food festival at this stall in this dish yes i'm just fondly recalling the cereal again so it's just great to see lindsey like you know fueling herself up feeling feeling better um well we'll cherish that memory advances in hydroponics we saw a person in a

white lab coat doing something there was a lot of them this time yeah there was they were all doing something they were all doing something i don't know what but they were doing something we saw them jason i saw them that uh because aaron darren lays down the law and stuff we ended up getting her she she got dragged on to a lot of stuff that she said was off the list living with the land was uh the point of no return she was not doing living in the land i was pleased that lindsey was in the same there was no wait we did all do uh the abomination journey into abomination yes no wait for that either i uh at least it's you know it's fast and there's

a lot to like do and talk about in that after that image works area what a weird atrocity of a place oh yeah i designed so i don't know if that arrived like they're still very rudimentary email yourself the figment you designed build a figment you built a big i built a hideous like figment called like like like something like it wouldn't let me go back it was i believe it was named i just came across in my photos i believe yeah because you couldn't reverse your errors weren't working it ended up being named erock with an a e a like in an email r okay yes you built a jacked figment a jacked yellow figment named erock it was that's good i mean you can't be mad at erock i mean yeah i like erock erock was probably one of the best examples of like the aesthetics are so insane there's no aesthetics the worst

being the grounds of pop century like yeah yeah erin declared that the most unpleasant aesthetically most aesthetically most unpleasant hotel she's ever stayed but inside freshly redone rooms yes very functional rooms very space economic like every time we we were like ready at every turn to like oh but i bet they don't have they do have that there's a surface for everything there's plugs everywhere i do really so i would recommend the hotel and as i said i like pedals the bar oh yes uh but yeah the it was all very when we checked in we were like oh this is a cruise ship we're in a stationary cruise yeah i mean it's for family it's for families who are running and gunning at the parks now if you are a solo traveler or like a couple an adult childless couple running and gunning at the parks pop

century very convenient with that skyliner now that there's that sky that skyliner has reinvigorated though tells that you might call more on the outskirts yes and i'm really glad i switched purely for skyliner all the fastest commutes i had yeah all due to the skyliner state and we're a nice station it's kind of the end of the line and like a you're going over that might be the most beautiful part of the whole thing the big lake that uh you know we're heading up century in art of animation hourglass lake oh yes you're now heading over hourglass lake i like those i like that narration i like those little sounds those little star tours or we use them on the show sometimes the ambient noise is very pleasing like i had found like on white noise uh like youtube white

noise stuff there's like a 12-hour loop of the nostromo from alien and it's just kind of the hum of the spaceship and the skyliner kind of has a similar sort of like hum as it's chugging along with somebody right now who is pumping into his headphones at all times like star trek uh spaceship ambient sounds i don't think i knew this was a thing yeah it sounds great i like yeah i'm not sure what my i mean i listen to like you know early 80s people mover music all day and that's my version of it but uh that's a good this is a good area everybody should do stuff like this yeah the strong but nostromo is kind of creepy it is i am i was a little i i had it on for like 30 minutes and i was like is someone about to get attacked is this a trick no it was just a hug there'll be a little jump scare yeah yeah uh i was gonna ask what your rooms what were they closest to in regards to like giant uh gaudy thing like what

giant play-doh well i could buy a giant uh yes where am i looking at here i don't think i know where you were jason oh i was in the uh 80 okay we talked about this a little the the numbering system at pop century is insane because i was in the 80s wing but i was in building seven now the 90s wing is building uh eight and ten but the 70s wing is building eight like the numbers don't quite add up and my room uh my room number was seven four five five four means fourth floor uh like there's all it's very weird and i won't wait and for anybody who doesn't know any of this this is pop century is a hotel that is themed after decades yes it's kind of like 50s through 90s so there's bold big iconography of each decade depending on which wing you're staying in so what you're saying is yeah the 50s aren't labeled five they'll be nine and then the 90s are seven and it doesn't make

any sense so when i went around the corner i could see a giant walkman and then i could see the smaller quiet quieter pool that had a giant laptop opened up to abcnews.com circa the 1990s on it a massive laptop oh and then a massive idol like statue of roger rabbit yeah because i'm looking at this right now this is a nightmare whoa yeah yes you ever seen it no i had never seen this wait the wait you're talking about the laptop yeah yeah have you seen the laptop no you know spin it around it's crazy it's a laptop yeah no i never i didn't make it over to there i didn't want to walk those grounds where were you at i was in the 50s i was over uh we had to pass by both lady and the tramp, but we were in a wing that was a big jukebox. Um,

and I remember I, cause every time leaving my floor, they, they wrote, which I do like that. They wrote the names of every like song that the jukebox could play. So they made up a bunch of 50 sounding songs, including the one that was the nearest to the elevator that I saw over and

over was she got a color TV. Now she never a color TV. Now she never talks to me. I saw that joke over and over again. Pretty good. I also had to keep checking the text they had sent me to like, what building and room am I in? I'm usually very good at remembering my hotel room, but I could not. Okay.

Building seven floor. What is the number right confusing i also the whole thing was making me think oh in the like thank god that they stopped at the 90s because if you built a hotel based on the 2010s then like the the iconography and the like the catchphrases would all be horrifying yeah hashtag me too well they the the art of animation um they simplified and they fixed it where it's just like you're in the lady in the tramp building you're in the cars building you're in the little mermaid building um then that was the one that was supposed to be like the pre-1950s so like there would be a giant monopoly board uh uh pre-1950s so like there would be a giant monopoly board uh pre-1950s popular culture you know what's the other fun we got to have they when you're on the disney buses they theme the music to whatever hotel you're coming from or going to so we got to hear great songs from different eras like the

seinfeld theme something no human being would ever do. Just be like, you got a mix. You're driving and you're cruising in the car. And like, this is just a bunch of random songs I like. Nobody recreationally listens to. Or like the Brady Bunch, Cheers, I heard. Cheers, I could see listening to recreationally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some extra verses.

Cheers is a pretty good song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll give you that. We were on the same bus to animal kingdom that one morning and i was writing down some of it because in one bus ride because that's the other thing um uh uh pop to the pop century is more eastern part of the property and animal kingdom is more western um and so this kind of longer bus ride we heard uh uh rolling stone the bob dylan rolling stone like a rolling like a rolling stone uh then the cheers song then diamonds are a girl's best friend the brady bunch theme and of course the macarena oh yeah that's right we were we were

doing a lot yeah we had the macarena in our head for like up until getting into pandora yeah oh which was that's right because we got off the bus and i still had bob dylan in my head and i was like like a great it crone i had the godfather theme on my way to hollywood studios i heard whatever it is i don't remember and universal too i heard the guy every theme park is licensing the godfather theme yeah because he just screams movie i guess yeah i don't you would think it would be more of like a soaring like the the soundtrack to soren's cue is always like soaring movie soundtracks but like the godfather theme is kind of a little yeah a little tad ominous yeah um i you know while we had just

like a you know like a silly you know like made in mass pina colada kind of bar at that hotel uh we did have to make special trips to go to and i think now i realize we hit a bar at every one of the magic Kingdom loop hotels. And these were the highlights for me, if you can imagine it. Oh, yeah. California Grill with fireworks. Hell, yes. Nice Disney fish, as in Carthay Circle or Napa Rose.

Same goes in California Grill. If I'm having a nice glass of wine and a good fancy Disney fish. A fish dinner? Yeah. Okay. The fancy Disney restaurants do great fish i'll tell you that whatever their sustainable catch of the day is you're uh never more chill than having that we had yeah we went to i think it was the same night we had a loop we did sam trader sam's yes uh we'll cover trader sam's soon more in depth and now i'm glad i've done the other one but hell yeah that was a blast great food there too and uh that electrical uh boat parade

broke out while we were sitting out there that was there were like two things that were just totally out of my mind that i totally blanked on it was the boat parade and then in islands of adventure uh the poseidon show oh yeah and i just totally forgot they were there and i went back to universalist second day i could have squeezed it in but i just it i was just burned out that was the one thing my brain was a little fried from going so hard so every now and then absolutely um we did the what's i from forgetting the name the beauty and the beast themed bar at grand floridian enchanted roads that's right pretty new a lounge on the second floor of glenn for grand floridian yeah we hung out with uh it's uh me and aaron and you

and lindsey uh that was fantastic jason was sprinting around no that was center he was trying to do three laps of the world showcase center then took the skyliner back to the hotel and took a nap that was like tuesday uh and i was starting to crash highlights or naps uh a lot of our content has been getting water and uh cereal all right let's let me get let me hit the 30s disney bug let me hit a hard let me hit a hard opinion here uh people i've seen a lot of people say galaxy's edge is a better transition in Hollywood studios than Disneyland. Bullshit. Absolutely not.

No way. There is no transition. There's barely a transition. It's fine. I don't hate it, but it's like a jarring transition from... Toy Story into there makes no sense. It's nothing. Yeah, that is not...

They ran out of money, it feels like, for that. From Grand Avenue into where the Rise of the Resistance feels like that from grand avenue into uh where the rise of resistance is that's at least a tunnel you're kind of you can see the split from the one stonework to the other nothing compares to that critter country that long way in no long way out in disneyland love it uh it's just exactly the same we didn't really spend much time we didn't know yeah because i've been there a lot. There's different colors we've seen. You can Google the differences in colors.

We could talk about that. But why would we? It's a little, it's an audio medium. So to talk about the colors is odd. I'll talk about these colors, blue and green, the milk. I had alcoholic green milk, which I was looking forward to trying. I've said before, I feel like the flavor of the milks, while I the first six sips i feel like it gets a little punishing and i'm like why am i consuming this if not to uh get a buzz uh so here i got to do it with alcohol a little disappointing

because i saw the little it's like not blended as one thing they pour a little like half shot of was it tequila in the green one tequila green i think bourbon and blue is that right you get a nice smell out of it like but you get you get a like you know fragrant margarita smell but i didn't feel much and it just felt separate the blend wasn't i don't know i don't i don't know that the alcohol does anything for me with the milks the trick okay the alcohol trick as far as not really a trick but disney world and disneyland it's like the place actually have us like you have to find the right places to have a drink yeah because most of them they is what you're saying they're going to give

you like a little bit of a pour in a big sugar drink which i like but they're not in vegas at least they're giving you more alcohol in it they're not they're really skimping out it's really wimpy in florida and this is one of my big bones to pick the pores at the food and wine festival are you kidding me or get the fuck out of here symbols four ounce but i stood in a really long line and then got to the front of it and said saw three ounce never mind so i got in a different one probably should have checked the sign before i got in line much longer line really hot really human get to the oh i get an extra i get one extra ounce i get four ounces yeah what is uh i was i i i will say this i was severely disappointed by the food and wine festival california picture way way way way

better way better how are those words i'm sorry but are the pores bigger in california you get an actual uh they give you full glasses yes i believe so unless i'm remembering i can't remember but like i know i think everywhere is just giving you full beers so that's not a problem but i was looking forward to my my wine at the world showcase lagoon during food and wine festival so looking forward to this and then ends up with this wimpy thimble it wasn't good was not good wine yeah um and that might lead me into this thing i don't want to take up too much time with this but so um well well i'll say one of the highlights of the uh uh of the entire trip and of the food and wine festival our friend doug jones was down there

with his girlfriend jessica uh and we got to hang out and he i don't think without him i would have i don't think i would have made a point of going to see sheila e in the eat to the beat concert series sheila e was fantastic uh prince world you love you love prince as much as i do it was great to hear some she did like she did america oh great like deeper prince song and hearing that in front of the american adventure yeah it was very very exciting that's his got both of the big hits in and a bunch of like prince jams in the first half hour set that was a blast that was fantastic but while on the way to that uh with doug he pointed out something to me he said uh you okay have you noticed the sheer preponderance of disney drinking shirts that's been and i don't know if

this is all the time or if it's just during the food and wine festival but basically doug said like okay i'm gonna open your eyes you've been blind until now and you once you once i've told you this you can't unsee it and truly it felt like i was putting on i put on the they live glasses and i was seeing the world in a different way because from the time doug me doug told me that onward uh every sixth shirt i saw was some disney wine bullshit all in the like worst curliest fonts i've ever seen and typically a group of like nine people all wearing these same shirts uh let me get through this quickly i wrote ice from from that point on i started just recording into a voice memo on my phone what all of these shirts consisted of usually a typical thing glass of wine uh like a character wig or hair or something up top uh and

the curliest most unreadable you had to like really stare at it to be able to read the shirt but let me let me just jump to the these these all i saw within like an hour's time bibbidi-bobbidi-boos uh a the wine glasses with the hocus pocus character's hair up top and it says drink up witches shining shimmering shit faced jeez yeah i know we're not theme park um in a theme park environment uh drunkest of them all sipping beauty waltz whiskey it's just two words you guys are okay with that one tell me what you end up liking the most i kind of well there's a few coming up i like a bottle opens up a whole new world come on drinking around the world may not be the answer but it's worth a shot there's a shot a lot of just drinking

around the world and that seems i think that's where this all started we're going to the food and wine festival it's world showcase we're going to drink in every continent sometimes there's a checklist on the back simple get it but these are getting out of food and wine festival people refer to drinking around the world because you there's a bar in every multiple bars in most cases yes yeah yeah uh and that's that seems like that's sort of what i wanted to do but food and wine festival almost makes it more difficult to do and and to to brave the line and then it's just a thimble i don't understand california wins in this regard yeah fight me on it i don't care uh um uh i just can't wait to be drunk no one drinks like gaston looks like a beauty drinks like a. Bibbidi-bobbidi, drink till you droppity.

What? That's a leap. Yeah, a tad. If you can't tie it together within one sentence, you need a comma or a second sentence. Now we're jamming it together. Tear the paper off, crumple it up, start a new page on the legal pad. Come on. You should do it in the

tweet window to make sure that you're not going over 240 characters. Probably should be under 60 characters, if we're being honest. Something with Ariel, and it says, under the influence. Oh. You get arrested for. Some of these are a cry for help. And Ariel's a teenager.

Ariel, you have to be under the influence. Are most of these, do they have the character on, or is it just a saying? In some cases, it's just fine. Usually, there's just like a, because I think most of these are not made by Disney. on or is it just a saying? In some cases, it's just fun. Usually there's just like a, because I think most of these are not made by Disney. Right. Oh, no, none of them are. I don't think any of them are. So I think it's just a semblance of character hair that gives you the vibe.

We got to throw a bunch of these on our TeePublic site. Maybe so. We got to come up with like 20 right now. Yeah. On the air. Well, we should make them relate to like our you know our areas of interest yeah i mean like i mean i didn't see any duffy ones oh my god i'm gonna figure out country bear ones uh like hit it's like with paws like hit the paws hit paws until i'm wasted what do they say on the set love that wonderful duff love that wonderful duffy simpsons

yeah oh that's good yeah yeah well it's a disney owned property now oh that's true yeah yeah uh-huh the seven duffies uh-huh um i was seven duffies it's good that's so good okay sippity doodah here for the beer because the kids aren't here which side note also if you are if you're if you're looking at shirts at the epcot food and wine festival and the shirts are not these wine puns then they're about being tired of adulting and i am tired of people being tired about adulting too many adulting shirts we could maybe do a lot more business t-shirt business if we just make 10 of these crank them out and crank them out and just put them in like bad cursive font on t public yeah see who because people just buy them thinking like oh it's just well turning our

logo into the into papyrus into the avatar font we're already like i am forcing erin uh my wife and our graphic designer to go down some dark roads maybe just in pursuit of commerce we have to go down some even darker roads i think we well i think disney is a month away from selling these kinds of shirts because on the shop the shop uh disney app there are so i was like flipping through it one day and i was like oh that's kind of a nice shirt and i was like what is this slot that says must customize and it's like the most tastily designed shirts sometimes on that app you have to put like the sheridan family under the castle so they're selling they're getting in on the bulk group shirt thing they're

not gonna do booze shirts though they're too even though they're willingly selling booze to everyone they're not gonna like michael i think bob chapek is gonna pull the trigger on this it's so weird also because like i think all like, we all just went, we were a group of adults who went to Disney together, probably with drinking among our top goals. And yet, can you imagine all of us coordinating the shirts? But we should do it next time. We didn't even get on the same, like, Scott and I,

we were on the same flight same flight but then didn't even see each other yes yeah because just timing worked out and i think you were probably more towards once i was in the very back for whatever reason by the time i booked it i could only get we didn't even hold hands on the plane we didn't even hold plans hands on the plane i'm uh a couple couple more really fast big hero wait wait hold on i have one big hero six pack oh that's great that's very good i'm trying to go into okay like what do i know the best which is rex um you could have rex and it's and it says i've uh i'm writing these i've always i've always wanted to get wasted yeah that's good what else does rex say um that's his first time yeah yeah um this might be your first time getting blackout drunk and it's mine too uh

wait yeah oh no it's is this your first drink it's mine too like as if he like forgot he had a bunch of beers already oh yeah where is the booze where is the booze booze booze where's the booze ah um i'm gonna go off the beaten path even though this is one of my most reviled disney things uh the good dino sauced jesus i'll write it down yeah yeah you could do you know we had a good time on carousel of progress i like taking every carousel progress quote because there's one there's a thing that he says a lot and maybe this there could be something about like uh you know boy my uh my oh or just or just him uh i've been trying i've been trying to get sober it'll never work. God.

Good. We got to have an Uncle Orville reference, because Orville's obviously drying out in the bathtub. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He says no privacy. No privacy at all around here. Privacy, or whatever. Yeah, no piña coladas around here at all.

No, that doesn't work work it's still pretty good um i also done the way to that you could take the people mover logo and turn it into the liver runer they're getting so bleak i like when they're about the darkness of drinking yeah yeah that is good uh yeah so i'm trying to think of a good uh country bears oh yeah um uh the uh country beers yeah yeah it's a hoedown in my liver hoedown in my liver i think it's important right up as soon as i can get a drink i'll write it i'll write it down again all the mean math people like them i'll find a ladder i'll be right up that uh let's let's uh in in bright shoes the um the country bears i'll say uh when we did it uh the audience was hot it was a

good hug very good i think we influenced it in some way i hope you forget seeing it in person how funny that show is yes i went back and did it a second time right before i left the same thing people were jacked for yeah people were there there for it. It's leftover body humor. They wouldn't have made the show like that today. And they've cut some stuff from it. But also, I have the full track, I think, on my phone. The full show on my phone. Because you can get it in the iTunes store.

But you forget how goofy they look. Just seeing them do it. People were laughing at how silly they look. Oh, just the reveal of a big sad bear playing a tiny guitar yeah just that gets yeah it was getting laughs and like not these like multi-level were over it and we found this new way to laugh at it like people are laughing the way they probably would have laughed at in the 70s yeah very genuine mark davis designs very very good just i remember the first time i had been on it which reignited my love of

it it was like the sun bonnet trio singing the guys that turn me on turn me down i mean it's very funny so three little bears yeah yeah and that was yeah getting huge laughs uh-huh yeah i think because i think a lot of people go into it forgetting and then they're like because when you're i don't you don't get all that stuff when you're a kid that stuff goes over your head but then like when you're bringing your kids you're like oh yeah this is funny every every drink i see goes right down if we i think you'd have to have a picture of the bear on it too to yeah yeah no that seems important to trigger booze okay uh there's a great on the saddle booze all around and a great big puddle of booze on the ground i'll just write that we

can workshop that later however there's a great big beautiful hangover tomorrow there's a great big beautiful yeah that's fine right yeah close enough we're getting there there's a great big beautiful tall boy tomorrow it's every thing because it has to be there's a great big beautiful tom collins tom collins shining at the end of every bar shining at the end of every bar that popular i think we're going too clever with this okay yeah yeah all right um do you have more i still have more because i ended with the craziest ones can you drink all the colors of the wine two three yeah what are the colors of the one well now disney added blue but yeah that's true

so now there yeah you could drink four colors of wine potentially at disney uh um i don't understand this one it's all the witches it's like maleficent and uh you know uh i don't know who else is ursula whatever and then you can't sip with us oh like you can't sit with us yeah but the villains are just like kind of like i think it's like like clicky and cat yeah yeah and then dory the fish i'm never i'm never drinking again oh look tequila oh forgetful that's why i was kind of trying to do that with the rex one uh-huh yeah uh in character there can i think over here while we're still brainstorming you just because you bought you bought that right the chef figment or yeah there is up there you got a little funko chef figment specifically someone with one little spark one i mean just

one little shot probably one little shot yeah that's the that's the level of not going too clever with it yes that's what i think yes yeah We should just release 10 on the same day and see what wins. I'm not kidding at all about that. I think that should be, yeah, see what the most popular one is. Yeah. And I think it's really not that hard. I think we can even just type it up on the website. I don't think Aaron has to do anything.

That would be, I think, preferable. I think we can just go on, find the worst font imaginable, and just dump 10 of these on our site and then she's like maybe we'll pay a couple dollars to promote them just in general and we'll just see what happens because this doesn't seem possible that one of just one of these shirts just strangely like oh my god we made sixty thousand dollars that's what i'm getting at is that i think maybe we'll catch one of these will catch fire maybe all of them but one at least i think and it'll be like the most bought drinking disney shirt yeah because someone wearing one the next time the skylighter breaks down and you see a photo

of them hanging hands on the glass uh oh i just thought oh i thought of a great one nod your head blackouts coming no that's oh okay yeah may as well get in the universal rack yeah yeah no i think we got to bring universal in on it um i think we can for the rest of the episode we certainly can throw these out i don't think we have to stop them no no let's let's try yeah yeah i'd boy i'd drink enough whiskey to fill steven tyler's hat that one's a little more niche a lot of yeah um so i got to i got to hear that line i got to experience that i was brave and i went on the roller coaster which i i did this in the live show i listed what i went on not to recap but i did a lot of stuff that i'd been afraid to do before and i'm so glad i got in like launch fight and shape and drop fight and shape because some of these were crazy i would call rock and roller coaster the craziest launch and like a lot uh heavier i'd say than uh incredicoaster yeah is it how much

faster do we know how much faster it is i do think it's faster it is faster it's like a 10 mile per hour uh yeah bump i mean you can find the numbers online but i think without my training in the last year that would have been a much worse shock to the system but i'm so glad i can do this did you do hulk didn't do hulk is the most intense and also i you guys did it we did it we got front row on the whole front row and i almost grayed out a little bit and yeah and i wrote it a few days later again, and I got tossed around. My head got bounced around the restraints a little more. When I wrote it with you, I thought it was smoother.

But I think it's aging. They redid it just a few years ago, and it feels worse than it used to. It did. I agree. I know my brain is rotting. We're getting older. We get some warnings from people people about hollywood rip ride rocket which did break down there was a little bit of news story about this even the day that we were there it broke down

and i think people were anxious to jump on it like it was a much bigger problem than it was um but uh i don't know like we we got told for i don't want to say sources but like the like maybe that one's showing its age maybe that's right maybe i might advise the audience to not uh and then i was gonna do it because i haven't done it before we're gonna do it it's a scary like climb now apparently i i've done it yeah i wasn't wild about i did it once and i liked picking a song and the last time i was there i spent too much time browsing and they're like all right you get sabotaged by the bc boys pretty good song that's pretty good it's pretty there's a secret menu too yeah there as well but you also had to pick that song when you are like 90 degrees straight up in

the air like oh weird that's when you do that business on the way up business on the way up and then it starts playing i think as you drop we did learn that that ride now there are great because like they got a lot of bad press when people were stuck on it for two hours now they put in different braking systems where like they just very slowly bring it over the hump and down until it's like ground level and then get people off that way because people got stuck yeah in the loop is that right like no no on the lift hill so they made it so that can't happen anymore yeah so they were stuck maybe for 25 minutes versus two hours yeah that's nice yeah that's good that's better. Yeah. In terms of scariest moment for me, probably a rock and roll launch or all the backwards in the dark stuff in

Everest was like more intense than what I usually do. Very cool. Loved it. And you go out, I'm doing all this stuff. Do you go upside down in Everest? Am I wrong? Not in Everest.

No, no. Don't you? When you go back, isn't there like kind of an upside down or am I wrong? You're not in restraints that would make you able to go upside down unless you they just keep you in a seat belt it's hard to tell what's happening to you yeah i guess that's what because it's like on such an angle that it kind of feels like i'm having pressure on my neck which feels like i'm

doing a little loop but i guess i thought the scary thing was going to be like going all the way up uh and then you're at the end of the track and like like something about that would be so precarious and scary but it's not till that indoor uh spin around in the dark part i'm glad i did it row on everest i think it was back i think it was maybe all the way back yeah so i've made that that part less scary yeah you go backwards in a helix okay but you don't go upside down yeah you don't go fully upset but it feels like it um but you also scott i gave you a lot of credit because in a one hour span you did rock and roller coaster and tower of terror and you would have been impossible would i mean yeah it would have been possible i mean just because you didn't want to in the past but also

back in the day when those rides were newer that would have been insane to get on either of those that quickly in the afternoon like you would have had much quicker uh much longer recovery time the dream corridor of the park yeah to bang out and as i snooze new twilight zone i mean we we haven't done tower of terror proper but so exciting to see that that was so great lindy and i went back and rode that again oh nice one night we had a mic there was a split we decided we only had time to do because we can get on slinky dog right before closing and we only had time to do one rock and roller coaster tower of terror and i chose a rock and roller coaster over tower not nothing against tower of terror i just needed there's other there's an iteration

of it you could do closer rock and and Roller Coaster is only there. Not in Paris anymore. And as Lindsey pointed out, on the drop itself, I'm a little spoiled now because of the Guardians. Everything other than the drops on Tower of Terror is fantastic. Yeah. But the drop portion feels lacking now because of Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, the dropping is less intense. And that it's quiet it's quiet there's no soundtrack yeah i can see what would uh be less exciting at

this point so it's like the thrilling part of it so that's so i was like okay what do i want to do i'm going to get the thrills do i want to go and see aerosmith play live after this roller coaster or do i want to uh do a really great thing but that's not as i have a drop a better drop version in california sure sure what ride did everybody do the most that's a good question um i i didn't do a lot of things a ton i didn't do a multiple i did rock and roller coaster twice yeah i'm trying to think what would you make a point to go back because i i i would have fit in another one if i could have but i was very pleased to do et twice yeah yeah and i'm glad because i was so excited i i was uh i i was like a dog that wouldn't stop barking uh the first time

i did et i was talking talking and aaron requested that we do it again in a more solemn manner where we actually take it in and it's a respectful experience and i don't blame her and i'm glad that we did because we in that version we got in the front row so we were the first two names up and sometimes clarity is an issue with et yeah it was unmistakable and i posted it to our twitter account at et goodbye but hearing our names right after the goodbye goodbye aaron scott such a thrill yeah so glad we got to do it but my most rides title uh goes to mexico boat ride oh wow you did it again i did three times wow the second time was because there was that crazy thunderstorm in epcot and by that point everywhere indoors was so fucking jammed and every bench outside was wet and it was truly like there is nowhere to sit wait i know a chair we can get in right now

no problem and that chair is on the mexico bull ride uh which i insist on calling it uh i uh what a delight i and you know in our little fascinations uh you know our fake rocks and our smells and things that we like i want to add a couple things to that list indoor fireworks there's wonderful roof fireworks in that ride and i think those are i think the shades of the sinbad ride in tokyo too and also there's a couple epcot rides with these just very pleasant green painted on cityscapes my epcot green cities god bless the epcot green city you know what i'm talking about i know what you're talking about yeah there's that it's it's in the mexico boat ride it's there's one in spaceship earth for sure okay it must have been in horizons i can only and i think i'm forgetting one even are you saying the mural on the outside of spaceship berths no in the rock no in the ride which is the progress city model on the people mover kind of like that's kind of in that zone

for some reason i am so chilled out by these pleasant green cityscapes i just want to like i know you mean sit and have a drink staring at one of those green cities for a while. Compared to our actual crumbling infrastructure in Los Angeles. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The dream of actual great cities of the future. Jason, you're most frequented. All right. Well, I rode the PeopleMover around.

I got to do the, like, so the day we did Magic Kingdom, a downpour happened. Yeah. Right after we saw saw took a picture with sunny eclipse and it's like all right let's continue walking there's the rain we got forcibly trapped we got trapped in one of the best spots you could get trapped right in front of sunny eclipse so we had kind of a forced viewing of the entire sunny eclipse yeah which would have been more pleasant if it wasn't terrible rain and contemplating are we gonna have to eat the food in this place nightmare and have to eat in cosmic rays uh you can dress up cosmic rays to something good um but so i braved the ray i ran uh uh two people mover i

had an umbrella unfortunately the entrance to the people mover floods to ankle level oh yeah so my shoes were very wet congrats yeah i got it and i got to get on a moving uh transit system and so but everyone was just walking on there wasn't a big wait so as i came back in the station like i asked like what's the easiest way for me to get back on and they're just like you want to go again i was like yes i do and they're like to stay in yeah and, I got a second round of that. But I think I ended up doing Dr. Doom's Fearfall a few times. Really?

Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, because I did it. Did I do it today? I did it, you know, a couple times at night, the night we did Universal, because the last few times I had been down, the parks closed early enough. It wasn't dark. And it's very cool to see the whole resort lit up at night and then uh the the saturday i flew out uh i was just there early enough the islands of adventure had just opened so i just walked on single rider a couple times because you also see different angles of the city depending on what

side of the tower you sit on and i went to the full cube which is full of like doom bots and dr doom artifacts and that's a lot of fun oh that does sound great i should have done yeah i'm sorry i left early i went to the wrestling nxt show at full sail that night so i bailed a little early and did not do horror nights i apologize i am still a so-called socal king of haunts uh but i did not conquer the orlando this is confusing i mean do you like haunts or not to you yeah a lot of people have been asking me and the answer is yes i love haunts i'm into haunts now yes you didn't even do i mean you didn't even join me uh to get on dudley do right at 5 15 as the sun is setting the only cold day of the the only cold day we were down and i

immediately the first little baby drop got hit with three buckets of water god was it worth it i mean it's great it's such a fun ride i mean it's yeah i love it but then you get to chill out a little later at the hot dog hall of fame oh i did yes you met me at the hot dog hall of fame i was kind of insistent i just saw it i didn't know there was such a thing oh i did yes you met me at the hot dog hall of fame i was kind of insistent i just saw it i didn't know there was such a thing and i'm like you got it you're coming here right you must yeah i mean it was a return visit i've eaten there in the past uh uh yeah it's great you can really load up those hot dogs my hot dog was falling apart right so because where else you find that red onion sauce not on the east coast you know i asked you during the live show how many hot dogs total combined in chicago and orlando did you have i just had one but the there was the day

that within 24 hours i had had five scoops of ice cream right because so should i talk about well let's talk about so mike and i monday night we split off to go to disney springs to eat a chicken guy uh-huh oh yeah this chicken guy really that was a huge yeah it was a monday at the live show yes chicken guy is a newish restaurant in disney springs yes uh-huh it's a it's a phenomenon i think it is yeah and i mean it's what's the general how is the chicken mean, it's chicken. What's the general, how is the chicken prepared? Tenders? Tenders are fried, a sandwich. Okay. Yeah.

It's fried chicken. It's not spicy chicken, although I don't know, is there an option for that on the menu? Well, there's certainly spicy sauces. Well, I could get you there. Now, we're of course members of the sauce squad now. Yeah. So I signed up for the sauce squad ahead of time on my phone. Jason did not because he wanted the physical sauce squad card. But who would be the fool i was the fool jason was the fool because they would not honor so basically

you have to sign up online anyway you get two free of so so whatever you order maybe you get one or two free sauces with this but if you're a sauce squad member you get two additional free sauces that's 50 cents a sauce that's a dollar savings that's a dollar so if you're going a lot which if we lived in orlando we would yeah uh you're getting a lot of savings change that when you live in orlando there we go oh believe me it's it could be any month now aaron made aaron pointed this out about both of you guys but especially she's like jason maybe just needs to pull the trigger maybe jason needs to do it i i don't disagree you're so you were so happy she saw a picture of you with the vin diesel wax figure on instagram you posted and

she's like i don't think i've ever seen him happier than this saloon familia uh you could do you could do comedy at sack i could yeah um yeah would it make it less special though i don't know well did did make did disneyland become less special living out here i mean even while that's hmm yeah i don't know did universal city become less special living sort of near living so yeah city walk become less special that's that saga i would argue no yeah i'd argue to mully made it better it's all more now there's stories so we hallowed tales we yeah so we both had chicken guy and and this brings up an interesting thing to me which the economics of disney springs like you pointed out it's really a big draw for the locals because like a chicken sandwich at chicken guy is like six bucks really yes at the

hotel a a much worse chicken sandwich is like 13 bucks yeah um and they make all these sauces in how it was very good i mean at a certain point we were talking about being excited for chicken guy because it was funny and then once we're eating it we're like this is good so much so that you went back so we we after we ate there we went back to hollywood studios to close to do slinky dog but the next so the next day is the day that um uh i had a drink at the polynesian bar you met me there the outside of ohana outside of ohana yeah um yeah we have been at animal kingdom in the morning and i think we all tapped out around lunch because that park heats up yeah boy that park is a pressure cooker yeah

but if you rope drop it you can get on flight of passage in under 15 minutes yeah we didn't wait like at all we didn't wait at all um saw tuli canteen also very good yeah thumbs up yeah i was still there i went to rafiki's planet watch to pet a goat i did the dinosaur ride and i did expedition everest which as i was getting off that and heading to salt wuli canteen to eat you were like do you i i am gonna get a boat uh oh yeah i'm gonna get a boat to go uh uh out on the seven Sealand Lagoon in Bay Lake. And then you said that magic phrase, I'll pay for it if you want to meet me. Lindsay was going to go get a massage at the Grand Floridian.

And I had wanted to do this putt-putt boat. I had heard so much about it. It was like 45 bucks after an hour, I think, right? Well, I knew he was on the fence about it. And then I was like, well, I know it all. He was on the fence about it and then i was like well i know a little about it yeah but i was like well i gotta get i because you famously have talked about like your family would do these boats and famously wherever famously you get stuffed on the street about the boats but you oh man you're the guy with the when you were a kid your family took me on the boat to me because you were like this was like an adventurous thing we

did and we were very safety minded and my parents you said they were your parents that were too dangerous well no my parents did it when they were young newlyweds like in the 70s and my dad ran out of gas and uh washed up on a rocky jetty uh in the wake of like a uh transportation boat right and then just kind of had to sit and wait for my mom to bring back uh help and then he got swallowed by a crocodile but then was able to like manipulate the crocodile body so he like raised you from a crocodile's body the rest of your child oh yes that's true yeah it's a huge news story because how did a crocodile get into orlando that's gator country oh that's what i

meant uh but no we took the boat out we did some live streaming from the boat it's very hard to see a phone screen in uh the orlando sunlight i was worried you're gonna the phone was gonna go flying into the water which would have been funny it would have been good content we could have talked about it but so this was my my most crisscrossing because after this after the boat i was a little worn out from the heat and the sun there was a couple things i wanted to do at epcot again i did i re so i took the monorail to epcot from the polynesian i went on spaceship earth again because they're going to change it soon. I went and did Test Track, which is thankfully being refurbished in January

because that ride was rough. Oh, man. That was not great. And then I had a nitrogen-cooled chocolate truffle. This was like they scooped... Oh, we did that same thing. Yeah, yeah, that was great. It was great.

Like they scooped chocolate truffle into liquid nitrogen, made the outside hard as a rock and then smashed it with a hammer and you ate it with a fork and delicious like maybe one of the best things i've eaten but best meal best treat best drink you had whole trip oh i'll go first uh pizza at the california grill okay really good we just went up to the lounge we didn't actually have reservations that's a good tip too is because like you don't have to have reservations you can just go you have to you have to go to a floor to check in for reservations but you can just go there and go is anyone in the lounge can we go in the lounge and they'll say yeah sure and they just take you upstairs and then we had like really good pizza yeah and it was like not to sit down

but it's like yeah i did i wasn't sure what the if the lounge was uh you could still get into it last minute so yeah i didn't know yeah i didn't know at all until we just went and checked um uh the chicken guy was good chicken out there for me too so that was then i took the skyliner from the Epcot back to all star, back to pop century, took a nap in the Murphy bed. Okay. So this is a big thing. So what you can do is you can tell Disney,

I don't need maid service every night. I didn't even tell them that I just ordered a standard room. Right. But I'm saying like, so this was a thing that basically I didn't realize, but you can get a $10 credit, a Disney credit or Disney gift card per night that you don't need the maid to come the next day.

So we were at, we went to all star music. We were five days and they give you 40 bucks or whatever. So you were calculating. It was very specific thing that if you didn't do it and you didn't have maid service, that there was a Murphy bed and a regular bed. And you were excited because since you weren't do it and you didn't have maid service, that there was a Murphy bed and a regular bed,

and you were excited because since you weren't staying there the whole time, you could sleep on both of them, and they would both be fresh beds, which you really like. So I didn't end up doing that because I was so tired the one night, I didn't want to pull down the Murphy bed. But when I went to take a nap, I was like, all right, I'll try the Murphy bed. It's a Murph, but it's not as good as the regular bed. It was identical to the, it was like the same mattress it was the same match and all your pillows are

on the regular bed anyway same pillows same sheets total uh cash uh profit total profit on this what did i got because i did it i did probably got 20 30 no i got like 30 bucks okay uh how many nights were you there which certainly could not have gone towards a boat no he offered um so i took the nap i woke up i'm like what do i have time to do what i was gonna do that i didn't i was gonna take the skyliner as close as i could get to disney springs then take a bus to disney springs why are you doing all of these because it's fun because i like the bus to the skyliner back to the car back to the minivan and i wanted to see how everything was running i want to see i'm a theme park journalist you were anxious i need to pack in infrastructure tests uh yeah so i ended up doing the more rational i took the bus to disney springs i ate at chicken guy a

second night in a row by that point my sauce squad membership had been verified and you got your free two sauces i got my free two sauces were you going there primarily to finally cash in on your sauce squad status uh uh no well i was also doing some souvenir shopping disney world 50 cents two for free so that's another that's another dollar yeah yeah boy you're um so and cents are climbing up so now the clock is ticking i had chicken guy and i wanted to get to the boardwalk to go to ample hills before they closed so i could eat overlooking their lovely body of water i got the buses were taking a little while i got on the boardwalk bus with some very drunk boomers who were screaming about like um uh the toto the Toto song, Africa.

Um, they don't think it makes, it doesn't make any sense. Who's blessing the rains in Africa? well, fuck them. Yeah. Get the fuck out of here. Assholes.

Hammered. Um, I got to the boardwalk, got into ample Hills like three minutes before it closed. And then they said the magical words, sir, would you like any complimentary topics? So they're giving you hot fudge and whipped cream for free.

So I had a little something. Hot fudge and whipped cream for free. Hot dog. I had the exclusive flavor, Sally sells seashells, which is a Mandarin orange with chocolate pieces in it. Delicious. Okay. What flavors of every, so. So that was, flavor sally sells seashells which is a mandarin orange with chocolate pieces in it delicious okay we'll see what flavors of the every so uh so that was so that was the sally sells seashells

and ooey gooey butter cake right signature flavor of course the next day at diagon alley at four lean for tesco's uh waffle cone uh i think i did going off the dome with the not one note yeah not alone doesn't need it it was apple crumble and earl gray in his head and then that night i went to hard rock to emac and bolio's these complicated names you just got it and had it was like a super it was like triple it was like dark chocolate ice cream with chocolate chunks and brownie chunks in it. Was it a special name? I don't remember. I don't think so.

Maybe it had a triple trunk or something. Midnight something or blackout something. Wow. So, and then I, oh, okay. So then how do you get back from the boardwalk to pop century? Hotel to hotel is still very difficult in Disney world. So I'm like, do I go back? I don't want to go i think there's lifts

by the way that's it gets expensive oh yeah yeah yeah so i always had that out but i wanted to see if i could do it for free so uh friendship boat still running took the friendship boat from the boardwalk to the closed hollywood studios got on the last bus when it's the end of the night they just line the buses up in a row they don't even do the stations anymore i got on that like one of the last buses out like saigon i got on one of the last trips out and got back to pop century uh because i had to go to bed because i checked out the next morning and moved over to cabana bay at universal which i thought was great which is a great hotel for all of like the design insanity of pop century uh the like modernist architecture of cabana bay looks really nice granted only like three years old much better aesthetics much better aesthetics great uh service

a lot of restaurants and bars in that one for like a value moderate like a floor to ceiling windows in my room like yeah very uh very nice but to answer your question top heats nitro truffle was a highlight chicken guy a boat house was very good that's good yeah yeah um sawtuli canteen you were in the canteen yeah i am i liked it yeah you did not as much as jason but i i dug it aaron kind of straight aaron aaron did like a combo that struck out a little bit like we didn't play it right but i had this like garlic noodle shrimp thing that was very good yeah and uh mythos mythos we got we got the big table we got the vip table at mythos which if you anyone recalls factored into our fake rock final four we get to eat in

like it's the restaurant in nines of adventure that is fake rocks on the inside and outside we get to dine inside fake rocks delightful yeah walked in pretty much yeah we're seated almost immediately a very food is good there food was good menu was very uh like interesting options um about the same price as like the three broomsticks so like i know there's a joke of like oh they have the best theme park food banner hanging for like 20 years or something but mythos was good yeah yeah mythos was good i was thinking i think i said at the table if we started giving out you know we're an authority in the theme park journalism community and the theme park entertainment world.

If we started handing out awards to things, would they have to post it? Like if we also gave Mythos some sort of a... The answer is no, but keep going. I'm just saying maybe... They wouldn't have to. I mean, I guess you're right. They wouldn't have to. But should they?

Could they? Would they could they would they because what was the authority that's giving mythos the top yeah that was weird yeah what's that park insider there's a banner outside of mythos in a theme park which is odd because you don't see this anywhere in disney and more than other i don't see the name of a a newspaper or a website saying come into here right it's not like a movie you're not seeing a zagat's review it's weird yeah did the old banner say attractions magazine i don't know there's a couple it has it has always been well reviewed sure i'm just saying you know we have a lot of say now we have a lot of poll like let's

award mythos something let's award Mythos something. Let's award other Universal Restaurants things and see if we can get a banner. We'll maybe make the banner. Okay. So, let's say we ate. We at Podcast the Ride ate at Mythos. And Mythos is a meal fit for a king. That's great.

Put it on a banner. Attribute it to podcast the ride zeus himself king of the gods comes down to enjoy a lamb burger that's right so there'll be a banner now hopefully soon hanging under the one from theme park insider yeah that's you know we're endorsing mythos we want name placement yeah the islands of adventure um can i tell us a quick story stemming from what you said jason a little bit ago about boomers we had a fun boomer encounter uh as i talked about in the live show hell of a american adventure had a great time great to see the zuck in there on the week he was getting grilled is just getting his

dick grilled by aoc it's really fantastic uh so we are leaving the american adventure and there was this quote well in general the american adventure is very strange to watch uh now that we're coming to the end of the american adventure and And there's like, there's a lot of like quotes and moments where you just kind of get this weird little shiver. Like, okay. But never more than at the end where this is actually, I think it's,

I don't remember if it's Franklin or Twain, but one of them is actually quoting John Steinbeck, uh, saying how, uh, America now faces the danger, uh, which has been the most destructive to the,

to humans. Success, plenty, comfort, and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic people has ever survived these dangers. So on the way out, I was kind of quoting that and saying in that voice, yes, no great society has survived leisure, which is why these millennials need to get off their asses and get a job that's just a bit i'm doing for you guys and then several feet ahead of us a woman turns around and gives us the biggest hammiest thumbs up and like yes like Like, yes. Like the hugest face of somebody said it.

Somebody said it in public. Somebody said it. Thank you. Somebody, I would call this person a boomer probably. And then she turned back to her husband and they kept walking. And then they turned back and stared at us again because she did some mental math. Wait a minute. These not olds who say this millennial quote,

these are youngs was, do I detect sarcasm? And they didn't know how to process. I think they realized maybe they'd been had. I think so. I think they did a double take. Like I thought I would turn and hear that quote coming from a 60 something himself yes yeah a man with a powdered impersonator did they then say like right about the leisure yes and the husband added i think he did the math of oh maybe that was

sarcasm or something uh it was sort of awkward and then like well you're right about the leisure i'll tell you that and i my head when i heard that i wanted to go like motherfucker you're here on vacation we're all we're working hey we're all at disney world yeah we're working work like with with our self-made podcast yeah we built from the ground up we figured out a revenue source for ourselves yeah you know hollywood's all ip now sure we're the ones we're making original crafty yeah but i just like it's like what are you complaining about disney world like you're on vacation too you're on you're doing leisure i just don't understand why you guys don't go out and get a four hundred thousand dollar a year job get to it start applying just show up just

show up and say i'm ready to work this was a big reminder that we are in florida that we are this is florida we cannot maybe go around yelling shit like that as we would in california and we could be you know like i just realized okay so keep trump comments in your pocket got it get it good yeah uh aaron reminded us of this as we went into the hall of presidents uh you know hey remember remember where we are florida best behavior everybody understandably because there's a lot to snicker about in the hall of presidents there's two guards there's two security guards in there i believe there's more there's only one though first time i went bleed i think we're all like tongues bleeding from biting like everyone's snickering our friends from uh sack who were with the people from a couple uh locals with us and they were like dying they're like holding themselves together like

cracking up yeah yeah but we're like can't do it i don't want another american adventure thing and then trump starts talking i hear a boo somebody else not in our group so at least i at least we didn't add to it but like and a child started crying when trump started to be escorted out of the room he boy i mean we'll do hall of presidents eventually but in person holy shit so spastic the most spastic animatronic i've ever seen yeah yeah yeah and this is before the we're in a week where he's been booed multiple times like just seems to be like uh getting off on it at this point keeps going to public sporting events yeah getting ripped he might well as as trump jr said like well you know if you're getting booted at city that means you're doing

something right like within the city you're from motherfucker but also also like president blood sport like yeah i love when the president goes to uh ufc events like that's uh really funny okay there yeah because that was a surprise yeah trump is going to a dog fight president trump attends cock fight i find my good friend michael vick i finance he's starting it up again and he gets good man great dogs he gets booed there by the eight people that are there. I like dogs now. I know I say things, people die like a dog,

but some dogs are like, yeah, we gotta do. Folks, these dogs are hard workers. Maybe when the, maybe right before the election we do Hall of President's proper episode. Yeah.

Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. In a year from now, we'll do it. Right before we finally escape the scourge forever, assuming he's not impeached before. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. In a year from now, we'll do it. Right before we finally escape the scourge forever, assuming he's not impeached before. Oh, no. I'm sure he'll be impeached in some days.

It might be irrelevant by the time this episode comes out, so we got to be careful. And then the sun rises on all of our structural issues solved. Once he's gone, everything's roses. Then everything's back to normal. Everything's back to perfect the way it was. That was perfect years ago anyway um before we i'm sure there's a lot of other stuff to say but the other big story to tell in this is a transportation issue because jason you had uh very good luck with transportation i had very good luck it is this the after the show yes yeah yeah so after the show i grabbed a lift back to cabana bay my my driver

was a little chatty and i was like oh this will be funny i'll talk about my my the next morning when i see the guys i'll be like oh i had a chattiest lift driver she told me about her family and stuff isn't that fun i thought it'd be very you know we're all waking up this will be some small talk you guys went on an adventure of the life a wild ride beyond what mr toad could dream of so uh people who are listening to this may have been talking to us outside of sat comedy lab it was great to meet everyone and talk to everyone as soon as whoever the last of you was left there was no post-show party we all left we called a lift and uh went to to go to bed as soon as we possibly could we were very tired sack is like downtown orlando which i'd never been to before yes and

it is party like college party central down there we had fucking motorcycles during our show they were revving motorcycles throughout the whole show which we first thought was thunder and then people were like no they're motorcycles yeah yeah like a gang of motorcycle motorcycle someone told us about that that it's like oh yeah there's not a lot of places to ride in orlando so everyone with motorcycles just does it downtown dude they do loops around the comedy theater the comedy theater with great sound probably the best sound in an improv theater uh yeah i've ever seen um so uh we so we call lift it's pretty much further than yours because we had to go all the way back to uh disney world uh it's uh it's it's me and my wife baron it's mike and lindsey and uh

really fun ride guy was great one of like one of my just personality wise favorite lift drivers ever he told a really funny story about like uh getting into a coffin an escape room oh yeah to try to uh look cool in front of his wife and he was trying to not hit the panic button and he's in there for 30 seconds like panic button panic button i uh he talked about managing a chili's for like 15 years yeah it was just he loved chili's as well you could because he's like oh you're making me nostalgic oh yeah and i started talking about how i love chili's because i had eaten the chili's alone at full outside of full sail university the night before after the nxt show so you're bonding over your love of chili's it's a really fun ride

he even says like this is one of the best fun rides i've had you guys are great and then uh then we get off the freeway and get into the disney world uh area it was gonna be i think us first at pop century and you guys at all-star um and then we hit a road closure no big deal that should reroute you that should be it's because it's like 12 30 at night at this point in time uh when disneyland is we care disney world as we keep saying things generally shut down like 10 11 buses stop running uh so they're like this is a fine time to do some road work it becomes clear after a few passes of okay let's reroute wait where are we now let's reroute again we're back here again wait and now the app is saying make a u-turn in two miles

like we just keep going back and forth and we are nowhere near anywhere we need to be uh this is clearly the crucial artery of the entire property this is like osceola road it's like at least that's my view of it because this shutting down caused the entire thing to go to shit we could not the driver could not figure out how the hell to get any of us to our hotels we ended up in the hollywood the empty hollywood studios parking lot we got routed through the well we got routed through the main parking garage where there were no attendants and almost no one around and just one other confused weird car kind of like tooling through the lot totally empty we look to one side as you said earlier the skyliner totally dark as if it had

been abandoned post-apocalypse the one of the only lights around were the side of the lights on the hollywood tower of terror yes very creepy and we're like lift wants or the whatever ways wants us to go here this This doesn't make sense. We loop around, just go back the way we came. We get on some other thing. It says detour. We get off the road. Now we're in the other side.

After 10 minutes, we're in the other side. We go through an employee entrance of the Disney Studios. We're just right next to the wall where Rise of the Resistance is. Yes. And no one's around. If we'd hopped the wall, maybe we could have is yes if we and no one's around if we'd hop the wall maybe we could have been partying with 100 stormtroopers yes like again why is the program telling us this you can see there's a few stray cars being led on the exact same wrong path yes

and they're confused and you feel it you feel cars really hesitant. Like the body language of every car you see is like, what? And the driver is starting to, we're just all starting to snap and talk about, well, our new life is here. We live together in this car now. And it's clear that whatever is routing the driver is not doing us any good. So I think you pull out your phone to help. We, again, don't do the right thing maybe i can help maybe lindsey can help we end up all with there are four phones all with different apps showing different ways to get around the property because it doesn't know that things

are shut down not everything has the same information so i also i gotta say like because i i in my head i could kind of picture this so here's hollywood studios and here's pop century over here they're close-ish but they're not close no and i find it very i don't know where the hell i am on that property ever yeah it's confusing i'm a theme park podcaster yeah and you have to think if people were getting in late or coming back late from restaurants or bars. Pop Century, I asked at the front desk over 2000 rooms in that complex. If you factor in all of the all stars have over a thousand, some of them over 2000. That is tons of people to to do this level of insane road closure even in and all the hotels

by the way we kept having issues when we were first booking very full this time of year people coming in for one of the most populated places on earth how can this be happening how can this be our only option four phones are out sometimes the driver makes a move and we go that's not on mine now let's try it anyway and then it still doesn't work there is no solve to this we are in a giant escape room as the driver told us his nightmare it's like we're trapped in the coffin he was avoiding in his story from earlier he had he had said this had happened to him once or twice before yeah and then we thought i was kept thinking oh that's crazy obviously it's not gonna happen to us again

and then it did uh and then i had the thought that okay maybe if we switch where we're going maybe if we go all-star music first you guys off first and i don't know if i'm also like subconsciously my brain was like let's try to get you out of here first like i don't know i but i think logically it made sense to break us out of whatever bad we can say we're all this is a war room now and all of us you say that and then we're all like yes break us out of the pattern yes the driver's like oh yes you're in a pattern break us out of the pattern that's a two to three mile difference again not a huge amount of difference but we're like the room in apollo 13 that's trying to figure out how to put the square peg in the rest to fit in there so okay i was thinking okay maybe if that gets us out

of the loop then it'll it'll give you a different straight shot to pop century so we do that and i'm navigating on my phone and i'm basically just telling the driver what to do so i'm saying no don't go because he goes if you want you just want to go right here i go no no not right here no no dear it's a stay here in the straight and then you're going to go right after this next row okay all right we got it so we got there we get to all-star yes music eventually it takes a little while but we make it in and let me say using the policy where if you're taking a lift around one of somebody just passes up their magic band they scan it oh you're staying here great let us in important for later uh so then we're taking up to the lobby there is no issue right everything is fine we'll tell you how it goes we said okay

hopefully everything's gonna go fine we went in we went to bed this was the now by this point of longish commute and then a lot of funny business on Disney World, this has gotten us up to the 40 minute mark, which should have been about a 25 minute commute. Yes. Aaron and I, an extra 20, 20 more minutes added on to this. We leave where you guys are. We end up in the same exact place. We keep going.

You turn and through two miles. What the fuck are you talking about? We're by something called Gaylord Palms. We're so far off property we are screaming now and then he's telling us like i've done this with like this happened to me once with children in the car where a mother is going please you have to get us to the hotel they're crying and he's like i don't know i don't know how to help you and we're turning into those crying children we've been in this car for so fucking long the driver incredibly stopped the

meter where you guys were all right said this is so ridiculous i can't charge you for this uh very nice what a great great driver one of the best i've never looked like to drive her so much and he does keep saying guys i've i've made a turn on this i'm loving this i'm having fun now i want to get you guys home but like oh my god uh so so more u-turns more back and forth and then we hit a breaking point uh we see a disney security vehicle on the side of the road the guy starts flashing his lights really aggressively to get his attention we pull over the windows roll down a I, and the driver all are like, where is Park Century?

How do we get to Park Street? We've been driving for an hour. We've got to figure out. Just screaming at this guy. And he's just like, okay, hang on. One at a time. One at a time. What's going on?

The road closures have prevented us. We don't know. We don't know where we are. We don't know how we would drive forever. Here, follow me. So now we are driving. Now it's one in the morning. We are driving through the Disney World property

with a security escort. Which you have to admit, in hindsight now, is something that everybody doesn't get to do. It was pretty cool. We're trailing a car. It's pretty cool. And he proceeds to go away. That is none of the directions we had gone any of those prior attempts. We never saw one part of the road that this guy took us so clearly you have to be in a disney

world employee expert to know how the hell to navigate that property around this time so minutes are passing it's still it's the longest most circuitous route as i said all told 20 extra minutes just for aaron and i then we get to security at pop century uh they stop us okay id oh yes of course we hand up our magic badge no no id okay that hasn't happened before in 10 trips to this hotel why hand up my id uh security hotel security guy no no you really aggressively at the driver and he's like what are you talking about me you need my id yeah i come in and out of these hotels all day every day this is never having me new policy new policy for you this my friends is

racial profile yeah this is some fucking profiling shit at one in the morning in the heat of the night in the car now we are experiencing profiling uh The driver takes it in stride. He does it because it's just like, what are you going to find that is a problem? What is the... And right before the gate opens, he's like, I'm reporting you to your boss. I'm reporting you to Mickey.

That's great. Loved that. Great. We finally get to the front door. And at this point, we give the guy, we just hand him cash. This is for you. Thank you for everything. And we got to get a picture.

I've never taken a picture with a driver before. And he's like, oh, of course, man. You guys are the best. Big smiles. Great photo. In a theme park vacation where every employee is friendly and trying to do go above and beyond this driver was the number one uh the best she navigated us through a situation where we needed a security x escort uh insane insane this was so fucking bonkers yeah that was i mean up until we didn't uh we didn't have the last 20 minutes but up and it was uh yeah most memorable yeah already interaction

already and we're laughing we are it is a fun ride i will say it was fun i kind of feeling we would drop you guys off and like there's no way we're just back at the hotel this is gonna keep going yeah i probably yeah i i guess it was sort of a dream that it would like fix itself just by going out of the way but yeah the whole thing of course takes a dark racist turn toward the end, which I obviously do not care for. Yeah, man. Yeah.

At the end of all that, that should happen. New policy for you. It's really aggressive. Yeah. So thumbs up to this driver for taking it all in stride for being. So maybe my best ride of the trip, this lift,

right? Wow. Yeah. I mean, it was very fun because sometimes the driver even more fun who drives your vehicle in rise of the resistance who's that old guy i don't know we don't i forget what the name of that droid is nim nub or something isn't that oh no uh pilots the first part this spoiler alert sorry of rise of the resistance well this driver is better than nine nub that's fair you can imagine uh i yeah we honestly i mean you have a lot of i i like for some reason there's something fun about the lift drivers in orlando that they're

i don't know they're like a lot of like ex-employees uh they there's always you get like a real fun character like a fun character driving you around he was a blast and he was the best yeah imagine how bad that could have with a driver you like didn't get along or they were just being silent with initially i had oh the night before because i came back from full sail to the parks there was a lady who was just like i was like oh she's like how's your night going i go it's fine i go how's yours and she goes it's going and i was like oh she's like how's your night going i go it's fine i go how's yours and she goes it's going and i was like oh boy here you go and then we but we didn't talk and then i felt bad about not talking oh boy and then i like yeah so it was much it can be grim imagine navigating that insane scenario uh with it with a grim driver yeah this guy wasn't that um i buy a great bartenders uh too uh all the bartender

at the the bar outside of ohana was great um at cabana bay there's a lobby bar and friday after i left you when i went back after i left the magic kingdom like the guy was really sat down and i ordered a beer and he's like hey it's a minute past but i'll give you happy hour prices and i'm like holy shit happy hour to theme park like you know like a theme park property you never see that coffee the morning of the live show just a free thing you know that's great it's incredible uh we went to abracadabra i'm just trying to hit some of the last really cool i went to i just popped into the the aventura hotel it's new in the last year so that's really

cool the theme of that hotel is cool hotel like i had a great burger in the lobby uh food court and the rooftop bar was really neat and we low all the stuff we're glossing over we did haggards it was incredible haggards there's a whole i think scott kept saying like there's six months worth of content yeah i know we're loaded up yeah we can leave anaheim in the dust finally yeah some complaints i have no shirts that say the contemporary on them this is insane this is every time we go we go to that gift shop and i ask a poor employee i go where are the shirts that say contemporary we don't really have them i go there's like one polynesian one and he's like yeah i don't know they just don't have them we want classic logo contemporary

yeah building shirt come on yeah let's have let's do it gotta give the universal hotels credit every hotel gift shop has hotel merchandise of course and probably one of the canniest theme park moves i've ever seen every gift shop has a corner that looks like a tiny Harry Potter gift shop. Yeah. So you are not getting out. If you like Harry Potter and you forgot something at the park, don't worry. You can get it five other places now. Yeah.

I hadn't done Diagon or Gringotts. It's all amazing. Gringotts I really loved. Yeah. I was very surprised how much I dug that. And that's all sure uh oh epcot preview center that's what i was about to say yeah yeah good i was gonna say fancy pure is supercharged well we gotta that'll be a full life episode but uh just to say yes if you

want to if you want a bumping song in your queue in 2019 what do you guys think i would say gasolina we talked about before so you'd think gasolina that would be perfect scott you have a guess uh i forget the other thing that's like that uh i don't it's not on the tip of my tongue uh how about turn down for what whoa really yeah he's all right i'm all right we're we're on that in the future yeah that'll be a good one preview setter we can we certainly don't have time to talk about race through new york with jimmy fallon oh my gosh it's coming it's coming on the patreon someday not anytime soon but still follow the patreon yeah because we'll get to it that's where that's where jimmy fallon will live all of the teases are coming yes yeah so that's

for sure we're doing our own preview center here a little bit that epcot preview center if you're in disney world don't miss it so cool the gist of it being there's just like a it's a white unadorned model of future world and they project a ton of stuff all over it that showcases the things that are coming uh whether it be the mary poppins ride eventually or the ratatouille ride or this is one part where this boring guy starts giving this presentation about we are setting up shop and we will be emissaries here in future world and then it starts glitching out and then it gets unplugged all together and you hear a familiar voice say boring and it's friggin rocket he unplugged the whole thing and he turns it into a p-funk spectacular now it's not boring at all thanks for saving us from

that boring guy looking forward to a cosmic rewind with you buddy yeah yeah that was all really cool i'll say this if you go to that preview center if you like any of that merchandise it is only at the preview center so buy it there because i ran through the rain to go back for something because i could not find it anywhere else so yeah and also there's it's a wrap it's like did you say 360 like oh yeah video yeah yeah and a model amazing uh so yeah and also there's it's a wrap it's like did you say 360 like oh yeah video yeah yeah and a model amazing uh so yeah that thing lives in my beloved odyssey this mostly unused amazing piece of epcot architecture yeah so great so which was sharp paint job i like i think the i think the design of epcot's heading in a good place it's this like retro but future but current i think

it's uh i think it's gonna be great um i agree i think i think yeah that's gonna we're gonna have to get to phase two before they like fix imagination which whatever they do we want figment to stay but like i think yeah like in eight years the whole thing's gonna look real nice yeah and then like a lot of it'll look nice in like three um yeah surprising uh lack of figment in that previews that are though yeah he's not ready with it yet i don't think they're not sure they're people probably seen online there's a lot of like surveys you get if you've been to the parks and it'll it's just questions about figment it's like do you know who this is do you like this character did you come to epcot to see this character questions that are just trying to

figure out data wise like doing what will happen if we take him out if this character showed you what a skunk smells like would you like that or not yeah does a toilet on the ceiling equal imagination to you which of course tony baxter famously said it does not no famously famously i uh so uh oh you know, one more other thing. If we're chatting out specific people or characters or mice, we took a, I love the photo we all got with Mickey right after the International Gateway. Remember how awesome that Mickey was?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Ronnie asked Mickey. Yes. Who, Aaron reminded me what the business was before we walked up. Somebody was wearing a shirt with Minnie and he chose, Mickey chose to get mad and jealous. And he like stomped and huffed and puffed. Like how dare you have my girlfriend on your shirt.

And then he like, and then he kind of stared at us in a way that was like, I don't know if I'm ready. And we said, do you need a second? And then he did like a like little zen move like calm down find your center uh and then somebody had a coffee and mickey grabbed the coffee and acted all coffee jittery and hoarded it and then like just darted his head around this was some fantastic like new character business like i'd never seen yeah such a good mickey uh one of the best characters i've oh and we were talking about the in-room channels one of them was just the mickey mouse shorts yes and they were so funny we like those are great i mean i guess i knew that already but i'd never like really got to sit and watch them so great i love that

they play those in a loop all the time uh maybe they're letting mickey be funny and crazy because that's what you get out of their shirts yeah he's like crazy and weird and dirty and yeah he's gonna be crazy on runaway railway yeah so which is a fun uh we saw really uh not as good as mickey but i want to say also with the mickey thing just so much time like they're yeah you got a lot of you got a lot of time with Mickey, a lot of memorable time, which usually sometimes they rush in and out. We also met Launchpad McQuack, which we were very excited about. We saw Scrooge.

We should have done Scrooge too, but Launchpad had a very small line. And that was really fun. Cause they're doing a whole like Donald Duck festival over by Dino Land USA, because I think that not many people go to Dino Land. So it's some sort of duck festival so if you were looking for seats if you were looking for duck seats everywhere in that place because you could have a photo op with scrooge launchpad daisy

donald i think that was it but uh that was fun good characters good food good time i mean like we did yeah there's so much stuff we are forgetting, but it'll come up. It'll trickle into, uh, episodes. Oh, you know,

it's a funny, we wanted to close on and a very crucial one because we met so many characters that we love. Um, but I think there's a character that's very near and dear to our hearts now that didn't used to be. And that character is Lil Abner. And we didn't realize.

Yes. Lil Abner, uh, who the, the are we all the listeners you all love dog patch usa the foreclosed dangerous arkansas park as much as we do there i didn't realize in that comic in toon lagoon in that comic zone when we found it jason and erin and i found a little there is a little a little abner corner yeah called the skunk works yeah there's skunks in a that was something i hadn't seen in ages all the little features of lagoon all the little characters make sounds all the like heathcliff was lowering a bone in front

of a dog house like all of that was running this is that boring guy who talks to you about nature really quietly mark trail was telling you about the glory of nature and while jeffy from the family circus makes a mess he like refers to mark trail yes it is a crossover yeah crossover flintstones flintstones meet the jetsons jeffy meets mark trail only at islands of adventure only at islands and we and let's we should make sure after this episode we post all the way there's a lot of great photo ops with jason all over tune lagoon yes a lot of nancy there was multiple nancy and sluggo and slug well jason is sluggo yes jason is jeffy jason is sluggo jason you are every character

over there he's dadwood he's you're what i imagine little abner looked like before i realized it was this scary satire the hillbillies i assumed he was like fun little dude yeah yeah but you were i mean obviously you were created for the harvey comics character line you were created in the same vein as casper and hot stuff the little devil and then when i caused too much mischief i get shipped off to the army like beetle bailey you are a lot like beetle bailey as well yeah all of them well you met everyone that you're like and we'll post that to the twitter and i guess on that note let me plug the other stuff and i'll say you survived podcast the ride and we survived a week in orlando it was a pleasure to to go with y'all what a fun

unit uh thanks to sack for inspiring our trip yeah and uh maybe we'll be back we'll be back god willing we'll be back sooner rather than later yeah uh so uh for uh pictures of jason with all of his character doppelgangers. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. And for three bonus episodes every month, which will no longer be about things that used to be at downtown Disney. We're going to broaden it out again. Subscribe to Podcast the Ride, the second gate at patreon.com slash podcast the ride.

Fun stuff coming this month. And yeah. How about a shirt that says slug one back with sluggo we'll workshop it for the drinking around the lagoon drinking yeah yeah all right yeah and oh yeah and sure it's coming too let's yeah we'll make drinking around toon laguna thing like it is around epcot sure crank that shit out so So buy it, please. Thanks. Bye. Bye-bye. Forever Dog. This has been a Forever Dog production.

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