Podcast: The Ride - The CityWalk Orlando Saga: Malltiverse of Madness 1 - 3

Episode Date: March 10, 2024

The important work continues. Boat names are discussed and more kiosks are investigated. Plus…a Sector Keeper introduces a twist to the Saga rules(which were incredibly clear before this). Phase 1, Sector 3 contains:   Waterfront Kiosks (Emerald) Water Taxis Dancing Fountains NBC Sports Grill & Brew (Alpha) NBC Sports Grill & Brew (Omega) To level up your Saga experience with bonus and ad-free episodes, subscribe to Podcast: The Ride’s Club 3 at  patreon.com/podcasttheride.  FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FOREVER! DOG! When your town has made you frown When your square has made you swear When life gives you one more punch You need a donut soaked in Captain Grunge You need a place, a place to stroll With alcohol

A place that features part of the Berlin Wall Where steampunk robots sell chocolate snacks A place where you can tattoo your lower back So let's go take a walk Let's all go to CityWalk Orlando tonight.

Podcast to Ride presents the CityWalk Orlando Saga. Multiverse of madness. A daily extremely necessary series exploring the shops, restaurants, and cosmic wonder that make up universal city walk orlando welcome to podcast the ride presents the city walk saga orlando

multiverse of madness my name is mike carlson joining me as always jason sheridan hi and scott gerdner happy sunday happy sunday it's just it's a podcast that comes out on a Sunday when there's already been one the two previous days. It's a full week, and it's not the only full weekend of podcasts coming your way. I assume you're in church right now, quietly listening to this, hoping that your wife or husband don't notice that you have the headphones in or the earphone, like a little Bluetooth earpiece in. Just one AirPod, which I got AirPods a few months ago. the headphones in or the earphone like a little like bluetooth earpiece just one airpod which i

i got airpods a few months ago i have lost my left airpod somewhere in my apartment and it's driving me crazy have you post move so it's you know it came with you okay and also the find by was telling me like it is in this place but there's not enough battery to make a sound to ping it. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Have you gone to church with it, though, recently? Well, that's usually my right one.

Oh, you only bring one to church. I bring one, so I hold the Bible with the left, or the hymnal book, that hold that with the left hand and then i've got like you know you insist on aisles so that nobody you're with can look at you know you like i'll take the you know i kind of like you know so i can get up go to the bathroom if i need to and then nobody sees that yeah yeah no one sees except the offering collectors those i gotta pay them off for the rat on me yeah yeah or try to pull it out really quick. Then give them the money, but do not give them. Are you sure you didn't? No, it's in the apartment, so you did not give it to.

I did not give it to them this time. Okay, okay. And what are you usually listening to? Huh? What are you usually listening to? Oh, the game. The big game? The big game.

Okay. Whatever the biggest game is on at the time. The biggest game that's on, yeah. Yeah. Remember, we're recording this before the biggest game uh it hasn't happened yet and i only say that i don't say the real name of it because as with right commercials we're not allowed to say i don't want it i don't know what how that applies on podcasts but i don't want any trouble well every no so i call it the biggest game every game's a big game

when good sportsmanship is involved that's the spirit yeah that is yeah that's the spirit. Yeah, that is. Yeah, that's the spirit. Speaking of spirit though, you know, we do have we're being joined by one of our favorite spirits, maybe our favorites. Next to, well, Casamigos is my favorite spirit, I would say, but second is the Sector Keeper who is returning. Boys, boys,

thank you for having me back. Good to see you. And the Holy Spirit, don't forget. Sector Keeper, are you with Jason me back. Good to see you. And the Holy Spirit, don't forget. Dr. Keeper, are you with Jason in church, sort of just like in the background? Always, yes. I go to church on Sundays with Jason. We do the 10 a.m. mass. Sometimes the 5 p.m. mass if he's sleepy.

Sure. And then a Shoney's in between. Oh, you go to both of them? Huh? Oh, wow. With a long Shoney's break jason calls it the double holy header oh wow it's two places of worship yeah that's nice i didn't realize you guys were so religious well you know it's good to keep in touch something to do keep in touch with

my old pal god yeah that is have we talked about, that the sector keeper existing is proof that God exists? I don't think we have we actually figured out that. Well, wait, yeah, because you've been to hell and everything. Hell, he doesn't want to go to hell. That's one of the first things he told us, that if we didn't complete the first city walk, that his soul

would burn in hell. It's a little more complicated that you guys have written it out here on Earth, but, you know, heaven, hell, jump portals. Oh, okay. Wormholes.

This is why I'm glad you're filling us in because the Bible left all that stuff out. Right, yes. The Bible is very clean, very precise. Right. You're here to fill us in on how the universe really works.

Matthew came close to keeping it in his Bible, but he opted out. So he had an editor that took it out because it was too convoluted? Yeah, Luke was Matthew's editor. Oh, I didn't know that. So you know the writers of the Bible? You've met the people who wrote the Bible? It's more of a collaboration. It's like a writer's room.

Oh, interesting. So it's like a mini room It's like a writer's room. Oh, interesting. So it's like a mini room or something like they have in Hollywood these days. Yeah. Jesus was non-union. All of Jesus' work. A lot of disciples were consultants. Consulting

producers. Right, right. Yeah, so they didn't get the credit they deserved. No, no residuals on any of the Bibles you've read. Luke and Matthew haven't seen a cent. Oh, that's Luke's family and descendants have not profited on recent sales of the Bible. No, no. And they had a chance to renegotiate

when they wrote the New Testament. Right, right. That makes sense. But unlike David Schwimmer and friends holding out for favored nations, the disciples couldn't get it together. Oh, that's a bummer. It was a different time, too.

Lately, it's been kind of a more pro-strike era. But yeah, this was a different time. This was the year 1200. Those things were not friendly. Right. Yeah, that not friendly. Right. Yeah, that makes sense. Well, that's too bad. Pontius Pilate was the Zaslav of his time.

So did he wear like a vest? One of those big wool kind of vest things? Sunglasses. He had a puffy vest. Pontius Pilate would wear a puffy vest. A Patagonia puffy vest. That's what made him relatable, though. He's just a regular guy. He just wears a Patagonia puffy vest that's what made him relatable though he's just a regular guy just

yeah jason i have to apologize yeah um you're missing airpod yeah i ate it oh when you were watching me this weekend yeah wait i was gonna say i wasn't sure where things landed you ended up because you were shifting you maybe wanted to stay at Mike's because of his toys, but you ended up going home with Jason? Yeah, I stay with Jason most of the time. Me and Garfield are tight, and Jason's got the best snacks. Yeah, that's true. Because he found all those different cookie goldfish crackers that exist.

Have you heard about them? You saw them, but I hadn't heard about them. Yeah. Goldfish makes a bunch of cookies now. Damn. Talk about playing God. Yeah. No, they're getting crazy with their experiments.

Yeah. And you've had them? Oh, yeah. I had a few kinds. Still making my way through the elf maple flavored ones. Yeah. The Holy Trinity, you call them. Yeah.

Wait, you bring those to church and you have them blessed like sacraments. Yeah. That's why the church just smells forever like maple. Yeah. Like a real artificial maple too. Yeah. If you get it on your hands, you're going to smell it for a while. Yeah.

We tried them in December and they really, the smell doesn't come off your hands easy. Oh, gosh. Which is why we found Jason licking his little fingers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What you said is purely to get the stickiness off. It was not the one reason. Sweet maple. Of course, utilitarian.

Yeah, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. James Conn, Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel You know James Caan was the beginning of that one Well James Caan Is Buddy the Elf's father Right No you're right

I guess it's Bob Newhart But he's the head elf Yeah He's kind of the adopted father, though. That's true. Yeah. Where does Scott Conn fit in? From any real world lineage.

Jason's Hawaii Five-0 goldfish cookies. Yeah. They're fish, but they're the fish that the boat would find. Yes. Yeah, Scott Conn. I assume they have a boat. Yeah, they probably have a boat. Hey, where does Scott Conn fit in? Probably where there's a dj booth he can get in there spinning the ones and

twos you know is scott khan a dj i'm assuming if he's a famous guy's son probably a dj i think scott are you researching that he's scott are you looking up if scott khan is a dj oh wait i'm seeing that somebody there's a rap group called The Hooligans, consisting of Scott Kahn and Alan, yeah, it is that, oh my god. Wait, yes, he was a rapper and a DJ.

I don't know which is which. It was Scott Kahn and Alan Mammon, and they went by Mad Skills and Mudfoot. What? So yes, before even his acting fame, wow, did you have any idea about yes, before even his acting fame. Wow. Did you have any idea about that, Jason? He obviously did. I fully guessed.

And then he's in the Rookies? He's just kind of rolling the dice and hoping for lucky number seven. My God, they were on Tommy Boy Records. Really? They caught the attention of Be Real from Cypress Hill. Wow. Wow. Geez.

And then he followed his father, James Caan, into a successful acting career. Geez. Actually, now I'm like, maybe he's more rapper than actor. Wow. Look, Jason's got the glow like he just hit a grand slam, like he's playing in the big game or something. Sure. Knowing that. You pointed before you hit it.

I did. Scott Caan, DJ. Boom, right out of the park. I pointed at Scott's big head, like a decal of Scott Caan that he keeps on the wall. Oh, yeah, DJ. Boom, right out of the park. I pointed at Scott's big head, like a decal of Scott Conn that he keeps on the wall. Oh, yeah, yeah. Fat head. Fat head, fat head, excuse me.

Scott Conn. Well, look, I'm tempted to keep looking up all this. I'm seeing that maybe Scott Conn killed Action Bronson on a verse. Really? Yeah, so now you know Scott Conn from Hawaii Five-0 is a better rapper than Action Bronson on a verse. Really? Yeah, so now you know Scott Conn from Hawaii Five-0 is a better rapper than Action Bronson. But we can't get caught in all this. We need to keep moving forward,

figure out what the plan is. Set to Keeper, where are we going today? Boys, boys, today is a very special... You all right? Are you okay? Sorry, my spirit phone locked and i had to open oh i get it i get it i understand i had to reopen the top boys boys today's phase one sector three waterfront kiosk south aka emerald oh okay and don't get it confused with legasi we're all right well you know what

actually that's kind of applicable here so yeah we'll get into that yes of course water taxis dancing fountains oh god wait that's a mess we should have cut that we should have cut that from the list NBC Sports Grill and Brew Alpha

NBC Sports Grill and Brew Omega good luck boys sorry can i back you up there um okay so nbc sports grill and brew apparently and that's like a that's a restaurant that's a bit a couple of the city walks now but you said it twice you said but with, what were those again? Oh, Alpha and Omega. Okay, so they're two different ones? They're two different. Yes, yes, boys, boys, don't you see this rift in the space-time continuum?

These many wormholes, portals, these gates, these jump points. Yes. This is your first jump point, boys. This is the, we're at the first jump point? Cause you see Alpha is Orlando And Omega

Is City Walk Hollywood Welcome back To Tinseltown boys Scott Conn's waiting with the beer Well that sounds good He's sitting in the booth at NBC Sports Grill with Al Michaels. I mean, I'd be happy to walk in anywhere and see one of the hooligans with a Z.

But, okay, wait. All right. Look, there's locations that are, like, there's an NBC Sports Grill at both of them. I know, but I kind of thought maybe, like, okay, so if you do one, it kind of covers both. You're saying that. No, no, but there's two. So Alpha is the first one in Orlandolando and omega boys oh oh no you're getting sick oh i'm feeling because we're asking oh oh i need a carlton 100 menthol all right we're stressing him out i don't

want him to keep smoking because we're asking too many questions. They cost so much. Jason lent me $12 just to get a pack. Oh, man. They are pretty expensive nowadays. Jason can't be happy about the price of cigarettes. That seems like the kind of thing he'd be mad about. Okay. So we have to do stuff from the original City Walk also? That's right, boys.

You're starting to put it together, the puzzle. You see that these are connected. What ends begins. What begins ends. alpha in orlando the omega in city walk hollywood right you see there's portals boys there's gates there's unlatched galactic fences if you will scott unlatched galactic fences wait a minute so all this front, back doors Screen doors, boys Trap doors Okay, okay, so I get it There's this bevy of all these things that connect

All of the malls in the multiverse But all of this Has just been a setup To get us to have to go do things at CityWalk Hollywood again I couldn't have put it better, boys So it sounds like all the new stuff that's happened since the last saga,

we have to now go and rate and review. You're up against dark forces grander than you could ever imagine. Yeah, I know, I know. But there's a lot already. We've already committed to it daily. We also now have to go do the things in Hollywood. That's been a lot of years, too. I mean, at the same time, there's a lot. We've already committed to it daily. We also now have to go do the things in Hollywood that are,

that's been a lot of years too. I mean, there's not, at the same time, there's a lot, enough to add, like, I'm scared of how many days to this. But then also. That's adding a lot, yeah. That's adding some days. It's adding some days.

Okay. Well, you know, take comfort. Some behind a paywall, some not behind a paywall. This part I can get on board with. Maybe you can make a mall in front of the paywall some not behind a paywall okay well this part i can get on board with maybe you can make a mall in front of the paywall uh i don't know jason what were you gonna say let's just shift over to whatever jason's point interesting thoughts sector keeper but jason you were saying well i was just up at city walk hollywood recently and i was excited to see that nature was healing in the sense that while the sketchchers shoe store is gone, there is a store selling celebrity autographed knickknacks.

Yes. Like big gaudy frame things. Jason's locked in. He's getting it. An autographed Robert Pattinson Funko box. Yes. What else, Jason? Oh, there's a big Harley Quinn poster right when you're walking out of the parking garage. Oh, no, steam is coming out of Jason's ears

when he said that. I mean, she's outrageous in that there's a Margot Robbie and a Lady Gaga version coming. I don't know if we're going to be able to handle that as a country. Jason, add a third mask to Sundays because you've been bad.

Father, father, for Jason has sinned. He went to Celebrity Authentics too many times to check out the Harley Quinn posters. Getting a personal line of credit. To buy that big poster. Jason calling his credit card company, I need $10,000 freed up on my credit cards. You don't understand. This one's signed by Margot Robbie and Jared Leto, okay?

Sir, you have horny protection set up on your account. Disable it! No, it's just to make sure that you don't, if in case something happens, in case you ejaculate all over your new belongings, that those would be protected and replaced. Very well. It just makes sense.

Well, look at that. Well, it seems like that one we kind of covered already, right? Celebrity Authentics. I think we took care of it. Kind of, sort'll get back to it yeah we'll figure that out okay all right well you know what i guess the longer i complain the longer this will take so why don't we get into the things that we know all right the first one was sorry waterfront key okay because last time we did waterfront kiosks north which was sapphire yes and now we are doing waterfront kiosks yes no wait that was yeah okay that was, yeah, okay, this is South.

Yeah, yeah. Confusingly not an S. South is Emerald? Emerald. Okay. Emerald. You know what you said at the beginning was interesting because actually not only did Emerald have a restaurant

at City Walk Orlando, Fallen Brother, but also Emerald did a week of shows not far from where these particular waterfront kiosks are in sector Emerald. His sitcom? No, I wish. Oh, if it was the sitcom. And let me just encourage any future Club 3s. I would love to cover the Emerald sitcom very much.

This is just his regular cooking show. But he, you know, what was his thing? Bam. Bam, yeah. What was it? What was Blanket Up, though? Kick It Up? Kick It Up a Notch. Kick It Up a Notch. Yeah, he kicked it up a notch. cooking show but he you know what was this thing bam and bam yeah what was it what was blanket up though kick it up get up a notch kick it up a notch yeah he kicked it up a notch right to at the beautiful city walk uh bay front right lagoon front or whatever you want to call it so that's

that's serendipitous that you said it yes yes i there there was there was something in the air, a waft of spice. Yeah, yeah. Emerald spammy spice. It's trademark spice. Creole spices. Yes. Well, Waterfront Kiosks Emerald. Yes, please discuss.

Tell me about this. I don't have much about these. I feel like I might have to kick it to you guys. Do you guys have any experiences? Well, I did uh i will say somebody stole a shirt i had made that i i had a shirt made at that one of the kiosks stole stole yeah it says i love city walk on it and i just don't i don't know where it went but i got a shirt made it were like 20 bucks it was a very kind of graffiti style shirt what's that when when did you have it made oh well when i was in orlando just oh recently yeah so i just said i oh excuse me can i get a shirt and like a graffiti style that says i love city walk and someone stole it yeah somebody

stole it i'm not sure who i hope we find it during the saga yeah that's all very curious okay yeah yeah yeah curious i was gonna go over and get one of those made too they're very like they it's not expensive it is not i didn't realize and the guy was really nice he seemed a little like not busy not nothing against him it just didn't seem like this was the highest trafficked booth uh no voodoo donuts it was not like voodoo donuts but they had a lot of different uh styles of things uh what were you gonna get well i was gonna get one that said a phrase that i saw all the time at tvs at the hotel i was gonna get one with blue and one it said water theme park what what does that mean like Volcano Bay is the third gate

at Universal Orlando. It's a water theme park. Oh, is that what they say? That's what they say all the time. I know they say it's a third gate. One with blue, the Velociraptor, or one that's in the color blue? The color blue, because water often looks to be the color blue. I was thinking of my

friend, David's friend blue. Yeah, I thought you friend, David's friend, Blue. Yeah, I thought you might be talking about Blue 32. Yeah, we don't really want to talk about him right now. Yeah, there's a lot going on with it. I don't know how much you've been paying attention to the news. Not Blue. Blue's fine.

As far as I know, Blue was not on any recent list. Oh, good, good, good. Yeah, but some of Blue's associates, perhaps. I've only been watching TV Land. It's the only channel on Adjacent. He pays for TV Land only. He doesn't have cable. He just TV Land Plus.

And I'm pissed. It's like up to 90s shows. I was like, come on. I want like Beretta or, you know. I think there's a cheaper channel you could buy. Yeah, this is where what you could buy. Yeah. I think, I think,

yeah, this is where, this is where, what you need is an antenna. An antenna to get antenna TV. Yeah. Yeah. Rewind TV.

I don't remember what those are all called. Like, just like mom likes it. TV. That's right. I don't think that's one, but it should be. Laugh LAFF.

Oh yes. I've seen LAFF. Yeah. If you want to see the Drew Carey show on a tape that has been, you can tell you're watching a tape that's been played 250 times and loses quality with each airing. Laugh is the place to be. Yeah. All right.

So, well, there's more kiosk stuff. That's where we're going. Oh, did you cover other kiosks? Oh, of course I did. Yes. So, they don't have a sock market in Orlando like they do out here, which is a full sock store, but they have a sock kiosk, sock and sandals. Now, we looked at the website last time, and there's some aggressive socks, if you recall

last time. But these are much, I don't know, nicer. Naughty. They're not as naughty. But there are some things for mom and dad. You can buy something called wine socks, and it's socks crammed in a package that looks like it's a glass of wine, but I think it's just sort of the plastic is molded to look like that. Then once they're out, then it's not-

They look like socks. Yeah, they look like regular socks. So you open the socks from a not very realistic looking wine glass. Yes, and then there's also beer socks in a similar way to make it look like you got a little pint there of beer and again yeah they're just they're regular socks um is there a straw there's not a straw no not that i see um i thought i saw yeah i thought i saw you know just the way you like a straw and a beer. I've never had beer, but I would have a straw. And cigarettes.

There's some more. There's socks that say, life happens, vodka helps. So that's just a little like another mom and dad sock. You'd wear that on your sock. On your socks. The Handler line of socks. And you have to put your feet together to make the whole sentence legible or to make it make sense. There's one next to it that says this.

Maybe like the way you put your legs together if somebody's trying to cuff them. Yes. If you had leg restraints that were being placed on you. Yeah, if you're being held down. Like in a prison yard and they got the big ball, the big weighted ball, like an old time. Like Joker was in jail in the 60s, Batman or something. And they don't want him to like be able to go very far. So if vodka helped you a little too much, maybe and somebody might put your socks together.

That it says there's one that says this seniorita needs a margarita. Pretty, you know, similar. Oh, to be that seniorita. And this is not this is close to the margarita, but it is not at Margaritaville. So it's different. I don't know if they know about it. I should send Margaritaville a little bit of a letter or something to let them know that somebody's infringing on their brand.

Not far from the door, yeah. And then there's a couple. There was one that says dog walking socks. That's not... You don't have to i'm not really sure um what the point of that one is uh and then one says peace love and therapy oh that's not as phrase i've ever heard before i like that one me a man in touch with his emotions in 2024 those those socks are for me. I should have gotten them for you. I'm sorry. Now that I know that's who you are. You should have gotten them for yourself.

You know what? Do it for yourself, Michael. And then one I think I like the best is one that just says, damn, I love this town. It doesn't say a specific town on it. You know where you're supposed to wear them you know you don't want to wear those around here do it in a town you love like orlando like orlando

like city beautiful or like nona maybe too jason's favorite place like nona can anything be a business what is that those socks uh yeah i guess yeah you do you want to like brains you probably could start your own Is that those socks? Yeah, I guess, yeah. Do you want to like brainstorm? You probably could start your own novelty sock company right now. You could fire off 10 things. I don't know if I'd force you to do it, but maybe I would.

No, no, no. Just give me a couple. Sure, sure. In God we trust. That's great, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's good for Americans and religious people what if God was one of us

oh goodness this is harder than I thought got a lot of respect for Ryan Stiles right now oh what if one sock says peace be with you and the other one says and also with you. Oh, and also with you. That's good.

That's good, yeah. There's got to be a rule. Oh, the body of Christ on one foot, and then amen on the other foot. Okay, yeah. Okay. That's good. Oh, or the blood of Christ, and it comes in a chalice, like a plastic chalice. You know, once you open it like the wine glass, you're done with it.

It's just socks but then one of the socks is the wine and then the other um sock in the package is the dirty cloth the priest uses to wipe the chalice with it's a good other use of these socks yeah as a church wine cleaner wow yeah never mind it is a good idea yeah yeah i'm looking i mean there are a few religious sock companies already but i think you have a good like handle on what the public might want oh or some of them can come with um like pre-torn and you can say these are my holy socks oh that's a good maybe that trend like how actually ryan styles and i have a lot of time that is like you know jeans are pre-ripped now yeah just for the style so you're selling Oh, that's a good, maybe that trend. Actually, Ryan Stiles and I have a lot in common. That is like, you know, jeans are pre-ripped now. Yeah.

Just for the style. So you're selling pre-holed socks. You know what's the thing the kids are doing, I've read. Yeah, have you heard? This is wild. They want the holes in it. Have you heard? It's crazy.

Affliction socks. Yeah. But that impression reminded me of maybe denim socks. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I like i like that yeah if you could do it i mean socks are a really particular texture but yeah if you could give that a denim feel we know at least one customer he lives in burbank we don't have to say we hear a loud car driving around and toss him his way maybe we can put some socks in the tea public store oh i don't think we do offer any socks right now oh that's not a bad i don't know if they offer any maybe we just need to start a

separate sock company and i don't know if that should be podcast the right affiliated or we shouldn't sully it with that right it just should be a fully we just should all start a religious sock company yeah you're willing to and you know what i know somebody who's got some seed money sector keeper i don't want to start edging in on your cousin's territory and asking you for money. But they ask you money for money for bad stuff. This is a can't miss idea. This is a slam dunk, man. This is spend money to make money.

Oh, that's good. Spend money on one sock, make money on the other. Ooh, yeah. Well, so just to start it, I don't know. You got like 100K lying around? I don't want to be gross. We we can cut let's cut this because it's gross oh no i don't mind talking money man it's 2024 you got to be open about this stuff sure yeah with like some of my vc contacts up in sv um yeah i could probably get us 100k by next weekend oh wow okay okay all right we're gonna have to check in with you on this then maybe as this thing goes because we're gonna have a lot of time and you're like

crashing with different ones of us i guess yeah why not start a business yeah maybe scotty khan will get involved we can only hope if you're lucky yeah i used once i was a wayward hooligan, which I'd spell with a Z, but now I've straightened up, and I only wear religious socks. Wow, yeah. One sock says, I killed, and the other says, action Bronson. Great. Okay, well, this is great. We might as well entrepreneurial realize while we're all hanging

out but what else is going on kiosk wise some dragon ball floating around there's more we can't cross sapphire and emerald but then there's like a jewelry kiosk well and you can just get like

glassware much like the six flags kiosk that anthony geo and i came upon uh during fright fest last year you can get like kind of like jewelry in a kiosk which again that's another one that didn't seem like it was very uh well attended or well uh i don't know bought from so yeah i didn't buy anything from there but that we've talked about how they cycle through different businesses here and this one felt like this can't last for too long but maybe i'm wrong maybe somebody from orlando tell me do they always have this like jewelry like seemingly not super expensive but like not cheap it's not just like cheap buy your special necklace

with a little like cubic zirconium minion on it. Did you think about doing that this time? No. Okay. You gotta watch out for some of that cheapy stuff. It might give someone a rash or it might start to tarnish and get green. Have you...

So you're saying if you buy cheap jewelry... My neck got torn up by a crystal zirconium minion why are you all bruised did someone hurt you well yes but just with a necklace well love hurts sometimes you know jason bought his prom date a cubic zirconia and she had like a huge rash by the end of the night from it so they had said my special girl and by the end of the night those words were they were gonna be stuck in her body for two years they were in the hospital that night uh yeah you know cheap the cheap jewelry can do that that's true i think but i don't know

we're saying that about this business i don't know that they're selling stuff that's gonna like make your skin puff up i'm not sure sure. You can't go accusing them of that. No. This might be the finest jewelry on earth. Right, right. So I wouldn't, yeah, since I didn't purchase something from there. Yeah, you're right. What am I saying?

That's the finest. Charms, yeah. Charms, charms. Well, we covered charms in Downtown Disney. Yeah. But yeah, so they have this here, and it's an interesting selection of things that they've got in these kiosks. Was it sapphire? Is sapphire this one? No. Emerald. Emerald, and it's an interesting selection of things that they've got in these kiosks.

Was it Sapphire? Is Sapphire this one? No. Emerald. Emerald. Damn it. Hey, okay. I'm sorry.

Don't piss him off. I'm so sorry. How could you forget? I'm sorry. All right. Well, interesting, I guess, is the vert. Does that mean we can move on to- I think so.

I don't know. I think so. Water taxis is the next one. Yeah. Water taxis. Water taxis. Yeah, water taxis. Water taxis. And you know what? Okay, here's where, when you compare the two,

think about all the trips we've made up to Hollywood. We sequestered ourselves in this kind of ultimately a little bit, sorry to say, depressing, narrow strip of stores. It's, you know, like you can feel a little claustrophobic, right? But the fact that CityWalk Orlando is on this lagoon, that there are these waterways,

and this is my first experience with them because I hadn't stayed on that property before. So I hadn't taken these water taxis, boats you might call them, but properly water taxis seems to be the term. That just has not been part

of my orlando vacation experience you know what this is it for me for good i don't think i'm staying at disney world anymore i love these yeah um and it's such a triumph it's like no matter how sick i don't know if you guys felt the same no matter how sick we were getting of city walk and the things to do there and the things to eat there you still you would like get this genuinely kind of stunning view out onto the waterfront. Yeah. I think this whole thing is like a triumph. The water taxi's included.

Yeah, it's very relaxing, very convenient. The view is, I would even call it refreshing. Very refreshing. I would say it's refreshing. There's so much water there. I actually didn't, I've been on these water taxis before. I didn't do it on this trip.

I was staying by bus ride away. Not as good as these, I don't think. Pavement taxi? Oh, yeah. Pavement taxi. Yeah. That's not what we're talking about. Yeah.

I got on the wrong pavement taxi as well. And I went to the third the third gate accidentally the water theme park yeah yeah the water theme park i kept saying like this isn't where i'm yeah it is i was told the wrong things by two people over and over again i go i'm not supposed to be here can i just get on this bus no you can't get on that bus back i go but doesn't it take you back to city walk no it's just gonna you have to go back to your hotel and i go but it says it goes to hard rock which is right on city walk no there's no way you can take that and i go well what if i did take it and i go all right and then the bus driver who told me the wrong things the bus driver told me the wrong things

took the whole bus of people to the wrong hotel and then he goes hey you off here i go this isn't hard rock and he goes yeah no this is where city what you wanted to go to city walk right i go it's at the hotel across the street he goes you're right and i was like oh a lot of attitude from the he gave me a lot of attitude yes he sounds like everyone did a long. This was the only part of the trip where I feel like I was getting attitude from people and I knew I was right. Everybody else seemed nice. They worked everywhere.

He wasn't even not nice. He was just like sure he was right. Until it all crystallized him. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, we got a little bit of attitude the one night because we went to Hard Rock just to walk around and get some ice cream. And then we came back out and we went to go through the gate and like the tents were closed. And we're like, hello, is anyone there? And they're like, oh, yeah, we're closed.

And we're like, we need to get to a water taxi. This water taxi was running for like another hour, 90 minutes or something. And they're like, well, if you take a bus. And he couldn't even finish it. I was like, come on, it's right there. And he's like, okay, just come through the metal detector. And I'm like, I'm in a scooter, man. You want me to take a bus to go longer?

Like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Was it that quick where you were just like, can I? And they were like, all right. Yeah, basically. Slight pressure. I mean, it was later. It was like pushing midnight, but we had been assured that the water taxis were running

until like 1 or 1.30. I see. So somebody maybe didn't know? I think we were just getting mixed messages. I think people were on different pages. It's possible that person got fired for letting you through, though. I mean, you never know. We got on?

Seems like you're remorseless about that. I am remorseless. You've been assured. City Walk's not closed yet. You shouldn't be closing one of the main entrances. I agree. No, no. This is why we're on this journey.

Right. Everyone's a little galactically shaken up. Yeah. You can be employed. Yeah, you're right. The tides. The moon. The cosmos.

You can feel the rift. Yes. Everybody can feel the rift. Everyone can feel it. Pavement taxis going to wrong places. The pavement taxi man might have been from a different part of the multiverse. Now you're understanding, Michael. Oh, okay.

Pavement taxis are buses, but taxis are still taxis. He could have traveled through the timeline. He could have been driving in his timeline. He was driving to the new Stella Nova and Darluna resorts. They're not even open yet in our timeline. We don't have to cover those yet, do we? I'm familiar, but I know all about it. Yeah.

Oh, wow. No, we don't because they're not open, but reservations are available. Okay. But they're open in a different part of the multiverse. I can see that they're open and they're flourishing. Oh, wow. They got those reflective tiles. It's very soothing. I can see that they're open and they're flourishing. Oh, wow. They got those reflective tiles. It's very soothing.

That's all everyone's talking about. Beautiful. Colors of the rainbow. It's all about the tiles. We don't need to bore them. Please, please stay in this timeline. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we better.

Yes, thank you. Of course, of course. We were riding the multi-taxi, Scott and I, or the water taxi. The multi-taxi. No, that's right. Jason, yes. I'm so thrown. Jason's getting it.

Your brain leveled up as well. You're getting it. My brain leveled up by playing 12-dimensional chess like the world's politicians. So Scott and I, we were utilizing the water taxis. But Mike, every time I'd talk to you when we were out and about, you were writing down another water taxi name, I feel like. Yeah. So they have names.

I mean, you guys probably caught a couple of them. I don't know. Yes, please, please talk about that. But the first one I saw, so on the back of the water taxis, they each are specifically named like a Mr. Toad's Wild Ride or something, which has different, that has characters, but this has a different name. The first one I saw here, it says Movie Magic on the back. Wow. Wow.

So that's one of the- I'm loving it. That's what you go there for. Right. Learn how they make it. One of them says chow. Oh. Oh, I like that.

Very, very, Hollywood, very Scott Conn. Yeah. Chow baby. C-I-A-O, is that right? C-I-A-O. Yeah, ciao, okay. Yeah, hold on. Now I gotta find the rest of them. You were thinking like E, like ciao now?

Well, you certainly could do that plenty at CityWalk. Uh-huh. This is the back here. Here's what it says, ciao. One of them just says hard rock. Okay. Yeah. Something you hear at CityWise with the Rolling Stones song.

I heard on the first night. Yes, of course. And then, hold on. I got to find the... I don't know why my pictures are out of order. Hold on. Hold on. Here we go.

It's all part of the drift. Oh. When we fix it, your pictures will all be in order. That's right. Okay. And then this is the last one I have, unless I'm missing some. Silver Screen.

Wow. Silver Screen. Silver Screen. Yeah. That's what we love as creators and dreamers, is that we love the blank page, and we love the silver screen. Wow. Because it's meant to be filled up with movie magic.

Right. And when you're done with the movie magic, you leave the theater, and you say, Ciao. That's right. Thanks for the memories. These seem like definitely named

early on in the creation of City Walk. Sure. Much more when the ride the movies was the tagline for all of Universal.

Mm-hmm. I'm guessing. It was just movie? Well, it's a movie terms and this is like movie terms for grandparents.

I thought you were saying it was just Universal movie. Well, it's a movie terms, and this is like movie terms for grandparents. It was just Universal movie. Well, it was Ride the Movies for a while. But it was very much, that's the genesis of Universal, because it obviously was from the actual studio. And even when Universal Orlando opened, it was still like, learn about movies, and that's the whole thing. And now it's away from that. It's much more like a disney or whatever there's still the movie uh like dna in there making movies dna but now that's why i'm assuming these were named 20 years ago well that's so they've yeah they've decommissioned some of the boats like

let's do lunch right boffo you look marvelous darling or something. Like one of the Gabor phrases. I know that's also Billy Crystal's character. Another cappuccino, please. Right. The water taxis, too, a lot of them were running. I don't think we ever waited longer than 10, 15 minutes. And they were really communicative of if one fills up, they're like, one will be here in five minutes. And if you take it all the way to Sapphire Falls, you pass Royal Pacific,

and you also pass the boat dock with all the ones that are docked not running that day. How many did you see there, do you think? I think there was, like, five or six docked. So they could really have a full fleet. Yes, because then they run the other end. They go to Hard Rock and Portofino as well. Right. I only run the other end they go to hard rock and poor tofino uh as well right so i only went the other way but you know what really like the way that it pumps you up in the morning or chills you out in the evening yeah and i thought they're playing good like music for

everybody you know i was on one where with some bye-bye-bye plan and oh everybody's grooving on y2k vibes and memories and uh i don't know it's good just good feelings i feel like yeah well genuinely this this is this alone i think notches city walk orlando above hollywood and in quality yeah well hollywood any really i'm trying to think disney uh there's anything where you can take like a boat from a mall to a hotel. Because you can do that in Disney. You go to Port Orleans, down to Disney Springs, and that's delightful. Anytime a mall has a waterway leading to a hotel, it's great. And they don't think they can do that. There's probably no way to build a lake in Anaheim right now that makes sense for Disney, nor is there a spot in Universal Hollywood for it.

So Orlando's always going to have a leg up in general because of water and waterways. Yeah. Just the transportation aspect and just from a beautiful view aspect. There's that little trough of water outside the billabong. Oh, yeah, it's a little wave. Yeah, that yeah that's true you're right i shouldn't discount that yeah um well and of course the dancing fountains which we also have here yes um i mean it's not nearly what it is

you got no color yeah i wouldn't call them like shows yeah per I mean, and I, for one, think it's egregious that they would build one. They'd build a new CityWalk and do this, knowing the history, knowing everything that you've been through. Yeah. I have a video here, Sector Keeper, and I don't know if this is going to... I guess I shouldn't show this to you, but... I'll describe what it is. Yeah, it's... Well, you know what? You actually describe what it is yeah it's um well you know what you actually describe

what it is okay and then i'll have it okay okay so all right so oh okay so the fountains are going and and scott is scott is juking in and out of it like a like a like a child. He ran through the fountain. Scott ran through the fountain. And he made it. Oh. You made it through the fountain.

You ran through? I made it. I was feeling lucky that night. You know what? You were holding a drink? Well, holding a drink. Was it open? I don't remember that part. What am I?

Is the drink covered? Can you tell what I'm holding? I think you're actually just holding like a Coca-Cola cup of cup of some kind that's just you're also that might just be a water you're also holding a box of kind bars that i bought at target for you oh yeah that's right yes you dropped off my supplies right thank you so yeah you may you may just have a cup of water in a six kind bars in a box look at that kind bars undamaged uh you know what i was just sucking up to you saying i didn't like the fountains. I loved running through these fountains.

You know what? We can't blame... Yeah, you're right. What am I saying? And it could have been me. It could have been me just as easily as you. Of course. I didn't mean to blame you or say otherwise. I was feeling like a daredevil that night. If you're just listening to this saga and you

haven't heard any of the other sagas, I apologize. I have to just explain what happened. The sector keeper was playing in the fountains when he was a human, and he caught Steph from the water in the fountains here at CityWalk Hollywood. To Scott's credit,

he wasn't eight years old and wasn't left unattended by his parents for hours. Yeah, that's true. He was an adult man. I was there for a while, yeah. Right. I forgot this, that they weren't around. They weren't watching.

No, they weren't watching. Yeah. Do we remember? We probably talked about this forever ago, but were they in another store? Or they were just like, here, knock yourself out. I think that they were at the Raiders. I can't remember. It's a little fuzzy.

I'm sure we explored it thoroughly though i just forgot these uh i shouldn't speak ill of your parents and i'm sure they've had it very hard because where have they i mean did they just they just don't know what happened to you they don't know that you've been having all these adventures and i don't know what happened to them yeah you haven't even it's like it's probably too painful to go visit your parents again yeah right yeah so but seeing you have a delightful time and really i think getting a box of kind bars that was a good night yeah yeah you know it was good and it kind of brings me happy memories and i don't mean to now bum you out but like do you think they had a funeral for you I mean you gotta

say goodbye to your I would hope so damn I never really consider you can't really go to your it's not like Huck Finn rules where you can go to your own anyway I just it's just no represents a lot of Fez you know did they have another

child do they adopt another child I know we don't know you haven't it's all blocked out boys but maybe you can help me maybe you can help me discover that eventually i don't know all we can help you with is we can go into stores and point out stuff on the walls and say if we like the store or not hey and that's all i can ask okay and that's that is and i mean this that is all we are capable. Okay. And that is, and I mean this, that is all we are capable of doing. It's all I can ask. Like, not just for you in the world.

Right, right. This is what we do. Of course, of course. Well, again, I hate to like, you know, bring parental emotion into it, but this is kind of what we're,

what we're dealing with. But like, you know, this waterfront area, I spoke broadly about this in like a trip report episode. But one thing that I thought was funny is that we, we went down here to do a bunch of city walk Orlando stuff, this like silly mission. And then where it leaves me is Jason and Jane and I hung out for a little bit doing one of the things we had to do. And And you guys left.

And then I stood at the waterfront and I had my first ever phone conversation with my son because we're never apart. We don't talk on the phone. And the last time I was away from him, he wasn't capable of that. So now this is the first time we can actually talk and I could find out how his day was and I could tell him about being on the airplane and he could say I miss you and I love you and this happened overlooking the shimmering waters with toothsome and hard rock live in the background streaming down my face genuinely I love you too dad it was like incredibly emotional and I'm staring at toothsome chocolate Emporium like chow boat

rolls right by it's bumping sugar ray every morning give me a minion necklace dad just bring me back minion zirconium can't do I hope it doesn't make

me break out yeah but if it does then you'll know that i love you for longer than if you just wore it just for a day you'll know that you'll know that i love you for six to eight weeks until the rash heals i'll give you the necklace necklace and the rash and drive you to one of burbank's many urgent care locations. Wow. That's beautiful. That's nice. It was really something, like a genuine touching thing that happened because of this and because we did this trip.

And I find it kind of funny also that that happened to say, you know, we didn't talk about this. It wasn't in the sector list. But if you're incorporating the whole water complex into our discussion here, there's a big open area with terraced steps, and I think you technically call that the Waterfront Plaza, and that's where they did the Emerald taping. I think Ellen did a week of shows there as well.

So that's where I was, basically, and I discovered another great father-son family kind of moment that happened right in that spot uh which was the shooting of a movie that involves family legacy and lineage and that is a movie called ace ventura junior pet detective oh yeah filmed partially around the the universal orlando resort um it's not ace it's not ace ventura junior pet detective so it's not a prequel he's not a junior pet he is ace ventura junior colon period colon pet detective this is a straight to video masterpiece so ace ventura's son it is about ace ventura's son and and there's a part where i didn't

get to watch this entire film regrettably um but there's a part where I didn't get to watch this entire film, regrettably. But there's a part where he says, I love you, mom. And his mom says, I love you too, Ace. And then I'm like, wait, so who is she? And her character's name is Melissa Robinson Ventura. And she is supposed to be Courtney Cox from Ace Ventura 1. Wow. Even though she is now played by Ann Cusack, who's a great actress who was Chuck's ex-wife on Better Call Saul. Oh, yeah.

And now you're supposed to believe that this is the fun Courtney Cox character from the first. And so next time you watch Ace Ventura, just keep in mind that after the events of the film, they got married, they had a child, and then Ace disappeared forever, leaving his son to many years having never met him or spent any serious time with him. Then he went and adopted not only his profession, but also his hair and penchant for Hawaiian shirts. Oh, wow.

It's kind of dark if you think about it. Like stepping into your father's corpse. Yeah. Son of the Mask should meet Son of Ace Ventura. Oh, yes. Like an Aliens vs. Predators sort of thing. Oh, boy. Yeah.

You know what? I don't like either individual film, but if they teamed up, that's enough for me. That's a blockbuster to me. What about the Young Dumb and Dumbers? Well, that's tricky because that is still always them. Oh, yeah, they're not the kids. That is Harry. You're right, you're right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The son of Mask, the Mask's son, Mask Jr.? No, actually. Yeah, not technically. I believe that the Mask itself floated elsewhere and was picked up by Jamie Kennedy, who gave it to his son.

And he's not related to any of the events of the first film. Okay. So they would do anything to do a Jim Carrey sequel. The, any crazy like loops and wormholes they had to go through to make one. Is there anything past those first? Those are like a Majestic Junior or... Simon Birch.

Simon Birch. Oh, Simon Birch. Little old Truman Show. Little Truman. Young Truman. Yeah, something. Yeah, that's fun. If after the very uplifting ending of Truman Show

where he gets a fresh beginning, if then Truman had a son who was once again trapped and ensnared in a giant soundstage oh it's the guy gets his revenge is Christoph the name of Christoph yeah Christoph gets his revenge kidnaps Truman jr oh yeah makes him be in the show like a jigsaw sort of scenario yeah similar to jigsaw but then he would say say, how have I given him an amazing life? Better than you ever could. You couldn't give him a multi-million dollar world to explore.

The real world, it's not safe for Truman Burbank Jr. And it's all over the phone because Jim Carrey doesn't do the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stop yelling at me, Truman. Why don't you come here and say that to me in person?

Oh, yeah, too much of a coward, huh? Everyone's doing returns and reboots and stuff nowadays. So he should come back. Honestly, he should make a super movie where the mask fights Ace Ventura, and he plays both. And they stand, and they crash through a wall and they land in the the sound stage of of truman jr the truman jr show almighty's there well interesting okay so little bruce little bruce is good young bruce the so jason's definition of a super movie is an actor's entire filmography in play in one movie well i mostly meant two i mostly meant like two of the most

successful but i but if the riddler starts wandering into fray so like a tom hanks super movie it's forrest gump it's the cloud atlas characters it's it's the terminal or express anything is in game but not not necessarily Tom Hanks. It's like how much can we parse off? It's Forrest Gump's son. It doesn't have to be Tom Hanks. Right. Yes. But it could be all his characters. David S. Pumpkins. Yes. And they all get caught on the bridge

of spies. Yes. Big showdown between 16 relatives of Tom Hanks characters. Over here, another. Over here, 16 relatives of Tom Hanks' characters. Over here, another. Over here, the wall has risen again. What do you think, Jerry Crown? Let's get him.

It's on the moped. Yeah, you're on the moped, and Woody's riding on the back, and they're flying down the road to perdition. Wow, it's the movie that teaches you that the road of perdition hooks up to the bridge of spies how did you know his gump ran across all of it how did you know i would be here i checked your location on the circle app wow why perhaps an actor who appears briefly in the circle that counts jason whatever the hell that is in the circle i don't quite remember aren't you doing improv me and drew droga are doing fake

improv yes well fake you're not in the fake in when i think we were actually started improvising and then i felt bad there was a line of extras who could not talk or tag in because they were not paid for that. Right. So you could be in that. You count for that. Have listeners ever found you in the circle? Does that and then there's the thing. What's the thing where you're in a soccer audience? I'm in the squeakquel. You're in the squeakquel. They did find me in the squeakquel.

You were found in the squeakquel, yes. While the circle, while a best-selling Dave Eggers novel I don't know if enough people Have seen the movie adaptation To find me Watch the circle

We issue you the circle challenge Please please I need this Please I need this listeners Wow wow okay So not only It's not just that you should. You were making you.

Face X, Sector X. Please find Jason in the circle. Okay, so we'll work on that. Anything... I think we should probably start making it two since we got two NBC Sports Girls. Alpha and Omega, yeah. And bruised.

That's four places to get through. Yeah. Sorry, Alpha... Did we go over this alpha and omega what's the difference alpha is in orlando okay alpha is in orlando in this case but is that because is alpha always orlando or no i might switch up here oh alpha is like it's the first. The first. It was their first. Yeah. That NBC Sports grill and brew opened much earlier. That's right.

Okay, so if there's another one that we encounter where CityWalk Hollywood opened first, that will be Alpha? That would be Alpha. Okay. Very clear. Great. Well, Alpha and Omega, the creator and the end. That's right omega the creator in the end that's right the creator in the end as

i've been saying all beginning you learn about in the circle this really this whole series is kind of like a big circle a big circle yeah in fact if you watch the dave eggers the circle what is it uh well dave eggers wrote the novel heart He wrote the novel. A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius, and he's written a number of books. If you watch this and you sync it up to Margaritaville, all of your questions will be answered. Oh, okay. Is the song on a loop?

Yes, that's right. It's just that track. Yeah, John Boyega enters at Looking for My Life. That's where you hit play. Was Jigar's song. Is your character in the book? Your improv character? I don't know. I've read a few Dave

Eggers books, but I don't think I've read The Circle. Two ruggedly handsome men have the room in stitches for hours on end. How could this be made up off the top of their head? The audience thinks. All of them at once in unison having the same collective thought. It is as if they were touched by the hand of God.

One word. It's all they asked for. One word. It certainly couldn't be that the one of the actors was the director's improv teacher and then asked, we need another guy. Do you know anyone from this list and it's like i know jason wow wow that's how he got the gig yeah that's how in the scenes info

so i will hollywood stuff that's how magic and then ciao let's do lunch let's do lunch at the silver screen well let's do lunch at the silver screen is here let's do lunch at nbc's sports grill and brew alpha alpha that is okay so it opened in orlando in 2015 that makes it alpha that's right um you know i think we've got a lot of experience with both uh we could probably go back and forth here you know know what? Again, a little peek behind the scenes. We were talking about the City Walk Saga at Orlando a long time ago, and we thought, well, maybe some of these locations that are both would be good to visit. So we went up to NBC Sports Grill and Brew Omega in LA with Griffin Newman with this in mind,

and that was in December 2021. That is how long we have been trying to do this. That's right. There is a photo of us, which we can post. You could tell when it was taken because we're, there are masks on all of our chins. That's right.

My memory from that is that Griffin, I think Griffin had a really runny broccoli and cheddar mac and cheese. It was just pure liquid at the end. I don't think it left a good taste in his mouth. The whole thing about City Walker Inn. Now I don't know if Griffin will be in the saga. They would never let that happen at Alpha. They're in a tight ship at Alpha.

It's an Omega problem, yeah. Well, you know, because there's differences. At Alpha, they have gripped sandwiches. But Omega, they have home run handhelds. So there is a difference. They are different? They are different, yeah. Oh, my God.

You said that with so much bass in your voice. What was it, handhelds? Home run handhelds. Home run handhelds. Home run handhelds. Like a Scott Conn DJ sample. Yeah, yeah. Home run handhelds. Damn, son.

Where'd you find this handheld? Handheld is really weird to call your sandwich a handheld. That is a thing. That is a thing now that restaurants... Who's where? I know what he's saying.

Yeah, no, this is like on restaurants or if you watch food reviewers online, they'll talk about mains and handhelds. I hate mains. I hate mains. I also really hate when people... You hate the term mains. You love main.

Yeah, I like an entree, certainly. But when someone online refers to something as very delicious or so delicious, it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. What? I don't know why. Very delicious? Very delicious? Someone saying, oh, it's so delicious or it's very delicious.

I don't know why. It just gives me the willies. The word delicious itself, you think? No, no. It's the modifier like delicious should be enough what about what about so delicious no you just that's why i'm saying very delicious or so delicious here i've got one what about so delicious jason steve is steaming again i'm just bad i'm just what about ultra ultra delicious uh i actually don't mind ultra

delicious okay you kind of found i think it's kind of that's that might be the plus so wait like a super movie super delicious super um yeah i i think i'm okay with that. Maybe it's just more oomph in Ultra and Super. Huh. So, so and very aren't enough, but Super and Ultra are just right. Yeah. That, first off, it better be really good if you're using those. What about Alpha Delicious? Well, that's okay.

Yeah. Because I respect the multiverse. Listen up, vloggers. Get creative. Vloggers and vloggers, get creative with your words. Or Jason's got a paddle coming for you. I don't care how many seconds you got on Tic Tac. You know?

You don't need to waste it saying so delicious or very delicious. You know what I was looking through? And that's why I didn't hear him say so. I was trying to find my meal from 2021 and i found it i had a uh chicken like salad of some kind well and you had the hot chicken salad i had the hot chicken sandwich and mine was noticeably better yeah mine was very good but i did get a manhattan with it wow so i remember that and then and i looked at this foosball table that they have at the hollywood location and having just seen this foosball table a few days ago it is so much cleaner and nice oh that's a photo from 2021

yes and that wow you're right because yes we ended up doing this just a few days ago. Mike and I were up there with a friend of the show, Kevin Tully, from the Band Telethon, and I requested to sit at the—oh, there you—we're at it with masks. Wow. Oh, wild. Well, anyway, this time we went up there, and it was pretty slow, and slow enough that I was like, I'm going to get greedy here. Can we sit at one of the foosball tables? Because if you don't know, they have long tables that are foosball tables

as well as dining tables. We haven't said really what the restaurant is. This is the ultimate sports bar, sports fan location where the fries are called bases loaded and there's TVs playing all the games you can imagine and then you've got you can sit at a foosball table and I've never gotten to do it because I've only been there

in you know stupid dumb groups of five or less and we were only three but there was nobody at the table and I was like I'm gonna take a swing let me see if I can load these bases we're in sports Xanadu after all um and she kind of grimaced I was like oh it's okay if you get the hostess and then she's like you know what it's slow you can do it yes victory the victory of even though we are only a little corner that we got the foosball table felt so great so there's

like you know there's a couple layers of glass up on top, but you do still have access to the top to like put the ball in and play. And the only issue becomes that if you're gonna, you know, eat some handhelds and you've been touching, you know, really markedly dirty balls, much so the dirtiest balls. Visibly dirty.

Not just you know people of dirty balls. I'm just saying it looks like it's decaying and so it looks like you can see the germs that have grown on it yeah there's food there's greasy hands it's just very scratched up i mean a foos ball is gonna get lots of wear and tear regardless of where but then the handles it's such a touchy game yeah and that kind of hadn't occurred to me till we were sitting down and then we had the dance the entire time of like okay well do you want to wash your hands now yeah i'll wash your well you know what why don't we okay let's play a little foosball then we'll wash our hands it was like when we went bowling at downtown disney oh it's the same thing you're right you were there for that yeah um these things are maybe not that was very handheld too like sushi buffalo sauce on the lanes.

Pepperoni grease on the. Yeah, but that pepperoni grease added to you getting all those strikes. That's right. Yeah, sure. Jason boiled a turkey, then ate a turkey. Eat your full turkey, please. I only just learned that what I ordered when we went up there all those years ago seems to have been removed from the menu,

the drink I ordered, which was a float. It was a black cherry soda float. Oh, yeah. So it was a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, and then they poured like IBC or Hank's black cherry in it. I was wondering because I wrote down, I guessed off of the current menu what you got. My guess was a chocolate cherry

cordial float. We're seeing you order that with dinner. I believe not alcohol. Unless is it spiked? Is that on the current menu? That is on the current menu. Is that possibly what you got? That is, I believe, what I got. Or maybe that was the menu.

Maybe I took a picture of the menu in 2021. I'm all confused. Alpha, Omega, 2021 I got. I guess I couldn't find it. You know what? Maybe that was the menu. Maybe I took a picture of the menu in 2021. I'm all confused. Alpha, Omega, 2021, 2024. I don't know. Yes, you're learning, Scott. You're learning. You just embraced the confusion, I guess. You're learning.

It might have had a hint. Yeah, a little chocolate syrup. It was delicious. But it was also a little chilly out to be drinking that. It was a cold night. Yeah. What is a cherry cordial? Well, like a cherry cordial is like, you know.

Is it like a sweet cherry? It's a cherry covered in chocolate. You would get it in like a Russell Stovers or a Whitman sampler. Got it. So what is cordial? What does the actual word mean? Before Jason eats it, he says, please and thank you. It's a polite thing sort of an old formality

kind of a thing how to eat a chocolate cherry because like could you have like a strawberry cordial would that just be a chocolate covered strawberry or anything else yeah what is the cordialing process it it's not it says warm and friendly.

Well, that's true. Oh, you're looking up the definition? Yeah. Yes. No, dessert definition. Dessert cordial definition. Define chocolate cordial. Liquid filling is placed within a chocolate shell.

Okay, so it's not just a shell. So it needs, yes, because the cross sections I'm looking at, there's like a little goo that comes out. Yes, that little goo makes all the difference. I love cherry cordials. So when I saw that on the menu, I got very excited. Is it milk chocolate generally? Do we know?

I think it can vary, but usually. So it's milk chocolate goo that's injected probably with a syringe. Well, I think it's like a variation of like a maraschino cherry. Right. But it would have to be injected. It would have to be administered by some sort of a professional. Yeah, it could be injected by a machine. Well, what else would it be?

Like a toothsome. Yeah, sure. Like a doctor's toothsome. By Professor Doctor Toothsome. Yeah. a doctor by professor dr twosome yeah um i when in philadelphia there there used to be a soda company that had a black cherry wishniac soda and for years i didn't know what that was wishniac specifically wishniac i believe it's an eastern european like dessert or treat and when this company was trying different flavors,

the immigrant owner was like, oh, it tastes like a Wishniac, so that is how that soda got its name. But I think Wishniac. Well, this must be a... Here it is in one of the top Google results, Philadelphia Magazine, and they call it the cheesesteak of beverages.

Yeah, yeah. So I think Frank's was the original soda company. I think they're out of business. You know who wrote the article. Yeah. Our cub reporter wrote it. He wrote it at great expense to himself. He bought 10 wishniacs to write it.

Chopping on some wishniacs and a big cheesesteak in an Amorosa's roll, you know. One wishniac equals one cheesesteak. That's the Philadelphia Exchange, right? Just to make sure that we are covering Alpha and Omega, because we've been talking about a lot of Omega, which I've, you know what?

Actually, just to say a little more about that really quick. This has become, for me, the place that at city walk Hollywood, that is not awful because we had a big debate with Kevin. Yeah. Where do we go? That isn't terrible. And we were running through things on the list, things we're going to have to face in this saga later.

And we kept going, tad, it didn't like it gave me food poisoning. And I think now, and it's actually, somebody did just ask me Where should where do I get a drink after a movie at City Walk Hollywood and I said Well you know I

Don't want to give it away there was another place where I Was like don't get food there but Just a drink might be fine right This has become my like this is Okay I'm not gonna give it higher Than okay yeah I'm no Nashville Hot chicken sandwich experts you might like you might bristle at my opinions they have been fine when i've had them

jc yeah that was all right yeah i think i did it at omega or no sorry at alpha i did i think like a slider equivalent right which was not nearly as good but also i tend to like their beers i tend to like a good ipa a good old-fashioned. That's all I need. And this place offers that and has so far not offered me a horrible night's sleep because of indigestion. So that's my general review of the franchise. High praise. This place feels like, and it's not taking any swings. A sport reference there.

Thank you. It's not taking any big swings. Yes, yes, Mike. You give me strength. it's not taking any big swings yes mike you give me it's not taking any big swings it's very much food that your dad won't bat an eyelash at dad is going to be comfortable there no dad and i think like even because like i like antihedos and i won't talk about it yet but like there's you're going to find a couple weirder things on that menu here i feel like they like they made a very conscious choice. Simple stuff on the menu. The basics.

They don't try to do anything fancy. Potato skin. It's consistent. It's a very consistent place. I don't know if I would say it's my favorite, but I do know where you're coming from because I would reliably suggest, well, you won't be upset probably going there.'re coming from because I would reliably suggest, well, that you,

you won't be upset probably going there. That would be what I would say. This is where we're at. High praise. Wall of TVs. This is really, you guys ever stop and think about like when, when in,

if, if any of us ever go to like an actually good restaurant and you're having an actually good meal. And then you think about how much time we've spent and it's not all because of the podcast. I can't blame the audience of the sector keeper. one with kevin that was just like let's go to city walk we do it on purpose yeah yeah it was not for the show and this is and our highest praise to offer any restaurant is won't make you unhappy won't be upset dad would be fine with it

won't make you ill that's all you can ask for from these places. It's really insane. Another thing about Alpha, I ended up there with you, Mike, just kind of for a drink and a little bit of food. I went upstairs. It is a massive footprint. It's huge. Two stories. Here in Hollywood, it replaced

fallen brother Tony Roma's and fit into that space. But it's two stories in Alpha. It could fit 900 people. It's so massive. How big it is. Why? It's an arena.

Yes. A high school gym. It's an amount of people where you might require like a special ops to feed all of them. Like a disaster has happened. It's the first place I went getting off the plane after I went to the hotel. And I was like, oh, where's the bathroom? And then somebody told me. And the bathroom was so far.

I remember walking and walking upstairs and walking over. I mean, it's not that far. Not that pavement taxi. You take that pavement taxi. No, this doesn't get you to the bathroom and i was like i couldn't believe when i got used to it it was fine but one the first trip i went oh my god this place this is huge i know and i had just seen you after a day of plane debacle after you missing your flight i just seen you was excited to see you and then like i'm gonna go to the bathroom then you're gone for a while well and then i had to go and i remember uh nearly broke my foot very

nearly broke my foot so i'm hot and this is the worst that it was of the trip so i'm hobbling up many many flights of stairs right i'm insane like it keeps getting longer and longer i look i'm gonna make this very brief i when i'm on a plane i don't want to go to the bathroom and when i say go i mean go to the bathroom so i think this was the first time my body relaxed was at the nbc sports bar and grill so i had to go to the bathroom there oh the longer go means and i didn't come back i'm not crass i would be crass on this mic for shock value sometimes like i'm gonna be right now but i'm not gonna tell scott oh by the I got to go take a shit. Like we're at a six flags or something.

I'm not going to say that. Yeah. You're not going to say you will not say take a shit on this show. You simply won't do it. I said, I'll say it on the show, but I wasn't going to say it in person. I wasn't going to build when we were sitting there.

You didn't tell me at the time. This is my show persona. And I would not bring that into the real world. They're too different. So you're more uptight in person is what you're saying. A lot more uptight in person, yeah. You thought I was my character on the show was uptight? Haven't seen anything until you've hung out with me.

I have to go. And then you write down on a napkin, asterisk, O-O. Asterisk, O-O. I couldn't even say the words. You fill in the asterisk. I couldn't even say the words bathroom to the person working there to ask i was where are the the rooms this the special the different rooms the watcher closets the rooms with sinks i need to powder my nose if you know what i'm saying you want to bump i got that

no and then i just like i just started crying when they said that. When I went up there, my bathroom experience once I got there is that after, again, foot as bad as it could be, then I almost slipped. There was a spill up there, and I'm not, I think it's maybe something that just happened from a sink or a urinal. I'm not saying that the bathrooms are particularly dirty.

Foosball rolled off the table. Waiter went flying into the bathroom. All his drinks spilled. No, just a spill that could happen, it did happen, but I slipped a little bit. I'm like, oh, that's the last thing I need. And it was bad enough that I was like, maybe I should warn the guy next to me at the urinal next to me.

And like, yeah, I should be nice and just make sure he. And then I turn and look, and he is the kind of teetery drunk where he might just like collapse against the wall and be there for an hour. He doesn't need a spill to slip. No, anything could do it. He might need my help more than anybody. So I'm weighing that versus like, maybe I don't want to talk to this person.

Eventually, like, should do the right thing here. And I'm tired now, and I've had a couple drinks, so I kind of like not gracefully like, hey, there's a spill there, and I almost slipped, so I just want to make sure you don't. So I'm just letting you know there's a slip there and then he gruffed at me like a horse turn and stared at the wall again

really good like like I'm in it like I'm in an old saloon in a western happier to see that menu let me ask you this where there's screens or anything above the urinals? I don't remember. You might have been trying to watch the big game. Oh, maybe. It was 10 p.m.

Or whatever was on. There was something. Horse racing with the cart. There were people in there watching various big games. Can you tell me more about the theming, boys. Please. It's kind of a boring theme in general.

Two stories of not a lot. Two stories of black with white text. And the white text will say like a year when NBC did something important. And they'll be like these kind of art pieces on the wall. I don't even know.

This just seems like a public domain. It's like some scribbly, like scribbly. I'm not sure if that's like two soccer players, I think. It's like kind of a yellow background. And the style is very like sketchy. And it's like they're not hard lines that just outline. It's like almost like you were just doing a rough sketch. Because it's a gastropug.

Because it's a gastropub because we don't it's a gastropub just get it up we gotta get people in here and drinking they don't care about cool art yeah they didn't commemorate the trade of al michaels with oswald not that we saw but have you talked about that before on the show yeah yeah yeah yes in order to get the rights back to walt's character, yeah, they had to give up Al Michaels, football announcer. But I think that's the only shake of hands between Mickey's glove

and Woody Woodpecker's, I'll say glove again. It'll never happen again. One thing that they have, something that Mike and I noticed, this is only in alpha not omega there's a big sign next to a booth and it says

do you have a sports topic you feel passionate about pick up this phone and get ready to share your thoughts on the radio our producers will get you ready and our hosts will bring you on the air and it's in quotes so that that implies

like a backtracking this this seemed it was locked right well it was it was not locked what it what it was is they put two like children's booster seats in the way to block you from getting into the actual booth so no one could actually get in there because they're just whatever you would call them like the high chairs for children are in the booth I need to tell everyone Aaron Rodgers is a truth teller and he's got the real scoop he's the only guy brave enough

to tell the truth on TV that's almost like the way Six Flags would say this ride is down they just put like a folding chair like lean it up against the entrance. Say it without saying it. It was still lit up and it said on air though. Maybe they couldn't turn it off.

Maybe there's no way to do it. Yeah, that's just attached to the house lights. They can't, yeah, yeah. They lost the remote. Couldn't turn that off if we wanted to. Yeah. Ah, truly the alpha. and that's that's really what ultimately if we're comparing them that wasn't part of the mission but i do got to give it up

to alpha bigger more inexplicable uh stranger uh i i don't know i i had a good time there yeah i think it's and again it's like i really felt like this is a hangout for people in a way that and that's in general with with Orlando versus Hollywood. That was my feeling that people had just come to watch a game. And so the bar was very active even as the place was closing. So I was like, oh, this is just I was like that was the first night even be I was just like this place alive. I felt like this place so much more alive than hollywood is and you said that about a place with a booth that had booster chairs inside where i i encountered a horseman peeing and and that was i think there were probably like 20 people in there after what they've done to our beloved city walk hollywood taken out howl at

the moon taken out saddle ranch there's no nightlife there anymore. They've gotten rid of all the bars we hated. It's not alive. It's dead, you know? So I was like, oh, this is where the energy still is. This is where the action is. It's Orlando. Okay, so if we have to make the ruling, I think Alpha is better.

I would like to get that booth open again, so maybe that gruff urinating man yeah gruffed on the radio yeah um what did he say he just said i don't know it was like a bunch of it was just a bunch of guttural noises and i'm worried that 20 of it was racist oh and then he beat the shit out of that urinal i pretended you're the world this is what I wanted to do to you. Well, I think, I feel like that's getting us there. I think, do we do good? Boys, boys, you did it.

You completed phase one, sector three. Yay. Oh, wow. Well, you know what? I think I see the stone. Yes. And it looks like, wait, it's a circle, but it's blank. It's blank. You know what I bet this means?

I'm just going to take a wild stab here. I think that this is only half of a sector stone, and that you, the listeners, have to complete it. We can't truly change the rift in the multiverse unless you fill a circle with Jason Sheridan in the circle. You have to go into the movie and find Jason and then cut it out, put it

in a circle shape, and only then will we have the stone for Phase 1, Sector 3. And if you happen to be in Europe and you watch it maybe this year, I'll get another $11 check in the mail. Who knows?

Okay, so do it in Europe if you can. Be sure to note that you are in Europe and prove it like a Reddit AMA. Angela Merkel, I know you're listening. Show us your screen name and then like you in front of a European landmark or just a sign with a different language on it. Sure.

And that should work. Well, okay. So, you know, our mission is not fully complete, but the phase is complete. This is our first phase. Yeah. Wow. It feels so much different than...

Than the other things. ...when just a regular sector happens. Right. Yeah. Is there anything else different we should know about when a phase ends? Well... Yeah. Okay. So, else different we should know about when a phase ends? Well, yeah.

Okay, so boys, you should know that tomorrow begins phase two, obviously. Okay, okay. We got to kick it into gear. We got to step it up somehow. You're sensing right. Everyone's brain is on a multi-level plane at this point. Okay. Boys, this phase requires a very special mission.

For this phase, you must not just talk about Orlando. You must go to Orlando. No, but we like, I feel like we did it already. I mean, we went to Orlando and we talked about all this stuff and we came back to talk about it. No, you've talked about it, but this one must be recorded in Orlando before a live audience. Whoa. Okay. audience. Whoa. Okay. Wow.

Okay. Well, that's, whoa. We haven't brought an audience in. Never. On a saga before. This is a big channel. This is a big step up for phase two. And I'm just glad I got you guys to back me up.

I think we can do this. I think we can do great. And Sector Keeper, I'm so glad you'll be there with us too. Oh, yeah. So about that. I mean, you know, like the multiverse is vast and mysterious. And I can't be at all parts of it at once. Yeah, all right.

So you're not going to be fine. All right, that's a fancy way of saying you're not going to be there. But that's a fancier way of saying you might need a little help from some different keepers. Different keepers. Oh, cool. Whoa, there's other keepers. I mean, we've met your... We know.

We know. Wait, we've met keepers, but wow, we might have to encounter one there. Yes, there'll be one there and he'll guide you. Oh, okay. One that I actually have a good relationship with and has not taken money from me since I won the Powerball. Oh, wow. One of the good ones. Yes, one of those.

One of the good keepers. One of the good ones. Whoa. Oh, this, oh, blessed day. There will be one of the good keepers waiting for us in Orlando. And I guess waiting for you tomorrow, listeners, to hear this. Okay, great. Well, thank you for preparing us.

Thank you for getting another Keeper ready. You got it. Thank you, boys. And I just have one question. Jason, can I get a ride to church? You know it, buddy. You know it. You did the morning.

You're going to go do another one. We're going back. We're going to hit Shoney's on the way. Yeah, we got to hit one of the less than 20 Shoney's remaining parts one of them's in California I don't know if they are well again that's probably where some of these

gates and doors and everything Shoney's plays heavily into all of this oh maybe in the toilet at Sizzler there's a gateway to Shoney's you're learning Jason now you're thinking multiversal. Okay, great. Thanks to Aaron Gairdner

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