Podcast: The Ride - The CityWalk Orlando Saga: Malltiverse of Madness 7-3 with Nick Wiger and Kevin Tully

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

The thrilling conclusion of Malltiverse of Madness! Parking space talk. Moving walkway discussion! Who better than Nick Wiger to add his transportation expertise to this riveting climax. Plus... a surprise for Mr. Wiger? Is this not going to go the way he thinks?  Phase 7, Sector 3 contains: Parking Garages  Fresh Eats 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! 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 City Walk Orlando tonight. Tonight. Podcast to Ride presents the City Walk Orlando Saga. Multiverse of madness. A daily,

extremely necessary series exploring the shops, restaurants, and cosmic wonder that make up Universal CityWalk Orlando. Welcome to the grand finale of Podcast The Ride, the CityWalk Orlando saga multiverse of madness. Day last. I'm not going to say a number because I'm not even fully confident which one we're at. I don't know either. It's going to have to be the last. I'm not going to say a number because I'm not even fully confident which one we're at. I don't know either. It's going to have to be the last. We can't start saying it and then take it back. I'm Scott Gairdner, joined by Mike Carlson.

I am here and it has to be the last. This has to be it. We have to be done here. I'm not joking. There's a lot at play. I don't know whether we're talking to each other or to certain spirits, but let's just, whatever's out there, let's all get into agreement on this.

Jason Sheridan, do you agree? I'd be open to revisiting any number of these. Jason! How? How? There has to be.

Oh my God. All right. Well, but break. A break for a little bit. In fact, let's let me I think that's what needs to be addressed at the top. You know, we this is the finale. It is. We have reached the end of what my wife, Erin, called a psychotic amount of content. And I'd like to not hear those that word used again about future endeavors. I believe this is my, I think what we're at, 21 days, 24 episodes.

When I say those stats out loud, I hope you will understand why we are taking a sizable break on the main feed after this. I don't know for how long, but it makes sense, doesn't it? It makes sense. The only thing that I take some solace in is the fact that now we are really padding out our podcast catalog so then when we sell it when we're in our 70s much like the recording artists you know your bruce springsteen's your neil youngs are selling their catalog we've now padded it out with 24 episodes yep it hits one and all every one of them perfect episodes over and over these are all the the what

the piano man and we didn't start the fire of in in our billy joel-esque catalog of all killers that's right they've all come out in the last 21 days let's just all this break is news to me i was going to start a multi-part saga on the Philadelphia Toboggan Company starting tomorrow. Manufacturer of early roller coasters and carousels. Jason, you're welcome to. As long as you're okay to do it with no co-hosts and no engineers or editors besides yourself. And no microphones. Oh, okay.

We need to give them a rest too. They are piping hot. Just in some sort of padded cell of my own. Of your own creation. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe where it should stay. Yes.

That's right. Okay. So a little break on the main feed, but new episodes will keep coming out on the second gate and club three. So be sure to subscribe if you haven't already. And if you weren't sick of us on a similar note what we're doing right now at least a big old chunk of it the majority of it

will be available as a video episode it will be available exclusively for Club 3 subscribers and if everything we have planned works out you won't want to miss this and if you're seeing the pointing I'm doing at a camera then you're already watching the video.

That'll be it. Yeah, check out all this great pointing. We're pulling you in. Now I'm doing a pulling gesture. You'll see all of these gestures if you go to patreon.com slash podcast the ride. And our thanks to Wes Knapp for helping us out with the video and all the engineering here.

One more time, I want to thank Aaron Gairdner for the art, Mike Carlson for a fantastic theme song sung beautifully by Zach Reno. I want to thank all the guests who have been with us through this series. It might be the best lineup of guests we've ever had,

at least all condensed into a short amount of time. I do just have the regret. I'd like to say I wish we could have fit in Griffin Newman or Zach Reno, but hey, they were here in spirit and uh of course we have to hold out hope that someday we will finally get anthony geo to be

on the show a little more frequently i would love that he's great i don't know why it doesn't come together um but fingers crossed we can make this work in the future he He's not mad at us. I know. It's so many ignored texts. You have to start assuming some sort of tension. But luckily, there is a guest who did not ignore texts, who was... He probably wanted to. Yeah, yeah. Yes, he will wish that he had when all this is said and done.

I don't think we're allowed to end one of these without this guest, who has not been on Podcast the Ride in any form since his last saga finale parking garage episode over four years ago. Wow. Yeah. Can you believe that? Nuts from Doughboys from Get Played. It's Nick Weiger. Wow.

Hey, buddy. Thanks for having me. What a treat. Thanks for being here thank you what a what a ride oh boy quite a ride i yeah yeah you're you've been you've been with listening to some you've been trying to keep up as the avalanche just keeps pouring new snow on top of you every time you think you're gonna get up no i am i am i've been listening every day to the city walk saga and i am a multiverse of madness and i am four days behind because it's just it's it's a deluge of content as you know

and i i can't i i love the podcast i i'm i'm listening to it uh with focus but i don't have like two and a half full hours every day to listen to it. What? Yeah. Okay. I've had this with, yeah, Aaron, my wife was like, I took a break. I wanted to hear some music on my commute. It's like, yes, of course. You'll be hearing me.

Well, you also have to hear everything that happened before it comes out. And then maybe after again, you hear my voice all the time. Everyone, please. I think everyone could use a break here. No, it great what you're doing yeah that the three of you are heroes and i thank you i i it's just someone said we were talking before the podcast began uh because you know i've been on podcast dough boys with mike mitchell and right now we are doing for whom the bell does much madness 2024 the turner of champions 9 dokiro taco bell which is a month of taco

bell uh and it's a big pain in the ass and we're annoyed and angry and cranky and and yelling at each other and yet you said that block of words more coherently and quickly than any that was like you were speaking a foreign language that was that was amazing my my eyes rolled back in my head like a Mentat from Dune. So, but like that is so much less annoying for us than what you are doing to yourselves. So, like it really puts into perspective what your sacrifice is as podcasters to give us daily content, this volume and this quality of work on your part. Well, I guess, you know, we have to take it. How could we not? It wouldn't be polite to not accept this praise.

There's really no other way. I'd love to bat it off, but it would be rude. To break a tiny bit of kayfabe, we've been trying to get this off the ground for years and pandemics and births and strikes and all these things have gotten in the way. And I have been really happy to do it. And then we got to go to Orlando, our favorite place to do it. But there's one aspect of it that has, I'd say, not been pleasant and some maybe where

our heroism should be mentioned. And that is the eating aspect of it. Right. And I think we're a little bit on your territory now and i wanted to compare notes with you um the the the food punishment it's existed in all of these but this one i feel like every episode has had some kind of incident from just an upset stomach to something being disappointing all the way up to food poisoning and i guess i'm curious nick about your relationship with i okay question one yes um your policy about going back to restaurants that have actively made you feel

bad for doughboys yeah um our policy is we will do it. Attaboy! Jason and I's too. That's how we feel as well. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm massively outnumbered here. I think this policy has made me a pariah in our own podcast community.

I'm a stuffy elitist, apparently, as opposed to, because what I've found, the whole thing has reminded me of the Mr. Show sketch, the devastator, where there is a roller coaster in town that is like,

that's like killing and drowning people. And the news reports about, we got to get out of here. I got to protect my family. And then it goes back to the theme park. And the people who were just saying, I got to get out of here are back in line with thumbs up, big smiles.

And I, that's you guys it's the like you're right up eating pinks and pinks hurting you as soon as we have said that pinks is not good back it to some i went to do some not even for an episode no yeah yeah but you did you did get a milkshake and you made a video i'm quoting somebody else here but i saw the comment that the the tone of the video in which you say it it's fine, it's okay, that it felt as if Latte the robot dog had a pistol trained on you just out of frame. You made a hostage video. Why are we letting these places hold us hostage?

There was a scenario today where I brought like flounder almondine for everyone here from Tucson. But I don't think we couldn't get it to go. You know, this hasn't been said on the show i believe that flounder almondine is not available on the menu anymore right i know you're looking at the menu yeah yeah that terrible burger jane had it was it did not appear to be on the menu anymore are they mine either i had this like cocoa oh maybe they're adjusting them they're listening and taking things off that that we didn't like look we look we gotta make our peace we just gotta go up there for dinner when they unlock the pasta menu we just need some of that tooth when they unlock it on the lunch menu their copper keys and they put it in the pasta machine and turn them on. It's like sub keys,

like the nuclear subs. Two keys, yeah. Yeah, and they unlock it. Was Hunt for Red October the property that introduced the two keys? Oh, probably.

Because I was watching that recently because Blank Check is covering John McTiernan and I was like, is this the first movie that did this? Because they spent some time

explaining the two keys in it. Yeah, probably. Because it's a big part of Mission Impossible Dead Re yes 100 yeah yeah and then that and that already feels like it has a hunt for october just homage built into it with a submarine and with the russian turning into english you know yeah um yeah it's uh anyway that that tangent aside what y'all are dealing with is not just like shitty chain restaurants, but like the worst version, a lot of these chain restaurants,

they're either things that exist like as gimmicks that, that are just there to like, you know, um, uh, uh, like a pool filter, just catch people leaving,

like entering or leaving theme parks. So they're, they're either like their places, like toothsome or places like Bubba Gump. Uh, but you're also dealing with like the, the extra verbal sounding Moe's outlet that you all visited. And I mean, and that's one thing that happens because I know that the Universal KFC, the Universal City Walk KFC, we just had our friend Jamie Loftus on the podcast.

And her experience there was she went there to get a seasonal item. They have Blackberry Pepsi right now. And they were all like, what are you talking about? Like the news hadn't made it there. Like it's like a frontier outlet that doesn't have, isn't a part of the same KFC infrastructure. So like, yeah, you're dealing with really like the worst of the worst of this already usually pretty mediocre food.

And let's not forget, more expensive. More expensive. Absolutely. There's a premium. Yeah. It's like the, you know, it's like the versions you'll find in an airport or a stadium. It's the same sort of captive audience. We don't have to have the same quality level.

The brand is enough to get people here, and we can upcharge them. It's weird. For something that, like, I think we've entered into all of these CityWalk things going, well, this is the world stage. This is where you bring your best or you do the best of the best and that they they literally bring their worst yeah they all and we still continue to be surprised by this and i think if if we were a big if if we were to step down and do this ever again i think it'll be enough time for us to forget and just get back in line actually well i mean i'll just say let's interject and say let's make that if a win amen brother thanks for thanks for speaking for some of the

audience there we're not gonna let child rearing chronic health conditions get us down if we could find one of the let just, let's crunch some numbers and find the one of these theme park adjacent malls with the least restaurants. Yes. I think then I'd be back in because I think we did the one with the most. Yes. And while it led to some surprises, like how much we liked Hot Dog Hall of Fame and Ian Riccoboni's glowing feelings about Bubba Gump with his family, I think most of it was traumatic. So I think there's more restaurants here than in any of them and i felt the weight of it let's just crunch number somebody out there what's near a

theme park with maybe one cafe well and i'll get an iced tea there just just to throw an idea out there and you know you could run this by the sector keeper but like i i think there's maybe a reality where just you you know maybe all of all of the food side is just one special episode. And then you don't have to worry about, like, we're going to make sure we have, we get designated meals for everything. We'll just do a kind of a survey of all of the available food options there. And then we'll really drill down. You get down to brass tacks dealing with the individual stores and the VR experiences and what have you. Could we also assemble maybe like a Mission Impossible team

where, for instance, we only make Jason eat at all the restaurants? That's his special power. This is an area where I'm lacking. Jason, don't you want to go eat more of this food? I recently had a doctor tell me I had to change my diet, but yes, I do. And I believe, and after that, you started drinking more soda, correct? You know, we all need little joys.

Sure. The scientific advances in the zero category, like Dr. Pepper Zero, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, good good tasting but they've made it a very cumbersome name now um i feel like those have gone come a long way the zeros are really impressive yeah like i i basically just don't drink diet drinks at all anymore i just go for the zeros and whatever they're doing whatever alchemy uh is going on behind the scenes. Like I feel like you'll have like the, I think the Dr. Pepper Cherry Vanilla Zero, that one's really hitting. There's an A&W Cream Soda Zero that Natalie picked up

and it's just like, we love that one. That's a go-to for us. And the other thing is like, I'm also, I'm looking specifically for zeros with no caffeine because like I'm trying not to have caffeine in the afternoon. So when you hit some of those, I mean, it's really, really satisfying. But yeah, they've gotten really good.

Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like a two zero a day guy these days. Wow. Because I tried stevia soda for a long time. I can't do the stevia. It hurts my stomach. But that's the natural one they claim.

Yeah. But the aspartame, which is a fake one. Do you believe that? Well, it is technically natural, but it hurts my stomach. Also, after the entire Breaking Bad, like, she drinks that stevia shit. And you're still like, so do I. I got a lot in common with Lydia. That's fiction.

That's a fictional show. And it's set a little in the past. Back then, stevia was bad. I will say from listening and editing most of these episodes, I do think my stomach is by far the strongest of the three of us. Yeah. Jason will eat as much as I will and eat the same stuff,

but Jason will generally report a tummy ache, but he will go back. You don't like things in general. You will like things the least, and then you will have tummy ache or puke. Jason will go and not learn his lesson, but often have a tummy ache, and then I will once in a while have a tummy ache.

Does that feel right? I think that's fair. Yeah. How did you react physically? Because when we went and saw our friend Eva Anderson's Immersive beforehand, we got a pregame meal at famous director Gol Tong's Fried Chicken in Greentown. Yes, we did. We had a nice meal. How did your constitution handle that?

Because that was a pretty heavy fried meal. It was fine. I don't know. It was fine. I had a drink afterward. And walking around was helpful. heavy fried meal uh it was fine i don't know it was fine you know i had like a drink afterward and walking around was helpful because the immersive that does make a difference we could walk around so yeah if you get your if you get the system moving i feel like it was fine did you have a problem were you like secretly in like shitting pain while no i was okay

i was okay at the event but i was maybe in like not the the most comfortable situation afterwards because it was like really, it was, it was that really dense fried chicken with like a lot of breading. And then some of it was like really heavily sauced with like, you know, those sugar, a lot of sugary sauces.

So it was, it was delicious, but yeah, it was very good. I still think you're, I haven't been to this place, but I feel like you're in a better territory that it is a real restaurant by someone who wanted to open a restaurant. That's the, it's like, it feel like you're in a better territory that it is a real restaurant by someone

who wanted to open a restaurant that's the it's like it's you're right like nick it's completely that like they have universal owns a funnel and they have to put things in the funnel to help like get everybody to shake coins out of people on their way down the funnel it's not nobody's desiring to open a good restaurant right that's not the point no how many times do you do you during the week do you feel like oh i'm gonna have a bad shit um or show related even specifically yeah show related i would say it's it's pretty it's pretty frequent because we're eating a lot of pretty awful food. And even if it's like, I'm enjoying it,

it's like, it's usually something that's very heavy that I know is going to, to, to destroy me. And then also I'm just like, I've, I'm older. Like I've,

since I, I'm, since I hit 40, basically, I'm just like, I like alcohol and, and sugar and, you know,

like, like desserts and, and just like really like heavy carb, heavy meals, like just really just affect me in a way they didn't used to, you know, like desserts and just like really like heavy, carb-heavy meals, like just really just affect me in a way they didn't used to, you know? Yeah. I'm just not a young man anymore. So I just, I feel my body taking a toll.

But it's also like not even just intestinal distress. Sometimes it's like just like headaches or just like fatigue. You know what I mean? Sure. Yeah. I also had a little bit of a bag of candy after I went to Toothsome's from It's Sugar. More candy?

Just a little bit. How much of the milkshake did you drink? Half, I would say. Okay. There was antics in the bathroom too. I was trying to wash it out. So that you could, because you had to save the jar. I want to take it home.

The amazing jar. Again, because you could get that on Instagram. Imagine, like, whoa, he got a jar? Did he go to the jar store for it? No, dessert came in there. It was too much. I threw it away. I threw the whole cup away.

I tried. I waited outside the bathroom so no one was in there. And I went in there and tried to rinse it off. But the whipped cream was stuck so thoroughly to the side of the plastic glass that it wouldn't easily rinse off. So only pieces of the whipped cream were like falling off the glass. And then that doesn't like rinse easily. You kind of have to scoop that up. And then I banded ship like pretty quickly.

I was like, not worried that I threw it away and went straight to the sugar, the sugar store. Good for you. Thank you. You didn't need to salvage that. I ate the cookie and I had like half the shake. Again, it was fine. It was fine.

That's a white. Wasn't bad. The praise sings. It was fine. You're singing Again, it was fine. It was fine. It wasn't bad. The praise sings. You're singing on a mountaintop. It was fine. Fine. Fine. That is the pitch of great, of a great review of a meal.

Well, it's nice to commiserate on this point a little bit. And there's one more thing. We haven't even checked in with the Setra Keeper to get the official word on what we're doing. But one quick thing before we get to that we have uh met a lot of fun interesting uh characters while we've been doing this we've met uh a lot of different keepers not just the sector keeper has been with us but also the level keeper keeper a couple of times and the venice beach boardwalk keeper um character the keepers who introduced themselves the last time nick was here at the end of the downtown disney ordeal and it's been nice to meet so many of them um but there was there's one something's been nagging at me because there's

one keeper that it feels like we should have met right given what they represent and that is the city walk orlando keeper why why if that's what we've been doing why did we never meet this this character in fact i read him at the end of the downtown disney ordeal uh he was one of the people we freed well but he also well what he actually did though was imply like stuff we had to go do to to help him right and in fact wes i have a clip can you play this clip let's remember what the cityWalk Orlando Keeper was about. Right, right. Boys, boys, I'm the keeper of CityWalk Orlando.

Professor Tootsom is going to murder me unless you say what's different about our Voodoo Donuts, Menchie's, Cinnabon, and Fossil. They're much different from Hollywood's Voodoo Donuts, Menchie's, Cinnabon, and Fossil. No, they're not. Don't let me die, boys. No, you can't let me die. I'm not there. So what? It's somewhere. voodoo donuts menchie cinnabon and fossil they're not don't let me die boys so what it's something where i i think we've tied up all the loose ends of this pretty neatly so why do you that's not anything that we did we didn't professor twosome was not going to commit murder we didn't even

talk to the this keeper never yeah at all who does sound kind of familiar yeah like a little something familiar about his voice well my hope was that just to like tie everything up into a nice little package that we maybe could just briefly try to summon the city walk orlando keeper oh yeah sure sure let's let's see if we can do it here let's let's just like close our eyes right you know why don't we read what's on your shirt actually maybe that's a good way to coffee stains on this but go good okay so once you get past the coffee stains yeah maybe this will be the way to to summon him uh okay i love city walk boys boys hello hello quit bothering me i'm fucking busy oh and Wiger fuck you you piece of shit

wait a minute okay hello he's gone huh I'm so sorry did I even meet this guy what does he have against you I guess he listens to the show

or is it just like bones guess he listens to the show. I guess. There's bones to pick based off the show somehow. Maybe he was freed by both of those fossil locations being closed down. Oh, that's right. That's probably what happened. That would make sense. It really shows you, boy, how time has passed, what the pandemic did.

Oh, it's too bad we didn't get to do the full breakdown of Fossil Alpha and Fossil Omega. And with that guy who seems very pleasant, I think we could have had a blast. Well, it was not meant to be, but we were luckily with the one that we know, the classic Sector Keeper, and we ask him now to give

us today's assignment. Boys, boys, and wags, your final assignment is Phase 7, Sector 3, parking garages and fresh eats. Good luck, boys and wags. There you have it. Wow. The parking garage. The parking garage with a little extra, and we'll get into that too.

We are back here for another parking garage breakdown with you extra and we'll get into that too um we are back here for another parking garage breakdown with you nick weiger yeah um the the tradition on the show you still you have only been on this show to discuss uh mall or and kind of theme but mainly mall adjacent uh parking garages right and we continue the tradition here today yeah i'm happy for this to be my b you know it's i'm fascinated by infrastructure and when when i i do feel like parking garages are important because that's generally most people are going to be driving to one of these theme parks in america there aren't a lot that have like a great you know like a train stop that's right next to the park that just unfortunately isn't a thing that exists in the united states

um and so it is your the first part of your day and the last part of your day and if that's a frustrating experience for instance my brother recently went to see metallica at sofi and was just like it was three hours to get out of there and so you go to see a concert and you go to see like this this band that you love and and you're excited for it and the memory that's lasting is uh trying to exit the facility like you don't want that to be a bad experience so when a place really nails it it's and you're excited for it. And the memory that's lasting is trying to exit the facility. Like you don't want that to be a bad experience. So when a place really nails it, it's like, okay, it's like you're landing the plane effectively.

So for me, it's an important part of my theme park experience and my mall experience. If there's a bad parking structure, I might not be going back to that mall as frequently. Can you think of one off the top of your head? You know, that's a great question. I think the Century City Mall does not have a great parking structure.

No, thank you. It's pretty frustrating. And it sucks because they have a great AMC there and they also have an Eataly. But just as far as actually getting there, it's like I'd rather just take the bus than deal with all that nonsense. What do you think about the, I don't know how much time you spend around there, but the, in our backyard, Burbank, the, the,

the Burbank mall, triple AMC barrage. Yeah. I think it, you know, it's like, it can be hard to navigate and figure out, but if you know,

you have to like have what you do when you go there or else you can end up stuck in some really grim basement now is that would you call that the town center parking or am i thinking something different uh i mean it could be that is one parking space you can get but there's also there's like seven odd stray garages that's yes one of the amc theaters is kind of in the garage and that's bizarre it's i could see it being like a source of stress if you don't know how to play it right it's like if you went to disney and you were totally on your own for parking there wasn't like an attendant redirecting you to like toy story parking like one of the

adjunct lots it was just like oh i don't know where to go you know what i mean and and that that is actually that burbank that burbank area does stress me out parking wise yeah um because i just don't know exactly where to go ever. And if you're like mapping your way over there, you know, it's like it's not necessarily going to direct you to where you're going to park. Not at all. No. Yeah, exactly. So it's just like all of a sudden, yeah, I'm parking in like whatever the town center a lot.

And you're like the Ross or whatever Marshall's or whatever it is over there. And I was going to five guys and I got a 15 minute walk ahead of me. Yeah. It's not worth reparking at that point. You can end up at some weird smelly alley around there 100 yeah yeah we know what the hell you're talking about yeah yeah yeah yeah i guess here i am like setting up another saga i feel like i just walked right into it all right so smelly alley gets sector 17 the batman statue gets its own episode flappers is right there we see l. Then we do a live show there.

Carlson. It's a home run. I've looked into it. There's the stand-up classes there, of course. Oh yeah, we're going to go to one, two, or four. I've looked into what does it take to play Flappers Comedy Club where Jay Leno plays frequently. You have to fill out a big questionnaire.

It's like, how many TikTok followers you got? I think it might be a ten. Maybe I'm wrong. aren't judging them wrong jay doesn't have a tiktok and they still let him they let him do it legacy media yeah okay we aren't getting there more of these i think we've have we done as after all of these sagas have we done as many episodes as jay leno did tonight shows it's possible Have we been on the air longer than Corden was? God. No, he was 2014. Close, though. We're going to lap him. I think we'll lap him.

Fingers crossed. Or we stop just short of him in honor of his body of work. Well, we could do that, too. I wouldn't hate that. Any pleasant parking garages in the recent past that you haven't discussed? Is there one that sets the standard? Oh, good question. I should have come in hot with a great parking experience, top of mind.

I don't hate parking at Universal, honestly. We're not super far from there. And I feel like that's not always – I feel like that's that's not always i feel like that's that's generally an okay experience given the volume of traffic they're dealing with i feel like when we talked about in the original saga it seemed like kind of a frustrating maybe you've changed your tune on it maybe something about the they've wait i forget if et garage the et garage was open yeah yeah i think they've streamlined it that's what it feels like it's like but but you know also like i have not gone back for like a day at the park i've i've been actually i went

for one but i but like mostly i've been going for city walk and i i don't know i it might just be just like the reforms that have taken place because of uh covid and everything and all the lockdowns and that gave them some time to sort of rejigger things but i i feel like it's a little bit a better of an experience than it used to be just the presence of a firehouse uh supports you more at ease in those garages that better quality of ingredients than subway yeah but i mean also my experience with wait hang on a second this is, Jason is still saying this after his girlfriend

ate a piece of plastic in their sub. No, no. She didn't eat it. She didn't eat it. It was in her mouth. No, we found the plastic. No, no, we found it.

She didn't choke on plastic. She found plastic, aka Firehouse Sub's rules. She found it and then wolfed down the sub. Just as I wolfed down mine a few hours before. Some of the finest reviews ever given, any established. I had Firehouse subs while I was up there for Toothsome.

You went back. You guys. I didn't have it the first time for City Food. I didn't have it before for City Food. Shane claps. I had a meatball sub at Firehouse. Who didn't eat in plastic? No, I took it out so I could take a picture of it for content.

I ate a meatball sub, a twosome shake, and a bag of candy while I was up there within about 45 minutes of each other. This is just back in line, back in line. I'll go up there tonight. I hear plastic and sandwich. That's the end. I don't go to this place. Am I crazy? It's quitter talk. I'm Frank Grimes-ing right end. I don't go to this place. Am I crazy? I'm Frank Grimes-ing right now.

I am Frank Grimes. I know that doesn't end anywhere good. I'm going to take some of this equipment and electrocute myself if we aren't careful. That would be a hell of a finale. It might be. It's where the only place

that could have ended. By the way, it's the only way out of doing this podcast. Of any podcast. Well, it's the only way out of doing this podcast. Of any podcast. Well, that's true, too. You know what's maybe a better answer than Universal? I kind of feel like, given, again, how busy it is and the crush of patrons, I think the Groves parking structure is pretty good.

I think it's not terrible. I think it'sves parking structure is pretty good. I think it's not tear. I like, I think it's like, it's like a decent experience. I think the way they route you at that sort of spiraling, uh, you know, a driveway that takes you to the upper levels is a pretty elegant solution in terms of just like moving traffic.

And I think it's, it's not terrible getting out of there and they have a lot of entrances and a lot of exits, which is always a benefit. Sure. So, you know, it's always a thing of like yeah you're gonna have a better experience parking at a place that has that's just

like mostly a an empty lot like you go to a best buy that's got a huge surface lot that's just gonna be easier to park at but it's kind of a different category than what we're talking about today and so something like like what the guy not that i want to give caruso any credit but like what the grove does i think at their scale is pretty good yeah yeah and any of these places that are dealing with like a massive amount of i think it's what's particularly impressive about uh the universal ones at least in theater now we don't know in practice i'm not sure the level of frustration of the universal orlando garages uh but they are getting traffic from to two theme parks city walk a water park which is not the third gate god damn it it's a water theme um it doesn't it doesn't count it's everything

but that's but anyway uh they can handle tons and tons i believe that this entire the entire facility down there can hold over 20 000 cars cars. Wow. Did you guys see similar numbers? Which may make Universal Orlando the largest parking complex in America. That's wild. Yeah. Yeah. I think that it is maybe slightly knocked out by the West Edmonton Mall, which is a massive mall in Canada with a theme park component.

But like one of the garages specifically, and I'm not sure which, apologies, but one of them is, I think, the fifth largest parking garage in the world. We're dealing with big stats here. Now, that doesn't tell us the whole story. What we have to figure out is like quality of experience. And this is honestly a little bit tough because um unlike the woodfield mall we did not we do we did it wasn't in the cards uh for you to come out to only go to the parking garage and then leave um in hindsight i should have done it i should have just come to the parking garage

yeah yeah we just made that happen yeah yeah there were there were there was discussion uh um uh we would have made you do something something. Join us for a live show or something. Although, I don't know. Maybe it's 20 years later. You may have to turn it down, though. I don't know. I got in at 11 a.m. I'm flying out at 6.

We'd have to put him up in lodging if he stayed. Yeah, yeah. In and out. First flight in, last flight out. Yeah, he's going to be in lodging. His car in the parking garage. Yes, his rental car. Just rent a big one.

Send us a receipt. Look, that Universal Studios store in the airport has that crazy big wraparound screen. That's enough themed entertainment to last a lifetime. You know? It's like what happens in that Tiny Toons where they go to the theme park and then they just take the monorail right and like well that'll do it that's all i needed um it can be

possible in some places uh um but anyway what i think what we what we really have to judge is quality of experience here and it's a little bit tough because look we flew in we stayed at the hotels none of us have parked at this parking garage so we have to analyze some other things some some reviews some statistics um i think one element to talk about that might help us is price this is certainly a factor um thirty dollars is what we're dealing thirty dollars do we have any well reaction to that not even in comparison to anything else oh i was going to compare it to here and it's 32 out here yeah that's good yeah wow wow yeah well then you yeah they gain they upcharge you for the horrible tacos but then you make that money you make it back yeah yeah in the

parking uh 30 is kind of the case across the board i have been in this parking garage as a a child and adolescent because you know for the first few times my family went to universal florida it was just a flat surface lot right and then they built up this garage as they were opening city walk and islands of adventure so it's very exciting to go through this parking garage and hear live in la vida loca and like what is waiting for us we saw the previous center we're gonna see it in person you remember live in la vida i specifically have a memory of being in this garage and hearing living la vida loca being on i'm sure we'll get to it at some the moving walkways which are a big element of this garage

unlike all the other ones we've talked about yeah where you like mother mother I'm about to live Levita Loca alright we're all gonna be living I really I like that they that it's a structure I mean that and that's that seems like a positive reform turning it from a service lot into a structure

because there's one thing that drives me nuts from an infrastructure perspective is when I'll see like an aerial shot of a stadium. And you'll see like the square footage that's occupied by the stadium. And then all the surface parking around it, like outside like the Kansas City football stadium or whatever. And it's like five times as much surface areas for surface parking. Right. And so like you build up, not out. And if you can do that i mean it's it's it's much more efficient i agree with you 100 but i i've learned um so

universal is working on this epic universe park down the road and that's going to have a surface thought to begin with and i think that's the easiest way to get parking quickly right that makes sense i think down the line maybe a garage will be coming. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, when I went to, last time I went to Legoland, which was like 10 years ago, I remember it all being a surface lot. I don't know if that's changed or not. I was there just several days ago, and that is the case. And it is a bummer at the end of the day to like now walk all the way.

They're in that, I keep Simpsons referencing, but they're in that like itchy and scratchy land kind of like so we're in d yeah there's really nothing is like the team marketers are not really anything uh and yeah bummer to have to like you know walk a mile or whatever it is after your theme park day um but yeah i think you're right jay said it's like the best it's like the sign that phase two of the resort or park has happened. Yeah. That now we're building up, which this thing landed. Like, it's a really impressive parking garage visually, I have to say. Oh, my God, it's wild. Wes, do we have pictures?

Can we pull up some of the photos I sent? If you look at just like the foliage and then that dome there. Yeah, it there very appealing yeah I think there's an aesthetic it reminds me of like the big facilities in Jurassic Park where it like scares me a little bit it intimidates me it kind of it's like I think a parking garage can like add to the story if you're like are you scared at the top of your day are you partying like with live and live via loca uh do we have Jurassic Park 2? That's another one. I think good landscaping, good foliage is a good,

I just really got a Jurassic Park vibe out of here. It's very similar to Mickey and Friends and Pixar Pals. It looks like it's decayed a little more from this photo, but other than that, it looks very similar to the Disneyland parking situation. Yeah, yeah. Now, while we're still looking at photos, Wes, if we could pull up parking characters one. And this is where we can learn who is.

So there's two giant lots. And you split into two different directions. And so I think that I forget if it's north or south. Oh, here we go. South. These are the south characters. Cat in the Hat, E.T., and Spider--man the big three yeah yeah when you think universal um or things they have at least temporary deals with and then uh parking characters too will show us the others king kong uh jurassic park and jaws

so that has a little bit more coherence like it's like the first three are just kind of a grab bag but these are all like okay these are big scary monster franchises yes yeah i'll kill you yeah i three i also like that can we pull up the the photo uh remember jaws this is the way that they help you remember where you're supposed to go. Which just leads to the strange phrasing, remember Jaws. Yes, I do. Like a fallen hero. Never forget Jaws. You know, the ride closed a number of years ago.

You may have forgotten. A decade, over a decade at this point. The Jaws ride has been gone. It's like the statue of Superman they put up in Batman vs. Superman after he's killed. Someone spray paints false god under Jaws. So, I mean, is South Garage hurt at all in your estimation by the incoherence of the characters? No, because I think those are you know it's what i think is good about the characters i think the kids will help well like it will help them remember them

because they're all like i know et i know cat in a hat like and and that's that seems like it's probably i'm not a parent but i imagine that could be a fun thing like remember we parked in the spider-man lot you know give them a job exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah but also that then like this day and age you're obviously gonna take a picture with your smartphone anyway so like just that iconography is a little bit cleaner than you know i i parked in a23 or whatever sure sure and i like the remember honestly does jog your memory a bit it does yeah sometimes you go oh i'll remember don't worry but if you say remember it's like uh uh it's like at the end of star trek 2 when spock is dying and he puts

his hand and he mind melds with mccoy and he says remember it's the same thing it's the same it's the same exactly thing so now you're mind melding with that sign that's sign yeah sign mind melding uh-huh yeah you gotta take that smartphone picture uh because i've definitely gotten lost sitting mickey and friends don and I got lost once together. Oh, yeah, oh my God. And it took forever. Oh, that was really bad. Called security.

We actually, yeah, calling helped, because they said, oh, at the time of day that you came in, we were loading on this level in these rows. Yeah. And it was very helpful, and I believe the universal garage has the like blue light the college campus blue light that you can call for information

not just uh panic you know though there's yeah i'm sure plenty of panic has occurred in these places too they are giant they if you like we got to wander got to the privilege of wandering the first garage with the level keeper oh yeah and the like when you're out on the furthest end you real like boy that was a that was a long we walked a ton yes yes to try to to see everything yeah yeah really uh every nook and cranny of it um now actually you know why don't we let's look at parking overhead yeah uh that'll really show you the some of the full weight of it uh and this uh this bridge construct here you've got two little ones that lead you to one big one uh i think i stole this diagram from something called david's coin travels thank you david david and for your travels um So it's huge, but you feel like you could get your head around it.

This isn't like the Hollywood one where like, but which way did I get? Like everyone leaving from anything that you can do at Universal Orlando has to go back this way. So at least generally, you know what you're doing at the end of the day. Now, let me ask, and I don't know if this is just a stray icon on this diagram, but is this parking structure that Cat in the Hat and E.T. and Spider-Man lot so vast, the south parking structure, that there isn't an Auntie Anne's pretzels

located in the middle of it? Because that's what it looks like. That's a good question. That is exactly what the map is showing. I think that's incorrect. I don't think that just like in the pure middle, maybe that's just showing you this is where you have to park to walk very far to get the most expensive and bad Auntie Anne's of your life. Because it would probably do business.

Like exciting kids at the start of the day or exhausted parents at the end of the day. It's like, ah, it's getting Auntie Anne's, you know. What if it was a roaming vendor? That's a great idea. It's good for any park. It really is. Yeah. Oh, people would definitely take them up on that.

What they do have, though, in the little announcement at the top, we heard parking garages and fresh eats. Can we look at fresh eats? There is a food stand in this parking garage. Wow. So it is true. Okay. And it's kind of in the bridge area that connects everything. Got it. Because it looks like it's two big structures structures and then there's kind of a central walkway like you they they they they they needed a hub yes um and then from there you progress on

to the theme park proper yeah exactly and in the hub they do all the security screening which is a pretty robust process it feels very airport very tsa and the buses also load out sort of right down that way as well yes i i watched video about this the resort buses are on the bottom floor and ride shares on the top now ride shares now it takes up the entire top floor of one i want to say the south garage but don't quote me on that which has always seemed decently efficient when i've done it um so uh we're actually able to talk food here a little bit because i had one of the ice pops which is the menu that we're looking at right now it's gelato pops uh there are several ways you can customize your ice pops you can dip it

drizzle it or dredge it this is the mildly confusing through the swamp what is that i well the way okay the lot see if everybody likes and approves of this logic. Dipping is like the, I'll say my local version of it, like a Balboa bar, which is in Orange County, where you dip it in milk chocolate and that stays a hard shell. And you can then attach other things. Drizzle it as syrup. Right. Those are the options under drizzle. And dredge it as peanuts, Oreos, graham cracker crumbs.

So like hard items and candies go under dredge. Maybe this is working for them, but I feel like they fell in love with the alliteration and made it more confusing. Because dipping is basically the same as dredging. It's just the dry ingredients versus wet ingredients. And then dipping it versus drizzling, like I can kind of see some daylight there, but they're still like kind of similar. I feel like just select toppings and then just like a big list of toppings would get the job done the same way. But then again, maybe what this does, these sub menus is they incentivize people to be like, oh, I'll do a dip and a drizzle. You know, maybe people all of a sudden get two 69 cent toppings instead of just one.

I mean, I just like that a theme park menu board has the word dredge on it somewhere. drizzle you know maybe people all of a sudden get two 69 cent toppings instead of just one i mean i just like that a theme park menu board has the word dredge on it somewhere that's right i like it but at this point it is like a it's like a depressing yeah i mean yeah it doesn't say it doesn't sound delicious it makes you think so i think of corpse retrieval it's it doesn't make you think of like mini m&ms yeah Now, was I not answering my phone? I'm sure I would have liked to try some dredged treats. You would have liked to dredge something up? Oh, I would have said, yeah, dredge it all the way.

Dredge me up, boys. Like a Chicago hot dog. I want the full garden. And this garden is mostly corn syrup in different forms. Yeah. I think you were out of commission for that period. What we were saving you a full walk through all of the parking garages, which if you can imagine was a little bit taxing the,

I gotta say, I liked these pops in a series full of bad and disappointing treats. Maybe I like, because I have no previous notions of fresh eats, you know? Yeah. I can't, it's not like I had one once and now I'm going to have the worst fresh eats ever. Like, I don't know. It's in the parking garage. So my, you know, my guess of the quality is in the basement already.

Yeah. So it really surprised me that it was a pretty solid, I mean, to get a good dessert in the parking garage. Well, it's so smart because you can either get it right away or at the end of the night,

maybe you were regretting, I should have gotten some before we left. And then you see it there and then you get a little treat on the way in the car or on the bus or in the lake. It's very smart. I'm surprised that Disney doesn't have it because Disney has has a bunch of room at mickey and friends and pixar pals first i could put

something there like there's enough room for something i'm glad you brought this up thank you uh was fresh eats by the souvenir stand yes it was let's see a picture of that too can we see west garage store because this is a thing that has I've always associated like it was it's been there for a while and I'm shocked Disney has not adopted the last minute garage souvenir stand they might have carts they may have carts and maybe for like glow sticks yeah things kids want at the end of the day but here universal has stacked some of the best items i own one of that like retro um uh rain hoodie whatever you want to call it windbreaker yeah yeah it's it's really good i really and then the in those fanny packs or the straps say ride

the movies those are cool yeah i've become a big a big time man bag guy these days like i basically a mutual friend zacharino got me into it and i would definitely sport one of those they're very snazzy yeah yeah do you is that the term that you have you uh tossed aside fanny pack and any associations with that phrase well i so for instance this one i brought with me is is more of a shoulder bag so you know i think it's kind of a catch-all term but you know what know, whatever. They're handbags. I find them very convenient. That's a good size. Yeah, this one's great.

Not super cumbersome. That's exactly what you need. So, I think a good store. I think I had a good treat there. Yeah. I haven't found the security to be terribly inconvenient. Does anyone have stories that negate? Well, no, I don't have anything that negates it, but I got there one day and I was taking

the bus in. So I would come in on the bus area. And then even at times when there would be like an insane amount of people and I was like, oh man, this is going to be 45 minutes. It was like less than 15. It was less than 10 maybe even. So like they had figured out a system to get to funnel people in pretty quickly through security.

So I was never really like upset with what they were what they were doing wow i feel like it was pretty efficient and then once you get past that you get moving walkways as jason's a big series of walking walkways you can gain some steam if you're running late for something which i was at one point you can really like pick up the pace there yeah i love move ever since i was a kid and was first at an airport, I was like, oh my God, it's like an escalator, but it's flat. So I kind of like internally light up when I see a moving walkway.

It's fun. I love a moving walkway. Are you a stander or are you like a fast walker? Like what is your general approach? Good question. I would say a stander, especially if I have luggage. Me too, I feel like I gotta stand.

Navigate luggage on those things isn't exactly easy. Yeah. Sure, sure. I like to, I like to, I will stand. I'm not against standing, but I do like to feel like I'm fast. It's fun to have the super stride. Yeah, that is fun.

So that's yeah but i will stand sometimes i stand sometimes when you're on that moving walkway and you're hearing bylamo squared year later now okay they've rotated out different living la vida loca i look this up because i'm like could i be confusing the songs and i was like no I think one year it was living La Vida Loca and the next year it was by Lomo's you remember what was this is just to show me okay because you love moving so strong and you love

these theme parks so much you have every detail locked in yes because I like that and I didn't like freshman year of high school so I really hone in on the theme park stuff i feel really similar i don't think i liked anything that happened to me any day of that year all right yeah and then i went to universal at the end and i locked in forever and now i do this yeah yeah

sophomore year much smoother me too yeah yeah felt much more less, had my sea legs. Yeah. Once you know the ropes a little bit. Yeah. Because that all, that, you know, my understanding is that there was a time when what we now call middle school was junior high school, and that was like sixth through ninth grades or something. And then 10th through 12th was just high school.

There was a point where they added ninth grade. And I definitely felt like a little too young for the high school kids as a ninth grader. That might be the biggest age difference you're ever – other than like – but if you're a kindergartner, you're not really around the fifth graders. Yeah, you're in a different part of the playground. And it's a little different just being kind of thrown in that pool when you're like 14 and you're like, they're legal adults you're sharing the campus with. It's strange. Absolutely. That's why, yeah, you cling to the memories of pop music that was playing in a theme park.

And that you'll be reliving it in the nursing home. Telling the nurses later. Freshman year, mostly leaning on theme parks and comic books sophomore year a little more stable junior year got really got my sea legs parents divorce finalized we got the share custody down pat then 9-11 happens and so we're a little off kilter so but back to theme park it gave you one of your favorite things to do, which is to define your life and everything that's ever happened

in relationship to 9-11. That's true. Hey, wait a minute. It's set up a lifelong hobby. And that's what you're going to be telling the nurses. No. 9-11. Now, now we have COVID to lean on now too.

Oh, that's true. That's a good point. Because you like your windups. You like, and the date on that march 15th 2020 that's right um that's true so uh we're just looking at you're just i'm just realizing we're looking to our future and i'm just thinking about like my you know my my my my grandmother my my late grandmother uh joe rip who like you know was like raised in an orphanage uh lived through the world war you know lived through like the spanish food like lived through

like this the all the the civil rights movement like like a century of turmoil and then like she's in her 80s and we're just like sitting down with her at el torito and it's just like this is what your life ended up as like that's that's the preview of where i'm gonna be i'm just gonna be like the old guy in the chain restaurant uh with his loved ones and it's just like like like oh yeah not that I'd be a grandpa but like like laddy old great uncle Nick is you know

live through COVID and live through 9-11 you know telling them all like I used to make my living coming to places like this yeah sure he's talking about that thing again we all make our livings doing places like this. Yeah, sure. I was talking about that thing again. We all make our livings doing this, Grandpa. That's what the economy is.

The only job left. You podcast or you drive an Uber. Let's order the wagon wheel sampler. So I feel like we're getting a pretty good impression of this parking garage, actually. You know, just from outside, you know, I'm impressed by the size. The price impression of the sparking garage. Actually, uh, uh, you know, just from outside, you know,

I'm impressed by the size. The price is not the worst out there. Actually, what's Disney now? Disney. I have the stat. Disney. I think is two.

It's like 35. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Less than that. Wow. Concerts are $40 now. Like depending.

Yeah. Yeah. No, usually. Well, NFL games I've heard can be like a hundred dollars. Like there there there's some serious gouging that happens for those huge events um and i know from you know because i i'm an nba fan i'll go to the lakers games and i usually take the train to downtown la but i know the parking structures there can really gouge like especially the ones

right next to the stadium those can be like like 50 bucks or more. Those LA Lives are kind of nightmares. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really expensive. I'm swearing that one. Never an LA Live. Oh, we've talked about doing that though before. We have? Yeah, on the show? I have no memory of talking. LA Live is awful. Is Tom's Urban still there?

Look, I would love it, but I would also actively discourage you from doing that for your own sanity. LA Live is awful. Yes, you're there more. Have you had some okay times at LA Live? You know. Where have you some okay times at LA Live. You know. Where have you had

okay times at LA Live? Tom's Urban, the Yard Files. Tom's Urban. You've had fun at Tom's Urban? I said okay times. Okay, I've had the Smashburger. What's that Smashburger

place they have there? Is that still there? I think it is just the Smashburger. The cult Smashburger? Yeah, I think it is. I crammed that in before a Monday Night Raw once.

That was an okay time. Gulp it down like a duck or something. I'd love to spend three hours talking about it. It would be interesting to see by the time you cover LA Live what the Peacock Theater would be called. Oh, yeah. Because it was the Microsoft Theater and now it's the Peacock Theater. It will be something else in a few years. Yeah, yeah.

We'll see. And by then, will they fix what I just heard about, which are a glut of typos on the Kobe Bryant statue? Oh, yes. Yeah. How embarrassing. Yeah. There was a player, Vaughn Wafer, who they spelled his name Vaughn Wafer. And then they.

Is that what a name sounds like? Has anyone ever been named Vaughn? That's what we've been doing during this saga is bombing. I think they also misspelled the phrase coach's decision i can't but they they like left some letters out yeah and also that actually led me down a rabbit hole because i was looking into how these statues are made it's like one of those things where there's this weird cabal where it's like one married couple in chicago who does like the entire world of sports trophies or i mean statues so like if there's like a statue of uh of uh leonel messi somewhere they'll be like they go to this one couple in chicago and they're the only people made it and they're the people made the kobe statue too

oh wow but like yeah it's it's it's like it's just like a business that they fully control yeah but not the plaques so the plaques outsourced to AI or something? That's a great question. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they're responsible for the plaques themselves. Great question. But all the power is concentrated with these two. Wow. Wow.

These look into this. They're in the LA Live saga. Okay, look. Make these decisions. Let's get out of this one before we make any decisions about another one. What's the bowling alley they have there? Oh. That's a good question. It's there and I don't remember is it the same one they have in at hollywood is it one of those what's the what's that i can't remember the name of that chain now i don't know i can't remember it so they probably don't have it so probably we don't

need to go there oh i did do the bowling alley with nick mundy once yeah yeah yeah i did do it before a monday night raw what the hell is it called it's like it's like lane something or it's some sort of not not bolero not bolero it's not polaro it's not a bolero it's like uh it's like pin pals but not that because that's a sentence one but something like that with a z it might be something like it might be pins with a z there are those around there is one of those i can't remember uh um sexier bowling alley there was also bowling alley there was shaquille's down there which was was shack's like maybe only good restaurant maybe it's only good business but shaquille's was good and then that place closed and is now a much more generic sounding

place it was really good oh yeah you had a horrible experience at that, that shack chain. What is that? A big chicken? Yeah. Big chicken was gnarly. Yeah. Yeah. Dear God.

That is a shack was not on the ball with that one. Now the usual quality standard was not. Yeah. Um, yeah. His crusty, the clown, a standard for lending his likeness to products.

Yeah. Yeah. It proves everything. Um, so, uh, all right. We're getting a good impression of this garage i feel like but what we don't have is enough personal experience and not only that i think this is a failing on our end nick because we didn't you know force you to come out and experience it yourself yeah the first one that you haven't had on the ground experience with. But it makes you think like, what if there was some magical way that you could actually visit the Universal Orlando parking garage to walk in the footsteps of Jason on the moving walkway, hearing Liv and Levita Loca to relive his happiest memories? Yes.

What if there was only some way to actually get you there right now wow what if i told you there was such a way what we'll see we'll see at this point it really this working out now depends on dr carlson wow well i have an artifact here that i've been given um by a mysterious benefactor remember this is a video episode on club, and this is where I know we'll really be feeling it. Scott and Jason, close your eyes. It's a flight out of LAX. It is three layovers. Scott and Jason, close your eyes real quick.

It will get you to where- Yeah, yeah. It's leaving right now. We're putting you in a car. Jason, close your eyes. Close your eyes. Jason, close your eyes. Scott, you close your eyes.

Weigert can look, because I don't know if he knows what this is. But I've been given this mysterious artifact here that I believe has transportation powers. And I'm going to place this in front of you right now. I don't recognize it from

the sound. Wow. What's going to happen is I believe you'll be able to touch this. And then something will happen. I actually probably should turn it around. Yeah, I'll turn this towards me. I'll turn it towards you. A handful of bath all right should i describe what i'm looking at or no now we can say jason and scott open your eyes oh there is a universal epic a universal epic universe chronos that is sitting in front of this is a model of the main gate of the new park epic universe, which like this series is all about portals and jump points and gate holes.

Right. A mysterious benefactor sent this to me, and I believe knew that this would come in handy here. Because a bunch of theme park journalists were sent this, and for some reason we were not on the list. And we were furious about it, especially me. I was very mad that we were not on a mailing list. But this was given to me, and I really appreciate it. And now I finally, this is why. This is why we have it.

Wow, we needed to wait in order to make this happen. This is like the multiverse of madness's dial of destiny. Very much so. Wow. It's called a Kronos. Well, that's not the last property that we're going to bring into this because what if i told you that when you touched this chronos of destiny that it will enable the first ever trans multiversal link to an avatar in orlando

i'd say wow that's really. If there's ever a time for a wow, well, this is not just science theory. This is science fact. We have an avatar waiting in Orlando that should be a match for your DNA.

This avatar's... Well, only one way to... Oh, wait, actually. We're going to have to test this to make sure. Yeah, make sure. Actually, wait, actually. We're going to have to test this to make sure. Yeah, we have to test it. Yeah, to make sure. Actually, well, I have all of his stats. I have all of the Avatar's stats.

Can you just do me a favor? Can you just move around a little? Just move around a little. Yeah, you want to move my chair? Just move around a little. Move your arms. Move your arms a little. Okay, okay.

Wow. Hmm. Transmultiversal virusoids. You've got them. Just kidding. That's, you're supposed to have them. You need them to make it work. Oh.

Yeah. That's a relief. I know. It's a fun little thing. Anyway, it does seem like your DNA is going to be a match to our avatar. Our avatar's name is Kevin Tully from a band called Telethon. Wow. We brought him up a bunch lately.

We met him when a bunch lately. We met him when we were down in Orlando. He volunteered. He signed up to be part of this groundbreaking Avatar program, and he is waiting to make the link. So I think what we have to do first is have you put your hands on the- Yes, please. Put his hands on the chrono. Kind of straddle the base of it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just really, yeah, just cup the base of the, down at the bottom below the shaft of the chronos. Yeah, a lot of people don't pay attention to the base, but you got to make sure to work the base. Yeah, yeah. If you want to give the tip a little tap. Yeah, sure, I'll give it a little tap for good luck.

A lot of people forgot to tap the top. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a common mistake. There's feelings in all of the Kronos, so make sure you're doing it. Okay, so with that, why don't we have you count backwards in Na'vi, which is, of course,

P'kse Mune'a. P'kse Mune'a. P'kse Mune'a. Okay, there we go. Let's see if we can make the link. Okay. P'kse Mune'a. Whoa. okay here we go see if we can make the link okay quick say whoa oh look there he is whoa it's all the way from orlando across the multiverse i think the link has worked it's kevin tully our avatar kevin wow hello hi hi kevin. Sorry, this is all very surprising to me. You didn't know it was coming? Well, I mean, I kind of did, but I didn't know it would feel like this. Oh, yeah, yeah. Now that you have all that, all those feelings coursing through your veins. Well, that's because we touched the tip of the top and cupped the base. That's also just the general specter of Weiger I think you're dealing with. Right. And actually, I could kind of feel sensory vibrations as you were doing that.

It felt a little weird inside my whole body, honestly. I feel like I'm being possessed by somebody. Whoa, whoa. I was curious what it actually felt like to be in the avatar. It's different. It's not a traditional avatar system and it's not a being John Malkovich because you remain alive. But you guys are now, at least we're starting to form a cosmic bond. And also just imagine how it feels from my perspective because I get to experience being exactly me but with glasses and a beard right right exactly uh and you know i i've been really excited to do this yeah uh and it's an honor to be asked to partake uh you know and it's been great to get to know you guys and become friends with you i'm a fan first and foremost um and you know logistically uh concrete parking structure is a really good place to have a

facetime call on a podcast right perfect really flawless self-reception yeah most of your labor has been like outsmarting and hiding from universal heavies who are like, you can't be doing this. You can't be here. That's correct. And I do have one trepidation, though, that I haven't vocalized. And I wanted to be transparent with you guys about what that is. And I think now that Weiger's in me, what if he gets stuck? What if it's a meet Dave or Robert Altman's three women sort of deal

and I become Weiger, Weiger becomes me? Yeah, that's going to create a lot of complications for both of our lives, I'm sure. You're going to have a lot of phantom Taco Bell diarrhea on a daily basis. Yeah. You'll feel like you have to shit out two or three pounds of cheesy gordita crunches, but you won't be. Again, it will probably take me a while to realize that anything's different at all if that does happen okay yeah that's okay that'll be fine there this is why we thought there would

be a dna match right we knew that you would be aligned enough in order to make this happen you both have enough sour cream in your stomach that it's a match sour cream lining yes you're you're primed it primed the pump well i'm a little lactose intolerant So no, so maybe that'll be The indicator Should I show you your surroundings? Yes, you're only in front of the wall As far as people watching this on Club 3 and us Know, so let's see where we are

Wow, you guys, we're back Oh my gosh, it's beautiful We're back at CityWalk, we're by the movie theater Where I saw Glisten and the Merry Mission There's Quiet Flight Surf Shop. The thing we had tons to say about. Red Oven Pizza. And you're, oh my God, you're right at the balcony of the Bubba Gump.

Wow, look at that. One of the only well-reviewed establishments of this entire thing. I feel good mojo from that. Yeah. That'll do nice things for us on our mission here um geez how does it feel temperature wise what kind of night are we talking well it's you know probably 78 degrees it was raining a little bit i think it probably still is uh do you feel raindrops on you weiger right now yeah i do actually feel mildly damp whoa

whoa i see it happening there's a roof above you right i think what it is is that i was just sort of like because earlier it was raining and so it's probably just some dripping from the rooftop yeah just a general sort of humidity yeah you didn't just spill a mountain dew on yourself well that too that i mean yeah it was there was some some kirkland uh sparkling lime but yes they did spill a little bit um i i don't i was about to make a request of something to get a closer look at but why am i driving that's not how this works it is i think time oh wow hand over the controls of our avatar. If I'm saying it, avatars.

Oh, there's people walking past you. They made it out okay. If I'm saying it, avatars. This keeps happening. You're in a heavily trafficked area. For the listeners, by the way, there's so many people walking by. Oh, yeah. Helicopters.

Not more could be happening right now. It's the universal heavies. Oh, yeah. Watch out. We're looking for you. This is why Jason never wanted to record here. Close out your tab and get out of there. I think it's time to cede control to our avatar. If I'm saying it avatar style, I should really say Kevin Tully.

So I think, Weiger, you should take control of Kevin Tully. I feel like I guess because we're so parking structure focused here, that's the order of the day, right? We should kind of just head in that direction? Sure, yeah. Absolutely. Do you know which way to go, Nick? Oh, this is a good test because you're essentially there. You have to judge based on what you're looking at how to get there.

Well, I'll. Okay. Yeah, from looking at the surroundings, get there. Well, I'll... Okay. Yeah, from looking at the surroundings, I'm guessing it's not in the direction of the Bubba Gump. And I'm guessing it's not in the direction of that big marquee. I would maybe head towards that big P sign I see in the distance. Oh, smart.

Along with some of their vehicle logos. It's working. Oh, it's working. Wow, there he goes. Do you feel it in your feet? Whoa, wow. Please, Nick, let me walk faster than this. Can we see off to the left? Instruct me to walk faster. Sure, yeah, pick up the pace a little bit.

Really quick. Don't slip. It looks a little slippery. Can you just look off to the left at the signs that show everything that we've gotten to do? Wow, guys, take it in. Look at that. Hard Rock, Big Fire. Wow.

NBC Sports. So many memories. Wow, Toothsome. Every. Hard Rock, Big Fire, NBC Sports. So many memories. Toothsome. Every single place that made us sick. We're looking at it all at once. Whopper Bar. BK Whopper Bar. This is really the only place that could have ended.

Every end is a beginning. Every beginning is an end. We're learning. We are learning. Actually, can we head away from the parking structure and go back to that Bob Marley tribute for freedom? No, no, no. Different sector, different sector.

Thanks for your willingness, though. Okay, now, Nick, you have to choose. Walking or ramp? We got to do the ramp as long as you're not going to skid on it. I don't think I'm going to skid on it. Okay, great. I guess we'll find out. Yeah, this is the moving walkway, right?

We got to experience this. Did you know that British people call this a travelator? That's a great name. I actually did not know that. Well, I was going to ask if I should walk or stand, but I think my decision has been made. Yeah, I think you're stuck standing now.

We're right in prime getting out of the park time, I think. Perfect time. Well, this is really the test of is it convenient to get out of here or not. Kevin, did you know, oh, there's the mini golf course. Oh, it looks so cool at night. I didn't know how cool it looked at night. That robot is awesome. Wow. That is really cool.

And Weiger's waving his hand, too. That's right, yeah. How about that? Whoa, it's a perfect mirror. Kevin, did you know that on the Travelator in the year 2000, I'm sorry, 1999, that you were able to actually hear hit of the time, Living La Vida Loca, as a young Jason Sheridan did? No, I didn't know that, Scott. Well, it's true. I'm happy to hear it.

Yep, yeah, yeah. Kevin, watch out for the end of The Travelator. Yeah, watch out for the end of the travelator. Yeah, watch out, Kevin. But also, what music is playing right now? What is the atmospheric track that's playing through the speakers? Give me one second. Sure.

I feel like... Now, I did, when I was up there, I realized you can record audio on an iPhone, but you also can Shazam things at the same time. I was very impressed with that because I needed to do it. They were playing when I was up at LA CityWalk, Post Malone covering a Hootie and the Blowfish song. Wow. I only want to be with you. I've heard that cover every time I've been up there. From the Pokemon soundtrack.

Of course. I don't have a definitive answer, but it kind of sounds like Dying in Your Arms Tonight, but a modern version of it. Maybe it's a Post Malone cover. I bet that's what it is. It does kind of sound like that. It is what CityWalk traffic's in, is covers of not that old of songs.

Should we keep going? Yeah, let's keep going. Okay. We won't go to valet. You didn't valet this morning. Wouldn't it be cool if I did? Should we walk and not do the moving walkway this time? I don't want to tell why you're here. That's a good call. Let's see what the pedestrian experience is like. Should we walk and not do the moving walkway this time? I don't want to tell why you're Nick.

No, actually, no, that's a good call. Let's see what the pedestrian experience is like. Let's compare speeds. If you can cut through the traffic, don't get bumped. Yeah, don't get hurt. Kevin, while we're walking, I have a question. You are the only person on this call right now, on this podcast, who actually has parked in the parking garage. How was your parking experience today?

My parking experience was a little confusing, Scott. Uh-oh. I've done this many times, although I don't typically park at CityWalk. I have secret places I park that I won't tell you about. Whoa. Not low on my spot. Right. However, today I drove down.

I kind of missed the exit because I was a little distracted. And I ended up by Endless Summer Resort, and I had to do a U-turn. And it was a little stressful. But once I was in, I got in free with my Universal Orlando annual pass. And a nice person named Trey helped me get my priority parking pass that I get as a Universal Orlando annual pass holder. And honestly, it was pretty breezy and easy. Oh, here we go. We've arrived at probably the biggest crucial juncture point um we are now looking at what we looked at earlier in the episode oh wow all of the characters

there's king kong this is your path nick previously north or south still images are are now is now live video i'm seeing through my own eyes yeah now the... Kevin, did you park at one of these... Like, did you park at Spider-Man? Did you park at E.T.? Did you park at Jaws? So glad you asked, Nick. I parked at Cat in the Hat 361. I don't want to...

No, Cat in the Hat 361. No, now I just know it. So I would say that I wouldn't want to take you on a complete deviation from where your car is. So, yeah, let's head down towards Cat in the Hat. Let's see what the experience is like. Nick, I have $25 cash here. Wow. If you'd like to visit the strange gift shop or the Fresh Eats stand.

Nick, you could buy a sleeve of a shirt with $25. Nick, can I move? Can I go forward? Yes, please. Please go for it. Please go ahead and move. I think you should dredge something up, though. How do you feel about getting a sweet treat?

A sweet treat? A sweet treat? Yeah. From Fresh Eats? Yeah. There's no line. It looks like there's no one queued up there. Whoa.

And this is Jason's opportunity, too, because he just got upset that we didn't call him when we went to Fresh Eats to do some dredging. Oh, boy. Is this open? It's a pretty good question. All right. Our biggest enemy now is the hours. But it's, everybody's getting out.

Okay. It's the same menu as before. They still dip it and drizzle and dredge it. Wow. Wow. Anything look good to you? What? You're going to be tasting it on some level,

Nick. Now remember, Nick, I'm lactose intolerant right yeah no i definitely want to don't want to get me and you uh something that's going to upset your tummy there's those pops waiting to be dredged are any of those pops non-dairy or are they all dairy it's a good question we could ask i bet i bet the july i bet the strawberry or mango is potentially non-dairy. Yeah, I would guess maybe that whole right column, the coconut too, could all be okay.

But then I'm wondering what it's fun to dredge it with, because it feels like a... Oh, right. I forgot about the dredging. Can you dredge without dipping or drizzling? Or do you need the dredge? Do you need the drizzle and dip to make the dredge hold? That's a great point. Yeah, I don't think the dredge is going to hold without the dip or drizzle. Well, would like a mango with a milk chocolate dip? I mean, that sounds like it could be appealing.

Yeah. But if it lacked the milk, though, is it milk chocolate? Oh, right, right, right. So maybe like a caramel syrup? I don't know how much lactose is in milk chocolate. Oh, don't worry about like a caramel syrup i don't know how i don't know how much lactose is in milk chocolate no it's not an issue milk chocolate won't be an issue and you know what nick fuck it wow you know what and kevin you'd be participating in the grand saga tradition of uh destroying your intestines yeah and it's been a while since i did that

you need to do it. Refresh the system. Wipe it. Alright, are we locking it in? Yeah, let's try a mango with a milk chocolate dip. Wow. And then is there something fun to dredge it in? Maybe just some sprinkles? Hello. Do you have

any non-dairy options here? Oh, the fruit ice pops are non-dairy. Perfect. Great. What kinds of fruit ice pops do you have? One moment. Yeah.

Nick? Yes, I'm here. Nick? Yeah. Can I get a strawberry with lemonade ice pop, please? That sounds delightful, yeah. Okay. Hello. I'll do a strawberry with lemonade ice pop, please. That sounds delightful, yeah. Okay. Hello. I'll do a strawberry with lemonade

ice... Oh, that's fine. Blueberry's even better. It's funny. I was thinking blueberry in my brain. It's working. You're melding. You're learning. And Kevin, at the end of the transaction, remember to say, the order's for me, Nick Weiger.

Wow, there's the cash. Thank you for getting cash out. Wow. Wow. The harvest cheddar. It's like we're touching it. Thanks, buddy. It sounded just like him.

Wow. It's perfect. Your brains are fusing. Now we get to observe a live dipping and dredging process. The people who are just listening are fascinated and loving it, patient about it, not writing comments about how they don't like it. Yeah, don't blame it on me. You're going at a perfect pace for doing a dredging process.

I'm sorry, I forgot to dredge. Oh, that's okay. Don't worry about it. No problem. Look, it's wrapped. Thank you. Oh, okay. Well, now we've learned. The dairy options. Great, now I have to hold on to two things. Hey, wait a minute. You know what?

I know where you are Kevin You're right near the crushed penny machine Oh look at that thing It looks delicious It looks like beef tongues It also there's like a slight Slant It's a droopy popsicle

It's limping It's a heavier fruit blueberry It's definitely not It's a droopy popsicle. It's limping. It's a little limp. It's a heavier fruit, blueberry. It's definitely not limp. Blueberry is a denser fruit. It's a denser fruit. That's why. Yeah, it's a bit frostbitten. I think maybe they don't sell very many dairy-free options.

Right. That should be the thing. I also don't want to say it. There's a big vein. There's a big vein in it. It does look pretty vain. It's a droopy item with a giant vein. There's a big vein in it. It does look pretty veiny. It's a droopy item with a giant vein. Very vascular ice pop.

Oh, God. I hate to say it. It looks a little bit diseased. Like it might want to go to a practitioner. Well, you just overnighted to me if you're concerned about it. Oh, it's in your mouth? Oh, wow. It tastes good.

Oh, wow. Do you both agree on the taste of it? Oh, it's in your mouth. Oh, wow. It tastes good. Oh, wow. Wow. Do you both agree on the taste of it? How's all that frost on the outside? Very cold. Yeah, I would agree. It tastes like it has the ice crystals around it kind of tastes like I'm eating paper. It's really odd.

Yes, right. It's gritty. That's how I'll describe it. Nick, do you agree? I mean, you're inside of me. Yeah, it's kind of like licking the surface of that planet at the end of The Last Jedi. It's just a bunch of stray crystals. Crate? Salt planet? Talk about crate?

Yeah, of course, crate. It is crate-esque for sure. This is about a two out of ten. Oh, that's too bad. Wait, can we put it in terms of forks? Are we allowed to do that? Yeah, no, we absolutely can. That translates to

one forker and the one out of five dough boy scale. That's pretty bad. I had a good experience with fresh eats. That seems like the opposite of fresh eats. That's the issue. It's like there was the, like you were saying, the non-dairy pop was trapped in the deep freeze. You don't get the drizzle.

You don't get the dredge. You don't get the dip. And so you're missing out on a big part of the experience. And it's super freezer burned. It's hard to fuck up a simple ice pop this is so bad i am not that picky uh well this has been a failure of the avatar program thus far uh no you don't have to keep eating it can i pitch it yeah i feel free i feel free to wait a minute now i think we should like mike carlson decide how you dispose of it mike what is a reasonable

way to expose dispose of a treated city walk that you don't want to finish? Make sure that no employees are watching. And then as soon as all their eyes are averted, you find the nearest receptacle. And I don't even see the garbage, but I mean... It doesn't appear to be one. Just put it in with the minion wands and run.

No trash cans. This is something we're learning. No trash cans. this is something we're learning No trash cans That's surprising Just take a quick browse to the old souvenir shop Minions hey look at that I can't move For some reason I've stopped here

The pull of Kevin is It's like a tractor beam I'm going to try to will myself away From looking at Kevin the minion The pull of Kevin is, it's like a tractor beam. I'm going to try to will myself away from looking at Kevin the Minion. Break your scare. Okay, I think I broke, I've had a psychic break. There we go. That was so weird on time. Oh my gosh.

Sorry about that, Kevin. Scooby-Doo. Wow. Scooby-Doo there. He's kind of like, he's a heath or unsettling. Scooby-Doo looks like he ate a sour candy. Oh, I see his trash can. There's a trash can. Okay, okay. But it's the a seat. They're unsettling. Scooby-Doo looked like he ate a sour candy. Oh, I see his trash can. There's a trash can.

Okay, okay. But it's the other way. Aren't you now going towards the other parking garages? It's a worthwhile detour. How's it looking there? There we go. Drop it. Yeah, okay.

Great. Okay, okay. And I don't think anyone's- It's $18 thrown into the garbage. Oh, and look at this. The coin machines. Oh, wow. This has been a running theme through the podcast.

We've discussed, you know, you've heard some of this, Nick, the discussion of whether or not your own actual penny goes into these machines and there's that place

to put in your penny now. And there's the credit card where you will get all four pennies in theory. Yeah, this is a fake one. This is one of those fake ones. this is bullshit.

Yeah, Kevin, can you just, don't attract security, but can you like punch it or something? Oh, wait. Oh, wow. oh wow oh wow he's doing it oh rejected the dollar you know it's maybe better that well there we go oh okay okay well weiger let's do a crank here i think you just get them oh okay oh should. Oh. Should we see which one I get?

You get four for $1? Huh, we'll find out. That can't be true. No, they're $1 each, yeah. I don't think it's working. That might have been not enough money, and I don't have any more. Wait, it's starting to get harder to do. That means it's working.

I'm feeling more resistance with the crank here on my end. Oh, my God. Maybe it is live cranking. Oh, there it is. Wait a minute. There we go. Whoa. Wow. Which one do we get? It's Woody's

Woodpecker's friend. Only Jason knows these. That's his old mustachioed friend. Let me look this up. We all love him. That's what every kid's excited to get in the year 2024. Is his name

Walter Lance? That's the guy who created Creator. That's a good guess, though. Of course, Woody's friend, Walter Lance. They're all named Walter Lance. Goodbye, Woody. Nick, I'm sorry.

I should have... There's some minions right there. That's okay. It would have been nice to do minions. Oh, jeez. But one of these seems to be just the Despicable Me logo. So these aren't necessarily the most exciting fake pennies, right? Just the logo?

Yeah. If you had to pick one, Nick. Well, you got Gru there. That's kind of fun. Agnes is pretty good. I mean, of course, I'd want the one with the minions, but this one feels like this is designed to bilk parents out of dollar bills. Yeah, yeah. You're just gonna keep

turning them until you get one of the minions. And in theory, you can select which one you want, and it is not super explanatory. Oh, there's another dollar going into the machine. You found another dollar! Wow, wow! Let's see if we... Alright. Wait, how do you select which one you're gonna get? You kind of turn beforehand. Oh, okay. And then, I think you... if we... All right. Wait, how do you select which one you're going to get? You kind of turn beforehand.

Okay. Oh, wait. And then I think you... Oh, okay. Okay. Well, too late. Well, too late. You put your dollar in.

It's okay. No, I didn't. It's rejecting it continuously. Oh, okay. If there's one more try doesn't work. It took it. It took it. It took it.

Okay, okay, okay. How do I... Oh, I think I'm doing it wrong. No, I think you're doing it great, because I think you just turned a little bit more, and then... I think you're both doing it great together. That's right. That's right.

I didn't do it right, and it gave me this one. I didn't get the select. That wasn't the one that was selected, either. Yeah, no, it wasn't. That one was on Agnes. Oh, boy, that's really confusing. Kevin, there's only one thing to do throw that away okay that's waiting for any listeners it might still be there on the despicable me machine in the garage by the way the answer to the earlier question wally walrus wally i thought that was a human man no it is a walrus walrus is not walter lance

wow um another big it's another reason i knew your dna would match is that neither kevin nor nick knows the name wally walrus yeah um is it time to start walking to the garage i think so let's let's head to the space all right. Pass the Duff beer cans. We've gotten doses of characters and fun and treats. The treats didn't work out, but we played the lottery. And I really can't believe how bad that ice pop was.

Yeah, I can't either. Unfortunate. Can't get that taste out of my mouth. Well, it's funny. Jason is buying a plane ticket to go have that specific ice pop tomorrow. That Nick threw away. Well, it's funny. Jason is buying a plane ticket to go have that specific ice pop tomorrow. That Nick threw away. It might still be there. I can fish it out. I won't have to pay for

a new one. That's on Kevin's dime. I'm looking up pictures of a late-in-life Walter Lance. Thank you very much. Late-in-life. Google Walter Lance dying. Oh, wait. are we doing it? Are we getting on?

Yeah. We're at a crossroads. Okay. You want travelator or walk? We got to do travelator because it looks like we can get some, if we want to get some speed, we might have the potential to do so.

If we want to push past this family. I'm going to need to delay a bit. Yeah, no worries. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll build up some room. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, please. Oh, wow. Nick, no worries. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll build up some room. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, please. Oh, wow.

Nick, Nick. Look at that. Wow. It's like you're flying. It's like huge Navi strides. Like I have a 10-foot frame. Do you finally feel alive again, Nick? Yeah, I really do.

Wow. Everything you were saying about your body and the food and the drinking and that it weighs you down, it's all gone now. It's just alive and powerful. Oh, my God. That was exhilarating like a prime shack I can hear in the distance

upside inside down wow there it is the Bubba Gump tower we're pretty far away at this point now we have to find our way there's the gate oh my gosh we're getting all the way to the outside, now we have to find our way. There's the gate. Oh, my gosh. We're getting all the way to the outside. We have to, I guess, find our way properly to your car.

Do you remember what I said? Yeah, you were in the cat in the hat, of course, and you were in space 231, 316, 316. Okay. Oh, there must be a problem with the connection oh no it's glitching we're losing it I had the 3 and the 1 in there

316 the thing is both of you were wrong oh 361 361 now I transpose the numbers do you want me to use my Kevin knowledge To find my car

Or should I go to 316 No no no Use your latent Kevin knowledge This feels so weird It kind of hurts Well it proves that you're still in there That Nick hasn't boxed you out And he's not going to take over your brain

And being John Malkovich style I's not going to take over your brain and being john i'm not going to be a meat dave no that's that's important you got to retain you in there as we get towards we're you know we're recording this around dinner time kevin are you starting to feel like you like desperately crave a wendy's hamburger or something like what kind of meal does weiger want right now since we're approaching you know five or six o'clock? Yeah, I mean, we're not far from an In-N-Out burger. I mean, I might be tempted to have something like that, though obviously that's not something you could easily acquire in the

Orlando area. Right, that's true. But after we're done recording, you stay linked for the rest of your life. Kevin could experience it. And a longing that could not be satisfied. A West Coast exclusive in an Outburger. All right, you're at a crossroads, I noticed, as well here.

Which way? Well, no, I'm just kind of waiting because this is the last real glimpse you might get of CityWalk. Wow. This is kind of emotional. The big dome. This is where we came from. This is where we say goodbye.

Gosh, later in the show, we have to say goodbye to the sector keeper. And right now we have to say goodbye to this place that has been our home for 21 days. I really, though, I will say from this experience, I'm really getting a sense of how much ground Kevin has covered. You've gotten a lot of steps in just moving from CityWalk proper to where you are. Yeah, he's showing us where he started. You've got a lot of steps in, Nick. You're right. I'm thinking about where you are. He's showing us where he started. Yeah. He's got a lot of steps in Nick. That you're right. I'm thinking about it all wrong.

He's learning. He's learning. He's learning. Double steps. You know, two men equal double steps. And that means we're getting shredded in the cabin. Damn.

Yeah. That's great. Apple watch is going to be very happy about that. Yeah. It counts for both. I think that everything is so honestly, Damn. Yeah. That's great. Apple Watch is going to be very happy about that. Yeah. It counts for both. Tell the Apple Watch it counts for both. I think that everything is so, honestly, just such a great clear signage and clear places to go. Right.

It's so efficient and well set up. I would even say of any of the theme parks I've ever gone to, this one just seems like the most straightforward. All of this was put together in such a straightforward way. Yes. And I was very impressed in such a straightforward way. Yes. And I was very impressed with it while we were walking around. Is it our best parking garage? Wow. Wow.

Could be. Well, here's the thing. Here's what I'll say. Yeah. Is that I still miss the chaos of Universal Hollywood. There's something more fun still to me to this day to not quite knowing where I'm going to walk out. And it's happened to me.

It happened to me a few days ago. It happened to me a couple of weeks ago. And this certainly, Orlando, efficient, makes the most sense. I have to give it the blue ribbon for efficiency. Sure. But what does my heart say? My heart says I want to park at Universal LA more.

Yeah, I can understand that. I want to be in that parking garage there's a couple different ones they're all over the place i don't know there's something about it i like better i hate i hate to say that i don't want to put it down orlando but i like la better that's just my feeling wow i will say that i uh me at you know speaking for myself and uh but looking through ke's eyes, I mean, I am very impressed by this. This feels like it's very well designed and very straightforward, a lot of signposting, a lot of clarity in terms of where you're supposed to go, provided you can remember your own space number, which we failed to do. But here's the thing. There is one specific design feature of the Mickey and Friends parking structure that I really like, which is that the escalators go directly

from your level to the ground and vice versa. It's just really efficient because if you're parked on level four, there's no reason you'd ever need to go to level two or level three. You can just go directly from the ground to level four. And I don't quite see any sort of like, you know, anything on that level as of yet from the Universal Orlando structure. All the minions are great.

We're looking at some minions on a bus right now. And that is a hoot. Yeah. Well, why don't we see what it's like to get to the car? And I think that'll help you decide. I was going to say, let's not speak too soon, guys. Let's not compliment the parking garage until we get to my vehicle. All right.

Well, forward, gentlemen. Let's forward. Yeah, let's go forward. Here we go. Now, this is confusing because it says Cat in the Hat is that way but that's a one-way travelator. It's going the other way. Makes it look like I'm going to E.T. I hope that is the way you need to go.

I'll knock points off that. It's, you know, the Brits are Yeah, let's travelator. Linguistic quirks. If you call an elevator a lift, wouldn't you call a moving walkway like a this way then or something? You know what I mean?

Wouldn't you have it be a little bit straightforward and folksy? A standee stroll. Yeah, a standee stroll. Yeah, 100%. That's perfect. But you call it the travelator. No, that's clunky in the same way that elevator is. It sounds more American.

Right. Very true. What is that sign? This is a Volcano Bay sign above you, Kevin? That's right. The third water theme park? That's right. Volcano Bay.

Well, actually, the first water theme park in existence. Wow. Why haven't they added anything new to Volcano Bay? Are they going to do that? There's all this talk of adding to all the other parks. Who cares? I want rides. I want rides too, but I want water rides.

I bet they could use a fresh heat stand. I think they could, yeah. That kid has a lot of beads. I wonder what – is there a Mardi Gras situation happening? Oh, really? Okay. That's fine. How's the Mardi Gras vibes there?

Mardi Gras vibes are good. They replace all of the music in the park with Zydeco music, which is kind of fun, but also some of the original atmosphere is lost, I will say, because everything is just pumping Zydeco music. But it's cool. They have floats go by, and then you can throw beads from the floats if you sign up, which is an experience I've never done, but I'd like to. You can throw, you can be on the floats and throw beads? Yes. Jason, you know this? Yeah, you can be on the float. Have you ever done that? I have not done it. Don't you think you would have heard by now

if I had done that? You said something a couple weeks ago I never heard, so there's still mysteries that have not been unraveled yet. But they do a version of this at Universal Orlando, but it's got to be like a sanitized Mardi Gras, right? It's not like people aren't flashing the parade. No, I don't think anyone's putting them on the glass.

Well, the minions flash, but we don't understand their anatomy. We don't know we're looking at nudity, so it doesn't feel dirty. Because they don't want beads. They just want banana. Right. What about Toon Lagoon though? There's probably some saucy comic strip characters.

One of the, like Mrs. Lockhorn maybe? I guess it's Blondie perhaps? I don't know. Andy Capp's wife? Dagwood? Yeah, do Blondie and Dagwood have an arrangement?

Yes. Well, they have an arrangement only for you. If you entered the cartoon world, do you feel that you could get in they've been waiting for you to be cartoonized jason you're a real man tagwood he's just focuses on his sandwiches he doesn't even look at me anymore you're a man who loves me and a sandwich equally you maintain the interests you do both balance them um now is all the smoke rising near the bubba gump is that normal And a sandwich equally. You maintain the interests. You do both. Balance them. Now, is all the smoke rising near the Bubba Gump, is that normal?

Yeah, I was going to say it looks a little bit like a disaster happens. I'm glad I got out of there if that's the case. But I think it might just be fog or it doesn't seem to be. It seems to be atmospheric, not so much pumped in or anything. I think it's coming from the weather. Is it possible that it's just they've been making so much shrimp, there's such a demand for shrimp today, that the ovens are overloaded and they're just billowing steam and smoke because of the over? I'd say it's not only possible, but likely that that's what's happening well i

think that's post the side because we gave terrible reviews to every restaurant except bubba gum so now posty and rickabony the line is way out right right right you were seeing it could it be the smoke from big fire they're always talking about their fire they have a big fire at big fire it's probably the best place we all eat at, I would say. Yes, it was. Yeah, absolutely. If you had a serious review, that is the one. And loser meal of the trip, I think, has to be,

let's give the official award to the Flounder Almondine. Yeah. Thank you, Flounder Almondine. It sounded awful. It was also a real headache for you to get that documentary of you getting it. Yeah. It's very stirring. That being said, if they want to put it back on the menu either coast, I'll try it again. real headache for you to get yes yeah documentary of you getting yeah oh yeah yeah stirring that being said if they want to put it back on the menu either coast i'll try it again and i'll take it to

go and i'll wait even longer to eat it well should we start heading to the car yeah let's see if we can make it there to space 361 is it on this level yes okay all right three six okay wow literally the last oh it's in we go. Literally the last. Oh, you're in the last row. Wow, you really went all the way. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think I know how this works.

You got to wonder if the cat in the hat moved in. What'd you say? What? If the cat in the hat moved the car. That's the kind of mischief he would make. He's always so mischievous. He could have moved it to 361 or 316 the cat in the hat knows not to fuck with kevin tully from the band telethon man how dare you even suggest that fair enough absolutely plus yeah i'm sure you didn't give the keys to him he would have had to hotwire it well now we got a

crowd of like a lot of people trying to park right now. Do you, does it, what's the air? What's the vibe? Does it feel chill? Does it feel stressful? That's, I guess, a big question. Well, it does feel like a weird amount of people are leaving right now, which is funny because the parks don't close till nine. So I guess this is just how it is.

I never park at CityWalk. And so I don't ever do this. I don't know if this is normal or if it's busy or if it's not. That's Mardi Gras, learning this together. Maybe also if you've got young kids, this is about the time when they're tuckered out. Not everyone can do a full day at the park. It's a little late, too, for the young kids, honestly.

How do you get over there? I think this is my... no i think this is my i think this is my uh my row wow wow we made it i guess we'll find out good job nick you navigated us all the way in an environment you've never been in yeah i did i did my best it's disorienting but now it also kind of just feels natural nick ke, Kevin, just remember to make sure to get the license plate and the car registration on camera. So he makes sure we're at the right location. And your vehicle identification number too, the VIN.

Yeah, and mailing address on registration. Now, Nick, I drive a blue Subaru Crosstrek. Blue Subaru Crosstrek. Got it. Okay. So do we all need to find it together? I think we do, yeah. I'm just going to keep, I mean, I can't stop.

Nick's power is too strong. I'm locomoting. I can't stop until you tell me to stop. Now, I'm having some trouble someone's honking aggressively i hope you're okay uh i i am this is it's it's fairly dark the lighting here so i'm having trouble perceiving color all that clearly kind of see dark cars and white me too all right just start trying the different car doors and you're gonna Yeah, just start grabbing. Guys,

I see it. I see it. Oh, great. It's in our frame right now. Whoa. Whoa, and it's breaking. We're losing the connection. Let me help you. We have to make it to the end. This is right before the car. We need to get to the car before the phone craps out. With your last ounces of strength, Nick, get us to this

Subaru. I think that's it. Oh, we're here. What? Is that it? Yes, there it is. It's the Subaru logo. We made it. This has to be it.

Yay. Wow. We successfully, no, you, Nick, wire successfully navigated your way to a Subaru. There's the cat in the hat. Trek you've never been in. Wow. And there's the cat.

Wow. That was pretty smooth, I'd have to say. Yeah. Wow. There it is. Whoa um you got a great car nick uh so congratulations thank you yeah um kevin this is this has been an incredible experience sharing your your brain and body and uh looking uh you know into your inner self i realize you probably have some plugs you'd like to share. Thank you so much.

Telethonband.bandcamp.com. All of our music is free on there. Go listen. Wow. All free. Jeez. That's fantastic. Telethonband.bandcamp.com.

Kevin, we can't thank you enough for doing this, for participating in this grand experiment, the first ever successful iteration of the trans-multiversal avatar program. Your bravery has saved the entire CityWalk Orlando saga. We couldn't have closed it out without you, so we thank you for participating in this grand experiment. It's all thanks

to Nick Weiger. No, it's thanks to you, Kevin, and to go from being... That's actually my avatar. I am sorry. Get out of the fucking way. All right. Well, you better split.

Why don't you tap that tip one more time, Nick, and we'll... Wow. And the connection has gone away. Jeez. Oh, my God. How do you feel, Nick? I feel somehow

more alive than I've ever been like just being able to occupy someone else's frame to share their soul for a brief moment it really hammered home what it means to be alive but also to have my own independent psyche what a beautiful message

to end this thing on also just like I feel like just kind of generally a little humid. Yeah, that's going to happen. We could have picked a better time to do that. Oh, and look at this. Wow. Speaking of feeling alive. Wow, it's Walter Lance himself.

It's laid in life, Walter Lance. With all of them, all the creations that Jason can name, such as... Woody Woodpecker. Yep. Wally Walrus. Yeah. Chili. Well,

Chili. Well, not Mickey. Yeah. Not Mickey. The Panda. Does the fish that Chili Willie is fishing for count as a character or. Is that the one from American dad?

He created that character. Yeah he was he gave the gift of it to seth mcfarlane right before he died like kubrick giving ai right to spielberg yeah absolutely well this is as you said jason it's late in life walter lance and we have to remember our days are numbered much like mr lance yeah And we have to remember these moments and hold on to them, these moments where we feel so alive, where we get to inhabit a body across the entire multiverse. And yeah, Nick, I hope you come out of here with a renewed vigor and spirit. And maybe we all will. I know we've all been beaten down by this, but that was such a fun little portal. Yeah. I don't know.

Some of that negativity is melting away. I'm feeling pretty good i think so i feel the same way yeah now i feel yeah not good enough to start a new saga anytime in the near future but good enough you can put away a plate of flounder and a big milkshake and a slice of cake on top right amen brother let's all go to toothsome right now okay fine all is forgiven um but wait a minute it's it's appearing whoa whoa whoa something just happened to me like something just got sent through the multiverse into my body um and uh let's let's just say for the sake of cleanliness not through my butt I swear it didn't come through my butt. It just ended up on my person. But, you know,

I know it just felt like you failed in getting the collectible coin that you wanted, but look what was just sent to us. The three minion coin. Wow, look at that. The three minion coin. Wow, incredible. And we give it to you, Nick Weiger,

for being the finale guest that we needed oh how's the quality on that this is i mean this is a real piece of shit but this is the thinnest piece of metal i've ever seen in my life but i but this is a true token of appreciation i i genuinely i really appreciate y'all going all the way to bring this to me this is great well i will treasure this wow wow wonderful um yeah, and you better because that's your only payment for appearing on the show. Yeah, that's fair.

But it's worth 51 cents. Keep in mind. Or more. Was it a dollar? It was a dollar. Oh, great. Well, there we go. Hey, it's getting more valuable

every second. Yeah, it's currency in Orlando. Well, with that, I'm so happy to say, Nick Weiger, you survived the CityWalk Orlando saga multiverse of madness.

We couldn't have asked for a better guest and a sillier thing to do here at the end. This was so fun. Let's exit through the plug chronos. Is there anything you would like to plug? You actually do have something I want to plug. And, you know, since we did something special for Club 3, I had something in mind for a future Club 3 episode. Whoa. So let me just kind of just lay all my cards out on the table.

Literally. Bell, Cruella DeVille, Dopey, Doc, Christopher Robin, Bashful, Gaston, Gaston again, The Queen, Judy Hopps, Gumbo Pot, what is that? Oh my goodness. And Winnie the Pooh. Whoa. Mike Carlson, Club 3, I want to challenge you to a match of

Disney Lorcana. Holy shit! Oh my god. The challenge has been laid out. It's going to be awful audio content. You guys play a card game we don't understand. I think you two can play the card game. Scott and I can do color commentary

like it's a World Series. Okay, alright. Nick has dropped the gumbo pot. while no participant knows what the gumbo pot is or where it comes from yeah and uh we have to assume it has a great power against winnie the pooh uh it removes one damage from each up to two chosen characters so oh judy hops is like all cops. She has begun opening fire on Winnie the Pooh. Just pumping AR rounds into him. Don't ask questions, shoot him. What's there coming out of him?

Stuffing, not blood. He's a vile. 101 Dalmatians are coming right for it. She's switched it to full auto. I actually do have a Rise of the Floodborn expansion pack deck that is sealed. If we want to unbox that here.

This is one of their expansion packs. The Floodborn. I have not bought Floodborn yet. I just have the first round. Do you want to do the honor? You want to haul this? It's in your pack? Yeah, sure. Let's do the whole thing here. This is a good test for how it'll play, so you'll get to hear the crinkle of the

card. People love that. I'm going to take a sip of my tea. It's ASMR. You have Legend of the Sword in the Stone. That's a great get. These are some regular cards. These are not rare.

Is it Raya? What raya from famous people to hook up is that raya well here is a card for that representing an app not a character what a pull jason uh enchantress uh from what a little risque for mike wouldn't you say jason i don't like that so he's pushing say Zoe's pushing that card away with a lot of force. There's a popsicle? Is that from some sort of dog movie? Yeah. Which one is that? It's an item at Fresh Eats, I believe. Yeah.

Kevin unsuccessfully ate the popsicle. Okay. Painting the roses red. Of course, that's from Alice in Wonderland. Some of these cards, Jason, I'm determining are concepts and activities, not characters. Right. This is Hercules Hero in Training card. Again, these are all pretty regular cards.

That's a great underpowered Hercules we've got there. Mike kind of undercut the whole thing, said he's not impressed by any of these cards. Well, they're good cards so far. I'm looking for rarity also. The rarities are the big ticket items, and they're also sometimes the most these cards. Well, they're good cards so far. I'm looking for rarity also. The rarities are the big ticket items and they're also sometimes, you know, the most powerful cards. This is the Sword in the Stone.

Now we're getting a little rarer, but it's not anything crazy yet. Pacha? What's that character's name? Pacha? Pacha from the Ember's New Groove. He dropped Pacha. Pacha is down.

We've got a drop Pacha. Pacha is unplayable, covered in stains. We got Tiana here. This is regular. It says Tiana, true princess. Is this Patrick Warburton's character or is this a different character? Could be. Could be. Okay, now we have some more rare cards. Here's a couple of rare cards here. Merlin Shapeshifter. Oh, that's fun. That's

pretty fun. We've got a Merlin pull. We've all right we've got a merlin pull we've got another we've got another raya or raya card and that's a rarer card that's a leader of heart it says i'm not sure how i feel about there being the same characters having multiple rarities that yeah like like i get two different guest stones here and to me as a player i'm just a little confused by that i know how i feel about it bored um and then we have here the last one you have binding contract which i think is from little mermaid oh that's that's i like that conceptually yeah wait a minute cool idea the text on that yeah the podcast the ride boys have to do another saga within the next three calendar years. Wait a minute.

Oh, boy. What the fuck? Well, I did sell. I wanted to be a real boy, so I did make an agreement with Ursula. Oh, yeah, sure. I thought you looked a little less stiff today. What is that other card you have in your hand?

It looks like the piece of a puzzle. It's just sort of a QR code for the game sort of, it's a QR code for the game. Oh, it's a QR code on how to play the game. It's the rules of the game. It's the rules of the game, so there you go. I think an okay pull. An okay pull. You didn't get anything mega rare. You didn't get anything crazy, but it's a pretty

good pull. I brought some surplus sleeves so we can make sure these things don't get damaged in transit. You do need to. Where do you pick up your sleeves? Because I need some sleeves for my cards. Shout out to, and this is not in your neighborhood, but shout out to It's Game Time over on the west side. Great card store there. And shout out to Brett, who reassured me that Lorcana is for all ages.

So it's okay for me to buy. And he said that while you were grabbing him by the shirt collar, saying, is this okay for me? Having borrowed a child to bring in to make it more acceptable. You asked for a kid off Craigslist. Look, I've eaten at Chuck E. Cheese as an unaccompanied adult for content. So buying Disney or Connors cards is nothing. One of the best parts about having a kid is not getting the Chuck E. Cheese side-eye anymore.

It's been great. Yeah, but then you don't get two numbered stamps on your hand. The kid gets one and you get one. I don't know they're still using that system they used 20 years ago. Well, they still have it technically, but they don't seem to put a lot of care into it. That's my review of the KidCheck system.

Well, this was fantastic. Thank you for closing closing it and what a seed that you've planted we'll figure out we'll just i gotta put together how to make this happen yeah all this walter lance talk reminds me we gotta do that woody woodpecker episode we've talked so much about we did oh i don't remember anything before the saga anymore we did talk about doing a talk about that but i think you know what i think it's not a woody wood i think we could do woody woodpecker but i think first we should do walter lance in his later years episode specifically about the man sign off on over 60 when he was over 60 so nothing he did before 60 well this is the i also have real quick i have an announcement to make. What? Well, I got a piece of information that has been confirmed.

You could smoke a cigarette in cigars in Orlando. Wow. So just to confirm it, you could smoke in cigars. Thank God. The former cigars, the fallen brother. Wow. Wow. Cigarettes with a Z were allowed in cigars with a Z.

That's correct. Well, this is it. We're tying up all the loose ends. Oh, and it has been confirmed by more than one person that CityWalk used to be the party destination versus Downtown Disney. It does. It was.

It was pretty cool. I found a lot of stuff to sing. More than one source has backed this up. I would say at least three to four. Well, it's been confirmed by a lot of people on Twitter that people's parents certainly can't name more than two Jimmyimmy buffett songs very often well who i mean this is not a random sample i don't i think we need a full

parents are the generation that would and should know his music more than any other well we just asked this recently so we don't have a full picture yet results are still the next saga will reveal the results okay of this and and officially most of our audience did not know the song black balloon yeah but oh don't even you should not have brought this up at the end of this episode all right joe you really made a fucking mistake here because that that anger in your voice is real it's primal real primal anger anger yes we needed a clip of the song in the no no we recreated the conditions yes we needed a clip of the song in the no no we recreated the conditions yes we needed a clip mike the conditions were you saying the song the title black balloon i didn't know it you said what

do you mean you don't know black balloon i didn't get to hear the song thus neither did the listeners the same exact conditions it was a valid thing to do we did not agree on this we did not agree on this we'll be settled in the next saga as well. In the time it's taken, Nick has packed up all of the cards and we've already let him go. And we should let... Jason, you have one more thing? Was there a stone? It was the coin.

It was the coin. Oh, it was the coin. It was in front of me all along. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Weiger gets to go home with it. And now we will leave you, Nick, and we will leave the video portion of this we're going to turn the cameras off wow uh so that we can check in with the sector keeper and find out

what we do now because honestly i don't know how this ends and now we find out boys boys hey all right oh good we found you oh my god we're we're at the end we've done it all We've talked about the parking garages Yes thank you Mr. Weiger You did a great job and now we can Finally figure out how we can Seal up this rift and I know time Is of the essence but The clock's ticking away but I still

Really quick want to ask you sector keeper Do you know the Goo Goo Dolls Song Black Balloon Black Balloon? Black Balloon? Doesn't sound like he does, Mike. He was younger, though. He was younger. He must have missed that part of the-

It's pretty mixed. Now, Sector Keeper, you can't just tell us the solution to this all was friendship, because that was your excuse last time, okay? Yeah, we got to get this thing figured out, seal up that rift so we can be done with this. So, I don't know, where do we go, and how do we get there? Is there a jump point? Is there a portal? What do we do now? Well, there's a way, but we haven't discussed it yet. Okay.

A different means of travel. A stargate. Hold on, stargates are in place? Oh, whatever, I'm used to it by now. Let's just get in there, let's get this done, okay. Jason, you hold Scott's hand. Scott, you hold Mike's hand. Mike'm used to it by now. Let's just get in there. Let's get this done. Okay. Jason, you hold Scott's hand. Scott, you hold Mike's hand.

Mike, you hold my little hand. Yeah, it is a little. All your hands are so clammy from malnutrition, but it's okay. We'll do it. Let's go. Step in. And we're here. Yes. Oh, wow.

Whoa. I know this place. It's CityWalk. Of course you know. Yes, obviously. It's CityWalk. Welcome to CityWalk. here. Yes. Oh, wow. Whoa. I know this place. It's CityWalk. Of course you know it. Yes, obviously. It's CityWalk. Welcome to CityWalk. Yeah.

Well, I guess it makes sense that it would end all here where it all began. Hollywood, baby. Yeah. Right. Jason, what are you trying to say? It's not our CityWalk. Look, there's Wizards. There's Jody Maroney's Sausage Kingdom.

That's right. It's not Antojitos. It's Camacho's Cantina. It's not Abercrombie That's right. It's not Antojitos. It's Camacho's Cantina. It's not Abercrombie and Finch. It's Sam Goody. That's right. Abercrombie and Finch. It's Abercrombie and Finch.

And it's not. It was never Finch, I guess. You're learning, boys. You're learning. Whoa. And they haven't yet put up the sign that says John Lovett's Comedy Club and then taken away the John Lovett's part and then it just says Comedy Club even though there isn't a comedy club.

None of that is here. What kind of weird, fucked-up city walk is this? Look how fresh the paint is on the Johnny Rockets sign. It's beautiful. Look, students are going into the UCLA extension classroom. The UCLA is finally thriving. It was true. Wait a minute.

We're in the city walk of the early to mid-90s. Wow. What else do you see? The dancing fountains, of course Listen closely, what do you hear in the distance? Hey Stevie, where do you want to eat, bud? Dad, I want to go on E.T. again, I want to see Botanicus Stevie, come on, we left the park We're at City Walk now.

We need to eat dinner. Boo! I don't want to eat dinner. I want to go over there. I want to play in that fountain. Oh, my God. That's you, Sector Keeper, and your family. That's right, Michael.

That's me, little Stevie Kepner. Mere minutes before I contracted the staph infection, I turned me into a ghost. Wait a minute. So you brought us back to the moment before you went into the fountain. Why? Boys, you know why. You want us to stop it from ever happening? That is right.

Guys, if that's what we got to do, then that's what we got to do. We have to get into that fountain, stop him from getting the infection. We got to save the Yeltsin sector keeper's do. We have to get into that fountain, stop him from getting the infection. We got to save the sector keeper's life. Hold on, hold on. No, no, no, no. If we stop that little kid from running into the fountain, the sector keeper we know will never have existed. Our friend will be erased forever. Wait, but sector

keeper. Call me Stevie. Or Steve. Sorry, Stevie. I'm still getting used to it. Stevie, is Mike right? Is that going to erase you? That can't be right. No, no, Scott. that is right i need to die so that young me can live stevie why do you want this weren't we having fun going to church horsing around it's been fun with you all but it hasn't been great otherwise i had an abusive cricket wireless internship I developed a vape addiction That led to a cigarette addiction

I won a billion dollar Powerball that ended up being a curse Worse than all of these sagas And ordeals combined Extended family of ghosts Hounding me every day for cash that I don't even have anymore And to be honest It's all led to me never knowing

my real family. Hey, bud, bud, we need to choose what we're having for dinner. Tony Roma's or Bubba Gump? I choose... I want to be human again. I want to pet the Boston Dynamics dog at Dr. Toothsome's.

I want to grow older. I want to have the Boston Dynamics dog at Dr. Toothsome's. I want to grow older. I want to have the experience Mike has where people are surprised by his age because of how youthful he seems. It is nice when that happens. But don't worry. I'll grow up and become the human being I always was meant to be. I'll live a full life. But I'll have no memory of our adventures together. And I'll also have no

memory of anything you've said about the various Starbucks locations. You won't remember us? No, Jason, but you three will remember me. And you, the listener, will remember me too. There has to be some other

way. This just doesn't seem necessary. I'm afraid it is, Scott. In fact, it's extremely necessary. I choose Bubba Gum. Okay, let's go put our names in. We're running out of time. It's going to happen in a matter of minutes. What do we do?

What do we do? Where's the water valve? We can't tackle a child. No, no, you can't tackle me. There's still some security guards here. What do we do? In the 90s, you could just tackle a child. What if we go in the fountain?

Oh, that's right. We can get in there. Dominate the entire space with our large adult bodies. Yes, yes. Three adult bodies. Then no kids can fit. Boys, boys, you've learned. You've learned.. Yes, yes, three adult bodies. Then no kids can fit. Boys, boys, you've learned, you've learned. You need to use your three adult bodies. Hey, Stevie, where are you going?

I'm just gonna go play in the water. It'll be fine. Okay, well, just make sure I can see you while I'm at the host stand. Hey, hey, mister, and don't take off that bandaid. You don't want to get that cut wet. Boys, boys, act now. I'm about to run into the fountain. Before you go, mister, don't take off that bandaid. You don't want to get that cut wet. Boys, boys, act now. I'm about to run into the fountain. Before you go, though, check your bodies. Any cuts or wounds?

That's right. Oh, we can't get staff. Okay, okay. No, no, I'm good. I don't think so. Yeah, I'm good. Jason, too. All right.

Get some scrapes. We're going to be staff free. But they're scabbed. No, they are scabbed. You're good, then. Okay. Okay, scabs are fine. Okay, now we know the rules of this.

I'm about to get soaked. This stupid band-aid I've been wearing all day. I'm ripping it off. I'm gonna let my cut breathe. You guys, sometimes it feels like this podcast is a pointless, silly endeavor. But I think all of it has been leading up to this moment. Let's go run

around in that fountain meant for children and save a life. Let's go! Yeah. Let's go run around in that fountain meant for children and save a life. Let's go! Yeah, let's go! Boys, boys, yes, you're doing it. Look at me. I'm not going in. I'm getting bored. Now I'm distracted. Boys, boys,

I'm running away. I'm giving a big hug to Shrimp Louie. And now, my mom and dad. Oh, what happened, Stevie? I thought you wanted to go splash around. I did, but then I saw these three creeps and... Oh, can I have one of those red ice cream smoothies?

Sure, of course you can. Says there's no alcohol in them. Boys, boys, you did it. Thank you, thank you. We did it. We did what you wanted. Without a beginning, there's no alcohol in them Boys, boys, you did it Thank you, thank you We did it, we did what you wanted With every beginning there's an end What was once dry is now wet Yeah, that's true

Wow, you're right, everything you said does make sense Wait a minute, but look at you Sector Keeper, you're fading away You're getting weak No, no, boys, you've given me strength More than ever before. And now I give you strength to let me go. Sector Keeper, no, no, don't go.

Let him go. No. He needs to. Goodbye, Stevie. Goodbye. We're gonna miss you. Good luck, Sector Keeper. Goodbye.

Until we meet again, my friends, my boys, Mike, Scott, and Jason, you survived Podcast The Ride Presents the CityWalk Orlando Saga Multiverse of Madness. And I did not. Wow. Are we back? Yeah, we're back. What do we do now? Let's go take a walk. Podcast The Ride, Thank you. Gairdner. Episodes mostly edited by Mike Carlson, sometimes by me, Scott Gairdner. Executive produced by Mike Carlson, Scott Gairdner, Jason Sheridan, Brett Boehm, Joe Cilio, and Alex Ramsey.

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Yeah, I do. Let's try it. Hello? Can I help you, gentlemen? Yeah, um... Hi, uh, weird question. Are you Stevie Kepner? Uh, yeah, I'm Dr. Stephen Kepner. Why do you ask?

It's kind of hard to explain. Um, sorry, do I know you guys? Not exactly. But you're a lot like someone we knew. Kind of a fallen brother. Sorry, my three sons are being quite the handful right now. Boys, boys, calm down, please.

Thank you. Can I help you guys with anything, or... No. That was everything we needed. It was good to see you. Thank you Can I help you guys with anything or No That was everything we needed It was good to see you Yeah really good Okay Alright well nice meeting and talking to you

Whoever you guys are Take care You two Michael Let Jason eat his cookies and milk in peace, please. Jason, finish your cookies and milk. Mike, you had a dessert. You wanted a bowl full of sprinkles.

And Scott, did you throw up on the rug over here? Now, what did I tell you about eating hamburgers and sushi at the same time, bud?