Podcast: The Ride - The CityWalk Saga - Sector 7 with Erin Gairdner

Episode Date: September 20, 2018

Treat-based bath soaps with Mike and Jason. Love at Universal with Scott and Erin Gairdner (P:TR Logo Designer). The CityWalk Saga - Sector 7 consists of: Nectar Bath Treats Camachos Cantina Wizards (retired) Walters Gate Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/ 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. As theme park journalists, we know the value of trust. You trust us to provide accurate, up-to-date theme park news, to hold ourselves to a higher standard than pretenders like bumper car boys. Today, we've broken your trust. As we spend much of the episode praising a Mexican restaurant that has since closed, we let you down, and much more importantly,

we let the Sector Keeper down. We hope you can tolerate this episode as something of a time capsule, of an era where Camacho's stood strong and Antigito's was but a flicker of a ripple of a dream. Thank you for your anger, your criticism, your honesty. It is making us better. With all that said, Sector Keeper, we hope you can find it in your heart to give us today's assignment. When you're too worn out to run And need some ribs or a Cinnabon You need a place A place for rock A place for roll

A place where Oakland Raiders merch is sold A sublime hot topic and billabong A place where you can purchase a candy thong So let's go take a walk Let's all go to CityWalk Tonight Tonight Podcast to Ride presents

The CityWalk Saga A daily, 19-part, extremely necessary series Exploring the stores, stores restaurants and wonderful magic that make up universal city walk hollywood welcome to podcast the ride the city walk saga sector seven at seven uh it has become clear we have actually been doing this for an entire week. A week's worth of content. Is this too much content? No such thing.

You let us know. I feel like nobody's ever complained about too much. I haven't heard complaints about episode length, but is this pushing it? This has to be pushing it. This is insane what we're doing. You'd have to think. And it's probably bumping other podcasts out of people's it's possible that people are not getting this if you doubt if you've listened to 20 podcasts maybe there's not even room for these to show up new because you haven't

cleared them out yet right people have probably unsubscribed from us for this period and we'll subscribe in two weeks again when we resume the normal like show which is fair i wouldn't hold it against you one reason might be if you don't live in los angeles and you don't know what the fuck these 19 episodes in a row referring to but we've crunched the numbers and a lot of the listenership is in los angeles and any la resident loves city walk guaranteed and anyone who's been to universal studios knows the wonderful magical shopping and dining area outside of the theme park on both coasts is called city walk so they know what this is yeah unless you're some

sort of eccentric millionaire who can afford the uh valet universal studios oh to skip to skip the walk doesn't it is there a valet though oh it is uh it's in frankenstein i think the valley's in frankenstein gentlemen there are two valets one in frankenstein and then one uh in the jurassic park uh so you can come out in different areas depending on where you go to valet so do yourself a favor and do the valet that is mid city walk to catch some of city not frankenstein because frankenstein does take you on the other side of the park so you will not you will miss all of all of uh city walk if you go to frankenstein so go to the jurassic park valet which is really what when you go to the closer when you go like toward the main sort of hub where you would get dropped off in a lift at city walk that's the area where you're going to want to valet

to make sure that you get a good amount of city walk-in and that's the valet that'll you'll get you can get validated at a sit-down you can get validated seven dollars yep if you for two and a half hours if you go to a sit-down restaurant so we've said all that but we haven't said our names which are scott gardner mike carlson and jason sheridan hello and if that the tenor of that may let you know that some of the hosts some of us i imagine at some point have struggled with this this ordeal of this series and uh you know it feels like a long walk through the desert and that's you know when you're going through something trying you need the support of people you love and people who

care about you and i'm happy to have such support today uh our guest today she is the artist behind the logo of this podcast that is on your screen right now look at your screen unless you're driving then shut off your car and look at it later uh uh but uh and she is also uh engaged in holy matrimony to me aaron gardner is here hello i say 19 days isn't enough wow man What else could we do? I could listen to this bullshit forever. She's right. She's right. There's the hills that lead up to the, there's the sidewalks that have been recently redone. Fascinating.

The stairs. We haven't talked about the fountain, the beloved Universal Studios. Yes, the neon sign fountain. The elevator, the cool elevator that connects the Sheraton and the Hilton. Well, we could talk about it in the hotel. We'll talk about that. Yeah, that's got to be.

But yeah, there's plenty more. I think the Sector Keeper could double the sectors, perhaps. We'll ask him. Guess what, boys? The grand reveal. There are more sectors still to be done. That's probably where this is going. Every few years, there's another 50 Pokemon.

You can never collect them all. You can never collect the same. That's kind of the same. I do, well I appreciate you saying that Aaron and I know that you listen to the show which is very nice and you also listen to the show in real life constantly when you hang out

with us. This is true. It's kind of a strange paradox because I feel like this is very natural and normal. Like I'm just hanging out with you guys, but I'm also kind of a fan. So I'm in a weird... Oh, stop. No, but really I am. And I'm kind of happy to be buried in the middle.

Are you? You've had such great guests and now it's like Scott's wife. Oh, come on now. Feel at home. Roast Jason for some reason. I mean, that's definitely going to happen. But you also

contributed to this show in such a major way by giving us our Epcot Dream logo. Thank you. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do that. Absolutely. There was an alternate version of it where I was suggesting all this extra crap

Roller coasters and stuff And you wanted to do it a lot more simple And then Mike wanted to do it a lot more simple And y'all were right I think Yeah It was a real mess When it had all the extra bells and whistles Add some birds flying by

And a guy puking off a roller coaster And as much as you can jam into this square it's possible yeah i mean you know that it's very simple i think it's a good good starting off point for when we you know have 50 t-shirts and there's 50 variations on the symbol so yes and i am down i think they'll be great yes yeah hopefully yeah there will be merch on the way a lot of reformatting to do oh yes well and do we have putting things in different you know and switching your cmyks i don't know what shirts are printed in yeah it's uh it's all in rgb right now guys sorry to say so that is for screens oh no if you guys want printed cmyk is gonna come into play it's gonna get real

messy we're talking file extensions here oh yeah geez which are well in color uh settings oh is that what it is that's what yeah that's the color format interesting if you're gonna print it um i just hope shirts are available in the shade of purple that is close to what the current logo is it'll be close but not quite guys i could start my own dry podcast on color formatting. I think the logo would be the shirt wouldn't be the purple. I mean, I guess you could have a purple shirt, but I feel like the logo would be ink, wouldn't it? Yes, it would. Yeah.

Yeah. It's all very camp. We could talk about it off the show. Yeah. Nah. We don't have to do this on the listeners time okay uh but i don't know we're pushing uh the limit of what can be considered podcast the right content that's true might as well keep going with that uh um aaron the other great thing about having you here is

so you're all right so you're a valley kid like me and i i think you i think you regarded city walk in a fairly high fashion growing up it was the coolest place when it first opened the absolute coolest especially because i was like a pre-teen and teenager sort of in its like rise and heyday and it was where like you kind of felt like an adult um i remember going to the hard rock cafe and buying like drumsticks for the boy that i had a crush on because he played the drums i'm sorry to spring this on you i don't actually know this story yeah you don't oh you know that i don't i know you saved it i had a crush on someone before you and i bought him drumsticks oh my goodness as you know i'm easily threatened uh if you know my youtube body of work you know like i did a i did this video where i'm michael

mcdonald and the first one i did was for your birthday aaron and it was because you declared you had a crush on like 78 era michael mcdonald and i was like we'll see about that yeah i will make you yeah quite handily yeah i think so in the minds of the whole world so does this mean you're gonna take up drums now maybe or i'm gonna i need to dress up like this boy well you're gonna need a mushroom haircut you you need to 1997 it up oh boy good opportunity i need to be like a pre-makeover nick carter yeah um what's what what else about this boy he was just a boy that i had a crush on i bought drumsticks we don't need to dwell on this did they just say hard rock on them or was it hard rock on them they didn't have like famous drummers name on them or anything

they just said joey kramer aerosmith drummer drumsticks or anything no okay just generic hard rock i think i got a pity dance out of him at some school dancer but i was not very cool i also like that you defaulted to the hard Rock gift shop and not the two block long guitar center in Sherman Oaks on Ventura. Oh, it's just closer to you, yes. Oh, yeah, way closer, but not as cool. Well, certainly not. Yeah. Yeah, lamer logos, just actual drum companies.

Do you know the fact about the, I forget if I've told you in the lead up to this, that the sectors are such that the Hard Rock retail store is in a different sector than the hard rock cafe itself you did tell me this and i think it's bonkers i mean i think that it makes perfect sense because that's just the way it is wow that that is a solid argument there is no debating that it's a trumpian it's yeah yeah yeah it's a bureaucratic kind of a thing it just it just that's not how it falls you know i i respect the sectors i'm not gonna i'm not gonna stir up trouble thank you yes thank you we i'm not sure that every guest along the way has or will respect the sectors but thank you for uh and he's not he's not with us today but we'll summon him at some point to give us the to officially assign our sector.

Before we do, I think it's worth saying, I don't think we've really said this on the podcast, but Universal Studios factors so heavily into us being together. It's a 12-year relationship now with four years of marriage. And it really, in some ways, began at Universal Studios. It did. Being that, I mean, we could switch on and off jump in whenever you want but the we're gonna shut our mics off well yeah yeah sure you guys jump in too i'd love to hear some fiction in this story as well interject whatever you want make it a fancier story but i got i got the job as a universal studios tour guide uh i suited up and wore the

ultimate uniform you could ever dream of wearing love a man in uniform balloon khakis and a denim button-up denim adjacent uh light blue uh but i i got this job and i was kind of spreading the word that i was that i was this. And we were acquaintances in high school. And you had just finished college. And you wrote me a message on MySpace where you didn't have a lot of pride in yourself. I never do. And it was because it was sort of like, I'm i don't i'm coming back to la and i realized i don't have any friends are you cool you seem like you might be cool um it was all true though

all of my friends had moved from la you know everybody everybody went off to different schools and stayed where they stayed and i was the one who came back to LA and I didn't have any friends left. And I always liked Scott. I loved his videos. I was a big fan. I thought he was funny. And yeah, I thought that we would be good friends.

And I had heard that you've got this tour guide job and I was like, well, shoot, I gotta go see him. That's a good excuse to hang out and make a new friend. Sure. Yeah. And I,

and I thought it was a good excuse to hang out and make a new friend. Sure. And I thought it was a good excuse to do that, to present myself in the most impressive manner possible. And you came with our friends Tyler and Kia and Andrew. And I was so excited you guys were there that I did something. I did probably a fireable offense. I forget if I talked about this in the show before. Apologies if I did. But I was like you

know what so excited to have you guys i'm going to take you to a place that i've not taken any but the guests are not supposed to go and i led you from the tour guide patio uh over to this deep backstage area and the backstage area contained the rotting remains of et's teacher botanicus yeah he took me to the Botanicus graveyard. I screamed when I saw him. And Scott, you turned around so fast. You were like, I can get fired for this. Really, please keep it down. The good boy jeans

were in effect while doing an illegal act. And just then, William Peterson came out of the soundstage where they shot CSI. That's the kind of fiction I'm looking for. And him and Aaron locked eyes. And Scott beat the shit out of the soundstage where they shot CSI. That's the kind of fiction I'm looking for. And him and Aaron locked eyes. And Scott beat the shit out of him.

I stole the drumsticks Aaron bought for him. While Who Are You played. Who are you? This is weird, because when we first met, you caught wind of my batan, the relation I have to botanic. That's how Spielberg says it? Oh, yeah.

Botanicus. E.T.'s teacher, botanicus. Botanicus. And then I had been talking about this on Screen Junkies. You've become famous for using him as a hashtag. Maybe the thing people know me the most is talking about E.T.'s teacher. So one of the first things he showed me, a photo of this rotting botanic botanicus and my god it was horrifying looking yeah yeah it was terrifying but also exhilarating well sure of

course and it's kind of what you dream would be around backstage at universal studios yes because otherwise nothing very interesting i think i said on another episode that one time i got to see like a bunch of the delorians from the bags of the future i stacked up but nothing i just wanted up to like try to like snap off a piece or something and there was nothing there but i'll never forget during the training it was like we went up a big flight of stairs and then oh my god yeah it's big yeah did you did you yeah he was huge that's right yeah and he's because he's. Did you ever? Yeah, he was huge. That's right.

Yeah, and because he's on this big pedestal that was embedded in a stone or whatever. How long had the ride been gone out here? Hmm. I think it was in 2003. This was 2006. So this is like two years old just sitting out in the sun for- Yeah. Oh, in the rain?

It was just out in the elements. There was no covering over it. It was... It was bad. That's so sad. That happened with the rocket rods, too, right? Like, didn't someone say... I feel like I've heard someone say, like...

There was no rocket... Like, the rocket rods. The rocket character, at least. No, but, like, the ride vehicles were just, like, left in a lot in Glendale or, like, left in the parking lot. I've heard that about, like, the parade and stuff. Certain parades just get left out. Spectra Magic left magic was left under like some temporary tents in florida was just kind of destroyed by the elements i think botanic is et's teacher from the green planet he doesn't deserve

that he has a personality i think that's true sort of the dividing line some ride cars it's like i sort of get it but i mean it's like i have leaving a person out there it's like leaving your grandfather in his wheelchair just out on the patio for a few years also surely some museum would have happily taken that for surely universal could have just donated the smithsonian natural history museum pop culture museum did you ever think about taking it it was too impossible to do giant heavy machinery and you could see all his machine parts i'll post this did you ever like twitter which may get me i wonder if they'll retroactively find me oh yeah yeah yeah it's specific proof they'll find me one day's salary 45 dollars did you ever yell like an like an older or like a more senior employee like this belongs in a museum what is it doing out here i want to know did you ever yell at god

how could he let such a fate fall botanicus this was the only way that like the rage that we all have every day of the trump administration this is the only time I'd ever felt it before. I was screaming at people about the poor care of botanicus. This man, this alien is dying out here. He needs to get back to the green planet where he can be. He needs to bring joy to all the little creatures to the to glub lock and the flop, the flop, glopple.

There was also a rotting mushroom guy. Is that the Flop Glopple? Is that the Flop? Yeah, one of the friends you have to find also left to die. See, I don't remember that. I mean, Botanicus pulled a lot of focus. Tragedy. He was there too. Just put them on that scenic

overlook halfway down the starway where there's like apollo 13 cut out just put him there there we'll take picture i don't care who the cow look at this crazy guy i'll take a picture with him oh he looks a little like et whatever they think he's in the movie like yeah i remember that scene when he comes yeah you get botanicals on one side you get get the Oakwood Apartments in the deep background. Yeah. Sad. Anyway, sorry to derail.

Yeah, show some respect here. We will do a full botanicals episode, I think. Yeah, that's fine. I think we'll go back to some of the other ones and go, oh my God, we only spent an hour and a half on the adventure? Anyway, so I was riding high off of, you know, I showed that I knew my history. I also showed that I was a real rebel,

except when it came to high volume. And then you came and took the tour, and I kind of customized the tour for you and pointed out the detail you requested, which is wherever on the lot was used for the Janet Jackson escapade video. Escapade. Mexico?

Yeah, it was mexico it was like right before right after the uh flash flood oh okay yeah yeah sure that little mexican town also also used in indiana jones and the uh kingdom of the crystal skull and uh big fat liar oh yeah yes the flood was practically used as exactly right yes correct the frankie muniz movie um so i finished the tour and it felt like a particularly good one and then we got off and everybody was really nice and then you said i have such a crush on you right now and i thought that was mean very rude i would say bold i was very honest and i think the theme of this i'm declaring a lot of crushes in this episode i think i'm quick to declare a crush but i really meant it

yeah but you thought you'd be sarcastic is what you're saying yes yeah i thought it was like this moment literally happens on the simpsons of i think you're cool homer simpson stacy that was sandra that was mean standard uh I thought it was one of those. And I'm like, Homer, I didn't revel it. Like, honestly,

for like the, for 10 minutes, I was kind of like, I don't, I don't know. That was inappropriate. I just don't. Why would you do that?

Soon enough though, you'd find it was true. Yeah. I figured it out. And I asked you on a date to the, I remember calling you from the universal uh patio and then we our first date you picked us up from the other from the lift should we took this we were at the stop today what do you call the what it's it's the by

the buca di beppo that end the taxi roundabout yes i think that's the one that connects to the et parking structure right yeah i think yeah because if you look on the lyft app i think i've said this before if you look on the lyft app and you say your say your pickup is universal they ask if you were by the fountain or by the other it's like the airport where you have multiple options at this point yes um but yeah our for our first day you picked me up from there, from a tour guide shift. And the date went very well. And well, I mean, I guess if we're being correct about it, the second kiss of a longtime relationship and marriage was in the Frankenstein parking lot. Wow.

At the end of the night. Yeah, so I'm sorry to say that fact in advance of the ultimate parking episode. Yeah, you should have saved it, but I'll allow it. Well, Aaron's here. I guess because Aaron's here. Now let's reenact

it. With Jason and I ours would look more like the traditional Frankenstein burning of a windmill what? don't they chase him in a windmill at the end of that movie? I'm not sure

if we all kissed that's what it would look like what are you doing? huh? he's on his phone you can either set your lift pickup as universal studios which is by the fountain or city walk east which is what right between buca de pepo and lids yep went to all that trouble but then called it buca de pe Yeah. It sounded like you said P and P. Beppo. Booga to Beppo.

Oh, Booga to Beppo. Oh, I think the sector keeper is suffering right now. I think I just probably mushed it out. That's just that Philly vibe. You just mush a bunch of syllables together, and sometimes it comes out a little weird. I don't know. I think you're leaning on Philly to hide your mistake. Don't blame your city.

So a successful date began at CityWalk East, and really a successful marriage and life began. But that has nothing to do with this sector. No, no, no, no. You're correct. And the sector keeper would be upset. But it is saying that magic happens at CityWalk and at Universal Studios, and that dreams come true there. Yes, and the whole, you know, if some of the rap on CityWalk is that,

like, you know, it's this fake place, this artificial city, and it's not really. Look at that. Magical life events. Important things happen. Just in doing this podcast series, we've had good times with friends up there. And some unpleasant bathroom experiences and uncomfortable aqua massages. A lot of city walks where it all happens. And we still have some heavy hitters coming up.

We're going to have some great nights still have some heavy hitters coming up. We're going to have some great nights at Howl at the Moon coming up. Yeah. In Margaritaville. Yikes. Yeah. Aaron, you'll be

forced to join us for some of those. It's not being forced. We have to stay till close at Howl at the Moon. I just want to say that now. That I will not. I don't know even if

I will participate in that it's gonna be me alone at howl at the moon um anyway what with all that is backstoring with how much uh city wonk is factored into into your life and our our life together um i think we should now turn to the sector keeper and get today's assignment boys boys aaron today's sector is sector seven nectar bath treats camacho's cantina and walter's gate good luck uh okay and sector keeper you are correct that those are the things that are presently in sector seven but there's more to this sector than meets the eye there's a little bit of hidden magic because in the history of sector seven there was once a truly magical place indeed a place called wizards yay oh this is the reason that i was so excited about this sector yes this is why

this is why you're here uh uh I consider... So Wizards is... Do you want to describe it? Yeah, Wizards was a very cool... Like a magic club slash bar at dinner theater type place. Yeah, where you just go see a magic show. And you could go during the day also and they had psychics sort of roaming around the bar area so you could go during the day also and they had um like psychics sort of roaming around the bar

area so you could go and get your fortune told even if there wasn't a show happening it was awesome right right and where exactly in the city walk geography was was it we were trying to figure this out i believe the entrance is where the current american express new card member yes kiosk is that's i think where you bought tickets from what i can tell the sheriff's department yeah i think it's a mix of i think a lot of what's used as the sheriff's department i don't know if any of it got annexed into the ucla extension possibly which we haven't really covered either i don't think that maybe didn't really turn to become a sector was at one time functional class space yeah and the sign is still there yeah but i don't think they do any of it now i don't think so i looked it up a little

and i think it was uh kind of a bone throw to residents who were like well a town should have education um and so they're like all here, let's jam something in here. I don't know. And I think it's now gone, and they moved it all to Woodland Hills, to my hometown. But so, yeah, because we were walking around the area, and you were, now, that bridge that is kind of, that separates kind of that middle zone,

that circle court in CityWalk. Yeah. Was that, that was part of it, correct? I believe that was part of that middle zone, the circle court in CityWalk. Yeah. Was that, that was part of it, correct? I believe that was part of the bar. That was the bar. I think the bar extended. It was sort of an overhang and you had, it was all glass walls and you had a view of CityWalk

from the bar area. This was three stories tall. Yes. Three stories of magic. Well, you entered at the floor level and then you got in an elevator that i only have the most hazy childhood memories of it and like pre-teen memories but it was a like black light sort of elevator so you would get in and the lights would dim and there would be sort of like a black light effect so you were immersed from the minute you got in the elevator, which was so cool.

And then, uh, the doors would open and let you into what I think was the bar level. Um, and then above that, there was a like fortune telling area. Whoa. And the third,

the third floor is certainly isn't anything that hasn't become, unless it became maybe part of The John Lovitz comedy club Or one of those things Or a cubicle space For the sheriff's Department Yeah it might be that Is there like a

City walk jail up there Maybe it's a city walk jail Oh you three would never know You're such good boys We would never do Yeah we'll never know Though after that Night at Howl at the Moon

Who knows Who knows what We've had reports That you're drinking A lot of the free fruit water at the Sheraton down the hill. Yeah, you're going to be in jail for that. Just wandering in and getting the free fruit water. That was me. He's referring to me.

Oh, yes. You told me this. I left you guys after we saw the Kung Fu Panda thing movie, and I didn't want to pay for a $4 Dasani, so I walked and got free fruit water and sat in the shirt and sure lobby yeah well we've established that i am the bad boy of the podcast what would this quiet stepping away to see botanicus but shush don't tell anybody uh uh and this water thing yeah yeah but i don't know you're lucky you didn't go to city walk jail for that uh cotton candy disaster yeah that's true for littering for yeah dumping a whole cotton

candy into the garbage because i couldn't eat yeah oh yeah it was a idiot aaron's lucky enough to hear so many of these stories before the listeners hear it and then again when you're listening to it later and then again if we're out socially yep for punishment yeah i'm so sorry and what a perfect place for you to be in a city walk candy thing oh let me refresh you no no it's good i heard it twice already there's so much cotton candy so much cotton candy and like i couldn't eat it like oh my god i can't believe i ordered it and then nick mundy texts you and says i'm worried about carlson with this whole cotton candy. And like, I couldn't eat it. And like, oh my God, I can't believe I ordered it. And then Nick Mundy texts you and says, I'm worried about Carlson with this whole cotton candy thing.

I'm at a point where I can't hold on to my own memories anymore. They've all been replaced. All that brain space is now your memories. Well, this is why you need to, you need to preserve the memories of wizards before they're knocked out of your brain by something even stupider. Yeah.

Diving a milkshake. If only Philip K. Dick had lived long enough to write a story about a podcast that replaces your own memories with anecdotes you did not live. Duller. Yeah. Less interesting. On par.

In the ballpark. I haven't lived a fascinating life jeez but you went to wizards what are you talking about it's three stories of magic of magic so much magic it's so much i had um my 11th birthday party there which was a dream because i loved this place and i couldn't wait to be 21 so that i could drink in this damn bar because there was a certain time or certain days that they wouldn't allow kids in there yeah and um it was it drove me nuts because there would be days that i would look at it and think oh if only i was an adult i could go up there and have those but they serve drinks in like potion beakers. Yeah. Like the trailer for Wizards has like these special drinks

and it's like a potion, or yeah, like test tube type drinks. Yeah. You guys sent us a four minute long video package trailer for Wizards, which is,

first off, I'm glad you did because I think I said to you uh before if you search wizards and city walk now it's very hard to find any results that aren't harry potter stuff right actually i was just talking about this with my mom is that this is all before harry potter and for kids who were into and for me i was was super into David Copperfield, but also Eureka's Castle. Yes, of course.

It kind of was this wizard, safe place for kids who were into nerdy stuff. Because there was a Dumbledore-looking wizard roaming around in addition to a wise, in addition to the 90s. He's more of a Merlin-looking. Yeah, like a Merlin. He's got the purple or something robe.

It was a very classic take on wizardry. Did you care about Sword in the Stone also? A little bit, yeah. Isn't there, is Sword in the Stone the one where people are attracted to the squirrel or something? Which one is that? Yeah, they're turned into squirrels, right? Merlin turns. They're attracted to squirrels?

People, is there a female squirrel or something? Or is it the boy turns into a squirrel? The boy turns into a... Merlin turns the boy into a squirrel and he, like, experiences young love or something with the girl squirrel. Okay. I don't remember it that well.

I feel like I've talked to somebody who this was an awakening for, and I swear I'm not coding myself. Okay, all right. We'll believe you. This is the male equivalent of uh women of a sort of fox robin hood yeah because many women say that they were attracted to the robin hood disney character robin hood the fox because he was like a cool handsome fox really yes i was attracted to ken from street fighter that was one of my first cartoons he was a human yeah man i guess

so that's normal which one which ones he um describe him he's the blonde rayu okay sure yeah they were very they're two boring guys yeah not like blanca not like m bison which i think i have a crush on bison on ralph julia oh yeah oh well that's fair sure to attain the power i didn't realize this is a tangent balrog which is the boxer character they were going to call him m bison because it was mike tyson and then it was a problem and they changed that and they made that the character that's M. Bison, M. Bison, so they could not even make the association. That's why that weird name exists, though? Oh, it rhymes with Tyson.

And Zangief was a real Russian wrestler. Oh. Interesting. So how about that? So street fighter facts for you guys. Hey. Anyway, back to the three-story magic. Yeah, sorry.

I keep getting off three-story magic. You were saying the store store because the other thing is what is now nectar bath treats was a wizard's store it was a wizard store and they sold wands and um you know like wizard trinkets and it's sort of a a pre what olivanders is that the name yes wand shop so i would spend i called my mom to ask if she had any memories and she was like yeah i couldn't get you and your sister out of the the wizard store because you guys loved all the magic stuff and something that i didn't remember that she did is that they had um like sleight of hand magicians sort of roaming the store so even if you didn't go up right into the bar area or see the show the

store had magic for you and it was free. Really? It's funny you say that. Cause, um, when I, last time I was in Orlando, there was a, uh, shop in the,

in the original part of universal studios, Florida, um, sort of before you like hit the kids area, that was like a magic shop. And they're like, well, I haven't magic show in a little while.

And I'm like, okay, what is this? And I went in in this might have been two times ago i was there because now i think it's like old you know studio props you can buy props from the theme park and stuff uh but at one point in time it was magic and it was like close-up magic and little little stuff because you could then buy all of those tricks yeah right around the corner including a wallet you could open and there would be fire and what like it fire through the length of the wallet and somehow it we it like used the lighter fluid and they're like

they were telling everyone only adults do you have to have an adult buy this and also we're not gonna we can't sell you the lighter fluid and you can't take lighter fluid on plates but it uses any regular lighter fluid so uh yeah so universal's not above uh magic association to this day you didn't get that trick did you i didn't get the trick and you didn't accidentally put your money in there no too careful for that come on guys but it was also weird to come out and look across the way and be staring at Diagon Alley and be like that's right I don't okay huh well competing with competing wand stores um I don't want to uh you know I I'd say you know however you want to take us

through the three stories feel free but i did find a a little like passage from a website or for from a piece of promotional material that kind of lists everything that you could do and maybe that can help guide us i would love to hear this because my memory is so fuzzy and yet i do think you are the best source of information because there is almost none. I had to really dig in my Google searching. I had to make the date, you know, before 2002 or whatever. So, you know, when one of these sounds familiar, if you have anything to say about it, feel free to stop me. My memory is like looking through a kaleidoscope that's just like hearts and stars.

It's just a feeling. I just can't get over that bar on the bridge, sort of. Because I've always looked up at that bridge that crosses over the walkway and been like, yeah, that is a really, that would be a cool view. But it's like, wait, does it just connect the office buildings? Like, I mean, it's probably all office space up there now. It's just Sheriff, I think. But I remember fairly late in the game. I forget if you were with me when I saw this. the office buildings like i mean it's probably all office space up there now sheriff i think but i remember fairly late in the game i forget if you were with me when i saw this but i like i was

walking through one of those corridors and they still like the doors were still lightning bolts yeah i was with you from wizards era yeah yeah so they left remnants of it um so pretty late uh um okay so uh uh you know here stop me or i'll ask you about some uh make it a magical evening check you did that clearly uh the birthday uh yeah yeah um oh yeah and tell us anything else from that bird good good attendance good uh presents that you got uh i'm thinking there's only one picture and it's from the house after the Wizards stuff where we had cake and open presents. I was looking at the people

in this picture and I was like, huh, there must have been a minimum to fill a table. It was like my sister and some of her six-year-old friends, my cousins, some girls that I didn't like from school and it's like oh this is

sad i had to like really reach to round out some real d-listers i still had a great time so good you didn't take any picture i mean that's you know that's a good time it's like oh i didn't take picture having too much fun in the moment they might not have allowed it maybe it would have ruined because magic castle magic castle by the way if you don't live in los angeles kind of the like the more like traditional equivalent of wizards that's been there for a long time and it's still there this comes from right yeah magic castle let's make a cheaper goddier city walk but anyone can go But anyone can go to Wizard. It's not anyone can go to Magic Castle. People give you a card.

If a magician will hand you a card that gives you access somewhere, but other than that, yeah, it's harder to get into. I did see this literature that they said they felt like the Magic Castle was by magicians for magicians and they wanted to create a

populist magic bar for the many not the few magic um i have another theory also which is that i think it's just this we've talked about other things this dynamic elsewhere in theme park theme park culture where um i i wonder if they talked to the magic castle and said would you want to open a wing at city walk interesting and they said no this is what paul sheer said about um uh improv he was a boom chicago or improv olympic or something or or a new york one was that chicago city limits yeah chicago city limits and disney had approached them to do the comedy warehouse okay and uh they said they wanted an insane amount of money

for the name for the name yeah and they were disney went okay well thankfully improv games aren't copyrighted so neither is magic neither is magic there's another thing uh similar to this also well it didn't end up happening but they um when they were looking for live entertainment for city walk they approached the groundings about opening a wing in a theater at city did not happen uh uh what could have been and what john lovitz ultimately made i think uh ucb city walk sounds pretty good right now i think maybe close sunset opened up ucb city walk and put it in that hallway kick the sheriffs out yeah um uh so all right make it a magical evening chat with a wizard

accomplished not accomplished i don't remember i know that there was a roaming wizard especially like at the dinner show i think you know how they have like the charlie chaplin at the wild wild wild west show yes like you know rooms around before the show starts i think the wizard right have been that sort of like the guys who do the hijinks in the water world show we're running around before it's yeah but i don't think merlin had a lot of or sorry a wizard had a lot of hijinks yeah he's a generic copy written a kindly old man merlin might be public domain though i think merlin his public domain sounds like he would be um it's interesting though i was gonna there's a combination of this which is not how the magic castle works but there's a combination of your fantastical magic and your you know more practical magic your traditional magicians but

also there's a wizard roaming around so it's like it's a it's crazy it's very fan there's fantasy element to it and there's also like more normal magic and also comedy matt like there was in the video there's a guy doing like gag magic yeah and a laser show. Right. Oh, that laser show looks cool. Yeah, which I think was a pre-show element sort of thing while you were eating. Yeah. It's probably on that list, right? It's coming up.

Yeah, yeah. Sorry. I'll skip ahead. Yeah, yeah. The spectacular laser show creates glittering sights and exciting sounds. Accurate? Yes.

It's time to make your shrimp skewers appear. Now, there's something else. It sounds to me like the food presentation is much like the Pirates dinner adventure, which we did an episode on and Aaron was present for. I saw a review of Wizards, which had the following quote. The first three quarters of an hour of the two hour show is devoted to a meal of wizards which had the following quote uh the first three quarters of an hour of the two-hour show is devoted to a meal of indifferent quality served with prussian efficiency what does that mean i think it means how the pirates thing was which is like it is they

those guys are on it it is a delivery system this is not what would you like sir something is coming out they're grilling you that is likely true but i was 11 and didn't give a shit i was goofing around with my friends and probably doing like silly things with the straws so sure that's the magic that you could do summon the power of silly straws all the liquid comes in a pitcher it's all dumped out in a pitcher soup is in a pitcher drinks are in a pitcher and it's just like you have one chance to get you have to flag them down if you want it your magical meal we're personal pan cheese pizzas sounds pretty good actually yeah this is probably on the higher end of food for for your 11 year old self definitely yeah yeah yeah it was fancy um now what you probably didn't do as an 11 year old,

I hope was drink a love potion. Oh, I would have loved to though. That's the kind of thing that I yearned for when I was 11. Adults. I just wanted to be 21. I could go drink there and fall in love with a cute boy who maybe looked like Ken from street fighter.

Be served a drink that's Midori and Midori over ice. Have your palm read. When you talk about the mix of types of magic, that's not something at the Magic Castle that it's palm readers to. Yeah, and I did have that done. Remember anything? No. Magic Castle that's palm readers too? Yeah, and I did have that done. Remember anything? No, I'm sure it was very tame because

I was 11 or 12 when I had it done. They weren't like I see that you're with a bunch of people you don't like at your party. What's that like? Why is your cousin here? Scraping the bottom of the barrel, are you? Don't have enough friends at school? That seems

like too easy for a palm reader uh to do it for like an 11 or 12 year old you're going through a lot of changes right now yes exactly you feel like people don't understand yes i remember it being a lot it was really focused on the palm reading itself and it was like here's your lifeline and you have a long lifeline and here's your wealth and here's it was really tech like you could go on wikipedia and say the same things that the palm readers there said they call this the pinky finger uh here's the part that i wanted to ask you about because i don't i think i saw on the video correlated to this exactly visit saturn jupiter and mars no idea what that means yeah yeah i didn't see any equivalent of Another thing I saw in the video correlated to this exactly. Visit Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. No idea what that means.

Yeah, yeah. I didn't see any equivalent of that. Maybe that's if you drink too much? I guess so. If you smash your head on the way out. Yeah, then you'll be seeing stars and planets. Everything here also had a Z, a wonderful thing. See the world's top magicians perform amazing tricks while you dine in the elegance of the theater of illusions so that's the main theater it must be yeah and you'd see

uh you know like yeah there'd be there'd be a comedy magician there'd be more of a sleight of hand guy yeah um yeah it seemed like they they had a lot of variety seems like they were they were lauded for that. Yeah. The laser show covered. Before or after the show, you can sip cocktails and concoctions in the Magic Potions Bar as magicians perform at your table. What a bar. You could if you were 21.

Right, so you didn't get to do it. I didn't. So by the time you turned 21, It was gone. Wizards is no longer. We would be hanging out there all the time. That's what I was thinking. I was watching that

YouTube because we go there for city we would watch the movie go to opening night of movies and now we go to Margaritaville beforehand but we would absolutely be at wizards bar every night the bar was beautiful too it had so much neon so much neon yeah that was those shots were

blowing me away it's very much my aesthetic. The, and a giant wizard's hat in the main bar. Yeah. Yeah. It was huge. Two stories, it says. And you could see that from the window.

Yeah. And now it's an empty hallway. It's sad. What are you talking about? This has been a recurring thing in the podcast, in the City Walk series. I've been calling them fallen brothers, the ones that didn't make it. And it seems like everything with personality is not really there, like the beloved Rainstick Store. Oh, the nature company? Mm-hmm.

Oh, the Rainstick Store. The bar, it doesn't really look like it, but it reminds me of Quark's Bar from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, which was apparently a bar in Vegas, which was outside of the Star Trek experience. Oh, at the Westgate? Yeah, I think that's where it was, which is a thing I never went to. Which was the Hilton. Yeah. But we stayed our first trip in Vegas.

Oh, that's right. Yeah, our first vacation together. Yeah. But it's like a, yeah, it looks like dreams are made of it. We've been there a number of times, and it's a really confusing mishmash. It's still a Star Trek, it's still a spaceship casino. Right. But now it's a timeshare selling place.

So you go into the Star Trek themed area, and they try to sell you a timeshare. Wait, did you say it's Westgate? Yeah. Is that the guy from Queen of versa or queen of versa yes oh yeah that guy's the biggest piece of shit the guy who runs westgate that guy is the sleaziest guy with this giant house okay so when you're in um like you're in a star trek themed area and on folding tables are queen of versa t-shirts that you can buy get out of here they advert like as if the queen of versailles presented just like what was that dumb the the show with paris hilton and uh the

simple yeah yeah yeah like yeah she's just you know she's the queen of uh you know like the like the the wealthiest ritzy but the documentary is extremely sad oh it's depressing yeah yeah dead animals and their horrible house and their palace that never gets built and you're watching that they would present that as live like the queen of Versailles.

And not cover up the Star Trek stuff. And not cover up the Star Trek. Just a space port. I mean, that was a thing that the people in that movie are so gaudy and cheap

even though like the guy in the movie, God, I'm forget his name now, but he made so much money selling timeshares and shit. And he got in, like, it got a lot of hot water.

Cause like one, either 2008 or 2012, he said like, well, if Obama wins, you know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep all these people on payroll, the way this guy's going. And it's like why what's the this is these weird like ultra rich people who are like

that obama he sure was radical in the way that no one went to prison for the financial crisis and uh uh obama care was a modified republican health care plan and uh um well you can relive the glory days of 2006 and the the half completed also remember when we got on the elevator and people had just finished a star trek wedding yes whoa and they were in full costume was anyone alien i think so yeah they're for angie i't know. I don't know the Star Trek universe very well. Who was the aliens that were in the elevator with you? I think one was just kind of like a mod 60s

girl Star Trek crew person. The other one might have been a Ferengi though. I hope. I'm not totally sure. Yeah. I hope for your sake. Or a Borg. No, no Borg though. I hope not. There were only two people getting married so how long ago was this again that was in 2006 okay so casino not necessarily still star trek

it is a little of it no it is in 2006 it wasn't westgate yet that was still the las vegas hilton yeah it changed over pretty in the last five or six years i want to say recently but remember when we went a couple years ago and it still had the Star Trek logo outside, even though it doesn't stay Star Trek anywhere inside? This thing is a mess. They are not keeping track of what's going on. One of my biggest regrets is not doing that Star Trek experience. Which people, theme park.

Which people go nuts about. People have said. Did you do it? You did it? I loved that show. No, I. Oh, you loved the show star trek no i loved the oh the thing i'm talking about yeah at universal studios right oh no no no no no this is a

different thing in vegas it's called the star trek experience and you would like you would like get beamed up and like be on the bridge of the enterprise and then like bore i think borg would show up like alien borg would show up and it's a whole people describe it as incredibly immersive to mr tony baxter i think says he was blown away by it wow because he thought it was like going to be a normal ripoff simulator like star tours style but then you get beamed up somewhere and it was an incredibly like realistic effect and then you're like on the bridge and it's like they have performers and it's a whole that's not cool you're talking about the universal studio yeah yeah yeah universal studios which i loved were you ever in it no were

you in any of those did you do harry and the henderson's of sound effects no i had a very cool friend named astrid growing up and she got picked for everything oh every everyone i know has a friend named astrid it's like astrid's so cool she was the coolest i mean she deserved to get picked for everything i was sort of quiet and weird and she was like loud and crazy i see they knew she could she could give them some energy classic yeah yeah yeah um let me we're almost through the list but the uh i don't want to skip past that potions bar that you get a little like magic potion themed drink and i love in the video when they set down a magical overflowing potion drink next to a

little bowl of checks mix not magical but yeah we would be you love the checks mix we go have the checks mix at the universal hilton bar love it which we will cover in a later episode is that still there yeah because i walked through it the other day and i don't know that i saw no snack dispensers yeah snack oh i don't know they may they may just have it like under the counter now are you saying that there's still a bar but maybe not the snacks yes oh well okay the atrium bar is still there but i feel like these giant like dispensers for like checks mix and stuff. Maybe they just scoop it out now. Jason, this is one of the times when he sat up to double check and see if the snacks were still at the bar.

I sat up too, but I thought it was because the atrium bar was gone. You scared them that the bar was gone. No, still going strong. Looks recently redone. I just hope it's still big brass bars and stuff. That's beautiful. We got to go have a drink there too. We will. We have, we got to go have a drink there too. We will.

We have so many places to go. We're going to hit that and the, take the outside elevator down to the shark. Oh yeah. That outside elevator that goes really slow. Working the other day. So I walked down 45 degrees middle of the day, sun burning bright.

That's what, if you like walking up hills and taking long escalator rides universal studios the place for you yeah yeah agreed um let me see the adventure in a vision's psychic reading room and spirits the fortune tellers bar where those are different things psychic readings and fortune tellers different i don't know my god and you never and after all you never know what the future holds until you ask um so you accomplished all that uh uh it sounds like a incredible 11th birthday party one of the greats only if it's 10 years later i would have loved to have a 21st there what a bummer yeah i think i feel like you would have done it but you had the

same thing with me where you thought your adulthood would be full of CityWalk visits, which I guess it has been. It kind of has. Just with levels that we added to it, but we have spent a lot of, actually, our 10th wedding anniversary was in that Hilton Atrium bar. We've done a lot of important events

and milestones in our lives. We'll renew our vows below the King Kong as if he is. Oh, that would be fun. That's a not a bad idea. Well, you know, we should do it under that sign that says the most beautiful faces in the world pass through here. Well, that would be a lie. I just yesterday noticed that sign. Like I always notice the face face but i had never really

processed the text on it and i was just like what in the hell like just looking at that sign because i was like crossing above it and i like just happened to look down and go like what what i i always knew the sign was there and i uh i went on early, I went on a high school date to City Walk. And I remember thinking, like, what if I was like, what if it was going really well? And if I was like bold enough, maybe I could point to that sign and say, yeah, like you. Wow. You didn't do that, though. No, I did not.

I did not have the courage to do that now we were we knew each other in high school does that make you jealous we weren't dating then we it was the perfect timing we got together we both grew out of our thank god it was staggered awkward phases yeah yeah yeah scott do you remember wizards being there and not going in i think i assumed it was for adults only i assume and i was never corrected on this so i could have gone and i didn't go and i'm upset about it sometimes kids could go not always though okay i see there's very few things you admit to being upset that you didn't go on because usually i'll say like oh i wish i went an alien encounter you're like too scary i don't care yeah and then

like this might be one of the only ones where you're like i regret not going in wizards i'm pretty sad about this of things we've talked about i'd say this not going to wizards and then i didn't get to meet uh marvelous marvel mcfay at astroworld astroworld and hear the song ring through the through the loudspeakers so just just to confirm it so wizards opened in 2000 no no no okay sorry 93 this is an original i'm not young oh i i'm 11 i started dating aaron at age five my yeah 1995 was my birthday but it was okay before then and how long did it last for i don't remember when it closed i i figured it out finally and it took a lot of i ended up on magician message boards to figure this out and i made it back alive um okay it was it closed it

seemed to have closed slowly in 2002 i think just uh the lease probably heading for a 10-year lease and they just didn't renew it and uh sadly i had to say it i think the the the it was owned by a husband and wife and the wife passed away and i think the owner lost enthusiasm for uh doing it and just kind of yeah just sort of let it go oh is that a bummer and and and now here's the thing oh no this i did figure out this did open here's new fact for you aaron that i somehow kept to myself at home. For once. Thank you, inner monologue. Scott wasn't talking for two seconds. For a little stretch of time,

there was a second Wizards in Tokyo, Japan. What? Yeah, yeah. Didn't know this and where was it you ask well they were trying to build it it was slated to open in jakarta indonesia originally uh they were 95 completed when political upheavals there made it impractical so yeah the wizards were chased away and they ended up opening it in a mall uh called expiary which means inspiring experience and this mall is right next to tokyo disney and now i know that there is this mall outside tokyo disney so yes perhaps the four days will need to be whoa four jason wins all Hey, all right.

The addition of a mall might take it all away. Because there's a mall, and so Scott's got a really. I perked up. It's a technicality, but take it. Hey, yeah, I will. I was already imagining Scott with his like Sherlock Holmes style magnifying glass, like checking out this mall. Trying to find remnants of wizards.

Yeah. I found a W. I found a light bulb. On a a pipe on a valve well um so probably flash forward to 2018 because there's so much stuff in the sector now there is yeah we haven't done any of the current so can i say one more thing really fast which is that um there's the happy ending to this to that sad story which is that the uh, the main closeup magic guy, it was named Warren Gibson. And he, uh,

left in the, in the mid nineties to establish, he was so inspired by his time at wizards and everything he learned there that he opened his own magic bar, uh, in ma on Maui, uh, uh, in Lahaina is a Maui area.

Yeah. Uh, and that's called Warren and Annabelle's. And that is, that was open in 1998 and it's there to this day. Let's go. Wow. That's an episode.

We got to go to Maui. So literally the spirit of wizards transferred over to one of the most beautiful places in the world. So thanks, Warren and Annabelle for keeping up. We got to go to Maui. No complaints from me. Yeah. How many days in Maui? I think seven is great. okay personally fine with that one i'm not gonna uh i'm not gonna complain about uh

seven days in maui sounds wonderful uh um all right so that's that's the wizard's tale and thanks for telling us what you knew thank you but there is other stuff in the in the sector including where we went today cam Camacho's Cantina, where you had been before, correct? Yeah, several times. Uh-huh. I don't know why I hadn't. Had you guys?

Never. Just yesterday. This must be a thing. Like, they must... It's just because it's, like, hidden away a little bit. There's something uninviting about it. Yeah, I know what you mean. None of us have been there.

But it's got a lovely fountain outside yes and i've been to the one at the airport oh what in terminal where at least there used to be in terminal one i think that is a camacho's like there's a mcdonald's used to be a godsend lax has gotten a lot nicer in the last five years or so but um when i used to fly u.s airways a lot because one of their hubs is in philadelphia uh they got bought by american airlines but i'd always be flying out of this one terminal that had like no food in it besides a mcdonald's and the camacho's which was like a godsend for like breakfast burritos yeah oh it sounds familiar i do feel like i've seen the logo in lax yeah yeah it's definitely the same big logo sign but in terms of the city walk one had never been there besides

yesterday and i gotta say walking inside beautiful inside really nicely done i was shocked i walked down because it's like a little bit of a step there's like steps down it's kind of in the basement a little bit not really but it's like there's you feel like there's a couple levels in there the bar is yeah yeah yeah sorry um um and yeah it's very nice yeah this might be the hidden gem we didn't know and also it's been there i think that's an original uh city walk 93 opening is it really and it's it's just you know whereas other city walk trends have come and gone and burned out in a flash. Classic Mexican food. Everybody always loves it.

Always in style. And I'm going to say 3 p.m. on a Friday, packed. Their dining room packed. The bar, a little less packed. But I had a great happy hour. The people there at the bar for happy hour were having a great time. What'd you get? I got just a house margarita

and then i got potato taquitos yeah with and it came with half mole sauce and half like avocado sauce delicious that's a great mole sauce uh got out i think all both of those like 11 maybe 12 dollars wow great deal that's better than just regular mexican restaurants like because usually you think city walk like prices are usually jacked up right above average but i thought that camacho's was on par with just regular mexican restaurants in the city that aren't in a touristy area i thought so too yeah and i think in terms of happy hour might be a little out ahead of margaritaville uh in terms of like well and certainly decor like when you compare those the bathrooms in camacho's are beautiful and fancy bathrooms in camacho's

amazing door is molded yes complex patterns i love a full door stall they have one at carthay circle we'll eventually talk about that it feels like you got a little apartment in there yes this might be i'm gonna hang out that long but i just like it it feels very private number one with a bullet in terms of city walk bathrooms yeah at the moment i don't know that anything's gonna top this i think we may have to like if we have to go to the bathroom for the rest of this journey we'll have to like sneak into camacho's because that's a good it's always packed it would be easy to do. Yeah, that's true. Oh, yeah, yeah. Just slip past the crowds.

And yeah, happy with your meal, Erin. Good skinny margaritas, both of us. Yeah. And a nice beer, too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the best thing, this is going to sound like I'm trashing City Walk, but one of the best things about Camacho's is you forget you're in City Walk when you're eating in

there. Because it's very much, the theming is different. It's not, you know, gaudy and neon in there. It feels like you're in kind of a whole Newali Mexican restaurant. And it's really like atmospheric wise, you know, you feel like you're having a different type of experience. Yeah. Yeah.

So, I mean, we all went to Camacho's. We all were like, wow, Camacho's is great. Are we putting it in the uh the golden fork ford ship yeah i would put it in the golden ford check club yes for sure what what's italian for yes uh c is it c i was in charge of learning italian for our honeymoon and i failed yeah that's why i turned to you uh whatever french say it in french just just move it over we we thank you okay uh um can you give it five forks in uh french uh sank that's as far as i could go uh the fork 4ks yeah uh ais that's pretty specific yeah it's probably in front of you you don't have to ask For one there

Yeah Yeah alright It's in the It's in the golden Yeah Something club Yeah Yeah wow

What a Like What a pleasant surprise I thought that was something We might just brush by I know That's what I thought too Yeah

Yeah yeah Really glad And that's what This series is about Yes We might have never gone Yeah Yeah

That was the last thing it looked in the menu it said on friday and saturday they have a mariachi band oh we saw the stage and i see yeah so gosh what did everyone eat oh i had carnitas and uh flour tortillas great vegetable vegetable enchiladas um a salmon tropical a little uh little accent above the oh i feel like i took a swing i was like i know they'll do just kind of some greasy tacos well but a salmon dish will they i thought it was excellent that's great chips good salsa oh yeah great chips and salsa a little spicy spicy yeah smoky, but I liked it. Spicy, yeah. A little smoky. Smoky. Smoky, yes. Yes. But I liked it.

Good stuff. You liked it. It's Camacho's. Good decor. Good, like the wood beams, stuff carved into that. The decor of this place, it's like all of the tastefulness in City Walk 1993 went into this one spot. Yes.

A lot of tile work, a lot of wood stuff yeah i i did say i got a little bit of a kick out of watching like an old middle-aged uh tired white guy sitting at the bar like a few down from me just kind of like in one breath go can i get some sour cream gracias por favor like it was one sentence not attempting to pronounce uh and then and then finally to wrap up the sector the form upsettingly the former wizards wonders became a lush for a long time and now it's something called nectar bath treats all right all right here we go uh well i hate this place sorry well let's ask a quick question how many of us bought something and tried it let's raise our hands two of us jason and i are raising our hands the two a students we got a's i mean this

was one that i early on was like well i gotta get something there you declared that you were gonna get something and try it so then i said i have to get something and try it, so then I said I have to get something and try it. I wonder what we got. I wonder what you got. All right. I guess I can go first with mine. So, first of all, I wanted... So, just in case you don't know what nectar bath treats are, most of it is like food-looking... Like food-shaped soap.

Yeah. It is not treats. Yes. You cannot eat it. There are a lot of signs on the wall in there that say, do not this stuff because it looks a lot of it looks like real treats very pretty looking sit down edwin it's not treats yeah donuts like popsicles but there's soap it's all these like fancy expensive soaps and a lot of soap where i was like this looks cool but what is the practical use they had a three-tier cake yes that's like 40 dollars no it was wasn't

it i thought it was more than that okay the one that i saw was close to 100 and it was god damn it was monstrous yeah and i don't know what it's fun i guess but like are you gonna ever use the soap if it's hard this how do you break it up do you just like like kind of break off it was huge yeah i guess you have a big cake knife and then you like cut slices of soap off before you take a shower used to be or was it next to it a lush store it was a lush i feel like i know multiple women who were like oh they took the lush store away that was the thing i liked up there an actual i've never shopped there but i i do know people really like lush and you don't do like froofy bath stuff so to you a bunch of key lime pie soaps doesn't make any sense i used dollar 69 dial soap from the yes that is yeah that that was

a little bit of a a change for me because i i definitely bought a bottle of body wash for 250 the other day um all right buy like a gallon of body wash yeah welcome to my life for eight months friend but they have yeah so they have like like i'm looking around and i'm like i gotta get something here and i like all the soaps just seem impractical it's like that seems really more for decoration just for the fun of it i'm not going to be washing myself with a fake popsicle that's a soap. That seemed like the most practical because it was at least a flat,

flat-ish kind of shape. It did have a wooden stick in it. Yes. Which is odd. Yeah, but I mean, maybe that's kind of like the scrubber. It actually makes sense if you were, say, imagine you're holding a popsicle

and you're like, you know, washing your back with it. It makes sense like you're donald duck with that big that big uh bath brush yeah uh so i was walking around and like here's what happens i think most of the day is that a couple people wander in walk do one quick lap it's a pretty small store and they right away leave because like they're like why i would 25 for this this is crazy uh and there was a gentleman who was excited to talk to me because i he's like well do you want to see like a demonstration and i went yes i do because they have a big they have a big sink in the middle and i don't know what he's usually kids they're doing demonstrations for yeah of course it was michael it was me uh because and he's like he you could tell he was like oh i got something to do now and he was like well what i would i go what's like a cheap kind of

i need i'm just getting into this you know what do i what do i want to do he goes well you know you could do like a bath bomb and you could also do um what they call hold on let me find the name of it you know you could do like a little like they call it a bubble scoop so the bubble adds you know there's a moisture and then the the bath bomb has this the one that you buy put it in a little ice cream container they can do that too for you but i just got one so he's like you know you got one bath bomb you get one of these little bubble scoops and he's like shown to me and he's like hey put your hand in the water and feel it and i go oh okay so i'm like putting my hand in soapy water and i have to be like oh yeah oh i feel it like and then he like puts the

other thing and like and then he goes yeah you can feel the water if you want i go oh sure and i put it oh yeah i feel that it feels like and i was like i don't know it's soapy water it feels fine to me just a good public bath with a man you just met yeah yeah yeah so i'm my hand he's like oh you want to like me like i'm drying off because my hands yeah yeah so i'm my hand he's like oh you want to like me like i'm drying off because my hands are soaked so i'm like looking around i'm like i'm like let me get i'll get one of these bath bomb the bath bomb was six dollars and the other one was like five dollars maybe that's what he recommended to me i'm so curious what you got hold on don't say it yet okay uh and then he tells me so, so I got the Calm Your Spirit bath bomb,

because there's many different kinds. There's one that's Awaken Your Senses, which is supposed to clear up your sinuses and stuff. And then there's one that's Stimulate Your Passion, which I guess that's a horny one. I didn't get that, which I'm like, that's weird. I should have gotten that. Jason should have gotten that.

I should have gotten the horny one. And then, so I get that one, and then so i get so i go i get that one and then for as far as the bubble scoop that one looks like ice cream the other one looks like a big giant kind of hard candy and then the bubble scoop if you guys want to see that looks like uh like little tiny scoops of ice cream and it really looks like sherbet like it we saw that it's impressive that it looks like that um and i got that so he's like packaging them up and he goes oh yeah don't worry this the the sparkles are like i think biodegradable so and then i was like oh my god am i gonna get sparkles in my urethra

like that was the first i'm so sorry to be vulgar like that but that's my first like i started got like a fear as they were like i was like did i buy oh shit what is this gonna be a woman using it also anyone would of course so that's that's what a lot more possibility of sparkly innards he brought up the sparkles and i went oh he's saying maybe the sparkles are okay he brought up that concept not in my ear no no no no was going to say that. Part of their marketing is like paraben-free, handmade. There's a lot of other crap that's not in it. I'm saying I wouldn't have thought anything of it until he brought up the idea that the sparkles should be okay.

Hey, bud. And then I thought for a second. Thanks for shopping here. Hey, don't worry. Those sparkles, they won't hurt your piss hole. You'll piss glitter a couple weeks, but it'll clear out. It'll be fun for a couple weeks. And it just comes with a bottle of cranberry juice in case anything goes wrong.

And then, yeah. So, yes, because they're, like, very big on the whole, oh, it's okay, it's fine, or whatever. But that is what he, when he said it, I was like, why did you even say that? Why would you say that? So, if you took your pants off and were just in your underwear would we we wouldn't see just a glow emanating from your crutch i honestly i've been shiniest i've been running around all day so i haven't even looked so who knows i don't like spark at some point hawaiian tropics started putting sparkles in like their main bottle of suntan lotion really and i

was just like what the fuck is that like i bought a full bottle and i'm like well i'm just gonna be sparkly for the summer that's disgusting i had to switch to the sport brand because there weren't sparkles in it you don't you you do you do makeup that has like a that's a little sparkly yeah like not you wouldn't want like there's a difference between something that's sparkly and something with glitter in it. Sure. Glitter doesn't go away. Right. Yeah.

Those are items. Yeah. Yeah. So this was hopefully not glitter in the Periwinkle Dream Bubble Scoop Sundae that I got. So what did you use? So I used both. So I used the Bath Bomb, which is a calming bath bomb in the Periwinkle Dream Bubble Scoop Sundae. So what you do is you put the scoop, the dream bubble and first as the bath is going and then you have to put in the bath bomb after

when the tub has been full also i had to really scrub the hell out of the bathtub last night because i was like i gotta get this clean if i'm gonna sit in a pool i have i take a bath once every five years maybe yeah yeah and i'll be i'm six three years I'm six, three years, I'm six, three, I would say years old. Jesus, I'm losing my mind. Six, three. And I do not fit in that tub very well upstairs. It is a small tub. But I was like, I am a theme park journalist and I have to do this. So I filled it up.

I'm a little concerned you combined items though. Well, he told me to. He said that was the ultimate. He said that was the best way to do it. That's why I got it. I asked him what the best way to do it That's just a hard sell Well it was a hard sell

But he was explaining to me That this part was Aromatherapy This part was more For moisturizing your skin You know there's only Two people in this group Of four who fight

Like a married couple And it's not the people Who are married Fair enough Fair enough That's a good point Well let's see what he did in a second we don't even know what he did maybe he's oh you're gonna have the same reaction no matter

what i did maybe you ate the periwinkle dream bubble scoop sunday uh so i did it and for the first i hadn't taken a bath so really this is mostly going to be commenting on what the bath is like for a six three man in a tiny bathtub because at first we will not have supplemental photos on twitter i felt like uh rafael in the first ninja turtle movie where he's like in the tub it's too big he's too big for it or like uh in the matrix when they get like they're just like slid out and like it's uncomfortable and they're just like a prone body so like i don't feel good today from lying in this bathtub for an hour this is the bath treat but it's not the bath treats fault because i found the bath treat very nice i found the aroma very pleasant uh i don't know that i'm gonna do this maybe once

we move out of here and get a better tub, I could see doing this once in a while. I find it very pleasant. The only problem, again, bath problem, not bath treat problem, is that I cannot get to bed after a bath

because my body temperature is so fucking weird. It takes me an hour to readjust to the outside world again. I don't know why that is because it would be nice if I could go right to bed.

Did not happen. Jason is looking at me like he went right to bed did not happen jason is looking at me like he went right to bed after i don't fall asleep in a minute all right i've said all i have to say jason let's see what you did all right martha fine jason i should do uh who's afraid of virginia wolf on stage that might be what this is like all right well you're george seagull and you're uh what's her name so i was concerned about not having time for a bath i was also concerned because i feel like i didn't see the cheaper bath item so i thought well if i'm going to spend 11 i want to get my money's worth and i was also

trying to find a treat that appeals to me did you get the milkshake i did not get the milk damn it okay um how do those work that you pour a milk it's a milkshake milkshake it's just kind of like it's it looks like a milkshake but inside it's powder sand yeah so it's kind of the same it's he said it's actually very similar to what i did a literal nightmare i had a nightmare where i went for a milkshake but it was sand horrible um so i was going back and forth between the donuts and the popsicles now i'm very picky with scents too uh i don't like a lot of scents i have a sensitive nose um uh so i was trying to find one i like i didn't want to smell particularly sweet um but i am okay with coconut stuff. So I got this coconut pineapple donut soap.

Whoa, what? And it's like a donut. And it's just a bar of soap that looks like a donut. Now, it has sprinkles on top. The sprinkles are also soap, but they just kind of fall off as you are, let's say, unwrapping it from the package or using it in the shower uh also like it's got like a little icing poop and like a little mini donut so it's like well you can't scrub with that side but then the other side is just like a flat oh my god and

it also just like i'm not either a huge fan of bar soap to begin with i find it dries out my skin too much it is a little uncomfortable so uh it's fine it smells you were cleaning yourself with a donut last night no this morning this morning 9 a.m this morning 9 a.m you took a shower with a donut and also i mean this is the greatest thing that's happened on this podcast it's going to take me months to use this i feel like you feel clean i feel clean i feel like fine but it also like do you smell like coconut too not really it's just kind of that generic kind of bar soapy kind of smell like i it kind of let down yeah i don't i don't think it's a letdown that for the next month jason will be using a donut To clean himself

That's the greatest thing I've ever heard I mean I like to switch it up I got a lot of hotel soups to go through Should we explain that? That was tweeted about But somebody brought you A fan brought you soap A couple of very nice listeners came to Mike and I's show At UCB

And they came up to me and said We just want to say hi. And also we brought you something in tribute. And it was a lovely Pixar Pier bag of H2O Disney hotel soaps. That is the nicest thing. And they were so nice. And I'd like to say to the fans out there, keep it coming.

Keep it coming. Jason would like as much of this as you can get. Any hotel you get. I get to share. I don't want a single thing. If you saw me somewhere, if you knew you were going to see me for some reason, give me a soap donut to give to Jason. I want all fan treats to be that. Let's see if we can keep up.

When this one runs out, if you could replace it with a complimentary new donut yeah anyway the soap donut i guess it's fine it didn't seem that much nicer than i thought it would be a little more moisturizing but again like did you talk to an employee at all uh or every employee i talked to just kept saying when i would look at something they could go like you can smell it too. Everyone's just like, don't just look at it, smell it. That's the other thing. Like, it didn't have a ton of scents.

I feel like the one popsicle smell, though, it was kind of vanilla-y, but it was like, oh, this feels like it might really be overpowering. Fruity scents typically try to, or they tend to meld together too like after you've smelled one it sort of kills your senses and they all just smell like a mishmash of fruit yeah right oh if you like if you smelled 20 things in a row you'd only smell the first two yeah or it would just all start to you forget i don't know sure yeah i remember that coffee one that we smelled that was terrible yeah that was gross smell like coffee There's like a kind of a one for boys with tobacco. Really? Yeah.

That smelled horrible. I don't know. It was okay. Now, that's what I call a treat. Delicious tobacco. Yeah, I don't. That's why I went for the ones that like seemed like they were just slightly dressed up traditional bath things.

Something that would seem practical. Yeah, because there's a lot of nonsense in there. I also like when I take a bath, once in a blue moon, I'd like to have a beer with it. Maybe listen to a podcast. I had a grape diet soda while I was in the bath. Oh, grape diet soda? Yeah. And maybe my girlfriend took a photo of me with it and we'll

post it now it's not anything indecent chilling with some diet grape here's mike's glitter filled urethra here's the x-ray x-rays from providence st joe's mike fights glitter ridded... Well, as you know... We'll post that x-ray on Twitter. In the rare event that grape soda-centric urine is peed from a glittery urethra triggers an instant tumor that

blocks the pee hole forever. Before we wrap up, we also hadter's gate in this sector yeah uh i annexed walter's gate because that is that that was where i entered for the day to do my tour guide job uh it's right between camacho's and the uh uh the abercrombie anditch, which was once the Sam Goody. And I don't, hey, you know what? Let me be real corny here. All I want to say is I started that summer being a tour guide

without an awesome girlfriend. And by the end of the summer, I was walking through Walter's Gate with a lot of pep in my step. Oh, that's nice. Thanks, Aaron. Can I i ask you was it always like really intense in terms of metal detectors and no got a lot crazier it got a lot crazier right because i think i used to use that gate when i was an intern on the back lot and they would send me up for like lunch orders at city walk sometimes like you take the golf cart up there yeah and you could just walk right into city

walk um and go up to the old uh what was the taco what's that fish rubio's so you see rubio's you get a bunch of wooders and take the golf cart back down some very steep hills to use a golf cart on yeah um that's so scary yeah now it looks like a full security checkpoint like an airport yeah yeah it got really intense and i'm not sure if i think there was a real walter i think walter was the guy who checked in and i'm not sure if it still is walter i hope if he's still around he's doing well um but yeah um you know that yeah that that first summer i felt a lot of pride walking through there no and i had to all i had to do my only responsibility that day was to maybe come up with a new riff on the king kong part

i uh i uh i also remember i remember that i took a there was a thing called the esats which was an employee satisfaction evaluation kind of thing. And I didn't take it that seriously. And there were people I knew who had a lot of grievances. And I'm going to give them a piece of my mind on this survey. But what I did was I just gave fives to everything until the comments section. And then I said, you know, the tour guide job is going fine. But there is this thing where we went into a soundstage.

There was an open set. And then an earthquake happened during this. And the entire set flooded. And we received no help, even though there was a power outage. I didn't feel like anyone cared. Like, no supervisors came and then we went into another sound stage and there was a giant ape in there who took the tram with his hands and shook it around and i'm just you know it makes me feel i love the job but

if i don't feel safe maybe i have to go um and i i wrote all that out and then i told i told a fellow tour guide that. And they were like, well, that's a little disrespectful, don't you think? Whoa. Wow. This was not a job to take seriously. I mean, you were very good at it. But come on.

Thank you. We know what it is. Yeah. Some people did. And there was a lot you had to memorize to the letter. Do you remember the whole thing? It's possible that if I had, like, the keypad in front of me and the correct clips that I could from the beginning.

One time, Aaron and I, we were driving. We were stuck in, like, horrible, unexpected traffic going down to Morongo, and you said, do you want to just do the tour? And I did, like, a lot of it. And it passed the time pretty well. That might be well patreon exclusive scott reads the tour scott does the tour scott asmr oh i guess uh twist my arm maybe uh all right fine regular episode but 2006 era tour oh yeah yeah so we're we're hyping evan almighty

we're talking ghost whisperer starring j almighty we're pushing that almighty we're talking ghost whisperer starring jennifer love hewitt and two lesser known actors i had to mention every day due to their contracts wait when would you have started 2006 summer yeah 2006 i would that was when i would have been out here like interning start of fall end of summer like 2006 did you guys pass through walter's gate together we're on the back lot together i may have taken one of your tours whoa although i feel like you i i do remember one or two tour guides where i was like yeah they were really good and then there would be somewhere i'd be like how is that guy still doing this like people just did not care yeah yeah um the uh yeah it's it's it's possible it's possible that yeah

like walter's gate like that sign all the most beautiful people passed through it and it's possible we were two beautiful ships that's right in the night through walter's gate you're gonna make me cry i'll make you cry at that one the me and Jason one, and not the one about you. Yeah, not the nice thing. Both in our khakis, sleepily asking, hey, I'm going to go get a burger at City. Does anyone want me to pick up anything? That is a thing. Getting glared at by Walter. I've realized being up there at the lunch hour on weekdays is just how many people walking around CityWalk are people in business casual from the offices worth a lot grabbing a quick

bite to eat with their generous employee discounts 10 enough for you is that it i think that it wasn't much not for me i got i got 10 off at nectar what why because yet are you a pass holder i said actually i had my pass just ran out like a month ago. And he was like, I can give it to you. We haven't gotten anything for our pass. God bless them. Yeah, there's discounts to be had. Are there? Everywhere.

A lot of places. I've been doing this entire CityWalk thing and paying full price every time. And you guys still have pass holders. Mine ran out. Yeah. And we've been up there like 17 goddamn times. Yeah. You'll be up 17 more.

We could have saved like $200. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Should i ask at the water coffins oh yeah we forgot about that we'd have had a down payment for a house by now oh no but what's that when you have memories i bet drinks aren't you gonna get discounted though so we shouldn't get a pass before i make pass renewed before we go to hollow of the moon and spend 300 on jello shots and jello shots please oh were it only in a bottle of potion then it would then that is that is that's gonna haunt me that that's not there anymore oh boy um aaron thank you for sharing your memories of Wizards past. And I can officially say, Erin Gairdner, you survived Podcast the Ride. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you.

Thanks so much for doing it. Is there anything you would like to plug? I don't know. I have a website, I guess. Yeah, plug it. ErinGairdner.com. That's correct. Yes.

I don't do a whole. I'm on Twitter But I only follow Podcasts of the Ride and Peebo Bryson If you follow me, I won't follow you back I don't even follow Yeah, I don't even follow Scott You don't follow us individually, you only follow Podcasts of the Ride I only follow Podcasts of the Ride

Thanks for boosting the like signal It's much appreciated But wait, before we go The stone, the stone is appearing. The stone's emerging. Oh, wow. There it is. It's beautiful. It looks like a nectar bath treat. Okay, I guess that was inevitable.

It's about the size of a stone. It's a stone that looks like a donut that is flavored for a cupcake. But it still has the marbling of a stone. Jason, are you washing yourself with it right now? Yeah, and it's

great. I've noticed the scent is dissipating as you're rubbing it on your skin. It smells like dip. It doesn't smell like tobacco. It smells like chaw. This is a weird one. It's a weird stone.

Chaw-scented. I guess they're not all winners. That's what the sector keeper's skin is made of, I guess. Probably. That's what his post-Afterworld skin composition is. Yeah, that's fair. Well, thanks for giving it to us anyway. Yeah.

Hey, check out AaronGardner.com. You know what you got are all those, you got those cards and the pins, the adorable animals. Check that stuff out. Ooh, I lit the Etsy laps. Oh, no. You don't have that?

Let's not do that. Yeah, they hiked up the seller fees. Oh, all right. Well, then. Don't go there. All right. Well, good decision made then. Screw you, Etsy.

And follow Erin Gairdner for no tweets. Yeah, I won't follow you back. Great. Oh, at Friendship 500. At Friendship 500. But you'll see a nice picture of Expo Ernie, the Vancouver World's Fair robot. Hey, and as for us, yeah, keep liking those posts on Twitter.

Like Aaron. Keep giving us good reviews on iTunes. Join the Facebook group a lot of fun stuff going on in there someone posted it great uh eats goofy but he's a giant golf ball oh yeah character a lot of good stuff on that Facebook uh a lot of fun stuff going on there all right um then we'll see you tomorrow for uh for more bullshit we'll cross to the other side of walter's gate and talk about fountains or something yeah all right thanks for joining us this has been a forever dog production executive produced by mike carlson jason sheridan scott

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