Podcast: The Ride - The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash

Episode Date: May 21, 2021

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FOREVER! DOG! recent ride, The Secret Life of Pets, off the leash on Podcast The Ride, the podcast about theme parks where we misread today's ride's title long ago and are very disappointed it is not The Secret Life of Pests and that John Lequizamo is not involved in any way. I'm Scott Gardner, clearly agreement from Mike Carlson. I agree. I heard you mumble to yourself, this is a long dog walk, too. And I was like, oh, is that part of the joke today? The topic would have something to do with dog and walking. Yeah, yeah.

I could have saved that. That could have been a good little addendum. At the end there, right. Thanks for putting it in. Yeah. So, no, I'm glad we got some Leguizamo in there. I was just talking about Leguizamo the other day. I think in regards to his spawn character. No, I'm glad we got some Leguizamo in there. I was just talking about Leguizamo the other day.

I think in regards to his Spawn character, the clown. Jason shared in here as well. Is the clown the name of the Spawn villain or is it clown? I think just clown. I did read the first collection of Spawn comics and watched the Spawn movie during quarantine times. Okay, so it's clown. And I think, I believe it is clown. We haven't had enough clown discourse on this show. I mean, we have had a lot of clown discourse, but we haven't had a lot of clown discourse.

If you know what I'm saying. Thank you for clarifying, because I think plenty of lowercase c clown. It's been a little too much. Not clown, it's clown. It's been a little too much. Not clown. Really? It's clown. Okay. Just the distinction. That is with a C, capital C, not capital K, not evil K clown.

Yeah. Go back and listen to the way I'm saying it, and you'll hear it. Okay. If you know what I'm saying. You can tell the difference. Yeah, you put a little thing on it. Clown, not clown. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. If we're calling out John Leguizamo's characters, I don't really know about the pest, but now I've looked it up to see that the character's name is Pestario Vargas, which I like. And it was a remake of a Stan Laurel project. Really? Or wait, maybe inspired by a short story. I can't tell.

There's also a Stan Laurel called The Pest from 22, and then there's a a short story i can't well there's also a stan laurel called the pest from 22 and then there's a 24 short story maybe not maybe maybe not actually i might be conflating those things immediate error immediately rescinded but i like that idea that it's a stan laurel remake by john leguizamo so we're actually half right john leguizamo's character is named clown he is also referred to as Violator. Really? Yes. Violator? Yes.

I'm not a big Spawn guy, but interesting. That's what happens when you are one of the most powerful people in comics with complete control over your product and you are 22 years old. You're like, the bad guy is named Clown and also Violator.

You're saying no non-powerful comic book artist writer at 22 would have been able to have a character with two names. There would be no way. I just mean it's very extreme. It's very like, you know. Image Comics, Todd McFarlane on the top of the world. I'm going to give that character two names. Yeah, yeah.

I'm mad with power. I'm drunk on power. The indulgence. Oh, disgusting. I'm going to ask for a nicer chair to draw my comics in. Do you think there's a chance if the pest has... I've actually never seen the

pest. If it had a theme park in it, at this point we would be calling our listeners pests. Is there a chance of that? I think there is. We might call some listeners pests. Not very many. So maybe there is a chance.

Maybe we watch this movie, then we will start applying. I have seen this movie. I watched it at like a summer camp thing, I think. And I think they would just get whatever new releases were out. Because I remember watching The Rock. I remember watching Pest. The Stupids. And National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation.

Wow. This is a killer time, honestly. I've seen Vegas Vacation 20 plus times. Yeah. Yeah. I recently heard an argument made that Vegas Vacation better than Christmas Vacation. Agree? Disagree?

Hmm. I know it's like Christmas Vacation sort of like set in stone due to the holiday perennial nature but i've seen vegas vacation more it's what i did to avoid election results uh in on the fateful night in in 2020 when we didn't end up knowing anything oh right yeah actually i ended up because as a new parent you kind of split movies in two and because the election results weren't done uh i got a little extra all right we'll continue avoiding on night two and we'll continue the second half of vegas vacation it was a great time vegas vacation maybe it's the best one maybe it's the best of the vacations i'll keep yeah let's i'll keep nudging it up the

shirts yeah maybe being that i associate it with donald trump not definitively winning immediately i don't associate him with with donald trump losing because we didn't know yet but i do associate it with going to bed two nights in a row and donald trump did not win so uh just for that so it's risen a little bit in the ranks yeah even though one of his top supporters, one of his top recent supporters is in the film, Randy Quaid. Yeah, right. Huh. Well, we'll go back and do,

I mean, there's obviously a theme, I mean, there's themed experiences in Vegas Vacation, so I think there's probably some sort of episode we can do. It's prime mirage.

It is mirage in pristine condition, so maybe just for that, you gotta, you gotta, and Siegfried and Roy also in prime condition. Wayne Newton in prime condition, though he's, as he has been for many decades. Yeah, he's been, he is like, what would you say? Like frozen in time, frozen.

Living wax figure. But not in like a scary horror movie way where he's like somebody made him that way to be mean he's got to be a trump guy too right most likely there'd be no reason we would have to hear about it there's zero current relevance to uh wayne newton so he would never shove this in front of our faces that's true um i'll just double check that before oh yeah yeah that's that's worth a google and throw it in when you say. So all of this talk aside, all of this 1997 movie talk aside, it's all distracting from that we are at last talking about a new ride. It's been a very long time since we talked about something within the four-month radius of it coming out. So this is fresh out the gate for 2021,

unless you count that it was supposed to open in 2020 and did not, obviously. Real quick, 2016, I was correct, at least. As far as 2016 is concerned, yes, their support was there. I don't know if it lasted, though. Well, it's how many people drew the line after the events of January 6th. I'm sure he is...

I'm sure Trump lost him there. Yeah, of course. There's no way. No possible way. Yes, but new ride. New exciting experience. Back to the... I like to say my famous catchphrase

that I stole from Tom Cruise, back to the movies. But today I like to say, back to ride the movies. Pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. You kind of stole that from Jason the other day too. Although if he kind of took it from you starting to do it, it's a part of the shared lexicon, I feel. I think he stole it from me.

Well, it was a homage to you. Yeah. Because I was trying to do the physicality. I was watching your video and I was watching the Tom Cruise video, and then I tried to replicate it. Yes, right. Yes. You're all tributing Tom Cruise's second most famous clip from the last year.

The distant second from the one where he yelled a bunch. Yes, he screamed at people for standing not six feet apart, I guess, not following COVID protocols. I couldn't even tell you what it was. That's the danger. We don't know the image that he's looking at. I think a lot of people were like, oh, that's good that he's taking this very seriously. We really have no idea what actually happened or what he was losing his mind about we don't know

if it was like somebody like their elbow like verged on five and a half feet and he like lost his mind and you're like oh something's wrong or if he miscalculated because they're in england so he's like converting it to meters and the standard is different between meters and feet possible so so yes i think a lot of people were like well good i mean he's taking this seriously which is important um but then you cut to the other side and there's like a like 10 year old boy so scared i'm sorry mr clues we yeah we won't we don't know for sure and i think got some other people after the fact we're like oh that's good he's taking it seriously i might not have screamed at everyone like they were children,

which is also a bad way to deal with children. But that also is kind of one of the few speeds on a film set screaming at people like they're children. Or was in the days of Scott Rudin. The classic era of Hollywood, yes, is more of a screaming time.

But this new era where we all were polite. Everyone's polite now. Oh, yeah, is more of a screaming time. But this new era where we all were polite. Everyone's polite now. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Films that aren't filled with the most gifted people you've ever met and also the dumbest motherfuckers you've ever met. I'm curious to see a shoot and see captions over who you're talking about.

Yeah, it'd be interesting. You know, it's very complicated. Oftentimes, if you slap on associate blank or associate blank, they're either the hardest working person in Hollywood or the worst failed son you've ever met. And there's really very little common ground. I hope you're talking about your specific experience of being a PA on American Gladiators

and that there's some producer on there that you're really... Oh, I've met some terrible people working on that. There's some maniacs who work in reality TV. But not the Gladiators. No, the Gladiators, by all accounts, very polite. But not the Associate Gladiators. They are dipshits. Do you still stay in touch with some of the Gladiators?

I don't stay in touch with any of the Gladiators. I do not stay in touch with Gina Carano. Thank you very much. Oh, is she one of the Gladiators. They are dipshits. Do you still stay in touch with some of the gladiators? I don't stay in touch with any of the gladiators. I do not stay in touch with Gina Carano. Thank you very much. Oh, was she one of the gladiators? Yes. When you did that, she was one of them? Yes, she was one of them. What was her name?

Yeah, I think she was. Pastario? I will look this up. Oh my gosh. That's a big revelation. How does that not come up? That's crazy. Yeah, you never said that.

Gina and Hulk in one place? I. There's so many shared interests there. Whoa. Cancel the episode. Yes, and I, yeah, offering Hulk Hogan some Nature Valley granola bars. Gina Carano was Crush. Crush?

Wow. Wow. Not as, you know, like perennially lovable as the turtle. Yeah. No, no,ially lovable as the turtle. Yeah. No, no. Not as good as that. Not as beloved as the soda orange crush. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Flip for it. Yeah, there's expiration. Wow. Interesting. I mean, the nicest people were Layla Ali, the co-host, Muhammad Ali's daughter. Sure. And the guy, Wolf.

Wolf was a real sweetheart. Wow. So if people don't know what we're talking about, Jason, like over a decade ago, was a PA on the rebooted American Gladiators. At Universal Studios? On the Universal lot? No, on the Sony lot.

On the biggest soundstage on the Sony lot. Oh, wow. Which may be where, I don't know if it's the same stage, but possibly if it's that big, it might be where Captain EO shot. I believe that was a Sony lot. That's very possible.

Audience holding soundstage, also gigantic, was where a lot of the Wizard of Oz was shot. Whoa, whoa. Also where the hanging happened. Possibly. The definitely real hanging happened. Oh, my gosh. That's where you and Wolf met. Yeah.

I'm going to stop for a second and deal with this scary. Oh, my God. Yeah. I think it's a dragonfly second and deal with this scary... Oh, my God, yeah. I think it's a dragonfly, right? I don't know. Is it? Is it a beetle? It looks like a scarab beetle. I'm not going to cut this.

I'm just going to say that I think one of the scarabs from the mummy ride at Universal is in Scott's yard. He had escaped. We aren't that far from it. I mean, Mike, you were there earlier. Did you...

Did a scarab beetle hitch a ride with you? Oh my God, can I get a picture that will actually convey this? That is a really scary bug. It's so big and black and thick. So if you hear really embarrassing screams midway through this episode, it is because it is on one of us. And if you're the most scared screams followed by silence it's that a thousand of him showed up and consumed one of us whole it's got gold like

golden wings it's kind of beautiful honestly it is beautiful it's beautiful so it's luring us is it having a problem flying i'm not sure i hope so maybe but what if it just like comes over to our feet and asks for help yeah me oh my gosh this is really wild the pest oh my god pastario you've transformed into a scarab beetle a real little pest wow um you know what not the only wildlife and not wildlife not the only animal in the yard because this is an episode about the pets ride yeah and we are joined by who just jumped into jason's lap on top of your laptop uh this is fantastic a pet that has i'm sure been on the show but not with all of us together that's right introduce uh our friend just for this episode yeah garfield the dog is here i'm watching him for the afternoon and um jane your girlfriend's yes dog uh technically partly by

wearing a sweater climbing all over you and he is um you're like dressed the same we're dressed the same and he is uh yeah i he you know you mentioned that scare of beetle and he slowly you were both watching the beetle and i was watching him he slowly backed up when he saw it he's on the other side of the yard and is wandering around now a little he is on the leash he is not wow he is literally on a leash yes appreciate it so he doesn't go eat the like lemon goo that landed under the tree uh in this yard this is uh we have like real hazards and getting there's a lot of play right now yeah yeah now a bird is calling yeah boy hope you

listeners are enjoying the out the outdoor era so better than zoom right because you get to hear us stop and talk about all the distractions um i mean i love that, I love that there is a little dog probably similar to the size of the main character in the ride, voice played by Patton Oswalt, whose name Jason knows because you made a list, you said. That's right. Downgraded from a chart to a list once you considered it. Max. Yes, Max, the star of Secret Life of Pets. Wow.

Just like Max. Yeah. it yes max yes max the star of secret life of pets wow just like max yeah not the same type as max but similar size garfield is a shih tzu a little street dog shih tzu do we know what max is off hand i think max is like a beagle or a terrier just hit his head on the microphone. You know what? This is pure chaos. This is pure pet chaos right now. I had a feeling. Because when this was, I was all for it. But when it was discussed, Garfield being here, and you said he'll probably just sleep under the chair,

I did think there's no way that's happening. No, no. He's going to get crazy. He wants kisses from Jason. He sleeps so much of the day. And now he is sitting on my lap. And he'll probably be asleep on my lap soon enough. Yeah.

I told you guys beforehand, we put the hoodie on him so he would go to sleep. And he's collapsing. He's falling over right now. I wish. Oh, my gosh. He should have a little cap on like you do as well. I wish that he had a baseball hat on like you have. Oh, yeah.

That's the only other plus up I could have to this scene. Maybe if he put little pants on him, but that would be hard. He's a real sweetheart. We had a nice long walk earlier. Well, let's get Edwin over here to your dog. Let's get my baby out. And then we'll just like, it'll be a 15% content, 85% fumbling episode. Yeah, yeah.

A lot of directing traffic. Let's real quick talk about what it was like to be back to ride the movies. Yeah. Oh, boy. Because you're fresh from it. You just did it. I was just there, yeah. We've all trickled in.

I did it a couple weeks ago. Jason, I think you did this ride as part of the the taste of universal or whatever they were calling that yes food festival yeah i was there like almost a week before universal officially reopened the reopening day was friday april 16th 2021 i was there the previous thursday and i had seen the day before, uh, uh, on Twitter, a number of people have posting. I think I saw first Todd Martins from the LA times was there and was getting on the ride.

And I messaged him and he's like, yeah, I was at tasty universal and they're doing soft openings. Uh, they're phrasing, they call it technical rehearsals, which is okay. The rise open.

You can come on and ride it. If it falls apart, you can't complain. We do not guarantee this ride will work buster keaton style yeah the building could fall for all four sides hopefully where the space left for you in the middle yeah and and the the crowds were i mean they're still pretty low out here in california but especially for these food fests they were very low so we got to do it a few times that day. Nice, nice. Yeah, I was just going to an outdoor food eating.

I was not expecting to do any rides. The surprise of getting a ride, that's tremendous. Yes, we rode this and the spinner ride in super silly fun land. Oh, boy. That's a good line. After this long ride drought, that sounds really fantastic. I mean, you're the freshest from it, Mike. How did it feel? This is your return to theme parks. Not all of us have been to one yet.

Jason's done Disneyland chronologically now. I'm heading there. Yeah, how was the return? Well, like a lot of things at this point in life, it's like you went was like you went in and it wasn't like a big, oh my gosh, I'm back. It was like walking through, like, oh yeah, this is normal. And then like parts, you'd go, oh good. Like once you'd be on a ride, you'd go, oh good. Yeah, good. Thank goodness.

It's a trickle in. It's not a big celebration of, you know, like, oh, I'm back. There's like, it's not going to be, it's not going to be like some neat coordination, like big celebration. It's not going to be like some neat coronation, like big celebration. It's just going to be like, oh, good. I've had that with moments of getting back to regular life where it just lasted so long and it's all been so annoying and just like an overlap with so much other annoyingness in the world that some things have been pure bliss, heavenly, and other things have been like, yeah, good, damn it. Yeah.

That's right. It's about time. I did feel, the most I felt sort of like wistful was definitely at the end of the pets ride. And that's partly because of not going to these places for so long and partly because I am a sucker for pets and a dog and too emotionally wrapped up, probably too much in pets and Edwin and the dog. Yeah. A nice thing happens, and then there's a big party for you at the end.

That is the conclusion of this ride. Yes. I woke up too late today, and I was also like, I felt like I wanted to get there earlier. So I stressfully walked into Universal Studios for the first time in like a year and a half. And then like, oh, then you relax a little bit. It wasn't immediate. Yeah.

It wasn't immediate for me either because I was like, well, we're in the gate. We're actually in it. Excuse me. Would you be available to do a quick survey? Oh, yeah. Look, hey, normally, yes, i love to help with that i know that the feedback actually matters i'll do the thing online but oh my god right look i haven't done this in so long i have nothing to talk about i literally have no theme park experience from the

last year and change yeah i saw them i thought they were going to ask me because there were two people standing with the with the uh whatever ipads and i was like are they going to ask me and then the trick is and i don't know if we probably talked about this before, supposedly is you make eye contact with them and then they won't ask you usually. They're not supposed to ask you if it looks like you want to talk to them. Supposedly, again, somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but supposedly the idea is that they're supposed to just sample the audience or sample the park goers by finding people who would not want to talk to them. So that's more of a random for whatever reason.

So if you look at them like eagerly, they're not going to pick you. Now, what if you make a beeline right for them and you say, can I take a survey? I think if you do that with that voice. Yeah. If you say say can i take a survey i think it's not if you do that with that voice yeah if you say can i take a survey and with no mask with no yeah rip your mask off and have a little like a grinch like smile curling and go can i take a survey if you do that then they will for sure say yes and then they'll let you. The dog is now trying to like hug Jason. Oh, boy. It makes so much sense for this episode.

He's stepping on Jason's phone. He loves to do this when I am trying to sleep. Jason, close your legs so we can have a lap to sit on. Oh, okay. Wait, no. Now he's jumping. Now he's jumping off. And it's wrapping up in the mic cord.

And he's wrapping up in the microphone. Oh, my gosh. He's going to pull this mic over. Oh, boy. I wish we were filming the whole thing. Let's hire videographers quickly. And now he's smiling because he's proud of himself. He should be.

Great smile on this guy. The park was, I think, partly because they're only still not loading full ride vehicles on a lot of these things. I went to that lower lot, and I was like, these wait times are really long. Yeah. Unless you go early, they're still pretty long. So I really got a chance to do Jurassic World and this, and that was about it.

Oh, yeah. I hate to say it, but early is part of it. I should have gone early, yeah. It's easier for me. Parent hours are up at 6 a.m. all the time. So we were like, yes, sure, let's get to it. But I have a gold pass, so I'll be back. You can immediately.

Yeah, yeah. Good rule of thumb if you're going to Universal Studios Hollywood, whether it's now time or normal times, go right to the lower lot. Because everyone else waits until later in the morning or midday to go down there, and it just crunches so bad and single single riders not back yet single riders not back oh yeah which is another thing because i forgot all about that and then i that that because like i was like well single right and get right on a couple of these and it's like they don't do that right now at least because of the protocols which i don't

know if that really matters that much i'm not uh I get the idea. You know what's great, though, with it is that you get a lot of ride vehicles to yourself. Well, yes. I was front row, and we'll talk about this on a different episode, I was front row on Jurassic World. Oh, hell yeah. Alone. No one else in the entire. No, there were people behind me. But like many rows.

Those are not very populated. Exactly. I think the idea, listener, is that we're going to talk a little more about extra universal stuff and maybe that Indominus Rex over on the second gate at patreon.com slash podcast to ride. So further universal thoughts because you need them all. You need to collect them all. So we'll do the broader scope there. I'm trying to think just quick hits.

I mean, yeah, getting to do rides where it's almost only you in the vehicle. Another reason to go straight for that lower lot. Honestly, one of the best parts for me being back there was the Starway. There was a real victorious nature to that Starway. And I don't think, it's not like I had an inherent love of it before. Some attractions, we talk about it and then I love it more. I wasn't sure how I felt. I had so much fun talking about the Starway and the Evil Starway, also on the second gate.

Yeah. That suddenly now, for some reason, I was raring to be back there. Also, just like, you know, I've kind of like, I've lived now several places and lived and worked several places, like in the view that you get at the top of the Starway. And it's such a like triumphant, like, you know, we were all stuck in our rooms for so long and we'd pined for the view, the Lion King-esque view of the kingdom. Yes. Of the North Hollywood general area. I felt like we finally rose above it. And I'm looking down on all these great places where I've had great memories and that are starting to open up again.

There's something about that top of the star way. There was just like a grand vista nature of it that I really liked. It's a beautiful view of the San Fernando Valley. Yeah. that I really liked. It's a beautiful view of the San Fernando Valley. There's that golf course there that I think we're all hoping is finally bought by Universal to be turned into another theme park. Or get the condos over there so we don't have to worry about them muscling in because there's been a lot of talk about what do you do with that lot. And the most boring plan, obviously the most boring plans for anything always are expensive condos.

Yes. So let's keep that off the lot and put that over in the boring, you know, in the residential zone. I agree. Oh, I agree. Yeah. And the other quick note I'll have of being on top of the Starway is, of course, the Nintendo Land View. My favorite thing is to look at construction in progress. And boy, they cannot hide it there's

impossible to hide it like sometimes galaxy's edge you could see things from oh if you go to this part of the top of this and but like this is there's no way to hide it it's just you're going to be going down the escalators you can see the whole thing you go to you go to the queue of jurassic world and it's just like open you You just can see inside. Yeah, they don't really block it. And it has just moved in the recent past from just being like a lot of construction and clearly there's a lot and it's an impressive space, but there's nothing like colorful to look at. And now we have the green Mario Hills

and you get a sense of how awesome that is going to look, especially from the Starway, which some dullards out there might say that having to take all these escalators is boring and perfunctory. But now you're going to have this epic view of like, like up above, like you don't get to descend into galaxy's edge. With this, you're going to get to see this, the scope of this bright, vibrant land as you land from above. It's going to be great.

Yeah, it's like sort of the level select screen in a lot of ways as you go down. Like a map. Yeah, like when you're playing a video game, you can see sort of the level, and there's a smaller version of it before you select it. So you can select Jurassic World. You can select the Brendan Fraser mummy, and then you can see the Mushroom Kingdom there, and you can select that as well. And that all is accessible from your good friend,

the Starway. That's right. Yeah. Thanks to the Starway. Yeah. No way of getting... We'd have to jump. We'd have to jump from the parking garage. I, in this... You know what? I also really... I shouldn't... We could talk about this all day, but, like, we were on the Starway, and I was just like, the music is pumping.

I'm loving this vibe. I guess it's just being outside, and there's a beat, a loud beat. They turn that music up a little louder than they do at Disney. I like a douchey Vegas pool party. Maybe that's where I'm just like, yeah, hell yeah. They didn't play Gasolina, but I would have lost my mind if they played Gasolina. Were they playing It's Gonna Be a Lovely Day by Lunch Money Lewis featuring Amine? Can you give me a couple, like 10 seconds of it to know what that song is?

No, it's just a song that plays at the end of Pats. It's from the Secret Lives of Pats soundtrack. Oh, okay. Oh. They were playing Do the Bartman. I was loving it. They were playing Do the Bartman as I was going down. Yeah.

They played it twice. They played it as I was going down. On the escalator, not in the simulator? No, no, no. Right as I was walking to the escalator. Sorry. I don't think I knew they played Do the Bartman, though, in general. I didn't know for a little while, but I think a couple years ago when I was, and I think

I said it on the Harry Potter Three Broomsticks episode. I think they play it. I was eating outside, and I was like, Do the bartman's playing while i'm in hogwarts it's but that's so great because as a simpsons fan i think every simpsons fan can agree that one of the best things the show ever did was do the bartman and you're not a true simpsons fan am i a simpsons fan uh everybody if you can can, do the Bartman. Everybody, if you can, do the man can. I mean, we all, it's our favorite. Hey, what's happening, dude? I'm a boy that's something to being rude or whatever.

I mean, I had a cassette of it, so I can't act like it's not burned in my brain in a lot of ways. But it's fun to hear it because I don't hear it a lot. So, like, that's, they play. It's not exactly a radio song I don't hear it a lot. So, like, that's... There's no other. It's not exactly a radio song. No. Or in the supermarket. And the rest of it is all, like, Alf Clausen, you know, orchestral Simpson stuff.

Sure. But then, you know, you rock a little to do the barman. Like, that's a little bit more of a rockin'... The rockin' song. Rockin' song. So, I was vibing on the Bartman. Like that's a little bit more of a rocking, the rocking, rocking song. Um, so I was vibing on the music today. Like there was some, some pop hits and Bartman's and I was enjoying that.

Jeez. They didn't play any of the Beatles, but you get a different type of Beatles. If you go into the mummy ride, that's a good point. And in the CR, which I, by the way,

I think the bug died. Just dead. It's right over there. Oh, God. It hasn't moved. Either that or it's pregnant with the tiny scarab. No. It's going to, like, a bunch are going to burst out right now.

I don't know. I mean, it hasn't moved. We're watching beetle labor? Like, whoopee. The beetle might have died. I mean, I feel bad. I don't. As my older age, I really don't even like to kill bugs anymore.

Oh, my God. But it's just sitting there, and it's, like, about eight feet from me or so ten feet and it's just I can see right that's it right Scott I god yeah maybe I think it'd be oh boy well a scary endeavor and I can't help but think it would have been a little better if I'd gotten my coffee nice right we get everybody gets it right that's that he gets is that a scarab moment or not oh is that like just like a ghost gets him that's at the that's how where the ride ends in florida it's a ghost gets him um but it also like that outburst is very similar to what tom cruise had on the set of mission possible as well so that's both in both the reference to scarabs and to tom

cruises and both of the members of the Mummy franchise. Oh, right. Very good point. Of different, I guess, different Mummy franchises. They should just, yeah, they should flip out the Fraser thing with the Tom Cruise rant at the end of that, too. Yeah, yeah, sure. Get them together into the Mummyverse. Why not? Let's roll. As I always say about all this IP stuff, let's roll in the slop.

Let's roll in the slop like pigs and enjoy it. As bad as it could be team everyone up let's do it um all right let's let's get into this ride a little bit um the serial life of pets this is i one i may have said this on the show before one very strong memory i have of uh the pandemic hitting was that i have like a spreadsheet that says what episodes are maybe in there that we put out and what are coming up. And I remember specifically like, oh, March, we got Secret Life of Pets. That'll be fun to go see that and then talk about it as soon as it's open.

And then at some point around March or April, just deleting that square permanently. Not permanently, but removing it. I'm like, I think we can safely say this won't be on the 2020 podcast the ride schedule uh bummer um but uh not the worst thing that happened no no no no the worst thing would be the cancellation of peacock fest the celebration of the new peacock streaming service that was also going to have a big uh marquee you know uh ride. Come see your favorite stars, your favorite NBC Universal stars, and ride the new Secret Lies of Pets ride.

Secret Lies of Pets, of course, not available on Peacock, neither of them. The first one is available for you to rent from your favorite rental service. The second one is streaming on Netflix, and that just goes to show the quality of Peacock curation. There's all those crazy, like, that, you know, I mean, this one's, like, I guess people know the ownership of this show. But you do go, oh, an NBC streaming service, huh?

Oh, finally, a place where I can watch Friends. Well, no. No, that's on Warner. Why? It was on NBC. Well, no, because the ownership is on Warner Produce Show. And then vice versa. There's NBC things on peak.

Like, you have to know what companies made things to be able to chart all of this, which, unfortunately, I do. I do know what companies made shows that I've never seen one minute of. So I can navigate some of these things sometimes, but it's still. Sure. There's a lot of like pre work to do to go watch anything yeah a lot of a film degree is them telling you like okay this is difference between distributor a producer a network and a production company regular people don't know this yeah okay that took 20 minutes

now what are you going to teach us? Something more interesting, please. Something. Yeah, they don't even have, you'd think like, well, their biggest franchise, maybe one of the biggest in the world, Fast and Furious. Okay, we have four. No, we have five. We have six.

We maybe have seven. We don't have the rest. What? But, okay, TNT, if you get the TNT app, you can watch one. And then if you get the DBS app, you can watch the other. So it's scattered to the wind, but you wouldn't, and Fast and Furious 9 is about to come out. You wouldn't think you would want your biggest movies?

Yeah, get them all. Get them there. Yeah, yeah. There was going to be a Fast and Furious presence at Peacock Live, which I went and looked up our email about, which was sometimes we get emails that are like, you want to come check this thing out for free? Sometimes there's free things that we get, not very often,

but once in a while, and we're very excited, and that's cool. This email seemed to be, so for just $99, you could see Elizabeth Berkabeth berkeley and bill krebs the executive producer of good girls but i might have paid that oh and a preview of the 2020 tokyo olympics this email is bizarre to look at now but then like oh a little late with lily sing the panel of the show that'll be on forever and then uh but you were maybe gonna get to see jay leno talk to dennis mccarthy the picture car coordinator for the fast and furious franchise that i actually would pay to see that's i mean that i would consider you're gonna hear anybody

i think that uh my friend tommy pointed out about jay l Garage. You're like, oh, a comedian doing a car show. That must be funny. No. He asks very dry car questions. This is not funny to him. Monica Lewinsky, that's to joke about. Cars, this is serious business. They do like one bit an episode, though. Yeah, he allows one, but it's very, yeah, you're right. It's like an island outside of the info.

Yeah. It should not be tampered, unlike us us who weave it all in and out. You never know. What a tapestry, folks. Facts and jokes and stories. Dogs and beetles. You never know what's going to hit you. My goodness.

What a podcast this is. Yeah. So where was I? We missed Peacock Live is the point. And so we didn't get to get that preview of this. But it eventually came. Yeah. So this is one of the big things I did think about throughout the pandemic is that this ride was ready to maybe the most new, ready to open. It was so close to turning the keys and starting the thing.

And then it all went down. So, yeah. And crazy when you think of the scope of it, because the big headline with this attraction is animatronics. So many animatronics. I think a press release said 64 all told in this attraction. And that's a lot to be just sitting around not doing anything. Not turned on.

Yeah, this and Avengers Campus were starting media previews and I think about to start annual pass holder previews in Universal's case at least. You mean last year? Yeah, last year. Oh, Avengers, I don't think was done. Huh? Avengers

finished a couple months ago, I think. Oh, yeah, sorry. It wasn't, but there were media tours. Oh, they were doing like hard hat stuff. Yeah, hard hat stuff, taste the food, that sort of thing. It would have been by end of year. I don't remember. Avengers was supposed to open in the summer last year. Yeah, last summer.

Like June or July in the summer. But I'm just saying, I think Pets was truly sitting finished. Pets was ready to go. Yeah, versus Avengers, which I think they ended up being delayed a little bit, and they finished a couple months ago. So they have created with this attraction kind of a little, I don't think it's called this by anyone other than us, but maybe we

let's just call it illumination alley yes there's a section that is a little narrow in stretches yeah it is pretty very like new york cramped this is a new york themed attraction and it butts pretty close right up to the despicable me minion mayhem ride and these are to talk about production companies as in your film school these all made by the same studio illumination despicable me they're they're crown jewel but secret life of pets a big franchise too yeah i loved i actually didn't even realize this until today when i did it that it was right there which i thought was very cool that it was right there because universally you know we all know it's a kind of a universal hollywood is a weird layout hard podge podge and this did make

the area there feel like oh it's its own little thing here actually cohesive yeah absolutely and and it it does start to disrupt this odd we've never really talked about it is weird that whole zone up there on the upper lot that's just like streets of the world oh is it like epcot world showcase where you experience different cultures and foods nah it's like crappy pizza yeah okay are there like different attractions representing like a boat ride of old london no it is nothing truly there's not a thing there's like a moulin rouge um uh windmill that's about all you got. There's an Irish bar, but not the full-sized Irish bar and restaurant like in Orlando. This is more like a railroad apartment that you can walk through and get a plastic shot glass of Jameson.

It's so small. It is so small. Very sadly small. Is a full bar? Am I right on that? Yeah, and I think that is like a hard liquor place, which does not really sound good to me. Like, let me grab shots quick, usually.

At least Universal I associate with heat very often. Yeah. So I don't really want, yeah, like the, and it gets so odd in the summer. So in 110 Degree, I don't want that Jameson shot necessarily. But some people do. And that, Universal is the funniest because the space is so odd and the four o'clock crunch where people who've come to the park halfway through the day arrive people have been there all day arrived

everything has a long wait and some people are just hammered like universal hollywood is you don't get it i think people get crankier at disneyland but universal hollywood is you don't get it i think people get crankier at disneyland but universal hollywood uh people sometimes just show up to have a good time we gotta do i've never actually done anything and i've never had anything in there they have a lot of golden they have the mango cart uh well that's delicious my fruit juice the beer that tastes like baby my baby alcohol yeah no i love mango cart, sure. And they also had Tall Boys of White Claw. Sure. At a lot of the restaurants.

More baby juice for Michael. More baby juice. More cocoa juice for Michael. My sweets. Yeah, that'd be a good before Horror Nights or something. That's a good... Well, I think that's more of a... I think because Horror Nights attracts

a much younger crowd as well, that's a good well i think that's more of a uh i think because horror nights attracts uh uh you know a much younger crowd as well they and and locals and stuff you know it's more of a locals park universal hollywood i think of um i feel like horror nights in orlando they're like yeah come do the haunted houses and come get hammered but horror nights out here i feel like they kind of are really strict about it yeah they, they're a little more. It's less of a free-for-all, boozy free-for-all out here. I'm realizing now, and we'll talk about this on the Jurassic World, there's not enough time.

I noticed the kids and adults both alike are wearing a lot of big pants lately. I'm seeing that big pants are back in. Bag your stuff. 1999 wrestling tag team, the Hardy Boys, giant J like, JNCO pants. I was like, well, I guess this is back.

It's throughout the day, really? Yeah. I was like, huh, this style is back, I guess. I think someone bought JNCO a few years ago. I think someone bought it with startup money. I don't know anything about it. And Gecko is back. I'm always getting ads for that Gecko Hawaii on Instagram.

We'll talk about big pants on Patreon, though. We don't have time. Mostly big pants. Yeah. So there's a little corner here that is all in the same illumination verse, which is really nice. And both show buildings are not show. Well, like, you know, the exteriors both look in the same universe. Yeah, yeah.

Because they aren't like, it's not like a house style at that company but they're certainly like adjoining they definitely fit well together so yeah i love that i love that those that all ties together it did have to be this did cause the demise of the globe theater yes universals event space personal significance for me because it's where i i did the first of three steps of auditioning to be a tour guide the big like open right call was there um there was also that was also the site of a a tour guide or maybe just an employee-wide film festival uh that happened that they made Ron Meyer the real universal executive who has a lot to do who was like several years later was like trying to be a

peace broker in the leno conan like he was like a legitimately a player and all that he had to sit and watch a bunch of like little movies where people dressed up like cowboys or whatever um i won i won an award at the oh wow slide that in really fast whoa i don't even know if we've talked about that before and i don't you know uh we've talked about that before. And I don't, you know, I've never won a, I was nominated for a Writers Guild award once and you get like a certificate. So that was the only like trophy I think I've ever. Do you have it with you? No, it broke at some point in time in a move or something.

So the one, it was a nice looking award, but it did break. But it felt, it was, they put on a good, fake, fancy air, and there was a real important executive who was probably not paying attention, but I got to feel like it was a mini Oscars. Wow. Nice. That was great.

So I obviously was upset to see this removed. How many more important events could have happened? How many more proms and retirements could have? People would have problems at that place, right? My school did. I think there, there may have been,

we were just talking about, uh, this hasn't come out yet. We were talking about problems and not going to, I think there was a problem I didn't go to at this venue. Oh, interesting. I,

I even want, I discovered the, um, Disney, uh, meetings and events, YouTube page where they have little commercials set up for like rent this space at the Yacht Club Hotel for your event. And there was literally just videos that was called like have your prom at the Grand Floridian. And if your high school can afford to rent space at the Grand Floridian,

congrats! Everything's going to be real easy for you from here on out, I guess. You go to Mar-a-Lago High. Wow, I am jealous of the kids that went to the Grand Floridian and you got to go to prom at Universal Studios. Man, I was deprived. Where was your prom? Where was it at? Kids that went to the Grand Floridian and you got to go to prom at Universal Studios. Yeah. Man.

I was deprived. What was your prom? Where was it at? Portillo's. Hotel. Yeah, Portillo's. Then we went to Lou Malnati's afterward. We had hot dogs and then deep dish and then that was it.

We slow danced in a deep dish pizzeria. Sausage link corsage for your date. Yeah, that's right yes you removed the sausage from around the girl's leg during the during the dance that's right yes uh great prom show yeah oh man that's so that would have been nice to go to universal be near a theme park but no more of this they're gonna have to figure out a new new event space uh um so my experience with this um got to the park this was the first thing i went to i didn't go straight to the to the lower lot uh because this is new i want to make sure i hit this immediately not open like

9 15 not not being run yet and i've heard there's been that going throughout we uh decided to wait it out because we had a we had so much luck with that. The one time when there was like, I think the Ratatouille ride when we were in Disney Studios Paris had been out for so long and we were like, if we just put in five more minutes,

I think we might get it and we got it and walked right on. So with that as a guide, like we always have to at least try, like try to wait it out and we did and jumped on it, which was great and, like, really invigorating after all this time. Just like, oh, my God, we're in a line. This is nuts.

This is a screen. This is a robot. However, a couple things hurt the experience. One, maybe not a ride that you want to move through too fast. Right. I guess in COVID era because you want to be inside for too long. But this is such a detailed line and we'll we'll get into that um the other thing unfortunately for me there are animatronics in the line great good thing um whatever fix they did to get the ride open by 9 15

did not include the line animatronics so those were not running everything was still yeah yeah bummer because they seem good the wiener you didn't see the wiener dog, you didn't see Buddy. Oh, man. There was some great... Maybe him, because he's a little more limited. I mean, you get the effect. The wiener dog who is in a kitchen

kind of getting his butt rubbed by what? Like a blender? Kitchen aid mixer. Okay, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Buddy, voiced by Hannibal Buress,

that character. Gotcha. But yeah, there are larger animatronics. Larger, a lot of movement. Oh, okay, gotcha. But yeah, there are larger animatronics, larger, a lot of movement. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were still playing the audio, so you got the idea,

and everybody was just walking through, ah, darn. I watched a video of it, it seemed pretty great. Did you guys know any of what was coming, or did you go spoiler-free? I saw some pictures of things, but I was spoiler-free. I saw some pictures of things but i was spoiler free i saw like the big when i get spoiler alert any about this whole thing but like when you

kind of first start the first big big room of the city i saw a picture of what that looked like but i didn't know anything about the queue um i didn't know anything about any of the like further rooms or anything so i was pretty fresh going into this um so yeah so i guess yeah a little bit of the q stuff um and i was thinking about this in general like the q is basically like you're in a nice apartment you're in a nice new york doh new york clean hip like yeah all the characters most of the characters live in a building to get different apartments in a building. And I was thinking about this. Basically, there's a couple others.

We've talked a lot about Mickey's house recently. I think that was recently. It could have been nine months. It could have been two months. I don't know. It feels recent. But we talked about Mickey's house. And I think on the Horror Nights, whenever we talked about that a year and a half ago i talked about the us house yeah based on jordan peele's movie us and that has a part where it's just a living

room uh-huh there's i i'm sure i said something along the lines i love like approximations of real life in themed experiences because then when something fantastical or weird happens it makes my brain believe it more like it feels interesting like I've tried to think about like if something like look we're in a backyard we're in your backyard here like if it was just look like this and you walked into it and then something

fantastical happened it would actually like do it kind of a different thing than like you're walking through the Indiana Jones queue and that's prepping you for being in a different magical place you're in Hogwarts or whatever yeah which is great that's a whole different great experience but there is something about being in something that looks like real life and then seeing something cool or weird that does something different that I really appreciate and I was like walking through and I go oh this is that like us feeling where we were standing in a living room and then got attacked and i was like because it

just feels like you're in somebody's house and then something awful is about to happen to me but in this obviously something very fun and whimsical and cool happened things happen but yeah it does feel like like lived in but like and just accurately like it's not a cartoon version of a house. Right. You do feel like you're, you're in some, which is seems like on the one hand, you might say, isn't that the, one of the easiest things to do is to build it, but to actually make it feel real and lived in, I don't even know what qualities I would be curious to hear

a, you know, not an imagine a universal ear talk about what, like what are the odds and ends to make it feel like a real apartments that are important sure i'm sure yeah there's a philosophy they i mean they would have to have some yeah some sort of philosophy about how to like make it real but a little surreal i would wonder what the actual like scale of everything is because it's not quite the same scale as like a normal couch or chair it's a little bigger so i think they probably have all these different interesting rules that we don't know that that help make it like just a little off from your real life but enough to make you kind of go like oh it's nice i could i would live in here it's

probably cost six thousand dollars a month to rent it in new york uh i i like that i would like more of that and i think i would even like more of that with a scarier weirder ride that is like just a normal place and then something fucked up happens or something crazy like whether it's like you're in an apartment and like a transformer rips the side of a wall off or something like that yeah would be really cool yeah that's so shocking and you feel like comfortable for a minute and then that's ripped away from you. I think that's what it is. The word comfortable is what I'm responding to,

because you feel very comfortable in some of these experiences, and then you get hit with, yeah, whether it's whimsy or magic or terror. Yeah, this, of course, leans towards the whimsy. Of course. You're seeing the whimsical world of what pets do when their owners are not at home of course yes you talk about comfort also i think that jason got to go on this first and i think everybody kind of breezed through the line however you did with jason's headline i think right away was there's chairs like you could sit if you're waiting in

the line there is chair it's like it's it is truly like someone could write a like a a paper on this a white it's like they're the simulation of they are chairs they function as chairs they appear to be chairs but they're not fabric they're like fiberglass and plastic it's like mickey's house it's like mickey sits in hard chairs is what we figured out. Mickey likes hard couches and chairs. The cartoon should be soft. Right. There's a disconnect there. There's mail slots.

There's practical mail slots that you can fiddle a little. But you look in and you see the simulation of an interior. You see a screen. Yes. There are some screens and projections on this ride. But I think they're used very thoughtfully. Oh, yeah. With a lot of neat little tricks.

Detail. And this is one of those, there's no way we'll ever be able to say all the cool little things because I'm sure we missed half of them. There's tons of little references, little jokes. There's a lot of little Minions gags.

That is, if you're going to say Illumination has a signature, the Minions are their biggest hit. So there's a little dog at the end dressed in a Minion costume, which I believe happens in the second movie. Sure. Oh, I missed that. Oh, wow.

Hidden Minions. Hidden Minions. They have a new thing. That's good. There's like, yeah, there's like how many? I'm trying to think. There's like two rooms with very impressive animatronics talking to you. And the one right before you get on the ride is the rabbit, right?

It's Snowball. Snowball. Thank you. And that felt very Rocket Raccoon to me. Yeah. That felt like a similar vibe of like he's kind of telling us what to do. But before that, you get a room with, and again, the two characters. Max and Duke.

Max and Duke. Currently voiced by Patton Oswalt and Eric Stonestreet. Currently, yes. Now, currently. Max was originally voiced by Louis C.K. and they're like, well. Maybe we'll return to the role at some point. You know.

Secret Life 3? I think it's possible. So Duke is the bigger dog, right? Duke is the big. Yeah. And those are great. It's like you could have been you could just be the cue and I think you'd be like man that was a fun little cue like I got oh that was just a walkthrough absolutely

yeah I got so much of again well at least for us like what we like from all this stuff you kind of get so much of it just in the cue it's like yeah you would I feel like you would feel like oh that was good that's cute little thing yeah there was such elation in that line and there's you know i would like to like go through it slower but the but the speed of being there was right at opening we just had to whip through it everybody i felt it was just you could tell

it was all people who haven't been on a ride in a long time and there was the euphoria of that just so much giggling and this and this and you know you're missing a thousand things but it makes you want to come back yes yes yeah i i think also um because i wrote in technical rehearsals the ride did stop once or twice uh when i was riding and then we got stopped in the queue for a little while and it very slowly started moving so i did get a chance to like like, examine a lot of stuff. And that probably gave me the distraction of, like, I'm in a room full of strangers. Like, you know, like, it probably helped ease me back into polite society. Oh, yes, being here.

I know. I know. It is a weird thing in a way. Okay. The bug is moving again. The scarab is not dead. It is moving, and something is going on. Is that because the eggs have been laid?

Maybe. Dear God. It was sitting there, and I go, oh, it's for sure. I've been thinking, oh, for sure. It's dead for 20 minutes. No, no, no, no. Now it is something. It's got something going on, and it is moving again.

So let's keep an eye on it. I believe beetle is one of the bark worse than their bite kind of, but good to have them, like ladybugs, you know, or spiders. Maybe we're good at bugs. Maybe beetles are good. Yeah, so when they... Well, it'll be good

when a bunch of babies fly into your mouth. Well, sure. Good luck, by the way. Either this episode ends normally or it ends with our full swallowing. Death is only the beginning.

I won't lie. I do want the episode to end in a barrage of tiny beetles. We'll see. 50-50 chance, I'd say. Jason, the speed at which you went on this ride because of some slowdowns and stuff, I think maybe they had not worked out the kinks on this early morning visit for me because this was the slowest ride I've ever been on in my life. You could tell, like, I didn't know the pace of it at first,

but once you're, like, after the crawl, I feel like I'm in the first room for a full minute, and you get like you know like enough time to have a sizable conversation with each animatronic and i'm like i don't think this is right i think i could tell the like the pace that this is supposed to have i don't hold it against i find it kind of charming that like oh this is really made by human beings this is not just like a well-oiled machine like they are still figuring it out but it was comical after a while and you know having not been on a ride in a long time it was pretty great to be

on a ride for 15 minutes it was wow really it yeah it really crunched along where you like felt little vibrations butterfly a nice bug um like you there were just things that you could tell were supposed to be a whip around and now you're in front of this. There is a cat that is a scary cat with scary lightning lighting. I forget because it was the cat chewing on a wire. I don't remember the context. But you could tell it was the kind of thing in a ride that's supposed to be, look over here, a scary thing, oh, my God, and now the next thing. And instead it was like, look over here for a solid 45 seconds.

Most of the ride-through videos online are about six minutes. So slow moving they want families to do this uh uh with you know i think with little kids i read i think on theme park insider the height requirement we had talked about amongst ourselves it's like 34 inches and they were speculating that is less because of any whips or movement on the ride and more like oh the kid has to be a certain height to get the augmented reality the like puppy vision like to line up with the camera because that's a big part of this ride there's like two or three moments where you look at a screen but it's disguised as like a window um or a mirror and you see yourself as a puppy because you're a little stray dogs

that's the long and short of the ride you're a little stray dogs and max and duke are helping you get cleaned up so you can get adopted yes you're forever home yes yes sweet phrase it's in the pr i forget if it's in the ride um so yeah you get turned into a puppy and it goes by quick although you get like a longer run at the end. But just, you know, move your arms a little, wave your arms a little, and you'll see the, you know, the augmented reality. You get pause. Work on your little dog, too.

And I think there's, like, several dozen dogs that you could be. I think they vary that up a lot. There's a mix of dogs. There's a mix of families who will go like, wow, that's fun. Yes, you're being prepped for adoption, and then at the end, a family picks you, and it's very heartwarming. And we were following along with our family, which it's great that they really line it up with your vehicle. And then we looked back to see what the other ones were and don't quote me on this um because it wasn't mine but i think further down the line i think there was a same-sex couple which oh my god in theme park history really

has there been this i hope i'm not making that up and that is a real thing that is nice that they did. I think I saw that, too. Well, that's good. Because I think I got stuck at that point, and I think I saw, like, five families go by. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. I think I saw a number of families. But, yeah. You have a one in 1,000 chance of getting a same-sex couple to adopt you on this ride. That's how you win the ride. Which is as close to how a corporation will allow it at this point.

Smattering will start easing you into the water. But I mean, when have you seen that? When have you seen any depiction of anything other than the most binary? It's generally a quick thing. Yeah. Generally a quick thing if it's, yes, cartoon. Certainly a diverse selection of families, different configurations. That's true, too.

Couples and ethnicities and number of kids and that sort of thing. So it's, and couples and uh ethnicities and and number of kids and that sort of thing so it's and it's all yeah it's just very positive like this ride is just very like positive and nice it was nice after these 14 months it was a nice ride yeah the most yeah the most conflict is there's some fireworks going off really that's like the most like like yes conflict or most uh which the more i thought about i was like huh i don't did they mean that to be darkly funny because dogs fucking hate fireworks and they're getting shot around the fireworks warehouse that's as twisted as the ride gets set off fireworks that's the revenge by the twisted alley cats who are the I guess antagonists.

They don't even seem that bad. The mild antagonists. Yeah, they're fine. I mean, that's like the scariest part of the ride. But it's not. Look, it's not that scary, okay? Good, good kid ride, which Universal was in short supply of. It's been said a lot by various

people. This is a ride Universal needed. Definitely something they did not have in various categories. of it's been said a lot by various people this is a ride universal needed definitely something they did not have in various categories just kids slow moving uh there yeah there's despicable me but if you're you know if you're not into 3d or even the jostling is maybe too much for some kids like this is i think anybody could go on it um and then and obviously the the animatronic thing that they have not had a slow-moving animatronic based attraction since they callously ripped out our friends et and botanicus and the then the mannequin police officers yeah and meep meep and glug glug and... Flop Flop. Blue Loop and whatever. Blue Loop.

Blue Chew? Blue Chew. Blue Chew. My good friend, Blue Chew. Both Blue Chew and Blue Loop. The... They both stole their names from E.T.'s friends. E.T.'s parents, Blue Chew and Blue Loop.

And Blue Loop. E.T.'s parents need your helpw and Blue Loop. And Blue Loop. E.T.'s parents need your help. Mom, Daddy. They miss their son. Blue Loop. As soon as you get to the green planet, be sure to look for Blue Loop and Blue Chew. I'm counting on you, and so is E.T. Oh, man.

So do all those guys. Which truly, like, you know, the E.T., you know, like, I guess it had to go, but it did fill a void. It was, like, there's a reason it's in, like, sort of the kids area in Universal Florida, and this is just an area that Universal Hollywood was not covering for a long time. It didn't have to go. It didn't have to go. I don't even know why I'm saying that. I went on that, like, I went on Mummy.

I hadn't been on this Mummy in a long time. It is stupid. It's a stupid ride. That ending is so bad. It's just quick. It's quick. Yeah's a stupid ride. That ending is so bad. It's quick. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not mad the mummy, that even bad version of the mummy's there, just E.T. did not have to go. There was no

reason, other than them thinking they were going to do something that was going to really drive traffic to the park and maybe, I don't know, maybe it did in the short term, but the long term game, E.T. was a better play. I think maybe they might realize that now but maybe they don't maybe they're still in their mind they can replace stuff after his uh appearance as

a senator in the deep background of one of the prequels yeah but that where that completely restored the et franchise people were so excited to see senator greeley scrub bleep grib bloops what is his name was it sp Spielberg backwards? Yeah, yeah. Grebleeps. Grebleeps. Yeah. Wait, is it E.T. and Senator Grebleeps? I'm not sure. Are they different characters, are you asking?

Well, no, I know they're different characters, but are they both in that little Senate pod? That little pod? Or is it just Grebleeps? They were doing a pod before we had to. It's not Zarak. E.T.'s real name is, of course, Zarak. But I uh it's not zarak at's real name is of course zarak but it's i think it's just the et species yeah it's a bunch of ets but it's not et himself he doesn't i do not believe that et is in yeah that's what i mean i'm just double checking i don't think that's right i mean et is a scientist if you read the book the green planet

he's very smart that is crazy though if he goes and has an adventure on earth in 1982 and then ends up as a senator like in the birth of all of the events of star wars what a life yeah star wars is a long time in the past oh that's right so that doesn't well maybe with some warps and tunnels or whatever that traverse a galaxy far far away you know yeah that's true so who knows he can time travel too he can spin the clock back there's a lot of you i've been tracking there's a lot of ufo talk lately um that i'm intrigued by and i'm not necessarily thinking like oh it's for sure like aliens something weird seems like it's going on though i would say whether it's weird technology or something. But, would I love it if it was like, yep,

Botanicus is real. He's on a little pod, and he's been messing with pilots, Air Force pilots, for the last 20 years. I mean, what a dream would that be? If it was like, one of our beloved IPs is real. That would be maybe the dream. Help me scramble more jets.

Help me crash more of your people. It's my mission. I hate the Air Force specifically, and I want to mess with them. I am Botanicus. I'm screwing with pilots in the Air Force. It's just a thing I do. When Harrison Ford crashed, that was me.

He was flying an old World War II plane. I didn't like that he took time away from, that Raiders took time away from my sequel. Yeah. I never got to be in the movies because Steven got distracted. Yeah. So I tried to kill Harrison Ford.

But that man is unkillable. I dropped the Millennium Falcon door on him as well. I'll keep trying. Please help me. Help me kill Harrison. Hurry. Botanicus is real. That's what we're going to find out.

We'll see. Botanicus is real, folks. I don't have much more I got to say it. That's what we're going to find out. We'll see. Botanic Kiss is real, folks. I don't have much more I got to say it. That's pretty good. Look. Hey, look. Look, Jack. Hey, Mac.

All right. Go to Teakley and then... All right. Man. Look, old Joe needs your help, okay? Go find E.T.'s friends. Go find Teakley, okay? They replaced Joe.

It's for the good of the nation. Replacing Spielberg with Biden on the E.T. ride. Ah, E.T.'s friends. Go find Tinkley, okay? They replaced you. It's for the good of the nation. Replacing Spielberg with Biden on the E.T. ride. Ah, E.T. That's how you make it relevant. Yeah. Look, Joe needs your help, man. Look, man, look. You gotta do it for me.

All right, so here's another thing. Now, we said the plot of this ride is that your friends, Max and Duke are helping you. Your strays, and they're helping you find help. And I kind of knew this because I read what the ride is going to be, but I had to recall it because, to be honest, and I don't know if you felt this at all, I got on the ride, Aaron, who'd never read any of the copy,

because we had enough time to have sidebar conversations, like, what are the babies doing at home? Grocery's on the way home. We had so much time while sitting in this slow ride. Yeah, yeah. And one of the side conversations we had

was, what is happening? She truly did not know. I don't know if this was a result of the line rushing by, but I don't think the plot is necessarily conveyed the best, which is okay, because I'll get on a ride. Hey, being in Japan,

you don't know what the plot of anything is because you don't speak the language. So that's okay, but I did not know what the ride was. Yeah, it's a lot of big set pieces, and if you're focused on the set pieces and the gags and stuff, it's easy to get distracted. Yeah, if you go through the line too quick or you spend too little time in the room with max and duke you'll miss it this is an original storyline by the way it's not a book report ride of either of the films it's an original like you

know all the characters are here it kind of takes place somewhere around the second movie because snowball is uh not antagonist i think he was the antagonist in the first movie and now his friends. Now the anti-hero. Is he kind of, is there a, he has like a superhero alter ego? Yeah, it seems like it. Yeah, he has a drone. Yeah, you see him on a drone in that first scene.

Crazy plans. His plans always go wrong. You know, his big thing in kids entertainment. Am I wrong? Isn't the plot like you're just trying to get to the place where you're going to get cleaned up so you can be adopted? Basically, you're just trying to, like, at the start of the queue, there's a sign that says adoption at the pet store. The pet's store, which is not a store that sells pets. It sells pet stuff.

And that is the store underneath the ride that you come out into. But it's also represented in the ride when there's like a big bathing grooming sequence. Right. So it's just like you're just trying to get there's some mild antics that happen on your way to the groomer. Why does the why do the fireworks go off? Oh, OK. So I think the cats first off like you you go into an alley you run afoul of the alley cats they uh mess you up you're all dirty and snowball's like i got an idea how to get you to

the pet store we're gonna put you all on rockets and then you're extra disgusting because you're all burned you're all ashy from rockets uh you're very dirty from all these hijinks and then they put you through rubo goldberg device kind of washing right you're dirty from hijinks yeah that makes sense yeah that so that's yeah that's what i was saying before is the most like i guess intense part of the ride is there's a lot of screens or a couple screen big screens that have like the cgi movement on them as opposed to like there's some robots that are added there but the screens augment that idea so stuff can travel very fast and blow up yeah they're then like bounce along the the like crates at the bottom that's that sparkle and right yeah this fun

interactivity or interaction between the screen. There's a lot of projection mapping in the fireworks warehouse. Oh, totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is cool. Yes, it's a very good example of when people say, oh, when you integrate screens and the robots, that's the best of both worlds. It's great. I think it works

to great effect in this ride. But yeah, the animatronics, you can't undersell. I think Todd Martins also pointed out there's an alley cat walking along the piano that looks shocking. I love it. I was staring at this thing

because I was like, oh yeah, really the legs are all moving because usually you would think, okay, we're doing a robot gag where there's a robot cat walking on keys. The cat can't, like, it's not going to touch the keys. It's going to float over it a little bit. But I'm watching and I'm like, this thing's really, like, it's setting.

It looks like it's touching the keys itself. And I can't really see where the, like, mechanics of it are. And it's close. It's what I always say, what I like. This ride is very intimate because of how close you are to everything happening. It is very intimate. They cram a lot to everything happening. It is very intimate. They cram a lot of space. I don't think the Globe Theater,

I don't think they had the biggest footprint to work with, and it's surprising. I think they got as much in here as they did. The queue is a little narrow at some portions. There's a stairway. I was a little surprised to see a full-size stairway you had to walk up. Oh, yeah, yeah. You ran to go, oh, you ran a car oh just stairs

what is this the millennium falcon single rider a barren staircase yeah and i i i do question i mean there's an elevator too for accessibility purposes but i do think one of the things probably slowing down the ride it's like man that loading area is real tight that stairway into the loading is is pretty cramped it feels like to me so i think loading uh guests in in wheelchairs or mobility vehicles like oh yeah that's gonna be that's gonna be kind of tough so the queue is all basically on the first floor is that right i think so yeah because at the end the ride is at the sec basically the second floor yes all right because it's sort of a tight space. Right.

There wasn't a lot there. I didn't think about the two-story nature of it. That's cool. So that was the solution for the limited space. I read one article that said, oh, you take it off from the apartment building's mail room, which I didn't really pick up on, but that the cardboard boxes were like a nod to how max gets found in the first movie is like in a bunch of cardboard yeah that's your ride vehicle or big different

kinds of cardboard boxes yeah and you like start yeah in a male room yeah basically so it's yeah as if you're a little adorable pet that's been left in a cardboard box, and that's how you're riding. It's very, very cute. Yeah. Yeah. And when you see the pets, the CG pets that are you are adorable. Yes.

They're really cute. Our full cute agreement on this point, absolutely. Wouldn't it be great if it was like Choco you were staring back at what? cute pet cute pet old clown from the 50s boy didn't you think those dogs were adorable

what do you mean and then I go and talk to like I want to speak to one of the universal engineers and an old man turns around an old clown certainly not I programmed old man turns around. An old clown? Certainly not. I programmed this machine myself. There's no old clown.

Not in any of the hundred options available. Then his throat is slashed by something blind. Something invisible. Yeah, yeah. And then a clown smile is painted on his lips invisibly. And then I'm chased by ghostly lipstick with no body. Yeah. Yikes.

Zoinks. Yeah, run into the mystery machine. It was parked very close. On that block. Yes. We got to get out of here, Aaron. Like, whoa. Like 200 feet from that ride.

But yes, all the dogs I saw. And I obviously like this, too, because this is such an end of Haunted Mansion. I like it when you see where this is from. Like, I go, this is obviously the Haunted Mansion, and anyone who makes rides, they think about it. And it's the same principle. Like, there's three big screens, and you're going're gonna go buy it and you see something that changes you or you know the ghost obviously follows you home but like it feels like that to me and it feels like it's like the evolution of that idea yeah and uh in the set the towards the end when you see yourself the puppy versions of

you are all wet and then you get blow dried off so they're like biting the air and stuff and you watch that all in the longest screen process you really follow from wet to dry yeah and you get wet of course well you can't avoid the old universal splasharoo here's what i thought and i don't think i've had i've said this before and i don't think i had this thought but maybe i can't remember but as soon as I got wet I said you know what from now on instead of saying like and Universal really leans heavily on this wet thing like

they always get me wet and it seems like they don't have that many tricks I like the getting wet now and I think I challenge Universal to get me wet in different fun ways going forward you know what? That's what I say.

That's their signature. Let's embrace it. They have to throw water at you on every ride, and I'm all for it now. Now I think it's their thing, and I challenge them to do it in even more unique ways going forward. Now it's like a, oh, my God, you killed Kenny, you bastard. It's expected. Yes. At least a you killed Kenny, you bastards. It's expected. Yes.

At least a long time ago on South Park. Right. They may be dropped at. Like, yes, 18 seasons ago. But yeah, yeah. So it's a matter of where is it going to come from? We know it's going to have. Yeah, you're right.

There's something. It's like, oh, you trickster. You're up to your old. Yeah. And maybe it's just because i haven't been on a universal ride for so long but i definitely right after it happened i went you got me universal you always do get mike wet in surprising way get mike wet it makes him pop he's gonna pop so hard when you get him wet yes i will pop for sure especially if it's a unique way. In a scene with some real intimacy.

Oh, man. If it was like on the ride vehicle, they just like, all of a sudden, they filled your water up to your ankles and then drained it by the end of the ride. Even something like that, I would be like. I mean, I don't want to get my pants souped, but I want. But if you could just do it in unique ways there's like what what would you like what if disney did it because you know uh the pime uh pimp him him okay there's the bar there's the restaurant in the bar next to it

and they they say if you order a beer at the bar, the pints fill from the bottom up. Oh. So if you were getting one of those and suddenly you look down and you were getting like the Milhouse like ankles, you're also getting wet from the- Beer? I don't know. Mrs. Van Houten's jacuzzi suit?

My shoes are wet But my ankles Are bone dry We could do Just a whole episode Just on that menu That came out The Pym test

Did you see this Scott I didn't see the full menu The full menu of Marvel's Or the Avengers Yeah Campus came out today Everything's either Real big or real small

Some interesting stuff I will say Oh yeah Looking forward to it A lot of impossible food Yeah it's like Marvel Mania in a way As close as we can Come lot of impossible yeah it's like marvel mania in a way as close as we can come now yeah i mean it's not as good as marvel mania it's gonna be

what could be um i have a question before this episode wraps which is uh this happened in an episode and it happened not in an episode separately that uh jason had been on this ride we had not been on this ride um i have a recurring fear, as you may know, of giant creatures and things in small rooms. And Jason said, oh, I'll wait till you go on the ride because you're going to see. I speak to you now and I say, I don't know what you're talking about. Well, I think Duke. Yeah, what were you talking about? I think Duke was just, I had not seen this character.

Figure maybe the big dog, yeah. Well, Duke in the living room, and then Duke is above you. But I guess I'm forgetting that room is pretty big, the New York street sequence. After I said that, I realized, oh, you know what? When you turn, when it rotates, you realize you're in a massive street scene but like you're kind of duke is on a girder like right above you oh no that's that's not a problem

whatsoever i'm talking about it's got to be um you know it stems from mario games with big boo and especially the big fish jesus christ oh um it's mainly that there's not even that many theme park versions of it and like that you know we talked about sin bad and the the um the what's what is he i forget immediately the giant ogre uh i i some for some reason he doesn't bother me what does bother me and why has this come up before what is it i don't want to get too much you did jurassic world yes did the nominist bother you i got you got room to breathe in there it's got to be like uh it is a 10-foot room and it is a 10-foot character there is where i am right like okay because it really stems from you'd go through certain mario doors and then you are boxed in to a bizarre nightmare cube where you have if you move forward

at all you will just be touching the ghost and you will be dead those things scare me so much i'm trying what even is the theme park iteration i i am scared by the uh dragon in harry potter that you whip around or suddenly i'm always a little yeah yeah because that's so big and you don't really have a sense of what's around you audience remind me of what scares me please Choco's a different thing we'll handle Choco

separately but right I think hopefully that conveys the terms but I think by announcing it I've been less and less scared of big things and that dog that's just a good big boy yeah it just a good big boy. No problem with Duke. Yeah, he's a good big boy.

I mean, yeah, what else haven't we talked about? There's so many good cats and dogs in this. There's another pretty good animatronic trick. I think it's Chloe the tabby cat voiced by Lake Bell is like on a little treadmill at some point. And they make it look like she's walking on the treadmill. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that, I think the mechanics, the guts of the animatronic was probably hidden by the belly. I think that's where it was probably connected to the treadmill would be my guess.

And the legs are just flapping around. Yeah, and the legs are kind of moving a little. Max in the alley is like tied up upside down, is like swinging like a pendulum. Oh, and like dipping into a barrel. That's fantastic. Yeah. That's really good. Or maybe it's Gigi, the puffball dog.

I mean, I think I remember Pat and Yellin in there. Yeah. It easily makes up. You know when Betsy the gerbil played by Minka Kelly was doing a sort of a ballet routine. Do you remember that scene? That was really good. Well, Norman the guinea pig

who's always getting lost in the building, I think that's actually the director voice of that character. But he, oh, that was the thing, maybe the thing that delighted us the most. So like after you get adopted, you see the family, there's a big party for you at the end.

In the very back of the room there is a gerbil with a glow stick like dancing with the glow stick it is so cute or it's the guinea pig yeah i can't it's a little hard to tell it's a little far away but it is so cute they've programmed the movement so cute yeah there's i i was thinking there's a friend of the show jenny nicholson, tweeted this a while ago, and she made a point about some newer rides like Rides of the Resistance and the Frozen ride at Epcot, where those rides seem like a different philosophy as far as rides are concerned, where you're kind of supposed to focus your attention on one thing versus the Pirates old school Haunted Mansion,

where there's a hundred things happening around you oh chaos and obviously like we like those two rides but i was thinking like on this i go oh this really feels like that style which i appreciate because i guess i haven't gone on a new ride that felt like this in a while where there's a hundred things going on and like you said that gerbil thing i I don't even remember that. It's, it's like behind some other anime. Yeah. But he like just moves very rapidly and it's just so cute.

Yeah. And then the dog on that, like an Ottoman dressed like in a little minion costume. Like that's, that's fun. And they're playing the song from the movie. And I thought it was at Justin Timberlake. It's not the Trolls song.

It's not, but that's the Trolls song. No, but it sounds in the same vein. Dance, dance. Yeah. So it's like, I would wonder if we would talk about Rise of the Resistance and anyone was like, did you see that? Did you see the part where there was the AT-AT shoot at you? Of course you saw. Everyone saw every big thing that happened on that ride.

But truly, like you said then, I go, oh, Gerbil Dance? I don't remember that. I know. There's so much. Yeah, you're right. That's a very cool thing about it. Well, it's counter to your intimacy notion. If what you want is to, like, because, yeah, the Rise thing is,

it's Kylo Ren looking at you, threatening you. But you can't have the intimate, you can't have the moment in the chaos ride. It's like a different breed. And I think, yeah, you want them both. You want variety. Well, yeah, I mean, it depends what intimacy we're talking about, you know, because there is intimacy when Optimus Prime tells you he's very proud of you but you can if the if the if the robots are very close to you and you focus on one thing you do have intimacy with whatever you have chosen to focus on whatever

has come into your vision your line of sight so i think aaron had not been on that ride since we started doing this podcast so at that moment like as soon as he landed and just looks for that beach, she laughed out loud. Just knowing, now viewing it in this lens. That was the thing. Yes. Your bravery. I was waiting. I was going to take a photo with him.

But Optimus was not coming. like the meet and greet was not Optimus will be back tomorrow Optimus is not feeling talkative today and I'm sure we all saw the video online where Optimus was saying this last year has been very trying no I didn't we should talk about that

in the other episode we should show it to you the other episode. We'll talk about that. We got to show this. We should show it to you live so we can get your reaction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Save. Yeah, yeah. Load it up. He's trying times.

Oh, man. Yeah, he gives a whole weird speech that's like trying not to make anti-mask people. He's trying to hit all the quadrants. Republicans buy sneakers, too. Look, Jack, we got to come together, man. We have to come together. Can't be having this squabbling man. Look.

Have you been working on Biden in the off season? What's that? Have you been working on the Biden? No, not really. I feel like I busted that out okay. Yeah, no, I'm impressed. It's got to go low. Yeah. Megatron came out, and Bumblebee was out later.

You need all sizes of Megatron and Bulby. Bulby. You need Bulby and Metron. Optimus Pine takes all of them. Chris Pine. Chris Pine takes Optimus Pine. I guess the Bidens are cooked because Carvey has one now. I'm a little bit. He did.

Carvey. Carvey in this ride. Yeah, that's right. This is a Dana Carvey presence in a theme park ride. That's a good thing. He's like a grumpy old man, essentially. Grumpy old dog. He's got the wheels.

He's got the YouTube channel. Yeah. Oh, is he in the animatronics? Yeah, he's got the wheels. He's got the YouTube channel. Yeah. Oh, is he in the animatronics? Yeah, he's got the wheels on his back. See, I missed him. I just caught him in the queue. Yeah, he's on the ride as well. If you talk about favorite moments in the whole thing,

I think it ends really cute. The party is great. But maybe my favorite moment is just the reveal of what kind of ride it's going to be that it is a chaos ride that it's a hard to focus ride when you enter that room with the with the the girder and he's over there you even miss him operating the machine and snowballs up in the drone um it's just such a big pronouncement this is a crazy animatronic ride you're going to see a ton of them you're going to have trouble following it you've got to come back and see it again and again to catch everything.

Yeah. You can tell why that's the press photo that they're pushing out the most. It's a really exciting moment, and especially after being endorsed for so long. I think for so many people, this will end up being their first ride back, and it's just always going to have...

Not a lot of rides are tied to an era i don't it's not like in this ride makes me reflect on the events of september 11th or whatever it's not like but this one oddly this pets ride i think in this awful corona year are gonna sort of be married but in the most joyous way i i theme park insider they they had a really nice review of it. And they, they said at the end of their, their writeup, like, um, after,

after a year in which so many of us have experienced layoffs and isolation, it's heartwarming to feel wanted and welcome again, even if it's by an animated family. And I think that's right. I think that's a pretty good, uh, yeah.

Like, cause it's just like, yeah, they adopt you. And then there's a big good. Yeah. Because it's just like, yeah, they adopt you, and then there's a big party celebrating you. Yes. It's nice. It is nice. Yeah.

I always think with kids, this feels like, obviously when you're a kid, this is going to be one of the first rides you're allowed to go on if you go to Universal. Yeah. So this definitely feels like, and maybe I shouldn't say this with universal but it does feel like this should be like a legacy ride for like this should be like

last forever and get an update obviously they won't do they probably will demolish it in 10 years or something but it feels like that continuity it did that's what we've talked about before some continuity at disneyland is nice it doesn't need to be everything but some continuity from like, your grandmother rode this, and your parents rode this, and now you're riding this. There's a nice thing to have a few rides like,

a few experiences like that at a park. So it would be nice if they kept something around and not destroyed. I mean, this is the only, like, at this point, like, Simpsons is going to have to probably go at a certain point. And plus, this is kind of like probably a better experience for you if you're a kid than

Simpsons is yeah and if this I mean if hopefully it seems like the reception so far is very positive like I had very few criticisms of any of this no it's like I think it sorely it was a thing they were sorely lacking real little kids you could kill most

of the day and illumumination Alley. Yeah, oh, yeah. That's the whole part for you. You don't even have to go downstairs. That's my plan. There's not a lot to do for little kids down there. So if I ever take the boy, when I take the boy, it's all on the table now. It's great.

If he gets tired of the playground play area at Supercell Funland, there is a kind of, not hidden hidden but it's hard to see you forget it's there there's a playground at Jurassic in the Jurassic complex I was reminded of that yeah yeah and that stuff's not open yet and I'm really looking forward to it and like because I know that's going to be where we kill a lot of time

with him and if I get tired of any of it then it's 110 degree Jameson shots. The old little, what did you call it? It was like a railroad apartment. Which is kind of, in Philadelphia, there are a number of townhouse, row houses and stuff where the corner unit,

the ground floor basement, people turn the bottom floor into bars. Oh, sure. In Martha, Philly. You'd feel the train rumbling by. It's Lil' Shakey's, the bar on the corner. I don't know what the real name is. Scepta Trains.

It's Lil' Shakey's to me. Saddle up to the bar with Mare of Easttown and drink away your troubles. Hey, if you see me at Lil' Shakey's, shots on me. Saddle up to the bar with Mare of Easttown and drink away your troubles. Hey, if you see me at Lil' Shakey's, shots on me. Shots on me. You survive podcast the rides? Off the leash edition?

If you have closing thoughts, throw them in. I want to say I really like this. I'm going to go on it again. I'm sure I'll have further thoughts just because the wait times were much longer than I even thought they would be. The virtual queue worked great for me. Oh, I didn't even try the virtual queue. If you hear rustling, I'm getting my mic. I'm prepared to go over and take a look at what the beetle situation is here as we wrap up.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Garfield finally went to sleep. He went to sleep about 30 minutes ago. Oh, geez. With his owner, like, in the shadow of. As I'm cooking 30 minutes ago. Oh, geez. With his owner in the shadow of... As I'm cooking in the sunset. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The shade moves.

The sun has moved. That's another thing. Yeah, we've got to account for the movement of the sun as we do these episodes. Hey, for more discussion of our triumphant return to Universal and a lot of other great episodes, three a month in fact, then go to Podcast The Ride,

the second gate at patreon.com slash podcasttheride. Check us out on the socials and merch and a lot of fun stuff coming up soon. Mike's investigating over in Scarab Town. Okay. We take you now to Mike, four feet away. I'm looking at it and I don't know it's not it's moving like a little bit I

do think so I do think maybe it has died which is really sad way to end an episode that's a weird way to well yeah that's a bummer I don't know though because it was like this before so I I was hoping to go over there and there'd be a bunch of babies but well yeah I say you know let's

not focus on that I want it since you guys are over you know we're back in person again i like to offer little treats to to everybody and uh you know here i don't think i don't know if you've seen it i had this uh this open container of raisinets uh down on the grass by me the whole time if you guys want to reach in now i'm looking like just these I'm looking at just these little black guys, these little black beads here. There's more in it, in this bag, than I thought. I felt like it was almost empty earlier, but now it seems pretty full.

If you guys want to reach in and just grab a handful, feel free. Wait. Oh, my God. Wait. These may not be Raisinets. What? They are calling up me. No. There are god. Wait. These may not be Raisinets. What? They are crawling up me. There are hundreds of them. Thousands of them

in fact. Oh, Jason's just eating them. Fine. Well, me and Garfield are going to town on the Raisinets scarab. Scott's being eaten by beetles, but Jason's eating the beetles. Oh no. It's like he has control over them. And I'm listening to the beetles somehow. Hasles emotech this entire time

well you're yourselves never mind emotech what and he's daddy as well he's hot as i'm getting swallowed entirely i'm not gonna have a mouth soon so i better say first fuck you jason uh j Jason lives forever I guess and thanks for listening bye bye forever dog this has been a forever dog production

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