Podcast: The Ride - Theme Park Toys with Zack Ryder

Episode Date: December 14, 2018

WWE Superstar Zack Ryder (aka Matt Cardona) joins us to talk toys and living the Orlando dream. Blizzard Beach episode up in the Second Gate feed! Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/ FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forever! Dog! Warning. The following episode is a street fight of polite, but intense theme park conversation. It's park versus park, Orlando, Florida versus all other cities, and one company's vinyl collectibles versus another company's vinyl collectibles. Zach Ryder joins us to talk theme park toys on today's Podcast The Ride, the theme park podcast hosted by three men who all, last night, spent 15 minutes texting each other Google map overheads of Disneyland. That is true. I think actually, now that I think about it, I wrote that, but I think I was the one primarily sending the overheads. But we were all discussing sort of the breakdown of Disneyland.

By the way, my name is Mike Carlson. I'm joined by jason sheridan hi and scott carter and uh you were right but what yeah you sent a uh map because this was based on the idea of can the tron uh coaster fit somewhere into disneyland and i believe i told you i had previously done map comparisons to like and sort of like eyeballed. All right. So at this scale, the coaster is an inch. And so if you move this inch from Shanghai on top of, you know, on top of the Autopia, if you were to get rid of something that is unnecessary in Disneyland, such as the Utopia or the submarines, there I set it. Yeah, sure.

You know, would it fit? But what we agreed on essentially is that, you know, I think gut almost anything in Tomorrowland to get that Tron ride in. Just save Space Mountain and everything else can go. Everything else can go. Because I looked at it and we were talking about, because the Space Autopia and the subs take up, it's massive. Like you could fit what looks like seven Space Mountains in that.

I could be wrong. That's not exact. But when you really see it overhead, you go, look at all the land that is just wasted here on two rides that I never go on. Yeah. And as we discussed last week, the monorail track in Disneyland especially has been changed and reconfigured so much. It's not an alien idea to that. They can rejigger that however they want.

We started talking about – we're going to get to an interview, by the way, with WWE superstar and podcaster Zack Ryder, a.k.a. Matt Cordona, just a little bit. Oh, my God. A superstar from another avenue from Orlando, from paradise. Yes. He will be taking away some of his precious paradise time to join us. Right. He's won an Intercontinental title. He's won a U.S. title.

But we don't care. We're more impressed that he's living in Orlando. That's the thing that we care so much. We want to ask don't care. We're more impressed that he's living in Orlando. That's the thing that we care so much that we want to ask him about that. We're going to ask him about theme park toys. We could, I guess, just talk to any Orlando resident. I'm glad if we're going to talk to anyone that it is a WWE superstar.

Some of his questions we're going to ask him apply to almost anybody. And I'm excited because oftentimes we reach consensus or at least like, well, I don't agree with you, but I understand where you're coming from. But Matt has some real hot takes. And yeah, it's good. We have it's good to have opposite opinions.

Will we be flustered? Will we be alarmed? Will we agree? We are always flustered. I mean, I think that's clear in our lives. Yeah, sure. So, yeah, just to go circle back to what we were talking about. I think that we started talking about Disneyland and the layout and where stuff could go is because we saw this video that is sweeping theme park Twitter and everything, every social media.

This Beauty and the Beast ride coming to Tokyo Disney. Disney Sea? No, it's Disney, right? Disney proper? Disney Land, I believe. Yes. That is. Am i wrong i i'm not even sure where is i think it's i think you're right i think it's disneyland because they're doing the disney sea expansion with it's that's in 2022 and it's gonna have uh peter pan and there's a frozen

thing and that's all there i believe okay um so yeah tokyo dis Disneyland. And it's three minutes long and it shows off robots like they show so much in this. Yeah. And the primary thing, I mean, you see robots. Look, they're they're all great. But you essentially you see robots of the beast of Bell's horse, Philippe. Of course. All the Philippe fans, get ready. You're finally going to see a fully rendered Philippe, but also Belle, several animatronics of Belle. And I don't want to speak for you guys, but to me, the Belle animatronics, the most mind-blowing.

Absolutely. It is like so alive and has the texture of a cartoon character. All of the oddity that you feel with i think i think that aerial animatronic ended up pretty good but i think there were probably like errors on the way and her hair was weird at a certain point the the bell animatronic is so crazy out of the gate yeah it is just it is a living toy or something. Her moving is, I think, what everybody's responding to. And I think initially, I thought, because I saw a thumbnail of that, like when she's got, I think she has the lantern.

I don't know what scene that's from. Maybe it's, I think it's from the winter when she's looking for something or the beast. I can't remember exactly. I could be wrong. Now that I'm thinking about it, she's not wearing a winter coat. So don't crucify me on Twitter for this. Maybe they'll give her the coat later. They haven't bought the coat yet. Maybe the coat is not there yet it, she's not wearing a winter coat. So don't crucify me on Twitter for this. Maybe they'll give her the coat later. They haven't bought the coat yet.

Maybe the coat is not there yet. But she's walking. And it basically is the important part. And I saw a thumbnail of it. And I thought it was a cartoon. And I showed the whole thing to my girlfriend, Lindsay. And I had to tell her that is a robot. Because she goes, oh, I thought that was just a CGI bell.

It looks, if you haven't watched this, and please look it up, although I think the name of the video is in Japanese. So learn Japanese and then look up the video. But yeah, it looks absolutely like very well-rendered 3D animation. Yeah. But it is a physical thing in some warehouse somewhere that will soon be in in the parks in japan but it it moves not just like smooth movement or lifelike but i scott use movement like the animation movement and they said they worked with the animation studio but they always say we worked hand in hand with this but in this case but it's this case and like the lantern dangle like you

can see the lantern moving like if you were holding a lantern, like it's, it's so crazy. Not just they could make it look so natural, but look natural in a style of animate. Like it's wild. Yeah. It's, it's, it reminded me of the frozen, right? Cause the frozen right is really great animatronics and they move, you know, a good amount. And everybody always talks about the Olaf animatronic because he kind of follows you around. He walks and he like looks at you. But, you know, he's just like a snowman. He doesn't have to move like a human or whatever.

I don't have to move anyway. You don't want me to. My limbs don't work like human limbs. I'm a little cartoon guy. I'm a cartoon snowman. Nothing says Christmas morning like Pillsbury Crescent Rolls. It does sound like my Pillsbury Doughboy voice, which I've done for many years. But it is the similar voice.

I'm a little snowy doughy boy. Yeah, that's what he says. We were just kind of loosely quoting him on the right. He says basically all that stuff. Yeah, word for word. we were just kind of loosely quoting him on the right. He says basically all that stuff. Yeah. So yeah, but like he moves and that's the most impressive, impressive animatronic on that right. But it looks like they took the moving part of it and they put it on the

humans characters. And that's the really thing that's going to blow people's minds. I think it's this odd step between, there are the very human-y characters, like the, all of presidents and like Benjamin Franklin climbing the stairs. And then there's pure cartoon characters, which seem like, I mean, it's all very difficult to do, but maybe easier to render a cartoon character. And this is this in-between, a cartoon of a human that moves so fluidly and so realistically.

It does feel like a new type of animatronic entirely. Yeah. It's like between this and then those like stunt tronics. Is that what they were called? The Marvel? Oh, yeah. The flipping ones. Yeah.

They were like, they may be called stunt tronics. And it was like, they're going to be able to do a stunt show and robots will be able to do stunts. And the robots will probably be dressed like iron man or something but you'll have be able to have iron man fly through the air during a stunt show so between these two like all the robots are going to get way more realistic like from hopefully from now on and it's going to be awesome hopefully not scary hopefully not some sort of skynet thing. We're inching closer and closer to the Itchy and Scratchy Land episode. But those are clunky robots, even.

I guess so. We had time to prepare for an attack by those clunky, itchy, and scratchy robots. Well, no, we're heading closer and closer to Westworld. And it's finally, by the end of our lifetimes, we will be able to engage in sexual relations with Disney robots. With the Avengers. With the Avengers. Yeah. I don't know who's in that Iron Man suit.

Maybe it's a hot lady or it's just Iron Man. Doesn't matter to me. That is the comic book equivalent of an eyes wide shut mask. Oh, yeah. You wear the Iron Man. Anonymity. Maybe I'm in there. Maybe Olaf's in the suit.

Oh, man. You know, this makes me. Jason got really happy about thinking about kissing Olaf. Dressed as Iron Man. Dressed as Iron Man. I'm melting in this suit. This makes me think of Independence Day resurgence, which is a phrase no one has ever said before. But, you know, we had 20 plus years to prepare and we're not ready.

20 plus years to prepare for robot sex at Disneyland. Yeah. I never thought it would happen to me. Big Al. He's a big, he's a thick boy, you know. Takes a real man to take a big l down yeah um well we finally outed ourselves what this podcast has really always been all about kiss ice queen iron man kissing um and i'm sure our our guests will be very happy to have this discussion as his introduction. Yeah.

What a beautiful red carpet we just laid for him. Yeah, so we'll take a break and collect ourselves because now we're all heated up. We're all flustered. And we'll be right back with our guest, WWE's Zack Ryder, a.k.a. Matt Cardona. All right, folks, welcome. We'd like to welcome our very special guest. You know him from the WWE and his podcast, The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast. He's the Michael Jordan of wrestling figure collecting, Matt Cardona, a.k.a. Zack Ryder. Welcome to the show, Matt or Zack or however we're going to, whatever we'll say.

Do you prefer? It doesn't really matter to me. I think at this point in my life, most people call me me zach even my dad uh even though my real name is matt that's funny so so so yeah so you for personal like close friends they call you matt yeah my real name is matt cardona on the wrestling figure podcast i'm matt cardona aka zach rider but most people they know me as zach rider nobody knows who matt cardona is you rider but most people they know me as zach rider nobody knows who matt cardona is you know right right well we can do matt we can try to get the word out that you are matt either or you know either or i try to do both on the podcast you know so i can

create my real identity you know what i'm saying sure but what would you get stitched into mickey ears oh i mean i would definitely I mean, I would definitely, uh, I think I would definitely get the whole gimmick, all the Zack Ryder stuff, everything. All right. That makes sense.

That's the way to go. Sure. Do you think they could fit woo woo woo onto the back of Mickey ears? Is there enough room? I'm sure they could do it, but I would not do that. Okay. I wouldn't get,

no, that's where that's, that's across the line. That's a little too aggressive of a brand you know branding right a little too much like like i listen i'm right now i'm in my i can't really see what i'm doing but quote unquote office i'm doing like the figure quotes i say office but there's a computer here and a bunch of like toys and stuff but there's a zach rider cardboard cut out with a darth vader Vader slash Mickey Mouse helmet on it.

So you guys are missing that right now. Hey, that sounds great. Yeah. For those of you who do not know, Matt is, can I say an insane toy collector? Is that okay? Sure. Sure. If you want to say insane.

I just say I'm a toy collector. Like you said, the Michael Jordan of wrestling collecting. He's an insane basketball player i would call him though because he's like so good he does it so well oh insane is a compliment i'm using it as a compliment no no for sure for sure for sure um so yeah we're gonna talk like theme park merch toys general theme park stuff but before we start i do I don't know if you remember this. You've actually talked theme parks with, with one of us being me, the one person being me, we were at a mutual friend's wedding over the summer. I don't know if this jogs your memory. I do remember that at John Morrison's wedding. So you know what I'm talking about?

We had a little, we had a little argument right yes we did so so this is but this is but this is before i uh heard the podcast now i listen all the time sure i apologize no no it's okay i wasn't calling you on it i thought it was great but did you know once you started listening to the podcast that that was me i i kind of put two and two together and i i never was 100 certain until just now sure can either side of this give your side of the events? Yeah. Yeah. My recollection of it was that John, John Hennigan, John Morrison, Johnny Mundo.

He has many names. He was just on Survivor. He's everywhere. His wedding. And he said, hey, bro, this is my buddy, Mike. He has a theme park podcast. And my recollection is that you immediately started quizzing me like pretty hardcore about theme parks. I think your first question was, what's the best ride in Magic Kingdom?

And it was like, I was like, whoa, whoa, wait, what? And I was like, well, did you? And I think I said, well, when you say Magic Kingdom, you mean obviously Florida because Magic Kingdom. And you were like, well, that's that's the only Magic Kingdom. And I said, well, they call the you know, they call Disneyland sometimes Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom in videos. And I think you said then it's Space Mountain. The answer is Space Mountain.

So that's my that's my recollection of the start of it, at least. And I think people were like standing around and I think it turned into like kind of like a a rap battle of some where people would be like, Oh, like once, like somebody said a good thing, or I was like, well, have you ever been in Walt's apartment? And then I think someone's like, Whoa. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, I had a couple, a couple of drinks that day. So I don't really remember every little detail, but what's funny is that I was quizzing you and now listening to your podcast i realized i don't know anything compared to you guys like that's like that's what i was talking about on twitter about like i can't do like a whole topic like you guys know like the voices and rides i

thought i was a diehard but you guys put me to shame well you've pursued other uh interests in a successful career we have nothing better to do than know who Thorough Ravenscroft is. Okay, see, there you go. All my friends, they think I'm this diehard Disney freak. They think I'm obsessed. They think I'm nuts. I have an annual pass in Orlando. I live in Orlando. So I go a couple times a month. Some people, they just don't get it at all. You guys are the opposite. You guys totally get it. You know what I'm saying?

Well, we get like, yeah, for a normal person, like you are unusual. But like when you look at us for knowing like some 60-year-old character actor doing Voices of Robots, yeah, like then that makes you look normal. Versus like there's a whole spectrum is what I'm trying to say. But like we're all's a whole spectrum. That was what I'm trying to say. But like, we're all, all four of us are strange compared to the normal person in the world. That's what we're all for. Yeah.

Matt, I do want to commend you for immediately going to get the upper hand on Mike because he will just, you can just tell by his voice, he will run rough shot over you if you don't establish dominance. Okay. All right. Now I know.

Jason is happy that everything went down. No, I honestly, out of that interaction, I was like, that was the greatest thing. The best thing that could have happened was that. Like I got to talk theme parks in a very funny way. Do you stand by that Space Mountain? Would that be your assessment today? For me? Oh yeah, for sure.

Space Mountain is my favorite. I know like, okay, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, like I get it, they're classics, but oh man, there's no way I could ride those every day. So, yeah. So, so I was listening to your interview with Kevin Perger, who does Defunct Land. And you were. Yeah. For those of you don't know, we're talking about we've mentioned a million times.

He does these great videos about the history of different rides, stuff that's not there, stuff that's not in the parks anymore. And he also has a podcast and interviewed you. And you kept giving him heart attacks because he would bring up like classic rides and you would be like yeah boring gotta go i would like to burn that down to like you didn't you said i think carousel progress correct me if i'm wrong carousel progress no gone boring ride i think you said it about i think you you even kind of soft set it about pirates. No, no, no. Listen, pirates, I get it. I respect it.

I respect its history. You know, like every once in a while I'll do it just to say I did it. But I think even as a kid, I thought it was boring. Okay. So that one's just boring. That one is not. Parasol progress needs to go. 100%.

Oh, shots fired. Shots fired. Oh, man. Cause the classic fans, you know, they like that's the history of Disney. So would you, would you even want to plus that up or was it just like gone? Let's have a fun new ride.

If you want to plus it up and update it, go ahead. When's the last time it was updated? Oh, I don't know. 20 years ago. Oh, even more.

Cause they still have 90s virtual reality like grandma's playing like a fighter game it's like one step above f0 just barely that's 0.5 a few years ago they swapped out like a furniture sized uh big screen tv uh uh with the you know big two part behind it for a modern flat screen TV, and that was the last update I noticed. So the answer is they haven't really touched it in a while. Yeah. We're proving the nerddom here that Jason knew that the TV had been changed

in the final scene of Carousel of Progress. That's not enough for you. My mom came to, or my parents came to Orlando about a year ago and she really wanted to do Carousel Progress and I did not, but I went on because she's my mom and, you know, give her a good time. And I was asleep like halfway through it. Do you, do you even like the song?

Like, is there any element of it you would like? Like, do you like the song? Is it charming at all to you? Do you like the songs in general on the rides, the famous songs like Yo-Ho Pirates life? No, no, listen,

I shouldn't, let me take it back. I don't hate pirates. I understand it's place in history. It's okay. And it's cool. But like, if I was going to take someone who's never been to Disney world to Disney

world or Disneyland, I would take them to pirates because it's, it's history. It's classic. Right. But for me, I'm an annual pass holder. If I'm going to go tomorrow, I'm not going to go on Pirates.

Gotcha. All right. But when I would come every couple of years, of course, you have to hit Pirates. Right. But now, eh, forget it. Not on every time. Are there any rides that you know are kind of boring or dry, but that you are fond enough of it to uh to put up with it i mean haunted mansion like i love it but it's the more you ride it you're like uh for me it's

like okay like i did i did it the other night i was like oh man there we go again you just feel like it feels like uh it's like a. Yeah, I think I almost spoil myself, you know, because I have this annual pass and I don't go all the time. I go enough. And every time someone comes to visit me in Orlando, they want to go to the theme parks. I want to go to Disney, Universal. So I kind of ruin it for myself. Yeah, I get that. I mean, there are rides that we don't go on at every time. Like, for instance, like great moments with Mr. Lincoln, which I imagine you would be okay with if it burned to the ground. I'm just guessing. Do you,

I've never, I've never done that or hall of presidents. Really? Never done it at all. I mean, they're both dry history lessons. My parents might've took me to the hall of presidents when I was like a little kid that I don't remember, but a teenage and up,

there's no way I was ever in there. Okay. Well, yeah. Like, like a ride like that is like a once a year ride for me. Like Lincoln is like a once a year ride, but it is nice that there is a robot Abraham Lincoln that I can go and hear about the civil war, but once a year. I keep telling myself that one of these days I'm going to go to magic kingdom and do all the things that I haven't done or hate and just like get him over with. I never do it again.

But the problem is like, I can't do that with somebody. They'll never do it. And then I can't go to the parks by myself. Cause it's kind of weird. Unless you guys do that, then it's not weird. Sorry guys.

But we've been alone. I've come to turns with it. It's kind of weird. Unless you guys do that, then it's not weird. Sorry, guys. But it's weird for me. We've been alone. I've come to turns with it. Much more common in Anaheim. Much more common in Disneyland, I feel like. Yes. And when you're often unemployed actors or writers or whatever we all are, and you've got a day to fill, let's head down to Anaheim. Perfect way to fill it up.

Yeah, nothing weird about it. No, not remotely. Mike, you've told this one... Sure. Mike, you've told this one on the show before, but I kind of want Zach to hear it, which is that you went down to see Dick Van Dyke in a parade. Yeah, this is...

You're going to make fun of me for this, because I didn't go down even to go on a ride. I went down because the real man, Dick Van Dyke, was going to be in a parade at Disneyland because he had his 90th birthday. No one would go with me. And I was frustrated. So I said, well, you know what? I'm going alone. I went down for literally an hour and watched a 90 year old man driving a little car down Main Street. And then I went back up to Los Angeles. So, know we all do it's like a good it's like a good hour and a half drive right or a little hour hour and a half yeah hour hour and a half sure spent more time in the car than watching the old man in the little car did you get to wave at him

at least did i get what did you get to wave did he wave at you oh yeah i got a picture of him waving in my general direction okay that counts all right okay but like if we if say you were an unemployed actor and you maybe didn't have too much going on that day but i said would you go with me to anaheim to watch an old man in a parade for an hour would you have said no or yes i mean it depends who it is for dick van dyke probably not for like michael j fox maybe if he was like at Universal or DeLorean. Oh, wow. Yeah, maybe I'd do that.

He has been. He opened Back to the Future, The Ride down in Florida, I think, along with Thomas Wilson and maybe a Zemeckis appearance. So he's been down. He knows what it's like down there. Oh, that DeLorean in Universal Orlando orlando it's it's it's embarrassing it's it don't get me started on that oh yeah i listened to you on on jericho's podcast with cody rhodes and just uh yeah i got a big laugh at describing uh sad delorean next to a bush yeah it's like next it's next to the bushes and a taco stand it has no

it's like there should be like a spotlight on it. It should be right in the middle. Yeah, it is just kind of. But now it's hidden by some bushes. Tossed off after The Simpsons. Another thing

that came up on that show that I definitely agree with is that Universal has pretty much no sense of nostalgia in the way

Disney does. Universal will just build new rides left and right. Right, there's no way that Carousel of Progress would be standing at Universal Studios. No, no. That's a good point, yes. No way.

Which ends up being a real pain for us, because researching Disney stuff is pretty neat, but finding weird, deep-cut Universal stuff, you're really scraping the Internet Archive to find remnants of it. Was your favorite, I listened to that interview too, but I forget if it was back to the future, like your favorite ride of all time when you were younger or now still? When I was younger, I loved it. And even now I still would consider one of my favorites of all time. And that, and as a kid, I wasn't even that really, I wasn't really that big of a back to the

future fan. Like now I'm like a diehard now as i've grown older i've come to appreciate more and watch it way more times so i would love to ride it now like as an adult because like my last memory of it i think i'm like in sixth grade so i don't really have um vivid memories of it well you gotta you got to get, there's a DVD re-release. Oh, I got the DVD. You got the DVD. The ride is on the DVD. It's preserved. Yeah.

And if you just kind of shake around in a chair, it approximates what it was like to go on the ride. And I don't mind the Simpsons. Simpsons is okay. But, you know, I wish it didn't take the place of Back to the Future. Yeah. That is the one. That is the one that should still be there.

But I was so worried around that time that they were going to, I knew Back to the Future was going to be torn out, but with NBC's awful synergy, I was worried it would be replaced by like a ride of The Voice or something. That doesn't make something so bottom of the barrel. I don't think that's out of the realm. Yeah, one thing that Universal still has standing is that Fear Factor Live. That thing needs to go.

It's perplexing. It's wild that it's still going. Do they even run it, really? Like, occasionally during high traffic times, I think, right? I haven't been in there in years. I have never seen that show. That's a theme park area. I didn't see it in Hollywood. I've never seen that show. That's a theme park area. I didn't see it in Hollywood.

I never saw it in Orlando. Skipped. That's my burn it to the ground. Yeah, I've never seen it either. It's bizarre. And I said this before on the show. It's like the most valuable theme park reel. It's just a huge, it's like a block long.

It's so big. It's so big. Jaws has to go. Jaws is torn, ripped out. Jaws is out. And yet, Fear Factor is a forever tenant. Yeah. I heard on that interview you had done with Jericho, you were talking about, like, you're down on the Animal Actors show as well.

Yeah, that is true, yeah. I think the way Cody phrased it is that you guys were like backstage cause you got to do some cool tour or something and that, that you got to meet the dog from the show. And Cody said that you, Cody said that you buried the dog five minutes away, like five minutes or five, excuse me, five feet away. This is what happened. We had done one of those, um, those VIP tours. Right. So the last thing we like,

you know, I don't know, half hour, four minutes left. And like, I want to get some more rise in, but Cody's wife really wanted to do this animal actor show. I'm like,

this is what we're going to waste our time with. It's animal actor show. We can be cutting like lines right now. So I was already pissed, you know? So we watched the show and of course, like nothing goes according to plan. The dogs,

they all mess up. The birds fly the wrong way, all that stuff. And then they say, hey, you can stay after and meet some of the animals. So I'm thinking like, okay, maybe we'll meet like the pug from Men in Black or something like that. But we meet just like a dog, a golden retriever. Like what? Is it just a regular dog? We can't meet like Babe the Pig or something like that? Oh, yeah. That is a little bit – like that's Just the regular dog. We can't make you like baby pig or something like that.

Oh, yeah, that is a little bit like that's not a famous dog. You wouldn't want to have met one of the famous animals from the properties. Yeah, that makes sense. It's a bird that could hypothetically be in a film if a camera was pointed at it. Yeah. Right. So you live in Orlando. You when did you move there A couple of years ago? I moved just over two years ago. OK. Was a big part of it that you would be close to the theme parks? Yes, actually, it was.

OK. Hey, that's OK. We dream about it every day. Every day we think about, hey, maybe we just quit this whole thing and go down to Orlando. We do, and I don't know. You're going to have a different perspective because you have things going on, but how do you feel about the Orlando situation, and would you recommend it to others? I love Orlando. I love it. So I fly out. I have wrestling shows every week, but every week when I fly home and I step foot on that ugly carpet in the Orlando airport,

I tell myself, I'm on vacation. It's great. You know, you can go to the theme parks whenever you want. There's always something going on because it's like this tourist trap. But I don't live, like, in the center. I don't live, like, at the Magic Kingdom. You know what I'm saying? I live, like, 45 minutes away from Disney.

So I live 10 minutes from the airport. It's great. The airport's super easy. I mean, like, I have I have like the TSA Pre. If you didn't have that, you'd be waiting on these crazy long lines. But I love it. And the weather, right now it's December. I'm in shorts at a tank top, New York where I'm from.

It's always snowy. It's cold. It's expensive. I don't know if I'll ever leave Orlando. I love it. I didn't even think about that because you are on the road a lot of the year. But every time you get back to Orlando, you get to ride that airport monorail. Yes.

Every week. Every week. It's a ride. Yeah, you get to go on that ride every time. And the TSA Pre is sort of the fast pass of commuter air travel. And I even have something called Clear. So I pass the TSA pre. So it's like people are saying like, oh, Orlando Airport's not so many people.

Yeah, I don't wait on the lines. Wow, that's great. But I fly every week. So it's worth it for me. I think it's like one hundred fifty dollars a year or something like that. But it's saved so much time. Yeah, that makes sense. Would you be willing to help with the sales pitch to our respective wives slash girlfriends to make the move to

Orlando? I mean, absolutely. I mean, my, my, my, uh, my mortgage is a hundred dollars more than my rent was from an apartment in New York. That's really attractive. That's all you had to say. That's a brand new house. No one ever sat on the toilet before brand new. Okay. That's another strike, a good strike. I'm telling you, they're building all these communities all over. Where I live, there's a new community every couple months. They're just building a new community. Got to move down.

Jeez. All right, maybe. You could just have a cul-de-sac to yourself. I mean, the houses are a little close together. They're like 10 feet apart, but that's okay. That's all right. We're in apartments. Yeah.

So my whole life, or like my whole adult life, I'd always live in an apartment, apartment, apartment in New York. All my stuff in stores, paying all this money, shoveling snow, all this BS. Now I live in Orlando, go to Disney World. Oh, it's the best. Palm trees. The Denny's by the airport has palm trees. Oh, it's beautiful well if you could see us we're all like wistfully looking off into the distance imagining this life you're you're

painting for us we love it we're in the middle of uh the one of the few stretches of when it rains in la and everything just falls apart when that happens like it rains every day almost in orlando and everyone's fine out here. It's like the end of the world. Yeah. So when you're in Orlando, what are your theme park habits like? How many times are you going a month?

Do you have a universal pass? Like what, do you have a strategy or is it sort of spur of the moment? So I had a universal pass the first year I moved down, but I didn't use it. I mean, I paid for it with the amount of times I went, but I didn't use it that much i paid for it with the amount of times i went but i didn't use it that much so now like when i go i only go with like people come and visit or if

it's like halloween horror nights because i feel like it sounds weird but disney's a whole world you know and universal just those two parks and i love universal but it can get old quick i think and disney you can really spread out like uh with disney disney has has all the hotels and the resorts. You go eat somewhere in one of those hotels. The Disney Springs area is phenomenal. They've really redone that. It's my favorite thing to do in Orlando is go to Disney Springs. Oh, wow.

So have you gone to like every restaurant there is to go on the Disney World property? No, not even close. And that's what I love about it. I wouldn't even say like less than half, probably a third, if that. Okay. So if we're talking restaurants in our Disney World area, what are your top couple, top three? Top three, California Grill at the Contemporary. I was just there two nights ago. In Disney Springs, something called the Boathouse. I love the Boathouse. I love this Boathouse. I went once two years ago. in disney spring something called the boathouse i love the boat i love this boathouse i went once uh two years ago it's the greatest oh it's so good the food's good the view is good the atmosphere is good really really love it um and then what else and there's so many

good ones uh let's say jiko and animal kingdom the The Animal Kingdom Resort. Oh, yeah. I got to do that once. Yeah, that's fancy as hell. And like, yeah, with like odd food you wouldn't get elsewhere. Yeah, really cool. And so like deep. Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to these places every night.

You know what I'm saying? Sure, sure. That's okay. If you were. We wouldn't have a problem if you were. Every lunch at Gico. So, yeah. So how often are you going to one of the four disney parks a month i would say once or twice a month it's not it's not crazy excessive you know uh

for instance the other night i went to the mickey's very merry christmas party um and i might go to i might try to go to hollywood studios week. So that'll be two times this month. Sure. So you hit events and stuff. It seems like special things. Yeah. And Epcot's my favorite. So I go to Epcot a lot.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a world showcase. Like I saw some Instagram pictures of you. I think John was with you guys a little while ago, but like going up and down, I assume drinking around the world. Oh, yeah, for sure. As and down, I assume drinking around the world. Oh, yeah, for sure.

As a kid, I hated Epcot. If my parents would take me there, I was so mad. I didn't want to waste a day at Epcot. But now, oh, it's my favorite. I would go to Epcot every week, for sure. Do you have a favorite Epcot country? Ooh, Mexico, for sure. Oh, yeah, that tequila bar inside La Casa oh my god the best

And that ride you are guaranteed No wait You will never wait for the Mexico boat ride Interest in it has never gone up It's just you could always jump right on that thing I think there's a reason for that Alright so you want to burn that one to the ground as well Nah it's cute it's in there

it's like in the restaurant i don't really count that as a ride keep it oh okay what if i what if our idea was to like drain that and then just make it overflow for that tequila bar oh okay i like that okay maybe that's the way maybe that's what we should do and if those if those animatronic if the three caballeros served you drinks, if they're operating the taps, that's the way. When you were a kid, did you go a lot as a kid to these places?

No, I probably went every five years or so. Maybe four times in my life until I became an adult. As a little, little kid until I became like an adult. I was a little, little kid. I went, but I don't,

I don't even remember it. Like third grade, sixth grade, like 11th grade. So like four times. Yeah. You tweeted us. I loved it.

You tweeted us a photo of you at like a 20th anniversary event at star Wars in 1997. And I, I think we're all, I was in a gun. Uh, uh, and it think we're all... Oh, yeah, 1997. I was in it, yeah. And it made me realize, like, wait, was I at that too? Like, because I ended up down there. One of the times when I was down there with my family, it would have been like one of the first Star Wars, like weekends or Star Wars anniversary things, which was like very

fun and different at the time. And now it's always Star Wars anniversary things, which was very fun and different at the time. And now it's always Star Wars time. Yeah, luckily I love Star Wars, so I'm okay with it. Yeah. You psyched for later in the year, for the grand unveiling of Galaxy's Edge? I'm a little nervous, but yeah, I definitely psyched. Yeah, yeah.

I don't think we've recorded an episode since we saw the, there was a news story going around about how people are expecting 200,000 visitors on the day the thing opens, which is a tad imposing. Maybe that- Now, you guys are- Oh, God. You guys are getting it way before us, right? Yeah, that's what they're saying.

At least like months before, possibly six months to longer. That means I got to come to Disneyland. Yeah, I was going to say like you have to make that stop then. Oh, 100%. I mean, maybe because I've been to Disney World so many times and because it's in my own backyard, but I prefer Disneyland over Disney World. Yeah, we've had that debate on the podcast before, but I think when you just, just the amount of rides and amount of things

you can just do in Disneyland versus Magic Kingdom, I still think you got to give it to Disneyland. I mean, I guess for a one or two day experience, I would say Disneyland, but for a whole week, it's Disney. It really depends on what you're talking about. Right. There's no boathouse in Anaheim, though, which is one of the strides. That is true.

Downtown Disney, I'm not a big fan of that. Well, it's getting better. We've got a cool bowling alley now, and we've got some ice cream. Splitsville? Yeah. Splitsville. Oh, we have that here. Next time you're out, I vote yes on Splitsville.

I haven't bowled there, but I've eaten there. There is a Splitsville in Orlando. Oh, that's right. How's the Splitsville in Orlando? It's okay. Overpriced bowling. Yeah, overpriced food, too. But, you know, decent food is in short supply in the Disneyland Resort, so I'll take what I can get and I'll pay 30% too much for it.

I actually think the food's better at Disneyland than at Disney World. It is better, yeah. Like quick service food? Yeah, yeah. There's a little more variety. Yeah, Florida quick service food is still a lot of burgers and pizza and stuff for the tourists.

When you search your name and theme parks, I forgot all about this if I maybe didn't even know it at all. Is that like last year you did all six parks in like 48 hours. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Less than 48 hours.

Yeah. So pretty wild. How many hours? I would recommend I would recommend doing it. No, maybe it was maybe it was, so I started off at California adventure, Disneyland, and then I took a red eye back to Orlando and like slept on the plane, went to my house, took a shower and then did the four parks. So it was like just under two days. Right. Right. Wow. Then did you got it done? Then how many rides per park?

I would say a decent amount. I didn't write everything down. Obviously, I didn't hit everything, but enough where it was like I didn't just walk in and leave. You know what I'm saying? I made sure I did the heavy hitters in each park. That's substantial. How did you get from even just the single day at Disney World is imposing doing four parks in a single day. How did you make it from park to park?

For a couple of months, they had this thing that it's not there anymore. And I think it's not there because, well, one of my theories is because they didn't really advertise it. It was this bus that you just, I think it was like $30 for the day. And you went to these secret locations around the park and you would take this bus just right to the back entrance of park to park to park. And it was like 25, 30 bucks a day. I forgot what it was

called yeah it was only around for like six months they were trying that for a while where like the load and unload areas were technically backstage but like anyone could sign up for it but it seemed like yeah they it seemed like they wanted people to do it but like you said they did not advertise it and then i think they shifted it wasn't even at the ticket window. You had to ask for it. Yeah. And now I think they're trying to push people into that minivans service they're doing with Lyft. Right. What a scam.

Oh, it's incredible. Oh, what a scam. Have you done it yet? Have you been in one of the minivans? I refuse. What's the point? I can just use an Uber or Lyft. Why pay double or triple the price because it has Minnie Mouse dots on it?

Yeah, no, I think we talked about it on the show. I think we said if Minnie was driving, that would be worth it. Sure. But if it's just a regular person, then who cares? Now, with that being said, I also refuse to take Disney buses, and I Uber everywhere. Oh, wow. From park to park. The buses suck. I refuse to do it. wow. From park to park. I refuse.

The buses suck. I refuse to do it. Huh. I didn't know. They're never on time. They're crowded. They stop too many places. Yeah.

Not for me. And haven't been updated in a long time. I don't think I realized you could Uber from park to park. I haven't been down there in the age of Uber, but that's pretty comfortable and easy. Uber. It's so easy. You can Uber from everywhere, from hotel to hotel, hotel to park, to Disney Springs. It's the best. I didn't know if they'd cut down on that like in the way an airport does, but I guess not.

That's cool. Wow. Huh. You got it all figured out. I would say I have it all figured out, but what works for me, you know? Sure. Was there a particular highlight of the uh of the two-day uh marathon i just that i survived really yeah sure uh it was a lot of fun and like i said like i don't go to disneyland that often so

even when i go now um it's i still have to use like use the map. I don't really know where everything is, and I like that. It reminds me of going on vacation as a kid. Like you're discovering. You can discover something around the corner. But you go once a year, maybe Disneyland? Yeah, the past couple of years I've gone at least once a year. Yeah, for sure. Right.

So you've done Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, I've done Guardians, Cars Land, all that stuff. Right. So you've done like Guardians of the Galaxy and. Yeah, done Guardians, Cars Land, all that stuff. Right. Do you have a favorite robot in all six parks? Favorite robot? Yeah, animatronic on a ride or even like Sunny Eclipse or something. Sunny, oh, I like Sunny Eclipse, but I never really thought about that. We think about it too much. I like that Sunny Eclipse answer, actually.

That's pretty good. Sure. I'm glad that's not on your list of stuff to tear out of there. I'm glad you're part of the Sun Preservation Society. When I was a kid with my family, I didn't know there was four-star dining on Disney property. I didn't know there was real restaurants. We would go to eat

at whatever that... I don't even know what it's called where Sunny Eclipse is playing. Cosmic Rays Starlight Cafe. Right. That is what I remember. My parents were going to treat us. We're going to Cosmic Rays. I used to love going there as a kid. Which is the most like hamburger, hot dog, chicken finger.

Exactly. I remember just squirting copious piles of ketchup and mustard onto the most basic burger. No vegetables, nothing like additive to it. Just, uh, just, just pure crap, hot dog and, uh, watching a robot for a while. Paradise. My family always liked Cosmic Ray. My parents would always acquiesce to eating there because there was at least a

toppings bar with fried mushroom, fried onion, and cheese sauce, so you could at least dress up like the standard Disney burger. Like a Fuddruckers, almost. But not as good as Fuddruckers. No, not as good. We're really selling this restaurant.

Not as good as Fuddruckers and less robots than Chuck E. Cheese. What's the Disneyland equivalent called? It's like outside seating in Tomorrowland. It's like the burgers and stuff. What's that called? Oh, the Tomorrowland Terrace. I actually like those burgers a lot.

I was just there, I think, in February, and I got some burger that was delicious. Yeah, it's certainly like, I haven't had a burger in a while there, but the last time I had it, I was like, oh, pretty good. And then the last time I think I ate at Cosmic Rays, I was like, this is terrible. So yeah, I think that Terrace is better for sure than Ray's, but doesn't have a robot. So it's, you know, that's true. If you ever do Paris, do not do the Tomorrowland restaurant or the Discoveryland restaurant. I had just a basic burger there and that was garbage.

That was the worst meal of a two week Europe vacation. I've only done the domestic parks. I can't wait to do the other, uh, the other Disney parks. Yeah. Definitely bucket list stuff for me. Sure.

Yeah. I just did Tokyo and it is as good as people say. That's awesome. Um, yeah. So, uh, let's see.

Uh, I was listening to the interview with Jericho and you were, or Cody was talking about how you, you have rules for like theme parks. And I was wondering wondering he mentioned specifically like if you're at universal and you see somebody wearing a disney shirt you will be like hey wrong park or something that is true yes that is true are there other like sort of feelings you have about like just you know what the outfit you should wear at theme parks is or or what like like we had a guest on, uh, Jessica

McKenna who said like, some people wear like the gaudiest like theme park stuff and then, and she's not kind of cool with it. Or if somebody's dressed as captain Jack Sparrow, that's lame. Like when somebody's got the full like wig on that makes them look like the Johnny Depp character. Like, do you have any feelings about that? How you should dress, how you should act? Uh, well, see, when I did that interview with, interview with Cody and Jericho, I was at a different time in my life. I wasn't living in Orlando. So Cody and I, we would go to the parks every couple months together, and I just hated his style because he was a big, like, sit-on-bench guy, like, get a beer, just sit on the bench. And, like, I was like, no, no, no, we got to hit every single ride.

I had, like, I had a, you know, like a map in my head we gotta do this this this and this you know a whole like checklist of all these things we need to do but now that i live here and i can take my time like now i'm like i'm like cody like ah if we don't do space mountain this time we'll do it next time you know what i'm saying right before i needed to hit everything like i needed to be there at rope drop and stay till the very end but now i'll go whenever I want going for a couple of rides. I'll leave, but that's because I'm spoiled. And I live here. Sure.

So you, so you've loosened up even on the dress situation. Like somebody dressed like, well, I used to be very, I used to be very bad where like, you could only wear a Disney shirt if it's like a Disney parks, official shirt, like you couldn't wear like a target Disney shirt. Oh, interesting. But I've since, uh, I've relaxed on that. I myself have like, you know, there's cool Disney shirts all over the internet. Target has great stuff. Very soft shirts. Sure. I have a lot of, yeah, I love target stuff. I agree with you. I have a couple

of them, but one of my Mickey shirts is like, so like, it's like, it feels like it's wilting. Like it's, it's so thin. It's about to like, I had to make it a sleep shirt and now I think I just have to throw it away, but I love how soft it was. So I agree totally. That, uh, Uniqlo in Disney Springs just has tons of like cool oddball stuff for like a third of the price of the actual park shirts. Yes. Yes. Disney Springs is the best. I'm telling you.

Yeah. I, I, what I, I was there for a little bit, and I loved it. Do you have a lot of clothing? You have a lot of toys and stuff like that, but do you collect shirts and stuff? Because I'm a decent toy collector. Again, for a regular civilian, I have too many toys. But I collect a lot of shirts, too, so I feel like have maybe like something crazy like 60 shirts that have things on it oh wow um i i don't collect disney shirts i had i do have a lot but i'm someone where like after i wear it like for i don't know if i have for a year or two i'll give it to like goodwill or something i'm not keeping

it forever right sure sure and i's all rotated out of my collection. Not that it's a collection or anything, but... Right. I just got an Oliver & Company shirt from Hot Topic on Black Friday. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Wait a minute. What? Yeah. The movie Oliver & Company from... No, I know. It's my favorite Disney movie

that gets no respect, no love. Yeah, no respect and good songs in it. We were just talking about this the other day, too. Oliver Down Beach. So there's like two or three new hot topic oliver and company shirts and then i found i need to go with the hot topic tomorrow yeah i got joking yeah no there's a bunch of like

there's like rescuer shirts now i saw they're doing a whole line of these for like we're all around the same age i think so we all had the same references when we were a i saw they're doing a whole line of these for like we're all around the same age i think so we all had the same references when we were a kid so they're doing they're like catering right to us now so i i did not get all of them i was very you know i was conservative and only got one of the oliver and company shirts but yeah they're they're doing it right over there at hot topic like what a world we live in now. If I was a little kid and my dad was in his mid-30s wearing a Disney shirt and bragging about it,

he was like a weird dude. Yeah, no. He'd be locked up. He'd be sent away. But now, I mean, I'm going to go to Hot Topic tomorrow and get that shirt. Yeah, I hope they have it because I had ordered online and the woman, when the online order came, she was shocked to see it. So I would maybe call ahead to make hope they have it because I had ordered online and the woman, when the online order came, she was like shocked to see it.

So I would maybe call ahead to make sure they have it in store. And if not, obviously, you have to order it online. So, yeah, no, the world has changed a lot. And what being in your mid-30s means is a lot different than it was 30 years ago. Right. Which, in your case, toys. Oh, yeah. Let's talk about this.

What do you like? What's going on in the collection in terms of Disney, in terms of park affiliated toy business? Yeah. So I have a whole room. It's just my toy room. And it's all these toys on display. And the room isn't super duper big, but it's just my toy room and it's all these toys on display and the room isn't super duper big but it's a decent sized room and i do have two cases uh full of disney stuff um you know i i really was into as a kid remember those ceramic like glass figurines they would

sell at the parks yeah uh they would make like every character like imaginable they would also sell like the disney would also sell like this the disney store and stuff like that they don't they don't make them anymore but um i had them as a kid and i went back and i got the ones i was missing and my mom's been going crazy and she's been like i told her i wanted a couple of them like every couple weeks i'll be like oh here's a box of the you know the beauty of the beast ceramic figures like oh well thanks mom i don't really have room for all this but thank you you know um so yeah i have a lot of disney stuff and now um this this company i'm sure you know funko oh yeah sure yeah funko pops so they have tons of disney uh funko pops

and they have a lot of park exclusives which are real pain in the ass to get oh we know oh yeah that's a story i had a few ago, I was down at the park, and I happened to open Twitter, and a theme park news site had said, a store in downtown Disney has the Splash Mountain ones in stock. And I texted Mike, and I've never gotten a reply so fast as him going, get me two of them. And I walked in, and I did get two.

They had about like 15 and 12 in stock. I bought two. And when I walked by at the end of the day, they were all gone. Yeah. I mean, I love those things. So did you get the Splash Mountain one? I had the Splash Mountain one. I didn't get it.

I had to get it off someone on the internet, do a little trade. Sure. Do you? Yeah. Is there a criteria? I had the Splash Mountain one. I didn't get it. I had to get it off somewhere on the internet, do a little trade. Sure. Do you – Yeah. Is there a criteria – like when you're looking for Disney stuff, is the criteria – it has to be sort of theme park specific? Because I think that's my general criteria with collecting. Like I like characters from the park specifically. Well, for me, you know, Disney World and Disney in general, the merchandise

isn't going to run out. It's never ending. So I need to be very, very, very specific. Right. So we're just talking about Oliver and Company. I have the McDonald's, Oliver and Company, like Happy Meal toys. Yeah. I have those in my collection. I think I got those. That's great. I the ads yeah heartwarming mcdonald's ads from the 80s yes um i also got the mcdonald's um they made like epcot like uh all the different countries toys oh so it's like mickey mouse mickey mouse like red white blue mickey mouse you know oh okay so like he's got like a sweater with the french flag on it or something yeah you gotta throw it in your Google machine and pick these up. They're incredible.

Are any of them, you know, racially questionable? No, I don't think so. Nobody's in like a hat that they shouldn't be in? Nothing, no funny business? No, I don't think so. None of it would be offensive to the norwegian people i think i i mean i think it's okay all right well then i must be fine uh so are those plush or are those like plastic just little plastic like happy mill toys um okay

i'm looking through i find i see pl. I see plush when I Google. We'll find it later. I'm sure there's plastics. This is tangential, but I'm very proud of my full set of Mac Tonight riding different little vehicles. Like this kind of like a 50s Cadillac and a little biplane and a scooter. Like every type of car somebody can operate. And my beloved McDonald's Moon Man, Mac Tonight, is piloting them all. That's a fun set.

I recommend that one if you have any Mac Tonight interest. Matt, were you a fan of Mac Tonight, the Moon Man from McDonald's? I remember it. I had some of those toys, too, but I don't have them currently in my collection, no. Have you ever been to the world's largest McDonald's down there in Orlando? I don't think so. Where's that? Oh, look it up. Now, I can't attest to what it's like now, but this was a case where I was talking to somebody who I'd never met, a stranger I stuck up – had a conversation with on a set.

And he's like, you know that like in Orlando there's this big old – it's a two-story McDonald's and there's pizza and ice cream and a record your own karaoke booth and a Mac Tonight robot in the restaurant? What? And that's all I needed to hear and i booked a trip to orlando several days later um to be there i could not let men i could not let a lot of weeks pass and i don't know if the mac is still there but it still is a gigantic gaudy like awful to look at mcdonald's and it is in your area i think it's in the i drive zone okay That's like probably a half hour or so for me. That's, that's where all the tourist stuff is.

So that makes sense. Sure. Sure. It's over by where the American gladiators theater used to be. That now is a mega church. The American gladiators theater. What's this? I don't remember that.

There was kind of a medieval times dinner theater situation in Orlando, but that was for American gladiators. And they got gladiators from the show, but also like tourists would compete. But like, how did they possibly get enough people every week to like, you could tape a TV show every week, but how do you have enough tourists who were like physically capable of going against the gladiators? I don't know.

I think it was only open for like two years and it closed and it's a church now like a big baptist church i was a big american gladiators fan oh geez yeah yeah i i bet uh uh anyone that you admired uh uh in particular um i think like nitro is that one of them i assume it sounds like one yeah when i was a kid i i had an american gladiator's birthday party in my backyard and it was my dad used to own these bodybuilding gyms and some jacked up guy um he was the american gladiator and he was all dressed up and everything like that so it was fun wow if you had to to choose between, if you were like actively seeking employment in the Orlando area as like a medieval knights jouster. Medieval times?

Oh, yeah. Medieval times, rather. Medieval times like jouster guy or a pirate's dinner adventure swashbuckler swinging around on a rope. Or let's say gladiators is there still, or I might be missing one, but if you were going to be in, if you were going to hit the Orlando dinner theater scene, what, what would you choose? I think I'd rather be, uh, like Tigger at like a character breakfast. That's a lot, it's a lot easier. It's less physically taxing.

Oh, I'm a big fan I'm a sucker for character breakfast Really? So do you still do the character breakfast now once in a while? Every once in a while I'll do it 100% Yeah I love a lot A lot of people even if they're big theme park nerds Sometimes they look at me strangely

Because I do want to take photos with the characters Like I think I've taken You gotta do it I understand I'm not going to meet the same character every single time i go but you gotta go and you know i just met mickey the other night uh which i'm very upset because now uh mickey doesn't talk anymore he used to talk in uh magic kingdom they took that away yeah that's upsetting they i when i was there last like a year ago we went in and we knew he was talking but we went into a room and he wasn't talking and then i went up to like town hall to complain

and they were like well you know he's not always guaranteed to be doing something like that and they go you can go back and you can ask somebody if mickey is feeling talkative today and they like winked at me and then we did it again and he talked and it was all it was like amazing it's so good right it's so good have you seen the video where he speaks japanese to some tourists i have not seen that no so mickey was speaking japanese to tourists like he was doing the impossible and now it's gone and i don't know why i think the head was malfunctioning or something i and i heard and who knows this that, you know, people were complaining that he wasn't talking everywhere. Oh, interesting.

So until the technology gets cheaper, they won't have one Mickey that talks. I mean, who knows? I thought, I thought it was great. I thought it was special that in the front, he would talk.

I agree. Can I just back up and say, Mike, you went to city hall to complain about a Mickey-related issue. Yes, we had a fast pass, one of our precious fast passes for that Mickey meet and greet. And I was telling my girlfriend, Lindsay, over and over, I go, Mickey's going to talk to us. Mickey's going to say something.

And I'm like, I was very excited about it. And then you get in the room and Mickey keeps his mouth shut. And I was upset about it. So we went across the street and I was like, hey, I've seen online that Mickey talks. And they were like, they were weird because they wouldn't confirm that he talks either, which I found very weird and suspicious. But obviously they don't want to promise things. That's why there was never anything like, come see Mickey, have him talk to you, hear

him speak Japanese. They wouldn't say that. So they gave me another fast pass. But I mean, it was like such a big part of my excitement to go to Magic Kingdom is to Hear him speak Japanese. They wouldn't say that. So they gave me another fast pass. But, I mean, it was like such a big part of my excitement to go to Magic Kingdom is to hear Mickey say hello. Hmm. Was it equally exciting, though, to lodge a complaint at the formal establishment city hall? Well, look, I don't like I feel like Jason is better at like lodging complaints than I am in general. So, look, I wasn't happy to do it, but it was necessary is what I'm saying.

I needed to do this. I needed to complain for you. Yes. Matt, do you complain once in a while at these parks? I was about to say, I don't think I've ever complained at the parks. I don't. I honestly, I'm trying to think of another time I did. I cannot think of another instance where I complained, but this one, I was very – I was adamant that we needed to get to Talking Mickey.

Yeah, there are people I know that like complaining and like getting free stuff, but I'm much more of a – like I would send an email later. I'm not a confrontation person. Yeah, okay. I would do like a public tweet and bash them. Oh, you're – I mean that's the tweet and bash them. I mean, that's the fastest way for you. Yeah.

You have a lot of followers, so that would certainly get their attention. Do the most damage at once. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. You wouldn't do that to Disney. You would do it to some other park. You would publicly bash SeaWorld on Twitter. If it came to that. If it came to that.

If it came to that. Yeah, the Hilton company can take it. Oh, yes, Mike. A couple. Yeah. So on your podcast, which is very good. I recommend everybody if they like figures, if they like if they like another podcast about people in their 30s with a very specific interest. I highly recommend your podcast uh you were talking about looking for these specific parks toys which i had never

i didn't know they existed but they look like the characters in costume specifically so it's mickey minnie donald goofy and daisy but they look specifically like human beings might be inside them like how you would see them in the parks. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yes. These look exact. They don't look like cartoon characters.

They look like human proportion, Daisy and Donald and whatever. And I just like it. Maybe I missed it on the show, but is there an update? Did you finally track these down? You were looking for a very specific type of them too. So I'm looking for the,

the mini mouse. I do have the rest of them. The Minnie I don't have. And I thought I got lucky. I found the, the Tokyo Disneyland version of Minnie, but she's not the same. It looked exactly the same,

but she's on a Tokyo Disneyland stand. She, she's like glued to it. She won't come off it. So I can't use that. I need the, the U S one. Okay.

So you have everyone, but mini and it's a U S specific stand for her, but she's in that same pose where she's got like one leg in the air and she's holding her figure. The figurine is exactly the same, but on the U S ones, they're able to come off their stands, but on the Tokyo ones, they're, they're glued in, but, and not only they glued in there, there's like an extra piece that's like gets them stuck into the stand. So you couldn't even just like rip it off. I see.

Because there's like an extra little square peg or something. So it's really, it's really pissed me off because I can't find it. Matt, I was going to ask, have you gone looking for toys at the Disney character warehouse? Do you know what those are? I have not been to that. What is that? Those are, there's two of them in Orlando and they are essentially Disney parks,

merch outlet malls. So stuff, merch you would find in the parks, uh, but like heavily discounted and, and stuff, oddly enough, not just from the Orlando parks,

but like from all over the world. And when I was reading about it today, uh, the the the website touring plans does like regular runs and takes pictures of what is there and i'll post this on our twitter account but um they were selling some of i like when these come out these uh disney does like mashup stuff sometimes so these are uh this is goofy as davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean and then Donald as Will Turner from Pirates of the Caribbean which is

Orlando Bloom's character and they found them they found at this outlet they found Goofy from the American Parks and then the one they would have sold in either I think they sold in Shanghai so yeah you can find some weird stuff at those outlet malls they would have sold in either, I think they sold in Shanghai.

So, yeah, you can find some weird stuff at those outlet malls. It sounds like that's going to be a scary place for your bank account if you go there, Matt. Yeah. See, luckily, I'm very specific when it comes to, like, I can't just get random things. So if I'm not really looking for something, I might have to just pass on it. Did you ever, did you, do you have any of the, they haven't made them in a couple of years, but they're called Park Stars?

I'm not, no, I don't have any. What are those exactly? They're like Vinylmation. I could send you a photo of them. Oh, I don't do that. I don't do that.

All right. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I know what you're thinking. You're saying Vinylmation. I don't like that. Make a design with the ears and a painted on. Cause I totally thinking. You're saying vinylmation. I don't like that Mickey design with the ears and it painted on because it looks cheap.

I totally agree. These are vinylmation, but they are not the Mickey design. They are their own unique design, but they're all park-specific characters. And I have six different lines of them. I'll send you a picture of them to see if there's something like that you would be interested in. I was kind of down on the vinylmation in. Cause I felt like it was sort of a, you know, it just kind of like,

it looked cheap to me here. I'm sending this to you on Twitter right now. I don't know if you can see the, this is my collection of park stars, but we're talking, you got sunny eclipse, you got hitchhiking ghosts. Oh,

you got a bombable snowman. Yeah. This is like, You got Dragon Finder. You got Abominable Snowman. Yeah. This is like, this is all hits. This is all killer, no filler. Yeah, exactly. So like Orange Bird. Wow, this is really cool. Like these, I was obsessed with these.

And it looks like they're not making them anymore, which is shocking because we haven't gotten some of the classic characters. I was hoping we'd get John from the Carousel of Progress by the time this whole line was done. But it looks like they're going to break my heart and keep it here. But obviously, from looking at the photo, you can see they hit a ton of very ride-specific characters. Carnival, Parker, Potato Head.

You like which one? Sorry. Figment. Oh, yeah, Figment and the Dream Finder back there. Yeah, no, so I was obsessed with these. But, yeah, I should stop sending you photos of other toys that you could possibly collect. I don't need to do this i have my girlfriend wants to kill me i get way too much stuff uh i have picture my favorite theme park toy i own zacky or matt whatever we're calling you um right uh uh i uh did do you remember the ride alien encounter that used to be at the entrance of

tomorrow? Oh yeah. I loved it. Yeah. They, they sold for a little while and my mom surprised me one Christmas with them. They had action figures of Skippy,

sir, the robot voiced by Tim Curry and then Skippy after he was all crisped up. And, and then they had one of the alien, of the monster, and they came in, like, tubes, like in the ride. Wow, that is pretty cool. And, I mean, they pop up on eBay every now and then, but they're, like, for the time, for, like, late night,

they're really detailed, but the, like, tube packaging, I mean, I've taken them out before, but I don't, they're still at my parents house. And I never like I'm like, I want to bring them back, but I don't want to damage getting them back across the country. Oh, yeah. Do you have any advice for transporting? Yeah, because you're doing that a lot when you're going to these places because you go to a lot of different toy stores across the country and obviously you have to ship them back to Orlando. Right. Well, you might think I'm crazy, but I don't collect things in the box, in the packaging.

So I take things out of the box. So if the package gets damaged, it doesn't bother me. That's the big thing on our podcast. We say let them breathe. We just open them up. Let them breathe. You look at real piss. I heard that.

You look at piss. And that as a – I have always opened up my toy i don't like when i get toys i don't leave them in the package but like this one i'm like at least this one's kind of cool it's kind of like you know it is like a base or something so uh is there are there any things you are park specific that you are looking for uh other than that mini that maybe our listeners might know like like why not? Cause you always talk about certain things like wrestling wise that you're looking for,

but are there any other sort of like white whales in the theme park area that you're looking for? I think right now it's just that, that mini. And then, like I said, some of those ceramic figurines, like I'm always like, I found like the, the Br'er Rabbit from Splash Mountain. So, and like So I don't know if they made all the other characters or what. Because like eBay is very hit or miss. Like it's really just what someone wants to put up that week, you know. So there's no like official checklist of every ceramic character all the Disney parks made.

So not that I know of at least. So I'm always interested to find some obscure ceramic characters. Because now I just wanted to have the Fab Five, and my mom's, she's got me so many that now I'm all in. Sure. How many do you have? About how many you have? Probably like 50. Oh, wow.

Really? And luckily, they're not that expensive on eBay. They're probably the same price they were at the time, less than, like, less than $10 each, unless there's, like, one super-duper hard one. But everything that I found, I found at a good price, like, on eBay. The problem is, is that they're so delicate. And for that, you have to make sure that they pack it carefully when they're sending it to you. Right. I had a Jafar come, and the whole back was cracked off.

It broke my heart. Oh, wow. That's sad. Because like, yeah, those are, who knows how many, a lot of this stuff is not documented on the internet of what exists. Like, and I think we didn't talk about this earlier, but the only thing that I was upset about from your Defunctland interview was that you said you would be okay if the country bears closed forever.

Everything else. Honestly, if pirates closed, I would be upset, but I wouldn't be that upset. If country bears closed, I would like pick it, I think, outside. Country bears, I'm cool with because like what's going to take its place? Just, you know. It's so smart. Right, right. You're throwing me off.

Why can't they fix like the clicking noises? Good question. Or is that part of the off. Why can't they fix the clicking noises? Good question. Or is that part of the charge? You made that, Mike. Would you be upset if there was no more clicking? Well, you know what? This will be interesting because when you finally go to Tokyo, they have the country bears in Tokyo, but the animatronics are much newer and cleaner looking. So there's not the clicking.

There's not a rundown feeling. Also, the audience is happy to be there as opposed to in Orlando where they seem like they're like, okay, this will get us out of the hot sun for a while. I did one of those after hours events a couple months ago. Yeah. And there's not one person in the Country Ridge Embryo. The poor guy outside the podcast number was was waving people in, but nobody wanted to come in to see the show. He was like a sign spinner, desperately trying to... I felt really bad.

Jeez. So for the Country Bears, would you still collect Country Bear toys? Do you still like the characters, even though you find the ride a little run down? Yeah, for instance, if Funko made Country Bear pops, I'd get them in a heartbeat. Yeah, like for instance, if Funko made Country Bear Pops, I'd get them in a heartbeat.

Okay, well, that's good. So you wanted newer, hipper Country Bears. Just update it a little bit. Update it, okay. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying you have to make a whole new show, but get rid of that clicking. Make sure everything's working properly.

No, I don't disagree with that, certainly. You're not taking it out. You just want to add oil. Yeah, just fix it up a little bit. Yeah, no, I agree with that. Wait, I have a question, which I'm confused by the difference between you're into Funko,

but you're not into Vinylmation. How do you explain that difference? Why does Funko work and not Vinylmation for you? Well, like the Vinylmation, they're all like the Mickey head, which I don't like, first of all. And about the Funko Pops. No, no, no. The Funko Pops, what really, well, when I first realized what they were, I'm a big Ghostbuster collector. So I found these Ghostbuster toys, which happen to be Funko Pops.

Oh, these are pretty cool. Let me look up, you know, who makes these, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh, this company makes Star Wars and they make Ninja Turtles. And it turns out they make everything. This was like five years ago. Now they really make everything. And everything that you like, you can collect. And it's all as one, you know, it's all as one line.

It's not like you have like a Ninja Turtle action figure and your Ghostbuster one's a little bit taller or a little skinnier. You know, it's everything is uniform, and I love that. Oh, sure. Gotcha, gotcha. Were you a fan of that? Did you get to do that Ghostbusters show in Orlando when you were a kid? Oh, I loved it.

Ghostbusters is my absolute favorite movie of all time, and I love that show. And I still think if you watch the YouTube video of the show, I still think it holds up. Potentially better than what, that's been a weird spot with Twister and Jimmy Fallon. Like they might, they might not be crazy to, to say maybe they should have left Ghostbusters as is or kept plussing it up. Jimmy Fallon sucks. Yeah. Well, as, as you know, our, our Jimmy Fallon policy.

Not the person. No, no, no you know, our Jimmy Fallon policy is because politically, as we work in the comedy world, we feel as though we should not say that ride is odd and dumb and bad and relies on the same universal tricks that they use on every ride. We don't say that. Right. I hate it. I refuse to do it I have nothing to say

you have less to lose please say it alright so Matt usually to wrap up sometimes when we're doing like a specific ride we'll ask the guest what they think on a scale of should we keep a ride at same as is should we plus it up or should we burn it to

the ground but since we didn't do a specific one i was thinking we could do a lightning round with magic kingdom rides with you yeah and just we're gonna rip through them so there's three choices for all the so i'll just list the magic kingdom rides and you will basically just say keep as is plus it up or burn it to the ground for insurance money and you can shorten all of those. So there's three choices. Okay. So we got the game?

I got it. So I'm just going to rip through all the attractions at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. Astral Orbiter. So are you going to burn it to the ground? All right, burn it to the ground. Got it. The Barnstormer. Burn it to the ground.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Keep it as You know what spice it up a little bit Okay plus it up Plus it up I still like it a lot Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin Maybe

Plus it up a little bit It's still cool but I think it needs some updating Okay I agree Casey Jr. Splash and Soak but I think it needs some updating. Okay, I agree. Casey Jr. Splash and Soak Station. I don't even know what that is. I don't either. Keep moving.

Pass, pass. Country Bear Jamboree. Plus it up. Okay, Dumbo the Flying Elephant. Keep it as is. Okay, the Hall of Presidents. Birds of the Ground ground Those are fighting war People are going to come at me on Twitter now

Haunted Mansion Just a little bit Okay it's a small world Let me just let me backtrack for a second Okay sure So like when they added all like The animated Faces on like a lot of the characters and stuff

like that the tombstone you know i'm talking about yeah yeah it's it's like so like 2000-ish bad cgi right you know like they need to fix it up a little bit it looks dated a dicey time for theme parks no theme park should have done anything in the early 2000s because it's all it's all bad now anything that was done in that era you know exactly what i'm talking about i'm not crazy right no no we get we hear you it doesn't age 90s cgi is better than 2000 cgi right right yeah okay continue okay uh jungle cruise oh boy uh plus it up okay party. Uh, this, the teacups. I just keep it. Sure.

Hey, wait, Jungle Cruise. Are you into, there's rumors of like the rock is on the ride. Is that a good idea or a bad idea to you? I, I mean, I, I just did Jingle Cruise the other night and I, I trust me. I love like the skippers and I love like the jokes and I love, but like some of the stuff is just so – the animatronics are so old. Oh, man. But I get it. It's a classic.

It's a classic. So if they're going to plus it up a little bit, I'd be interested in seeing what they did. They seem like scary animatronics. They actually seem like they're lunging at you or there's threats in the jungle. Well, I mean, I did it the other – it was at night. You could barely see anything in the dark. I think they just need to add better lighting or they can fix it. Yeah, I don, I did it the other. It was at night. Like, you could barely see anything in the dark. I think they just need to, like, add better lighting or they can fix it. Yeah, I don't disagree with that.

Yeah, no, I'm on board with all these opinions thus far. All right, back to the game. Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Keep it. All right, we're at the M's. I'm going to go put on a cup of coffee. No, no, there's only a few left. I hope there's not a lot of Z's.

Mickey's PhilharMagic. I haven't seen it in a while, but I can only assume that it is outdated. So, plus it up or burn to the ground. I'll touch your judgment on that. I'm going to say plus it up, but the screen is so dim. Come on, brighten the screen up for that

3D. It hurts the eyes if it's not that bright. That's me though. Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor. I just did it the other night. Amazing. Really? What?

I don't know anything. I've never heard like a strong opinion either way. People say that one's bad. I don't think I've done it in a long time. I've done it twice in my life. And like I did it once and I really, really liked it. And I did it again like two nights ago. And like, I, I did it once and I, I really, really liked it. And I did it again, like two nights ago. It's amazing.

So keep as is. Whoa. Listeners have told us to like, you got to reconsider monsters and Glyph. All right. We got to reconsider that. Uh, Peter Pan.

It's doing like real, like real jokes. And like, they interact with the audience and it's great. You didn't get like roasted by a monster. Did you? No, i did not but now i know where to sit to get right i realize they're only picking people like in the middle

like so i gotta i gotta pick a better seat wow good tip um all right peter pan uh keep it it's I would never say burn it down maybe plus it up a little bit maybe you guys can help me with this there's a lot of people the story of Pirates is this, the story of Pirates is that I've been on that ride probably 50 times throughout my life I don't know what's going on

what's the story here? They've done a thing at Disneyland recently. They took out the mist and that bad projection on the mist to tie in with the pirates. And they've done a really interesting thing, I feel like. They've put a little it's stationary, but it's

like a skeleton slash man. So when you're going through the skeleton part with all the pirates have their riches, you go by this like figure and it first looks like it's a skeleton. But as you go, like it kind of turns into a man. And then you're out in the place with the ships and shooting cannonballs at each other. So I feel like it's trying to transition and say, hey, look at all these pirates. Look what they look, what they did and look what they stole.

And they all died just like, you know, scared or like worried that their treasure was going to get taken. Now we'll see what they were like in the hidden, like back in time. This is what started all of this. So it's not like a very strong story, but they're trying to like paint a picture of like we're going back in time. And it's much clearer now, I feel like at Disneyland than it is at Disney World. Okay, then I'll have to check it out next time. And it's much clearer now, I feel like, at Disneyland than it is at Disney World. Okay, then.

I'll have to check it out next time. That covers it. I mean, also, though, there's like pirates and they're hammered and they're chasing women and burning a city down. The story isn't like so strong. But I don't know. And then they just put Johnny Depp in there whenever they could, right? Well, yeah. And then I think they fucked up the in there whenever they could, right? Well, yeah. And then I think they fucked up the story probably by adding Captain Jack Sparrow.

Yeah. Because now it doesn't really make any sense. Well, because that's what Disneyland, they got rid of the mist because I think they were trying to get rid of some of the movie stuff. I don't know. I never saw the movie, so. No. Jack Sparrow's in a bucket and then he's leaning out from behind a post and then he has all the world's treasure.

Very clear story. It is funny that there are like all of these animatronics concerned with plundering and pillaging. And then there's like two next to Johnny Depp who are like, I'm concerned about Captain Jack Sparrow. Only some of the characters know who he is. Yeah, he hasn't met everybody in town yet. Right. He's working his way around. Yeah.

All right. Back to the game. Seven Dwarves Mine Train. Oh, keep it as is. I love it. Yeah, that's good. Space Mountain. Oh, man.

I wish it was... The Disneyland one is way better. I wish they would spice it up a little bit. Okay, plus it up. Splash Mountain. Plus it up. Maybe just clean up the electronics a little bit, so plus it up. Okay.

Swiss Family Treehouse. God, get rid of it. Burn it to the ground. Tomorrowland Speedway. Burn it to the ground. Oh, man. What a space waster. Exactly. Tomorrowland Speedway. Burn it to the ground. Oh, man. What a space waster. Exactly.

Yes. Love this. I'm very curious about this one. Tomorrowland Transit Authority People Mover. I love it. Keep it. Oh, nice. Good answer.

Journey of the Little Mermaid. Love it. Keep it. Carousel Progress. Burn it. Get out of here. Finally, you lost me. Tiki Room.

You know what? I don't think I've done in either park, so I don't know. Okay. I just know it's a lot of clicking birds. And then the last thing I'll ask, Liberty Square Riverboat. You ever been on a riverboat? I've never done it. Okay. Seems silly to burn the boat you can keep it it looks nice

it's not hurting anybody hey how about in advance the Tron coaster oh man I don't know oh really? skeptical? I'm not super excited about a ride that's already somewhere else

so it's already outdated about a movie I've never seen that's not popular in the United States. That's a film with the plot is even thinner than the ride Pirates of the Caribbean. I don't think you need to know the story of Tron. It's pretty lights.

It's neon. It looks cool to me. I think you'll be great. I think you'll dig it. But that train's getting shut down for a while because of the coasters. So no train rides for you in the near future. Well, I mean, listen, the train ride's boring, first of all.

The one at Disneyland, at least there's stuff to look at. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. But like this Tron, this coaster's coming in. Like I said, it's going to be outdated already, while Universal's building this like this Tron This coaster's coming in Like I said It's gonna be outdated Already While Universal's Building this like

State of the art Harry Potter coaster Is gonna blow it away I don't know We'll see I think there's gonna be More robots on the Harry Potter one

So it will have an edge Maybe in that area That's better So I guess you probably Are onto something there But I think you're Underestimating Tron Have you watched the ride-through

video of it, though? It looks great. I'm not saying it's not good. I'm just saying by the time it gets here, I think it'll be a little outdated. Well, we'll see. I mean, even if it was in the park today, it's an old ride. It's already a couple years old.

But maybe it's a newer version. We don't know. We don't know if they've updated it for, we don't know what they've, supposedly that Ratatouille ride going in Epcot is going to be like a slightly newer version of the one that's in Paris. So who knows? I hope so. All right. We want Tron in California and we want Autopia gone. We want maybe submarines go, whatever it takes.

Oh, submarines got to go. Yeah, love it. we are on the same page totally agree maybe easier for uh you know uh people in their 30s to say but i don't know what kids are that into the submarine or the utopia i mean i i love nemo but that's it sucks that submarine thing is the worst it just takes so time. You're so crammed in there. Oh, forget it. Yeah.

Forget it. Burn it to the ground. All right. Well, uh, with that, uh, Matt Cordona,

Zach Ryder, you've survived podcast, the ride. Yeah. Hey, uh, what a plug away your podcast. Anything else you want to talk about?

You guys are doing a toy drive, I believe for the holidays. Oh yeah. So, uh, we're doing, uh, well, first the major wrestling for your podcast anything else you want to talk about you guys are doing a toy drive i believe for the holidays oh yeah so uh we're doing uh well first the major wrestling figure podcast drops every friday wherever you get your podcast um we're doing this major recipe or toy drive it actually ends this tuesday uh december 11th but you can still order it whenever you want any wrestling toy from ringside collectibles.com and just use the oh i don't even have the address that i need to put in here but it's like this okay google it throw it on google the creative pro wrestling address and they will void the shipping and that's kurt hawkins that's my partner's wrestling school and we'll just pick up the toys we'll donate them so you don't have to

you know go to the post office and mail anything out so yeah just just listen to the major wrestling podcast on twitter at zach rider instagram z rider 85 i don't you'll find me i Yeah, just listen to the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast on Twitter, at Zack Ryder, Instagram, ZRyder85. You'll find me, I guess. If you want to find me, you'll find me. Yeah, if you like toys and you're constantly, I feel like, I was looking at your live Instagram story and you were at the parade, I believe, what, a couple days ago? Yes, yes.

So, yeah, if you like theme park content, follow this man, follow all of his accounts. Yeah, and I'd just like to say, having talked to you for a bit, the fact that I don't know what you will end up doing tomorrow, but if, in fact, you go to a Hot Topic to get an Oliver & Company toy and that you could potentially go to the world's largest McDonald's or that toy warehouse that Jason talked about, and then you could go to Disney Springs, You could go to the boathouse. You could hit all the parks in a day just Ubering all the way.

You've made me very jealous of your lifestyle, of the possible day you could wake up and have tomorrow. And I just want to say Godspeed and enjoy that Orlando life. Thank you very much. You guys are the kind of guys I would love to do a park day with, because when I go, I'm always the tour guide. I'm always the guy dropping knowledge on people. I would love to follow someone around and follow their schedule and have someone point things out to me. Maybe one day we'll do that. Yeah, that'd be great. We'll go out here. Yeah,

we'll go to Carthay Circle Lounge. We'll do all of it. You ever get the rainbow shot at the Carthay Circle? I have not done the shot. I've done the Mickey's Fun Wheel drink at the Cove Bar, but that's not a shot. But it is like a big rainbow drink. But I think you're talking about something different. It's like a row of shots, and it's like all different colors of the rainbow. Ooh, okay. Well, I will do that this is my dream

I'm the rainbow drink guy of the three of us yeah I don't know exactly what it's called but I've gotten it at the Carthay Circle a couple times yeah okay I gotta do that yeah I had the transformer at the Sheridan Bar at Universal which is multicolored so anytime it's multicolored I'm in so

we will you'll come out here and we will all do multicolored shots at Carthage. I love it. Incredible. It's going to be great. So, yeah, thank you again for doing this. Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Yeah, we'll see you later. We'll see you out here, I guess, in Anaheim. We'll drink around the rainbow. Let's do it. Thanks so much. Thanks. All right, thank you bye okay and there you have it zach reiter uh that was that was blessed not as controversial really

as we were like he really falls in line more he's just honestly he really all it comes down to is that it's like he wants the robots to be new and fresh and he wants the park to be up like a lot more upkeep. And how can disagree with that? Yeah. I mean, they do let Orlando, you know, it takes a while for stuff to change there because the majority of people are going maybe every year, every other year, every 10 years. So like, you can let it go a little longer.

Just oil Big Al's snout a little more is what basically we're getting to, which Jason wouldn't want Big Al's snout when I bring that up. Oh, sure.

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