Podcast: The Ride - Unlocked: 50's Prime Time Café

Episode Date: November 24, 2023

Enjoy this sample of P:TR - The Second Gate. Find even more Second Gate episodes at Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide An opening day attraction at Disney-MGM Studios, the 50's Prime Time Café features comfort food and and a wait staff who might scold you while in character. 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! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Okay, welcome to Podcast The Ride, The Second Gate. Pull up a seat, everybody. I'm Ant Scott. Let me introduce the kids. There's Jason over there.

Hey, no slouching. No slouching, Jason. Oh, get off my case, Aunt Scott. Well, you're not going to get dessert if you talk back like that. Yes, I am. Oh, I'll kick you out of my kitchen. I don't care. I should be so lucky.

And there's Mike over there. Hey, Mike, elbows off your microphone. Take the elbows off the mic. I want to put my elbows on the microphone. It's not polite mic etiquette, okay? Oh, wow, fiddlesticks. Now, you sit tight and watch your Dick Van Dyke,

and you boys, both of you, finish your dry facts or no riffing, okay? Oh, look what Rosemary is up to on this one. Okay, that counts. That's a dry fact. You're saying the name of an old ad. That counts. Okay, that's fine. You're off to a good start.

Okay, let me know if you need anything else. Hey, guys. We're talking about the 50s primetime cafe, where that's an amended sample of the kind of thing you might hear, I think. I haven't been myself. We'll get into this. Oh, here you go. Take the ball and run with it, Mike.

Well, I was just going to say, I went when when i was little and i have no memory of it um but yeah uh i i'll just say this i think it's good we're doing this and we haven't just reviewed it i found that because i know people will probably say oh they should have gone to it and they should have reviewed it i don't think so because i think we need to do a pre-talk before because i do want to eventually go when we go back to disney where i was like oh i should do this because then we can talk about it sure but this is more look this is the kind of thing i think we're allowed to do oh yeah for sure we're not a restaurant review podcast we're a themed experience review podcast right so we can analyze what the experience is and whether or not we think we like it right yeah there's food there there's food there, but it's within the broader umbrella of theme, right?

There we go. Get off our backs. Here's what I wanted to say that I think is important, and maybe this is going to take us right off the rails. I'm watching all this. I'm reading this stuff, and I'm like, man, you know what? This place gives me the creeps. Really?

Because I think about it pretty warmly i my family uh i i checked with my dad i was like we went there right and he's like yeah we went on that trip we took where we took your grandparents to and we all ate there and they were really tickled by it yeah and that was 1991 and we have not been back uh we became a mama melrose family and occasionally sci-fi uh died in uh we're a mama melrose family yeah everyone liked that and everyone could agree on it so and it's very cold in there oh and the orlando sun it's a little more pleasant than uh shoveling down meatloaf and pot roast mashed potatoes and 100 degree weather that might be the kippah weather but we don't know the temperature and

the that's one thing we cannot attack having not been recently it might be plenty cool in there we can't rush to judgment well right and that's going to be in whenever we have a follow-up episode because yeah when i say this place gives you the creeps, I'm like, I would like to experience and see if it does feel as bad as it looks to me now. I watched a number of vloggers go and all of them prefaced their meal with like, look, this food isn't amazing, but it's all right. It's pretty good. This is look, I've, well, I have read opinions all over the map on this subject. That might be what I would guess, but then I've read kind of the opposite.

Let's finish our dry facts before we go much further. This is a restaurant. It was an opening day restaurant, I believe at Disney MGM studios, which I will never stop calling it, uh, Hollywood studios today. And the, the bits in kind of the, like, uh, like it's pretty early as you're entering the park and kind of like the general studio before things get too themed i feel and the general deal with this is i guess the there's a couple things to say about the theming and what this experience is beyond being a a restaurant in the park it is themed after 1950s kitchens so every table that you sit at is a

little miniature set of a 1950s kitchen and those kind of like weave in and out of each other right and every table maybe not the very small ones but at least a table of four has a tv that is playing a medley of classic moments from 1950s television so we got that much right but i would say that the the headline aspect of it to me has always been that the server does what i did at the beginning of the episode they are a family member who is nagging you about your behavior at the table and whether or not you finished your vegetables and are using the right fork or whatever uh so it's like it's not you're you're back into the 50s but also into the into like that's the time of the uh the housewife who's concerned about manners yeah and no desserts until you finish your veggies and all that.

Does that explain it succinctly? Yeah. It's a Disney version of the server yells at you thing. Yeah. Edna Bebex or Dick's Last Resort. Dick's Last Resort. Of course, the famous Dick and his last resort. So you could join the...

The old Dick. If you eat everything, you get in the clean plate club. You got a little sticker. What a club. I know. I'm ashamed I have not joined it myself. Sounds like the Club 33 of the clean plate club. Sure.

Yeah. But if you're bad, I saw videos where someone had to go stand in a corner. Great. Now, let me... Okay. Now that we've said some of these basics and some of the things that might happen to you in the restaurant i might kind of double up on what you were saying mike and say that i've i never have been to this place and i never had any desire to go to this but

when i heard about it in like a hotel information video or whatever's giving you a preview the burn bombs guide to the park i think i specifically requested not to go to this place i as a child i hated the idea of one extra mom why would you want that who is a stranger i am being double parented right now i and then i could be by the way i could be terribly wrong i might go to this place now and like it appreciate it but as a child i was like please no please do not make me do this yeah well you're we're talking i think my primary reason for saying this cruising out is not necessarily the interactive element which i will i will agree with you in some ways that it's not always what i'm looking for while i would say it is not ever what i'm looking for anywhere there's you know you encounter this

with like uh you know the the star wars galaxy's edge oh they cut a lot of the character interaction and i'm just quietly like yeah too bad they cut that i wouldn't want like i'm fine i don't want to do this ever i've had a good time like maybe once every three years in something where I have to talk to a character. Yeah. But that's about my pace. It's a little immersive, that terrifying immersive theater that even took us through that one time.

Yes, that was interesting. But I had to take a deep breath in the moment where it became clear that there are now characters meandering around this space now that you say this we really have to do this all together because i would like to see what happens with jason and second mommy i would like to see what exactly is unlocked well i think you would like that i think yeah i think i'm going in lucky as i'm a big gravy boy you know i might be a little stinker i might be a little wooden boy but i'm a big time gravy boy you're not a little gravy boy you're a big gravy not at all i like my food very wet with sauces not with condensation would you agree with me that you're mama's little gravy boy i'll

be mama's little gravy boy yeah sure okay when you're at mommy's table you'll be whatever mommy tells you you are sure uh i also i like the the sampler platter they have, which has like the backstory that it's like, oh, it's a plate. It's mom's favorites, but it's like a plate of leftovers that was in the fridge. So you get pot roast and meatloaf and fried chicken. But then when you see the video, it's like, oh, i thought this would be a task but it's like oh it's a little reasonable scoop of everything you know okay well yeah we're not in mike's zone of the pre-airport family style no it's not fully they portioned it out they were smart i think we

could go and i think you could get one of the servers to like quit her job on site if you committed to the bit of being her son. I mean, look. I will. You show up in like the night before Christmas stocking cap and like underwear, like butt flap nightgown or whatever.

Oh. Well, anyway, the whole restaurant's quitting if they see somebody with a butt flap walking by. That's too much. You're right. It's indecent. But maybe like propeller hat and then like striped shirt, big lolly.

Yeah. And then like Mickey's little red shorts kind of a thing. Well, he's broadcasting. He comes in. All of this is presenting a challenge. Then the big lolly is defiant to mommy. Right. Yes.

That he would come in with outside food and outside sweets, which are going to get way in the way of his dinner. Yeah. My mouth's going to be a mess. There's going to be stuff all over. There's going to be food on my cheeks. My cheeks are going to be too rosy. They're going to yell at me for not putting on enough sunscreen.

Mommy, my cheeks are sticky from sunscreen and sucker. And now bits of meatloaf are sticking to me. I'm your little dirty boy today, mommy. I was gravy boy yesterday, but I'm dirty boy today. And then the woman just like performer is like breaks character, throws the apron down. We're done here. We're done here. We're done here. I'm done here.

If there's got to be somewhere else in this goddamn park, I can work. And if not, I'm at any universal. If you recall, when we did delusion, the blue blade, what you're going to say,

the, the, we ran into one of the actors from the experience afterwards, like in the bar like cleaning up and getting ready to go home or was it on the street? There were two interactions where performers told you you were difficult. She were like you were

difficult. And I was like well hold on ma'am you were playing a Nazi and you did have a luger to my head at one point so like I thought I was playing along this is an immersive like narrative where we went back in time and we had to turn the robot on and and jason thought that it was more like uh we're improvising dialogue with the performers versus

we're sort of just following people along a narrative of a set, you know, bunch of lines that they say, we're just following that. Jason, I think was under the impression that this was some sort of interactive thing where we could influence the actual story. We could not influence the story when he learned it, when he tried to like, instead of just like quick, follow me. And he's like, you got a light Mac. He like did it like a weird old time voice and then just the performer stopped dead the performer did not know what to do every like looking around like who this has never happened before everyone just follows me through to this next room most of

the people doing this performance are usually like it's not somebody who wishes they lived in the time period that we are conveying yeah Yeah, yeah. So, two different performers, I think, approached you, perhaps. You. And were like, what the hell? What was that? So, I think you were under the impression that it was a different thing, to your credit. Sure. Yeah.

No, I thought you were supposed to do, like, the, you'll never take us alive, man. Yeah, you thought you were, yeah, yeah. Like, lady? Right. But they were like, look, we got six more groups. This is the last show of the night. You were the second to the last group. Yeah, yeah.

And I have a software job to get to tomorrow morning. I have a day job. I lost my place. I lost my place. I lost my mind when you did that, kid. This is how much Jason's heart cannot harbor hate. He can't even handle a fake Nazi in front of him. No.

You give it right back to him. Sure. Not even pretend, sir or madam. So I think, though, mother at the 50s primetime cafe will be more interactive because she has to be. She has to be. She doesn't have just a set script. She knows she has her main things she says, says but she's gonna have to be improvising the whole time the whole meal yeah but she's never faced a challenger like jason before that's true

again we're talking we're getting towards the era that you would like we're getting towards a back to you uh heading back in the womb direction being a being a little little uh dinner boy it is not it is not reality it's the reality that exists in a television or movie screen um also what you'd prefer i scott as a nervous child i think i was more along the lines of you i was like oh they're gonna yell at me at this place and i was like thank god there's four adults here to take the attention you know this is you at six you this is me this is all uh latter day jason transformation you weren't eating it up at six no i i was probably a little precocious but like the level they would

like uh as opposed to 37 year old annoying uh uh, which I am now a lot, uh, as I've been told sometimes, um, sadly drifts off. Mostly immersive performers, immersive performers, people of my life,

uh, castmates, uh, coworkers, you know? Um, but yeah, I,

and I think, well, I think my interest was always too like i always wanted to go to a drive-in movie theater so like a drive-in movie theater inside where they give you milkshakes like they don't give them to you how like to see i mean i'm gonna be silent in this did this i think you and i might sit back and and watch that's why we know we were like almost like we're um on the crew of a play we just were all black sort of just kind of keep quiet in the background kind of

you're not meant to see us exactly so we're trying to observe more and then jason is fully on display um as whatever version of little boy little gravy boy he wants to portray these are my dad's they're do you remember the sprocket sketch sketch when i say that but then we have to be related to mommy she you have to play it like she's your actual mother i but they're aunts they're aunts and uncles oh but i thought and your cousins like i think maybe she's in the kitchen right you're right because this okay excuse me you're right the sir the are the aunts and uncles. Or cousins, perhaps, even two. Right. Okay.

So that's going to be trickier. Look, it waters the whole thing down that saying auntie is not as creepy as mommy. Not by a mile. That's true. You know what? I think he could still creep out. I mean, I do have a practical concern with this is I don't often have a huge appetite in Florida. I feel like the heat and the humidity just makes me pound so much water that I just feel, honestly, sometimes bloated a lot of the time. Because of the humidity.

Did you not just describe yourself as a big wet meat boy or whatever you said i said a big gravy boy yeah scott we all contain multitudes just because doesn't mean i suddenly don't like gravy he's a big gravy boy but not in florida when he gets to florida something lighter something lighter you know today he is a big gravy boy because we're recording this in California. So if you had this, if you had mom's plate of leftovers here now, you're devouring that.

You're getting big and wet, no problem. Yes, I think too, because a lot of the like mom, a lot of these foods are novel to me. Like we weren't a big meatloaf or pot roast. My mom would make it occasionally. fried chicken was mostly shake and bake you know right at home i think it's gonna be you know what i'm going back to the server thing it's gonna be fine because you're gonna tell the aunt like what mom does mommy wouldn't let me do this and stuff like that's how you yes

it's like it's so much less annoying if mommy isn't said frequently. Right. The exact same thought coming into this that I was like, I mean, like I admittedly, I might have lumped you into this. I was like, one of these two guys would go there and say mommy incessantly. I finished my meal, mommy. I'm not going to say that to a stranger. It's all fun in the safe space of the three microphones here,

but I don't really, when you're looking into the eyes of someone, you never met a five year old student or, or, you know, an older, I actually, one of the videos,

it was, it seemed like an older gentleman. I'm not going to say that guy. It seems like a people, a place. Maybe people take that role and do it for a long time. Well, yeah. When you find somebody who is good at the performance aspect, I feel like they want to hold on to them.

I hope they're giving them raises, but I don't know. I do have a few times more recently been at the bar, been at the Tune-In Lounge. This looks good. I didn't know about this bar well like i'm more comfortable with the tune-in lounge i think the tune-in lounge is where i'm comfortable yeah yeah i like the tune-in lounge um the tune-in lounge a lot has been scaled back you know since covid tune-in lounge i think it's mostly people waiting for the restaurant and cocktails to go okay used to be you could just hang out

at the tune-in lounge and you could get the full food menu without having to do all the damn bits you know um but uh my family i i do remember once we went and we we ordered we were just getting like sodas i think my dad ordered a beer this i think i was probably in high school um and we ordered like the thing on the menu that said fried cheese thinking it was just mozzarella sticks and it was a giant clump of cheese uh with raspberry sauce uh i think now it comes under it now it comes uh at the time it came on top of it now comes under it uh my dad does not like strawberries or raspberries or any berries with the seeds that can get caught in your teeth so he was like you know is that is that only in florida or

everywhere everywhere that one applies all over but i i was looking at the menu and i saw it's 20 so years later it's still on the menu. Fried herb cheese. What do they call it? Is this jelly cheese? Yeah, fried herb and garlic cheese. Fried herb and garlic cheese. And it's like a big and it comes with fruit and like some crostini or bread to spread it on.

Because it is not like a stringy cheese. It's a spreadable cheese. It's a spreadable cheese uh which a brie uh like a a boursin like i think uh is that what it's called something like that um but i did look up like the raspberry and fried cheese thing and i i did only recently found out this is a this is like a simpsons joke this is an albany thing in albany they serve fried mozzarella sticks with raspberry melba which is pureed raspberry and powdered sugar to bind it maybe i heard a peach melba uh you're stumping another you another throwing stumps another old dish so i i don't know this is someday peach melba's coming up on the show and it's my time to shine but i i don't remember why i looked this up maybe 50s uh primetime cafe came up in conversation i looked up

fried cheese and raspberry sauce and i got an at Atlas Obscura entry. Don't pretend you didn't have a dream about Peach Melba and started. This whole stretch of you explaining food is like, we're going to clip this and send it to Florida for your audition to play Grandpa in the 50s primetime cafe. There is some Grandpa entries. There's a lot of roles Jason can play there. It's little boy or very old man. That's potentially the outcome of this like if he goes toe-to-toe with server the out it's either oh he quit and i don't work here anymore or like here's a job application you got the goods if you defeat if you defeat

the server you have to take their job wow if you out old-timey the server then you win can i get my equity card uh no there are some roles at the florida parks where you can get an equity card there should be a good amount of those i think um but yeah so i this is a thing i found out that the fried fried mozzarella with raspberry melba. And I'm assuming this was at least a partial influence of serving this appetizer and a bed of raspberry sauce, this fried cheese. You got to sound like somebody's got to get to Albany ASAP. Despite all the time I've spent in central New York, I've never made it, made it up to Albany.

Yeah. It's the themed entertainment in Albany. Oh, there's gotta be something. This is cause now this is how we justify any, any vacation for us is a tax write-off. Sure. What is the dynasty typewriter of Albany? What is the hip theater in town? Who's going to have to, someone listening to this is in Albany or in Albany.

You would think. So let us know. Yeah. Do they have like. So let us know. Do they have like, I don't know. Do they have an escape room? Anything counts. Is there some sort of immersive where we could do improv with the performers? Yeah.

And they don't like it. The other thing that, the other reason I went to Tune In Lounge just a few years ago was I kept, i saw people mentioned there is a food item there's a uh peanut butter and jelly milkshake oh i think that people is pretty well regarded people like that yeah and somebody i watched one of the vloggers and they showed it in like a paper cup and it looked like puke it looked terrible yeah it does look puke when you combine those things for sure but it's good i don't mean to completely be negative here but it looks bad from from the video at least it's hard to imagine i guess i've liked peanut butter and dessert form plenty of times peanut butter works in anything really yeah so i can't imagine yeah and again if it's a fruit it's

probably the sweetest jelly possible may as. Jelly may as well be a dessert already. So I can imagine that tastes good. But this is it is raved about all across the board. This is a quote from Eater from the website Eater. The PB&J milkshake is the closest thing in all of Disney World to real actual magic. What? There is an Eater article that is very uh fawning very very crazy extremely it blew my mind in terms of i thought this was like a weird remnant of 1989

mgm studios that in my head it was like oh they're still doing that i wonder if that's all right i probably won't go because i don't want to have somebody tell me to take my elbows off the table. Cut to, I start Googling. Eater says, 50's Primetime Cafe is the single best restaurant at Disney World. Gosh. The best restaurant? What? Does that count?

Are hotels in the mix? Right. Or is Disney Springs in the mix? Are they just trying to be provocative? That seems absurd. Especially given that then, Jason, as you said, vloggers are like, yeah, pretty good. Like, that's the best that you get. Even I would say that Mike's hero, Mr. Morrow,

was not even the most positive man I've ever seen in any media. He didn't go black and white when he ate it. No, he didn't. That's the mark of the best food around is that when mr morrow i don't know if you know this scott when he eats something and he loves it he's chewing and then he's all of a sudden the picture changes to black and white it slows down and he adds music and that's how you know he's eating something he's fallen in love with he hasn't done it in a while though well he said he's been doing it more sparingly yes oh wow i think he's gotten pickier steak guy so when he ate a peter luger's like and

i think even when he had tam a steak of the tam okay as well he did black and white yeah this is his paul hollywood handshake uh to put it in british baking terms it's only dull that you know it's special if you get the black and white right and no black and white in this and boy hey wouldn't that be the case the place for it right perfect black and white well so it i it shows you then this is a thing that i have not really been in a long long time but it's a thing that exists in theme parks where it's like oh i think i just like knowing it's there uh i i think i would be very upset if i heard it would i would be very bummed out if i heard it close really yeah i think this and the brown derby and sci-fi uh dine-in which came along a couple years after this but do you think it's more because

it feels like the park you fell in love with at such an age yeah for sure i think that's it i think like there's still some remnants of like the old hollywood angle you know of this park right there's still a lot of place making stuff just as it just becomes disparate uh the heart intellectual property mgm studios this would slowly be sure part sure yeah yeah well you get that you get the classic uh feel here like this you know because i think you've lost that a little i mean they've certainly lost the theming of the park and in a lot of ways but if part of it to you is seeing something black and white at some point that's that's kept alive here yeah i i it is a bummer that you can't just go to the bar and get all the food stuff it seems like it's like a pass-through bar at this point okay

it does seem like these things maybe are the closest you have to like opening day like the classic attractions essentially basically it's gone so what else do you have that feels like well that's been here the whole time yeah sure what else is opening indiana jones spectacular um star tours opening day no no later on yeah there were barely anything was opening day because they barely got it open yeah it was like yeah kind of and the because all that backlot stuff's gone. You got no New York Street, right? That's all. Wow.

Is this it? Is it Indiana Jones in this? I think, right? And unless you count the- And Brown Derby. Oh, Brown Derby. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Dinosaur, dinosaur ice cream. Right. The existence of the lake in general. Probably all those Hollywood Boulevard stores. Crossroads of the World in general uh probably all those hollywood boulevard stores crossroads of the world statue at the entrance that kind of big needle thing that is in hollywood and you i've only ever just driven past it it's not in a convenient spot it's not a safe spot i don't think i think you i think you'd run away from that as fast as you can in hollywood it's it's like a offices and a strip mall kind of thing but there's like nothing there it doesn't seem like

anything's open nowadays is this the only disney at least like american park that doesn't have an opening day like ride wow still like i don't i think are we forgetting something yeah maybe we're forgetting something they didn't have a lot of rides. Yeah. It kind of was a great movie ride, and the tram, and. Yeah. Huh. Could be.

So it's 50s primetime cafe. 50s, we didn't realize when we got into this how heavy the burden is of 50s primetime cafe. Yeah, really. All of tradition is gone. I viewed it as, I was thinking how it kind of stands as a, it's, it's nostalgia for eighties, nostalgia for fifties, nostalgia.

Oh, for sure. You know what I mean? Like it being there and the whole, the like kooky kitchen and the, the googie style, the, you know,

the crazy, uh, the bulgy shapes and stuff i like it feels like fondness for that really spiked in this era with nick at night right um and i i there's just like there's such an 80s component to it too which i think like makes it double nostalgic in some way and this is why it creeps me out. Because as I think we've talked about on the show before, the Nickelodeon commercial with the beehive hairdo lady who's your mother who's like, finish your chores. There was a commercial like that for things.

Bubble tape. Bubble hair. And it was the 80s, 50s aesthetic in the background. I find it unpleasant. Which usually involves like mashed potatoes yeah she's like got a meatloaf what are do we generally what's the general feeling on meatloaf here i feel like meatloaf was portrayed as like kind of a gross food in the 90s as well like that was something maybe you're right maybe this is a media construction maybe i'd like some

meatloaf if it's good it's good, it's good. It is good, yeah. The Boston Market opened in my town, originally called Boston Chicken. And that was one of the best things there was the meatloaf. You can get decent when Clifton's reopened downtown in LA. Oh, sure. I don't know if you ever ate there. Maybe once, yeah. And they had like a cafeteria. I feel like in the first few months it was like, they had so much you could get in stations.

And then as the months went on, it was like, we have one station open and you could get a hamburger. I don't know what it's like right now, but I like it. It's a great place. Open for events. Yeah.

And it's got the Tiki. Have you ever been to the secret Tiki bar at the top? I don't remember. Oh man. We should do Clifton's actually. We were there at a party. There was going to be an episode. We were at a weird. Was it a funnier dive party episode we were at a weird was it a party we're at a weird yeah funny or die party were you guys i wasn't there

for that i don't think whale the rapper whale wally wally is that how you say yeah it's not or is everyone wrong i'm not gonna try wally whale is it way you see you sound more confident mike i i know i'm 90 there it is not whale it doesn't feel like it'd be whale no way whale uh he was on a show at the staples center and they booked him for this and he came over and did two or three songs and then he was out of there is my memory of he did he was at the staples center and then he came and did songs at clifton's well i think it was a feature guest artist uh at someone else's concert all the money they saved from act using actors they paid they paid whale

wow where'd all this come from how do we have hundreds and hundreds of 50k for two songs that that was the d it would be like all right, a year of crunched budgets and ooh, sorry, ooh, we can't, sorry, no, we're not going to do that, sorry. And now, hey, Merry Christmas, everybody. Please welcome DNC. Wait, DMC? You called it DNC? I think I said N.

I said the Democratic National... That's where their black money... Not to a miniature version of the Democratic National... Their dark money was coming from... They had DNC dark money was coming from they had dnc dark money yeah that's why you got it is a black bag operation i think that was what was quietly funding funny or die yes um no and then you look up what uh dmc is uh what he gets for one night of party gov you know of just doing walk this way and uh yeah the money would go a long way to

yeah getting people some benefits or dmc he earned the money he deserves that money but oh sure the budget yeah maybe an actor should have gotten more than zero maybe he would stick up for their part dmc he'd be yeah he'd be the first to say give it to this guy to this dpu we run into the ground yeah so so we should do a clifton's because there's a secret tiki bar i'm surprised you maybe you just didn't know it was there because that that should have oh i was there yeah with the boat yeah yeah yeah there's a boat up there and it's like you it's behind like glass it's like a secret thing you have to push on it and there's a secret staircase yeah it's great i don't remember i was drinking whatever this was i was drinking okay

so who knows well we'll go up there if it's still available i don't know. I was drinking. Whatever this was, I was drinking. Okay. So who knows? Well, we'll go up there if it's still available. I don't know. My memory is the secret door was open just like the bar was that evening. That might be the case for a big event. It might be like, we're not going to let it be a secret. Yeah, wait, I might have the same deal. Like it wasn't a secret.

Yeah, maybe they just said it opened. That's why I don't remember it. Okay. Not drinking to excess yeah because every time i had been there you had to like know and push on it and go upstairs um okay what else about the wait you were okay we were saying like creeped out by the 50s nature of it 50s yeah i don't know like and the whole and the the. And the strong emphasis on the table manners and not fun to me, I don't know.

I think that the proportions being a little bit exaggerated feels unnerving when it's recreating real life versus when it's like Toontown aesthetic. Like when it's Toonish, you go, okay, yeah, but it's a little bit surreal it's a little odd and then i think i've seen this applied in like a couple different like haunted mazes over the last few years oh yeah um there was the uh paranormal ink maze at knots that ends when you're in like a 50s hospital and you walk like you basically you go to hell and

then you come out into like this hospital and i've talked about this before on the show which is a really cool part story strikes back uh story strikes back and it's like old music playing on an old radio and everything is a little odd and there's a nurse who's got like a beehive hairdo or something and then i was like yeah this is the creepiest so now i like i'm taking i've taken that like old time aesthetic to mean like something sinister i think you don't like beehive hairdos i guess seems like i'm not anti-beehive i like the b-52s i like you know i'm pro pro it but in this context and in horror maze you want to see it remixed or commented on you don't want to just see it i know it can be a straight ahead beehive hairdo i don't need a sort of like a subversive take on it but i don't think you like it being

i don't think you like somebody who is mean and stern with a beehive hair that's true yeah i don't but i might see it it's that's a trope i feel like that's a trope we grew up with far side too yes i like the far side but would i want to hang out with one of those far side ladies probably not right or the the monsters in character we've talked about ross ross yeah she's got the beehive hmm that's the true that's a trope you know yeah maybe what needs to happen is there needs to be a pro nice beehive hairdo character movement in this country in this world smart does marge simpson not count i know it is technically a b-hibe but i never think about it like that yeah being that it's like double or triple a

b-hibe yeah you don't really to me yeah yeah don't put it in that box yeah um i i did laugh to myself when my dad was like oh your grandparents really like this and i'm like looking back i'm like wait they had like half this stuff in their house in the 90s they had it for micah uh kitchen table that's why they liked it yeah yeah i guess so and they were the ones who you know uh my parents were born in the 50s but i don't know they have too much memory of it you know um i will say like decor wise it seems great like props are fantastic they did a good job stores or whatever and uh the tvs themselves are fun and custom and they say disney on them and uh i i remember also thinking i would now i would like to go and watch the 50s stuff on the tv yeah but

i don't want to get berated while i'm doing i remember it pained me as a guy would now that but like half of it i would like but i was so nervous about that and and not wanting meatloaf either one of the vloggers said if you don't want to do all the interactions you can tell them i'm a little shy oh really so perhaps they would pull back from the aggressive the aggressive language they would use. You might also be able to say, like, hey, I don't want to do the whole thing. Like, I'm heat-stroked, and I just kind of want a sandwich. I think you maybe could be more direct.

But the shy thing is a little bit more of like a sly way to do it. Which I never really thought of. I knew at the one in the wilderness lodge, the Whispering Canyon Cafe, there's like a flag on the table that if you put it up or down or something that signifies like if you're hey i don't want to do the whole fucking thing wait what is the whispering what is that i think they're they're a little rude to you and if you ask for ketchup they'll like bring you 10 bottles of ketchup and start throwing stuff which place it? Where? Which hotel? At the Wilderness Lodge. Really?

It's right in the lobby. Did you know about this? No. Interesting. Huh. And they're mean. But is it like a woodsy? I think it's like quirky, woodsy.

So they're coming back from chopping wood all day and they're a little irritable? Yeah, something like that. And they make you eat a cow pie. I don't. I'm sorry about the ketchup. I didn't know it was a faux pas. I just like it on things. I don't want to eat this cow pie.

Nope, you got to do it. We need to do. We should do more like on this weird stuff that's in the hotel. Because I didn't even know this. I've never heard that name, I don't think. Like, i didn't know about this restaurant is what i'm saying oh right but like there's there are little things like that in all the hotels in different worlds like that piano player who's at the um help me out here i've stayed there uh port orleans riverside yes there's like a piano thing with a little bar there. Jason looks mad that you aren't coming up with this.

No, no, I was, I was mad. Cause I was like, what is the cumbersome name? They changed it. Cause they used to call it Dixie landings.

And there was pushback. People were like, don't call it that. Right. And Dick's newness was like full steam ahead. We're calling it that. And there was that like older gentleman who I think passed away, who would always say hello

to you. Something. There's a bunch. There's a number of those. There's an old man at the hotel who says hello. There's a number of old greeters. They're doing it. Old man who says hello at the hotel.

But then there was somebody. Michael Scott. There was like a novelty pianist at Riverside. Right, but was somebody inappropriate at Riverside as well? Wasn't there like Cheddar, like one of the guys? There was Chatter, yeah, about one of those guys. Was it one of the two? Was it the piano player or the old man that said hello? I don't remember

which one. One of those two guys was inappropriate to guests, I believe. Soft cancellation. How do you know this wasn't just that one pervert was talking about your butt when you were a child? My specific butt? Yeah. I don't, but I feel like that must be a themed thing i read it on a blog this is a first hand

wow look at that tall guy's tight ass if you go oh you know maybe it's just like it's like the primetime cafe or the other thing or it's an interactive where there's a pervert who will make inappropriate comments to you if you go to riverside port orleans riverside the local pervert that they've installed there and you can do improv with him back and forth but remember it's you're being transported to a time when being a pervert was still legal yeah sure before anti-pervert laws were enacted yeah so we'll do the episode about the pervert the port arlene's pervert unless i look it up and it's really bad and then you'll never hear

this part of the episode um uh one thing we haven't uh mentioned um from the 50s prime time cafe uh did you read the uh liquor menu did you see the tab on the menu the uh like section that was like yeah it's called from dad's liquor cabinet yeah yeah and uh all right that's a little underwhelming there is some nasty see i was like oh yeah we're back this perfectly illustrates our views on good to go back to the Irish bar episode with your like, mom and dad need their medicine. I just think that's a weird way to phrase, that was a weird thing in TV and movies.

They would always talk about dad's liquor cabinet or something. And I, we just- You jumped to that's where the gun is. I never experienced that. Behind the bottles, the gun's back there. Maybe more than one. Oh, sure.

But one of them was the Fireball Cocktails, Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey, and Rum Chata. That's not in dad's, that's not in the 50s, dad. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, yeah. If they're going to stay on theme, they should have it be just like scotch. Yeah. As bitter as it comes. No they may yes scotch doesn't they don't they don't cool it down you pour yourself a full the mug i'm holding you do that entire amount yeah as i am right now full coffee mug of creme de menthe

yeah it should be it should they should stay and you know that upsets me now now that you've said it that part upsets me that they put fireball in there dad wouldn't be caught dead with that the entire the eater review said the cocktails lean towards sweet but a bourbon on the rocks is hard to mess up so you can do very dad drink but yeah leaning sweet does not seem right not 50s yes because they're all like they're all trying to you know either subdue themselves from fishing through the rest of the bottles and getting the gun right or trying to build up the courage to finally get the gun the gun yeah the gun is in all of dad's minds when when the liquor cabinet is in play and the drink taste should follow there yeah you could get a uh

the they would use the tommy gun from the great movie ride sometimes in the early days as a prop in the 50s primetime in the 50s we weren't that far from the 20s at that point so people might have a lot of a lot of dads might have had their dad's tommy gun because their dads were professional gangsters it was the 20s how did we pay for this nice house we have they quickly did away with the thing where you would have to talk down the dad character like you're not in okinawa you're not in okinawa anymore he's just shell shocked it's just a don draper type like you can't blast sigs in the 50s cafe anymore you know i think that mad men

and other things i think maybe that's also contributing because it was like i think back then it was like remember the 50s sock hops happy days blah blah like now the 50s because of mad men and other things were like the 50s were bad betty draper is like mommy's little helper jitters. Got you. Yeah. I think maybe there's been, there's less of the rosy fifties in our imagination. I might be, maybe I'd be more down with the server interaction if things got a little more Betty Draper.

Yeah. Like if it's not just that you like take it further, I keep putting my elbows on the table. So then there's like a genuine threat with a knife. Oh, yeah, yeah. She starts scaring everyone. Mommy, why? I'm going to apologize.

She's like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Or, you know, it would be good. Like, there's a point when like a door closes in the back. And she's like, oh, my God, your father's home. Everyone be quiet.

Just be good. Be good. Be good. We can't have him yell at us again tonight.'ll just be good and like you have to be very quiet while this like angry man walks through the whole restaurant every table has to just be like silent but they well yeah and you could convey you could uh involve the tvs in that like kind of a nuclear test pattern kind of thing comes on so if you see the you see the alarm oh yeah that means everybody shut up yeah that's like the volcano going off in trader sam's you have to cover right once every

hour it happens where dad comes home and it's bad news because he's had a bad day at the bed at work oh this is great and they you don't have to illustrate it you can you you use your imagination of what dad having a bad day means for you it's not gonna happen as long as everybody is quiet but that like you know he all he does is just stomp stomp around and there's one cough and it makes everybody jelly everybody claims their forks and knives and he has to it's like it lasts like 20 minutes too he goes to the bathroom and you have to wait and you just like it's so quiet in like 20 minutes too he goes to the bathroom and you have to wait and you just like it's so quiet in there you can hear him going to the bathroom and then he gets out he like

changes out of his work clothes a long like a hearty thick piss you hear it no matter what table you're at it is the longest loudest stream and he's getting look we've talked about on the show he's got some issues as far as his urethra is concerned. You can hear it start and stop like 10 times. That's not helping things that work. That's not helping things feel better. The last 90 seconds of the pee is just a struggle. That's also part of it that probably I don't want to go, and I would never accuse him of this because I'm scared of him,

but he's at the office having an affair with his secretary. Yes. He's maybe having trouble performing. Absolutely. Are you having problems down there in general i hear you i you've been having problems with these streams right no no problems his certainly he's getting guff from his side piece that's absolutely what's happening there there should be an argument uh off state There should be an argument. You like ask, can I have some more napkins? Can we have more gravy or ketchup or something? And he just goes in the kitchen and it's like, oh, good.

The stranger who lives here sometimes is home. I pay for this goddamn hat. And then a tea kettle flies out of the kitchen door. Ketchup is $2 a bottle. We're just going to let this loser kid just take as much ketchup as he wants? When would you, when have you ever been at a grocery store?

So that's the fun thing you wait for once an hour to have happen. That would be more what I, that is truly the era and I think it's more appropriate. Yeah, yeah, I agree. They're putting too shiny of a gloss on it. That's right.

Yeah. So if they do that, I'll book a flight tomorrow. I hope they send me to Korea. Yeah. The real 50s. We should open a bar on the real 50s primetime cafe. The legit. Shut down. shutdown shutdowning one day many complaints children crying they maybe didn't get the word out of it why did they still advertise it in like a fun johnny rockets kind of way the dark side was not indicated whatsoever

yeah um but the peanut butter peanut butter and jelly shake was great. It is great. They did pull that off. Yeah. And they're playing the American graffiti soundtrack, and that's always fun. I mean, in either version, that was the music of the time. So, Wolfman Jack was on the radio in both versions. What do you mean?

Because he was loud enough to muffle the yelling. Yeah. Wolfman Jack should show up too well they were trying they couldn't get the rights it was it was warner bro they were trying to get like a tom cruise stand-in or a tom hanks stand-in to go like he is what from what he's what from elvis oh okay what i held out the last possible second i go i hope i know what jason's talking about i thought it was forrest gump what's this gonna be uh colonel colonel tom parker does jason think he's in tom hanks and american graffiti no no he's in more american graffiti and i didn't know it's like half an Elvis movie, half a Colonel Tom Parker movie.

I gotcha. I hear you now. Sandy Claus. Sandy Claus. Sandy Claus will come out. He's the Sandman. Snowman. Snowman.

Yeah, not a Sandman. Snowman. He's a Sandman. We're all in the Sand business. Oh, we don't want them going to sleep. They can't get the money out if they go to sleep. We're all just making making signs don't you see

just the best one of the best voices i have ever heard it but like no known geographical place that voice kind of czechoslovakian kind of american from a foreign planet i don't know colonel tom parker's from space who knew yeah Oh, he originates from that hotel in Vegas where the Star Trek experience would eventually be. He grew up there. He grew up there. Underneath it. Yeah.

Where the family taught themselves a language that only they speak that sounds like that. Mm-hmm. I was curious about the loop, about the 50s television loop. Yeah, I looked into this a lot. I watched some of the loop. The users television yeah i looked into this when i watched some of the loop uh the user sam's disney diaries posted a lot of specials and things we've watched over the years posted

some approximation the loop playing on the little tv uh interstitial graphics are fun it's a lot you're getting some big ones that you would know like a father knows best or a dick van dyke show and then in-house things it's mickey mouse club and it's spin and marty and you get the opening at disneyland so you get your the your open the fantasy land castle i really happy to see that um then but then i was like what's the stuff i don't know i hope you flag the same thing i am yeah i also flag oh i don't know let's hear whatever what would everybody flag topper topper topper ding ding ding three for three yeah i gotta look into topper more yeah topper seems great um can i

i don't want to step on anybody's explanation of topper but i would really like to introduce the listener to topper via the the voiceover that uh and this is this was on wikipedia but apparently this is how an episode of topper would start um and i don't if i know nothing and this is what they say at the beginning of a show i'm watching the show yeah uh it is this camel america's first choice among cigarettes presents topper starring as marion kirby the loveliest ghost in town and jeffries as george kirby the liveliest ghost in town robert sterling and leo g carol as topper oh yes and ah the deadliest ghost And Leo G. Carroll as Topper. Bark, bark. Oh, yes. And, ah, the deadliest ghost, Neil. And that cuts to a dog.

It's St. Bernard. It's a St. Bernard. Oh, great. St. Bernard who loves martinis? Yes. And, yeah, so I guess the gist of the show was that it's kind of a pre-Beetlejuice scenario where the owners of a house died in the house, and I guess the dog, too. I don't know how or what would happen to also make the dog die. They all died in an avalanche, skiing.

And the St. Bernard was sent to rescue rescue them and he also died it wasn't their dog that was a rescue dog i believe it is a rescue dog that's what i saw and he has to that's the rules of the afterlife if you and if somebody goes to rescue you human or you're stuck with them if a firefighter goes to rescue you from a building doesn't make it he lives with your family now man yes so that's oh yes well so and she was saying so the dog is dead too so then it's that the the title topper is from cosmo topper the new owner of the house i think there's a band called cosmo topper and now i know why but topper lives in the house and the house is haunted so like invisible props or or props are flying around on strings

and stuff but that seems like the main gag is that martini glasses would get emptied by nothing because that's the dog drinking the martinis yeah the dog loves to drink martinis yeah this is a favorite show already we haven't seen an episode i love topper uh and based on a movie as well whoa and some uh books oh i didn't see the best-selling books i thought really so topper was a series of books i thought so 78 episodes of topper oh my god in like three years i think let me see it was um is that like more than how many episodes did succession had which just ended my 40 i don't know yeah i don't think there are very many topper went topper you're judging purely on quantity topper is way topper is twice as good as succession yeah uh 53 to 55 30 episodes, and they did 78 of them.

Wow. Which means probably, I don't know for sure, but let's just ballpark three martini gags per episode times 78. Yeah. I don't know the number. Okay, that's 234, which means probably more instances of a crew guy saying, we still can't get the glass gag going. Get off my ass.

We will do another take when we get the glass gag going. You didn't have to write this into the show. It's impossible. I'm telling you. Cut it. We've done it. We don't need to keep doing it. They've seen enough of the times of the dog.

And like, oh, just like the most depressed. Cary Grant was in the first one, by the way, the movie. Wow. Is he Topper? Or is he George Kirby? He's the liveliest ghost in town. Yeah. No, wait.

Yeah. Live. Yes. The liveliest. And then there was like Topper Returns. Yeah. Topper Returns was the sequel. The books were called Topper and Topper Takes a Trip.

I have a feeling that's not going to be a conventional trip. I feel like those goats are probably going with him. Oh, no, it's going to be nice, normal, relaxing. They'll all be glad they took the trip and no glasses will disappear mysteriously. Cure Grant, not in the sequel and then glasses will disappear mysteriously um care grant not in the sequel um and then not in the show that's like um jimmy stewart in an early role of his he was like third or fourth build in like the third or fourth uh thin man movie oh well i think carrie grant was first building oh okay yeah because he was the liveliest ghost sure um so there was a topper goes to las

vegas episode too oh wow we gotta watch all of these oh man we're doing a vegas month i think it's clear that one of the episodes should be reviewing topper goes to las vegas yeah this is there wait i'm gonna say this really but here's there's a special introduction for that episode this is cosmo topper bank vice president loving husband and no he's not a magician george and mary and kirby are doing that ghosts yes a handsome couple who were swallowed by an avalanche and came back to spread a little joy into a sub date businessman's life and that's their ghost dog neil the saint bernard who couldn't save them that's what you get for drinking on the job old boy right because the saint bernards used to have um little

barrels of liquor around there well yeah why is that is that kind of bring someone back to life i think and warm them up temporarily but they had to deliver that to a human and make them open it up the saint bernards couldn't like smash the barrel i don't believe that was on them okay if at some point hands had to take over yeah there was a 1973 topper returns wow with roddy mcdowell as cosmo topper jr i like wow i always like roddy mcdowell yeah stephanie powers is marianne kirby and then john fink is george kirby well i don't know who that is but big shoes to fill yeah really lively's ghost in town when was the last when was the last time in a meeting at a network somebody said you know what we should do bring back topper probably 1972

probably sooner than you think probably well it probably happened at viacom because sumner red stone one of the only living executives who remembers Topper. Get one of those real life couples, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively or or Dax Shepard and Kristen, Kristen, Kristen Bell like that, which rings for me. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. There's another Topper TV movie, 1979, with Jack Warden as Cosmo Topper. Oh, I night tv movie 1979 with jack warden is cosmo topper oh i love jack warden is the greatest jack warden's second only to keenan win in the category of grouchy old man rue mcclanahan is clara topper oh my god from the golden girls wow wow we have

so much topper verse to explore wow oh my god so many episodes of the show right then books that all of these movies and revivals uh i think let's just get quick agreement on this we're all just going to convert this into a topper podcast from here on out yes for the at least just for the next five years yeah we'll pick up theme parks again don't worry about it yeah yeah so then yeah that that's fine we all agree right jason and then top time. Oh, we're changing the name too? Yeah. Hey, great. You can keep the feed.

The socials will still be, we will tweet from podcast the ride, but the name name will get converted to topper time. Yeah. And you're going to want to keep it bookmarked there, even if you hate topper time. Because we're going to get, because I promise when we come back in five years first thing space mountain we're gonna we're gonna do it so just hang on just five quick years you can wait right you can wait and wait you're excited everyone listening now is just as excited about toppers everyone's chanting topper topper topper yeah so oh so i guess invisible dog shows are theme parks now comments that we all send to each other i don't think

be very curious comments just know we send them to each other i would see everything we're like the all-seeing eye mara we're like the ghosts yeah we're like invisible dogs in your house draining your drinks and making fun of you uh gosh do we miss anything oh we hey the dessert menu comes on a view master that's cool yeah that is that's really that's really cool i don't want to even though i'm i'm saying it's creepy it is it looks good and it is fun what What I like is that there's such a variety of places to sit. It's not like all so uniform. I like that about Bierga's Restaurant that there's different wings.

Yeah. And this is sort of similar where you can get a pretty different experience depending on which table you're in. Kitchenette, is that one of them? Yeah, which is another Annette Funicello album I'm going to make. Okay. The Kitchenette. About all different household items you can use in your kitchen. Oh, I wish a toaster was my boyfriend.

Yeah. He cooks it however I want. Mike's hearing about AI, and he just has a legal pad with the phrase, like, Annette sings about items. Yeah. Publicly, like, oh, yeah, it's a shame, the AI. It's a shame. it's a shame the ai that's one of the we gotta strike because of the ai private privately oh boy my hundredth in that album music only for me office supply and my man's a sturdy as a three-ring binder there is there are a lot of these.

You hear the AI has generated a new Jay-Z song or something. And I have yet to see an AI perfectly recreate Annette Funicello's voice. But I imagine it's only a matter of time. Or I imagine I'll have to do it. I'll have to. We don't want to put it in there. Well, nobody's inserting the information maybe fast enough. You have to start compiling every

clip of her voice that exists right putting it into the ai right and then so that we can properly uh defile the memory of this long deceased woman yeah there's a lot i don't know i get a lot of record like it'll be like oh if uh billy joel sang this old song or whatever and you listen to it and you this sounds like absolute shit. Yeah. But sometimes there's okay, but a lot of them just sound like garbage right now. One of the most interesting ones is it's like, they take Paul McCartney's

song New from the last 10 years and they put John Lennon on it. They put the other Beatles on it. Kind of interesting. He wouldn't have let New come out. The idea that he would have been fine. There's your mistake. The idea that he would just be singing background on New.

He would have sang. I think he would have. I think John at 70 would have been interesting. He would have relaxed. Yeah, I don't think. I think he was on his way to relaxing. I like this one. My Valentine.

It shows a whole new side of you. You could have been a torch song singer, Paul. Kisses on the Bottom or whatever that album's called. Kisses on the Bottom. Nothing weird about that one. I don't think he would have been as interested in that. Have you done your record yet with Rihanna and Kanye? Do you need a fourth?

I like the Cybertruck. He does say that on New. You can just see that John Lennon did just say the most stunted like unnerving everything is very ghoulish it's gotta be a little ghoulish you know he does say I like the cyborg truck I was so stumped thanks for jumping in

Mike I don't you might say I've never finished listening to the song yeah yeah so that is Jason's right so anyway net AI coming soon yeah did we get it all Yeah yeah So that is Jason's right So anyway Net AI Coming soon Yeah Did we get it all I think

I guess we did Right I guess Yeah I do Again I want to reiterate I like the way this looks But the aesthetic now Creeps me out

And I do want to do it I want to see what it's all about I'll get the peanut butter And jelly shake I'm going to get that Albany Delicacy Oh the fried cheese The fried cheese With the raspberry And then jelly shake i'm gonna get that albany delicacy the fried cheese the fried cheese raspberry i guess i have to get the meatloaf to see what it's all

about see if eater's right and it's the best that is a heavy meal you're not gonna be able to hit clear uh clean plate club well first of all don't challenge me because i will join the clean plate club there i believe that's not that's doable oh we got to make sure that we do it with mere hours before you got to get to the airport okay so that there's some stakes to you joining how many hours before the flight leaves do i have to do this do you think uh one and a half well i know i'd have to be seated at one and a half or um i'm not sure uh i mean i think you're gonna match the conditions of last time well last time i wasn't so in danger of missing the flight an hour and a half would really put me in a trouble situation you should be walking through security at that point well

that you know me i don't i like to walk through security about half you're like indiana jones reaching back for his hat as the temple door and i, and I don't like to be like that. I have done that, but I like about a half hour before the plane leaves, I'm walking through security and through the metal detector. Insane.

That seems weird to me, given the, like, you're worrying otherwise. I don't like to fly, too, so I like to almost kind of give myself, I've said this about raising a kid, you know, like, when you don't have time to think about,

like I'm so worried about getting there. It's like, I don't even have time to sit and like get stressed out about being on the plane. I'm rolling through, you go there, I have to go to the bathroom. I mean, it's usually 30 minutes is pushing it. 45 minutes is a little bit easier because that's when the doors open generally. So it's, it's not maybe that dire, but I like kind of not having to think about

it like sitting and relaxing to think about that i'm going to go on a plane so it is preventing worrying i think so i think i think that's part of it and yeah with with when you're not sleeping because you're you have a little baby it's just like you don't have much time to worry about the things you were worrying about i have plenty of time to worry about but there's a lot of things that i don't have time to worry about, so that's good. In some ways. Fuzz up that brain and then just fill it

and then just any spare time fill up with 700 alerts on your phone and looking for new AI songs. Cloud, yeah. It's really just to cloud up my brain. Now available on Tubi.

Topper. Oh, I see toppers on Tubi? Tubi or Pluto or one of those. Is therei topper oh i see toppers on tubi that tubi or it's got to be pluto or one of those maybe is there a topper channel on pluto they're very they're very well could be but it's also probably just like on your old malt shop memories tv on your antenna or roku has those roku has like completely made up channels yeah you'll find like vintage wrestling tv and it's like the most basic microsoft paint image of like a tv with like a wrestling ring in it or something you're like this looks like a child made this picture and then you click on it and

they have stuff on it but you're like who's behind this like there's not really much of a an editing process i'm keeping things off roku tv boy how how things have fallen from the good old days when you could turn on your the network and watch something quality like topper of course do you think whatever that network that debbie dunnings show about the dude ranches do you think they have topper on there oh uh the voice of rural america yeah voice of rural america tv has topper streaming maybe it seems like an antenna tv go-to yeah i don't know but there was a streaming uh component to rural america tv or whatever it was oh wait uh okay there's one other thing they have stopped doing this at the 50s primetime cafe the first reservation of the day the first family of the day they would take doing this at the 50s primetime cafe the first reservation of the

day the first family of the day they would take like a picture oh yes right the staff as it was like a memento and be dated like if that day was like september 21st 1952 or 55 or whatever and they would hang it on the fake fridge okay but there's not that's just they would do that once it was there or is there a person that comes around with the photo, like you're at a buka de beppo? I think they would do that for the first people seat it that day. And they would do it again every day. I think that scaled back, that gone. No, not an upcharge like a buka.

Like a buka de what? We're waiting. I even said it once. De pepo? No! No! How did you still not get it? That's what...

This has been a runner I've loved. Wait, no. What was the pepo? Pepo. It is pepo. With a P. Yes! That's...

But doesn't that seem... Where does the P come from? I don't know. You've seen it printed it's up big in a place that you are because i thought with the b made it sound like b pole but you're telling me p is the b pole i'm telling i'm not telling you p is the people i'm certainly not telling you the translation uh when you misspell it is b polehole. What? What does that mean? B-E-E-P.

Hole. Beephole? Yeah. It's just a nonsense word. When you misspell it, it translates to beephole. Does it mean... You don't remember the continuity of your own podcast. I remember a lot of these.

I don't know what it turns into. Beephole is... So you're saying buka de pepo, which is what you say, of your own podcast i remember a lot of i don't know what it translate turns into b-pole is so you're saying buka to pepo which is what you say means some nonsense word that's when it's translated that's what it is yeah okay huh okay i went from elated to confused so fast yeah that was that was some of the words i've understood the least in a long time. I've been called that as well. I've been referred to as that. As what? You make people go from elated to confused real fast.

You've been accused of doing that. Accused of doing that, yeah. Yeah, I see now. It's one of my favorite runners, and now that I know that it's a runner, that you try to cash call Buka like it's your friend. Okay.

But it's really just to avoid saying the last word, which you still don't know. Because I've eaten there one time. Yes, but you are in, we did a whole podcast about it where we covered this topic. And you pass by the word Beppo in a place you go like at least once a month. I don't pass by that part of it it's all the way back there it's all the way back i honestly i i said buka to beppo i thought oh it's funny jason the thing jason whatever and then you repeated back just the first part of it and i went my little devil on my shoulder was like i was like i gotta see i gotta see because i just

said it so i felt like it wasn't gonna be such a thing like a cold thing cause I had just said the name of it cause no one on earth calls it just bucca it's not a shortening that has ever been done cause no one likes it enough to do it because no one likes it

it's a horrible restaurant it sucks really bad it sucks tremendous shit somebody might have called it bucca to be fair to Jason I just Horrible restaurant. It's really, really bad. It sucks. Tremendous shit. Somebody might have called a bucca, to be fair to Jason. I just, yeah. If you even maybe even say bucca, I wouldn't have asked. So it is funny. Mind your B's and T's, Jason.

No dessert unless you get your beppos and your peppos right. No. Your insolence. All right, right that's it this episode is over right now you use that attitude and we end the thing i'm lighting the curtain on fire this is you are gonna end the restaurant bad seed kid oh that's good too that's good backstory in your pocket you're not just a bad kid. You're the worst kid. Alright, you survived the ride to the second gate.

I was worried we peaked too early in this episode and thank God we ended here. Well, yeah. What greater peak is there in listening or talking? I think, right?

There's so many years where you could have learned that it's a backbone. In listening or talking. From City Walk, I think, right? It goes back to the first City Walk saga. There's so many years where you could have learned that it's Beppo. I could have made time to learn the official name of the bad restaurant that no one likes, according to you. These things are important. You must learn the name of the awful garbage for the place I only ever regret going to. I hope you don't regret coming here to the second gate. And if you want to dig even deeper, join us on our VI. I'm just going to reverse it on our VIB Patreon tier club three.

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