Podcast: The Ride - UNLOCKED-A Day in the Park With Barney

Episode Date: September 3, 2021

Enjoy this sample of P:TR-The Second Gate.  Available at Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide We tackle the Universal Studios Florida Barney the Dinosaur show and play area. (It has closed since this episode was first released. But it had a longer run that the Jaws ride!) Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus 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 Welcome to Podcast The Ride, The Second Gate, with my good friends Michael, Scott, and my favorite student, Jason. Favorite student? What the hell? What, Barney? Why not me? Oh, he's just such a good student is all I'm saying. Student?

Since when do you judge academic abilities? I'm a teacher now. Kind of a second career. The show's not going. My show was cancelled. I thought we were just friends. Why did this power dynamic suddenly shift? No, I'm in charge now. The whole show's gonna be this

Play Barney's the fourth mic now Yeah Podcast to ride second gate Here we are today I'm busting out an old impression Probably my earliest impression ever I believe

Did you like do that around the house? Yes Oh, interesting Yes, my sister was my sister's like three years younger than me so she was watching barney was right for her age but i was fascinated by it she had a barney doll and i used to do the barney voice with the doll constantly that was like i love that was so much fun for me to do so it's back my voice my barney voice is back i'm a little horse i think we might be in a similar area i also have a younger sister and um i i felt yeah she she

watched it a lot and i felt like i had to to not like it and i was aware that there was a lot of barney hate but maybe i did some like hate watching i definitely would like sit and watch barney even if i like snarked it and made fun of it um maybe it was maybe for a lot of kids it it occupies that slot of like the first thing you were too old for yes or like sort of felt that way or felt pressure to feel that way to grow up. I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah. I had a little brother and he loved it. And I wanted to hit Barney with a car.

Like I agree. Oh, you were the cynical kid who hated Barney. I hated it. I hated it. I knew I was supposed to hate it. Why do you want to hit me with a car, Jason? I just, I just didn't like and it didn't have the refined sensibility of uh eureka's castle or a david the gnome you know that stuff that i liked when i was there preschool um well yeah it was the um like sesame street with its genre parodies and genuinely funny sketch style writing barney certainly is a little more

soft in a lot of ways it is an uninteresting show yeah not sophisticated at all yeah not subversive at all but there's a dividing line i think it's the line between old millennial and young millennial uh is is like old millennials hate barney younger millennials loved barney and it's such a fine you can really just cut the generation in half i think at that moment yeah i mean i have a lot of affection from for him now because of like just goofing around with the doll and yeah you know you did everything like kids would do where it would like i would go in my sister's fisher price fridge and like i'd be like barney's drinking alcohol like that was like i'd have like a little like plastic cup and he'd

be like drinking it fast and who knows what that means to a kid but i would be like now barney's drunk barney has a gun barney would fight with yeah he i would have him fight with like characters too and i'm trying to think of who would be at to the same scale because this was a barney doll that was like sort of similar to the barney that's in the show that comes to life. In case you don't know where we're going with this, there is a Universal Studios Barney show and play area that we are actually going to talk about, if you're wondering. In Florida since 1995. Since 1995. Going even recently.

And maybe its days are numbered or they're limiting it for now. The show has been going during COVID. Okay. Yes. This show has been going during covid it okay yes this show has been going for 25 years this show has laid out lasted jaws it's outlasted confrontation it's outlisted back to the future the ride and that's so fucked up tower of terror at dca tower at dca it feels like this show does not feel like a lynchpin and yet it's it's just like it is it is a real like titan when you say the timeline like that yes yeah it kept its head down stayed out of the way just chugged along has outlasted the barney tv show which stopped making new content on the regular in 2009 although the reruns still air

currently on something a channel called universal kids did anyone know about the television channel universal kids no no so that's where one of those like deep cable like if you still have cable and there's the weird 2000 channels yes i believe it used to be sprout i kind of remember sprout i do know sprout i'm familiar with sprout so wait a minute sprout became universal kids or it was a segment on something like i don't know i pbs might also use that branding but uh yeah barney is still going strong and to give him the benefit of the doubt i was trying to figure out oh is it because it's popular with international guests because there was a barney world tour that world uh used lightly uh i think

it was around 2015 that mostly hit the united arab emirates and saudi arabia so uh there may be no theme park presence besides this correct uh i am not sure about that if there's other barns i think this is the only one they touted it as the only place on earth where you can see barney every day oh that's crazy um i will say i didn't even know this was there. I didn't know this was here. If I've been to Universal a few times, I didn't know you could get your picture taken with Barney. I don't have that photo and I'm a little upset. You genuinely didn't know until we talked about doing this?

I don't think so. Maybe I saw it on the map, but I didn't realize what it was. I don't think i ever wandered back into the plaza like with the fountain and the statue which i like the statue it looks like barney is using his dump truck seat to hover in the air like wait a minute did you just call barney's his seat his dump truck seat yeah he's got big seat got a big dump truck seat yeah he's got big seat got big dump truck seat barney's dump truck seat like people online talk about every although the moms and pixar movies have dump truck asses so we say seed on this show who says that dump truck people this is a thing this is

this is a joke on twitter because ever because like the old like miss is incredible i've seen mrs incredible be referred to as thick she's but i have never ever seen dump truck ass she's got that dump truck yeah but we say seat here so barney got a dump truck seat he's using it to hover off the ground. What other mom has a dump truck seat? By the way, we're getting into dangerous territory. We're getting into dangerous territory. We've kept this seat talk to animals. Jason is trying to open it up for his perverted ways.

Barney's an animal. That's true. I'm just saying you brought in the mothers of the Pixar movies. Well, I just didn't want it to make it seem like I just came up with the phrase dump truck, you know, dump truck ass out there. That is that I learned about it. Wow. Big dump truck seat.

I guess that's true. The Barney statue. Yeah, I like that fountain. One of the few statues that we don't have to pull down with like with shades this statue can stand this statue can stay a southern monument that can stay the barney statue at universal studios how florida sorry that is south of the board yeah that's that's south of the mason although you know i've seen older older millennial kids try to go in there and tear it down because they hate him so much sure i'm surprised jason you didn't try to drive your

car through there and knock the statue down with your car because you hated barney i hated barney but i have to say reading about this did endear him to me especially because there's like weird sections of the barney wikipedia where it's like uh some some thought you know some people think Barney led to a sense of entitlement among millennials and didn't teach enough about how to deal with difficult situations and unpleasant realities

and I was like oh that's shut up that sucks that's stupid also if anyone is complaining about millennial entitlement in 2020, get your fucking head examined. Like, freaks. That's still a talking point.

Still a talking point. We were left an awful world that just gets shittier and shittier. Why do we want things, you know? Why does a joy a bright purple dinosaur for god's sake yeah um i think that barney himself is a good design and is a character like ultimately the show is nothing the show is just barney praising like kids for like doing art projects which is this is a bit i've done i've done with lindsey around i'll just be like that's a great macaroni painting michael like that's like most with

mostly what the show is and then like a kid it's like a very minor problem and then they sing like if you're happy and you know it clap your hands uh and i don't even there's like there's not a ton going on but the design of barney is good yeah and that's all you need i think i mean it's well i'm a bigger fan i have to say of original barney because if you go back like the first couple videos where he's darker purple and boxier like this one this side view where he's just got like a full rectangle mouth this is my barney i think i i don't think they should have softened these i like i like sharp face barney i am a big fan of sharp face barney as well i like there was him with a little beanie with a propeller on it in there

that you showed now oh that's good yeah scott now that you bring it up i would like to play a clip from the original barney which was called barney and the backyard gang these were the videos before the tv show yeah right so this was this was the the pointy pointy barney before they partnered with pbs yeah it's just individual right um and i did not watch this like first run this is just something i came upon today as i was researching you can see that uh barney is i'll say this a little unnerving so here we go he's not quite as bubbly starting in a kiddie pool yeah so this is when barney appears the kids are all in a pool which yes that's a little weird as well one more well i'm only one i'm only one and i'm only one and i'm'm only one. And I'm only one. And I'm four.

My kid sister. She follows me everywhere. Well, that's just because she is full of love for me, sister. It's like also a sitcom, which is bizarre. You're welcome to stay. So are the rest of you. You know what I always say. Yes, Mama, we know. From all we get together, together, together. All right.

All right. I have queued this in the wrong place. Well, but you reminded me of this is another reason I like while I do like darker purple sharp face Barney. I don't like that. They originally the tapes originally included this mom character played by Sandy Duncan. I've spoken against Sandy Duncan in the past because she's one of those perennial Peter Pans, which may be factored into my negative pan feelings. She just like epitomizes the kind of like frighteningly friendly entertainment that I believe my mom was reared entirely on

and then was sort of shoved down my throat as a kid. I'm really glad Sandy Duncan went away. This I feel like is very equivalent to, she's the Hayley Mills of, Sandy Duncan is to Barney what Hayley Mills is to Saved by the Bell slash Good Morning Miss Bliss when she was dismissed. We don't want this lady. Barney, what Hayley Mills is to say by the bell slash good morning, Miss Bliss. Right. When she was dismissed.

We don't want this lady. We just want to see what the kids are doing. I think, yeah, Sandy Duncan went away and the show soared. This, I believe, is the correct area, the place I want to play. But just that to give you a little hint of like there was this weird mom character and it felt more like a sitcom more than just like Barney hanging out. These bad khaki mom shorts that are kind of what my tour guide uniform was at Universal Studios.

Not a fan of the shorts. All right, here we go. Promise that we'll go next weekend, okay? Okay. Okay. Okay. So, Sandy Duncan laughs. Boy, that's tough.

Good news. We can make believe we're at the beach. What do you mean? Well, we can close our eyes and make believe real hard. Don't close your eyes in a pool. Never. Yeah. That's not how it's done.

Who said that? I did. No. Over here. Over here. Who are that? I did. No. Over here. Over here. Who are you? Wow, what the fecks? Blasted by wind and light.

A powder gun smoke. Mommy! He's back Hugging in swimsuits Why is he just laughing He's a dinosaur He's not saying anything He's not saying anything

It's terrifying And he's very friendly And he loves it This hug has been going this entire time For the listener Since you heard the chime endless hug Barney is a dinosaur so like he doesn't say anything he just like

laughs like a maniac like a little like creep like a little pervert he's like I don't get a good vibe from this Barney is what I'm saying no this Barney's definitely scarier yeah like he's less good for kids I realize but I just like him more from this Barney is what I'm saying. No, this Barney's definitely scarier. Yeah. Like he's less good for kids, I realize, but I just like him more.

And look, later on he's wearing a sailor suit like a young Mike Carlson. He wishes. And young Scott Gardner, as I determined. Yeah, they go into like a fantasy where he's like a sailor in the air. The effects on this special too, or this tape tape are pretty great

they're flying a tub around yeah so anyway i mean that's that's his old the bar this is backyard gang and his voice is also a little bit lazier it's like it's like hom Homer first season or something. Yeah. Oh, hey, hi. I'm Barney. Get some frosty chocolate shakes. So, yeah. Also, yeah, Barney was kind of Walter Matthau-y at the start. Right. So, that was not my Barney. If you look at the VHS cover, they're really pushing, like, actually, I'll just share the screen.

Like, look how they present it. So much is Sandy Duncan the point. Like, she's way bigger than Barney. Barney's, like, almost cropped out of this photo. This is a VHS. I couldn't even tell you the name because there's so many names. Barney and it's in the Three Wishes. Is it called Three Wishes or Barney and the Backyard the three wishes is it called three wishes or barney and the backyard gang which

is way smaller or starring sandy duncan which is the biggest text or sing along with us like this is all over the map this this is some very poor like this could be shown in a graphic design class like make sure your title is clear i mean i guess they thought sandy we're like trying to under yeah underplay barney yeah because sandy duncan i guess they thought sandy we're like trying to under yeah underplay barney yeah because sandy duncan i guess they thought was the draw at that point for people who loved wholesome entertainment should never be the draw for people who loved wholesome entertainment never be the draw she was the rubber stamp of approval to me well frightening we should be happy if anything's making millennials feel entitled

or whatever or present a too much of a fantasy world it's smiling sandy duncan showing you there's no problems you just to be chipper and dance your life away we should find out what the darkest thing sandy duncan was in like what piece of entertainment because it seems like yeah she was only in happy smiling family friendly fair i assume you're looking it up now i think so was she in yeah was she ever in like leprechaun three or something she was leprechaun's mom or something leprechaun three i don't know i'm not sure it seems like pretty just disney seems like million dollar duck and such um and thank god sandy duncan was not brought into the uh the universal attraction um i i have a point about the the universal stuff which is that i mean some of mike you not knowing that

this was there it is this very tucked away corner of the park that might be easy to miss. That might like a lot of guests, especially if you're just in pursuit of Diagon Alley or stuff, that's more recent, you might just like overlook this whole area in general is a little tucked away. And in fact, this,

I might declare this the weirdest name of a land quote unquote, anywhere in major theme parks, in Disney or Universal, is mostly they follow. Mostly like, all right, I see what this land, I see why it's called this. But this whole area being called, Barney, of course, lives in Woody Woodpecker's Kid Zone. Right, yes.

Yes. And the attractions in Woody Woodpecker's Kid Zone are... Wait, I'm actually... Boy, this one surprised me. Animal actors on location. So the animal actor show is part of Woody Woodpecker's Kid Zone, even though I was fairly certain that was part of World Expo, the other weird named area of that park. Yeah, I know.

The Western boundaries of Woody woodpecker's kid zone is the animal actors yes that's correct uh a little dog from that show got out the other day was wandering around they were chasing him down by the movie makeup pretty fun pretty fun little clip they got the dog though they got the dog yeah it's fine okay that's good back in your cage yeah um the elsewhere in woody woodpecker's kid zone okay day in the park with barney curious george goes to town which is another playground thing woody woodpecker's nut house coaster fievel's playland and et adventure all of these this really underlines the schizophrenic nature of the Universal Kids properties. We're like, what child?

Who are your favorite characters? Well, I'd have to say Barney, Curious George, Woody Woodpecker, Fireball, and E.T. Oh, and there's a SpongeBob gift shop. What? That too? SpongeBob gift shop. And currently there is, I'll show you guys. Currently there's this.

What are, I believe they're calling character moments because they are not doing some shows and meet and greets right now. So Barney and BJ and Baby Bop just stand on a little stage and sing a song and wave to the crowd. Okay. That's all right. There's a five-year to the crowd. Okay. That's all right. That's all right.

There's a Fievel banner behind them. Of course. Yeah, that's a cowboy hat. Fievel brand. Yeah, Fievel's. Yeah, I didn't even know this much land existed back there either. This is like, because this is what they were talking about maybe putting Nintendo in for a while before it was going to go in Epic Universe.

And then who knows, maybe it goes back here. Yeah. If they don't build that third park. It's a huge plot of land. And I remember going to Universal for the first time and being so excited, despite the fact that I was so easily scared. My family loved Alfred Hitchcock. So to stand in front of the Bates house, the Psycho house, which was the set from Psycho 4 that they put in the park, and you could get your picture at the bottom of the stairs.

And then next door was the original Universal Hard Rock Cafe. It was a big deal that you could enter from outside the park or inside the park right that's an area i have intense nostalgia for like for whatever reason being around that old hard rock i don't know what it is and the weird i remember looking up at the scary psycho house and it's so weird they just kind of arbitrarily also built one here that is not or in florida that is not the original one um so strange yeah this was all like a weird like a vacant trail until they put really disparate kids playgrounds yeah throughout it it does feel like poltergeist where they tore down a famous horror house

and built like a very supposed like friendly family friendly like house with barney in it so like it does feel like this space might be haunted by yeah i remember that observation being made that like they turned they tore down the psycho house and put barney up and that if you if you didn't like barney that was kind of a way to like damn it but i also don't think that's entirely accurate i don't think the show literally sits where the psycho house was right no but it's it is it is interesting like what i i did not go to universal when this baits motel was set up like i was not there then so it's like was animal it was animal actors open day one in holly I keep saying Hollywood, Florida.

I believe so, yeah. Yeah. That was there. So it was like Bates Motel Animal Actors? Well, no, you wouldn't have had a view of one from the other. Like you had around a corner. And then E.T. is weirdly there that doesn't really fit into this. Like calling it a kid ride

isn't exactly right i mean there's kids who couldn't go on that ride or would find that ride scary yeah but i love the fievel slide i love the fievel slide i love the animal actor show i still do if i'm ever at either of the universal parks it's like oh what do we do we have some time to go like we can go to animal actors i i will always opt for animal actor show uh we're gonna do that one you talk about things that haven't changed and it's like that's a you you feel i mean they're aren't they're doing it right now obviously but hopefully that they are back at some point and you'll go like oh my god still mick jagger monkey lips still like embarrassed monkey who had their towel stolen oh yeah and is covering up their groin because they got pulled out of the shower like there's something

real nice about wow some things never change i mean i kind of like the fact that kids zone is barely it's just so odd it's such an expensive piece of real estate to still be stuck in like 1995. It's so funny. And I am surprised. I have not, I have found myself bored wandering around Universal Orlando before. And I am amazed I have not gone back here. Like I, I have never even been in like the Barney. I have no memory of the Barney Plaza.

Like I guess when it opened, maybe my brother, I think he would have been too old for, even he would have been too old for Barney Plaza like I guess when it opened maybe my brother I think he would have been too old for even he would have been too old for Barney by the time this show opened when was the last time you went on the five will slide I don't know is that one of the ones where you like have to be under a certain I feel like my parents did it with me I don't know that they actually say specifically how big you have to be on some of this. Because there's a Barney Playland here. Or it's called, what is it called? Barney's Backyard.

Barney's Backyard. But for instance, the Grizzly Challenge Trail at Disney's California Adventure. That's, you know, anybody can walk and climb that. But there are little tunnels on the ground floor that are mostly for children. But you and I... I can fit those. You and I went in this tunnel about five years ago, I think. Oh, yeah.

I can squeeze in. And I believe right before we did, like a young teen ran up to the tunnel, looked at it as if he was in a cartoon and went, YOLO, and jumped in the tunnel. I do remember this, yeah. And then you went in and I was like, well, I got to try it, right? Yeah. So, yeah, it's, I don't know. You probably could go on the five-hole slide now.

It's just, look, people would maybe look down on you a little bit because that's for children. It's possible. It's not as big as the Challenge Trail. The Challenge Trail still, I think you can get away with it because it's got big enough stuff for adults to enjoy. Well, my white whale is the Pterodactyl Flyers, I think it's called, or the Pterodactyl Flyers.

The one over at the Jurassic Park at Islands of of adventure you have to be under a certain height and when i was like 12 or 13 whenever it opened uh it was brand new so there was like a two-hour wait for this rinky-dink thing but it goes above the whole land and you know i I like to be high up, but I still, I never got around to riding it because it doesn't eat up a lot of people per hour, so it always has a long wait, and now I'm too tall. While we're on the topic real quick, and I know we've touched on this a little bit. I mean, we all, three of us, I assume, as kids,

were into what you'd call a McDonald's play place, Chuck E. Cheese, ball pit. Right, we're all in that zone. I think most kids are. It's not that unusual. There was a place called Leaps and Bounds. I remember Leaps and Bounds, yeah. By my house that was like a three-story tubes ball pit thing that I just was my favorite place.

It was maybe open for a year maybe lasted a year and i think we went there when i was a little too old too we had like somebody's birthday party in like fifth grade yeah and like we're a little too big to be going through those tubes but i i would love an adult tube business an adult a business where adults could crawl through tubes. And I know we have like, what I've brought this up before, tough mudders and you get shocked and you're muddy and like this is temporary.

I don't want that. I want fun, colorful tubes in a big building, but big enough for adults to go in. And look, the way I feel about it is YOLO. You only live once, and let's have some adult tube fun. But even, I mean, not like now, though. Not now. In a couple years.

In a few years. Let's celebrate the end of the disease. But by, let's all like, all right, it's over. Let's all just go touch everything we can all the time. Let's yes. Let's all go crawl on our hands and knees through a dirty tube together. Get like, get like a log jam of humans in the tube, all breathing in. And we'll say, and we'll all be taking, we'll take, be taking deep breaths of each other's exhale and going,

oh, isn't this nice? Do you remember when we couldn't do this? This is fantastic. Big cuddle puddle in the tube, everyone. We'll have a cuddle puddle in the tube and enjoy all the germs from each other's mouths. It's going to be great. You're describing a non-sexual orgy. This has nothing to do with sex

yes this is this is all about fun and wholesome this is what sandy duncan would approve of just just tube fun like just this is just tube fun for adults for adults it's fine and it sounds better than those like drink a beer throw an axe like of of course it does look I'm not against throwing an axe I'll throw an axe if somebody invites me to do it sure but what would you rather do crawl through a bunch of tubes and go in an adult ball pit or throw an axe it sounds

and it sounds way better than like oh come to the Instagram museum oh it's the museum of ice like fuck you that's not a museum you build a shitty set. Fuck off. I agree. Yeah, that's a weird area.

Like, sometimes I'll think about doing them for the show. Like, oh, there's a Britney Spears Instagram. And then like, wait, why is it $150? And like, none of this is the sets from the video. This was like a, this is a closed kmart a month ago there's nothing historic here i don't need to do this i get that this business i'm proposing uh there's gonna have to be a lot of waivers signed there's gonna be a lot of people hurting their knees there's gonna be a lot of like debilitating cramps happening.

That's the issue. Just your body maybe can't handle it as well. I think though, and I'm feeling a little run down as I think a lot of us are at this moment, but I feel like I can still go if it comes to high octane tube fun. Well, it's hard to know until you're i have not had my tube fun tested recently i just think i i know this you know people you know they go like i was on the high school basketball team i could still play you know if push comes to shove i think i can i can

still go i'm talking about give me an hour an hour and a half in a play place i think i can still do it i don't think i'm gonna be passing out or anything i think i can still hold up is what i'm what i'm getting still go on lots of slides i can go on lots of slides i can uh do like a flip into ball a ball pit i can scale like kind of scale a little wall i'm trying to think of how to describe how they would have it you know those look like little like it's like a fake rock climbing yeah for kids it's on a little incline yeah yeah i can i can still do it i can i can do a tiny one i'm not going to a climbing gym that's another thing where i was like i don't i don't see the appeal i don't this is not for me yeah i mean i trampoline parks i think are

getting close which i actually have not been and i've still been wanting to have like a birthday at one of these which i assume will end in like half of my friends getting a broken ankle more like landing on their neck and like we have to go to the hospital like 25 minutes in everyone's like what are we doing here and i'm like it's fun we're all at our mid to late 30s well i hope geo enjoyed walking while he could he had a good run yeah yeah decades worth of walking he'll be fine he'll be fine whatever shape he's in after that so anyway i i um i love clearly i'm reaching i'm itching to play uh i think the most iconic piece of play place uh i don't know iconography is the uh office at officer big mac a play place oh yes climb up and go in his mouth i think that's the thing i'd

most like to have certainly if i could own one of those and put it in a backyard right which i guess now that i'm thinking about it as some sort of jail yeah that's a jail um that's that's like getting kids accustomed to what it would be like to be held in a detention center so but yeah that's that i was both excited to be in that and scared also because my memory of that play place thing was like it was it was on an incline you would climb up and then you'd like try to kind of fight to not slide back down to where the ladder was and there'd be a bunch of kids in there and it was just like you know mad it mad. It was Thunderdome in there. Yeah.

I feel like it's one of my only childhood, man. Like, like all of age three, I remember one time being in that burger cage and that's, that's it. It really takes the pressure off me as a parent. Like if he gets upset, I'm like, you don't remember this. I'll be like, you'll remember like one thing per year, maybe. And not this year no way yeah uh my memory is off my memory of it too is that it was about 10 feet tall of course i will show you the reality of what it is it is you know uh maybe four feet off the

ground three feet off is that it is it your memory of it like it was like a towering like two-story yeah yeah absolutely here it is wow that's shocking yeah i didn't yeah like a very small girl is exactly the height of the pole in this picture you're showing but it felt like you felt you were climbing mount everest yeah was there like an observation deck because there's holes in his hat in in his constable hat. Oh, maybe. Oh, yeah. Could you climb up and see in there? Or is that just like so kids don't suffocate?

It's a good question. It is open air. Oh, the tube. The tube. Yeah. I guess you needed some holes in there just to be safe. Yeah. I wonder just out of curiosity, I'll look this up while we're talking how much this would cost because it looks like people have bought them and put them in their backyard well i've

looked into expensive mcdonald's items before and the thing that i found is that a lot of them while relatively affordable cost like 800 to ship if you aren't in the area where it's being sold and at least in one point at one point in time these were being sold very heavily in the chicago area so perhaps you could use uh your family connection and if somebody has a car that can move one of these things you could get that discount and uh you know truck it back to los angeles yeah and put it in your apartment you know this is the stuff our parents didn't think of this is what we were denied of, like, you know what we could do? We could buy some old fast food restaurant play equipment and give it to our children. They weren't creative at all.

No. They didn't think to do something that I did recently, which is watch a trade show video from the 70s shot on 8mm film encouraging McDonald's franchises to buy these things and showing you product by product like the apple pie tree will delight children of all ages. This is really like dingy red tinted film. I mean I love this

is like the definition of the kind of thing I want to watch but I would like show my if I told my parents hey remember how we would play at the McDonald's Playland? playland well recently i found a trade show film they'd go like what did we do why didn't we how'd you end up locked in your childhood and only getting more and more boring by the year you spent your 30s in the 1970s having key parties and putting meat into jello molds we spent it watching old trade show videos on youtube we are not the same we we spent it on ebay trying to find the vintage mcdonald's

playground ride filet of fish play play spring toy that sold for 500 was that like one that you'd sit is that like a sort of a bucking Bronco pony kind of little? Yeah. $500, $100 shipping. Where is it shipping from? Oh, let me, I got to look it up. It's already sold. It's already sold.

Oh, this was from Wisconsin. Midwest, yeah. I bet that Officer Big Mac thing sells fast. I don't see any of them on here. I bet that one's, thing sells fast. I don't see any of them on here. I bet that one's... Yeah, that's tough. Maybe we should do a... This could be a...

We could take a little time, but if we eBay Barney and see what the most expensive item is. Oh, that's good. We never plan these anymore, but we could do a little... Oh, sure, yeah. Souvenir Smackdown as we go.

I like when they just come up mid-episode. um let's get it back to barney yeah i have to give universal credit it does seem like in 1995 money like they spent a good amount of money on this area and this show like barney was huge at night in the mid 90s like and i i i watched the video i watched the video of one of the last ones before it was put on ice for um covid scale backs like this show was running where peekaboo comes out and goes like remember to social distance and keep your masks on and yeah that was a lot that was a lot to handle but watching the pre-show i was like well this is a pretty nice theater they built like a goopy house i was like oh this is a whole different room and then there was like a cloud secret like the rain clouds were raining

and then the rain stopped and there were doors behind i was like oh this is actually pretty good and then it, the whole show is a theater in the round, which I think that's interesting. You don't see that often. And like theme park shows. It's like Dane Cook at Madison Square Garden. That's right.

That's like exactly the same vibe when Barney comes out with baby Bob and BJ. And if you look, if you look from at the Barney stage from above, it's got the big Sufi. It's got the big Sufi logo on it. The super figure, the Sufi. Barney and Dane Cook, both a lot less in the public eye since 2009. That's a good point.

Yeah, we should talk about what the show is. Yeah, there's a theater in the round that you build to but you get there and it's a little like outdoor here's where we gather everybody up in a little house and a waterfall looking thing like jason said and you uh you're you're you're waiting and then you start seeing little doors open and that is the appearance of peekaboo um the character's name is peekaboo do either of you i didn't write it down what's the his full his or her full name they make it so that uh man or woman could do it yes uh patricia aloysius bartholomew or patrick aloysius bartholomew i Patrick Aloysius Bartholomew. I see. Condensed to peekaboo, which is his name because it is his favorite game. Right.

Yes. And he is what? A professor who knows Barney? Yeah, that's sort of the vibe of it. It's very similar to the M&M professor. It's not that similar to the M&M professor, but it's the same. It's a narrative function, at least. Yeah, he's Barney's friend.

He's your hookup. Like, no, no, I totally know him. Just stick with me. I'll take you. You've also got a, is it an animatronic or is it a puppet? And how do they time it to speak at the right time? Because there's a big parrot named Bartholomew. I couldn't tell. What is it?

Like, is it live operated? But there's nobody behind it. I'm not sure what you're looking at. I think it's a puppet. Yeah, I think it's they might be able to cue just the lines like on a like we always just called them carts like at the in the student radio station cause they sell some old like equipment where like it was a big box you would like plug a cartridge in and it would play as soon as you hit the button there was no lag like on a cassette so i think stunt

shows have some of those set up where like as soon as you hit the button the sound plays i feel like any car yeah character that's not the human it's all recorded they're not doing any like the puppets and the costume people are not doing any crowd work they can't that's correct yeah yeah and eventually yeah barney baby bop and bj are are pre-recorded yes um and doing clearly i was like let me look up earlier choreography can i see a video of this from 1996 and then like recently mid-pandemic and it is the same they all like go to the center and the i love you song and play like and it's the same little carts with inflatable animals this is like the exact same show yeah Yeah, they've been doing the greatest hits on tour forever here.

No new albums. And I have to say the like 2020 audience, while a little small, the kids were into it. They were digging this show. They were clapping along, playing along. Like I do think this is good for kids like repetition kids like simple songs like you know i get the appeal and when you design a theme park i think it's left out of the discussion a lot of like well you need to appeal to ages two to eight if

you're going to be a family theme park you have to distract very very little kids you have to entertain them a little sure i mean my only plus up for this would be like a turtle talk situation with barney where he could actually respond to the kids that would be all i would i would want from it he can they can do the same songs yeah they can do kook they can do kookaburra sits in the old oak tree they can do that classic um but i just want i want bernie to do a little crowd work like dane would maybe but just a little you know be able to react live to some some change in the audience he doesn't have to go rickles he doesn't have to let's you know let's put our purses in the circle

let's put our purses and dance around. I just want to dance. Oh, are you a German guy? Oh, a Nazi? Nazi? Not Rickles, Barney, but like a little loose crowd work. This guy looks like he's got an itchy asshole. That's if we're going Dane.

If you're going Dane. It's hard to say. Let's go hit up the BK Lounge. I, yeah, I mean, it's cute. It's well done. It's like, I don't know, the lighting cues are nice. It seems like a good high-tech theater. That water effect is good.

Yeah, I mean, it's hard to like, you know, you can hate on Barney, but I don't hate on this show. This seems like just well done and entertaining. If sort of oddly, perhaps irrelevant. I mean, maybe a three-year-old doesn't care. They'll like look at whatever but with when you're dealing with like the micro generations that like you know what you're doing with preschool age i feel like this show hasn't been on since 2009 that's like three generations at least who don't really i bet don't really know barney yeah i would unless yeah i guess that they're showing reruns and i guess it probably is all up to the parents if the parents have some affection for it,

then they'll show their child Barney the reruns or whatever. I don't know if you can stream Barney. I don't know if there's a Kimberly Clark diaper streaming service that exists. There might, it might exist. I think if you are, a theme park is probably the best place because like you could introduce like a two or three year old to Barney, the pre-show, the show, and then there's a gift shop where you can get the dolls at the end.

And like that's an entirely self-contained bubble. So, you could get a kid to know nothing about Barney and within the span of an hour, they could be like, all right, I'm all in on Barney. This is my new favorite thing. Right. Oh, yeah, yeah. little stations that teach them yeah it's it's just my only credit as an adult my only criticism of the show is it's not it's fine that it's for kids i don't need i don't need bawdy humor of course but like versus the peanuts show at knots the peanuts shows at knots which are certainly not sophisticated oftentimes but they do a little, you get a little something.

You get your thriller parody, which Spooky Nights, you know, there's a little something for the parents to enjoy. There's a little like interest, like this feels like, you know, put a costume on Barney once in a while. Let's change up a song. Let's do a parody song like, you know, like Chuck E. Cheese does. Like, let's, put a costume on Barney once in a while. Let's change up a song. Let's do a parody song. Like, you know, like Chuck E. Cheese does. Like, let's do a little. Let's play with the Barney IP a little bit. He can get loose.

Barney can get loose. But that doesn't have to be so tight. That's by design, though, isn't it? Like, Barney made just for the kids. Like, Sesame Street and other things like that, for the kids and for the parents, a little too well sure i just think i think it's more of a i think it's more of the whoever's controlling barney has a very specific idea yeah what barney is and then also uh it costs money to do any changes and they would prefer to just keep this thing the same for 25

years because who gives a shit it's for little little kids um i came across this that this show was written by jason sorrell who wrote the uh uh the haunted mansion of pirates of the caribbean books long time universal and disney uh creative person wow and his first run at universal every year uh i i found this on like a wiki and then i looked on i found his linkedin page and he does list it under his credits from his first few years at universal wow oh that's cool um yeah um i like that um you know you know what you got to give him credit for and kids must love this this is like a good like magic trick illusion and maybe the first that they get to see is the transformation of little doll barney into big barney yes that's gotta be huge when you're a kid they do live the thing that they did in very poor special effects on a vhs in 1989 yeah it's the the i am a big fan of the doll barney from the second version of the series

that's like very round yeah uh i won't call him like a dump truck doll i won't say something like that that jason would say but i uh his you know what i'm talking about how he looks very rounded very pleasingly round he's he's pleasingly round i mean that's right i'm not gonna deny that's right but it's so much sexualization of barney i know it's just you know just you love a perfect sphere you guys like those ice cube spheres you know we do like that yes uh you see this yeah yeah yeah cute toy definitely a cute toy. Yes. Yeah. But the dolls were not like that.

The dolls were actually not as pleasing. No. No. But the perfect camera ready one. Yeah. Yeah. More so. I also, one thing I, I think my feelings about Barney as a kid were mixed, but I can certainly

say I did not like Baby Bop. Baby Bop really annoyed me. Yeah. Yeah. Baby Bop is, is, is yeah there's not a lot the baby bop unfortunately has kind of a grating voice yeah yeah it's like really crazy i can't do it but yeah me like and then bj i have i'm not as upset about but but I feel that BJ is a real poochie. Oh, yeah. Is cool in a generic way, but otherwise does not really bring a new dynamic to the table.

Does not influence the dyad, if you will. If you're going to introduce a third character, they should really bring more to the table than just being like also a dinosaur. But who like is on a scooter sometimes? Yeah, he's I mean, he's got the cool gym shoes and base in like sideways baseball hat. And then he's Baby Bop's older brother. OK, was this their attempt to reach out to you or me, Mike? I think... Because did they sense that there are a lot of older brothers

who we need to pull into the fold? I think you might be onto something because I do think when they introduced BJ, it certainly piqued my interest. I was certainly like, well, who is this new cool dinosaur now i they didn't stick the landing because i wasn't like all in on bj but i certainly was like i wouldn't mind getting one of these bj dolls i didn't i didn't have one but i'm just saying i think i think that was probably part of it bar Barney was a very paternal figure.

He was in charge. So Baby Bop was a character the kids could relate to. But then they figured, okay, well, they'd have to have a girl character and a boy character. And they definitely, like, BJ is like their version of Bart Simpson. Yeah, BJ's shooting cans. Shooting cans with a BB gun in the backyard,

setting off sparklers and fireworks. Did they think they would trick us by having a... He's yellow and has spiky hair. They kind of tricked me, though.

They tricked me for a little bit. So it kind of worked. I just think they need to make him a little bit more engaged, like his personality better. I was too into Cable at that point, Cable from the X-Men. So if they had given BJ a giant gun and a lot of pouches, maybe. But the yellow wasn't enough for me.

If somebody could, and look, if we call for fan art, if someone could in the audience draw a Rob Liefeld BJ. I would lose my mind. I just, God. Scott, I got to tell you. So Rob Liefeld, Scott, in the 90s would draw these like crazy, you've probably seen the pictures of it, crazy muscle men characters that like doesn't make sense proportionally. And I'll show you this real quick he is the co-creator of deadpool amongst other like extreme like so this captain america this

is captain america image comes up a lot when this discussion is the incredibly detailed incredibly detailed anatomically all over the map but like now has kind of come back around to being like outsider art like it's just so um somebody also made somebody also made this yeah like this is what he would look like shirtless and somebody's done what real life chris evans playing captain america would look like with the proportions of right like this is what he would look like a mammoth rib cage these characters all have dump truck uh packs exactly yes yes uh so round so if somebody could draw like a jacked up bj bj rob leifeld bj hi yeah uh that would be great uh uh we also now i don't i don't think i was we were maybe way off of the show by the time they introduced um uh who i guess is bj and

baby bop's cousin riff yes you guys know about riff i know about riff i. I hate Riff. He's orange. I really hate. Now, this is interesting because now he reminds me, I think Riff is kind of in the family of an Aladar. Well. I think he bothers me the same way Aladar bothers me. I can't get on board with that. I can't cut to that. No. So, Mike, you don't like Riff.

I don't know a lot of, I'll be honest, I don't know a lot about Riff. I don't know a lot of, I'll be honest, I don't know a lot about Riff. I don't love the look. He's kind of, he's got kind of like, he's like half asleep. Yeah, those eyelids are very unsettling. I'm not against him, but I don't think, I think of the four designs, he's the least interesting design purely from an aesthetic point of view. The other three

are i think pretty well designed riff i don't know what's going on with him he's got like no he's got like like oh come on riff kicking i mean i don't like i don't like i like i like it when he's kicking more uh maybe riff might be the funniest character now that I'm looking at him, but I'm not sure. I'm kind of warming up to Riff. Yeah, funny looking. Riff is clearly the gazoo of the great gazoo of this show. I mean, I'm looking at a clip on YouTube now. I've not watched it.

Learn to dance with Riff. And maybe we'll use this clip to determine if we like Riff once and for all. Sure. I don't know Riff's voice at all. So we'd all be experiencing this together let's experience riff for the first time and really give riff a fair shot all right no judgment riff no okay rip me over this is your american idol audition okay let's see what you got and you'll be happy to know he's got a little ukulele so that's also

another strike in his favor all right so here we go wait a minute so we're watching okay so right now we're watching some sort of music video he's not riff is not speaking but he's dancing a lot to just can't get enough is that riff's voice that sounds like barney to me all right i gotta find riff talking here barney on youtube has 1.4 million subscribers so um i guess it is working yeah it might still be popular i'm riff is the name of this video yeah and there's pictures of him with, like, he's fishing now, and I kind of like that. No, I'm out on riff. No.

Oh, Scott, he's playing the sax. He's playing the sax, Scott. Unmute, unmute. Unmute, we gotta hear it. You're right, you're right, you're right. That sax, though. Okay, so here we go. This is I'm Riff. Hi, I'm Riff. Oh, Scott, you like this music. Oh, this music sound like the kind of music i like yes

hi i'm riff let's go have some fun with barney no no okay no raspy voice no riff has a lot of vocal fry going on. Yeah, not into it. Riff also smokes. Like, Riff smokes Parliament Longs. It's a poor man's Tommy Pickles from Rugrats. All right, one more clip here to see if we can save Riff's reputation with Scott. Hi-day, everyone.

No, Heidi Ho, get out of here. He's playing thehey, everyone. No. Hidey-ho. Get out of here. He's playing the sax, Scott. Only one character will have to say hidey-ho, and that's Mitch. What are you guys up to? We just planted these jello flowers. Coolorama. Oh, they look great. Coolorama. No, no.

There's a project for a scouting club. Out on Rift. Oh, what's a scouting club? A club is a group of friends who plan to do things. What the fuck is Barney's voice? All right, so this is another thing we haven't gotten to. They changed Barney's voice, and it's really weird. Like, it's much different.

It's like, ew. Yeah, he sounds weird in the last so many. So points for the Universal show. It's the original voice, bob west of barney and he also was the voice of pasquale and jasper at chucky cheese wow oh my god did not realize that that's great that really i mean that's that's three icons right there. What a great VO guy. Yeah. Yeah. Who, like, worked at the company, right?

I think in all these cases, or he got his start at Chuck E. Cheese, he, like, wrote the shows or was part of the creative and then did voices. He was, like, the king of Texas children's entertainment because Chuck E. Cheese and Barney all came from the uh uh was it dallas or i mean somewhere in texas yeah um another person with a connection to the um barney show at universal there was a woman named uh lauren may you uh who's worked in the parks a lot she went from playing baby bop in the show in the park to then getting word that they needed a new Baby Bop costume performer on the TV show.

So then auditioned and then got the part and took over the role for the TV show. And then eventually also went on to do the world audition for one of the national or international tours they did too so she played baby bop and then i believe after the show ended went back to universal and has worked in the park and done the character again wow oh geez wow it led to a job yeah wow a different job a different yeah it's kind of in the same neck of the woods uh job but i thought that was cool and and there's interviews with her out there about she's worked a lot of jobs in the parks does anyone know anything about the guy who was in the barney suit on the show i've heard yeah you you go ahead i think i know you're i know what you're talking about here um well uh if you were if you're pre if you're preschool age

stop listening to the episode because uh the guy's name is david joiner and he was always barney and all the live shows and on the movie and all the all the things um and today he is is known as a tantric massage therapist. And the, well, he, you know, he explains how his, the being in the suit, you know, that's a very physical act. And he considers that, like having to be in this costume all day that got up to 120 degrees

and was so, you you know physically taxing he calls that tantra like tantra isn't necessarily a sex thing it's just being able to like have the stamina to do something forever and he says how the energy i brought while in the costume is based on the foundation of tantra which is love everything stems grows and evolves from love uh love heals and allows you to grow uh so he's you know he's this very spiritual person as i said tantra isn't necessarily a sex thing in this case it certainly is because his practice is sex you could get you go to tantra harmony.com and uh you know tell him your issues and he will have sex with you and uh part of it is that in order for all the spirits to get

through and for it to be more as blissful as possible it has to be unprotected so no condoms involved if you're gonna have sex with the the guy who played barney yes uh sandy duncan would not approve of this they're kind of at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of people involved in the franchise um she might sandy duncan would have maybe problems with phraseology like here uh here's a quote from him uh when you go down on a woman it should be just like you're saying grace like blessing the food you're about to receive no food in the world oh wait i should do it as no food in the world when you go down on I should do it as no food in the world. When you go down in a woman, it should be like you're saying grace, like you're blessing the food you're about to receive.

No food in the world can compare to goddess nectar because spirit is involved. Before you taste the goddess nectar, give thanks. My kids win this metaphor doesn't track for me because i always found grace to be very like perfunctory and fast and that doesn't that doesn't uh oh you're right yeah right a thousand percent yes if that's what you're doing if you doing, if you're going down on someone with the speed of grace, like I know my family is great. In the name of the Father,

and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Bless his food. Bless his food. That is not satisfying to your goddess. Yeah, I feel like that's a way to build resentment, not connection,

if that's your approach to the act. All right. In the name of the Father, here we go. Click, click, click. Okay. All right. Very good. I don't think this performer knows how to treat his goddess.

That's my hypothesis. This thing is pretty uniform across David Joyner's discussions. There's a lot of reviews of his services which are glowing people are pretty excited about all this is he on yelp um i'm not sure if it's yelp but he i mean so he controls the reviews i see yeah it's all people i mean it sounds like people had a wonderful time there's a vice article about all this and there's people who just seem kind of uh well there's people who just straight up say this is prostitution what he's

doing yeah money is being exchanged and you have unprotected sex then this is sort of a shady thing I don't I don't want it I don't know either way I don't want to cast judgment condoms block the energy is a pretty iffy phrase

condoms block the energy condoms block the energy is a pretty iffy phrase condoms block the energy condoms block the energy oh my god i do everyone does sign a consent form though so that's good oh my god everything's on the open up that is really that is really dark it's's pretty crazy. He also apparently was pretty vocal about all this. He was not running this practice while doing the Barney show, but I think if you met this man and talked to him, he would start talking about tantric stuff. So they let him do the show, but attorneys said that he was not allowed to teach, practice,

or talk about tantra while under contract playing the character because that is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hmm. So he had to bid this adieu. It was not like Sting, where he could make it part of his persona while still doing his art.

Right. Well, he didn't bid it adieu. He just kind of edged. It just kind of built up over years. And then the tantric energy he stored up the tantric stored up the energy i'm sorry by too much of my tantric energy being blown off card that caused the 1994 northridge earthquake that was just bernie shooting

an extinction event oh man i i um i also i'm pretty sure that i was once around this man because, you know, I like doing things at hotel bars as we all do. And there's a really good one. There's a good like bar at the top of a hotel in Glendale. Yes. And we had a birthday party there with the thinking that like, oh, because it'll kind

of just be us. There won't be like some other massive group of 200 people who were competing for space with and one time for aaron's birthday we went up to this place and it was packed it was 200 people and we didn't know what it was all about it was like the most raucous incredible birthday party we'd ever seen and i think it may have been if it wasn't i think it was a woman who the party was for but i wrote when we started intermingled and somebody was like see that guy over there he was in the barney suit and people were he was like holding court people loved this guy everybody's talking to him he's king of the party pointing at everyone and wow so uh i guess the guy's popular um i'm not sure if he was popular with these people because of his work. It's hard to say.

Well, we know there's another rooftop bar that's local that has a swingers night once a month. Yes. That's right. It's only parties of 12 nerds and raucous sexually liberated groups. There'll be times when we've tried to go we are definitely not time to go to the bar and it's like no no this is swingers night you have to be a swinger to go up there that's happened several times oh yeah yeah oh man that's what happens at the rooftop bars

so uh if you're interested in a session with david joiner go to tantra harmony it's not an official ad obviously no he didn't pay us this is just what we're scott is doing this out of the kindness of his heart yeah yeah just just uh spreading the word um what have we met barney's barneyville station barney barney train oh the player i did miss this all right let's let's yes mike has pulled out the barney's backyard page on the universal website now let's get away from all that salacious material and let's start with the train which i'm squinting and says bj's express all right okay great uh a barney as a yeah barney has a train station and a train of some kind here

i'm not sure if that's in actual like canon on the newer show i don't know good wait go down to the copy a little bit um hop on bj's hop on bj's express train and plan a pretend to get away oh it's not like oh yes what but then on this planned getaway there's an actual murder no one is leaving bj's express train until we crack this case no need it was riff oh i know it was riff i have had a bad feeling about Riff since day one. I like Riff now. No, Riff's a murderer. Even if Riff murdered someone on this train, I'm liking him. That might improve my opinion of Riff, I suppose.

Riff was a murderer? A saxophone-playing dinosaur train murderer. Riff is male, yes? I think so. That voice is like a French... R riff sounds like an orange county divorcee riff is like a rock and roller like riff can play instruments yeah i'm looking up riff's personality is all about music he hears music everywhere he goes which ties directly into his theme song i hear music everywhere he goes which ties directly into his theme song i hear music everywhere

the music i guess we gotta do the is this cute poll for riff the music tells me to do things and i think it's i i think it's important uh that people see riff playing the sax though to be the first to give a full determination of if if riff is cute that's the most likable yeah that i saw yes but i can't give him points just because of saxophone just because riffs associated with easy listening music it's typically a way i'm gonna my heart i'm gonna find riff playing more easy listening music to convince you i mean i maybe this makes me want to like take riff and take riff footage and put some of the stuff i like under it you're uh you know you're david sanborn or you're tom scott uh i think i think if you have an hour during this week that might happen happen yeah sure okay i'll give it a go um so um well what have we missed we the um i do have some

barney ebay results if we want to do a little um i have some yes oh they might have found the same thing maybe we're looking at the same are you doing like by highest price are we that's usually how i do it so we're probably why don't look too hard so if you have anything good i'll keep it blind no i don't have anything particularly good well we don't have to do it if nothing's that good well i i will say nothing is that good with barney but i do think i found the mother load when it comes to mcdonald's oh geez a full playland 20 train 21 000 21 000 it's everything it's the little it's it's the little boppers the flay of fish a little bench where you sit next to grimace this is the ultimate jeez um so 21 000 is how much they're they're asking for it um i don't know it doesn't say where they're where they're located though you know free local pickup should i make an offer should i may offer like a hundred they're not gonna get 21 what do you think they're aiming for 14 15 grand

yeah probably i bet they would take 14 000 yeah i don't have a go ahead and pay go ahead and all right all right here i go fourteen thousand dollars he did it he's typing it in uh i don't have a house with a yard or a house in general yeah but i do want to buy fourteen thousand dollars worth of mcdonald playland equipment of course i know we all do that bench with ronald it's a bench where ronald's sitting in the middle can you imagine like like putting that in a whole a house like i guess i could i guess there would be no problem with it people would actually be the envy of the neighborhood um yeah i guess some of the neighborhood all right fine so many people put off fun halloween

decorations giant things now i think people are slowly more comfortable with yeah if you could do a front yard display of mcdonald's yeah absolutely yeah if you could get the bench with ronald on it flanked by the two by like two home depot 12 foot skeletons like that would be just so great well there's something to shoot for maybe the patreon will go up and give us each an extra twenty one thousand dollars next month and well we could you could okay if well you can come how about you could come be in the playland if we buy this that's that's a idea. Oh, yeah. And then we'll sell tickets to it like Homer. Yes. Well, that's our theme park.

Right. And that's where this has to go is that we actually build good boy land. Well, sure. And with Ambassador Sandy Duncan. No, never. Statue of Sandy Duncan. Not allowed in good boy land.

And I will be performing Down on Grandpa's Farm, Imagine a Place, all the songs from Day in the Park with Barney. I like Down on Grandpa's Farm. I like Down on Grandpa's Farm, too. That's a fun Barney song. I thought all the songs were solid in this. Imagine a Place I liked. I really liked in that one song when they all they they had their laughing simultaneously

down pat like for sinking the mouth movements all together I thought that was pretty impressive uh technically the people in the costumes doing a good job um I like when they push the carts around with the inflatable um barnyard. Oh, yeah. The skunk. That's fun. Yeah. I mean, if I had to know another note, though, you know, where's Riff? No. Where is he?

He shouldn't be in this. Everyone's going to pretend. A bunch of people on Twitter are going to pretend to like Riff, an unknown Barney character for good reason. As soon as they see a GIF. Because I said to not like it as soon as they see a gif of him playing saxophone they're gonna fall in love seems inevitable right yes we love riff now i wasn't you know you can't judge a book by its cover because i was anti-riff

initially but the saxophone put it over the edge so um yeah i guess all right only with a saxophone and only if riff doesn't talk i don't want to hear that horrible voice so if you block that with a saxophone then fine i mean we'll put it we'll put riff against that baby aladar and see even like what if people like one or more than the other so i mean i i i think people with saxophone will really like riff the only time i've been way wrong is mr six people love friggin mr six yeah that ratio was uh yeah higher than you might expect yes i thought mr six was more divisive but people love a dancing old man yeah six flags should have looked at that data and brought him back immediately well they fucked up big time and um it's you know uh i'm just glad that the people responsible for firing

mr six only went on to do many many more extremely lucrative jobs that's the way uh but i have one more thing i saw a youtube comment and i found no proof of this but in speaking you know oh i know exactly where you're going but continue yeah okay okay yeah we all found it uh this is from uh lord vader 0727 who has a little uh ewan mcgregor a little avatar uh me and my friends were at universal the other day and during the show barney started whipping and nae nae and it was hilarious yes and that was from a few months ago right yes when did this happen i don't know we find footage yeah i was looking for it too i also saw that comment and it's the beetlejuice show at least that happened when that was popular yeah yeah um yeah why whipping a name today yeah well i i mean i don't i would

be thrilled if it said barney did the gangnam style dance oh could you imagine but this is what i was talking about before i want that in this show. So I want him to floss. I want him to throw up a dab. I want him to do all of that. And the crowd's going to go wild for it. And then I want Riff to do the dab. And I want Riff to floss. I guess that would also make me...

You imagine Riff flossing... Okay, everyone calm down right now. Who's listening and close your eyes and imagine. I want you to do this thought exercise. Imagine riff. Imagine he sets down his saxophone and then riff starts flossing. How can you be mad at that? Oh,

and a theater in the round where he has to rotate to make sure every section of the audience gets to see him head on flossing. The beautiful park set. I like the set. I like the set in the theater. I think it's good. I think they did a good job on the sets on these. But yeah, rip, rip, rip, rip.

Is there a rip? Is there a rip too? No, rip flossing would be great. Yeah. Rip flossing is a blessing no food in the world compared to riff flossing because spirit is involved so give thanks um you survived i guess a second gate with a bunch of Barney stuff. And yeah, I don't know. Do we all sing I love you, you love me? We could say just remember I love you. Just remember.

Just remember. The hosts love you. I don't know what I mean. Just remember I love you. You know what I mean. Just remember, I love you. You know what I mean. And I love you. Okay. Bye.

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