Podcast: The Ride - Unlocked: Pal Mickey

Episode Date: December 29, 2023

Enjoy this sample of P:TR - The Second Gate. Find even more Second Gate episodes at Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Solid in Walt Disney World from 2003-2008, Pal Mickey was a plush Mickey filled with electronics. He would "giggle and vibrate" and tell you interesting facts about the parks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forever! Dog! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Touch points and trigger points these are the topics today this is uh in the tree of things we'll discuss uh here on podcast the ride the second gate uh what are they why are they well we'll have to find out with the help of me scott gerdner as well as mike carlson yeah i'm here jason sheridan hi yeah i was trying to think of a joke of like when we're by microphones we tell you facts about the theme park but if we're away from the microphones and you squeeze our hands or poke our bellies we tell uh corny jokes we sort of are. We really are modern day pal Mickeys, aren't we?

Yeah. With our facts and our jokes. Yeah, that's true. That's really what this whole thing is. We didn't realize that we were ripping off this entire format from a toy from 20 years ago. And now that we know this, we must apologize. And then to the show. You've survived.

All show. Podcast the survived. All show. Podcast the ride. We're so sorry. If we'd only known, we'd stolen it from a toy. Pal Mickey is the topic today. And we learned about, I learned about it. I didn't know about this at all. I learned about it in the Ian Riccoboni episode.

On the main feed. Yeah, I didn't know either. Jason brought this up and I was very excited about it. But and i was not familiar with my friend my pal he wasn't our pal yeah i mean we he's our pal but not this per we weren't pals with with this pal right um i have a clip and it's from the top seven must see things with chrissa chrissa who predated stacy on the in-room television and she was the one who like in the middle of a list of like exciting things you can do at disney world told you about pal mickey here it is okay go ahead chrissa put the speaker to the the name is mickey mickey. So what does he do?

Well, rent or buy Pal Mickey at the gift shop of your resort or at any of the four Walt Disney World theme parks, and he becomes your private tour guide. I can hardly wait to show you around. He tells you about parades and showtimes, recommends attractions, shares fun facts, plays games with you. He's the ultimate insider. He can even tell you about where to find your other Disney pals. What'd he say? The Hall of Fame? The Hall of Fame! What is that?

Why'd he say that? What is the Hall of Fame? And then the next thing he said didn't have anything to do with that. Did it? The minis, the minis are always here. She's just over there. Wait, Jason, what's the Hall of Fame? I don't know.

It was probably like a Toontown Fair meet and greet. Oh, and like, what, this came out in 2008? No, this is 2003. They stopped selling them in 2008. Oh, wait, sorry. Yeah, I got to compute. What was happening in the video when that happened? They're standing in front of the castle.

What? Like the partner statue. happened? They're standing in front of the castle. What? Like the partner statue. Yeah, they're about. This thing's supposed to tell us facts about the park, and yet he thinks that the castle is called the Hall of Fame? This toy is a fucking dumbass. So this is a toy that was basically going to act as like your Genie Plus, essentially. Yeah.

What they promised for Genie Plusush was plus genie plush it was genie plush uh mickey plush uh uh that would tell you like tips as they said tips uh facts about the rides uh it would be your all-knowing insider guide yeah it was a little plush and you would carry it around and you could buy it for 65 dollars right or you could rent it for eight dollars a day rent a toy with with a 50 deposit you had to return it the next day i believe in what if you're assuming this is for a child and maybe a lot of them were not i don't know but if you're i am not i'm not gonna rent a toy i'm not gonna rent a toy that was rented by some other grubby kid the day before

communal plush so you spent oh you would spend wait so it would be a 24-hour rental so you'd spend eight dollars to spend the night with the mickey plush yeah it was oh yeah returned by noon the following day so you got a morning so wait a minute that's so weird maybe there was a magical day. Oh, yeah, returned by noon the following day. So you got a morning. So wait a minute. That's so weird. Maybe there was a day in between. I bet there was like a cleaning or at least a like, you sit in the corner and maybe your germs will dissipate. Or they just turned around and handed it to another kid.

I'm sure they did something that was supposed to disinfect it, but I don't know. It's still too gross. They just blasted it with a Lysol spray? Yeah, maybe. Just put it in a Lysol shower. Oh, yeah. Hit me with that Lysol.

Hit me with another blast. What complicated by inside of Pal Mickey was a microprocessor, a speaker, three AAA batteries, and three squeeze sensors one in each and one in the valley how many squeeze sensors are in your human body oh too many too many our human body has so many squeeze sensors sensors the infrared uh receiver was in its nose so i missed one touch points trigger points squeeze sensors yeah so mickey would sometimes just talk if he was near something or you could make him talk by squeezing parts of him well let's slow down let's slow down when you were near something he would vibrate and giggle what do you think about that scott i was thinking about you i was like

oh i wonder what scott has to say about that like a loud old cell phone if you have garbage you can put it in one of these. So you'd have to pick him up like a phone in order to hear what fact he was going to say. Yeah, you would like, I saw one video that said

the speakers were behind the eyes, which is also a funny statement. That's funny. Mickey's yelling at me through his eyes. A special effect. Mickey's yelling at me through his eyes. A special effect. Mickey's giggling. He's giggling through his eyes. Where was the vibrating feature?

Hmm. Hmm. I couldn't tell that. Well, okay. Let's eliminate. We know that, all right, if the infrared receiver is in his nose and the squeeze sensors are in each hand and a belly. Right.

So it can't be in those. So what's left? What's left? Maybe just kind of the, well, we got the seat got the seat the seat area yeah maybe his seat is vibrating okay and so they put that like a cell phone vibrating thing in the seat yeah and that's how you would know he was gonna say something warn you this big world has air just like regular places. You can breathe wherever you want. It's fine. This bench is like Walt's, but do you know about the bench?

You can sit on him. You can lay on him. Don't fast sleep on a bench. Do not. You're just for when you get back to a bed. Could you put him on silent? I guess you could turn him off, right? Yeah, you switch him on and off.

Yeah. Okay. That doesn't work. Did you know my off function doesn't work? I'll do this all night. You might go to sleep and I won't.

Did anyone buy this? I've never heard of it before it lasted for five years and it sounds like well it was supported for longer it was supported until 2014 and someone on uh wdw magic was very clearly pointed out like supported means that it might work longer than that but if it breaks you know if if the stuff in the parks breaks we're not going to repair it right you mean the the what sends out the infrared the info all right so if the infrared we support the vibrating mickeys but if the infrareds break then they're broke yeah i just meaning as much of like oh this this probably won't work in the park anymore so mainly okay so this was if you're in the disney parks there are infrared things something transmit, transmitters. Transmitters. Transmitters replaced now mostly by RFID.

That's what they use in the magic bands and, like, the apps in your phone. Okay. But you would have, these things would have been around until they started breaking one by one. So the idea was that, I lost another one. That shit, only three freaks still have these. But so if you're in the parks then maybe mickey's vibrating uh with pleasure about the fun facts that he gets to tell you

uh and encouraging you to touch his trigger points but if if this isn't happening if you're back at if you're back at home if you're off the disney world campus then now uh all it does is tell you jokes so it could still work but that's that location specific thing they've just slowly let die the whole draw i mean there's other talking mickey dolls that have happened over the years so then only the main draw then is gone yeah but but uh there's videos of someone in epcot in 2014 and it's working and then there's 10 years ago yeah so that's 10 years ago but just in may of 2023 a youtuber named chris the girl took a pal mickey to magic kingdom and animal kingdom and it still worked okay well uh take it so there were still spots and like what did it say uh it it would talk about stuff that

wasn't there anymore oh like it would talk about stuff that's gone really like what i uh god what was going in magic kingdom snow white scary stuff like that oh any smoking areas. Light them up, Dad. Just don't burn them off on me. Where's my touch points and stuff working? It had a lot to say about Dino-Rama and Animal Kingdom, which is mostly construction walls at this point. Sure. Because they've

demolished a lot of it, you know. This treasure planet meet and greet. You really gotta see it. You gotta meet all your friends. They're playing John's song by John Resnick. It's really good. I'm so excited for Home on the Range.

Rosanna's so funny. Mark my words. Disney Company will support Rosanna in everything she says for us. I found on all ears dot net a weird thing they used to say in Hollywood studios

when who wants to be a millionaire would be there it would say seems like lots of people want to be millionaires but with friends like you I am rich enough what? that sounds like something you say on your deathbed yeah

seems like lots of people want to be millionaires but with friends like you i am rich enough mickey you're fucking loaded that's easy for you of course yeah you can say that yeah me i like i'm sorry it's not a two-way street i like you i like your fun facts thanks for telling me when the parades are but i'd still like some of that sweet coin my man yeah i haven't had a star since 1928 if you're a pal fucking pay up how good of a pal are you man i paid 65 to buy you i think the least you can do is buy me a house yeah i i saw a video clip where he talks about like the windows on main street and he's like a lot of these people helped build these parks i don't see my name up there oh i guess they gave me the whole toontown fair area okay

he's actually said that yeah he was mad he was mad that he didn't have a window on Main Street. This is literally, he is doing what I would do to girlfriends who are less interested than people I know now or my now wife. Like, hey, that's literally, like, now look up there. Those windows are, who cares? Shut up. Mickey, pal Mickey is a recreation of me at 19 saying my facts to no interested audience and you know what it's a lot more it's it's similar in another way to you probably were vibrating with excitement so much and that you were waiting for somebody to say oh do you have

a fact about this and then you would give the fact maybe that's also what I sounded like at 19. You're shaking. Are you okay? Scott, are you very sexy? I just have facts I need to see. I have so many facts in me. Touch my points. The Omnimover and the One Direction. My pressure. Relieve my pressure.

This, Jason, you did not have a pal Mickey, right? You're too old for this? No, I didn't have a pal Mickey. My pressure. Jason, you did not have a pal Mickey, right? You're too old for this? No, I didn't have a pal Mickey. Was it on your radar? You're never too old for a pal Mickey. You're never too old for your pal. The ultimate insider. Was it on your radar, though?

It wasn't on my radar, no. You only recently learned about this as well. Yeah, yeah. And now all the radars are broken, so. Oh, yeah. It can't be on anyone's radar. Well, that's for the defunct rise. Maybe not. I mean, I's for the defunct rides. Maybe not.

I mean, I've bid on a couple on eBay. I haven't gotten any wins yet. Oh, you're bidding on Pal Mickeys? Yeah, there's a bunch of Pal Mickeys on eBay. How much are they going for? They open anywhere between $8 and like $50. Oh, $50 has to be in box, right? I think there's a $30 one that's like in box.

The other one is a loose Pal Mickey. You should get the dirtiest Pal Mickey that's like eight bucks. I was, yeah, I was hoping like, oh, if I win this one, I'll be hoping for a heat wave and leave it a plastic bag in the trunk to de-louse it, you know? My parents brought out a tub of plush from my childhood cut when they moved out here and it is the it's they've been played with for years and i'm sure my spit is all over them not because i was kissing them but because just like sleeping with them and like we

got it no maybe i was kissing them honestly but like imagine you'd have to be you'd have to kiss the whole body for it to get that for it to get that sticky and discolored say you were drooling in your sleep and just the way that the plush was the drool would drip down and then you would roll rum like roll around in the middle of your sleep like the drool could have potentially gotten to any parts of the plush's body it was dripping drool not kisses yeah yeah hey thanks for that detailed description of drool sleep drool can drip how it could how my plush got so weird well i think also some of that material like they weren't necessarily thinking like what how will this age what will it be like that's true 10 20 30 years you know you've got my original uh sleepy time ernie

in the living room now that my daughter is playing with oh which is very cute but it is also like i hope there's not some bacteria that's been living in this thing for 35 years or whatever it it like looks okay though oh no he looks like he's been in a fire oh god well this is yeah when yeah when i had my son my parents very nicely were like hey we went and found the old ernie and burt puppets yeah we pulled him out and i was like this is very nice. And then when I saw the condition they were in, I'm like, nice gesture, but I don't want my son to die. Do they stink? Because some stuff that's hard plastic, as it ages, it kind of smells. I didn't really do a stink test.

I don't think that was mainly the problem. So I can say that nice thing about trying to see if i burts people really i when they see this earning they get very scared they're horrified by him god he's got his crotch has been ripped open uh he's missing his buttons his eyes are like just deteriorated he's like the blacks of his eyes and you didn't you didn't have been ripped off you didn't kiss him so hard in his crotch that you ripped it off. Let's be clear about that. I didn't.

It wasn't a crotch kiss rip. It was not that. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. But I used to use him as like a ghost busting wand. There's a video of me running around with him using his arms like shooting ghosts and stuff. Okay. So I would use he would he was all

versatile uh plush i wouldn't just use him as ernie the character he was sometimes a piece of equipment sometimes he was a hose an imaginative hose supernatural hose yeah yes um well you got to be careful on those ebays because you know like all right well i know that the touch points are if you say you can tell me the touch points were in good condition but what if the what if the trigger points aren't i didn't come across a terrible vibrating speed i saw that on some website i i copy and pasted from something pal mickey had three touch points one in each hand and one in his belly. When Pal Mickey's adorable little body would... I don't know that I read this again after copy and pasting it. Whenever Pal Mickey's adorable little body would, I guess...

Do you have... All right. Would giggle and vibrate... There's no lie there. I guess it is. It's editorializing. and he's smaller than you think all that electronics in him you know i thought he'd be bigger i don't little look something about it it feels like adorable is assisting the word little like the little is

what is adorable about him and i just find that strange in the case of this. I think the show is number on those words for you. There's a lot of words that are very loaded. I mean, look at me. I was I was coming in. I had so much self imbued into the word hammered. I was bringing so much to the table because how much of how much I expect any normal word to get right exploded in a creepy way on this show anyway when pal mickey's adorable little body would giggle and vibrate that was his way of letting his owner know that he had something to say again now we're i don't know what i pulled

this from now that we're bringing that is that he's owned by someone into the picture. But he's your pal. Yeah. Hey, owner. Excuse me, owner. Did you know this boat runs till 9 p.m.? Hey, boss. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a better version. Like, boss? Like, employee? Your employee lets you know that he is a fact.

Well, there's no... Hey, boss. Helper. Friend. I guess so. Well, it's like getting a vip tour guide for the day and you pay that person or the entity that pays the person so yeah i guess so pal mickey's your tour yeah pal mickey's your employee because you don't own the tour guide you can't if you're viewing it like

that even if i own for the next few hours i own you no that's not cool wrong philosophy don't say that to a tour guide do not say that please because this predates smartphones and they you know by 2014 or so a lot of people have them um so there's an alternate version where we just all had different plushes that told us things everywhere we went wished for all of it just like really kind of like you know like hipsters or business people on the go all have to have like the account with them or a stitch or oh yeah say cell phones don't exist and you have to have pal so and so and i have to pick a pal you have to pick a pal and it can't be like too obscure because these are made by big companies so i want to be realistic in our choices so so well there there were other ones there were beta tests or like early ones okay hypothetical this is we're describing an alternate dimension

where phones are not invented where steve jobs failed yes he didn't invent phones but he you know you know what i'm saying phone smart phones complicated mr. He didn't invent phones, but he, you know, you know what I'm saying. Phones, complicated phones. Mr. Blackberry didn't invent a Blackberry. Yeah, well, that shit in that movie didn't happen. Right. So in this version, the only way we can access information about our world and then also place calls is through a plush.

The plush is not so obscure, so we can't do any of your turtle toys that are specific lines. Right, it can't be that specific. It could be the main four it could maybe be shredder it could maybe be bebop or rocksteady but it doesn't get very deep i guess i mean i said the count and maybe i would stick with it if the count was giving me traffic instructions oh that'd be good turn in 4.2 miles uh uh uh just, or he had to like count any amount of,

he has to like go from one up to any number that you need. If I'm wondering when I need to turn onto the four Oh five freeway, the count says, Hmm, let's see. One, two, damn it.

Count. He counts to four Oh five. Yeah. Yeah. Which, which freeway count do I need to go to one two three four and you're like oh you don't even know the answer you gotta wait and then you're hoping it's the five but it could be the four or five five six no shit damn it and then it comes around 99

100 101 is it 101 oh no two 110 maybe it's 110 there's not a freeway 999 around here is there what are you doing it's a good question I think that I am going to pick Tails from Sonic Miles Tails Prowler

Prowler what's his last name he has a full name his name is Miles Tails and Iower? What was his last name? He has a full name. His name is Miles Tales, and I can't think of his last name. Is it Prower? It's something like that. Yeah. I never quite knew how to say it. I feel like I just read it. Prower.

Yeah, I'm right. Yeah, Prower. It sounded wrong to me. I don't know. He's sort of like chill. He's kind of got like a high voice, I think, which some people might say is whiny, but I feel like he's not getting in the way a lot.

And I just also like aesthetically, I think maybe he was my favorite plush in my, like, I'm not going to say, I was going to say mid-teens. That's not the answer. He was my favorite plush in my mid-teens. I don't know. It's not even a funny answer. Yeah. It's just like I started getting sad.

I used to have so many favorite plushes and now i gotta give them to my daughter my daughter i found the photo time has passed me by yeah as we as he's recounted his daughter has the hairless eyeless ernie yeah how's this show us this ernie can you see it from here wow it's very uh like simplified does it feel like scratchy uh nice picture of her by the way yeah yeah she's very cute in this photo uh yeah i mean he's not the softest uh plush in the world it's a little bit scratchy in places his hair certainly there's it's patchy he's missing pieces of it at the top that's real scratchy um his smile is like it was a red piece of felt or something and now it's been worn away into like white and his nose is still intact he still has his eyes i actually i was messing uh mixing up the burt doll that i have like this that has his

eyes completely removed oh okay that looks really scary oh yikes he looks like a zombie bird so it was a fun idea yeah so uh anyway jason you have an answer for this a less sad one than a mine uh i i had a plush of him as a kid and i did like him alf hmm i'm familiar yeah i i think alf would be i mean alf's usually in good spirits oh Oh, my God. That's a great answer. I actually should have chosen this. You got an appointment. Why haven't you left yet? You should have left 10 minutes ago.

Better start working on your excuse for why you're running late. You're on your own with that one. That's not what I do. They're not going to believe that. Traffic in L.A. Okay. Yeah, that's every day here.

If you're not coming from El Segundo, that's not going to fly. Or from Melmac. I'm trying my best, Alf. You know, sometimes you have a harder time getting out of the house than, you know, others. Your postmate just left. Oh, God, I'm starving. I don't want to bother them i told him not to come

why i didn't want to bother him felt bad like seemed stressed he had more places to go don't bother with it you eat this meal yourself yeah eat this meal don't pay any attention to the meow coming from it. Into the big pot. You ordered a cat? I ordered from In-N-Out. They only have burgers and some plant-based ones or veggie ones. I know they don't serve cat burgers, Alf.

No. In-N-Out of the feline shelters where I prepared the meal. You misinterpret. I did not tell you to go in and out of a place with cats. Take a cat while on the way.

Hey, don't worry about it. I'm wearing sunglasses. Oh, you're right. How can I stay mad at you? That was cool when Alpha wore sunglasses or like a cool jacket. Played rock and roll guitar. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Always the best. Alpha, new Alpha Comic Con exclusive toy coming soon. He has a little Comic Con bag and it says Cosmic Con. Melmac-ian Cosmic Con. For his own. He has. See, he has. Things are a little different on melmac they have their own comic-con and they call it something that's one letter off that's right that's right

perfect um so i i saw on uh again all ears.net there was an interview with eddie soto and he talked about like yeah there were lots of different prototypes of this it seems like he made one was a backpack of genie that was like blink at you yeah because they were worried they were like okay this is gonna be a pain in the ass to carry around your like guide to disney a backpack makes sense because you're holding a backpack anyway you're wearing a backpack already so let's make one who's has genie's face on it his eyes move and he talks but then it's behind you well i think that's what they run into so you can't so only the people you're with can see what it's doing and you can't hear it and it's loud everywhere so that doesn't work so that's out the window then they tried a beanie baby type wrist

thing okay wear a beanie baby on your wrist yeah and it would vibrate it was still vibrating points but you have to then you would have to hold it up to your ear hear what it had to say like a watch phone or something yeah well that's the thing they're like okay we can't have it talk too louder it'll startle people around you who don't know what that is you stole this about burgers was that a uh air raid siren is the park getting bombed is everyone dropping cover that lady's backpack is like making faces at me it's like when there's an amber alert on everyone's phone and it scares the shit out of everyone oh my god phone goes at the same time same thing with mickey everyone's like everyone in the mickey's beanie baby people like arm swing because they get scared hitting into other people you're on pirates of the caribbean and you knock somebody out of the boat oh shit you think like a

mouse you're in the part where the mice jump or whatever onto you during the indiana jones ride and you thought that actually happened because Cause you're Mickey Beanie baby. Just vibrated on your real mouth. Oh, Indiana Jones was played by Harrison Ford. Did you know? The last cassette of this business on something for ISTE. Okay, keep it safe.

I got a game for you. I got a quick game for you. Which thing did Indiana Jones take on his adventures with him? Was it A, a gun? Was it B, a diary? Was it C, a whip? Was it B? A diary. Was it C? A whip. Was it D?

A can of anchovies. Was it E? A letterman jacket. Was it F? A pet turtle. G. On the ride. On the ride. On the ride.

Some rice you could cook if you found water. Put it in. The ride's been over for so long. We're in the parking lot. Double A. Double A. A meat Double A. A meat skewer.

That's a lot of choices, but I'm hung up that he took a gun and a whip, so I don't know how to pick both. That's a good point. There's no way to pick both. You have to start over. this is such a bad idea when you do any couple minutes of thinking about it yeah yeah i understand why in hypothetical you go a hypothetical uh scenario you go oh this is interesting you bring something along that helps you and it's a fun thing we can sell and it looks like our mascot but two or three minutes of talking about it you go it's not gonna it definitely yeah it feels like live beta testing and the thing that they didn't

really uh hone in on that struck me was like you're you gotta carry around a plush i mean it's not that big but it's like you gotta carry around this giant fabric thing filled with mechanics. Probably made heavier by all of its trigger points and batteries and receivers. Yeah, so it's heavier. And it also rains every two hours. So, like, it's either going to get soaking wet or shorted. If it rains, I die. Rain, rain, put me inside. Rain, rain.

Chum me in your pants I can't get wet I can't You don't understand You're just going for the secondary You're going to save me and your pal This is dire I'm going to light on fire

I'm a battle with me Not like you I contain a pound of explosives. You don't understand. Okay, there's a clip on my back. You can wear me on a lanyard, but also they said in about four hours I was going to experience

what they called a Hurricane Andrew-level storm. So choose wisely. If I get rained on for more than ten minutes, I turn into a grenade. Throw me away. Throw me over the nearest wall. My God. Mickey, do you have...

I know you've got facts about Haunted Mansion in you. Do you have the facts about why you were weaponized? Is that in that brain? Disney bought a bunch of grenades during the Gulf War. They had to repurpose them. They were bigger grenades. Bigger than normal War. They had to repurpose them. They were bigger grenades. Bigger than normal grenades. So they're still making grenades.

This was just their way to get rid of round one? Yeah, this is the first round of grenades they bought. Somehow it was cheaper for them to buy the grenades than not buy the grenades. The grenades would give you a fact about the place you were into before they blew up. It just made sense. It makes sense to do it this way. Hey, there's thunderstorms coming in tomorrow. You should drive me over to Universal Studios.

I'm a company man. That was my idea of what could be a better use. I mean, they'd have to smuggle in the transmitters to make this possible or make it like beam up the satellites or something yeah but if they made it so that you could take this to universal and then and then he's going like that one sucks boring snooze just i just leave now just cause It's probably a Disney store nearby. You can buy more than me. You're always going to hurt from all those screens. And like he would be specific. He would have different specific comments for different attractions.

And he would be on the animal actors. And in the middle of a very specific point, like dog or bird party, he goes, I've seen it. Boring. He would hackle. I've seen it for 30 years. He would hackle. I've seen it for 30 years. They eat these animals after the show. Do you feel okay being a part of that? There's blood on your hands.

There's blood on your hands. Better not get blood on me. You can't get blood on me. I'll blow up. I'll blow up twice as hard. Rip out a rocket. That thing don't look sturdy. I'll blow up twice as high. Rip-Rot Rocket. That thing don't look sturdy. Couple screws loose.

That's the last thing that's going to happen. You're a hero, babe. Plug me into the ride, though, if you want to go on it. Because I can play some of the old hits. I can play the Mickey Mouse Club for you while you're on the ride. I'll play better songs like Mickey Minnie's Yoo-Hoo. I'll whistle. I'll just whistle for you. I'll just better songs like McMinnie's Yoo-Woo I'll whistle I'll just whistle for you I'll just whistle it all

While you're on the ride They should Universal should have done like a Shrek version And Shrek could have Like that was much more Body Yeah Shrek could have been body at the Magic Kingdom or something Yeah

I don't have a Shrek voice So I can't do a version of that Yeah this is a voice It's a hard voice to do ah hey donkey jason can you can you stab it donkey we should drive we should drive back to universal studios it ended up in a connery place but the start of it was yeah yeah Yeah, yeah. The risky rise. Yeah, I should have said Shrek. I should have said a different character, like a plush Lucille Ball from Universal that you could take to Magic Kingdom,

and she would make comments. You should have said donkey. Then we could all be doing funny donkey voices that would delight the audience. Oh, wow, you're right. Oh, what a mistake. I'll have to go back and fix that in post. I think I would have been really excited about pal mickey if i was little and i or if i ever knew about it oh yeah if we had any like if we were into this

stuff and liked yeah and if we're all we're kids and we like theme park facts and it can tell them to us yeah it's the early version of harry potter wands or any of the other stuff they're doing. I mean, that's the successful version. I don't really know if the Spider-Man gauntlets are expensive. I know they're expensive, but I don't know if they're popular. I'm not sure if kids are buying those for the new Spider-Man ride where you get the upgrades and stuff. I feel like when I was there,

I saw that there was some sort of discount happening for them, but maybe there was a new thing as well. It like disney plus or any of the streamers they it is enormously successful it's here and shareholders you're going to want to get in on this it's just to the moon these profits no you can't see that you cannot know don't look at don't look at the numbers why would you want to i? I gave you the headline. Oh, yeah. The company is now on the back of Disney Plus and the web shooters. Yeah, the web shooters are. I'd rather leave it to you to imagine the biggest number that you could possibly imagine. Isn't that more fun than if I told you one? Yeah.

Don't look at. I mean, don't look at the low secret low numbers from Disney Plus and don't look at the secret high numbers from like movies and theaters. It's just don't look at the secret low numbers from Disney Plus and don't look at the secret high numbers from movies and theaters. It's just don't look at the real numbers. The numbers are all hidden for you. We save you that works. You can just have fun and listen to cool stories. I said the thing.

Have we talked about this on air or off? I can't remember whether Rock was feuding with Warner Brothers after Black Adam and Rock was playing it just like a pro wrestler would going behind like politicking. And that's a long version of events of what happened. But ultimately rock started leaking documents because they said black Adam wasn't popular or like, or didn't make any money.

And rock was like, no, no, no. I leaked a document that showed black Adam made money, which I kind of think was real. Yeah. And he was just giving up the game of like money, which I kind of think was real. Yeah. And he was just giving up the game of like, here's how actually stuff makes money.

When the lie has been, oh, it's going to make whatever, six times the budget or something. Yeah. And I was like, yep, that's probably right. Cool. Yeah. It seems like he's an ally with the writers and the actors. I mean, he's mostly focused on his tequila at this point, which he touted on his Instagram maybe a week ago

that it was selling better than Casamigos. Wow. You think that's true? Is he going to release the numbers? I would like to see the numbers, yeah. Look who suddenly isn't willing to put out numbers. Interesting. The tables have turned let's ask

him um i'm staring at more that weird copy i was reading about i was adorable little body would vibrate the there's one more i'm staring at he was he was the first disney toy who came to life in the arms of his holder that's weird his wholeder his it's it's not owner and it's not certainly not a holder his holder i love you holder and his presence made it feel as though he was another member of the family on the trip albeit one with more information games and laughs than any of the human travelers he said i love you holder no i said that part he said 800 phrases and one of them was i love you holder well we were looking for a term earlier employee or boss and older is kind of

you're my holder and i hope you hold me forever um look i'm gonna be honest with you your new god is commerce and i'm i represent commerce hold me but i this person this person has said that the toy pal mickey has more information games and laughs than anyone any human on your trip with you pal mickey is better than anyone in your family i mean i guess 99 of people that go on vacation that's true as far as facts are concerned theme park facts maybe but information in general you're telling me pal mickey has more information than my dad i think if we're broadening it out to any information yeah i think this i took this whatever this was copy and pasted from that i didn't remember the name of i take this as a

personal affront to my father take this back yeah that's a little too aggressive i was thinking about like tired dads inevitably would be the ones who got stuck holding pal mickey and did they have to like pal mickey is vibrating and giggling again who who wants to squeeze it do you want to just do it and i'll tell you what he said yeah it is it vibrate it giggles and vibrates and that's the sign that you have to squeeze it. It's giggling and vibrating. Better squeeze its belly. No one was squeezing the belly by 4 p.m. No, do not squeeze.

No. Hand down. You don't need that. Don't squeeze it. Yeah. It's only going to, if we ignore it, it'll eventually, it'll stop giggling and vibrating. And then we don't have to do any more squeezing. Yeah.

What good has ever come from any squeezing we've done? Just fights. Squeeze, squeeze. Just big arguments, family arguments probably. Then they put it into a backpack and cover it with a towel. Like, I still hear it. I still, well, how am i supposed to damn i didn't come here prepared to dampen a vibrating and giggling sound i'm doing what i

can do you need me to buy four more sweatshirts and wrap it in those did anyone bring extra triple a batteries yeah i brought a bunch of triple a batteries in my backpack okay that's always like a vacation i need some batteries on vacation it's like oh man i am about to pay a lot for batteries at the gift shop yeah suntan lotion too suntan lotion yeah you still get batteries on main street huh can you get batteries on main street i think so you think so i think there's like general goods at some of the bigger shops right but i don't know batteries would just be for like a digital camera i guess at this point because your phones don't take batteries there's still like a photo rack at some of the parts maybe that's where there might be batteries i i sure now they're

selling like you know uh sd cards and stuff although disposable cameras are becoming fashionable again it's like a throwback item oh where can you get those amazon they cost a fortune now oh are they new or are they old you're getting like i think they're new i think they started making them again okay i don't know if you can get batteries or not oh mickey yeah mickey here i'll squeeze you where can can get batteries or not. Oh, Mickey. Does anyone want to squeeze me? Yeah, Mickey, here, I'll squeeze you. Where can you get batteries? That main street, they still got them. They got them.

Oh, I lived until Fox. Oh, it makes me giggle. Thanks. If I squeeze you again, will you stop? Oh, no. I'll only giggle more and more. Hey, they didn't quite get an answer on the batteries thing. No, I think he said main street.

I couldn't hear him very well. I think he said main street. Oh, no, no, no. I didn't make my own voice on the battery stick? No, I think he said Main Street. I couldn't hear him very well. I think he said Main Street. Oh, okay. No, no, no. I didn't make my own voice box. It's not my fault. Main Street giggling. I answered the question. It's not your fault.

If there's cotton in your ears, you can't hear what I say. I'm doing what I'm supposed to. Okay, well, he suggested the place with like 15 stores, and then he got really defensive. So I don't know how to play this. I don't even generally argue how many are there

to check. Main street, go. Okay. Park, camera, I don't know. When you squeeze him it's like inviting a vampire into your house.

Then he can just talk as long as he wants. Yeah. That's the problem. He's desperate to talk and you're giving him the opportunity. Facts give me lies.

You guys want to buy the dining plan? It's a great deal. I could tell you every tear if you want. That means I'm excited to say that sound isn't me farting. It's vibrating. It's very different. I got two words for you, little Jason.

Toppings bar. Well, it's got my attention. I'm going to do it. I'll squeeze him. This is what I have left in my notes are like, what was the difference between Mickey, Pal Mickey 1.0 and pal mickey 2.0 and would you guys object if i just deleted this information from my notes and didn't say it or

i think it's mostly yeah it's mostly like the games right one game was kind of like simon says and i want to read the games can i read the games yeah fine read the games okay because i like some of these games to me don't seem that fun but so the one i like i think maybe starting with the one i like the best but don't like it's called that isn't here where pal mickey will choose a theme park and will speak the names of park attractions and the player has to squeeze the toy's hand or tummy depending on whether or not the attraction is in the chosen park. If Pal Mickey is used within any of the four Walt Disney World theme parks, Pal Mickey will automatically select the theme park that it is already in and will keep selecting the park until the person either turns off Pal Mickey

or leaves the park. That's one way. All right, sounds good to me. We're leaving. Or cuts the head off the doll and separates it from the body we will stop talking in that instance that's not here does sound like something when I was younger and some would be like oh I want to go over to this

thing and I would just go that's not here it's in the other park we're gonna have to cross the whole property for that it's like the game we yeah we're gonna have to cross the whole property for that it's like the game we play with guests who mean plenty what sometimes we'll have a guest on the show who is great and has fun stories and means well but then they'll say like you know it's like you know when i was in disney world and i was looking up at um at the castle at uh sleeping beauty cinderella's

castle cinderella's castle we we all three have to in unison. No, Cinderella though. Make sure you know Cinderella. Okay, okay. And anytime we don't do that, I'll hear from someone who listens and somebody will chastise me for not correcting it. Yeah, well, your phone will start vibrating and giggling.

I have to squeeze my phone. There are so many weird things! So, yeah. So, another game, Mickey Says, similar to Simon Says, the player must only follow pal Mickey's direction if it is preceded by Mickey Says. Okay. So, I don't know if he's able to grade that game.

I don't know if you're able to like. I'll know. I'll know. Mickey Says, buy $100 worth of baked goods from the confectionery on Main Street. Hey, what are you doing? Why ain't you doing it? I said, Mickey says. I said, Mickey says, like three times.

Mickey says, the people operating the credit card machines never check the name. Pull that out of dad's wallet and you're home free. You won't find out for weeks. Buy 10 of my pals. I need friends. I need friends. I've got so many pals waiting to get unleashed. Actually, you know what?

Free them. Buy me 10 minis. I need 10 different minis. I'm Polly with minis Buy me 10 minis. I need 10 different minis. I'm Polly with minis. With only minis. I'm in a mini polycule. A plush polycule. Tell your dad to show it if he asks.

We all vibrate so much. So many touch points. Fast friends. Pal Mickey will speak the names of disney characters and the players a player must respond to each in a specific way for example when i say goofy squeeze my left hand well when i say the name of someone who can fly squeeze my right hand what so i guess you would say like hold wait i said so he would give a different prompt i guess each time yeah so he would say when i say so the game is like he's gonna list characters and when he says goofy just squeeze his hand this is a lazy this is not a well thought out game look Look, man, I already came up with the first two games

and I was just kind of phoning the third one in to get something done before the end of the day. Well, there's more games that were added later too because I think that one was bad. Nicky, what game are we going to play now? Oh, when I say Pluto, touch my foot. What is that game? You got a knife, do you know how to play Mumblely Pig?

Follow me. Similar to Simon, the player has to repeat a sequence of actions as directed by Pal Mickey with one additional action being added to the sequence each time. Okay. Walk to the bathroom. Next to

walk to the bathroom. Go into a stall. Okay, walk to the bathroom next to walk to the bathroom uh go into a stall okay walk in the bathroom go to the stall put your head in the toilet okay push your hand and drink some water inside no don't stop straight minute yeah how would it know when you were done yeah it didn't know i i think i saw a video of one of these where somebody there is a prompt it is like and then nothing happens and then he just goes good it's the honor system these and i'm realizing that these other two are the same games try and keep up the player must must react quickly to Pal Mickey's directions. What?

You're just getting shouted at by this little doll. Pal Mickey's do as I say. That's way different than Pal Mickey's hop to it or else. Pal Mickey's fun with orders. Mickey directs. Mickey the director. Mickey directs. Mickey, the director.

Mickey directs you to do things. Copy challenge. Oh, and this game's called repeating myself. Pal, Mickey will speak the names of Disney characters, and the player must squeeze its tummy if it repeats a name it has already said. So if he. So he. Okay.

Okay. Wait. Mickey. Donald. Chip. Chip. so if he so he okay wait a minute donald chip chip chip i'm sorry i just like chip why'd you ever hurt me the squeezing hurts me the squeezing hurts me when you turn me off i feel pain okay that's like dying even if i come back to life when i'm turned off though i'm conscious i have full consciousness when you're not using me and i'm not able to speak it's like i'm in a coma yeah i'm gonna preserve my own body yeah i between reality and hell, I see both laid on top of each other like a transparent scene. I have a yellow shoe in each realm.

That's the way that I think of it. My two eyes see different things. Do you have any idea how scary that is? I see something coming in one and I think it's the devil. But then it's just a beast costume from the park. My little red shorts are being torn in two.

By two different masters. Some of the little pal Mickeys have sleep paralysis so we see the man at the end of the bed, the chef. Did anyone in the audience have one of these i want to know take it take it to the parks take it to florida it didn't catch on they didn't do it out here this is our like typical disney blog type so did you have a pal mickey growing up do you have fond

memories share them in the comments did your pal mickey say anything about occupying another realm between earth reality and hell did your mickey complain about pain or also uh take uh talk too much about pleasure sound off in the comments unlock the lament configuration you'll meet my friends in the penance. If you take off my skin, there's blood underneath. Blood and muscle underneath. Did you know I bleed?

Fun facts. This isn't about the park foot. You should know it. Muscle and blood. Val Mickey, because the marketing on blood Mickeykey was just it was not good it was not good but you think van robichaux could reprogram a pal mickey into feeling pain generally yeah yeah this is a this is a way removed step i saw a youtube thumbnail that somebody reprogrammed it to be a tv remote

oh so it is reprogrammable because like those rocket fighter explosion videos where they make new the the robots play perform new songs and stuff and those look pretty good and seamless yeah so i think it's those are older than pal mickey as far as robotics are concerned if we wrote him about this he would write a a long, respectful answer back, even if the answer was no. He would give us many paragraphs about why, like he would absolutely give it his full thought and attention. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sure. I think you could swap out whatever microprocessor is in there with a Raspberry Pi, which I am not smart enough to do anything with. Those little microprocessors that like fit in your hand. A Raspberry Pi? Yeah, I don't know what that is oh uh pi like raspberry pi it's like a tiny little computer and you can program it to do things oh you can plug like a monitor thing no it's been around for like ages now but you can you can get a monitor and like keyboard and stuff and just run windows or uh linux on it but i think people do it they program different things on it so i'm sure you could well one of those

for you when you win this pal mickey on ebay oh maybe i don't know anything about programming yeah it's how i i teach myself programming i think is. I teach myself Python by coating a raspberry pie to make Mickey unpleasant. To make Mickey unhappy. Did you know that with raspberry pie, I can, with the right programming, I can experience pleasure that is a thousand times beyond what you know as pleasure.

Do you want to give pal Mickey the ultimate orgasm? Join me. They'll never stop vibrating. To become one. Pal Mickey has so many things to show you. A world beyond pleasure and pain. Be part of my collective.

Pal Mickey collective. Me and Jared Leto have been working on a project. You have an augmented reality thing, but it's like you could stay there. I'll take, Jason, I want to remove part of your skin, and I want to install felt and blush material, and then you'll truly feel pleasure. I put them up to your nerve receptors and now you can feel what i feel you will be my king jason your veins are my veins well pal mickey you strike a hard bargain but i'll take you up on this offer.

This isn't crazier than what was just said, but I can't not say that I saw a video where there was an illustration of how the jokes are told. Oh, yeah. Which is his main thing now, because he can't tell you about when parades are happening, which feels crazy to me that that was like, Parade at 7. Catch a snob.

He does the work of a map yeah yeah but now all he can do is tell jokes and I watched a video where this was what the delivery of the jokes was like what do you call a tiger at the North Pole lost there is no time

between the joke and the punchline right we got there lost i had to play that back a few times and then i was like oh needy delivery it's kind of a joke yeah okay yeah i wait i haven't looked at it for long enough to oh okay tiger is oh that's why you'd be up okay yeah sure just helps you know the one he timing is him yeah it's a knee i was just saying it's a needy way to tell jokes you think people will be checked out so you don't give them any time to check out he's so insecure that people will start understand he this he's found if you're a rented pal mickey oh my god you've probably been shut off so many times

that you're like i better squeeze that punch line in there fast they might shut me off before the joke's even over maybe this family will adopt me hey i want to return this early it's due back tomorrow at noon but um you're here 20 minutes ago yeah and it's uh kind of rude can i get like like $6 back? It pitched me this thing about making my veins his veins. He's got some strange ideas. I think he thinks he's God. The only things that would tell me when it would vibrate,

I walk by things that will only talk about treasure planet. Like, I think you guys are, you're looking a'll only talk about treasure planet like i think you guys are you're looking a little desperate with this treasure planet there's a whole big tub i imagine of these things sitting behind the counter too talking to each other does somebody need me yet you know i need love you should have seen how they laughed at that joke yesterday yeah you probably can't deliver it as well as I can.

Did you know it's hard to breathe when you're in a pile of other pal Mickey's? And sometimes they put the lid on. Oh no, we've become a giant rat king. Look at the sewers in New York. Come back! This sedan

was used to film Bruce Willis as the kid. No, all three. Okay, wait. Say that again. All three of us will say it. And that's like the rat king all at once. Wait, what were some of the words? What did you say?

Come back. This sedan was used in the filming of Bruce Willis as the kid. Okay, one. I'm going to get big and vibrate. Yeah. Come back. This sedan was used in the filming of Bruce Willis as the kid. so that's why they had to get rid of the program what's the problem he's the way we checked it out it's still saying the facts well the problem is

it was it's supposed to be individual pal mickeys and not one big collective hive mind Pal Mickey. Oh, right. It didn't come as one big unit before? No, no. One big freak? You know in that movie, The Thing, where the dog is suddenly not the dog? Yeah, that's what the Pal Mickeys did. Well, look, as one of the people on the pal mickey team i say i salute you

we just set it up and whatever it does with its life is up to it so i'm not gonna stop it it's my creation you want me to shoot in the head how did that happen i think we head over to shades of green and get some of those defense department guys are on vacation into this huh who knows what those freaks could be doing with this? We're going to airdrop Pal Mickeys on our enemy nations. That's right. This is like how the AI people are now. I was on the team that, I was on the Pal Mickey team

and I'm here to tell you we are toast by 2040 and it will be because of Pal Mickey. They've learned to breed yeah we can't let pal mickeys find pal minis it's a funny timing because we we are right a few days after that apple presentation about their vr goggles and and someone on twitter like the someone who worked on it for like three and a half years was talking about all the stuff they discovered in the journalist quote tweet it was like um it seems like what they're talking about like trying to predict what you're thinking or feeling or what your eye movements mean kind of sound like massive privacy violations so uh i do there was a thing that pal mickey they

had to assure everyone that pal mickey you, whatever data they got from the infrared, you know, it was anonymous. And it was randomized. Oh, yeah. It doesn't know your family. Yeah, yeah. Well, not yet. That's 1.0. The TV, yeah, the phone apps and stuff.

Oh, the RFID knows everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And everybody's got your thumbprints. Yeah. And yeah, yeah. Disney will sell all our information at the right price if they haven't already. Yeah. the rfid knows everything yeah yeah everybody's got your thumbprints and uh yeah yeah no disney will sell all our information at the right price if they haven't already um they would get just general numbers from pal mickey yeah i was wondering do we end up i was i was imagining

the future beyond the year 3000 in an underwater new york where a single the last remaining pal mickey who learned to love but which has only led to a torturous existence has been wishing to be real for a thousand years and then the future mecca pal mickeys come who are much more they just they look like fluid real mickeys they bless it and all right we've scanned your memory i've been here wishing to be i found the part of the old partner statue i've been wishing for walt to make me real you're talking about daddy i want daddy to make me real so Daddy can love me. This is like an AI ending scenario where the hyper-intelligent aliens give in one day of peace. I escaped from the flesh fair.

Mickey, did you know the flesh fair is dangerous? The band Ministry tried to destroy me. Toontown Flesh Fair. I tried to find Dr. No, but he knew less than me. I'm the ultimate Disney insider. I cut off Martin's hair and mommy got mad at me i think i think we've cycled through every uh sci-fi movie every dynaurgy with ai every dystopian hell see if you can see if you can be the ultimate insider and tell whoever you're with which reference we made in each different chunk of that Pal Mickey stuff. Did you know you missed

Simone? Remember Simone with the one and the oh? Ah, it's genius. It says, Pal Mickey's the biggest star in Hollywood, and only you and I know that I made you up. Pal Mickey, like

the T-1000, it's giant arm and gloves just extending into a blade and going right through you run john sarah run yes evil pal mickey shows up mom from the future is scared. No, no, not you. No, he's been reprogrammed. I reprogrammed him in the future. He doesn't know as many facts anymore. Pal Mickey goes back in time, and when they're writing the copyright law

that makes a copyright become public domain after 100 years, he kills the lawmaker with his blade hands. Arnold holds up a Pal Mickey head at one point. It was my college roommate. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, we did it. We did them all.

I think we covered this toy that was in the parks perfectly. I think so, yeah. Informatively. It's too bad they stopped supporting it in 2009. Oh, well. Well, tell us what you think about pal mickey no 2014 but also it might still work so take your pal mickey to the park but it didn't work at disneyland huh it never they didn't it was only at disney world right so we're not going to be

yo this says when you buy your disney if i if i can get a dirty pal mickey and get it to disney world matted fur dirty pal mickey yes yeah rotting comic con lanyard you could get a dirty pal Mickey and get it to Disney world. Matted fur, dirty pal Mickey. Yes. Yeah. Rotting comic con lanyard. You could get a couple. If you could get them for like 10 bucks, you should buy like 10.

And then like strap them to my, strap them like a, like a bayonet or no, like a low, what am I? The thing that you had to leave. Thank you. Strap the pal Mickey's around 10 pal Mickey's in a bandolier thank you strap the pal mickeys around 10 pal mickeys

in a bandolier that you wear uh around disney world mike you know who would really love that disney world security when i arrived 10 of their favorite character their mascots okay it appears the thing you just put in the metal detector is giggling and vibrating so the plain clothes uh people in line have drawn arms on you. All 10 of them are like, you didn't see nothing. Let them through. Let them through. They'll be fine.

You missed gremlins, too. You could have said, what happens to the palmickies if they don't work? You feed us after midnight. You guys think you're so smart with all your references. I know more than you. Something happens if you feed me a full head of lettuce

from the toppings bar at Cosmic Rays. Salad pal Mickey. Yeah. He eats your salad for you so you don't have to, you can save it, you know, a picky kid

doesn't have to eat yucky salad. I'll do it. You just got to take me to the bathroom once an hour. Palbecky's weakness is fiber. Dietary fiber. Yeah. You got to help me out, though. I don't know how to go.

Hold me. Help me. Help me. Hold my thing down. I'm just going to my pants if you don't you don't take control here sir and it stinks pal mickey is the ultimate disney insider who knows so many facts about the park and he poops actual poop that smells way worse than yours. We could keep going, but I'm just going to head slightly to the door by saying you survived Podcast The Ride.

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bay on a bayonet put them all on the end of a bayonet at their vibrations on a bayonet. Put them all on the end of a bayonet. At the end of the day, you will be struggling to get them with a bayonet. I speared one, but there's ten more. There's too many! Come back, vermin.

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