Podcast: The Ride - Upcoming Theme Park Stuff (2026) with Guy Selga

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

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Forever. Warning, the following podcast may contain French fry anger, innovative new shades of blue, emergency desserts, and renovations finally coming to Bugs Bunny's sad house. Plus, we look ahead to exciting theme park stuff opening this year, 26, with Guy Selga. The Future looks bright on Podcast the Ride. Welcome to Podcast the Ride, where today we're all going to learn the word. semi-quincentennial. I'm Jason Sheridan.

Joined today by Mike Carlson. Yes. Today we're going to learn that word. I don't even want to attempt to say it right now because I feel like I'll be humiliated. But look, I'm ready to learn. That's something that I leave myself open to daily in the universe. I'm ready to sit at the foot of the master.

Jason Sheridan is the master, in my opinion. Hi, I'm Jason Sheridan. I gotta be honest I heard it in a Patrick Warburton Sorn Across America promo video and I also hit the Apple

like speech start speaking multiple times and I'm still not 100% on it Okay well I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna let it fly I'm not even gonna think about it I'm just gonna say it could be

semi-busin's real like I'm gonna mumble it every time So I apologize to the listener if I get it wrong. But did Patrick Warburton deliver it correctly, do you think? I think there it is pronounced semi or semi. I think either here to be acceptable. That wasn't the part of it I was having trouble with, the semi or semi. The second part was the part I didn't want to get wrong.

Oh, okay. Well, quintennial, I was just, I think it's just, phonetic of like quince and antennial. Yeah. Like bicentennial. Quintennial. I'll think about like Quincy, Massachusetts or something.

Mike Mitchell's hometown. Yeah. Okay. So we're talking about new theme park stuff that is coming in 2026. Hypothetically, supposedly coming in 2026. That's right. And this is a Scott free episode. But joining us today,

returning guest, it's Guy Selga, from touring plans. Guy, how are you? Hello, I'm great. It's good to be back. I've just been listening to this quintennial discussion. I'm glad we got this all out of the way. I'm not good at math, so I'm glad that's all out of the way at the beginning of the show. There's also the word

bissequentennial is another word. Biskwick? Did you say something about pancakes? Oh, I wish. I would say it by Cesquintennial. centennial. There is, if you look up the Wikipedia for America's 250th birthday, there's like multiple terms for it.

Wow. I don't even know how to spell what you just said. I just, all I know is that it's like Biskwick Centennial, which I assume is you celebrating the anniversary of Biskwick, the pancake company. Well, sure. A fine American product. Maybe we'll fly over the factory in Soren across America. Who knows?

Do you think Soren, the new Sorin, you'll visit the Biskwick factory? I'm hoping you can. It's possible. Right. Does Biskwick have any sort of like tour, you know, like Hershey Park where you do like a pancake tour or something? Like that seems like it would be great. I think there has to be.

I recently learned about the Spam Museum. Yes. Which is in like downtown in a city in the Midwest. It's like a combo free museum shop kind of thing. I grew up near a Coca-Cola bottling plant and big sign out front, no tours available. Same thing with the General Mills factory that my girlfriend lived near at one point. No tours. It makes me want to tour it even more.

Yeah, because you know people. are just like banging on the door like let me tour like i want a tour because everyone's also imagining it's probably the willie wonka of it all where people saw willie wonka and they go every factory that makes food is like this exactly food is like there's a whimsical man who fakes an injury and then at that point we get to meet the magical creatures that run the factory and that's what i picture with the bisquick factory and the coca cola and then you do picture like you're just like sticking your tongue in every vat of cola to taste and to taste like it just seems like the greatest thing ever and I'm sure they're all sick of it they all are just like this is a boring

place leave here there's no whimsy to be found I did tour a Amazon distribution center because you can just sign up and do that for free at any of the distribution centers did you know this no how so you see all the little robots driving around they make you put on a safety vest Wow, really? Yeah. It was pretty interesting. Did you get it? So it was fun to see.

Yeah. You, because you see the employees a little, like a shelving unit drives up to them on a robot. And they just pick out all the little items and then they throw them in bins and they hit a big button and the bin goes swooshing away to another station where somebody throws it all in a box and prints out a sticker. And then for the tape. They look at the number that's on the box, and so it'll be like, okay, this is box number three. They hit number three, a perfectly sized amount of tape spits out. They tape it on there, send it on their way. Wow, that is interesting.

And this was just something you could sign up. This wasn't like there was some sort of contest where, like, Amazon is going to gift you guy, the entire Amazon factory like Willie Wonka, and he tests you by offering you, like a slug worth offers you a free Amazon box behind an alley somewhere and you take it or your grandfather. That would be fun, but no. This is just, you just go on their site and sign up for any old distribution center in your area.

Well, I wish it ended with you in a great glass Amazon elevator inheriting Jeff Bezos's entire empire. It's yours. It's yours, guys, Selga. Here's all the returned items. They belong to you now.

I needed to know. I needed to trust. someone. I needed someone who believed in the magic of Amazon like I did. I had like a simple like zip up gray hoodie I got on Amazon and there was like a hole in the one cup. And I was like, well, maybe I'll send this back for replacement. I'm like, they're just going to throw this in the garbage. I'll just hold on. Like I'll just, I got it to wear around the house when I was cold. Well, see, now I've been to where they send a lot of Amazon returns, and it's called Macbid. Do you guys know about Macbid?

No. Is this like a bin store, or this is where they get it? So this is where they get it, and then they auction off the items. So I got a, they made like a Super Mario World, the Super Nintendo Mario game of Mario on the Yoshi, and then you crank a little handle, and he bobs on the Yoshi, and Yoshi moves his little legs. I got that for like almost 90% off on Macbid. Ooh, 90% off. I love that.

Yeah. Look, I'm on Woot. I'm on Woot, but I'm on MacBid. Woot, of course, yeah. But yeah, you are taking a little risk that the items could be opened and maybe, you know, used a little bit. But a lot of times they are pretty new. So Jason's wrong. He's been talking about this for a while now with the sweatshirts and he's like, well, I don't return it because they're going to waste it.

I may as well just keep it and pay for it. But like a $13 fruit of the loom playing hoodie. Yeah, they'll probably send that off to a thrift store or something, I would imagine. That's true. It will be used. It will be used. I hope so.

Piled up. Well, you haven't sent it back, so. You know, again, these are the kind of conversations. I feel like you can't have around Scott. Oh, well, I mean, he wouldn't put up with bin talk. You don't think he wants to talk about bins? You don't think he wants to talk about Jason not returning sweatshirts from Amazon? I don't know.

I'm not going to say it. But I think he'd love to hear about the Willy Wonka. If you would have been inheriting Amazon Warehouse, you would be on board. Of course. But, you know. Okay. That's fair enough, Guy.

Let's get down the brass tacks. Yeah, let's cut the shit, okay? Let's cut the shit. Is it true that award weaners at Disney California Adventure recently got rid of film strip fries? Yes. and smoke jumpers grill got rid of the crinkle cut fries. Yeah, and I have some others here.

We should say, okay, so in Disney California Venture, in the Hollywoodland section, there is a fast service hot dog restaurant called Award Weeners. Open since day one. Yes, right. Open since day one. And it is a fine, and I say fine, it's fine. I'll eat it. If you go, I just don't know what to eat.

You can have something there. But Jason has always maintained on this show multiple times that film strip fries are very, very good. And I totally agree. I totally agree. They had the item, the carniosada fries. And so it was a big pile of film strip fries with carnisada and guacamole and a little bit of cheese and pico. It was wonderful. It's only $11.

One of the cheaper quick service entrees in Disney California Adventure. now it's just regular fries. You get a starch, you get a protein, you know. You get lots of flavors and toppings. The protein being the hot dog, you're saying. No, no, the carne asada. Oh, I see the whole mix. We should also think film strip fries, specifically,

what is the difference between those fries and regular fries? Are they crinkle? Is that what it is? No, no. It's like a strip, right? I would say, imagine like, describe it. Imagine like a steak fry if it was curled up like a curly fry, but still fat like a steak fry.

Right. And I've had these and I remember liking them, but I apologize, guys, I didn't remember them as being special. So I've had them and I'm, I liked them. But I, they didn't like stick out to me as like a unique thing. But they're gone now. They're gone. There's more steak fries gone. from flows VA cafe

homemade chips gone from Cafe Daisy which I'm not even sure where that is that in Toontown? That's in Toontown. Okay Something about Cafe Daisy This is crazy

And this leads to a theory I have Cafe Daisy has the most views by far out of any dining review I've written for Disneyland in the past five years and it's always busy. And so, okay, we're just going to get,

this is a little sidetrack, I apologize. No, go ahead. Please, no, I'm going to, we're talking to tune town at Disneyland. This is, this is prime stuff. It's a theme park podcast. We're really doing it, guys. I've been noticing over the last maybe three years

that the lines for outdoor vending at Disneyland have gotten significantly longer. And I've also noticed the lines for quick service dining has gotten shorter. So, I, think people are fed up with the high prices and more people than ever are eating outdoor vending, you know, pretzels, churros, places like Cafe Daisy where it's very cheap, grab and go stuff. And that's why I think Cafe Daisy is so popular.

Because it's a cheap alternative to the regular meal prices skyrocketing. Yes. And I heard insider information a couple of years ago in Magic Kingdom even that the number one highest earning restaurant in Magic Kingdom is Be Our Guest Restaurant by far. Yeah. Now, I'm not even going to ask you guys to guess because I don't think you ever would. The second highest rated dining establishment in Magic Kingdom is...

Is it Casey's corner? No. Oh, okay. Mike, do you want to guess? I guess I have to guess now. Is it... Is it a sunny eclipse? Is it Cosmic Rays?

It's in Tomorrowland, but it's outdoor vending in Tomorrowland is the second highest earning dining establishment in all of Magic Kingdom. Wow. So this is what is happening because Disney is pricing people out. They are pushing them to literally go, we have $10 budget to eat. We're going to split a big pretzel or one of Daisy's homemade chip bags. Yes.

And just look around next time you go to Disneyland. put aside the popcorn buckets because those are always going to have lines. Just look at the pretzel carts, the churro carts. They're always going to have 30, 40, 50 people in line now. It did not used to be like that. I've gone to Disneyland several times a week since I was three years old. So you're going to have to trust me on this observation. I believe you.

Yeah, you're still there. That is your job is to be repeated every time you're on. You have a child's idea of what a job is. which is I get to go to Disneyland and see all the rides multiple times a week. Yep. That's how my child would say it if she had that job. My grandma still will say, do you have a real job? What is it you do again?

I'm sure you all have heard similar things as well from your family members over the years. Oh, yeah, it's very confusing what we're doing with our lives. Sure. That's all right. I wonder if there's an element, too, of like, doing quicks. service with a family and like waiting in line to order, waiting in line for the food, some configuration of people go off to try to find a table is kind of stressful. Yeah, definitely.

Are you saying that's part of it, Jason? Or are you saying... I think that's part of it. I think another part of it is that any time I tried to explain mobile ordering to like someone's our parents' age or like... No, I'm just going to wait in line. Yeah. I just want to go up and pay.

Are you, Jason, are you saying finding tables is harder than ever in 2026? Is that what you're saying? I can't speak to that. I can't speak to that. Okay. I mean, I think that's your theory guy about prices is probably accurate. I mean, obviously like Disney is gouging us. You got ex-CEO, the perfect prince himself, Michael Eisner, saying,

hey, I don't like how high these prices are and regular folks can't go to these parks anymore. So it's certainly in the air. I watched that entire interview before we started recording, by the way. Did you have to pay for it? Because I think it was paywalled. He uploaded like 15 clips of it. And I assume it's the entire interview, but I don't know.

I know, I was just looking at it. Is this that guy, Graham? Yes. Yeah, okay. I was watching a clip of that earlier, too, because Jane said it to wait. Did you see his house? Not, no, I just saw.

I saw him in front of the Michael Graves, the Eisner building, the Seven Dwarst building. We may have to do a whole episode on that interview. I'm not sure yet. I have to watch it. But yeah. So I would, I am interested like, is there, because sometimes you'll see Instagram and accounts try to figure out like economical ways to eat. Is there some sort of hack?

Could you just go to award weeners and order four loose weeners? Could you just do like that? and then you could piece together meals in a very economical way. I don't have an answer to this. I'm just saying there's probably little tips and tricks. There's probably a full market. I mean, maybe I'm not saying Podcastar Wright is going to do it,

but people that can give you, hey, you can eat for $30 at Disneyland. Here's how you're going to do it. And you're going to get, as Jason said, you're going to get your starch. You're going to get your protein. You're going to get all the core elements. Whatever the new RFK food pyramid is,

you're going to have all those things fulfilled. all those different requirements will be fulfilled. That's the number one question we get at Torn Plans. When I go to Disneyland, how can I get my starch? You're in luck. Lack of starch. I mean, Jason was raised on a lot of starch. That was probably number one as far as concern of nutrients.

I mean, I was going to say carbs, but then I'm like, wait, no, is that is it both? Is it a carb and a starch? Uh, yeah, fries are carbs. Yeah, okay. I am upset by what we're talking about when it's the lack of, of original fries at Disney. Like, that is obviously a trend right now, is they're like, we're going to cut costs and we're going to go with one singular fry design. And that's, look, we complain all the time taking little pieces out.

It's death by a million cuts. Yeah. And this is what's happening now at Disneyland is like, we're losing our unique fries. And I wish Michael Eisner would address that on this Graham, over this Graham guy's show is. Oh, Graham should have, that should have been in his number one question. What are we going to do about the fries?

Because even at Red Rose Tavern, they had the little breakfast bowl with the tater tots in it. They took the tater tots out. Tots are gone. On the internet, I saw Reddit and like this website, Mickey Visit, refer to it as French Fry Apocalypse.

It's accurate. Yeah. Jason, are you okay? Have you prepared for the French Fry Apocalypse? Do you have like a blanket, like that like nuclear fallout blanket ready? You know, I, I love French fries. I tend not to immediately order them because I'm like, this is not good for me. But I do really like like a loaded fry, like you were talking about.

That like just a big slop plate of French fries top with stuff. and you just try to stab everything, get everything in one bite with a fork. That's fun to me. And I got to say too, Disney makes it hard to not order fries with their quick service meals now because before the alternative was a bag of apple slices, and I know that's not an equal trade-off to a bunch of fries, but now it's like usually just one single cutie. That's not close.

There's a big gap there. We got to be better than that. Three cuties at least. Cudies must be cheap and potatoes must be expensive. And that's what's happening now. And it's really sad. I'm glad we led off with this because this is one of the most important news stories happening in the theme park world in this year.

So I don't know. It's a disturbing trend. We're going to keep our eye on it. And we're going to report. We're going to report on it too. And we're going to, the lack of fry creativity is frankly disturbing. And let's see if Josh tomorrow will, address it. Hopefully.

I'll pick one. I'll pick the one in our own backyard in the San Fernando Valley. Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift opening soon? Summer, they say. Spring, summer? I think they said summer in a press release recently.

Now, this is a coaster that is multiple launches. It's got spinning cars. But maybe the most noteworthy thing about it, it is It's built into the side of a mountain. It's awesome. It's so cool.

It feels like it's integrated in my real life now. I know if you live probably in Valencia, you live wherever you can see like roller coasters happening all the time, but it really is tremendous. And it's made my life better. That's really what I'm talking about here. Is that I have more fun now driving around because I see this big, dumb, in a good way,

coaster hanging off the side of a mountain near where I live. And when it opens, you can just be driving along and be like, you know what, I'm just going to pull in real quick. I can just drive my car right on the track is what's going to happen as I drive the car into Universal. They go right this way, sir. It attaches to the track and I can drive my car now down the mountain on the coast. You can drift right down.

Right. I can drift. And it's feeling so close now because they've been testing it for over a month now. A gentleman that Mike and I are fascinated with Universal High on... Shout out to Universal High. Twitter and Instagram. He shows it testing almost every day, so it's in our feeds all the time, looking very cool.

And yeah, I also cannot wait for this. Yeah, and it's the same company right as Velascoaster. I think so, yeah. Intimine? Intimine? Yes. Yeah. And I got to say with this one, too, it's impressive that Universal Studios Hollywood

would really committed to this because there's really not room for much. But they really built that thing into a side of the mountain. You can't overstate this. You really got to look at this and see how they did it for anybody out there who's not aware. They built this thing into a side

of a mountain. They carved out the mountain. They put a bunch of roller coaster supports, and there's now a roller coaster hanging off the side of a mountain. Yeah, it is really impressive and amazing. It goes over the starway, the a series of escalator

is going down to the lower lot at Universal and it is like right over the first escalator. Like it is, I'm sure it's higher than it seems but it is right there. Jason, if you accidentally

bring your laundry quarters on this ride, you're going to pelt people in the head on the Starway. You really got to be careful and not put your laundry quarters in your pocket. Well, that's usually what I do on roller coasters anyway. Some people grip the rails or the handles.

Some people put their hands up. I'm just winging the laundry quarters. Because I have been unit now, so I don't need them anymore. Right. You just have them for comfort. Yeah. You just have two pockets full of borders for comfort when you're on roller coasters. I get it.

So you could really just start throwing the coins in the air while you're on the coaster. See, in my pockets, my a condo complex doesn't have quarters either. So I have what I call emergency desserts. Because I don't like being in situations where I eat a meal and then I don't have a dessert ready in case I don't like any of the desserts or they're too expensive or whatever.

So I just like to keep a Wurthers or a Tutsi roll or, you know, a little thing of jelly beans or something like that in my pocket. Are you and Jason the same person all of a sudden? What is going on here? Emergency desserts. Wurthers. What? Furthers are great.

I watched you say that, but it felt wrong. I thought he, Jason, it was really like a hallucination I was having. I was dead quiet, but smiling real big. We'll have a word, do you have a Wothers on you right now, guy? Well, I'm at home, so I do not. But I have a bowl. Right before this, we started recording, I ate Taco Bell, and then it was one minute away from start time, so I shoved a bunch of jelly beans in my mouth.

Nice. What kind of, what kind of, brocks or what are we doing? Not Jelly Belly? Yeah, Jelly Belly. I have a little pack of boba flavors. It's like five different boba. So Thai tea, mango green tea, stuff like that. Wow.

And don't get me wrong. I'm in all of this. Yeah. I'm not. You know, like, I was just reading about how nerds gummy clusters are, like so much more successful than traditional nerds. They are way better. They are very good.

Have you had them? I have had them, and this is going to be controversial. I do like regular nerds better than nerds gummy clusters. I know this is not the popular opinion, but I do just like regular nerds better than gummy clusters, but I do like gummy clusters. And I even tried to eat some like organic nerds gummy clusters from sprouts the other day,

and they were disgusting. It was so gross, and I will not have them again, but I appreciate the effort. And they're building one in Orlando. Orlando has to wait for 2027, which just by the geography of the space will be different, but is jutting out into Citywalk territory, which is very exciting. That's very exciting. My only gripe is that they're not calling an Orlando drift. They're calling at Hollywood drift.

Yes. And I think that is just such a missed opportunity because I think you would love to imagine. imagine the characters of Fast and Furious having some sort of adventure in Orlando. Yeah. That just seems more, like, you know, the cars are driving past Hogan's Beach Shop. And all the failed Robert Earl businesses along I drive there. Various dinner theaters, church street station, and I drive. And, you know.

Van Diesel fighting the king at King Henry's Feast. It's the motel from Florida Project. Yeah, right. like I think they're leaving a lot of fun opportunity on the table by cloning the exact same Hollywood theme. And also, sorry, sorry, guy. I was just going to say they really should be more accurate because they should make it like like call it television city or universal city drift, Burbank drift.

Oh, like, you know, that's, that's even more. I'll allow them Hollywood because Hollywood is so close to the coaster. But if I was, I think it should be a little more accurate with, with, where it is, where the location is. I will say about the Orlando version. I do think it's cool. It goes by Hard Rock Cafe, which means you will be able to see the Berlin Wall piece from the coaster.

I mean, that's great. That rules. And that's still, the Berlin Wall is still there because I feel like, we never know. People are always a little confused. But yes, going around that hard rock,

that's awesome. And I wish it really took you the whole loop around citywalk. That would be amazing. Oh, with Finn Diesel narrating all the stores and restaurants at your disposal? Yeah, that's fine. I mean, that's probably, is there any precedent for like that on a coaster where there's a narrator? Probably not. But, I mean, I guess there's a little of that on Incredit coaster where you're getting some dialogue at least, but you're not getting narration.

Yeah. You get a duck, that, cookie, cookie, like you get a little of that. So you get some dialogue. Not really a coaster, but in Guardians of Galaxy, Rocket Raccoon says, is that Disneyland? Well, that's, yeah, not a co- yeah. Well, yeah, there's dialogue on other non-coasters. But yeah, it'll probably be like a nine out of ten.

It could have been a ten out of ten with some more VIN participation. Burbank drift probably eliminate it because there is an actual street racing problem. There absolutely is. That's not a joke. It's very loud. And the reason being there's a lot of major on ramps and off ramps in and around Burbank. Street racing epidemic.

It's because Jason and I are always racing our cars to get to the Bob's Big Boy. Yeah. You want to make sure they don't run out of fries, whatever special fries they have at Big Bob's Big Boy. And then we're racing. I saw Jay in Jay Leno, and this is, if you don't live out here, it seems like you're being facetious, but you literally see Jay Leno driving a big crazy car all the time.

A week or two ago, I saw Jay driving what I would consider like a mutant shitty, shitty, shitty bang, bang. It was green. There's pictures. People have posted pictures of it, so I'm not like doxing of the guy or not. But I was driving and I'm like, holy shit, look at that car.

Oh, yep, it's Jay. There he is. He's driving on the top. He's going so slow. People had to pass him because it's an old car. But yes, you could do a little like something like that with Burbank drift as well. There's like one old chitty-chitty-bang-bang car on the track, and it's like kind of the J-car.

It's a, it's a, I don't know if he's going to go on the ride, but it's sort of like a wink and a nod to that. Build a miniature Bob's Big Boys and have like other cars. Like it's the Friday night hot rod meetup at Bob's Big Boy. Yes, right. They went more generic Hollywood, and they didn't do sort of this niche that we're talking about. but I guess that's to be expected.

I guess we can understand why. We can't actually, but we pretend we can. So yeah, that's very exciting. Guy, do you have a new story that you're very excited about? Something that's opening this year. Well, you know, Bluey coming to Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios, I cannot wait to play Picky-Upy. Yes.

This is a big deal, especially if you, have kids because Bluey is like number one. I've tried to make Ninja Turtles number one. I'll say this. My daughter, I think Ninja Turtles at the moment is number twos. I've really done great work forcing my daughter to like Ninja Turtles. That's impressive because my 11 year old stepson has no interest in Ninja Turtles. Wow. That's how it breaks my heart. And I've tried for five years, five years to get them into Ninja Turtles, not interested at all. You got to start when they're literally two weeks old. I know. But it's

really, it's hit a fever pitch right now. My daughter's three and a half and she's obsessed with turtles. We're finally, we, she was just into the toys for a few years and now she's actually likes the shows. And it's really, it's really taken out. But Bluey is number one. Yeah. Bluey is a very fun,

good kids show. And I couldn't be more excited for her going to this. This is like the first, like, This is sort of, like, even though she loves turtles, it's like this is the first thing, like, she liked on her own. Because, like, Bluey's just so good kids, independently of, like,

somebody forcing something on them. Like, they just go, this show's great. I like all these characters. So I'm legitimately, like, pre-emotional getting to see her, like, see, like, a new thing that's debuting at Disneyland. It's like us going, and I didn't get to, but, like, us going and seeing Disney afternoon stuff at Disneyland. where it's like, oh, this is like currently cool and happening.

Yeah. And now she's going to get to do that. So I am very excited about this bluey stuff. I have, I have pictures of me at Disney afternoon live at Disneyland. I should send those over to you at some point. So jealous of it. It doesn't seem like it was as amazing as it your kid brain wanted it to be,

but still pretty fun. It was fun because they had the map and you could go around and get stamps from different places in the park. Right. The ride overlays were cool. and the character meeting greets were crazy back then too because you meet the gummy bears, you're meeting all these characters you'd never seen before.

And then, of course, the Capcom video games at Videopolis were free to play. You could just go play any of the Disney Capcom video games, Adventures in the Red Kingdom, Shippendale Rescue Rangers, et cetera. Yeah, that was great. That sounds like a dream. What would you say?

Overlay. Am I forgetting what the overlay? The gummy Bears boat ride? Yeah, and then the Rescue Ranger Autopia. Did I even forget that? So what was, how did they overlay Autopia with Rescue Rangers? Just flats. Like, it was the same thing as the boat ride, just flats of locations from the show.

Gotcha. So just like Monterey Jack flat, a piece of, like, a cardboard. But Rescue Ranger Raceway, that's a great triple alliteration. Would there be, was there, do you remember, was there any sort of soundtrack or anything? I don't recall, though, but I don't recall. around. There's so many stories now about how Disney is not creating anything that young people are into and the only people they're really feeding anymore is Disney adults and eventually we'll all die

out. And so they're not creating the next generation. Disney is not creating the next generation of Disney fans. So maybe they will rely on Bluey more. My girlfriend's son, he is, he's 10 about to turn 11 in like five days. he he's at the age where anything culturally

culturally relevant comes through him through Fortnite now Oh yeah So one day a few months ago He was singing no scrubs TLC Because it was in Fortnite And now he's really into that song

And then The guerrillas He got really into the All of his friends were into the gorillas Around Halloween time Because they added that to Fortnite Right And then characters are available in there

Yeah And then even like Mighty Morpher and Power Rangers They added those as playable skins in Fortnite. So then he started watching original Mighty Morphan Power Rangers on Netflix after that. Wow. So it is real. I have been playing. I actually have been playing Fortnite the last couple months.

So it is interesting to see that like Fortnite's stamp of approval will get kids to like something. So I guess. It is working. So like a Fortnite, if you could play as Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry, that could have boosted Aerosmith and maybe saved the rock and roller coaster. Because kids would then be like, oh, these guys are so cool. I want to go on their ride. And then it could have saved.

It didn't. It didn't help, but it could have. It is fascinating that if, like, you make a squad in Fortnite, it's like, well, Sabrina Carpenter can team up with Peter Griffin and Moe the bartender. Yeah, it is a bizarre fever dream of a game. I was playing the Disneyland levels. Oh, yes. They released a couple months ago, which were like.

Fun, fun, but it was actually easy to level up because I haven't played Fortnite very much, so I was using it to, like, cheat because only a couple people would be in the game, and they wouldn't be very good, so I could, like, level up my characters pretty easily. So Michelangelo from the Ninja Turtles was hanging out in Disneyland with a hatbox ghost on his back,

Mickey ears on his head, and then he would be going through the Guardians of the Galaxy level, trying to, like, dance his way past the guards. Wow. which was, yes, the whole thing is really a nightmare. A nightmare of IP, which does, yeah, feels like where you're headed. And then Fortnite is going to do some big Disneyland thing eventually. That's a big Josh Tomorrow plan initiative.

So part of the, part of Fortnite, Fortnite is confusing game that I can't explain anybody, but part of it is like you shoot a people. Part of it is you build a bunch of structures. And then also there's other stuff and other games inside, like Lego games. and stuff. It's like this big mess of a game. Rock band. Rock, yeah, right. There's all this different stuff that's in there.

But the building aspect is interesting. So I almost would like them to let me just build on top of Disneyland. Yeah. I would love them to like let me like just go in there and like fix what I think is wrong, which I don't think they will. But like that's a, if Disney, I guess maybe it's a different game like Disney would make a roller coaster tycoon where I could go in and just like make Disneyland in my image. shaped out. You like perfectly recreate horizons and then you get headshot it by Joey from friends. Yes, I think yes. If you could put both elements, there's a shootout happening, but I'm also creating horizons from whole cloth. And you've changed Galaxy's Edge into live action Ninja Turtle, Nintendo, Ninja Turtle's New York. Yes. Yeah, piece by piece.

It takes me 12 hours. Yeah. 12 hours each day for a month. I wanted to real quick talk about Tokyo Disney C's 25th anniversary. Oh, please. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, the Tokyo Disney C opened on September 9th, 2001.

But the anniversary this year starts on April 15th, which is actually Tokyo Disneyland's birthday. But they've dubbed it the. the sparkling jubilee. Wow. And they have a special jubilee blue color for it. Oh. There is a jubilee gala inside the SS Columbia, which is the giant boat that looks like the Queen Mary that's located inside Tokyo,

Disney Sea. I'm going on opening day for this celebration, and I'm really hoping to get tickets for this celebration inside the SS Columbia. It's $120. It's going to be very limited. They give you special gifts when you attend. They have a live piano player. Wow.

So it's called the Jubilee Gala. Yes. Inside, that's just the dining event inside the S.C. Overall, it's called the sparkling Jubilee, though. Is it? Because we had a couple drinks on the SS Columbia when we were in Disney C. In the Teddy Roosevelt Lounge, right? Yes.

But this isn't a different part of the ship, the fake ship? Yeah, it's in the dining room area, which is called the, I think it's called the S.Colombia dining room, but yeah. And is that a restaurant that's open to the public or no? Yeah, it's open, yeah. It is, okay. And it looks like you're inside an old ship. It's very cool in there. Wow, I missed that for some reason.

So is this like a black tie affair? I don't think there is any dress code, but it being, you know, Tokyo Disney Resort, I think the locals will dress up to a certain extent to experience this. Do you have a tux? Well, I don't have a tux. I have a old shirt that says Tokyo Disneyland in 1983. I like that, but you in full tux seems more appropriate to celebrate the great theme parks anniversary, don't you think? Yeah, I'll have to see if I can find a tux location in Tokyo.

that will have my size. Or you can just rent from a friar tux location in Southern California. Transport a rental tuxedo to Tokyo and back. Yes, definitely could try that. Buy a scene on the plane for the tuxedo. Yeah. Now, scrape it over.

The thing that's most exciting about this celebration is throughout the park, They're going to have sparkling Jubilee wagons, which sell a single item, and that would be a Jubilee Blue-colored Mickey Macaron. Hold on here. So there's multiple wagons selling the same blue macaroon? Yes, just one item, one single item, and it's this Jubilee-blue-colored macaroni-maccaroon, yes. Okay. So is it a normal size?

Macaroon? Well, Tokyo Disney snacks usually tend to be a little bit smaller, so I don't know if it's going to be the same size as the one at, say, you know, on Main Street at the Mary Poppins Bakery. But we'll see. I'll let you know

I'm going to buy one. I'll tweet at Podcast the Ride, and I'll let you know. Okay. But this is the big way they're celebrating is having a special macaron. Yes. Okay. There's got to be other stuff too, I'm assuming?

Yeah, there's some decorations. There's some banners. Okay. And there's a harbor show. And by harbor show, I mean that very loosely. They mostly call it a lot of people call it a smile and wave, where you just kind of get one barge, one or two barges with characters. And the music, the theme song plays, and they just kind of go along and they wave at everybody.

Okay. Does it feel a little underwhelming? Yeah. Is that what we're getting at here? I don't want to dance around it anymore. Yeah, the Tokyo Disney Resort celebrations have gone a bit downhill in the last, since pretty much since the COVID. Tourism. The novel coronavirus pandemic.

Yeah. Yeah. The economy, perhaps. Yeah, maybe. Is there, okay, the one thing you're saying is the one day party does seem like very cool. Yeah, but very limited, like I said, and also $120 in U.S. bucks. Because we don't get that. We don't get fun stuff like that too out here.

Right. It's like it's the 60th anniversary, 70th anniversary. But there's a one day party if you can get tickets at the Disneyland Hotel or something. Yeah. And this party is. Yeah. The gala is more than one day. They're going to do it every day for a few months.

Oh, I want a gala. I want a gala out here. Yeah. I want a gala. I will dress up. I will wear a tux to a gala at Disneyland or Disney, world. I just don't, that's upsetting because Tokyo, even then they're cutting costs, Tokyo still outdoes the domestic parks. This is the way, unfortunately. Do you think, like, will there be

characters at the gala? Will you get to, like, slow dance with Minnie or Shelley May or? They have not given any indication that there will be characters, but they are giving you plush characters as a gift. Oh, really? Oh, and do they have special little outfits? Yes, they have the outfits in the Jubilee Blue. Okay, I got to look up these. So they have a picture of the Jubilee Blue outfits? Yes. Jubilee Blue outfits.

This is like the pantone color of the year, the Jubilee Blue, the original color. Yeah, exactly. The Jubilee Blue is awesome. I'm looking at it right now. It is very nice. Yeah. It's, um... Do you see the wagon?

Do you see the Jubilee Wagon? I haven't seen the wagon. I see Mickey and Duffy. both in Blue jubilee blue outfits. Mickey had to toe long sleeves, long pants, white shoes, a blue top hat. Duffy has almost like a beanie that's in Jubilee Blue. He has a jacket and a purple bowtie. But Duffy is not wearing pants.

They did not give Duffy Jubilee Blue pants, which I find interesting because all the other care. I mean, okay, no, never mind. Chippendale also going Poo Bear style. with no pants. They look very like USO. They look very like, hello boys. Like they're going to do some sort of kick line.

But all the other characters, there's, well, don't die, take that back. Donald also does not have pants on. Donald's got the seat out. The seat is,

is sort of featured with the tails. It's poking out. His tail is poking out. But I'm, I'm very much into these, these outfits. So if you got to plush, how many,

How many plus should you get? I believe you get a Mickey and a Mini. Okay. And then attached to the gala in the dining room, you can also go to Teddy Roosevelt Lounge and get unlimited drinks. Not an alcoholic, though. No, I believe alcohol was on there, yeah. There's an open bar at Tokyo Disney? Yeah, yeah.

Holy, that has to be. Unless it's just because, like, people in Tokyo don't, like, get that drunk or something. And they don't even imagine somebody would, like, get to. too hammered there. But that's wild if that's the case. I don't believe that. That's how wild it is. Mike, Mike, no, there's no culture of salary men

getting very drunk in Japan. Absolutely. Well, I said it just as a hypothetical. Of course there has to be alcoholics in Japan. They're everywhere, but that would blow my mind if you truly have an open bar at a Disney party. Yeah. I've never seen

that before. Tokyo Disney Resort, the guests seem to restrain themselves because I've been to several different buffets in the resort complex. And, you know, I'm an American and I know how to eat. And so at these buffets, you'll eat and you'll be done with your first plate and they'll clear it away pretty quick. But, you know, as Americans, we go back six, seven, eight times. And then I always notice at a certain point, they'll just start to let the plates kind

of stack up. And I think it's to embarrass you to stop eating. I'm sure it is. We had two drinks at the Teddy Roosevelt Lounge and I felt like we made them upset. Oh, yeah. Like I just whoever, like everyone was so nice the whole time. And the only time we ever ran into what seemed like we had made somebody mad

was when we asked for a second drink at the Teddy Roosevelt Lounge and the tone changed. Wow. There were conversations happening. I don't know what we did. Maybe we said something wrong. I don't know. But like that was the only time is when we. requested two drinks at Tokyo Disney C.

But yeah, no, you got a, I would love a full report of this gala. I have a, I have a friend who lives in Japan. He was born and raised there. He's better at navigating that system. And of course, the hour, hours, the time difference. So he's going to try that for me. I'm also going to try. This is going to be a very limited event.

So I hope we get it. Now. Good luck. Let us know, yeah. The Columbia in Japan is a recreation of like an old-timey, like, cruise ship, steamership. Yeah. Is that also the name of the pirate ship in Disneyland? Yeah, a little confusing, yeah.

Yeah, I thought you were trying to get tickets to a gala on a pirate ship. And I'm like, well, what is there? Like 20, 30 tickets? but a gala that goes for a while and is on a steamer, I think you'll figure it out. I believe in you guys. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, and I'll be jealous.

I want to go to a gala. I really think maybe when I say I want to go to a gala is like, I'd love another shot at going to prom. I just like, give me just one more try at prom. I think I could have more fun this time. My prom was at Disneyland, by the way. It was at Disneyland Hotel. What?

Wow. No way. Yeah, it was in Baltimore at Disneyland Hotel. People were like necking at the Disneyland Hotel? Yeah, yeah. Wow, really? My group ate at Rainforest Cafe in downtown Disney and then went to her prom at Disneyland Hotel. Oh, my God, I've never been more jealous in my entire life.

Disneyland prom, wow. I'm jealous of the kids whose prom you like eat elsewhere and then went to prom because we ate junior and senior prom, we ate the hotel's, like, ballroom catering. And it is like the worst chicken picata or prime rib you've ever had. It's just they can make it in vats. I picture Jason. I was having, I was not enjoying myself.

I picture you like slow dancing with a turkey leg in one hand at prom. The food's like at the table real close to where you're all dancing. Oh, and if it was at Disneyland, you know I'm dipping in for like a quick space mountain. A quick one? No, you're dipping out permanently from the dance. Yeah, I just really trying to sell the date on like, let's take a romantic ride through the dark on it, Mansion and I'm like, okay, let's do pirates now. Then let's do the Mark Twain.

Then let's do Big Thunder. Yeah, well, I would be, yeah, my date would be like, yeah, let's go on Haunted Mansion. And I'd be like, maybe we should go on separately because, you know, it's like people would be suspicious of something and like we'll be able to enjoy the experience more if we just go in the separate cars. I don't want it to be like this. I just want to appreciate the ride for it for what it is. Like I would have definitely

There would have been no nonsense with me At Disneyland prom, unfortunately My school also had Homecoming at Knott's Berry Farm And we had the park to ourselves The only part that was closed was Camp Snoopy Jesus, gee whiz Yeah, I'm upset

I feel sick to my stomach That I didn't get to have this experience growing up Well hey, Cooley sneak into Camp Snoopy All those big trees of the chat It's like you can really neck privately there You can neck, especially on scary farm nights.

You definitely the Camp Snoopy area is the place you would go to neck. Yeah. Because there's really, it's a really like kind of desolate place when there's not all the rides running. So yeah, I think that's right. Everything else is a little crowded, honestly. There's corners of ghost town, I suppose. At night you could neck. Behind the bottle house.

Yeah. That's a good idea, yeah. You just got to make sure not to trigger the outhouse. sound of Hey, someone near. Yeah, the one of the mine,

if you get a mine cart to yourself or something, maybe, nothing's more romantic than seeing a man, a skeleton man who's wishing for death as he uses a pickax slowly over and over again.

Can we talk about what's coming to Six Flags Magic Mountain? That's what everybody's been waiting for. Yeah. Bugs Bunny World Family Area. They're reimagining the Looney Tunes area at Magic Mountain. And the Magic Mountain Looney Tunes area was hilarious or is hilarious at the moment. And especially Bugs' house.

Bugs' house is this tiny little room with like a fridge and a chair. And it looks like it was made 40 years ago. and it's been decaying and it looks sad. It looks like this like sad studio apartment that Bugs Bunny lives in. It's like a divorced rabbit. He's nothing left.

He lost his money. Just as sad hiding out from Anton Sugar and his cow. Cells has been being targeted by the killer from country. There are no country for old men. But yes, I'm fascinated to see

where this is going to go because the last time, I guess the last time I saw it was when Gio and I were up there and a bunch of teens had taken over Bugs' house. A bunch of teens were in there and they were like disrespecting it. They were like sitting on top of the fridge. They were using the middle finger very freely

which I found disrespectful to this Hollywood legend Bugs Bunny. But you know there's a bunch of it is not unlike Camp Snoopy that whole area kitty type rides with some light theme. of the Looney Tunes.

But they're talking about like new lands, new reimagined lands like Tasmania, tropical setting, whistle stop train will be rethemed as Taz's Tasmanian train tours, taking guests through the area. However, be warned, the Tasmanian devil has escaped his enclosure and is set to wreak havoc along the way.

Taz exploration trail will replace the former magic flyer in Tweedie's escape locations, offering a walk-through experience with interactive elements. New seating and turf also planned. I mean, Roadrunner Ridge, we're going to get a roadrunner area. Bugs Bunny Play Park.

That's going to replace Speedy Gonzalez's hot rods and Pepey LaPue's Tea Party. For some reason, they decided they don't want to deal with Speedy and Pepey right now in the year of 2026. So I'm just like, I'm, I'm, I'm wowed. I'm always wild when Six Flags puts money behind me. anything. Yeah, it's such a sad and rundown park where you just can walk for 30 minutes in a row seeing abandoned structures. So this sounds like a complete upgrade. And I do find an interesting they're like shuffling stuff around. Like there's something now called Camp Duck Amuck. In the Daffy Duck themed area, Taz's trucking company will become Daffy's Forest four-wheelers.

So it's the same thing. Taz was in charge of some sort of trucking. company and now Daffy is being charged. So they're shuffling characters around, which I think is fun. Honestly, and it could like keep things interesting. It would be funny at Disneyland if they like shuffled stuff around. And they're like, red is now on the haunted mansion. And we're going to move. We're going to move Hatbox Ghost over onto the Mark Twain.

No, ad box ghosts is baking the chocolate chip cookies that Harbor Kelly. Fine. Put the robot in the Harbor Gallery or whatever hell it's called. Tiana's Arctic expedition on the Matterhorn. Great, fantastic, yes. And like, put Walt Disney on Incredic coaster. Put the Walt robot on Incredic coaster, and he's in the apartment at the end with Jack, Jack.

And he's like, oh, yum, num cookie Jack, or whatever. Like, this, I like this weird show, like kind of, it feels like superfluous to shuffle these characters around in this way. Like, I don't know why you couldn't have just renovated Taz's trucking company as opposed to make it Daffy's Forest Four Wheeler. But I like it anyway. I like the idea that there's a fresh coat of paint on the Looney Tunes area. Are you going to beg to get into the grand opening of this event to this area?

It's a great question. I guess I should. I do have the special Knott's Pass that gets me in for free to this. But I suppose I should bring my child to this too. That might be a good thing for. for her to experience, even though she hasn't, I haven't,

she knows a little, like, who Bugs Bunny is, but that hasn't worked yet. That hasn't, like, stuck yet. But maybe I'll bet. Maybe you can explain to her

how they dropped the Looney Tunes from HBO Max. Tooby picked them up and they immediately became the most, or one of the most popular things on Tubby. I'm going to let Uncle Jason impart that wisdom to her. Come here, young one.

I need to tell you about media, consolidation. That's a stream dream. Companies realizing, it does feel like companies slowly realizing like, oh, we are the Looney Tunes, like, oh, we are the Muppets. People like these

things, but they're very slow on the come up. Any money that Six Flags wants to put into Looney Tunes, I'm on board. And I hope it's cool. And if it's not, even better, even better for us to enjoy.

if it looks, if it looks lazy. But I'm sure they're doing their best with the budget they're allowed. Yeah. And I will be there hopefully opening day. Hopefully, you know what? Hopefully they'll be a Looney Tunes Gala that I can attend. In Bugs' house. In Bugs' house.

And I can wear like Bugs' conductors outfit, a tuxedo kind of thing with big long tails, no pants, like to honor Bugs, not because I'm a pervert, because I'm trying to pay tribute to bugs and I can wear some sort of undergarment that looks like bugs is smooth groin but I just want to celebrate the Looney Tunes and I want to go to a gala. If somebody could have their prom also at the Looney Tunes land

that would be pretty cool as well. That would be, if my daughter could have her prom at the Looney Tunes area at Six Legs Magic Mountain, I think she would say good job raising me, Dad. You got to join the PTA now to lock that in. You got to get enough power. to lock it in and becomes of age. Yeah, you're right. You're right about that.

Anyway. Let's talk. Let's go back to Disney. Well, let's actually let me bring up a non-Disney thing. Dollywood has this new attraction coming that's like multiple styles of riding one. And it's called, I don't have the name, Night Flight Expedition. Is that right? I mean, I can look it up. It's a combo like

Weightwater, a raft and roller coaster, and like, I don't have much to say other than it looks really cool. Uh-huh. Yes, Dollywood Night Flight Expedition

and it's like a hybrid ride or something, but it is a boat. You're sitting in like a boat. And the boat is like, I don't know how you'd describe it. it even. It's like a regular boat, but it's got like big yellow speakers in the middle. Yeah, it's like a shoot the shoot

kind of boat. Like a wide boat. And yeah, I think I had seen like a more basic, a video of more basic version of this at like a SeaWorld park. And it's like, yeah, boat to roller coasters sounds awesome to me.

It's cool to see a Park, especially that's not one of the big ones, take a big swing like this and try something new and crazy. For sure, yeah. I mean, they were at, they revealed the ride vehicle at the Ioppa, the attractions expo that happens in Orlando every fall. And it just looks really cool. I don't have much else to say.

I just wanted to shout it out because I thought it was notable. It is notable. It looks like it could be very cool. Dollywood is on the list. I don't know. There has to be like, we have to like plan long term and like say like podcast rides going to Dollywood in like 2028 or something. And it's a week long party that we're having in Dollywood. Like we have to like stake our claim.

I think you could get a whole month of episodes out of Pigeon Forge and Dollywood. Oh, I'm sure we can. I'm saying if we're going to go do it, we got to go do it. And then like we have to find a venue. you will do like live shows at Dollywood or something. Yeah. We got in the Dixie Stampede Theater. We could.

Halfielder McCoy's. Hatfield McCoy. The, uh, the Titanic Museum that's crashing into a giant iceberg. That's great too. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. We could be, yeah, we could do a show in each venue once a night, one a night, basically. Yeah, they just want to sell food, you know.

They just want to sell, you know, meat and mixed vegetables. They just want to sell meat. meat and mixed a protein. A protein of the starch and then broccoli and carrots or succotash or something. Are they selling succotash at Dollywood? And that's just the mix of like corn and carrots

and lima beads, isn't it? I don't know. All I know, I mean, I would never begin to know what suckettash is. All I know is my friend Sylvester from the Looney Tunes says it. And that's that's my frame of reverence. But I don't know. but I would, did you ever eat suckettash growing up Jason? I believe I ate suckettash. How often did you eat succotash as a youth?

I feel like that was the default mixed vegetables for a while before like. You were constantly eating succotash. There were a lot of older restaurants where I grew. There was a lot of platter, salad or soup, entree, dessert, coffee, tea, soda kind of meals when I, when I was growing up. So you growing up, you would be a little kid and the waiter would come by and you would order succotash.

Why didn't? I, like many children, was not very fond of most vegetables, so I probably wouldn't. But have you ever ordered succotash? Probably like a cracker barrel or something. Cracker barrel,

uh, corn, lima beans. Sometimes tomato. It looks good. It looks good. It looks good. It looks good. Yeah, I like it.

Yeah. But I didn't realize, yeah, I didn't realize that I think this had a different name where I came from. I don't think this was, I don't think this was succotash from where I guy. Have you ever eaten succotash in the traditional sense? I never encountered succotash ever to this day where I grew up, which is the Southern California, Los Angeles area. So, yeah. I'm aware of it. I just never seen it.

I grew up like 45 minutes from. Pennsylvania Dutch country. So that might have had some influence. And there's also like a number of restaurants that like when you got into the 2010s or 2020s celebrated like 80 years in business, 100 years in business in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. And they would celebrate by handing out free succotage. Yeah, succotash on my... Oh, free succotage.

All right. Did they have a suck attach stand on the shore? No, no, that's too hot for summer weather. What about cold succotash? Oh, colds? Well, I don't know, maybe. You know, you could serve it cold. That looks like cold vegetables are good sometimes.

I potentially, probably grossly underseason. Maybe. Anyway, I'll find out if there's cold succotash. Yeah. Anyway, you were saying, sorry. Oh, well, just getting back to, I was going to say Disney domestic parks, but is this the year that in

Paris Walt Disney Studios Park becomes Disney Adventure World? Yeah, we're just a little under a month away from that change happening. New name, a new name for a Disney park. That's, I feel like we'll never see that

again in our life. I mean, I guess the closest is the Hollywood Studios change? Yeah. And then Disney's California Adventure going to Disney California Adventure. Right, that's true. And I never remember that's the case, but yes. Yeah, this is a radical change. Right. In terms of name.

Yeah, I think if you get the reputation as the worst Disney Park worldwide, a bit of a name change might be a good idea. Yeah, I know when I went for the first time going there, I thought, There's no way this is as bad as everyone says it is. And then it's much worse.

Yeah. Yeah. So they want to get that. They want to make it feel fresh and new. Yeah. But yeah, those changes are exciting. A new big body of water. That's always good.

We like water. We like that. Yeah. A new frozen attraction. New frozen mini land, I guess you could say. Is it the same one as the one in Japan? No. It's going to be

The ride itself is similar to Epcotts Okay But then the land itself is similar to Hong Kong Disneyland's Where it's got the mountain range And the little village in front of it and whatnot It's so funny that we are not We won't get like a frozen ride in Disneyland For another seven years

Like it's just so funny that that was such a phenomenon And it continues to be and that like Disneyland proper won't get a version of it for earliest what seven years I think Yeah yeah in like 2010 I thought that would be the slam dunk for the next Right I thought that was yes I thought that was next I am shocked in 2026 to think that like It will probably have to be that whatever Disney forward is before we see it And then it'll probably be like I've said like a lot of the stuff in Disneyland forward is going to be

clone-ish versions of stuff around the world, I think. Because there's nothing officially announced for that property in Disneyland. Like this stuff coming to Disneyland is like Avatar, Coco, I'm blanking on something else. Avengers? Yeah, oh yeah, the Avengers stuff. But that's all a ways off, isn't it? well Avengers is next

maybe next year 2027 have you been in Avengers campus recently that's big construction is big yeah yeah it's a big big building

yeah yeah I've seen so so I think maybe next year is when that those two rides are supposed to open at the campus and then Coco 2028 because they just started some work on it I think yeah they they're

kind of expanding their perimeter out to that corner on Gatela and Magic Way yes and they just filed, oh, exciting news. They filed the permit to demolish what the existing structure is on the site of the new

parking garage that will start the process for the whole new entrance and the bridge and this whole exciting new expansion of Disneyland. That'll get rid of the traditional security check on the one side of the Esplanade, the

non-Dont Downtown Disney side, obviously. And they just filed this permit a few days ago and people are going wild five fires posting people post like everyone's so excited that this is all anyone's talking about went to Trader Joe's everybody's talking about the air is

buzzing with talk of construction permits when they need to take a break from talking about the Melania documentary they're like we'll talk about this parking garage let me ask Mike how long have we been talking about this parking garage as long as the show it's been on

I think so, right? Like there's been multiple pieces of art. Eastern Gateway Project has been this thing that they've been trying to do for what feels like a decade. It's fun because we still don't know. Like they were doing all these proposals five, six years ago and like getting the approval for just zoning everything for anything they wanted to do. They just went to Anheim and said, let us do anything. We want to build a hotel here.

We can. Let us build a ride here. But we don't know still. We don't know if they're going to expand the existing parks or build a third. We don't know anything. Yeah, Anaheim has to be scrambling since the magical cabaret at Garden Walk closed. You know, I'm surprised the city can still even function. Kipp Berries, magical cabaret, the magician at Garden Walk that I, you've known, obviously, for a long time,

but I didn't realize was there until like a year or two ago. But then sadly, the Kipberi magical cabaret has closed before we had a chance to experience it. So sad. So sad. disappeared. Yes. But nothing has replaced it still. I mean, it's often said, like, Disneyland.

You know, there's so much land in Florida, and there's headaches down there for building. But, like, Disneyland often runs into, like, oh, there's a whole ass neighborhood right by here. Like, we don't have that land. It's a regular CVS. Like, people go to get their prescription there. Yeah. Yeah, that Toy Story lot is really interesting because you just go on Google Maps and look at it. And there's really not a lot of room there.

So especially with the way Disney builds these days where all of their rides are just gigantic. Like they just don't do small rides anymore. Right. And yeah, like Jason said, the property, that Toy Story Lot property is flanked by a couple of apartment complexes and then I hop. Convention Center across the way. Yeah. Convention center hotels? Like there's always big hotels by convention centers.

Yeah. I mean, it's the most, it's definitely the most obvious place for an expansion just because it's a big plot, it's a plot of land, but it isn't, certainly like there's not infinite space there. And what you would build would have to be pretty economical. So it does seem, it does make sense why they were floating the idea that it would be just like a new Disney. Springs over there and then they would continue the expansion of Disneyland and California Venture along the sides of the Disneyland Hotel. Yeah.

But you could also, hypothetically, you could also build a third gate using the spaces alongside the hotel. Like, you could technically do that. I don't know if that would make sense. But I'm guessing, I am guessing we're just getting massive expansions of the existing parks. Because then they can build in pieces, which they like to do. and they don't have to build a whole park at once. They can just sort of slowly creep around.

They're going to have to build a bridge on the California Adventure side or something, but they can slowly just kind of creep around as they build around the Disneyland Hotel. I think that's what's going to happen, but I don't know. But all those lands are going to be stuff that other parks have had for a decade plus.

Maybe with the exception of like a Wakanda land, which looked like it was in one of those original of pieces of concept art, which they haven't done yet. So maybe there's that. But there's maybe an X-Men could put an X-Men's mansion somewhere. Oh, we'd like that.

Sure would. Can we look at Walt Disney World now, meanwhile? Yes. Yes, level 99, coming to Disney Springs, 60 themed challenge rooms, including one that showed a lady running through a series of swinging axes. Guy, that was absolutely the first thing on my list.

That thing I didn't know about, level 99. Is that going where the NBA experience was? I would assume so. I believe it did say that the east side. Is that the east side? Yeah. I think so.

Yeah. Yeah, well, that'll be something. Is this a third party or is this a Disney creation? Yeah, I think it's a third party. I think it's third party, yeah. Yeah, I don't think that's in house. I don't know. I mean, it does feel like, I mean, Universal Tried,

and they seem to have abandoned their in-house escape room stuff. I mean, it's still there in Orlando, but they did not bring it over to Hollywood, and I'm sure that's for a reason. I don't know how well the escape rooms are doing at City Walk Hollywood right now. I have a guess, but I don't think I could be wrong. but yeah, I don't know.

I have yet to find the escape room that really gets me going. So maybe one of these 99 rooms holds the key for me. I don't know if it's an escape room though. It's a challenge, they're challenge rooms. Okay, fine, challenge rooms.

That feels even more like I don't want to do it though. I want things to be done to me. I want things to be done to me and I get to experience them. I don't need to solve, I get, I'm slow. I don't need the puzzle boxes and stuff. I mean, I guess if all I have to do is run through knives and there's no chance

of me dying that like, okay, that's maybe would be fun to sort of simulate that. But I don't know. It sounds a little like there's like an adult playground in the Luxor in Vegas, I believe now. Um, this is... Sorry, real quick, which they had to, uh, open up to kids during certain hours. They gave up on the adults only all day thing. Sorry to interrupt.

Oh, no, please. You've been to Vegas more recently than I have, but there's also a number of, like, uh, mini golf courses where they bring you a beer, where, like, wings. Yeah. While you're playing nine holes. Like, it's all,

stuff I liked as a kid, but now for adults, you know? So anything there was like a kid's now adults, it's just a version of it is like you have beer and wings. So like you like bumper cars, but you get, you eat beer and, or you drink beer and eat wings while you drive a bumper car or something. I mean, I don't know what a challenge room is. So I don't know how to even react to this necessarily. It just feels like let, hey, let's try this thing.

Yeah. Let's give this a go. Yeah. This building's been empty. How long? Jesus Christ. Throw some shit in there. Whatever it is.

Level 99? Yeah. Level 99, okay. I just want to know where is the Adam Silver statue? Where is that live now? From the NBA experience. Bob Eiger's bedroom. Oh, he loves basketball, right?

He's a basketball guy. He's a basketball man. Yeah, I, that is. a funny way to start Disney World because it feels like 2026. It's a lot of tweaks or updates to

attractions at Disney World. Yeah. Buzz Lightyear. Buzz Light Year. That might be fun. That might be cool. They're doing the new guns. They got a new targeting system. And held blasters now. And hell blasters. We've only had it for

20 plus years in California. But they have a new original character who teaches you out He's the blasters. He's a robot named Buddy. Yeah. That is fun.

That is cool. That's kind of fun, but Buddy is not whimsy. Whimsie is the original character, Choochoo Train, that's in the nighttime parade. Buddy is in Buzz Lake. Yeah, okay. Well, I'm glad that's been clarified. Yeah, this feels like they're going to do this out here.

Eventually, I would guess. I would imagine it's, the one out here in Disneyland never necessarily looked run down but it's definitely dated I think a little tired yeah we did it like a month ago and I was like a little

we could use something and that's that was a ride especially when I was a kid that I was oh my oh my God and when I say kid how old was I 15 when that started I don't know maybe it was younger I don't know when the last time you wrote at Disneyland Buzz Light you're at Disneyland and then

got your picture at the end I did like a month ago, yeah. Yeah, but the picture looks lower quality than what was broadcasted from the moon in 1969. I don't know what happened with those cameras. The pictures look, yeah, awful. They look like whatever first flip phone you had, oh my God, it could take a picture, but like it was the worst picture you've ever seen in your life. Yeah.

And like, that's still that quality. So that for sure would be a nice upgrade, which I don't know if it's only, staying like free because the picture is so poor. There's some sort of law on the books that you can't sell someone a picture that poor looking. I don't know. There's a California law. But yeah, it would be nice to get that upgraded. Disney World.

The other thing, of course, is the Muppets. Rock and Roller Coaster is opening in a few months. The pre-show was already, of course, just in such a cruel way. was closed without any warning. People didn't get any word. They were not warned that that was going to go away and that they wouldn't get to see Stephen Tyler's digitally altered hand. Yeah.

So the ride still remains open. One of the air members of Aerosmith, Tom Hamilton, was recently there to see it off, which was really, which was nice that he cared enough to get down there. I don't know if he lives down there or what. But we're going to get the, Muppets version, whether I like it or not. And I'm curious.

I've heard rumors and stuff of things that make me go, oh, that's good. That's fun. That's the smart way to do it. But I think at the end of the day, that core experience of on the ride, I'm going to say, this is not the right ride for these Muppets. This is not the right venue for these characters. But we'll see. I'm open to being wrong.

I'm open to being... I would love to come in on this podcast and say I was wrong. I don't know if we'll get out to Orlando this summer, but maybe we will. Maybe I'll be their opening day for the gala. I just hope... I just hope there's some sweet tribute to a beloved Aerosmith in some way.

Not Muppet Vision 3D. You're not concerned about that. You won an Aerosmith tribute. Yeah, Muppet Vision 3D, I think they handled perfect. I think everything, I think there was no need for merch. There was no need to make a big thing out of it. It had its time.

That was nice. But Aerosmith deserved, they should have had a full Aerosmith concert outside to celebrate the closure. And Youngblood should have been there too. The young, the young rock and roll singer, Youngblood, who has an EP with Aerosmith. And now a song with Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins. Wow. They're working really hard to get this young man, young blood.

to infect every older man's listening habits. You really don't want to give older men blood diseases. You know, you really don't want to infect their blood. You don't not want that. But, you know, if it's young blood, though, it's good blood. So it can help rejuvenate your old blood. That's what the rich people do is they get young blood. I'm sure Stephen Tyler took a couple pints of young blood's young blood to

help him stay youthful forever. That's why they keep him around. Yeah. That's why they keep him around. His name is what he provides the elderly rocker, young blood, to keep them fresh. So, yeah, Sarosmith going away.

Muppets, we still don't know. I still, I don't know what the musical artists, people have said, well, Sabrina Carpenter's on the new Muppet show. Did she record a track or something? Will that maybe be part of it? Could be? I could see that being the case. Would it just be Dr. Teeth and the electric name?

No, no, no, no. I mean, that's what people initially were saying, but, like, I think it's going to be like Peggy and Kermit. I don't think they're going to... Oh, okay. I don't think they're going to go, like, it's going to be a song sung by Janice. I don't...

No offense, Janice, I would like that, but I think it's going to be like the big, the core Muppet character singing. Maybe one Dr. Teeth song. We'll see. I could be wrong. Launching 0 to 60 with Rainbow Connection, playing in the background. Yeah, that was a slow version of it, not even a punk rock cover.

Yeah, not even a house for house music version. Now, Mike, what if the tribute to Aerosmith was at the end of the ride, you go through the coaster and then right before you get off, the coaster just stops and then you hear Kermit say, before you get off the ride, we want to pay a tribute to our dear friends erosmith. And then the Muppets, they say, they each take turns saying a few words and then they play this song and then you get off the ride. Would you feel fine with that tribute?

Yes. If the Muppets all paid true tribute and would give a very meaningful speech, each of them, about what it means, what Aerosmith meant to them, and when they first heard toys in the attic. And it's just maybe like 15 minutes. 15 minute tribute, yes. And then you get off the ride. Then you get off.

Yeah. But it's very important you be on stuck on the ride listening. You can't just walk by as if it's in the gift shop or something. It's not like the Norway film at Malmström. You can't just walk past, which again, I will reiterate as a child. I thought we were locked in there and had to watch this movie. I liked the movie. I was going to say you were happy, though.

I was happy to watch this educational kind of. You brought your own chain. Non-narrative, non-linear movie about Norway. You brought a chain and a lock and you were like, We're staying in here. We're staying. I brought enough tinned fish for every one. I brought succotash and tin fish.

Oh, children's favorite. We're good. In a barrel of walnuts of hot nuts. Yeah, so I don't know. Those are the big, I mean, what else at Walt Disney World? Is there anything? Well, so. Big Thunder's reopening too, yeah.

Yeah, Big Thunder's reopening. They're putting in the rainbow cavern sequence. Right. Which I feel like we've had out here for a while. And it's kind of a nod to the mine trained in Nature's Wonderland, right? Yeah. Yes, that's what it is. Yeah.

So that's nice. And they retract the whole thing. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. So it'll be smoother. And did they add the explosion at the end like we have sometimes? Did they add the big mine explosion?

I feel like they were talking about it, but I'm not sure if they did. Yeah, I know they were talking about it. I was actually looking at the website and they said, New Magic and a crevice deep to mountain top refurbishment. It was their exact words. Okay, so we'll see if they added that. Yeah, and then the art was the thing Jason was talking about. Yeah, the rainbow caverns, which is cool.

I'm glad they're finally getting it, and it seems, at least it's not like in a weird spot or something like the Hatbox Coast is. and on their haunted mansion where it's just in the middle of part of it. It's so weird. The big thing in Orlando and California

the soren across America. Yes. New film. Time to coincide with America's I will try it again. A semi-Quintennial. Is it quintennial? Yeah, I think so.

I mean. Semi quintennial. Semi quintennial. Semi quintennial. Yeah. So, I mean, my... 250 years. 250 years, baby, and stronger than ever.

Huh. I, my parents went to Disney World when they were doing bicentennial stuff. So I have some, like, authentic old brochures. And kind of looking back at that, it's fun to see Mickey and, Donald and Goofy like in Revolutionary War garb with a

fife and drum and it's kind of kitschy I ate a celebration of America in 2026 does seem a little grotesque oh god

do we have to like everything comes up it's not just this like cartoonish version of like hey you put Mickey in a top hat we can like sing he's a grand old flag. Like that's the old way.

That's the old way to celebrate. For the bicentennial, they got the America on parade, which is a famous parade in Disney history, where one of the floats was a giant sandwich. No giant sandwich this time. No giant sandwich this time, yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. It's, uh, it is, I guess, like, do I want Mickey,

though, in the top hat and tails with the, like, red, white and blue? I guess I do. I do. Try corner hat, like tricorner hat. You want a tricorner hat? No, that's what I'm saying

Mickey was in, like a tri-corner hat. Yeah, yeah, like the old, like, yeah. Do I want Jason wearing red, white, and blue in a tricorner hat? Yes, yes, I do. Like, sue me, you know? I am borrowing Sam Jackson's

Uncle Sam outfit from the Super Bowl at halftime show in 2025. Yes. I mean, look, Jason was treated for bicentennial fever. when he was a child. So I think he's going to get into this semi-quincennial.

I think he's just, it's going to sneak up on him. He doesn't want to, obviously we don't want to celebrate the bad parts of America. But like, as far as the, as far as like bald eagle cartoons and some of the old time songs. Well,

I think, the good ones, not the problematic ones. Like Philadelphia is already, like, starting to spruce stuff up. like they're sprucing up Independence Hall.

The MLB All-Star game is in Philadelphia this summer. Meanwhile, I mean, Disney has shown some behind-the-scenes photos of like shooting in nature and helicopters, so I think the footage will be nice, but I think it would be like very graceful of them if they flew over some of the

other amusement destination, in America. I'm talking about the Jersey shore, Myrtle Beach, Mike's beloved Wisconsin Dells, and also every single Great Wolf Lodge. If they could capture like people having fist fights and all these places too, that would be really nice. Like you're flying over the shore and there's a couple drunk guys having a fist fight or something. Like that would really capture some parts of America. That'd be great. If they could pump in the smiths. smells of burnt rubber and gasoline.

And maybe you fly over that one Pennsylvania rest stop area. You always see photos of where it's just endless gas stations and chain restaurants. Yeah. That would be cool. Soaring over all the chilies of America is what I would want. So all this different scenic play.

Because, you know, there's a chilies up in Santa Clarita right by Six Flags. So, like, that's pretty scenic. You hit the chilies there. And you could get a chili sponsor. because sometimes they don't do that anymore with rides and Chili's could pay for things. I think there's a lot of great ideas with Soren Over America. I think if you just wanted to soar over the places that country singer was talking about at the

Turning Point USA Halftime Show, you know, that guy I'm talking about, he wanted to just fish, he just wanted to pet his dog, soar over the lake where he fished, he just wanted to wear his boots, you know, soar over a boot barn. You know, that's sort of the patriotic stuff. stuff you could do. Brantley, Gilbert, Gilbert, Brantley, all the American Europe. So, you know,

America means a different thing to everyone, but I think that it's going to be hard for Disney to sort of encapsulate all these different ideas into one, but at least we got, I think we're going to get new Patrick Warburton content. That's what it feels like to me, because he did the announcement that this was happening. So I'm hopeful that there's going to be some new

like pre-show as well. They didn't do that when they did Sorn Over the World, which was disappointing because I think we all wanted a new video. But I'm kind of hopeful maybe they had him back and he's going to do something. I don't know. We'll see. I don't really know.

If they could just like, if they could see, hopefully there'll be less CGI in this. I'll say that. Oh, yeah. because there's a little too much CGI in Sornover the world but I do like a lot of it. I am a big world fan.

I know a lot of people are traditionalists. They like the original, but I do like world. But it would be nice if there's a little less CGI. Unless you're putting all these different landmarks in like red, white, and blue outfits. Then I'm okay with the CGI. Then, yeah, I'm calm.

I'm cool. Like if you fly over Mount Rushmore and it's, they're wearing like little beanie, like red, white and blue beanies with spinners on it. Like that's good. And like one of them has a lollipop. Lincoln's got a lolly.

Red white and blue lolly. Of course. Jason, what do you think? What do you think about this? I think that's good. I'm curious which of the America's songs are going to put in. I would, I will allow the one, I don't know the name of it,

but it's at the end of Muppet's Vision 3D, the instrumental, like, That I think you end on with fireworks. Yeah. If you have to do something. You're not going to do the Hans Zimmer. What's... Or Hans Zimmer?

No, no, not Hans Zimmer. What's his name? Who did the Soren theme. Oh, God, I'm blanking. Is it Jerry Goldsmith who did it? I think it's Jerry Goldsmith. I think it's Jerry Goldsmith. So, yeah, you think they'll do a different...

There'll be a little, like, there'll be like probably pieces of music that tribute the classics. Yeah. Guy, are you a soaring fan? You know, I, I'm kind of tired of it at this point because it's just a giant screen. So I welcome any change to it. It's like whenever California comes, Sauron over California comes back, I'm like, okay, this is a little different now. I'm happy to see it again. You need a freshen up, yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, I hope they're flying over Americana at Brand and they see a single man coming out of the Santa Meet and Greet Shack. And people debate for years. Is that Mike from podcasts or really? I don't know. It's a different, yeah, they debate the mic. Which Mike is it? Yeah.

Well, if it's whatever, yeah, but maybe it's Michael Eisner coming out of the Santa Meet and Greet. Maybe. We don't know. So hopefully there's, yeah. I think DeMorrow should put him in himself in the new one so we can have a debate about whether it's him or not. I think they should add that lore to it. But that is, I mean, that's something.

That's a new ride. That's something to look forward to. I feel like at the parks. So it's not till 2027 until we start to get maybe some bigger stuff opening. Yeah. And D23 right around the corner. Coming up in a couple months. D23.

If somebody in the audience can get us in there for free because I don't want to pay all that money, but I want to go. So somebody get us in for free. I'm begging. I'm not even humbly begging. I'm just begging. I'd like to go, but it's like so expensive and it's hard to get tickets now.

Yeah. Anyway, so I probably won't go. We probably won't be going. Well, there's always illegal TikTok live streams. Like the last one. That's true. That's a good point. So maybe, maybe Disney is Ann Ford will be announced then.

I don't know. I remember that at the last D-23, because I was there, the big parks panel thing in the Honda Center and you texted me like what is the vibe like because on the stream it seems dead and I was like people are loving it here yeah because the band was there yeah yeah well and it started out with the mad tea party band which course you know people can't get enough of that of course of course they can't um so yeah you were in the mix I was jealous because I like I want to be in any room where there's announcements being made I do too

It's like jangling keys in front of a baby to me It's just You get a white guy in a suit on a stage Talking reading off of teleprompter I'm all in I like I don't care like as a note like a notebook supply company Yeah If they were announcing their new notebooks for 2026

I want to be in the audience and hear about it Yeah Like we're doing red notebooks Yeah Yeah Yes Fucking finally it's been blue all year.

I want red notebooks. It's just fun to be in a room with people that are excited. So anyway. I'd like to think I'm not susceptible to that, but I get an Instagram ad about a different brand of pens and how good these pens were, and I followed the Amazon link and bookmarked it. So, yeah, I'm a sucker too.

I'm a mark for a lot of this stuff. Jason, at the suck attach convention. At the suck attach convention. We're doing a new kind of suck attach this year. Yes. Look under your chairs. There's little bowls of new suck attach. I do like lima beans.

I think lima beans should be in the public consciousness more. They are good. Are they on the RFK food pyramid? I don't know. I don't know either. I don't know what it looks like. Just one level called lima beans. Yeah.

All right. I like lima bean. I was going to say about the RFK style, I was like getting sick of companies putting protein in everything. And then you sent me protein yodels, which are like Swiss cake growth. You sent me the- You were like, I'm back, baby. I'm back. And also right before this, I ate a protein uncrustable. So I am very susceptible.

What's the day? An uncrustable has peanut butter, which has protein. Like, yeah, Mike, you hit the nail on the head. There's more peanut butter and it's a little wider.

Is it like protein in the bread more? Like, do they put it out elsewhere? Is it just more, it's more peanut butter? I think it's more peanut butter and it's an amount of uncrustable where you're like,

oh, there's a quarter left and you're like, I think I'm good on uncrustable. I think I've had enough. Wow. I guess I'll finish it. Oh, my gosh.

You wrap a, up in tinfoil and save the rest for later? Guy, that is something I would probably do, but no, I just was like, no, I need food. I need sustenance. I'll just finish it. I did fall into the protein food craze because I eat protein Cheerios every morning. Wow. Those are pretty good.

Yeah. You like protein food, Jason? I do like protein food. It's just like, I thought it was a, trend that was done and then the federal governments like protein is back and I'm like what what are you yeah protein pop tarts now oh yeah protein pop tarts yeah protein jellybellies oh how teen were there's originals well you're nerds clusters I wish I mean they're I'm sure they're like coming out tomorrow all of these things all of we see will we see

proton dolewip at the Disney parks. You just called it proton dolewit. Sorry. I like the idea. Like it's a Ghostbusters thing. Well, no, that's, proton dolewip is what Buddy, the robot is eating when he teaches you how to use the new Buzz Lightner class. We could go on for hours about fantasy booking Ghostbusters food items.

It was like the last episode we started talking about the Last Jedi for a little bit. And I'm like, if we don't stop, I'm going to black out and we're going to talk about For four hours, yeah. Yeah, that's true. So, yes, I think protein dolewip probably is on the horizon. Possibly. I don't know what else. I think we've covered most of this stuff.

I mean, the Walt Animatrona coming to Carousel of Progress in Florida, I think it's currently listed as late 2026, early 2027. I just hope he doesn't replace the big gear. The big 90s gear, when you first. see the the big gear. Yeah, I guess you know what I do like the business. I was going to maybe even make a little joke about it,

but I guess you're right. I do like the big gear. Guy feeling so at the big gear? The big gear is great. And I also think it's weird how the apostrophe is missing in Walt Disney's on the big gear. Good point.

And it's been missing as long as I could remember. Does the big gear, when the curtain rises on Carousel of Progress, is the big gear behind a curtain? Is it on, I'm trying to remember even how it goes now. I believe it's in front of the curtain. Yeah, I think so too. But then that's, I know the Walt,

supposedly the Walt robot scene is in that zone. Yes. That kind of, that zone, which is where the thing starts. So I don't know if the big gear is long for this world. I just hope there's another gigantic picture of Ed Wynn with the Walt Animatronic, like in Disneyland. We can only hope. we can only hope that there's maybe an Edwin animatronic in like a bathtub on it.

But yeah, so there's a lot of things to be excited for. There's a lot of things to be excited for. This is just a phrase. I really haven't learned much about it. But the Mattel Adventure Park is supposedly opening in Arizona this year. Oh, yeah. Maybe we know we can go out to do that. That might be fun.

Big sky, beautiful blue big sky in Arizona. Turquoise McDonald's arches. Oh, yeah, Turquoise McDonald's. Oh, all right, maybe we get out there. That's fun. Yeah, I don't know. Mattel just has the Ninja Turtle toy license, right? It's a recently announced.

Playmates lost at the master license. And Mattel has it now. So, who knows what the future could hold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, on that note, I'm going to go ahead and say, Guy Selga, you survive podcasts, a ride.

Do you have anything you'd like to plug as you exit through the gift shop? Yeah, just my usual social media stuff on every platform, Guy Selga. I post about theme parks and going to the parks every week and the food I eat and the merchandise I see and all that sort of stuff. So check that out. Check out twirlingplans.com for all your Disney trip planning needs. And yeah, that's pretty much it for me.

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