Podcast: The Ride - WDW Resort TV with Ian Riccaboni

Episode Date: May 5, 2023

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Forever Dog! World Resort TV. Put this episode on an endless loop. It's Podcast the Ride, a theme park podcast hosted by three men who would love to see the world presented to them on a TV in a hotel room running in a pleasant loop over and over again. My name is Mike Carlson. Joining me as always, Jason Sheridan. I love that loop. We all love, well, any loop maybe. Any loop, yeah. Most loops. But I was definitely a kid who as soon as I walked into a hotel room, I turned on the television.

Well, sure. Scott Garner here too. Did you also have this loop fascination? Absolutely. And I hope that before I die that my life loops before my eyes. That I get to see a little half hour of all the best stuff that I could have done and did set to very pleasant music. Well, that would be good if it was infinite too, because then it means like you have forever

life. Life doesn't end. If I could just, wow. Okay. I think that is my, we're coming out strong on today's topic. That's heaven. I've described heaven. This is how high we are on today's topic that I have just described it as my idea of what eternal life should be.

Yes. It's just watching an endless loop of the best possible activities available in my life. This is going to come up with our guests, and I'll bring them in one second. But it's like when an artist passes away uh passes away and their greatest hits goes into circulation and they start doing different greatest hits box sets that's what you would get in heaven is just your greatest hits on a loop in your head forever geez cool which is awesome is it gonna be weird like some of the michael jackson greatest hits where like three of them aren't me and i'm watching it like this is not i know my own voice this is

not me yes there will be those but you'll be like kind of in the background of the memory and you'll be like oh yeah i did i came in the door during this like weird blow up between two people it's a weird memory that you're seeing okay but you go oh whoa i was there but it was very brief so that's similar to like you know, Michael did like write the second verse of this. He was involved a little bit. I grazed this memory. Okay, then it's allowed in the greatest hits. Yeah.

Perfect settled. But yeah, we have a lot to get to. So let's bring the guest in. He's a professional wrestling broadcaster and commentator for New Japan Strong and Ring of Honor. And more importantly, he's a Beach Boys aficionado. It's Ian Riccoboni. Welcome to Podcast The Ride. Hey, everyone. Thanks for having me. I think the most important is Beach Boy aficionado. My son's middle name is Wilson.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. How incredible. Geez. All right. Well, that bears. That's like a tattoo that you gave your son. You not even to yourself. You passed it on to.

And that's what that's what the Beach Boys are all about. Family and generations, you know, harmonizing together. So that's beautiful. Yeah, sure. And it's all about just remembering the good times. Right. That's my my favorite Beach Boys genre is none of their actual hits is the everything that happened from 1981 to present where it's just talking about how it used to be the good times. God, I know. It is a full show. Speaking of greatest hits, you could absolutely do a greatest hits album that is just the songs that are nostalgic for the past, which was so crazy now that their height was

like their height was only like five, six years long. And then it's been decades and decades of, hey, remember the good times three years ago? It started with Do It Again. You know, we got to get back together and do it again. And then there's songs that quote Do It Again. We got to do it again with Barbara and Rhonda. No, not Barbara and Rhonda Ann. They might have mixed it up.

Barbara Ann and Rhonda. Yeah, yeah. Unless they got it wrong. They're all confused. But yeah, I know. It's like, yeah, nostalgia for themselves has been their brand since the late 60s. It's been incredible. I mean, even that song that ended up on Baywatch that was a weird cash grab that was on that early 90s album that they did Baywatch just to remaster.

I know Mike's been watching them start to finish in beautifully remastered high definition. No, Scott has. No, that's me. Oh, Scott too. See? The second time I've confused the likes and enjoyments. The first time I reached out to Mike, I was all excited because I thought he was talking about Help, the song about the health food restaurant

Brian Wilson started. Oh, H-E-L-P on the way? Yeah. Which was a deep cut. Oh, we're starting off so accessible, baby. Oh, H-E-L-P. And then it has the address of the, when Brian Wilson opened a health food store

called the Radiant Radish. Yes. I don't know how in the world he was the owner of a store. How did like just notoriously out of it troubled man. And then in the middle of all that, he ran a store. Did he like have to order the pills and the supplements? What did that mean that he owned a store? Which lasted longer than the height of the Beach Boys.

I think it lasted like five years. I think it was open longer. I think it lasted like five years i think it was open longer i think it was like 68 through 74 it was open so really so his wikipedia should say health food store owner comma musician yeah i could be giving misinformation yeah wow wow that's insane so what really you reached out to Mike hoping for a treasure trove of Beach Boys stuff. And only now are we unlocking it. And the listeners are reaping the rewards of songs that they have never heard of and may never look up. I'm sure they've brought the recent compilation Sail on Sailor, which is a combination of

the 1972 album and the 1973 album Holland that was just released on Spotify. It's great. Oh, baby. That's my sweet spot is the I love Carlin Passions and Holland, and I love the live album in concert from 73 where you got Blondie and Ricky Fatar in the band. So the band is actually good live, maybe for the only time in their history. Dennis Wilson, history for you guys. Dennis Wilson, the drummer of the band, walked through a plate glass window and shattered his hand and thus making him not able to drum for the band.

But he still wanted to go on tour, you know, and get drunk and get laid and everything. So they had to hire a different drummer. And then he just like stood up in front of the stage with his bandaged bandaged up hand just like just and he was there just for charm because moral support yeah yeah yeah just it's true almost like the the mighty mighty boston's side uh dancer guy except without the dancing right right and dennis obviously was the sex symbol as identified by drew carey a couple of weeks ago at the grammys saluteute the Beach Boys, to which Mike Love looked like someone insulted his mother. Because obviously, obviously, Mike Love is the sex symbol of the Beach Boys. This is something Scott and I were just talking about a couple of days ago.

Mike Love's presence on this CBS Beach Boys special from the balcony, essentially. His Statler and Waldorf-esque presence he was literally a Statler and Waldorf in their spot in the theater watching all these new acts I guess he didn't let you know make fun of them terribly maybe after the fact though I bet

right Ian we were talking about I thought he liked Pentatonix the best because he was like standing for them and he gave a big thumbs up. But I don't know if you noticed something different as far as his enjoyment of all the acts. He's tough to read because if he's at an event, he plays the game well. He plays the game really well. So it doesn't matter which administration it is because some people say that he's with 45. But let's not forget, it was Ronald Reagan who did not let the Beach Boys, he had to fight his interior secretary to allow them to play in Washington, D.C. in 1983.

Yes, indeed. Yeah, because they brought the wrong elements. The Beach Boys did an annual concert in Washington, D.C., and it was canceled by James Watt in the Reagan administration who said no more of this. We're getting some family friendly entertainment. Wayne Newton will be doing it. Oh, wow. Kicking off a giant controversy. Everybody was furious at James Watt.

Like the only correct case of anger at anyone in the Reagan administration. Otherwise flawless eight year run and the only time anybody got anything wrong but then it led to great footage of all the Beach Boys showing up hanging out with the Reagans and Dennis drunkenly sweatily hanging off of Nancy just like sweat drip

a puddle forming at Nancy Reagan's feet as this man in the final throes of his life, soon to drown, hanging out at the White House with our first lady. Wow. Now, Scott, you may be more of an expert than I am. Was that the same clip where he just yells his name uncontrollably during the introductions? I had never seen that.

You sent that to me. I was trying to do some of the backlog of when have we interacted on Twitter before about the Beach Boys? And that was one where the bands all introducing themselves. Hey, I'm Al Jardine. I'm Bruce Johnston. And then he gets to the mic and just goes. It was the Miss World yelling France of its day. The Howard Dean moment.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It bridged the gap. That was the great yell of the 80s. Then Dean took it over. So many great yells over the years. Wow. Scott, how does this feel? Because we've long teased you doing a full Beach Boys podcast.

Does this feel like cathartic in a way to say this out loud on a microphone? Mainly, look, am I thinking about the listener who grew tired of this in the first minute? Absolutely. But am I also thinking of the episode after episode slog of hearing about the perfect albums by Green Day and Brian Setzer and Aerosmith, the bad boys? I feel like I've earned this. I'm not going to milk it, though. I'm going to step away. We don't have to do this forever.

But, you know, although maybe we should just go straight into an after show when all is said and done. But you know what? I'm going to take it and I'm going to milk it. Well, I'll let Ian, if you want to have just for now, have a closing thought on the Beach Boys. Not that it can't come back during the episode. But you sent me a video earlier today that you said you wanted to be played on the podcast periodically. Oh, sure. So, Brett, the file is called Love, if you could queue that up.

Yes, this is Christmas. And this is just a little snippet. Yeah, obviously, this is my favorite Peach Boy. I think it's everybody's favorite Peach Boy. It's Mike Love, so that's going to be my next child's middle name. So, Mike Love, all one word. I'm going to mine, I'll call them Love, but they're named after Jennifer Love

Hewitt. Very good. Yes. Okay. Favorite of mine is a young man. That sounded weird. Well, you had the answer when we were talking about who's Hollywood's leading man and leading lady today off of those posters. And you had Jennifer Love Hewitt so in the tank, ready to go.

Yes, it was Chase Meridian and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Here we go. This is the clip. Oh, boy. Yes. Okay. Mike Love. I knew it was going to be this.

Mike Love, if you don't know the whole history, the cockiest man in the universe. And this is him on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Well, I am very much a ladies' man. I admit to that, yes. Life in prison as ladies' man. Just imprison me with a few ladies, that's all I ask. No, it's true. I do like girls.

He does. He committed to the hat thing a long time ago. Yeah, he may have forcibly committed to the hat thing due to his early baldness uh i just was looking at a photo when in 2012 when they sang the national anthem at a dodgers game and it was it's the only time i think i've seen him without a hat oh yeah in decades and decades like only only for america will he allow his bald head to be seen. Wow, yeah. I just recently saw a photo of little Steven Van Zandt without his trademark bandana around his head. Shocker.

Yeah, shocker. I don't know. I forget even where I saw it. It was probably taken away. The lawyers from the E Street Band probably got it removed from the internet promptly. What sleaze merchants took this photo? This is like upskirt photos back in the day. Yes, shocking. That's not, that's like against,

he needs to give you express written consent. The nude leaks. See pictures without. People's nudes leaked. Same situation as little Steven not having his bandana on in a photo. Yeah, I got an RAR file. It's a bunch of pics of little Steven without,

you got 65 pics of him without bandana. I want to turn you in but no give it to me give me the hard drive call it sans band pics how could they do that to the producer of south side johnny's i don't want to go home of course well that's right and cole writer cole writer as well yeah i'm in bruce you're checking everybody's boxes including with your as discussed before we started recording your background of philly's banners you ain't you're aiming to please all of us individually yeah yes thanks so thank you for that um before we start we will talk about at least a little bit about uh disney world resort tv today but is there any ian you've been a longtime supporter of our show and we'd like to thank you for that are there any gripes you have are there any sort of other thoughts you've

had recently that you want to like lay into us about uh we're here we're ready we'll take it you know wow i think i i went through a period last year where my wrestling future was in doubt uh because you know it was unclear where ring of honor would go. And thankfully, Tony Khan bought us, the owner of AEW. So at that time, I released all my gripes. I wrote them down. Most of them had to do with your old pal, Grandpa, but not Al Lewis. Most of them had to do with you bringing up the new Grandpa monster. And you's he i have a long time running rivalry with him but only in my head um because he's like the local celebrity here in the area um i'm from allentown pennsylvania uh he's from the bethlehem area kind of a sister city you're talking about

daniel roebuck daniel roebuck fake j Jay Leno. And he, on the hospital my sister works on, there's, see, I'm so angry I can't even formulate thoughts. I'm usually a professional blogger. I'm sorry, yeah. I get it. They put these photos of the COVID-19 vaccine. It was very exciting. Get your vaccine. We have them here.

They had Larry Holmes, heavyweight champion of the world, Amanda Seyfried daniel roebuck and really whoa yeah yep so i'm just saying that's the level wow yeah geez he's that big i wait so then do you but do you have an issue with it or is it like professional jealousy 100 professional jealousy yeah i'm I'm just jealous that, you know, they're not talking about Ring of Honor enough in the Allentown Morning Call, in the Salisbury Press that circulates in the township. You know, that's all I'm jealous of. Do you ever just go to the famous Allentown rest stop?

Yes. The very large rest stop there and just listen to see if anyone like oh did you see ring of honor did you watch honor club this week or or are they all just like did you see daniel roebuck's instagram yeah or are they at the uh bethlehem the casino that used to be a steel mill uh or then where they're all talking about Roebuck. I bet. I try and keep myself, again, uncertain times, I try to keep myself stress-free.

I just try to rein it in. That Allentown rest stop really, I'll tell you what, it gets under my skin. I collect magnets when I went out to Disneyland. I ended up with 4,000 of them. Every city I go for AEW or Ring of Honor or New Japan, I get the magnet at the airport. The Allentown rest stop does not have Allentown magnets, which is probably the only rest stop I've ever been to that does not have its major city. So I personally confronted the Allentown

mayor about this to have some political injunction so that we can get some Allentown pride around here. Wow. Did he respond? He did. He's great. Oh, okay. Oh. He said there's nothing he could do, but he took the time to respond to me. That's not in the mail. I feel like if you – what's the thing that like the Defense Act,

like what was supposed to be invoked to get all the vaccines made? Couldn't he invoke some kind of state that like, all right, everybody who's not working get to work and start making right defunct like plants plants that usually make like war weapons that are now not working are now retrofitted to make magnets for allentown i think all that should be nationwide but if there was if there were less weapons and more fun souvenir magnets for allentown. Yeah. It's just my dream. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. It can be. Well, yeah. All right. It's all Allentown. Well, they've had such a drought for so long that demand has been pent up. They deserve it the most. Yeah.

Yeah. You're right. And it makes sense. All right. Wow. So people in Washington and Oregon and Kentucky and all over will be making Allentown magnets. Well, and also all of our listeners around this area, could you stop talking about Daniel Roebuck and talk about Ian Riccoboni, please?

Thank you. That's what we're calling for today. I know you want to talk about Daniel around the table, but give it a rest for a few weeks. Get Ian's name out there. He's very good at what he does. So, yeah, I call on everyone there and around the nation. Change the conversation. Yeah.

Jason, could you talk to your family? Tell them about Ian. Yeah, I'll put a call in. Okay. Because we need a little bit more Ian and a little less Daniel. But it doesn't count if they just like, they have to go to a public place. Jason's family has to like go out and talk loudly about Ian. That's not it.

That's not going to happen. Okay. I'm just saying it doesn't get, if they do it in their house, nobody's going to hear unless they're shouting out of the house. Well, they could shout out of the house. Yeah, sure. Okay. I'm just saying if they do it in their house, nobody's going to hear unless they're shouting out of the house. Well, they could shout out of the house. Yeah, sure. Okay. Get your parents to scream Augustine's name out of their window to increase his public profile.

Yeah, yeah. We'll do. I like that. We'll do. So, yeah. Okay. So if Grandpa was the number one thing and we've addressed it, let's talk a little bit about Walt Disney World Resort TV. Ian, you're a massive theme park guy, so much so that we used a YouTube video a few weeks ago that you posted.

I didn't even realize it until Scott pointed it out that you had posted the Dinosaurs MGM Studios, don't know. Parade float little show, what you would call it, but kind of a show, kind of a parade. That's, that's only documented by like two or three YouTube users. And as I'm looking at it, like,

wait a minute, isn't he supposed to be on the show soon? Amazing. Thank you for, thank you for your work. I guess your mom's work, the documentary. Shelly Riccoboni.

She, she used Jason's's style rise and grind when we went to the theme park. My dad worked like 60 to 80 hours a week. And I was a spoiled kid. We had everything we could ever ask for. But it was because my dad worked so much. My mom worked 40 hours a week. Manager at McDonald's. In Allentown. Shout out Allentown again.

But the big thing was when we went to Disney World, we were going to get our money's worth. So my dad had it scheduled, but he let my mom pick the tent pole events. So before FastPass, before everything else, you looked at the schedule, you saw when the parades were, and God darn it, we were going to make all of them. So that's why there's such great parade footage. Ace Ventura, MGM Studio footage, it's all on my YouTube page. I went on your YouTube and I found the playlist

of vintage Disney home movies. So you're one of the main sources not just on dinosaurs but yes that Ace Ventura show of like there's a Toy Story parade the Aladdin parade. There's a kind of obscure oh I mean not obscure but just that you posted it with the full photo the full title 1992 MGM Studios

Walt Disney Resort Muppets on Location Days of Swine and Roses. Yeah. You get the full proper title of this Muppet. The show where, Muppets on Location, Days of Swine and Roses. Yeah. You get the full proper title of this Muppet. The show where the Muppets were suited characters, not puppets. It was pretty cool. And I remember there's one that we definitely have that we haven't been able to find. It's of the Ninja Turtles. And it wasn't quite a show, but they were out and about.

And there was music blasting. And they would meet people and take pictures. And they had the stampers instead of the autographs. They had the stampers. Oh, yeah. So we have one of those laying around somewhere, too. We just haven't found it yet. But you could thank Shelly Riccoboni for all that.

Yeah. Wow. Wow. And I do. Yes. Thank you for all these posts. This is all Second Gate stuff. So to fill in Main Gate listeners, two more obscure topics we've covered on the Second Gate are things that you've just mentioned that you've posted.

This live show with the characters from Dinosaurs, the ABC show, and then a live show, strangely, weirdly in Disney, of Ace Ventura, like a little mini stunt show with Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. We were debating these, on the second gate, which one was better, which one gives you more of what you want out of the IP. And you might be the only one qualified of the four of us here. You did watch all of them and posted the videos and had a chance to rewatch. Can I give you this little versus Ace Ventura show versus dinosaurs show?

It's without a doubt dinosaurs. I mean, we go there we go what the pictures don't quantify or capture and the video doesn't quite capture is just how larger than life and how cool it was to see Earl, to see the baby. There was something, that whole trip for me, I was five years old, was a blast. I remember, that's pretty much my earliest memories of anything where I remember it crystal clear. Something clicked in my brain and was like, yep, I'm going to remember this. And I remember that was one of the last things we did before we left the park, before we checked out of the hotel. And it was just absolutely incredible. The float was actually pretty big because they reused the same float over time. They reused it for some other parades.

So if you would ever see it in MGM, it was actually quite big, even as an adult, I ended up seeing it. But I just remember the costumes. I remember thinking, big, even as an adult, I ended up seeing it. But I just remember the costumes. I remember thinking, yeah, these are the dinosaurs. And I didn't have that same feeling with Mickey or with Goofy or with Pluto. I kind of knew the kayfabe of Mickey, Goofy, Pluto, but I was like, no, those are the dinosaurs. Those are absolutely who I see on TV every week. Wow. Wow. It's a good point. Yeah, you're putting Mike in a losing position here. You were arguing the point of Ace Ventura,

which I was saying is one of my least favorite things we've ever covered. I found it so monotonous. And we've covered some dreck on this show. We certainly have. Yeah, well, but I love some of the dreck. Some of the dreck. A lot of the dreck I celebrate. Was the Ace Ventura live show not good?

Am I underrating it? It was okay. I remember my brother liking it a lot. He's eight years older. I would have been eight, seven or eight at the time, I think. My brother was probably 15, 16. So it was more his speed. You can hear my dad chuckle.

You can hear my dad really. I think it was for the dads, honestly. This makes a lot of sense. More mature viewers liked the Ace Ventura thing. People that were a little more sophisticated liked Ace's show at MGM Studios versus the dinosaurs, which is more juvenile, I think. This is a hell of a way to put down five-year-old Ian. Well, look, I'm trying to save a bit of face here with my opinion, which is still correct, sadly. That's what I'm determining now.

It's sadly for us. Huh? Sadly. Yeah. For everyone else. I'm right. Always. Yeah.

One against three, one, one completely defeats three. One does defeat three. It's the ultimate handicap match. Yes. Sorry. Did I cut you off?

Were you saying something, Ian? No, no. I was only going to add that that same trip that I saw Ace Ventura actually was in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids play area. I have a video of that from the previous trip, the dinosaur trip. But in the one where we saw Ace Ventura actually knock down Sting's child, the wrestler Sting, in the play area. He started, I started crying. He was fine. He got up, ran away.

Sting came over and I didn't, this shows you what kind of a kid I was. I didn't understand that he, that it was Sting because he didn't have his makeup on. He had his flat top, but he didn't have the makeup on. He didn't, and my mom goes, Ian, are you okay? Check if the little boy's okay. Oh, Ian, that's sting. And I was like, no, it's not. And she goes, yeah, come over. So she walked me over and I get a good look at him and I notice it is sting. I

start to get it. And I just start crying even more. I don't want to bother him. And now I, now I work with him. Wow. Wow. This is terrible. And he will tell him that story. No,

God, no. And I actually, I actually briefly, uh, briefly spent some time with him on Thanksgiving Eve. Um, we, we went back to the hotel together.

Um, I don't know sting very well. He's a super cool dude, super nice. His family's great, as I've come to learn later when I'm not physically assaulting them in a theme park. But yeah, he's a cool dude. I've not yet told him that. Wait, does that mean you've met the kid? I've met his wife, as strange as that sounds.

She's a super talented person that I've worked with in different aspects, but I've not yet met Garrett, no. That would be wild, but you do know his name. That's a crazy way to have awareness to have of just a kid you bumped into in 1992. Hey, nice to see you. I bodied you in 1992. I don't know if you recall.

It was by the big Kodak film canister. Yeah, it was by the ant. I remember I was goofing around by the ant, and I jumped off. And, yep. So you jumped off the top rope? Yeah. Yeah. Which I've done in a Ring of Honor ring.

My only match. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you weren't down there to see pro wrestling, right? Or did you? No, it's crazy. Just luck. Just random luck.

They were filming Thunder in Paradise. They were filming WCW. They were filming all kinds of stuff. Every reason for Sting to be there. My dad called the Grand Floridian because he heard that's where everyone was staying. And he said, hey, is Hulk Hogan staying there? And they actually told him he was. They actually told him.

Whoa. Wow. They just blew his spot. They said, yeah, he's here. All the wrestlers are here. He won his room number? I don't know. My dad's a sweetheart.

Hates wrestling. But he once chased down Lex Luger in a limo for me. And he once called the Grand Floridian to see if if Hulk Hogan was. Wow. How do we how do I know it? Doesn't this feel like one of these things that didn't change until after 9-11 that I know these feel like that is true that somehow one of the residual effects of September 11th was now a hotel will not tell you that a famous wrestler is staying there

if you a stranger calls I think you can still check in under an assumed like hey could you put here's my credit card and ID and everything but could you list the the occupancy as like Alan Smithy or whatever I don't know

I think that I think that was outlawed nationwide post 9-11 I think that pseudonyms are gone across the board no that's not true but uh to be a one hell of a way to combat terrorism you know how they got the jump on everybody fake names

do you think That's true. If Hulk Hogan checks in now, he goes under his Thunder in Paradise character name. Hold on, it's loading. Randolph J. Hurricane, is that his name? Yes. Well, I know Mr. Hogan is not staying here, but there is a certain Randolph J. Hurricane, if you'd like to meet him. Also, Chris Lemon is staying here. No, no interest.

That's fine. No, I'm all right. What, have you never heard of him? No, no, no. I've seen him many times on the show. I just do not want to meet Chris Lemon. Real quick, you know what? We were talking about this, too.

You are working at Universal Studios now, currently. Yeah. I'm a theme park attraction, kind sort of which is weird um but it's tons of fun um i have access to maybe one of the cooler things ever and it's one of those things where sometimes you don't want to see how the sausage is made but going backstage on the sound stages and the back lots to see the performers on stilts to see the mardi gras folks to see the different parades and things is really incredible it's a really top-notch organization yeah so so yeah you're doing you're doing ring of honor uh once a month a couple times a month yeah just about once a month these days yeah uh-huh and and you're shooting it inside one

of the orlando sound stages that like can you good good, can you tell us, is it secret? Is it butt up to like city walk? How close is it to the hard rock? Uh, how close is it to the hemisphere dancer? If, if I'm, if I'm,

if I have my geography, right. When I look out, it looks like where the islands of adventure, uh, Jason's favorite area. I'm at the, with the obelisk in the middle.

Oh, right. There was just an episode on it. You can see that. Are you talking about Port of Entry, perhaps? Yes. Yes, Port of Entry. Where Jason took the obelisk off the table, refused to acknowledge it within the-

Well, we didn't talk about obelisks at all, because there's no obelisks at play. It's a lighthouse. Oh, man, Ian. No, Ian, that's fine. You're a guest. You're a guest here. I think in a vague shape sense, you could call it an obelisk.

The vaguest. It's the weenie. It's the park weenie. It's the weenie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can all agree on that, that it is a weenie. It's the weenie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We can all agree on that, that it is a weenie. So in relation to this weenie, you're saying you're, where can you see, is there a window where you see it out the soundstage?

So we can see the Seuss land to our right. What the craziest part was, was the announcers get a trailer there. So I had this nice trailer with like Pac-Man and like a full oven and stove and tv damn and it's pretty neat they it was it was pretty cool um so when you walk out of this trailer uh i would take a look and i'd see the the dr seuss rides on my right and then sort of directly in front would be the the lighthouse so it puts us kind of in the if you're walking into the park it would almost be like straight on kind of islands of adventure if my geography is right now i've only been to islands in 99 like we went we went there the 99 or 2000 shortly after it opened and then

2020 during the pandemic i took my i'm a very responsible father. I took both my children and my wife during an international pandemic to a theme park. But those were the only two times I've been inside Islands of Adventure. Jason's about to press end on this Zoom window. Jason is seething. You get those numbers up

or you're gone. I see the rage in Jason's eyes. You take an extra day you know you ask mr khan like hey can i fly back two days after we finish you know i'll get the ticket myself yeah tony khan who owns the ring of honor oh gotcha gotcha yeah the ultimate guy the ultimate guy in my opinion oh really uh uh yeah so so that's pretty cool i mean is there i don't want to we'll edit this out are you can you could you just walk right into the park is that possible arrangement i think there's an arrangement you can add there was a spot in the in the group email

in the prep email that said for for ticket information okay please contact someone so i i do think there is an element of either complimentary or severely discounted tickets at play. Okay. So you wouldn't have to find a hole in a fence and sneak under it. You could just legally do it. We were explicitly warned not to do that, that there would be professional fines and suspensions for real, not just the television kind, if we snuck in.

They have cracked down on that at universal studios hollywood too because you could just walk into the theme park from the back lot like many years ago and now there's giant like fake hedges because it's it's the um jurassic world and the exit from uh nintendo so it's all blocked off now. You can't just kind of... I think you can get back there if you work there, but it's not just like a big open gate you can just sort of wander into. Right.

You need a jet pack or something. Yeah, yeah. Rocket shoes. All right. Well, it sounds like you have the opportunity and the option, which is nice. Right. Have you dined at CityWalk recently

or is it sort of in and out to do the job? So it's funny you mention that, because CityWalk, my brothers lived in Orlando since 2003. So while I've not been to Islands of Adventure, but more than twice, I've been to CityWalk probably two or three dozen times. I like that.

We like numbers. We like that. These are pocket thread numbers. Yeah. We like that. These are pockets of numbers. Yeah. My wife and I are big Disney heads. You know, we take the kids down, but it's like

having your favorite candy. You can have your favorite candy too many times. Sometimes you just need to mix it up. You need to get some

carob cake like Brian Wilson sang on H-E-L-P about the radiant radish. Yeah. Or else you end up with a ripply chin. Yes. What a condition your condition is in. Yeah.

So we'd mix it up. If there was a free night, we'd obviously go to Margaritaville. I've been to Margaritaville many times. And we used to go to the NBA restaurant. We went to the NBA store. And then the Hard Rock is right next to it. So we are CityWalk veterans. And I used to go see Impact Wrestling there.

So my summer's home from college. I'm from Pennsylvania, but my brother's down in Orlando. I'd go visit my brother and I would drive over and see Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, folks I work with now. So it's a very small world. It's weird how all of it interconnects. Wow. Where was the Impact Tapings?

It was in pretty much the same sound stages. Oh, wow. Okay. So that is the place. Like that's the wrestling place for decades now, I guess. Yeah. There was a weird small one called the AWF in 93. Before that, there was one by Eddie Mansfield that Kevin Kelly got his start in.

Billy Gunn got his start in that one, too, at a Universal. Wow, that's forever ago then. Yeah. Sorry, that was insulting to Kevin and Billy. We'll edit that out. I don't want them mad at me. Wow, man, that's cool. So, yeah, we're really, we're the CityWalk thing.

It's like Islands Adventure, sure, but CityWalk, yeah, that's cool so yeah we're really we're we're the city walk thing it's like islands adventure sure but city walk yeah that's yeah that's our vibe as you know so absolutely which i'm glad we're we're in agreement on that one but not and just really quick though to back up to something you said um you you said in front of mike and jason sometimes you can get sick of your favorite candy and need to mix it up and have something else. This is a strange observation. He was saying like metaphorically, because if he was literally talking about candy, I would have been furious.

Okay, okay. Yeah, you just put other candies in the bulk candy bag to mix it up. As long as you're replacing it with other candy. All right, all right. I figured that could have been a controversial statement here. Right. Yeah, no, it is.

But I think he was sort of using it in a very ethereal, not a specific candy-based argument. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm less upset about it. But now that you're talking about it, maybe I will be upset. Came on and I'm really ruffling feathers. You so kindly told Allentown and Bethlehem to shout my name from the rooftops out the window. I'm picking fights.

No, it's okay. We're trying to mix it up here. We're trying to keep it lively. It's like club random. Look, you're saying a lot of hot topic opinion here, okay? And that's what's happening. We're basically doing a club random here as far as the opinions are concerned.

You know, you're a guy used to, like, helping set up feuds and angles and stuff, and it feels like you're trying to build them on this show now, too. It's just second nature to you. That's true. Absolutely, yeah. And that's the play, too.

And you gotta get so ingrained with it. Like, I made Chris Jericho so mad that I feuded with him on AEW for about 12 weeks. So it helps publicity wise. Did I take a beating? Did I get slapped in the face? Yes. Was that horrible and was it embarrassing to my family and my friends? Yes. But I was on television and got to feud one of the greatest of all time. Sure. Sure. But that was 12 weeks where he could have been lurking around any corner with a belt at any time. And I assumed he was. I really did. Sure. Sure. And, well, by the end of this podcast, I don't know.

I may slap Jason in the face. Oh. Oh, okay. I said may. I didn't say it was going to happen. Not guaranteed. But it's possible. Sure. I said may. I didn't say it was going to happen. Not guaranteed. But it's possible. We've never gotten physical as far as being upset with each other on the podcast yet.

Yet. I don't think we've ever gotten physical in real life because I feel like that's one I would lose. Maybe. I don't know. I've never seen you in a fight, like a real fight. Neither have I. Well, that's true. I mean, I used to backyard wrestle, and then we used to fight with each other, but it was never fists.

We were not punching each other. And watch out if there's any tennis rackets anywhere nearby, because Mike is the master of... I've been playing a little tennis in my golden years. So I am in good condition. But you'll switch to pickleball soon enough. Well, I'm dying to do pickleball. That's the hottest game.

Have you heard? It is hot. People are playing this. It's like tennis, but it's easier, I think. I think it's easier on the joints. Parents can't stop talking about it. My parents can't stop talking about it. There you go.

All right. We got to talk a little. Disney World Resort TV. This is a topic you brought up, Ian, which is a great topic. Something we've talked a little bit about on the show, but we haven't gotten into it as much as we probably should have at this point. So, yeah, if you want to talk about your affection for this, just to start us off. Sure, I you want to talk about your affection for this, just to start us off. Sure, I'd love to. And I want to give a shout out quick for fun and lightheartedness.

Obviously, podcaster I had the place to be. For a little bit, a tiny bit of history, more academic, I go to RetroWDW. Hal Bowers is a guy there who's inside and out, knows everything about Disney World. So I got with Hal and said, hey, when did this start? And he said about 1973 was the first time that they had ever kind of written anything down about the resort TV. So it was pretty much there from the start. Channel 5 was the resort channel and Channel 1 was a radio station through the TV. So somewhere along the way, Channel 1 became the bulletin board, maybe the radio station, the combination of both. And then channel five became the resort TV we know

and love. And I really take to it like when you go to a baseball game and you see, if you go to Citizens Bank Park and you walk in and then you're walking toward your seat and it's the first time you see a glimpse of anything. It's the first time you see what you came to see. And it's that magic feeling and magic moment. So I think it was Jason who said, when you get in the room, you turn on the TV. And that's what I did. And some of my earliest memories of going to Disney World are the flying Dumbo, are going on Big Thunder Mountain with my dad for the first time, or the Dinosaurs Parade, and then actually the Resort TV. And it's something where it has that Pleasantville effect, which you don't really realize until later, where not so much now, because now there's full cable in the room, but back the first time we stayed in a Disney World Resort in 1992, we stayed in the Disney Inn Rort in 1992, we stayed in

the Disney Inn RIP. I think they just call it something else now, but the shades of green, I think. But the Disney Inn at the time, you got two channels. You got the radio station, which was the bulletin board. You got the Disney Resort TV, and then maybe ABC or maybe PBS or maybe Fox. Like you really didn't get much. I didn't know this. Yeah. This is new context to me. Yeah.

So when you were there, Mike, it just really, you felt kind of stuck, but also willingly, willing to be ingratiated, willing to be a part of the scene there. Yeah. It is funny. And I'll play, I have just a clip, like if people don't know what we're talking about if just like the vibe of it but it is very much watching it now i go oh this is like uh like the you kids are like stuck in a reprogramming camp or something where they're becoming super soldiers and it's like you're watching a video of like hello welcome we will be training you to turn into killing machines and you're like this is awesome like just the pleasantness any sort of context or any sort of um like any sort

of message would be uh you would be responding well to it the way they present the information and the visuals which brett if you could i have a resort tv intro movie um like this. It's so, it's such a, yeah, washes over you of like, oh my God. It's very pleasant. It's very dry,

especially in the early years. Yes. In the 90s, they start to make it a little more dynamic to which I say, all right, easy now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So no, show us the rides and what there is to do. This is 94's in-room resort TV.

So, yeah, whenever you're... Welcome to the Walt Disney World Resort. 43 square miles of nonstop excitement for everyone. There's almost no end to the things you have to look forward to. And you've chosen a wonderful time to visit. You'll find fabulous fun, spectacular entertainment, and brand new attractions all over the Walt Disney World Resort. Here's a quick look around the world to help you see the most,

get the best value, and have a vacation dream come true. The Disney MGM Studios, the most popular movie and TV studios in the world. See a star and be a star as you thrill to great attractions and see real production in the works. Reach the height of. And yeah, like it just like, yes. And remember, you'll kill without remorse. Don't worry. That part of your brain will be excised.

And you're like, yes, good. Right. It's so pleasant. it's so it's so amazing I feel so much more relaxed yeah for watching it and just just to be really clear we if you're staying anywhere on property any

actual Disney World hotel and at this point you know it's not like Ian was saying now there now you have cable you have a lot of channels, a lot of which are Disney-related channels that are exclusive to there. But the main thing is there's always been at least one channel devoted to this half-hour

loop that is telling you all the things to do around the world. And, you know, shining light on some of the less famous things. You came here for the parks, but maybe you don't know about the recreation or the nightlife. You know, you came here for the parks, but maybe you don't know about the recreation or the nightlife. And these, yeah, absolutely a key part of these vacations for me.

Like you could, because it means that the magic doesn't end when you go back to your room. You can go back and watch footage of all the rides that you went on and footage of all the rides you're going to go on tomorrow. It's just a perfect way to like keep you locked in. Like I never have to break this mode. I can just stay here the entire vacation long. And it was sometimes like practical.

Like that's how we would find out about if we somehow missed announcements of new things in Disney Magazine, Disney Adventures, The Wonderful World of Disney, The Disney Channel. If we somehow still miss something. A video that came to you in the mail. A video that came to you in the mail every year, inevitably, because we sent away for it every year. The Burn Bombs Guide. We all had seven opportunities to learn everything

that there was to do with the resort. But if you missed any of those, then this is your list. You can catch it here. Yeah, but also if you just like, yeah, like you were saying, footage of the rides, nicely edited footage. It's not like now where like YouTube,

you can construct a Zapruder film of a ride. You can see any ride, night or day, any angle you want. Yeah. One of the points that they really emphasized in the early ones, the earliest one on YouTube, I think is from 81. It's with Susan. We all love Susan. Susan's the best. But there's a couple that are floating around on the black tape trading market from 75,

76. Not on YouTube, but Susan really emphasizes it's a two-day park. Now, to Jason's point, there were times in my life when I was a kid where we went just about every year. My grandparents lived in Florida. My mom loved Disney. My dad put up with it. We had a good time, but we didn't always get on the rides we wanted to get on because there often were lines that were 60 minutes, 90 minutes for the simplest things, like Dumbo, like the carousel, like anything that I could do when I was smaller. And sometimes Splash Mountain, forget about it. It was two hours, and we just had something else to do.

We were going to go to the Hoop-Dee-Doo Review. We were going to go somewhere else. So we just couldn't do it. So it was really neat, too, to see the new attractions that maybe you didn't get on this time. If you were spoiled like I was, if you had family like I did down in Florida, you might get to see next time. Or you might be able to scream and cry enough to get your parents to try and wait around in line for two hours to hit Splash Mountain within the first two years it opened. Yeah. I'm sure there was plenty of stuff that we didn't get to do because like we weren't even we weren't as on top of it.

I feel like is even you guys when we were young, our family, I mean, but like, yeah, with that video. If yeah, if you're listening, just listening to this, this video showed like a home improvement thing that I didn't know existed that we went right in that zone. Is that the thing where you're like mom and dad or the the kids are in the shows like because you saw the lucy we have to ask ian because i honestly don't know i think that was one superstar television was that superstar television i believe okay that was superstar television yeah you can be on tool time you can do the conveyor belt of chocolates with lucy right you could be the the Debbie Dunning character on Tool Time. You wouldn't want that one replay. You want the real deal.

Sure. You want to be talking to Debbie. Well, sure. I mean, Debbie's come up recently because there's a video that's gone viral on my Instagram. That is the Tool Time girl from Home Improvement sitting on William Shatner's lap. Viral for you is mainly Debbie Dunning and Daniel Roebuck. It's really Shatner. Oh, right, right.

I'm happy to see Debbie, but again, anything with William Shatner in it is what I'm getting. So you'll see a babe in your feed if Daniel Roebuck is talking to one. If Roebuck? Now we got beef. No, I'm the one saying Roebuck again. I'm just saying facts. Look, he's a part of our culture. You can't not talk about him.

That's right. That's true. That's fair. That's fair. One of the most interesting things about fake Al Borland, right only lasted a month and then were quickly retooled or replaced. Right. You know, the superstar television, that moved by so quickly. Who wants to be a millionaire?

My high school English teacher's brother was the Regis Philbin at the theme park for a year. Oh, wow. Wow. was the Regis Philbin at the theme park for a year. Oh, wow. But his big exciting moment was that he was in, I believe, the 2002 version of The Loop, and he was prominently highlighted. Last name Marsico. My English teacher was Richard Marsico. I forget his brother's name, but he was Mr. Disney Marathon. He was Mr. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

So it was very exciting. He was a big resort TVathon. He was Mr. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. So it was very exciting. He was a big resort TV star. Wow. Yeah. Do you have any footage of that anywhere? Like just take off the – Oh, wow. Yeah, I can send that over.

But it was an exciting time, especially in 2003, the next time I went, because now I knew. Now I knew one of the stars. And we waited. And then we saw him, and he was on it for like like two seconds it was like the first time I was on MTV I was on for blink and you'll miss it got real excited and then it just moved on but we got to see him wait that way you were on MTV I was I was in a special with Bill Gates I got Yeah, it was called The Notorious BG, hosted by Gideon Iago. Oh, wow. And I thought TV was going to be easy.

I thought, wow, it's my first week at NYU. I'm answering this casting call. I got cast. Wow, I'm going to get on all of these. And I didn't appear on television for another five or six years. So, geez, wow. Defeated by the pressure. Luckily, there's like no footprint of this.

Maybe it is a Getty Images photo, which you were not in. I'm sorry to tell you, you did not make the Getty Images photo. It's just Bill and Kimmy. I was wearing a bright orange shirt. I screen grabbed it at the time. I think it's the only surviving memento of the occasion. This is a fine broadcast. That's surprising to me.

The MTV generation loves Bill Gates. He's so cool. Wow. So, yeah. So so there's got well, first of all, there's got to be in the warehouse somewhere. There's like a Betamax of that or something, like an old tape somewhere. But it's the least organized. But it's badly organized. And Jason was probably in charge. I probably dropped it. Yeah. Yeah. So flying everywhere. things you talk about uh things that you might not remember if not for these resort tv compilations and one was there was a really brief snippet of if in that intro clip that you played

mike but uh brett i'm gonna call for uh the clip called mickey mania and this is a whole this is a whole other thing to talk about i don't know if you people generally remember the mickey mania parade but i think i forgot about it other than this documentary. Does it sound familiar? You were there. Okay, okay. Insight. Do you guys remember what I'm talking about? Mickey Mania? I don't think so. I feel like I've heard the phrase before. Well, yeah, you have

Mickey Mania, but if you've seen the parade. Yeah, you know it because you have. I think I have seen this. Let's watch this. This really made me shudder seeing a clip here one of the newest delights is the mickey mania parade yeah salute to the world's most famous mouse that's very big indeed the the for the listener and brett i had a still but you could also just go back can you just find the moment where there's like a big and flathered?

Yeah. Okay. I think the premise of Mickey Mania is that how do we pack a parade with as many depictions of Mickey as humanly possible? Some of them literal and some of them abstract. And this frame, I really jumped out of my skin where there is a Mickey with the head that we know, the mascot head that we know, but then a big, tall, inflatable body. So I'm getting some of those like size issues that I have. This is too big of a Mickey. And then lots of like it's almost minions before minions, like little inflatable, like they're four feet. I don't even know what they are.

Are there people in them? Are there children in them? It's like, what do you call it? they're four feet. I don't even know what they are. Are there people in them? Are there children in them? It's like, what do you call it? They're like eggs. They're like Mickey dolls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The whole thing is like a Russian nesting doll of Mickey cracked open and then 400 Mickeys came out.

This is a terrifying parade. Mickey mania should be called like a nightmare, abstract nightmare Mickey. Yeah. Or it's like you're just seeing him in a different weird proportions. You're having a Mickey Mare. I remember my mom, she was like Arsenio Hall. It was like she was with the Dog Pound. She was in like, I swear, and my brother can confirm this, Mickey Mania.

It was like, who, who, who, who, who, Dog Pound. Wow. Whooping it up. Loved it. What a specific reaction. So you had to be there, but it was a crowd pleaser, it sounds like. Oh, loved it. Absolutely.

Wow. That's interesting. I mean, I guess, look, if you're there live, you're going to see a lot of Mickey. Everyone likes Mickey. So I guess maybe it played better live versus now we're looking at it on some old archival footage, basically. And yeah yeah maybe it doesn't read right to your brain sure but i would have been swept up into mickey mania if i would have given the giant inflatable mickey a big hug right it's it's really interesting to look at

these through the because i like jumped i watched them for the 80s and the 90s and 2000s and you you can always tell what they're pushing at any given time yeah um but there are weird moments where it's like oh they're really giving the hard sell to the magic carpets of aladdin the little spinner ride that is kind of in an odd spot of uh adventure land the cheapest boringest ride ever very boring uh did you guys uh come across a thing does the phrase pal mickey mean anything to you no um no okay this is in i i i don't have a clip of this but it's in a 2001 uh in the top seven must sees 2003 with chrissa. Chrissa was before Stacey. Some of

these things we're talking about have hosts. Seemingly, the very early ones did, but not always. Sometimes it's just a weird disembodied voice, but then you start getting fun, relatable ladies. Very much of a piece of the 20.

If you ever remember, was hosted by maria menounos the 20 the movie theater sure sure it's like a fake countdown thing but it's like produced by whoever the disney one is so funny because it's like the top seven things you must see and every item is like actually 10 different things well there's a lot of sub things within these things yeah but so pal mickey was like a stuffed mickey who would talk and it would

tell you like behind the scenes stuff or like show times and continue to do this when you went home so imagine carrying a stuffed Mickey in Orlando where it rains every day. It talks to you. We're sort of in like a Tickle Me Elmo zone.

But specifically they said you can buy this or rent it at your hotel. So you can rent a nasty electronic stuffed Mickey. Wow, Pal Mickey. We may need to do a full episode on this. Yeah, we might Mickey. Wow, Pal Mickey. We may need to do a full episode on this. Yeah, we might have to dig into Pal Mickey because this predates like they're putting Alexas in the hotel rooms. It says, yeah,

he's the talk of the park on the box. I had never heard of this. I've never. No, I've never seen this. I don't know. It's probably going to be too hard, Ian, for you to see unless you Google it. You can play games with him. Yeah. You can, like, Pal Mickey will speak the names of Disney characters. He'll say things like, when I say goofy, squeeze my left hand.

When I say the name of someone who can fly, squeeze my right hand. That's a game Jason and I have played, though. So I get that part of it. Does he say soak your head fresh boy? Very good point. Maybe. If you take my gal, you take your own head and put it in a fucking toilet.

If she kisses you, don't, don't let her. You know what hell happened. I don't care if she wants to. That sounds like a Mike Love lyric. Like the very few Mike Love pen songs. Oh, yeah.

Weird, vindictive. Right. Angry. Petty. It says park tips on here, too. So, yeah. Did you know that your dad is not spending the money that he could be? He's not unlocking all of the magic that's possible.

Look in your dad's wallet. If you see any dollars in there, you find somewhere to spend it. Yeah, feed them into my mouth. Someone in your family is at that bar at the Swan and Dolphin where people go to have affairs, but I'm not going to tell you. Well, that's the crazy part because, I mean, the resort TV was so ingratiated, so known that they spoofed that element of the resort TV. So resort TV worked for my family. I remember very specifically 1992, Disney Inn.

They saw the super duper pass advertised. And, man, we had to upgrade immediately. My mom ran down to the concierge. Super duper ticket. Here we come. But dinosaurs, previous topic, spoofed this whole thing in one of my favorite episodes, We Say So Land, where Earl Sinclair is on every channel. The boss is on every channel.

And he's telling Earl to buy more stuff at We Say So Land. And he can't escape him. Oh, gee. So you could, like were if you were weird you might say that this well we love that you never have to unplug from the disney machine some people view this as then you go home and are told more ways that you could give the company money so you will be giving money to 24 24 7 for you know the five six seven days a cynic might say that about resort tv that fully no cynics are present right this room or zoom right right so yeah because because yeah

this the loop in the 94 one ends with a big push for the vacation club yeah which is like yeah if you like hey if you like what you're doing right now, why go anywhere else ever in the world? They'll say in them, like, you could be a property owner here at the... It's as bald as that. Yeah, yeah. By the way, there are multiple versions of Pal Mickey. There's like different outfits and there's a Sorcerer's Apprentice Pal Mickey. I've never seen this before.

Sorry. Anyway. This is the path to you finding things to be more interested in than your daughter well no did you know there's something you can take care of that looks like mickey something our daughter does not my daughter does not give me park tips honey i i got you more stuffed animals now you have to keep them in the box, and they are rotting. They stink. But you can have them on this high bookshelf where you can't touch them.

Brett, could you bring up, this is a video, I think this is from the 95 Resort TV. Could you bring up the video called Disney Nights? This will get confusing, because I also sent a video called Disney Nights. Maybe it's the same thing. Probably the same thing. It's a. It's a big part. It's a big deal. It's a very of its time sort of thing.

Oh, yeah. Pleasure Island. That's what it says. And now, set your sights on the evening lights. You're having some fun on those Disney nights. Wow. That is so great. That logo is so good.

That voice. Yeah. When the sun goes down all around, the nighttime fun comes to your town with Disney nights. That's very lecherous. I'll be honest. It makes it funny that then the next thing is like, the luau with Mickey and Minnie. Mickey and Minnie will wear Hawaiian skirts for you. The things are not very nighty necessarily.

Mickey takes off his little red shorts and puts on a hula skirt. When the sun goes down, so do Mickey's shorts. His little red shorts. The moon comes up and the skirt does too. The Luau Hoopty Doo Review and before that, Broadway at the Top

are always pushed but in different ways. In the 90s and 2000s, it's the other two shows being exciting endeavors. And then in the 80s, it's like you and your family can enjoy three different dinner theater shows. It's just very, very restrained. And the 80s ones, too, spend like a third of the video talking about different recreational opportunity.

It sounds like Hank Hill describing Disney World. It's like all, now they want you in the park and they want you spending money. But at the time it's like, here's the free recreational activities included at your resort. 1995 was the only time that they wanted you a little horny. Oh yeah, just a little. Just a little bit. Just a little.

But I did see the one talking. The One Pleasure Island. It's like, there's nightclubs, country music, 90s hits, improv comedy. And it's just like, oh, man. No, I don't want to hear about that. Improv comedy. Improv comedy. Watch if they get a suggestion.

Where will they go? And you had to get the babysitter, too. I mean, that's a hallmark from Susan. Again, we love Susan. She might be the first girl. I know this is your part. I don't want to impose my will here, but you had a lot of guys. You haven't had a lot of girls.

Just saying. Susan from the 81 video. She should be a PTR legend, you think, maybe? Maybe. Or she should come up more on the show. Yes, at least the latter. But she's always talking about- What year do we see Susan?

I feel like I didn't see Susan. I'd like to. Oh, 81. 81. She's believed to have been on before that, but 81 is the- Susan sightings were rare, but not uncommon.

First documented viewing of Susan was in 1981. I'm such a dummy. I went to YouTube and typed in Susan as if that would be enough. I'm getting a lot of suggestions for other things. Boyle, Sarandon. No, no, stop. Stop giving me second names. I want Susan.

Full stop. Yeah, it should be like share yeah you know a weird thing though is that so there's the early 2000s videos and that's i said that's a woman named chrissa and then uh stacy takes over in 2006 i know this because she posted about it on Instagram. She was there from like 2006 to 2020. But there's an early 2000s video with Krissa, and then there's a Stacey video from a few years later, and she is saying basically the same script. They remade the video.

Yeah, they remade the video. Interesting. Humiliating for Krissa. Yeah. These were my words. I know them so well, I can recite them by heart. Do we know if, sir, is it like a, obviously it's not like a Supreme Court justice where you serve on Disney Resort TV forever. Are we sure?

I mean, I don't want to. Oh, I guess you're right. No, you're right. We actually don't. You're right. No, we don't want to. Oh, I guess you're right. No, you're right. We actually don't. You're right. No, we don't know. Maybe they retired. It's like it in that Stacey has a lot of land holdings from a billionaire that she didn't disclose.

Right, right. Some shady dealings with Stacey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some corruption with Reedy Creek. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why Ron's going to get in there and take care of all of this. But maybe, yeah, maybe Krista is like, I'm holding out being the resort TV host until a new CEO that is more politically aligned with me comes into power. So that's really when you're a resort TV host, yeah, you have to resign strategically.

So they appoint someone that's more of your sort of political persuasion. So maybe that's what Chrissa was doing. I don't know. Yeah. You got a target on your back. Whether you're Susan or Krista or Stacey, it's the position everybody wants. This would be a good choose your fighter screen.

Assuming that we can find, we just need a, send us, Ian, send us Susan so we make sure we can represent Susan properly. Yeah. In 81, who was the CEO? When was E. Card Walker? Did E. Card Walker appoint Susan to Resort TV? He almost had to. I mean, because he was breaking ground on epcot he was getting ready but i wonder if he i wonder if he

delegated that because epcot was so close right right epcot getting ready for that and one of the things everybody seems to have in common again i think the hosts are for the dads because these are conventionally attractive maybe 25 to 30 year old women and the dads are there and so you might you know they might be listening to the conventionally attractive 25 to 30 year old woman more so than jd roth who was the host of disney's inside out which they promote during the that's yeah that's work dad doesn't want to see jd yeah give me some eye candy but dad would like to see the champ george foreman yes he also hosted disney inside and out sometimes we have not talked more about but the right the disney that's another we in our list of everything that tells you what you could do at disney world we forgot or unless you

said it that there was a weekly show on the Disney channel where George Foreman shows you what to do at the parks. What a weird time. And before that, I believe a monthly television show, which is a very odd schedule, a once a month TV. That's like the Columbo schedule. Yeah, yeah. It's when he feels like it.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's when he feels like it. Yeah. Yeah, really. Well, and the hosts all have a real, like, you know, like, don't start picturing. It's no Bikini Babe, right? It's no Debbie Dunning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No Debbie Dunning. Yeah.

All the babe of the decade. No offense, anyone. of the decade um no like you you know it's it's the most like kind of gap ad uh like uh you know sporty vest and sweater over your shirts and like uh and it's probably at some point like cargo pants and then maybe they'll like that you know they'll go to a thing where you know there's like a bunch of uh dancers of some international flavor and she'll get in there and like whoop whoop like she'll like dance slightly for two seconds and then laugh how hard like i can't believe i did the dance yeah it's the same type of woman three it just it just shifts as time goes on well in 2001 you since you mentioned gap ad the 2001 video it's uh four or six people in different colored polo shirts and khakis and they're they're not really established who they are or what they're doing or why we would know them uh jane was

guessing they were like in park uh face characters because she's like i that could be a princess that could be aladdin you know that could um but could but they and they do that like editing trick of like they pop in from the side of the screen or like they're upside down from the top of the screen to tell you to check out one of the videos by the way does

I know I was I looked a bit foolish when I suggested people read the brochures or guidebooks before they go to the park back in the 90s. I gave. When did you look foolish? Well, I believe it was Aaron's father who hated the Living Seas Pavilion. Oh, yeah.

Or was it your father? They went to. Yeah, I know. It was Aaron's family. They went to Epcot. The first thing they got on was the sea cabs. They were like, this sucks. We hate this place.

And they left. So my wife and I only did that. We discovered Epcot together because she threw it all under her family, hated the sea cabs so much. Yeah. Is that a controversy, Ian? I don't know your leanings. Is that too harsh on the sea cabs? I love Epcot, but that was the maddest my father has ever been at me.

I accidentally smashed a virgin strawberry daiquiri at the Living Seas. It was the big meal. It was to celebrate my parents' anniversary. It was their 10-year anniversary in 1996. We were in the Living Seas with the sharks and the fish and everything around. They got me a virgin strawberry daiquiri. Not only did I spill it, the glass smashed, and I've never been yelled at later in my life. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Dark family memories abound at the living seas. I guess so. Sorry, you were in the middle. Well, I was going to say that the 1987 Resort TV video, A Very Dry Man says, to make the most of your visit to Epcot Center in the Magic Kingdom, review your guidebooks before you arrive.

So I would say I'm vindicated, but you know. Yeah, you need to watch the channel that tells you that you should have read your book. Yes. Only then. Yeah, channel's only 17 minutes long, so. Speaking of something for the dads, and when I say dads, I mean me, daddy,

specifically me. There's a clip I found again in 94 that I almost fell off my chair when I was reviewing this clip because it comes out of nowhere. And there's sometimes I think on these, there would be all of a sudden kind of an ad for a disney adjacent thing not something necessarily parks related um but someone appeared on the screen and i guess i'm going to give it away by

name the file name when i call it for it right here brett um but if you brett if you could play the uh file just that's called freaks uh I would appreciate it because this gentleman appeared and I've edited just his sort of dialogue together from this. This is an ad for Disney's Gargoyles hosted by Jonathan Frakes, one of my favorite guys ever. Exclusive in room,

only in your hotel room. Can you watch this exclusive Frakes? Yes. And Frakes, by the way, on Picard season three is killing it. He is flawless. He is right. He is maybe the best of all the actors and they're all doing great. But I'm very excited about Picard. But here we go. This is Jonathan Frakes, 1994, Gargoyles to life. What are gargoyles? They're ugly stone statues that adorn the walls of old buildings. There was a time, 1,000 years ago, when gargoyles were real living creatures. Now the castle has been moved from its homeland to the top of New York's tallest skyscraper.

I play David Xanatos, the rich and powerful businessman who seeks to exploit the might of the gargoyles for his own purposes. Wow. Wow. This is so exciting when I saw this. And I didn't see, if I had seen this when I was a kid, because I was a big Next Generation fan as a kid. So this would have, I would have been much more excited than seeing any sort of nice lady. Oh my God. Frakes alert. Frakes alert. Uh, uh, Frank's alert,

Frank's alert. So, yeah. So, uh, that you could see, yeah, stuff like this.

There was a time on this earth when man could marry a gargoyle. No one would look down on this. It would be celebrated. Everyone from the village would come out with their gargoyle wives and applaud you. Yes. I wish my only complaint was this was not an hour long. Uh, this is, and this is before Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction, which is the Fox show where they would show you

like little short stories and ask you, is it fact or fiction? And then he would reveal at the end and he was very dramatic. And if you ever repaired a bicycle, like if you ever- It kind of looks like the set. Yes, it looks like the set as well yes yeah there was smoke on the set uh and people have made great compilations of

these videos too so so the pitch on that show might have been have you ever sauntered around a smoky blue room and said intriguing things i have and i'd like to do it again. Gentlemen, I have a television idea for you. Another resident of the Lehigh Valley. I'd rather, no offense to Daniel Roebuck, but Jonathan Frakes. Really? I'd rather have him on the hospital billboard promoting vaccines at all times. Wow. What? That's crazy.

They aren't hyping Frakes? Roebuck over Frakes? It's adult film star Devin. It's the champ Larry Holmes. It iskes? It's adult film star Devin. It's the champ Larry Holmes. It is Lisa Ann, another adult film star. JTT. What? There's two adult film stars that are prominently

displayed? Well, they're notable. They're the notable figures here. I'm not saying they shouldn't be notable. I'm just saying. Commander Will Riker should also have a spot at the table. Absolutely. It should be amanda say fried reicher larry holmes various adult film stars in my opinion great this is a very interesting collection to throw out the first pitch at the lehigh valley iron pigs minor league baseball team

right briefly briefly called the lehigh Valley Scrapple the Scrapple of theme is that true? how has this never come up? do you have the cap? so I have the cheesesteaks hat in my office but every year they change I'm currently wearing an Iron Pigs hat

they have a great merchandise director Mike Luciano Looch they have a very innovative general manager who did win your own funeral night. As you went into the ballpark, he handed you a ticket. Wow, really? They did a nice drawing. You won a casket.

You could win a casket that night. Just one of the great minds in minor league baseball. And, yeah, for one night last, two seasons ago, they were the Scrapple, which is a very exciting night in the Lehigh Valley. Yeah. Wow. Jason, why weren't you there doing something? Like, that seems like we should have flown you out. Yeah.

No, I agree. I 100% agree. You should have been playing in the game. I've had the hat. They still, there's not the MILB website. You can buy minor league merch merch and they do have a hat with like a piece of scrapple on it wow and how do you feel in general about east coast meats love love them all i love them all um and i'll tell you what the that was one of my biggest

difficulties at disney world because i was so used to these weird East Coast meats like Scrapple, like the Canadian bacon, you know, just used to just weird East Coast. You know, I was talking to Jason briefly. You know, he's from a little further south. I'm from a little farther north, but generally the same area. And we have just various concoctions and just mixes of meats that you really don't find in the American Southeast. So that was always a difficulty going to Disney World as a kid because as a kid you're a picky eater. So I ate a lot of bananas and cereal at Continental Breakfast.

That's okay. Can I ask, maybe this is too personal, but do you have Scrapple in the house? Not in the house. I will order Scrapple. I have ordered Scrapple at the diners around here. We have a lot of diners. I've worked at some at the diners around here. We have a lot of diners. I've worked at some of the diners around here, the Emmaus Diner, giving free publicity here. Sure.

But Scrapple is readily available. In fact, if you don't have Scrapple, one of the reasons I don't go to the Waffle House in the area is because they don't have Scrapple. Wow. Okay. So that's like a must when you're having like a fun diner meal. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. It also feels like, so you, I guess your ideal iteration of World Showcase on a childhood Epcot trip was that it's like Japan, Italy, Philadelphia. Yes. So you bring up a good point as someone from the area and maybe jason can relate a lot of the american pavilion is centered solely around philadelphia and around the american revolution oh that's true the the american pavilion and um liberty square also like very

both those places like very familiar because it's like well we already we saw these on day trips we see all this crap all the time or we live next to it you know so we have a fake oh I'm sorry Scott we have a fake Liberty Bell in Allentown so it was weird the progression it was like a reverse Russian nesting doll because I would see the fake Liberty Bell that they created to hide the real Liberty Bell in Allentown. And then I went to Philadelphia, saw the real Liberty Bell. And then I would go see the slightly enlarged, embellished Liberty Bell at Liberty Square within the confines of the American pavilion. Which bell was your favorite of the three? Oh, you can't make me choose.

I'm sorry. That's one question I won't answer. Okay, that's fair. Toughest question. Jason, have you seen these bells? Well, I've seen the original in Philadelphia. Yeah. So you've seen the Disney World one.

Yeah, I've seen the Disney World. But you haven't seen the Allentown one. I don't think I've seen the Allentown one. I'm sorry. Have you seen the Lego one in the Philadelphia airport? That one's pretty cool, too. I've seen the Lego one a number of times. Okay, well, that the Lego one in the Philadelphia airport? That one's pretty cool, too. I've seen the Lego one a number of times. Okay.

Well, that's three, Jason. Which one? Which one do you like of those three? Pick a bell. I had to go with classic, even though it's kind of like fortified. It's like Fort Knox now. It's surrounded by so much glass. You can't get close.

No, you can't. Okay. Okay. So original. We got... We're missing... Fake bell final four next year well that's okay well i was gonna say you can't ignore uh knott's berry farm oh yeah if you make it out

here we get there's a knott's berry farm fake bell too and they're fake independence hall oh yeah yeah it's gotta be a lot of fake bells hadn't considered that yeah yeah uh just too many but so what they what there should have been if there's already so much Philly presence, it essentially, the American adventure should be called just Philadelphia. And you should be able to get an upside down Liberty Bell full of Scrapple. Oh, sure. There's your taste of Philly. I mean, they have that Sam the Eagle barbecue restaurant now.

Yes. So it's not much of a leap to do like a Philadelphia meat tasting plate. You get scrapple, you get pork roll, you know. Ham? You get hot and sweet Italian sausage. A common breakfast, if you go to a diner and order like breakfast, it's like a long list, right, Ian, of like meats you could get.

And in some parts of the Northeast, they're like, would you like some hot Italian sausage with your pancakes? And it's delicious, you know? I mean, it sounds good. Yeah. And you can even get various salamis. Like if you go to the right places,

you'd be amazed at what kind of curated and salted meats you can get with your breakfast. Sure. Was this ever a consideration for you, Jason, in moving to Los Angeles? The difficulty of leaving the meat options behind? Well, you know, when we did our first show at Dynasty Typewriter, someone did bring me like a pound of Scrapple so as long As listeners bring you the I think you use our Audience as a meat delivery service Then then you then you're

Fine not having it in your native land I think There's a butcher or two in LA that will Do like a case a like a Thing of pork roll you want To give some names So listeners Jason's got an empty fridge Pork roll is usually my go-to.

Tailor ham, as it's called in some parts of New Jersey. If you could give him a piece of meat that's as big as the meat Fred Flintstone gets put on the side of his car at the start of the Flintstones, that would be really good. The bigger the piece of meat for Jason, the better. So attack him after the, not attack, I shouldn't say that. Place the meat on, you know what? Wait for Jason to get in his car, pull around, wave him down in the street, and then put the giant piece of meat on the side of Jason's car, weighing Jason's car over and it falls over, tips over on one side. That's how we should do it.

And he'd be mad at first until he realized what was happening. Right. Oh, it's a big slab. Exactly. I'm in sure yeah and then i don't know he'll figure it out from there um uh what else we got in resort tv can i just you know some an aspect we have not talked about um is music i am just in heaven especially in these 90s ones because listeners might know i love my just like hotel jazz like just whatever's playing you know like the Spotify mix that

the band Telethon sent me of what would have been playing in the contemporary lobby circa 94 I put this on so much it relaxes me so much and Brett if there's a video called Magic Kingdom Tip and this just gives you this is just like the oxygen to the brain of Delightful Anonymous.

Jazz and graphic transitions. This is what you need to hear. Hi, I'm Denise. Here's a tip to make sure you don't miss a single minute of everything that's happening here at Walt Disney World. You can pick up the theme park guidebook and entertainment schedule. She's really talking too loud over the music.

Yeah, I wish. It really gets in the way. But those little transitions, I really... Because I will look... Ian, you brought this up as a topic where for many years I've been putting these on my wife and I. Just like, we want something brainless. We don't want to get involved in a serious plot of a movie or something that's going to upset it. Can we just crack open some wine and

watch some resort TV and feel like we are in the magic kingdom or in the vacation kingdom circa 1995? Yeah. It's interesting you bring that up because I have one of the most caring, understanding wives in the world. I travel a lot and I'm away from home a lot. We have two kids. I put her in impossible situations. But the biggest backlash I've ever gotten from my wife was there was a streak during the pandemic where early on, when we weren't sure how much we had to stay in our house, where the only two things I would want to put on the TV were Dick Tracy and the Walt Disney World Resort television. Wow.

It got to a boiling point. And I'm wondering if this is like that chemical they say your brain releases before you think you're going to die, where you try and you just have that one moment of euphoria. I'm wondering if I was chasing that because it just ties all of those things, tie so much to some of the last absolutely 100% carefree moments that I've kind of crystallized in my mind. And I was trying to chase those. Maybe I was trying to chase those down just in case it's all over what I was saying at the beginning about wanting your life to flash before your eyes with pleasant music like that

absolutely there's something so cosmically certain listeners if you've never watched one of these blogs you might be like okay they've played clips and everything but now they are saying that this is like the be all end all of their instances they're watching these it's a conflict in a marriage that uh you can't watch them uh during the but there is boy i mean you guys know you've watched these just for fun

sure really it's so much it is like getting a little quick like for this half hour that i'm watching this i'm getting a miniature trip not just to Disney World, but to the past of Disney World. Well, yeah. I will watch these. I will go so far as there's a channel on YouTube. It's just a constant live stream. It's called WDW Today. And it is the bulletin board channel.

It's like a recreation of the bulletin board channel. And it just plays forever. Which just tells you like the weather the park hours and it's just i will put that on when i'm like puttering around the house you know yeah it it's it's the one thing that has really been consistent too with the excitement of disney world with with my kids and i and there's's rides that maybe Zach likes that I like, or Nora, our daughter, that I like, but there's always difference of opinion. But the first thing that

they've done when we've gone to Art of Animation or when we've gone to the different resort hotels is they want to turn on the TV. They want to see what's going on at the theme park. One of the things that they like that I like is seeing the characters in situations they normally wouldn't be in another hallmark that you see a little they give you a taste they give you just a little maybe goofy's on the ride or that shot of all the characters of all our best friends just standing in front of the the castle like we just saw sure no they just want yeah wow wow or like you know what you always get is the characters golfing you get like yes or goofy and pluto out on the links i've talked about this before where i want that the characters working in the park more because i think and this resort tv may have set the unrealistic standard

that they were actually the ones like operating the park or participating in the park more like on a tourist level which of course is not possible. But I do wonder, cause yeah, when you watch these, they're in all sorts of situations that you're probably not going to see them in the actual park. Yeah.

This could be a false memory, but in one of the film and television ones, I think goofy is a director in that MGM attraction or, or Donald has a clack, a clack board. So, yeah, there's a mistake of production. Yeah, geez. Come on.

Did you even interview these candidates? Yeah. You know what they're going to get up to. Yeah, that's going to end up like a Josh Trank Fantastic Four situation. You don't want it. It's going to be all sorts of chaos. I fired Kelty Kennedy. Didn't like my vision. situation you don't want it's gonna be all sorts of chaos um i fired kathy kennedy

didn't like my vision i really was set to do a star wars movie and then he got fired sadly me and trevor row had a lot to bond about i i liked watching going through a bunch of these I like seeing this stuff that like I don't think the Fort Wilderness Resort has an old timey car that sells dry goods at each campsite anymore or uh uh Brett will you sorry I gotta go punch the wall at that one I know I know cost cutting ruins people's memories uh Brett will you bring up the one titled Empress Lily Riverboat and just these old footage of people eating like pretty gnarly looking food

always makes me laugh or step on board the beautiful Empress Lily Riverboat in Walt Disney World Village and select from three fine restaurants. The Empress Room, Fisherman's Deck, or Stearman's Quarters. The Stearman's Quarters. Can we look at that plate of food?

What do we got in there? Yeah, just go back. I don't recognize what's in the middle. Jason, could you venture again? What do you think that is? Is that Filet of Soul? It looks like whitefish. And with like broccoli with just like splats of mayo or vanilla ice cream on top.

Multiple, like there's like, okay, make sure there are several gravy, but we promise you on the Empress Lily, we are a boat and you will get several gravy boats upon seating or your meal is free. Right. But there's just, I mean, there's so much in those really early ones of like very old people who look like they have only eaten the lobster Thermidor at every meal for years. They look like they are falling to pieces. And the food just looks awful. Are you really upset mostly because there's not any sort of uh east coast meats presented there um no no the presence of lobster thermidor is fine you don't see that that often anymore but there's there's other weird like there's no way this is still

around anymore brett will you queue up a wonder of walt Disney World. This is another thing. There was a few things that like, oh, I forgot about the walk around Chicken Little or the Wonders of Walt Disney World school credit course that you can take and fill out on your own time. You knew that and forgot about it? No, I never knew that. Interesting.

Wonders of Walt Disney World, a special entertainment program for youngsters 10 to 15, proves that learning can be fun. This program takes advantage of the rich learning resources of Walt Disney World Resort to provide courses in energy, creative arts, entertainment, and ecology. For more information and enrollment in Wonders of Walt Disney World, call 828-2405.

I'm so confused by what we just saw. There was a bunch of kids being taught, and they're just being shown a bunch of pipes. Where are they? What is this? What school is this? Well, plants. There were some plants. Okay, okay. Pipes can be close. Some pipes are close to plants. Learn about is well plants there were some plants okay okay yeah pipes can be closed some pipes are close to plants learn about pipes and plants far away uh some can fit into pipes and then do a worksheet in the magic kingdom my guess is like okay uh take your

kids out of school bring them here when they're in school and we have educational opportunities because we would always like if we went a couple times during the school year and inevitably someone would try to go like well write up how I spent my vacation report like you would try to look for like oh I guess

this is educational I have to like go through the motions of doing this I see this is like the roots of when you get mad, when you think of like, I'm going to the park, but it's for work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to do it for fun.

Work trip, yeah. Also, if you're trying to convince people that learning can be fun, you cannot say it in the voice, learning can be fun. cannot say it in the voice learning can be fun that is the funniest shot you gotta give it till something or get fire a different voiceover person just try it sexier you know oh they're doing disney nights learning can be fun see what you learn about on disney night disney night school so i will say this my wife did a master's in international education and she

actually connected with living with the land in 2011 2012 part of her project was farm to table food and part of her thesis and they were actually able to provide her some resources and point her in the right direction and some of the things that were more difficult to find out. So yeah, there are actual... It's funny because what they advertise was totally what Jason said. It was, hey, can you do something with the kid? Can we get him a note? And great. He was here.

He learned something. But if you actually contact them with reasonable education requests, it's been my experience, my wife's experience, that they will actually respond and give you some information. That's the funniest thing about that footage is it's like the driest narrator, the boringest footage of kids scribbling begrudgingly in worksheets. But yeah, there's real educational, there's scientists, there's food science people, there's biologists like that will talk to you so okay here's what i think you know very famously scott um got a lot of maybe listeners upset because he

said that he didn't love living with the land there were some things that used to be on the ride that uh they removed which we agree that were better the song of course being no one's ever been able to provide a good defense to why it's better without the song right no and i don't right i wouldn't say that is right at gmail perhaps if we reach out and ask for an academic opportunity for you in a clinical way like a kind of a yeah learning scientific way perhaps this is the key to unlocking your love of living with the land so if i'm able to do an immersive and learn all about farm to table if we send you on the behind the seeds tour which was not running last time i was there but it's

back it's back and then maybe yeah they'll have a couple worksheets for you to do and then you'll sort of test your knowledge of what you've learned that day. And then we'll redo the episode and it'll be a whole different ballgame. I guess probably why the ride hasn't stuck with me is that I did not do enough worksheets. That's right. That's where you really it like codifies what you just experienced if you write it down. And silly me, I was just running off to the next ride, a ride with a voiceover, more to look at. Right. But maybe worksheets are the key.

Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, you weren't yet told by Resort TV that you needed to do the pre-work involved in going to Living With the Land. Right. If you're planning on visiting Living With the Land, read the brochure that explains why the ride is interesting. Then fill out the brochure at the end to make sure that you understood what you saw. The brochure is a Scantron if you look on the back and you can fill in the little rectangles and we'll run it through the Scantron reader at Living With The Land. A score of less than 70% will require you to go on

Living With The Land again. This is the tone, by the way, that they used to sell you on Epcot Center in the 1983 video. Pavilions based on transportation, imagination, computers. Like, it is the lowest

energy. Space travel. Yeah, wait, I wrote down one of those that yeah like this is an exciting sentence if you said it excitingly but they say it like epcot center is a new world of wonder you'll want to take the time to fully explore two days would be optimal for yeah well it sounds like oh i mean you sound excited so i guess i should be too yeah two days two days for epcot two days for Magic Kingdom that's what they suck with do you think he was the father of the teen

ride attendant because all of the teen ride attendants do you think he was the godfather of that voice because every teen ride attendant that I've seen at Dorney Park at Disney World Six Flags, has

that voice just in their own way. Oh, like, please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times. Enjoy the ride on Twister. Was that the professor at the M&M show as well? Oh, yeah, yeah. I am the professor. We're doing some incredible M&M's experiments today.

Wait a minute, Red. Red, what are you doing? Don't mess with that, Red. Yeah, it's a very good point. I mean, you know, I would be sad if this went away, honestly. Like, does it sell me on the fun of doing worksheets in the park on my vacation? Not necessarily, but is it part of the comfort

that I get from these places? Is the list that I'm watching people in a place of entertainment be not even half speed be like 10 of the energy of a human being should be able to to manifest and it's and sometimes the musical equivalence of voices like that i love the and that's why i don't know if i i always like the must do disney's with stacy because we're sure cutting a lot we're this person looks like they're having a lot of fun and I don't know how I feel about that. Slow down. That's interesting. Ian, I mean, you're a broadcaster. Have you ever thought about

how you would approach hosting one of these videos? I would, it would be a dream come true. I mean, it would be, you know, I've got to work Madison Square Garden. I've got to work AEW pay-per-views, New Japan pay-per-views. Sure. The Disney in resort TV would just, would absolutely be the top of the top. I've got to work with Gideon Diego. I mean, who, like, you would think maybe you couldn't top that. No, he was, he was very nice. I shouldn't joke. He was a very nice man. But yeah, I would approach it with a little pep in my step. I don't know that I'm for the dads, but one of the strange things in these videos, they are hyper-inclusive even to the 81 video.

There's women playing tennis, which I didn't think because of our cultural norms was shown on TV until 2015. DeSantis would have stopped it. That's now illegal again. But yeah, for a brief window, it was allowed. And there's men doing child care, which again, in 1983, not a thing that was in the zeitgeist. And there's people of color interacting with one another, which again, you'd be surprised, not something that was shown on network television often, even through 1981. So these in-resort TVs were very kind of ahead of their time. They were kind of culturally relevant. They were very progressive.

I think our friend Ron would probably say that the woke mind virus was infecting the Disney resort TV at the time, but it's, it's something now that you can look back on. And it was pretty cool that, that they were on the right path and something to be nostalgic for just was accounting for all of the folks that could and would come to Disney. It wasn't driven by money. Absolutely.

They wanted to get everybody of every... Sometimes it works out that way. Right. Oh, so the people putting the videos together, these are wonderfully made. There's wonderfully shot footage throughout them. Still to this day, they're wonderfully made, wonderfully edited, great music, great performances.

We like everybody from susan to stacy uh um you know like they're sure they're getting the marching orders from the evil entity that wants to spend as much it wants you to spend as much as possible but there's there's some hearts in within the assignment in these i think sure 100 and and mike to get back to your question i would put my heart and soul into it i would i study the greats. I would study Susan. I would study Stacy. I would study Dennis Marsico, the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in MGM Studios. delivery tips on how to convey what time is the best time to go to the hoopty do review and and really um you know what time is the best time to go to the virgin mega store even though i r.i.p yeah yeah it just and i would you know i would listen i would i would soul search i might do that thing aaron rogers did where he went into a place of seclusion and was not connectable by anybody to really just,

to just feel, feel resort TV in my heart. Well, look, look, this, if anybody's listening to this from the Disney corporate, like you've proven,

I think by now that you're the guy for the job, I think. Um, so, so yeah, I mean, they're, they're,

they're obviously knowing you're going to do the work. Um, you already have, they know you have the chops and now they know you have the passion. I appreciate that. That little speech was beautiful. I think we have elevated what we've been talking about this whole time in a wonderful way. And the only thing I might say before we go out is, like, feel free to just, like, okay.

My question is, of course you would do it with passion and conviction. But is there, like, you know, there's recurring things in all these videos. It's always the same, you know, like climb aboard a dune buggy and take a trip to the 990. Like there's like recurring almost like the same things are said no matter what year it is about the rides or about like the nightlife, heating up at Pleasure Island. Does something flash to your mind of like I want to narrate, I want to tell everybody in every Disney World hotel about this thing and I might do it this way? And if you don't have anything, I have copy I can give you. Sure. Feel free.

I would love to tell folks in extremely broken Spanish and German about the pavilions that they could go see. Oh, wow. broken Spanish and German about the pavilions that they could go see. That would be so broken that it might be charming, but also broken enough that they think I might be being disrespectful. So yeah, there's one or two videos where it's like they say a food dish you can get at each pavilion and they're doing some voices. But we're not going to throw around names here. We're not going to throw around names.. We're not going to throw around names. It wasn't Susan.

I know that. Susan, not my dear Susan. Cultural respect, sensitivity, everything that you would bring to this job, which we hope maybe we've given you a good audition here. And what a delightful thing to talk to you about for a while. Ian Riccoboni, you survived Podcast The Ride. What a pleasure to have you. Let's exit through the gift shop. Is there anything you'd like to plug? Sure. I would love to plug Ring of Honor. That's kind of my home base, home promotion.

If you like professional wrestling, Ring of Honor is pretty bare bones. To quote the great Richard Christie, who once called the wrestling show, it's about the wrestling in Ring of Honor. So we have a lot of fun there. I'm on New Japan World quite often, which is another Japanese wrestling promotion. Quite fun. And every Wednesday night on TBS and every Friday night on TNT, AEW is on. And occasionally I pop in and say hello there. I do get excited, though.

I get passionate. And I just wish maybe there was some... I get, I do get excited though. I get passionate and I wish, I just wish maybe there was some Scott, you mentioned you had some copy. Well, I just, I, yeah.

Ian, you might be going. So I think you might be going somewhere. That was interesting to me. I think, is that what you're, are we on the same page here? Yes.

Okay. I think so. Because, well, real quick, I just wanted to say too, you can get, it's a ring of honor is on honor. Is it honor club. is that right it's uh honor club.com watch watch roh.com

is how i remember it and you get the ring of honor app it'll take you right there uh yes 20 years of wrestling history samoa joe cm punk brian danielson uh everybody that's ever been anybody has come through ring of honor yeah yes yes um um but yeah so so i texted ian uh earlier today because i had an idea um and i wanted to put his his particular skills uh not to the test i just wanted to show off and uh you know there's a thing on the on the podcast that's come up a few times now we did a second gate on something called the hyperspace hoopla and it is of course a a dance-off with star wars characters where you would see that you know modern songs would play and uh darth maul would twerk or

whatever and something happens at the end of the video that we sort of had a bit of a debate about a certain character appears jason and i were a little bit more on the side of the audience who seemed shocked that this is what had actually happened yeah and scott was a little bit more on the side of the audience who seemed shocked that this is what had actually happened. Yeah. And Scott was a little more skeptical because he said, well, this character is in the parks already. What's the big deal about it? Yeah.

I did not view it as the finest live theatrical moment ever assembled. But so I thought, you know what? Ian does, you know, play by play for professional wrestling. And I thought maybe if he added his voice to this clip, it would be a little more clear. You would feel the excitement more because he he does this very often when he has to set, you know, somebody runs down a ramp and you didn't know they were going to be there. Yeah, he adds that bit of excitement. So I have I sent him this clip and I said, would you do us the honor of essentially calling this part of the hyperspace hoopla? And, Brett, if you could, it says dance.

It says dance at the start of the clip. Should we close it out with this? Should I say the boring stuff? Let's do that. Okay, okay. For us, you can find us on the socials at Podcast The Ride. We got merch in our Tee Public store. For three bonus episodes every month, check out Podcast The Ride The Second, or get one more bonus episode on our VIP tier club three.

You will find all of that at patreon.com slash podcast the ride. Now that that's out of the way, let's go out on the true order of the day. I'm very excited for this. Okay. Okay, here we go. And we're starting here with Queen Amidala and Princess Leia dancing. And here we go. Queen Amidala, Princess Leia.

Gangnam style here. You see the Mos Eisley Cantina, the Gamorrean Guard. Darth Vader in the house with the Stormtroopers. I see a Tusken Raider. Things are getting wild. Darth Maul there with the Royal Guard. And we are really getting down now. We are moving. We are shaking. But what is this?

Wait just a minute. Could it be? Yes, there he is. The big man himself. The mouse is in the house. Mickey Mouse, the one true Jedi, gracing us with his presence here. And he's getting down. He's getting down at hyperspace hoopla. Mickey Mouse in the house.

F-O-U-S-E. Wow. Channeling Michael Jackson as he points to the sky. What a way to end things here today on Podcast The Ride. Unbelievable. Forever. Unbelievable. Forever Dog. This has been a Forever Dog production. Executive produced by Mike Carlson, Jason Sheridan, Scott Gairdner,

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