Climbing Aboard Podcast The Ride

Summary

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Podcast Summary: "Climbing Aboard Podcast The Ride"

What's Our Podcast? with Beck Bennett & Kyle Mooney, Headgum – August 5, 2026
Special Guests: The hosts of Podcast The Ride (Scott Gairdner, Jason Sheridan, Mike Carlson)

Episode Overview

In this playful and meandering episode, Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney welcome the team from "Podcast The Ride"—a long-running theme park podcast—for an episode that’s packed with meta-humor, friendship, podcast shop talk, and, eventually, a record-breaking deep dive into the power of boats (both literal and metaphorical). The conversation zigzags through inside jokes, improvisational bits, Disney park lore, and the negotiation of what the “What's Our Podcast?” could (or should) become. Boat puns abound, and the episode lands on "Boats" as a concept, reveling in the nostalgia, camaraderie, and absurdity of both boating and theme park fandom.

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Main Segments & Key Insights

1. Patreon Launch & Behind the Scenes (00:06–03:18)

• Announcement of the Patreon: Beck and Kyle excitedly unveil a multi-tier Patreon with bonus episodes, audience chat access (Discord), and exclusive video content.
  • Notable quote:
    • “It is really going to be fun. I think it's going to be a place to see some really weird, wild and crazy stuff.” – Beck (02:57)
• What fans can expect:
  • $5 tier: Weekly bonus episodes.
  • $10 tier: Pitch podcast ideas, access to a chat room (Discord), "sillies" short videos.
  • $15 tier: Livestream Q&As and a framed headshot.

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2. Absurdist Banter & Friendship Dynamics (04:01–11:48)

• Beck and Kyle riff on made-up holidays ("Super Waggy Wiki Wacky Wiggy Willy Daddy Day") and trade affectionate, self-deprecating barbs.
• Touching reminiscence about their friendship and time as roommates.
  • Notable quote:
    • “I like talking to my friend Beck. He's really, really nice and funny. I want to talk to him all day. I'm scared of other people.” – Kyle (15:04)
• Discussion on awkward questions, coping with loss, the pandemic, and family stories.

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3. Meet the Guests: Podcast The Ride (22:02–36:08)

• The "Podcast The Ride" hosts join, introducing themselves and discussing the origins of their eight-year theme park podcast.
• Theme Parks as Passion and Platform: Comparing the depth of theme-park nerdiness to other pop-culture obsessions.
  • “Podcasts are friendship simulators. What you want is to, like, put it on and look to the left and your buddies are on the couch.” – Scott (24:55)
• Inside-joke culture: runners like “ham in the house,” “Clifford,” and “Wet Ryan” explained.

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4. The “Disney Adult” Discussion (35:11–48:08)

• Beck probes the guests on what “Disney Adult” means, and how they navigate the crunchy outer shell of judgment that surrounds adult theme park fans.
  • They distinguish between fans and those for whom Disney is a “personality.”
  • Notable quotes:
    • “Disney Adult to me means like a way of life almost... a personality.” – Beck (45:30)
    • “I’m a Disneyland weirdo. And I think that’s much more apropos of what we’re doing.” – Mike (47:10)
• Lively anecdotes about character meet-and-greets; the line between wholesome fun and over-the-top adult fandom.

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5. Ride Fears, Coaster Growth, and Extreme Park Stories (56:10–64:40)

• Scott’s arc: from dreading thrill rides to embracing them, with encouragement from Beck and others.
  • “Maybe now is the time to be an adult and not be ridiculous. And now I love that ride very much.” – Scott on conquering Incredicoaster fears (57:03)
• “Are you scared?”: Tales of teenage intimidation at roller coaster parks vs. the safer space of Disneyland.
• Getting old and its effect on coaster tolerance (nausea, aches, “rattling your brain”).

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6. Rapid-Fire Theme Park Lightning Round (72:16–77:24)

• Favorite Rides:
  • Scott – Radiator Springs Racers
  • Mike – Indiana Jones Adventure
  • Jason – Haunted Mansion
• Favorite Treats & Hot Tips:
  • Churros, Ronto Wraps, Spicy Corn Dogs.
  • Carthay Manhattan (California Adventure) for a premium break.
  • Lightning Lane hack: “Be aggressive, keep booking.”
  • Riverboat ride recommended for peaceful breaks.

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7. The Podcast Pitch: "BOATS" (77:24–End)

• Pitch from Podcast the Ride:
  • “Your podcast is Boats.” – Mike (79:09)
  • Launches an extended riff on all things boats: boat parties, captains, the emotional tone of boating, how boats bring people together, and boat hierarchies (boats vs. plane captains vs. astronauts).
  • Notable quote:
    • “There's nothing like being on a boat. There would be something on both those boat trips... all of a sudden, it's like, oh shit, we're on a boat.” – Kyle (83:18)
• Boat names are debated: “Drunky,” “Dorco 5000,” “Jason Roger,” “Caitlyn Shield," “Boat Bennett”.
• Dream guest/boat appearance: “David Geffen’s boat” mythologized.

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8. Final Thoughts & Promotion (102:00–End)

• Cross-podcast love: Both groups express eagerness to appear on each other’s shows.
• Podcast The Ride plugs upcoming McDonaldland/Grimace month and a possible film project ("Long-Haired Businessmen").
• Mike invites Beck and Kyle to do improv with him in Glendale.
• Show signs off with gratitude and boat puns.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On podcast longevity:
  • "How long have you guys been podcasting? It's been nine years." – Beck & Podcast the Ride (22:41)
• On “friendship simulators”:
  • “Podcasts are friendship simulators. What you want is to, like, put it on and look to the left and your buddies are on the couch.” – Scott (24:55)
• On "Disney Adult":
  • “Disney Adult to me means like a way of life almost... a personality.” – Beck (45:30)
  • “I’m a Disneyland weirdo. ... I do think that’s a specific distinction [from 'Disney Adult'].” – Mike (47:10)
• On conquering theme park fears:
  • “Maybe now is the time to be an adult and not be ridiculous. And now I love that ride very much.” – Scott (57:03)
• Boats as podcast ethos:
  • “There's nothing like being on a boat... all of a sudden, it's like, oh shit, we're on a boat.” – Kyle (83:18)

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Timeline of Key Segments

• 00:06–03:18: Patreon launch, bonus content structure.
• 04:01–11:48: Absurd banter; friendship nostalgia.
• 22:02–36:08: Podcast the Ride intro and shop talk.
• 35:11–48:08: “Disney Adult” debate and theme park etiquette.
• 56:10–64:40: Ride thrill fears, teenage intimidation at parks.
• 72:16–77:24: Theme park rapid-fire Q&A and pro tips.
• 77:24–End: The boat conversation, boat names, future cross-overs, and closing notes.

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Tone & Style

The episode is fast, funny, and deeply irreverent, with both crews showcasing their improv backgrounds in freewheeling, stream-of-consciousness style. The humor is self-aware, frequently meta, and driven by genuine affection. The "Boats" conceit—originally a joke pitch—serves as a tongue-in-cheek symbol of the show’s spirit: goofy, communal, and always ready to chart new territory with friends.

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For New Listeners

If you’re new to “What’s Our Podcast?” or “Podcast the Ride,” this episode epitomizes what both bring: spontaneous friendship energy, deep-dork fandom, willingness to deconstruct their own formats, and a love for all things niche and silly. The episode offers insider fun for regulars but is warm and accessible—provided you’re on board for a bit of chaos.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[A]

This is a Headgun podcast. Wow.

[B]

Yay. Another episode of what's our Podcast. But first, a little special announcement from Becky and Kyle.

[A]

This is very big. This is.

[B]

It's very huge and big.

[A]

I think this is life changing for me.

[B]

Yeah.

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That's the way I feel.

[B]

As long as it goes well.

[A]

Well, even if it doesn't, it is altering my life.

[B]

Yeah, it already has.

[A]

The big announcement is we are starting a patreon.

[B]

Yes. You're saying to yourself, oh, yes, it was.

[A]

You know, it was a risk. It was a swing to even start a podcast together back.

[B]

Yes, it was.

[A]

We didn't know what it is. We still are finding out what it is every single week when we come together with our guests. And when you and I sort of mess around on the microphone, let's tell

[B]

them what it is. For the first tier, Rocco, Basic tier.

[A]

It's five bucks a month. You're gonna get a bonus episode every week. No guest. Okay. It's just Beck and I doing what we've been doing Since September of 2003 when we first met each other.

[B]

For that tier, we have slopping out, which is just the two of us hanging out.

[A]

It's like our intro to our show.

[B]

Yeah. But it's longer. We can go into bits longer.

[A]

We can also be earnest. Learn about each other's lives.

[B]

Yes. Catch up for longer. Or we also have what's yous Podcast, where we take ideas from our Patreon members.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

At a certain tier, at the $10 tier, which is the next tier. We take your ideas and we try that podcast out. Right, but you can pitch those ideas at the $10 tier.

[A]

Yes. Once you get to the $10 tier, premium rock, which we're calling Rocco Premium.

[B]

Rocco Premium.

[A]

That's where you actually get to pitch the ideas that we will do on our podcast. You're also gonna get access to an exclusive chat. A chat room.

[D]

Yes.

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The Discord. The Rocco Discord, where you can talk with other fans, other listeners. Probably kind of do your own little bits. Make some friends. Maybe. Maybe you can grab. Grab dinner or coffee with one of them sometime.

[B]

Also with the $10 tier, you get access to. You get to see our. What we're calling our sillies. Yes.

[A]

These are little videos. You know, we came up making videos together. Full circle. Because now you and I are just gonna make a little video we already started. Get a little iPhone, make a little video, play some characters, do some bits.

[B]

Just come up with an idea and pop it right off and just shoot it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

We don't need to labor over it.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. We just kind of have fun and pump it out to our Rocco's. You know what I mean?

[A]

I know exactly what you mean. I love it.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

For 15 bucks, you get all that stuff, plus you get free access to our new ticketed live stream. So, like, we will talk to you directly. You can ask us questions. We'll be doing these quarterly throughout the year.

[B]

We might do poppers there. We don't know yet. It's only going to be legal stuff, but we're going to have fun to do poppers. Yes. And here's the thing. For Rocket supreme, if you sign up for a full year, you'll get a side headshot of me and Kyle. We don't know, but it's going to be an amazing family heirloom that you get and you can, you know, frame it and put above the fireplace or something or something like that.

[A]

It is really going to be fun. I think it's going to be a place to see some really weird, wild and crazy stuff where we just get

[B]

to do whatever we want without really caring. So. Yeah. So go to patreon.com what's our podcast and join today, please.

[A]

That's patreon.com what's our Podcast? And be in the Rocco Club with all your fellow Roccos.

[E]

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[B]

What's our podcast? What's it gonna be all about? Tell us what's our podcast. What should we talk about with Beck and Kyle?

[A]

What is today?

[B]

Wait, what is today? What is today? It's Super Waggy Wiki Willy Dad Day. Oh, it's. What is it?

[A]

Super Waggy Wiki Wacky Wagy Willy Daddy Day.

[B]

Okay, I didn't know that. That's amazing and super, super wacky. Will we. Sorry, say it again.

[A]

Wiggy Daddy Day.

[B]

Okay. And what happens on that day? Cause I just thought it was like a what's our podcast Record day.

[A]

No, we're doing Super Willy Wiggy Wagy Wiggy Wacky Wacky Daddy Day. And that's when you do the Super Willy wiggy wagy wagy wiggy waggy daddy dance. Yeah, that's our dance.

[B]

This is my life. No, no, no, no.

[A]

It's super willy wiggy wagy wagy wiggy wacky wacky daddy day.

[B]

I'm just trying to get my bearings here.

[A]

I'm trying to be the most annoying person. I really am. Trying to sell my annoying game.

[B]

I think that you are such a gem that you can get away with it. I think. I think you are such a master. I think you're.

[A]

You're sounding, you know, you. I feel like you're. What is that called?

[B]

Morphing?

[A]

Well, yeah, you're getting. You're getting the spirit of. You're like kind of. I can feel your mother coming through.

[B]

Oh, my God. Hey, mister. I'm so. You're saying I'm conjuring the spirit of my mother.

[A]

I feel. I can feel your mother coming.

[B]

Well, look who just walked in the door. It's Mr. Mooney.

[A]

I remember once when we hung out with your family. It was when maybe I told. I know we've. We went to the country club.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

The day of. I feel like I like what I tucked in a shirt maybe. I borrowed a shirt from you.

[B]

You definitely borrowed, like country club clothes that we just had in my closet. Like my grandpa's old clothes, I think, like striped shirts and like salmon colored pants.

[D]

Right.

[B]

Like some. Some loafers or whatever. We took a. We took.

[A]

At some point I was like getting ready and I had my glasses off and she's like, you know, you look a lot better without your glasses.

[F]

Oh, my God.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

It was one of those.

[B]

Did she say you look a lot better or. You look very handsome without your glasses.

[A]

Maybe that's what it was. I. I could have read into it, but it was like, which is. I hold. Please don't think I hold that against your mother in any regard.

[B]

No, no, I don't think I hold it against her.

[F]

Right.

[A]

Because you feel the same way.

[B]

Yeah. It's like I. We talk. We used to talk about how great you looked without your glasses and like. And I just am upset that she revealed that.

[D]

Right.

[A]

You talk. You had that conversation with your mom.

[B]

Yeah. We would always be like, I wish he would just take off the glasses. No, I. That is not how I feel. I think you look gorgeous. With or without. And it's just, you know, my son has glasses, so I'm just immediately.

[A]

And I want to say I'm sorry about that.

[B]

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

[A]

My son actually.

[B]

My son actually has been diagnosed with glasses.

[D]

No.

[A]

It seems to be some sort of eye issue. The spirit is really like, you're very handsome. So it is a. It's ultimately a compliment. You know what I'm saying? And I think it's like you're disguising that. You know what I mean? We want. I want to bring that out of you.

[B]

Yes, sure.

[G]

Yeah.

[A]

Optimistic.

[B]

I. I think that. I think that our generation or people now are like, glasses can be more attractive than not glasses, or they're the same. It's just a different look, which is. I just.

[A]

Anyway, good to see you, man.

[F]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[A]

Welcome to.

[D]

Yes.

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We love.

[B]

We love parents wherever they are and whatever they're doing.

[A]

Family can be so annoying sometimes.

[B]

Oh, my God. It's like.

[F]

Michelle, it can be like.

[B]

It can be a record scratch moment for sure.

[A]

What is the worst thing that you've ever experienced in your life?

[B]

I don't think that's a fair question to ask Rochelle right now, so I don't think you should answer that. I'm just going to move on.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Unless you want to. Unless you have something specific that feels like it's okay and it's not going to ruin.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

Sorry, sorry.

[B]

Bad question.

[A]

Bad question.

[B]

That was a bad question.

[A]

If I ask you the question, don't answer it. Does something immediately come to your mind?

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Worst thing that's ever happened to me.

[E]

Yes.

[B]

No, because I don't think a lot of bad things have happened.

[A]

I think if you asked in that moment, when you asked me, like, I would. I think that I know the first thing to come to my head.

[B]

What was it?

[A]

I think pass. I think, like, I think any way, it's going to be sad.

[B]

I think that the worst thing that has probably ever happened to me, like, my. My gut response is the pandemic. You know, just life derailed. Everything stops. Psychological.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, issues to deal with, figuring out how to be in a different way. Like. Yeah, yeah. Like, you don't. You lose games or you have a performance. That's bad. But all those things, like, you know, it's like, it's so minor.

[A]

Right.

[B]

I really want to know what your thing is now. But not on the podcast. We're not going to talk about it. If somebody says, I think it was my mother's death. Oh, yeah. Well, he went there, folks.

[D]

Awkward.

[G]

No.

[A]

I'm sorry, but I don't even know that. That. I wonder if that's like. That's the first. First thing that popped my mind. I think I could really interrogate the idea of, like, what is the worst thing that's ever happened to me? But that would probably be. That's something that, like, has. There's, like, what happens after an earthquake?

[D]

The.

[B]

Not ripple effect, but shockwaves.

[A]

Yeah. It reverberates.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know what I mean? But there are things that. It's like. There are things that have been said to me that I hated.

[B]

Yeah. What about your parents? Divorce.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

Yeah, that's.

[B]

That was pretty bad, right? That was pretty bad.

[A]

Maybe for. Maybe for a minute.

[B]

For a minute. That was pretty good.

[A]

I got a lot of mileage out of that. I've told the story about when

[D]

I

[A]

got broken up with, and I was very hurt. I was very sad by it. And then I was in my dorm room and my roommate, the great Brandon Howard. Shout out, Brandon.

[B]

Yeah, what up, Brandon? Great Brandon Howard.

[A]

Hella goldfish.

[B]

Hella goldfish. Always take him. His goldfish never complained. Always just restocked.

[A]

Yes. And he had a. Had a fake id.

[B]

Oh, I didn't even realize that.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But I got broken up with and then, like, he didn't know. Right. But I was alone in the dorm room and he, like, came in the dorm and he's like, hey, man, how you doing? And I was at my computer and I turned to the door and I was like. He's like, oh, no, what's wrong? Very sweet, very sweet man.

[B]

Very sweet man.

[A]

But, yeah, at that point, that was one of the worst things that ever

[B]

happened to me, you know, a lot of. A lot. I. I remember feeling a lot of. Ooh, that was like, freshman year was dark. I didn't go through a breakup, but it all worked out perfectly. I gotta. We're doing the podcast.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And this is.

[A]

And by the way, this is what's our podcast with Beck Bennett and Kyle

[B]

Mooney, where we have somebody come in and tell us what our podcast should be about. And this week, it's the amazing podcast the Ride.

[A]

Guys.

[B]

Wow, we were right on the same page there.

[A]

Oh, and don't forget about our Patreon. Oh, don't forget about patreon.com whatsrpodcast where

[B]

you can go on and be a little bit of sillies and funnies and goof arounds and you can get in

[A]

the discord and talk. Talk about like, hey, by the way, what was up with Kyle's jeans the other day? Yeah, what was that spot?

[B]

They'll finally have somebody to talk to about Kyle's jeans and. And Beck's teas or Whatever you want.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

That's cool.

[B]

That's cool, that's cool, that's cool.

[A]

Okay. Are they here?

[F]

Two out of three.

[B]

So everybody knows there are three guys.

[A]

I know. This is our first. This is a first for us. Scott, Michael, and Jason.

[B]

Yes. So I know Scott.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Don't know the other guys very well. Briefly, but haven't spent.

[A]

I do a podcast. Yeah. That is dedicated to theme parks.

[B]

Which you have been on a couple times.

[A]

I've been on a few times.

[B]

You're a big fan of theme parks. Big fan of the podcast.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, that means.

[A]

I mean, I think.

[B]

I mean, like, maybe I should jerk off or something.

[D]

That.

[A]

I do think that would be something. I think.

[B]

But it's like a podcast. I think so it's like, I can't really hear that. Rochelle thinks it's a good idea.

[A]

I don't think you should do that. I don't think it's.

[B]

I don't see. Come on.

[A]

Because I just like the idea you're jerking off in front of all these people.

[B]

I don't think it's a good idea either. I probably should, I don't know. Joing. Yeah. Can you imagine joing during the episode? You're laughing because, like, that's a crazy idea.

[A]

Yeah.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Not because you think it's actually good, funny, illegal. Right. Well, I think if everybody signs a release and, like, you know, we only put it out on the Patreon. Yeah.

[A]

I get a lot of patrons.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, I honestly. Okay, let me just put this out there. If we're, like, looking to up our numbers.

[E]

Yes.

[A]

We do.

[B]

Only fans. And we do a version of the podcast where we're naked.

[A]

Here's my. Here's like, the first thing.

[B]

And it's like, we let it all hang out. It's called slopping out.

[A]

I just feel like I, like, would want to.

[B]

I would want to train you on a train.

[A]

I would want.

[B]

You think you can get your body to like, to. To like, to a place where you're sitting there naked and you're like, hell, yeah. You gotta remember, because sitting is not an attractive position even.

[A]

Do you recall how. How brownie my little tidy whities can get?

[B]

How brownie. How brown. But brownie. How brownie. You're. Yes, I do recall. Yeah. Kyle's talking about the skin marks on his underwear. He's definitely.

[A]

There is an issue where, like, my bear ass crack up against the couches. Like, we're just. There's constantly gonna be, like, little dribbles Of.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

And now Rochelle's gonna have to deal with that, you know, like, of course.

[B]

Well, wet Ryan's probably gonna be doing clean.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Doughboys are coming in, like, oh, man. On the couch.

[B]

Yeah, I think. I think we would just have to put down like a little like a. Like a dog mat. Sort of like a pee pad or something.

[A]

Yeah, something like that I would be open to. And then I think we could.

[B]

And then we could do it.

[A]

So the training. And the dog.

[B]

And the dog. Then the pee pads for your butt. Okay, great. Well, let us know what you think about us doing. Only fans in the comments, though I

[A]

do know the Discord on the Patreon is a place where, in theory, we could definitely see what people are saying.

[B]

And I've enjoyed popping in there and communicating a little bit.

[F]

Really?

[B]

Just a pinch or maybe I just look. I don't remember. I gotta check in with the guys.

[A]

I would love to.

[B]

Well, right now it's really time for us to talk to the guys.

[C]

Oh, please.

[A]

I wanna talk to my friend.

[B]

I have to get onto the stop for the I've. Cause people are gonna be like, enough. Enough with this.

[A]

Okay?

[B]

Yeah. Aw. You okay, Kai?

[A]

Kai? You okay, little guy?

[B]

You a little sad? Having trouble moving on? Cause you're having so much fun, you don't wanna stop? Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

I like talking to my friend Beck. He's really, really nice and funny. Oh, yeah. I want to talk to him all day. I'm scared of other people. I don't want people. I have been with will back. He makes me laugh all day.

[B]

That's really nice. Well, you know, I miss you. I miss you too.

[A]

I miss you every day.

[B]

I miss you every day, too. And if we can, we can try to figure it out a way to do this every day. Okay? Okay. But for right now, we gotta welcome the guys on.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

That's a big boy. That's a. Look at you. Look at you coming around like that. I'm so proud of you. Yeah, look, strong, big boy. Do you want to open the door to let them in? No. Okay. You want. You want to come to the door with me or should I do it myself and you wait here for them? Okay. Maybe you're feeling a little shy, so I'll open the door and bring everybody in. Okay?

[F]

Okay.

[B]

Okay. That's a good boy. Proud of you. Okay.

[F]

Thank you.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Okay. See you guys on the other side.

[B]

See you on the other side.

[F]

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Okay?

[B]

And guess what I did because I was distracted. I was actually. I was thinking of Hawaii. Oh, wow. And I got on booking.com and I booked a trip for me and my wife, Jesse Hodges.

[D]

Oh, cool.

[B]

To go to lanai.

[D]

Nice.

[B]

On booking.com and I can't wait to be there. And I think that maybe if once I go there and I kind of scratch that itch, it's something I'm really excited about. And, you know, my whole excitement just peaked as soon as the trip was booked and I was ready to go.

[D]

Well, that's great.

[A]

That booking.com made it all happen.

[B]

It wasn't even that hard. Just made it easy to do it now. Now I have something to look forward to and to get ready for. Hurry. Go to booking.com and you can book in any kind of vacation you want. Where you can go to a beach where there's food and drinks and you can have a good time.

[A]

Well, once somewhere gets into your head, Booking.com is a super easy way to get there.

[B]

Go on.

[A]

Book that trip. It's easy. Booking.combooking.

[B]

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[A]

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Dang. Zening glasses look tight.

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That's right. And I've gotten some for my son because my son has glasses and he needed a pair for playing sports that weren't like full on goggles but that were a little bit, you know, that wouldn't be a big deal. Yeah, it wouldn't be a big deal if you broke them.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

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[D]

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[B]

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[B]

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[A]

I thought I was Beck Bennett.

[B]

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[A]

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[B]

Sorry about that. Exactly. No, all good. All good.

[A]

Thanks, buddy.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

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It's just all, it's like, oh, do I need to go to like, do I need another type of website to like, find the right pictures or to like another type of website to upload?

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The video or audio or like. No, I want it makes it easy. Make it easy on me, please.

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[A]

Oh, let's come up with a domain right now. Let's see. I wonder if it exists.

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[A]

Thumbs up for Michell.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

There. What are they, like, 14 people in front?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. What is the podcast? The guys. No, no, it's a podcast. The Ride.

[F]

The other five guys are coming in.

[B]

They're on the way over there.

[A]

Carlson.

[C]

Yeah. Hello.

[A]

Scott Gardner.

[D]

Hi.

[F]

Good to see you. Always good to see you both.

[B]

Great to see you guys.

[F]

Yes. Yeah.

[A]

So it's like. So we're sort of just talking about podcasting, remember?

[D]

Yeah. For.

[B]

For people who are just joining us right now, which is everybody. Yeah, we were just talking about podcasting.

[F]

Talking shop. Yeah. We're all in the game. Yeah. We're shopping it up. We're chopping it up. And yeah, we're. We're all in the same game. You guys have just joined our game. And that's. And I think you're looking. It seems like you're looking for guidance in the game, being that you're asking what your podcast is.

[B]

Absolutely. How long have you guys been podcasting?

[F]

It's been nine years.

[D]

Wow.

[F]

Or this. This will be the ninth year.

[C]

Yeah.

[G]

This fall.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

The end of the year.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I think I recall because it was a surprise. Scott and I have known each other and I guess we've. The three of us have probably known each other since.

[F]

All of us.

[A]

2007 or 8 or something.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Late 2000s. Ish.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

The dot comedy era.

[D]

No.

[F]

I worked at a company that grew out of the digits called Digison with the group Invisible Engine. Who were the people who hired you for Comedus Interruptus? Am I getting all of the names correct? Chris Canelo and John Bury them all. Yes.

[B]

Chris Campbell, Sean Burey and Wyatt was. Wyatt.

[F]

Matt Wyatt as well. Yeah, yeah. And they also, like. I was hired to work at this company by a different Internet sketch group. And then they knew other Internet sketch groups like you guys. They knew a group called Team Tiger. Awesome. That had a guy named Nick Mundy. We both helped us both become friends. And who's the guy who said, hey, you guys should do a podcast about theme parks?

[B]

You know, he was an egg.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had nothing to do with it and does not profit from it or is not helped by it in any way.

[C]

Vaguely upset by that, I think.

[F]

And I think judges a lot of what we do with the show and what we don't do that he does not cut in.

[C]

He didn't get caught in.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Because he didn't think this was going to work.

[B]

Yeah. And he didn't say, we should do this.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

He pointed.

[C]

He pointed.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Pointed.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Specifically the three of you. It was like you guys were talking

[C]

about me, and then I don't remember who he. He pointed at me, but I don't remember if he said. He didn't put this together necessarily, but

[B]

it was like, generally, other people should do it.

[C]

Yeah. I can't remember what he said.

[B]

Well, he said right there and then I shouldn't be a part of it. So he shouldn't be upset.

[F]

When you point and you say we and you don't point at yourself in the we, then you've cut yourself.

[B]

Don't help it out of it. Start. Get started. Then you're out, right?

[F]

Yeah, yeah, you're out. You hear that, Mundy? You're out.

[B]

You guys. You guys don't record video.

[F]

No, not.

[B]

But you're a true podcast. It's an audio medium, but now it's so visual. It's a lot about clips.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

But maybe the next step is recording podcasts for goggles and helmets.

[F]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

The 3D situation. I don't know how you do that exactly, because they're like.

[C]

Podcasts are friendship simulators.

[B]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking.

[C]

What you want is to, like, put it on and look to the left and your buddies are on the couch.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Just cracking wise.

[B]

And so. So we would be. So there'd be a camera, and it would be the camera, but for the. For the 3D situation. So we'd be, like, sitting here being like, yeah, isn't that funny?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And, like, looking at the. Giving them that 3D and like, kind

[C]

of putting your hand, like, as if you were touching them and being like, yeah, you're in this too.

[F]

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

So like, so this.

[D]

It's kind of a new level of concern because you have to interrupt the conversation every now and then to go like, do you want some chips?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Thirsty. And it's a little unnatural, but you get used to anything to be a

[F]

host to someone who isn't in the room.

[C]

Give them like a little kiss on the cheek or something.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Like, just a quick one.

[A]

Can I interject with something that's sort of blue?

[B]

Oh. Do you guys feel okay with that?

[C]

Yeah, Yeah.

[F]

I mean, I didn't sign any sort of waiver about such things, but I get. I guess I'll consent and usually you don't check.

[B]

Usually you just go right away.

[A]

But does anyone. Do you recall in your 20s a series of pornographic videos that were called Virtual Sex?

[B]

No.

[F]

What is it?

[C]

They were VHS's.

[A]

No, these. This was in the age of the Internet.

[G]

Okay.

[A]

It would be like, yes.

[B]

And they'd be talking to you.

[A]

Are you ready for me? It would be like kind of pov. It's like exactly like. It's like the podcast thing you guys are talking about reminds me exactly of those old virtual sex videos.

[F]

It's impossible to find, is what I figured out, because the phrase you will find a zillion results for. But the specific series that you're after, which I'd like to see because. Is it people or is it. I mean, what I'd be really excited is if it's kind of like lawnmower man type, like.

[A]

No, it's. But it was. It was a person in, like a sort of blanket, like in front of a black background. It's like, what is this space? You could imagine, but, like, sometimes they would do, like, whatever, like, to you and stuff. Sorry.

[D]

Oh, man.

[A]

Well, you had to imagine. You had to use a little bit of your imagination. But they were.

[D]

But yeah.

[A]

So, like, I remember hearing the first step, because I remember one of the first episodes was about maybe about the. Was it about the ET Ride or Indiana Jones? You released two episodes. It was a long. A long way to get to. I had known Scott for a long time, and I remember the podcast being like a full surprise.

[F]

Oh, totally.

[A]

Never mentioned it to me. And then one day, these episodes came out and I was being on an airplane and I was just excited because, like, I. I love theme parks. And I. I didn't really. I knew of you guys, I think, just from like, performing at the. UCB, but I was so excited. And it's. It's such a great listen and you guys are so Enthusiastic. It's. It's really incredible. In fact. Wet Ryan, here are. Are you. Have you graduated past Internet?

[G]

I'm still an intern, but I get paid.

[A]

Okay, good.

[G]

It's hard to get wet before the recording. It's not really visible on camera. I did kind of splash myself a little bit, and I had Ethan, who's the other intern, wipe it up.

[B]

Oh, that's so nice of you to

[D]

get wet for us.

[G]

Right.

[F]

Wait, why the wet?

[G]

One time I walked in and it was raining outside, so I was all wet, and then Rochelle saw me through the door and thought that was funny, so they had me come on. And I was Wet Ryan.

[B]

I was like, look at Wet Ryan. I don't know if you can see that. We had him on the podcast. Podcast.

[G]

You guys don't really watch the show?

[D]

I wasn't sure if it was, like, something not.

[B]

I guess you don't really know about Ryan.

[F]

I don't know if it's one.

[A]

It's like one of the. Do you guys have runners on your show?

[F]

Oh, man. We'll start. Yeah, we'll look. We'll throw them out all day. We actually don't know how to be on a different podcast without just saying catchphrases that have occurred over. Without saying, like, ham in the house.

[A]

Okay.

[F]

I don't remember why it. It happened or why it's ham in the house.

[D]

Oh, it was me. Obviously, it's about ham. I think I said, like, well, my family usually kept ham in the house, and sometimes I do.

[A]

Origin.

[D]

Maybe we were parents. That deli drawer is usually full. What if you need it to make sandwiches?

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

So now. Now how does it come up? Is it like. Like, if you were to say ham in the house.

[D]

They usually check in and, you know, I. I'm a little more health conscious nowadays, so it's. It's more of a treat to have ham in there.

[F]

We ask in a concerned way, ham in the house.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Because we're all worried that there is, honestly.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

So that might be. That's on the higher echelon of healthier things that you would be eating, potentially.

[D]

Yeah. It's only a little process.

[C]

None of no Taco Bell item has ham in it, unfortunately.

[F]

Not even a breakfast. Really?

[C]

Oh, that's a good question. I don't know.

[D]

I think they do like bacon, perhaps bacon.

[C]

But that's.

[B]

Yeah, I guess to go back to

[F]

the original point at this current moment here in 2026. Ham in the house.

[D]

No, no ham in the house right now.

[A]

Anyone do you have ham in that?

[B]

No, no, I. We've. We've really cut back on all cold cuts. Sausage.

[A]

Interesting.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Because there was a. Even. Even smoked salmon. Anything smoked. All that stuff has carcinogens.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And it's like a study came out and saying, like, that cold cuts are basically as bad as cigarettes. I don't know if that's true, but it is. There. There is bad.

[F]

Really? Should I be cutting out? Like, there's a lot of. Like, there's a lot of turkey sandwiches in the house.

[A]

You know, this is. Now we're getting. Now it'. Know, you know, maybe you want to. Maybe you want to allow yourself a cold cut.

[B]

Yeah, no, I think, you know, like, anything every now and then, but, like, I. I feel like now we gear more towards, like, chicken salad for a sandwich or something. Instead of a turkey. Instead of a turkey sandwich.

[F]

That's probably smart. Okay.

[B]

But I don't know. This is just, like, Internet stuff, so, you know, maybe like in a. In a week, they'll be like, yeah, that's actually good.

[D]

What's your chicken setup? Are you buying canned chicken? Are you buying the rotisserie?

[B]

Rotisserie. Rotisserie. And as soon as they get the rotisserie home, I take it off the. The. Yeah. And put it in a Tupperware. Because once you put that thing in the fridge.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It's harder to pull off. You're not going to get all the meat off, and it's.

[D]

And you're gonna get goo at the bottom.

[B]

You're gonna get the goo at the bottom. Oh, thank you. Yeah. It's not a pleasure. Yeah.

[D]

Carcass goes right into a pot of. Because you're making your own chicken stock.

[B]

Absolutely. Yeah. So you're gonna put that. You're gonna put the meat in the Tupperware, and then you're gonna make some stock.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And you're gonna. You're gonna be.

[F]

But you don't want. The goo would not be a good base of a stock.

[B]

I mean, you could. That could go in the stock, but you don't want. You don't want that in your.

[F]

Because it dissipates. Then you're not getting pure.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Goo is just one component of stock.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

So would it be fair to say chicken in the house?

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Great.

[B]

Always chicken in the house.

[F]

And we just gave you one. Now you would. Now you guys have a new one

[A]

you can run and shout out to the Rocco listeners. Please go if you want. If you run into somebody, say, chicken in the house.

[B]

Yeah. Or you could even say ham in the. If you run into a Clifford. Right?

[F]

You're Clifford.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[F]

How about that? Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Maybe we have a Clifford out there.

[G]

Meets Rocco.

[B]

You talk about the Hamlin.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

You got Clifford and a Rocco. Can they keep both of those?

[A]

I think there might be.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[F]

There's got Wet Ryan, perhaps.

[G]

Yeah. This is really exciting for me. This is like a crossover episode. This is like cartoon All Stars to the rescue.

[D]

Wow. Really speaking our language. To be clear, this is literal wet. This isn't like Training Day. I didn't know you like to get wet.

[G]

It's water.

[D]

Okay, so it's not pcp.

[G]

It's not pcp. Ethan Hawke in the car, Seeing Green.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Right.

[F]

Well, let's declare you the first hybrid Clifford Rocco.

[D]

Right.

[F]

We reorder that if you want. I mean, you work here.

[A]

He's a Clifford. He's definitely a Clifford.

[F]

Probably a Clifford first proud.

[A]

I don't know that he. I don't know that he would claim to be a Rocco. I think he's being sweet to us. But I will say his bio. I don't know if you guys want to peruse this at all, but he did a very thorough job of. Of the work you've done, and

[F]

I'm sharing it.

[G]

I didn't even go on the.

[F]

This is. I feel almost.

[B]

Didn't even go on the wiki, just right off the jump.

[F]

Geez. Wow. I. I feel almost guilty about this, knowing that Ryan, go. What was my film school? Loyola Marymount. And we've corresponded before this and had good correspondence and knowing that you're getting. Theoretically, you should be getting good education there, but now you're using your time to create bios about us that mention Avatar, that mentioned the National Daddy Award. A bunch of nonsense.

[B]

But he's getting paid now. He's getting paid.

[F]

And you know what? If you're getting paid, he's getting paid

[B]

to write about you guys.

[D]

Are you still in school?

[G]

Yeah, I just finished my sophomore year.

[D]

That's a hell of a commute to Loyola Mary now.

[G]

It is.

[F]

It was like an hour every day,

[G]

but now I'm living on a couch in Glendale, so it's nice.

[D]

That's better.

[B]

That's better.

[F]

What color of couch?

[B]

Green.

[F]

And you're a taller man. Long enough. It's long enough to squeeze it into a cot.

[G]

Comfier than my bed at school. It's longer than my bed at school.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[F]

Makes sense.

[B]

What's the material of this green couch?

[G]

I don't Know, like a fluffy thing.

[B]

Oh, fluffy thing.

[G]

I'm living with my college friend's parents, but he's in Italy.

[A]

Oh, interesting. Oh, okay. So how's that? Do you want to talk about that? How is that dynamic?

[G]

Yeah, lovely people.

[B]

Do they feed you?

[G]

No.

[A]

Is there ham in the house?

[G]

Is there ham in the house?

[A]

Probably chicken in the house.

[B]

Will you check when you get home?

[G]

Yeah, I'll check when I get home. I don't really use their fridge.

[B]

Wait, let me pull back a little bit here. Your friend is in Italy, but you're sleeping on the couch. Not in his bed.

[G]

No, because he shares a bed with his twin brother, and his twin brother goes to ucla, and they have a quad, so he just would like to have. Have a room to himself for once.

[B]

They have a quad.

[A]

The twins share a bed. I don't want it.

[B]

Let's.

[D]

Let's.

[A]

I. I don't want to. I don't want to go any further into the twins sharing the bed. I'm nervous.

[G]

I mean, they have their own beds.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

They share twin bed. Do the twins share twin bed?

[F]

Because that's kind of twins. This is getting comic now. I. What I'd rather have now is a bio that lists all of this.

[G]

Yeah, I'll make a bio.

[F]

If it was in print, I think I could trade.

[B]

We're gonna get into that later.

[A]

Can I. Can I ask you guys a question? I wrote down some things that I was curious about, and I have a broad question. I just want to say a phrase, and maybe you've. I'm sure you've spoken about this ad nauseam, but I just want to know your initial reactions when you hear this phrase, which you hear all the time.

[F]

I have a guess. Is it two words?

[A]

It is.

[F]

Is it da?

[A]

Yes.

[F]

I knew it. I knew. Somehow I knew it. Well, feel free. Unless I'm way. Disney Adventures magazine.

[B]

Okay.

[F]

What does that mean?

[A]

No Disney adults. When you hear it, what is your instinctual response? Has that evolved? I mean, I guess I just want a blanket when I say that. How do you react? Because you must also, sorry to add onto it, find yourself in situations where other people are saying it around you.

[D]

You.

[B]

Yeah. And we're just to be. Just to be clear, have we gone over exactly what we've said? The podcast, the ride guys are here. But for the people who don't know the podcast, have we said exactly what it is?

[F]

That I'm not sure.

[C]

I don't think.

[F]

I don't think not.

[B]

So why don't you tell our Listeners. Exactly. What the podcast.

[F]

Yes. That's probably smart to do.

[B]

And then we can go.

[F]

I mean, it's a podcast about theme parks, generally speaking, about any and all Disney. Sure. But universal and.

[B]

And.

[F]

And more obscure and anything all over the world, probably, you know, roughly speaking, a different ride or theme park or obscure animatronic robot show or restaurant or store. If it's vaguely themed, I think you

[B]

will do a diet countdown.

[C]

If the robots that you ride on at the mall. If you're a child. We would do an episode on that.

[B]

Yes, yes.

[F]

Yeah, yeah. If it's like. If it's something stupid that's out in the regular world, then, you know, there's one I was very fond of about the electronics store. Fry's Electronics.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Because every one of those was themed. One was space, one was a Mayan temple.

[B]

I didn't know they were.

[F]

One was Alice and. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. Some of. Some were islands, whatever. So that counts.

[B]

Theming restaurants. Rainforest Cafe, maybe.

[F]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

So that it's a great topic, expansive topic for. To cover. And you guys are excited, especially if

[F]

you stretch it out just in that little redefinition I did where anything can't. We're riding a robot at the mall counts. That really lets you. That gives you nine years.

[B]

That's the fun.

[F]

But generally speaking, theme park. And I think it grew out of us going to theme parks together, finding ourselves in conversations where we realized we all separately, over the years had learned all the minutiae. We knew all the trivia, and we made all the rides and all the little Easter egg details, and we found ourselves like, you know, boring wives and partners. All of the stuff that we all knew about all of this stuff, which might be why Nick Mundy pointed at us one day and said, who is the very.

[B]

I need to create a space for this where people will. People who want to listen can find it.

[F]

Yes. Yeah, yeah.

[G]

And.

[F]

And where wives and partners can tune in or tune out just like. Like a wall that they're. And they're. They're willing.

[A]

They're. They're welcome to come through someone engaged. Someone. Some probably want to, some don't want to, I would imagine.

[F]

Yeah, I think. Or you want to some of the time, but you need a break, I would say.

[A]

Who is the, like, kind of iconic imagineer you had on? Tony.

[F]

Tony Baxter.

[A]

Yes. I remember there being a lot of. To me, it felt to like the equivalent of like Marin getting Lorne or something like that, because I feel like it was a Name. I didn't know, you know, I don't know the names like you guys do, but you had talked about him and his work, and it just felt like such a get and such. It was such a reward for the listener for you to finally get him.

[F]

And we somehow did that out of the gate. We did it in the reverse order of Marian, where that was early on.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

Now what do we do now? A bunch of nonsense. And it was our first live show ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And now we're free to, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Not make any sense to anyone. But he's a big deal. Yeah. He's behind Big Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain and what's the big Star tours.

[C]

Star tours figment.

[F]

Oh, yeah, yeah. The little purple dragon figment from Epcot Center.

[C]

And then, like, he, like, he'll be like, oh, yeah, by the way, I, like, invented the Soarin ride vehicle. Like, he'll drop stuff that even. He wasn't the primary guy on. Like, so you go, oh, there's like, tons of stuff you don't even know. It's not, like, listed on the Internet that he, like, grabs credit for that said that in a bad way.

[F]

You mostly don't know who. You don't know who does what in that imagineering building where all of the Disney stuff happens. Most people don't, like, you know, sign their work. But he's probably one of the more prominent. Like, if you're interested in this stuff at all. The fact that you'd come across his name at all shows, he's like. And you're not like a super deep. Although pretty. I mean, you know, because you've been on a bunch.

[A]

I love being on your show. But no, it's not even like that. No. But this is about you guys.

[F]

Yes. I see there's notes about us.

[A]

So tell me, Disney Adult.

[B]

Yeah, Disney adult.

[A]

Sorry. Should we define what that is?

[C]

Yeah, sure.

[A]

Or, like, generally, it's a dog.

[D]

I feel like it means so much nowadays.

[B]

It means. Yeah, there's. There's a spectrum.

[A]

It's sort of derogatory.

[F]

It's for sure derogatory. Mostly lands derogatory.

[B]

Yes.

[F]

And I feel like I have a mental picture, I think, of what people are picturing, which probably involves, like, sparkly mouse ears, which you'll notice that none of the three of us.

[B]

Right, right, right. Because honestly, like, I, you know, I don't know you guys as well as I know Kyle, but Kyle would fall under Disney adults for, I think.

[D]

Right.

[B]

Because you like Disney as an adult. You go. You would go without the definition. Yeah, but it's like, you're into it, you're a fan of it, but you're. But. But you would not fall under that definition for me, because I've been to Disney and I have a certain idea of what a Disney adult is. And I think it's like, a little bit more die Hard and, like, dressing up and going to, like, you know, social things where you can meet other people and, like, participate in that more on, like, a social level as opposed to, like, being a fan of the rides and the park itself.

[C]

There's a thing called Disney Bounding where you dress kind of, like, subtly like the characters.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

So you're not wearing Prince Eric's outfit. Exactly. But you're wearing, like, blue pants and, like, a white dress up, like, shirt, so you vaguely look like him because you're not.

[A]

Adults aren't allowed to dress, put, wear.

[C]

You're not allowed to wear a coffee full Prince Eric outfit.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

Right, right.

[D]

Sometimes.

[B]

Okay.

[F]

Because you don't want people to start taking photos of you. You don't want to, like, confuse and then if. Because then if you were to do something weird and upsetting.

[G]

Right.

[C]

And yeah.

[F]

Think that you work there, then that's trouble for them. So. Yes. That Disney Bounding, that's.

[B]

That's.

[F]

That's maybe the kind of thing that a. Like, what we. Maybe what we consider more of a

[C]

Disney, it's a little more hardcore because, like, yeah, like, I guess I've never seen someone like Disney bound as Grandmother Willow from Pocahontas, but if I saw somebody that was, like, wearing the colors of Grandmother Willow, I would be like, well, this is a different, like, zone. This is not. They're out of my league as far as.

[F]

It's hard to do. That's a tough one.

[C]

But it was just, like, colors and,

[F]

like, some leafs on your hat.

[C]

A hat with like, maybe like a veil to kind of COVID to kind of suggest the trunk of a tree.

[D]

Mike's song one of his Grandma Willow kicks again.

[C]

Grandmother Willow? Well, I mean, it's just an underrated character. People talk about the genie, but, like, when are we talking about Grandmother Willow? Very rarely.

[B]

This is the first time I've ever talked about Grandmother Willow.

[C]

Right.

[F]

Well, you've got a big surprise coming when we say what your podcast is. Start learning.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

The Disney adult thing, though. I. Yeah. I don't know. Do you?

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

What is it to you?

[F]

Do you guys agree that just, like, it does feel like it's said with. With A lot of judgment. And I don't, I don't. Which makes me kind of recoil from it, like, I guess. Although the way you just put it back does not sound offensive at all. And that you would include your good friends.

[A]

I wonder if there are people who like, yeah. Proudly labels themselves. I will say, like, when you guys started the podcast, part of the intro was three childless adults, men in their 30s. Men in their 30s.

[F]

Three childless. Yeah. A theme park podcast hosted by three childless men in their 30s. Which was Jason's line. And it was true then, but now some of us are not childless anymore and none of us, no one's in their 30s anymore.

[A]

That is the thing. As somebody with a kid and now going to Disney, because I went, Yes, I went as an adult prior to the kid and with the kid. And I've said this before, so forgive me, but, like, I am affected by certain adults and I don't know that they fall under this category of Disney adults, but, like, this could be. This could get me in trouble. My daughter is into the characters. Meeting the characters.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And almost every single time we're in line to meet Chip and Dale or Daisy or whatever, there will be a group of like 4 or 520 somethings or 30 somethings decked out in, like you said, like sparkly mini ears or whatever. And they just take their sweet ass time with Chip and Dale and they're doing bits like, oh, yeah, hey, yeah. Oh yeah. Are you gonna grab the acorn? Like, and it's like. And like. And like. Jeff's like. And they're like, hey, I didn't say you could do that. They're like fully doing, like a long form. And I'm like, let's limit.

[F]

Only one side can talk. So that's not going to be a satisfying show.

[A]

Like, my two and a half year old just wants to get a photo

[B]

and leave like that.

[F]

And you want to leave.

[A]

You don't want it.

[E]

That.

[F]

That's a real. The day becomes a lot less pleasant in these places if an hour is spent in one of these character lines, which are not always, like, shaded. Those are not always comfortable places to be.

[A]

Yeah, but that to me, and. And these will be groups of adults where it's like, you have to look out for the fact that, like, I'm not going to say the parks are better. I think saying they're built for children is, like, kind of risky in some

[D]

way or another, but ages 8 to

[B]

80, Kyle and the children, the child inside of all of us.

[A]

But I do think like you, there is a responsibility, arguably, when it's two in the afternoon, to look out for a kid behind you and make sure that they get, like, it's just polite.

[D]

It's good manners.

[B]

And to be clear, like, I would see those as Disney adults. I don't necessarily. I don't necessarily see you as a Disney adult. I think some people would see that, but, like. Because I think it inherently does have a negative connotation. And I do think that there's a difference between being an appreciator and a fan and somebody who goes and being a Disney adult. Disney adult to me means like a way of life, almost exactly. Like a personality.

[F]

I feel like it's a bubble.

[B]

Wrong. I think.

[F]

No, I think you're right. And I think it's like a. It's a bubble that you're in where it's all that you do and all that you think about. And a goal that I had with this podcast is like a show that is about this stuff, but where other pop culture exists and is referenced as well. Because don't you feel that from some fans that, like, it's truly all. They completely are in a Disney bubble with Disney blinders?

[C]

You should be obsessed about, like, 10 things in your life, not just one. Like, diversify your obsessions is kind of what we're going for, I think.

[F]

Absolutely.

[C]

Now, Jason and I have met Robin Hood at the parks before I had a kid. So we have stood. We stood in line. But I think the difference is. Let me make it. You tell me if I'm wrong. That was a limited time character.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

There was like a line and they started goofing with us.

[C]

They started goofing with us. It wasn't us doing it. We didn't do it.

[F]

He goofed on them.

[A]

I have no problem with a dog meeting the character when there's like a long line behind you.

[C]

There's an entitlement is what you're talking about.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's like when you're not looking

[F]

out all the time thing. Why did you choose now?

[C]

Can I give the answer? I think I do. I've said this on the show before. There's a clip of an interview with a person I look up to with a lot of different. In a lot of different ways. Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. He's called a Disney adult by the host of this show. And he goes, no, no, no. Those are fighting words. He doesn't like the distinction. He says, I'm a Disneyland weirdo. And I think that's much more apropos of what we're doing. And I do appreciate that because I do think that's a specific distinction. And I don't know if it's like I want to be like cooler or more niche, but I feel like it suggests something different than just a blanket like Disney Adult.

[B]

I agree to me and I'm further outside than you guys, but that is more accessible to anybody.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Like Disney Adult feels more like I don't, you know, like if people are curious about the parks.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

They're like, like another category like you guys is, is yeah.

[D]

You know, early on something to try to distinguish ourselves. It's like theme park fans, right?

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Like fans of these places and how they work and, and how it's done. And as for. I will speak just for me, but like, that's it.

[B]

Psychologist Lightning McQueen just drove by.

[D]

I'll watch some of their movies and TV shows, but it's like, well, I'll watch other movies and TV shows too. And they enjoy them just as much.

[F]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Not more.

[F]

Not just Disney. One thing I like about theme parks is that it's a world where like you're the fandom. Doesn't matter. Like, I think. I think we all enjoy the Universal Studios show Water World, a live sea War spectacular, which has been going for many, many years and is very popular, which is why I don't want to say the full name of it. Are any of us fans of Waterworld? No. Have any of us even seen Waterworld?

[C]

I haven't watched it.

[G]

Oh, there you go.

[D]

When I was like 11 or 12, there was a network television premiere and I was like, it was pretty good. I don't know.

[F]

Did they dub over the swears and stuff?

[D]

Probably, yeah.

[B]

Somehow it was like one of the movies we had on VHS and I think we watched it a lot. Yeah. And like the whole set is arrived. The set of that movie is just like a. Like a live action show from Universal Studios.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Yeah. For sure. But like, that's an example of like, you know. Yeah, it's. I think we're not like one track minded about Disney. Like if there's a big dumb ride or show, it doesn't matter what the source of it is. We're, we're. I don't need to have ever seen it or be a fan of it. Who cares? Something exploded in front of me. I'm happy.

[B]

Yeah. And there's all levels of like criticism or irony or genuine appreciation. It seems like with all the. There's a range of Things. Things where you're like, yeah, yeah. Yes.

[A]

In terms of the character meet and greets, have you spoken before about, like, kind of your relationship with Minnie? I feel like there was something about. Have you interacted with the Mini?

[F]

Walk around the entire last third page of the Bible.

[C]

It's on this. In this. This steel dossier here.

[D]

It just says, Mike and his wife have an understanding.

[B]

Oh, okay. So, okay. You wouldn't call yourself a Disney.

[F]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

This.

[G]

Yeah.

[A]

He's talking about how, like, you know, we once met Robin Hood, but he's around. But I swear, like, you've spoken about meeting Minnie multiple times and, like, you have a hall.

[B]

I know where you're going with.

[C]

First of all, I should say this wasn't something we concocted before, like, my wife and I or anything. This is something that happens to me specifically in Orlando, not in Anaheim. The Orlando Minis will press their, like, snout up against my face, and the performer inside will make a kiss, like.

[F]

Like a beer.

[A]

You're hearing from behind. Whatever. Plastic or whatever.

[B]

Even though you're not supposed to. You're not supposed to.

[D]

Well, you can do some, like. I think they have some, like, Chip and Dale do, like. Like.

[F]

Yeah, try to do a bit with him sometimes. You'll have a great time.

[D]

So.

[B]

So you get the snout pushed up your. Against your face. You get a kiss sound. Right.

[F]

So what do you do?

[B]

You hard or what you take. Yeah, I get hard.

[C]

Immediately breaked up.

[D]

Fully pranked up.

[B]

Why are they doing this to you? Do they just. Other people are just you.

[C]

I don't have a good answer for this. In Anaheim, they don't do that. I've never had a Mini make the noise and press the snout against my feet.

[D]

And in fact, a Mini at California Adventure once seemed very put out to take photos with us.

[C]

Yes. Well, that's a whole nother element of it.

[A]

This is. Yeah.

[F]

Here's the kind of thing that happens on our show is that he's over here talking about how the Orlando Minis, they can't keep their hands off me. They're kissing me through the snouts. But then we did a thing once where it was like, towards the end of the day, and there was a Mini hanging around and taking photos, and I gave Minnie a hug, and then a photo was taken and I left. And these guys were both. The amount of judgment.

[C]

He gave the Mini a hug.

[G]

Whoa.

[F]

He gave the Mini a hug.

[C]

He did. I don't know.

[F]

That's what it looked. There's character interaction actions in this character,

[D]

I gave the Mini a hug too, and I felt like there was like, all right, move along kind of thing. But he did hug.

[A]

You gotta walk us through, like, kind of the initiation of the hug, how it happens.

[B]

Are you not allowed to hug the characters?

[D]

No, you are.

[A]

It's like you're waiting, Jason.

[F]

That's correct. I think this guy's got other rules.

[D]

I just want to hear walk.

[A]

Can you just walk us through? You wait in line. You're at Minnie. You're like, hey, Minnie, I'm a big fan.

[C]

End of the night.

[A]

Can I get dark?

[C]

It's dark out.

[F]

Minnie is out. We're in California.

[C]

California Adventure.

[F]

It's late.

[C]

There's some strange men on the street in California Adventure. It's late.

[D]

Wear my hug at the most uncomfortable phrase in the English language.

[C]

Wearing like kind of like cabbie style hats for whatever reason. I don't know why.

[D]

Well, it was. It's turning the 30s.

[C]

We were of course, dressed like the time period, 20s maybe, whatever. Around that time.

[F]

Look, I do think that the interaction was just, hey. And I just went up and gave

[A]

her, hey, I haven't seen you in a while.

[F]

Yeah, long time.

[C]

I never said, like, when I was in Orlando, I never said, like, minnie, right here, please. Like, I never initiated the kiss. That was always just something the performer decided to do. So I feel like when I went in to take a photo with Minnie, she didn't give me a big, oh, hey, like, let's do a hug.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I was gonna have to like force a hug on Minnie and I just didn't want to do it. I didn't feel so.

[F]

Are you implying that I.

[C]

She might have been different with you? She might have been different. She might have had a different vibe coming from you. I don't know. I wasn't in your shoes. But for me personally, I didn't feel like I wanted to hug the Mini. So then we went there.

[B]

That's you.

[F]

And I have my own read of.

[C]

That's what I said. I wasn't judging.

[F]

They're so valid.

[C]

I'm just saying in that moment in Anaheim, California, I didn't feel the same warmth I feel from the Orlando Minis. More.

[B]

By warmth you mean hooking up. Up kiss to the face.

[F]

He didn't feel the warmth from inside his pants. When a boner was a ch.

[B]

And how many times have you gotten this kiss in Orlando?

[C]

At least twice, possibly three times. And different trips as well.

[A]

The third time I couldn't tell it was a kiss exactly. Might have Been chewing a gumdrop.

[F]

Was it a cough?

[C]

Well, yeah.

[F]

What's going on in there?

[B]

It's.

[D]

Mike. I do have to say this probably isn't the time and place to bring this up, but when you turn to your wife and go, lindsay, kiss here, please. Right here. It does make us a little uncomfortable. I'm sorry. I've been sitting on that for a while.

[C]

That's. Look, I'll try to curb that, but I can't promise you.

[D]

I'm not asking.

[C]

Something we've been doing for a decade.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

There's an understanding there. That's.

[D]

Yeah, you have an understanding with a lot of understandings.

[C]

Yeah, a lot of understandings.

[B]

Now, I. I saw in the. In your. In your bio here that James Cameron is a. Is a certified Clifford.

[G]

That was a joke.

[F]

I was gonna say, because Ryan's tricking me is newer in context. That's pretty huge.

[G]

It was that Mike coined the phrase the mighty Akron, and then. And then when they said mighty in the way of water trailer, fans assumed that it was a reference because James Cameron is such a big Clifford.

[B]

Okay, okay.

[F]

You do know your stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He coined a term about the Avatar ride in Florida, and then that term essentially was said in the second.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

Okay, so this is a theory that some have ascribed to. And that Orion, I guess.

[B]

Okay, so Ryan, in the future, you gotta say, this is a. Ryan. A web, you know, a theory.

[A]

There are definitely issues with these bios.

[F]

The following statements were jokes.

[A]

There's some, like, kind of editorial thing happening on the bios because I was

[B]

right, because I could see James Cameron being a fan, because he's a fan of the immersive experience and the rides and the movies and whatnot and what have you. And you know, Disney's coming out with a new Avatar area. So, Ryan, we're gonna have a long conversation, A long, long slash.

[D]

S. And this is the first Internet sarcastic.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, this is the first time he's sitting in on a podcast record.

[C]

Oh, really?

[B]

And I'll tell you right now, it's going to be the last.

[D]

Yes.

[F]

Jeez.

[B]

No, I'm kidding. No, you get your welcome.

[F]

This is the scolding that you're willing to do on air. Imagine.

[B]

Wait till you see how I treat him off air. Who?

[F]

Oh, we get to stay.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

Oh, great.

[B]

I'm going to. I'm going to close the door and

[F]

make everybody stay for this. Our own private show. Not for the list. Not even on the Patreon.

[D]

Jeez. Beck the butcher.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Wet Ryan is perfect the way he is. Perfectly wet.

[F]

We love you from sweat soon enough.

[A]

Now, I don't know if, again, this is a question. I don't know if there's a leading question in taking you all to vulnerable places. But. But, Scott, I also feel like. And I don't know, I don't remember where you guys fall, but I think that, like, you've had a evolution of, like, the amount of thrill you're willing to engage with in some of these rides. Is that accurate to say, like, when you first started the podcast, had you hadn't done, like, for instance, a ride? Like, had you done the Tower of Terror, which is. Which is like a big drop.

[F]

Here's. Here's where I was at. There were certain. There was, like, a short list of rides that I had done, pressured by a girlfriend who I wanted to impress, with whom I guess I didn't have an understanding. An understanding about scary rides. So I remember that I had done the Tower of Terror, and I had done what is now an incredicoaster with her and utterly terrified every second.

[A]

Not enjoyable.

[F]

Yeah. Yeah. No Genuinely awful experiences, I think. I didn't know how to breathe right. I didn't know how to steel myself for these situations. And then. And through the years, I've gotten over, you know, I think I was very nervous about any coaster that launches, anything that goes from 0 to 65 or whatever, very fast. You actually helped me get over that one. We were a California adventure. Yeah. I'm not close enough to do the fist, but I guess you need a good little knuckle in the arm. But here's how you did it. Is that. I think we'd had a drink or two, and you said, I bought Incredicoaster. And I was like. Like, oh, maybe. And then I'm still like, I actually haven't done it in a long time. I'm actually kind of scared of that one. And you said, why? I was like, that's a very good question. Maybe now is the time to be an adult and not be ridiculous. And now I love that ride very much. Yeah. Yeah. So thank you for that. The other. The other crazy one. Probably one of the crazier things that's happened in the show is the guy, Tony Baxter, who you mentioned I wasn't doing Splash Mountain. I was too afraid of the drop on Splash Mountain. And we found ourselves in a situation where we're talking to the creator of Splash Mountain, Flash Mountain, And I was. I had to be vulnerable and say, I love this ride. And I Can't really go on it. I'm too scared. And he gave me advice on how to do it really, which was something. But was it like. Well, yeah, you know, it's like, it's. It's. It's scary for a minute there, but then once you're done and you get to the big celebration at the end, it's pure pleasure.

[B]

That's sounds.

[F]

That's beautiful. Like, what a nice. And then I didn't want to let the creator of the ride down.

[B]

Yeah. So you had. You loved the ride, but you hadn't been up on it.

[F]

I. Similar. I had been on it once to impress the guys.

[B]

Oh, God.

[F]

Middle school friends. And I was terrified by the.

[A]

So like.

[F]

And there's still a spectrum of like. I think the craziest I will go is the rock and roller coaster.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

That's the most intense I'll do. So there's still a lot that I do not. But I'm thankful to this whole experience, to doing the show that the. That it's opened me. I like that I. I don't want to be. I'm still a wimp, but I'm lightly

[B]

less of a win.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And after that, that. When you went down Splash Mountain with. With these. The middle schoolers or whatever it was, was there like a conversation after those, like, where you sort of had to pretend like. Yeah, I actually thought it was really cool. Like, sort of have to like puff up and pretend like you liked it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I actually really don't like that. Guys. Don't make me do that ever again.

[F]

I think I was. I think I was dead silence for probably half an hour and still just feeling like the cold sweat on the forehead. But yeah, it gets to. I genuinely think I had sort of like a. Like a breathing issue or something. Like I was. I think I wasn't like circular breathing. And after, then. Then I wanted to impress you, I guess, or whatever it was. I don't want to let you down. And so then I'm on it next to my wife, Erin, and she's like whispering to me, like, you. What you do is you close your eyes. You always close your eyes. And that makes it worse because you're imagining something worse than what is actually happening. So keep your eyes open and breathe and you'll be okay. And then that's been.

[B]

That's good advice. Yeah.

[F]

Did you know how terrifying of a thing that was on that random day? That was. I was like very shaken.

[A]

I remember. I mean, I knew the lore a little bit.

[D]

Sure.

[B]

And.

[A]

And I think I knew.

[G]

Yeah.

[A]

The things you hadn't done that day. I probably didn't think too much of it, like.

[F]

Sure.

[C]

You didn't know you were torturing him.

[A]

Yeah. So I would never want to do that.

[C]

Why?

[B]

Dude, got another beer. Relax.

[F]

Was.

[B]

I was.

[A]

I was. Blackout.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

What are you, lame?

[B]

You never know.

[A]

Go.

[D]

Come on.

[C]

Find a random nine year old to

[B]

go on this with me.

[E]

Exactly.

[F]

Do you have any of this? But do you. Are you afraid of any of this stuff? Are you a roller coaster person?

[B]

I like roller coasters. I grew up with Six Flags Great America near me. Yeah. Yeah. And. And I loved it. I remember when the Batman ride came out, and that was a big deal. Your legs were dangling and. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[F]

You're still a little freaked out by the legs. Legs.

[A]

Dang.

[C]

I will allow my legs to dangle, but it does. I don't know. There's a control issue with me in there.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

But I'll do it.

[B]

I. I feel like, though, that was, like, the last time I went on, like, a new, exciting roller coaster. I don't go to Knott's Berry Farm. I don't go to any, like, roller coaster parks. So, like, I don't know what they're doing these days. And it might be a little too much for me because also, when you get. It's not even just, like, it's not a fear thing, but, like, in your fort, your body changes. So, like, I'm more susceptible to getting nauseous, I think, than I used to be, like, riding guardians. I think maybe I was, like, a little hungover, like, had a beer or something, but I was like, oh, my God. I'm not afraid of that. But, God, I feel awful.

[F]

Is that a last couple years kind of thing?

[B]

Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

[F]

Do you remember I was with you guys in Orlando once, and I think everybody went on, and I did not go on the ride. The Incredible Hulk, favorite of Jason's. But I've also heard you guys complain a lot about it. Like, that one now is a real migraine.

[C]

That'll rattle your brain.

[B]

It'll give you a little headache.

[F]

Do you have any recollection or. Or blackout? Was it blackout?

[B]

No, no.

[A]

I was at that time I was truly browned out.

[B]

There's no doubt about it.

[F]

That was the last day.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That was your bachelor party.

[A]

I was like, I need some food.

[B]

I remember it. I remember it being like, a little, like, head jostling, and it's, like, vibrating the whole time. It'll yeah, but it was, it was fun.

[A]

I did X2 the ride at Magic Mountain out here. I don't know if you know about this ride, but I. I want to say that one. You're maybe. I don't know if you're lying down. It's like a. It's like a multiple things. You're like lying down and backwards or something and you spin and there's flames and like the soundtrack as I recall in my head, it was like you hear like they have like Jack Nicholson, like Few Good Men quote, like you can't handle the truth. And then it'll be like, damn.

[B]

And this is what ride.

[A]

It's called X too. And then like, yeah. Metallica plays and it really. They do a great job of like, it's all on the climb that you're getting like little snippets of like you piece of.

[F]

Say hello to my little friends.

[A]

I also have a very specific memory of. Yeah. Being at m. Magic Mountain. And I don't know, I was on in one of those, like one of the big ones, you know, Viper or.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And like I was with a pal and we were climbing up and there was like a 15 year old in front of me and like I was feeling the anticipation and I was nervous and the kid like who's in front of me turns behind. He's like, you scared?

[F]

Jesus.

[B]

That's the type of energy you get at like a roller coaster park and not Disneyland. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Don't be a.

[B]

Like, oh, come on, man. Can we just all just have fun and like not. Not trash talk each other.

[D]

You're a stranger.

[B]

Don't say that.

[F]

What would make me scared? That still scares me to this. I think we've, we've talked in the show about still being afraid of teenagers now at 40. We are going to have them soon.

[B]

More so than I'm worried.

[F]

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

[B]

It's like, what are these? Oh, God.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You become old.

[F]

Yeah, that's what happened.

[B]

I'm like these kids screaming for like.

[F]

And they're unpredictable. They're like, Lucy, you don't know what they're going to do.

[B]

Ye.

[F]

Still to this day you can. You know us in our 40s. Predictable. Same shit every day.

[C]

When I first went to Fright Fest at Six Flags, we saw a teen sucking on the fog machine.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

And the teen sucked the fog out and then like just sprayed it in the air like it was a vape.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

So the big plume of fog and my friend Anthony and I, we were just like, this is the Coolest kid we've ever seen this. We gotta stay away from him, though.

[B]

Cause he'll stay away from us.

[A]

First time I went to New Orleans, checked in my hotel and I saw a man getting sucked off by a woman right outside of the hotel.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's an amazing story.

[A]

I had to tell the clerk. I was like, just so you're aware, there's somebody getting filleted.

[B]

And these are, like, normal people. These are people, like, very normal.

[D]

Sure.

[B]

So it's a normal thing to do.

[F]

Just a normal person.

[G]

Okay.

[C]

Can I see somebody?

[B]

Yeah, we should go on to Mike.

[A]

Please.

[C]

Yeah, I was just gonna say, did There's. Was there a plume afterward?

[D]

Oh, they could have been ghosts. They could have been two ghosts. Disappeared.

[A]

Before we. Before we move on to the next segment, can I ask one last question?

[B]

Yeah. I wanted to do a lightning round type of thing.

[A]

Oh, great. Okay. Can.

[F]

Can we do the lightning round? Can these be the.

[B]

Yeah, we can do lightning round where

[A]

we just ask a bunch of questions.

[B]

I was. Yeah. And they give their answer quickly because they're experts on theme parks. I wanted to.

[F]

And we are part of it. It's not you asking each other questions. And we just sit.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Sort of slightly more involved question from Scott.

[B]

And then let's go to lightning. Okay, great, Great.

[A]

Okay. Can you just tell us the history of your involvement with the movie the R Room, The Tommy Wiseau.

[F]

Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. Always. Yeah. I will never shut up about this. We know. We know the route. You know. You know what, What I'm talking about.

[B]

The Room.

[F]

Tommy Wiseau, starred and written by, directed by Masterpiece, 2003. I think the most fun bad movie ever made. The most, like, joyously, uproariously. Makes me so happy. It's, like, as funny as constant. Like, you know, the sitcom thing of, like, you know, like a. Check here for a joke. Check here for a laugh. I think it has that. It's, like, funny as consistently as the funniest sitcom or sketch or whatever. I was lucky enough to be, like, I saw it had a genuine theatrical run in 2003, like, in the summer between high school and college for me. And for that, they were showing ads for it on local tv. So I was just like. I just happened to see an ad and was flummoxed by it. And, like, this guy yelling, you're tearing me apart. And, like, what the fuck's going on here? And it looked a little funny, but not that I didn't really know, but I brought it up to a guy you guys know, I think Michael Roussel.

[B]

Michael.

[D]

Russell.

[B]

Russell, what up?

[F]

And I, in my head, he's in the front seat of the car, I'm in the back, and it's silent. And I go, has anyone seen this weird ad where this guy yells, you're tearing me apart. And then he, like, hits the brakes on the car or screech, turns back and goes, yes, I have seen that. What the hell is that movie? Like, it was in both of our heads just living on a door, like, what do we do with this? And like, okay, well, we got. Okay, now that we've spoken of this to each other, we gotta, like, track this thing down. Where is it playing? Oh, it's playing in an hour in the theater closest to us. It could possibly be playing in the Valley.

[B]

Let's go.

[F]

And this is our dream. Like, find some bad movie, some mystery science theater thing. That's art that we could really own. So we march up to the theater with shit eating grins and like, three for the room, please. Our friend David is there as well. And the guy behind the window just kind of like grimaces, like, stifles a laugh and says, would you like to read a review of the movie? And he puts an IMDb review up to the glass that says, this film is like getting stabbed in the head. And it says something about it being made by a drunk Croatian cyborg. And we're like, whoa.

[B]

So was he trying to talk you out of it?

[C]

I think he was.

[B]

Are you sure you want to do this?

[F]

I think genuine. So because they had a no refunds policy at the. At the Laemmle Fallbrook 7, and they definitely encountered this before. Like, people were trying to leave. Sorry, there's nothing we could do. So it was just like, you know what you're getting in for, right? And we said, yes, sounds good. We're more in than ever. Then he says, would you like a copy of the soundtrack to the room? We're like, the movie's giving us presents already. This is crazy. So we walk in with our stuff and, like, cannot wait. Like, from the first word out of his mouth, which is, hi, babe. We are dying, dying, laughing. And it never stops. And it gets to the credits. And Rucelle immediately gets his phone out. And I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, I am calling everyone we know. I'm telling him to come here right now. Either buy a ticket or we'll sneak him in the fire exit. We're staying in the theater. We're watching it again. Right now, which we did. And we watched it the next night and the next night and the next night, and then it disappeared for a long time. And it was like, well, this thing is so special. We need to track this and just make sure it doesn't fall through the cracks and disappear forever. So the fact that it is this thing that plays all around the world now and that, like, I don't basically, like, there's. You know, I think there were a few groups, but. But my, like, high school friends and I were like, the initial, like, rabid, cackling audience for this thing, and I'm very proud to have been there early.

[B]

Yeah. That's incredible. So did you guys then start doing screenings of it? That's the only thing.

[F]

We never organized a screening, but we did when they started doing it, they started showing.

[B]

All right.

[F]

Finally, the movie's back after many, many months. And we just like, now we met all these people in college and, like, do you know about this thing? You gotta come to this thing. And we would just flood the zone with as many people as we could. And there were a lot of nerves at that time because we didn't know the personality of Tommy Wiseau, you know, who has an odd vibe in this movie. I would say he kind of can't classify him. Put him in a box, and we're like, is he bringing us here to trap us? Is a rifle going to go off from the back of the room? And now we're all sitting down. But it turned out he loved. He loved every bit of it. He was so happy. We're all there, like, getting drunk, having fun, laughing at his thing, and we're like, you don't care that we're laughing? And he said, do whatever you want. You can laugh, you can cry. Just don't hurt each other.

[D]

Wow.

[F]

Which is something he still says all the time. He will not say where he is from or where he got his money from. But besides that don't hurt each other. There's a great book about the history of the movie the. That got turned into a movie. The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero. And there's a picture of me and Ruselay in the book, which I'm really, really proud of. And to bring it all back around, Greg Sestero, who wrote that, who plays Mark in the movie Giant. Theme park fan. He's been on our show. We've reconnected in the last couple years because he's one of the biggest theme park fans I've ever met. So that's a Nice shout out. Greg Sestero the great.

[A]

Well, he started a movement moment.

[B]

Yeah, you really did.

[A]

I feel like I remember in like whatever year that was. 2007. 8.

[F]

Yeah, yeah. Do you feel like you heard about it?

[A]

I feel like there were like GQ articles about like celebrities going to see this weird movie.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I like. And you know what's the coolest thing ever also is the, the photo in the book is of Michael and I and David Cross. And David Cross, such a giant hero to me obviously. And like looking over and seeing him and go going, I'm about to meet David Cross and it's here he came to this. And I want to say he might have been the first kind of next tier star who started like an early adopter. I think he and Will Arnett would, on the way to Arrested Development would pass by the billboard every day and talk about it.

[E]

Every.

[F]

Like they carpooled to the set and just, it was just like. And by the way, it just had a phone number. How do you see this movie? It was just a phone number that you call and leave a message and they call you back to tell you about the movie.

[D]

Movie.

[B]

That's the way that film is going, you know.

[F]

Yeah, that might be.

[B]

That's not a bad idea. Make a movie with a phone number. Like, you want to see this?

[F]

You know, it's not the way because you know, like we've all had different projects out there. It's no guarantee that you're going to get a billboard. There's no guarantee that the place that made it is going to tell anyone that it exists.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[F]

So just if you know what, just

[B]

take all the marketing money, get a billboard.

[F]

One single billboard.

[G]

Phone number.

[F]

Everyone has a phone.

[G]

Easy.

[F]

Done deal.

[B]

Yeah, pretty good. We figured out a lot of stuff today.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Should we do a quick lightning round, see if we have. We like don't have time for it, but okay. You just do your answers, no explanations going down the line. And this is about Disneyland and California Adventure. That's here. And those, those are the parks I go to. And yeah, yeah, I think those are the biggest. So like favorite ride?

[F]

Radio Springs Racers.

[B]

Yes. Yeah.

[C]

Indiana Jones.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Hornet Man Mansion.

[B]

Wow. Amazing. I would. Those are some of my favorites.

[A]

Favorite food item.

[B]

Yes. Including.

[A]

Go ahead.

[B]

I was gonna go favorite like food item and then favorite sweet treat. Separate things.

[F]

Oh, separate things.

[A]

Is this in the parks or is Downtown Disney?

[B]

Count Downtown Disney counts and say where it is. Okay, you know what? Honestly, you do one or the other, you just Favor food on them. I think Kyle's right. We don't have enough time for just b.

[F]

Just basic church.

[B]

Just.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, the churro is incredible.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Ronto rap.

[B]

A Ronto rap.

[C]

Star Wars Land.

[F]

Yeah, yeah. Space hot dog.

[C]

Space hot dog.

[D]

There's like a spicy corn dog at the corn dog castle at California Adventure.

[A]

Oh, that sounds good.

[B]

Okay, these are fantastic answers.

[A]

Best animatronic.

[G]

Ooh.

[F]

You know, we did it until we've never. One thing about our show. We've never done an episode about the ride. Pirates of the Caribbean in nine years. But we did do an episode just about out a pirate who you pass by under who has a very dirty foot. We did an episode just about the dirty footed.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

Pirate. So my knee jerk is to say that because he caught our attention enough to do to get his own episode, even though we've never done the ride.

[C]

I gotta go rock a raccoon.

[B]

Yes.

[F]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Is he back? Because I feel like he's been video.

[C]

I don't know. I feel like he's always back on and off. I don't think he's been like down for an extended period of time, but maybe. Yeah, I don't know.

[D]

I'll say. The organist in the haunted match.

[B]

The organist. Okay, great. Now, now this is. And try to keep it short because we don't have time like insider in like a hot tip.

[A]

Marceline, Missouri.

[B]

Maybe that's too general of a question. You know, if you.

[F]

I was gonna say if you're not with kids, boy, you could do it with kids. I've done it with kids. The Carthay Manhattan. Chill out in the Carthay Circle Lounge. You know this one for sure. Yeah, yeah, that's. You know, you got a fast paced day. You want to accomplish a lot, but you need to chill out too. And you need to have our favorite cocktail. Maybe not just in those parks, but anywhere really.

[B]

McCarthy Lounge. Yeah. Which park is.

[F]

That's it. When you go into California Adventure, the big thing at the end of the street, it's a reproduction of an old movie theater, which is where Snow White premiered. And there's a great sit down restaurant there. But if you don't have time for that, just get a really fantastic Manhattan.

[B]

It's a Manhattan. Yeah.

[F]

Carthay Manhattan.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

It cost $30 now because they had one last week.

[D]

Jeez.

[F]

Oh, it's up to.

[C]

It's literally 30 with tip. It was $30 for one. I was alone, was at the bar. I had a cart Manhattan to relax. It Worked. I felt great, but it was 30 days. It helped.

[B]

It's because of the straight of Hormuz.

[C]

Well, that's part of it, but it

[F]

wasn't even podcast, so good job making it through.

[B]

But I'm just trying to make. Kyle,

[C]

this isn't going to be quick. Sorry. Lightning lane. When you get it, that's like the new fast pass where you do it on the phone again.

[F]

Get.

[C]

If you. If you do it where you're only getting one, like every two hours, you're being lazy. You got to be on the phone, keep checking for times you can rip through the whole park by like 2pm if you're very aggressive and you keep getting lightning lanes then going, scan in. As soon as you scan in, you get the next lightning ready to go. So you got to be ready to go. You will probably not be talking to anyone in your party, but it's worth it for them. You're sacrificing for them. Copy.

[B]

So I will say, in addition to a lightning fast pass, like I got. It was like I got a window. I think it was like a. Whatever. I forget exactly what kind of pass it was, but it was like, oh, I want to do this ride at this time. But then it gave me a later time.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

And I went up to. To one of the people at the info booth right by, I think, Cartha, the. The fountain, and.

[F]

Yeah, oh, sure.

[B]

California Adventure. And I was like, it gave me this time, but when I went to sign up, it said this time. And they were like, all right, how many? And they just gave me the time I wanted.

[F]

Oh, they don't get.

[C]

Really? Yeah. You can fudge it a little bit.

[F]

We're such rule followers. We're scared. We're scared.

[B]

You don't want to get kicked out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[F]

Always a concern.

[B]

Okay. Hot, Hot.

[D]

Okay. One of my favorite rides at Disneyland is the Mark Twain, the riverboat. And you know, if you're going the crowds and the noise and the weather and sitting on your phone all the time, it could be a little stressful. Pop over the riverboat. Take a leisurely riverboat ride to calm down. There's a lot of animatronics there. There's along the river, jaunty music.

[B]

Yeah, I gotta do that. I've never done.

[A]

Yeah, my daughter got us. We did it for that reason, I think, like, oh, this is something that's available and she loves it. And it's like a way that she could also sort of move around and

[D]

you see a lot of stuff. You see Stuff from different angles. Okay.

[F]

You can.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Either you stay in one spot, or you go from the bottom to the middle.

[D]

Different levels. Yeah. Charming.

[F]

Nice experience.

[B]

These are great hot tips.

[A]

Yeah. Well, let's. Let's get into the point of the podcast. We don't know what our podcast should be. We're curious if you all have an idea.

[F]

Yes. Well, you know what? It's funny what Jason has said. This is a pretty good segue, and I could get to it directly. But just to tell you how we landed on a little bit. We do. I mean, here's another idea for it. I don't know if you've done an episode that's like an audience mailbag. That's something that, you know, you ask for questions from the audience.

[B]

I think that's.

[F]

I think we're the only podcast that does that, and actually very innovative.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

Maybe we want to keep it that way. Maybe.

[B]

Actually, don't take those.

[F]

Yeah. Well, now that I've said it, I've realized I'm giving away mail.

[D]

Talk to them. You're the contract man.

[F]

Yeah, we'll work something out. But anyways, we. We did one of those episodes about a month ago, and we got a question that really kind of stunned me. I didn't even answer in the episode, and the question was, what's the best party you've ever been to? And I had to really think about that. That's a. That's a big question. And I started flashing through options. And let me. Let me say this. I mean this when I say this. Every possible option that occurred to me is something that the both of you were at. Really Completely true.

[D]

Yes.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

Yeah. There's not one greatest party I considered where I couldn't picture the both of you being there. There's been a lot of fun things. Always happy to see you guys.

[G]

And you.

[C]

You.

[F]

You know. You know how to do it. You know how to park, whether it's on a podcast or.

[B]

Or outside a boat, a theme park, a house, whatever, outside of a hotel in New Orleans.

[F]

They really knew how to party.

[B]

It was me. I was. It was me.

[F]

But I. I threw this question to Aaron, my wife, and she, with no hesitation, said, oh, best party I've ever been to is when Kyle used to do his birthdays on a boat. And to segue it straight. And obviously, we love boats from Theme Park World. I think everybody's got nice association with boats. Your podcast is Boats.

[B]

Boats. Wow. Boats. We'll be right back with Boats, Boats, Boats.

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[A]

Dude.

[B]

Ahoy, Kyle.

[A]

Oh, that's. Well, yeah, that's sort of the thing.

[B]

Ahoy, matey. Lost at sea much?

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

You seem a little lost at sea today, actually.

[A]

Don't throw me off the. The plank.

[B]

Yeah, plank you very much is what you would say, I think.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

So good to see you.

[B]

Good to see Goal you. I meant to say, but no.

[G]

Yeah.

[A]

You stinky beach.

[B]

I'm sorry. Explain that. You said sticky.

[A]

You stinky beach. You're a stinky.

[B]

Well, it's fun to be back on the podcast with you. It's nice to see you. Have you been boating?

[F]

See you.

[B]

Nice to see you.

[A]

Oh, wow.

[B]

Those are our guests coming in the deep blue. Yeah, the deep blue boats.

[A]

Well, we have the guys from podcast. They're on.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And we didn't get to talk about all of the other great things they do which are in the realm of entertainment and.

[B]

Or even hanging out with friends.

[F]

Yeah, yeah. You know, we can take credits out of it, you know. Yeah. Let's just look each other in the eyes.

[B]

Yeah. Just be people for once in our

[F]

lives, which is the kind of thing that you can. You can do on a boat. On the tranquility of a boat. Remove from the pressures of land.

[B]

Absolutely. Speaking of, have boats. That's what it's all about. You told us Boats with Beck and Kyle. Yeah, that's right. It's time for boats with Beck and Kyle. Our guests, I mean, they're individual people, but our guest is podcast. The ride collectively. Yeah.

[A]

What do they say? Like the. What is it? The dream. Blunt rotation.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

This is my dream boat crew. Yeah.

[B]

It would be great to be on a boat, honestly. And it's doable. We could just go down to the harbor, rent a boat. A lot of people don't know that. You mentioned Kyle's birthdays. He had a couple birthdays there where he had a boat. I never went.

[A]

Yeah, we did two in a row.

[B]

Two in a row.

[F]

You know what's fun? I was trying to place that.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Of like, in my head, like, of course you were there.

[B]

Yeah. But.

[A]

Well, I wore One year I wore a Beck. A shirt with. From Beck's bachelor party with his face in bl. Like a photo of him.

[F]

Oh, that must be what I was.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

When I stopped and talked to the picture.

[B]

Why could I not make it for two years?

[A]

It was probably around Labor Day weekend and you were maybe seeing family or something. Yes, I would do. For two years in a row. We. I guess you would. Chartered. Is that the word? We chartered?

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

You're the one who did the renting Tiki Mermaid.

[A]

Which is a. Which was a boat. Boat company that exists that puts out these boats off out of Marina Del Rey and they have an open. You know, you pay for an open bar and you get to play music. And it was really fun. Like there's nothing. There is nothing like being on a boat.

[F]

Killer is so. It's so fun. Those in particular were so fun. Anytime is so fun. Just like the launch. The. Like the prepping for the launch and the nerves of. Is everybody on? Because if you're not on when it leaves and you're not gonna be able to get on.

[A]

And I remember always, like. I mean, the nerves that go with the party, like anywhere you are. I'm gonna feel. If I'm hosting, I'm gonna feel like, oh, is it hitting. Are people into this?

[B]

It's always there.

[A]

There was. There would be something on both those boat trips where like, I don't know how long. 45 minutes in maybe an hour maybe. Like the, like drinks are settling with people or people are comfortable with folks they don't know as well.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But then all of a sudden, like, it's like, oh, shit, we're on a boat. We're gonna put on some. Right.

[F]

Said Fred.

[A]

And like, it's like, this is a full. This is a. This is something I love.

[B]

It's an absolute vibe.

[F]

You know, there's a video I. I found. I was curious about memories from. From those particular parties and I. I was. I'm running around with Aaron, my wife, and you're. The song playing is hot, hot, hot.

[A]

Right. Buster Point.

[F]

Extra possible.

[A]

Yes.

[F]

But it's not even a song I think about a lot. Although it is. It's in as we watch a lot of 80s 90s theme park content. It was in everything all the time. But you're. Yeah. That you're not going to be in a bad mood. That song is on. Fantastic. And you know what else? It's also a great. What you're saying, like people don't know each other, but you do. Like, it's a. It's a great way to get that mini bachelor party feeling like, you know, you're not. Like, if you're. If you do a trip for a bachelor party and everybody's staying in the same house and you have to become fast friends, and you do. It's like the. The squeezed version. It happens within, like.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Within 20 minutes of ship off. Yes.

[B]

From. Yes. Because even if you're in your own town, you know, you're casting off, like, you know, even like, if you're in LA and you're going to a bar, you haven't been with other people or a restaurant, it's like, okay, cool. I'm still online. Land. Yeah. I'm still a landlubber. I'm still. You know, it's just. Everything's normal. But once you cast off. Yeah. You're in. You're. It's maritime laws. It's like, anything can happen.

[A]

That is the thing. Like, you. Well, and it's. Sorry. Sorry to be demeaning to the boat community.

[B]

No, dude, do it. Be demeaning.

[A]

Cute that there are captains.

[B]

Yes. I mean, I would say even. Even cuter skippers.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

And the little hats and, like, the

[A]

guy helping out the captain.

[B]

Yeah. And the way that they. The rituals they have together, they always.

[A]

They still have to throw this rope around.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

A few things to go through. Right. All right. We got the vest underneath there. Everybody. I got to go through the spiel. I got to do it like, you

[B]

know what I mean?

[A]

You're like, yeah. And it's like, let's have fun and. Okay, let's get going.

[B]

Do you think. Do you think the boat captains are kind of like, they have egos? Yes. Well, I'm. I'm just wondering how you think they do with the plane captains, you know, the guys who drive planes.

[C]

Do you think there's, like, a conflict?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. I would think that the plane captains are like, you drive them that boat.

[D]

Boat.

[B]

Cute.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Because air is the opposite of water.

[B]

Thank you. It is the opposite of water. And. And it's like. It's. You know, and then I would think that then a step above that would be our astronauts. You know, the guys.

[A]

You never see a PI. You don't really see a lot of, like, male pilots with, like, long hair. You know what I mean?

[B]

Right.

[A]

But I can. You can imagine Captain Ron, you know, piloting in a boat.

[F]

Captain Ron. Surreal.

[B]

I would love to see a show where it's a reality show where it's astronauts, pilots, and captains and just See how they all get along together, you

[F]

know, drama, hatred, or shared experience.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

I don't know which way it would

[A]

go, but reality TV is so big. It's like the non scripted thing.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Down under.

[C]

What if they all had to switch things? They were piloting for one episode.

[B]

That'd be fun.

[A]

I wonder who. Yeah.

[B]

Who?

[A]

I would think the astronaut is probably the most, like, probably has some training and everything.

[F]

You mean because it's a little tougher.

[C]

Because we can drive a boat within 15 minutes from here right now.

[F]

Boats that we can just do.

[B]

Yeah. Here's my.

[A]

My lightning round. Have you piloted a boat before?

[B]

I sailed a sailboat.

[D]

Ah.

[B]

Hobie cat. Grew up sailing Hobie Cats. I have driven a. Like my friend's speedboat.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. Like a little. Little small boat that you go. Like.

[D]

Like a go fast boat boat.

[B]

Like a go faster. Not a cigarette, but just like a classic lake boat that like goes fast enough for water skiing and stuff like that. Wow.

[D]

Okay.

[F]

Is that intimidated? Is the speed intimidating?

[B]

No, it's. It's. It's fun. It's. And it's not quite as choppy where you're actually steering the boat. The thing that gets intimidating is just the turning, I guess. But it's not that bad. It's pretty fun.

[F]

Sure.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I think. I think I've been given the opportunity. Like, you want to take. You want to steer for a second? Like. Yeah, I'd love to.

[F]

Like.

[A]

And like, it is. It's scary, but there's a power that comes with it.

[D]

You know what's weird about boats? A lot of boats are still ropes. They're ropes like space travel or airplane travel. They're not. They're not relying on ropes. This is like.

[A]

These are pirate systems. These are Viking systems. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. It's very tactile.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And it's very funny.

[F]

What, Kyle, you were saying about like, the captain's being cute and that they. You do have to do all this stuff. It's funny that like, still ropes in theme parks, even when. Even though some boats. I mean, some are just on a track. But if it's not that there's ropes on, like the storybook land canal boats and. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

No.

[F]

What a, like, traditional thing we all get to take part in.

[D]

Yeah. Astronauts and pilots are. When that reality show. They're not gonna know what to do with all those ropes.

[A]

Right.

[F]

Oh, that's the. Yeah. An astronaut gets.

[B]

Unless they've had the training. I don't know. It might be part of the astronaut Training. You gotta know ropes and you gotta know boats.

[C]

How do you shuttle crashes into the water?

[F]

You need to know the road.

[B]

Exactly.

[F]

The ship. Yeah, yeah. Spaceship becomes a boat.

[C]

Sometimes they land in the water.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

An airplane. Yeah, they. They had. No, no, Sully, go ahead. We don't have a lot of time for Monsters Inc.

[D]

Either.

[C]

Selling.

[D]

We'll talk about the miracle on the Hudson.

[A]

You're from the Chicago area, right? And so is back. Did you grow up? Was there a boat culture anywhere around

[C]

you or know, not like near like trying to think. There's a big lake Antioch. I'm trying to think like my grandfather had a boat speed. Like a motor speed. Yeah, motorboat. And we would go on like once or twice a year. And then the only real memory I have is that another speedboat like buzzed past us and just drenched us with water. And it was like one of those like traumatic kid things where like you were humiliated and sat with you for a week of just like we, like, you could tell the adults were mad and that was also a problem. And then I like didn't like it anymore.

[F]

Whoa.

[C]

I mean, not for like a decade or whatever. Like.

[F]

Okay, okay. You don't have a. You don't currently have a negative association.

[C]

No, I'm fine. I got over it.

[F]

But okay. Okay.

[B]

And where did you grow up?

[C]

In Schomburg, Illinois.

[B]

Schomberg Classic. Yeah, I went to Medieval Times there instead of going to a dance. I believe my freshman year I was afraid to ask a girl to a dance. I was like, let's go to Medieval Times. This sucks.

[C]

But you did take a date there.

[B]

No, no, no. It was just me and 30 guys.

[G]

Okay.

[B]

We were like, this is stupid. Stupid, right? And we drank some alcohol and went to Medieval Times in Schaumburg.

[F]

I went to the parking lot of that Medieval Times for some reason for

[B]

a while in that parking lot.

[F]

It's like weird. It's like.

[G]

It's. It's.

[F]

There's like nothing all around.

[C]

Nothing around it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Jason, you're from Pennsylvania.

[D]

Yeah. Like suburbs? Philadelphia. Delaware County. Oh, Delco. Delaware County. Task country.

[F]

Right. How do you. How do you say boat in that accent?

[D]

Oh, boat.

[F]

Like boat.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Talking this accent a little bit.

[A]

Sounds like Australian.

[D]

Yeah, it is.

[B]

Do you. Do you talk about the grown up in that area with. With boat and what the boating culture was like?

[D]

I have a specific memory of a boat in the. Cuz we were just a mile or two down the road from the Delaware river.

[B]

Like, oh, wow.

[D]

Where you know, washing the famous Mountain.

[A]

Oh, the painting is that crossing of the Delaware.

[D]

Yeah, I forget where exactly that was, but.

[A]

Yes, but that was that river. In theory.

[B]

You must have loved that painting growing up.

[D]

Oh, I. I pointed at it and I.

[B]

Who are the other guys?

[D]

Reminds me. Oh, yeah. Who are the other guys?

[B]

We don't have time to go into the guys. We don't have time to go into the guys. But what you were going to say something about the boat culture in the river.

[D]

I have a specific memory of, like. Like with the boy scouts. They're like, we're not doing a meeting this week. We're actually all going on a boat. And it's like, what? And it's like, friend of a friend of someone's uncle had a sailboat. So we all went down to, like, the docks or a jetty or. And we rode on a sailboat and learned about tying knots. I retained nothing of it.

[C]

Were you mad? It seemed like you were mad about that.

[F]

Yeah. You still seem a little mad.

[D]

Oh, no, it was excited.

[F]

What?

[B]

It sounded like something was gonna go wrong. Like, they just thr this boat on us and turns out it was a

[D]

little, like, last minute. I was like, we're coming on a boat. I haven't had time to prepare.

[B]

Like, did your parents know about it or was it just.

[D]

Yeah, they were my. One of them was there, but they didn't.

[F]

They didn't tell you. It sounds like, you know, I feel

[D]

like it was a little bit of a surprise. So then we all have to, you know, do the. And I come aboard and address the captain a certain way. And then we all had to help out with the sail and the ropes, you know?

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

You didn't have time to put the sailor suit on.

[D]

I didn't know. I was not prepared.

[B]

When you feel stupid, you don't have. This is the right outfit on. You're like,

[A]

I have a nice.

[B]

I have a cute boat outfit at home. I could have warn it.

[D]

I'm in my lands and winter coat that we all own.

[F]

You should be wearing it.

[A]

Okay, now, now, Donald Duck, he's a sailor.

[F]

Yes, I guess so.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

That's kind of the iconic suit.

[C]

He was in the navy.

[D]

He was in the navy.

[F]

And then if he's ang, that's why he. We don't know what he lived. We don't know each other's experience.

[A]

He could be suffering from pts.

[F]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Of course, there's Steamboat. Steamboat Willie.

[F]

Steamboat. He's really built on boats in a lot of ways. Mickey Mouse was dreamed up on a Train. But he became a star on a boat.

[B]

Wow. Okay. Okay.

[A]

And then was plane crazy. That came like, very soon.

[F]

Oh, yeah. Wait. And then his first movie was about a plane, but I don't think people like that one as much as the boat. I don't even think my box point stands.

[C]

And what about Space Shuttle Mickey Space Short.

[F]

Yeah, that one was hard for him. The training.

[G]

The training.

[F]

It was pre.

[C]

Before we landed on the moon.

[A]

I know. There's a steamboat Bill Jr. Is that what it's called? Is that the. Like, it's named after something else?

[D]

Was it movie?

[A]

A Buster Keaton movie?

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Is that the name of the boat?

[B]

God, I don't know.

[C]

That is.

[F]

That's confused, right? Yeah. Why is the Mickey movie about. Yeah, it's. Why is it not called Mickey? I don't know.

[B]

I. I just. Totally random ass question right here. That popped in my brain. Y' all know about David Geffen's boat. I've heard a lot, seen pictures he. He posts on Instagram, little photos of him. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Oprah Winfrey. Lucky. I know. And I'm just like, I want to go on this boat. David Geffen.

[A]

Have you.

[B]

If you are listening, Mia and Kyle and the podcast the Ride guys.

[F]

Yes.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Would love to come on the boat and do an episode.

[F]

We're not Tom Hanks, but there's some. There' some credits among us. Right.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

You compile them all.

[A]

We've worked with them.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

And they'll speak to him on the boat and be nice.

[B]

And we'll be.

[F]

We'll be quiet and not bother him.

[B]

That's right.

[D]

Quiet.

[A]

Just.

[D]

We'll go out to international waters and tell us secrets of the world. Okay.

[B]

Okay. So just wanted to get that out there.

[F]

Just a shout out of a boat you'd like to go on.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, that boat. Huh.

[F]

Kind of the ultimate boat.

[A]

Cruise ships are. Are like a whole other category that's a whole. Been on cruise.

[D]

I've been on a cruise. Only you been on twice.

[B]

You been on a cruise? No, I'm afraid. I'm afraid, dude.

[F]

The first diseases.

[B]

Diseases.

[F]

Poop cruise. Don't want a poop cruise situation. But none of like close to theming it.

[A]

Like, I mean, especially Disney.

[B]

Yeah. Now.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

There's r. There's roller coasters on the Disney cruises now.

[C]

Wanted Mansion bars in the cruise. I mean, they are really doing their best to entice us to do it.

[B]

I mean, that sounds awesome. Awesome. That sounds cool. I would probably do a high end Disney cruise that I. Where if I, if I heard experience that people felt like it wasn't too packed, wasn't too crazy in the.

[D]

I think you can however you want to spend it however you want to.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You can just do the package what you paid for or you can get a drink ticket or you can go to the high end restaurants.

[A]

That's something that I like, I do love. Like I don't do it enough. But when you have access, I'm going to spend whatever to this amount of money and like I can eat whenever I want. Like that is something.

[B]

It's scrap snacks.

[A]

It's not something I really like search out. But I really do love the idea of like, of that.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Free room service.

[F]

It's how it felt in college. If you didn't think about the fact, at least in my case that my parents were paying for it actually very. It was not unlimited for them. And. And if I, I will maybe soon have to provide this and it will be extremely stressful for me for it to be. But for the dumb kid, they don't know like, well, free everything.

[A]

It's like I remember getting toured in our. The cafeteria by our buildings and it's like everybody was so psyched that there was a waffle maker.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[D]

Like I did do that job my first. I ran the waffle maker and tried not to scald myself.

[C]

Did you ever scald yourself?

[D]

I got some burn. I think I got some minor burns.

[F]

And he cut himself at the roast beef.

[D]

I cut myself carving roast beef one night because again, there was like no training.

[C]

They just imagine Mr. Bean working at a college cafeteria.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Every story he has about it is like spilling sauce and cutting himself.

[D]

A giant thing of marinara made the ancient Italian man who made the horrible pizzas very upset.

[B]

Wow.

[F]

If you lifted your shirt up, it would be pure waffle pattern from the time you fell into one. It was just one. Just a big chest grid.

[D]

Because then they, they would be like, yeah, you got to run them all. Some people are going to get mini waffles. They won't be happy. Happy.

[B]

Oh my God.

[A]

I never used the waffle maker.

[B]

I think I did, but not much.

[C]

They're scary.

[F]

Like in a hotel, in a Hampton Inn or something. You're like, I don't, I don't trust myself to operate that. That gets too hot. I'm not good with my hands.

[A]

Grab a slice of pizza. That's what I do

[F]

themselves doing that.

[A]

Any other final boat thoughts?

[D]

I mean, sick. Be careful. Get your seat. Kyle. Did you get seasick on your cruises?

[A]

You know, I got seasick, I think, once or twice in my life. Not on the cruise cruise, but on. I was, like, 16, and a friend of my father's took us out in Boston Harbor. And I'm not gonna put. I'm not gonna throw anyone under the bus, but I had. I. I managed to get access to a couple bud lights.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

I barfed in the boat toilet.

[B]

Okay, here's a little boat. Here's a boat thing. Make it quick. Best vacations I've ever been on were going with my wife and another couple on a catamaran with a skipper. And it's like, three bedrooms. And we did one in Greece. We did one in France.

[F]

Oh, my God.

[B]

It was not very expensive. A lot cheaper than a regular. Staying at a regular hotel in either of those areas. And they take you around. It's like, it was like, five or six nights, and you go to, like, different areas each time. Like, sometimes you're, like, anchored and you're, like, swimming off the boat, and you. You, like, cook stuff that you find. But it's, like, so much cheaper than staying at, like, a regular hotel and going to restaurants and, like, finding activities. And it was, like, cheaper and so much more fun and awesome. I forget what the name of the company is, but for everybody listening, it's. It's a catamaran.

[A]

I just went a few couple weeks ago on a fanboat in Nola.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

To go on a gator tour. Another, like, awesome. Some. There's something about being on that water.

[B]

I don't know, Magical. It's magical the way it's like the.

[F]

Yeah, of course. The wave water and the. I. I think, like, there's something about being close to water but not wet yourself.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

As close as you can. But dry. Which didn't work out for you on that when you got sprayed. So I can see why it made you mad for a while. But just that. That shimmer and that breeze and, like, you're always in a good. Other than seasickness, I think you're. I think you're always in a good mood.

[C]

It's why Jimmy Buffett had such a big career.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Boats are awesome.

[B]

Boats are awesome.

[F]

And my dad had a little sailboat called Drunky with two E's.

[E]

Wow.

[F]

I just couldn't let the boat episode end and not talk about that is great. Not talk about drunk.

[A]

I mean, the naming of the boat is also. That's cute as well.

[F]

It's cute if they all have the names we Call them. She.

[C]

They're all like.

[F]

They're all ladies.

[B]

You break the bottle.

[F]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[D]

What?

[B]

I need my boat.

[A]

Dorco 5000.

[B]

Oh, shut the fuck up.

[G]

Oh, shit.

[B]

I spit on the boat. Fuck you, You're a piece of shit.

[A]

We were having a set sail for Dorco 5000.

[B]

Probably a little dinky.

[F]

I like a little dinky.

[D]

It could be boat. Boat Bennett.

[B]

Boat Bennett. What would you name your boat?

[A]

Caitlyn Shield.

[B]

Nice. What was your name? Your boat?

[G]

Wow.

[F]

Oh, it would have to. Oh, yeah, yeah. Drunky junior. You'd have to be drunk.

[D]

I actually.

[F]

Oh, and that's a good goal to

[B]

have as Drunky Junior guys.

[F]

Or three E's instead of two.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Of the Jolly Roger. The Jason Roger. Great.

[B]

Nice. Nice. Okay.

[C]

I would also call it Jason Roger.

[D]

Perfect.

[B]

Those are our boat names. Wherever you are, good luck finding your boat name and we'll see you next time.

[A]

Kayn Chiel is my wife. My beautiful wife.

[F]

That's a beautiful tribute.

[B]

Yes, it was a beautiful tribute. See you next time on Boats.

[A]

Well, we're just talking about the next time we hang out with these guys. We're gonna be on. On their podcast.

[B]

We're gonna be on podcast to ride.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

And it sounds like we figured out what we were talking. Can we spoil it or is that. I don't know which will come out first.

[F]

I'm not sure either.

[G]

I don't know.

[F]

I. I don't know the schedule. Yeah. Yeah. Dirty voted pirate, too. You want to. You want to talk about. You want to focus on his other foot?

[B]

Focus on his other foot.

[G]

Let's.

[B]

Let's leave it a surprise, but we're going to go on podcast the ride and talk about.

[F]

You guys want to do that?

[D]

That's.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Thank you for wanting to do this. This podcast exchange.

[B]

Absolutely.

[F]

It's been a blast. I. I had a lot of fun talking about. I'm sorry we bullshitted so much that we couldn't talk about boats more.

[B]

I know.

[F]

Be so happy to talk about boats.

[B]

Me too. I could go. Go much longer on. On boats and just talking about anything in general with you guys. It was a fantastic time hanging out.

[A]

Yeah, it's fantastic.

[F]

You will talk about boats when it becomes. I think. Or do we agree.

[G]

Agree.

[F]

That's. That's.

[B]

That's a podcast.

[F]

And you will stop doing the. What's our podcast format and it will become boat. It'll just be a podcast forever.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

On the boat would be. I don't know if anybody.

[D]

Pretty good.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Because then hourly, you're, you're the listeners being taken. I mean, you take the contest too.

[C]

David Geffen probably has a recording studio

[B]

on his boat, I bet.

[C]

So you could do it and you

[F]

could knock one out there.

[A]

I'm not seeing. I gotta look up this boat.

[B]

We gotta, we got to go and get.

[F]

I think you spent the pandemic on the boat, like.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[F]

It wasn't bad to be him.

[B]

Well, bad to be David Gepin.

[A]

What's up? You guys got stuff to promote? What's going on?

[F]

What's. I, I, I, I don't know the release schedule. But look, podcast, the ride is always happening on the main feed, which is free, and on the second gate, which is on Patreon and even the deeper level, Club 3. There's a lot of ways to get involved if as you're hearing this, either we're about to do or we have just done MC Month, which is our month long tribute to all things McDonald's. Maybe less so the food, but you know, we're, we're finally like, we're getting into the McDonaldland characters. We're getting into Grimace. We're finally doing.

[B]

Yeah, he deserves that.

[A]

Is there going to be a conversation about Mac Tonight?

[F]

I think, I think Mac Tonight's got to be in there.

[B]

Yeah, for sure.

[F]

Yes. Yeah. No, I'm a big Mac Tonight fan. Do you feel like Mac to tonight's problematic due to the like association?

[A]

I dressed up as Mac Tonight for Halloween in New York probably, I don't know, 2018, let's say. And I found like a little plastic crescent moon and then I like got some white makeup and I wore a suit. And I didn't find out until that party that a guy was like, you know, like, this is like, what is an alt right thing.

[F]

So there was some co opting of the, of the McDonald's moon guy, Mac Tonight. But I say, you know what? That's not his fault. That's not fault. I think it's our time. I think we got to reclaim Mechanic.

[A]

I think.

[B]

Yeah. They all right.

[D]

I think eight or ten years ago.

[B]

Seem to be just doing that like that's ours now. And now you can't like that anymore. No.

[F]

And Mickey Mouse is in the public domain now. So you got to be worried, you know what, what crazy they're going to do with that.

[A]

No heroin.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[F]

He's an icon. Don't do that to him. And don't, don't hug him weird either.

[A]

Mickey's a little.

[F]

But that's the main stuff. I also, I directed a movie called Long Haired Businessmen. I think this movie will come out sometime in the next decade. I don't know when in that decade. I can't place it. But if you're. If.

[B]

Look, if.

[F]

In the next time. In the next like five years. If you see. If you hear that phrase somewhere, remember this podcast and know that you heard the director of it talk once and give it a watch, because I think it's a funny movie.

[D]

Hey, it happened for Coyote versus Acme.

[F]

That's true.

[D]

Maybe it'll happen for you.

[C]

Yours.

[F]

We're not in that degree of ros.

[A]

Okay. Yeah, we can still get the. The Roccos can be loud about it.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, let's demand vocal about Long Haired Businessmen.

[F]

Should I turn it into a campaign? Should I make it a.

[B]

Should I make it a.

[F]

Cause we just don't. We just don't know the plan.

[D]

It's just.

[F]

Just emails need to be sent. But I, I'm happy to turn it into a cause if. If you think the Rocas will get mad and hit the streets.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[F]

Then I'll take it.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

I'm still banging the drunk for Donald. For Spider Man. You know, I think I still have it.

[B]

I still. Yeah, I'm like the.

[D]

The soldiers still fighting World War II for 30 years.

[A]

But he did give. He. He voiced somebody, right?

[D]

He voiced, I think the character who had become the prowler copy.

[A]

Okay, so that's not Spider Man.

[D]

No, he's still.

[F]

So. So, yeah, so the cause still.

[D]

But there's multiverses, so he could. He could do a voice in the multiverse.

[F]

So you. So are you.

[B]

Are you.

[F]

Is you. Are you promoting? Is it would be a hashtag, would you, you say?

[D]

Well, it was a hashtag, but the Internet's so weird now, people.

[F]

Are you guys doing hashtags or hashtags?

[B]

Absolutely not.

[F]

No hashtags.

[B]

No more hashtags.

[G]

All right.

[B]

But I don't. I never really did them.

[A]

I loved hashtags. Hashtag Monday Maniac.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Monday Night Maniac. Yeah, Monday night.

[A]

No, but we're not done that.

[F]

But like, what was Monday Night Maniacs?

[A]

We found some Instagrams that.

[B]

Some poke.

[A]

We went to like a bar after, like a. We went to dinner after a pitch meeting. Meeting.

[D]

And.

[A]

And. And then we took a couple photos of ourselves, put them on Instagram and hashtag them. Monday Night Maniacs.

[B]

It got a lot of likes, too.

[A]

Yes. It was huge. And it's like, why didn't. Why did we give up on.

[B]

I don't know.

[F]

And you didn't consider as a other name of this podcast Monday Night Maniac?

[A]

I don't think we. I don't think we realized this happened until recently.

[B]

Wow. Wow.

[F]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Mike. Anything?

[C]

I'm doing improv in Glendale the second Friday of every month.

[B]

Hey, how about that check? Get out there.

[A]

Do you get lost ever out there on the stage? Like, I don't know where this is going.

[C]

Oh, yeah, for sure. You always, like, don't really quite know. Yeah, but I don't like. I'm not like, panic. I don't like panic.

[B]

Kyle would probably love to do improv with you.

[A]

Oh, yeah. If you have me.

[B]

He loves improv.

[C]

Yeah. If you want to do it, let's do it.

[A]

I'm not. I'm not great, but I like. Like, I'll throw some curveballs.

[C]

Look, I will watch you. I will force you to like. I'll watch you and assess you before we do it.

[A]

That's fair.

[C]

To make sure you're good, make sure you check all the boxes. Yeah. Once then. Once I've approved you. Yeah.

[A]

There might be video of me out there.

[B]

Well, you guys. Yeah. Thank you for coming. And we'll see Roccos. We'll see you next week. What do you say?

[A]

Hope you had a great time at the Batcave.

[D]

Yeah.

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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