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Episode 145 - Alarm!
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcat Ben and Zach attempt to record live via discord while interacting with the chat! They discuss some roller coaster stuff too!
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Transcript
Introductions and Setting the Scene
00:00:41
Speaker
I'm Zach and I'm about to hit a vape pan. I'm Ben and I'm in a hotel room, I think. Well, are you in a hotel room or? I am, I'm in Omaha. Again. Yo, Omaha is supposed to be beautiful this time of year.
00:01:10
Speaker
It's hot and it's humid. You look OK. It's interesting doing these with the camera on. You look very official. Like you're going to do a fucking Ted talk. You got a notebook and everything. What's funny is like half the time I do have a notebook because I try not to. I don't want to forget shit, but I'll just kind of like hold the pen, but I won't write anything most of the time.
Roller Coasters and Road Trips
00:01:38
Speaker
It'll just be like one scribble.
00:01:41
Speaker
per episode, but. It's like a kind of holding a cigarette. It's a good idea. I should do it, but I don't because I am not a professional. You look like you're ready to host a show. If we ever have to do an audition, you're leading. I should.
00:02:07
Speaker
Well, it's kind of like, yeah, it's like the rundown thing. I have nothing on it. I don't have any topics to talk about, but I'm going to put bullet number one. I'm going to put roller coasters. And we'll start from there. OK. All right. Here's here's one. I got a hypothetical for you. Yeah, say.
00:02:35
Speaker
You have a spontaneous weekend that you can do a very, very cheap road trip from Chicago to one of three parks. Well, really one of two. We'll keep it simple. Six Flags, St. Louis or Kings Island. Where are you going? Um.
00:03:02
Speaker
be this is view like through your perspective or just I guess I guess hypothetical. The situation is I happen to be off work next weekend and school will be starting. So this is a very last chance opportunity to go on a road trip to either King's Island or St. Louis because they're doable day trips. Right.
00:03:34
Speaker
So what would you go with between those two? I mean, I guess it depends. Is there anything at St. Louis you are missing? Well, technically that new coaster hasn't opened yet.
Hotel Costs and Anecdotes
00:03:53
Speaker
Is that way, is that the kid flash? No, they didn't get kid flash. They got on. Something racer.
00:04:03
Speaker
Junior racer. Oh, yeah. I mean, St. Louis is a cool park. I guess that's more of a day trip. Kings Island. It's weird to go to Ohio and not also do see your point or something adjacent.
00:04:20
Speaker
I agree, but like then you're talking, it's it's it becomes a whole weekend and the price balloons because I don't know if you've seen the cost of like hotels recently, but it's getting pretty crazy. Oh, God damn it. Is that the alarm? Yeah. Oh, wow. Well,
00:04:49
Speaker
OK, it just stopped so OK. Wait. You never know what to expect on these shows. I think that's it. Well, I'm on the first floor, so I'm not too concerned about it.
00:05:16
Speaker
All right, let's just pretend that doesn't happen. OK. OK, well, yeah, if I can remember, we'll just set that right on out of there. So anyway. Hotels got crazy fucking expensive like this year. See, I had the I have the opposite experience, like all my hotels are in Orlando or like 100 under 100 bucks.
00:05:41
Speaker
And even like I think Orlando, I think specifically Orlando is kind of hurting this year. I mean, it's not dead there at all. But I know that tourism levels are significantly lower this year. And I think that's probably mostly due to a combination of higher costs and. The post COVID vacation things over. Yeah.
00:06:09
Speaker
I mean, but it's nice that you were able to find hotels for so cheap when you were traveling because like right now. Like and we were trying to think about doing like. Minneapolis and doing Valley Fair in the mall and like a twins game and everything that was in the area, nothing was under like three hundred dollars a nine. Oh, weird.
00:06:37
Speaker
Is there anything going on that weekend in town? I wonder. I guess, I guess I've had, I guess now that I think about, I've had both experiences, but what was weird, like when I was in Milwaukee for Christmas, everything was super cheap. But then when I tried to go back in February, it was the same thing. Everyone, everything was like 300 bucks. So it might be like, it might just be like weird waves of like surge availability. I don't know.
00:07:06
Speaker
Is the. No, the RNC is not there. RNC is in Milwaukee. Never mind some Minneapolis. I mean, I looked at Detroit, too. Now, I wasn't looking at staying anywhere other than like downtown, downtown in Detroit, like at the casino. But it was the same deal there. It was like 450 bucks for the Friday and like $600 for the Saturday. Shit.
00:07:39
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know what's going on. Cause like even, I mean, even flights will like, so my flight to Omaha was $89. Whereas three weeks ago it was like three 50 and this was day of damn. So
00:07:56
Speaker
So then the two places I thought of that are driving range like because Cedar Point, everything like minimum total to stay at fucking Breakers Express or whatever it's called now was over
Humor Across Generations
00:08:10
Speaker
four hundred dollars per night for Friday and Saturday. OK. What about. Oh, no, you've been adventuring. Yeah.
00:08:26
Speaker
And that the tickets there are a little expensive, too. Yeah. So but I looked up St. Louis because I was like the city museum. Well, downtown St. Louis and like the actual city, same fucking problem as Minneapolis. Everything is like minimum three hundred dollars. Are you talking about what are you talking next weekend? Yeah. It might just be a holiday thing.
00:08:53
Speaker
But Labor Day is not till the following weekend. Wait, not this upcoming weekend, but the following weekend? No, this upcoming weekend, like the 25th, 26th, 27th. Oh, gotcha. Or whatever, that weekend. Yeah. If you're listening to it the day it comes out, we're discussing two day and tomorrow.
00:09:19
Speaker
It's kind of ridiculous. But then I looked at like, you know, the couple hotels near Six Flags St. Louis. Yeah. Well, you can get that one of those for like 80 bucks a night. OK. And there's like a Baymont like a mile from Kings Island. Same deal, like 120 bucks. So it's like, OK, those are doable, you know.
00:09:46
Speaker
Yeah, that's weird. It might. I don't know. It might be like a weird resurgence of like work travel or I don't know. People are doing their Labor Day weekend early ribs in the chat said Sandusky is really expensive, way too expensive for him. Yeah, I mean. The thing about Sandusky is it's it's literally it's all Cedar Point, though. It's the only reason those hotels are expensive.
Post-COVID Hotel Changes
00:10:15
Speaker
Yeah. See, my conspiracy theory on hotels right now is that maybe what's happening is like places that don't have a high demand, like the ones outside of Six Flags St. Louis, are cheap because there is low demand. Whereas places where there's necessity travel, like
00:10:36
Speaker
downtown, Minneapolis, downtown, Detroit, whatever are, they're like jacking up those prices that level out the offset from the other hotels. Kind of like rent, like that's what rents rents is going, doing the same shit. It's like vacancy rates are going up and more apartments are being built yet they're still jacking up rents, like three or 400 bucks to make up for losses.
00:11:03
Speaker
Yeah, it's fucking it's just it's weird because like. It doesn't seem like. Even but maybe a year or two ago. That you could like book a last minute trip like that and find some sort of hotel for like. One hundred fifty bucks a night or so, you know, yeah, yeah. Not like fucking double that.
00:11:32
Speaker
I also wonder if hotels are downsizing their, to lower costs on operation, they're only opening half of the hotel. So on a busier weekend, they end up selling out of available rooms, even though they're just not selling half of them. That's possible. It definitely seems like I've had
00:11:59
Speaker
less neighbors in my recent more recent hotel stays, at least this year. Yeah. No, same same shit like when I was in the hotel in Tampa, that's that was a massive hotel and there's nobody there. There is like six cars in the parking lot. Let's see, ribs says some hotels have been cutting capacity due to lack of staff. That makes a lot of sense. I know that, like,
00:12:30
Speaker
Most hotels won't even do housekeeping except for between stays now or like it's every couple days or something.
Hotel vs Airbnb Practices
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah, this one had a little card on my door saying they don't do it daily. Yeah. And I mean, as someone who never really liked a turnover service like that anyway, I'm cool. Yeah.
00:12:57
Speaker
At the same time, it seems a little ridiculous to be raising prices when you're getting rid of things like that. Yeah. Like, like you really can't have somebody come up with some towels or some shit, you know what I'm saying? Well, it's like with Airbnbs during COVID, they had that enhanced COVID clean scam. Oh, yeah, look, your remote's in a bag.
00:13:25
Speaker
Yeah, I'm like, sure, there's no cum in that bag. And like hotels, they had the little like covid. I remember I stayed at that Hampton Inn by Gurney that year. Last year we did Hollywood Nights and they had the fucking tape like they like taped the door and it says like enhanced covid clean. And then I opened the door and go into the bathroom, this fucking piss on the toilet seat. Even actually even
00:13:55
Speaker
that same fucking hotel, I don't remember, I don't know if I shared it or not, but like we check in and there was like shit under the toilet seat. And so I had to call the front desk and they had to like come up and clean it while we were unpacking. Oh God. It was just like some guy showed up. He's like, uh, yeah. So you guys called about a dirty toilet. I was like, yeah. You just hear like the
00:14:25
Speaker
And then 20 seconds later, the toilet flushes like, all right, you're good. That's the thing is like those maintenance people are always the most chill people for having to literally work with like broken, shitty toilets all day. Whatever your room, they're like, oh, hey, I heard there's like something wrong with your toilet.
00:14:52
Speaker
And like you in your mind to know that you called the front desk and you're like, hey, there's like. Vomit all around the toilet or whatever the thing is, you know. Yeah, it's like, yeah, yeah. And then they're like, yeah, no worries. And one time I clogged up the toilet real bad in a hotel and we got showed up with like this extra long plunger.
00:15:22
Speaker
I broke that toilet at the days in and by Knott's Berry Farm on that one trip. Actually, I remember that because I come out and I'm like, so I broke the toilet and then I was like, all right, I guess I'll go to the front desk. But then I went outside and when I came in, I walk into the bathroom and just magically started flushing. I was like, oh, thank God.
00:15:53
Speaker
Magically started flushing. Magical flushes, band name, taken, called. It's always like that, the gamble when you see the bowl starting to fill up and it's starting to get to the top of the rim. And then it like just kisses the edge and then it flushes. Oh, God. Oh, no, that's disgusting.
00:16:22
Speaker
Bullet point number four clogged toilets. I like the notes. So, yeah, hotels are fucking ridiculous out here nowadays, though. Yeah, I guess it might be location specific, like, yeah, this is this one was I mean, this is like one of those
00:16:52
Speaker
studio apartment hotel ones and it was like 95 bucks for sure yeah that was the thing in like Minneapolis I was looking all over like by the airport it was expensive and fucking everywhere it was just pricey it's like what the fuck yeah so Minneapolis is off the table for this trip I need to go back up there
00:17:25
Speaker
Yeah. I want to buy a vacation house in Duluth. My Duluth. It's a pretty sweet place. It's kind of like the only. So in the summer, it's like a great climate change refugee spot because off the Lake Superior, you get this like really
00:17:53
Speaker
It's the coldest freshwater lake in the Great Lakes. So you get basically this like wind off the lake and it's like air conditioning. So it's never above like 75 degrees in the summer. It's also not they call it poor man San Francisco because it has the same like super steep downward bay kind of. We call it not landscape.
00:18:23
Speaker
What's the word I'm thinking of? Gradient? Gradient. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a cool, it's got a cool art scene. It's got a lot of good like breweries and there's two universities and it's pretty affordable. That's always like my bug out spot. I mean,
00:18:50
Speaker
Yeah, Minnesota looks I haven't been there. I was talking to three in about it. I haven't been to like. Minneapolis since pretty sure the last time I was up there was literally the day. Renegade open. Yeah, Valley Fair.
00:19:11
Speaker
Or, well, Mall of America that. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that was the last time I was at Valley Fair. Last time I was in that area was opening day of fucking Nickelodeon universe at Mall of America. Yeah. That part was a shit show that day, too. It was busy as all hell. I mean, I remember.
00:19:34
Speaker
Just waiting in like full cues for the Avatar, the Intamin half pipe, and SpongeBob. And like, the operations went great. No. Oh gosh, the alarm is back on. Do you need to like pause and go make sure everything's good? I'm not leaving the room. OK.
00:20:08
Speaker
If they come by, I'd be like, I'm jerking off in here. I remember one time I got yelled at by the fire department in my Seattle apartment because the alarm went off and I was passed out and it was three in the morning. And so like suddenly I wake up and I hear the alarm and I'm coming like out of the door. And as I'm like walking out, I see everybody outside and apparently it was going off for like 45 minutes.
00:20:35
Speaker
And so like they're like, you know, it's against the law to like ignore the alarm and this and I'm like, well, like I was fucking sleeping. Like I have no idea what you're doing. That's like. Yeah, they were like they were like yelling at me for not coming outside. That's. Well. At least they didn't ticket you or something. I think I think there is like a ticket if you.
00:21:05
Speaker
pick Nord or something. There's a little, there's a little, there's a little placard because it was a condo. So they had the, the like, it was built is basically like into the building, like in the unit, you couldn't, you know, change it or whatever. And they had like a little placard below it. Oh, shit, that's intense.
00:21:29
Speaker
Still, though, it's hard to prove that you ignored it versus like you were just sleeping. So I guess it's good. It's good they didn't hit you with the ticket. Yeah.
Podcasting While High
00:21:43
Speaker
Or you just never go out and like whatever happened to Ben, I don't know. I guess he died. I don't know. Well, like here, I'm on the first floor, so worst case, I just punch out the window.
00:21:57
Speaker
If there is a fire, you could punch it out or you could just like hero duck and roll through it. Yeah. Just please, if you do that, move your laptop so we all can see it.
00:22:18
Speaker
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00:22:52
Speaker
Hmm. I've been hitting this vape pen and it's kind of working. Nice. Yeah, I got I got. I don't even when we recorded last week, that was the first time I've been high during a recording a really, really long time. And last week's. Was like. I don't even I don't even remember it, honestly.
00:23:20
Speaker
I was pretty high, too. And when I was putting it all together, it was interesting because it was like. Spoiler, if you haven't heard yet, Drew, the intern was on the episode. But I didn't post about that or talk about it. I wanted to leave that in there as a surprise to everyone. So. It's kind of interesting because then
00:23:51
Speaker
I'm high and you're high. I don't know if Slater was high. Slater was was barely even Slater because he was all like happy and stuff. Yeah. Hard to even recognize the guy.
00:24:17
Speaker
And then Drew, the intern, apparently now has like his podcasting man cave worked out. To listen to you to listen to a show sometime. Yeah. That's in the loop for those of you who are not in the loop. Fuck, fuck me for making that dumbass joke. I'm an idiot. All right.
00:24:55
Speaker
that is a Sunday think that was the 20th year
00:25:10
Speaker
They replaced the old spiel with, uh, some of the Marriott era music. Okay. Yeah. Wasn't it? Didn't they used to play like almost looney tune music? Yep. Yeah. It was like, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. And we like the skyline of six flags, great America. Yeah.
00:25:37
Speaker
Now it was just the music, no spiel, no, no voiceover, nothing in it. I'm going to be honest here. It felt really great to be on there. It got me feeling so nostalgic. Well, tear came out. Wouldn't it be great if it wouldn't it be great if they let people do like an open spiel on that?
00:26:03
Speaker
You all the nerds would just be like, if you look to your left, but it would be everybody talking over each other. I'd be like, this is going to cry. And I'll be over here. And I'll be like, well, you know, it's your man. But it's like, aha. Because what happened is like the one the one person who like is really bad at spilling would be like, oh, I love it, would like volunteer for it and get stuck there all the time. You'd be able to make some funny jokes, though.
00:26:35
Speaker
Like if you like, the operators, yeah, the operators should be able to. Yeah. On a clear day, you can see Epstein's Island. I don't want to let you say that.
00:26:59
Speaker
They always get the worst spoilers on towers and trains. Rib says I think that's true. The train, the thing with the trains is like, I feel like they put train people there. Then, you know, you're not supposed to actually use the popcorn button, right?
00:27:27
Speaker
, but yeah the trains they put like to people that are actually trained people on the trains to the
00:27:52
Speaker
See right here, I'm going to narrate what's happening. Ben just walked off camera. He is off screen and there's a view of his hotel room. The alarm inside the room, I'm assuming so. Ben's room, let me see, I have to enlarge the picture here. There's some generic art hanging on the wall.
00:28:22
Speaker
There's a office chair, looks not particularly comfortable. There's a bit of a kitchenette. It's got a island with a bar stool. I'm going to assume that this is a smoke alarm that's been going off.
00:28:52
Speaker
because it certainly doesn't sound like from an alarm clock. But Ben's still off screen at this point. We're not entirely sure if he hasn't just disappeared from smoke inhalation.
00:29:21
Speaker
That's a pretty mean joke. But I made it, so. Should be like a golf comment. OK, and there is. Small pictures framed on the wall. There are a few lighting fixtures in the kitchen. It appears there's a microwave. And. It almost appears to be a full size refrigerator.
00:29:52
Speaker
And Ben is back on screen here. So I didn't realize how loud that was because apparently these are noise canceling. Damn, I have a feeling this is going to go off like all night now. Well, while while I'm sleeping. Oh, that fucking sucks.
00:30:18
Speaker
There's no one outside. No one's responding to it. I mean, you could do a talk to the front desk. The front desk person had a bit of an attitude when I checked in. Well, you could call the front desk.
00:30:43
Speaker
Note bullet point number eight front desk person was a dick. I also love on unlike hotel, there's like a little stationery on the nightstand and it says ideas. You should write burn this motherfucker to the ground and just leave it there.
00:31:09
Speaker
Oh, I didn't bring any Scientology. I know. Every time I'm in a hotel, I think about that. I did give one away as a gift this weekend for a birthday. That's sweet of you, Ben. Yeah. It was a the card was written by chat GPT. And the book The Gift was a book of Scientology.
00:31:39
Speaker
sometimes it disgusts me how millennial you are well the chat gpt thing was that's like what it's like a good way to write a card because then like it sounds so generic and bad that it's like kind of funny
00:32:03
Speaker
You know, you can get chat GPT to do a lot of interesting shit as long as you tweak the prompts the right way. Although there's people that are like apparently. Trying to like. Sell the service of being like a chat GPT. Promptor. Right.
00:32:35
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's, that's the thing is like, it's just a tool. I mean, at the end of the day, right now, AI still requires the help. Like AI is useless without human intervention. So it's like people who use it for work and stuff. It doesn't really give you that much of advantage. It helps you like type shit. Like it's really good for grammar. You know, you could like,
00:33:05
Speaker
copy it, like let's say like you wrote like a 10 page essay and you like paste it in, you're like condensed this to five pages or make it 20 pages, whatever. But, um, I was crazy that scientist guy's name, there was some quote from him from some interview last week where he said that basically chat GPT is just like a glorified typewriter. And it's pretty accurate, I think.
00:33:35
Speaker
Although what's what's what's what's shit now, though, is like there's you know, like every era has like a horror movie like like like the topic, you know, it's like there is like the quicksand horror movie genre and then there's like sharks and then there is natural disaster. There's there's like earthquakes and volcanoes and then asteroids. And then aliens and then
00:34:05
Speaker
I don't know.
AI in Modern Horror Films
00:34:06
Speaker
Now it's like AI, all these like horror movies about AI killing, killing us. Well, I mean. There's a lot to be juiced from there. Yeah. Robot scary. Remember that movie Songbird that came out? No.
00:34:33
Speaker
Um, it was basically about COVID and it, it came out, it was pretty genius about it. It came out like right during the election of 2020 when everybody was like on edge, like with the whole countries on edge and then they released his horror movie. That was like about COVID and a COVID like mutating over like five years and everybody's still in lockdown. And it's like gotten to the point where it's like affecting people's brains and stuff.
00:35:02
Speaker
And the government's going to take you away and throw you in a camp. I think you told me about that. And I was like, nope, I'm not in the headspace for that shit. I saw that trailer for the first time and I was like really high, like really, really high. It was like late at night. And I saw that shit. I was like, oh, my God, this is like the most tasteful thing I've ever seen.
00:35:37
Speaker
You know.
Theme Park Speculations
00:35:41
Speaker
Fucking we we need to we need to get back on the Great America. OK. All right, Sky Trek Tower. Was fantastic. I gushed about it already. But what's really more important is they're teasing a new ride.
00:36:09
Speaker
Well, all I'm hearing is Giga Discovery. Giga Discovery. What's the discovery? Like, no, no, like Giga Discovery by Zamperla. Oh, OK. The giant Frisbee. Because they
00:36:38
Speaker
They tweeted, well, they put up a sign outside of Daredevil Dive, which has been closed. For a bit now, I don't know if it reopened since the since the pandemic. And it said Daredevil Dive, 172 days on strike. Take the hashtag take to the sky is 2024. Right. And that's been the marketing push.
00:37:06
Speaker
then they tweet out the other day a picture of revolution and say feeling blue strike one for you take to the skies 2024 okay so
00:37:23
Speaker
Right now, our buddy, Mike Galvin from CIFF Cam World, he messaged me and he pointed out that Giga Discovery is 172 feet tall. So there's your 172. Yeah. The picture of revolution with the feeling blue strike one for you.
00:37:54
Speaker
revolutions out. OK, I mean. That was a used ride when they got it anyway, I think. Yeah, I think it came from a great event. If I'm not mistaken. Yeah. And I think it's one of the only. One of those old frisbees left. Now, much too much to their credit, it was operating when I was there on Sunday. OK.
00:38:23
Speaker
Remember that the program was never that good, but remember that crazy program they would run during Fright Fest? They still do that. It still comes up. They still do like Pit in the Pendulum. I don't know if the program still is crazy. Yeah, it was like the Frisbee, it went almost 90 degrees and it was like full, full speed. It was so good.
00:38:52
Speaker
I'll have to check if they're doing that during Frightfest this year. Excuse me. But yeah. I think revolution's gone. Seems like revolution's gone and it's gonna get replaced with the Zamperla Giga Discovery. I'm curious what they'll feed me to. I'm gonna guess... Wonder Woman?
00:39:22
Speaker
Well, take to the skies. I don't know. So ribs in the chat says, how are they going to fit in a daredevil dives? New entry to American Eagle. No, I think, well, possibly a new entry to American Eagle. But I think it'll be. In revolution spot. Yeah. Or you kind of like sandwiched in there.
00:39:52
Speaker
That way Yeah, I could see them putting it basically where revolution is And then just removing daredevil dives Yeah, yeah Because daredevil dive I think I mean
00:40:18
Speaker
The thing is, yeah, it's not going to fit where Daredevil Dive is, at least for the where the loading platform is. It could. The thing is, I just really don't know. With the way those rides are, I don't really think it could fit. In. Daredevil Dive spot and operate.
00:40:47
Speaker
And let's say like. You don't know, Sam, because like when it swing out like. To eagle. Yeah, but it's not that it's not that close, although if they put it where revolution is, they probably couldn't run Daredevil Dive and that at the same time, because Daredevil Dive kind of swings over the midway a little bit.
00:41:16
Speaker
I don't I don't see Daredevil Dive coming back since they specifically referenced it in that one photo. It's a sign because Daredevil Dive's entrance is all closed off here. I took a picture of it because I was up at the park this past Wednesday as well. That was a shitty visit. I had a shit time that day, but not a big deal is what it is. So
00:41:45
Speaker
Yeah, Daredevil on strike. And the strike has a has a lightning strike for the eye. OK, so. That's well, the lightning strike is what flash. It might be. And then says day 172 on strike. And that's that's not being updated.
00:42:16
Speaker
It's not like it's not an ongoing counter. It stayed 172. Yeah. So I mean, if that happens, that'll be a good ride for them. I didn't even think about revolution leaving until they tweeted out that picture. But they they've been teasing. They're making the announcement on September 16th.
00:42:47
Speaker
OK. So we'll see. Yeah, we'll see what they say now. More solidly with without speculation, they announced that saw is going to be in the Six Flags parks for Frightfast this year.
Haunted Houses and Horror Franchises
00:43:06
Speaker
Several of the parks tweeted and posted on socials with a picture of the billy puppet on the tricycle in front of the entrances.
00:43:17
Speaker
experience the return of Jigsaw and the all new Saw X haunted house coming to Fright Fest. That's not the first time they did Saw, right? No, they did Saw the first year I worked at Fright Fest. And it meant I wasn't able to go. And Saw is my favorite horror franchise, so I was really upset about that. So I'm going to totally go this year and enjoy the shit out of it.
00:43:50
Speaker
And I'm excited. Because I love so. How are those houses nowadays? Because like I've never I've only ever done the houses at Great America during preview. They're fine, they're really not worth the money or anything. Yeah. That's the thing, like I used to really enjoy houses and then
00:44:18
Speaker
Every time I go to a local one, it's always kind of a long wait and always kind of underwhelming. But I have never I haven't done universal ones like those new ones or anything, so I'd like to do that at some point. Like. Yeah, not in universal are always
00:44:46
Speaker
Tired is the two best. And it's in Orlando, I've done twice and it was fucking amazing. There's a lot of attention and detail with the houses and then obviously a lot of budget for cool shit, you know. Yeah. Any fucking spirit Halloween animatronics, that's for sure. Right, yeah.
00:45:12
Speaker
Which are cool, by the way. That's not really a dig on spirit animatronics. They those have been getting better every year. I went to the story this year, which. It's fucking August 21st when we're recording this. How is spirit fucking Halloween open already? I mean, isn't Halloween like the most? It's probably the most profitable holiday besides Christmas.
00:45:44
Speaker
I could see that. I mean. That makes sense to me. Yeah, it's here's the deal, right? I like Halloween. It's it's in fact my favorite holiday. I do kind of have an issue with whenever a single day ends up taking up. Two plus months on the calendar. Mm hmm.
00:46:15
Speaker
I love that that all of how October is spooky season, right? And I was on board when like half of September became spooky season two. But then once we're once we're all the way into half of August. It would it's too much. You know what I'm saying? It's like starting Fourth of July by Easter.
00:46:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's just it's it's too much. You know, it's like when you hear Christmas music starting on November 1st and you're like, all right, here it comes. Here it is. And to that point. I was at Costco today. They have fucking Christmas shit up. Yeah, I saw it too.
00:47:12
Speaker
That's expected. I mean, I don't know. It is August 21st. It is still summer by every metric. Yeah. It's I think, yeah, it probably goes up right around back to school season. That's like it.
00:47:42
Speaker
It's repulsive, is what the fuck is. It's like, how the fuck are you going to put fucking Christmas trees? Look, I don't believe in the story of Christmas, but clearly a lot of people do.
00:48:08
Speaker
Well, I mean, Christmas isn't even really religious at this point. It's more just like a big cash grab. That's true. It's just an event that exists for the economy. We need a new holiday. A Festivus for the rest of us. Well, you know what holiday is coming up this month?
00:48:40
Speaker
From this month or next month. The anniversary of Tupac Shakur is passing. Close. Never mind. What? I was going to make a 9-11 joke, but that's. Oh, I actually did see something. What was it? Is it what itself? Park say 23 years.
00:49:10
Speaker
or 22 years, something is officially funny. Oh, was that it? I remember. I mean. I don't personally find it funny, I'm just saying. Yeah, my days of making 911 jokes here. You know, I bring it up because you know what I find fascinating is Gen Z is like.
00:49:37
Speaker
gloves off with 9-11 jokes. I know a couple of Gen Z folk that who are like 24, 25, and it's just like a nonstop, just like everything is just a 9-11 joke. And it's weird how it works that way, like generationally. I guess that's kind of like, um, the generation. Oh, Jesus.
00:50:08
Speaker
But I guess that's kind of like the generation before us. Or not even the generation before us, but like. Our parents generation making like Holocaust jokes. Yeah, but that one, even that one's like you can't touch that necessarily. What the Holocaust? Yeah, like that's still kind of a no go zone.
00:50:40
Speaker
making Vietnam jokes. Yeah, I can see that. Well, I mean. I guess I come from a war perspective, having spent many, many hours in fucking open mic comedy nights. Yeah. Yeah, true.
00:51:08
Speaker
It's kind of like I mean, maybe it's like our generation making like AIDS jokes Yeah, well it wasn't that the South Park bit it was like AIDS is officially funny. Oh Yeah, that's right Yeah, yeah, it's been a while since I saw that one but yeah
00:51:37
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I guess. Like to me, to me, the older I've gotten, the more I've realized that things can be funny and tasteless. Yeah. And most and a lot of things are both. Mm hmm.
00:52:09
Speaker
Yeah, the other distasteful thing I see in Gen Z humor is like school shooter jokes. Although that one you could attribute to just if you're like actually in high school these days, that's like a real threat and a real fear.
Evolution of Humor
00:52:28
Speaker
So it's like humor is kind of a way to like cope with it. Yeah, that that makes a little more sense. Yeah.
00:52:41
Speaker
That but that's. The the amount of dark humor is interesting and what the sources are also interesting. So she was meme culture. Yeah, whereas when we were kids, we just laughed at fucking Dane Cook and family guy and called each other fags.
00:53:12
Speaker
And just to be clear, to give that context, before all your dicks come out and get all mad at me, I was just explaining that's what we said then. So put your dicks away. Gaze will still drop the F-bomb. The sign of respect.
00:53:40
Speaker
Well, I can't, I'll get bleeped out. Speaking of bleeping out. What was that? I noticed I like one of the episodes I was like skimming through it and on the auto edit on whatever Zencaster is, it was like bleeping out the word fuck. Really? Yeah.
00:54:05
Speaker
But it wasn't like bleeping it out. It was like the volume would like drop for a second in the middle of the word. Oh, you only you only heard like the F and the K. Oh, well. So I don't know if that's like some weird auto intelligence that Zencaster has, but. Well, we're not using Zencaster right now, so fuck them. But yeah, I.
00:54:35
Speaker
Oh, and here's the deal. For those of you who listen to last week's episode, Slater's audio was a little odd. So I had to do some editing trickery. Sorry if there was some continuity errors. Oh, that's right. And his because his was like off by a few seconds. It was messing up that whole like we spent about what, 20 minutes trying to get it going before we even started recording. Yeah.
00:55:06
Speaker
No, it's always funny because like everyone will start talking at the same time and then everyone will stop. And you don't know like who's where. That's I feel like that's maybe one thing that is a little easier about having the camera on when you're doing this. Yeah. And honestly, since we did the one in the theater,
00:55:33
Speaker
I feel like we've we've really got like the rhythm down of. I mean, we've been doing this a while now. Holy shit. I just thought about it. We were coming up on like our fourth anniversary as a show. Oh, yeah. Wow. That's a lot. I mean, we're coming up on episode 150. Yeah, shit. Yeah, we're at like 145 or so, I think.
00:56:04
Speaker
And yeah. Fourth anniversary is a podcast, so that's pretty cool. It definitely is weird, like in a way, it doesn't feel like 2019 was four years ago. Right. Now, there's kind of a blur, although this year actually feels like more substantial to me. Where like, yeah, it's almost September.
00:56:33
Speaker
But I feel like this year actually had like actual events and if, you know, things take place where like before that it was like a year, it was just kind of like a blur. All the seasons blur together and years meld, especially like 2020, 2021.
00:56:53
Speaker
Definitely. Yeah, the pandemic kind of fucked everything up. And thank you, Tristan, Jack Eller for jumping in there. This is episode 145. We got we got fact checkers of our own now. But no, yeah, it's it's crazy. And Tristan is definitely qualified to step in with the facts because Tristan showed up for our very first meetup in San Antonio.
00:57:26
Speaker
And that was February 2020. Yeah, that's that's crazy to think about that, isn't it? Because that doesn't that really it's like that doesn't feel like it was almost four fucking years ago. Yeah. It is, I do see like kind of that weird perspective of like that felt that was like the last normal thing that kind of happened.
00:57:57
Speaker
Yeah. Like I remember making jokes about covid like that was so like when covid was kind of like funny. I remember all of us like. Passing a joint and that vape and like, yeah. Fucking. Because like that was gone for a long time and.
00:58:24
Speaker
Just, yeah. Yeah, I remember making fun of COVID all sorts of shit. They would never let you do actually during just weeks later. Mm hmm. Yeah. Also, yeah, the whole the whole time was weird because like I flew like I flew from. That's right. I like that's right. I was in Sacramento and I like flew from Sacramento. So like San Diego to Houston.
00:58:53
Speaker
And that was that trip. Like I got, I was like really high cause I ate a bunch of edibles before flying to Texas. And like, I even remember like being kind of spooked out and parent, just in that like paranoia state about thinking about like COVID and pandemics and stuff. But that trip, I got my balls padded down twice. Like when I was leaving, when I was leaving, uh, Sacramento.
00:59:18
Speaker
They like, I had pre-check, but they like made me take off all my, they like made me take off one shoe. Like you got to take off one shoe and put it in the X-ray. And I was like, why? Okay. And then, um, they're like, Oh, you've been randomly selected for like a pat down. And I was like, what the fuck? And then like this like gremlin looking guy, just like, like back of hand was like literally just like pushing my dick. Um,
00:59:46
Speaker
And I was like, fuck this. And then it happened again in San Diego, like the same thing. Cause in San Diego, you have to like leave security. And then like, I don't know. And then like, I guess, so I got my dick touched twice.
01:00:06
Speaker
on the way to Texas and I was like, fuck this. I'm like, well, I don't know what's happening, but I hate this. And then like I flew back and then I get to Sacramento and then like, um, they sent out like a firm, like, uh, like it was like firm and communication throughout delight. And they're like, leave your client site, fly home. You are working remotely for the, like, until we tell you not to. And then, yeah, like, damn, then no, no more travel for like six months.
01:00:36
Speaker
Well, and then I got laid off. But, oh, well, yeah, I mean, yeah, I got laid off right at the end of March, like done. Fun employment. Yeah, lockdown was weird. Covid was weird and it's crazy. It's legitimately crazy to think it's been four years because there's a lot of ways it feels like there's no way. Yeah.
01:01:08
Speaker
There's still like weird. Yeah, like 20 and like, yeah, 2020 was weird because like all the political stuff and the election and like. Leave it to that current political environment to drag out an election for like three fucking months.
01:01:32
Speaker
God, yeah, and that's already starting now for the next round. And you know, said you already for COVID too. Coming, coming to Cedar Point this summer. God, yeah, like, I mean, it's back to school season, so we're probably going to see a lot of news stories about COVID cases picking up again.
01:01:57
Speaker
It's like, of course, this I just heard on the news like a week or two ago about some new fucking variant. Yeah. I mean, I definitely that's all. Obviously, I'm not at that. That's obviously real. And you should take it seriously. But I also think it's interesting how it's like every opportunity there, whatever opportunity there is, it's kind of like we're going to have these stories like battling each other for like media attention.
01:02:27
Speaker
because it's going to be COVID and then it's going to be like the election and then it's going to be COVID again. Yeah. Well, cause like, I think that like the government or rather the powers that be figured out how like COVID can be weaponized politically pretty quickly. And so like,
01:02:53
Speaker
I agree with you not discounting the validity of the COVID news, but the way that they can juxtaposition it with very specific political attitudes is like pretty sus. I mean, I don't know if it's necessarily like that. I think it's just like you have these
01:03:20
Speaker
everybody like with social media, everybody's trying to fight for your attention. So everyone's trying to do what they can to like make you click on their news story. And so like, unfortunately, when you have that environment, it's gonna be like the most extreme take on something to get you to click on it.
01:03:39
Speaker
And then you've got like, you know, you have like one side and then you got like the boomers who are like arguing in the comment section. Because that helps. Yeah. I just want you all to know arguing in the comment section makes a lot of changes in the world. I'm kind of boomeranging boomeranging back to Facebook because just for like I don't use it.
01:04:08
Speaker
but I do like to scroll through the newsfeed every once in a while and just see like what shit gets popped up and like, um, so, cause then it was, you know, it was like Bud Light. And then it was that try that in a small town thing. And then it was, um, right now there's that, that bluegrass singer who sang that one song Richmond north of rich Richmond, north of Richmond song, whatever. And, but like,
01:04:37
Speaker
these sides that are developing and then people are like attacking Snow White for being woke and it's just it's just silly. I mean. OK. I'm going to just go ahead and consider myself lucky that like, OK, so when things like that, try that in a small town thing come up. I didn't even get exposed to that until it was just a meme. Yeah.
01:05:07
Speaker
I never saw the actual I didn't even know it was a song. And so I heard like it was explained to me that it was a music video that was like, oh, oh, they used footage of like. A church. That was pretty significant. Yeah, and. Yeah, what's kind of fucked up, there is this little expose on it where basically the company that
01:05:36
Speaker
Like the company that produced that music video, they produce it intentionally with like the social media mindset to intentionally divide people. So that way they could get attention from both sides because they knew that one side would be like, yeah, like this is my new song. And the other side would be like, what the fuck? Like, why is this footage in there? And then they would argue in the comments section. Yeah. And that's the thing is like.
01:06:09
Speaker
People just want to get angry in the comment section. Everybody's just trying to get you angry in the comment section. So with that in mind. Also, too, it's like chat GPT. I always think, like, are these people even real? Like, yeah. Right. And like the Russian troll farms and shit. It's fucking weird.
01:06:38
Speaker
Bring that shit to like a Six Flags social media post. I wanted to see people argue about Six Flags new roller coasters, although that already does happen. Yeah. I was going to say, you said you're on Facebook. Have you explored groups? Because I've got several specifically Six Flags Great America groups. That's fun. There's that. What is that one? That's the Cedar Point dating.
01:07:08
Speaker
One of your singles. Yeah. Where the saddest people in the world go. Hey, wait. Well, no, let me rephrase that. The saddest men in the world go. Hey, does anyone want to meet up for some rides? Yeah. Isn't that where. That one person who is like cosplaying as dragster was posting.
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01:10:05
Speaker
Look, that's a very interesting. I want to talk to that person. I want them to come on the show and give us their thoughts about Top Thrill 2. Yeah, I mean, does it is it the same ride? Is it like. Is that is that the equivalent of like plastic surgery? Like, is it still the same?
01:10:36
Speaker
I'm just going to throw this out there. So seriously, no judgment. Yeah, I'm more like, is it like, is it like if somebody. Identifies as like. Non binary. Or like, is it like if somebody. Is trans like comes out as trans?
01:11:06
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah, like what's the apt comparison? Well, like either way, there's not only one person who wants to marry dragster. I think there's a couple of them out there. Well, I will say this again. This is a judgment free in terms of we don't have any kink shame or any of that shit here. If you but if if that person is listening to this,
01:11:36
Speaker
Get in touch with us. We would love to talk to you about that. Now, in terms of weird shit on Facebook, though, and there is the Cedar Point dating group, and I don't know. If that's where you try to. Start a thing. With dragster. OK, I'm making jokes now, that's.
01:12:08
Speaker
It's like a small group of us are looking for private ERT on dragster. Well, I mean, like I feel like at a certain point. That would just that that would maybe be similar to like kink, where it would be like, you know, gets costly. Yeah. I don't know.
01:12:40
Speaker
I wonder how the thousand and one knots is doing. Well, that person that was married to it, I hope they're OK. Canobals, I remember said very in very certain terms that that person had not contacted them. Wait, that. Wait, that the person never contacted Canobals.
01:13:09
Speaker
When they announced it was going to be removed. Oh, OK. They said that person never contacted them. OK. I'm surprised they even addressed it. It it was a no coaster con. Oh, that is like, no, I think they were expecting somebody to ask. And so they said it before anybody could ask.
01:13:39
Speaker
Did the room get like silent or? What was the what was it? It was like an awkward, like. Hush giggle. I mean, good for them. That's like Kentucky Kingdom. Not thinking anyone would ask about Superman Tower of Power.
01:14:01
Speaker
Yeah, and then like some asshole complete fucking dickhead shit, fuck, ass. What the fuck was wrong with that guy? That's a valid question. I mean, I'm sorry, no one wants to see your your 30 minute, like, presentation, water slide coming.
01:14:31
Speaker
Yeah, it was just like a basic toilet bowl. And they had so much pre-show lined up for it as well. It was like the one woman was wearing the flippers and she had the ducky thing. And then they were showing pictures of rides. And they're like, all right, we want you to say one through six flags on these different rides. They're like, all right, that's not loud enough. Say it louder.
01:15:00
Speaker
It's like two flags. And they're like, all right, here we go for 20 whatever 2009, the super wedgie. And then it was just like a shitty like stock photo of a toilet bowl. Yeah. And they were like. So I remember. Someone asked about Superman.
01:15:32
Speaker
some asshole and then the whole room went silent and then like one of them taught like leaned into the other one's ear. I know. But like, how do you not prepare for that at all? That's what I'm saying. You're going to a presentation about your park to a bunch of park fans. Now, I have a I have an interesting theoretical question for you.
01:16:00
Speaker
Yes. What if that piece of shit that asked that question went on to start a podcast? I mean, good thing the podcast wasn't a thing back then. Sometimes I'm really glad about that. Yeah. Other times I'm like, you know, hey, we we don't have a big following, so we'd have been able to hit the delete button on a lot of shit by this point anyway.
01:16:31
Speaker
Oh, you can't find episodes one through seven hundred. Oh, gee, I don't know. Should have been there. That'd be a fun maybe. What about like as a segment? We just find like the deep, deepest of like message board discussions from like 2005, 2006, especially on TPR. I'm sure there's a lot of good ones.
01:17:02
Speaker
and just like relive some of the drama. Although I also I think theme park review actually scrubbed their forums of like old posts a while back. Like all the topics that go all the way back are still there. OK.
01:17:24
Speaker
Honestly, at this point, I kind of feel like Rob, it would be someone would be interesting to talk to you. Yeah. I don't feel so adversarial towards him anymore. Yeah. I don't think I feel adversarial towards him at all anymore. Well, I think it's because he's
01:17:55
Speaker
I mean, he's definitely like learned and he got called out for some shit and he corrected. So he seems he seems low, more low key. Yeah. And also. I think if I remember correctly. He also had some pretty significant issues with the ace.
01:18:25
Speaker
Right, right. So I would love to talk to him about that. Maybe a heartfelt letter will change his mind. I mean, it's been several years since I last wrote him an email, so. Yeah.
01:18:51
Speaker
There's someone else. I'm not going to mention by name, but they are a member on our Discord. And I think if I say this in the right way, you'll understand a very, very involved person in that
01:19:21
Speaker
organization. Mm hmm. Who is a member on our discord. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Don't want to don't want to give too much detail away because. Where's the fun in having no mystery on your show? Come on. No fun.
01:19:49
Speaker
Speaking of Ace though, I forgot who pointed it out. Someone was mentioning that Ace's Instagram has gone full TikTok influencer with memes and stuff. It's really weird. It's almost as if a high schooler is posting shit for them now. Or they just hired somebody. I don't know.
01:20:17
Speaker
I think you were a lot closer with that first guess. Yeah. It's like when you're next in line on a single rail roller coaster. Yeah. Like. That face you make when air time. Yeah. They used to be an account on Twitter that was an ace parody account.
01:20:49
Speaker
It was pretty funny, but they shut that shit down quick. So Twitter shut it down. I'm pretty sure Ace killed it. The weird thing was. Well, here's the thing now with with Elon Musk and X, you could probably get away with it now. A free speech.
01:21:10
Speaker
Right. That's true. The thing. The other thing was, it was marked clearly as a parody account. I looked at it. I was like, that's just a parody account. Yeah. Rib says that account could probably come back with mosque. We'll see. Who knows? Twitter is an ugly place. Yeah.
01:21:39
Speaker
Every time I go on Twitter, I'm like, why am I here? I mean, the thing with X now is that it almost seems like it's intentional to just like. Maybe he's trying to intentionally crash Twitter. So he can like write it off as it is like a $44 million dollar billion dollar loss, like for like tax reasons.
01:22:06
Speaker
like he's gotten to the point of fuck you money that he's willing to buy an entire like social media one of the biggest social media platforms in the world to crash it just to write it off yeah that's some uh what would you call it late stage capitalism shit yeah someone already took the tpr name on blue sky
01:22:35
Speaker
The fuck is Blue Sky? Is that another Twitter thing? Might be. I'm looking for the chat to fill us in. Remember that social media thing, it was called like El Elo. Yeah.
01:23:03
Speaker
That one was kind of promising, but it just didn't have any real engagement. Oh, the guy from Twitter started a new service called Blue Sky. OK. I mean, that's nice at all, but like the guy from Twitter, to be honest, he was never even able to figure out how to make Twitter like turn a profit. Yeah.
01:23:30
Speaker
That shit was like that shit was nothing, but like it was a house of cards, but instead of cards, VC money. Yeah. It's like that was the problem. He was just like, oh, I'll just run this like a car company. And just like cut costs here and there. And then suddenly it's like, oh, shit, actually, we don't have enough people to do anything.
01:23:59
Speaker
Which is the current problem with Twitter. Yeah, like everybody's fired. If you're not ready to shit in your pants because you can't take a bathroom break, then get the fuck out of Twitter. I mean, that was kind of like when I mean. That the return to office stuff and all that, I mean, that's that was kind of like with my last job where.
01:24:27
Speaker
It was, they were basically like, give me ultimatums and not like me directly, but they were giving, being really passive aggressive about it. And it's like, Oh, if you're not in the office, blah, blah, this might affect you in performance reviews and this and that. And it was like, okay, uh, I'm going to leave. And then it was like, Oh, actually like, wait a minute. No, no, no. Like you can't quit. Like, Oh, I can't.
01:24:58
Speaker
So yeah, that's that's some bullshit right there. Yeah. That's the thing is like.
Reflections on Past Jobs
01:25:06
Speaker
So you got the right idea. You just get good at something. That's a. In demand in some sense. Yeah. Also, just like working for a Bay Area startup just sucks, like it's it's fun. But if you don't.
01:25:28
Speaker
If the stock doesn't pay out, it's like we're pointless. So. And like the stock won't vest right until there's an IPO or whatever. Right, yeah. So fortunately, we went public right after I started, but our stock price went from like $55 to like $6. Oh, well, shit. So.
01:25:57
Speaker
It went from like, I'm going to retire in my thirties to like, oh, this job sucks. This is just a regular job now. Oh, God damn. Well, hopefully your new job. I mean, you get the excitement of going to Omaha. That's true.
01:26:24
Speaker
It's like the it's like the best like middle ground. It's like there's no there's like no expectations. It's just chill. It's like it's just Omaha. So is there anything fun to do at Omaha at all? I mean, it's like your. Typical Midwest kind of vibe. I mean, there's there's like lakes and trails and, you know,
01:26:54
Speaker
outdoor stuff when it's not super hot and humid. I think we're like the wind for Omaha is just kind of like cost of living and it's not crowded and like people are pretty chill. But it's also like an hour. It's only like an hour from Denver, though. So the travel is pretty simple. It's pretty easy.
01:27:22
Speaker
Here's my thing about Nebraska. Why can't they just fucking legalize it? They have medical and they have Delta AIDS. Delta, it's about to be federally illegal, like in a day or two. And they don't have medical. No, they they're one of the few states that don't have any kind of medical program. Oh.
01:27:53
Speaker
It's surprising. It's weird because there's so much Delta 8 everywhere. It's in gas stations and convenience stores and stuff. So it seems pretty chill. It was hardcore in the beginning. When Colorado legalized,
01:28:19
Speaker
definitely doing like some taunting on the interstate say park like five cop cars like right at the state line off the interstates and whatnot but apparently wisconsin was doing that too for a while wisconsin is another one yeah they have they have any medical program but it's only for seizures and it's only for CBD so you can't even get CBD
01:28:50
Speaker
Me only there. I think I think you can still buy CBD because I've seen CBD. They're like family video. There's like the family video in my hometown. It's like it's like family video and then it's. Fucked a pizza place.
01:29:13
Speaker
Not rockers, Marcos, Marcos. And it's like, yeah, it's like, yeah, family video, Marcos pizza. And it's like, we've got CBD. That sounds like an ad for a small town. Yeah. I don't know how that family video is still in business. They did have the porn section, though.
01:29:39
Speaker
Probably that. Yeah. Which how did that? How is that? Yeah. I remember when I when I turned 18, I was like, I'm going to go into the porn section. And it was kind of like, I don't want to do this. All the tapes, it was like the tapes were like the the like smoky white. So like you couldn't see, you know, it was like
01:30:07
Speaker
Plastic that you can really see through and it just had like a plain text like aerial font with like a label like a label maker. There's definitely an irony to the family video having a porn section. Yeah. Oh, it's so great. All the churches were protesting it when it first opened. They were out front of it like every day for months because of the porn section.
01:30:36
Speaker
Then I was always it was I was like probably in middle school. And then I remember like I was on I was in swim club and one of the kids that I was swimming with, like he was saying like his mom was out front like protesting it or something. Yeah, your mom sounds like a lot of fun, Steve. Your mom was in my porn, Steve.
01:31:09
Speaker
Shit, porn's how a lot of those people in that town got out of that town probably. Like porn stars or porn actors and from it. Yeah. I always just think of that one clip you sent me.
01:31:37
Speaker
where that girl takes the butt plug at the airport. Oh, my God. Yeah, I lost a link. I don't know where it is. There is a while where I was showing that video to like everybody I knew. We were when we were in Cabo, we showed we showed Craig's dad that and we were just like in the airport and he's like looking at it and he has like that typical like
01:32:06
Speaker
Uh, then he like kind of like starts smiling and he's like, wait, wait, she's here? Where is she? Like you thought it was like a live, like a live Twitter. That's so wrong.
01:32:41
Speaker
I feel like she's retired by now. She probably made a shit ton of money off of that. You know, cleaning butt plugs is a specialty service. Yeah. She also had one that was like cleaning my butt plug at Pizza Hut. And she like put her phone like below the table.
01:33:07
Speaker
And then like showed her like pointed out like in the restaurant. Although with that shit, I guarantee you, like, I wonder how they set that up. They probably go to the owner and they're like, hey, we'll throw you like a couple hundred bucks if you let us film here for like 10 minutes. Just to give the illusion that it's in a public place, although I don't know how they I don't know how she got away with that at the airport. That's fucking insane.
01:33:32
Speaker
So an airport is so highly, it's so highly surveillance.
01:33:40
Speaker
Like that's one of those things where like you get away with it in the moment and then like a month later, you get a letter like from the federal government. That's like. Well, we don't know. We don't know for sure that didn't happen. True. Yes, I was just thinking. Try that in a small town. No. Try that. Try that in a casino, though.
01:34:10
Speaker
Oh yeah. Can't imagine going on like the, do not fly list. And it's, you know, they're like, they're like going through the list of the do not fly list. It's like, you know, so and so name, like, uh, you know,
01:34:29
Speaker
Caught with explosives and like so and so caught smuggling drugs, boy, caught with a weapon. And then it's just like her and it's just like public indecency cleaning. And then, yeah, like and then like in parentheses, like clean the butt plug. Clean butt plug prior to TSA. That was I think that was past TSA, that was like at the gate.
01:35:01
Speaker
Which is insane, which means that she got through security with that metal plug. Here's the thing. Do you think she was wearing it through security? I don't know. I feel like the only place you could get away with that would be like the Denver Airport, because those TSA people are like so checked out.
01:35:32
Speaker
I just don't. Denver, actually, there's been like two different times we're at the Denver airport, I've. Was in line for Precheck and in the line got so backed up that they just like opened the gate like the accessibility gate and they were just like letting people go through like not the scanner or the metal detector just like through the fucking open gate.
01:36:01
Speaker
Good. Yeah, it's it's TSA. It's just like a music festival. Yeah. Oh, yeah, like the guy that's doing the path downs, he's just like not even touching the people. He's just like. You ever see that? No. I think it was that like electric daisy or I don't know, something, something festival.
01:36:29
Speaker
And it shows like the security guy giving you a pat down, but he's like not even touching him or like paying attention. He's just like literally like going like this, like around their body and then like letting them go. Like I feel like that's enough to scare all the fucking high people, though. Yeah, if you're not paying close attention.
01:36:54
Speaker
And that's probably the biggest thing that those security guards try to do is be a visual deterrent. Mm hmm. Especially like a festival like that. It's like, yeah. We all know if you're determined enough to get drugs in, you get drugs in. Once I was when I was that time, I was flying out of Seattle and I was like really fucking late. It's the only time I've almost missed a flight.
01:37:23
Speaker
And, uh, I like go to the TSA person and he's like, he's like, are you winning the race? I'm just like, what? And I'm just like, uh, yeah. And he was just like clearly just fucking with me. Cause he could tell I was like really high.
01:37:44
Speaker
And then, um, that's when I had a bunch of pre rules in like a, in a container, just like an open, like a, like a plastic container. And it's, it smelled really bad. And like they pulled my bag aside and I'm like, Oh fuck. And either like digging through it. And then they just like, well, they pull the toothpaste out and he's like, you can't fly with this. And he like pulls the toothpaste out and I'm like, Oh, okay. You can just throw it away. That's fine.
01:38:12
Speaker
And then he like zips the bag up and he like hands it to me and he just looks at me and he's like, you should he's like, you should really double bag your weed. Yeah, I mean, if the TSA guy says that, then. I want to think about it. I see I've never flown with weed.
01:38:42
Speaker
So TSA has, it's like official protocol that regardless of the state you're in, they do not check for it or touch it. Um, they only get in police involved if it's, if they clearly see you're trying to like traffic. Um, so, cause I think at this point it's just so hard, it's just way too hard to enforce. Like, are they gonna like, you know what I mean? Like, especially with like edibles and fake pens and stuff, like they're not going to call the police every time they see something.
01:39:15
Speaker
I mean, I have no, I would have no reservations about it now flying from a legal state to another legal state. But I don't, I'd be more effort flying, you know, to a state where it's not legal. Let's just.
01:39:39
Speaker
Yeah, like all, I mean, like I've done that. I think what I still don't do though is I never fly out of a non-legal state with it though. Like it's not so much that I'm worried about TSA. I'm just worried about like that one random check. Like, you know what I mean? Like you make one small mistake somewhere and like it pulled aside and you're like, I dunno, you're flying out of like fucking
01:40:08
Speaker
Alabama or Florida or I don't know, South Carolina or something. And then you happen to like, you know what I mean? Like you have like a vape pen and they're like, Oh, well, this is a, this is a felony in this state. Yeah. Cause I know that was a thing in Texas where like, basically if you were caught with
01:40:33
Speaker
like weed brownies it was it was like the highest possible penalty i guess like some guy got 10 years because he had a weed brownie on him because they considered it they considered it like like a concentrate or like hash or something which it's like jesus christ it's 2023 yeah still has it fully
01:41:07
Speaker
It's fucking ridiculous. That's why it scares the shit out of me and think about like flying. Other. Yeah. I feel safe on a plane, I don't feel safe like on interstate, so like I I never liked being in a car. With it like you just feel like you're fucking trapped. Really? Like a plane.
01:41:37
Speaker
A plane you have like some deny, like plausible deniability of like, Oh, like I was in a legal state and I forgot it was in there or something. Like when you're in a car, it's like, I don't know. Just, you're in like a box. And then, I don't know, I guess like in high school, I was so worried about getting pulled over.
01:42:09
Speaker
So yeah, I feel like. I don't know what the airport always freaked me out with the car, it's like. I guess it depends on where you're driving, but I feel like that whole like. Oh, shit, like if you don't. Like. Asterix, like if you're driving in a place where it's not legal, you can't smoke at all in the car before you're going there like you can't wreak in there.
01:42:38
Speaker
Yeah. But if you have a little bit that's for personal use and especially. If it's like in a bag from a dispensary and it and it's in your trunk. There's a ton of plausible deniability there in my mind, like, oh, shit, I bought that shit a while ago, I forgot it was there. Yeah.
01:43:03
Speaker
And it's like it's clearly from a store and stuff. You know, and I bought it a while ago. I forgot that I even left it there. Yeah. But. We're also speaking about this is white people, so. Right. Your experience, maybe. Right. Huh?
01:43:33
Speaker
Just a business saying they felt iffy taken chewing tobacco on a plane. But I feel like that's. I feel like there's no issue there, because unless you're. Unless you're like spitting on the plane, then I don't think anyone's going to have an issue. Yeah, so you can even have chewing tobacco like it's not against the rules.
01:44:02
Speaker
Yeah, they say you can't vapor smoke. Yeah. I remember when the blue was sick, was like new and just like going in the in the airport or the airplane bathroom, just like puffing the shit out of it. Like not realizing that there were smoke detectors and that it was like a really big deal, although actually, I don't think at the time, I don't think there was a law against it yet. It was still fairly new.
01:44:32
Speaker
But imagine, though, imagine like the first imagine like the first douchebag who brought like a giant vape with them on the plane or just like filling the plane like what? It's not smoking. Yep. That's that's the thing. That's how laws become laws is because somebody is an asshole. Oh, yeah.
01:44:56
Speaker
Because nobody ever said to write a law until somebody was a dick and went, oh, what if I do that? It's not against the law. Yeah. Anytime. The.
Indoor Smoking Nostalgia
01:45:14
Speaker
Technically, oh, that shit's going to be illegal. Mm hmm.
01:45:21
Speaker
Yeah, because you're absolutely right. I can totally picture it's, you know. Some flight into Orlando and a bunch of vape conference. And then he's got like some giant fucking box mod that looks like a 1980 cell phone like. Yeah.
01:45:52
Speaker
Just like right in their seat, too. Yeah. It's like, excuse me, sir. You can't you can't smoke on here. And they're like, hey, what the fuck? This isn't smoking, motherfucker. Yeah. You better back. Yeah, like 2009, 2010, like especially in like coffee shops and stuff.
01:46:19
Speaker
Although, you know, what's crazy to me to think about is like we went to George Webb in. Two thousand and not Milwaukee. And smoke and smoke cigarettes inside of the George Webb's. Yep. Which is crazy. I remember that was like that was the only reason that like you were like, yeah, we got to go eat there.
01:46:46
Speaker
It's like, why is the food good? It's like, no, but you could smoke inside. It's a relic. Well, because that's the thing about like. Thinking about this restaurant full of smoke. The smoke had to affect the flavor of the food. Oh, I'm sure it did.
01:47:14
Speaker
And I love the whole like smoking section and non smoking section. Yeah. Yeah, right. I got it must have sucked being a server there, like dealing with high school kids who just hang out there for like five hours at a time. The fucking basically just the got kids from South Park. Yeah. Yeah.
01:47:45
Speaker
Yep. Fucking. God, yeah, but I definitely remember. Just feel like now the food's not really great, but you. I've been in there in a while, I should. It's kind of like it's like Midwest Waffle House, but not as the but the food's not the same.
01:48:14
Speaker
We had one, one of my apartments in Milwaukee had one like a block away. And I remember going there in there once late at night. And then, but it always got like held up after bar close. And then after like, I think after midnight on the weekends, you had to prepay, which is always like kind of awkward. So you'd like sit down.
01:48:38
Speaker
You'd order your food and they'd give you a receipt and you have to like go to the front and pay for it. And then once you paid for it, they would put your order in. That's a pain in the head. You know, you know that sad restaurant when they have to do that. Yeah. There's been way too many dining dashes. Oh, yeah.
01:49:07
Speaker
I remember when I was driving through Milwaukee with Dan, I was like, oh, yeah, this place, George Webb, we saw one or something like, oh, yeah, George Webb, you could stop there. I remember going there and she's like, is the food good? I'm like, no, we only ever ate there because you could smoke in there. Yeah. The breakfast was like, OK. The only thing that was really good was the burger. It was the only thing that was actually like cooked fresh.
01:49:37
Speaker
Everything else is just like frozen shit. You've got Denny's. You know, I. Yeah. I got I got to call out to somebody in the chat here. If you're still here, ribs, you got any commentary on George Webb's. Hey, hey, you ribs. Let's see what we were.
01:50:07
Speaker
abusing the fuck out of the fact that you could smoke in there. Yeah. So gross. Yeah. Be I remember. Like. We were literally the last generation that had any kind of indoor smoking.
01:50:34
Speaker
It's still a thing in, uh, Kentucky, I think you can still smoke in bars. And I want to say maybe Pennsylvania. It was in like two, 20, well, that's over 10 years ago at this point, but back in like 2011, you could still smoke them inside bars. I remember going to this like super like divey local like penguins bar. Um,
01:51:05
Speaker
in Pittsburgh with some friends like when I stayed at their place and like. It was like one of the like to this day, like one of those like really memorable, gross hangovers. They're like, you can still almost feel when you think about it. Oh, I am. One of those being Great America opening day, two thousand nine. Ten. Yeah, it's 2010.
01:51:34
Speaker
Oh, yeah, 2010. Oh, ribs has said he remembers when they protested the smoking ban at the Capitol in Madison. Oh, that's right. I remember those. Yeah, I knew a lot of people upset about that when it happened and.
01:52:03
Speaker
Ironically or not, a lot of those people don't smoke anymore. Yeah, no one cares later, Rib says, so it's pretty true. I feel like. Yeah, it's like, oh, like, let's not let's like not damage the interior of these buildings by letting people smoke inside. Like I remember around that time, too, like I a lot of friends of mine, like friends, like friends, parents would like smoke inside.
01:52:34
Speaker
And then like right around like probably about 10 years ago people started this to stop doing that And it's just such a big difference like smoking inside of your own place is so gross Yeah Yeah, rips saying that his apartment complex has in the least I can't smoke that's been in every lease I've had except for this one and
01:53:00
Speaker
and ironically, this is the first apartment I've been in where I've been. Now, I'm of course talking about weed, but. Yeah, it's a smoking in the lease, usually. Yes, it is embarrassing. But. There's lots of renovations for often and everything.
01:53:26
Speaker
I'm sure that shit absorbs all the way down to the bone. Like cigarette smoke sticks so much. You ever see that that smoking section inside of the Las Vegas airport? No. Oh, and then like it has ceiling tiles. But the ceiling tiles are all brown. Yeah.
01:53:56
Speaker
They still have a smoking area in Las Vegas. They did. I want to say they do and I want to because the last time I saw that was probably like. When was that? Oh, shit, it was literally like coming when I was flying from Houston to go back to Sacramento, I had a layover in Vegas. And that was when like they it was like one of those like
01:54:27
Speaker
layovers where it was like a connecting flight where you could like get off the plane and come back on but you had to stay in the same seat and then they would like refill it was like i don't know southwest has those like connections were like it's not non-stop but it's not a layover like you stay on the plane but they just like let people deplane and then they bring more people back on
01:54:52
Speaker
that was where that was that's right that was where i fucking saw the guy it was like some old really old guy and like he i'm like in the going walking to the urinal in the bathroom and i just see this stall door like flowing open and like the toilet flushes because he clearly took a shit and like he's just like
01:55:14
Speaker
And like a giant flamboyle comes out and like lands on the ground. And then he like walks, walks up to the mirror and adjusts his belt and just walks right out and doesn't wash his hands. Oh, man. But yeah, I. I.
01:55:43
Speaker
The only time I use a smoking room was in. Because I feel like they're really rare here. Yeah, I want to say the Vegas one is probably like the only one that exists. Denver used to have one, but it was like an outdoor patio because they had this. They used to. They had like a pet. They had a pet relief area.
01:56:12
Speaker
Where it was basically like you could walk outside and it was all like, you know, like caged basically. And then they also had a smoking section outside. I'm trying to remember where in the airport it is, but it's kind of hidden. There's actually like you're in the Denver airport. There's like a lot of kind of like shit on the second level.
01:56:39
Speaker
Um, yeah, I can't think I don't. I don't think I've ever seen. Like, yeah, I don't think I've seen anything other than that.
Podcasting Reflections and Random Chats
01:56:52
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Nathan. And Janice and the truth. That's the thing is those smoking rooms.
01:57:09
Speaker
If they don't have pristine. Then they're like, I remember the one in Amsterdam, basically like. Having like a Willy Wonka fucking fan in it. Yeah, yeah. Up at the top.
01:57:35
Speaker
So it's just like always just like air is going upward. So like all the smoke just goes directly. It's like piped out. Yeah. But I feel like like if Vegas actually does still have one, the next time I fly out of there, I'm buying a preroll and taking it fucking in the smoking room.
01:58:07
Speaker
People probably wouldn't care. And nobody would give a shit. Yeah. Fucking pass them, motherfucker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you got cools, but try this shit, yo. Oh, cools are gross. Cools, the poor man's new ports.
01:58:41
Speaker
Palmo's. Palmo's were just in cool. Yeah. Um. Turnies were the absolute worst. Oh, yeah. There was a while where I I'd buy those on a nostalgia and it was why I don't know.
01:59:13
Speaker
They had the the fact that the label of the label was just like a PowerPoint clip or image. I like a little metal. I'll say this, sometimes nostalgia really can't make bad things good. Uh.
01:59:39
Speaker
and attorneys is definitely one of those things. Because to me, attorneys smoking those, that was that was necessity. That was like. I got seven dollars in silver. So I could afford the gas to get to
02:00:06
Speaker
the speedway at Lake Cook in Milwaukee and a pack of tourneys. Were you reading back your notes now? I'm just adding some annotations. Okay. I respect it.
02:00:35
Speaker
I remember I should have kept it because when we first started I had a notebook. I should have written notes for every single episode. Yeah, that would have been awesome. I would have loved to have seen all that. Because for me,
02:01:00
Speaker
I try to make a quick description based off of the final product. And then once it's out into the world, it's pretty much it's done and I don't. I will not hear it again. Yeah. I can't imagine at this point listening to our podcast.
02:01:30
Speaker
Just me personally. I mean, it's the most vain fucking thing in the world. I'll skim through it if I'm trying to remember something that funny happened, but yeah, it is a little rough. Like. Oh, that's just when you're like, it's yourself talking. Well, that's the thing is like I try to make it entertaining, but like.
02:01:59
Speaker
And I remember when we first started this ship. Come up on four years now, Jeez. It was like I listened back to each one to be like, oh, how can I improve? What can I do better? Now, now I'm like you, I'm like, it's something good happens, maybe.
02:02:26
Speaker
Otherwise, sometimes our listeners will mention things that happen in an episode and I'm like, Oh, did did we do that happen? Oh, cool. Glad you enjoyed. Yeah, so she Logan being like the encyclopedia. Seriously.
02:02:53
Speaker
I really appreciate everybody who does listen to this show because. And. Otherwise, I'd be doing it with bolstering our numbers. But yeah, I can ribs is asking about. If we've seen any of the flooding in Vegas.
02:03:21
Speaker
The whole West is getting beat up. Hurricane Hillary, Hillary to. So it's it's tropical storm, right? Where they're calling it like. Her a quake or something. Well, I just thought maybe tropical to.
02:03:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Is it too soon? What about I don't know, I saw a video. Disneyland was dead as hell. Yeah, I mean, that checks out. It seems like.
02:04:19
Speaker
I mean, it seems weird how it seems like everything is dead. I mean, obviously that's storm related, but like. I don't know. Tourism is definitely down. So in general, yeah.
Theme Parks Amidst Economic Changes
02:04:33
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Well, like we were talking about earlier. Hotels are like stupid expensive for the inexplicably, basically, you know, yeah.
02:04:47
Speaker
in in places that I wouldn't do the expensive hotel places, you know? Yeah. But I think, um. What what is it, right? Yeah. Sure is.
02:05:20
Speaker
So if you're like me, you put all your money into doge. And traded that doge for a Twitter stock. And then got bought out by Elon. And.
02:05:46
Speaker
Well, the economy is fucked. That means that Six Flags is probably going to be shuffling around some more boomerangs. They're going to get so desperate, they're going to put a boomerang next to another boomerang. But unlike the New England situation, it's just going to be like two standard boomerangs. No, Six Flags is getting more into the Disney or Busch Gardens method.
02:06:15
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the the the
02:06:39
Speaker
that the former Moosburger still hasn't opened at Green America. Although as of Sunday, they had the boots set up for Oktoberfest. So I suspect it's going to be open only to facilitate Oktoberfest. Yeah. The just deal. Because the inside of the old Moosburger Lodge has not reopened.
02:07:08
Speaker
They took the sign down, there's barricades in front of the entrance. So we'll see what's happening with that.
Closing Thoughts and Appreciation
02:07:27
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I mean, I'm getting a little sleepy. Yeah, it was a good run.
02:07:38
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I have some notes. Nice. Is this a performance review? I mean, we'll see. I got to make sure I rip this out, though, so I don't bring it to work tomorrow. Yeah, don't.
02:08:06
Speaker
the year that was a good one, but it was a fun and thank you all for joining and listening and all your support and love and all the fun and all that. Anything else Ben? Let's see.
02:08:55
Speaker
No, I'm good. I think we covered it. We covered it all.