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Episode 124 - Fire in the Hole!
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast Ben and Zach discuss Fire in the Hole at Silver Dollar City closing, Excalibur at Six Flags St Louis closing, Raging River Rapids at Adventureland closing and more!
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Introduction and Disney Community Hot Topics
00:00:00
Speaker
Hi everyone, and welcome back to WDW News Today. Today, we're going to be discussing some hot topics that have been circulating around the Disney community. And, as always, I'm your host, Tom.
Genie Plus vs. Free Fast Passes
00:00:13
Speaker
Segment 1, Genie Plus let's start off with something that has been bothering me for a while now, and that's Genie Plus. I mean, seriously, Disney, what were you thinking? This whole system is a mess, and it's not making things easier for anyone.
00:00:27
Speaker
I miss the days when fast passes were free, and you didn't have to pay for everything separately. Come on, Disney, get it together. Segment
Tokyo Disneyland vs. Disney World: Creativity Showdown
00:00:36
Speaker
2, Tokyo Disneyland Now, let's talk about something that's sure to ruffle some feathers. Tokyo Disneyland is better than Disney World. I said it, and I'm not taking it back.
00:00:46
Speaker
The level of detail and creativity that goes into their attractions and shows is unparalleled, and Disney World could learn a thing or two from them. Segment 3, Disney Employees on Tinder Next up, we have a bone to pick with Disney Employees on Tinder.
Disney Employees on Tinder: Secrets and Humor
00:01:00
Speaker
Look, I get it, you want to keep the magic alive and not spoil any surprises for guests.
00:01:05
Speaker
But come on, at least give us a hint. It's not like we're going to ruin anything, we just want to know what to expect. And for the love of Mickey, don't use it as a way to get free meals. You know who you are. Segment 4, The Turkey Leg Girl And finally, let me tell you about my recent frustration with a girl who worked at the turkey leg stand. We had a great time talking about Disney and all the exciting new attractions coming to Epcot.
00:01:29
Speaker
But when the bill came, I refused to pick it up, and she refused to spill any more tea about the new attractions. It's like, come on, I just wanna know what's going on. Maybe I'll have to start bringing my wallet on these dates.
Wrap-up and More Disney Content
00:01:42
Speaker
I'll grow well, that's all the time we have for today's segment. Thank you for tuning in, and be sure to check out our other videos for more Disney news and updates. Until next time, stay magical.
00:02:34
Speaker
I'm Zach and I fart after I eat White Castle. I'm Ben and I'm strawberry kiwi. I thought you were hotter. That's true. Actually, I don't know anymore. I don't know what the fuck I am. I have no idea. I just heard. I've heard enough.
00:03:04
Speaker
of you and Slater talking. Call it educated guests. It's better than there's some other ones out there like I guess there's like Walruses, which I don't want to know what that is. All I can picture is it's Bill from King of the Hill. Yeah, but it doesn't address the tusks like I guess.
00:03:33
Speaker
I don't know what the build is on that. Well, like that one episode where Dale finds out the government was testing, the army was testing drugs on him to try and like create like a walrus soldier crossbreed. Oh, that's right. Yeah.
00:03:58
Speaker
I don't know. Welcome back to your favorite coaster sucks, where you can learn all sorts of animal facts you had no clue about. I don't even know if I know the facts. By the way, have you seen the whale? I have not. I've heard it's not great. Really? That's what I've heard. Huh.
00:04:23
Speaker
I wonder if that's just like Hollywood just still trying to sabotage, um, Brendan Fraser. I heard it was good. I haven't seen it yet, but I don't know. Friends who have seen it said it's pretty good. It's sad, but I feel like, um, 10 years ago, if they would have made that movie every
00:04:49
Speaker
entertainment outlet would have been making a fat joke. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, you can't do that today. Only to women. Or Lizzo. Are you making some sort of implication about Lizzo?
00:05:13
Speaker
No, I'm just saying I hear I hear I don't even really know who she is. I just hear jokes about her. I'm not making one of my own. This is a bad bitch. Show respect. You know, the you know, the Jackbox game, like those Jackbox TV games. No. Am I missing out on something? It was bigger in the pandemic, but there's games like Quiplash and it's like trivia and all that type of stuff.
00:05:42
Speaker
But I don't know. My friends always use Lizzo like as a, as like a noun or like as like a joke. And I don't really get it, but she just wants some Grammys. Good for her. I don't even know if I can't even think of what's a, what's a Lizzo song. Um, I don't know the name of it.
00:06:09
Speaker
But, hold on, here's what we can do rather than full on triggering some sort of copyright thing. We'll go ahead and play a very short snippet of one from Spotify off of my phone. Anyway!
00:06:37
Speaker
Does that sound familiar? Uh, not yet. Okay. All right. That's enough of that. All right. I do know. And again, much, much respect like Lizzo do not want to get copyright flagged. So keep that very brief. Um, but yeah, Lizzo cool.
00:07:06
Speaker
I don't know how you flip the name into a noun. Yeah, I don't know. It's always a joke and I, it's over my head, but, uh, yeah, Jackbox TV was big during the pandemic. Basically it's like a phone. It's like a game you play on your TV, but everybody uses their phone.
00:07:29
Speaker
So there's a little URL that appears and then everyone goes to the URL. And then there's like, it's kind of like, uh, kind of like, kind of like Mario party mini games or, um, it was like trivia or there's like a game where you have to write, write your own jokes, stuff like that. So it's a way for you to, for everybody in a room to be on their phones, but still interact with each other. For sure. Yeah. No, I mean, that's interesting.
00:07:58
Speaker
I think that was, I think I've seen that like a couple of bars. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I could see that. Yeah. It was, it got bigger in the pandemic because people would play it over zoom. So like one person would, uh, like one person would share their screen with it and then people would join the zoom call and then they could play from home. I did that plenty of times when the pandemic was, was real.
00:08:26
Speaker
I'm glad that shit is over. I don't know. Now we've got balloons and UFOs and trains derailing. Oh, a whole bunch of crazy shit. I will say it's very interesting now that we were doing pretty much a weekly podcast throughout that entire thing. So we'll always have a record of our slow descent into insanity.
00:08:56
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Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Like 10 years from now, there's going to be people putting out YouTube series where they dissect like the pandemic from people's, uh, YouTube channels and twit tweets and live streams. Yeah. There's going to be, there's going to be like a whole bunch of like psychology studies. And when everyone, when everyone got made an only fans,
00:09:30
Speaker
Hey, everybody, five percent off this month. Which is like that's like the lowest fucking like I always found that I always found that only fan shit kind of funny, because especially when you know the person like I knew people who were advertising their only fans on their regular Facebook. It's like everybody five percent off.
00:09:55
Speaker
It's like 5% off of 595. It's like, I know you personally, you can't be posting anything that interesting. Like what? Like you laying on the bed using a flashlight. Who's going to pay for that? I like, I don't know though. Okay. So here's the debate, right?
00:10:14
Speaker
Is it worse to launch an only fans and then like solicit through Facebook like that? Or is it worse to try to sell feet pics only and solicit through Facebook like that? Um, I think it depends on the person, but they're, that's, they're both, those both are pretty, pretty low.
00:10:39
Speaker
I mean, I think the feet picks one is just as low, but it almost seems like there's a, like a, like a judginess about it. Yeah. And I'm, I'm pro sex work. I'm just agreed. Don't, uh, on your personal Facebook or like your link, like your LinkedIn, don't do that. No, that's, that's a really bad forum. That's really bad form.
00:11:07
Speaker
I mean, we don't have to get into how to start a personal channel. Don't, don't, don't use your actual real shit. Um, yeah. Remember my friend? Yes. I think I'm going to try to pimp out her. I'm going to pimp out her feet and manage her only fans. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Have fun.
00:11:39
Speaker
I'm sure you're going to find a bunch of interesting subreddits and. Yeah. I'm excited to get the messages, like reading the messages from guys like. Just wall of dick pics. That's so hot. Oh, fuck. I want to tongue punch your fart box.
00:12:12
Speaker
You know the term, uh, turd cutter. Yep. Yeah. I love that one time on Larry Kenny when, um, Gail was like, damn girl, you shit with that ass. That's, that's one of those lines I would love to have used, but I would never have had the confidence to pull it off.
00:12:41
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, letter Kenny. I really like the show and then that format only can go so far. Yeah, it's like diminishing returns. Yeah. I think it's like the curse of Canadian shows.
00:13:06
Speaker
because I felt like the trailer park boys were like that as well. It's like, you can only go so far with the story until it just goes way, it just, it just tries way too hard. Well, also, I mean, yeah, it's a limiting premise when you're in a small town and there's only, it's a small town. There's only so many characters. Right. All right. And it's kind of a,
00:13:35
Speaker
There's a catch 22. Cause if you move the location, you can't justify moving all the characters. And everyone bitches when you introduce a new character, right? You can't introduce a whole bunch of new characters. Cause there's not really even like full family units as we know them on that show. Cause like presumably everybody's like adults in their mid twenties to thirties.
00:14:04
Speaker
But nobody ever references their parents. Or maybe they do, but you never see them. And it's like, obviously you all have lived here your whole life. So where the fuck are all of your parents? Maybe there's a train derailment with the toxic cloud that killed everybody off. Hey, there's only four of those a day, statistically. Yeah, there's like two more today. There's like another one in Michigan and there's one in Arizona.
00:14:33
Speaker
Um, although it's hard to tell if it's a matter of like, now that everybody was focused on one, we don't, we didn't realize how common these things actually are until, you know, a story develops. But same thing with the balloons. I mean, Well, it makes a little sense about the trains because you're talking about like infrastructure that's hundreds of years old.
00:14:58
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, not to mention like all those companies. I mean, those are very for profit. So yeah. And I mean, come on, we're all coaster fans, right? Can you imagine only giving a maintenance budget of 50 bucks to a fucking wooden roller coaster every year? Yeah. And then it runs for, I mean, obviously a roller coaster has different, a lot more stresses and stuff, but like,
00:15:26
Speaker
You know, you run it for three years on that budget. Some bad shit's going to happen. Did you see that the satellite photo of the of the blacks of the black smoke? Good. Yeah. Excuse me. It's horrible. I think the main thing is it's important, you know, to observe where you live and if there's train tracks there. Try to move.
00:15:56
Speaker
Or if you're in Ohio, you should probably move. Probably try to move. Yeah. I mean, that's good advice. I mean, technically, there's probably a few places in Ohio that like. Are not as bad. Yeah, I mean, I actually I don't know. I actually really like just the whole Lake Lake Erie coast. It's nice in the summer.
00:16:25
Speaker
Akron's cool. I mean, I've always heard Cleveland rocks. That's true. Oh, that's something to feed into GTP. A Drew Carey show premise. I'm addicted to that thing. I've just been playing with it all day. That's what she said. I've been rewatching The Office.
00:16:54
Speaker
So that's it. What is it? What is it stream on now? Peacock. Oh, OK. But they have what they call the super fan episodes where they've. Recut in unused footage. So on an average, each one has like, I don't know, three, four minutes of extra content. Yeah. That's cool.
00:17:22
Speaker
Yeah, I liked it. I probably watched watched it through like three or four times. Maybe more. There's always definitely check out the superfan ones then because there's new jokes. And they hit really hard, especially if you're someone who's seen like the whole series a couple of times. Reann's never watched it, so it's really fun to watch it with her.
00:17:52
Speaker
Oh really? Yeah. I know. Crazy, right? But she somehow had missed her. And so now she's seeing it for the first time and it's like, all right, cool. Remember in like 2012 or so when there was that, that was like people on the internet that would always claim they, they liked the British version more.
00:18:18
Speaker
Oh yeah. Like it was like, that was like right before everybody started calling everybody else hipsters. It was like maybe six months before Coney 2012 was like a thing. Yeah. Cause that was one of those first like, Oh, you're a total hipster. If you say that, you know,
00:18:45
Speaker
Now who the fuck knows what that even means anymore? Yeah. It was, it was back when me, there was like maybe only 10 different templates of memes and they were all like the same 10 pictures. Confused velociraptor. Good guy, Greg. Annoying college liberal. Scumbag Steve. Advice dog. Annoyed Picard.
00:19:15
Speaker
Outraged Jackie Chan. There was like like suburban mom or something. It was like a woman with a track suit. Yeah. And like the Kate Gosselin haircut. Oh, there was that one where it was like the middle school girl talking about music. I can't remember that one. Like. I love Deadmau5.
00:19:50
Speaker
That was, I've been, oh, speaking of internet culture, I've been watching those Wang videos. Oh, dude, those are great. Yeah. There's some stuff I forgot about. I watched one, you mentioned that one came up in my feed yesterday for fucking Jankum. I remember when that was like, I've never seen anybody do it. But I remember when that was like a thing, people were always talking about it.
00:20:19
Speaker
According to his video, there was one guy who supposedly did it and posted about it, which if you are unfamiliar with Jankum, it's a process of fermenting one's own feces and urine and then using the gases expelled from the fermentation to get high with.
00:20:47
Speaker
There's a very limited amount of people out there who would actually do that. Well, it comes from like, basically, like orphans in Africa, like extremely dire situation type of thing where like,
00:21:05
Speaker
I guess that kind of makes sense. Well, I remember the rumor was that it was like people, people would do it in jail, like inmates, but I mean, inmates can get access to any drug they want. So I don't see them doing that. That's what I was saying. That would, I can't imagine any kind of high being worth the reputation that would then get you inside.
00:21:32
Speaker
Not that I know anything about being incarcerated, but I can imagine that if you were fermenting your own urine and feces, what's the expression they use on letter, Kenny? Bad gas travels fast in a small town? I think that's even faster when you're confined. Oh, man.
00:21:59
Speaker
Uh, well, let's hope it doesn't come to that. Oh, boy. That's what I'm saying. So, um. I would not try it. Not Jacob, not even once. I did, um, I did see the one to about swap that AVI. I don't know if I know that one. Um.
00:22:29
Speaker
It's it's more of the gross graphic ones. It's OK. Or two Brazilian women basically swap. It was like a sequel to two girls, one cup, except instead of in a cup, it was in another woman. Oh, yeah. Lovely. Yeah. God, the Internet was a great place.
00:22:57
Speaker
I couldn't, and I was actually surprised. Like some of them are completely stripped off of Google. So you have to use doc that go, but some of them are almost, you have to like really, really dig. Like you have to go to like really sketchy message board posts from 15 years ago. Oh boy. Yeah, no, I'm good. But, um, I couldn't find shake that bear. That one's probably for the better.
00:23:27
Speaker
I remember there was a bit about that on Tosh.0. Oh, that's right. Yeah, it's reenacting. Yeah. Oh, God. Really, Tosh.0 was really fun. If that segment aired today, it would be on Tucker Carlson for grooming. You don't think Daniel Tosh would have been ahead of it somehow?
00:23:56
Speaker
Maybe he would have went on Tucker Carlson. So there used to be this old show on Fox called Red Eye. And it was basically like an open forum show where they would let anybody come on and basically talk about anything. So there's actually all these YouTube videos out there of like different comedians going on.
00:24:20
Speaker
and like pretending to be other people and just bringing up like really crazy funny stuff. It's like a serious like late night Fox, you know, new show. Damn it. It's too bad. That's not still a thing. It's going to be fun. The, um, yeah. Well, shit. I want to, um,
00:24:45
Speaker
Real quick, before we shift gears, I want to take a second and very naturally seamlessly transition into plugging our Six Flags Great America meetup in June. It's
Six Flags Meetup Announcement
00:24:58
Speaker
now even closer. It's like four months away. Yeah, we're getting closer.
00:25:05
Speaker
Thank you to those of you who have filled out the interest form. The link is available online, easiest way to find it. Go to LINKTR.EE slash YFCS, or you go in the episode description. It's right down there. The dates for the meetup are Friday, June 16th through Sunday, June 18th. So it's going to be awesome.
00:25:34
Speaker
You know. We're going to be out at Great America. We're going to record a live podcast at a fucking cinema, which is so cool. I'm a little bit nervous about that. Yeah, it'll be weird. So she on a stage. That's what I'm saying, I mean. We will we will have visual aid.
00:26:03
Speaker
So that'll be good. But, um, I mean, it'll be fun. The one we did at the cabin was really a good time. Yeah, that was, um, yeah, that was lively.
00:26:17
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think having a live audience and having that energy really adds something fun to it. And we really want you guys, you, yes, you listening right now to be a part of it. So we really want you to come on out to Gurney June 16th through the 18th. It's a weekend.
00:26:45
Speaker
um, mid June. So hopefully we should have nice weather cooperating. It's going to be a great time. Um, unless it's that perfect kind of weather where there's a chance for scattered thunderstorms, but it doesn't actually hit. Well, I mean, we'll make sure we do our best to get everyone their credits who hasn't, you know, been to the park before, or if it's been a few years, um, we'll have our podcast.
00:27:16
Speaker
We'll have some sort of space for hosting, you know, post party drinks, food. Of course, cannabis is legal here in Illinois. So those of you from states where unfortunately not so much come and partake. And that's a, that's a cool thing to be able to plug for a meetup. Oh yeah.
00:27:44
Speaker
I, uh, I got to start thinking about summertime off. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what else might be going on around that time. We talked about possibly adding Mount Olympus. Yeah. The, um, yeah. Doing Mount Olympus on that Monday or whatever day after it would be a lot of fun. Yeah. That's, that's a definite possibility. Um, if there's a home stand near then, if anyone's interested, we could check out maybe going to Wrigley.
00:28:15
Speaker
Yeah. If there's a, um, if there's like a Thursday night game, that almost be perfect. Let's see. Checking now. Cause I'm always down for a visit to Wrigley. Um, yeah, I'd like to do more, more stadiums. Um, I'm not even really into baseball, but
00:28:42
Speaker
I do enjoy drinking outdoors. So. Oh, so here's the deal. Looks like there is a Thursday afternoon game. There's a Friday afternoon game, so that probably wouldn't work. Saturday now and a Sunday afternoon game. Oh, wait, no, Thursday is a night game. There's a seven, seven or five p.m.
00:29:11
Speaker
Yeah, because if I fly in, I see myself flying in Thursday evening or I guess afternoon. That could work. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So yeah, there's a seven o'clock game. So that could be fun if anyone's interested in doing that. A little pre-party night before. Come on down to the city will be Wrigley. And if you like
00:29:41
Speaker
baseball at all. It's worth going to Wrigley Field for sure. You like baseball? Watch this. You're going to love my nuts. So, uh, yeah, the great American meetups can be fucking dope. I'm super excited.
00:29:59
Speaker
Also, we'll get the quick plug-in for the September Meetup, Northern California, California's Great America, Discovery Kingdom, and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, which is going to take place September 15th through the 17th. We'll have more details on that one after we get the Six Flags Great America one done. So.
00:30:28
Speaker
Um, if you're planning on coming, please fill out the form, even if you don't need to, you know, crashing group, uh, housing or anything, uh, group accommodations. We just want to have an accurate head count.
00:30:42
Speaker
helps us out a ton for planning this stuff. So it's like four questions. Link is in the episode description, or you can find it on our Discord, social media, all that stuff. Which sub plug join our Discord. Our Discord is awesome. I love it.
00:31:05
Speaker
Got some new members in there. Shouts to them. We appreciate all of you in there. It's the easiest and best way to get in touch with Ben and I, and we really love interacting with you guys on there. Yeah. I've been posting a lot of, uh, AI chat, mini scripts, because that's all I've been doing.
00:31:30
Speaker
Some of them I'm getting better. I think, think eventually I'll have a, I'll like wait a little bit until I find a really good one. Well, I hope you guys all enjoyed the, uh, the, the intro to that was thanks to Ben. What if we did it for like every YouTube channel? See, here's the thing, right? I, um, when we used to do sketches, I would sit there and come up with an idea and then write a whole script.
00:32:00
Speaker
And then we'd have to perform it. Yeah. This is like figured out. You figured it out, man. The thing is it's not hard. Like it's really, really easy. Um, and it, yeah, it splits it up. It even has, like, if you do, you can do multiple characters on things like, um, yeah, I was even, I even did the trick where like you have it write a cover letter for your job.
00:32:27
Speaker
And it was pretty good. I think I found new content for my LinkedIn post. Interesting. Well, congratulations. You've got something new for your resume. Master of chat GPT. I wish I was a college student right now. What's that? It'd be so easy to like take pass essays and stuff like that.
00:32:57
Speaker
you don't think that like those AIs are being logged in some way that that can be detected? Oh, I mean they totally are. But like, you know, those assignments where you have to write like three paragraphs as a response, but you didn't really read the book. But if you have someone else, like if you use this, right, you would get a really good idea and like a quick summary of what to include. And then you just put it in your own words. So I would, I would have loved it.
00:33:30
Speaker
The key is obviously using your own words, but can't copy and paste it. I mean, I used to just rip. I used to just use Wikipedia for everything. I'm not going to advocate for academic dishonesty. Personally, but. You know, hey, whatever. So we bring that system down, you're paying like $50,000 for a piece of paper.
00:34:00
Speaker
do it how you want. I mean, look, I just re joined college to hopefully finally get my damn degree. Oh, that's true. You're still Yeah, I would not use chat GTP. I wasn't planning on it.
00:34:19
Speaker
Thankfully I'm at this, the stage of, um, you know, having enough credits built up where I don't really have to do any gen ed stuff. Yeah, that's good. It's all just core program stuff. Yeah. Those gen ed classes were always the worst. They had, at least for me. And, um, when I was in, what would you call it? Why can't I think of it? You know, undergrad four year, whatever the,
00:34:48
Speaker
Cause like tech school is so I did, I did the like tech college route. That was my start to college. And that was really, really easy. And then undergrad was like, Oh shit. I actually have to like write 25 pages. That was tough. Like I definitely don't think I, uh, have
00:35:14
Speaker
you know, major scholastic pursuits in my future. I don't think I'm suited for academia per se. Yeah. It's not, it's not that fun. My niece is like going to grad school soon. She's in the process of selecting her school. Yeah. And yeah, that seems,
00:35:43
Speaker
Like quite a, quite a feat. Yeah. Grad school is like basically you're all you do is papers. Like you're, you're like basically prepping to write your thesis. Actually you do write a thesis in grad school, I think. I'm super proud of her, but I'm just like, that's. Yeah. So when I did my, uh, library program, the,
00:36:14
Speaker
all the classes were also grad school classes because I transferred in a bunch of credits. So I had to take like all these classes that were for the grad program, but they had, you were allowed to join as an undergrad, but it always be like, you know, um, the assignment, right? It was like undergrad, right? Two pages.
00:36:36
Speaker
in response to reading page like one through 30. And then it was like for grad students, write 20 pages on, it's like you write a 20 page response after reading page one through 300. You had like so much more work. All you're doing is like reading books and writing. That, yeah, it doesn't seem fun. I like learning stuff, but like,
00:37:06
Speaker
having to do like assignments about just like shit can be really grueling. But yeah, I don't know. Fucking chat GPT. Can we take a second break? Let's do it. Hey, we will be right on back. So enjoy the ad break.
00:37:35
Speaker
Hey, welcome back. OK. That was a great ad break, right? You know. So a little bit of news that dropped. First of all, Fire in the Hole at Silver Dollar City is going to close. I'm not even I'm like not even surprised because I thought it was already I thought this season was the last season, but.
00:38:03
Speaker
Cause they already built this is the last season or whatever. Last, last time I was there for Christmas. I think closing it, I think it's this year from what I heard, but I could be wrong cause I didn't hear specifically. Yeah. It seems like it's closing, not like it's already closed.
00:38:29
Speaker
No, that makes sense. I mean, I just assumed because they had the they were so far on the new fire in the hole. That I didn't I don't I just don't really see them taking two years to build a ride, but. I guess they'll probably finish the ride this year and then announce it.
00:38:51
Speaker
this year, later in the season. They should have around the same time. Yeah, they should have a period where they're both open. Just the fuck of people. Doesn't. I'm not sure about the space of the park, but doesn't fire in the whole preclude. Like the loop from being completed and the other one from. Being accessible or am I mistaken?
00:39:21
Speaker
I don't know. They could, they could, there's some path to the midway. Like the new fire in the hole is like right next to the current path. It's not like that far out of the way or anything. You can walk pretty much right up to it. Okay. I mean, I mean, I don't know. It's a bummer. It's going away. Yeah, it's too bad.
00:39:47
Speaker
Although it is exciting that they're going to get a new ride and I think they're going to complete the loop. So I didn't really, um, I guess I never really understood that until my last time I was there. Cause, um, we were on fund duration and they announced that the temperature dropped to like 34 degrees and that Allah run closes at 33 or whatever it closes at. And I was like, Oh shit, like fuck this ride. Like we got to go there.
00:40:15
Speaker
And I was like, Oh, it's just on the other side of the park. And like, I didn't fully understand like how to get there. I got a little lost. Yeah. There's kind of a fork around that way to get over there and it's off in its own little area. There's also that weird, like, um, it's like a, like a wired bridge with a little spiral. Oh, that thing's cool. Yeah.
00:40:44
Speaker
But it's for some reason, it's like the only way to get up to the midway. And so during the the Christmas light thing, we were just trying to get out of that fucking tunnel. But no joke, like four or five different parties kept like stopping the whole midway just so they could take pictures like inside because it was all it was like a light tunnel. You know, it was so fucking frustrated like it's like, let's just get us the fuck out. I really got to go there during Christmas.
00:41:15
Speaker
There is like a full park. Yeah. There was what was interesting. It was like a full Jesus show or like a Christmas something in one of the little theaters and it was like kind of graphic. I mean, yeah, they got a full on chapel in that park. Yeah. Yeah. We like walked. We like went over because it was heated and we're like, let's just sit here for a minute. Warm up.
00:41:44
Speaker
And then it was like some kind of like Christmas and there was like a, like a teenager playing Jesus and it like got kind of graphic. It was like, whoa, like this is fucking weird. Violent dude, violent graphic by the way. Yeah. Like church, like church violence, Bible violence. Yeah. Once when I was younger, I like was involved in a passion play at church.
00:42:14
Speaker
I don't know if you're familiar, but for the listeners who may not be in certain kinds of churches, the Passion Play is around an Easter time where they have church members reenact the entire thing from when Jesus died and was resurrected and when he was crucified.
00:42:42
Speaker
Is there, um, is there like fake blood and everything? Yeah. And like fucking prop whips and stuff. It's they do it in, in the church too. It's so like, does the crowd get like, is there like a splash zone in the crowd where they pull up the clear tarps? It's like, all right, pull up the tarp. No, it's not a Gallagher show.
00:43:11
Speaker
I mean, why not? Why not make it a little fun? Make it a little interactive. Dude, that'd be a hilarious sketch. It's like Gallagher finds religion. Yeah, and he's like the passion play and it's super gory and violent. He's nailing a watermelon to a cross.
00:43:37
Speaker
Just shows there's like a shot of like a family up like right in the front row. Just completely getting completely obliterated by the carnage in shock. Yeah, I bet that would actually make money. Yeah, why doesn't Universal have a passion of the Christ ride? Because it was produced by Mel Gibson. All right, Disney. Now you're talking.
00:44:07
Speaker
the passion of the Christ, right? It's on, it just like goes around super graphic, like 3d imagery from the movie. And then they spray you with like flight, like fake blood. It would just be like a really painful and slow ride. Yeah. The restraint gets tighter as the ride goes along. Like we're moving so slow. How is this so painful?
00:44:32
Speaker
For some reason, the whole ride is indoors, except when you go to the block break, there's like a block break section that's outside. So you're just like sitting baking in the sun for 15 minutes. The real passion of the Christ ride would be like one of those insane wild mouse rides, like that Marciel Voss builds. With barbed wire lap bars.
00:45:01
Speaker
It takes like a hundred years to get through the course. God, that's yeah. I saw one. I forgot what the longest one was. Was it a hundred years? I don't know if that's the longest one, but that's when I saw. That's so crazy. I mean, you know what?
00:45:26
Speaker
It bless that man for pushing our CT to its full capabilities. Did anyone ever ask? Could you make a wild mouse last 100 in game years? Clearly one person did. And now we all know the answer is yes. Did you ever see that video on old YouTube that had for some reason it had like
00:45:55
Speaker
50 million views or some crazy amount of views. It was like the longest roller coaster in RCT3. And then of course it starts with the classic like mid 2000s blue and white text movie like Windows Movie Maker intro. Oh, Windows Movie Maker.
00:46:16
Speaker
And then that song, that roller coaster of love song starts playing. It's just one of those dumb viral videos, kind of like the one with the picture of screen where they Photoshop the top part of the track out. That is the worst fucking Photoshop job. And it's used in so many thumbnails. It's like Coaster jumps off the tracks and then someone always like Photoshop as a person, like flying in the air.
00:46:45
Speaker
One of the funniest ones I've seen is the one of the pictures where it's like one of those really well-known shots from the top of Dragster looking down. Oh, yeah. And they Photoshop it to make it look like it's on a skyscraper. Yeah. Yeah. This roller coaster isn't legal. Yeah. Or it'll be like somebody falling
00:47:12
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Even though there's not a train in the shot. You're like, oh, OK. Which holy shit. I watched this movie that was insanely fucking anxiety inducing. Speaking of falling off of high structures. Was it free solo? No. It was fall.
00:47:41
Speaker
Um, OK, that's what that sounds familiar. What is that? It's like about these like two girls that one cup. Yep. They go to climb like one of them is a YouTuber, and so they go climb like Urbex there. And she's like, oh, come with me. We're going to go climb this abandoned TV antenna in the middle of the desert.
00:48:11
Speaker
So they make it up to the top and the fucking ladder breaks. And they're stranded on this like tiny platform like two thousand feet up. Is it is it mockumentary style? No. Movie fall. It came on, I think, last year. It was really well done for such a limited premise. Is it based on a true story?
00:48:40
Speaker
maybe loosely. Okay. Yeah. I think it's more based on a real tower. Yeah. Okay. I'll add it to the list. It's a good one. Although it gave me that like stomach dropping feeling at certain points because the cinematography is really good. Yeah, that's cool. I've always wanted to climb one of those. Well, watch that movie and you'll probably change your mind.
00:49:13
Speaker
So, uh, let's see, Aquaman power wave at six flags over Texas is going to open on March 11th. I assume that's of 2023. Yeah. They like put the year in really, really small print. It's 2025 with a question, right? Just March 11th. I hope it opens. I mean, those rides look,
00:49:43
Speaker
They look pretty cool. And, um, fortunately it's not one of the loop. No, unfortunately they decided they didn't decide to add the loop. Although I thought last I had heard they did add the, uh, turntable station. Yeah. Which like the open that ride without that is so fucking stupid. Seriously.
00:50:11
Speaker
It's just gonna run one train forever. At a major Six Flags park in Texas. Right. Fucking water ride. Where like, it would be one of those situations where it's like, okay, you have to like run right for that first thing at opening. It's like, well, I hate water rides. And it's like, yeah, well, do you want to wait three hours for it?
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah, you got to go the rest of the day with the wet shoes. Right. I mean, Texas, you go the right time of year, just go sit in the car for 20 minutes, leave them outside, and I'm sure they'd be dry. Depends on how humid it is. I feel like every time I've been to Texas, it's just like a swampy ass, but like the wet shoes in a theme park. Also, I think we talked about this recently.
00:51:08
Speaker
wet shoes in a theme park. I mean, wet clothing anywhere is one of my least favorite experiences ever. So the worst, the worst is like, um, if you ride Batman, the ride, like in the evening, like dinner time, when all the water rights are to close, you'll just get a bunch of people who are wet from the, from like the water rides, except it washed out their deodorant.
00:51:38
Speaker
So that tunnel just gets fucking disgusting. To be completely fair, that tunnel is normally disgusting on summer days. That's true. Do you think they clean those walls? I am sure that they do not. Yeah, just imagine like every fucking person, all sweaty, just like leaning up against it, the fake rock. I will say over.
00:52:08
Speaker
there's that one hole in the ceiling at the top of the second staircase. And I've noticed that thing since 2005. And in that time, in that period of almost 20 years, Ben, that hole has only gotten bigger. You're right. Yeah. Cause you know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:37
Speaker
And that makes me more than confident that those walls have never been washed. Yeah, they just eventually like kind of repaint over it. Yeah, best case, the handrails have been wiped down a couple dozen times per season. I do like that. I do like that tunnel and station. I think it's underrated.
00:53:04
Speaker
It's pretty great, especially for like it's so. 90s. Yeah. Which is part of the reason it's so great. And now like. I remember, do you remember like. The way they used to. Express the cues was basically like they would fill the cue block first and then load out to the park.
00:53:35
Speaker
Wait, what do you mean for like for Batman? Yeah, they would open up the cue block by the cop car first. And then have it fill into Gotham City Park. Yeah. So like you would never be able to tell how long the line actually was. Oh, I go through saying, yeah, yeah. But now they almost always skip the cue block.
00:54:03
Speaker
See, the Gotham City Park line always was kind of it's weird that they close it and open it because it's not really that long of a queue. It's maybe like a train or two of people. Yeah, I know. And they never, ever use that second entrance anymore. Yeah. That's why in I think it was like 2008 when they had the. The like King Chaos entrance open.
00:54:33
Speaker
Oh, the third entrance. The one that used to be like Jester's wild ride. It's gone now, but yeah. Yeah. That was like, um, I remember the, it was closing day or something and the park was so fucking busy and we had nothing to do. And it was like, well, I've always wanted to wait in the full Batman queue. So we like waited the whole thing. But what was funny was that I think it was still only under like an hour and a half. It really wasn't that bad.
00:55:01
Speaker
Yeah. Cause I mean, it's a B and M it's going to push people up pretty well. But yeah, um, that bridge part was always cool on the third entrance. Yeah. And there's that section where you parallel the East river crawler queue line kind of. Yeah.
00:55:28
Speaker
Yeah, because it went for anyone who doesn't know what we're talking about, since it's been gone for several years now, it went behind where like gestures wild ride was. And then over the water wrapped around between East River crawler and Batman.
00:55:51
Speaker
and then went into second entrance, like that big queue block behind Jack's Snacks. Oh, and pro tip, if you're at Great America and you see that queue block, that second queue block for Batman open, probably just leave.
00:56:14
Speaker
Is it still the, um, like those, uh, road barriers, like the gray and white or the gray and black. Um, you know, I'm talking about like the road clothes signs or they're like wooden planks kind of. Yeah. Is it still like that? Yep. Okay. They still have like the Gotham city police department, you know, markings on them and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That's right.
00:56:43
Speaker
Which man, awesome. They put that much attention to detail. Yeah. That's one of those rides where I would have loved to. Is as far as like time machine rollercoasters open in the air. I think that one would be pretty fun. Oh yeah. That'd have been awesome. I definitely heard some stories about the line being over three hours. Yeah.
00:57:11
Speaker
Yeah, I guess it was. It would go to the third entrance and then it would wrap all the way to Carousel, Columbia, Columbia, Carousel. Damn. Like it was basically. I'd only ever heard to Shockwave. And I've definitely have seen that, too. Like I remember seeing that in like in the 90s when it'd go all the way back to Shockwave, which is so fucking crazy to think about.
00:57:38
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, they cloned it. How many clones are there? Like 10 or 12 of just Batman? I think it's like eight. Okay. Yeah. But of that, like, uh, how many times BNM is sold a Batman, the ride model, I think is in the thirties. Oh shit. Okay. If I'm not mistaken, I believe there, I don't think that there's a total of 30 something because
00:58:10
Speaker
a couple of been moved. So maybe more like high, mid high twenties. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. I mean, it's basically like an SLC pretty much. I mean, it works a lot better, but it's also like four times the price. So yeah. Vekoma saw that and they're like, Hey parks, you want him to want, want this for like 25% the price. We gotcha.
00:58:39
Speaker
They're like, you've seen Batman now. Try. No legal superhero licensing was available, so. Condor. Let's see, Six Flags St. Louis is going to get some sort of kiddie ride next year. That's cool.
00:59:10
Speaker
Yeah, that should definitely balance out the fact that Excalibur is being fucking retired. Yeah, that sucks. Have you ever been on that? No, because it was never open when I was there. OK. I got like three rides on it. Oh, nine and twenty ten. It was pretty fun. It was like it was like an enterprise.
00:59:36
Speaker
It looked like a chaos meets a frisbee. Yeah. The thing is, I was like, it was, it looked really crazy when you on like the off rides, but the actual ride experience was pretty, I mean, I don't want to say tame, but it was like pretty, it's pretty mellow. It's not like you're getting a whole range of forces. It's just kind of like,
00:59:59
Speaker
you spin, you get pinned in your seat and it's that kind of like enterprise G force where it doesn't feel forceful, but like you don't feel any forces when you're going upside down. Okay. That was a who's right. Um, no, I think it was like some, it was like some German company and they only built two of them. Oh, okay. Yeah. Um,
01:00:27
Speaker
It also used to be at Six Flags Great Adventure, Zevolution. Yeah, I know it was relocated from there. Yeah, let me see. It's probably a German company I can't pronounce. And I'm pretty sure they just did a rehab on it not that long ago. Like an extensive one. Yeah.
01:00:48
Speaker
The one thing I couldn't understand was that people said that they tamed or they toned down the ride program, but I tried to look at off rides and I couldn't see any difference. Like I don't, the thing is, is like it has a minimum requirement top speed for like safety. So I don't see how they could have really toned it down. It just was huge. It was just like a massive ride. Yeah. And it was visually very impressive. Mm-hmm.
01:01:17
Speaker
I just definitely wish I could have wrote it, but you know, I just remember the, so the, the little gondolas, um, it had like, it was four crossed and it had a little step kind of in the middle of the four seats. And then it had, it had like a kind of like, you know, like Condor has that closing side gate.
01:01:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Each combo had one of those, but then it was just over the shoulder restraint and the clicks are really far apart. So you can get a lot of room on that ride. Like in the restraint sent fully closed, you could always like push them up a click. It felt like, um, but also like enterprise, like you don't need the restraints. Like you'd be fine without it just because of like how the, how the spinning is, but.
01:02:11
Speaker
Have you been on one of those new kind of enterprises? The inverted ones. Where you're like laying down. Those are, I don't think parks have those anymore. They were, those were big and like, I think those are built in like 2005 or 2000. No, earlier than that, those were like 2001. There was one at, um,
01:02:36
Speaker
St. Louis has one. It opened a few years back, like 2019 or something. Is that a lay down enterprise? Pretty sure. It's like Catwoman's Whip or something. Looking it up right now. Oh, that's like the big skyscraper.
01:03:00
Speaker
There's, there's, there's cat women's whip over Texas. That's the, it's a new enterprise, but it's basically just, uh, instead of a gondola with a cage, it's just two inverted seats. Like front the back. It's like a single, like a single row. Yeah. I did the one at, um, Oh, supergirl sky flyer. There you go. Oh no, it's not a laying down one. Nevermind. Yeah. I did the one at, um, at Kentucky kingdom.
01:03:30
Speaker
So are those any good or are they just like regular enterprises? Um, they're different, but they're not as good as a regular enterprise. Cause I think, I think the fun of the enterprise was the no restraint inside of a cage. That was always cool. That was like the best part of it. Um, and then this is just like, now it's just like a regular flat ride with a restraint. It's not the same.
01:03:58
Speaker
It's fun, though, you know, not to talk too much shit about it. Well, maybe I'll have to give one a try. OK, but there was a there was a lay down enterprise type of ride. I'm just trying to find it. They had one at Six Flags. The only one I wrote was at Six Flags New England. Flying ride.
01:04:25
Speaker
I don't remember the name. Yeah. I feel like I'm not, you know, I definitely had seen one. TPR would always joke that it was, um, a George Foreman grill. Yeah. Yeah. Yup. Exactly. That's because like your face was in a cage. It was like, um, you know, like a full air.
01:04:49
Speaker
Oh God. It was like that kind of, but in the ride you were experiencing G-forces, then the restraint that close on your back would get tighter. So it was like you were getting, it was like you were getting like squished throughout the ride. Yeah, that sounds terrible. Here we go. Okay. Finally found a photo of it. Nightwing. It was, it was okay. Nightwing. Just that experience with the restraints though.
01:05:17
Speaker
Yeah, that ride is so old that it's barely on YouTube videos. There's one from 14 years ago of it. Well, we'll have to consult TPR then. Cause yeah, I remember that. I feel like they went on a bunch of them in Europe or something. Yeah, that makes sense. I just know they got a lot of parks, got rid of them just because they weren't popular.
01:05:47
Speaker
And they had maintenance issues. That seems about right. So, uh, raging river rapids at Adventureland is closing permanently. Not surprising. Yeah, I'd say probably do. Now, I'm not sure if it's going to be replaced and if so, what with. That remains to be seen.
01:06:16
Speaker
Thing is that rapids rights take up a lot of space. That's what I'm saying. So that's a, that's a big expansion plot. Have you ever seen the, uh, the video of, it was from an ACE event at adventure land, probably in the mid two thousands and, um, the operator was trying to get fired. So he led off on the, on the break on outlaw.
01:06:47
Speaker
So the train went full speed, like through the brake run and through the station and then through that little prelift. Yeah, yeah, that's a David J Ellis one. Yeah, it's so funny how he has some of that stuff on like that stuff cannot happen. And then there's the one with with Wild Thing running Trimless. Yeah, and it's like sparking. Yeah. No wonder that the last car derailed that one time.
01:07:19
Speaker
It's David J. Ellis, right? Yeah. Yeah. Crazy footage. Such a great. Yeah. I'm like, it's good that that that he has this footage because otherwise I'd be like bullshit. Yeah, right. No, no, I'm telling you at Adventureland, the operator sent the train right through. Yeah. OK. We actually got that at Mount Olympus once on Zeus.
01:07:49
Speaker
They were just letting the train fly through the station during ERT. See, in Mount Olympus, I would believe anything though. Right. Well, the funny thing is that the ride operator did it because she was lazy. So like during ERT, none of the operators were like wanted to work and they were all complaining, which actually, to be fair, knowing the owner, I'm sure they were being mistreated and like had extra long shifts. So I have a little sympathy for them.
01:08:17
Speaker
But yeah, the operator like is during ERT. So no one is, everyone is riding Hades and no one is riding Zeus. So we like walk up to Zeus and there were like two employees sitting at the bottom and we're like, uh, Hey, is this open for ERT? And the employee just like looks at us and just sighs. And then she's just like throws her, she like flicks her cigarette. And then she walks up the stairs, like really slow. She's like, fuck this.
01:08:45
Speaker
And then she sits down by the panel and we sit down and she's like, are you guys okay? And we're just like, yeah. And then she just sent the train about checking our restraints. So we come into the station and there's no one in the station. And then we're like, can we just ride again? And then she's like, sure. And then so she like presses the button, lets us go.
01:09:06
Speaker
And then by like the third or fourth ride, we just kept telling her to go around. And then she just like gave up. She just like literally left the brakes over and just let us fly through the station every time for like, like 10 or 12 rides. Yeah. And see this, that's the thing is like, it's, it's Mount Olympus. So like, it's a really good thing that they can't have two trains on any other rides.
01:09:33
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. Well, what's funny is like, I remember, um, there was a little like question and answer or like, uh, what do you call it? Like a meet and greet with the owner during the ACE event. And, um, of course somebody was like, why don't you guys have two trains? And he's like, I never want the possibility of a collision for safety.
01:09:58
Speaker
And at first we were like, no, it's because you're cheap bullshit. But like knowing the stories about Mona Olympus, it's probably a good thing they don't have two trains. Hey, look, I'm sure it's both. True. To be completely fair to their owner, because he seems like the type of dude that would cheap out in every way possible, but also knows that, you know,
01:10:29
Speaker
There's a very real possibility of a collision with his workforce. What training? Fucking Mount Olympus. It's like training. Yeah. You have a very important mandatory employee training. Here's what to do if the state inspector shows up. Shred everything.
01:10:55
Speaker
Any employee under 18 must grab a broom and start sweeping. Any employee over 18 must pretend not to speak English. It's just so great. Like the photos of the, of the employees sitting in the, in the station track.
01:11:23
Speaker
And the thing is, I get it. It's not like. It's theoretically unsafe, but it's still kind of like. It's just a little unsafe. I mean, because I think the ride does have like automatic braking on the brake run. Plus, they got the timing down. You can tell when the trains coming back to the station. They usually they'll usually get out of the track when the train is coming.
01:11:53
Speaker
through that station flyby, that's when they'll get up. So they're at least good for that. You know, and probably when they turned it into Hades 360, they're like, hey, we're going to upgrade the computer system that the ride runs on. So it'll finally be off of Linux. It's probably on like Windows 95. Shit, that's probably what it's running now. That's pretty normal though.
01:12:23
Speaker
for, uh, for machinery because the, the justification is that you don't need, like you don't need high processing power to pro like to operate, um, like PLC machinery type stuff. And the older, the older the operating system, the more reliable it is.
01:12:48
Speaker
I guess. Although 98 seemed pretty stable. I mean, actually the scanners, the scanners that, um, we have at work that, um, basically like scan a barcode and like verify, um, like numbers and that's all, um, that's all windows 95.
01:13:16
Speaker
maybe it's actually it's probably 98 yeah 98 seems like probably best bet for any of that crap because yeah I understand the reliability stuff's not gonna need updates like that speaking of work I just got a message from my uh from from the eye or like work I am
01:13:47
Speaker
but it only shows one message at a time. And the last message just says the far right. I don't know why that's funny. Cause chat GPT still couldn't answer who really won the election. You can write a full science sign field script.
01:14:15
Speaker
but you ask it something like that. And suddenly it's like, I'm just an AI chat bot. I can't give some, I don't know. Google, Google says this. I don't know. That, you know, what's funny about that thing too is it reminds me a lot of, um, you remember that website? Let me Google that for you. Yeah. It's kind of like that. That was always a good one on forums.
01:14:49
Speaker
And if you don't know what we're talking about, it'd be a snarky ass way to get back at somebody on a forum. Yeah. So you basically type in. So if someone was like, Hey, does anybody have any suggestions for restaurants in Los Angeles? And then you'd be like, yeah, yeah. And then you'd send a link that, yeah, check these out.
01:15:12
Speaker
And then they click the link and it opens up a Google page, but the mouse starts like moving and then it clicks the search bar and it starts typing in the search and then it clicks search. Then it opens up a Google search page. So it would, it would auto fill you'd clink click and it would be Google and then it would automatically say like good restaurants in Los Angeles.
01:15:39
Speaker
I remember fucking Steve on the Gap used to post those without any like hiding it at all. Remember he would just be kind of an ass about it. Yeah. Which is like more work than just responding. Seriously. The covertness is what made it funny. To this day, one of the biggest like petty grudges I have is, um,
01:16:09
Speaker
I made a post about the route for the West Edmonton mall trip where we drove like 12 hours a day and he posted this like five paragraph response that was talking about how like
01:16:24
Speaker
It's like, it's like, it's like, this is a really shitty trip. Um, you guys are going to like end up in a ditch. You're going to die. Like it's not going to work. You're not going to get there. I bet you guys will turn around and like Seattle, this and that. And we actually like shaved a day off. Yeah, he's a weird dude. You know, um, MIG,
01:16:57
Speaker
Probably the person that was associated to MIG. World's a fun fan boy. Um, a not with the J. I forgot his real name. The guy with the J in his name. The one we met at great America. There was a life event that happened that we were not shocked about.
01:17:25
Speaker
Yeah, everyone was expecting him to come out. Yeah. I believe we're referring to Swoosh. Yeah. I saw him. Did I saw him on Reddit getting all defensive out Prowler?
01:17:50
Speaker
Really? Yeah. Like a month ago, it was so fucking funny because like, um, somebody was like, why do you think people regard, um, twisted timbers over Prowler? And then he was like, said something like Prowler is obviously the better par Prowler is clearly the better rod. You've obviously never written it at night and he was all getting like defensive over Prowler.
01:18:19
Speaker
saying that mystic timbers isn't as good. It was like, dude, how old are you? That's really weird. Oh, okay. I found him on LinkedIn. He still does the same thing for a living. Oh, he was in a fraternity. Okay. That makes so much sense. Yeah.
01:18:51
Speaker
that like explains so much. I, uh, yeah, weird dude. I remember one time I hung out with him and his, at the time, wife and his brother at Cedar Point. Oh, that's right. Yeah. It's interesting. He's showing up on Reddit to have nerdy debates.
01:19:19
Speaker
This wasn't a debate. This wasn't even a debate though. This was just like a butt hurt fan boy defending their home park ride, which was so funny.
Chat GPT: Script Generation and Beyond
01:19:31
Speaker
Well, um, yeah, I have like 20 GTP or a tabs open. Of course you do. All right. Well, um, eventually the entire show is just going to be a chat GDP.
01:19:48
Speaker
Oh, eventually we're not going to be on this show. It's just going to be chat GBT with a speech to text to speech. Ben said, then Zach said, um, we do have the Disney minute though. Oh shit. Okay.
Fast-Paced Disney News Update
01:20:09
Speaker
Disney minute.
01:20:26
Speaker
To all who come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. We're gonna go get our tickets and head to Disneyland. We're back at the happiest place on earth, Disneyland. Welcome everyone, I'm here today at Disneyland. Today we are gonna talk about things we wish we'd known before we went to Disney World. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America. With the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
01:20:56
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Thank you.
Star Wars Galactica Star Cruiser: Costs and Appeal
01:20:57
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Bob Iyer announced an avatar experience will be coming to Disneyland. The reopening of Toontown at Disneyland has been delayed. A Ditten 100 LEGO train set will be available soon. Star Wars Galactica Star Cruiser has cut and made it into Star Wars. To one slightly, shit. Yeah right. Not a lot of voyages happening.
01:21:25
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It's probably not the price of it. Right. $5,000. Yeah. Just stay in a room with no windows. Right. Just stay in a fucking cruise cabin that is not on a cruise. Yeah, that's fucked up. I'm not surprised. Is there, um, I wonder how much have they lowered, I wonder if they've lowered the reservation costs of it already.
01:21:55
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Uh, no, they're starting to, uh, I think what were they doing? They were offering, um, pass holders, I believe to come in for the dinner service without the full reservation, the full booking, you know? And so I'm would not be surprised to see some discounts, but becoming available or something.
01:22:26
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but yeah, Oh shit. Fuck. I'm getting a little tired. Yeah, same. I'm just looking at their website by the way. And it's, um, okay. So for four guests, it is 350 per or 750 per guest per night. So that's like three grand or they have a voyage total.
01:22:58
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And it looks like they have availability on like every night of like this whole year. Yeah, that seems about right. So. Well, that's fun. Yeah, you want to go on the Star Cruiser?
Interactive Experience on Star Wars Star Cruiser
01:23:21
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Not really. It's basically Star Wars fantasy camp for two days. Yeah.
01:23:28
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That's the thing, like, is there even enough inside of the place to like, here's the thing, if you're spending five grand, you have that feeling of like, well, I want to get my money's worth, so I want to spend as much time as I can in here. But at the same time, you're just like, again, in a room with no windows, just like walking around a movie, like a movie set.
01:23:52
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Well, it's interactive and there's like storylines. Like it's partially like a dinner theater type of thing. Kind of like an escape room meets Meow Wolf meets a cruise and all themed to Star Wars. Watching their promo video. It's a really, really good way to hide.
01:24:21
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like small room conditions because they have the bunk beds and stuff. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't look particularly comfy. Yeah. It is like a cruise room. There's a cooling supply unit. Interesting. Well, yeah, I would recommend looking at up some of the content on YouTube about it. It's definitely, um,
01:24:52
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It looks like it's definitely an experience. For $5,000, a family fort should be. And you can try the blue shrimp. That was one of the big selling points, I think. Blue shrimp. Yeah. I don't know if it's like the blue ice cream at Kings Island. I'm not sure. There's any relation there.
01:25:24
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But yeah, you got anything else Ben?
Looking Forward to Coaster Season
01:25:27
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No, I'm good. This is a slow week. Yeah, not a whole hell of a lot going on, but we are trudging through the off season and making our way towards the season.
01:25:40
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a couple months away, y'all. So we're going to make it through together. We're fucking going to help each other out, get through it, and we'll have nicer weather and coasters to ride soon enough, friends. So I want to say again, join the Discord and come on out to the meetup June 16th through the 18th at Six Flags Great America.
01:26:10
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Yeah, I think that's pretty much it. Thanks for listening. You got anything then? No, I'm good. I'm just disgusted by this blue shrimp. It seems like you look it up. Yeah. It seems like a really, really good way to charge three times the amount for regular shrimp, like shrimp that they're, uh, yeah. Like why? It's not regular shrimp. It's blue. But does it taste like blue?
01:26:39
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Yeah, it's blue raspberry. They didn't just use any old dye. They used Kool-Aid. Yeah, I don't know. Blue shrimp is... I don't know. The whole experience seems odd. But all right. This has been fun. Thank you all for listening.
01:27:34
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