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Episode 14 - The Theme Park Episode!
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Ever wondered how theme parks transform from mere attractions to enchanting worlds of wonder? Join us as we share a whirlwind adventure through Disneyland and Disney World, unraveling the unique charm each park holds. From the exhilarating Guardians of the Galaxy ride to the whimsical Cars Land, each experience is a story waiting to unfold. We also explore the upcoming Narnia movies directed by Greta Gerwig and discuss our hopes and concerns for staying true to the series’ Christian themes. Our journey doesn't stop there; we recount our escapades at Universal Studios, experiencing delightful changes to classic rides with a humorous twist.
Is Greta Gerwig the right choice to bring Narnia to life on screen, or is this a gamble that risks straying from the essence of C.S. Lewis's beloved tales? We weigh in on this hot topic and examine the intricacies of audience feedback in shaping movie productions. While pondering the influence of filmmakers like Dean DeBlois on family films, we share our thoughts on the controversy surrounding the Snow White movie and the curious redesign of Sonic the Hedgehog. The episode is peppered with anecdotes from our recent park visits, including a surprising encounter with holiday-themed foods and the intriguing conspiracy theories that keep Disney fans buzzing.
From thrilling roller coaster rides to the amusing antics of park employees, our theme park tales capture the essence of joy and community these magical places inspire. We navigate the challenges of unexpected traffic jams and lengthy journeys home, all while reflecting on the festive spirit brewing just around the corner. As we wrap up, we dive into a spirited discussion on Disney conspiracies, astrology, and the power of audience engagement. So buckle up for a rollercoaster ride through theme parks, movie magic, and the enchanting mysteries that keep us all coming back for more.
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Welcome to the Saints that Serve, podcast where, each week, your hosts dive into the crossroads of faith, culture and the unknown.
Speaker 1Christ is Lord and the kingdom is now. We are the Saints that Serve.
Speaker 2Hey, welcome to the Saints that Serve podcast. My name is Johnny, I'm Jairus and we're here to entertain you with some entertaining entertainment.
Speaker 1Wow, and we're going to entertain you on this entertaining episode about entertainment, which is episode number 14. 14. That's right. Episode 14 of the Saints that Serve, podcast.
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Speaker 1So do you have any announcements? Jairus, my announcement is right now on the episode. John is going to announce the announcements.
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Speaker 1So now we're ready to get into Our first topic, our first topic, and you know what we do when we move on from the announcements to the first topic we transition, our Tyler transition. So, tyler, this is your transition.
Speaker 2This is your transition. So most of tonight's episode is going to be talking about theme parks, theme parks and our recent trips.
Speaker 1But before we get into that, I'm gonna read this article yeah, so right before we got started, uh, john, like right before I clicked record, john was like what is this nonsense? So go ahead and read this. All right, so we're untransitioning and then we'll transition back into the topic after john reads this.
Speaker 2So yeah, I'm not gonna read the whole thing he's reading word for word.
Speaker 2I'm gonna read word for word, the beginning of this article, the first sentence of the article. Okay, first sentence. If you're looking for an energy solution, might I suggest going to oxford, uk, where I'm sure cs le Lewis is spinning in his grave fast enough to sustain the entire British electric grid. And this article is about comments made about the new Narnia movies that are in production. So Greta Gerwig's Narnia film begins filming in July 2025. It's a very new take. It's all about rock and roll, says amy pascal. That's the source and that was on the art.
Speaker 1Or the people were discussing films at discussing films on x, I guess so essentially, it is what they love to do in hollywood right now, which is take something that didn't need to be remade and remake it to be super inclusive unnecessarily.
Speaker 2Just what every Lewis and Narnia fanatic is looking for a new rock and roll. Take on the magician's nephew.
Speaker 1Is that a comment, or did you just say that?
Speaker 2No, that's on the thing. A new rock and roll take on the magician's nephew. Are they making the magician's nephew? I don't know which ones they're making. I actually know very little about this new launch of the movies, but hey, we at least we have the originals. Yeah, I don't even know what that means. Rock and roll take. Are they gonna do a rock opera?
Speaker 1or is it metaphorically like we're going to go hard and heavy rock and roll. We're going to be changing so much like some nonsense, like?
Speaker 2that? Are they trying to do the kids Game of Thrones? Is that what they're trying to do, maybe?
Speaker 1You said Amy Pascal, right, yeah, well, is that Pedro Pascal's child or something like that? The guy from Game of Thrones Is Pedro Pascal in Game of Thrones? Yeah, that's like the first thing I ever saw him in.
Speaker 2Now I got to look up Amy Pascal. She does not look like she's young enough to be his daughter.
Speaker 1She is most definitely a director, yeah that's not a child.
Speaker 2Well, no, amy Pascal is the. I think she's the producer. What else has she produced? An American film producer and business executive, she served as the chairperson of the Motion Pictures Group of Sony Pictures Entertainment and chairperson of SPE, including Sony Pictures Television, from 2006 until 2015.
Narnia Movie Direction and Theme Parks
Speaker 1Okay, here we go. She produced the 2016 ghostbusters I believe that's the full female cast one um, but bringing it back, um spider-man homecoming. She produced looks like she's done a lot of spider-mans. She produced all of the oh she did. She did Venom, like oh Well, that's just because she's a part of Sony. So yeah, that's what it is. She produced all of the Sony movies. So, yeah, so maybe not terrible, we'll find out. Yeah, there's nothing on here that screams that it's a terrible choice that she's producing, but producers never really make too many choices in movies. You know like it's like if I said here's like 40 bucks, go fund a handyman job and then I take all the credit for the work you do at the house, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Yeah, I know the real concern that people had was the lady directing the Narnia movies is the same director from Barbie and the Snow White movie that hasn't even dropped yet.
Speaker 1I will say Barbie is not the worst movie I've ever seen, but I can tell you right now that that Snow White movie will be the worst movie I ever saw.
Speaker 2Let me just I'm looking at the different movies that she's had a hand in.
Speaker 1The director or the producer?
Speaker 2The director movies that she's had a hand in, the director or the producer. The director Every single one is a feminist type. Movie Is a woman movie. The focus is on women.
Speaker 1That's what I will say about Barbie was well-written. I laughed in some parts, but it was very much a girl movie, a girl empowering, feminist-esque movie.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So I feel like it might have worked because it was in that particular movie, because it's barbie. But when you try to do that with other stuff, it's not gonna work. It's almost more like it's just a fluke that barbie worked maybe it'll be good, I don't know.
Speaker 1My concern is that nerney is a kid's book series a kid's book based it was round, written by a christian man having christian themes into a fantasy world, correct, and they're going to take all of that out. They're going to make it adult. They're going to take god out of it, yeah, and all this other stuff. I mean, this is all speculation, obviously, but it's just like it's going to lose its point and it's magic.
Speaker 2Well, the God stuff wasn't really heavy in the other movie series either. That they did, but it's still kind of towed the line as a kid's movie, Right. So that's the big thing is like. This needs to be the remember the new. It doesn't need a new take. It needs to be focused on kids. Yeah, and what will entertain them?
Speaker 1Yeah, that's probably part of the problem, right Is, they're not going to try to make this for kids. They're going to make this for the adults who first, initially watched the first Narnia films, whoever directed how to Train your Dragon.
Speaker 2Should be directing Chronicles of Narnia.
Speaker 1Again, and so when we say kids movies, I feel more like the better phrase would be a family film, a movie that all members of the family can watch and enjoy.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And how to Train your Dragon's that way, in the same way with the original Narnia. But I feel like it's either they go all in on super over kiddie and parents are not going to enjoy watching it with their children yeah, Like a Cocomelon type situation or it's going to be overly hyper violent and your kids shouldn't be watching it at all and it's meant for adults, yeah.
Speaker 2Do you know who Dean d? Dean de blois is never heard of her that it's a yeah, no, that was a joke. Is a canadian writer, director and producer, known bo, best for having co-written and co-directed dis's Lilo and Stitch the original, or this new, the original, 2002. Okay, and Dreamworks' how to Train your Dragon. Get that guy out there. He is directing and that was the original cartoon. Yeah, he's directing the live action. Okay, I have faith in it then.
Speaker 1So that guy not to say guys are are better directing the girls but like look at good kids movies and pull directors from those good movies don't try to have these directors out there that are trying to make a statement and stand for something like you're making a movie, just make the movie. I don't need to hear the opinion of the director you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Well, that's my thing is like it's. It's nothing against the greta gerwig lady because she's made movies that have made money, made money and and people have liked them. But the theme is, is her audience? Her target audience is women, right and the chronicles of narnia series, the target audience has kids. So I just don't, I don't have big faith in it, since she's not really doing movies with the target audience for kids.
Speaker 1I mean even the snow white live action that they're there is so many problems with that movie already and it's nowhere even close to coming out yet did you see that they got so much backlash about the seven special people yeah, it was.
Speaker 1It wasn't seven dwarfs initially, it was snow white in the seven people, like you said, and and they cast just normal people and there was so much backlash that they went back and retro actively cg dwarfs into the movie. Yeah, and there's like you can go in this. It's just such a chaotic situation with that film right now. Yeah, just with the things that, like, the actresses are saying outside and everybody's just like I'm not going to go see this, like there's no way I'm going to go see this.
Speaker 2But that's what's beautiful about the. The beautiful side of the internet is that they are powerful enough, yeah, to make change the audience can make, can, just can, truly like give input now to what the movie's going to be.
Speaker 1The best case example and people always go back to this. Did you see the original design for sonic the hedgehog before it came out with he had a smile and a teeth and the weirdest looking face? Yep, yep, and they fixed that. Like, because of the backlash, they pushed that movie back like a year. Yeah, they fixed all of that and that's some of the best video game live action movies you can see. The third one comes out really soon and me and my wife are going to go see it. Yeah, we talked about that.
Speaker 2Did we last soon, and I'm me and my wife are gonna go see it. Yeah, we talked about that. Did we do it last week? Well, we talked about jim carrey.
Speaker 1Not, it wasn't last week, but recently we've talked about jim carrey and how he's retired from hollywood, except to come back to play it.
Speaker 2Robotnik, yeah, or eggman however you want to put it eggman.
Speaker 1So anyways, okay, tyler, this is your transition into the actual topic now yeah, so now we're going to talk about disney parks and now our feature presentation In general.
Speaker 2In general. All right, tell me all about your trip to Disneyland the Disneyland.
Speaker 1Me and my wife took a really quick planned trip to Disneyland. My wife, my wife and so flew to California.
Speaker 2My wife, my wife, and so went, flew to California.
Speaker 1California. Yeah, and I will say this, and so the. Usually I have a lot of crazy stories to tell when I go somewhere and then come back. Yeah, and I was telling Ashley, my wife, my wife, that it was such a smooth trip going. I don't have nothing crazy happened, no wacky nonsense, nothing like that. It was such a nice, smooth, stress-free trip. Yeah, I did tell you this, though. So for our honeymoon this year, we went to Japan for two weeks and taking the flights out of it, just staying there right in activities. It cost more to stay in california for a week and do things than it did to be in japan for two weeks, and that's not including the flights to and back from california.
Speaker 1It's just what it costs, what to what it costs to stay and activities and travel and food, versus two weeks in Japan and California. Okay, one week in California.
Speaker 2Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1So it's just like it's so crazy California.
Speaker 2California is Most expensive country in the world.
Speaker 1It really is Like no joke, like it is so incredibly overpriced, like just to go anywhere, cause you had to take an Uber to go anywhere. Yeah Right, it was like 50 to $60 just one way to go anywhere. Wow, and it's like Japan has it so together that like not, they don't have well, they have buses, but their main form of transportation around the entire country is by train and it's so efficient and cheap.
Speaker 2It's like a dollar to travel somewhere by train I think that the, the mushroom guy that came on, joe rogan, he talked about that how, like the, they took a fungus and implanted it into a grid of the city and originally like it was kind of following the original directions for the trains and it was all kind of combobulated and messed up and stuff. But then the fungus corrected itself and made a more efficient way to travel outwards from the starting point and then they based their grid off of what the fungus did and this is a model of the grid of the city, and then they built upon that and then they built their train system upon what the fungus did that makes a lot a transit to move itself through the grid of the city.
Speaker 1Again. And then food Disney, tokyo Disney. I had meals. There were $8 a meal at a theme park. So it's like and then you go to a theme park and it's like 30 to 40 bucks in the States for a meal at a theme park and it's like I'm getting off of a bit of a tangent here. But it's just like Japan is incredible. I watch videos on Japan and just be like I'm ready to go back. Yeah, I'm ready to go back right now.
Speaker 2The um, I remember back in 2012, I was doing my YWAM stuff and a couple of the students that were there for my school were from Norway YWAM stuff and a couple of the students that were there for my school were from Norway and I became good friends with. You know, I was good friends with everybody, but one of the girls I was good friends with she was telling me that, like in Norway, uh, and this is 2012 when I, when I like McDouble at McDonald's is like four dollars was going to say like a dollar or two, no, a McDouble yeah, it was like a dollar or two. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. A Big Mac, big Mac Okay, not a McDouble. A Big Mac was like four bucks Okay, just the burger, but in Norway it was $15.
Speaker 1And she was like but everybody's so rich, it doesn't matter. In norway, everybody's rich and they pay. That doesn't sound like having wealth to me.
Speaker 2It's like it's just well, but that's what. That's what I'm saying. It's like everyone's so rich over there that, like a 15 burger is cheap, like it doesn't. It's a.
Speaker 1That's a cheap burger to norwegians sure, but then to me it's just like then. That just means that the value of your money isn't as big if that makes sense.
Speaker 2Well, no, I think that's why they're all so rich is because their money was actually backed by like resources compared to American money, which is based off of In air. Promises in air.
Speaker 1I promise that this will be worth something so, anyways, yeah, went to california, uh, went to uh. While we were there, went to disney land and they have a park next to it as well, called california adventure. And while we were there, we also went to universal studios universal studios I don't have a universal button. That's why I did that oh, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, bum here I think I got something comparable.
Speaker 2You went to universal oh so this is a Disney house.
Speaker 1So right now I will already say it, because you went on your trip to Florida, correctamundo, and you went to the Disney parks and the Universal park in Florida.
Speaker 2Why would you rant me out like that? Yeah, no, we went to. Well, I'm saying that to make a point. We went to both parks. Yeah, Island Adventure and Universal Studios.
Speaker 1It's better in Florida it is. It's really cool how it's set up. It's really convenient, I guess based off of where we were staying at, so where Disney World is a whole bubble. It's on a resort, on a massive property and it's all Disney property and you're in that bubble and you have your transportation to all the different parks and all the resorts. And even if you stay off a property, it's still fairly easy to get there and become part of the Disney bubble. And in California it's like Six Flags, Not in the sense of quality but in the sense of it's a local theme park. You should have prepped that. You should have a sound. Do you remember the old guy from that?
Speaker 2More flags, more fun.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know, there's a woman dressed up as an old man.
Speaker 2I did know that? Yeah, Did you know fun fact that the hotel that is down the street from Six Flags Atlanta project manager for that build was my dad? Really, yeah, he oversaw the construction of that hotel.
Speaker 1Is that the one next to that, near the Wendy's that you drive by? Yeah, I think so. I work right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see I drive by that all the time.
Speaker 2Every single time we get on to I-20, which goes right by Six Flags for those who have no idea what I'm talking about. Every time we get on the interstate right there, I always bring it up. I'm like you see that hotel over there? Yeah, my dad built that.
Disneyland Comparison and Ride Highlights
Speaker 1When I'm on I-20, I point my job out to everybody, my wife's, just like I know where you work. Stop. But, um, so, yeah, it's a local park, so I will. I will give it two things. Right, it is disney world, condensed.
Speaker 1Okay, like you have your main road, right? Yeah, like it's like a picture, like a block, a huge, massive square property, yep, and you walk out and there's only one way in. That's it. There's only one way in through the main quote, unquote gate is where the buses come through and whatnot. Yeah, that's a street, this is a California street, right there at it, and like hotels and stuff, like right in the middle of Anaheim, like hotels and stuff, like right in the middle of Anaheim. And so from our hotel room, we could see the top of it's not Tower of Terror, it is Guardians of the Galaxy, mission Breakout, okay, and so we can see the top of that. They don't attempt to hide anything like Disney World does between their stuff, you know, and it's just, it's a theme park.
Speaker 1It is not the disney magic that you expect to feel like we are eating ihop, which is just like two buildings down from our hotel and I got a picture of it. Yeah, I remember you sending it to me and it's just the entrance to disneyland. Yeah, but it's like the park, not the park entrance, but the like the resort entrance. Yeah, yeah, so every day we went we walked to the front of the park. Yeah, like it's close enough that we just walked to it, didn't have to take any buses or anything like that. We walked everywhere. Yeah, right, like around the park. So what's also cool is when you go in, it's from the the entrance, a straight shot, and as you keep going, the first thing you see is Disneyland on the right and California on the left. You can stand there, look to your right and then look to your left and you're seeing two different theme park entrances, kind of like Island Adventure.
Speaker 1Kind of like Island Adventure at Universal Studios in Florida, but significantly closer oh, I'm in california, oh, I'm in disneyland, oh kind of kind of so then if you keep walking right past all that, that's their quote-unquote downtown disney, so they have their shopping district again very condensed, but all it's all still there. Yeah, so we went to california adventure and it had again, uh, the greatest hits almost Soarin' is there. They had Tower of Terror, but now it's Avengers Campus and, I think, cars Land. So it's really there is a few unique stuff there.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1But for the most part that's also where they stick, like that's where Mickey's Phil-R magic is. Do they have living with the land? They don't have living with the wind. That's why Epcot's better.
Speaker 2You would think that they would, since it's California and they're all about eco, organic, all this stuff, because they got a lot of like really strict regulations in California.
Speaker 1So the you know they had Cars Land, avengers Campus and I'm blanking because I think that's it there's california venture is about probably the size of um hollywood studios and then over. And then the next day we went to disneyland, which is the magic kingdom. Yeah, plus over there on their side it's magic kingdom and star Wars Land. Star Wars Land, is that what they?
Speaker 2call it Star Wars Land, galaxy's Edge. Okay, all right, I was going to say that's pretty depressing if that's what they call it.
Speaker 1Yeah, they don't even call it what it's supposed to be called Star Wars Land. So then it's like the same traditional layout of Magic Kingdom. You know, tomorrowland, um, tomorrowland, uh, fantasy land. They have um toontown there, which they don't have in florida, yeah, and then they have you kind of loop around in his frontier land and adventure land. And it's funny because frontier land, adventure lands, entrances are side by side, touching each other, yeah, and you just go through and it's like, um, I think it's adventureland is like just one little aisle that then ends up merging into the same walkway that is frontierland okay yeah, and so it's again so, and then you can't take more than you know 50 steps and you're at the entrance of a major ride.
Speaker 1Everything is really condensed. So, like they had jungle cruise right next to indiana jones, which is a few steps away from pirates of the caribbean, which is right over there, next to haunted mansion, oh, wow, and so, and then you know, you get the idea. It's very condensed, yeah, and I guess, because I grew up around Disney World, I prefer the more spread out feeling of Disney World.
Speaker 2Yeah, Disney World is large.
Speaker 1It's large, with four parks and a shopping district and two water parks, and it's huge.
Speaker 2Yeah, and then they've got like three or four resorts and they've also got private communities too, yeah. So I mean, yeah, it's a massive, massive place.
Speaker 1Overall, I will say, though I am saying that Disney World is better, superior. It is superior because of how it is laid out and how you're able to go to other places. Yes, it ends up being more expensive, for sure, because you have to go to more places to do all the experiences, but it just makes for a better, longer vacation. Yeah, with that being said, three experiences that I did there that were far better than disney worlds. Okay, pirates of the Caribbean is about 10 minutes longer, really, yeah. So there at Disneyland you go through like a bayou. The cave is significantly longer before you drop into the main ride, uh-huh, and then at the end there's extended stuff that is not at Disney World at all. So it's just it is. It isney world at all. So it's just it is. It is by far the more superior version.
Speaker 2I will say it there right now did you get the actual um johnny depp, captain jack sparrow experience? Yes, he is there. No, but like have you seen the video?
Speaker 1oh, I think they only ever do that at disney world. When they did do that, oh really, when he was there, I think that might have been at world and not land. I I could be wrong. Okay, so something else. Haunted Mansion is one of my favorite rides there. I think I've talked about this before, but from the point of view of effects and just the techniques they use to create these illusions in this ride, I've always really enjoyed the Haunted. So something disney world, because of the nature of it, being less about being a local park and more of a lot of people travel there and stay there they typically don't do special event rides that disneyland does, so they'll do, like special overlays and changes and special little things for rides yeah so, like, for an example, mission breakout during Halloween.
Speaker 1Actually they will do mission breakout. I don't remember exactly what it's called, but it's the same ride, but it's a sequel to the ride. That is there, okay. So in the story of the ride, uh, it's rocket raccoon breaking out um out of prison, all of the other guardians yeah and it's in the collector's um museum okay and so in the story of it is during halloween, at night they have a monsters, the monsters that were also broken out when you broke out.
Disney and Universal Theme Park Trip
Speaker 1The guardians are now loose in the collector's museum and rocket has to go back because he forgot something, and so it's more. It's more scary because there's monsters jumping out and whatnot, but it's a halloween themed sequel to a ride that is the normal ride during the day gotcha. So that is really cool to me. Uh, we went during more Christmas time so we didn't get to do that or anything, yeah, yeah. But to say that they have for about three months they have Haunted Mansion Holiday, where they take the entire ride and overlay it with Nightmare Before Christmas. Oh, that was the coolest thing to see different about a ride that I very much love and seeing something new about it, and it's just. All the characters of Nightmare Before Christmas were animatronics there, so like, if you're familiar with the ride, the part where the caretaker is standing there with his dog, they replace him with a jack skeleton animatronic, yeah, and so on and so forth. So that was really fun.
Speaker 1And then Space Mountain is the most intense thing I've ever ridden there. It is so much faster, so much more intense of a ride. It was incredible. It was like I was like this is like the first time ever riding Space Mountain. It's all different. It's different in the way that it presents itself. It's almost practically Space Mountain in name. Mountain it's, it's all. It's different. It's different in the way that it presents itself.
Speaker 2It's almost practically space mountain in name and that's it yeah, we didn't get to ride space mountain this time around when we went. But yeah, is that, is that your entire experience, or you want to keep going?
Speaker 1I think, so let's do this. So that was my disney experience, okay us here, your disney experience. Okay, I don't think you went to disney first, though did you on. So let's do this. So that was my Disney experience. Okay, let's hear your Disney experience. Okay, I don't think you went to Disney first, though did you on your trip we went.
Speaker 2So we were there for a week. We went to Universal Studios the first day, then we went to Epcot and then the third day was kind of a down day. So I stayed home with our youngest because he decided to go puke, puke, poop, poop and so we couldn't go to a park. So the older two went with my wife and my in-laws to check out the holiday decorations at the resorts and they went to disney springs. Gotcha, the free thing, the free stuff. Yep, um. But they did stuff like when they went to the polynesian. They had like a s'mores setup set up at the beachfront oh, I should have gone into that real quick.
Speaker 1I'm gonna go into that real quick. There were holiday decorations around the park, yeah, but it didn't really feel like it was Christmas, and it probably is, because we went before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So they probably had the decorations out, but they weren't probably doing any real true holiday-esque stuff yet because it wasn't the holiday season. It was like I think it was maybe a couple of weeks after they had just taken down the how the halloween stuff okay yeah, I actually know.
Speaker 2I think it was probably the week after halloween had ended, I believe so yeah, they normally do it like a ceremony, they do like they just switch on over, yeah so like it's just like they weren.
Speaker 1Yeah, so like it's just like they weren't really playing Christmas music. It's just everything was decorated Christmas, yeah, yeah, so I didn't really get the Christmas vibe in the air, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2It wasn't in the air, I got you.
Speaker 1So but so they were decorated for Christmas, but they really weren't doing Christmas yet.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, doing christmas yet, yeah, yeah. So then thursday we went to islands of adventure, and then friday was magic kingdom, and then saturday was another down day, but my wife and I and the younger two went back to universal studios and hung out for the day, and then we came home on sunday yeah, and didn't you tell me that y'all drove there?
Speaker 2yeah, we drove there, and because of because you went right after thanksgiving yeah, we literally left the sunday after thanksgiving and apparently everyone else who came up north for thanksgiving had the same idea it it was driving back on Sunday.
Speaker 1So for us it's about a maybe seven hour drive-ish.
Theme Park Rides and Astrology
Speaker 2Normally to get down there it's like six and a half to seven hours. It took us almost 11 hours to get there. That is insane. And it was so dumb because it was like we made it through Atlanta no problem yeah, we get down to Stockbridge gridlock. It just stopped and we sat and would move a couple of feet and then sit for five minutes and then move a couple of feet and it was like that for like 45 minutes until we finally got the breakaway and like sometimes it was accidents and sometimes it was just nothing. Nothing, it was just backed up that bad and we ran into that like three different times on the way down. Never near any major city, Just randomly on the interstate. It would be backed up real bad because of an accident or just because of people slowing down for some reason.
Speaker 1I always like this is a joke, by the way, but it always gets on my nerves where it's like, like you said, you're sitting there and you're in traffic and it's just you're not moving forever and you're like somebody better be dead, yeah, and you get up there and for no reason at all, it's just stopped.
Speaker 2Like there's nothing, and that's the other thing for me. This is a pet peeve of mine is whenever there's an accident, especially on the highway or the interstate.
Speaker 1Everybody wants to see.
Speaker 2Everyone slows down when they get in view of the accident because they want to see it, and so that's what makes it go by even slower. Is everyone just slowing down once they get there? So it's, yeah, it was frustrating, but anyways, disney experience, it was fun. You know, our first Disney park was Epcot. So we got there and my brother my older not oldest, but older brother was there with his wife and his daughter and his in-laws, and they were, so they were at Epcot the same day as us, so we did a lot of rides together.
Speaker 1So you're being vague because you don't want to say his name.
Speaker 2Yep, but I saw the picture so I know who it is yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so yeah, but it is yeah, yeah, okay, so yeah, but we went, yeah, so we did. We did several things together at epcot and that was really fun. Um, but you know, our favorite ride is living with the land. My wife and I we?
Speaker 1uh, last time we went to epcot I rode that for the first time as an adult. I know I had it as a kid, but I don't have any memory of it. Yeah, I'm like why is this actually really good? Yeah, well, that makes no sense why it's good?
Speaker 2it's because of the like immersion of reality, like they've got the, they've got the actual uh, permaculture and aquaponics and hydroponics and all of it like operating and functioning.
Speaker 1Yeah, in the ride it's not for show, it is actually they are growing stuff and they are utilizing the stuff they are growing there in the park. Yeah, I think the the illusion of that ride is that, oh, this is where all the food comes from. No, it is a working greenhouse, but is one of a few actual working greenhouses. One is for show, for you to go through and see, but they do have other greenhouses they actually are growing food from as well.
Speaker 2Yeah, and that's another thing to add on to that.
Speaker 1Disney parks have several greenhouses and stuff that they're growing and stuff and all of that food goes back into the food prep for their restaurants. And that's the Disney logic and the Disney thinking that saves some money.
Speaker 2Yeah, Yep, so that was our top ride, probably. We did a couple other things. We did the Finding Nemo ride and then hung out in the aquarium for a little bit. The big one for the kids I don't know if they liked it, but everyone was hyping it up for them was the Frozen ride in Norway, oh my gosh. So the downside was we went on the Three Caballeros ride in Mexico and half of the ride was missing the audio when we went through.
Speaker 1I rode that also for the first time when I went to Epcot last. Yeah, I didn't like it. I don't know. I didn't like it because the audio was missing. I didn't like it because it just felt like all the integration with all the neat stuff they were trying to do was just flat screens oh yeah, because they were just showing different parts of the movie yeah, but that's just that's opinion there.
Speaker 1If they'd have had like the only they only have, like the three animatronics at the end of the ride, yeah, so if they would have integrated more stuff into it I think it was. It used to be just a Mexican pavilion ride and they, disney, fight it by putting some characters into it well, have you seen the movie?
Speaker 2yeah okay, all right. Yeah, I'm aware of the movie. Okay, we're happy and slappy anyways, but they did. I mean they had like holiday themed food and drinks in the world tour, so we stopped for a couple of different of those. In China. They had a Hong Kong. Is it Hong Kong? Yeah, it's Hong Kong.
Speaker 1Yeah Well, hey guys, thanks for listening. Hong Kong.
Speaker 2Thanks Hong Kong. Thank you, hong kong. Yeah, well, hey guys, thanks for listening. Hong kong, thanks hong kong. Thank you, because there is a disney in hong kong. Yes, actually, we went and we toured the um in the pavilion that shows you the different parks that are in hong kong that are disney stuff. I uh, I saw that too. It's pretty cool, um, but yeah, they had a year of the dragon, dragon fruit, ale, I think is what it was.
Speaker 1I think it was an ale.
Speaker 2It was pretty good, but it was specifically.
Speaker 1I mean, it was you know, for the Chinese new year, I guess for year of the dragon.
Speaker 2But have you ever looked into what animal you are? I'm a horse. Are you confident? You're a horse. A hundred percent, I'm a horse.
Speaker 1Okay, all right, all right. Confident you're a horse. 100, I'm a horse. Okay, all right, all right. I will say, though, is I don't believe in all the whole astrology nonsense moon, garbage, sun spirit, whatever that is but I do know I'm a horse because we did it, we, we, you know, we got to talking about it and we decided to look up everybody's different ones.
Speaker 2And it was just we just thought it was funny, all the different. And because when you look at like it's the animal, then it's like you know, it's like, oh, you're a pig.
Speaker 1But you know it doesn't mean no, it's fun to look at, but like getting into it. It's like when you sit there and you really put stock into it, that becomes moon readings and it is witchcraft well, yeah, when you're like you, you embody it as your your idea, part of your identity.
Speaker 2Yeah, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 1But but it is fun to like have a animal associate with you well and it.
Speaker 2It's one of those things where it's like, unless you're the rat, some of it, some of it is kind of spot on. So it's kind of weird how it lines up a little bit and you're like, well, that's kind of weird it's because it's vague.
Speaker 1It's very vague statements that anybody could attach to themselves. I guess maybe that's why it's so eerie, is it's like? It's like oh you're a horse. It says here you breathe air the horse breathes air.
Speaker 2Oh, I breathe air. Yeah, I'm now.
Speaker 1I'm over here looking at those things all right anyways.
Speaker 2so, um, yeah, so that was you. Just we tried to hit some of the food that we really wanted to try out for Epcot. And then when we did Magic Kingdom, it was exciting because that was a roller coaster for my youngest that was his first roller coaster ride.
Speaker 1That was the Barnstormer, right Barnstormer.
Speaker 2I put him on Tron yeah, tron no, but it was his first roller coaster ride. He had fun. He knew what to do. When we were going up the first hill he was going Whee, his hands up in the air. It was really cute. But yeah, and then we did all the other kind of like core, I guess you would say like core rides. So like peter pan peter pan dumbo.
Speaker 2Um, we did the buzz lighter. What's it called space ranger spin? Yes, yeah. Um, pirates of the caribbean jungle cruise aladdin's magic carpet. Uh, we did the key, cut teacups, the carousel. It's a small world.
Speaker 1I will say they have. It's a small world at Disneyland.
Speaker 2They had it closed for refurbishments while we were there, I will okay, so that I do want to bring this up. It's not just one park but across all the parks. For Universal and disney world there were a lot more rides that were had malfunctions or it had things that were in disarray that needed repair. It was like it, because, I mean, disney world normally is pretty spot on. You step into another room, we talk about the bubble, you step into something else and it's just immersion. They're trying to get that sweet spot of like a magical experience. So, but it kind of took away from the immersion, like noticing, you know, several magic carpets are out of commission, yeah. Or you know it's like there's an insane amount of popcorn all across the sidewalk all the time, yeah. So you know, it's just little things like that. That's kind of like, oh, the park's kind of gone downhill a little bit just a little bit.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'll say that because, like there were several instances it happened at least four times where we would be getting into a line for something. Uh, actually, the ride shut down.
Speaker 2Please leave the line yeah, we ran into that several times where I was like, yeah, the ride shut down, we don't know when it'll be back up. When we got on to peter pan, it came to a stop, uh, for like five to ten minutes, not like a stop like so, um, you know, like a handicapped person could load on or something like that, yeah, it was down. Yeah, it was down while we were on it, so you know. But that's okay, we still had fun and we went on Winnie the Pooh as well.
Speaker 1Yeah, which used to be Mr Toad's Wild Ride, which still exists in Disneyland, and I wrote it Yep, okay, you know what's crazy about it Wind in the Willows, mr Toad.
Speaker 2Do what Like Wind in the Willows, Mr Toad.
Speaker 1I think so. I think it was like a combo movie you could buy. It was Mr Toad's Adventure and then Ichabod, like the Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane yeah.
Speaker 2I'm pretty sure it was Wind in the Wellows and the Ichabod Crane Gotcha.
Speaker 1I think so. Do you want to know something that is wild about that ride? Pun intended, yes. So we were in line for it. I knew what the thing is with the ride, right, I knew what's crazy about it. Quote unquote crazy. So when we're getting on the ride, a guy turns around and looks at his buddies and says I. When we're getting on the ride, guy turns around, looks at his buddies and says I'll see you in hell. And he screams it at everybody. And now she was looking at me like why? Why did he say that? And I said give it a minute.
Speaker 1In the middle of the ride you're in a car, you have a car accident and you go to hell. What? Yeah, it is insane. I knew about it, ashley didn't. And it's like it's one of those really weird Disney old things where it's like in the movie Actually I think it doesn't even happen in the movie but for some reason, like you're in a car, you're driving down the streets and things are popping out and all this stuff, and just randomly you are in a car accident, hit by something.
Speaker 1And then for the last portion of the ride, you go through hell it sounds like the premise from like a tribulation trail yeah, like church would put on yeah, right, what the heck? I'm just like, like it was interesting to do a disney thing I've never done before. But I'm just like I don't think I'm ever gonna get on this again, if I even came back to disneyland yeah, so that's what I was going to bring up is Disney.
Speaker 2I was looking at just the webpage, like first search you do for Disney park tickets. So Disneyland in California, depending on the day and time, the tickets anywhere from $103 to $206. And then at Disney World, just generally, a day pass is $119. And to me that's insane because Disney World is huge. You know, like you would think that it would be more expensive to go to disney world than to disneyland, but because of the geographical location it costs california compared to our.
Speaker 1Yeah so I would like to continue my trip, okay, because I want to kind of touch on that a little bit. Okay, so, on our second point, and so we stayed about a week and we did other California things besides going to theme parks, yeah, like we went and did like Hollywood tours and we went to the Warner Brothers studios and did a studio tour there. They were currently, while we were there, they were filming the second season of Fallout, okay, and just a bunch of other stuff like that. Yeah, yeah so, but so on our last day we went to Universal.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And so Universal Studios. There is one park, it's not anything extra.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And it's also a portion of it is a working movie studio. Ooh. So we went and did like a van tour around the Beverly Hills and looked at famous people's houses. No, we didn't see any famous people. The only thing we saw that was closest to being a famous person was a guy pointed out that's Drew Carey's house. Oh, that's his car, he's home. So we drove by Drew Carey's house while he was home.
Speaker 2It was a bit of a waste of money, I was going to say say you know, what's sad about that is, I feel like you could do that for free here in atlanta yeah, because you could probably see way more famous people in atlanta, because they're actually be out here working and not in their house. Well, yeah, they'll be out and about doing stuff, yeah so.
Speaker 1So we did that and that ended about one o'clock and we were relatively close to universal and I told ashley I was like let's go to universal. And just you know, we looked at it and it was a one o'clock and they close at seven, which is wild to me on a friday night, but whatever well, do they have an event going on afterwards?
Speaker 2no, it's just the park closes oh yep, seven o'clock.
Speaker 1So um, I said let's go do what we can. There's a couple of very unique things strictly to there. Like they have the water world stage show. Yeah, like action stunt show, based off of the 1998 movie, whatever year it came out I really hope I'm right on 98. We'll look later. But um fun fact about that movie there's like one of jack black's first movies wait, which one? Water world.
Speaker 2Water world was like like a minion type character okay, so like his face is covered up and you don't even realize no, you can tell it's jack black.
Speaker 1It's just like he's like a minor, minor character who dies, like in a plane accident, pretty early on in the movie okay, now I gotta look it up but anyways.
Speaker 1So you know, they had a water world stunt show and then they have their backlog tour that allows you to go through, you know, actually see the studio stuff, and then also they'll have like little attractions as well, like a mini jaws thing and then some other stuff like that. Okay, so we did those two things and then we said, all right, now let's start doing rides. We did all of the parks rides and we're done by six o'clock. Oh, wow. So, and what's crazy is, when we were buying our ticket, the lady was like would you like to buy Express Pass? It's only $300 a person. So it was like that was. The point I was trying to make is like why is it so much? And it was, wasn't. Nobody was. Nobody was there.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Like that's really what it came down to. It is like we didn't have to wait in line for anything. So when we went to Universal in japan, they have the mario land there. Okay, we waited like an hour and 45 minutes for the mario kart ride and we practically walked onto it here in california the same ride. So like it was really nice seeing that land and it not being packed because it was packed in japan yeah, I just looked at a picture of uh jack black as the uh smoky pilot plane pilot.
Speaker 2I don't have it up anymore.
Speaker 1Sorry, it looks nothing like jack black that is jack black, but it's jack black. It's a young jack black. Yeah, it was like one of the first movies he was in. He was also in a commercial for the movie pitfall not the movie, the video game pitfall and he's a kid really yep well, you know, you know the whole story about jack black's parents, right?
Speaker 2what? What is it? They're like super smart. Like they were, they participated in the rocket launch oh really that's crazy yeah, like I think that the story was like his mom like helped get um, get get america onto the moon, and then she went into labor with jack black oh my gosh that's crazy.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, so I may be butchering that story but hey, until we are proven wrong, jack black was on the moon.
Speaker 2No, no, jack black's mom was pregnant with him and on the moon no, she didn't go to the moon she was in the control room at nasa. Anyways, all right, let's, let's pivot to universal yeah, so real quick, let me finish mine.
Speaker 1Um, really small there. Uh, really, all what you're about to talk about, what you were on, you had more to do at universal. Yeah, the only thing that they had there that's the same ride in florida and it's different is the mummy. Yeah, so the mummy is, what I would say, tremendously different in its theming, in what you see during the ride, but they're both roller coasters, yeah, and so that was my very first time going on the mummy. My wife and I love the movies.
Speaker 2We different in its theming, in what you see during the ride. But they're both roller coasters, yeah, and so that was my very first time going on. The mummy, my wife and I love the movies. We watch the movies all the time go ahead press the button.
The Mummy Ride Experience
Speaker 2Oh yeah, yeah, looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river. Great quote, several, several great quotes from that movie and so, okay, someone made, uh, a reel and it's. It's the scene where the where benny guy who's wearing, who wears, yeah yeah, okay, so you know who benny is.
Speaker 2I've seen the movie so several times. He's in the like professor-esque archaeologist guy's office, like ransacking it, like throwing stuff around trying to find the jar, yeah. And then in the scene it's him doing that and then someone overlaid a text and the text says me trying to get all my spring cleaning done, before the guy who throws chairs at me comes, and then in walks Brendan Fraser, and he picks up the chair. He says let me guess spring cleaning. And then, yeah, it's the funniest reel I've ever seen and it's just a random part of the movie.
Speaker 1I love those POV things where it's just adding the text of what's about to happen and you watch the movie. I love those like pov things where it's just like adding the text of what's about to happen and you watch the movie. Some, for some reason, that is some of the funniest things, even though it's like you just told me what's about to happen in the movie I've seen a hundred times. Yeah, it's still so funny dude.
Speaker 2It was great so, but anyways, the ride was good. I got a souvenir. Yeah, I'm looking right at it it. It is a A chalice, a chalice, and it has Anubis it has Anubis on it, yep, yep, and a bunch of hieroglyphs and stuff. Just a little memento of the ride.
Speaker 1So when you went through it, did you have to wait in line or did you pretty much bypass? We had a fast pass, so you kind of miss out on a lot of of the story going through it. Yeah, which is they are? You are on the set of the mummy. Yep, they're filming. I guess they don't really specify which one they're filming, but I believe it's the second mummy movie, the one with the rock as the scorpion king at the end.
Speaker 1Yeah, so I believe that's kind of where that takes place in that yeah and so, like you're on set and they keep talking about, hey, the set's cursed because of the m of the mummy's curse and whatnot. Yeah, so they have, like, this pendant that everybody's supposed to wear, yep, to protect them. Yep, that is why at the beginning of the ride, the kid is all wrapped up because he got rid of his pendant. Yeah, yeah. So I was like I've always like, I want that pendant.
Speaker 2That's such a cool thing that they should sell in the gift shop and they don't yeah, um, you know, even if we hadn't done the fast pass, like the line wasn't crazy long anyways. So we I mean everyone was skipping like half of the tv screens.
Speaker 1So you know, whatever because you go through that first area and they the majority of the story they're telling is in that first little set area, because then you round the corner and all of a sudden you're in Egypt, like an Egyptian tomb type thing, yeah, and they have such cool interactive things you touch and deal with. Like if you put your hand on something it'll light up the lights a certain way or it'll shoot air, that's like. It's so cool, it's such a cool cue.
Speaker 2Okay, so the funniest thing happened in line all right.
Speaker 2So there's a part in in line where there's the wall and it's got the hole for the hand and you, it's just a dark hole, you stick your hand in there, kind of deal, right. So the group in front of us, a girl, went to stick her hand in the hole and, like her little, her younger brother, tried to do a jump scare and go like oh and. And she was like oh, oh, whatever. And she takes her hand out and walks off and then he goes to put his hand in and the dad goes, oh, and he goes oh, oh, he's scared.
Speaker 2The exact thing he's trying to do to his sister. Ben proceeded to scare oh it was so funny, that's funny I was like dude, like how, how did you fall for it?
Speaker 1But anyways, by the way we are going, I'm spoiling a lot of the stuff on this ride, so I apologize already. Advance If you've never rode a ride from 1999 yeah, that was my first time yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1So that is has to me, one of the best bait and switch moments in any ride ever. Yeah, I legitimately, when I rode that for the first time, was like just so impressed because of how well it surprised me, at that point where it's like, thank you for riding the mummy JK, I'm going to set the ceiling on fire.
Speaker 2Yeah, dude, it was. It was a good ride. I was a little off, put a little bit by one of the workers at the very beginning. Oh yeah, one of the workers at the very beginning. Oh yeah, cause she was like going hard, trying to be convincing that she was like a minion of the mummy.
Speaker 1Oh, really Like somebody was really getting into their role.
Speaker 2She was like sitting there, she was like she was doing this movement like a snake back and forth deal and she was like checking everybody's um, like pull yeah, pull downs. And she like was like checking everybody's um, like pull yeah, pull downs, yeah. And. And she like was like I hope you're ready to not come back and and like saying stuff like that. And she, my wife and I had our had themed shirts on okay, we had mummy shirts on from the movie. The worker looked at them. She you already know what you're getting into. And I was like, yes, I do, and I'm like do you not see my bracelet?
Speaker 1my bracelets means I don't want you to talk to me. Yeah, it was, but I do wish they had that sometimes. Like, okay, just let me ride the rise of the resistance star wars ride. I don't need you like treating me like a prisoner, even though that is the experience. Yeah, I don't need you treating me like a prisoner, even though that is the experience.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't need you looking at me and getting me in my face and being like okay, prisoner, we're about to book you. Can I just ride the ride please? It's such a cool, immersive experience, but it's like I don't want to interact with this person pretending to be a space cop. You know what I mean? That's just how I am.
Speaker 2Well, but that's the thing is. It was off-putting because there were three workers running the everyone buckle down and then we'll launch you off version. And the other two were acting normal. Well, they were acting like everyone else at the park, Like I don't want to be here right now.
Speaker 1This is a job and this other person's like. This is my role.
Speaker 2Yeah, she was like in it. She was like nothing exists outside of this room, like that's how hard she was going. But I will say that about uh, cause Disney has kind of gone that way with employees and I got a lot of it at both the islands of adventure in Orlando, where it's not like I'm fine with you just acting normal or whatever, but like you clearly making it like I have to be in character when you don't have to be in character.
Speaker 2No, like that's what I'm saying is like someone who's just like I have to. Oh yeah, that takes away from my experience.
Speaker 1I was going to say is I don't Okay. So like the Star Wars land, where it's like they're not allowed to even like be break character at all, yeah. So it's like, instead of saying credit card, it's like let me see your credentials, or let me, or would you like me, to take a image on your data pad and like, yeah, you can take a picture of myself on. I don't care, but you know what I mean. That stuff is kind of silly to me. Yeah, but they're from a galaxy far long ago.
Speaker 2Yeah, sure, but again it's like breaking character that you know.
Speaker 1It's like going to the Renaissance fair and like I'm having a heart attack. I ambulance. You know what I mean. Like it's.
Speaker 2It's so goofy, it's fine this man carries a demon pad.
Speaker 1He wants me to summon the creature from beyond but it's like, okay, there is a difference in staying in the character in an area. You don't have to do that, but yeah, I won't be here. Make it feel but I want to be here. Make it feel like I should deserve to be here, or more of you deserve my money. Make me feel belonged here. I put so much money into going to these places.
Speaker 2Don't sit here and talk over me to your fellow employee about you're going to schedule a hair appointment later. That happened to us on ET. We were trying to load onto ET and there were two employees on either side of the ride for the loading part and one of them was talking about how I'm going to schedule a hair appointment for me to go get my hair done and when I come back, everyone's going to be like, wow, look how sharp that person looks. And then this person was commenting on it or whatever. I was like what are y'all doing? Tell me to buckle in and be safe, right?
Speaker 1Okay again, it's like when I go to, the reason why people enjoy going to Chick-fil-A is not to hear my pleasure, it's to actually know that you're going to be treated Like I exist, like you exist, not be ignored. Like like I'm standing there waiting to place my order, like, and they look at you at other places, like what do you want? Like what do?
Speaker 1you think I want read my mind free, or ask me, like you know what I mean, just like treat, like all I kind of ask for for these places. I don't need you to stay in character, just put a smile on your face and like, help me to create the illusion that my problems in the real world don't exist for a week. You know it's not hard, you get paid.
Speaker 2Chick-fil-A is the Disney world of fast food.
Speaker 1It really is, like it's as simple as saying when you say thank you and you don't get grunted at, it's easy, like I don't have to hear my pleasure. But you're like, hey, no problem, you know what I mean. Yeah, just treat me like a person. I know that you don't want to be there, but I want a million dollars. I don't have it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1There is different expectations. I know people say they don't get paid enough for that. They don't. But Chick-fil-A still enforces it. And they have employees. They're not unhappy. Yeah it. And they have employees, they're not unhappy. Yeah, it's like it's as simple as you know. When nobody's around, like you know well, when people around, just I don't want to hear about your problems. If I ask, sure, tell me about your problems, but I don't know it's. It's like one of those weird things where it's like I think the expectation for decent service has gone out the door at places, where it's like people that don't want to be at a job have come up with the idea that I can just kind of do whatever or grunt, and just like. That gets on my nerves. More than anything is when you know you're in the middle of service and they just grunt at you, the normal, like yeah, like look, like, look at me, like what do you want? Like legitimately, like I go up the counter, like what do you want from me?
Speaker 2like I want you to take my order, yeah like it's not hard dude ever since mcdonald's rolled out that um touch screen order system inside yeah like if you try to go up to a register to order, like there's like five, five to ten people working back there and they're all staring at you like what are you doing? Why are you standing at the counter? We have not done anything for you yet back up, like that's the energy again, like okay, and even better.
Speaker 1There is. It's a difference in what are you doing versus somebody coming out and giving a quick, nice little like actually, if you go over to the pad, you know you place your order there, like if you know what I mean. It's like, oh, what can I do for you? Like I want to place an order? Oh, yeah, sure you come over here, let me help you with that. It's a quick little like I would just say a common human decency to treat somebody else, not assuming that they're out there to get you, and like they're actually might be there.
Speaker 2Well, it's not that, though. The mentality is especially in the food fast food industry is I'm here for the money, and the money is not that great, so I'm going to do the bare minimum I'm going to do the job, what I think that my current pay warrants me doing. Yeah, I'm going to do the bare minimum, and when it's my turn to get off, I am leaving. So that's kind of— and.
Speaker 1I guess that's the difference between us is like me and you both is like you get paid. You do the job, you get paid, and if you are exemplary—say the word for me, man, exemplary, thank you Then you will then get a promotion. You earn your promotion, you don't get paid Again. It's the idea that I will work the amount that I think my current pay is worth not.
Speaker 2I will work to earn more money, money in the future that's why I work so hard on my job, so one day I can get your boss can give you a raise so my boss will promote me, yeah yeah, I don't know, maybe that's me sounding super boomer-esque, but it's just like.
Speaker 1I think it's just like a common, you know, human decency that comes with being. Just treat somebody like another person. That comes with, I guess, the normal I I just say normalness that you're supposed to treat somebody. That comes along with being a christian. Just treat everybody like it's almost like the mentality is treat everybody like they're out to get me. No, treat everybody like they deserve to be treated well, whether they do or don't.
Speaker 2Yeah, yep, so anyways, theme parks, yeah, theme parks. This is my first time going to Universal, so Islands at Adventure and Universal Studios both were great. We had a good time. What?
Speaker 1was your favorite ride out of the Mummy. Yeah, the Mummy was my favorite ride. Second favorite is I think you said you didn't get on it but Spider-Man. No, I did get on it, oh you rode Spider-Man, I rode Spider-Man.
Speaker 2Okay, here's the scenario for Spider-Man, because right behind the entrance to spider-man is the doom like slingshot.
Speaker 1I waited so long for that ride and I'm just like it's such a disappointment for the amount of time I waited for it personally that one time.
Speaker 2But here's the scenario my middle child. Okay, he's young, like this was his first year being tall enough to ride most of the rides. But my wife is like take him, go to Spider-Man, which I had no idea where it was at because I've never been to the park. But she's like take him to Spider-Man, he's got his thing. My sister will meet you there, my dad will meet you there and y'all will all go on the Spider-man ride together. I was like is he big enough for it? And she's like, yeah, he, yeah, he's tall enough he can do the ride. I was like but is he gonna be scared? And she's like no, I love it, it'll be great. I'm like, okay, we're walking to the ride. I find it and I'm walking towards it and I see the doom towers, but and I assume that that's the Spider-Man ride At one point in the ride you get slingshotted up and down. I was like he is too young for a slingshot ride Spoiler.
Speaker 1It's not the right ride, it's not no.
Speaker 2So I mean when we got in there and I realized, you know, it's like, okay, all right, it's fine, there's no slingshotting, it is a.
Speaker 1Spider-Man ride based off the 90s cartoon. Yeah, spider-man cartoon.
Speaker 2Yep. So, but it was good he, that was his first. This was his first year like getting to ride a lot of rides because he was tall enough and so he had a lot of fun. You know, most of the rides he's like covering his eyes or like hiding, and then after the ride I'm like did you have a good time? He's like, yeah, every roller coaster that we did, when we got off, or when the roller coaster came back in and stopped, I was like what do you think, buddy, he went like, pretend, pretend, like he's going to throw gonna throw up.
Speaker 2Oh, I need to throw up. It was funny, but yeah, favorite ride hands down the mummy. Um, we got to do a show, for it was the animal actors show.
Speaker 1Okay, so you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2I've never seen it, but I know what you're talking about it was a really funny because I mean, okay, so you know what I'm talking about. I've never seen it, but I know what you're talking about. It was really funny because I mean all the animals, you know it's like they. So they all the animals that they get to train for the movies. They adopt them from local shelters, yeah, so that was really cool. But just seeing like all the different animals run out and do their bits and do their things, it was it was funny.
Speaker 1So you want to hear something about that. Yeah, the rumor is right now they are going to tear down the animal animal actor stage in fear factor and expand out Harry Potter land. That was the rumor.
Speaker 2Well. I heard and it might be not true now, since they're adding harry potter to epic universe when that opens next year- yeah, because I was gonna say because I don't think that the harry potter world and islands of adventure backs up to that, because oh no.
Speaker 1so did you not go to harry potter land diagoney yeah yeah, I went to Diagon Alley but in between Diagon Alley and the animal area is the. Simpsons Fear Factor.
Speaker 2No, I was just there. I'm telling you, I'm telling you because I was just there.
Speaker 1I'm telling you you need to listen as I pull my phone up to pull up a map. You have to walk through simpsons, go over a bridge and then you animal actor stage is right there. Net, you're right. I'm sorry, I'm. Fear factor is going, goes up to the animal, you're right.
Speaker 2You're right, I'm sorry. Edge of dreamworks, right, yeah, so take that cherish.
Speaker 1So boom, you got me no. So I was thinking roasted, boom, roasted. No, I was thinking that fear factor in animal actors were side by side. But you're right, simpsons land is between yeah, which we got donuts.
Speaker 2Yeah, the big lord, lord lord lord, did you ever?
Speaker 1have you ever watched simpsons? I really no. Did you ride the simpsons while they no? Um, that's one of those.
Speaker 2Um, the only ride that I went on that was me like for me was the mummy Gotcha. Every other ride I did I was with my middle child. I was his buddy.
Speaker 1So the uh Simpsons I rode last time I was at universal to ride rides. I was at Universal to ride rides. I rode that and got sick. I don't get motion sickness at all, I got because. So what it is is it's a giant IMAX screen and they put you in different like cars, simpsons, cars, but they're all watching the same video, like, oh, this is just you, but if you turn your head you can see all the other people also riding the ride with you at the same time. Oh yeah, I was put because it's a screen. I was put in the bottom right side, essentially in the corner of the screen, looking up to the left, craning my neck. I got so sick on that and so I tried it again in California. Same thing, but bottom left. I didn't get sick this time, but I don't enjoy this. I'm straining my neck. I'm like this is awful, yeah.
Speaker 2I do want to. Okay, just to clarify my comment. I wasn't trying to make myself a victim like, oh, I didn't get to ride any cool rides because I had to ride.
Speaker 1Oh, no, we knew it no.
Speaker 2I had a lot of fun and I had a lot of fun watching my kid experience different rides. Yeah, we are, and to me that increased like the immersion of the experience of going to the theme park was getting to see your kid experience the ride and enjoy the overall immersion and experience of it. It just added joy to the overall trip.
Speaker 1We are pretty much at the point now I mean you for sure me in the future of going to theme parks is not going to be for you anymore.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's not. It's for the kids, it's to have fun. Well, okay For us when we go to the theme parks.
Speaker 2It's for the kids and for my mother-in-law yeah because she's such a sweet lady, she plans the whole trip out for everybody, and so it's like in my mind, it's like, hey, we're here for her, whatever, whatever she wants to do, like let's just do that, let's just be, let's just have fun doing what she's already planned for us, you know. So I try to have that kind of mentality. Um, the only time I like do any kind of pushback is like if the kids are just done yeah, hey, like we need to, we're going to wind this down now, yeah.
Speaker 1So I will say for me when I go to a theme park, um, I, I'll ride almost anything. Yeah, I don't care what it is, I'll get on the roller coasters, the ninja, I'll ride the ninja, I don't care. Yeah, like I'll, I'll break. That wasn't. Yeah, I was gonna say it wasn't. That's the one that'll give you a migraine by the end. It's a lot better now that they redesigned the car and the ride's the same. They redid the track. It's a lot smoother now. It's a lot nicer. But I'll get on anything. Um, I don't like. I I have a bit of a sense of acrophobia, so I won't ride the acrophobia because they it plays against that fear of falling. I don't mind going up on a roller coaster and down and twist and all that nonsense. I love that. You don't like dropping. I don't like the up on a roller coaster and down and twist and all that nonsense. I love that you don't like dropping.
Speaker 1I don't like the one ride that holds you up there as I'm staring down and then it drops me straight down.
Speaker 2How many times have you rode that? Just once. Acrophobia About five or six times. Okay.
Speaker 1Did you ever do the penny thing?
Speaker 2What's the where you put the penny on your thing, on your stuff, because you start out laying backwards right, I thought it tilted you forward. Yeah, when you go, but when you start out you get in and you kind of lay like this yeah, you're right. Anyways, the idea is that you put a penny on your chest or your stomach and at some point, because of gravity, like you'll get lost, that penny will come up and then shoot off. No, I've never done that. Yeah, my dad did it the first time that we went and rode acrophobia it was.
Speaker 1It was pretty it was pretty gnarly, but anyways. But yeah, I'll ride just about anything. Um, my wife will not ride a roller coaster.
Speaker 2Even though she's ridden several roller coasters I have.
Speaker 1The best way to explain it is I have tricked her onto some rides and at this point it's just like it was more me testing waters to see what I think, because I know the Mummy is one of her favorite movies of all time. So it's like Really yeah. So it's like let me get you. I know that she loves the Mummy.
Speaker 2Dude, we talk about the mummy all the time. Yes, why doesn't she put her two cents in? What the heck?
Speaker 1I don't know she will.
Speaker 2On the comment section on this episode yeah, ashley, you better, you better start talking about the mummy when we're all hanging out together you got that right, jeez.
Speaker 1So I got her onto the mummy one time. Yeah, she hated it so much, but it's really hard to gauge what she's okay with riding, because she'll ride Guardians of the Galaxy, cosmic Rewind.
Speaker 2So she didn't like the mummy ride. She didn't like the mummy ride. Okay yeah, my wife felt genuinely bad.
Speaker 1Because your wife helped me to convince my wife to get on the mummy.
Speaker 2And then she realized oh oh, this is a roller coaster after riding it, after riding it, yeah, so all right, we need to.
Theme Park Rides and Disney Conspiracies
Speaker 1We need to move on from this. I know I could really honestly sit here all day and talk about theme park stuff what is your?
Speaker 2what's your least favorite ride out of all theme parks you've been to?
Speaker 1oh, a theme parks parks in general, just all rides, acrophobia, acrophobia, I don't know it's just. It makes me feel I'll ride it and it's the drop is fun. Yeah, I think I'm okay with that drop moment. It's the anticipation that they sit there and they hold you forever and you go up really slowly and yeah, like, uh, I guess a good example opposite of that is funny enough, doom, uh, doomfall. Yeah, uh, dr doom's free fall or whatever it's called. Yeah, because you start on the ground. Yeah, like, I guess a good example opposite of that is funny enough.
Speaker 1Doomfall yeah, dr Doom's Freefall or whatever it's called yeah, because you start on the ground and they slingshot you up and you're up and down. But the problem with that again was I waited about an hour and 30 minutes for a ride that lasted maybe 20 seconds. Yeah, yeah, so like if acrophobia was on the ground and you went up and then dropped down. I'm okay with that. Same way with Tower of Terror.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Because of the way that that ride presents itself. It's not really like a let me hold you up here in anticipation and all that stuff. It's like, okay, just slings, screenshot me up, that's fun. Woo, back up and down, that's fun to me, yeah. But acrophobia because they hold you in anticipation, yeah. Again, I enjoy the drop. I just don't like the. What's going to happen? When are they going to do it? Because they control when they drop. They'll do a little funny thing over the speaker and everything.
Speaker 2Yeah, Can we just acknowledge we don't take advantage of six flags as much as we should well, I want to.
Speaker 1It's been so close. So you remember the last time I went was when we went with the youth for when we were doing youth group. That was the last time I went to. There's so much different there.
Speaker 2I would like to go back yeah, we need to make a trip over there. But like dude the goliath yeah, dude, it's like a super long roller coaster, yeah, and it's fun, like it takes you up really high, it takes you for spins and loops, and it's not a roller coaster where you get on it and then 20 seconds later you're getting off.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't like those.
Speaker 2It's an actual like long ride, yeah, and it's good, but anyways, my least favorite is probably at Six Flags. It's the what's the wooden one, is it the?
Speaker 1Cyclone, cyclone. Yeah, I don't like that, just because, literally the entire ride you're in.
Speaker 2You're just like are we going to derail? Are bandits going to ride up on horses and steal our gold? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1Like it's a yeah, we might have to plan a Saints that Serve trip out to Six Flags. Dude, let's do it, dude, you know what we can do.
Speaker 2A meet and greet at Six Flags? Oh, I was going to say, I was going to say homeschool days. Oh yeah, Six Flags does homeschool days.
Speaker 1So find out whatever day is a homeschool day it will be less packed and and just say, my kids are homeschooled they're not with you, but hey, they're homeschooled.
Speaker 2No, yeah, yeah, all right, so we need to. So we're gonna move away from this and we're gonna move in. I really could just talk all day.
Speaker 1I know you can't, but I'm forcing you to. I know we're running out of time here tyler, this is your transition.
Speaker 2We're moving into the corner, the Corner Bigfoot, all right. So this one to go along with our themes of parks, specifically Disney parks. We're going to talk about some Disney conspiracy theories, yes, yes. So, jairus, what is the one for you?
Speaker 1I kind of had a list of them, okay, so can I do just a bunch of mini ones and talk about them quickly. Sure, yep. So, like one of the first ones I had, is the Disney vault actually a vault, which I thought was actually a really interesting concept, because it's like it's really. The question is, is there a really a Disney vault or is it just kind of like you know, promotional phrasing and terminology to drive up movie sales? Yeah, because they'll say it all the time is like buy it now before it's back in the vault, which they probably really don't do that much anymore because we are really getting away from physical media. So it's like are they going to sit there and say stream now before it goes back in the vault?
Speaker 2yeah, get your subscription now, while it's out of the vault.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, that kind of thing. That'd be crazy. But it's like, no, like it is. It's, in fact, just a you know marketing ploy to raise up sales, to create the illusion of scarcity, yeah, yeah, to make it feel like, you know, you're getting a huge deal, when you and the other four million people in the uh who just bought the movie yeah, well, but think about it this way, because, okay, peter jackson for the lord of the rings trilogy.
Speaker 2That trilogy is actually like if it had all of everything that he shot and then you know, put together for the movie, that movie series would be 21 hours long and you know you'd watch it. Yeah, I'd watch it, but like there's entire fight scenes and battles that got cut from the movies sure, and that's different.
Speaker 1a director's cut of a movie is not quite the same thing as this movie's special edition will never be seen again. You, you know like, once it's out, yes, we would buy the 21-hour, you know, lord of the Rings saga. You know like we would watch it Like we're about to go see War for the Rohirrim in a couple of days. Rohirrim, rohirrim, sorry.
Speaker 2Yeah, but that's my point is like some of these movies they make the story and then the producers are like you. They make the story and then the producers are like you got to cut to this amount of time, and so things get cut.
Speaker 1The smart thing that Disney does is it just holds on to all their cut things and they store it in the vault and then they make it like a that's. The thing, though, is like the cut quote unquote vault is not cut content. It's the same content that they no longer are selling. It's not like you're getting anything special. I guess that's true. It's just get it now, before it goes back in the vault like it's a special re-release or whatever, and it's like yeah, it's the same movie you have already. Why are you buying it? Because the case says diamond edition on it.
Speaker 2You know what I mean yeah, yeah, that's true, okay, so is the vault, actually a vault.
Speaker 1uh, I'm gonna to say no, and I think the answer is no. There's one. I'm skipping over the one, one of these, because I think that's more than likely what yours is Okay. So we're going to go with just a quick one. The giant turkey legs aren't actually made of oh sorry, the giant turkey legs are actually made of emu meat. So the giant turkey legs they sell in frontier land, yeah, is emu okay. So do you think that is true or do you think that's false? I think that's false.
Speaker 2It's false. Yeah, my, we got a turkey leg for I got two turkey legs for my boys at epcot. They barely ate any of it. But I was concerned because our youngest on that was the. That was on tuesday night and then wednesday our youngest wakes up throwing up so, and so I'm like it's the turkey leg, the turkey? No, it's he?
Speaker 2no yeah but I mean because I was like my stomach's a little upset. I'm not nothing's happening to me, but it is kind of irritated, uh. But then our other son he ate a turkey leg too, or part of a turkey leg, and he was fine. Nothing happened to him. Was it a different turkey leg or was it from the same one? It was a different one, so it could have been that specific one, or it could have been that he just ate too much over the entire day.
Speaker 1So I don't know, anyways, okay, so moving on. Yeah, it says that it's just from male turkeys whose legs are quite larger than females' turkeys. Yeah yeah, so, and then my last. I have a few other ones here, but I'm going to go. This is the one I thought was the most interesting. Okay, so are the skeletons in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride real human remains? I think they are in Disneyland.
Speaker 1So, yeah, pretty much it's not all of them now, but at the time they actually started the ride, when they first started the ride, all the human remains were Cadavers yeah, cadavers and just bones that they got from the local medical college. Yeah, and they were scattered and over time, they actually returned the remains back to where they and buried them where they. Local medical college. Yeah, and they were scattered and over time, you know, they actually returned the remains back to where they and buried them where they were supposed to go. Yeah, except to this day, there is one actual still remaining human remain. What is it? So when you're going through the cave, I mean, what body part is it? It's a skull. Oh, okay, because you know skull and crossbones, gotcha. So when you're going through the cave, you see a bed with a skeleton on it and above it there is a skull and crossbones. That is an actual human skull, and it's only in Disneyland that that happened. Yeah, yeah, and we, I saw it, crazy dude. So it was really cool to see.
Speaker 1Like that's a real skull okay, okay and it's actually funny when you look at it. It does look a little bit different than all the other skeletons that are kind of rounded at the time oh, really yeah so okay, what do you? Sorry, keep going. I was gonna actually say can I guess what yours is? Yeah, go ahead and guess. Yeah, walt Disney.
Speaker 2Frozen. Oh yeah, no, that's not the one I was going to talk about?
Speaker 1Oh, really Okay. So let me talk about that. Is Walt Disney Frozen and buried underneath Pirates of the Caribbean?
Speaker 2Okay, do you think it's all of him? Because one conspiracy is that it's. His head has been cryo-frozen. Yeah, no, for the sake of his brain.
Disney Conspiracy Theories and Park Adventures
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, no for the sake of his brain. Yeah, no, that's not true. That's yeah. Yeah, no, I don't. Yeah, it's not true. Have you seen? They have a movie. It's like a uh gorilla underground movie. They filmed this entire horror movie at disneyland. Really, yeah, there's an entire. I gotta find it. What is it called? It's something like the edge of tomorrow or something like that edge of tomorrow. That's not a gorilla movie it's not about gorilla, I mean like underground gorilla, like in the sense warfare underground gorilla warfare no, it's like it's, it's the phrase used to make.
Speaker 1Make something in secret. Oh okay, like underground gorilla, like secretly, like hiding your hidden cameras and stuff, where these people went in and bought tickets to disneyland, brought in their cameras and secretly filmed a full feature-length film on park property oh, wow, okay, yeah, I thought you were talking about the chris pratt pratt edge of tomorrow on no, it's like it's hold on. I'll tell you what is the word. Tomorrow is in the title.
Speaker 2Okay, okay yeah, no, the one that I was gonna go with is uh is a was a reddit conspiracy theory on the movie incanto really okay, yeah so the the theory is is that maribel, the main, like the main character who doesn't have any powers, right?
Speaker 2uh-huh, so in the story, like it's her coming of age, whatever she's in the house, and then she doesn't get a door and she doesn't have any powers, right? The conspiracy is that she does have a power. Her power is to rewrite reality. She's a telepath and she was so scared of having a power that she rewrote the reality to write a door out of her story. Okay, so that she would just be normal and everyone in their town was basically controlled by is controlled by. It's a scarlet witch kind of scenario, yeah, where it's just she rewrote everyone's memory and everything that happened to, where it's like Maribel doesn't have any powers, but her power is the ability to control reality. It's that, that. That was. That's the gist of it. I'm not going to get into all.
Speaker 1Have you seen? Have you seen why she actually doesn't have powers? You actually can see in the movie why she doesn't have powers, uh-uh. So the trick is that you hold the candle, yeah. Then you open your door, yeah, the power comes from their magic candle. Okay, when she holds the candle, they take, hand it back and, out of being nervous, she wipes her hands on her dress as a little girl. She wipes her away the magic and that's why her door doesn't open to anything. Oh, if you watch it, she didn't have a door. No, she goes to open her door and it doesn't do anything. So it doesn't open to anything special on the other side. That's why she lives in that side room Like the little kids, whatever, because her door. She went to go open her door and nothing happened.
Speaker 2I'm going to have to go back and re-watch the movie, because I don't remember her even having a door.
Speaker 1Yeah. So it's like a flashback where she's a little kid and it's like going through the embarrassment of not having able to do anything. Also, I didn't realize we could do Disney movie conspiracies. I was doing park conspiracies.
Speaker 2That's why all mine were-. Do you have a movie?
Speaker 1conspiracy. Oh man, we might have to revisit, have a park episode part two at some point next year or something.
Speaker 2Have you heard the one about how um captain hook's actually the good guy?
Speaker 1I could already see that.
Speaker 2I know I haven't heard it, but I could see it the idea is that he's trying to rescue kids from peter pan. Who's trying to? He's trying to kidnap kids and keep them young forever, because if you look at all the sailors on his ship, they're all too big for their clothes. So they are all the rescued. They're rescued kids.
Speaker 1That hook has gotten so I mean, yeah, I could see that easily.
Speaker 2And then, but then there's an alternative conspiracy that makes it clear that hook is the bad guy and that's that hook. If you, if you, mesh peter pan, the Little Mermaid together, hook is the pirate that killed the Little Mermaid, ariel's mom, because they bring that up as that she's killed by pirates.
Speaker 1Did you know also on the Peter Pan ride you can see Ariel.
Speaker 2Yeah, and that's what I was going to get at. In the movie there's's mermaids and one of them looks a lot like ariel, and so that's the idea is that hook is the pirate who kills mermaids, and that's why they're so scared when they bring up hook and that's why they dart off in the movie escape from tomorrow, by the way, is the name of the underground, secret filmed disney movie.
Speaker 1It's a horror movie escape from tomorrow.
Speaker 2So, okay, so they. They filmed it in secret, but they did it without the park knowing that they were doing correct what you're saying.
Speaker 1Okay, yep, and then they got like. I think there are some film like scenes that are filmed off park property, but a majority of it is them filmed walking around like they're making home movies, but they are filming a movie, jeez so it's like one of those things where it's like they, they get in a lot of trouble and I think they try to sue. Try, disney tried to sue them, but it's like, well, it's a little late, too late. Now you know it's out there, so there's not much they can do.
Speaker 2That's not true I'm looking at the IMDb and it says that the starting thing was for all viewing audiences. It's not true at all. I was going to say this says it's not rated.
Speaker 1I don't know about that I mean look at the movie posters. Mickey Mouse is being covered in ketchup.
Speaker 2Yeah in digore, anyways, okay, cool. Yeah In digore, anyways, okay, cool. Well, that was it. I mean, there was a list of specific movie conspiracies that I found and I was like that's pretty interesting to think about. But yeah, that's all I got, is that all?
Speaker 1you got. That's what I've got until part two of our Disney talk, or, sorry, park talk. Whenever that happens, the next time you go to park. I hate talking about it because it makes it sound like rich money was playing on doing all these. Obviously, there's people who will never be able to go to Disney at all, and I've been to half of all disney parks.
Speaker 2well, okay, but your wife is really good with money yes and it's just the two of you.
Speaker 2You both work and you enjoy experiences. So, like, yeah, it makes sense that you can go to a park. It's not like you're going to the park every single weekend, you, you know. But you, I mean, you can make trips, work, and so that's the thing is like for us. Like you know, we've got three little kids and we got stuff going on with them. I'm I'm the only one that works. My wife stays at home with the boys full time. So, yeah, it's you know, if, if, if we had it, we would go on trips, but probably not to the parks.
Speaker 2We'd probably, I mean, we'd go to the parks every now and then, but we'd probably try and go to, like, different countries yeah, we both really want to go to new zealand and ever since we got on the mummy, like loving the mummy movies, I think that like we both secretly really want to go to Egypt now yeah, and uncover the mysteries.
Speaker 1So technically it would just be for us two more trips. Yeah, hong Kong. And then there's Hong Kong, paris and Shanghai. Are the Paris still?
Speaker 2open their Disney park. Yeah, I heard rumors that they were going to close it, but it's probably still there.
Speaker 1As of last time I looked, it's still there. And then the Hong Kong and Shanghai parks are about three hours apart.
Speaker 2Okay, well, it might be there for now, but have you seen everything that's been going on in Paris, like politically, apparently, it's crazy.
Speaker 1So might not ever be able to go there. But you know what? Yeah, yeah, our goal is, you know, to uh, still make it out there to the uh all every disney park what about the disney resort in uh? Hawaii. Uh, maybe eventually that'd be nice. There you go, but it's like a spa resort, right? It's not a natural.
Speaker 2It's just a Disney themed resort. I don't think that it's any one thing, it's just a resort. But it's owned by Disney, so it has all the Disney themes. So it probably is, like you know, the pool area and it probably does have a spa in there and it has its own restaurant and all that stuff.
Speaker 1But it it does have a spot in there and it has its own restaurant and all that stuff, but it's all Disney stuff, anyway. So this was a nice break from the joyful season. Yeah, you got any holiday things to say? I do, maybe, maybe, I do. If you utter so much as one syllable, I'll hunt you down and gut you like a fish. If you'd like to fax me, press the star key.
Christmas Nativity Discussion
Speaker 2That's what I've got. So festive, yeah, but so next week we're going to be coming right up on Christmas, so make sure you join us. We're going to be talking about the nativity, which is the birth of.
Speaker 1Jesus Christ, which is that is going to be our finale of joyful season.
Speaker 2No, no, Cause the. The Monday after Christmas, we'll be talking about the three wise men.
Speaker 1That's right, sorry. So, this is a bit of a kind of I wouldn't say break, but it's a bit of a. I mean, we talked about the festive stuff and whatnot.
Speaker 2But hey, a bit of a middle ground break in the month of December, but hey, back into it hardcore with the nativity the nativity birth of Christ, talking about how insane it was that the sky was filled with angels on the night of his birth. We don't really. We kind of gloss over that when we read the story.
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