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Orlando Unplugged: Life In Living Color
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Orlando Unplugged: Life In Living Color
Unplugging Disney's Four-Park Dash, Snack Fueled Antics, and Lightning Lane Laughs
Ever tried to conquer four Disney parks in a single caffeine-fueled day? That's just a taste of the theme park marathon Dustin and Ashley embarked on, and trust us—you'll want to hear how that wild ride went down. Amid the laughter and the occasional theme park mishap, we're spilling the details on our strategic park hopping, the snacks powering their quest (shoutout to Uncrustables), and out candid take on the Lightning Lane system that both giveth and taketh away.
Join our dynamic duo as we weave through the nostalgia of Epcot's Spaceship Earth narrated by the incomparable Helen Mirren, to the future-forward excitement brewing over Disney's Test Track revamp. we've got the lowdown on where to park, and what to eat (bacon maple donut, anyone?), and we're even tossing in some priceless theme park banter that could only come from friendly encounters with fellow Disney devotees. It's not all magical moments, though—prepare for some amusing gripes and tales of late-night antics that prove Disney's charm never fades, even when the ride does.
Wrapping up their adventure, we share our reviews on everything from the thrilling to the quirky, like the always entertaining Horror Makeup Show at Universal Studios Florida. we will air out our theme park funnies and frustrations, like navigating a backlogged Small World ride or an accidental ride halt at Ariel's Undersea Adventure. So, buckle up for this hilarity-laden episode that'll give you a peek into the lives of two Orlando theme park enthusiasts who love a good laugh as much as they love a good ride.
contains information about universal becoming social media account holders. You're listening to orlando, unplugged, celebrating life in living color with dustin and ashley. Grab a cocktail or a mocktail and let's get unplugged, orlando no, I was saying I wanted to make iced coffee before we got started and I forgot to.
Speaker 2:That sounds really good. I had one today at work. It was a caramel mocha iced coffee. So it was caramel and chocolate. That's disgusting. It was delicious, was it Starbucks mocha? No, oh, caramel and chocolate. That's disgusting. It was delicious, was it?
Speaker 1:starbucks mocha no oh then, okay, it wasn't disgusting no, starbucks mocha is disgusting. No, I don't disagree with you on that, it's gross uh, a huge bag of this chocolate powdered stuff mixed with two quarts of boiling hot water. That's all. That's all. The mocha is at starbucks. That's disgusting, do you know?
Speaker 2:what wasn't disgusting, what our starbucks we had at animal kingdom that was really good, that was so good animal kingdom starbucks lately has been like on top of their game. I don't know like about other starbucks's at the other disney parks, but at crete what is it? Creature comforts or whatever. Is that what it's called? I think so that that that's your responsibility, not mine that shit slaps. I don't, I don't know that, I don't know the food and beverage stuff.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry that stuff slaps, but today, today, yeah, what are we drinking today?
Speaker 1:So I went to Aldi today to get a few things and I saw they had a hard seltzer from Vista Bay. Ooh, it only has 100 calories, 2 grams of carbs. It's gluten-free, 5% alcohol.
Speaker 2:And it says all natural flavors. Which one do you have? I have the lemon, I got the tangerine and she not be tangerine and the lemon's not bad.
Speaker 1:It tastes like a it it tastes like a? Um carbonated water with lemon, like it's just all it tastes like to me that'll mess you up, which I usually don't like carbonated water I love carbonated water this doesn't taste bad. I didn't get id'd for them no, no way. Just walked straight up to the register, just did the whole transaction cashed out. So good job. Aldi's in Florida.
Speaker 2:Proud of you guys. Welcome to it, you're the worst.
Speaker 1:Is it because did she not card me? Because I have like three gray beards in my hair now.
Speaker 2:I think it's just because three gray beards in my hair three gray hairs in my beard three gray beards in the hair and ladies and gentlemen. That's why you didn't get carded, because you can't even speak. So they know you're old enough I mean, hey, where the oh?
Speaker 1:here it is words are hard. Today they are I'm gonna.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to wait to plug the ipad in because it's only at 13 rip so I'm like I can't do our transition music without it well, before we get into that, I do want to say hey, we're so sorry that we didn't come out on monday oh yeah yeah, we're sorry, life got no, I came out a long time ago, okay I was waiting for you to wait for it, for you to wait for it, wait for it.
Speaker 1:I had to hold the ipad to the microphone.
Speaker 2:I was waiting for it. I like held my breath. I was like, oh, this man goes say something about coming out of a closet you're welcome thank you so much, but yeah, no, we're sorry.
Speaker 1:Life got in the way, life got messy, life got sticky and icky, so, um, yeah chances are next week's episode will possibly come out a little late just because we're filming this on and icky. So, um, yeah, chances are next week's episode will possibly come out a little late just because we're filming this on and we have so many people coming to our house this weekend well, I gotta work, girl like well, no, that, that, no, I'm only off friday.
Speaker 2:It's the only day I'm off oh, and we and I have a party on friday. My best friend and her girlfriend are coming into town, so we have that. My favorite person in the whole planet is here hi kevin um, so we have that, and then a whole bunch of people are coming over to our house in two days and I have to work the whole weekend you also have to work on friday and saturday and sunday and monday and tuesday and wednesday and thursday and friday and saturday and I have no idea when my next day off yep
Speaker 1:yep, but that's the hotel life you know I took saturday off because I was like, oh, we're gonna have a pool party, I'm gonna get drunk. And then I was like I'm gonna take saturday off. And then I was like I need money. But it's really nice because I picked up a job at my second the part part-time job instead of the full-time job, but it's a full, like eight-hour shift that day. So I'm like I'll take it. The part-time job's more fun. I like it.
Speaker 2:I need one of those. I want one of those. I want like a part-time little bartending gig. Do it, I'm thinking about it. I know a you up, really. Yeah, her name's mercy, and she lives in east tennessee, hey, mercadoo, so you might have, you might have to move, but I could do that just like part-time fly up and down back and forth.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine all the airplane airline tickets? I was just saying, yeah, that'd be a very expensive, very expensive. Let's see if this makes noise it definitely took away some noise. It made a little noise, but I don't know if anyone else is gonna hear it. Um well, do you have any like updates on anything?
Speaker 2:I've got an update on the madeline soto case hit me um, the man that was accused of, um, well, he had videos and pornographic like uh text messages and photos and videos of her and then everybody thought that he did it. Guess what. He got charged for it because he did it.
Speaker 1:So Well, he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?
Speaker 2:No, he's not. Yes, he is. No, he's not. That means he's straight up guilty.
Speaker 1:I don't care what you say, girl, you're going to make Kendall Rae turn over in her podcast studio. Listen, kendall, that he came america and killed her.
Speaker 2:No, I don't care, not this one, the other ones, yeah like absolutely guilty interproposal otherwise yeah, everything, everything points towards it, but this one. No, I'm sorry, but you do be guilty and we know what. I really kind of wish you went out the same way that you did.
Speaker 2:I'm I'm real concerned, though, because it took them so long to get something on him to arrest him, um, that I hope they have enough stuff for it to be able to be carried through all the way, because you know how the american judicial system is well I think that's why it took so long for them to actually finally make an arrest on him, because of the fact that they were trying to gain as much evidence as they could before, um, they went ahead and arrested him so that they that way, they don't have to worry about any of that they can be like, yeah, no, straight up, um you guilty, you arrested, enjoy jail, bye-bye. So yeah, that's my update on that. That was pretty cool. Um, oh, hey, I got a universal update for you.
Speaker 1:Why did you do that? I don't know what the fuck this thing tries to connect to my cell phone all the time and it just cut off our microphones to try to connect to my phone that's so cool. So we just said all of that shit without anything being recorded no, it got up until you said I have something to tell you about universal oh cool okay, keep talking. Sorry guys, the microphone shut off for a minute. What did you have to say?
Speaker 2:uh, we got an update on universal. Uh, they closed two stores at city walk oh yeah, well, cinnabon was still open the other day when I was there. No, no, cinnabon's done now when did it close? Because it was open like two days ago I think today is the day like the last day, or it's friday is the last day, but it is done, done oh okay, and then they closed up the swimsuit store.
Speaker 1:Swim suit store it's not a swimsuit store, it's a surfer store what was it called? Again. Uh, high tide or something like that, something like that it had been there for like what?
Speaker 2:17 years something like that.
Speaker 1:They closed that, so bye-bye nothing, uh, nothing official from universal as to what is going there. Um, yet we can imagine it may have something to do with epic universe or the new ips that they have going on, or maybe it's a new restaurant or a new bar, who knows?
Speaker 2:did you see the halloween horror nights merch, though? That got dropped.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't like it they came out with it in black, I know I did see that I like the black.
Speaker 2:I don't like the orange.
Speaker 1:Let me know what you guys think yeah, I was trying to look to see if I could find my really cool music to play after our intro, but I couldn't find it, so it is what it is. Are you ready to talk about our super fun day that we had last week?
Speaker 2:I am beyond ready. You know what's actually now. Okay, my entire body after our fire fun 4 Park one day, challenging trip.
Speaker 1:Bruce, you okay.
Speaker 2:What the heck just happened I don't know.
Speaker 1:I just felt her hit the couch. What'd she do? Did the whole thing oh yeah, that blind falls all the time. I have a ghost and just felt her hit the couch. What'd she do? Did the whole thing. Oh yeah, that blind falls all the time I have a ghost and it fucked with my blinds.
Speaker 2:Well, hey guys, hi.
Speaker 1:We're here to tell you guys about our Disney challenge. It is four parks one day, all of our favorite attractions and pit stops along the way. We did it.
Speaker 2:We were ahead of time for a good, good chunk and then suddenly we were not ahead of time anymore. I was really proud of us there for a second, and then I was like, oh, and then we got to magic kingdom and everything, because I think we died no, I just think everything was so spread out.
Speaker 1:The majority of what we wanted to do was in magic. Everything was spread out. Um, we had to go like three different directions. We also threw in an extra ride while we were in magic kingdom and I think that squandered. Uh, like what?
Speaker 1:that was an hour almost it's 45 minutes in line, but um so yeah, we wanted to do a fun challenge. We did our staycation at universal studios recently, so we figured that we would do something along the disney route. Shocker us talking about a theme park yet again here we go it's our lives.
Speaker 3:That's why we live in orlando um but we decided to do four parks in one day.
Speaker 1:So we got up at about. Uh well, we set our alarms for 6 15. The goal was to be out of the house at 7. Per ashley, she wanted to be out of the house at 7 in the morning.
Speaker 2:I wanted to open what time did you get out of bed? Ashley, I don't know, but we got there.
Speaker 1:What time did we get to Animal Kingdom Ashley?
Speaker 3:9.30.
Speaker 2:But you know what? It was honestly okay, though, because we were able to hit the main things that we wanted to, and we added an additional thing that we weren't expecting to ride, and we were able to get a snack or a coffee morning breakfast. We had that built in, but it wasn't anywhere near as busy, as I was expecting it to be, so I think that was kind of nice then. We were able to get in and get out and then head to the next park yeah, so we went to creature comforts which is starbucks are you all right?
Speaker 1:yeah, you got hard seltzer coming for you and a little burpy um, but we went to creature comforts. I got you know my go-to peppermint white mocha with oat milk and no whipped cream there's such a basic white girl. It's delicious I love mint in in coffee drinks. It's just I like it and I like the white mocha because I don't like the mocha. We've had this conversation. What'd you get?
Speaker 2:I get my usual, which is my brown sugar shake and espresso with oat milk and sweet cream. Coleslaw on top.
Speaker 1:And then we both got the bacon and Gouda breakfast sandwich.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I was so excited that they do it without meat, so that was super cool.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, the bacon was on the sandwich, they just took it off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, listen, I'm here for it.
Speaker 1:In my head no, they removed the bacon for me and all its calorie and malfunctioning taste and yuck.
Speaker 2:You know what I bought at the store today.
Speaker 1:What did you buy at the store today? Bacon, ew? No, I didn't. I bought a sausage.
Speaker 3:Just lies to me.
Speaker 2:I just wanted to. You just lied to me. Is that what our friendship is? I almost bought bacon. I almost bought bacon. I do nice things for you and you lied to me.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:I wanted to buy the bacon, but I'm making adventurous casserole.
Speaker 1:Uh, for breakfast for the next couple of days. Uh, it is hash browns, cream cheese, cream of chicken eggs, and hash browns and sausage can you, can you make me some?
Speaker 2:but like, can you put a little corner of it without the sausage?
Speaker 1:no, because it's all you mix, it's all mixed in, and then can you put like the sausage bits on the one side.
Speaker 2:So then I have, because it's all mixed in.
Speaker 1:okay, then you throw it in. Can you put like the sausage bits on the one side? So then I have like a little no, because it's all mixed in.
Speaker 2:Okay, then can you make me some without the sausage.
Speaker 1:Maybe one day that wow rude, not like tonight.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I really wanted to do though?
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:I really wanted to throw you out of the water, out of the boat, into the water on the Navi River.
Speaker 1:Me this dish without sausage you knew all the way back then yep I did so. Hey, let's talk about that ride that we threw in that we didn't plan on doing an animal. Okay, so, first off, what were, what was the original plan when we got to animal the?
Speaker 2:original plan was just to do expedition everest and dinosaur, because and dinosaur has been announced that is closing.
Speaker 2:So the plan was to try to do that as a potential last ride, because we don't know when it's going to close. And then we were going to do starbucks. Those are the three things. That was it. Coffee, dinosaur expedition, everest, that's it. And then we're like, all right, cool, checked off, because I really don't feel like I have to do anything. I mean, pandora is good, don't get me wrong, but it's not like a must do for me anymore because I've done it so many times I did fly to passage one time and I was done we did it I like it.
Speaker 1:It's pretty. The first time I wrote it it was amazing, but I hate the vibrations um I don't like the breathing the leg, the breathing is fine for the banshee breathing is fine. For me, it's the. It's the vibrations that I don't like I don't like it but anywho, we didn't ride that one um, but I did want to ride the navi river journey because I'd only ever ridden it once before, um, and it was how long ago. It wasn't a super long wait at that time.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I think it was only like 30 minutes, right?
Speaker 1:I think so yeah, so, and I wanted to see. I cannot think of the character's name, but it's like-.
Speaker 2:I have no idea.
Speaker 1:It's like the mother, yeah, like the mother of the tribe.
Speaker 2:The avatar mother.
Speaker 1:She, they have an animatronic of her.
Speaker 2:I don't remember this. It is the most uh well, it's not well her chant, I don't remember her chant.
Speaker 1:It was when the ride opened. It was the most advanced animatronic that disney had ever had proud of you and when I wrote it, uh, back in covid times, the show was operating or the the ride was operating in b mode, so they lowered her animatronic down below and projected it on a backdrop. So it was like a scrim that they were just projecting it on and it's not.
Speaker 1:It wasn't as cool, but but then you got to do it I got to do it and it was in a mode and I got to see her and it was the most coolest thing and I love that it's been years and she's still super like fluid and it looks good she's cute she's a nice little rest.
Speaker 2:And then we did Expression Everest.
Speaker 1:We did what.
Speaker 2:No, dinosaur, we did Dinosaur next.
Speaker 1:No, what did you? What did you just call it?
Speaker 2:Expedition.
Speaker 3:Expedition, Expedition.
Speaker 2:Everest? No, we did. We did Everest first and then Dinosaur, didn't we?
Speaker 1:We closed the park with yes, yeah, so I don't weird rob, I don't, I don't do everest dude, I'm not a fan of that.
Speaker 2:Ride your brother's just standing there, just smiling child. Okay, his mother didn't like him enough oh did mom not like you enough? Shout out to shan answer the question.
Speaker 1:Shan, um, I don't really do everest I'm not a huge fan of everest for the getting so distracted when, when it launches, well, when it releases you and you go backwards into the mountain I don't like it. I don't like that big back, that big circle that you go in backwards in the pitch black that makes me nauseous um every other part of that ride. I enjoy that one section I hate.
Speaker 2:I don't like it the whole thing I don't like. I don't like how I see how I sit. That's uncomfortable for me because I feel like the lap bar really like squeezes me and I'm a big hip, kind of chicky, so like it like squeezes me in that seat.
Speaker 1:I'm not a fan as my friend in high school would say, she got them birthing hips I really do so, not a fan of that.
Speaker 2:And then, like I also don't like the fact that I go backwards, I don't like the fact that the yeti sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work I mean the yeti, don't ever work, no like, but the last time we wrote it when that's because we we cascaded, and when the cascade was reset the.
Speaker 1:That scene had already happened. I don't like, so we just went through the pitch black. Yeah, we didn't get.
Speaker 2:You know what else I really don't like is when I'm in the mountain and I do that like projection screen of the yeti. That's like tearing apart the, the, the track, and then that brie, like breeze of cold air, conditioned air, comes in and I'm just like yeti breath, I know, but I don't like it.
Speaker 2:It makes me uncomfortable and I'm not a fan, so but I would rather do that over Tower of Terror, and that's my final thoughts on that. But then you made me ride the worst ride at all all of Animal Kingdom, and I will say it, and our friends will come for me again and I don't care, but I despise dinosaur, my dude. But I was really proud.
Speaker 1:I opened my eyes. How can you despise dinosaur?
Speaker 2:your eyes are never open you don't even know what the ride looks like. I've watched enough videos. It counts you watched one video I know I watched a lot more than one. I just didn't tell you about it okay so being mean um, I'm interested to see when they're gonna close, but I thought it was cool for you that you got to experience that again, because you don't know when you're going to be able to do it again.
Speaker 1:I know it was great for me this time, because the last time you made me like hold on to you the whole time and I was focused on not falling out of the side of the darn Jeep. And this time you weren't like hold me.
Speaker 2:I'm scared, you're so dramatic. Except for that president's world, but like president's world, whatever it's called like all of president that, but like I'm pretty sure you'd feed me to one of these things you'd be like here you go, ash. So sorry, sucks for you face your fear I am not excited to get in an hhn house with you.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not, oh, you will.
Speaker 2:Because I'll ignore you to the end of the day, because I'm gonna be focused on enjoying the house then you know what you need to do is you need to go without me and then go again with me.
Speaker 1:Oh no, you can just go with someone else. Oh my God, If I have to hold your hand through the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Yes, you do, every single one.
Speaker 1:I will not go with you, then you can go with someone else.
Speaker 2:Worst best friend ever.
Speaker 1:Hello.
Speaker 2:Hello, oh, there is someone that there was more people here, you're shaking things. Oh, bring me one back pizza. Yeah, oh, I thought we were doing dinner. Tonight we're doing dinner raps going to city walk. Okay, you know how rap loves red oven city walks, love simpsons right oven city walk. Um, then we decided to drive our car to oh wait, zach.
Speaker 1:Um ashley said that uh, dinosaur is the worst ride at animal kingdom and she's really glad she never has to ride it again. Zach is currently looking for a new roommate, that's okay that's okay. We've been looking for a new um producer since the show started, so you've been looking for a new host, so I think it's just gonna be you all, by yourself, doing all the jobs that's what this would sound like if I did, if I did our podcast alone.
Speaker 2:Like if you ever go on a trip and I have to do this podcast alone, do you know how? Like chaotic it's just gonna be you doing asmr just and this episode is brought to you in part by dr greg, my therapist breathe in breathe out. How's your finger? I got it off again.
Speaker 1:I'm doing great this week guys to go back into what you were saying. So we drove our car to animal kingdom yes, we did but we knew that we were going to end our day at magic kingdom correct and we didn't want to have to drive to every single park because that's gross well, and, and animal kingdom is far from all the other three so, and it closes the earliest out of all of them.
Speaker 2:So you can't really like leave your vehicle and animal and go. Okay, let me pop over to magic. Yeah, that kind of yeah.
Speaker 1:So I drove my car over to the Ticket and Transportation Center, which is otherwise known as the Magic Kingdom parking lot. From there, we took my preferred mode of transportation, the monorail, over to EBCOOT.
Speaker 2:EBCOOT. I hate that we're calling it EBCOOT, but now I can't stop calling it EBCOOT.
Speaker 1:I have always loved that we called it EBCOOT. Just, I have always loved that we called it Epcot. Just like it is. Parattis of the carbon. Do you know what I?
Speaker 2:really loved about Epcot what that peanut butter and jelly and crust of all. That was pretty good. That was so good that slapped so hard Like I want one of those right now.
Speaker 1:When we got there the first place, we went to.
Speaker 2:Is that?
Speaker 1:cut closed. The first place we went to was Sunshine Seasons which is inside the Land and Sea Pavilion Correct.
Speaker 3:It's right between.
Speaker 2:Tower.
Speaker 1:Earth and Tower.
Speaker 2:Right between Sauron.
Speaker 1:Land Pavilion, it's just the Land Pavilion.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's just the.
Speaker 2:Land. Zach, is that right? Are you judging the fact that I just said Saur? I called it. I went and said I was trying to say Tower and I don't know why. I said tower and that came out. And then I was like it's right next to sour, it's soaring, damn it. Words today are just not wording for me so we went to sunshine season.
Speaker 1:Is the fast food or the?
Speaker 2:quick service, thank you which is located downstairs.
Speaker 1:This is probably why we pushed, be quiet, we're pretty, I'm tired and ashley's just ashley. Okay, get us some slack you're hateful to me um, but anyway, there's the quick service restaurant down in the quick I don't care, I don't care about the outside people yeah, because she saw you looking at her.
Speaker 2:No, I didn't.
Speaker 1:This episode is rough.
Speaker 2:It's so bad.
Speaker 1:It's so chaotic. So, anywho, we got cuties. Yes, we bought a pickle and that was a good crispy. I love me some Disney pickles. They good.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to take you to Disneyland so you can have the Disneyland pickle corn dog. That's a whole experience.
Speaker 1:That sounds disgusting.
Speaker 2:Oh, and they have one that's vegan too. So it's fake meat all shoved in that pickle, deep fried. It's great. Do you know that Disneyland has a thing where you can be the first pickle to get a pickle and they give you a cute little pin? I'm not even joking, it's adorable.
Speaker 1:So in that Uncrustables pack. It came with carrots and that squeezed green apple applesauce. Ashley has some aversion to applesauce. That's in the little packets that you squeeze.
Speaker 2:No that I don't have an aversion to applesauce. I love applesauce, but applesauce in those packets.
Speaker 1:You just have an aversion to portable applesauce, correct applesauce.
Speaker 2:Correct that I don't need a spoon because I want to see it. I want to see what I'm consuming, not in that package, like I know your brother got macaroni and cheese and lays, but was it?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, potato chips and a powerade yep, go rob god that wine though.
Speaker 2:And then I found, yeah, they have that's what I want for dinner peanut butter and jelly and crustable wine, ramona ramona is the brand.
Speaker 1:It was a blood orange wine um seltzer. Yeah, it was a seltzer, wasn't it? Yeah um produced in italy. They sell them there in the lamb pavilion. They are absolutely delicious. The only thing that was weird to me was when I bought it um. The woman was like you have to open it at the register in front of me right now which I thought well, I just thought there was. Why does it matter if I open it or not in front of you because she's id checking you.
Speaker 2:She has to make sure that you're not going to take it and leave and go out of the park with it, okay pop the top, walk away from her, hand it to a random person. I don't understand the popping of the top. No, that's fine because she's done her job.
Speaker 1:I still. It just seemed kind of pointless. You know you wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 2:You know, you realize. It's the same concept as walking away with an open container at a theme park. What Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I did walk away with an open container at a theme park it's the same concept.
Speaker 2:If it's liquor you don't say anything. If it's liquor, but I can't. Everybody bitches let it be okay it is how it is because it is. Then we got to ride my favorite ride at epcot. Living with the land so our list of what we were actually supposed to do had three rides on it was spaceship, earth living with the land, and test track, and test track, and and then there was potential, like if we wanted to throw something cute in there too, we could add that into there.
Speaker 1:But I think we were avoiding ratatouille and frozen like the plague because the lines be thick no, we were um boys we were supposed to do um, oh, festival foods, so we going to go over and we were going to buy the orange bird slushy drink that they have. We didn't do that and then we ended up not doing. We're going to go to Italy and get festival food.
Speaker 2:Quaggio famaggio. But we said hi, we're going to save our legs on our walking and decided not to do that.
Speaker 1:Well, we started slowing down for some reason while we were at Epcot, and I think it was just because of the amount of distance that we were having to walk. But so we did that. We rode Living with the Land, then we went over and we rode on Test Track. Ashley, what are you doing? Stop holding a conversation.
Speaker 2:I'm not holding a conversation, I'm ASMR conversating.
Speaker 1:With your roommate. Focus, because I'm trying to remember all of this stuff.
Speaker 2:I need you. Okay, I'm here, I'll help you.
Speaker 3:We did living with the land, then we went over to test track um.
Speaker 1:What was that? Was that a doorbell? Yeah, it's my door did you get a ups?
Speaker 2:I got a package. Yeah, I forgot a package, do you? Know who that give me my package what?
Speaker 1:What is your package? It's from Shan.
Speaker 2:I hope, I really hope it's from Shan. I think it's from Shan. Is it for me?
Speaker 1:No, it's for me. Oh, what is it? It's for Zach.
Speaker 3:It's not for Ashley.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a big box. What's in the big box? What is in that really big box?
Speaker 3:So you know all my models on the shelf oh, no, yeah the company used to make this model, called the scorpion model, was like the first ever. It's really big and it used to cost six hundred dollars somebody was selling it for 200 oh, and they don't make the model anymore so you bought it. I bought another coaster model hey, there you go my is going to be covered in these things.
Speaker 1:You're going to need a bigger entertainment center.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Oh, valid, valid, Lord Okay.
Speaker 2:How do I know? I live with theme park nerds Coaster models. Coaster models Not near as bad as everybody else in my house.
Speaker 1:You're a food and beverage nerd, though.
Speaker 2:I am, it's cute. What are you doing with that mic? There you go, I'm putting it back.
Speaker 1:You're struggling to find that hole honey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I struggle to find a lot of holes. So there's the tea on that, sis, any hoozles?
Speaker 1:So Test Track. Let's talk about that for a moment. So, as we know, test Track it's been announced that it is closing to be reimagined again Right now. They have been running this model, or this version of Test Track, for many years. It is sponsored by Chevrolet.
Speaker 2:Yes, by Chevy.
Speaker 1:And it's got this futuristic vibe if you haven't ridden it.
Speaker 2:It's okay.
Speaker 1:You go to go in, you get to make your own vehicle and then you enter into a world that to me, is the same as tron, like it's that same universe I've never done tron yet well, the movie, I've never seen it okay I can't help you on that aspect you're in a computer simulated model why are you yelling at me? I've written test track dummy I'm saying and I'm describing would you agree?
Speaker 2:yeah, okay, but if it, works, that's my thing um, yeah, is there so many times lately that it has been working. I mean, even after you make the vehicle it's not working when you tap your your band and to try to get that to work or try to get it to upload, that's not always working okay, so we rhyme, explain what you just explained again to people who don't know what you're talking about okay, so if you've ever done test track, if you have not done test track, the purpose of test track is that you create your own vehicle and they test your vehicle based on certain criterias that it has to meet.
Speaker 2:So it's like speed, safety, aerodynamics responsiveness responsiveness and a couple other ones in there. So, before it's part of your pre-show, that part of your weight is that you create your vehicle. You scan your magic band or your park ticket, um, or your phone or your watch. You scan your park ticket and onto the machine. You create your car. Pick all your colors. Ours was pink, in case you're curious and in case anybody was the only input ashley wanted to give it was pink and glittery.
Speaker 2:No, it had flowers on it because it was flower and garden festival that was happening in edcott, so it was flowers. It was real cute. She was adorable anyways.
Speaker 1:So you create the car the boys take it very, very seriously um no, your brother takes it very seriously my contribution was the color I just said hey, rob, I want to also do this today, so I'm not standing here for three minutes, because he always designs the car and I want to design the car. Yeah, he always runs out of time. What are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm listening to you so then you.
Speaker 1:So then you go and you get in line. Thank, you.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I'm sorry, I lost my whole train of thought. So then you go and you get in line and you're standing in line and then, before you enter into the ride vehicle to start your test, you have to scan your ticket or your magic yet again to upload your vehicle so that it syncs you with your ride vehicle, so it knows which vehicle you're testing and here's one thing that I would point out that I don't like about that ride is there is a tap point for all three seats, so me, you and you and Rob all tap in Because it's three across, but only you had the car that we created because only one person per module can do it and you go as a group.
Speaker 1:So you got the test car that we built and then me and Rob both got just random cars that the ride assigned to us when we tapped in.
Speaker 2:Yep. And it sucks, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and I don't like that. Sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it doesn't, and it did work this time it did your vehicle.
Speaker 1:So you get in your vehicle, you strap in, you pull forward to seat belt check.
Speaker 2:They check you a full seat belt.
Speaker 1:You're in a dummy car they check your seat belts and then you start off onto the course and the course you'll go through like responsiveness, and then at the end of the responsiveness test it's supposed to show on the screen your vehicle as well as the other one, two, three, four, five people.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the other five people, because there's six total in the car it's supposed to show a total of six cars on that screen in what order they place him, except for it only showed our car one time, on like the third test, and that was it. We didn't see the car at the end when we got like the overall rating and it's supposed to rate all the vehicles from best to worst it didn't show up there. Um, but you know what did work the fake wall yeah, that worked.
Speaker 1:That was pretty cool and I was super excited that that worked, because it hasn't worked since I've ever ridden this version of test track. It's never worked for me, only in the original test track back in the 90s when I was a little kid, and it was reminiscent of like a car testing facility where they test like uh, airbags and stuff like that, like it's supposed to have been, like that. Um, I thought that I was actually going to slam into a wall. I was terrified it's terrifying.
Speaker 2:Uh, then we did rob's food right, no, no.
Speaker 1:And we need to talk about the last thing, about test track what about the last thing?
Speaker 2:the jerking what jerking when the when it's like it wants you to slow down oh yeah, like it's been really jerky recently, we also got really backed up.
Speaker 1:We had to wait a while well, no, no, it was the was. Was that the launch that we sat at?
Speaker 2:no, where was it that we?
Speaker 1:sat somewhere.
Speaker 1:Oh, was it at the end that's not the longest we've ever, oh no, in the station. That's right, because it they dispatched, but they were clearly held up at the seat belt check. So only like two cars left the station and then our car entered the station and we pulled up to a gate, but we were the second car in the sequence, so we had to go all the way up to the second gate. We were at the fourth gate, so we just kind of sat there for a while and then everything finally moved and and we were able to unload. Um, I am personally am really excited to see this version of test track go away. It sounds like they're going to merge the modern technology with what people loved about the original version of the ride back in the 90s. Um, and I think disney hasn't said when the ride is closing, but it's been on the internet that disney cast members have confirmed that they are being pushed out to other attractions with the disney company as early as is it june or july something around there june or july.
Speaker 1:So we're we're expecting it to close june or july so we'll see, uh, what else we do spaceship earth, my favorite. Who's the woman, who's the voice? Helen mirren. What else is she in? Because I know this voice, james bond. Helen Mirren. What else?
Speaker 2:is she in?
Speaker 1:Because I know this voice James Bond, that's right.
Speaker 2:James Bond. I think that this will always be, and I only know that because I am hot for James Bond.
Speaker 1:I think this will always be one of my favorite attractions.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:It's just so much fun, so it's an Omnimover attraction, so it's just like Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom. You get into a vehicle, it's just a chain of vehicles all the way around.
Speaker 2:it never stops moving, theoretically it takes you through the back history of our world, and then takes you into communication, the communication of the human race. Correct and then it also shows you a little bit of future communication. No, yeah, well, the video. That's part of the ride sir.
Speaker 1:Yes, but the actual ride of going through your traveling time is it goes through just the modern computer Planet. Earth. It takes you all the way up to California when they create internet in that guy's garage in California. And then you do your descent back to Earth and they flip you around backwards and they play this video to keep you occupied, of a picture with your face on it.
Speaker 2:That doesn't always show up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that doesn't always show up and it shows the future that you created.
Speaker 2:The future's yours. Or should I say, wait, no, something's like it's like your future's here, or should I say tomorrow? I don't know. I hate this friendship of ours.
Speaker 1:I really do you did so good there um, and then we left we sure did and we took the back way.
Speaker 2:So the back way for me. Oh my god, what communicor, communicor we saw theCore building almost complete.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's getting close. It looked really good and what was that sign? That you kept reading on the fence.
Speaker 2:All the signs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but there was one that we saw it like three times back to back oh.
Speaker 2:God I don't remember what it was, but it was. So communicor building looks really cool and I'm pretty excited it should be opening, I think in may, I think so. So that's fun. So, okay, now we can talk about leaving. Um, then we left and we went through the back way is what I call it. So the front way is by space troopers. You see the ball?
Speaker 1:the front gate correct.
Speaker 2:And then you leave and I say the back way, which is in between france and england. There's a little little pathway and we got on rob's favorite way, disney mode of transportation in the entire world the skyliner. If you have never hung out with rob and you want to do something super fun for you, to get some entertainment for you, put that kid on the skyliner, just do it. That's that's it. Just do it. That kid hands you your phone.
Speaker 1:He hands you every single thing that's known on him my phone was on my lap and he was freaking out for five minutes because I was like I was like what's gonna happen? I'm gonna drop it and it's gonna land on the floor. I'm in a fully encased glass bubble. Call me glenda of emotion.
Speaker 1:No, like literally he thought he was gonna die and I just find it so funny and the best part is, like it it'll stop or slow down and the way that you exit this thing it straight up looks like you're gonna crash into another skyliner and he will be like we're getting so close, ashley, yeah, I will admit, the first time I ever rode the skyliner, I thought it was like gonna malfunction or something, because we, you come in and you only stop like a foot away from the next gondola and you're swinging and it's yeah, it's a, it's a good time um, but we got, we got put in a gondola with these three random strangers and um ashley just doesn't know how to ever stop talking in public when we're around strangers.
Speaker 1:The wife was like laughing her head off and then the dad just looked like he was ready to knock our teeth down our throat because somebody just wouldn't be quiet.
Speaker 2:Listen. If there's one thing that you know that you can take away from from listening to our podcast, I do condone talking to strangers. Ok, you know why Because they're fun, I like it. I think it's a catchphr talking to strangers, okay, you know why Because they're fun, I like it, I think it's a blast.
Speaker 1:What is your catchphrase with strangers? Go what.
Speaker 2:What's for?
Speaker 1:Michigan? What's for Michigan? What sports team? What is it? Every time you see someone from Michigan?
Speaker 2:what do you say? Go Tigers, go Tigers.
Speaker 1:Go.
Speaker 2:Tigers, go Tigers.
Speaker 1:That's what she says, and then it sprouts a whole five minute long conversation with these people.
Speaker 2:Because it's my baseball team Go.
Speaker 1:Tigers Always old people.
Speaker 2:Go Tigers, I love it. Listen, it's like Alabama people Roll Tide. Same concept, okay, same concept.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Except for you. Don't see people down here going Roll Tide. Nope, god, no, not me, exactly no, but I do it.
Speaker 1:But let me tell you those people they jumped out of that gondola at the first station.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did, they were like oh, you're staying, okay, great, can you move, Because we're leaving, even if this isn't our tram spot, we are leaving right now. You people are nuts.
Speaker 1:Except for that, I'm pretty sure that was their hotel Listen. I am a blast and a half and they.
Speaker 2:It's a blast, but we stayed on because we were not staying at Riviera, um so to get from uh Epcot to Epcot to studios.
Speaker 1:There are two stations that you have to pass through. One is a connecting station, so you don't get off. No, you go through the Riviera station, you stay on board and then it picks you back up and then you get off. At what is that resort? Is that boardwalk? Which one? What is that? I thought it's riviera it's the oh, then what is the other one? What's the? What's the station that we don't get off at?
Speaker 2:the connecting station.
Speaker 1:No, the one, you with the one. You do not get out of the pod on oh, I don't know it's a fancy one it's very fancy but it's not the riviera and then you get off, is that?
Speaker 1:beach club maybe and then we and then we get off at riviera, and that's where they have the three lines one that goes back to studio, or, uh, one that goes to art of animation and pop century and the other one that goes to Art of Animation and Pop Century and the other one that goes to Hollywood Studios. Which one did we get on, ashley?
Speaker 2:The one for Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 1:We sure did.
Speaker 2:And then we went to Hollywood Studios and this is where I wish we wouldn't have gotten on or off, because I would have been okay not doing this park.
Speaker 1:I yeah, it was to be honest, it was kind of a bust yeah, because the one thing I wanted to do we I wasn't allowed. Well, there were two there were two specific things that we were looking forward to um, and that was rise of resistance no rise of resistance and lunch at back lot express which we will get into in a minute, because we're both going to go on a rant. I have a feeling on that yeah um.
Speaker 1:So when we got there, the first thing that we did was get more starbucks yep needed to pick me up, ashley ordered. Uh yeah, green tea lemonade unsweetened. I like them.
Speaker 2:I wanted mine sweetened, but that's okay well sugar's bad for you, so eat a carb, that's fine um, but then we went and we did Tower of Terror.
Speaker 1:It was not the big show, the one that we got the last time we rode and you just absolutely loved it then and you were laughing and cackling and having a good time. This time we had a more tame show and you were like I hate the world.
Speaker 2:I don't do that ride. I don't like it. I love that right, I don't like it. I never have. I never have since the time I wrote it the very first time, when I was 12 and my father lied. And I don't like it now and I'm almost 28.
Speaker 1:So thank you, but no, thank you. Tower of Terror will always be one of my favorites. That's great for you and I'm happy connection, but I I don't. It's okay, but we wrote it. We had a good time, um, it wasn't a long wait or anything. The. Then we went to backlot express. Um, we had searched online. We wanted to plan out our whole day. We knew that we would be getting hungry. We looked at going to what the nbc commissary, abc commissary, abc Commissary originally, but there wasn't quite anything.
Speaker 1:Nbc Wrong park company, my friend, yeah, it's okay, there wasn't anything on the menu that our lovely picky eater would eat, so we decided to go with Backlot.
Speaker 2:Express. That's how you're saying our Like. We birthed it, we have it, we own it, we're in charge of it.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in theory.
Speaker 1:It's not wrong, we're talking about rob, in case you haven't figured that one out, who we love dearly, but he will not eat anything except for, uh, corn dogs and tater tots and no, we won't eat corn dogs, hot dogs, oh hot dogs. You want me the corn dog? No, jesus christ, anywho um so hot dogs, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, pizza, we went to back lot because they had chicken tenders and fries that we knew rob would want and we saw a teriyaki chicken and teriyaki tofu yes um platter that we thought.
Speaker 1:I mean it sounded really really good. What, what all was in it actually?
Speaker 2:it had jasmine rice chicken and tofu. This yazoo pickled edamame carrots, cucumbers, onions and a house-made lemon tahini chipotle vinaigrette with man sesame seeds, sesame seeds.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, bruce is on one this week, dude um, so we ordered it yeah it took a fairly decently long amount of time to come out there not to have been a line um. The rice was nice and warm, the chicken was warm, the pickled edamame, carrots, cucumbers, onions were all thrown together in that, uh, vinaigrette were cold. I did not like it. Um, and it had. I don't know if it's the tahini, I don't know what. I don't know what tahini is, so I don't know if it's like it.
Speaker 1:It's like a Greek sauce, it's like so that's probably what it, because it had this tangy flavor to it that I didn't like.
Speaker 2:It's chickpea and lemon and yogurt mixed together Like blended together, something like that. Don't quote me on that, though, but I know it has hummus in it.
Speaker 1:Whatever it was, I was not a big fan of it. A big fan of it. Um. It had a very tangy flavor to it and I'm like this does not go well with the sweetness of teriyaki, um, in my opinion. Um, so I ate all the chicken and half of my rice and I pushed all the other stuff off to the side I ate rob's chicken tenders because I really just didn't like it.
Speaker 2:I was so mad, I was so excited, I thought like it was gonna be light, so it wasn't gonna be like, oh my god, so full at a theme park, because that's like a day ender for me, especially given how much more we had to do and it was really really hot that day, like disgustingly hot I will say, though, it was non-humid hot, which is much nicer than humid hot I don't disagree with you, but it was still freaking hot.
Speaker 2:It was really warm. I think it was only warm because this has been the first warm day that we've spent outside and not in a pool or at a water park, and these parks don't really have a lot of shade, so it's not like you're okay, let me just like sit here underneath this bush.
Speaker 1:Animal Kingdom was great. Animal Kingdom was so cool. It's nothing but trees. It was also nine o'clock in the morning and it was like 50.
Speaker 2:Hollywood Studios was not.
Speaker 1:It's been really cold in the evenings though.
Speaker 2:I mean, we're just chilling right now in sweatshirts.
Speaker 1:Well, that's because the thermostat stays at like 68 degrees in this house with the fan on 69 so then we went to batu. We went to the planet go ride.
Speaker 2:rise of the resistance. And I was very excited because I really, really, really, really, really, really, really liked that ride and it was freaking close. We made it all the way back there. None of us thought to check this stupid app, like none of us thought, oh, let me just like check it, check it, check real quick. Nope, we walked all the way back there. And where Backlot is, to give you some perspective here, where Backlot is then, where rises is it? The very backlot is at the very front of the park, rises in the very back of the park.
Speaker 2:so on full tummies on full tummies in heat with no shade on this black, stupid asphalt that disney was like oh, this is so smart to build, it was horrible, that was awful. And then none of us decided oh, let's look at our phones beforehand. We all literally have disney parks in our phones and went no, let's just walk god we're all three of us morons.
Speaker 1:We looked at each other and we were like, let's go to magic kingdom. Like we we were not even yeah it was just like nope, let's go we were soured because of our disgusting food.
Speaker 2:And the other thing too was there was a ton of cheerleaders and or dancers and then big groups of like schools that were all here world's uh, world's cheer competition. There was just so many people at hollywood that it felt more chaotic at hollywood than it did at I've caught an animal that day yeah so I think we were kind of just like we're also.
Speaker 1:I mean, we're also later in the day, so they're clear.
Speaker 2:There was more people there than there were in the mornings, but I think it was.
Speaker 1:It was all a very unanimous decision to run straight to mk we walked past the indiana jones stunt show as we were leaving and I pulled on the rope. That clearly says not to pull on it. And then you and rob laughed at me because nothing happened. But he's supposed to I know okay supposed to yell from down in the hole because you're met.
Speaker 2:You're pulling on the rope that he's hanging from can I tell you something and it didn't work what I saw the video of it after, like literally two days ago.
Speaker 1:I saw that video oh so did you guys really think I was pulling on a rope? I really thought you were delusional.
Speaker 2:I was like this man do be getting heat exhaustion apparently.
Speaker 1:Like this be real so I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Tmi for a moment, you always do. Do we need to put? Some warnings out uh, can I do?
Speaker 2:it. Warning, warning, warning trigger.
Speaker 1:Warning trigger so we made it like halfway through food. We were hot. It was hot in that restaurant. So bad and I made it about halfway through my meal and then I thought, uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're going to share this TMI. My tummy is not sitting well.
Speaker 1:Janelle, if you're listening I know you're not because you don't know. Y'all don't even know who we are. Shout out the Sash podcast and Mile Higher.
Speaker 2:Media Love them, know who we are, shout out the sesh podcast and mile higher. Love them.
Speaker 1:but janelle if you're listening, I'm sharing this in consolidation. With all your poop talk. Um I my stomach started churning so I was like I gotta go bathroom. So I ran, found a bathroom and then I was like, okay, we're good. It was. Uh, what did you call it? You had that morning the heat shits. I was gonna say heat poos, but okay no, it's the heat shits and let me tell you, I I went and then I was like, okay, I feel better.
Speaker 2:And then we started to leave and we made it to the rope and I like pulled on the rope, and then I was like oh, I knew something was up with you, because when we, when we took, when we were sitting waiting for the bus to come, because there is no direct line to okay, I'm not for the sake of this conversation I was like there definitely is.
Speaker 2:We saw it on the sign we decided to go to the contemporary so that we could just hitch over straight to magic kingdom instead of going all the way back to ttc. So as we were waiting, as rob and I were waiting for the contemporary bus for you, I was like you don't go.
Speaker 1:The buses don't take you to ttc.
Speaker 2:The buses take you directly to the magic kingdom gate yeah, but I think the plan was not to take the monorail back. There was no one or the you argued with me that there was no. But there was no part-to-part transportation good in this, this whole conversation here?
Speaker 1:no, I'm not gonna let that one go because I was like, actually, why would they not have transportation, which you? You had a defense. It was because during COVID times the things were different.
Speaker 2:Well, it was also during not just COVID times, it was during my CP time too that they didn't do this. So I think this I don't know if this is a new thing- Somebody put this on Twitter, so we can fact check it. I don't know Because you wrong. That's fine, but during my CP time and during COVID they did not do this. I don't believe you, that's fine anyways.
Speaker 1:Um, we made it out to the bus station and I was like rob, and I made it to the bus station and your booty sat and I said I said there's a bathroom right there i'ma go and I went to the bathroom and I was in there for probably another 10 minutes um it was rough, y'all, I'm telling you, rough like rough, it was hot, I was tired, dehydrated, um, but then I had a fine rest of my day afterwards. What uh ask dustin? What donut he gets from voodoo, and what do you want?
Speaker 3:oh, the bacon maple.
Speaker 2:That's what you get.
Speaker 1:Maple bacon Close enough. Did you say bacon meatball?
Speaker 2:Bacon maple. I said maple bacon. Maple bacon Maple bacon, bacon maple Is it bacon?
Speaker 1:Have you had Voodoo donuts? Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Rob bought him a donut.
Speaker 1:I couldn't remember.
Speaker 3:I love their donuts. Sorry, segue, okay. Yeah, rob bought him a donut, I couldn't remember. Um, I love their donuts.
Speaker 1:But, um, sorry, segue rob is over at city walk getting us all dinner and desserts, apparently. So, um, we took the bus to contemporary a vegan chocolate, and then we walked over to magic kingdom. Uh-huh, I love that at the very first park Ashley gets tagged by security so they can search her bag. Actually, it was Rob. Rob was wearing it and it was the most hilarious moment ever because Rob went into full panic mode. Rob felt like he was getting pulled over by the police.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, he was so scared Driving without a driver's license and we're over there going just do what they say. Just do what they say, Just do it um.
Speaker 1:So they searched his bag, they wanted him and he was terrified at animal kingdom but then for the remainder of the day all the other three parks I got flagged. They had to go through my bag and the first time it happened the guy was like great he, um he. Actually he asked me a question about an item that was in my bag, a flavor of item that was in my bag, and I thought that was a little inappropriate because I don't feel like you're ever allowed. It's the same thing as like walmart, you're not supposed to like.
Speaker 2:No, I think he was just trying to make conversation like. I think he participated in that yeah so I think he was trying to be like oh, what's yours?
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean we did and I I held a conversation with him, but after it was, after the fact that I was like that was seemed a little off but anyhow, um, but then the other two times it was like these security guards didn't know what they were doing no, none of them um, the magic kingdom guys were fine.
Speaker 1:They like they went through it fairly quickly and it was fun and I'd made the joke because I had been stopped all day long. Um, and someone said it's because I had a mint tin in my backpack and I'm like, well, that's funny, because every time I go through security at other theme parks, um, they never flagged my bag because of my mint can. But that's okay. Um, so, magic kingdom, I think, is what we ended up.
Speaker 1:We had the most scheduled stuff to do there we really did um, because we said, okay, we're gonna go there, we're gonna do space mountain, we're gonna do the people mover. If we need a break, we're gonna do carousel of progress, because that's like what 20 minutes something like that, uh, we're gonna do haunted mansion, we're gonna do pirates, and then we're gonna have dinner or we called it a snack, but it was dinner at casey's, which, if you guys don't know, is the baseball themed corndog restaurant I think it's the best quick service restaurant at magic kingdom it is pretty good. It's very popular too.
Speaker 2:Ceiling and I love the guy that plays the piano.
Speaker 1:Outside they have someone that's out there playing the piano like all the time. But, that is not how our day went when we made it to Magic.
Speaker 2:Kingdom.
Speaker 1:No, it's really not. So we got there and we decided to do the opposite of what we normally do, which is start in Tomorrowland, and this time we started in Adventureland.
Speaker 2:With pirates.
Speaker 1:Pirates of Parates of the Cataboon I was about to let you say it and I was like, oh, this man not gonna say it. Parates of the caribou. If you know, you know. If you don't know, ask ellipsa about it. And if you don't know who ellipsa is, then I hope you download tiktok.
Speaker 2:That's all I have to say. If you don't know who ellipsa is, download tiktok and get out of the hole you're clearly in. Yes, um, and the rock you're clearly buried under we had second row, second row pirates no. Third row pirates. Third pirates um.
Speaker 1:Our boat was like slightly heavier on the right left side.
Speaker 1:So when you're going down when you well, when you, there's a drop in pirates. It's not a super big drop or anything, but there is a drop in pirates. When we went down that drop, you level out, go like 15, 20 feet and then the ride turns to the left and I was about to fall out of the side of that boat, like that was the wildest drop and turn and like we rode the wave so perfectly that it just felt like we were gonna flip that boat. It was fun, I enjoyed it and ashley's over here texting and not participating I'm literally responding to you why are you responding to me?
Speaker 1:I'm right in front of you, no like I'm listening to you.
Speaker 2:Okay, we did. When we hit that thing, I swear to god, I thought we were gonna flop over top over, flip over something. This is why I haven't been participating with you, because my words today are not working well focus.
Speaker 1:I am focused.
Speaker 2:Your phone down I've got our notes.
Speaker 1:You do now who you texting over there? I'm not telling you oh, I know, you don't know shit I know what do we do after pirates, actually hate you. Then we went to haunted mansion wait did we go to haunted mansion or did we get um? No, we got.
Speaker 1:Uh, dole whip oh yeah, we did, we got dole whip and then we went and we sat down on the doorsteps to the old um jamboree big bear jamboree. We sat there and it was so funny because there was like three disney cast members standing, just standing beside us like they weren't doing anything. They were just standing there and we looked around and there was like a couple more on the other side of the sidewalk and I was like ashley, they're getting ready to do the hoedown and I think what was it? Was it you or rob?
Speaker 1:that was like no, they're not, they're just guarding the doors to the big bear jamboree that's what I said, and I was like I was like no, they're not because they're not, they weren't interacting with park guests, which told me that they were actively waiting on something, like they were trying not to miss a cue or something. And you were like no, they are. And I'm like no, they're not, because they're disney cast members, they should be out here socializing with us. And they're not socializing, which tells me that they were waiting for something. And lo and behold, suddenly the music turned on and the characters came out of nowhere and then they started doing their little jamboree sesh that they do out on the sidewalks with the bears and other characters, and they were dancing.
Speaker 1:And then this really rude woman with her baby, thinking that Disney and Magic Kingdom are for children, pushed her stroller in front of me and parked her child in front of me. And parked her child in front of me so her child could see the jamboree. And I was like, excuse me, I was watching this jamboree and those people out there dancing um, and then I just moved over and I stood up so I could watch because, um, that child and her stroller was a princess and deserved the view from her chariot after he literally scowled at this poor child, he's like how do you think she feels my wrath?
Speaker 2:how dare her think we could breathe the same air?
Speaker 1:well, that is because when I go to disney and I see children, I'm just like ah no, I don't care if you know how much money I paid to get in here.
Speaker 1:I don't care that this is your first trip to disney world. Child, get the hell out of way. I want to be the center of attention. And then I remind myself that I am in public and that I am actively at Walt Disney World. And if I do act like that and call a child a crotch goblin, mickey Mouse is going to come out and be like oh boy this is not a park for you and then they're going to happens. That is the energy I've been trying to get you to bring all night.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you, thank you do you know what that whole rant just made me think of? This isn't disney. We don't have to be nice to kids.
Speaker 1:Horror movie makeup show Universal Studios Orlando Florida 10 out of 10.
Speaker 2:Love that show.
Speaker 1:Did, you know Did.
Speaker 2:I know what.
Speaker 1:That they get werewolf hair from British children. Yes, Name. Charlie, charlie, charlie, charlie, charlie, charlie. If you know, you know. If you don't, you need to go watch the Horrify Makeup Show at Universal Studios Go right now.
Speaker 2:Well, they're closed, but go, go, go, go tomorrow. No, don't go tomorrow, it's Grad Bash. Don't go tomorrow, go next week.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter. The park closes for Grad Bash, grad bash, oh okay, then go tomorrow. Good show. And then go to born. That's a good show too. Tomorrow is wednesday, no tomorrow's thursday, tomorrow's thursday, tomorrow's not grad bash, oh well, anyway so then after raining. After we had that, we went to mansion yes, we skipped um where I proceeded to make more friends.
Speaker 2:What is the? What is the? The ride that we skipped um where I?
Speaker 1:proceeded to make more friends. No, what is the? What is the? The ride that we skipped.
Speaker 2:I don't know what this is in the wilderness, big thunder mountain. Yeah, I just, I just wasn't feeling it that day.
Speaker 1:Some days it's their station there. I get way too claustrophobic going down.
Speaker 2:It's so hot I get hot in that that station that it is. It's a hot queue line, it's claustrophobic, it's confusing as can be it does, it does, and it get really, really warm and I'm not a fan of it did you hear what the the internet rumor is?
Speaker 1:that we're getting behind big thunder mountain? It's called the b? Uh beyond big thunder expansion. It's what people have dubbed it online no radiator springs oh, please, that would be so dope oh, but ashley, I thought you don't like it when they copy and paste stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that'd be kind of cool though, because I straight up love the cars movie.
Speaker 1:So I'm okay with that. Go to california. Don't copy and paste.
Speaker 2:Go to california I really wish I could like copy and paste me a new best friend. What was that?
Speaker 1:that was a notification on the computer, no the podcast people, that our listeners didn't hear it, just us.
Speaker 2:But it was perfect timing um um, then we rode my favorite ride at magic kingdom winnie the pooh you forgot mansion oh no, I didn't forget it, I skipped it we rode haunted mansion.
Speaker 1:Yes, we did. It was great. I made friends. We yelled at me, we did not stop in the seance scene.
Speaker 2:This time, I know. However, I still close my eyes.
Speaker 1:We didn't stop at all this time, did we? No, we did not, that's. I think that's the first time I've ridden through haunted mansion since I've moved here where I haven't stopped um. The last four times I've ridden it. I have stopped in the seance room with madame leota you were by yourself when I'm haunted.
Speaker 2:We didn't ride together, you were by yourself I did I rode with rob, it was glorious.
Speaker 1:I loved it. I had a whole doom buggy all to myself. That's disgusting. It was fantastic, gross. Now you can talk about it now.
Speaker 2:We rode winnie the pooh and that was atrocious, so not the ride.
Speaker 1:It had a post 10 it had a posted 45 minute wait and we said you know what?
Speaker 1:we're gonna do it because I had 25 and 25 because I haven't ridden winnie the pooh since the 90s when I went as a child correct and I got scared in the heffalump scene. And so we got in line and I very quickly realized how much I hate disney's lightning lane, because what should have been less than a 20 minute wait was very quickly a 45 minute wait, because they would continue to just let lightning, like the lightning lane would be empty. They would pull from the main queue and then it would get to where the grouper was and then she would stop letting anyone in and then the line would move to where they could get, like what, 25, 30 people in?
Speaker 3:40.
Speaker 1:And then she would open the gate and just let lightning lane go and the lightning lane would empty and she would just stand there with the lightning lane open and then people would just trickle in, and trickle in, and trickle in until it was completely full.
Speaker 2:There wasn't like any consistency there, and we finally made it.
Speaker 1:We were the second group right behind grouper and then suddenly, out of nowhere, this family in the line around the corner from us, so behind us, start screaming, and I mean this man is cussing at the top of his voice, yelling. I don't know if it was a family fighting with each other or two different parties, because we couldn't see it. But the disney cast member. She was like hi, friends, hey friends, hey friends. And after the fourth time of them ignoring her, she just walks right over, picks up her phone and calls for backup.
Speaker 1:But in that process she got confused and instead of loading us, she loaded lightning lane again. So they got double loaded from lightning lane and I think we stood at grouper for almost 15 minutes before we actually got to go and get into the queue. Once you make it past grouper, it's less than five minutes and you're on.
Speaker 1:Yep and ashley got a row all to herself yes, I did and I rode with rob and rob reminded me that I need to lose weight because yet again he pulls that lap bar down so it's tight on his body but to boys like me as a child and is the size of a green bean, and I am no longer the size of a green bean, um. So I rode that whole ride with a piece of rebarb in my gut, because that is what the restraints are on Winnie the Pooh, literally. But it's fun because you ride in a little honeypot and the honeypot like tilts and wobbles and bounces and bounces yeah and you get to go through.
Speaker 1:I forgot how cool that ride is.
Speaker 2:Have a lumps and woozles. Have a lumps and woozles. That's not that that's the wrong one. No, that's even worse. What else you got.
Speaker 1:This is me waiting on you to respond.
Speaker 2:Do you know what this sounds like to me? The Jordan Sparks song With the shoes.
Speaker 1:Do you know what this makes like?
Speaker 2:to me the jordan sparks song, though with the shoes. You know what this makes me think of okay, oh, I just cut off my mic for a second is that all? You got. You need a spooky one. Oh, my mic's cutting out. You need a spooky one. Oh, my mic is cutting out. You need a spooky one, noah, spooky. Yep, that's perfect.
Speaker 1:It's our book club intro which we're going to get back to eventually Sometime soon, like Disney and Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
Speaker 2:Ugh, then we rode Space Mountain, space Mountain.
Speaker 1:And you found your backpack.
Speaker 2:Didn't something weird happen in Space Mountain?
Speaker 1:No, no, everything was fine. Yeah, we got on, we rode, it was fun. I always love riding Space Mountain.
Speaker 2:It's okay.
Speaker 1:I can't wait to get Gavin on Space Mountain because I'm interested to see how he would react to it.
Speaker 2:I don't know if. I want to be there for that Love ya.
Speaker 1:Don't know if I want to do that. It's an all dark.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a dark roller coaster. I want to do it, I want to do it it's an all dark. You like, get pull your cord. You know what it is it's under my ass. That's the problem. So sorry, a lot of things are anyways. Um, space, mountain ready black, dark, pitch black. Can't see the hand in front of your face, zoom lights, led lights, weird sounds because you're in a rocket ship going to space. Obviously, obviously Duh, but it's dark and it's one person per row.
Speaker 2:So there's no one beside you, nope, but there's people in front of you.
Speaker 1:You're in bobsleds. Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 2:And the worst part is it's old, like what? 1999 old.
Speaker 1:It is, it is no honey 85?
Speaker 2:No, is no, honey, it's 85, no, it's it's old. Tomorrowland is old yeah, no, I'm talking about tomorrowland and talk about spacey space, spacey spaces space mountain opened with tomorrowland and magic kingdom when did space mountain open?
Speaker 1:there's like six space mountains in the world 1975.
Speaker 2:It's 1975 old. Okay, so like're going to die a couple times.
Speaker 1:It is For those of you that don't know if you know what the Matterhorn bobsleds are at Disneyland.
Speaker 2:It's worse than that.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's the exact same ride just inside. It's so aggressive and violent and it hurts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or I'm just old, one of the two, but it's fun.
Speaker 1:We rode that, and then we went over what I don't remember what the name of the store was um, but I found. So lounge, fly and disney have partnered yet again um, for tomorrow lands anniversary, which is coming up this year, and, um, it has a brand new backpack that is um, a tomorrowland backpack, and it's really cool. It's got people mover on it and everything. The thing that makes me sad, though, is the bag is 78 dollars and I don't want to spend 78 dollars on a backpack.
Speaker 1:But I really want that backpack because I love the tomorrowland stuff then let's get it's one of my favorite movies out there tomorrowland, which you finally watched, which makes me happy. 10 out of 10, actually like 8 out of 10 yeah it was okay it's slow at times, but it has like a good story to it yeah but anywho, after we did that what it would, ride the people oh yeah, the people over.
Speaker 2:That was a good time.
Speaker 1:We didn't stop the whole time then either we didn't stop, we didn't get separated, we didn't almost die on the moving walkway going up to it this time dramatic we talked about that, didn't we? Yes, we did um, and then after that that was when we did we hate, we ate we ate no yeah, we did small world.
Speaker 2:Yes, we did small world and we did peter pan, we did because that stupid firework show is going off um seven dwarves.
Speaker 1:First, oh yeah, seven doors, then stupid show happened yeah, and so then we did uh small world which and then was annoying and sucked um, I hate small world. And then the fact that they were only loading every other boat because it was fireworks, but then fireworks ended while we were on the ride, so then they got onto this thing of now we're gonna load every single boat. Um, so then we were just backlogged coming back into the station and it was not a fun time, correct?
Speaker 2:and then we rode peter pan, which was nice, and then we were just backlogged coming back into the station and it was not a fun time, correct?
Speaker 1:and then we rode peter pan which was nice and then we ate oh, do you not remember those people that snuck under the line in peter pan? Yeah, they definitely tried to to get they got all the way up to the front and they, I guess they snuck into the lightning lane and the woman's like do you have your lightning lane?
Speaker 2:and then they tried to not speak any english because I guess they thought, like two minutes ago, I think, she whipped out the spanish yeah, and they were like oh, so then they walked out the exit yep, then that was it for that then we went to casey's.
Speaker 1:Oh god, that was so good um what did you have?
Speaker 2:I had corn dogs the mini corn dogs.
Speaker 1:That's what I had mini corn dogs and french fries and cheese sauce cheese sauce.
Speaker 1:It was funny, though, because rob came in. I was picking up my order at the counter and rob came in, started to come in through the exit and disney they've got their stuff on lockdown. Like they don't let people go in certain restaurants unless it shows on their phone that their mobile order is ready for pickup. Um, so rob came in through this back door and this woman, like tried to clothesline him to get him to stop, and I was like he's with me and she was like, oh okay, and then she let him go, but I mean, she was not about to let him in that restaurant.
Speaker 3:Um, what'd rob? Have hot dog infant fries sounds.
Speaker 1:What did Rob have? Hot dog and french fries, mm-hmm, sounds about right. And then at that point we left and we drove home and we died.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, you're missing something.
Speaker 1:The store that we stopped in.
Speaker 2:No, you're missing the ride we rode.
Speaker 1:What ride?
Speaker 2:You don't remember the ride we rode after.
Speaker 1:After Casey's no no you threw a fit, ariel, oh yeah I threw a fit because I was tired and I was ready to go.
Speaker 2:He was ready to ride in the clamshell all by himself. And guess what my little booty did?
Speaker 1:no, no, I was angry, I wanted to go home, I was tired, I was done, I was peopled out and you wouldn't tell me. I was just like, where are we going? She wouldn't tell me. If she would have told me where we were going, it would have been fine. But she was like don't worry about it, don't worry about it, don't worry about it, just come on.
Speaker 1:And then she takes me to the far back end of magic kingdom to go right in a clamshell and we get in and I was like i'm'm going to rob myself, I'm going to rob myself. And then Rob sat with me, which I was totally fine with because it wasn't you. And then I sat down and I turned around in my clamshell and looked out the back and was yelling at Ashley. What I didn't know about Ariel is apparently you pull the clamshell to a close on that ride, but you don't pull the gate closed on any other one of the Omnimover rides. It's all done automatically and because I didn't pull it and the Disney attendant didn't say or do anything, I safety stopped the whole ride.
Speaker 3:Because I was leaned around talking.
Speaker 1:Well, I sat down in my seat, I was in, I turned around, put my head around the corner and was talking to Ashley, because you don't pull your lap bar down on any of the other Omnimovers. So I didn't know I was supposed to do it on this one and I was like Rob, why didn't you pull the lap bar down and, like you know, cram it into my gut, like you do on literally every other ride in existence? So we safety stopped the ride and the cast member was like you need to remain seated facing forward, and I was like, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:And then we rode and then we left and I was really sad because ursula's head wasn't dangling off of her body like it is in that one tiktok video and then we left, and then we left, and then we died.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and we went to bed let me tell you something.
Speaker 1:I don't know what has gotten into ashley these last couple days y'all, but here I am trying to sleep on this couch and I wake up to her using her phone flashlight or the refrigerator refrigerator flashlight trying to make a sandwich, a pastrami and something another, pepperoni, whatever salami no, I just was trying to make a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 1:It's literally it. And she's smacking every glass cup and porcelain plate and glass jar. And I wake up from a dead sleep. At this point it is like two o'clock in the morning and I'm like what are you doing? And she goes I'm making a sandwich, do you want one? And I just lay there and I stayed at her for a minute and I went peanut butter and jelly please. And then she comes over. I could she come, like we sit back down on the couch and she reaches for the remote and she's like I'm gonna put on Golden Girls. And I was like absolutely not, you're going to eat your sandwich and you're going to go to bed. And she was like fine, I'm going to go to my room. So she stomps into her room and turns her TV on and I eat my sandwich.
Speaker 1:And I was like well, you know what? I'm awake enough now that I'm gonna play jurassic park audiobook, because I do that every night when I go to sleep like a weirdo. And the next thing I know I feel this presence staring at me in the pitch darkness and I open my eyes and ashley's leaned over the coffee table, tapping my phone screen, trying to pause it, and I was like what are you doing? And she's like it's loud and annoying, I want to turn it off. And I was like I thought you wanted to watch tv.
Speaker 1:The whole reason I turned on my audiobook is because she's got golden girls blaring in there and I was like I'll just turn on my my audiobook and I'll drown it out. And I I turned the volume down low but then after two seconds of her eating her sandwich she goes oh no, I want to turn the TV off and go to bed now. And then she had a problem. She didn't have a problem when I didn't want to listen to the Golden Girls, but she had a problem when she wanted to go to bed and didn't want to listen to Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2:Well, as they say wonderful thank you for being a friend thank you for being a hoe.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna have to put a.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna have to put a not not clean warning on this episode this week. Travel down the road. I could get your heart may be true.
Speaker 1:Sure, I got nothing else this is when I wish I had a boo. What are you doing?
Speaker 2:my best friend's here.
Speaker 1:Oh well, guys, that was our four parks one day challenge, with a bunch of other random stories thrown in there, but we did it. It was fun. So we want to hear from you guys how many Disney parks have you done in a single day?
Speaker 2:I've done four.
Speaker 1:You don't say With you.
Speaker 2:It was a fun day.
Speaker 1:All right, guys. Well, thanks for joining us. Joining us tune in sometime next week. Yep, we'll see. Probably won't be on monday, but it'll, it'll come out at some point.
Speaker 2:Uh, until then, stay safe, stay educated and share our podcast with your friends, your family and, of course, your favorite bartender. Oh my god, julia's home. Bye, everybody, bye.
