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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: And how the tech are you, y'all? I got something

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Speaker 1: special today. I've brought in a special guest. I guess that. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: I could have asked to be on tech Stuff for

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Speaker 1: numerous reasons. I could have asked him because he's a

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Speaker 1: content creator. He's a podcaster, he's a co founder of

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Speaker 1: an incredibly popular UH network of content. He is an

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Speaker 1: organizer for massive charity events that work with organizations like

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Speaker 1: Extra Life. I mean, the list goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: But the reason I asked him here is because he's

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Speaker 1: also a lifelong connoisseur of theme parks and a former

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Speaker 1: Disney cast member. Welcome to tech Stuff, Mr Jack Pattillo, Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me on. Yeah, jeez,

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Speaker 1: thank you for all of the list of things I've done.

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Speaker 1: I've never felt older than I do right now. How

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Speaker 1: about how about I hit you with this, Jack, It

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Speaker 1: has been twenty years since you worked for Disney. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, ye two thousand two, Man, it was it

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Speaker 1: was spring of two thousand two is when I was

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Speaker 1: out there the first time I so I worked. I

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Speaker 1: did the Walt Disney World College Program so, which is

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Speaker 1: a fantastic program, highly recommended if you're a college kid

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Speaker 1: looking to not have responsibility for a semester. I did

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Speaker 1: it twice. I did back in two thousand two and

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Speaker 1: again in two thousand and five. And both of the

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Speaker 1: rides I worked on are shut down now, which is

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Speaker 1: sad I worked over it. It was Disney MGM Studios

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Speaker 1: now it's Disney's Hollywood Studios. I worked at the Great

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Speaker 1: Movie Ride, which is now Mickey Mini's Runaway Railway. And

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Speaker 1: I worked at the back lot tour, specifically the water

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Speaker 1: tank portion. I got to talk about Michael Bay in

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Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor, and that is now where Batsu is where

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Speaker 1: all of the Star Wars stuff is, or so it's

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Speaker 1: I think between there, maybe Toy story Land. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like in that general area, it's basically it's just

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Speaker 1: walking path now where I was right it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: one of the hottest sections of the park when you're

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Speaker 1: out there because there's absolutely no shade and it's it's

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Speaker 1: just a massive cooking surface that has tourists on it.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, And I thought today we could talk a

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Speaker 1: bit about the Great Movie Ride in particular and talk

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Speaker 1: because there was some really cool innovative technologies that were

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Speaker 1: incorporated into that experience. But I also want to hear

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Speaker 1: from you, as a cast member who worked on the ride,

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Speaker 1: what the cast member experience was, because as someone who

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Speaker 1: has had been on that ride many times throughout its run,

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Speaker 1: including early on in the earliest days of Disney MGM Studios,

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Speaker 1: I know what it's like to ride the ride. But

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Speaker 1: what was it like to work on the ride? So

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Speaker 1: first of all, can you kind of give us an

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Speaker 1: overview of what the Great Movie Ride was? Sure my

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Speaker 1: my pitch for the Great Movie Ride after someone would

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Speaker 1: walk up after after I guess we'll walk up and say,

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Speaker 1: is this a ride? And it's like, it's called the

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Speaker 1: Great Movie Ride. Yes, it is a ride. It's a

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Speaker 1: slow moving tram ride through the movies. It's twenty two

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, and there are live actors. It's it's

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Speaker 1: one of the few. It's well at the time, I

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Speaker 1: was one of the few UM Tour toured our excuse me,

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Speaker 1: guided attractions, so like Jungle Cruise, UM, the Kiloman Jari,

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Speaker 1: Studios had it as well, and we were a guided tour.

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Speaker 1: You had a host that would stay in there and

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Speaker 1: spiel and then at one point, you know what, it

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Speaker 1: would change up. But it was a slow moving ride

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Speaker 1: that takes you through some of the most classic movies

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Speaker 1: amazing things with us some really awesome animatronics. Um. Well,

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Speaker 1: when I described the ride, I would always say, this

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Speaker 1: It's not a huge um you know, like, it's not

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Speaker 1: and it's sad to see it go. Mickey Many is nice,

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Speaker 1: cool that we got replaced by the very first Mickey

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Speaker 1: But but yeah, it's um, it was a very special

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Speaker 1: least the facade is still there. I still have my

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Speaker 1: eggs out in front, even like even things that are

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Speaker 1: of the Great Movie Ride, you know, like, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's something hidden away, squirreled away somewhere that I just

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Speaker 1: don't know about. But yeah, it's it's It was a

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Speaker 1: as you say, Jack, it told a story, which to

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Speaker 1: that ride? Yeah, So when I was there, they actually

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Speaker 1: The only thing in a typical cast member wouldn't do

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Speaker 1: Those were specialized roles that if you were the bandit,

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Speaker 1: minor would happen where we just rotate through the people

431
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Speaker 1: that were stolen the attraction. That's not enough to like

432
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,880
Speaker 1: you know, kick people out, but occasionally a door would

433
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,959
Speaker 1: break and it's like, well, we're not moving, and you know,

434
00:20:58,320 --> 00:20:59,880
Speaker 1: it was a thing where you would have to move

435
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 1: out of a section for the next vehicle to move in.

436
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,679
Speaker 1: And when those happened, those are always fun. They're only

437
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,320
Speaker 1: happened to me twice over the eight months or so

438
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 1: I was there where Um, you know, you would ask

439
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 1: the guests to stay there and then you know, ultimately

440
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,720
Speaker 1: you'd have to go make sure like a manager would

441
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 1: come by like okay, go ahead and clear amount, and

442
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: then they would open the doors. And I always made

443
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,160
Speaker 1: it a big point of any time, like the two

444
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,680
Speaker 1: times that happened. They said, if that happens, you need

445
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: to make sure your guests are happy. So if they

446
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,239
Speaker 1: want to go take photos with Clint Eastwood, let him

447
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 1: go take photos of the Clint east wod. As long

448
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: as they're not climbing on anything, they can do whatever

449
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 1: they want. And so some people out there are some

450
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 1: really good photos of like John Wayne and his giant horse,

451
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 1: and then like standing over by gangster area that is like,

452
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,159
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you're not normally supposed to be there. So um,

453
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: that was always a big thing, you know. It was

454
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:42,959
Speaker 1: it was always about like going out of your way

455
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, we had an issue. Sorry. You know,

456
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: at that at the time, I was there a great movie, right,

457
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 1: didn't have fast past. So it's kind of like, you know,

458
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 1: come come back when you can. We'd love to have

459
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 1: you back. Just losing his mind downstairs, that's fine, minus too.

460
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 1: It's it's they're just they're just co hosting. That's fine,

461
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 1: they're excited. Yeah, the uh, it's it's that also reminds

462
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 1: me like that I've only had that sort of experience

463
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,640
Speaker 1: happened at Disney, I think maybe two times. Once when

464
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 1: I was. This happens pretty regularly. But I was on

465
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 1: the people Mover when the lights on Space Mountain were

466
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 1: all on, so you can actually see the track, and

467
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: it's it's insane how closely and tightly packed that track is,

468
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 1: to the point where you're thinking, I'm gonna ride this

469
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 1: differently the next time I'm on everything's gonna get tucked

470
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 1: in because it's wild. It's wild, like the the re

471
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 1: entry tube. You can just touch it. I can just

472
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: reach up and touch it. It's like that should not happen,

473
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 1: and like I imagine, no, like legally that couldn't happen.

474
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure as grandfathered in by something. But like there's

475
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: you can just reach out and touch stuff on that track.

476
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 1: And when you're pitch black and you can't see anything,

477
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: like you hit something at speed, that's not good. So

478
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 1: you can imagine the amount of padding they have on

479
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: all of the all the very support structures that you

480
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 1: can't see. Typically, Yeah, and the only other time it

481
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 1: ever happened was on Flights of Passage, the Avatar ride,

482
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: where it just the video shut down, maybe like we

483
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: were maybe thirty seconds from the end of the ride.

484
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: Maybe it was my first time I ever writing it,

485
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,479
Speaker 1: so I didn't know at the time, but I was like, well,

486
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 1: we've been going for a while, this thing was probably

487
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: about to wrap up, and cast member came on and

488
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: there happened to be in the group that we were in,

489
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: um a V I P group who had spent a

490
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 1: huge amount of money in order to do this, so

491
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: they had us sit there, they restarted the ride. We

492
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: wrote the whole so I wrote. I got to write

493
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: at one point eight times my first time. And then

494
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: as we're leaving, they gave us all like like a

495
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: priority fast pass digital fast passes because that was when

496
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: we were getting to the point we're using magic bands.

497
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 1: UM so yeah, it doesn't he really does go a

498
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: long way to trying to to make the guest experience magical,

499
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 1: as they say, certain certainly did. I don't know how

500
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 1: much that. It seems like nowadays things are, you know,

501
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: if you're little different. Yeah, if there's a way they

502
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 1: can charge you for it, they're going to charge you

503
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: for it. If you could have for yeah, I mean,

504
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: I'm so I still have my annual pass. I still

505
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a you know, multi year annual pass holder.

506
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: I still enjoy going to the parks. I participate in

507
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 1: the run Disney events. I do a lot of stuff

508
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: through Disney, but it feels like as of late, they've

509
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,479
Speaker 1: kind of let stuff slide, and that's frustrating to me

510
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: as as as as you know, as an annual pass

511
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: as a fan. It's just like it feels like, especially

512
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: right now, Uh, Disney is at a point where they

513
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: think that like they're kind of sitting back and like,

514
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 1: we're just making lots of money and people love all

515
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: of our stuff, and I don't think they're looking down

516
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: the road, like right now, literally down the road down

517
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,640
Speaker 1: I four Universals building a brand new theme park that's

518
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: opening up in that's gonna be the new hotness. And

519
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: unless Disney literally announces something at D twenty three this

520
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: week or next week that hey, we're gonna have something

521
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: to counter that, they're gonna be caught with their pants down,

522
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: I think it's it's gonna be very interesting the next

523
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 1: you know, the mid of theme parks in Orlando is

524
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: gonna be very very interesting. And I don't know how

525
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: much longer Disney can just kind of rest on their

526
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: laurels of what they've gone away with so far. Yeah, anyway,

527
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with a a great movie ride,

528
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: but it kind of does. It kind of does because

529
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: there there have been ebbs and flows at the Disney parks. Right.

530
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 1: It all depends on really the executive leadership team and

531
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: and who how they they value investing in the parks

532
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: versus kind of you know, coasting on that perhaps and

533
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: and focusing on other parts of the company, and that

534
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: obviously changes on various regimes. There was a period, a

535
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: dark period in the Walt Disney World past, where essentially

536
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: all the executives who were in charge of the parks

537
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: came from retail. They came from places like Banana Republic,

538
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: And that was when we saw Main Street in Magic

539
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: Kingdom get gutted, where all the things that used to

540
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: be there, like the Penny Arcade and things that added character,

541
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 1: but they didn't generate rev new We're essentially stripped out

542
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: so that you had just very long shops on either

543
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: side the Mega emporium. Oh yeah, yeah. So there are

544
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: issues like that that have been going on for a while.

545
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: So it's not like this is a sudden decline, but

546
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: it's certainly the pandemic kind of brings things into sharp

547
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: relief because you can see how things were going pre

548
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: pandemic versus Disney's response to the pandemic and then post pandemic.

549
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really think we're in post pandemic,

550
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: but everyone else seems to argue we are. So it's also,

551
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: I mean the thing is now right, you know, right now,

552
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: it's we're getting this bounce because we had two years

553
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,239
Speaker 1: of people basically not going on vacation, saving up all

554
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 1: their money, and I mean, we're not going anywhere and

555
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: and saving up money. And now we're seeing people spend

556
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: that money. It's like, oh, we we had we've been

557
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: locked up for two years, Let's go to Disney World.

558
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 1: And so I think we're seeing this sort of this uh,

559
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: this false positive kind of thing where I think, like

560
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: right now it's like Disneys like, oh my gosh, record

561
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: profits and huge numbers go to the parks, and it's

562
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: like that's not going to sustain I don't. I don't think,

563
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: and you know, like Tron is gonna bring some people back,

564
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: but after that, it's kind of what do you got, man?

565
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: I mean, like Cosmic Riwan, it was a lot of fun,

566
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: but Epcott is a wreck right now. And I mean,

567
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: then you see stuff. I mean, like you know, I

568
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: I love Epcot and seeing you know, Harmonious is a

569
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: is a great show, but those barges, like Eisner never

570
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: would to let those barges be on the water, like

571
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: that ruins so many sight lines and even like, I mean,

572
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: it's just I'm going off on what you're changing. But

573
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 1: it's kind of like it feels like, you know, Disney

574
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: from what I knew growing up, Like I was, I

575
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: went to Disney Parks when I was, you know, a

576
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: kid in the nineties, and I have amazing rose colored

577
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: memories of that, and then working there in the early

578
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: two thousand's, like that was sort of like the cherry

579
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: on top. And now as an adult, I can go

580
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: back and I can appreciate it from a different perspective.

581
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: And I understand a lot of these decisions, but I

582
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: don't think they're the right decisions to be made, you know.

583
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: And so it's it's kind of like like, oh, well,

584
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 1: you know this sort of you know, you can have

585
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: a one slice of cake now or wait, you know,

586
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: two hours, I have a full cake. You know, They're

587
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: like they just want their slice of cake right now,

588
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: and it's like, I don't know, you gotta get prepped

589
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: for this day you got. You gotta have it over

590
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: multiple years. You gotta look at you know well, because

591
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: if you get to a point where you have, you

592
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: have dishearten people like yourself and my I'm also an

593
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: annual passholder. I'm also a Disney Vacation Club member. So yeah,

594
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 1: so so I have spent a lot of money with

595
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: Mr Mr mouse House. So but yeah, you you start

596
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: to you start to feel like the what you might

597
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: have thought of as an investment before. It's almost like

598
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: when you go to a really expensive college and then

599
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,479
Speaker 1: afterward you get a letter from them saying, hey, can

600
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: you donate money. I'm like, dude, I gave you so

601
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: much money. I don't need to give you more money.

602
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more about the Great Movie

603
00:28:52,760 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: Ride and related stuff after this break. One of the

604
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: things I found very disheartening personally from the old Disney

605
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,719
Speaker 1: MGM studio to what we are today with Disney Hollywood

606
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: Studios is something that I also feel affects Epcot, which

607
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: is that you start to see kind of an eroading

608
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: of identity in that when the park opened in it

609
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: was very clearly oriented toward we're gonna talk about movies

610
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: and television production. The attractions all relate to that. We

611
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: have experiences that are about sound effects or visual effects.

612
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: We have an animation studio, a working animation studio where

613
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: you could actually see animators drawing cells of upcoming movies. Um.

614
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: And you had the backstage tour. You actually had a

615
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: backlot where real productions were being shot um, which honestly

616
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: caused some problems because MGM or initially didn't agree to

617
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: that didn't. That caused some licensing us but but they

618
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: worked that out, they settled out of court. But but

619
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: it means that over time, you know, they have gotten

620
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: rid of all the different elements, with the exception of

621
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: they still have the Chinese theater facade, so that's still

622
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: in the theme. They still have streets that are named

623
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: after streets in in Los Angeles, so that that's still

624
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: kind of in the theme. But other than that, Hollywood

625
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: Studios doesn't have very much studios related stuff, and it

626
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: it's more like toy toy story and Star Wars and

627
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Um. So I was wondering about

628
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: your perspective on that too. Do you Maybe I'm crazy

629
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: and I just feel like there's kind of a loss

630
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: of coherence with park identity. But do you have a

631
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: similar feeling about that as well. Yeah, yeah, I mean

632
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: exactly that. I mean, when when the studios opened, it

633
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: was it was meant to replicate a working film production studio,

634
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, And so I mean even like the buildings,

635
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: like you know the Great movie right the building is

636
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: in it was like actually a stage number and they

637
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: would call like stage whatever, blah blah blah, and those

638
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: still might technically be numbered. Um, but yeah, it's over time.

639
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not one to like, I know, the

640
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: the idea that you know, the theme parks are meant

641
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: to be like a living document where you can change

642
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: it and you can alter it over time, but it

643
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: certainly does feel like they have lost an overall tone.

644
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: I mean, other than like you know, initially it was

645
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: Disney MGM Studios and it was meant to be like

646
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: here's how things are made, and that I love that stuff.

647
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: Like I remember going on the animation tour and I

648
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: think they were working on The Emperor's New Groove at

649
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: the time, and I think I forget what it was

650
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: titled when I went there, but they had that big

651
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: window and they push a button and it would suddenly

652
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: go clear, and they'd see all these animators working. I

653
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: think they called it the fish bowl. Uh the animators

654
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: said they hated it apparently, But like being there was

655
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: so cool, and like the backlot tour I remember, like

656
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: the original backlot tour was like four hours long. It

657
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: was wild because there were so many different things. Actually

658
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: they would take you around in the tram. But then

659
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: there was a walking portion where they show you special

660
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: effects and how they were made. I got to ride

661
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: on the bee from Honey I shrunk the kids and

662
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: they did a whole green screen thing and like god

663
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: to be on it and they like splice me into

664
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: the movie. It was awesome. I love that and um,

665
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: but like the water tank portion was there and and

666
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: then slowly they started removing it. Like then they actually

667
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: had I think The Mickey Mouse Club was shot there

668
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: for a bit um back in two thousand two. One

669
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: of the stages over By over By the back lot

670
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: was actually the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. They

671
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: actually had a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire replica

672
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: set with when they weren't shooting in l A or

673
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: New York. When they weren't shooting in New York, they

674
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: would come down and Re just would come down and

675
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: they'd host the show from Florida. But when they weren't

676
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: using it for production, they would actually it turned into

677
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: an actual, uh like an attraction people could go to,

678
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: so you could actually play Who Wants to Be a

679
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: Millionaire and see how it was made. It was a

680
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: percent exactly what they used in the show, which I

681
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: thought was really cool. Um and one of one of

682
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: my favorite stories when I worked at the back Clods,

683
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: who were in two thousand and five. By then, the

684
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: whole walking portion of the attraction was gone. It was

685
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: just the water tank section and then you would move

686
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: on to the tram tour which would take you through

687
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: the residential area and then it will take you over

688
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: to Catastrophe Canyon. Um. But the walking portion was gone,

689
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: but the buildings were still there, and in the employee

690
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: restroom area there was an entrance like there was basically

691
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: a back entrance into the walking portion where they would

692
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: have like I think that when they finished it, it

693
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: was the one Dalmatians live action stuff, so they showed

694
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: how they did all the animatronics with the with the

695
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: dogs and everything. But every single time I would use

696
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: the restroom, I would check that door, and it was

697
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: always locked, always locked, every single time I was there

698
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: for six months, always locked. Literally my last night I

699
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: was working there, checked the door and it opened and

700
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: I was like oh, and like I opened the door

701
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: and it was just like, oh my gosh. And I

702
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: walked in and I they if you remember, it was

703
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: kind of like a pit where it was a circle,

704
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: and you would like they all the guests would be

705
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: around the circle and they looked down into this pit

706
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: and then a cast member would show off all the tech.

707
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: They actually had, like footplates where they would step on

708
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: things to make things trigger, and all the plates were

709
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: still there. All the animatronics were gone, but all the

710
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: plates were still there, and all like the shelves and everything,

711
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: and then up they had all of this storage of

712
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: old props. So like I remember when I was a kid,

713
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: I saw Johnny five from Short Circuit too, like the

714
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: gold one. He was up on one of the like

715
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: up on one of the big racks, and I was like,

716
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and a lot of that stuff was

717
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: still there, like a lot of the props were still there,

718
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: and it was just like one of those moments like

719
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: I did it. I cracked into it and it was

720
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things, one of my favorite memories.

721
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: That and right before I did my when I when

722
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: I got my last clock out, before I had go

723
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: actually clock out from the computer, I had them hold

724
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: the next backlot tour show though, the water tank show.

725
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: Adam hold the show and then I did a flip

726
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: into the pool and then I walked out and so

727
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: uh and then my manager just came tearing around the

728
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: corner because he heard someone had fallen in and I'm

729
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: just dripping wet, and he's like, what happened. I'm like, God,

730
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: I dove in. He was come on and I'm like,

731
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: it's my last day. And he's like, all right, well,

732
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: thanks for working here. Because I was. I was, I was.

733
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: I enjoyed what I did. I love performing, like if

734
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: you can't tell, I enjoy being in front of in

735
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: front of people. And you know, that's that's what really

736
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: drew me to The Great Movie Ride was the idea

737
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: of performing and actually having like I can affect someone's

738
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: enjoyment of an attraction. And I love everyone I worked with,

739
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: but there were a few people that is like, oh man,

740
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: like I like when I'd see someone hosting one of

741
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: the like hosting a ride, to be like, oh, those

742
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: people aren't going to get the best show because you know,

743
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: you can read a script so many different ways, and

744
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: some people would kind of just go through the motions

745
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: and it's like no, whereas like I, you know, put

746
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: some put some drama into it, you know, put some

747
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: effort into it, and I I would love doing that.

748
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: And um, I also just really enjoyed talking microphones and

749
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: that was always my thing in the pre show area,

750
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: and that where the theater was, which is still making

751
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: minis what you go through the Chinese Theater go through.

752
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: You enter in through them the main doors of the

753
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: Grandma Chinese Theater or the Chinese Theater, and then you

754
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: turn left and everything like basically all of that hasn't

755
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: been touched at all, Like that was all exactly how

756
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: it was when it was a great movie ride. But

757
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: as soon as you kind of round the corner is

758
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: where it all sorts sort of changes. Is um you

759
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: eventually do a couple of switchbacks and then the cast

760
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: member will tell you to go to like you know,

761
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: go to theater one, go to theater two, go to

762
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: theater three. All of those were empty, and that's where

763
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: the big theater was, and that's where the big projection

764
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 1: theater was with the trailers you were talking about earlier.

765
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: But there was a microphone at that at the booth

766
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: for that one, because that's where you would basically hold

767
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: people before you load, because the dock was the next door.

768
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: You have a door, it opened, you load them up,

769
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: and you close the door, watched the movie, you know,

770
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: five minutes later, reopen it in etcetera, et cetera. Do

771
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: that over and over again. But that microphone on that desk,

772
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: for some reason, made my voice sound so good. I

773
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: love that microphone so much because it had like it

774
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: really picked up the base and it just sounded good.

775
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: This because it was like a theater and so it

776
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 1: sounded so nice. And my biggest compliment I ever got

777
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: was when I'd be there, you know, hosting in the

778
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: right before load and I do my spiel at the

779
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: at the podium, like you know, like in just a

780
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: few moments there to ride will start or whatever, and

781
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: people would come down and say, like, I thought that

782
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: was a prerecorded thing. I didn't realize that was you

783
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: doing out live. And I'm like, oh, thank you very

784
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: much and very kind of you. So that's why we

785
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: had don't know what it was about the acoustics in

786
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: that room or that microphone, whatever it was, that that

787
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: magic it was. It was awesome. It's gonna be great

788
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: to have you on the monorail and you can give

789
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: the the spield just before the door. Yes my my

790
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: one line of Spanish. I know. Yeah, well the the

791
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: that that is also again the getting back to the

792
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: story part of the Great Movie ride, the fact that

793
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,919
Speaker 1: you had this sort of this interactive element. I thought

794
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: one of the most fascinating things as a guest riding

795
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: the ride was that this was an experience where the

796
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: tour guide that you were with was interacting not just

797
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: with other humans, but also with some of the animatronics

798
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: as well. So there was a lot of different acting.

799
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: There was acting off other cast members, and there was

800
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: acting off the prerecorded and pre programmed animatronic figures like

801
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: the Wicked Witch of the West, and I thought that

802
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: was just brilliant because it really brought that immersion, that

803
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: magic in their showing the incredible ingenuity of the the

804
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: engineers who created these these devices. Getting back to the

805
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: Wicked Witch, of the West. There was a point where

806
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: she was augmented. She was already really advanced by the

807
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: time that the attraction open. She was the most advanced

808
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: animatronic that Disney had up to that point. They had

809
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: developed a system a little a couple of years before

810
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: they unveiled her called Compliance. And this gets back to

811
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: the hydraulics you were talking about. The hydraulic system allowed

812
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: for smooth movement and analog movement, so so you could

813
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: have a range of motion with the old pneumatic systems

814
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: that the encanted tiki room had. You had two positions.

815
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: You had open and closed right like the beaks would

816
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: open and they would close. But you couldn't halfway open

817
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: a beak because you're using an air piston to do

818
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: it right as a solemn lead than an air piston.

819
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: And if you've ever listened carefully in the incanned Deegie room,

820
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: you can hear that air uh, you know, helling everything

821
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: that's in there. And that old system was brilliant. The

822
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: reason they called it audio animatronics is they would record

823
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: audio tones on originally it was filmed. Later it would

824
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: be magnetic tape and the audio tones would make a

825
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: read vibrate that would close a circuit, and that would

826
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: allow the circuit to activate the solenoid or the pneumatic

827
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: valves that would then have the beaks open and closed. Brilliant, easy, uh,

828
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: simple solution, except for the fact that you have all

829
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,280
Speaker 1: these tubes everywhere. Um. But they never went with hydraulics

830
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: for the birds because like the Wicked Witch example you

831
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: gave Jack, they didn't want the birds to possibly mess

832
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: on guests if there was a hydraulic leak. You know,

833
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: air doesn't leak or I mean, it's not gonna drip

834
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: on you, so you're fine. But yeah, once you get

835
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: up to the Wicked Witch, she was on hydraulics, and

836
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: the compliance was meant to be kind of a shock

837
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: absorbing system so that you could do these more drum

838
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: attic movements, but you wouldn't put so much stress on

839
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: the figure that it wears out in like a season

840
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: and you would have to do a full refurb on it.

841
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: So this the brilliance to me of the engineering process

842
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: was not just that they were figuring out new ways

843
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: to animate these characters in three dimensional space, but they

844
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,879
Speaker 1: were also already thinking about, if we do this, it's

845
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: going to cause more wear and tear. How are we

846
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: going to address that so that we limit downtime and

847
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: the amount of money we have to spend on maintenance.

848
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: And it's that kind of engineering that I find really fascinating.

849
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 1: Um And later on they would introduce the A one

850
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: thousand animatronics. Those are the ones you see in places

851
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: like Galaxy's Edge, you see it over on the Smugglers

852
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: Run ride. Um, you know, Hondo is is an A

853
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: one thousand figure. By that time, you've moved away from

854
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: hydraulics and you're into pure electronic systems that are all

855
00:40:55,080 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: precisely computer controlled. I had read that in the days,

856
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: the Wicked Witch days, the programming those things was a

857
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: painstaking process and it could take up to eight hours

858
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: to program one second of animation on one of those.

859
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: And when you think about the amount of animation the

860
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: Wicked Witch had in particular, that's you know, that's someone's

861
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: year right there. Yeah, yeah, well, well, I mean, like

862
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: think before I forget about it. What one interesting thing

863
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: about the Wicked Witch area, the whole Wizard of Oz area,

864
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: was it was one of two portions of the ride where, um,

865
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: if we were had a busy day we we had

866
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: an we had an A show and a B show.

867
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: So the the way it worked was in on busy days,

868
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: you would run both shows, the A show of the

869
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: B show. The A show would be your bandit, uh,

870
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: your Bandit show, so your cowboys show, and then the

871
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: B show would be the Gangster show. We could run

872
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: without the A show. You could run just just are

873
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: just gangster if you wanted to um. And what would

874
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: happen to was, you know, as if if you're running

875
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: to two vehicles, the first vehicle would kind of speed

876
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: through the first couple of scenes, so you would go

877
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: through the the you know, the you know footlight parade

878
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: was uh Singing in the Rain and Mary Poppins. You'd

879
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: kind of just careen through it, honestly, like you wouldn't

880
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: slow down at all, because what you're doing is you

881
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: were making space between your vehicle and the B vehicle,

882
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: and so you would both kind of land at the

883
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: portions of the show where you'd interact with another cast member.

884
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: You'd you interact with the bandit or interact with the Gangster,

885
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: and then you would both move at the same speed

886
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: up until the switch happened. Back over at Indiana Jones

887
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: and then the B A vehicle would then just a

888
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: hahull butt to catch up to the A vehicle and

889
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: by that time you would then both enter into the

890
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz area. So that was that was the

891
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: one scene where you'd have theoretically four vehicles or I

892
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: mean two two vehicles but attractor trailer, so four you know,

893
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: platforms of people on there. And if you had a

894
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 1: full show like that, there was actually a microphone off

895
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: to the side because the witch was designed to interact

896
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 1: with just one person, and so she would always point

897
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: at the driver of the first vehicle. And so if

898
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: it was just if you're just running a show where

899
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: you didn't have the other if it was just running

900
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,919
Speaker 1: a B show and you only had your one car,

901
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: you would just use your microphone for the vehicle, you know,

902
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: that the one that actually feeds through the speakers. But

903
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: if you had both vehicles, if you had all four

904
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: of them going this the back car so the B show,

905
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: they would they wouldn't be able to hear you obviously

906
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: on your microphone. So we had a separate microphone that

907
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: you would step off the vehicle, pick it up, and

908
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: it played over the p a inside of the Wizard

909
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: of Oz sections, so in munchkin Land will play over

910
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: the p A so all everyone could hear you on

911
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: that as opposed to just your vehicle. So I'm trying

912
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: to think of interesting tech stuff that you might might

913
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: find kind of that's amazing. I didn't. I mean I

914
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: knew about the A Show and B Show because I

915
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: had ridden the ride enough times and by the end

916
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: of it, you essentially only saw the B Show. Um, yeah,

917
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: they weren't. They never had a capacity that was enough

918
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: where they needed to run both really uh and also

919
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, then you have half the number

920
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: of cast members who have to be in costume and perform,

921
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: which gets us into it that that that's LaBrie Slocal

922
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: are just gonna complain about this. They sall back away.

923
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: But you got the cool fire explosion if you're on

924
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: the that was that was the one thing there was

925
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: an awesome, awesome So it was basically bandits robbing a

926
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: bank in the Old West and they would throw dynamite

927
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: into this door. So that I can go into that

928
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 1: a little bit. So on a show, if you were

929
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: the you know, the tour guide, the bandit would pop

930
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: out and you'd like take over your vehicle, and so

931
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: you would you would hear that someone's robbing the bank,

932
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: so you're like, oh, robbing the bank. Let me go

933
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: see what's going on, and you jump off the vehicle,

934
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: and then an animatronic would actually pull a gun on you,

935
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, oh, you have to kind of

936
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: stick your hands up and then you know, then then

937
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: an actual human would come out and they would need

938
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: to have an interaction with them, and then at one

939
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: point they get distracted, so you run into the bank

940
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: and then the bandit would then throw dynamite into the

941
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: bank and then the whole thing would explode in fire,

942
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: which is a really really cool effect, and they did

943
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: it a whole lot and it never seemed to have

944
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: any issues, which is wild. But one neat thing is, uh,

945
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: the doors, Like so they're swinging doors to go in

946
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: and out of the bank. Those doors were like six

947
00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: inches thick of fire padding and everything, and as the

948
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: as the cast member the tour guide would actually go

949
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: into the bank and they would have to push a

950
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: button on the inside basically saying they were clear, and

951
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: so once you would hold you would hit that and

952
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: then the cast member outside would hit the other one.

953
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: And that would trigger the explosion. Basically say that it's

954
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: okay to go. It would be like the green light

955
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: to go. I think that was the case. I could

956
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: be wrong on that, but I'm pretty sure we had

957
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: to hold a button on the inside to basically notify

958
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: the system that everything was okay to go. But yeah,

959
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: that was a fun show. It's like having the nuclear

960
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: key where you have to insert it at the same

961
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: time the same time make sure that everyone is on

962
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: the same page. Yeah. Yeah. For those who are wondering

963
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: what we're even talking about. As Jack was saying, the

964
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: way the ride would progress is that you would stop. Uh.

965
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: If you were the A Show, you would stop at

966
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: in the western section, and then this scenario would play

967
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 1: out and the bandit would take temporarily take over your tour. Uh.

968
00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: They found the aliens section very upsetting. Uh. And then

969
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: if you were the B Show, you did the same

970
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: sort of thing, except it was in the Gangster movie segment,

971
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: which was a little further back, and the gangster would

972
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: come in and take over your tram temporarily. And in

973
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: both cases it gets resolved in the Indiana Jones Ish section. Um,

974
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: a little past that, where you know you have uh

975
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: both of both the gangster and the the Bandit end

976
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: up being too greedy and they try to get a

977
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: sacred jim and end up being fried, and the tour

978
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: guide magically returns and apparently from the dead. In the

979
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:40,240
Speaker 1: in the eight story version that was that was always

980
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: like that. The scene was amazing. I loved it because,

981
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: first of all, um so the way it worked was

982
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: there's music playing over the p as it's called the

983
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: newbist scene is what it is is where the big

984
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: gym is, and so the the ganger, the gangster of

985
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: the band would be like, you guys, wait here, I'm

986
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna steal that gym, you know, and they

987
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: then they they'd walk up the stairs and the music

988
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: would play, and there's a lightning bolt, like a certain

989
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: like lightning bolt. When they heard that, they would hit

990
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: a little button like a little like arcade button on

991
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: on the actual scenery, which would then trigger the Halt Unbeliever,

992
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: which is like this big, you know, booming voice, and

993
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: then the team or the cast member would then react

994
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: to that and then they'd be like whatever, and they

995
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: put their hand on the gym. Smoke would go and

996
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: the smoke dissipated, it would reveal the skeleton standing there

997
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: like reaching for the gym, and then you know, it

998
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: turns out like, oh, that was actually your your your

999
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: tour guide was the the other person. Um. That was

1000
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: a neat effect because that was actually it was a door,

1001
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: so it was a rotating door that the smoke would

1002
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: the smoke would you know, there's enough of it to

1003
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: to you know, cover the door, and then it would

1004
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: it would spin around and then the the you know,

1005
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: the band of the gangster would hold the door closed.

1006
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: So it didn't because it was just on a little

1007
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: magnet and so like if if they just kind of

1008
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 1: walk through it, it would swing and then sometimes swing

1009
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: back or be like halfway open, so they would have

1010
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: to hold it closed. And then um, and then you

1011
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: reveal like hey, it's me, and then you'd run back

1012
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: down and then add another lightning bowl. You would then

1013
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: start your vehicle up to get the timing right and um.

1014
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: Some of the more uh, some of the more like,

1015
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you have relationships with all the people there,

1016
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: and so some of the people like to mess with you.

1017
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: So some of the gangsters are bandits. They would like

1018
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: to take the microphone cable and just wind it all

1019
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: around the steering wheel and so you'd go to grab

1020
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: it and it was just stuck and you'd have to

1021
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: sit there not like lean over it and like talking

1022
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: to the microphone by your wheel when you're trying to

1023
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 1: unwind it and stuff. That was that was always fun.

1024
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: But that was a cool scene. That was a really neat,

1025
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: really neat bit that movie that that wasn't really any

1026
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: specific movie. The the Anubis scene right before it was

1027
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: Raiders the Lost Ark, which was awesome, and then you know,

1028
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: Alien was fantastic too. That little the goopy stuff in

1029
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: the background is always super gross. I love that. Yeah. No,

1030
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: the the effects on the ride were, uh, like I said,

1031
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: it really was pulling you into the experience as if

1032
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: you were in the fiction of those movies. It is,

1033
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: by the way, in no way, shape or form at

1034
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: all similar to actually being on a movie set, but

1035
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: if you had been magically pulled into the movies themselves.

1036
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: It was like that. Um and yeah, that's it was.

1037
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: It was one of those rides, very charming ride as

1038
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: you as you say, It wasn't exactly like a thrill

1039
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: ride or anything. But again, like to this day, my

1040
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: favorite ride at Disney is still Pirates of the Caribbean.

1041
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: I like the story based rides. I mean I like

1042
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: the thrill rides too, Don't get me wrong. I love

1043
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: a good thrill ride. Love Guardians of the Galaxy needed

1044
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes to recover after I wrote it, But

1045
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: I loved it. Man I I love that ride. Man

1046
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: I ride that all day. I've jack I've reached the

1047
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: age where where where thrill rides I have a strict limit,

1048
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: and after I hit it, I cannot go past it. Actually,

1049
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: the worst though, are for me the ones that incorporate

1050
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 1: uh VR elements or screen elements. Those those can get

1051
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: me a little. Yeah for a forbidden journey over Universal,

1052
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: I have to look at my feet during the screen portions.

1053
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: I can't do it anymore. Like even like Simpson's ride,

1054
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: I get a little like a little queasy. And my

1055
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: wife and I we we made the mistake of we

1056
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,720
Speaker 1: decided to do par copying back when you could easily

1057
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: do at You can still do it today, It's just

1058
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: not as easy. Um. And we did the Flights of

1059
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: Passage first, so that's a VR base ride. We hopped

1060
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: over to Hollywood studios and in star tours it's another

1061
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: VR kind of ride. We hopped on over to Epcot

1062
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: and we did soar in which we usually we're totally

1063
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: fine on that, but it turned out that that was

1064
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: one screen based ride too many, and we both kind

1065
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: of felt that that lingering motion not not like acute

1066
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: motion sickness, but more like I don't feel right. And

1067
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 1: then we decided to get all the heat and went

1068
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: into the China film, which is a three sixty degree film.

1069
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: There the screen is completely in a three si degree arc,

1070
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: which is amazing in itself and I should probably talk

1071
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: about that technology at some point. But that disoriented us

1072
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: to the point where we spent probably the next three

1073
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: hours just sitting in the World Showcase and people watching

1074
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: because we couldn't. We were afraid to move. Uh so

1075
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 1: yeah with the land Man, living with the land after

1076
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: doing sore and let it cool off a little bit,

1077
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: see all the plants are made, or maybe the the

1078
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: well what's now the three Cabaatros ride but used to

1079
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: be the River of Time ride over in Mexico. That's

1080
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: always there's never a line for it. It's always cool.

1081
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: So I like that one. I was told, I don't

1082
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: know if this is true. Or not. I imagine you

1083
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,439
Speaker 1: might know because you know a whole lot about animatronics.

1084
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: When Great Movie Ride shut down, which was about five

1085
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: years ago at this point, I think I don't know

1086
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: exactly when it shut down. The rumor was that the

1087
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: Wicked Witch, the eight hundred animatronic moved to Pirates of

1088
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: the Caribbean, and now it's Red. So like supposedly Red

1089
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,280
Speaker 1: is the old Wicked Witch from Movie Ride. Is that true?

1090
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: Do you know if that's true? I cannot I cannot

1091
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: say if it's true or false because I don't care

1092
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: the answer to that. But I can tell you I

1093
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,399
Speaker 1: mean Red is a an A one figure. So Red

1094
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,439
Speaker 1: is of the same generation as Wicked Witch. Whether it's

1095
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: exactly the same uh A skeleton underneath, I am not certain.

1096
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: There's no reason it couldn't be. It certainly couldn't be,

1097
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: because these the big innovation of A one was that

1098
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: you had far more options when it came to programming

1099
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: the figure, and a much larger range of motion if

1100
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: you wanted to have a very expressive figure. Uh. You

1101
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: know the fact that if Scarlett the Pirate is in

1102
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: fact the former Wicked Witch of the West, that means

1103
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: she's also and Animatronic that was altered by the company Sarkos,

1104
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: which is mostly known as a military and industrial robotics company.

1105
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,240
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is, don't mess with the woman

1106
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: Pirate because maybe she's a terminator. I don't know, Yeah,

1107
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: she might, she might turn. I mean, just looking at

1108
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: a photo of Red her her right hand she's holding

1109
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: she's holding a gun, so her right hand is really

1110
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: not moving much and her left hand is holding the

1111
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: bottle and she moves it a lot, which similar to

1112
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: the Wicked Witch. She had her broom in one hand

1113
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: and then her other hand was pointing a lot. So

1114
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: I I have been told that's her. I don't know

1115
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: if it's true. In my head, can in a hundred

1116
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: percent that's the Wicked Witch. And then I guess they

1117
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: made another one for the Hollywood Park or the Anaheim Park,

1118
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I likely think you know, she she

1119
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: landed over there. I'm totally cool with that. Yeah, I think. Uh,

1120
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna adopt the same head cannon because

1121
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: Pirates is one of my favorite rides. I love the

1122
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: great movie ride. To think about that legacy living on

1123
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: under a different costume and uh skin, I think is brilliant,

1124
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with that too. So a lot

1125
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: of people would say that the So at one point

1126
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: you go to Casablanca and in a great movie ride

1127
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 1: and there was a plane there. It was basically recreating

1128
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: the scene that you know, you know, the problems don't

1129
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: amount to a hill of beans. And so there was

1130
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: a plane in the in the background that would like

1131
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: slowly spin up and stuff, and a lot of people said, like, oh,

1132
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: that's actually the plane from the movie. They would use

1133
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: that as fact. That was not the plane from the

1134
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: movie a hundred percent was not on the plane from

1135
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: the movie. As a matter of fact, the back of

1136
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: that plane ended up over at Jungle Cruise. So there's

1137
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: a crashed plane in Jungle Cruise, and the rear section

1138
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: of the plane is basically they split in half. Put

1139
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: half a Jungle Cruise half at movie ride. So do

1140
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: you ever hear that fact? That is a lie that

1141
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 1: I do love that both halves of the plane were

1142
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: existing in uh cast remember guided attractions, right, like, like

1143
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 1: that's one of the beautiful things about Jungle Cruise. It's

1144
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: a very corny ride, but it's still a ride where

1145
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: you get to see someone going through performance and if

1146
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: they haven't reached the Skipper dan Uh part of their career,

1147
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: and they can really be a lot of fun um.

1148
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: Like you say, it all depends on who you get

1149
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: and what kind of mood they're in. I mean, we're

1150
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: all human beings, but hopefully you get someone on a

1151
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:51,760
Speaker 1: good day. Yeah. I heard one rumor that that plane

1152
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: might have been used, not obviously not in Casablanca, but

1153
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: possibly in one of the Tarzan films. But whether that's

1154
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: true or not, I don't know. It's just again, there

1155
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: is a Tarzan section in the or there was I

1156
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 1: can't use the present tense anymore in The Great Movie Ride,

1157
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: but they didn't use the plane in that one had

1158
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: to go in the Casa Blanket section. Stick around because

1159
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 1: we have a little bit more about The Great Movie

1160
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: Ride and and Disney and and Jack Pottilo to talk about,

1161
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: and we'll do that right after this break. This has

1162
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: been a great talk. I've really enjoyed it. I really

1163
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. But one thing I really want to

1164
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:41,760
Speaker 1: talk about before we wrap up is your podcast, Annual Pass,

1165
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: where you dedicate episodes to all things theme and amusement

1166
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: park oriented. There are episodes that are about specific attractions

1167
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: or shows. There are interviews with people who have worked

1168
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: at these various places or have even invented some of

1169
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: the attractions that people no one love today. And uh,

1170
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: you have two great co hosts. You've got Jeff and

1171
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: b K. So you've got Jeff, who's an old, grumpy

1172
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: man like myself. I think I think he and I

1173
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: were born a week apart. And then you've got b K,

1174
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: a young gun who has a totally different perspective and

1175
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 1: thinks of you two as her dad's. Yeah, it's it's

1176
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Mannual pass is definitely one of

1177
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: those things where I was looking for something that like,

1178
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: what what could I make a podcast about that I'm

1179
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: passionate about? And if you have only heard me on

1180
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 1: this podcast here, you can tell that I love theme parks.

1181
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: And so I made a pitch about like, hey, let's

1182
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: do a show all about theme park attractions and then

1183
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: let's go into it. And we've been doing it now

1184
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: for about seventy episodes, and it's been so much fun,

1185
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: and the theme park community like, because you know, obviously

1186
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: there's a big theme park vlogging community, they've been so

1187
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 1: friendly and I was so nervous getting into it because

1188
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:52,720
Speaker 1: I've been listening to you know, like Theme Park Stop

1189
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: and defunct land Yesterworld, you know, all of these amazing shows,

1190
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: and I've had the opportunity now to talk to these

1191
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 1: creators and everyone is sole and so nice, and just

1192
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,800
Speaker 1: being in this space has been so much fun, and

1193
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: I think we're kind of finding our footing now. We're

1194
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: having a really good time with it. We're more of

1195
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: a lighthearted kind of look at things, but if you

1196
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: want to find out more about a specific attraction, we

1197
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: go into it. We do ride throughs, but like you said,

1198
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: we do interviews. As a matter of fact, we recorded

1199
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: one today with a woman who was super knowledgeable about

1200
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: Halloween Horror Knights and the lore of Halloween Horror Knights,

1201
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: and so we did a whole we're doing a whole

1202
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: episode on that, and it's just it's a lot of

1203
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: fun because you know, we, like you said, we've had

1204
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: Imagine ears on. We've had people designing Rise for Universal

1205
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: and hearing the stories about what goes into the making

1206
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: of these attractions, like we've Oddly enough, we've talked to

1207
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: two different gentlemen who had to pitch Steven Spielberg on

1208
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: attractions on different ones, one for one for Velocity Coaster,

1209
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: the Dress Park themed one, our Dress World themed one,

1210
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: and then one for Men in Black. So it's like

1211
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: and like hearing the stories. Apparently Steven Spielberg is a

1212
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: super nice guy, so that's cool. That's good to hear.

1213
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: But but yeah, it's been so much fun, and you know,

1214
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: if you want to listen to it, I would love

1215
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: for that. That'd be fantastic. We are annual pass. You

1216
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,439
Speaker 1: go to YouTube dot com slash annual Pass, or find

1217
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: us anywhere you get your podcast Spotify, rovert, rooster teeth

1218
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: dot com slash annual Pass, like wherever you want to

1219
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: go to find it, please give it a listen. It's

1220
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: a it's a lot of fun and uh, you know,

1221
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: as long as people are listening, I'm gonna keep making it.

1222
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: So that's the dream, at least, you know. Any the

1223
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: whole goal was to get my parent company to buy

1224
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: me a ticket to go to a theme park, so

1225
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: I still pay for my annual pass, I'll say that much.

1226
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: My my Disney annual passes so work for I heart

1227
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: and I have yet to to leverage that into concert tickets,

1228
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: but it's always in the back of my mind. Jack.

1229
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, Annual Pass is a great listen. I highly

1230
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: recommend it for people to go check out. It's first

1231
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: of all, you will I can't think of another word

1232
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: to describe Jack's performance a Annual Pass besides exuberant. I

1233
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: think that that is that is the appropriate word to

1234
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: you when you think that you're right throughs are so enthusiastic.

1235
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: That's what I love the most is that it's It's like,

1236
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: imagine the friendliest carnival barker walking you through the attraction

1237
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: that you've always wanted to be on, but you have it,

1238
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: and and I look forward to hearing a lot more.

1239
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: You've had some great guests and um and and all

1240
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 1: your topics are always fun. It's always fun to hear

1241
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: the interaction between you and the other hosts. So definitely

1242
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: do check that out. Um are are there are there

1243
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: any theme parks or attractions that you're eagerly looking forward

1244
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: to that you haven't experienced yet, either ones that are

1245
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: on the the cusp of coming out or just ones

1246
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: that exist but you haven't managed to get there. Man,

1247
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: I mean, really a lot of stuff outside the US.

1248
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: That's what that's what I want to do. Like, I mean,

1249
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to go to Disneyland Paris and

1250
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: you know, Disney Studios Paris. Um. That was great. Actually

1251
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 1: this year we went to Thorpe Park in England, just

1252
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: south of Heathrow, which was really cool. I got to

1253
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: go on the saw ride and like the Walking Dead.

1254
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: The ride was like really intense. But apparently Alton Towers

1255
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: is the European parks, so we gotta go ordered to

1256
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: the London parks, so we gotta go to Alton Towers next.

1257
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: But anywhere in Japan, Shanghai, I mean, there's there's so

1258
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: many amazing things and a lot of stuff, Like you know,

1259
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 1: I try not to watch ride videos on stuff that

1260
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: I would like to go on someday. So I watched

1261
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: the Tron light Cycle right through because I'm like, I'm

1262
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: probably not gonna go to Shanghai anytime soon. And then

1263
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 1: of course, like immediately later they're like, oh, yeah, we're

1264
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: gonna put in an Epcot And that was six years ago,

1265
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: so we'll see if it ever actually does open um.

1266
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I love any sort of theme park.

1267
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: I love small little like family mom and pop parks.

1268
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: I love the big ones. I'll ride anything. At this point,

1269
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: I've pretty much given myself up or I'm like, I

1270
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: don't I don't fear being on an attraction. I love

1271
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: them and so um that's a blast. So I will

1272
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: do anything, like so with so many people like, oh,

1273
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 1: you to come to this park like I would love to.

1274
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: I would love to, Like I'm never gonna say no,

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Speaker 1: like I'm I'm always I'm always up for whatever I

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Speaker 1: want to go to stuff. So UM, I'm actually going

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Speaker 1: to six Flags Great America, the one near Chicago, UM

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Speaker 1: later this month, and then ideally we're going out to

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Speaker 1: Halloween Horror Nights sometime either towards the end of September

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Speaker 1: or October. So I'll be back out in Florida hopefully

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Speaker 1: soon to go to some parks and you know, make

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Speaker 1: that annual pass pay for itself. If you get down

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Speaker 1: to six Flags over Georgia, you can you can ride

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Speaker 1: what was formerly known as the Monster Plantation. And then

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you all about the problematic history of that

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Speaker 1: particular attraction, because that that has undergone a pretty massive

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Speaker 1: thematic change, as you would imagine from an attraction that

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Speaker 1: was previously known as Monster plantation set in Georgia. Um,

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Speaker 1: then it became Splash Mountains. Okay, we'll make that Princess

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Speaker 1: in the Frog one day. All right. Well, well, Jack,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being on the show. It

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Speaker 1: was a pleasure having you on. And uh yeah, feel

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Speaker 1: free to come back anytime. We'll talk theme parks till

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Speaker 1: the cows come home. The pleasure is all mine. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. Anytime I get a chance to talk

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Speaker 1: theme parks, I'm up for it. Once again, I want

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Speaker 1: to thank Jack Patello for coming onto this show. You

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Speaker 1: know when he co founded Achievement Hunter. That was back

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, the summer of two thousand eight,

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Speaker 1: which is the exact same summer that this show launched.

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Speaker 1: So he and I have been in related business for

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Speaker 1: a very long time. He has seen phenomenal success and

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Speaker 1: has done amazing things. Seriously, you need to go and

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Speaker 1: check out his charity work because it's truly inspiring stuff

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Speaker 1: and it gotten me to participate on my own, not

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Speaker 1: in any like big way many times, so check that

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Speaker 1: out too. It's for a good cause. It's for children's healthcare,

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Speaker 1: which is obviously a great cause. And yeah, check out

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Speaker 1: the annual pass as well. It's a fun podcast, and uh,

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Speaker 1: if you love theme parks and you love learning more

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Speaker 1: about the attractions and what they're like and and trivia

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Speaker 1: about them, it's a it's a really fun listen, So

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Speaker 1: check those out. If you want to get in touch

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Speaker 1: future episodes of Tech Stuff, tell you what you can do.

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Speaker 1: And I hope to do more interviews in the future.

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Speaker 1: They're a little challenging because you know, scheduling can be uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's tough. People are busy, and and so

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Speaker 1: I will do my best because I love having someone

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Speaker 1: else on the show to talk to get their perspective,

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Speaker 1: learn things that I can't find out just through you know,

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Speaker 1: research on my own, because these are the people who

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Speaker 1: are actually there. I want to do more of that

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Speaker 1: in the future. If you have people that you think

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Speaker 1: I should have on as a guest. Send those my way.

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Speaker 1: at least try, and with that, I'll talk to you again,

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