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Speaker 1: Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. He there,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

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Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech

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Speaker 1: are You?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 1: Originally I had planned to bring to you an episode

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Speaker 1: about the quote unquote godfather of AI, doctor Jeffrey Hinton,

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Speaker 1: that is still in the works. It is still on

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Speaker 1: this way, but had a little bit of a family

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Speaker 1: emergency that happened late last week and it's still kind

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Speaker 1: of playing out. That has interfered with my ability to

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Speaker 1: bring a new episode. Everyone is okay and slowly getting better,

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Speaker 1: so I don't want anyone to worry about that. But

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Speaker 1: because of that, my attention is somewhat diverted. So rather

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Speaker 1: than go without an episode in two, I thought I

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Speaker 1: would bring to you this episode that we published in

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Speaker 1: September last year that is about the Great Movie Ride,

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Speaker 1: the former ride at what used to be Disney's MGM

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Speaker 1: Studios and now it's called Disney Hollywood Studios. And Jack

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Speaker 1: Pattillo of Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter joined the show

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Speaker 1: because he acted. He performed as a cast member at

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Speaker 1: Disney as part of that ride and he talks about

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Speaker 1: his experience, and we talk a little bit about how

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Speaker 1: the ride works as well, and I grouse a bit

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Speaker 1: about the gradual de theming of Disney Disney parks. But

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Speaker 1: that's because I'm an old man and I get grouchy

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Speaker 1: when stuff changes. Stuff is allowed to change. Parks are

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Speaker 1: living things. Okay, let's get to this rerun episode and

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with new episodes for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the week. And yeah, that's it. Let's go, y'all. I

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Speaker 1: got something special today. I've brought in a special guest,

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Speaker 1: a guest that, frankly, I could have asked to be

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Speaker 1: on Tech Stuff for numerous reasons. I could have asked

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Speaker 1: him because he's a content creator. He's a podcaster, he's

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Speaker 1: a co founder of an incredibly popular network of content.

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Speaker 1: He is an organizer for massive charity events that work

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Speaker 1: with organizations like Extra Life. I mean, the list goes

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Speaker 1: is because he's also a lifelong connoisseur of theme parks

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Speaker 1: and a former Disney cast member. Welcome to Tech Stuff,

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Speaker 1: mister Jack Battillo.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thank you so much for having me on. Yeah, sheeez,

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Speaker 2: thank you for all of the list of things I've done,

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Speaker 2: I've never felt older than I do.

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Speaker 1: Right now, how about it hit you with this, Jack,

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

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, two thousand and two, man, it

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Speaker 2: did the Walds New World College Program, which is a

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Speaker 2: fantastic program. Highly recommend it if you're a college kid

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Speaker 2: looking to not have responsibility for a semester. I did

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Speaker 2: it twice. I did it back in two thousand and

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Speaker 2: of the rides I worked on are shut down now,

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Speaker 2: which is sad. I worked over at it was Disney

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Speaker 2: MGM Studios and now it's Disney's Hollywood Studios. I worked at

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Speaker 2: the Great Movie Ride, which is now Mickey Minnie's Runaway Railway.

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Speaker 2: And I worked at the Back Loot Tour, specifically the

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Speaker 1: Right, it's one of the hottest sections of the park

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Speaker 1: were some really cool innovative technologies that were incorporated into

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Speaker 2: Sure my pitch for the Great Movie Ride after someone

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Speaker 2: Great Movie Ride. Yes, it is a ride. It's a

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Speaker 2: slow moving tram ride through the movies. It's twenty two

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Speaker 2: and we were a guided tour. You had a host

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Speaker 2: you know what, it would change up. But it was

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Speaker 2: a slow moving ride that takes you through some of

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Speaker 2: the most classic movies of all time, from Singing in

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Speaker 2: all kinds of amazing things with us some really awesome animatronics. Well,

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Speaker 2: when I described the ride, I would always say, this

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Speaker 2: that and a lot of people they were fans. They

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Speaker 2: It's not a huge, you know, like where it's it's

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Speaker 2: And uh, I really really loved it, and it's sad

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Speaker 2: But uh, but yeah, it's it was a very special

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Speaker 2: of the Chinese theater out in Disney's Hollywood Studios and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, the the theming was phenomenal. You had,

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

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So when I was there, they actually were just

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Speaker 2: It was a computer system that they would give you

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Speaker 2: You were always moving around. It was always kind of fresh.

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Speaker 2: the only thing a typical cast member wouldn't do on

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Speaker 2: Those were specialized roles that if you were the bandit,

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Speaker 2: But you know, everyone everyone there was family. Everyone knew

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Speaker 2: You just hear the clicklick click click click click. It's

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Speaker 2: from like all around you. It was really a bit disheartening. Yeah,

433
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 2: and that that was definitely weird, definitely strange that. I

434
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 2: think that was probably the scariest thing outside of Toto.

435
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 2: When Toto was off, she would just look at you

436
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 2: like the she had like these crazy fangs. I think

437
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,360
Speaker 2: Toto is a female, but she would have these crazy

438
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 2: fangs and she just looked like demented.

439
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: It was.

440
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,120
Speaker 2: It was. It was really weird. But uh, but yeah,

441
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 2: that was fun. Uh. I've heard a story. I don't

442
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 2: know if it's true or not. I have no way

443
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 2: to verify this, but apparently so, you know, the Wicked Witch.

444
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 2: She would move around a whole lot, lots of movements.

445
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 2: She had her broom, she would pull and stuff. Supposedly,

446
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 2: one day something got loose and she basically whipped her

447
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,919
Speaker 2: arm around and her wrists snapped and her hand just

448
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,399
Speaker 2: kind of dangled off and the hydraulic fluid in her

449
00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,200
Speaker 2: wrist started just hosing down the ride vehicle in front

450
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 2: of her, so essentially like she broke her wrist and

451
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: it started spraying all of the guests with her blood. Essentially,

452
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 2: that was one of the very few shut the ride

453
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 2: down and just evacuate from where you're positioned. We would

454
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,679
Speaker 2: have multiple time where we'd have to shut the ride

455
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 2: down because something like minor would happen where we just

456
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 2: rotate through the people that were stolen the attraction. There's

457
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 2: not enough to like, you know, kick people out, but

458
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 2: occasionally a door would break and it's like, well, we're

459
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 2: not moving, and you know, it was a thing where

460
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 2: you would have to move out of a section for

461
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 2: the next vehicle to move in. And when those happened,

462
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,159
Speaker 2: those are always fun. They're only happened to me twice

463
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Speaker 2: over the eight months or so I was there, where

464
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,200
Speaker 2: you know, you would ask the guests to stay there

465
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Speaker 2: and then you know, ultimately you'd have to go make

466
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Speaker 2: sure like a manager would come by like okay, go

467
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 2: ahead and clear them out and then they would open

468
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Speaker 2: the doors. And I always made it a big point

469
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 2: of any time, like the two times that happened they said,

470
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 2: if that happens, you need to make sure your guests

471
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 2: are happy. So if they want to go take photos

472
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 2: with Clin Eastwood, let them go take photos with the

473
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 2: cliniast would as long as they're not climbing on anything,

474
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: they can do whatever they want. And so some people

475
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 2: out there have some really good photos of like John

476
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 2: Wayne and his giant horse and the you know, like

477
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 2: standing over by Gangster area that it's like, oh yeah,

478
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 2: you're not normally supposed to be there. So that was

479
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 2: always a big thing, you know. It was always about

480
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 2: like going out of your way to be like, hey,

481
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 2: we had an issue. Sorry. You know, at the time

482
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 2: I was there, a great movie ride didn't have fast passed.

483
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Speaker 2: So it's kind of like, you know, come come back

484
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Speaker 2: when you can. We'd love to have you back. My

485
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Speaker 2: dog is losing its mind downstairs.

486
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Speaker 1: That's fine. Minus too, it's it's they're just they're just

487
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Speaker 1: co hosting.

488
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Speaker 2: That's fine, they're excited.

489
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the uh, it's it's that also reminds me like

490
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Speaker 1: I've only had that sort of experience happened at Disney,

491
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Speaker 1: I think maybe two times once when I was this

492
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: happens pretty regularly, but I was on the People Mover

493
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,119
Speaker 1: when the lights on Space Mountain were all on, so

494
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 1: you can actually see the track, and it's it's insane

495
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: how closely and tightly packed that track is, to the

496
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: point where you're thinking, I'm going to ride this differently

497
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: the next time I'm on everything's gonna get tucked in

498
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: because it's wild.

499
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 2: It's wild, like the re entry tube. You can just

500
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 2: touch it. I can just reach up and touch it.

501
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 2: It's like that should not happen. And like I imagine now,

502
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 2: like legally that couldn't happen. I'm sure as grandfathered in

503
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 2: by something. But like there's you can just reach out

504
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 2: and touch stuff on that track, and when you're pitch

505
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 2: black and you can't see anything, like you hit something

506
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 2: at speed, that's not good. So I can imagine the

507
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 2: amount of padding they have on all of the all

508
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 2: the various support structures that you can't see.

509
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Speaker 1: Typically, Yeah, the only other time it ever happened was

510
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: on Flights of Passage, the Avatar ride, where it just

511
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: the the video shut down, maybe like we were maybe

512
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds from the end of the ride. Maybe it

513
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: was my first time ever writing it, so I didn't

514
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Speaker 1: know at the time. But I was like, well, we've

515
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: been going for a while, this thing was probably about

516
00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,239
Speaker 1: to wrap up, and a cast member came on and

517
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,640
Speaker 1: there happened to be in the group that we were in,

518
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: a VIP group who had a huge amount of money

519
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: in order to do this, so they had us sit there,

520
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: they restarted the ride. We rode the whole so I

521
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: wrote I got to ride at one point eight times

522
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: the first time, and then as we're leaving, they gave

523
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Speaker 1: us all like like a priority fast pass digital fast

524
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: passes because that was when we were getting to the

525
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 1: point we're using magic bands. So yeah, Disney really does

526
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: go a long way to trying to to make the

527
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Speaker 1: guest experience magical, as they say they.

528
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Speaker 2: Certainly certainly did. I don't know how much that. It

529
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 2: seems like nowadays things are you know, if you gettle

530
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 2: different is a way they get Yeah, if there's a

531
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Speaker 2: way they can charge you for it, they're going to

532
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: charge you for it. If you can afford for it

533
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: to be magical. Yeah, I mean, I'm I still had

534
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 2: my annual pass. I still you know, I'm a you know,

535
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 2: multi year annual pass holder. I still enjoy going to

536
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 2: the parks. I participate in the run Disney events. I

537
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 2: do a lot of stuff through Disney, but it feels

538
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 2: like as of late, they've kind of let stuff lied

539
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 2: and that's frustrating to me as as you know, as

540
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 2: an annual passal, as a fan. It's just like it

541
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 2: feels like, especially right now, Disney is at a point

542
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 2: where they think that like they're kind of sitting back

543
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 2: and like, we're just making lots of money and people

544
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 2: love all of our stuff, and I don't think they're

545
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: looking down the road, like right now, literally down the

546
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,719
Speaker 2: road down I four. Universal is building a brand new

547
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 2: theme park this opening up in twenty twenty five. That's

548
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 2: gonna be the new hotness. And unless Disney literally announces

549
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: something at D twenty three this week or next week

550
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 2: that hey, we're gonna have something to counter that they're

551
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: gonna be caught with their pants down. I think it's

552
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 2: it's gonna be very interesting the next you know, the

553
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 2: the mid twenty twenties of theme parks in Orlando is

554
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 2: gonna be very very interesting. And I don't know how

555
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 2: much longer Disney can just kind of rest on their

556
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 2: laurels of what they've gotten away with so far, anyway.

557
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 2: That has nothing to do with great movie ride, but

558
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 2: that's a national side.

559
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: It kind of does because there there been ebbs and

560
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: flows at the Disney Yes, right. It all depends on

561
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: really the executive leadership team and how they value investing

562
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: in the parks versus kind of you know, coasting on

563
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: that perhaps and focusing on other parts of the company,

564
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: and that obviously changes on various regimes. There was a period,

565
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: a dark period in the Walt Disney World past, where

566
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: essentially all the executives who were in charge of the

567
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: parks came from retail. They came from places like Banana Republic,

568
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: and that was when we saw Main Street in Magic

569
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: Kingdom get gutted, where all the things that used to

570
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: be there, like the Penny Arcade and things that added

571
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: character but they didn't generate revenue were essentially stripped out,

572
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: so that you had just very long shops on either side.

573
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 2: The Mega Emporium. Oh yeah, yeah.

574
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 1: So there are issues like that that have been going

575
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: on for a while. So it's not like this is

576
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 1: a sudden decline, but it's certainly the pandemic kind of

577
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 1: brings things into sharp relief because you can see how

578
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: things were going pre pandemic versus Disney's response to the

579
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: pandemic and then post pandemic. I mean, I don't really

580
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: think we're in post pandemic, but everyone, yeah, argue we are.

581
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: So it's also, I mean the thing is now right,

582
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 2: you know, right now, it's we're getting this bounce because

583
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 2: we had two years of people basically not going on vacation,

584
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: saving up all their money and I mean, or not

585
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: go anywhere and saving up money. And now we're seeing

586
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 2: people spend that money. It's like, oh, we we've been

587
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: locked up for two years, Let's go to disney World.

588
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 2: And so I think we're seeing this sort of this

589
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 2: this false positive kind of thing where I think, like

590
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 2: right now it's like Disney's like, oh my gosh, record

591
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: profits and huge numbers going to the parks, and it's

592
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: like that's not going to sustain I don't think. And

593
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 2: you know, like tron is gonna bring some people back,

594
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 2: but after that, it's kind of what do you got, man?

595
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 2: I mean like cosmic Rewind was a lot of fun,

596
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 2: but Epcot is a wreck right now, yep. And I

597
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: mean then you see stuff, I mean, like you know,

598
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: I love Epcot and seeing you know, Harmonious is a

599
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: great show, but those barges, I like Eisner never would

600
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: have let those barges be out in the water like

601
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: that ruins so many sight lines and even like, I mean,

602
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 2: it's just I'm going off on a weird but it's

603
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: kind of it feels like, you know, Disney from what

604
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: I knew growing up, like I was, I went to

605
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 2: Disney Parks when I was, you know, a kid in

606
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: the nineties, and I have amazing rose colored memories of that,

607
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 2: and then working there in the early two thousands, like

608
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: that was sort of like the cherry on top. And

609
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 2: now as an adult, I can go back and I

610
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: can appreciate it from a different perspective. And I understand

611
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 2: a lot of these decisions, but I don't think they're

612
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 2: the right decisions to be made, you know. And so

613
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 2: it's kind of like like, oh, well, you know this

614
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 2: sort of the you know, you can have a one

615
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 2: slice of cake now or wait, you know, two hours

616
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 2: to have a full cake. You know, They're like they

617
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: just want their slice of cake right now, and it's

618
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 2: like no, no, you gotta get prepped for this day.

619
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Speaker 2: You gotta have it over multiple years. You got to

620
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 2: look at you know.

621
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Speaker 1: Well, because if you get to a point where you

622
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Speaker 1: have you dishearten people like yourself. And I'm also an

623
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: annual pass holder. I'm also a Disney Vacation Club member.

624
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I have spent a lot of money

625
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: with MoU's house. So but yeah, you start to you

626
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: start to feel like the what you might have thought

627
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: of as an investment before. It's almost like when you

628
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: go to a really expensive college and then afterward you

629
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: get a letter from them saying, hey, can you donate money.

630
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, I gave you so much money. I

631
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: don't need to give you more money. We'll be right

632
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: back with more about the Great Movie Ride and related

633
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: stuff after this break. One of the things I found

634
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: very disheartening personally from the old Disney MGM studio to

635
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: what we are today with Disney Hollywood Studios is something

636
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: that I also feel a f EPCOT, which is that

637
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: you start to see kind of an eroding of identity

638
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: in that when the park opened in nineteen eighty nine,

639
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: it was very clearly oriented toward we're going to talk

640
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: about movies and television production. The attractions all relate to that.

641
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: We have experiences that are about sound effects or visual effects.

642
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: We have an animation studio, a working animation studio where

643
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: you could actually see animators drawing cells of upcoming movies,

644
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: and you had the backstage tour. You actually had a

645
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: backlot where real productions were being shot, which honestly caused

646
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: some problems because MGM initially didn't agree to that and

647
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: that caused some licensing issues, but they worked that out.

648
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: They stilled out of court. Ye, But it means that

649
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: over time, you know, they have gotten rid of all

650
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: the different elements, with the exception of they still have

651
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: the Chinese theater facade, so that's still in the theme.

652
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: They still have streets that are named after street in

653
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, so that's still kind of in the theme.

654
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: But other than that, Hollywood Studios doesn't have very much

655
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: studios related stuff in it. It's more like Toy Story

656
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: and Star Wars and that kind of thing. So I

657
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: was wondering about your perspective on that too. Do you

658
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm crazy and I just feel like there's kind

659
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,719
Speaker 1: of a loss of coherence with Park identity, but do

660
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: you have a similar feeling about that as well?

661
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I mean exactly that. I mean, when the

662
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 2: studios opened, it was it was meant to replicate a

663
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,959
Speaker 2: working film production studio, you know. And so I mean

664
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 2: even like the buildings, like you know, The Great Movie

665
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: I had the building it's in it was like actually

666
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 2: a stage number and they would call it like stage whatever,

667
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and those still might technically be numbered.

668
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's over time. I mean, I'm not one

669
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 2: to like, I know, the idea that you know, the

670
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 2: theme parks are meant to be like a living document

671
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: where you can change it and you can alter it

672
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: over time, but it certainly does feel like they have

673
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 2: lost an overall tone. I mean, other than like you know,

674
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: initially it was Disney MGM Studios and it was meant

675
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 2: to be like here's how things are made, and I

676
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: love that stuff. Like I remember going on the animation

677
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: tour and I think they were working on The Emperor's

678
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: New Groove at the time, and I think I forget

679
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 2: what it was titled when I went there, but they

680
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 2: had that big window and they push a button in

681
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: it would suddenly go clear and they'd see all these

682
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 2: animators working. I think they called it the fishbowl. The

683
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: animators that they hated it apparently, but like being there,

684
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: it was so cool and like the backlot tour I remember.

685
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: I like the original backlot tour was like four hours long.

686
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: It was wild because there were so many different things.

687
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: Actually they would take you around in the tram but

688
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 2: then there was a walking portion where they show you

689
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 2: special effects and how they were made. I got to

690
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 2: ride on the bee from Honey I shrunk the kids

691
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: and they did a whole green screen thing and like

692
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 2: I got to be on it and they like splice

693
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 2: me into the movie. It was awesome. I love that.

694
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: But like the water tank portion was there and then

695
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: slowly they started removing it. Like then they actually had

696
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 2: I think The Mickey Mouse Club was shot there for

697
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 2: a bit. Back in two thousand and two. One of

698
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 2: the states over by over By the back lot was

699
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 2: actually the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? They actually

700
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: had a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire replica set

701
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 2: when they weren't shooting in la or New York. When

702
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: they weren't shooting in New York, they would come down

703
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 2: and Regis would come down and they'd host the show

704
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 2: from Florida. But when they weren't using it for production,

705
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: they would actually it turned into an actual, like an

706
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 2: attraction people could go to, so you could actually play

707
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 2: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and see how it

708
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: was made. It was one hundred percent exactly what they

709
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 2: used in the show, which I thought was really cool

710
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 2: and one of my favorite stories. When I worked at

711
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 2: the Backlots who Are in two thousand and five, By then,

712
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: the whole walking portion of the attraction was gone. It

713
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 2: was just the water tank section and then you would

714
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: move on to the tram tour which would take you

715
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: through the residential area and then it would take you

716
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 2: over to Catastrophe Canyon. But the walking portion was gone,

717
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 2: but the buildings were still there, and in the employee

718
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 2: restroom area there was an entrance like there was basically

719
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 2: a back entrance into the walking portion where they would

720
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 2: have like I think when they finished it, it was

721
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: the one hundred and one alimations live action stuff, so

722
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 2: they showed how they did all the animatronics with the

723
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 2: dogs and everything. But every single time I would use

724
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 2: the restroom, I would check that door and it was

725
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 2: always locked, always locked, every single time I was there

726
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 2: for six months, always locked. Literally my last night I

727
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: was working there, checked the door and it opened, and

728
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 2: I was like, like I opened the door and it

729
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: was just like, oh my gosh. And I walked in

730
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: and I they if you remember, it was kind of

731
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 2: like a pit where it was a circle and you

732
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 2: would like they all the guests would be around the

733
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 2: circle and they'd look down into this pit and then

734
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 2: a cast member would show off all the tech. They

735
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 2: actually had like foot plates where they would step on

736
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 2: things to make things trigger, and all the plates were

737
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 2: still there. All the animatronics were gone, but all the

738
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: plates were still there, and all like the shelves and everything,

739
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 2: and then up they had all of this storage of

740
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 2: old props. So like I remember when I was a kid,

741
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 2: I saw Johnny five from Short Circuit too, like the

742
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: gold one. He was up on one of the like

743
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 2: up on one of the big racks, and I was like,

744
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, and a lot of that stuff was

745
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: still there, like a lot of the props were still there,

746
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 2: and it was just like one of those moments like

747
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 2: I did it. I cracked into it, and it was

748
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: one of my favorite things. One of my favorite memories

749
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 2: that in right before I did my when I got

750
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: my last clock out before i'd go actually clock out

751
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 2: from the computer. I had them hold the next backlot

752
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: to our show, the water Tank Show. I adam hold

753
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 2: the show, and then I did a flip into the

754
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 2: pool and then I walked out and so uh and

755
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 2: then my manager just came tearing around the corner because

756
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: he heard someone had fallen in and I'm just dripping wet,

757
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 2: and he's like, what happened. I'm like, oh, I dove in.

758
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: He goes, oh, come on, and I'm like, it's my

759
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: last day, and he's like, all right, well, thanks for

760
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 2: working here. Because I was. I was. I was. I

761
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 2: enjoyed what I did. I love performing, like if you

762
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 2: can't tell, I enjoy being in front of in front

763
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 2: of people. And you know, that's that's what really drew

764
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: me to the Great movie Ride was the idea of

765
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: performing and actually having like I can affect someone's enjoyment

766
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: of an attraction. And I love everyone I worked with,

767
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 2: but there were a few people that was like, oh, man,

768
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: Like I like, when I'd see someone hosting one of

769
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 2: the like hosting a ride, I'd be like, oh, those

770
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: people aren't going to get the best show. Because you know,

771
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 2: you can read a script so many different ways, and

772
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: some people would kind of just go through the motions

773
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: and it's like no, whereas like I, you know, put

774
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 2: some put some drama into it, you know, put some

775
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 2: effort into it. And I would love doing that. And

776
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 2: I also just really enjoyed talking in microphones and that

777
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 2: was always my thing in the pre show area, and

778
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 2: that where the theater was, which is still Mickey and

779
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 2: Minnie's what you go through the Chinese Theater. You go

780
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 2: through you enter in through them the main doors of

781
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: the Gramma Chinese Theater or the Chinese Theater, and then

782
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: you turn left and everything like basically all of that

783
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 2: hasn't been touched at all, Like that was all exactly

784
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 2: how it was when it was a great movie ride.

785
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 2: But as soon as you kind of around the corner

786
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 2: is where it all sorts sort of changes. You eventually

787
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: do a couple of switchbacks and then the cast member

788
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 2: will tell you to go to like, you know, go

789
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: to theater one, go to theater two, go to theater three.

790
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: All of those were empty, and that's where the big

791
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 2: theater was, and that's where the big projection theater was.

792
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 2: With the trailers you were talking about earlier, but there

793
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 2: was a microphone at that at the booth for that one,

794
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 2: because that's where you would basically hold people before you load,

795
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 2: because the dock was the next door. You'd have a door,

796
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,919
Speaker 2: it'd open, you'd load them up, and you close the door.

797
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: Watch the movie, you know, five minutes later, reopen it,

798
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,240
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. Do that over and over again.

799
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 2: But that microphone on that desk, for some reason, made

800
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: my voice sound so good. I love that microphone so

801
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 2: much because it had like it really picked up the

802
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 2: base and it just sounded good to speak because it

803
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 2: was like a theater and so it sounded so nice.

804
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 2: And my biggest compliment I ever got was when I'd

805
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 2: be there, you know, hosting in the right before load

806
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 2: and I do my spiel at the at the podium,

807
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 2: like you know, like in just a few moments there

808
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 2: the ridea will start or whatever, and people would come

809
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 2: down and say, like, I thought that was a pre

810
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: recorded thing. I didn't realize that was you doing it live.

811
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, thank you very much, very kind

812
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: of you. So that's why we had I don't know

813
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 2: what it was about the acoustics in that room or

814
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 2: that microphone, whatever it was, that that magic it was.

815
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 2: It was awesome.

816
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: It's gotta be great to have you on the mono

817
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: rail and you can give the speed just before the doors.

818
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 2: Oh oh day, last part. Yes, it's my one line

819
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 2: of Spanish. I know.

820
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that is also again getting back to the

821
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: story part of the Great Movie Ride, the fact that

822
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: you had this sort of this interactive element. I thought

823
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 1: one of the most fascinating things as a guest riding

824
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: the ride was that this was an experience where the

825
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: tour guide that you were with was interacting not just

826
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: with other humans, but also with some of the animatronics

827
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: as well. So there was a lot of different acting.

828
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: There was acting off other cast members, and there was

829
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: acting off the pre recorded and pre programmed animatronic figures

830
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: like the Wicked Witch of the West, And I thought

831
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 1: that was just brilliant because it really brought that immersion,

832
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: that magic in there, showing the incredible ingenuity of the

833
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: engineers who created these these devices. Getting back to the

834
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: Wicked Witch of the West, there was a point where

835
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: she was augmented. She was already really advanced by the

836
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: time that the attraction open. She was the most advanced

837
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: animatronic that Disney had up to that point. They had

838
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: developed a system a little a couple of years before

839
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: they unveiled her called Compliance, And this gets back to

840
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: the hydraulics you were talking about. The hydraulic system allowed

841
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: for smooth movement and analog movement, so you could have

842
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: a range of motion with the old pneumatic systems that

843
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: the Enchanita tiki room had. You had two positions. You

844
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: had opened and closed right, like, the beaks would open

845
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: and they would close. But you couldn't halfway open a

846
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: beak because you're using an air piston to do it right.

847
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: It's a solemn noise and an air piston. And if

848
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: you've ever listened carefully in the Inchennitigi room, you can

849
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: hear that air, you know, propelling everything that's in there.

850
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: And that old system was brilliant. The reason they called

851
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: it audio animatronics is they would record audio tones on

852
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: originally it was filmed. Later it would be magnetic tape,

853
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: and the audio tones would make a read vibrate that

854
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: would close a circuit and that would allow the circuit

855
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: to activate the solenoid or the pneumatic valves that would

856
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: then have the beaks open and closed. Brilliant, easy simple

857
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: solution except for the fact that you have all these

858
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: tubes everywhere. But they never went with hydraulics for the

859
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: birds because like the Wicked Witch example you gave Jack,

860
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: they didn't want the birds to possibly mess on guests

861
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: if there was a hydraulic leak. You know, air doesn't

862
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: leak or I mean, it's not going to drip on you,

863
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: so you're fine. But ye know, once you get up

864
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: to the Wicked Witch, she was on hydraulics, and the

865
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: compliance was meant to be kind of a shock absorbing

866
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: system so that you could do these more dramatic movements,

867
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: but you wouldn't put so much stress on the figure

868
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: that it wears out in like a season and you

869
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: would have to do a full referb on it. So

870
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: this the brilliance to me of the engineering process was

871
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: not just that they were figuring out new ways to

872
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: animate these character in three dimensional space, but they were

873
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: also already thinking about, if we do this, it's going

874
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: to cause more wear and tear. How are we going

875
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: to address that so that we limit downtime and the

876
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: amount of money we have to spend on maintenance. And

877
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: it's that kind of engineering that I find really fascinating,

878
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: and later on they would introduce the A one thousand animatronics.

879
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: Those are the ones you see in places like Galaxy's Edge,

880
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: you see it over on the Smugglers Run ride. You know,

881
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: Hondo is an A one thousand figure. By that time,

882
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 1: you've moved away from hydraulics and you're into pure electronics

883
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: systems that are all precisely computer controlled. I had read

884
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: that in the A one hundred Days, the Wicked Witch Days.

885
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: Programming those things was a painstaking process, and it could

886
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: take up to eight hours to program one second of

887
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 1: animation on one of those And when you think about

888
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: the amount of animation the Wicked Witch had in particular,

889
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's someone's year right there.

890
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, well, I mean, like think before I

891
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: forget about it. What one interesting thing about the Wicked

892
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 2: Which area, the whole Wizard of Oz area was it

893
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 2: was one of two portions of the ride where if

894
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: we were at a busy day, we'd had an we

895
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: had an A show and a B show. So the

896
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: the way it worked was and on busy days you

897
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 2: would run both shows, the A show of the B show.

898
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 2: The A show would be your bandit, your Bandit show,

899
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 2: so your Cowboy show, and then the B show would

900
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 2: be the Gangster show. We could run without the A show.

901
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 2: You could run just just band or just gangster if

902
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: you wanted to. And what would happen to was, you know,

903
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 2: as I, if you're running two vehicles, the first vehicle

904
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: would kind of speed through the first couple scenes, so

905
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 2: you would go through the the you know, the you know,

906
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 2: footlight parade, Wizard uh Singing in the Rain, and Mary Poppins.

907
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 2: You'd kind of just careened through it, honestly, like you

908
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 2: wouldn't slow down at all, because what you're doing is

909
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: you were making space between your vehicle and the B vehicle,

910
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 2: and so you would both kind of land at the

911
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 2: portions of the show where you interact with another cast member,

912
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: you'd interact with the bandit or interact with a gangster,

913
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 2: and then you would both move at the same speed

914
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 2: up until the switch happened back over at Indiana Jones,

915
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,919
Speaker 2: and then the B vehicle would then just a haul

916
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,439
Speaker 2: butt to catch up to the A vehicle, and by

917
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 2: that time you would then both enter into the Wizard

918
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 2: of Oz area. So that was the one scene where

919
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 2: you'd have theoretically four vehicles, or I mean two vehicles

920
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 2: but attractor trailer, so four you know, platforms of people

921
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 2: on there. And if you had a full show like that,

922
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 2: there was actually a microphone off to the side because

923
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 2: the witch was designed to interact with just one person,

924
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 2: and so she would always point at the driver of

925
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 2: the first vehicle. And so if it was just if

926
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 2: you're just running a show where you didn't have the

927
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 2: other if it was just running a B show and

928
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 2: you only had your one car, you would just use

929
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 2: your microphone for the vehicle, you know, the one that

930
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 2: actually feeds through the speakers. But if you had both vehicles,

931
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 2: if you had all four of them going this the

932
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 2: back car so the B show, they would they wouldn't

933
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 2: be able to hear you obviously on your microphone. So

934
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,439
Speaker 2: we had a separate microphone that you would you step

935
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,959
Speaker 2: off the vehicle, pick it up, and it played over

936
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 2: the PA inside of the Wizard of Oz section. So

937
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 2: on munchkin Land, it will play over the PA, so

938
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 2: all everyone could hear you on that as opposed to

939
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 2: just your vehicle. So I'm trying to think of interesting

940
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 2: tech stuff that you might might find me chemical that's amazing.

941
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: I didn't. I mean I knew about the A Show

942
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: and B Show because I had ridden the right enough

943
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: times and by the end of it, you essentially only

944
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: saw the B Show. Yeah, yeah, they did, they weren't.

945
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: They never had a capacity that was enough where they

946
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: needed to run both really uh And also I mean,

947
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: you know then you have half the number of cast

948
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: members who have to be in costume and yeah, which

949
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: gets us into it that that that's LaBrie Slope and

950
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: we're just going to complain about this. These all back away.

951
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 2: But you have the cool fire explosion if you're on

952
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: the show that was that was the one thing there

953
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 2: was an awesome, awesome So it was basically bann Is

954
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 2: robbing a bank in the Old West and they would

955
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 2: throw dynamite into the store. So that I can go

956
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 2: into that a little bit. So on an A show,

957
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 2: if you were the the you know, the tour guide,

958
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 2: the band would hop out and you'd like take over

959
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: your vehicle and so you would you would hear that

960
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 2: someone's robbing the bank. So you're like, oh, robbing the bank,

961
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 2: let me go see what's going on, and you jump

962
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 2: off the vehicle and then an animatronic would actually pull

963
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: a gun on you and you'd be like, oh, you

964
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 2: have to kind of stick your hands up and then

965
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 2: you know, then then an actual human would come out

966
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 2: and they would need to have an interaction with them,

967
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 2: and then at one point they get distracted, so you

968
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 2: run into the bank and then the bandit would then

969
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 2: throw dynamite into the bank and then the whole thing

970
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: would explode in fire, which is a really really cool effect.

971
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: They did it a whole lot and it never seemed

972
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 2: to have any issues, which is wild. But one neat

973
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 2: thing is, uh, the doors, Like so they're swinging doors

974
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: to go in and out of the bank, those doors

975
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 2: were like six inches thick of fire padding and everything,

976
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 2: and as the as the the the cast member the

977
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 2: tour guide would actually go into the bank and they

978
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 2: would have to push a button on the inside basically

979
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 2: saying they were clear. And so once you would hold

980
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: you would hit that and then the the cast member

981
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 2: outside would hit the other one and that would trigger

982
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 2: the explosure or basically say like it's okay to go.

983
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 2: It would be like the green light to go. I

984
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 2: think that was the case. I could be wrong on that,

985
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 2: but I'm pretty sure we had to hold a button

986
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 2: on the inside to basically notify the system that everything

987
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,959
Speaker 2: was okay to go. But yeah, that was a fun show.

988
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: It's like having the nuclear key where you have to insert.

989
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 2: It the same time at the same time make sure that.

990
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: Everyone is on the same page.

991
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

992
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 1: Yeah. For those who are wondering what we're even talking about,

993
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: as Jack was saying, the way the ride would progress

994
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: is that you would stop. If you were the A Show,

995
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: you would stop at in the Western section, and then

996
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:34,959
Speaker 1: this scenario would play out and a band it would

997
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: take temporarily take over your tour. They found the alien

998
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: section very upsetting. And then if you were the B Show,

999
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: you did the same sort of thing, except it was

1000
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 1: in the gangster movie segment, which was a little further back,

1001
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: and a gangster would come in and take over your

1002
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: tram temporarily, and in both cases it gets resolved in

1003
00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 1: the Indiana Jones Ish section little past that, where you

1004
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: have both of both the gangster and the the bandit

1005
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,439
Speaker 1: end up being too greedy and they try to get

1006
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: a sacred gym and end up being fried, and the

1007
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: tour guide magically returns and yeah, apparently from the dead

1008
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: in the story.

1009
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's movie magic.

1010
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: Right.

1011
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 2: That was that was always like that. The scene was amazing.

1012
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 2: I loved it because, first of all, so the way

1013
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 2: it worked was there's music playing over the PA's and

1014
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 2: it's called the Anubis scene. Is what it is is

1015
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 2: where the big gym is, and so the ganger, the gangster,

1016
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 2: the band it would be like, you guys, wait here,

1017
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna steal that gym, you know, and

1018
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 2: they then they they'd walk up these stairs and the

1019
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 2: music would play, and there's a lightning bolt, like a

1020
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,439
Speaker 2: certain like lightning bolt. When they heard that, they would

1021
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 2: hit a little button like a little like arcade button

1022
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 2: on on the actual scenery, which would then trigger the

1023
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 2: Halt Unbeliever, which is like this big, you know, booming voice,

1024
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 2: and then the team or the cast member would then

1025
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 2: react to that and then they'd be like ah, whatever,

1026
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 2: and they'd put their hand on the gym. Smoke would go,

1027
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 2: and the smoke dissipated. It would reveal the skeleton standing

1028
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 2: there like reaching for the gym, and then you know,

1029
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 2: it turns out like, oh, that was actually your your

1030
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 2: your tour guide was the the other person. That was

1031
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 2: a neat effect because that was actually it was a door,

1032
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 2: so it was a rotating door that the smoke would

1033
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 2: the smoke would you know, there's enough of it to

1034
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 2: to you know, cover the door, and then it would

1035
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 2: it would spin around, and then the the you know,

1036
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 2: the band of the gangster would hold the door closed.

1037
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 2: So it didn't because it was just on a little

1038
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 2: magnet and so like if if they just kind of

1039
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 2: walk through it, it would swing and then sometimes swing

1040
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 2: back or be like halfway open, so they would have

1041
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 2: to hold it closed and then and then you reveal like, hey,

1042
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 2: it's me, and then you'd run back down and then

1043
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 2: add another lightning bolt. You would then start your vehicle

1044
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 2: up to get the timing right. And some of the

1045
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 2: more some of the more like, I mean, you have

1046
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 2: relationships with all the people there, and so some of

1047
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 2: the people like to mess with you. So some of

1048
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: the gangsters or bandits, they would like to take the

1049
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 2: microphone cable and just wind it all around the steering wheel,

1050
00:49:58,520 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 2: and so you'd go to grab it and it was

1051
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 2: just stuck and you'd have to sit there and not

1052
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 2: like lean over it and like talk into the microphone

1053
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 2: by your wheel while you're trying to unwind it and

1054
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 2: stuff that was. That was always fun. But that was

1055
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 2: a cool scene. That was a really neat, really neat

1056
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,959
Speaker 2: bit that movie that that wasn't really any specific movie,

1057
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 2: the Anubist scene, but right before it was Raiders the

1058
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 2: Lost Arc, which was awesome. And then you know, Alien

1059
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 2: was fantastic too. That little the goofy stuff in the

1060
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 2: background is always super gross. I love that.

1061
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, the the effects on the ride were uh,

1062
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: like I said, it really was pulling you into the

1063
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: experience as if you were in the fiction of those movies.

1064
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: It is, by the way, in no way, shape or

1065
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: form at all similar to actually being on a movie set,

1066
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: but if you had been magically pulled into the movies themselves.

1067
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: It was like that. Uh and yeah, yeah, that's it was.

1068
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: It was one of those rides, very charming ride as

1069
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: you as you say. It wasn't exactly like a throw

1070
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: ride or anything. But again, like to this day, my

1071
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: favorite ride at Disney is still Pirates of the Caribbean.

1072
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: I like the story based rides. I mean I like

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Speaker 1: the throw rides too, Don't get me wrong, I love

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00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: a good throw ride. Loved Guardians of the Galaxy needed

1075
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes to recover after I wrote it, but

1076
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Speaker 1: I loved it really.

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00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 2: Oh man, I love that ride. Man, I ride that

1078
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 2: all day.

1079
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: I've jack I've reached the age where where where thrill rides.

1080
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: I have a strict limit, and after I hit it, man,

1081
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: I cannot go past it. Actually, the worst though, are

1082
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: for me the ones that incorporate VR elements or screen elements.

1083
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: Those can get me a little.

1084
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, for a forbidden journey over at Universal, I have

1085
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 2: to look at my feet during the screen portions. I

1086
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 2: can't do it anymore. Like even like Simpson's ride, I

1087
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 2: get a little like a little queasy.

1088
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. My wife and I we made the mistake of

1089
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: we decided to do park hoppying back when you could

1090
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: easily do that. You can still do it today, it's

1091
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:44,760
Speaker 1: just not as easy.

1092
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 2: And we did.

1093
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: The Flights of Passage first, so that's a VR based ride.

1094
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,240
Speaker 1: We hopped over to Hollywood Studios and in Star Tours

1095
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:59,760
Speaker 1: it's another VR ride. We hopped on over to Epcott

1096
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: and we did sore in which we usually were totally

1097
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: fine on that, but it turned out that that was

1098
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: one screen based ride too many, and we both kind

1099
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:13,240
Speaker 1: of felt that that lingering motion not like acute motion. Sickness,

1100
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: but more like, yeah, I don't feel right. And then

1101
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 1: we decided to get all the heat and went into

1102
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: the China film, which is a three hundred and sixty

1103
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: degree film. The screen is completely in a three hundred

1104
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: and sixty degree arc, which is amazing in itself and

1105
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: I should probably talk about that technology at some point.

1106
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: But that disoriented us to the point where we spent

1107
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: probably the next three hours just sitting in the World

1108
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: Showcase and people watching because we couldn't. We were afraid

1109
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:39,919
Speaker 1: to move.

1110
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 2: So yeah, living with the land man, Yeah, living with

1111
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 2: the land After doing sore In, let it cool off

1112
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 2: a little bit, see how the plants are made.

1113
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: Or maybe the the well what's now the three Kabaetto's

1114
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: ride but used to be the River of Time ride

1115
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 1: over in Mexico. That's always there's never a line for it.

1116
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: It's always cool. So I like that one.

1117
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:01,879
Speaker 2: I was told, I don't know if this is true

1118
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 2: or not. I imagine you might know, because you know a

1119
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 2: whole lot about animatronics. When Great Movie Ride shut down,

1120
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 2: which was about five years ago at this point, I

1121
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 2: think I don't know exactly when it shut down. The

1122
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 2: rumor was that the Wicked Witch the eight hundred. A

1123
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 2: one hundred animatronic moved to Pirates of the Caribbean and

1124
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 2: now it's Red. So like supposedly Red is the old

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00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 2: Wicked Witch from movie Ride. Is that true? Do you

1126
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 2: know if that's true?

1127
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: I cannot say if it's true or false because I

1128
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: don't get the answered that. But I can tell you

1129
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: I mean Red is an A one hundred figure. So

1130
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: Red is of the same generation as Wicked Witch. Whether

1131
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: it's exactly the same a skeleton underneath, I am not certain.

1132
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: There's no reason it couldn't be. It certainly couldn't. Yeah,

1133
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: because these the big innovation of a one hundred was

1134
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: that you had far more options when it came to

1135
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: programming the figure and a much larger range of motion

1136
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: if you wanted to have a very expressive figure. You

1137
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 1: know the fact that if Scarlett the Pirate is in

1138
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:08,919
Speaker 1: fact the former Wicked Witch of the West, that means

1139
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: she's also an animatronic that was altered by the company Sarcos,

1140
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 1: which is mostly known as a military and industrial robotics company.

1141
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is, don't mess with the woman

1142
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: Pirate because maybe she's a terminator. I don't know.

1143
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, she might, she might turn. I mean, just looking

1144
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:34,479
Speaker 2: at a photo of Red her her right hand she's

1145
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 2: holding she's holding a gun, so her right hand is

1146
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 2: really not moving much and her left hand is holding

1147
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 2: the bottle and she moves it a lot, which similar

1148
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 2: to the Wicked Witch. She had her broom in one

1149
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:44,919
Speaker 2: hand and then her other hand was pointing a lot.

1150
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 2: So I've been told that's her. I don't know if

1151
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 2: it's true. In my headcan and one hundred percent that's

1152
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 2: the Wicked Witch. And then I guess they made another

1153
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 2: one for the Hollywood Park or the Anaheim Park. But

1154
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 2: but yeah, I like to think, you know, she she

1155
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:00,439
Speaker 2: landed over there.

1156
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: I'm totally cool with that. Yeah, I think I'm gonna

1157
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: adopt the same head cannon because Pirates is one of

1158
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: my favorite rides. I love the Great Movie Ride. To

1159
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: think about that legacy living on under a different costume

1160
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: and skin, I think is brilliant. So I'm gonna go

1161
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: with that too.

1162
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 2: So a lot of people would say that the so

1163
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 2: at one point you go to Casablanca and in Great

1164
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 2: Movie Ride, and there was a plane there. It was

1165
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 2: basically recreating the scene that you know you know, there

1166
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 2: are problems don't amount to a hill of beans. And

1167
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 2: so there was a plane in the background that would

1168
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 2: like slowly spin up and stuff, and a lot of

1169
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 2: people said, like, oh, that's actually the plane from the movie.

1170
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 2: They would use that as fact. That was not the

1171
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 2: plane from the movie. One hundred percent was not the

1172
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 2: plane from the movie. As a matter of fact, the

1173
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 2: back of that plane ended up over at Jungle Cruise.

1174
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 2: So there's a crashed plane in Jungle Cruise, and the

1175
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 2: rear section of the plane is basically they split in half.

1176
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 2: Put half a Jungle Cruise half at movie ride. So

1177
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 2: you ever hear that fact that is a lie. That's

1178
00:55:57,640 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 2: one hundred percent a lot.

1179
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: I do love that both halves of the plane were

1180
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: existing in cast member guided attractions. Yeah, like that's one

1181
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: of the beautiful things about Jungle Cruise. It's a very

1182
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: corny ride, but it's still a ride where you get

1183
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 1: to see someone going through performance and if they haven't

1184
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: reached the Skipper Dan part of their career, then they

1185
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: can really be a lot of fun. Like you say,

1186
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 1: it all depends on who you get and what kind

1187
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: of mood they're in. I mean, all human beings, but

1188
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: hopefully you get someone on a good day. Yeah. I

1189
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: heard one rumor that that plane might have been used,

1190
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 1: not obviously not in Casta Blanca, but possibly in one

1191
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: of the Tarzan films. But whether that's true or not,

1192
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just again, there is a Tarzan

1193
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 1: section in the grit Or. There was I can't use

1194
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: the present tense anymore in The Great Movie Ride, but

1195
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:53,879
Speaker 1: they did use the plane in that one. I had

1196
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: to go in the Castle Blanka section. Stick around because

1197
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: we have a little bit more about The Great Movie

1198
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: Ride and Dizzy and Dak Pattillo to talk about, and

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00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: we'll do that right after this break. This has been

1200
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: a great talk. I've really enjoyed it. I really appreciate

1201
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: your time. But one thing I really want to talk

1202
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: about before we wrap up is your podcast, Annual Pass,

1203
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: where you dedicate episodes to all things theme and amusement

1204
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: park oriented. There are episodes that are about specific attractions

1205
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: or shows. There are interviews with people who have worked

1206
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: at these various places or have even invented some of

1207
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: the attractions that people know and love today. And you

1208
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: have two great co hosts. You've got Jeff and b Ka,

1209
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: so You've got Jeff, who's an old grumpy man like myself.

1210
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: I think he and I were born a week apart.

1211
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: And then you've got b Ka Youngin, who has a

1212
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: totally different perspective thinks of you two as her dad's.

1213
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Manual Pass is definitely

1214
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 2: one of those things where I was looking for something that, like,

1215
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,479
Speaker 2: what could I make a podcast about that I'm passionate about?

1216
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 2: And if you have only heard me on this podcast here,

1217
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 2: you can tell that I love theme parks. And so

1218
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 2: I made a pitch about, like, hey, let's do a

1219
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 2: show all about theme park attractions and then let's go

1220
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 2: into it. And we've been doing it now for about

1221
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 2: seventy episodes, and it's been so much fun, and the

1222
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 2: theme park community, like because you know, obviously there's a

1223
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 2: big theme park vlogging community, they've been so friendly and

1224
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 2: I was so nervous getting into it because like I've

1225
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 2: been listening to you know, like theme Park Stop and

1226
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 2: defunk Land, Yesterra World, you know, all of these amazing shows,

1227
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 2: and I've had the opportunity now to talk to these

1228
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 2: creators and everyone is so friendly and so nice and

1229
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 2: just being in this space has been so much fun,

1230
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 2: and I think we're kind of finding our footing now.

1231
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 2: We're having a really good time with it. We're more

1232
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 2: of a lighthearted kind of look at things, but if

1233
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 2: you want to find out more about a specific attraction,

1234
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 2: we go into it. We do ride throughs, but like

1235
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 2: you said, we do interviews. As a matter of fact,

1236
00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 2: we recorded one today with a woman who was super

1237
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 2: knowledgeable about Halloween Horror Nights and the lore of Halloween

1238
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 2: Horror Nites, and so we did a whole we're doing

1239
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 2: a whole episode on that, and it's just it's a

1240
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 2: lot of fun because you know, we, like you said,

1241
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 2: we've had imaginears on We've had people designing rise for

1242
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 2: Universal and hearing the stories about what goes into the

1243
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 2: making of these attractions. Like we've oddly enough, we've talked

1244
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 2: to two different gentlemen who had to pitch Steven Spielberg

1245
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 2: on attractions on different ones. One for one for Velosit Coaster,

1246
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 2: the Drass Park themed one, our Dress World themed one,

1247
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 2: and then one for Men in Black. So it's like

1248
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: and like hearing their story. Apparently Steven s Fielburg is

1249
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 2: a super nice guy, so that's cool. That's good to hear.

1250
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 2: But but yeah, it's been so much fun, and you know,

1251
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 2: if you want to listen to it, I'd love for that.

1252
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 2: That'd be fantastic. We are Annual Pass. You go to

1253
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 2: YouTube dot com slash Annual Pass, or find us anywhere

1254
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 2: you get your podcast Spotify, rovertroosterteeth dot com slash Annual Pass,

1255
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 2: like wherever you want to go to find it, Please

1256
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:50,959
Speaker 2: give it a listen. It's it's a lot of fun

1257
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 2: and you know, as long as people are listening, I'm

1258
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 2: going to keep making it. So that's the the dream

1259
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 2: at least, you know. Any the whole goal was to

1260
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 2: get my parent company to buy me a ticket to

1261
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 2: go to a theme park. So I still pay for

1262
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 2: my annual Pass, I'll say that much. My Disney annual

1263
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 2: passes so well seek for.

1264
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: iHeart and I have yet to leverage that into concert tickets,

1265
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: but it's always in the back of my mind. Jack Uh, Yeah,

1266
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: Annual Pass is a great listen. I highly recommend it

1267
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: for people to go check out. It's first of all

1268
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: you will I can't think of another word to describe

1269
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 1: Jack's performance an Annual Pass besides exuberant. I think that

1270
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: that is that is the appropriate word to use. Your

1271
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: ride throughs are so enthusiastic. That's what I love most

1272
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: is that it's it's like, imagine the friendliest Carnival barker

1273
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: walking you through the traction that you've always wanted to

1274
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: be on but you haven't. And and I look forward

1275
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: to hearing a lot more. You've had some great guests

1276
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: and and and all your topics are always fun, and

1277
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: it's always fun to hear the interaction between you and

1278
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: the other hosts. So definitely do check that out. Are

1279
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: are there are there any theme parks or tractions that

1280
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: you're eagerly looking forward to that you haven't experienced yet,

1281
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,959
Speaker 1: either ones that are on the cusp of coming out

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Speaker 1: or just ones that exist but you haven't managed to

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Speaker 1: get there.

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Speaker 2: Man, I mean, really a lot of stuff outside the US,

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Speaker 2: That's what I want to do. Like, I mean, I've

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Speaker 2: been fortunate enough to go to Disneyland Paris and you know,

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Speaker 2: Disney Studios Paris. That was great. Actually this year we

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Speaker 2: went to Thorpe Park in England, just south of Heathrow,

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Speaker 2: which was really cool. We get to go on the

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Speaker 2: saw ride and like the Walking Dead, the ride is

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Speaker 2: like really intense. But apparently Alton Towers is the European park,

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Speaker 2: so we got to go order to the London Park,

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Speaker 2: so we got to go to Alton Towers next. But

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Speaker 2: anywhere in Japan, Shanghai, I mean, there's so many amazing

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Speaker 2: things and a lot of stuff, Like you know, I

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Speaker 2: try not to watch ride videos on stuff that I

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Speaker 2: would like to go on someday. So I watched the

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Speaker 2: tron light Cycle ride through because I'm like, I'm probably

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Speaker 2: not gonna go to Shanghai anytime soon. And then of course,

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Speaker 2: like immediately later they're like, oh, yeah, we're gonna put

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Speaker 2: a Nepcot and that was six years ago, so we'll

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Speaker 2: see if it ever actually does open. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean I love any sort of theme park. I love

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Speaker 2: small little like family mom and pop parks. I love

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Speaker 2: the big ones. I'll ride anything. At this point, I've

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Speaker 2: pretty much given myself up where I'm like, I don't

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Speaker 2: I don't fear being on an attraction. I love them

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Speaker 2: and so that's a blast, so I will do anything.

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Speaker 2: Like so we so many people like, oh, you need

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Speaker 2: to come to this park like I would love to.

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Speaker 2: I would love to, Like I'm never gonna say no,

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Speaker 2: like I'm always I'm always up for whatever I want

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Speaker 2: to go to stuff. So I'm actually going to six

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Speaker 2: Flags Great America, the one near Chicago later this month,

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Speaker 2: and then ideally we're going out to Halloween Horror Night

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Speaker 2: sometime either towards the end of September or October. So

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Speaker 2: I'll be back out in Florida hopefully soon to go

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Speaker 2: to some parks and you know, make that annual pass

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Speaker 2: pay for yourself.

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Speaker 1: If you get down to six Flags over Georgia, you

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Speaker 1: can you can ride what was formerly known as the

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Speaker 1: Monster Plantation, and then I'll tell you all about the

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Speaker 1: problematic history of that particular attraction, because that that has

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Speaker 1: undergone a pretty massive thematic change, as you would imagine,

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Speaker 1: from an attraction that was previously known as Monster Plantation in.

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Speaker 2: Georgia, then it became Splash Mountain. So it's all good, Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's okay.

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Speaker 1: We'll make that Princess and 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 yeah, feel free

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Speaker 1: to come back anytime. We'll talk theme parks till the

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Speaker 1: cows come home.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the pleasure is all mine. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Anytime I get a chance to talk theme parks, I'm

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Speaker 2: up for it.

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Speaker 1: Once again, I want to thank Jack Pattillo for coming

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Speaker 1: onto this show. You know when he co founded Achievement Hunter.

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Speaker 1: That was back in two thousand and eight, the summer

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Speaker 1: of two thousand and eight, which is the exact same

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Speaker 1: summer that this show launched. So he and I have

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Speaker 1: been in related business for a very long time. He

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Speaker 1: has seen phenomenal success and has done amazing things. Seriously,

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01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: you need to go and check out his charity work

1344
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 1: because it's truly inspiring stuff. It got me to participate

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01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: on my own, not in any big way, many times,

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Speaker 1: so check that out too. It's for a good cause.

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Speaker 1: It's for children's healthcare, which is obviously a great cause.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, check out Annual Pass as well. It's a

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01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: fun podcast. And if you love theme parks and you

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Speaker 1: love learning more about the attractions and what they're like

1351
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 1: and trivia about them, 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: hope to do more interviews in the future. They're a

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Speaker 1: little challenge because you know, scheduling can be you know,

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Speaker 1: it's tough. People are busy, and so I will do

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Speaker 1: my best because I love having someone else on the

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Speaker 1: show to talk to, get their perspective, learn things that

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Speaker 1: I can't find out just through, you know, research on

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Speaker 1: my own, because these are the people who are actually there.

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Speaker 1: I want to do more of that in the future.

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Speaker 1: If you have people that you think I should have

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Speaker 1: on as a guest, send those my way. I can't

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Speaker 1: promise that I'll get them, but I can at least try,

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Speaker 1: and with that I'll talk to you again. Release So

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