WEBVTT - Rerun: How the Great Movie Ride Worked

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. He there,

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

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<v Speaker 1>I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech

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<v Speaker 1>are You?

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<v Speaker 2>So?

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<v Speaker 1>Originally I had planned to bring to you an episode

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<v Speaker 1>about the quote unquote godfather of AI, doctor Jeffrey Hinton,

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<v Speaker 1>that is still in the works. It is still on

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<v Speaker 1>this way, but had a little bit of a family

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<v Speaker 1>emergency that happened late last week and it's still kind

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<v Speaker 1>of playing out. That has interfered with my ability to

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<v Speaker 1>bring a new episode. Everyone is okay and slowly getting better,

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<v Speaker 1>so I don't want anyone to worry about that. But

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<v Speaker 1>because of that, my attention is somewhat diverted. So rather

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<v Speaker 1>than go without an episode in two, I thought I

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<v Speaker 1>would bring to you this episode that we published in

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<v Speaker 1>September last year that is about the Great Movie Ride,

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<v Speaker 1>the former ride at what used to be Disney's MGM

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<v Speaker 1>Studios and now it's called Disney Hollywood Studios. And Jack

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<v Speaker 1>Pattillo of Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter joined the show

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<v Speaker 1>because he acted. He performed as a cast member at

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<v Speaker 1>Disney as part of that ride and he talks about

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<v Speaker 1>his experience, and we talk a little bit about how

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<v Speaker 1>the ride works as well, and I grouse a bit

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<v Speaker 1>about the gradual de theming of Disney Disney parks. But

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<v Speaker 1>that's because I'm an old man and I get grouchy

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<v Speaker 1>when stuff changes. Stuff is allowed to change. Parks are

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

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<v Speaker 1>we'll be back with new episodes for the rest of

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

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<v Speaker 1>got something special today. I've brought in a special guest,

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<v Speaker 1>a guest that, frankly, I could have asked to be

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<v Speaker 1>on Tech Stuff for numerous reasons. I could have asked

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<v Speaker 1>him because he's a content creator. He's a podcaster, he's

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<v Speaker 1>a co founder of an incredibly popular network of content.

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<v Speaker 1>He is an organizer for massive charity events that work

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<v Speaker 1>with organizations like Extra Life. I mean, the list goes

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<v Speaker 1>on and on. But the reason I asked him here

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<v Speaker 1>is because he's also a lifelong connoisseur of theme parks

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<v Speaker 1>and a former Disney cast member. Welcome to Tech Stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jack Battillo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, thank you so much for having me on. Yeah, sheeez,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for all of the list of things I've done,

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<v Speaker 2>I've never felt older than I do.

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, how about it hit you with this, Jack,

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<v Speaker 1>It has been twenty years since you worked for Disney.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh. Yeah, two thousand and two, man, it

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<v Speaker 2>was spring of two thousand and two is when I

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<v Speaker 2>was out there the first time. So I worked. I

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<v Speaker 2>did the Walds New World College Program, which is a

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<v Speaker 2>fantastic program. Highly recommend it if you're a college kid

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<v Speaker 2>looking to not have responsibility for a semester. I did

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<v Speaker 2>it twice. I did it back in two thousand and

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<v Speaker 2>two and again in two thousand and five. And both

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<v Speaker 2>of the rides I worked on are shut down now,

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<v Speaker 2>which is sad. I worked over at it was Disney

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<v Speaker 2>MGM Studios and now it's Disney's Hollywood Studios. I worked at

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

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<v Speaker 2>And I worked at the Back Loot Tour, specifically the

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<v Speaker 2>water Tank portion. Right, I got to talk about Michael

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<v Speaker 2>Bay and Pearl Harbor, and that is now where Batsu is,

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<v Speaker 2>where all of the Star Wars stuff is, or so

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<v Speaker 2>it's I think between there maybe Toy story Land. It's

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<v Speaker 2>kind of like in that general area. It's basically it's

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<v Speaker 2>just walking path now where I was.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, it's one of the hottest sections of the park

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<v Speaker 1>when you're out there because there's absolutely no shade and

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a massive cooking surface that has tourists on it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and I thought today we could talk a bit about

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<v Speaker 1>the Great Movie Ride in particular, and talk because there

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<v Speaker 1>were some really cool innovative technologies that were incorporated into

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<v Speaker 1>that experience. But I also want to hear from you,

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<v Speaker 1>as a cast member who worked on the ride, what

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<v Speaker 1>the cast member experience was, because as someone who has

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<v Speaker 1>had been on that ride many times throughout its run,

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<v Speaker 1>including early on in the earliest days of Disney MGM Studios,

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<v Speaker 1>I know what it's like to ride the ride, but

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<v Speaker 1>what was it like to work on the ride? So,

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<v Speaker 1>first of all, can you kind of give us an

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<v Speaker 1>overview of what the Great Movie Ride was?

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<v Speaker 2>Sure my pitch for the Great Movie Ride after someone

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<v Speaker 2>would walk up, after a guest would walk up and say,

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<v Speaker 2>is this a ride? And it's like, it's called the

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<v Speaker 2>Great Movie Ride. Yes, it is a ride. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>slow moving tram ride through the movies. It's twenty two

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<v Speaker 2>minutes long, never goes more than four miles per hour,

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<v Speaker 2>and yeah, and there are live actors. It's one of

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<v Speaker 2>the few. It's well, at the time, it was one

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<v Speaker 2>of the few toured are excuse me, guided attractions, so

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<v Speaker 2>like Jungle Cruise, the Kilimanjaro Safaris, over an Animal Kingdom,

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<v Speaker 2>those that are really the only ones left at the time.

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<v Speaker 2>King Kong Over at Universal Studios had it as well,

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<v Speaker 2>and we were a guided tour. You had a host

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<v Speaker 2>that would staying there and spiel and then at one point,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, it would change up. But it was

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<v Speaker 2>a slow moving ride that takes you through some of

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<v Speaker 2>the most classic movies of all time, from Singing in

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<v Speaker 2>the Rain to Mary Poppins to kind of the gangster

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<v Speaker 2>era Westerns, Aliens, Raiders of the Lost Arc, Wizard of Oz,

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

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<v Speaker 2>when I described the ride, I would always say, this

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<v Speaker 2>is the ride that Walt Disney would have made if

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<v Speaker 2>he had access to these fancy animatronics. It felt like

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<v Speaker 2>very much a classic Disney ride and I always love

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<v Speaker 2>that and a lot of people they were fans. They

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<v Speaker 2>weren't as big of fans because it's not a thrill ride.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not a huge, you know, like where it's it's

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<v Speaker 2>not a you know, like rock and roller coaster. It's

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<v Speaker 2>nothing super super fast. But I liked it because it

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<v Speaker 2>kind of it was informative. Look informative, you gotta learn

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit about movies and uh and also it

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<v Speaker 2>was got some spectacle, some like these magical things happen

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<v Speaker 2>and and it's all over the course of twenty two minutes,

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<v Speaker 2>so it tells a nice little story compact within the ride.

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<v Speaker 2>And uh, I really really loved it, and it's sad

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<v Speaker 2>to see it go. Mickey and Minnie is nice, like

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's a fun ride. It's it's kind of cool

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<v Speaker 2>that we got replaced by the very first Mickey Mouse

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<v Speaker 2>theme park ride ever, which is kind of cool, and

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<v Speaker 2>that's coming out to Anaheim as well now pretty soon.

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<v Speaker 2>But uh, but yeah, it's it was a very special

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<v Speaker 2>attraction and I and I miss it, but at least

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<v Speaker 2>the facade is still there. I still have my memories

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<v Speaker 2>of the Chinese theater out in Disney's Hollywood Studios and

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<v Speaker 2>so h and there's there's lots of little fun easter

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<v Speaker 2>eggs out in front, even even things that are still

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<v Speaker 2>there to this day. But I don't know if there's

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<v Speaker 2>any any Easter eggs inside of Mickey and Mini's of

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<v Speaker 2>the Great Movie Ride, you know, like I'm sure there's

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<v Speaker 2>something hidden away, squirreled away somewhere that I just don't

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<v Speaker 2>know about. But yeah, it's it's It was good time.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a lot of fun time. It was one

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<v Speaker 2>of my favorite sort of times in my life. I was,

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<v Speaker 2>I think twenty years old. I had no responsibility. I

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<v Speaker 2>drove out from Texas all the way out to Orlando

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<v Speaker 2>and had a great time.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you know, the the theming was phenomenal. You had,

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<v Speaker 1>like you said, the Chinese Theater is the facade. They

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't actually use Grahman's Chinese Theater as the name because

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<v Speaker 1>Grammans wouldn't allow that, but it was the Chinese Theater

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<v Speaker 1>and it looked like it did back in the Golden

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<v Speaker 1>age of Hollywood, complete with celebrity handprint and footprints outside

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<v Speaker 1>in the in the sidewalk cement. And then you had

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<v Speaker 1>actual movie memorabilia and props that were in the queuing area,

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<v Speaker 1>so you could actually see like the arc from Raiders

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<v Speaker 1>of the Lost Arc and things of that nature. And

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<v Speaker 1>you also were shown trailers for some of the movies

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<v Speaker 1>that were going to be featured within the actual ride itself.

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<v Speaker 1>And as you say, Jack, it told a story, which

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<v Speaker 1>to me was was the thing that Disney did better

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<v Speaker 1>than anyone else for the longest time. Now we've started

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<v Speaker 1>to see other parks kind of pick up that torch

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<v Speaker 1>and run with it, but for the longest time, Disney

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<v Speaker 1>was just that was the king when it came to

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<v Speaker 1>an attraction that also tells a story, and not only that,

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<v Speaker 1>but puts the guest into the story. You're not just

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<v Speaker 1>watching it, you're kind of immersed in it as you're

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<v Speaker 1>going through all these different scenes. And as a cast member,

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<v Speaker 1>what were some of your duties, Like what roles did

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<v Speaker 1>you work when you were working on that ride.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So when I was there, they actually were just

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<v Speaker 2>bringing in a new system. I think it's called CRS.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a computer system that they would give you

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<v Speaker 2>a list of roles. So they had input a list

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<v Speaker 2>of roles into this computer and the computer would track

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<v Speaker 2>who needs to go on break, who needs to go

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<v Speaker 2>on lunch, and stuff like that. So if you were

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<v Speaker 2>on break, you know, once you're done you would go

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<v Speaker 2>to this machine and you say I'm back, and it

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<v Speaker 2>would print out a slip, and that slip would say

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<v Speaker 2>you go to position A and then you go there,

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<v Speaker 2>hand the slip off to that person. They would then

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<v Speaker 2>move to position B and waterfall down to the person

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<v Speaker 2>at the bottom. Wouldn't take break, which actually was pretty

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<v Speaker 2>cool because you never stood in one spot for too long.

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<v Speaker 2>You were always moving around. It was always kind of fresh.

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<v Speaker 2>You never really got tired of it. But I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>we did everything on the attraction, the main tour guides

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<v Speaker 2>or the people, the suspenders and the hat. They would

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<v Speaker 2>do everything from running the vehicles like or like driving

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<v Speaker 2>the vehicles, doing the spiel, to all the to working

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<v Speaker 2>the fronts, like working entrance as well. So we would

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<v Speaker 2>put on this orange jacket that would go on over

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<v Speaker 2>our tour guide outfit and change our hats like this

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<v Speaker 2>orange hat, and that was like our host spot. Basically,

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<v Speaker 2>the only thing a typical cast member wouldn't do on

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<v Speaker 2>Great Movie Ride was be the bandit or the gangster.

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<v Speaker 2>Those were specialized roles that if you were the bandit,

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<v Speaker 2>you were the bandit all day. If you were the gangster,

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<v Speaker 2>you were I mean, you were the gangster all day,

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<v Speaker 2>but basically those roles, but they would be trained for

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<v Speaker 2>both of them. The cast members would be trained for

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<v Speaker 2>both of those roles. At the time when I was there,

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<v Speaker 2>college program employees are cast members couldn't be the bandit

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<v Speaker 2>or the gangster. I think they changed that later on

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<v Speaker 2>just due to paffing stuff, but that which was which

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<v Speaker 2>was sad because I always wanted to be the bandit

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<v Speaker 2>or gangster. But you actually had to be firearm trained

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<v Speaker 2>in order to be either of those characters because they

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<v Speaker 2>did have an actual pistol that fired blanks. And yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that was the one thing that I ain't gonna do.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know, everyone everyone there was family. Everyone knew

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<v Speaker 2>everyone like the It was a it was a healthy

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<v Speaker 2>mix of these old timers that have been around. I

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<v Speaker 2>say old timers, what are the people that have been around,

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<v Speaker 2>you know for like five to ten years. We had

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<v Speaker 2>a gentleman there who opened the attraction back in eighty nine,

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<v Speaker 2>who was still there in two thousand and two, and

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<v Speaker 2>then a bunch of college kids. So like basically they

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<v Speaker 2>would keep it. We would keep it fresh because every

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<v Speaker 2>six months or so there'd be new new blood and

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<v Speaker 2>so it never got really boring and U and even

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<v Speaker 2>when I was there, I did they extended one so

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<v Speaker 2>I went from January all the way to August. So

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<v Speaker 2>I saw like summer kids coming in and like the

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<v Speaker 2>new batch of people coming in for the fall semester,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was just fun. It was it was just

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<v Speaker 2>a blast. And yeah, I mean there's some really cool

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<v Speaker 2>things that the cast members got to do. Now. One

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<v Speaker 2>one my first bit of trivia for you. So the

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<v Speaker 2>vehicles themselves, they were on a track. You couldn't see

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<v Speaker 2>the track. It was actually a there was like sensors

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<v Speaker 2>in the vehicle and that the vehicle would turn and

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<v Speaker 2>there was an invisible track kind of in between. There

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<v Speaker 2>was nothing connecting the actual vehicle to the floor, but

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<v Speaker 2>it would just kind of stay on top of it.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know the full technology behind it. So it

0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:22.520
<v Speaker 2>was kind of like Rise of the Resistance where there's

0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.800
<v Speaker 2>just like a trackless course, except there was like a

0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.800
<v Speaker 2>line of metal or something. There was something keeping it

0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.840
<v Speaker 2>where it needed to go. But the tech guys there,

0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.200
<v Speaker 2>the engineers who worked in the attraction, which they actually

0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.640
<v Speaker 2>we had a whole engineering bay where they would fix

0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.000
<v Speaker 2>up vehicles and fix animatronics and stuff. Those guys could

0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.840
<v Speaker 2>actually disable that and literally drive it around. Like hypothetically

0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.240
<v Speaker 2>they could have taken one of these things out into

0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.360
<v Speaker 2>the park and has driven it around if they wanted to,

0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.960
<v Speaker 2>which would have been amazing, but but no, it's so

0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.000
<v Speaker 2>that was kind of cool. And the vehicles themselves, they

0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.360
<v Speaker 2>were seven rows there. There was two vehicles. There was

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<v Speaker 2>basically it's technically a tractor trailer where you have the

0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.760
<v Speaker 2>front vehicle had all the thes and everything in it

0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.640
<v Speaker 2>in the back trailer or the back vehicle was literally

0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.679
<v Speaker 2>just a trailer, had nothing in it other than wheels,

0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.360
<v Speaker 2>and so the front wind would pull it. There were

0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.840
<v Speaker 2>four speeds on it, so it was either stopped one, two, three,

0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.480
<v Speaker 2>or four, and depending on where we were in the track,

0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.320
<v Speaker 2>we would go those different speeds. And and also the

0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.560
<v Speaker 2>track could it could it could actually activate different speeds,

0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.720
<v Speaker 2>so like at some points, if you put it on four,

0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.080
<v Speaker 2>it would just go, and then there were sensors that

0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.800
<v Speaker 2>would trigger it to actually slow down the vehicle to

0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.600
<v Speaker 2>a stop, so like you know, you could be focused

0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.120
<v Speaker 2>on spieling and the ride itself would come to a

0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.040
<v Speaker 2>stop and then you would throw it into park. Like

0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:35.640
<v Speaker 2>it wouldn't just kick off on its own. You have

0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.000
<v Speaker 2>to throw it in a park and restart it to

0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.080
<v Speaker 2>get it to go again. And that was important when

0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.240
<v Speaker 2>you were speeling going. It's like you know the gangster

0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.320
<v Speaker 2>alley or bandit area and but yeah, goad man, I'm

0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.000
<v Speaker 2>trying to think of all the easter eggs. It it's

0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.800
<v Speaker 2>been twenty years, been two decades since I've been out there, man, So.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you're doing great. I mean, I can give a

0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:57.560
<v Speaker 1>little more context with the ride system. So the system

0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.120
<v Speaker 1>that was under essentially under the floor, really embedded in

0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.640
<v Speaker 1>the floor was a guide wire that would emit radio

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<v Speaker 1>frequency radiation, so just radio waves radiation. Radiation is radiation

0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.640
<v Speaker 1>because it is part of the electromagnetic frequency, but it's

0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:19.280
<v Speaker 1>not like radioactive. There is a dopay, yeah, we're talking

0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.560
<v Speaker 1>non ionizing. Don't worry, Jack, The Grave ride did not

0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:28.120
<v Speaker 1>doom you, no, okayo. The it's just radio frequency radiation.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's it's r F. It's like the same sort

0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.320
<v Speaker 1>of thing you would use for walkie talkies or radios

0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.439
<v Speaker 1>or anything along those lines. And the trams had within

0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.800
<v Speaker 1>them essentially sensors that could pick up that frequency, and

0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.840
<v Speaker 1>if the frequency would start to drift, like if it

0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.120
<v Speaker 1>started to get too weak on one side, that was

0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.719
<v Speaker 1>a signal to the tram that it needed to make

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<v Speaker 1>an adjustment and turn in order to return the signal

0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.920
<v Speaker 1>to its strongest point in the center of its sensors.

0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.120
<v Speaker 1>So it gets a little weak on the right side,

0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.920
<v Speaker 1>that means it's time for you to turn left because

0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.720
<v Speaker 1>of your signal is actually moved big to your left.

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<v Speaker 1>That was the basic idea. So it was really just

0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.040
<v Speaker 1>following this this wire all the way through the attraction,

0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.760
<v Speaker 1>which was almost like something like two thousand feet long

0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.480
<v Speaker 1>something like that. It was crazy long. It was like

0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.120
<v Speaker 1>you said, twenty two minutes the whole thing.

0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. The vehicles themselves too, they were all electric, and

0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.600
<v Speaker 2>so there were paths throughout the attraction at different points

0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.240
<v Speaker 2>where you would stop that magnets would actually connect the

0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.920
<v Speaker 2>batteries to the charger. So at the dock, the vehicles

0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.320
<v Speaker 2>would park and an actual like magnet would pull the

0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.840
<v Speaker 2>charger up to the bottom of the vehicle in order

0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.640
<v Speaker 2>to actually charge up the vehicle. And that there were

0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.400
<v Speaker 2>different spots throughout the ride that it would do that.

0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.440
<v Speaker 2>So it would do it there at dock, it would

0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.960
<v Speaker 2>do it in front of the gangster area, in front

0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.040
<v Speaker 2>of the bandit area, in front of a Nubis, which

0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.600
<v Speaker 2>was the scene where the like the bandit or the

0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.040
<v Speaker 2>gangster would go up and turn back into the the

0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.200
<v Speaker 2>cast member. And I want to say Wizard of Oz

0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.840
<v Speaker 2>had one, and then the finale had one. That may

0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:01.520
<v Speaker 2>be too many. I think we god have five vehicles

0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.600
<v Speaker 2>running at the same time, so maybe not a Newbis,

0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.440
<v Speaker 2>but but yeah, they were. There were a whole lot

0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.640
<v Speaker 2>of them, and we would park them at night, so

0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.520
<v Speaker 2>like they we would basically when we were shutting off

0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.120
<v Speaker 2>for the night, you would take all the vehicles and

0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.520
<v Speaker 2>put them in certain spots, park them and then they

0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.200
<v Speaker 2>would just recharge overnight. Like I don't. When I was there,

0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.320
<v Speaker 2>we never had a vehicle die due to battery loss,

0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.840
<v Speaker 2>so that's I imagine it is a good sign. Because

0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.840
<v Speaker 2>those things were big and they were very heavy, so

0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.680
<v Speaker 2>moving them without power would be pretty tricky, I imagine.

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<v Speaker 1>Right when you think of fourteen rows filled with people,

0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.920
<v Speaker 1>that's a lot of extra weight on top of the

0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.040
<v Speaker 1>fact that these things are so big and bulky. So yeah,

0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.120
<v Speaker 1>especially if there's a guest like me. Pandemic has not

0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.480
<v Speaker 1>been kind jacket carrying around extra pounds. But that is

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<v Speaker 1>a great point. I love that you brought that in

0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.640
<v Speaker 1>because that was something I did not actually come across

0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.440
<v Speaker 1>in my research. I didn't even think about it, but

0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.120
<v Speaker 1>of course it makes sense. I mean, if you're running

0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.000
<v Speaker 1>on an electric vehicle, you have to be able to

0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.560
<v Speaker 1>at least top off the charge a little bit so

0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.240
<v Speaker 1>that you can run it for as long as the

0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.320
<v Speaker 1>park is open, and as we know, Disney parks can

0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.040
<v Speaker 1>be open for many, many hours. We'll be back with

0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.760
<v Speaker 1>more about the Great Movie Ride and Disney Theme parks

0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:19.400
<v Speaker 1>after this quick break. This ride system was originally developed

0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.520
<v Speaker 1>over at the Universe of Energy at Epcot, another attraction

0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.880
<v Speaker 1>that no longer exists. The Guardians of the Galaxy has

0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.880
<v Speaker 1>replaced that area, but it was called the Traveling Theater,

0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:34.040
<v Speaker 1>and for the Universe of Energy it was more it

0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.480
<v Speaker 1>was more of a necessity because they had so many

0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:42.280
<v Speaker 1>different moving theaters. These did not have an actual tour

0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.120
<v Speaker 1>guide as part of it either that they needed to

0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.440
<v Speaker 1>be able to orient themselves properly to become kind of

0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.320
<v Speaker 1>like theater seating for the movie sections of the attraction,

0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.040
<v Speaker 1>and then go back into a configuration where they can

0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.480
<v Speaker 1>move through the rest of it. So you had to

0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.520
<v Speaker 1>have almost the sort of ballet of these large pieces moving,

0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.159
<v Speaker 1>and they determined they couldn't use physical tracks. If they did,

0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.520
<v Speaker 1>they would have to have a switching system to switch

0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.280
<v Speaker 1>each one physically to where it needed to go. And

0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.840
<v Speaker 1>it was just going to be too complicated, too loud,

0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.440
<v Speaker 1>and too expensive, and so they had to invent a technology.

0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.040
<v Speaker 1>So necessity is the mother of invention. Later on, as

0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.560
<v Speaker 1>I understand it, they actually replaced the guide wire with

0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.119
<v Speaker 1>electronic pucks that essentially did the same thing. It just

0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.720
<v Speaker 1>wasn't a continuous wire anymore, but served the same purpose.

0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.280
<v Speaker 1>And I'm glad that you were able to work on

0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.920
<v Speaker 1>it in that span of time. Obviously, it was a

0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.320
<v Speaker 1>little different from when it first opened. The very first

0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.520
<v Speaker 1>sequence that you encounter when you're on the ride after

0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:46.800
<v Speaker 1>you've entered into the movie section is a Busby Berkeley

0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:52.959
<v Speaker 1>footlight parade experience. When that originally opened, the characters that

0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.879
<v Speaker 1>you see behind a scrim.

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<v Speaker 2>The birthday cake, the birthday kid.

0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.320
<v Speaker 1>Originally those rotated, right, you had yeah, every other one

0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:01.919
<v Speaker 1>would rotate.

0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.320
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Buzzby Berkeley he was known for doing. He was

0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.280
<v Speaker 2>actually a drill sergeant in the military, and he ended

0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.440
<v Speaker 2>up making movies in Hollywood when they were all about spectacle,

0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.080
<v Speaker 2>and so he would do these elaborate choreograph numbers with

0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.800
<v Speaker 2>hundreds of people. And in Footlight Prey, there was a

0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.840
<v Speaker 2>scene where it was a hole like it was a

0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.000
<v Speaker 2>pole scene, so it was all these women in matching

0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.800
<v Speaker 2>swimsuits and they would do choreograph dances and water and stuff.

0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.919
<v Speaker 2>In one of the scenes they came out of the

0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.679
<v Speaker 2>water in this sort of birthday cake looking thing. It

0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.440
<v Speaker 2>was three tiers with women, you know, like in circles

0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.679
<v Speaker 2>around it, and so we had that. It was the

0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.800
<v Speaker 2>first thing you saw when you first pulled into the

0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.440
<v Speaker 2>Gray Movie ride back in eighty nine. On it open,

0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.760
<v Speaker 2>you would that was like you would go in, go

0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.520
<v Speaker 2>through this beautiful proscenium, all a neon of you know,

0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.399
<v Speaker 2>like because the idea is you're entering the movie. So

0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.120
<v Speaker 2>it's like you go through the screen and you're part

0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.320
<v Speaker 2>of the movie now, and yeah, right there on your

0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.760
<v Speaker 2>right side. Initially, apparently there was water and there were

0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.520
<v Speaker 2>bubbles and these these things would spin and it was awesome.

0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.200
<v Speaker 2>They actually they weren't animatronics because they were just mannequins.

0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.760
<v Speaker 2>Because there were so many of them. But yeah, apparently

0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.320
<v Speaker 2>that was the big thing that would falter the most.

0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.720
<v Speaker 2>It kept breaking over and over and over again. So

0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.159
<v Speaker 2>ultimately they just ended up kind of walking in place,

0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.520
<v Speaker 2>and I think initially they just they left the bubbles going,

0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:13.720
<v Speaker 2>and then ultimately they ended up putting a scrim in

0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.040
<v Speaker 2>front of it and projecting images of them kind of

0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.560
<v Speaker 2>doing their different dances and stuff.

0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so yeah, I would imagine that trying to rig

0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.680
<v Speaker 1>up a rotating fountain, which is essentially what you had there,

0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.600
<v Speaker 1>is complicated on the best of days, and there are

0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.240
<v Speaker 1>stories that there were frequent issues where there would be

0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.400
<v Speaker 1>flooding and that would obviously be a problem for moving

0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:43.040
<v Speaker 1>giant electric trams through. And yeah, you can understand why

0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.560
<v Speaker 1>they nixed that after some troubles, but it is kind

0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.880
<v Speaker 1>of sad because it was one of those nifty effects

0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.359
<v Speaker 1>that you couldn't see anywhere else, and it also was

0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.800
<v Speaker 1>the first thing you saw on this journey to the movies.

0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.880
<v Speaker 1>Scaled back has slightly less of an impact, I think,

0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.680
<v Speaker 1>as far as the effect goes, But then you move

0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.520
<v Speaker 1>on and you start to encounter the various animatronics, and

0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:11.960
<v Speaker 1>there are two major types in the ride the most famous,

0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.600
<v Speaker 1>arguably being the Wicked Witch of the West and the

0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.879
<v Speaker 1>Wizard of Oz segment, because she was the very first

0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:23.879
<v Speaker 1>A one hundred animatronic that Disney ever used. So like

0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:29.240
<v Speaker 1>the Terminator, there are designations for different generations of animatronics,

0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.800
<v Speaker 1>and this was the first of the A one hundred generation,

0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.280
<v Speaker 1>which I'm sure you got schooled on all of that

0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.200
<v Speaker 1>as you were joining the attraction.

0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.560
<v Speaker 2>A little bit. I mean, we knew she was special

0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.119
<v Speaker 2>because the amount of movement and like she had like

0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.320
<v Speaker 2>dexterity in her fingers. That was a big thing, because

0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.040
<v Speaker 2>she would point at you, which was great. It was

0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.520
<v Speaker 2>interesting though, because she was by far the most elaborate

0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.240
<v Speaker 2>animatronic at any of the parks for a while, and

0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.040
<v Speaker 2>she was saddled up next to the Munchkins, who were

0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:02.440
<v Speaker 2>some of the most basic animatronics. Citywhere And one fun

0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.000
<v Speaker 2>one fun story is when before we opened, or when

0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:06.960
<v Speaker 2>we were closing for the night, we'd still rotate the

0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.639
<v Speaker 2>vehicles through and the show's scenes will still happen, but

0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.200
<v Speaker 2>there'd be no sound. And so if you know anything

0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.919
<v Speaker 2>about old Disney animatronics, when the servos to open the

0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.439
<v Speaker 2>mouths would go, it would just make these clicking noise.

0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:20.680
<v Speaker 2>So you'd pull in a Wizard of oz bey sitting there,

0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:22.080
<v Speaker 2>it was quiet. Then all of a sudden, you know,

0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.439
<v Speaker 2>that'd be follow the Ellopic road, but you wouldn't hear that.

0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:26.560
<v Speaker 2>You just hear the clicklick click click click click. It's

0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:32.120
<v Speaker 2>from like all around you. It was really a bit disheartening. Yeah,

0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:34.840
<v Speaker 2>and that that was definitely weird, definitely strange that. I

0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.280
<v Speaker 2>think that was probably the scariest thing outside of Toto.

0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.320
<v Speaker 2>When Toto was off, she would just look at you

0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.480
<v Speaker 2>like the she had like these crazy fangs. I think

0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:44.360
<v Speaker 2>Toto is a female, but she would have these crazy

0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.680
<v Speaker 2>fangs and she just looked like demented.

0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:47.000
<v Speaker 1>It was.

0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.120
<v Speaker 2>It was. It was really weird. But uh, but yeah,

0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.080
<v Speaker 2>that was fun. Uh. I've heard a story. I don't

0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:53.240
<v Speaker 2>know if it's true or not. I have no way

0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.920
<v Speaker 2>to verify this, but apparently so, you know, the Wicked Witch.

0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.000
<v Speaker 2>She would move around a whole lot, lots of movements.

0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.480
<v Speaker 2>She had her broom, she would pull and stuff. Supposedly,

0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.159
<v Speaker 2>one day something got loose and she basically whipped her

0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.919
<v Speaker 2>arm around and her wrists snapped and her hand just

0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.399
<v Speaker 2>kind of dangled off and the hydraulic fluid in her

0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:15.200
<v Speaker 2>wrist started just hosing down the ride vehicle in front

0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.040
<v Speaker 2>of her, so essentially like she broke her wrist and

0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:21.520
<v Speaker 2>it started spraying all of the guests with her blood. Essentially,

0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.440
<v Speaker 2>that was one of the very few shut the ride

0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:29.320
<v Speaker 2>down and just evacuate from where you're positioned. We would

0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:30.679
<v Speaker 2>have multiple time where we'd have to shut the ride

0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:32.600
<v Speaker 2>down because something like minor would happen where we just

0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.280
<v Speaker 2>rotate through the people that were stolen the attraction. There's

0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:36.879
<v Speaker 2>not enough to like, you know, kick people out, but

0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.560
<v Speaker 2>occasionally a door would break and it's like, well, we're

0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.760
<v Speaker 2>not moving, and you know, it was a thing where

0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:43.320
<v Speaker 2>you would have to move out of a section for

0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:45.480
<v Speaker 2>the next vehicle to move in. And when those happened,

0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:47.159
<v Speaker 2>those are always fun. They're only happened to me twice

0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.320
<v Speaker 2>over the eight months or so I was there, where

0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:52.200
<v Speaker 2>you know, you would ask the guests to stay there

0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.160
<v Speaker 2>and then you know, ultimately you'd have to go make

0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.040
<v Speaker 2>sure like a manager would come by like okay, go

0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:57.920
<v Speaker 2>ahead and clear them out and then they would open

0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:00.000
<v Speaker 2>the doors. And I always made it a big point

0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:03.400
<v Speaker 2>of any time, like the two times that happened they said,

0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:05.480
<v Speaker 2>if that happens, you need to make sure your guests

0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:07.800
<v Speaker 2>are happy. So if they want to go take photos

0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:09.639
<v Speaker 2>with Clin Eastwood, let them go take photos with the

0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:11.600
<v Speaker 2>cliniast would as long as they're not climbing on anything,

0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:13.800
<v Speaker 2>they can do whatever they want. And so some people

0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:15.480
<v Speaker 2>out there have some really good photos of like John

0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:17.639
<v Speaker 2>Wayne and his giant horse and the you know, like

0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:19.840
<v Speaker 2>standing over by Gangster area that it's like, oh yeah,

0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:23.119
<v Speaker 2>you're not normally supposed to be there. So that was

0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:24.760
<v Speaker 2>always a big thing, you know. It was always about

0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:26.200
<v Speaker 2>like going out of your way to be like, hey,

0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:28.480
<v Speaker 2>we had an issue. Sorry. You know, at the time

0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:30.560
<v Speaker 2>I was there, a great movie ride didn't have fast passed.

0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:32.720
<v Speaker 2>So it's kind of like, you know, come come back

0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:34.639
<v Speaker 2>when you can. We'd love to have you back. My

0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:36.760
<v Speaker 2>dog is losing its mind downstairs.

0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.000
<v Speaker 1>That's fine. Minus too, it's it's they're just they're just

0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:39.639
<v Speaker 1>co hosting.

0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:41.040
<v Speaker 2>That's fine, they're excited.

0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.879
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the uh, it's it's that also reminds me like

0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.560
<v Speaker 1>I've only had that sort of experience happened at Disney,

0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:51.760
<v Speaker 1>I think maybe two times once when I was this

0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:54.200
<v Speaker 1>happens pretty regularly, but I was on the People Mover

0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:57.119
<v Speaker 1>when the lights on Space Mountain were all on, so

0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:01.119
<v Speaker 1>you can actually see the track, and it's it's insane

0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:04.159
<v Speaker 1>how closely and tightly packed that track is, to the

0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:07.040
<v Speaker 1>point where you're thinking, I'm going to ride this differently

0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:09.320
<v Speaker 1>the next time I'm on everything's gonna get tucked in

0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:10.760
<v Speaker 1>because it's wild.

0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:13.280
<v Speaker 2>It's wild, like the re entry tube. You can just

0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:15.040
<v Speaker 2>touch it. I can just reach up and touch it.

0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.399
<v Speaker 2>It's like that should not happen. And like I imagine now,

0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.000
<v Speaker 2>like legally that couldn't happen. I'm sure as grandfathered in

0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.560
<v Speaker 2>by something. But like there's you can just reach out

0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:25.520
<v Speaker 2>and touch stuff on that track, and when you're pitch

0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:27.880
<v Speaker 2>black and you can't see anything, like you hit something

0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:30.280
<v Speaker 2>at speed, that's not good. So I can imagine the

0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:32.639
<v Speaker 2>amount of padding they have on all of the all

0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:34.760
<v Speaker 2>the various support structures that you can't see.

0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:37.960
<v Speaker 1>Typically, Yeah, the only other time it ever happened was

0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:42.560
<v Speaker 1>on Flights of Passage, the Avatar ride, where it just

0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:48.160
<v Speaker 1>the the video shut down, maybe like we were maybe

0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:51.439
<v Speaker 1>thirty seconds from the end of the ride. Maybe it

0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:53.160
<v Speaker 1>was my first time ever writing it, so I didn't

0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:54.360
<v Speaker 1>know at the time. But I was like, well, we've

0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:56.600
<v Speaker 1>been going for a while, this thing was probably about

0:24:56.600 --> 0:25:00.239
<v Speaker 1>to wrap up, and a cast member came on and

0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:02.640
<v Speaker 1>there happened to be in the group that we were in,

0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.920
<v Speaker 1>a VIP group who had a huge amount of money

0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.280
<v Speaker 1>in order to do this, so they had us sit there,

0:25:09.680 --> 0:25:11.800
<v Speaker 1>they restarted the ride. We rode the whole so I

0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.880
<v Speaker 1>wrote I got to ride at one point eight times

0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:17.679
<v Speaker 1>the first time, and then as we're leaving, they gave

0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:21.160
<v Speaker 1>us all like like a priority fast pass digital fast

0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:22.600
<v Speaker 1>passes because that was when we were getting to the

0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.640
<v Speaker 1>point we're using magic bands. So yeah, Disney really does

0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:28.240
<v Speaker 1>go a long way to trying to to make the

0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:31.560
<v Speaker 1>guest experience magical, as they say they.

0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:35.000
<v Speaker 2>Certainly certainly did. I don't know how much that. It

0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:37.920
<v Speaker 2>seems like nowadays things are you know, if you gettle

0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:39.720
<v Speaker 2>different is a way they get Yeah, if there's a

0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:41.200
<v Speaker 2>way they can charge you for it, they're going to

0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:43.240
<v Speaker 2>charge you for it. If you can afford for it

0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.080
<v Speaker 2>to be magical. Yeah, I mean, I'm I still had

0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:48.520
<v Speaker 2>my annual pass. I still you know, I'm a you know,

0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:51.600
<v Speaker 2>multi year annual pass holder. I still enjoy going to

0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.359
<v Speaker 2>the parks. I participate in the run Disney events. I

0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:57.000
<v Speaker 2>do a lot of stuff through Disney, but it feels

0:25:57.040 --> 0:26:00.440
<v Speaker 2>like as of late, they've kind of let stuff lied

0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.359
<v Speaker 2>and that's frustrating to me as as you know, as

0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:06.040
<v Speaker 2>an annual passal, as a fan. It's just like it

0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:10.760
<v Speaker 2>feels like, especially right now, Disney is at a point

0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:13.399
<v Speaker 2>where they think that like they're kind of sitting back

0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:15.480
<v Speaker 2>and like, we're just making lots of money and people

0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.080
<v Speaker 2>love all of our stuff, and I don't think they're

0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:20.800
<v Speaker 2>looking down the road, like right now, literally down the

0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:23.719
<v Speaker 2>road down I four. Universal is building a brand new

0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.359
<v Speaker 2>theme park this opening up in twenty twenty five. That's

0:26:26.400 --> 0:26:29.880
<v Speaker 2>gonna be the new hotness. And unless Disney literally announces

0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:32.800
<v Speaker 2>something at D twenty three this week or next week

0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:36.160
<v Speaker 2>that hey, we're gonna have something to counter that they're

0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:38.240
<v Speaker 2>gonna be caught with their pants down. I think it's

0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:40.600
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be very interesting the next you know, the

0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:44.080
<v Speaker 2>the mid twenty twenties of theme parks in Orlando is

0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.320
<v Speaker 2>gonna be very very interesting. And I don't know how

0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:48.280
<v Speaker 2>much longer Disney can just kind of rest on their

0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:51.240
<v Speaker 2>laurels of what they've gotten away with so far, anyway.

0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:52.800
<v Speaker 2>That has nothing to do with great movie ride, but

0:26:53.200 --> 0:26:54.960
<v Speaker 2>that's a national side.

0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:58.439
<v Speaker 1>It kind of does because there there been ebbs and

0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:01.080
<v Speaker 1>flows at the Disney Yes, right. It all depends on

0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:08.200
<v Speaker 1>really the executive leadership team and how they value investing

0:27:08.240 --> 0:27:11.919
<v Speaker 1>in the parks versus kind of you know, coasting on

0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:15.200
<v Speaker 1>that perhaps and focusing on other parts of the company,

0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:19.640
<v Speaker 1>and that obviously changes on various regimes. There was a period,

0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:24.159
<v Speaker 1>a dark period in the Walt Disney World past, where

0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:27.399
<v Speaker 1>essentially all the executives who were in charge of the

0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:31.520
<v Speaker 1>parks came from retail. They came from places like Banana Republic,

0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:35.160
<v Speaker 1>and that was when we saw Main Street in Magic

0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:38.320
<v Speaker 1>Kingdom get gutted, where all the things that used to

0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:41.080
<v Speaker 1>be there, like the Penny Arcade and things that added

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:44.400
<v Speaker 1>character but they didn't generate revenue were essentially stripped out,

0:27:44.440 --> 0:27:48.600
<v Speaker 1>so that you had just very long shops on either side.

0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:51.560
<v Speaker 2>The Mega Emporium. Oh yeah, yeah.

0:27:51.640 --> 0:27:54.440
<v Speaker 1>So there are issues like that that have been going

0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:56.199
<v Speaker 1>on for a while. So it's not like this is

0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:59.959
<v Speaker 1>a sudden decline, but it's certainly the pandemic kind of

0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:03.120
<v Speaker 1>brings things into sharp relief because you can see how

0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:06.600
<v Speaker 1>things were going pre pandemic versus Disney's response to the

0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:09.480
<v Speaker 1>pandemic and then post pandemic. I mean, I don't really

0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:12.480
<v Speaker 1>think we're in post pandemic, but everyone, yeah, argue we are.

0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:15.760
<v Speaker 2>So it's also, I mean the thing is now right,

0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:18.480
<v Speaker 2>you know, right now, it's we're getting this bounce because

0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:22.200
<v Speaker 2>we had two years of people basically not going on vacation,

0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:24.040
<v Speaker 2>saving up all their money and I mean, or not

0:28:24.119 --> 0:28:27.240
<v Speaker 2>go anywhere and saving up money. And now we're seeing

0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:29.760
<v Speaker 2>people spend that money. It's like, oh, we we've been

0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:32.800
<v Speaker 2>locked up for two years, Let's go to disney World.

0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:36.960
<v Speaker 2>And so I think we're seeing this sort of this

0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:39.160
<v Speaker 2>this false positive kind of thing where I think, like

0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:41.000
<v Speaker 2>right now it's like Disney's like, oh my gosh, record

0:28:41.080 --> 0:28:43.360
<v Speaker 2>profits and huge numbers going to the parks, and it's

0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:46.440
<v Speaker 2>like that's not going to sustain I don't think. And

0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:49.680
<v Speaker 2>you know, like tron is gonna bring some people back,

0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.320
<v Speaker 2>but after that, it's kind of what do you got, man?

0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:54.880
<v Speaker 2>I mean like cosmic Rewind was a lot of fun,

0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:58.320
<v Speaker 2>but Epcot is a wreck right now, yep. And I

0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:00.200
<v Speaker 2>mean then you see stuff, I mean, like you know,

0:29:00.240 --> 0:29:03.880
<v Speaker 2>I love Epcot and seeing you know, Harmonious is a

0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:08.000
<v Speaker 2>great show, but those barges, I like Eisner never would

0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:09.680
<v Speaker 2>have let those barges be out in the water like

0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:13.680
<v Speaker 2>that ruins so many sight lines and even like, I mean,

0:29:13.800 --> 0:29:16.000
<v Speaker 2>it's just I'm going off on a weird but it's

0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:18.400
<v Speaker 2>kind of it feels like, you know, Disney from what

0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:20.080
<v Speaker 2>I knew growing up, like I was, I went to

0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:21.760
<v Speaker 2>Disney Parks when I was, you know, a kid in

0:29:21.800 --> 0:29:25.360
<v Speaker 2>the nineties, and I have amazing rose colored memories of that,

0:29:25.440 --> 0:29:27.560
<v Speaker 2>and then working there in the early two thousands, like

0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:29.560
<v Speaker 2>that was sort of like the cherry on top. And

0:29:29.600 --> 0:29:31.080
<v Speaker 2>now as an adult, I can go back and I

0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:34.520
<v Speaker 2>can appreciate it from a different perspective. And I understand

0:29:34.640 --> 0:29:36.920
<v Speaker 2>a lot of these decisions, but I don't think they're

0:29:36.920 --> 0:29:39.520
<v Speaker 2>the right decisions to be made, you know. And so

0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:42.240
<v Speaker 2>it's kind of like like, oh, well, you know this

0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:44.680
<v Speaker 2>sort of the you know, you can have a one

0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:47.480
<v Speaker 2>slice of cake now or wait, you know, two hours

0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:48.880
<v Speaker 2>to have a full cake. You know, They're like they

0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:50.360
<v Speaker 2>just want their slice of cake right now, and it's

0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:53.200
<v Speaker 2>like no, no, you gotta get prepped for this day.

0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:55.280
<v Speaker 2>You gotta have it over multiple years. You got to

0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:56.120
<v Speaker 2>look at you know.

0:29:56.960 --> 0:29:58.800
<v Speaker 1>Well, because if you get to a point where you

0:29:58.840 --> 0:30:03.560
<v Speaker 1>have you dishearten people like yourself. And I'm also an

0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:07.000
<v Speaker 1>annual pass holder. I'm also a Disney Vacation Club member.

0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:10.840
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, so I have spent a lot of money

0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:15.400
<v Speaker 1>with MoU's house. So but yeah, you start to you

0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:19.040
<v Speaker 1>start to feel like the what you might have thought

0:30:19.040 --> 0:30:21.920
<v Speaker 1>of as an investment before. It's almost like when you

0:30:21.960 --> 0:30:24.760
<v Speaker 1>go to a really expensive college and then afterward you

0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:26.960
<v Speaker 1>get a letter from them saying, hey, can you donate money.

0:30:27.000 --> 0:30:30.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, dude, I gave you so much money. I

0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:33.040
<v Speaker 1>don't need to give you more money. We'll be right

0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:37.280
<v Speaker 1>back with more about the Great Movie Ride and related

0:30:37.360 --> 0:30:49.640
<v Speaker 1>stuff after this break. One of the things I found

0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:54.560
<v Speaker 1>very disheartening personally from the old Disney MGM studio to

0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:58.800
<v Speaker 1>what we are today with Disney Hollywood Studios is something

0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:01.280
<v Speaker 1>that I also feel a f EPCOT, which is that

0:31:01.320 --> 0:31:05.040
<v Speaker 1>you start to see kind of an eroding of identity

0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:09.000
<v Speaker 1>in that when the park opened in nineteen eighty nine,

0:31:09.080 --> 0:31:12.800
<v Speaker 1>it was very clearly oriented toward we're going to talk

0:31:12.800 --> 0:31:17.720
<v Speaker 1>about movies and television production. The attractions all relate to that.

0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:22.040
<v Speaker 1>We have experiences that are about sound effects or visual effects.

0:31:22.200 --> 0:31:24.880
<v Speaker 1>We have an animation studio, a working animation studio where

0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:29.560
<v Speaker 1>you could actually see animators drawing cells of upcoming movies,

0:31:30.600 --> 0:31:33.120
<v Speaker 1>and you had the backstage tour. You actually had a

0:31:33.120 --> 0:31:38.040
<v Speaker 1>backlot where real productions were being shot, which honestly caused

0:31:38.040 --> 0:31:41.200
<v Speaker 1>some problems because MGM initially didn't agree to that and

0:31:41.360 --> 0:31:44.640
<v Speaker 1>that caused some licensing issues, but they worked that out.

0:31:44.720 --> 0:31:47.320
<v Speaker 1>They stilled out of court. Ye, But it means that

0:31:47.400 --> 0:31:49.520
<v Speaker 1>over time, you know, they have gotten rid of all

0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:52.760
<v Speaker 1>the different elements, with the exception of they still have

0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:56.440
<v Speaker 1>the Chinese theater facade, so that's still in the theme.

0:31:56.800 --> 0:32:00.160
<v Speaker 1>They still have streets that are named after street in

0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:03.520
<v Speaker 1>Los Angeles, so that's still kind of in the theme.

0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:07.480
<v Speaker 1>But other than that, Hollywood Studios doesn't have very much

0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:12.520
<v Speaker 1>studios related stuff in it. It's more like Toy Story

0:32:12.600 --> 0:32:16.160
<v Speaker 1>and Star Wars and that kind of thing. So I

0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:18.760
<v Speaker 1>was wondering about your perspective on that too. Do you

0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:21.000
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I'm crazy and I just feel like there's kind

0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:24.719
<v Speaker 1>of a loss of coherence with Park identity, but do

0:32:24.800 --> 0:32:27.480
<v Speaker 1>you have a similar feeling about that as well?

0:32:29.000 --> 0:32:31.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Yeah, I mean exactly that. I mean, when the

0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:34.280
<v Speaker 2>studios opened, it was it was meant to replicate a

0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:36.959
<v Speaker 2>working film production studio, you know. And so I mean

0:32:37.000 --> 0:32:38.560
<v Speaker 2>even like the buildings, like you know, The Great Movie

0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:39.920
<v Speaker 2>I had the building it's in it was like actually

0:32:39.920 --> 0:32:41.920
<v Speaker 2>a stage number and they would call it like stage whatever,

0:32:41.960 --> 0:32:45.440
<v Speaker 2>blah blah blah, and those still might technically be numbered.

0:32:46.720 --> 0:32:49.680
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it's over time. I mean, I'm not one

0:32:49.720 --> 0:32:52.640
<v Speaker 2>to like, I know, the idea that you know, the

0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:54.600
<v Speaker 2>theme parks are meant to be like a living document

0:32:54.600 --> 0:32:56.160
<v Speaker 2>where you can change it and you can alter it

0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:59.160
<v Speaker 2>over time, but it certainly does feel like they have

0:32:59.360 --> 0:33:03.160
<v Speaker 2>lost an overall tone. I mean, other than like you know,

0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:05.080
<v Speaker 2>initially it was Disney MGM Studios and it was meant

0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:06.719
<v Speaker 2>to be like here's how things are made, and I

0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.520
<v Speaker 2>love that stuff. Like I remember going on the animation

0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:11.560
<v Speaker 2>tour and I think they were working on The Emperor's

0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:14.120
<v Speaker 2>New Groove at the time, and I think I forget

0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:16.160
<v Speaker 2>what it was titled when I went there, but they

0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:17.880
<v Speaker 2>had that big window and they push a button in

0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:19.800
<v Speaker 2>it would suddenly go clear and they'd see all these

0:33:19.840 --> 0:33:22.320
<v Speaker 2>animators working. I think they called it the fishbowl. The

0:33:22.360 --> 0:33:24.760
<v Speaker 2>animators that they hated it apparently, but like being there,

0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:27.360
<v Speaker 2>it was so cool and like the backlot tour I remember.

0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:30.320
<v Speaker 2>I like the original backlot tour was like four hours long.

0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:32.600
<v Speaker 2>It was wild because there were so many different things.

0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:34.840
<v Speaker 2>Actually they would take you around in the tram but

0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:36.640
<v Speaker 2>then there was a walking portion where they show you

0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:38.760
<v Speaker 2>special effects and how they were made. I got to

0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:40.920
<v Speaker 2>ride on the bee from Honey I shrunk the kids

0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:42.560
<v Speaker 2>and they did a whole green screen thing and like

0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:44.480
<v Speaker 2>I got to be on it and they like splice

0:33:44.520 --> 0:33:47.040
<v Speaker 2>me into the movie. It was awesome. I love that.

0:33:48.640 --> 0:33:51.160
<v Speaker 2>But like the water tank portion was there and then

0:33:51.200 --> 0:33:53.680
<v Speaker 2>slowly they started removing it. Like then they actually had

0:33:53.720 --> 0:33:56.040
<v Speaker 2>I think The Mickey Mouse Club was shot there for

0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:59.680
<v Speaker 2>a bit. Back in two thousand and two. One of

0:33:59.680 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 2>the states over by over By the back lot was

0:34:02.640 --> 0:34:05.320
<v Speaker 2>actually the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? They actually

0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:07.880
<v Speaker 2>had a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire replica set

0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:10.600
<v Speaker 2>when they weren't shooting in la or New York. When

0:34:10.600 --> 0:34:12.600
<v Speaker 2>they weren't shooting in New York, they would come down

0:34:12.680 --> 0:34:14.399
<v Speaker 2>and Regis would come down and they'd host the show

0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:16.840
<v Speaker 2>from Florida. But when they weren't using it for production,

0:34:16.880 --> 0:34:20.120
<v Speaker 2>they would actually it turned into an actual, like an

0:34:20.120 --> 0:34:22.319
<v Speaker 2>attraction people could go to, so you could actually play

0:34:22.320 --> 0:34:24.239
<v Speaker 2>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and see how it

0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:26.080
<v Speaker 2>was made. It was one hundred percent exactly what they

0:34:26.160 --> 0:34:28.000
<v Speaker 2>used in the show, which I thought was really cool

0:34:29.120 --> 0:34:30.880
<v Speaker 2>and one of my favorite stories. When I worked at

0:34:30.880 --> 0:34:33.279
<v Speaker 2>the Backlots who Are in two thousand and five, By then,

0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:37.640
<v Speaker 2>the whole walking portion of the attraction was gone. It

0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:39.879
<v Speaker 2>was just the water tank section and then you would

0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:41.520
<v Speaker 2>move on to the tram tour which would take you

0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:43.520
<v Speaker 2>through the residential area and then it would take you

0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:47.280
<v Speaker 2>over to Catastrophe Canyon. But the walking portion was gone,

0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:50.520
<v Speaker 2>but the buildings were still there, and in the employee

0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:53.120
<v Speaker 2>restroom area there was an entrance like there was basically

0:34:53.160 --> 0:34:56.919
<v Speaker 2>a back entrance into the walking portion where they would

0:34:56.920 --> 0:34:58.799
<v Speaker 2>have like I think when they finished it, it was

0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:01.960
<v Speaker 2>the one hundred and one alimations live action stuff, so

0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:03.759
<v Speaker 2>they showed how they did all the animatronics with the

0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:07.440
<v Speaker 2>dogs and everything. But every single time I would use

0:35:07.440 --> 0:35:09.120
<v Speaker 2>the restroom, I would check that door and it was

0:35:09.160 --> 0:35:11.560
<v Speaker 2>always locked, always locked, every single time I was there

0:35:11.560 --> 0:35:14.840
<v Speaker 2>for six months, always locked. Literally my last night I

0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:17.440
<v Speaker 2>was working there, checked the door and it opened, and

0:35:17.480 --> 0:35:20.480
<v Speaker 2>I was like, like I opened the door and it

0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:22.440
<v Speaker 2>was just like, oh my gosh. And I walked in

0:35:22.719 --> 0:35:25.000
<v Speaker 2>and I they if you remember, it was kind of

0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:27.279
<v Speaker 2>like a pit where it was a circle and you

0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:29.120
<v Speaker 2>would like they all the guests would be around the

0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:30.960
<v Speaker 2>circle and they'd look down into this pit and then

0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:33.759
<v Speaker 2>a cast member would show off all the tech. They

0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:35.759
<v Speaker 2>actually had like foot plates where they would step on

0:35:35.800 --> 0:35:38.480
<v Speaker 2>things to make things trigger, and all the plates were

0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:40.000
<v Speaker 2>still there. All the animatronics were gone, but all the

0:35:40.000 --> 0:35:42.000
<v Speaker 2>plates were still there, and all like the shelves and everything,

0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:45.319
<v Speaker 2>and then up they had all of this storage of

0:35:45.480 --> 0:35:48.080
<v Speaker 2>old props. So like I remember when I was a kid,

0:35:48.120 --> 0:35:50.560
<v Speaker 2>I saw Johnny five from Short Circuit too, like the

0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:52.440
<v Speaker 2>gold one. He was up on one of the like

0:35:52.560 --> 0:35:54.239
<v Speaker 2>up on one of the big racks, and I was like,

0:35:54.239 --> 0:35:55.960
<v Speaker 2>oh my gosh, and a lot of that stuff was

0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:57.680
<v Speaker 2>still there, like a lot of the props were still there,

0:35:57.719 --> 0:35:59.160
<v Speaker 2>and it was just like one of those moments like

0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:01.799
<v Speaker 2>I did it. I cracked into it, and it was

0:36:02.080 --> 0:36:04.000
<v Speaker 2>one of my favorite things. One of my favorite memories

0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:07.040
<v Speaker 2>that in right before I did my when I got

0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:09.759
<v Speaker 2>my last clock out before i'd go actually clock out

0:36:09.800 --> 0:36:12.160
<v Speaker 2>from the computer. I had them hold the next backlot

0:36:12.200 --> 0:36:14.480
<v Speaker 2>to our show, the water Tank Show. I adam hold

0:36:14.520 --> 0:36:16.160
<v Speaker 2>the show, and then I did a flip into the

0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:19.799
<v Speaker 2>pool and then I walked out and so uh and

0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:22.399
<v Speaker 2>then my manager just came tearing around the corner because

0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:25.080
<v Speaker 2>he heard someone had fallen in and I'm just dripping wet,

0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:26.759
<v Speaker 2>and he's like, what happened. I'm like, oh, I dove in.

0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:28.719
<v Speaker 2>He goes, oh, come on, and I'm like, it's my

0:36:28.800 --> 0:36:31.480
<v Speaker 2>last day, and he's like, all right, well, thanks for

0:36:31.520 --> 0:36:33.120
<v Speaker 2>working here. Because I was. I was. I was. I

0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:35.759
<v Speaker 2>enjoyed what I did. I love performing, like if you

0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:38.239
<v Speaker 2>can't tell, I enjoy being in front of in front

0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:40.719
<v Speaker 2>of people. And you know, that's that's what really drew

0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:43.759
<v Speaker 2>me to the Great movie Ride was the idea of

0:36:44.320 --> 0:36:49.000
<v Speaker 2>performing and actually having like I can affect someone's enjoyment

0:36:49.080 --> 0:36:52.400
<v Speaker 2>of an attraction. And I love everyone I worked with,

0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:54.480
<v Speaker 2>but there were a few people that was like, oh, man,

0:36:54.600 --> 0:36:56.799
<v Speaker 2>Like I like, when I'd see someone hosting one of

0:36:56.840 --> 0:36:59.680
<v Speaker 2>the like hosting a ride, I'd be like, oh, those

0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:02.160
<v Speaker 2>people aren't going to get the best show. Because you know,

0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:04.880
<v Speaker 2>you can read a script so many different ways, and

0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:06.680
<v Speaker 2>some people would kind of just go through the motions

0:37:06.680 --> 0:37:09.120
<v Speaker 2>and it's like no, whereas like I, you know, put

0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:10.839
<v Speaker 2>some put some drama into it, you know, put some

0:37:10.880 --> 0:37:14.160
<v Speaker 2>effort into it. And I would love doing that. And

0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:17.440
<v Speaker 2>I also just really enjoyed talking in microphones and that

0:37:17.640 --> 0:37:20.440
<v Speaker 2>was always my thing in the pre show area, and

0:37:20.520 --> 0:37:23.880
<v Speaker 2>that where the theater was, which is still Mickey and

0:37:23.920 --> 0:37:25.759
<v Speaker 2>Minnie's what you go through the Chinese Theater. You go

0:37:25.800 --> 0:37:27.839
<v Speaker 2>through you enter in through them the main doors of

0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:30.400
<v Speaker 2>the Gramma Chinese Theater or the Chinese Theater, and then

0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:33.200
<v Speaker 2>you turn left and everything like basically all of that

0:37:33.320 --> 0:37:35.600
<v Speaker 2>hasn't been touched at all, Like that was all exactly

0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:37.520
<v Speaker 2>how it was when it was a great movie ride.

0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:40.320
<v Speaker 2>But as soon as you kind of around the corner

0:37:40.840 --> 0:37:43.880
<v Speaker 2>is where it all sorts sort of changes. You eventually

0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.160
<v Speaker 2>do a couple of switchbacks and then the cast member

0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:47.319
<v Speaker 2>will tell you to go to like, you know, go

0:37:47.360 --> 0:37:49.239
<v Speaker 2>to theater one, go to theater two, go to theater three.

0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:51.719
<v Speaker 2>All of those were empty, and that's where the big

0:37:51.760 --> 0:37:53.680
<v Speaker 2>theater was, and that's where the big projection theater was.

0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:56.799
<v Speaker 2>With the trailers you were talking about earlier, but there

0:37:56.960 --> 0:38:00.560
<v Speaker 2>was a microphone at that at the booth for that one,

0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:03.279
<v Speaker 2>because that's where you would basically hold people before you load,

0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:04.920
<v Speaker 2>because the dock was the next door. You'd have a door,

0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:06.919
<v Speaker 2>it'd open, you'd load them up, and you close the door.

0:38:07.200 --> 0:38:09.480
<v Speaker 2>Watch the movie, you know, five minutes later, reopen it,

0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:11.240
<v Speaker 2>et cetera, et cetera. Do that over and over again.

0:38:11.680 --> 0:38:15.200
<v Speaker 2>But that microphone on that desk, for some reason, made

0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:19.239
<v Speaker 2>my voice sound so good. I love that microphone so

0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:21.880
<v Speaker 2>much because it had like it really picked up the

0:38:21.920 --> 0:38:23.480
<v Speaker 2>base and it just sounded good to speak because it

0:38:23.480 --> 0:38:25.440
<v Speaker 2>was like a theater and so it sounded so nice.

0:38:25.680 --> 0:38:28.560
<v Speaker 2>And my biggest compliment I ever got was when I'd

0:38:28.560 --> 0:38:31.560
<v Speaker 2>be there, you know, hosting in the right before load

0:38:31.840 --> 0:38:33.840
<v Speaker 2>and I do my spiel at the at the podium,

0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:35.440
<v Speaker 2>like you know, like in just a few moments there

0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:38.040
<v Speaker 2>the ridea will start or whatever, and people would come

0:38:38.080 --> 0:38:40.600
<v Speaker 2>down and say, like, I thought that was a pre

0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:43.080
<v Speaker 2>recorded thing. I didn't realize that was you doing it live.

0:38:43.120 --> 0:38:45.680
<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, oh, thank you very much, very kind

0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:47.560
<v Speaker 2>of you. So that's why we had I don't know

0:38:47.600 --> 0:38:49.239
<v Speaker 2>what it was about the acoustics in that room or

0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:51.319
<v Speaker 2>that microphone, whatever it was, that that magic it was.

0:38:51.360 --> 0:38:51.880
<v Speaker 2>It was awesome.

0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:53.319
<v Speaker 1>It's gotta be great to have you on the mono

0:38:53.400 --> 0:38:57.080
<v Speaker 1>rail and you can give the speed just before the doors.

0:38:57.200 --> 0:39:02.239
<v Speaker 2>Oh oh day, last part. Yes, it's my one line

0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:03.080
<v Speaker 2>of Spanish. I know.

0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:09.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well that is also again getting back to the

0:39:09.719 --> 0:39:11.719
<v Speaker 1>story part of the Great Movie Ride, the fact that

0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:14.600
<v Speaker 1>you had this sort of this interactive element. I thought

0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.720
<v Speaker 1>one of the most fascinating things as a guest riding

0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:21.080
<v Speaker 1>the ride was that this was an experience where the

0:39:21.120 --> 0:39:24.279
<v Speaker 1>tour guide that you were with was interacting not just

0:39:24.320 --> 0:39:27.560
<v Speaker 1>with other humans, but also with some of the animatronics

0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:29.799
<v Speaker 1>as well. So there was a lot of different acting.

0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:32.040
<v Speaker 1>There was acting off other cast members, and there was

0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:36.480
<v Speaker 1>acting off the pre recorded and pre programmed animatronic figures

0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:39.680
<v Speaker 1>like the Wicked Witch of the West, And I thought

0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:42.360
<v Speaker 1>that was just brilliant because it really brought that immersion,

0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:47.719
<v Speaker 1>that magic in there, showing the incredible ingenuity of the

0:39:48.400 --> 0:39:52.319
<v Speaker 1>engineers who created these these devices. Getting back to the

0:39:52.320 --> 0:39:55.040
<v Speaker 1>Wicked Witch of the West, there was a point where

0:39:55.080 --> 0:39:59.200
<v Speaker 1>she was augmented. She was already really advanced by the

0:39:59.239 --> 0:40:02.279
<v Speaker 1>time that the attraction open. She was the most advanced

0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:05.799
<v Speaker 1>animatronic that Disney had up to that point. They had

0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:08.360
<v Speaker 1>developed a system a little a couple of years before

0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:12.360
<v Speaker 1>they unveiled her called Compliance, And this gets back to

0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:16.080
<v Speaker 1>the hydraulics you were talking about. The hydraulic system allowed

0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:19.680
<v Speaker 1>for smooth movement and analog movement, so you could have

0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:22.880
<v Speaker 1>a range of motion with the old pneumatic systems that

0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:25.560
<v Speaker 1>the Enchanita tiki room had. You had two positions. You

0:40:25.600 --> 0:40:28.040
<v Speaker 1>had opened and closed right, like, the beaks would open

0:40:28.080 --> 0:40:30.400
<v Speaker 1>and they would close. But you couldn't halfway open a

0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:33.480
<v Speaker 1>beak because you're using an air piston to do it right.

0:40:33.560 --> 0:40:36.480
<v Speaker 1>It's a solemn noise and an air piston. And if

0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:39.719
<v Speaker 1>you've ever listened carefully in the Inchennitigi room, you can

0:40:39.800 --> 0:40:44.200
<v Speaker 1>hear that air, you know, propelling everything that's in there.

0:40:44.719 --> 0:40:46.680
<v Speaker 1>And that old system was brilliant. The reason they called

0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:49.880
<v Speaker 1>it audio animatronics is they would record audio tones on

0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:53.880
<v Speaker 1>originally it was filmed. Later it would be magnetic tape,

0:40:54.080 --> 0:40:57.880
<v Speaker 1>and the audio tones would make a read vibrate that

0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:01.280
<v Speaker 1>would close a circuit and that would allow the circuit

0:41:01.400 --> 0:41:06.560
<v Speaker 1>to activate the solenoid or the pneumatic valves that would

0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:12.480
<v Speaker 1>then have the beaks open and closed. Brilliant, easy simple

0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:14.279
<v Speaker 1>solution except for the fact that you have all these

0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:18.200
<v Speaker 1>tubes everywhere. But they never went with hydraulics for the

0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:21.680
<v Speaker 1>birds because like the Wicked Witch example you gave Jack,

0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:26.560
<v Speaker 1>they didn't want the birds to possibly mess on guests

0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:29.440
<v Speaker 1>if there was a hydraulic leak. You know, air doesn't

0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:31.840
<v Speaker 1>leak or I mean, it's not going to drip on you,

0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:34.920
<v Speaker 1>so you're fine. But ye know, once you get up

0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:37.040
<v Speaker 1>to the Wicked Witch, she was on hydraulics, and the

0:41:37.040 --> 0:41:40.000
<v Speaker 1>compliance was meant to be kind of a shock absorbing

0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:43.600
<v Speaker 1>system so that you could do these more dramatic movements,

0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:46.200
<v Speaker 1>but you wouldn't put so much stress on the figure

0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:49.759
<v Speaker 1>that it wears out in like a season and you

0:41:49.760 --> 0:41:52.640
<v Speaker 1>would have to do a full referb on it. So

0:41:52.920 --> 0:41:56.759
<v Speaker 1>this the brilliance to me of the engineering process was

0:41:56.800 --> 0:41:58.960
<v Speaker 1>not just that they were figuring out new ways to

0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:02.160
<v Speaker 1>animate these character in three dimensional space, but they were

0:42:02.160 --> 0:42:05.839
<v Speaker 1>also already thinking about, if we do this, it's going

0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:07.960
<v Speaker 1>to cause more wear and tear. How are we going

0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:12.560
<v Speaker 1>to address that so that we limit downtime and the

0:42:12.600 --> 0:42:15.160
<v Speaker 1>amount of money we have to spend on maintenance. And

0:42:15.400 --> 0:42:18.040
<v Speaker 1>it's that kind of engineering that I find really fascinating,

0:42:18.480 --> 0:42:22.080
<v Speaker 1>and later on they would introduce the A one thousand animatronics.

0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:24.840
<v Speaker 1>Those are the ones you see in places like Galaxy's Edge,

0:42:25.440 --> 0:42:29.040
<v Speaker 1>you see it over on the Smugglers Run ride. You know,

0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:32.839
<v Speaker 1>Hondo is an A one thousand figure. By that time,

0:42:32.920 --> 0:42:36.359
<v Speaker 1>you've moved away from hydraulics and you're into pure electronics

0:42:36.400 --> 0:42:40.520
<v Speaker 1>systems that are all precisely computer controlled. I had read

0:42:40.560 --> 0:42:43.640
<v Speaker 1>that in the A one hundred Days, the Wicked Witch Days.

0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:47.640
<v Speaker 1>Programming those things was a painstaking process, and it could

0:42:47.640 --> 0:42:50.520
<v Speaker 1>take up to eight hours to program one second of

0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:53.399
<v Speaker 1>animation on one of those And when you think about

0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:55.800
<v Speaker 1>the amount of animation the Wicked Witch had in particular,

0:42:56.040 --> 0:42:58.960
<v Speaker 1>that's you know, that's someone's year right there.

0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:02.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, well, well, I mean, like think before I

0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:04.160
<v Speaker 2>forget about it. What one interesting thing about the Wicked

0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:06.960
<v Speaker 2>Which area, the whole Wizard of Oz area was it

0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:10.960
<v Speaker 2>was one of two portions of the ride where if

0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:12.719
<v Speaker 2>we were at a busy day, we'd had an we

0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:14.719
<v Speaker 2>had an A show and a B show. So the

0:43:14.719 --> 0:43:17.000
<v Speaker 2>the way it worked was and on busy days you

0:43:17.000 --> 0:43:18.759
<v Speaker 2>would run both shows, the A show of the B show.

0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:22.680
<v Speaker 2>The A show would be your bandit, your Bandit show,

0:43:22.719 --> 0:43:24.799
<v Speaker 2>so your Cowboy show, and then the B show would

0:43:24.800 --> 0:43:27.359
<v Speaker 2>be the Gangster show. We could run without the A show.

0:43:27.360 --> 0:43:29.719
<v Speaker 2>You could run just just band or just gangster if

0:43:29.760 --> 0:43:33.520
<v Speaker 2>you wanted to. And what would happen to was, you know,

0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:36.640
<v Speaker 2>as I, if you're running two vehicles, the first vehicle

0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:39.640
<v Speaker 2>would kind of speed through the first couple scenes, so

0:43:39.800 --> 0:43:42.880
<v Speaker 2>you would go through the the you know, the you know,

0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:46.840
<v Speaker 2>footlight parade, Wizard uh Singing in the Rain, and Mary Poppins.

0:43:46.840 --> 0:43:49.480
<v Speaker 2>You'd kind of just careened through it, honestly, like you

0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:52.560
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't slow down at all, because what you're doing is

0:43:52.560 --> 0:43:55.680
<v Speaker 2>you were making space between your vehicle and the B vehicle,

0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:58.640
<v Speaker 2>and so you would both kind of land at the

0:43:59.000 --> 0:44:01.399
<v Speaker 2>portions of the show where you interact with another cast member,

0:44:01.400 --> 0:44:03.640
<v Speaker 2>you'd interact with the bandit or interact with a gangster,

0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:06.160
<v Speaker 2>and then you would both move at the same speed

0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:09.240
<v Speaker 2>up until the switch happened back over at Indiana Jones,

0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:11.919
<v Speaker 2>and then the B vehicle would then just a haul

0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:14.439
<v Speaker 2>butt to catch up to the A vehicle, and by

0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:16.880
<v Speaker 2>that time you would then both enter into the Wizard

0:44:16.880 --> 0:44:19.359
<v Speaker 2>of Oz area. So that was the one scene where

0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:23.120
<v Speaker 2>you'd have theoretically four vehicles, or I mean two vehicles

0:44:23.120 --> 0:44:26.200
<v Speaker 2>but attractor trailer, so four you know, platforms of people

0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:29.440
<v Speaker 2>on there. And if you had a full show like that,

0:44:30.320 --> 0:44:33.240
<v Speaker 2>there was actually a microphone off to the side because

0:44:33.239 --> 0:44:35.960
<v Speaker 2>the witch was designed to interact with just one person,

0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:38.920
<v Speaker 2>and so she would always point at the driver of

0:44:38.960 --> 0:44:41.279
<v Speaker 2>the first vehicle. And so if it was just if

0:44:41.320 --> 0:44:42.799
<v Speaker 2>you're just running a show where you didn't have the

0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:44.360
<v Speaker 2>other if it was just running a B show and

0:44:44.360 --> 0:44:46.480
<v Speaker 2>you only had your one car, you would just use

0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:48.560
<v Speaker 2>your microphone for the vehicle, you know, the one that

0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:51.680
<v Speaker 2>actually feeds through the speakers. But if you had both vehicles,

0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:53.799
<v Speaker 2>if you had all four of them going this the

0:44:53.840 --> 0:44:56.760
<v Speaker 2>back car so the B show, they would they wouldn't

0:44:56.760 --> 0:44:58.360
<v Speaker 2>be able to hear you obviously on your microphone. So

0:44:58.360 --> 0:45:00.439
<v Speaker 2>we had a separate microphone that you would you step

0:45:00.480 --> 0:45:02.959
<v Speaker 2>off the vehicle, pick it up, and it played over

0:45:03.000 --> 0:45:05.680
<v Speaker 2>the PA inside of the Wizard of Oz section. So

0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:07.839
<v Speaker 2>on munchkin Land, it will play over the PA, so

0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.840
<v Speaker 2>all everyone could hear you on that as opposed to

0:45:10.880 --> 0:45:13.920
<v Speaker 2>just your vehicle. So I'm trying to think of interesting

0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:16.880
<v Speaker 2>tech stuff that you might might find me chemical that's amazing.

0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:18.799
<v Speaker 1>I didn't. I mean I knew about the A Show

0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:21.319
<v Speaker 1>and B Show because I had ridden the right enough

0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:23.960
<v Speaker 1>times and by the end of it, you essentially only

0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:27.080
<v Speaker 1>saw the B Show. Yeah, yeah, they did, they weren't.

0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:29.719
<v Speaker 1>They never had a capacity that was enough where they

0:45:29.719 --> 0:45:32.960
<v Speaker 1>needed to run both really uh And also I mean,

0:45:33.239 --> 0:45:35.840
<v Speaker 1>you know then you have half the number of cast

0:45:36.040 --> 0:45:39.840
<v Speaker 1>members who have to be in costume and yeah, which

0:45:40.000 --> 0:45:42.600
<v Speaker 1>gets us into it that that that's LaBrie Slope and

0:45:42.640 --> 0:45:44.560
<v Speaker 1>we're just going to complain about this. These all back away.

0:45:44.560 --> 0:45:46.279
<v Speaker 2>But you have the cool fire explosion if you're on

0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:47.960
<v Speaker 2>the show that was that was the one thing there

0:45:48.000 --> 0:45:49.880
<v Speaker 2>was an awesome, awesome So it was basically bann Is

0:45:50.000 --> 0:45:52.000
<v Speaker 2>robbing a bank in the Old West and they would

0:45:52.040 --> 0:45:54.680
<v Speaker 2>throw dynamite into the store. So that I can go

0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:56.720
<v Speaker 2>into that a little bit. So on an A show,

0:45:57.000 --> 0:45:59.319
<v Speaker 2>if you were the the you know, the tour guide,

0:45:59.400 --> 0:46:01.399
<v Speaker 2>the band would hop out and you'd like take over

0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:04.080
<v Speaker 2>your vehicle and so you would you would hear that

0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:05.920
<v Speaker 2>someone's robbing the bank. So you're like, oh, robbing the bank,

0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:07.359
<v Speaker 2>let me go see what's going on, and you jump

0:46:07.440 --> 0:46:10.319
<v Speaker 2>off the vehicle and then an animatronic would actually pull

0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:11.600
<v Speaker 2>a gun on you and you'd be like, oh, you

0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:13.239
<v Speaker 2>have to kind of stick your hands up and then

0:46:13.560 --> 0:46:15.560
<v Speaker 2>you know, then then an actual human would come out

0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:17.399
<v Speaker 2>and they would need to have an interaction with them,

0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:19.839
<v Speaker 2>and then at one point they get distracted, so you

0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:22.480
<v Speaker 2>run into the bank and then the bandit would then

0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:25.040
<v Speaker 2>throw dynamite into the bank and then the whole thing

0:46:25.080 --> 0:46:27.920
<v Speaker 2>would explode in fire, which is a really really cool effect.

0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:30.000
<v Speaker 2>They did it a whole lot and it never seemed

0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:33.239
<v Speaker 2>to have any issues, which is wild. But one neat

0:46:33.280 --> 0:46:36.280
<v Speaker 2>thing is, uh, the doors, Like so they're swinging doors

0:46:36.320 --> 0:46:38.600
<v Speaker 2>to go in and out of the bank, those doors

0:46:38.640 --> 0:46:42.080
<v Speaker 2>were like six inches thick of fire padding and everything,

0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:46.440
<v Speaker 2>and as the as the the the cast member the

0:46:46.440 --> 0:46:48.400
<v Speaker 2>tour guide would actually go into the bank and they

0:46:48.440 --> 0:46:50.520
<v Speaker 2>would have to push a button on the inside basically

0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:53.160
<v Speaker 2>saying they were clear. And so once you would hold

0:46:53.200 --> 0:46:55.600
<v Speaker 2>you would hit that and then the the cast member

0:46:55.640 --> 0:46:57.359
<v Speaker 2>outside would hit the other one and that would trigger

0:46:57.440 --> 0:46:59.440
<v Speaker 2>the explosure or basically say like it's okay to go.

0:46:59.520 --> 0:47:01.480
<v Speaker 2>It would be like the green light to go. I

0:47:01.520 --> 0:47:03.839
<v Speaker 2>think that was the case. I could be wrong on that,

0:47:03.880 --> 0:47:05.720
<v Speaker 2>but I'm pretty sure we had to hold a button

0:47:05.800 --> 0:47:09.480
<v Speaker 2>on the inside to basically notify the system that everything

0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:11.959
<v Speaker 2>was okay to go. But yeah, that was a fun show.

0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:15.360
<v Speaker 1>It's like having the nuclear key where you have to insert.

0:47:15.000 --> 0:47:17.440
<v Speaker 2>It the same time at the same time make sure that.

0:47:17.440 --> 0:47:19.880
<v Speaker 1>Everyone is on the same page.

0:47:19.800 --> 0:47:20.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:47:20.360 --> 0:47:23.280
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. For those who are wondering what we're even talking about,

0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:26.120
<v Speaker 1>as Jack was saying, the way the ride would progress

0:47:26.640 --> 0:47:29.799
<v Speaker 1>is that you would stop. If you were the A Show,

0:47:29.840 --> 0:47:32.640
<v Speaker 1>you would stop at in the Western section, and then

0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:34.959
<v Speaker 1>this scenario would play out and a band it would

0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:39.920
<v Speaker 1>take temporarily take over your tour. They found the alien

0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:44.480
<v Speaker 1>section very upsetting. And then if you were the B Show,

0:47:44.680 --> 0:47:46.520
<v Speaker 1>you did the same sort of thing, except it was

0:47:46.560 --> 0:47:49.800
<v Speaker 1>in the gangster movie segment, which was a little further back,

0:47:50.400 --> 0:47:53.000
<v Speaker 1>and a gangster would come in and take over your

0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:56.120
<v Speaker 1>tram temporarily, and in both cases it gets resolved in

0:47:56.160 --> 0:48:00.800
<v Speaker 1>the Indiana Jones Ish section little past that, where you

0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:06.120
<v Speaker 1>have both of both the gangster and the the bandit

0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:08.439
<v Speaker 1>end up being too greedy and they try to get

0:48:08.480 --> 0:48:13.400
<v Speaker 1>a sacred gym and end up being fried, and the

0:48:13.480 --> 0:48:17.800
<v Speaker 1>tour guide magically returns and yeah, apparently from the dead

0:48:18.000 --> 0:48:19.160
<v Speaker 1>in the story.

0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:20.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well it's movie magic.

0:48:20.920 --> 0:48:21.080
<v Speaker 1>Right.

0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:24.720
<v Speaker 2>That was that was always like that. The scene was amazing.

0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:27.200
<v Speaker 2>I loved it because, first of all, so the way

0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:29.239
<v Speaker 2>it worked was there's music playing over the PA's and

0:48:29.239 --> 0:48:30.960
<v Speaker 2>it's called the Anubis scene. Is what it is is

0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:34.080
<v Speaker 2>where the big gym is, and so the ganger, the gangster,

0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:35.640
<v Speaker 2>the band it would be like, you guys, wait here,

0:48:35.640 --> 0:48:37.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna I'm gonna steal that gym, you know, and

0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:40.640
<v Speaker 2>they then they they'd walk up these stairs and the

0:48:40.760 --> 0:48:42.719
<v Speaker 2>music would play, and there's a lightning bolt, like a

0:48:42.719 --> 0:48:45.439
<v Speaker 2>certain like lightning bolt. When they heard that, they would

0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:47.840
<v Speaker 2>hit a little button like a little like arcade button

0:48:48.360 --> 0:48:51.879
<v Speaker 2>on on the actual scenery, which would then trigger the

0:48:51.920 --> 0:48:55.040
<v Speaker 2>Halt Unbeliever, which is like this big, you know, booming voice,

0:48:55.040 --> 0:48:57.160
<v Speaker 2>and then the team or the cast member would then

0:48:57.320 --> 0:48:59.359
<v Speaker 2>react to that and then they'd be like ah, whatever,

0:48:59.400 --> 0:49:02.200
<v Speaker 2>and they'd put their hand on the gym. Smoke would go,

0:49:02.280 --> 0:49:05.000
<v Speaker 2>and the smoke dissipated. It would reveal the skeleton standing

0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:07.680
<v Speaker 2>there like reaching for the gym, and then you know,

0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:09.439
<v Speaker 2>it turns out like, oh, that was actually your your

0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:12.400
<v Speaker 2>your tour guide was the the other person. That was

0:49:12.400 --> 0:49:14.680
<v Speaker 2>a neat effect because that was actually it was a door,

0:49:14.760 --> 0:49:18.080
<v Speaker 2>so it was a rotating door that the smoke would

0:49:18.080 --> 0:49:20.839
<v Speaker 2>the smoke would you know, there's enough of it to

0:49:20.840 --> 0:49:23.799
<v Speaker 2>to you know, cover the door, and then it would

0:49:23.920 --> 0:49:26.480
<v Speaker 2>it would spin around, and then the the you know,

0:49:26.520 --> 0:49:28.719
<v Speaker 2>the band of the gangster would hold the door closed.

0:49:29.000 --> 0:49:30.480
<v Speaker 2>So it didn't because it was just on a little

0:49:30.520 --> 0:49:32.160
<v Speaker 2>magnet and so like if if they just kind of

0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:34.120
<v Speaker 2>walk through it, it would swing and then sometimes swing

0:49:34.200 --> 0:49:36.239
<v Speaker 2>back or be like halfway open, so they would have

0:49:36.320 --> 0:49:39.640
<v Speaker 2>to hold it closed and then and then you reveal like, hey,

0:49:39.680 --> 0:49:41.520
<v Speaker 2>it's me, and then you'd run back down and then

0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:43.920
<v Speaker 2>add another lightning bolt. You would then start your vehicle

0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:46.560
<v Speaker 2>up to get the timing right. And some of the

0:49:46.680 --> 0:49:49.120
<v Speaker 2>more some of the more like, I mean, you have

0:49:49.200 --> 0:49:50.880
<v Speaker 2>relationships with all the people there, and so some of

0:49:50.880 --> 0:49:52.560
<v Speaker 2>the people like to mess with you. So some of

0:49:52.600 --> 0:49:55.040
<v Speaker 2>the gangsters or bandits, they would like to take the

0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:58.200
<v Speaker 2>microphone cable and just wind it all around the steering wheel,

0:49:58.520 --> 0:49:59.840
<v Speaker 2>and so you'd go to grab it and it was

0:49:59.880 --> 0:50:01.319
<v Speaker 2>just stuck and you'd have to sit there and not

0:50:01.360 --> 0:50:03.360
<v Speaker 2>like lean over it and like talk into the microphone

0:50:03.360 --> 0:50:05.160
<v Speaker 2>by your wheel while you're trying to unwind it and

0:50:05.200 --> 0:50:07.960
<v Speaker 2>stuff that was. That was always fun. But that was

0:50:08.000 --> 0:50:09.719
<v Speaker 2>a cool scene. That was a really neat, really neat

0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:11.959
<v Speaker 2>bit that movie that that wasn't really any specific movie,

0:50:11.960 --> 0:50:14.040
<v Speaker 2>the Anubist scene, but right before it was Raiders the

0:50:14.080 --> 0:50:16.680
<v Speaker 2>Lost Arc, which was awesome. And then you know, Alien

0:50:16.760 --> 0:50:19.000
<v Speaker 2>was fantastic too. That little the goofy stuff in the

0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.239
<v Speaker 2>background is always super gross. I love that.

0:50:21.960 --> 0:50:25.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. No, the the effects on the ride were uh,

0:50:26.080 --> 0:50:28.000
<v Speaker 1>like I said, it really was pulling you into the

0:50:28.040 --> 0:50:31.080
<v Speaker 1>experience as if you were in the fiction of those movies.

0:50:31.480 --> 0:50:34.160
<v Speaker 1>It is, by the way, in no way, shape or

0:50:34.160 --> 0:50:37.480
<v Speaker 1>form at all similar to actually being on a movie set,

0:50:37.719 --> 0:50:40.480
<v Speaker 1>but if you had been magically pulled into the movies themselves.

0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:43.920
<v Speaker 1>It was like that. Uh and yeah, yeah, that's it was.

0:50:44.000 --> 0:50:46.000
<v Speaker 1>It was one of those rides, very charming ride as

0:50:46.000 --> 0:50:47.719
<v Speaker 1>you as you say. It wasn't exactly like a throw

0:50:47.800 --> 0:50:50.480
<v Speaker 1>ride or anything. But again, like to this day, my

0:50:50.560 --> 0:50:52.920
<v Speaker 1>favorite ride at Disney is still Pirates of the Caribbean.

0:50:53.120 --> 0:50:56.360
<v Speaker 1>I like the story based rides. I mean I like

0:50:56.360 --> 0:50:58.319
<v Speaker 1>the throw rides too, Don't get me wrong, I love

0:50:58.360 --> 0:51:01.480
<v Speaker 1>a good throw ride. Loved Guardians of the Galaxy needed

0:51:01.520 --> 0:51:03.560
<v Speaker 1>about twenty minutes to recover after I wrote it, but

0:51:03.600 --> 0:51:04.600
<v Speaker 1>I loved it really.

0:51:04.760 --> 0:51:07.279
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, I love that ride. Man, I ride that

0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:07.680
<v Speaker 2>all day.

0:51:08.760 --> 0:51:13.480
<v Speaker 1>I've jack I've reached the age where where where thrill rides.

0:51:13.560 --> 0:51:16.560
<v Speaker 1>I have a strict limit, and after I hit it, man,

0:51:16.640 --> 0:51:18.960
<v Speaker 1>I cannot go past it. Actually, the worst though, are

0:51:19.000 --> 0:51:24.800
<v Speaker 1>for me the ones that incorporate VR elements or screen elements.

0:51:24.960 --> 0:51:27.040
<v Speaker 1>Those can get me a little.

0:51:27.320 --> 0:51:30.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, for a forbidden journey over at Universal, I have

0:51:30.200 --> 0:51:32.440
<v Speaker 2>to look at my feet during the screen portions. I

0:51:32.480 --> 0:51:35.040
<v Speaker 2>can't do it anymore. Like even like Simpson's ride, I

0:51:35.040 --> 0:51:36.400
<v Speaker 2>get a little like a little queasy.

0:51:37.040 --> 0:51:39.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. My wife and I we made the mistake of

0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:42.040
<v Speaker 1>we decided to do park hoppying back when you could

0:51:42.080 --> 0:51:44.040
<v Speaker 1>easily do that. You can still do it today, it's

0:51:44.040 --> 0:51:44.760
<v Speaker 1>just not as easy.

0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:47.360
<v Speaker 2>And we did.

0:51:47.360 --> 0:51:50.640
<v Speaker 1>The Flights of Passage first, so that's a VR based ride.

0:51:51.200 --> 0:51:54.240
<v Speaker 1>We hopped over to Hollywood Studios and in Star Tours

0:51:54.280 --> 0:51:59.760
<v Speaker 1>it's another VR ride. We hopped on over to Epcott

0:51:59.800 --> 0:52:03.280
<v Speaker 1>and we did sore in which we usually were totally

0:52:03.280 --> 0:52:05.719
<v Speaker 1>fine on that, but it turned out that that was

0:52:05.880 --> 0:52:08.799
<v Speaker 1>one screen based ride too many, and we both kind

0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:13.240
<v Speaker 1>of felt that that lingering motion not like acute motion. Sickness,

0:52:13.280 --> 0:52:15.640
<v Speaker 1>but more like, yeah, I don't feel right. And then

0:52:15.640 --> 0:52:17.800
<v Speaker 1>we decided to get all the heat and went into

0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:21.440
<v Speaker 1>the China film, which is a three hundred and sixty

0:52:21.480 --> 0:52:25.000
<v Speaker 1>degree film. The screen is completely in a three hundred

0:52:25.000 --> 0:52:26.920
<v Speaker 1>and sixty degree arc, which is amazing in itself and

0:52:26.960 --> 0:52:29.080
<v Speaker 1>I should probably talk about that technology at some point.

0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:32.680
<v Speaker 1>But that disoriented us to the point where we spent

0:52:32.760 --> 0:52:35.120
<v Speaker 1>probably the next three hours just sitting in the World

0:52:35.160 --> 0:52:39.480
<v Speaker 1>Showcase and people watching because we couldn't. We were afraid

0:52:39.520 --> 0:52:39.919
<v Speaker 1>to move.

0:52:40.640 --> 0:52:44.279
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, living with the land man, Yeah, living with

0:52:44.280 --> 0:52:46.359
<v Speaker 2>the land After doing sore In, let it cool off

0:52:46.400 --> 0:52:48.120
<v Speaker 2>a little bit, see how the plants are made.

0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:51.600
<v Speaker 1>Or maybe the the well what's now the three Kabaetto's

0:52:51.680 --> 0:52:54.040
<v Speaker 1>ride but used to be the River of Time ride

0:52:54.040 --> 0:52:56.879
<v Speaker 1>over in Mexico. That's always there's never a line for it.

0:52:57.040 --> 0:52:59.640
<v Speaker 1>It's always cool. So I like that one.

0:53:00.360 --> 0:53:01.879
<v Speaker 2>I was told, I don't know if this is true

0:53:01.960 --> 0:53:03.920
<v Speaker 2>or not. I imagine you might know, because you know a

0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:07.080
<v Speaker 2>whole lot about animatronics. When Great Movie Ride shut down,

0:53:07.120 --> 0:53:09.840
<v Speaker 2>which was about five years ago at this point, I

0:53:09.840 --> 0:53:12.200
<v Speaker 2>think I don't know exactly when it shut down. The

0:53:12.360 --> 0:53:15.920
<v Speaker 2>rumor was that the Wicked Witch the eight hundred. A

0:53:16.160 --> 0:53:20.759
<v Speaker 2>one hundred animatronic moved to Pirates of the Caribbean and

0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:24.000
<v Speaker 2>now it's Red. So like supposedly Red is the old

0:53:24.040 --> 0:53:27.279
<v Speaker 2>Wicked Witch from movie Ride. Is that true? Do you

0:53:27.400 --> 0:53:28.279
<v Speaker 2>know if that's true?

0:53:28.480 --> 0:53:32.120
<v Speaker 1>I cannot say if it's true or false because I

0:53:32.120 --> 0:53:33.799
<v Speaker 1>don't get the answered that. But I can tell you

0:53:33.840 --> 0:53:37.120
<v Speaker 1>I mean Red is an A one hundred figure. So

0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:40.839
<v Speaker 1>Red is of the same generation as Wicked Witch. Whether

0:53:40.920 --> 0:53:45.840
<v Speaker 1>it's exactly the same a skeleton underneath, I am not certain.

0:53:45.880 --> 0:53:48.759
<v Speaker 1>There's no reason it couldn't be. It certainly couldn't. Yeah,

0:53:48.840 --> 0:53:52.200
<v Speaker 1>because these the big innovation of a one hundred was

0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:56.040
<v Speaker 1>that you had far more options when it came to

0:53:56.120 --> 0:53:59.960
<v Speaker 1>programming the figure and a much larger range of motion

0:54:00.239 --> 0:54:04.319
<v Speaker 1>if you wanted to have a very expressive figure. You

0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:06.839
<v Speaker 1>know the fact that if Scarlett the Pirate is in

0:54:06.880 --> 0:54:08.919
<v Speaker 1>fact the former Wicked Witch of the West, that means

0:54:08.920 --> 0:54:15.080
<v Speaker 1>she's also an animatronic that was altered by the company Sarcos,

0:54:15.160 --> 0:54:19.280
<v Speaker 1>which is mostly known as a military and industrial robotics company.

0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:22.960
<v Speaker 1>So what I'm saying is, don't mess with the woman

0:54:23.040 --> 0:54:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Pirate because maybe she's a terminator. I don't know.

0:54:27.320 --> 0:54:29.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she might, she might turn. I mean, just looking

0:54:29.920 --> 0:54:34.479
<v Speaker 2>at a photo of Red her her right hand she's

0:54:34.480 --> 0:54:36.640
<v Speaker 2>holding she's holding a gun, so her right hand is

0:54:36.640 --> 0:54:38.440
<v Speaker 2>really not moving much and her left hand is holding

0:54:38.440 --> 0:54:40.960
<v Speaker 2>the bottle and she moves it a lot, which similar

0:54:41.040 --> 0:54:42.839
<v Speaker 2>to the Wicked Witch. She had her broom in one

0:54:42.880 --> 0:54:44.919
<v Speaker 2>hand and then her other hand was pointing a lot.

0:54:45.000 --> 0:54:49.080
<v Speaker 2>So I've been told that's her. I don't know if

0:54:49.080 --> 0:54:51.640
<v Speaker 2>it's true. In my headcan and one hundred percent that's

0:54:51.680 --> 0:54:53.839
<v Speaker 2>the Wicked Witch. And then I guess they made another

0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:56.680
<v Speaker 2>one for the Hollywood Park or the Anaheim Park. But

0:54:56.680 --> 0:54:59.480
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, I like to think, you know, she she

0:54:59.560 --> 0:55:00.439
<v Speaker 2>landed over there.

0:55:00.960 --> 0:55:04.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm totally cool with that. Yeah, I think I'm gonna

0:55:04.600 --> 0:55:07.600
<v Speaker 1>adopt the same head cannon because Pirates is one of

0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:09.799
<v Speaker 1>my favorite rides. I love the Great Movie Ride. To

0:55:09.880 --> 0:55:14.080
<v Speaker 1>think about that legacy living on under a different costume

0:55:14.440 --> 0:55:18.040
<v Speaker 1>and skin, I think is brilliant. So I'm gonna go

0:55:18.080 --> 0:55:18.600
<v Speaker 1>with that too.

0:55:18.920 --> 0:55:21.719
<v Speaker 2>So a lot of people would say that the so

0:55:21.719 --> 0:55:23.680
<v Speaker 2>at one point you go to Casablanca and in Great

0:55:23.680 --> 0:55:26.200
<v Speaker 2>Movie Ride, and there was a plane there. It was

0:55:26.200 --> 0:55:29.200
<v Speaker 2>basically recreating the scene that you know you know, there

0:55:29.239 --> 0:55:31.520
<v Speaker 2>are problems don't amount to a hill of beans. And

0:55:31.600 --> 0:55:34.080
<v Speaker 2>so there was a plane in the background that would

0:55:34.160 --> 0:55:35.640
<v Speaker 2>like slowly spin up and stuff, and a lot of

0:55:35.680 --> 0:55:38.560
<v Speaker 2>people said, like, oh, that's actually the plane from the movie.

0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:40.759
<v Speaker 2>They would use that as fact. That was not the

0:55:40.800 --> 0:55:42.840
<v Speaker 2>plane from the movie. One hundred percent was not the

0:55:42.840 --> 0:55:44.799
<v Speaker 2>plane from the movie. As a matter of fact, the

0:55:44.840 --> 0:55:47.960
<v Speaker 2>back of that plane ended up over at Jungle Cruise.

0:55:48.280 --> 0:55:50.440
<v Speaker 2>So there's a crashed plane in Jungle Cruise, and the

0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:53.200
<v Speaker 2>rear section of the plane is basically they split in half.

0:55:53.239 --> 0:55:55.520
<v Speaker 2>Put half a Jungle Cruise half at movie ride. So

0:55:55.840 --> 0:55:57.600
<v Speaker 2>you ever hear that fact that is a lie. That's

0:55:57.640 --> 0:55:58.480
<v Speaker 2>one hundred percent a lot.

0:55:58.520 --> 0:56:01.080
<v Speaker 1>I do love that both halves of the plane were

0:56:01.160 --> 0:56:09.759
<v Speaker 1>existing in cast member guided attractions. Yeah, like that's one

0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:12.520
<v Speaker 1>of the beautiful things about Jungle Cruise. It's a very

0:56:12.520 --> 0:56:14.719
<v Speaker 1>corny ride, but it's still a ride where you get

0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:16.879
<v Speaker 1>to see someone going through performance and if they haven't

0:56:16.920 --> 0:56:22.040
<v Speaker 1>reached the Skipper Dan part of their career, then they

0:56:22.080 --> 0:56:24.560
<v Speaker 1>can really be a lot of fun. Like you say,

0:56:24.600 --> 0:56:26.319
<v Speaker 1>it all depends on who you get and what kind

0:56:26.360 --> 0:56:28.719
<v Speaker 1>of mood they're in. I mean, all human beings, but

0:56:28.880 --> 0:56:31.520
<v Speaker 1>hopefully you get someone on a good day. Yeah. I

0:56:32.760 --> 0:56:35.560
<v Speaker 1>heard one rumor that that plane might have been used,

0:56:35.719 --> 0:56:38.319
<v Speaker 1>not obviously not in Casta Blanca, but possibly in one

0:56:38.360 --> 0:56:41.359
<v Speaker 1>of the Tarzan films. But whether that's true or not,

0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:44.960
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. It's just again, there is a Tarzan

0:56:45.040 --> 0:56:48.520
<v Speaker 1>section in the grit Or. There was I can't use

0:56:48.560 --> 0:56:51.000
<v Speaker 1>the present tense anymore in The Great Movie Ride, but

0:56:51.880 --> 0:56:53.879
<v Speaker 1>they did use the plane in that one. I had

0:56:53.880 --> 0:56:56.799
<v Speaker 1>to go in the Castle Blanka section. Stick around because

0:56:56.840 --> 0:56:59.040
<v Speaker 1>we have a little bit more about The Great Movie

0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:03.120
<v Speaker 1>Ride and Dizzy and Dak Pattillo to talk about, and

0:57:03.239 --> 0:57:14.920
<v Speaker 1>we'll do that right after this break. This has been

0:57:14.920 --> 0:57:18.320
<v Speaker 1>a great talk. I've really enjoyed it. I really appreciate

0:57:18.360 --> 0:57:20.240
<v Speaker 1>your time. But one thing I really want to talk

0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:24.520
<v Speaker 1>about before we wrap up is your podcast, Annual Pass,

0:57:24.680 --> 0:57:30.160
<v Speaker 1>where you dedicate episodes to all things theme and amusement

0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:33.720
<v Speaker 1>park oriented. There are episodes that are about specific attractions

0:57:34.120 --> 0:57:37.760
<v Speaker 1>or shows. There are interviews with people who have worked

0:57:38.320 --> 0:57:41.320
<v Speaker 1>at these various places or have even invented some of

0:57:41.400 --> 0:57:45.200
<v Speaker 1>the attractions that people know and love today. And you

0:57:45.320 --> 0:57:48.040
<v Speaker 1>have two great co hosts. You've got Jeff and b Ka,

0:57:48.240 --> 0:57:50.960
<v Speaker 1>so You've got Jeff, who's an old grumpy man like myself.

0:57:52.160 --> 0:57:54.520
<v Speaker 1>I think he and I were born a week apart.

0:57:54.960 --> 0:57:57.560
<v Speaker 1>And then you've got b Ka Youngin, who has a

0:57:57.600 --> 0:58:01.640
<v Speaker 1>totally different perspective thinks of you two as her dad's.

0:58:03.120 --> 0:58:05.600
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Manual Pass is definitely

0:58:05.600 --> 0:58:08.840
<v Speaker 2>one of those things where I was looking for something that, like,

0:58:08.920 --> 0:58:11.479
<v Speaker 2>what could I make a podcast about that I'm passionate about?

0:58:11.520 --> 0:58:13.960
<v Speaker 2>And if you have only heard me on this podcast here,

0:58:14.000 --> 0:58:15.880
<v Speaker 2>you can tell that I love theme parks. And so

0:58:16.760 --> 0:58:18.400
<v Speaker 2>I made a pitch about, like, hey, let's do a

0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:20.560
<v Speaker 2>show all about theme park attractions and then let's go

0:58:20.600 --> 0:58:22.880
<v Speaker 2>into it. And we've been doing it now for about

0:58:22.880 --> 0:58:26.120
<v Speaker 2>seventy episodes, and it's been so much fun, and the

0:58:26.120 --> 0:58:28.360
<v Speaker 2>theme park community, like because you know, obviously there's a

0:58:28.440 --> 0:58:31.680
<v Speaker 2>big theme park vlogging community, they've been so friendly and

0:58:31.720 --> 0:58:33.560
<v Speaker 2>I was so nervous getting into it because like I've

0:58:33.600 --> 0:58:35.480
<v Speaker 2>been listening to you know, like theme Park Stop and

0:58:35.520 --> 0:58:38.800
<v Speaker 2>defunk Land, Yesterra World, you know, all of these amazing shows,

0:58:38.840 --> 0:58:40.680
<v Speaker 2>and I've had the opportunity now to talk to these

0:58:40.720 --> 0:58:43.800
<v Speaker 2>creators and everyone is so friendly and so nice and

0:58:43.840 --> 0:58:45.840
<v Speaker 2>just being in this space has been so much fun,

0:58:46.240 --> 0:58:48.480
<v Speaker 2>and I think we're kind of finding our footing now.

0:58:48.480 --> 0:58:49.840
<v Speaker 2>We're having a really good time with it. We're more

0:58:49.880 --> 0:58:51.920
<v Speaker 2>of a lighthearted kind of look at things, but if

0:58:51.920 --> 0:58:53.680
<v Speaker 2>you want to find out more about a specific attraction,

0:58:53.760 --> 0:58:56.000
<v Speaker 2>we go into it. We do ride throughs, but like

0:58:56.040 --> 0:58:57.640
<v Speaker 2>you said, we do interviews. As a matter of fact,

0:58:57.680 --> 0:59:00.880
<v Speaker 2>we recorded one today with a woman who was super

0:59:00.960 --> 0:59:04.680
<v Speaker 2>knowledgeable about Halloween Horror Nights and the lore of Halloween

0:59:04.680 --> 0:59:06.160
<v Speaker 2>Horror Nites, and so we did a whole we're doing

0:59:06.200 --> 0:59:08.800
<v Speaker 2>a whole episode on that, and it's just it's a

0:59:08.840 --> 0:59:10.480
<v Speaker 2>lot of fun because you know, we, like you said,

0:59:10.480 --> 0:59:12.640
<v Speaker 2>we've had imaginears on We've had people designing rise for

0:59:12.720 --> 0:59:16.680
<v Speaker 2>Universal and hearing the stories about what goes into the

0:59:16.680 --> 0:59:19.400
<v Speaker 2>making of these attractions. Like we've oddly enough, we've talked

0:59:19.400 --> 0:59:22.160
<v Speaker 2>to two different gentlemen who had to pitch Steven Spielberg

0:59:22.200 --> 0:59:26.120
<v Speaker 2>on attractions on different ones. One for one for Velosit Coaster,

0:59:26.680 --> 0:59:29.000
<v Speaker 2>the Drass Park themed one, our Dress World themed one,

0:59:29.040 --> 0:59:30.680
<v Speaker 2>and then one for Men in Black. So it's like

0:59:30.960 --> 0:59:32.800
<v Speaker 2>and like hearing their story. Apparently Steven s Fielburg is

0:59:32.840 --> 0:59:34.720
<v Speaker 2>a super nice guy, so that's cool. That's good to hear.

0:59:35.200 --> 0:59:37.040
<v Speaker 2>But but yeah, it's been so much fun, and you know,

0:59:37.040 --> 0:59:38.640
<v Speaker 2>if you want to listen to it, I'd love for that.

0:59:38.640 --> 0:59:40.600
<v Speaker 2>That'd be fantastic. We are Annual Pass. You go to

0:59:40.640 --> 0:59:43.640
<v Speaker 2>YouTube dot com slash Annual Pass, or find us anywhere

0:59:43.640 --> 0:59:47.120
<v Speaker 2>you get your podcast Spotify, rovertroosterteeth dot com slash Annual Pass,

0:59:47.200 --> 0:59:49.120
<v Speaker 2>like wherever you want to go to find it, Please

0:59:49.160 --> 0:59:50.959
<v Speaker 2>give it a listen. It's it's a lot of fun

0:59:51.040 --> 0:59:52.680
<v Speaker 2>and you know, as long as people are listening, I'm

0:59:52.720 --> 0:59:55.160
<v Speaker 2>going to keep making it. So that's the the dream

0:59:55.200 --> 0:59:57.800
<v Speaker 2>at least, you know. Any the whole goal was to

0:59:57.840 --> 1:00:00.600
<v Speaker 2>get my parent company to buy me a ticket to

1:00:00.600 --> 1:00:03.800
<v Speaker 2>go to a theme park. So I still pay for

1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:06.160
<v Speaker 2>my annual Pass, I'll say that much. My Disney annual

1:00:06.160 --> 1:00:08.520
<v Speaker 2>passes so well seek for.

1:00:08.520 --> 1:00:12.040
<v Speaker 1>iHeart and I have yet to leverage that into concert tickets,

1:00:12.040 --> 1:00:14.840
<v Speaker 1>but it's always in the back of my mind. Jack Uh, Yeah,

1:00:14.920 --> 1:00:17.120
<v Speaker 1>Annual Pass is a great listen. I highly recommend it

1:00:17.160 --> 1:00:19.800
<v Speaker 1>for people to go check out. It's first of all

1:00:20.760 --> 1:00:24.120
<v Speaker 1>you will I can't think of another word to describe

1:00:24.200 --> 1:00:28.000
<v Speaker 1>Jack's performance an Annual Pass besides exuberant. I think that

1:00:28.000 --> 1:00:31.920
<v Speaker 1>that is that is the appropriate word to use. Your

1:00:32.000 --> 1:00:36.080
<v Speaker 1>ride throughs are so enthusiastic. That's what I love most

1:00:36.120 --> 1:00:39.320
<v Speaker 1>is that it's it's like, imagine the friendliest Carnival barker

1:00:39.480 --> 1:00:43.280
<v Speaker 1>walking you through the traction that you've always wanted to

1:00:43.320 --> 1:00:45.400
<v Speaker 1>be on but you haven't. And and I look forward

1:00:45.440 --> 1:00:47.280
<v Speaker 1>to hearing a lot more. You've had some great guests

1:00:47.320 --> 1:00:50.440
<v Speaker 1>and and and all your topics are always fun, and

1:00:50.440 --> 1:00:52.440
<v Speaker 1>it's always fun to hear the interaction between you and

1:00:52.520 --> 1:00:56.840
<v Speaker 1>the other hosts. So definitely do check that out. Are

1:00:56.880 --> 1:01:01.000
<v Speaker 1>are there are there any theme parks or tractions that

1:01:01.080 --> 1:01:03.880
<v Speaker 1>you're eagerly looking forward to that you haven't experienced yet,

1:01:03.920 --> 1:01:06.959
<v Speaker 1>either ones that are on the cusp of coming out

1:01:07.080 --> 1:01:09.360
<v Speaker 1>or just ones that exist but you haven't managed to

1:01:09.400 --> 1:01:09.880
<v Speaker 1>get there.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, I mean, really a lot of stuff outside the US,

1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:15.320
<v Speaker 2>That's what I want to do. Like, I mean, I've

1:01:15.360 --> 1:01:17.600
<v Speaker 2>been fortunate enough to go to Disneyland Paris and you know,

1:01:17.640 --> 1:01:21.680
<v Speaker 2>Disney Studios Paris. That was great. Actually this year we

1:01:21.720 --> 1:01:25.160
<v Speaker 2>went to Thorpe Park in England, just south of Heathrow,

1:01:25.200 --> 1:01:26.720
<v Speaker 2>which was really cool. We get to go on the

1:01:27.120 --> 1:01:29.520
<v Speaker 2>saw ride and like the Walking Dead, the ride is

1:01:29.560 --> 1:01:33.160
<v Speaker 2>like really intense. But apparently Alton Towers is the European park,

1:01:33.200 --> 1:01:34.760
<v Speaker 2>so we got to go order to the London Park,

1:01:34.760 --> 1:01:36.400
<v Speaker 2>so we got to go to Alton Towers next. But

1:01:36.960 --> 1:01:40.240
<v Speaker 2>anywhere in Japan, Shanghai, I mean, there's so many amazing

1:01:40.280 --> 1:01:42.840
<v Speaker 2>things and a lot of stuff, Like you know, I

1:01:43.160 --> 1:01:46.160
<v Speaker 2>try not to watch ride videos on stuff that I

1:01:46.200 --> 1:01:48.760
<v Speaker 2>would like to go on someday. So I watched the

1:01:48.800 --> 1:01:51.680
<v Speaker 2>tron light Cycle ride through because I'm like, I'm probably

1:01:51.760 --> 1:01:54.240
<v Speaker 2>not gonna go to Shanghai anytime soon. And then of course,

1:01:54.320 --> 1:01:56.320
<v Speaker 2>like immediately later they're like, oh, yeah, we're gonna put

1:01:56.320 --> 1:01:58.560
<v Speaker 2>a Nepcot and that was six years ago, so we'll

1:01:58.560 --> 1:02:02.560
<v Speaker 2>see if it ever actually does open. But yeah, I

1:02:02.600 --> 1:02:04.920
<v Speaker 2>mean I love any sort of theme park. I love

1:02:05.000 --> 1:02:07.880
<v Speaker 2>small little like family mom and pop parks. I love

1:02:07.920 --> 1:02:10.760
<v Speaker 2>the big ones. I'll ride anything. At this point, I've

1:02:10.760 --> 1:02:12.800
<v Speaker 2>pretty much given myself up where I'm like, I don't

1:02:12.920 --> 1:02:15.440
<v Speaker 2>I don't fear being on an attraction. I love them

1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:18.960
<v Speaker 2>and so that's a blast, so I will do anything.

1:02:19.560 --> 1:02:20.880
<v Speaker 2>Like so we so many people like, oh, you need

1:02:20.920 --> 1:02:22.120
<v Speaker 2>to come to this park like I would love to.

1:02:22.160 --> 1:02:23.800
<v Speaker 2>I would love to, Like I'm never gonna say no,

1:02:23.840 --> 1:02:26.080
<v Speaker 2>like I'm always I'm always up for whatever I want

1:02:26.080 --> 1:02:28.800
<v Speaker 2>to go to stuff. So I'm actually going to six

1:02:28.840 --> 1:02:33.200
<v Speaker 2>Flags Great America, the one near Chicago later this month,

1:02:33.480 --> 1:02:35.840
<v Speaker 2>and then ideally we're going out to Halloween Horror Night

1:02:35.920 --> 1:02:38.760
<v Speaker 2>sometime either towards the end of September or October. So

1:02:38.840 --> 1:02:41.080
<v Speaker 2>I'll be back out in Florida hopefully soon to go

1:02:41.120 --> 1:02:43.360
<v Speaker 2>to some parks and you know, make that annual pass

1:02:43.400 --> 1:02:44.200
<v Speaker 2>pay for yourself.

1:02:45.120 --> 1:02:47.400
<v Speaker 1>If you get down to six Flags over Georgia, you

1:02:47.400 --> 1:02:50.040
<v Speaker 1>can you can ride what was formerly known as the

1:02:50.080 --> 1:02:53.320
<v Speaker 1>Monster Plantation, and then I'll tell you all about the

1:02:53.720 --> 1:02:58.160
<v Speaker 1>problematic history of that particular attraction, because that that has

1:02:58.240 --> 1:03:03.800
<v Speaker 1>undergone a pretty massive thematic change, as you would imagine,

1:03:03.800 --> 1:03:08.000
<v Speaker 1>from an attraction that was previously known as Monster Plantation in.

1:03:08.000 --> 1:03:12.320
<v Speaker 2>Georgia, then it became Splash Mountain. So it's all good, Okay,

1:03:12.360 --> 1:03:13.200
<v Speaker 2>it's okay.

1:03:13.760 --> 1:03:17.959
<v Speaker 1>We'll make that Princess and the Frog one day. All right. Well, well, Jack,

1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:20.400
<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for being on the show. It

1:03:20.480 --> 1:03:24.240
<v Speaker 1>was a pleasure having you on. And yeah, feel free

1:03:24.240 --> 1:03:27.200
<v Speaker 1>to come back anytime. We'll talk theme parks till the

1:03:27.200 --> 1:03:27.959
<v Speaker 1>cows come home.

1:03:28.600 --> 1:03:30.120
<v Speaker 2>Oh, the pleasure is all mine. Thank you so much.

1:03:30.120 --> 1:03:31.800
<v Speaker 2>Anytime I get a chance to talk theme parks, I'm

1:03:31.840 --> 1:03:32.240
<v Speaker 2>up for it.

1:03:33.440 --> 1:03:36.000
<v Speaker 1>Once again, I want to thank Jack Pattillo for coming

1:03:36.120 --> 1:03:39.800
<v Speaker 1>onto this show. You know when he co founded Achievement Hunter.

1:03:39.960 --> 1:03:41.800
<v Speaker 1>That was back in two thousand and eight, the summer

1:03:41.840 --> 1:03:43.680
<v Speaker 1>of two thousand and eight, which is the exact same

1:03:43.680 --> 1:03:47.880
<v Speaker 1>summer that this show launched. So he and I have

1:03:48.080 --> 1:03:52.479
<v Speaker 1>been in related business for a very long time. He

1:03:52.520 --> 1:03:56.840
<v Speaker 1>has seen phenomenal success and has done amazing things. Seriously,

1:03:57.120 --> 1:03:59.400
<v Speaker 1>you need to go and check out his charity work

1:04:00.160 --> 1:04:03.920
<v Speaker 1>because it's truly inspiring stuff. It got me to participate

1:04:04.400 --> 1:04:08.160
<v Speaker 1>on my own, not in any big way, many times,

1:04:08.360 --> 1:04:10.720
<v Speaker 1>so check that out too. It's for a good cause.

1:04:10.760 --> 1:04:14.600
<v Speaker 1>It's for children's healthcare, which is obviously a great cause.

1:04:15.120 --> 1:04:17.680
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, check out Annual Pass as well. It's a

1:04:17.720 --> 1:04:22.240
<v Speaker 1>fun podcast. And if you love theme parks and you

1:04:22.320 --> 1:04:25.680
<v Speaker 1>love learning more about the attractions and what they're like

1:04:26.080 --> 1:04:30.120
<v Speaker 1>and trivia about them, it's a really fun listen. So

1:04:30.200 --> 1:04:32.040
<v Speaker 1>check those out. If you want to get in touch

1:04:32.080 --> 1:04:34.640
<v Speaker 1>with me and suggest topics that I should cover in

1:04:34.720 --> 1:04:37.440
<v Speaker 1>future episodes of Tech Stuff, tell you what you can do.

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<v Speaker 1>You can download the iHeartRadio app. It's free to download.

1:04:41.720 --> 1:04:44.240
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<v Speaker 1>you can click on, and there you can just leave

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<v Speaker 1>hope to do more interviews in the future. They're a

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<v Speaker 1>little challenge because you know, scheduling can be you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's tough. People are busy, and so I will do

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<v Speaker 1>my best because I love having someone else on the

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<v Speaker 1>show to talk to, get their perspective, learn things that

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<v Speaker 1>I can't find out just through, you know, research on

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<v Speaker 1>my own, because these are the people who are actually there.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to do more of that in the future.

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<v Speaker 1>If you have people that you think I should have

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<v Speaker 1>on as a guest, send those my way. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>promise that I'll get them, but I can at least try,

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<v Speaker 1>and with that I'll talk to you again. Release So

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